#neoforce

[25shadesoffebruary]

"Do you like Top?" "...No. "Then why? "Because I was here first."

Bonus:

[chicademartinica]

Sand gearing up to swallow Ray’s entire pelvis by kissing as much exposed skin as he can while looking dazed as fuck : Me WHEEEEEEW DAMN

Boston going all cirque du soleil of porn on Top : Me : OH NO POOR NICK.

Jojo really yelled « all sex ain’t good sex » in my nostrils and SIR I GOT IT DAMN !

NB: TopBoston doesn’t have HALF of the easy sexual chemistry Bos has with Nick and they did that shit on purpose. There was NO joy except Ton’s elation at winning.

[gunsatthaphan]

Do you know if it’s true that Neo suggested he and Mark kiss to break the tension? I saw that as a comment here and always wondered if it was from an interview or something

Neo did suggest that but it was to Force, not Mark lmao.

it's from this clip. (couldn't find the original interview sorry)

but anyway yes. an energy to die for dfjkgfgh

xxx

[theworldinclines]

alexa force just said him and neo kissed to break the ice when they found out they had to be paired up for only friends. oh we’re gonna die

lmaogjssjskaksk VILLAINOUS omgjsks where did he say that!!!!! kissed where when how; how could he say that 😫😫 is he trying to put me into an early grave before they even begin filming like🧍‍♂️🧍‍♂️be serious pls

[taeminie]

GOOD MORNING TO ME

[tiistirtipii]

My attempt at graphing the absolute shit show that Only Friends is going to be. I’m so ready for this show

[placetneplacet]

Y’all Jojo made an Only Friends playlist for while we’re waiting.

Starts out with Amy Winehouse.

[blmpff]

(7s) 30.05.2023

[firstkhaolesbian]

i truly love how neoforce literally fucked wild n nasty in that car as if their gay lil lives depended on it, and we were all like woah! then first touched khaotung’s tattoo one(1) time and everyone collectively started scaling the ceiling and eating drywall

[heretherebedork]

After Only Friends all I want is a NeoBook show and a FirstForce show. MondBook would also be great. NeoForce? Hell yes. FirstMark? Yes, please. No more pair branding, chaos only.

Please. Give everybody a good shake up and just spread the pairings all over the place. They could be so good.

(NeoBook would do an amazing enemies to lovers show about, like, academic rivals or a much better My Gear and Your Gown. FirstForce could do something amazing in a business setting with both of them trying to be professional together also pining. MondBook would be amazing as a jock-nerd pairing. NeoForce could give us just about anything but I think I'd like them in a more serious BL, with lots of deeper undertones just in general. FirstMark would do an AMAZING light and goofy romcom.)

[waitmyturtles]

Yesterday was an insane day, huh? I can’t wait to see what Only Friends entails -- despite my best efforts to keep cool in dis HEAT, that NeoForce snippet in the car still has me flying. Anyway, I want to pen some quick notes on Minato’s Laundromat, season 2, and note some Old GMMTV Challenge thingies, now that I’m back from this crazy summer trip!

1) I’m fully caught up on Minato’s Laundromat, season 2 -- I was three episodes behind (thanks, OGMMTVC, ha), and thanks to the eagle eyes of @emotionallychargedtowel, I am LOSING MY MIND AT THE THOUGHT OF TAKEDA KOUHEI, AKA NOZUE FROM OLD FASHION CUPCAKE, MAKING AN APPEARANCE IN ANOTHER BL, OMG OMG OMG

GASPING! GASPING!

Because Old Fashion Cupcake is my LIFE, lol. @emotionallychargedtowel and @bengiyo nail it in ECT’s post with the note on this wonderful continuation of clutch actors reappearing in Japanese BLs, like Izuka Kenta from The Novelist going to Candy Color Paradox, and Inukai Atsuhiro from Zettai BL going to Our Dining Table. I love Japan’s easter eggs in these shows. 

