#beyond the star the series

[hirmienworld]

November 2023 BL'S lineup

Last update: 07/11/23

November 2023 looks packed with new BLs, seriously, it's like they all agreed to air around the same time. There will be a lot of competition.

Twins - November 3 - TRAILER

2. Middleman's Love - November 10 - TRAILER

3. Last Twilight - November 10 - TRAILER

4. A Breeze of Love - November 10 - TRAILER (region locked)

5. Beyond the Star - November 11 - TRAILER

6. Playboyy - November 16 - TRAILER

7. Pit Babe - November 17 - TRAILER

8. Bake me Please - November 19 - TRAILER

9. 7 Days before Valentine - November 22 - TRAILER

10. VIP Only - November 24 - TEASER

11. The Sign - November 25 - TEASER

12. Cooking Crush - November 26 - TRAILER

13. The Whisperer - November 26 - TRAILER

14. For Him - November 30 - PILOT

15. Sahara-sensei & Tori-kun - November 30 -

Ending in November:

If it's with you - November 1

I Feel You Linger In The Air - November 3

Dangerous Romance - November 3

Venus in the Sky - November 4

I Cannot Reach You - November 6

Kiseki: dear to me - November 7

You Are Mine - November 10

One Room Angel - November 30

Scheduled for November but without a date:

Night Dream - TEASER

Boyy of God - TEASER

[pharawee]

"Can I kiss you?"

BEYOND THE STAR · Episode 3 · [ 1/2 ]

[orangemocharaktajino]

[crispywizardtale]

First of all Willi is gorgeous.

And now to my little ramble... it's the eye contact for me and the parted lips and the small eyebrow raise which you can barely see but I see it all too well! The way he dropped his gaze to his lips... He looks hazed and and lost in Focuses eyes or actually his presence, he is so I love with Focus and you can really see even if they have like 2 minutes of screen time all together

Focus not breaking the eye contact while having the biggest smile on his face. Tell me you are whipped without telling me you are whipped... and that small and slow blink... I can't do this

I know that Willi can kiss but I still had to pause when he kissed Focus because damn boy... I never kissed anyone so I won't talk about kisses much but that FELT deep! If I'm being honest Willi probably has one of the best kisses in Thao bl industry I said what I said

Between that hand that was on Focuses neck that moved to his leg and that other hand on his back I don't know which one is driving me more insane... Or perhaps it's the the fact that Focus is actually sitting on his lap??? Or or the fact that Focus had to groud himself by putting his hand on the wall???????

This one is just a gif I have nothing to say about it I have so much to say but I can't put it to words

Just gonna say holy shit Focus... But also his abs.. he looks amazing which isn't a surprise if his partner is Willi who love gym. I also wish we got more of this cut because Willi was about to put his head on his tiny waist and I just love seeing that

My God Willi that hand of your... that had is... from touching the lower belly to climbing up to his shoulder and back... there is something just so attractive about it and it's making me go insane. I am also not sure why they made Willi so wet they just started the activity he shouldn't be sweaty already but who am I to complain Willi looks even better

THE BITING?!?!?!?! THE BITING?!?!?! He was insane for that and I love it even more but not only the tiddies but the collarbone later...

I wasn't gonna include this gif but I had to when I rewatched it. The fuck me eyes Focus is giving and the parted breathless lips but also the moment he felt that Willi will pull him in he was ready.. Parting his lips even more and closing his eyes even before their lips touched. And the strong pull that Willi did on the back of his head which took him by surprise by what I see... I am not sure if that hand flying to Willis upper hand was scripted or not but to me it's more like Focus was trying to find balance after the neck pull...

Now this part was actually amazing, Focus being breathless and throwing his head back as Willi is kissing his way down?! And Focus flexing and moving away from Willi's lips????? That is some amazing acting! It's so realistic

And finally the collarbone biting while Focus has his hand pulling on Willi's hair and then Willi getting ready for another kiss... damn I was so not prepared but I enjoyed it. Willi can deliver amazing NC scenes hopefully this post won't get reported I spent over am hour on making this post

[gillyweedgrl]

Right. I have zero plans for the next 36 hours, except maybe buying bread (no that’s not a euphemism, I just really like sandwiches) and I fully intend to make good use of that time.

I’m armed with a near endless supply of tea and a semi-reliable internet connection. Bring on the BL marathon!

Lately there’s been a couple of shows I had to table for later and. I’ll be damned, it’s later! The past couple of months have been both packed with bl shows and hectic at my work so I’m finally getting around to them and I’m so freaking excited.

Mostly keen for these lil cuties:

Wish me luck! 🤞🤞

[twig-tea]

Beyond the Star: I Am Annoyed

who knew I'd be writing about Beyond the Star? definitely not me.

I actually started taking notes while watching this show because I thought it might have been written off too soon, there were some cool things happening in it. And then, that last episode.

Ok. Okok.

The TL;DR version of what you need to know about this show is that there are some neat things that could have been interesting but instead the last episode basically threw everything in the air and walked away. it was internally inconsistent, dropped threads, and made no sense. It's like they had a 12-episode show planned, and realized after episode 7 they only had money or time for one more. There are a few hot scenes but nothing worth watching the whole thing for. The ending was truly infuriating.

