#The BarCode News

[catfindr]

[kinnbig]

I'm sorry.

[theflagscene]

No! Santa’s being replaced in ReVamp due to scheduling conflicts 🥺 I really wanted to see vampire bitch Santa, but he is being replaced by Barcode and I think giving ‘Code a soft launch at GMMTV with a supporting role with one of BLs most easy going pairings at the helm is a good choice. This way there isn’t a bunch of ‘main role’ pressure on Barcode within such a huge company, and BounPrem will take good care of him on press tours because of how young he is.

I do hope for a BounPrem & Santa series in the future though, let’s toss in Perth, Ohm, Soodyatch and Sammy just for good measure while we’re at it.

P’New has directed/written/produced a bunch of hit GMMTV series in the last four years—eight aired series, one currently filming and two in pre-production—so he could easily push for a LBC/UWMA alumni series and most likely get his way.

[spicypussywave]

DEAD FRIEND FOREVER | EPISODE 12

[syrena-del-mar]

"Aren't you sad that I'll go abroad for a very long time?" "No. Whether you're here or not, it doesn't make any difference." "I'm sorry for never being a good brother."

Dead Friend Forever (2023) || Episode 9

[cheridraws]

Oh yeah baby... its all coming together 🏛🏛🏛🏛🏛

[gallifreyanhotfive]

Random Doctor Who Facts You Might Not Know, Part 42

The Mara jumped from Tegan into the Fifth Doctor, then also affected Nyssa and Turlough. The Mara will stay with them all forever in the back of their minds. (Audio: The Cradle of the Snake)

The Brigadier has forced the Fourth Doctor to write apology and thank you letters before but always thoroughly edits them to make them more polite or completely rewrites it himself if they're too rude. (Novel: The Time Lord Letters)

Turlough had a childhood sweetheart named Deela. Since they had been teenagers, they decided to make the key to the vault of his winter palace their literal kiss. (Audio: Kiss of Death)

The Third Doctor taught Jo Venusian aikido. (Audio: The Sacrifice of Jo Grant)

While at the Academy, the Doctor wrote a paper dissecting romantic love. He concluded that love was nothing but chemicals and metabolites. His professor gave him an absolutely dreadful grade on it because the Doctor missed the point of the assignment entirely. (Audio: The Wormery)

The TARDIS recalls that the Ninth Doctor was beaten after losing a war "against Death." She misses this incarnation. (Short story: What the TARDIS thought of "Time Lord Victorious")

The TARDIS had a lot of issues trying to translate Peri's accent. (Audio: The Lost Planet)

Putting the sonic screwdriver through the laundry can result in all the dirt molecules being agitated until it forms a mud creature. (Comic: Laundro-Room of Doom)

The Eighth Doctor once became depressed with his model train set because he wanted something less perfect. After he returned from an adventure, he found that a disaster had occurred among his model trains. When he went to clean up, he saw that the miniature people in his train set had started putting things right, so he decided to let them fix it themselves and hopefully learn things from the experience. (Short story: Model Train Set)

At one point, the Doctor switched out the TARDIS stereo system for a micromodulator switch, which is capable of shrinking things, and forgot about it. The Tenth Doctor and Rose were accidentally shrunk using it, and while shrunk, he got stuck in a spider web. (Comic: Which Switch?)

Type 1 TARDISes were notoriously temperamental and sometimes attacked and consumed the scientists working on them. When the Eleventh Doctor managed to calm one down after winding up in early Gallifrey, Rassilon noticed this and had him work on developing Type 1s, taking advantage of his advanced knowledge. (Comic: The Lost Dimension)

When these scientists had asked who the Doctor was, he eventually decided to let everyone call him Theta-Sigma. (Comic: The Lost Dimension)

Vortex drillers were used by early Gallifreyans to tunnel through the time vortex. They were discontinued because of the damage this did to time. They kind of looked like castles, but instead of turrets, there were drills. There would be altars for Gallifreyan cults inside, and they had mineralic circuitry. (Audio: The Auton Infinity)

The War Master once manipulated Jo into thinking that he was her uncle. (Audio: A Quiet Night In)

"Theta Sigma" was simply a unique identifier used by the Doctor in his youth. It should not be spoken out loud outside of the Academy (not that this ever stopped many people who knew him at the time). (Novel: Falls the Shadow)

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[respectthepetty]

Hi Petty, a while back you commented on one of my old Fourever You Project updates saying that Cooheart was hanging out with Domundi guys. Can I ask where did you find that info? I am not really good at looking up these kind of things and I am trying to follow a hunch.

If you can't remember it's fine <3

Oh, buddy, follow me down the yellow brick road of ridiculousness, so you can see just how crazy I really am.

So the only real evidence is Earth's insta! [Link] It was a Crocs event, but New (the director of We Are and possibly Fourever You) was there too with the newest generation of Domundi boys.

However, New has been showing up in several of Earth's photos like this recent one from last week, so no big deal.

