#remember 2moons?

[respectthepetty]

Okay, for funsies, I'm trash watching 2Moons 2, and I noticed that Wayo, one of the mains, is PINK. I can't remember how he was color coded in the original 2Moons (and I refuse to rewatch it because it was terrible, lmao), but am I right in thinking most BL boys are not pink? And I got to wondering, do you know of any other BL mains that are pink? (Side note: the only pink main I could think of was from Gap, and that's a GL)

@slayerkitty, Before I get to the colors, let me have a moment to be honest:

I don't remember 2 Moons 2.

Much like SOTUS and 2gether, I know I watched it when it was happening, but I don't remember a single thing about it, so every time one of the guys from it pops up on my screen, I have a whole Twilight Zone moment where my brain freaks out because I know I know that guy but I don't know why I know him.

And what is even stranger is it took three years of silence for any of those guys to pop up! Nine is in China. Ben just acted in Be Mine Superstar. Pavel is now in Pit Babe. Dome was in the Luminous Solution. Din was in My Secret Love. Joong, my most beloved, moved to GMMTV. But there were THREE YEARS with nothing from these boys since they were trying to get out of their contract. That only fueled my amnesia. My mind decided I would never see them again and chunked that information.

I'm sure I trashed the information because none of the actors in 2019's 2 Moons 2 were the same as 2017's 2 Moons, and 2 Moons itself, like you stated, WAS A MESS, but . . .

Wayo was a Pink Person!

My notes and pictures tell me so, much like they remind me that we are not seeing Pavel's neck tattoo in Pit Babe 😢 which is strange since neck sniffing is a thing in that show.

But we are seeing his "Full Savage" tattoo. Bless.

I lost focus . . . Oh yes! Pink People. We have had a few of these compassionate, playful, and emotional characters:

Mon (GAP) - Main *You mentioned her

Rak (Dinosaur's Love): Main

Jao (Secret Crush on You): Side

Jen (Step by Step): Side

Tankhun (KinnPorsche): Support

Hosaka (I Cannot Reach You): Support *It's there in his bags, hair clips, and the umbrella in his ice cream.

Ye Chan's mother (Love Tractor): Support

And some possible upcoming ones:

Luna (23.5): Side

Pang Pang (Peaceful Property): Support

To answer your question: It's rare for a main character to be pink regardless if it's a BL or a GL, ONLY because most Pink People come from Thailand, and Thailand prefers the Blue Boy x Red Rascal pairing. Korea enjoys Green Guy x Blue Boy, while Japan likes Happy Human x Brooding Boy (light versus dark). Taiwan is just wild. So it would be more likely to see them in a supportive role or as a side.

However, every country understands that pink = 💕love💕 so we will see the characters in pink once they start falling in love.

So pink milk= you're watching a queer love story.

Good job, Wayo!

[littleragondin]

15 Day BL Challenge

Sooo... I decided to do @negrowhat's 15 days BL challenge, because it sounds fun and I like looking back on what I watch. The full challenge can be found here! Disclaimer, I am not good at picking only one favorite of anything, so every day is going to be a selection (and an excuse for me to babble about the things I love ❤❤).

☆*:.｡. Day 1 - Fave OG actor pairing .｡.:*☆

A little unsure where we draw the line for OG, year-wise, so I will go pre-2019 (sorry OhmFluke my most beloved u.u).

So, truth be told, in most of the OG Thai pairing, my love is unbalanced and I have one I really like and one that leaves me more… neutral. That said, back then, I was obsessed with Copter and Kimmon from 2Moons (2017), who seemed so effortlessly charming on screen and worked the prickly pursued senior/puppy younger student pusuer delightfully.

But the ones that, for me, really stood the test of time (aka I am still ridiculously attached to them seven big year later) have to be Tak Woo Suk and Yeon Seung Ho from Long Time No See. I love them so much, I remember buying the show on vimeo just so I could watch it again and again in the best quality available.

And I need an obligatory shout out to where I started, ages ago: Japanese BL movies, and especially Tokuyama Hidenori and Saito Yasuka in Ai no Kotodama.

[scarefox]

Seeing the Playboyys venturing out into other BLs as guest / side characters is so funny to me. So far we have:

Parm in Battle of the Writers

Jack in Battle of the Writers

Chat in Battle of the Writers

Vivit in I Saw You In My Dream

+ Bonus: before / during Playboyy airing:

Shell in Bed Friend, Middleman's Love, The Sign, Step by Step, War of Y

Fay in 2Moons

Win in War of Y

Dech in Remember Me

[recentadultburnout]

Info for writer in Thai series fandom: Family Vocabulary (Thai&Loan words)

You may have noticed before that there are some variations in the family vocab, and the thing is, it can tell you if that family has Chinese roots. It doesn't really tell you much since there are a lot of us who have not used any even when it's 100% true that they have some Chinese ancestry, and even if they do use it, it's not going to mean anything big either, but here is a list of what is Thai and what is a Teochew loan word. To give you some examples.

