#luthienmpl

[secriden]

an introduction to daouoffroad: a record (mostly for me)

so, the lovely @luthienmpl was very kind and gave me a daouoffroad starter pack so i'm gonna learn about them!

i adore finding out about something this way because it's like someone shared their love of The Thing with me! how lovely! how lucky to catch a glimpse of how much joy The Thing gives someone else!!

this is literally just random stream of consciousness thoughts as i watch the videos so i'll spare anyone who isn't interested and put it under a cut.

oh my god they met as contestants on a survival boyband show wtf!? what kind of fanfic kdrama au start is this already!?

ok damn but daou's runs tho :O <3

nooooooo offroad is crying and thanking daou for his support how dARE YOU TOY WITH MY HEART LIKE THIS!? ;A;

ohmygosh is that the actress who plays P'Joy in LITA??? <3

fuck, the pressing the face into the tummy of the one standing thing. why is that so cute. ugh D:<

waitwaitWAIT is that a thing? do directors just... write stories/shows for couples who have good chemistry whatttt?? is this like a thai ent industry staple? (oh i guess mame kind of did that with fortpeat/mutrak) that's so funny omg. xDDD

laz1 is so kpop styled :O and i must add Last Kiss to my playlist imMEDIATELY its such a pretty song?? <3333

thiS BRIDGE i AM FEELING IT!?!?! DAOU WHAT IS THAT RIFF!?!??! HOLY SHIT THAT WAS SUCH A SMOOTH TRANSITION UP TO THE HIGH NOTE!? *O* <3

(was daou already an established singer before or something?? boy has pIPES!)

*faintly* d-did he try to... bite... the cat's... paw??

/SCREAMS nO THE HARMONIES yeah ok i'm a fan weLP THA TWAS QUICK

(i'm such a sucker for vocal line groups ugh dammit TwT)

wait, enlistment?? huh i did not know thailand also did that... is it the same as skorea?

oh-- oh my god he sent flowers? through his sister?? *whispers* that's so sweet ;u;

goodness, offroad literally running and jumping into daou's arms while daou is still in military fatigues-- guys this is either zero attempt at being subtle or the best cp marketing i've seen in my life wow

awww did offroad bring his graduation gown to the event just so he could get pics with daou?? that's so cute! ;A;

okAY SIR?? SIR NO the sleeping right pressed up to offroad as he pretends to snore but like daou is just paSSED OUT HALF ON TOP OF HIm NO SIR NO I CANNOT HANDLE THIS NOPE BYE

(the cut right as daou reaches up to shut offroad up had me cracking up tho, they've got a wicked sense of humour i really like them)

ahahahah the members playing along is really cute!! poor daou has to be relegated to the "jealous bf" -- this is SO interesting to watch coming out of old kpop fandom and kpop skinship to this xD like... i am enLIGHTEND *O*

*cries* what is this... poolside actual love confession proposal with rings and pLANNING to commemorate their.. working.. relationship!?!? i'm??? they are so LOUD wtf-- i'm not... used to this... !?! *incoherent noises*

sidebar: i'm struggling to get a handle on their honorifics... are they phi/nong? but sometimes dauo sounds like he's using mueng/guu when he addresses offroad directly?

ljsdfjsLfj THE FACE. IN THE TUMMY. ITS BACK <3

OH FUCK OFFROAD WITH THE ASH HAIR. *O* YEAH YEAH OKOKOK i'M NORMAL ABOUT THIS!!!!

oh oh NO did daou just push offroad to the inside of the road so he's on the outside like that's--t hat's so boyfriend coded wtf

bahahaHAHAH is offroad going on about the bracelet because now daou *has* to buy one for him? xD what a smart cookie. xDDD

wAIT DID IT WORK!? PAHAHA--

other thoughts:

pentor looks SO FAMILIAR and i can't figure out why??? ;A; is he in something else?? i'm so confused but i think i love him already WHAT AN ADORABLE DIMPLED BOI *O*

i know you included the Whats The Matter? MV but I'm sorry I'm going to live in Last Kiss for like the next 5 days especially thAT BRIDGE WTF <3

the acoustic/live version is so PRETTY omg ;A; that 3 part harmony in the first chorus *chefs kiss*

