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[pridewhatpride]

Officially nearing the end!!! POs will close very very soon!

They are currently still available here!

Expand for a peek at the real thing ;)

[ohshinytrinketsmine]

So, next time when I give you a call you have to answer it. Okay? Bolster. Got it? Yeah. . . You're a good boy.

The Sign, ep 3

Bonus: Look how happy he is to pin his that man down on the ground :))) <-Phaya literally

[songkranfest]

Songkran Fest: a Thai Multi-Fandom Celebration is a fandom event created to spotlight and celebrate Songkran, the Thai New Year. Writers, artists, and creators from various Thai fandoms can come together and uplift Thai culture within fandom spaces.

Submissions will be accepted from April 13th to April 27th.

How to Particpate:

Create fanworks centered around the celebration of Songkran.

Tag it with #SongkranFest2024 or mention us, and we will reblog/retweet your work.

Learn about the significance of Songkran and share the new fanworks.

Guidelines:

We will accept all transformative works centered around Songkran (fanfic, art, video/photo edits, digital media, GIFsets, podfic, etc.)

All Thai fandoms are welcomed to participate.

Works can be on any platform (we are active on Tumblr, Twitter, and Ao3.)

NSFW and RPF works are accepted.

All prompts are optional.

You can read the full Guidelines & FAQ here, check out our Carrd, or join our Discord Server to learn more!

Join us in celebrating the upcoming Thai New Year! 💧🌸

[oneyou]

Sharing my love for—'Love in the Air' by gifting my LITA girlies (have fun):

ꗃ [FULL] Love in the Air Boxset : Behind-the-Scenes [ x ]

-`. info .’- ↓ Only these episodes extended the 18+ scenes :

ꗃ [FULL] Love in the Air Boxset : Ep.4 || Ep.6 || EP. 12

-`. novel info .’- ↓

Unofficial English Translations :

Love Sky Novel by Mame [ x ]

Love Storm Novel by Mame [ x ]

Love in the Air Special Novel by Mame [ x ]

(updated 2023.6.27) Official English Translations (via Amazon Kindle):

Love Sky Novel by Mame [ x ] $16.99 usd (excluding tax)

Love Storm Novel by Mame [ x ] $17.00 usd (excluding tax)

[heretherebedork]

We love a boy who just wants consent and to be respected and apologizes for the little kiss he gave even after the man sexually assaulted him and accused him of being a stalker.

Seheon really is just a good boy who forgives far, far too easily.

[my-rose-tinted-glasses]

[pharawee]

Marc Pahun as GUY (& Win Pawin as NAWA) breadcrumbs in —DANGEROUS ROMANCE Episode 1

[petrichoraline]

belt move: success WE ARE EP.4

[forkaround]

No you don't understand! No other country in the world has boys romantically gazing into each other's eyes on their magazine covers! And not just any magazine, big name multinational magazines

[pridewhatpride]

Preorders will open on August 26th, with the opening of @citruscon!!!

Stay posted for the last pair to be announced before that date!

Thank you for all the support so far! Please consider sharing this if you can!!!

[kimchayficfest]

introducing a celebration of KimChay, Valentine’s Day, and another year on Ao3’s Top 100 Ships List, the Project Endorphins Group presents...

Love on Top! a KimChay Fest.

Details, prompts, and more, coming soon!

Follow us on Twitter.

Read previous submissions here or on Ao3.

[omgtheregoesthefuckidontgive]

We're getting a PRINCESS AND A PRINCE LOVE STORY STFU I LIVING FOR THIS

✨The gays✨

✨The lesbians✨

[twig-tea]

✨2023: A Summary✨

tagged by @dribs-and-drabbles and @lurkingshan 💕

I couldn't be bothered to toggle on/off privacy settings so I did this manually instead!