There are also loan words from Hokkien, but they are used even fewer. As for loan words from other cultures, in my opinion, they are either so old that we didn't really register them as loan words or so new that they are not yet part of the Thai language, ya know. Also, this chapter is for family terms, and there aren't any other widely used terms for family that I can think of in the others.

The Thai nickname for Google is "ah gu," which is identical with a word for uncle from the mother side.

For step-parents, add the word liang(เลี้ยง) which means raise, nurture at the back. Oh, and sometimes it was mai-ใหม่-new instead, like, he is your new dad and your bio one is an old one. And for adoptive-something add buntham(บุญธรรม) which means adopted (child) at the back. Like, Porliang, Porbuntham, for example.

You could add the word "khun" in front of those common words for more politeness. I wouldn't recommend adding it to words for people of the same age and younger, though. It can create a weird tone you might not want.

There are a lot of words for "father," but there is one specific word that sometimes means sugar daddy. That word is ป๋า(pa).

I was going to talk about other words for sugar daddy, but I suddenly remember that one time I read a really weird placement "pa" in a sentence and blue screen for a bit. So let's talk about why using transliteration might not be the best choice sometimes. As you can see, this word for dad is a letter "p" and a letter "a" when transliterated into English. P and A. like ภา(pa)-Pat's sister. like ป่า(pa)-forest/also protagonise of 2moons. like ป้า(pa)-aunt. And many, many other words. I mean, there are, like, at least three letters that are frequently written with P when in English, and we have five tones that have no way to tell the difference when in English. So sometime, to avoid confusion, it might be best to just don't use unnecessary transliteration words.

Using both common words and loan words is very normal, and I don't mean just using the common ones when talking about your relatives to other people. If your father's side used the loan words but your mother's side used the common words, then you might use ta and yai for grandparents on your mother's side and ahgong and ahma for grandparents on your father's side. Use only some of the loan words for a certain person in your family, but using common words for all the others is a common practice too. I didn't fill in all the loan words for that very reason, many people(including me) can't even remember all the words, let alone use them.

Index

[italianpersonwithashippersheart]

Can I ask your top 10 fav fics ever (from any fandom, if you don't mind)?

Also, just curious, is there a story behind your name "italianpersonwithashippersheart"?

The name used to be italiangirlwithanenglishheart, because ever since I started to be fluent in English I have been speaking and thinking in English and have always feel more connected to English things then Italian ones.

I have change girl to person when I started to questioning my gender and english to shipper because I am trying to have more interest in my own language and culture and trying not be so english focus (also because I have stopped wanting to move to the UK or America, no offence but *looks at the news* yikes).

I am not sure how good I will be with the list of fics recs, or if I can even get to 10 but I will try:

Philkas College Verse Series, continuation of the Eyewitness miniseries and canon as far as I am concerned: https://archiveofourown.org/series/697560

The Verse or Ari & Dante series continuation of the Aristotele and Dante Discover the Secret of the Universe first book only https://archiveofourown.org/series/1411420

Resplendent Verse Series and Until We Meet Again AU series where Korn and In didn't die but still seperated and rekindle their romance in their 50s thanks to Dean and Pharm (aka the greatest fic I have ever read, seriously!!!) https://archiveofourown.org/series/2324807

The Seven Deadly Sins series from Hannibal (there are many fics I love in the Hannigram fandom, but this is the series I come back to the most) https://archiveofourown.org/series/2835709

I want to shut out to the only 3 fics on ao3 about Anwar and Maxxie from Skins Gen 1, the only fics that understand these two characters as I have: https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Anwar%20KharralsMaxxie%20Oliver/works

A Daemon AU Six of Crows Wesper Focus fic that is super amazing http://archiveofourown.org/works/32207206

Free Falling (Catch me if you Can) & Made The Right Selection from Red White and Royal Blue http://archiveofourown.org/works/34050883 & http://archiveofourown.org/works/33559741

The Still Incomplete On My Mind, Under My Skin LITA poly fic. One of the best poly fics I ever read. EDIT: I wanted to add the writer's tumblr but I had a memory lapse and could not remember it, now I do this amazing fic series is by @poetry-protest-pornography

Shape you like an ocean (come alive or come undone) - Black/Yok Not Me https://archiveofourown.org/works/38762907

A Helping Hand Ming/Wayo Ghost Ship fic from 2moons ttp://archiveofourown.org/works/24064309

And BONUS: kueadiao kissies Cutie Pie almost poly fic http://archiveofourown.org/works/46516054 (I can't find an actual poly ship for the cutie pie couples the way I can for the LITA couples and I will die mad about it)

Thanks for the ask anon this was a lot of fun. It was difficult to narrow down a favorite in some of this fandoms, but these are the ones that jump into my head right away.