Cutting for spoilers.

First, the parts that were interesting

There was a very interesting dynamic with Nathee, Kita, Namo, and Kengkla. Kita and Nemo dated in school, and meet by chance a few years later after they'd broken up and blocked one another on social media. They now both have other love interests--Nathee and Kita are in an established relationship, Namo and Kengkla are mutually-pining friends--and work for rival companies. Kita and Namo end up using one another (Namo wants to make Kengkla jealous, Kita wants his boss to think he's spying for their company on the competition). At one point, it seems like they were setting us up for Kita to cheat, or to at least have real feelings again for Namo. But instead, it seems simply like his old feelings for Namo prevented him from following through with his plan to mess with the rival boyband by drugging them (which his boss wanted him to do--it's a whole thing). I also appreciated that though the other company was trying to surreptitiously poach Namo, he was honest about it with his team. All of this was poorly executed, but I like the premise. [Still waiting for people to be allowed to have sexual desire for more than one person in a BL without it being character-ruining or lynchmob-worthy, but that's another rant for another day.]

I liked Namo as a character, and how self-aware he was at the start of this show. He knew he was in love with Kengkla, he knew Kengkla was in love with him but unwilling to admit it, and he used Kita to push Keng into facing his denial.

Speaking of things I liked, I liked the Nathee/Kita established couple, they had regular little fights but made up and did seem to genuinely care for one another, and had lots of sex where they were clearly comfortable with one another's bodies, the kind of dynamic we don't get a lot in BL.

And then it dropped the ball. Balls. All the balls. The whole bag.

Unfortunately, we're now we're getting into the problems. Because this couple just disappeared! We had no resolution for Nathee and Kita. Kita mentions to Namo he's going to meet up with Nathee and then...nothing? With no clue what happened. Nathee is not in the final band performance, but Kita is, even though previously it was Kita kicked out of the band?

Here's the band during their competition, with Nathee in the center (in the red vest):

And here's the band at the end of the show:

Gone! Disappeared! Why? How?

In addition, there are two people as part of the band that weren't originally in the band during the competition: Kita (back row second from left) and Kengkla (front row on the right). Now, Kita was kicked out of this band and then they stole his song, and we did not get any reason for why he was added back in or why he would want to work with this shady company again. We also didn't get any explanation for the guy Kita who was constantly fighting with disappearing from the group. And finally, the explanation we did get for Kengkla to join the group was a call from the shady company director asking him to join the project. He got excited and said yes.

But in the very same episode, only a few minutes earlier, Kengkla's love interest Namo turned the shady company director down, saying that he wanted to stay where he was and prove his company would be successful too. And this was a triumphant moment. AND, if that weren't enough, previously Kenglka got mad at Namo for even thinking about leaving. AND Kengkla doesn't even want to be a singer, Namo does, but Kengkla wants to be an actor! NONE OF THIS MAKES ANY SENSE! Why would the happy ending for the singer be that he stays with the acting company, and the happy ending for the actor be that he ends up in the singing company?

And this is why

MFlow entertainment have made this into a real band named HASHTAX

And they are on YouTube:

So they had to end the show with these actors in the same band together.

The part I can't give you an explanation for is why the heck they didn't just cast it differently or write it so that it made sense these characters ended up in this configuration, but. Here we are.

I'm not done complaining about this ending yet

And this gets into my biggest complaint about how this show ends. The lack of internal consistency leading to the "happy ending" being completely antithetical to what the show has been setting up all series! Not only did it not make sense on an individual character basis (I will never get over Kengkla literally cheering when his company cancels their boyband program and turns it into a drama, and then only a couple of scenes later cheering again when he gets a call to join a boyband project at another, evil company. WTF), but it was a horrible overall moral/arc.

The original premise/setup for this whole show is that a het couple of talent managers broke up and hate each other and each now run rival entertainment companies and so they decide to compete with each other about starting a boyband because of hate and spite.

The best part is they are both AWFUL. The guy is a horrible boss and his company is clearly exploitative and is the one with rules about not being allowed to date, and he is willing to do anything to win (poach other people, drug the competing band, steal songs from their artists), but his group is by far the better boyband. The girl is much better to work for but her company was never set up for a boyband, they're actually actors who don't want to be in a boyband at all, and they're allowed to date in the company but their band sucks, and she clearly makes terrible business decisions just to get back at her ex, and her employees are victims to the whims of her spite.

In the end, they have a 1-on-1 competition (which is how bands work) and she loses and cancels the boyband project... and then jumps back into business with her ex because they realize they can make more money if they stop competing and join forces again.

Meanwhile, this evil guy is so bad some of the characters have had conversations about swearing to take him and his company down one day..and then they all end up working to make him money, and this is our happy ending?!?!!?!!!! Truly horrific.

