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My short review - I liked it.

A bit longer review, with spoilers, is here.

I love Prim, even though I shake my head over her pretending, and badly, that she doesn’t care about her ex. She so cares. She still has feelings for Bambi.

For now Bambi irritates me. She spoiled and immature, and tramples all over Prim’s boundaries, not that those boundaries are very strong, but still. She’s like Ray from Only Friends for me. Only less self-destructive. I think.

I love Sasha. Milk is gorgeous and Sasha is such a cool character. And Love is good as Gorya, and she has great chemistry with both Milk and Namtan. I hope Love and Namtan will kiss at least once. Please, give it to me, show. 😊

View is so beautiful, but her and Mim’s storyline is the least interesting to me. But it’s just the 1st episode, so who knows I might change my mind later.

That was amazing and I love this drama already. And Aou and Boom... Damn... So, so hot. Rome and Raffy are definitely my favorites. They are messy, toxic and hot like burning together. I love them so much. And yes, they are my favorites, but Dean is not far behind them. Mix is fantastic. He’s seductive, manipulative, gorgeous and sexy. And such a smug jerk. I love him, too.

And I’m very surprised at how much I like Joss and Gawin here. I found them rather meh in My Golden Blood, which I dropped after two episodes. But here I like them.

And that’s it for now, since it’s already 10 p.m. here. Might write more tomorrow after re-watching. But I’m so pleased that it is good and very entertaining. 😍

RL is meh. My hip is much better, but the rest is ugh. My elbow was a bit better and then I overdid it by writing two more treats for Candy Hearts. I feel very accomplished now of course, but at what cost. *sigh* And I am now officially diagnosed with hypertension. And I have new meds, but I think my intestines don’t like them, so I have to make another appointment with my cardiologist. *sigh again*

And the weather is ugh, too – it’s dark, rainy and gloomy. All this pretty white snow that was here just a few days ago now took form of dirty, brown slush. One good thing is that last week we discovered a great new sushi place. Everything was very yummy, and we plan to eat there the next week, too.


Because of all of the reasons above, the things I did watch lately were mostly cute and fluffy, because I’m so not in the mood for anything angsty or depressing. And those cute things were:

Cat For Cash - Thai BL drama with pretty boys and talking cats, what’s not to like? 😊

My Romance Scammer - another Thai BL drama about two scammers (one who is good at what he does, and one who is really not) who fall for their marks – two cousins from a very rich family. 2 episodes aired for now and I really liked them. Junior is fantastic, and this is the first drama of the new ship OhmPoon, and I enjoy them so much here.

I Wanna Be Sup'tar - Thai GL drama about the romance between a famous and rich, but very unhappy girl and a poor girl with dreams about a big career in the entertainment industry. The 1st episode aired last week and I liked it. It’s cheesy and fun and I really like the main ship Lilly and Belle (who were the secondary ship in Harmony Secret).

Read, White & Royal Blue - I finally watched this movie yesterday, and I enjoyed it so much. It was cute, sexy, funny and touching. Alex and Henry are very adorable and hot together, and I love them to pieces. I’m so glad there will be a sequel. And I might try reading the book again, because I did try reading it a few years ago, and managed maybe 20 or 30 pages, because I found it rather bad. But that might be because I was reading a Polish translation. Will try the original this time.


Not so cute was the finale of Burnout Syndrome. It was a good drama, but I was rather disappointed with the ending. Even though I did expect an ending exactly like that. Since it is a Thai BL drama with a very popular fixed ship.

Spoilers here (and it's all complaining).

Because really, they want me to, what? Cheer for Koh and Jira to be happy together? Feel sorry for Koh? I don’t feel sorry for a tech bro obsessed with AI, who still can’t understand why his lover, whom he professes to love so much, was angry at him about what he did. Koh still seems to think that this was just such a small thing and that Jira was overreacting. And he still blames everyone else for him being miserable. It’s never something he did, it’s always someone else’s fault.

And that ending felt so empty and boring to me. And I read a few opinions and some people seem to think this was not a happy ending and that viewers should wonder if Koh and Jira will stay together in the future. But to me, I think the drama does actually mean for us to believe they have a chance at a long-term relationship. It was filmed like a straightforward romance with appropriate music, and all that.

And earlier there was this song playing at one time over Jira’s image – “I will be his angel, I will be his savior”. And Pheem told Jira that Koh sold his AI interests like it’s supposed to be a good thing, and something that redeems Koh.

And don’t get me wrong, I don’t think that Koh is a monster and Jira is a blameless angel. Jira is toxic, too. And I even can believe that Koh in his own way loves Jira. But for Jira – ehhh... All I can see is sexual lust and desire to keep Koh as his Muse. Also they are both obsessed with money. After all one of Jira's first lines in the first episode is: "I'll do anything that pays". So who knows maybe they will live happily ever after. It’s just that I personally didn’t really care about that.