[nieves-de-sugui]

My personal experience with BL history for @waitmyturtles​

After reading through the posts of your Old GMMTv Challenge, I decided to add my own perspective, as a watcher, of how BL has evolved as a genre as time went by. I hope this “history from the perspective of the viewer” might shed some light in some of the questions you might have or bring up interesting things for your viewing and understanding of the shows. I will try to not repeat what has already been said through your posts by all the wonderful people in this fandom and keep it as concise as possible (turns out it’s still super long).

I’m gonna use ABL’s chronology of the shows as a timeline guide for easy understanding:

Context: How I made my way to Thailand

I’ve always been into BL (yaoi, gay shows, whatever you wanna call it), but I became commited to it around 2008. The options for queer content back then were very limited, as I’m sure we all remember. But for the sake of adding context this were my go to:

Youtube playlists of cuts of “the gay storyline” from western shows (Brothers and Sisters, Hit The Floor, Shameless, Skins and soap operas (Salatut Elamat, Days of Our Lives), etc), 

Queer as Folk, 

bad japanese live action adaptations of yaoi mangas (Takumi kun) or just sad/melancholic movies about lost men, 

sad chinese movies (usually with fucked up plots), 

indie queer movies (Were The World Mine, Judas Kiss, Shelter, Yes or No, Love of Siam etc). 

But I was starving for more. I wanted shows. 

In the search for more content, through Love of Siam enters My Bromance (very sad ending, also pseudo incest?, still part of what I thought were just indie movies with yaoi influences) and then appears Lovesick (S1 and S2), with very questionable subs, but finally a show with a gay couple as protagonists. 

Lovesick was for me the first show that finally put a queer story as a main thing to focus on, finally breaking free of the eternal side story filled with drama and hurt that was never comforted. After that only Make it Right was around. It was more of the same thing but this time the cast was a lot more reduced and everyone is gay. Also, it showed some of the sexual aspects of the genre (which now feels wrong for so many reasons, but alas). 

One day, SOTUS is on youtube with subs, plus it’s the official channels (yay! finally we can be legal!). 

First shock, there’s an actual plot centered around these two people, who are their own characters besides being gay, and they actually kiss (I remember it was so impactful to me (in a never seen before way) that I did fanart of it). Thai shows became my guilty pleasure, they were bad but they were telling the stories I wanted to see and no one else was doing it. Only Thai shows cared to show cute love stories that ended well, without the big drama we were used to in the west. My thoughts were “It’s bad but I’ll take it, I’m staying here”

Living through the different booms

When Together With Me came out it brought proper making out session and high heat to the genre. Sround here is when I started watching everything that I could find because I had finally found my jam. So I watched all that now I could not watch again (because, man! they’re bad) like 2moons, Puppy Honey S2, What The Duck, My Dream,... And then, with Love By Chance we got the first signs of consent and communication with AePete. It finally felt like we could get stories with healthy relationships. 

Also, Our Skyy came in! Great moment! Treats for everyone! And honestly, it was such a fun project to watch. Iconic side-couples from straight shows getting their moment of spotlight on the same level as the main couples from BL shows. To me, Our Skyy comfirmed the importance of the main 3 (OG, TN, KS) and cemented the path GMM was taking with their BL shows. It started to be part of the norm and not just some shows here and there. It was no longer waiting for someone to make a BL once in a while, but an assurance a small but constant flow of BLs. 

Also Taiwan started the HIStory franchise.

BIG BOOM#1 - TharnType! Also, Ossan’s Love. 

TharnType comes in. The 1st episode ends and everybody hates it for the lack of consent, but everybody loves it for the high heat and the chemistry (also for those of us who had liked Mew in WTD it was nice to see him in this show, that seemed to have less drama around it). Plus, the hype of knowing more about Tharn from LBC, who was such a nice older gay character when he was palyed by Earth (Pirapat).

I think to me, TT was a mix of a lot of the usual flaws with the very new (only achieved before by MaxTul) high heat chemistry  (which despite the controversy is an important part of the BL genre, you can’t take the sex out of BL) and an interesting idea for a plot. 

Also I watched Great Men Academy for Captain (Noh in Lovesick), and he slays. Plus the BL in the show is good (even tho technically not bl, but queer enough)

Simultaneously Japan gets Ossan’s Love, it’s first mainstream BL boom, with very well known actors and gets talked about by the regular drama watchers. Everyone was watching Ossan’s Love in Japan, it brought the genre to the mainstream for the first time. (And prepared the grounds for Cherry Magic, imo)

Other shows that left an impact at the time were He’s Coming To Me and Dark Blue Kiss. HCTM was the great Ohm comeback (who I though we would never see again), paired with Singto doing a BL again. Besides the chemistry, the change in themes was very interesting, it was the first thai bl that showed thai culture for me. For its part, DBK had an interesting opening and Aof personal queer touch to the storyline (which made it wonderful) Especially for MorkSun. It was the first taste of what we know Aof for, but it was also the first time BL had such mature and nuanced themes to it.

little BOOM#1 - Until We Meet Again and Theory of Love

UWMA and TOL, to me were surprises. I thought that like KirstSingto and TayNew, OffGun would never do another BL with new characters. That BL was still just an undervaluated stepping stone that people didn’t treat as a proper genre (as everybody had been doing up to that point, do it once and never be seen near the genre again). 