January to June 2023:

[I was a lurker through to July so we start there]

July

Popular: Translation note in Laws of Attraction ep 3

Favourite: My Ride rewatch (& self-reflection)

August

Popular: Be My Favourite ep 11 clown checkpoint

Favourite: : Be My Favourite ep 11 meta roundup [shocked this was less popular but it was linked in the other one so maybe people reblogged only the one]; Tonhon Chonlatee [this was a response rather than an original post; it felt good to get this this out of my head]

September

Popular: Only Friends episode 6 scene by scene [when the brainrot was real]

Favourite:  Love Class 2: A Love Letter, In Defense of Dan and Yok [had to give it to two this month; the second is a response]

October

Popular: Only Friends finale reaction

Favourite:  IFYLITA and found family

November

Popular: Liminality in Last Twilight

Favourite: [ditto; I had a hiatus this month so this was one of the few things I posted but I'm so glad I was able to get this out before real life took over]

December

Popular: Cigarette in the Cake from Last Twilight [by a landslide lol and thank you everyone for being as obsessed with this as I am]

Favourite: Beyond the Star rant [I wrote this entirely for me lol];  Why Phaya took the couch in The Sign [response]

[And I've added these two additional categories so that i can use this as my new pinned post lol]

2023 end of year round-up posts:

2023 Watch List

Top "5" (lol) characters I would help bury a body

Top 5 Couple fights

Top 5 Yearning scenes

Five other posts that I want to highlight because I can:

Why R U Korea mistranslation

Alternatives to Measure Your Life By

Grand Guignol review

Love in Translation review

Shadow the series squicks and scares

Ask game re: my BL start and fave shows [previous pinned post]

[waitmyturtles]

The Old GMMTV Challenge: The Master Post and Explainer

Updated: April 24, 2024

Hello! Welcome to The Old GMMTV Challenge (OGMMTVC), my personal syllabus and journey through the most important, and/or impactful, and/or seminal of Boys Love (BL)/Series Y dramas from Thailand.

I started watching Thai BL series in 2022 with the airing of KinnPorsche. From there, I dallied with shows that were referenced across Tumblr -- but I didn't dig into learning about the genre as a whole until I watched 2021-22's Bad Buddy, and was thoroughly moved by it in countless ways.

I subsequently learned that Bad Buddy was, in large part, constructed to communicate with tropes and expectations established previously by the genre. In order to get to a point where I could appreciate Bad Buddy in all of its historic glory, I therefore decided to start from the top -- to watch Thai BLs in chronological order so as to help me better understand the tentacles of this young genre. I was also impacted by a post from a BL Tumblr lifer, @absolutebl, who talked in 2022 about current shows by the GMMTV network, the biggest producer of BL dramas in Thailand, that were answering for mistakes made in the early Thai BL days.

Bad Buddy is a GMMTV show -- but in order to learn fully about the genre, I've created a syllabus of shows and movies that spans well outside the GMMTV network and sphere of influence. In the spring of 2023, I crowdsourced information about Thai BLs from the INCREDIBLE BL community on Tumblr, and came up with the syllabus below.

This syllabus is ever changing, especially as this young genre (which was arguably born in 2014 with the airing of Love Sick) continues to explore itself outside of its male-and-male romance genre boundaries, by centering women and/or non-binary individuals, and even leaving romance behind for horror, suspense, mystery, crime, and more.

Besides watching dramas on this syllabus, I'm also in the process of reading English-language books and articles about the Thai BL genre and its influences in Thailand and across Asia on queer and non-queer communities, as well as on the most marketed-to BL audience in young women. Links to reading materials are below the syllabus.

If you're looking to learn more about BL, this is but one resource to use. There's an incredible community of bloggers here with vastly more knowledge than me about the history of this genre. This is only my path, and I encourage you to explore the corners of Tumblr to create your own Thai BL journey!

The Drama Syllabus and Review/Meta Links

1) The Love of Siam (2007) (movie) (review here) 2) My Bromance (2014) (movie) (review here) 3) Love Sick and Love Sick 2 (2014 and 2015) (review here) 4) Gay OK Bangkok Season 1 (2016) (a non-BL queer series directed by Jojo Tichakorn and written by Aof Noppharnach) (review here) 5) Make It Right (2016) (review here) 6) SOTUS (2016-2017) (review here) 7) Gay OK Bangkok Season 2 (2017) (a non-BL queer series directed by Jojo Tichakorn and written by Aof Noppharnach) (review here) 8) Make It Right 2 (2017) (review here) 9) Together With Me (2017) (review here) 10) SOTUS S/Our Skyy x SOTUS (2017-2018) (review here) 11) Love By Chance (2018) (review here) 12) Kiss Me Again: PeteKao cuts (2018) (no review) 13) He’s Coming To Me (2019) (review here) 14) Dark Blue Kiss (2019) and Our Skyy x Kiss Me Again (2018) (review here) 15) TharnType (2019-2020) (review here) 16) Senior Secret Love: Puppy Honey (OffGun BL cuts) (2016 and 2017) (no review) 17) Theory of Love (2019) (review here) 18) 3 Will Be Free (2019) (a non-BL and an important harbinger of things to come in 2019 and beyond re: Jojo Tichakorn pushing queer content in non-BLs) (review here) 19) Dew the Movie (2019) (review here) 20) Until We Meet Again (2019-2020) (review here) (and notes on my UWMA rewatch here)