sOMEONE is doing like a really high harmony in the pre-chorus and its so thin and wispy and pRETTY ahhh <3

although also ngl i think daou needs maybe some more vocal training he sounds quite strained sometimes... and he's got a lot of tension in his throat but good GOD his range!! he's SO talented wtf; ALSO their youngest member has SUCH a nice tone UGH <33333

their 2 shows:

ok love in translation actually sounds like exactly my cup of tea hahahah it looks so cute <3 and potentially heartbreaking but like not TOO heartbreaking

century of love... yeah ok i'm gonna put that on my list of things to get to when i'm in the right headspace for that kind of angst but what an interesting concept!! its like comphet, the series. xD

wait both their shows are comphet the series? xDDDD they just swapped who was suffering from it.

hoboy they are SO LOUD already from the beginning wtf

(sidenote but I would KILL for fortpeat to go on something like this cAN YOU IMAGINE the sHINANIGANS!! peat being so happy at all the food. fort's teasing. ugh. where can i start a petition ya'll)

the heIGHT DIFFERENCE am i'm feeling some type of way about it, yes yes i am

bAHAHAH the mandatory piggyback ride that they actually just SAY is boyfriend material i'm-- i'm not use do this lack of wink wink nudge nudge skinship approach in my boyband duos like?? *confused noises pt 2*

oh oh my gosh they have auntie fans too??? how adorableeeee!!!?! damn offroad sounds so soft in southern dialect idk whats going on my ears are blessed *u* <3

I don't know why but daou's "Try traditional snack!" made me crack up xDDDD

i have just realised what a mistake it was to start this on an empty stomach T___T that all looks SO GOOD wtf

lol that poor lady with the corgi's just wanted to go on her way and she got way-landed by these insane boys xDD

wft the nUZZING INTO THE NECK THING. IT S STILL. SO MUCH. IHAVE FEELIGNS ABOUT THIS MOMENT Tu T <3

guYS-- GUYS you said you both paid half... so you don't... you don't still need to do the cheek kisse-- oh nevermind you did them already ok then

i mean ok but for real tho the amount of times offroad just cracks up at somethign random daou does is genuinely really sweet?? like they seem to really have this wavelength that is just their own *u*

[doublel27]

I’ve been thinking about Moo’s very publicly r video essay ever since @petrichoraline and I were talking about Moo’s very public declaration of his relationship here and the irony is if no one had said anything to Moo there’s a chance he wouldn’t have done anything.

In episode 8, Neth and Kang had already convinced him he might need to be quiet about their relationship. Kang and Moo agreed that “as long as we know” it doesn’t matter what other people do or don’t know.

And I think it was even worse for Moo because the dance video wasn’t a declaration of anything. That’s what he states before making the Kang fan edit. The video he was asked to delete was simply just boys dancing. And as an idol, he’s gonna be dancing on stage with a lot of boys. He’s probably already posted clips with Tae and Yos as well.

And sure it’s different because Kang isn’t also out here trying to be a dancer and he is Moo’s boyfriend. But a lot of what he was being asked to tone down were things that were what Moo considers normal. And I think that’s what made him so angry when everyone asked him to take the video down. Shone and Moo’s mom didn’t know they were boyfriends from that clip. To Moo’s point that wasn’t an announcement.

And as @luthienmpl points out here it’s not like Moo didn’t very publicly court Kang at school where everyone knows he’s written Kang a song and sang it over the intercom and gave away food for people who congratulated them on being boyfriends. There’s information out there.

Moo got mad at the idea he would have to lie. And everyone was insisting they weren’t asking him to lie, but to not share. To Moo, who if the thought is in his head it’s out of his mouth, omitting facts, deleting posts because of how someone might interpret it even if it’s not explicit what the video is of, to cut parts of himself off, well that’s a lie. After being pushed too far by the repeated requests by others to be less, he snapped with the very loud video of l not only do I have a boyfriend but let me tell you all about him and why he’s perfect.

With the preview showing that the contract is going to say expressly no relationships and Moo’s determination to not lie and Kang being the bluest boy (who tend to be martyrs….I am very curious where Only Boo is going with this story. As I am curious where Thame Po will take this story as they’re doing a similar line.