However, UWMA confirmed that BL was here to stay. It was growing, it was exploring mixing with other genres and famous thai actors were in it. It was also moving away from the usual university storyline. And TOL was the comback of the year. I remember everyone losing their shit (me included), it was the lengendary OG afterall. Up until then they had done cameos and Puppy Honey season 1 and 2 but that was it. TOL also did something interesting with its theme, and the romcom references. AND! it was the first proper kiss in a gmmtv BL. From dead fish PickRome to full on make out with KhaiThird.

BIG BOOM#2 - 2gether and Why R U?

The BL expansion thanks to the pandemic was very very noticeable. Everybody was seeing 2gether and WRU. First time anything BL trended on Tumblr. Everyone was descovering thailand. 

Also 2gether was again a first, it felt like the story made more sense. It was more believable, with tolerable tropes and a cute main pair (this was the first thai show I dared to recommend to someone who was not into BL), plus the music. The ending of the show ruined it for me, however Still2gether Fixed everything that was wrong from the 1st season and showed quickly how the show could’ve been. WRU’s plot was directly affected by the pandemic and bettered what TharnType had started with the high heat chemistry. The whole success of the show is due to SaintZee having amazing chemistry and going with it. 

My engineer was the surprise of the year, it had nothing going for it promising but it managed to be good (I think thanks to some parts of the story and the cast mainly). 

little BOOMS#2 - Cherry Magic and ITSAY and others

The riples of the pandemic 2gether boom were felt in Japan. Nothing breaks throught the japanese content barrier. Japan only consumes MADE IN JAPAN, and yet 2gether made it there. And showed the Japanese show runners that there’s an interest there. Cherry Magic aired a few months after and it was big success, like OL had been. Korea starts with Where Your Eyes Linger here too.

The thing about I Told Sunset About You was that nobody knew what we were getting. I had heard about My ambulance, I even saw some of the clips, but it seemed to be side couple queerbaiting and honestly I wasn’t expecting much. But they had promised a BilkinPP series. I think it’s no wonder it blew our minds, nobody was expecting that! 

Then the big comeback of MaxTul with Manner of Death, broke our minds just as OF had with TOL and bringing again the mature themes to the genre (they are called the daddies of BL for a reason). No one thought they’d come back.

Around here I started watching the GMMtv end of the year announcements. All the build up we had had from the growing of the BL genre and p’Aof culminated on the annoucement of A Tale of Thousand Stars. Because of how it breaks the rules of thai bl (no engineers, no university, no highschool, no city, no 2000′s yaoi tropes just regular shoujo tropes) and tells a compeling story that tasted so new the hype didn’t die even when it came one year later than it should have. 

And Lovely Writer, was the first to present the criticizing of the industry as well as expanding on the mature themes outside of university and the lack of need for fanservice off screen between the actors. They acted like normal people :D

Light on Me appared around here too, and showed us that korea can do better than it had. And Taiwan gave us We Best Love.

BIG BOOM#3 -  Bad Buddy and Kinnporsche

BB was the biggest annoucement GMMtv has ever made. The thing about it was the combo AofOhmNanon. Always grazing BL and forever ghost shipped with Chimon, Nanon decided to do his first (and probably only) BL with none other than Ohm (with who he had great chemistry since they became friends in Blacklist) and under the guidance of Aof. Here I want to add that Aof considers BB to be his first Y series, the ones before were dramas, so I assume by that that the thai public makes a difference between the more mature tone series and the more highschool/university BLs (??). Such a year that was! Accompanied by the epicness that was the annoucement of Not Me (confirmed to be the last OG show... but then they went and annouced another). 

And last but not least, Kinnporsche breaks the internet, everyone knows about thailand now. It entered the realm of darker themes and violence. Accompanied by other shows exploring other themes like: You’re My Sky (sports), Something In My Room (ghosts), etc...

Which is the flow we have now, some of the known old stuff some of the new expanding stuff, waiting for the next boom. My, what a journey!

I hope this was an interesting read and that I managed to show how these shows were perceived when they came out, even though now they might not be as groundbreaking. If anybody else wants to add how they perceived these shows when they came out, feel free to add to this!

[weilongfu]

Prompt for 2moons the ambassador 😬

You're a jerk and I hate you. <3

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Although his cousin had given his blessing, Lomnaw supposed that there would never be true peace between Pha and Tarntat. The two were similar in many ways, including the inability to back down from a challenge. And a challenge had, of course, been thrown.