But also, regarding episode 5 of Minato: god, I really liked how the tables turned on Minato and Shu. It’s been interesting to have the older characters as the dominant voices of the two central relationships of this show. And of course, this second season is constructed totally around the ongoing nature of both of these relationships. So, we VERY NATURALLY see the “older voice” perspective, because it just so happens that the two older men of these couplings are the ones really setting the tone and pace of the engagements.

And the tables both begin to turn in episode 5, and I think these lines of jealousy between both Minato and Shu, for me, are frankly welcome. We can see Shin getting frustrated, Minato not having the words to respond to that frustration, and Minato just not allowing his door to open on his full feelings for Shin. The theme of this relationship being a dodgy one -- but only in the eyes of Minato! -- deserves to be challenged. And I like how this challenge is being set up in large part in the context of Shin as a student, where he would be learning how to challenge mindsets vis à vis his education anyway.

Anyway -- I utterly love this show so far. As always with the Japanese BLs that I am simping over, I wish I could give them more of my background mind time that’s being otherwise spent on Thailand, but -- soon enough!

2) Speaking of Thailand, HA -- after I published my YYY review for the Old GMMTV Challenge yesterday, I updated my list considerably. On the recommendation of @lurkingshan, @wen-kexing-apologist, and @neuroticbookworm, and because of Jojo Tichakorn’s recent tweets on the topic of what influenced Only Friends, I’ve added Gay OK Bangkok, seasons 1 and 2 to the list and started watching it last night. 

I’m already calling it — GOKB is a MUST WATCH before Only Friends. 

I can’t wait to get HUGE about this in my OGMMTVC review of this show.

Within the first five minutes, it’s already so much more open and honest about sex and queer sex than the VERY HIGH majority of BLs out there. The show is a collaboration between Jojo and Aof Noppharnach, on the lives of six gay men in Bangkok, released in 2016 and 2017 -- nicely placed between Make It Right, SOTUS, and Make It Right 2.

Obviously, I’m going backwards chronologically again, but I think GOKB will be important for understanding specifically how Asian queer male artists in this space view and portray intimacy, and language (verbal and body language) regarding sex. @lurkingshan, you were mentioning yesterday that queer male viewpoints on sex are ones that cishet women like us just may not automatically understand. INTERESTINGLY, BEFORE we talked about this -- I was actually thinking about this while I was watching the last two episodes of A Tale of Thousand Stars in my OGMMTVC rewatch. Tian and Phupha’s continued back-and-forth of frustration and miscommunication: I was thinking -- there’s GOTTA be something about the way Aof GESTATES and DISPLAYS queer male communication that I’m not getting automatically (besides, of course, the patriarchal structures that hold both Tian and Phupha back). I wonder, I think, and I feel that GOKB is going to give me hints about how Aof and Jojo just DO THIS style of communication in their subsequent shows. 

I can only hope that Only Friends will be as LOUD and OPEN and HONEST about the realities of sex and intimacy that GOKB does almost immediately in its first season. Watching GOKB feels WAY more real to life to me than a lot of the romance BLs out there. I feel like I’m talking about sex and love with my queer friends as I’m watching GOKB, and it’s just hewing to real life in an UTTERLY wonderful way. What a fucking show already, and I’m only three episodes in!

3) Finally, also on the topic of the OGMMTVC, I’ve added at least one movie, and am considering a second movie. I’m adding, per the recommendation of @bengiyo, 2007′s The Love of Siam to the list, for the fact that this movie had a clear influence on many of today’s Thai BL creators. I see it has many actors that make support or guest appearances in today’s BLs, and I can’t wait to get to it as an utterly formative piece, both to Thai BLs and to Asian queer cinema.

4) As well -- inspired in part by my notes on Fluke Teerapat in yesterday’s YYY review -- I am THINKING of adding 2014′s My Bromance to the list. I’m not sure, but I’m THINKING about it, and I KNOW I will get poked for it, ha.

A couple of things here. The OGMMTVC has not deep-dived into cinema yet, besides 2019′s Dew the Movie, which aired around the same time as the groundbreaking He’s Coming To Me. 