21) 2gether (2020) and Still 2gether (2020) (review here) 22) I Told Sunset About You (2020) (review here) 23) YYY (2020, out of chronological order) (review here) 24) Manner of Death (2020-2021) (review here) 25) A Tale of Thousand Stars (2021) (review here) 26) A Tale of Thousand Stars (2021) OGMMTVC Fastest Rewatch Known To Humankind For The Sake Of Rewatching Our Skyy 2 x BBS x ATOTS (re-review here) 27) Lovely Writer (2021) (review here) 28) Last Twilight in Phuket (2021) (the mini-special before IPYTM) (review here) 29) I Promised You the Moon (2021) (review here) 30) Not Me (2021-2022) (review here)

31) Bad Buddy (2021-2022) (thesis here) 32) 55:15 Never Too Late (2021-2022) (not a BL, but a GMMTV drama that features a macro BL storyline about shipper culture and the BL industry) (review here) 33) Bad Buddy (2021-2022) and Our Skyy 2 x BBS x ATOTS (2023) OGMMTVC Rewatch (Links to the BBS OGMMTVC Meta Series are here: preamble here, part 1, part 2, part 3a, part 3b, and part 4) 34) Secret Crush On You (2022) (review here) 35) KinnPorsche (2022) (tag here)  36) KinnPorsche (2022) OGMMTVC Fastest Rewatch Known To Humankind For the Sake of Re-Analyzing the KP Cultural Zeitgeist (part 1 and part 2) 37) Honorable Mention: War of Y (2022) (for the sake of an attempt to provide meta BL commentary within a BL in the modern BL era), with a complementary watch of Aam Anusorn’s documentary, BL: Broken Fantasy (2020) (thoughts here) 38) The Eclipse (2022) (tag here) 39) The Eclipse OGMMTVC Rewatch to Reexamine “Genre BLs” and Internalized/Externalized Homophobia in GMMTV Shows (watching) 40) GAP (2022-2023) (Thailand’s first GL)

41) My School President (2022-2023) and Our Skyy 2 x My School President (2023) 42) Moonlight Chicken (2023) (tag here) 43) Bed Friend (2023) (tag here) 44 La Pluie (2023) (review coming) 45) Be My Favorite (2023) (tag here) (I’m including this for BMF’s sophisticated commentary on Krist’s career past as a BL icon) 46) Wedding Plan (2023) (Recommended as an important trajectory in the course of MAME’s work and influence from TharnType) 47) Only Friends (2023) (tag here) (not technically a BL, but it certainly became one in the end) 48) Last Twilight (2023-24) (tag here) (on the list as Thailand’s first major BL to center disability, successfully or otherwise) 49) Cherry Magic Thailand (2023-24) (tag here) (on the list as the first major Japanese-to-Thai drama adaptation, featuring the comeback of TayNew) 50) Ossan’s Love Returns (2024) (adding for the EarthMix cameo and the eventual Thai remake)

51) Dead Friend Forever (2024) (thoughts here) 52) 23.5 (2024) (GMMTV’s first GL) (thoughts here)

Additional Reading Material

Dr. Thomas Baudinette, Boys Love Media in Thailand

Dr. Peter Jackson, Queer Bangkok

Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific -- Issue 49, Thai Boys Love (BL)/Y(aoi) in Literary and Media Industries: Political and Transnational Practices, June 2023

[wanderlust-in-my-soul]

Stay still. I'm just sniffing the linen.

[overthinkthis]

I really don't like the direction this is going. I understand they need to make money and honestly, I would be happy to pay for something like the special episode of The Sign but I don't want to feel pressured into paying only to avoid seeing spoilers. Also lowkey feels like having to pay for yet another streaming service...