To that end, Tarntat had invited the Wild Doctors and their boyfriends to the bar once more, handed over his credit card for the tab, and asked everyone to order as they pleased. It was only at the insistence of Yo that Pha didn't order a fresh bottle of every top-shelf liquor they had on the menu out of whatever pettiness Lomnaw supposed his cousin possessed. How a man with so many privileges could still manage to be so petty to the boyfriend of his cousin, Lomnaw could not comprehend. Although if Kit's snide remarks about Pha being over-protective were a true indication, Lomnaw was sure it really was the fault of his mother more than Pha's older cousin instincts.

"I'm really glad you could make it tonight, P'Pha," Tarntat said after the first round of drinks. "You see, I was hoping you could give me some advice." Pha raised an eyebrow and the rest of the table, except for Yo who kept eating fries and Ming who kept nudging Kit, seemed to hold its breath. "You see, I've been thinking about what you said when you last gave Lomnaw and I your blessing..."

Lomnaw immediately turned red and moved to punch Tarntat, but Tarntat quickly wrapped his arms around Lomnaw to prevent any such behavior.

"You see, I've been trying to do as you've said, to make Lom moan so loud his neighbors hear us, but I'm afraid my Lom is just too shy." Tarntat nuzzled the side of Lomnaw's face in apology but could feel the murder radiating off his boyfriend. "So I was hoping you could provide some advice on how to make him more vocal." Tarntat smirked as he saw Pha's face change colors rapidly before Yo slapped Pha's chest.

"P'Pha! You told them about that?!"

"N'Yo..." Pha immediately turned his handsome face on Yo to console him as Ming nearly laughed himself into asphyxiation.

"I... I can't believe... P'Pha.... threw down that gauntlet," Ming said between breaths.

"This nong has balls," Beam muttered into his glass. "Asking someone like Pha on how to please his cousin in bed?"

"Want me to give him some tips instead?" Forth asked while wiggling his eyebrows.

Beam leveled a careful look at Forth. "Your neighbors haven't heard me moan either so I don't think you're in a position to talk." Forth sputtered as Beam smirked and threw back the rest of the liquor in his glass.

Ming looked at Kit as he recovered. Kit gave Ming a glare and shook his head. Ming pouted and Kit made a snipping motion with his fingers. Ming immediately turned to Tarntat. "Sorry nong, I got nothing for you."

"At least someone at this table isn't insane," Lomnaw muttered to himself. Tarntat squeezed him a little tighter in response.

"So, P'Pha, any tips? Pointers? Care to demonstrate on P'Yo since you didn't seem to mind on that IG Live the other night-"

"YOU ACTUALLY KEPT THE STREAM ON THAT NIGHT?!" Yo's voice had raised to a pitch that Ming remembered hearing only once when Mr. Panitchayasawad had refused Yo's request for a working replica of Luffy's pirate ship.

"Oh, oops," Tarntat attempted to look scandalized and Lomnaw suddenly desired death for himself and his idiot boyfriend. "Did I spill the beans on something?"

Before Yo could escalate, Pha pulled Yo away, whispering apologies and uttering promises at a rapid speed while still shooting Tarntat mean looks. Meanwhile, Kit finally sighed and pushed a shot of liquor at Tarntat.

"You've really got some nerve," Kit said before pouring himself a shot. "I respect that." Kit motioned for Tarntat to drink with him and Tarntat tossed back the shot at the same time, letting go of Lomnaw who decided to nudge himself away. "But if you're going to criticize Pha for being like that, at least tell N'Lom properly that the internet saw his balls hanging out of his shorts that same night."

"I DID WHAT?!"

[consterions]

Day 1: First Show You Ever Watched

The very first BL I watched was 2Moons, the first ever 2Moons.

And I believe it was around 2017 which means not long after it was released. I remembered being immersed and liked this show a lot and demanded a new season exclusively for ForthBeam.

[distant-screaming]

If you watched sotus after bad buddy then yeah, it makes perfect sense you hated it. Personally, I give myself the heebie jeebies whenever I remember I actually enjoyed sotus and 2moons back in the day (oh, the terror 🙀)

Since we're on the subject of Thai bl shows (the good, the bad, the ehhh let's forget it ever happened) :

🪤 What usually draws you in the most successfully? Do you decide to watch a show because of visuals/cinematography, plot, acting, or something else entirely?

🪃 Are you the type to drop a series when it gets too cringe or boring, or do you suffer through it till the end?

🛸 Is there any scene from any show that you'd like to wipe from your memory because of second-hand embarrassment?

SAdipjse that's understandable, anon. Actually, fun fact - I'm currently watching 2moons! I need a trashy (is that too mean??) show to watch rn because I have a ton of work to do, so it's working perfectly as background noise. Currently on episode 2, so far nothing's happened so. I guess we'll see!