Another show with a similar storyline from GMM, Be My Favorite just dropped in 2023 and I adored it, but they took a particular stance on this conundrum. You should watch it, but spoilers…in one of the futures Kawi makes for himself, he ends up an idol and is at first delighted to find himself living what he thought was an impossible dream. But it’s quickly clear that he is miserable, drinking. He had gotten his dream girl Pear, but she left him because he wouldn’t marry her and start a family. As an idol, he couldn’t, or wouldn’t, give her the time, attention, and public commitment she was looking for. We also find out that Piesang disappeared around the same time. It’s heavily implied after Kawi chases Piesang and kisses him drunkenly, that Kawi probably did something similar after Pear left as Piesang says “You cannot keep doing this.” (They’d had a similar moment in episode six but this made it feel like we had a bigger pattern and explained his absence)

In the final future, Kawi is happily a songwriter, making songs for other people to sing. It’s the future Kawi chose knowing where the idol path sent him. Piesang even questions him on it. He asks Kawi if he gave up on those dreams because of Piesang and Piesang offers to hide if that’s what it takes. Kawi, thanks to the power of time travel, tells Piesang he’s absolutely certain he couldn’t be happier if he traveled that path. Only misery lies that way. Kawi’s whole lesson though is about making choices in the moment that spark joy rather than letting fear or jealousy lead your choices and living a life that makes you truly happy.

Only Boo, of course, is a very different show with a very different lead. Moo is 1000 times more confident and certain than Kawi ever could hope to be. He knows what he wants and while everyone sees them as two disparate pictures, Moo sees them fully integrated. He’s also a much younger character, just out of high school and has yet to face the reality of what it means to be an idol beyond getting to do the things he loves most and feels confident about.

Thame-Po will take us somewhere entirely different with an idol at the peak of their game who signed their right to a personal life away at a much younger age.

So when confronted with a contract that explicitly says you cannot date and Moo, who has no interest in lies of omission or hiding his boyfriend, and is in fact highly reactionary to people insisting he delete rather innocuous posts incase someone wants to speculate…I am very interested in the choices that will get written in here.

It is especially interesting considering the the litany of drama that has come out of highly entitled fan reactions to social media posts and in some cases leaked videos of Thai artists in their own home. Sure, everyone is trying to “protect” Moo in theory, but entitled fans will be entitled whether you hide your personal life entirely or not. These types of fans seem to exist across fandoms of many types and with a level of wild inappropriateness regardless of how open or closed a celebrity is to others. If they post too much with someone that’s a sign. If they avoid posting with someone that’s a sign. Like…there’s no winning.

And to that point, what is the takeaway going to be for Moo as he is faced with a moral dilemma and the two things he wants most in conflict? And what is the messaging going to be from Only Boo/GMM about young idols and talent (as the two leads of this show are) and their rights to their own lives? And are we gonna talk about the extra layer of homophobia of it all or because the fact that even straight relationships seem to be a PR nightmare for some talent, that GMM/Only Boo is content to leave it ambiguous for now?

[oyeicher]

Unknown Language Notes

This post is inspired by @thisonelikesaliens 's post & @luthienmpl 's tags on the post. If you've ever taken a Mandarin class you probably know all of this already, but for those who don't speak any Mandarin, it might be helpful to familiarize your ear with these words✨

Note: all audio clips are from episode 2

小遠 xiǎo yuǎn [xiáo yuǎn] lit. Little Yuan

Here, 小 (xiǎo), which means small/little, is added in front of 遠 (yuǎn) as a diminutive term. It's pretty common for parents and older relatives to add a 小 in front of the last character of a child's name as an affectionate nickname. Note: In case you're wondering why I've included a second pronunciation in square brackets, it's because the first pronunciation is the one you'd find in a dictionary and the second one is the actual pronunciation of 小遠. This is due to the tone change rule known as "tone sandhi". Basically, when a third tone is followed by a third tone, the first one becomes a second tone.