And this Crocs event was during Songkran when everyone was hanging out with everyone casually, so it shouldn't be a big deal because the Twitter folks claimed Earth was hanging out with his bestie Isbanky (and his boyfriend, Mos, which Earth has stated several times in videos with Isbanky) but Earth had to do his event, so no pictures have surfaced of them all together, just very blurry videos, so Isbanky and Mos were hanging with GMMTV's Joong and Domundi's James, but Joong knows everyone and he had a public back-and-forth with James on Insta(?) trying to get James to go with him to this event, so the Domundi connection doesn't run directly to Earth here.

But Earth was also chilling with Tutor and Nat at an event late last year, which also isn't a big deal since BL Land is small and everyone knows everyone.

Like Fort used to be Earth's manager or something, so, once, again, "small world"

So everything is no big deal and nothing truly sticks out except it feels like when Barcode showed up with all the Domundi guys in that one video and then we found out he signed with a management group that also manages Domundi events after leaving Be On Cloud.

So for Earth, our Cooheart, to just be chillin' with the newest Domundi boys, so new in fact that I don't even know their names because they are sooo fresh (sorry lady who Cooheart even cropped out of the photo), and Director New feels slightly odd, right?

Twitter and Reddit folks knew Net's new partner was JJ months before it was announced due to some vague comment Net made at an event about his newest partner "hopefully" being younger and someone he knew, then Net liked a picture of JJ with his brother on Insta, and the BL Streets KNEW it was him!

So as much as I'd like to be dismissive and say an event picture is just an event picture, the Twitter and Reddit folks GOT time, and if they say something is sus, it's sus.

And, homie, this is sus.

[likedaylighht]

OH there was a really funny moment today at the store where we got a whole bunch of new items that DIDNT HAVE BARCODES and I lost my mind for a bit bc wtf am I suppose to do WITH NO BARCODES bc like sure you can’t sell them but also you can’t even receive them into our inventory either!!! and there were dozens of them! And after being dramatic about it for 5 minutes I immediately found where the barcode skus were written down so I could at the very least input them into our inventory and then I just let them sit there bc there were still no fucking barcodes on any of them

[risu442]

P'Tin 🫣

Cr.: on the vid

[peachdoxie]

Hi I'm Peach and today I'm larping as a normal adult who knows how rental cars work

[phantaemon]

So my local gamestore had a copy of Rodea the Sky soldier.

It is completely unopened. It was laying around in a pile of other more expensive sealed games. It was probably found in the leftovers of a closed gamestore or warehouse.

Surely they could've sold it for more if it wasn't so niche. Lucky me, then!

[syrena-del-mar]

An Ode to Older Siblings: New in Dead Friends Forever, Episode 9

Spoilers ahead for Dead Friend Forever Episode 9. Allusions to suicide and all other triggers that have accompanied this show will be here. Tagging @slayerkitty for the DFF Meta compilation.

Can you imagine New, who sacrificed his relationship with his little brother to make it into a university abroad with a scholarship, one that would open opportunities that Thailand did not have to offer him, having to come back on a plane ride? A minimum of 12 hours in a plane, in an airport, packed with people going on business trips and vacations, yet where nobody knows that you're going to back home to a hell that you never could have imagined? It was supposed to be a holiday for him, a chance to see his family again after months of being apart.

But instead, his baby brother was now missing. The same baby brother that had given up on having any semblance of a relationship with him because he felt abandoned, forgotten. His little brother who would find no difference if he was abroad or not, because it's not like Tan had ever paid him any attention when he was so focused on just getting out of their home. But New was trying, extending an olive branch, hoping that Non would accept even the smallest bit of it. He'll bring him the best snacks that England has to offer, he'll listen to any problems that Non may have, even while he's thousands of miles away. But no calls ever came from his little brother's number. No, he hadn't even known that Non had gotten into trouble until his mother called him. Non's missing.

And, now he's returning home. The snacks that he had promised Non probably weighed like a ton of bricks as he carried them, they were his burden to carry. Maybe if he had been there a little more for Non, had been a little bit more present, maybe Non would have reached out. Maybe he wouldn't have had to turn to his tutor. His home is broken, but it's still a home. He's the oldest, he's the one that has to repair it when his parents can't.

He knows his mom had mentioned Non's boyfriend in passing before, even though Non had never told him directly. So he had searched through Non's belongings, looking for his number, hoping that Phee might have more information. He's doesn't, they're both at a loss. Maybe Phee didn't know Non as well as he thought he did, but New knows his brother. Non was never good with his words, never good at speaking directly of the problems he faced, but he would have left a sign, something, that might show them what demons he was facing alone.

So, he pretends that he can go back to his life in England, pretends for his parents' sake, so they don't have to worry about their only other son. But he can't, not when his little brother is out there...alone, again. He takes a leave of absence from school. Maybe it's crazy, reckless, but he puts himself back in high school. If the cops won't give him answers, then he'll get them himself. He forges his records, pretends that he was Non's same age, changes his identity. He's now Tan. A new kid that just happened to meet Phee at the office on their first day of school. Tan can charm his way into the same friend group that likely destroyed his brother. Tan can dig for the answers that nobody was willing to get.