(cut for length :D)

🪤 - the first thing that draws me in is plot, for sure! If the plot is good, there's a high chance I'll want to watch it at some point. Also, character writing! This one isn't something instantly identifiable but before watching a show I'll typically do a quick search for a general public consensus, and if the characters are poorly written it's an instant no go. I can't play with them like dolls if they're not well written! Other than that, acting is a pretty low factor for me in deciding what to watch because I'm like, really bad at picking out what's 'good' acting and 'bad' acting?? I dunno, I never really find any acting bad per se. Visuals are also pretty low priority because again, I tend to think any and all visuals are really well done adoipfjesadf. I'm not a very refined palette person, you can tell.

I guess the tl;dr is the plot of any media is the most important thing in my opinion, closely followed by characters!

🪃 - most of the time I watch to the end but I'll skip most of the scenes, so I get a feeling of completion and the general gist of the plot but also. I don't have to watch the actual show. That's actually what I ended up doing with SOTUS and I fear I will do with 2moons soeijwespdgj

🛸 - OH MAN SO MANY. I've mentioned before I'm SUPER prone to second hand embarrassment so pretty much any mildly embarrassing moment I'll skip over (re The Eclipse, I still can't watch the scene in the locker room right before the accidental kiss - it's just. sdipfjsd.). If I had to pick one scene to completely wipe from my memory, though, I think currently that honor would go to Bad Buddy - specifically the main thread of episode 2 with the mistaken identity thing on the rooftop. I actually have not watched that whole scene because I literally cannot, but what little I did watch while skipping was...I'm sure it was cute and plot-important, just me personally I could not watch it.

Apologies if this is incoherent, all my brain juice is being used up for studying today aepitfjes. But thank you for the questions anon, I feel refreshed <3333

[brazilian-whalien52]

10 BL Boys I Want Carnally

I was tagged by @kennyomegasweave ❤️

Honestly thou, what is attraction? What is wanting carnally? Almost no idea but a slight one

1. Porsche from Kinnporsche. Come on, it's impossible to not drool enough to fill a river to Apo

2. Zhao Yulan from guardian. Him and this smile made to fuck me over, plus the stupid lollipop. Shen, I know why you waited for centuries

3. Babe from pit babe. Okay, but this choice is not exactly babe but pavel? I had the biggest crush on 2moons and honestly that is my fav but I am too old for that pavel now! Although I loved those fucking tattoos

4. Kim from Kinnporsche. You know maybe here is my love for Jeff showing because damn he hits hard but also when I look for Kim pictures he is mostly adorable? I am just attract to his cynic baby girls rockstar vibe

5. Rain from love in the air. He is just so mesmerizing?

6. Xia Yao from advance bravely. But honestly both leads here are such a big cast... The rain scene was spectacular but I was so obsessed over baby girl Xia Yao that is not even funny. I had a picture I was obsessed that i cant find anymore

7. Gavreel from Gameboys. Just the way he says baby is my weak spot. My weakest spot is always a pretty smile (see apo above too and others). Nothing can destroy me as much as one and his smile is just...

8. Pat from Bad Buddy. Funny enough normally not me type but honestly pat is just so charming that he is impossible not to love. If he looks at me like that I feel weak on my knees (anyway why am i lying about type when he also has the prettiest smile)

9. My personal weatherman. Which one? Well you see i do not know how to explain this. Yoh is just so fluffy and just out of this world and I just want to trace Mizuki moles. Together they are just... Ah

10. Tharn from tharntype. I know controversial, he fucked up a lot but you don't have all the facts! Facts 👇

you guys cant believe how face blind i am and the revelation I had doing this. Fucking lord.

Anyway, I had to control myself to not add to many gifs? I want to add more by them become too much. It is all pavel fault!

Is there anybody that hasn't done this challenge yet? It seems like most people had done, if you weren't tag before please feel free to do it. I am tagging @theelast-straw @hyperfocusmadness @jackpoompkin @troubled-mind @telomeke @lookingforshangrila @chocomilkshakeblog @twig-tea because I do not seem to remember they doing it?

[queersouthasian]

i came across the 'bl was only meant as fetish for the fangirls' comment post and it is such a ridiculous statement, like, imagine telling someone that this is mens soap, you absolutely cannot, as a woman, be allowed to enjoy it. i still remember i watched my first bl wayyyy back in 2017 and it was 2moons. i didn't like the characters much or the story or the direction and as a first time audience of anything thai, the language seemed too strange to my ears. but i still sat down and watched the entire thing because as a queer person from a pretty homophobic country (it was illegal then), you can't imagine the amount of comfort and hope it gave me that it was possible, even if just in fiction, that we could be more than the 'tragedy' of our existence and the punishment of our 'sins'. a lot has changed since then but i still won't forget that joy of finding that people like me could have a place in a normal cheesy romantic narrative.