Final purge of thoughts

A few other things I just can't let go:

There's a mentor/mentee relationship that's interesting because the younger guy is clearly inexperienced and Struggling in this boy band when he just wanted to be an actor, and he feels like he's holding everyone back. The mentee confesses to the mentor, mentor tells him they can be in the 'talking phase' and then they have sex, and then they lose the contest and the mentee seems ok (and they have sex again), and then he says he's thinking of leaving the band and the mentor says he respects his decision, but then the mentee attempts suicide. I appreciated that they didn't break this couple up or have the mentor say anything messy or awful to 'push' him; sometimes everyone around you can do and say the right things and you will just only hear your own criticism.

There is a set of twins, and a subplot where they both like the same guy, and the twins have a conversation about it, in which the more tsundere twin asks his happy and outgoing twin if he likes this guy, and if not then to back off, because he's had feelings for him for a long time. Happy twin agrees and then continues to shamelessly flirt with the love interest, makes a move, and they have sex--where the twin can catch them, and he does. The tsundere twin is obviously furious, and happy twin decides to break up with his lover so that his twin will forgive him. But the tsundere twin sees them together and realizes they do have feelings for one another and forgives his twin. This whole thing was just really messy. It seemed pretty unfair that the one who was lied to, betrayed, and not even dicked down forgave his twin without even getting an apology. Admittedly all of this is sibling behaviour, but it was a bit sad.

Re: the Namo/Kengkla friends-to-lovers storyline I actually enjoyed that they made out twice and never talked about it, and just kept being good friends (rather than the pulling away/ghosting that so often happens in shows) until finally they had the conversation. But they had no respect for one another's beliefs or dreams. Namo tries to do better about this, but Kengkla doesn't have any kind of arc about this and it felt like they were definitely doomed to not last.

There was an insinuation in the flashbacks that the exes (Namo and Kita) had a business gay partnership (BGP) in addition to an actual relationship, where they did content for shippers. Namo and Kengkla also did BGP before they actually got together. This was kind of neat, and added an interesting element to their relationship and why they broke up (non-amicably, since Namo blocked Kita).

All of these couples (and there are SO MANY, I think Five?) can kiss, and this production is not afraid of the nipple, which I always appreciate. They do also show a blowjob as a first sex act between a couple, which I also applaud. But these sex scenes were way too long for what they were depicting! We do not need five minutes of making out if nothing else is going on in the scene.

One last gripe: the couple who had the misunderstanding (dude was working part time to support his sick mom and missing practices as a result) was also totally unresolved; they disappeared to take care of the mom, and just didn't come back. We have no idea whether the mom recovered, whether they got together, or what.

TL;DR there were so many dropped threads, internal inconsistencies, for what turned out to be an extended ad for launching their new t-pop band. I am UNIMPRESSED. Using my favourte unimpressed face from VIP Only (which also annoyed me this week but was WAY BETTER THAN THIS SHOW) to end on a slightly better note.

[7698]

[blfanfest]

Beyond the Star

Details

Title: เส้นทางรักพิชิตดวงดาว

Also known as: Sen Thang Rak Phichit Duangdao

Air dates: Nov. 11 - Dec. 30, 2023

of episodes: 8

Summary

The story of KJ Agency, a well-known agency plans to create and produce a series. Including the artists development therefore gathering young people who have dreams Join the "Beyond The Star" project to develop capabilities in all aspects of the entertainment industry, but on the process to become a superstar. There will always be obstacles. Love, commitment, or dreams, which ones are more important?

Click the link below for updates.

[lgbtally4ever]

BEYOND THE STAR

https://www.iq.com/play/13o4192frw9?sh_pltf=4&lang=en_us

So far— a complete snore fest.

Unlikely story of a bunch of older guys trying out to be TPop idols.

[miss-americanbi]

shit james t. kirk graffitied on the side of riverside silos as a teenager

[girlrandomstuff]

i don't think we talk enough about bail wearing a leather jacket and globes, for real, this man is gorgeous

[aforgottenthing]

This April Fools, I thought it was only fitting that I finally share the greatest powerpoint I ever made while working a mentally and physically draining fulltime retail job at 18. This is my pride and joy. I hope you enjoy <3

(the experience of reading this here will never live up to all of my fun little slide transitions but i included the blank slide to slightly allude to it)

[pharawee]

"You made me all sober now."

BEYOND THE STAR · Episode 3 · [ 2/2 ]

[orangemocharaktajino]

[crispywizardtale]

[stra-tek]

The Weirdest Places on Federation Starships

Engineering on the U.S.S. Enterprise (2009 Star Trek) has a maze of coolant pipes which of course lead to a giant blender

The classic movie Enterprise-A has a 78 deck turbolift shaft, numbered bottom to top when she ship should really only have 20something decks, numbered from top to bottom

There's an entire swamp on the deck beneath the arboretum on the U.S.S. Cerritos (Lower Decks), full of hallucinogenic spores

The U.S.S. Franklin (Star Trek Beyond) has 3 decks on the outside, but an infinite turbolift shaft on the inside

But the U.S.S. Discovery NCC-1031-A tops everything with The Great Turbolift Carverns hidden between her decks, stretching off into infinity and full of what look like giant electrical transformers and entire buildings