#msp help

[seatawinan]

[liyazaki]

you.

MY SCHOOL PRESIDENT | EP. 3 [2022-2023]

[turquo1s]

Hare in Headlights

MSPaint + Mouse (and gimp to un-wonk it)

edit: fixed the contrast

[casualavocados]

for zero dollars i am going to talk about the boys’ individual singing talents now because im stuck on their performances at prom night ok here we go

to start, let me clarify by saying that i myself am a singer. i come from a family (multiple generations) of singers and musicians. my mom taught voice, violin, piano, and guitar in my home growing up. it’s just ingrained in my dna, ok, but this aint about me. just know that I know what im talking about as i get into this

im really only gonna touch on the four main singers (fourth, gem, ford, and satang) but all of them have their own unique qualities and im super impressed by their live performances. singing live is HARD. singing while dancing??? HARDER. and they held up for four hours, two nights in a row. i don’t. i cant - WOW ok

so of the main four, satang, ford, and fourth lean tenor, and gemini has a bass voice (more later). let me start with satang.

THIS BOY SINGS. RIGHT. IN. HIS CRACKING RANGE. HALF THE TIME. listen, okay, there is a difference between singing in full voice and switching to falsetto sometimes than singing in your cracking range. satang has to switch between full voice and falsetto almost every other note. that is HARD. it takes serious work and practice, and slip-ups are near impossible to avoid. he also has a soft voice, and in his case, when in this cracking range he does his best when he sings low and quiet, and is more likely to crack or slide the louder he gets (fourth is exactly the opposite of this and it makes me nuts in a good way. more later). satang also has very good vibrato, and the way he uses it helps him keep control of his voice and can even disguise the cracks and slides he does have. all this being said, you have to seriously appreciate the work he has done to sing so well at the concert. please watch his part in “healing” and go insane with me. when satang is in his full voice range he does his best singing loud, but this is what i wanted to focus on bc i am so proud of him because of how tough it is. 

ford also has a soft voice, but his control comes when he sings loudly. lower pitches are more difficult for him because he has to sing softer in order to hit them, and sometimes, when singing live, that means he can get too quiet to hear. but when he’s in his range and singing full voice? ohhhh my god he kills it. he rarely misses a note. just watch his performance of “come closer”, that’s all you need to know. his vibrato isn’t as good as satang’s but he has a good ear and that makes him so fucking good at harmonizing!! ford also has a very strong and clear tone when singing in falsetto (this line in “stand” showcases it perfectly) - whereas gemini’s falsetto is softer (but just as strong). 

GEMINI. first of all, this guy has so much control over his voice it actually pisses me off. i hate him (i LOVE him and im DELIGHTED by the way this live show was able to give his voice the spotlight it deserves). okay so earlier i said gemini has a bass voice, and that’s true - while talking. he has a stellar tenor singing voice, and his voice is very soft, but very clear and strong on those lower notes (thank you “you’re blushing”). and because he has that low range, his falsetto actually becomes better, bc it means when he sings high notes, he is far far away from his cracking range. it's barely noticeable when he switches between full voice and falsetto. his vibrato aint the best live when it’s unpracticed, but he rarely slides (unless it’s on purpose). he can blend with anyone, he’s very good at harmonizing, and damn he just has a sweet sweet falsetto (featured here and in. basically every song he sings. note that gem sings "hook" mostly in falsetto and fourth does it in his full voice, alongside each other; linked below)

FOURTH. let me start by saying i am the most impressed by his live performance. i am now obsessed with his voice in a lot more ways than i was before. so i mentioned earlier that he’s the opposite of satang, in the sense that he is more likely to crack, slide, or miss hitting a pitch when he’s singing quietly. but he’s also the opposite to all three of them, because where satang, ford, and gemini all have soft voices, fourth’s voice has a very clear tone right off the bat. this makes his approach to singing vastly different from the others. his falsetto is good, but when fourth sings loud? HE DOES NOT MISS A SINGLE NOTE. this boy can BELT it out in his full voice, and that includes both high and low notes. oh my god it is insane. LISTEN. TO. THESE. RIGHT. NOW. OK? please drink some water boy ilysm. 

the fact that fourth spent those four hours, two nights in a row, singing in mainly his full voice, and absolutely kill. ing. it. the whole time is THE most impressive thing to me. do you know how much energy it takes to sing in your full voice for a long time? can you imagine how much MORE energy it must take to do that WHILE DANCING? do you know how much control over his breaths he has to have for that??!?!?! AND TO STILL SOUND THAT STRONG AT THE END OF THE SECOND NIGHT. i dont care. he’s everything to me.

honestly they all are. this is getting long so im gonna wrap it up but i have never enjoyed a live performance more in my life. these boys are so talented it's insane and gmmtv is lucky to have them.

[ranchthoughts]

wai as a faen fatale: a defense

thank you, as always, to @absolutebl for inventing the term

A faen fatale is a character whose purpose is to drive a wedge between the main pair by pursuing on of the main pair. They generally do not receive much character development themselves. Faen fatales can be of any gender, though typically the seme is pursued by a woman and the uke is pursued by a man.

Bad Buddy is not a show with typical faen fatales - I’ve already spoken at length here about how Ink subverts the idea of a faen fatale by not being interested in either lead and by receiving lots of character development of her own (including her own romantic arc), but I would like to throw my hat in the ring for Wai as a faen fatale.