I am so glad for this ask, yes so true, older bls may lack considering certain perspectives compared to the newer ones but they never failed to create a sense of comfort. As someone who has legit grown up watching bls the drastic change in the genre is so amazing but the comfort, the assurance and the sense of home these shows had bought even back then is something so personal. Yes we have shows involving homophobia(rather direct or an allegory), closeted queer struggles like the Eclipse, bad buddy, vice versa, not me and many more but these don't centre around the issues and rather bring in so much joy to viewer(other than not me which was more political bl), whereas there are shows with no issues but horny queer characters fucking and WE LOVE TO SEE IT lmao.

[stickers-on-a-laptop]

BL tag game

tagged by @lelephantsnail! thinking time lmao

All-Time Favorite BL Character and Why?

Okay you know what? Fuck off it is time for my boy Akk of Hotel Stars to SHINE. My boy, in the show no one but me and @lee-donghun liked, was just. Holy shit. The CONVOS we had on this dude. Imagine the most bi character you've ever seen in your life, like he's clearly bi and surrounded by other queer people, stating quite seriously and not at ALL homophobically, that the gayest couple in the group "seems pretty straight." He clearly likes the girl! And she's great! But he also sabotages EVERYTHING for his boy Tone! IT IS SO FUCKING FUNNY.

One Character You Want to Punt Into the Stratosphere

Really truly honestly? Someone from a popular BL that I will not say. Cause I do not quite trust the fandom other than my tiny corner where we were all like "are y'all GOOD." Sorry. :/

Best Music Moment from a BL

You know, the problem is is that I get very embarrassed during like singing parts and I'm also pretty bad at like paying attention to the music. But my favorite OST would be the SOTUS theme song.

A Popular Het Text You’d Like to See as a BL

As problematic as it is, I do love a good CEO/employee. So probably that. The office BLs I've seen so far like equals or boss, not specifically CEO. Thanks Aaron Yan, that's your fault. (There's like. 3 CEO/employee dramas with him. I loved them all.)

BL Scene that Makes You Laugh

Okay this is gonna be such a niche one but jesus CHRIST the fantasies in 8.2 Byo no Hosoku. Especially the one with my boy Geiz of Zi-O. I haven't even SEEN Zi-O yet. I was losing my goddamn mind.

Biggest BL Disappointment

Probably 7 Project. They fucked up BounPrem! How do you do that??? And the girls' story sucked! For what?? I had to drop it after ep 4 I was so annoyed. OH WAIT NO. Gen Y. What the hell. It was supposed to be our og 2moons cast making fun of 2moons. Instead it sucked and had that weird "we had sex when you were drunk" "joke" that I HATE.

2 Random Characters Who Would Make Hilarious Exes

You know who would be a hilarious ex? Tops of Ingredients. You will simply not get his food anymore. He can and will ignore you extremely well. I do not think he'd be a fun ex to have in real life, which makes him funny in fiction. Idk who'd be another hilarious ex lmao.

Who Would Be the Funniest Person to Watch a BL in Its Entirety And Which One Would You Make Them Watch

You know, I'd SAY Mob from Zettai BL but he'd probably watch them all on his own to prepare to not be gay. Not that it works. (Manifesting s3!!!) So I'd have to say...hmmm...man idek. I'm having trouble even remembering what's like a BL and what's just like...queer as I look over my list lmao. Maybe make Tsuge watch Utsukare.

Best Wardrobe Moment? Character or Otherwise

You seem to think I remember wardrobes. I do not. I am the person who has 10,000 graphic tees and 5 pairs of shorts and 2 pairs of jeans. I do not notice clothes unless it's like REALLY eye catching.

tagging: @incandescentflower @funyasm @yougetsomekisses

[scarefox]

idk I like that Fay played the tiny version of Kit (Copter!) in 2Moons.

But simultaneously this forced me to be aware of his age 🥴 he's 20 now. But back then he basically was a baby and this fact messes me up lol

I didn't watch 2Moons (if I did I can't remember, I know I watched Gen Y for Copter), but I scrolled down his insta to find this pic. I just think it's neat. Copter and Fay kinda makes sense idk 🤷‍♂️

anyways he was 14 then 💀 BYE ! Shared suffering is half the suffering or whatever.

[gunsatthaphan]

Sometimes when I'm down, after a bad day, i sit down beside my bed, feet curled blanket over my shoulders and space out.

But then, i remember what Forth said to Wayo in 2moons to comfort Wayo:

"don't be sad, cause surely they're people who have it worse than you" (paraphrasing)

And then i think to myself "wow"

"that was completely awful, wtf were you thinking mister hazer?😂"

dhfkjdg ohmygosh anon. You just unlocked a flood of memories 😂

I mean he ain't wrong though? lmao. What an icon. This whole show is still very dear to my heart 🥺 lol.

xxx

[italianpersonwithashippersheart]

Shipper Tag Game!