And Phee helps, maybe he helps a little too much and little too close. For a moment, a part of New's heart breaks for his baby brother, as he sees his boyfriend get close to one of the bastards that had a hand in Non's disappearance. Maybe this is why Non always felt abandoned. So New smokes, one pack turns into hundreds more. A bad habit that he picked up with his English friends as they hit the pubs. It's the only sense of normalcy he has anymore.

He builds a makeshift lab with the money his parents wired him, nothing like the state-of-the-art equipment that he had grown accustomed to at his university, but it was enough. He researches, he experiments with the one concoction that might finally get Non's friends to tell him the truth. He's so close to perfecting it. Then his dad calls, and it feels strange. He rarely talked to his dad, it's his mom that usually calls him. Mom's dead. For a moment, he forgets that he was supposed to be in England, that he was never supposed to be in Thailand. He's not Tan anymore, he's just New. His house isn't just broken anymore, it's crumbling.

His father resents him. He's drunk and he's spitting fire, New can't blame him. Afterall, he is a liar. He lied that he was back at university, back in England. He never visited his mom when they were only miles away from each other and now she's dead as well. Was Non right all those years ago? Does he abandon everyone? He was never his dad's favorite, he knew that, but how he could he go and leave him behind too?

Now there was no broken house, no dilapidated house, no place that he called home. He couldn't fix this anymore. And he's tired, he's so tired. There's nothing for him to salvage anymore. Maybe if he takes a hit of his own concoction, he can end his pain as well. But Non... Non deserves justice and New is so scared, scared of failing him again. He wants this to end, he can't save anyone. But Phee arrives and holds him steady, lets him cling tightly to his shirt like he used to cling to his mother as a child.

Maybe he won't live for himself anymore. This all started with the bastards who were supposed to be his brother's friends. They cost him his whole family. No. he wasn't going to give them the satisfaction of destroying his home, of destroying his baby brother. He once told Non that he would steal his novel, get it sold for other people to read. Maybe it can't be sold anymore, but maybe Non's story can finally be told as Non had wished.

How could New have ever known that getting onto that plane would just be the prelude to the hell that he was about to raise? He's the oldest brother of the family, he was supposed to protect them, take his responsibility for his parents and his baby brother, but he failed. His dad was right, he wasn't a good enough son or brother, but maybe this could be the start of his atonement.

[blu-eyed-freedom]

So much to absorb from that finale.

First off, how much was hallucination and how much was real is so blurred that if there is a special episode (like I thought I saw Pond or someone mention one) they could easily do anything. Seriously, if they wanted to they could retcon, change or shift almost every 'fact' from the episode.

So that means everything can be taken with a pinch of salt. And, while I figured some questions would be unanswered, some surprised me and I've been thinking on that-

*That we never got an answer about Keng's investigation and identity. But the more I think about this, the more I wonder if that's the point. It's like real life in that they never get all the answers and how could that have been found out by some angry teen/early twenty somethings with hallucinogens in the woods?

* That the ninth person wasn't revealed. Surely there had to be one because Tan seemed to see a dark hooded figure as it moved through the house at one point? I suppose if everyone was tripping balls in ep 12 (New/Tan may have trusted that gas mask he'd rigged up but I kinda doubt it was as effective as he presumed) maybe no one was aware of the ninth person so the audience wasn't shown but eh. I am mostly ??

*Linked with above thought. Like many, I wanna know who was groping Tee in episode one. I highly doubt it was Tan and they seem to show it wasn't a hallucination.

*Non's death in ep11 felt like an afterthought. To the point that part of me was sure it was a fake out. Part of me still hopes that as I'd have loved to watch it and like I said who knows with the special episode, but the other half is thinking that maybe an unceremonious death off-screen fits thematically. Non had fallen so far, he becomes just another casualty of organised crime. Another statistic.

* Unlike some, I had a feeling White was going to be the innocent/bystander victim to highlight how far New had come from simply wanting to know the truth. It would have been nice to know more about him (like with the hallucinations, why his anxieties where largely about being accused of cheating, disfigurement from STDs and sex=filthy) but not knowing does add to the just a bystander. Just another casualty just like Non.

If nothing else, the variables give material both for this potential special episode and for fanfiction etc to play with.

[hughungrybear]

Barcode's announces leaving Be On Cloud:

Some people speculate that he might also be joining GMMTV since he was seen hanging out with some GMMTV artists. However, I'm not entirely convinced. If this is true, then pretty sure GMMTV would have also included him in the previous Up & Above Part 2 where they introduced their "newbie" (and I say that generously because Boun, Prem, Sammy, and Yatch are far from being considered newbies 😅😅😅) artists.

Maybe he'll go freelance? 💁‍♀️

Unfortunately for the TaBarcodeCopper shippers, looks like your dream pairing won't happen anytime soon 😞