To start, let’s look at the role of a faen fatale in a BL show. They will:

be romantically interested in one of the leads and pursue them

induce feelings of jealousy and other negative emotions in the other lead

become a barrier to the leads’ relationship (e.g., one doesn’t trust the other there are no actual feelings/a relationship between them, the jealousy gets out of hand, etc.)

become a catalyst for the leads’ relationships (e.g., the feelings of jealousy make a lead realize his feelings/act on his feelings, combating the faen fatale brings the couple together, etc.)

Let’s assess Ink with this list:

1. no, she isn’t romantically interested in either Pat or Pran (or guys at all for that matter)

2. yes, Pran does feel jealous and sad because he assumes Ink and Pat are together/will be together, and because Pat told him he has a crush on Ink; Pat intentionally uses Ink to make Pran jealous during the ep.7 Flirt-Off bet while they eat at the noodle shop (he opens the water for her, he tries to feed her, he take a picture with her, etc.)

3. yes, as part of Pran’s initial hesitation to start a relationship with Pat/go beyond the rooftop kiss is his understanding that Pat has feelings for Ink and that they are well on their way to being together

4. yes, in some ways, as Pat uses Pa’s patented “Four Ways to Tell is Someone is Into You” she taught him to asses Ink to realize his own feelings for Pran, and Ink is generally supportive of Pat and Pran’s relationship (both before they were romantically involved and after)

Bonus: Ink is the faen fatale for Pat, who is the more traditionally seme coded character, and semes typically have female faen fatales

Despite this, Ink doesn’t fit the model of a faen fatale because, well, she doesn’t actually pursue either lead, and because she gets much more character development (including her own completely separate romantic arc) compared to other faen fatales.

Ok, now let’s asses Wai with this list.

1. no, he isn’t romantically interested in either Pran or Pat

2. yes, Pat does feel jealous and sad at Wai and Pran’s closeness, and how Wai is able to openly be friends with Pran (even visiting his house) in all the ways Pat can’t; Pran intentionally uses Wai to make Pat jealous during the ep.7 Flirt-Off bet, e.g., when they eat at the noodle shop (he orders Wai’s favourite dish without even having to ask, he feeds him, he wipes his face, he feigns helplessness to get Wai to help him with his water bottle, etc.)

Pat being jealous of Wai, a moodboard:

Pat being jealous of Wai (and Pran knowing and milking it), a moodboard:

3. yes, Wai (along with the rest of the architecture and engineer friend groups) is one of the main barriers to Pat and Pran’s relationship. He is against them interacting as friends and certainly against them being together romantically, even outing them to their friends and classmates. Pran and Wai’s friendship suffers after Pran and Pat’s relationship is revealed, which causes Pran pain to the point that Pat offers to (pretend) break up with him in order to repair their friendship.

4. yes, as Pat’s jealousy towards Wai is one of the reasons he realizes he likes Pran as more than a friend, and because Pran and Pat come together in the face of Wai (and their other friends)’s disapproval (e.g., Pat offering to be the heartbroken one and pretend Pran broke up with him to repair Wai and Pran’s friendship, a moment where Pran realizes the extent to which Pat will go for him)

Bonus: Wai is the faen fatale for Pran, who is the more traditionally uke coded character, and ukes typically have male faen fatales

Ergo, if we say Ink could be a faen fatale, clearly Wai could be too.

In fact... if I dare say... there’s more of a case for Wai to be a faen fatale than Ink? No... I shan’t say...

Second argument: it’s hilarious.

Wai, the faen fatale who doesn’t realize he’s the faen fatale. Look at his reaction when Pran uses him to make Pat jealous at the noodle stand:

He’s baffled but sure he’ll let his friend wipe his face and take care of him. He doesn't even know he's in a BL at this point (to him, Bad Buddy is an action series about Architects vs. Engineers).

My case rests.

Bad Buddy is an incredible show, especially in its subversions of BL tropes. This extends to their "faen fatales: Ink, who isn’t really a faen fatale because she has her own complex interests, and Wai, who isn’t really a faen fatale and has no idea what is going on.

[gaym3bo1]

love the little msp special it's basically just a fic titled "3 times tinn's boyfriend was the reason his shirt got dirty + 1 time he helped him clean it"

[thebvbbletea]

Introducing Tiwson Sophonpatima a.k.a the most talented man alive

[aprilblossomgirl]

my school president (2022-2023) | ep.2

you, come here. + why are you here?

[seatawinan]

[booskwan]

tinngun x beyOnd

ib.

[grapejuicegay]

pran gun 🤝 struggling to write a song on the beach about love while talking about their relationship with their partner and how without knowing it they went from two people who couldn't be friends to two people who couldn't be just friends

[theworldinclines]

haha :) can't wait for gun to pull the classic "oh..you like mianmian" and assume the person tinn likes in the band is sound and when sound says that he wrote a love song for someone gun is going to be further convinced that tinnsound is happening fjsksfj One Fear

[astronocria]

moms & daughters

[randomjreader]

What I'm really loving about Hidden Agenda so far is the fact that it's not exactly your typical university romance story. Like with my school president, they're not trying to hide the fact that one of them has always been into the other, and make us "finding out" about that crush a big plot point. It has been very early established that Joke likes Zo, hell it was basically part of the premise of this series long before it started airing. What they're trying to draw audiences in with is the fact that Joke is masterminding his way into Zo's heart, and the anticipation is in finding out how he succeeds, given his current methods of being slightly cold and aloof (so really, quite like Tinn from msp, except we got Tinn's confirmed whipped ass pov by the first episode)

[quodekash]

OUR SKYY IS COMING LITERALLY TONIGHT WHAT THE HELL

[almayver]

Do they at some point acknowledge that Tinn had a freaking premonition nightmare about becoming the school president and Gun coming to him all sad, or are we just moving past that?