I was tagged by @theflagscene thanks for the tag <3

1 - What ship were you completely obsessed with when you were a teenager, but now you don’t care about anymore?

Ron and Hermione. But I was basically offline for most of my teen years so it was a private obssession.

2 - Which ship would you consider your first one?

These two

From the anime Kodomo No Omocha, the anime was called Rossana In Italian, still the best theme song in the world, that song is basically instand magic nostalgia button for me, I was a child and basically the age of the characters when I watched it, maybe a year or two older, they bewitched me body and soul.

3 - Your first fanfic belonged to which couple?

Written, I have never written anything that could be consider fanfic. Maybe once I wrote a single scene fic for an Italian Show but that's it.

Read on AO3: Stranger Things post s1 fics and Still Star Crossed fics were the first fandoms. I don't have the old fanfiction.net account and my shitty memory doesn't let me remeber shit from that time so, I will go with that.

4 - Do you remember the first couple you saw fanart of?

Not really, my memory is bad. Maybe Stydia, teen wolf was my first tumblr fandom along side GMW. Or Shameless.

5 - Did you ever get into ship discourse?

I have been aware of ship discourse. And I once pettily unfollowed someone because they shipped my NOTP at the time. But not really.

6 - Did you used to have a NOTP or have any currently?

I did used to consider ship NOTPs, but I don't currently use that term anymore, I am way into my ship and let ship era. I don't feel like any of the ship I dislike now are strong enough to be a notp. Even if there are a few that almost qualified.

7 - Who were the couple in the last fanfic you read?

Got curious because someone mention some Nick/Sand and some Nick/Sand/Ray stuff on my dash and looked up some Only Friend fics for the first time since the show ended.

8 - Currently do you have any OTPs?

Too many. I have been mostly watching BLs and QLs recently. Honestly shipping as become a little more low-key recently. I can love a ship and even read fanfic for them (although small confession I am becoming far more picky and It's super hard now to read a fic I enjoy especially in the BL sphere). And I am watching so many shows at the same time I don't think any of them could be called an OTP, in that omg I am so obsessed with them way. I feel like my attention is too split for that.

Not that I am not enjoying having so many ships and couples to choose from, I love it here in BL land.

If I had to pick a single ship that is consuming me body and soul like stuff used to I have to go with PheeNon from Dead Friend Forever, because this show put itself in my head and is going to stay there until it's over.

9 - Is there any couple that to this day you are extremely mad about them not getting together?

Does it have to be an old ship?? Because I only rember some recent stuff.

I WILL STAY MAD ABOUT TODDBLACK FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE!!!!!!!!!!

10 - Is there any ship that you used to dislike but now you think are kind of interesting?

Not sure, I have come around a couple of BL ships I didn't initially like at first viewing. Nothing special though.

11 - Do you have a ship that in the past was considered ‘normal’ but now you would be cancelled over?

I am not sure, I used to be the kind of person that followed canon and didn't get the appeal of crackships at the time. Or shipping non canon ships.

I guess maybe some het ships that I know now either have a very obviously gay coding (both or just one) or it's more common to put in a gay ship. But I am not sure anything too controversial.

I kind of read some early Mame fanfics and enjoy some of the mame ships does count?

12 - What’s your favourite crack ship?

Taking crack fic too mean there is basically no evidence of this in canon and there is little to no fics about them.

Ming/Yo from 2Moons (the og) I will die on this hill, the actor that played these two had amazing chemestry.

Anwar and Maxxie from Skins Gen 1. There are 3 fics of them on ao3. 3!!!! I feel like the only person that see this.

13 - Who is the couple you’ve read the most fanfics of?

I think maybe it's either Hannigram or Buck and Eddie from 911 a show I am feeling very over right now. So that will definately change.

14 - What do most of your ships usually have in common?

Not much. I enjoy different types of dynamics.

15 - What do you absolutely hate in a ship?

I have come to a point where if I can see the chemestry and I like the characters and I can get into the characters head and I think the relationship is interesting I can forgive bad or clunky writing. Or tropes like miscommunication and noble idiocity.

There is one trope that almost always kills a ship for me. Years long seperation in the final act. This is pretty much a bl only trope. But I have seen it in Het shows before I think.

I can understand a seperation for a couple of weeks or even months due to externel pressures and maybe some noble idiocity, or even something like I need to sort myself out a little first like Until We Meet Again. I don't love it. But it's fine. But YEARS!! That shit pisses me off. That is why even if I can understand the writing decision behind I hold a grudge over Ghost Host, Ghost House. I understand it was a good drama and the writing was good and the ship is cute. BUT I HATE THAT TROPE.

Not sure how did already so I will only tag @respectthepetty and @callipigio @benkaaoi