魏之遠 wèi zhī yuǎn Yuan

魏 (wèi) is his surname. In episode 1, the gang boss says that Wei Xiaoyuan is a bad name and suggests 魏之遠 Wei Zhiyuan (literally Wei's Yuan, Yuan that belongs to Wei) instead. Note: While 小 (xiǎo) is often used in nicknames, it's no longer common in to have this character in one's legal name. You can still find people with names including this character in the older generation, but such names sound uncultured and uneducated to most native speakers (*cough* classism *cough*)

魏謙 wèi qiān Qian

弟弟 dì di younger brother

��� gē older brother (akin to phi in Thai and hyung/oppa in Korean)

The first audio file is from the scene in which Yuan hands Qian a graduation bouquet, and if you speak Mandarin, you can probably tell that he sounds extremely soft here. I would upload a clip of the scene, but I haven't had much success uploading video clips in the past, so a gif will have to do.

[aliceisathome]

Challenge: make a poll with five of your all time favourite characters, and then tag five people to do the same, and see which character is everyone's favourite.

I was tagged by @luthienmpl who should absolutely be watching My Stand In..

The characters I like are either ones I want to be BFFs with or ones I just find fascinating. I excuded currently airing series because I'm OBSESSED with them, otherwise the first 3 slots would be Dee, Yak and Kao from Wandee Goodday and the last 2 Ming and Joe from My Stand In.

I'm tagging some folks I haven't heard from for a while but feel free to ignore it! @placetneplacet @clairificusrex @gillianthecat @lutawolf @weekendatennuis

[nattawinlove-andmygaytea]

Challenge: make a poll with five of your all time favourite characters, and then tag five people to do the same, and see which character is everyone's favourite.

I was tagged by @bisexualboysbroadcast Thanks 💖✌🏻

So, I'm making a poll with my beloved guys from my beloved taiwanese Bl's :

@mangkorn-akira @luthienmpl @bilights @vvitcherys @quinastarshine @pickletrip @omgtheregoesthefuckidontgive @chrissynever @janujaja @youdontnohme @sunn-yim

[throwing-roses-into-the-abyss]

Challenge: make a poll with five of your all time favourite characters, and then tag five people to do the same, and see which character is everyone's favourite.

thank you @luthienmpl for tagging me!

I assume this is about asian bl so that's what I'll stick to for this poll. also this is by no means a definite list, I am TERRIBLE at favourite characters and instantly forgot every character ever and what I thought of them.

i'm tagging @joblessquinoa @jeonghanurl and whoever else feels like doing this!

[blue-grama]

5 Things That Make You Happy

✨List 5 things that make you happy and send this to the last 10 people who liked/reblogged something from you. Get to know your followers and mutuals!✨

‌I was tagged by @abstractelysium! Thanks for the tag :)

My Five Things of the moment: 1. Warm weather: It's spring in my part of the world, which means whiplash between terrible rain/snow, days so perfectly mild they feel fake, and withering sun. I'm just excited to be outside again. 2. Gay time travel period piece romances out of Thailand: This is my Asian drama corner of the internet, so might as well talk about it, hm? There are some things you don't know you like until you watch one version and then find yourself perking up like a trained seal every time something in the same vein appears.

So yeah, apparently the time-traveling gays are just extremely that for me.

Long way of saying that I have just learned about I'm The Most Beautiful Count and I expect to be seated for it.

3. The fact that one of the only twelve Archaeopteryx specimens in the world is in a corregated metal prefab museum in a one-stoplight town in north-central Wyoming.

By w:en:User:Stephan Schulz - English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2166353

i love her

4. Getting a good deal on something. This is a byproduct of an upbringing by extremely frugal parents, but I become possibly unhealthily giddy at getting something useful or fun for free or cheap. I just picked up a vintage (aka probably only 10 years older than me lol/sob) mustard-yellow suitcase decorated with elephants from a neighbor who was giving it away, and it's objectively kind of hideous but I will love it until it falls apart into a million pieces, and when I finally have to throw it away I will wistfully recount the tale of how it was free.