Yet, referring back to my conversation with @bengiyo about The Love of Siam -- queer cinema CERTAINLY speaks to the creation of the BL genre. Before television BL, what Thailand had in majority by way of queer media were movies. On paper at least, My Bromance fits a couple of bills. 

First, Love Sick premieres on television in 2014 -- but well after the cinematic release of My Bromance. So that already makes 2014 an even bigger year for the development of the BL television genre.

Second, My Bromance stars two homies who have been in these BL streets for a MINUTE -- as I said before, Fluke Teerapat is one, but I did NOT have the SLIGHTEST appreciation for how long Fluke Natouch has been around (and I’m in LUV with Fluke Natouch at the moment. I’m still not over the condo scene in UWMA!). 

So, we have the two Flukes, at least one of them publicly out, and starring in a movie ROOTED in a stepbrother yaoi trope. The comments of my Dew the Movie OGMMTVC review touched upon how taboos may have begotten taboos in early BLs -- that if a piece of art crossed one boundary in being queer, then other boundaries, like stepbrothers falling in love, may have then been seen as valid or “okay” WITHIN that piece of art. I’m interested in possibly watching something so very CLEARLY rooted in yaoi from the cinematic perspective, to engage with and better understand yaoi in developing and current Thai BL, as I haven’t done a real deep dive, analytically, into yaoi and Thailand yet. (As @lurkingshan and I talked about yesterday, TharnType on the OGMMTVC list fits the yaoi stereotypes the best.) And with both Flukes starring in MB, I wonder if I can attribute any influence this piece may have had on their subsequent work (like Fluke Natouch doing blushing maiden so incredibly well in 2019′s UWMA, and of course, the references to yaoi in Fluke Teerapat’s YYY). 

I don’t think @bengiyo has seen My Bromance, but I’m wondering if a few of the other friends from around the way have any thoughts... @absolutebl, @so-much-yet-to-learn, @twig-tea, @solitaryandwandering, @nieves-de-sugui and anyone else -- would love your thoughts if you’ve seen it and think it’s worth of inclusion on the syllabus.

These additions put some air between the next OGMMTVC chronological show in Lovely Writer, but I’ve got a lot of life stuff going on at the moment -- and I do want to give Tee Bundit and Lovely Writer the time he deserves, as I’m about over my anger on Step By Step, ha. 

That’s about it -- I have to still catch up with Tokyo In April Is..., but I’ll get to that later this week!

[mysterygrl20]

nothing prepared me for the behind the scenes photo of neoforce in the shower

[theworldinclines]

THE FACT THAT THEY LOOK EXACTLY LIKE IN THE MOCK TRAILER JDJDJDJDJDJD like what if the official trailer doesnt make many changes i need it to stay the same all messy and uncensored PLS

LITERALLY THEYRE SO FINE IM QUAKING😭😭😭😭if it's a shot for shot copy of the og trailer i would be THRILLED FR😭😭but like BETTER bc of workshops etc?? u know like ugh i can't do this already ali im not well at one (1) photo imagine how bad it's gonna be fjjfjsskks

[deryaomac]

#Oriflame #HairX #Advanced #NeoForce ⭐Şampuan; Saçı ve saç derisini mükemmel ötesi arındırarak temizler. ⭐Tonik ; Saçı kökten uça güçlendirerek saç dökülmesini yavaşlatır. Kullanım şekli ; Temiz saç diplerine günde 2 kez uygulayın ıslak yada kuru saça uygulanabilir. durulanmaz. ⭐Sprey ; Saçın daha seyrek olan alanların daha dolgun görünmesini sağlar. Kullanım şekli ; Nemli saça sıkın ve kendi tarzınıza göre şekillendirin. 👉👉👉👉SONUÇ: 3 AYDA DAHA SIK, DOLGUN VE GÜÇLÜ SAÇLAR (Bursa)

[taeminie]

reminder jojo said this about only friends. WE ARE NOT READY…