5. Learning Chinese. This is a lie, Mandarin has regularly been throwing me into existential crises for half my life now, I will die unfluent in this language, it's fine, it's fine. I started learning when I was young because my family lived in China, but when I returned to my home country I basically marked time for years because I went to a university without much of a language program and the most I could really do was keep up a very basic level. I dropped the whole thing for much of my early adulthood, and now I'm back to it. The gratifying thing is how quickly a lot of my reading and comprehension came back. The ungratifying thing is I am tragic at stringing together a sentence. Realistically, I have no good reason to be banging my head against this but I also think that if you don't have a frustrating hobby in adulthood you just start listening to political podcasts and going insane, so here we are. 加油！

As per instructions, tagging people who've recently reblogged from me... @benkaaoi, @chaos0pikachu, @dramalets, @boozles @luthienmpl, @cryptidafter @brifrischu, obviously ignore if you have already done this or find this kind of thing irritating.

[yukinojou]

luthienmpl:

#it's either 'this is fucked up actually' about things I'm not involved in#or it's the I'm fine fire dog in emoji form

I'm never sure what the intended message is when i recieve it so I tried to put the most common emoji meanings I've heard

[0ffgun]

Good morning Ollie! Do you still take gif requests? I'd like to request a 2gether parallels set with that scene from episode 3 where they talk about not being able to write a love song if you've never been in love and that scene last episode where Tine comes across a video of Sarawat recording a song called "Your Smile" because HOO BOY DO I LOOK FORWARD TO THAT MUSIC CONTEST ALL OF A SUDDEN

Hi there!!! I do still take gif requests (I’ve been a little slow at doing them lately because I have a big pile of requests I gotta do and rather than facing them I’ve been running away and hiding under blankets lmao) I’m getting started on this one for you now! This is a gorgeous request and I just watched both the scenes back and I’m SO full of feelings I’M LOOKING FORWARD TO THE MUSIC CONTEST NOW TOO OH DAMN

[10yrsyart]

I'm just.... why is Crow sitting in Zira's lap in that first panel? Was that where AJ was sitting before they were switched and Crow just kind of got plopped down there? Or did Crow stride into the bookshop expecting to find Az and just launched himself over the side of the couch into his favorite cuddle position before he noticed anything was wrong?

yes, that was the Prologue page. @luthienmpl it shows Crow basically poofing into existence on Zira’s lap. i didn’t include that first panel on either Part because well, it was posted already. so might as well get on with it XD

[campchitaquamemories]

Quentin “Shit, Poppy, that was not what I meant, I have made a mistake”  Coldwater

(requested by: @luthienmpl)

[guzhufuren]

@luthienmpl

#play your cards close to your his chest

[throwing-roses-into-the-abyss]

So now that my friend @luthienmpl received it I can finally share my first ever finished knitting project!

I made this seventeen wall hanger (or just "vaguely decorative object", really)! It's double knitted and I made the design myself, and I'm really happy with how it turned out!

Now onwards to other projects!

[yukinojou]

@luthienmpl replied to your post: Oh look. New dash. And it STILL makes my eyes...

Have you tried the palette changes? There’s a more muted low contrast one

Thus far I found an “old dashboard” toggle in the settings, and as long as that works, I’m using it...

[peachesareaguysbestfried]

theopengrave replied to your post: So I have a questions. Why do people think that...

Jason ralph confirmed she died.

My thing with that is like... What does he know. He doesn’t write the show. Secondary canon is super weird and messy and gets debunked really often.

luthienmpl replied to your post: So I have a questions. Why do people think that...

1) her family might have taken her body to be buried in their orchard or on a family crypt. 2) she wasn’t part of the quest. She came along after they’d been working on it for more than a year already and she’s never shown to have worked on the actual mosaic puzzle, so whatever magic was involved might not have considered her a legible candidate.

1) Could have happened, but there’s no textual basis for it, so it’s definitely speculation.

2) Yeah, this is, I hope, the argument the writers would use if they were to ever bring this question back/expand on it, and I’d be okay with that, and I guess I get it if this is everyone’s headcanon.

For me, it still feels a bit like speculation, because we don’t actually know how the magic worked, and if there even was magic involved (you certainly couldn’t use magic on the puzzle itself, so it really felt just like a metaphor to me personally) - so I think there’s a lot of room left open for interpretation.

[reigen-small-naturals]

@luthienmpl like literally all of this could've been avoided w/ a quick red cross training hajfhsdkhjfkhf

the way i howled at Third with a first aid kit trying to get to these mofos who are healing Vee with homeopathy, the saddest character to be in this universe for real