Last but not least – finally the official trailer for Only Friends Dream On is here. And it looks good.


Mix as a seductive manipulator, Earth looking gorgeous in glasses, my beloveds AouBoom being toxic and messy and hot as hell (that scene in the pool, wow... *fans self*), and Boston coming back to stir the pot even more. I already love it. 27th of February can’t come soon enough.

My elbow still hurts, can’t really write for long. I made an appointment for another physiotherapy session the next week. I hope it will help.


I posted my first 2026 fic – a little drabble sequence for china_shop for fandomtrees.

Three kisses (300 words)
Fandom: 김과장 | Good Manager (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Kim Sung Ryong/Seo Yul
Additional Tags: During Canon, Post-Canon, Teasing, Kissing, Drabble Sequence
Summary: Three very different kisses Seo Yul and Kim Sungryong had. :)


I watched:

Tune in for Love

It’s a lovely movie with Kim Go Eun and Jung Hae In, and I enjoyed it a lot. They both have such sweet, beautiful smiles. 😊

Yumi’s Cells

I finished the 1st season last week. It was fine and occasionally amusing, but I would have dropped it half-way if not for my love for Kim Go Eun. I started to get very bored during the last two episodes. For now I don’t plan to watch the next two seasons.

Trigger

A decent first half, a weak second half and a very disappointing finale. Kim Nam Gil was good, but his character to me felt like a less charismatic version of Kim Hae Il from The Fiery Priest. The main villain was very hot, but less and less interesting with each episode.

And if the point of the show is that guns are awful and very dangerous, then wow does that message gets muddled by all those scenes that emotionally feel like they want viewers to admire out main hero’s perfect and beautifully choreographed shooting skills, or cheer on the abused victims who use guns to get their very their justifiable revenge, after we watched countless scenes of them being horribly abused.


And since I wanted to clean up my bookmarks a little here have six interesting trailers I watched lately – for one kdrama, one Thai BL drama, and four Thai GL dramas.

Embedded trailers are here.

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And here are two wonderful 10Dance fanvids I wanted to rec.

See them here.

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It was supposed to be a longer post, but my right elbow really hates me today. Because yesterday I suddenly decided that I really wanted to make gifs from my favorite scene in 10Dance. I wanted to make four gifs. I managed to make two, and I’m still paying the price for that lapse in judgment. Ouch, ouch, ouch...

But at least we now have a proper snowy winter here, which is nice. Won’t last for long since it’s already 0°C today. And it was -20°C on the New Year’s Eve. In the evening I went to see a free outdoor concert our city organizes every year, and it was so freezing cold that I only stayed for an hour.

And I have a few lovely comments on my Yuletide fics, but responding will have to wait till tomorrow, because my elbow is already screaming at me that it hurts.

So just one more thing – two fics I wrote for this year’s Yuletide:

I want to shake the sky with you (2048 words)
Fandom: เพื่อนายแค่หนึ่งเดียว | Never Let Me Go (TV 2022)
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Palm Pannakorn Jannaloy/Nueng Nuengdiao Kiattrakulmethee
Characters: Palm Pannakorn Jannaloy, Nueng Nuengdiao Kiattrakulmethee
Additional Tags: During Canon, Post-Canon, Character Study, Relationship Study, Feelings, Mild Smut, Dom/sub Undertones
Summary:

Before, when he lived in Chonburi, Palm felt as if he had no future. Catching fish, playing sports, working – that was what his life was like. That was what the rest of his life would be like. But now, for the first time, Palm feels like he has a future. And that future is him being by Nueng’s side. Being needed by him. Being his friend. His... Just being his.

Campsite Tales (2441 words)
Fandom: สายรหัสเทวดา | Perfect 10 Liners (TV 2024)
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Klao/Warich (Perfect 10 Liners), Arc Anol Paraminphisan/Arm Anon Phuwakomol, Pond/Sand (Perfect 10 Liners), Gun/Yotha (Perfect 10 Liners), Faifa/Wine (Perfect 10 Liners)
Characters: Klao (Perfect 10 Liners), Warich (Perfect 10 Liners), Arc Anol Paraminphisan, Arm Anon Phuwakomol, Pond (Perfect 10 Liners), Sand (Perfect 10 Liners), Yotha (Perfect 10 Liners), Gun (Perfect 10 Liners), Faifa (Perfect 10 Liners), Wine (Perfect 10 Liners)
Additional Tags: Boys In Love, Warm and Fuzzy Feelings, Fluff, Kissing, Cuddling & Snuggling, Mild Smut, Yuletide Treat
Summary:

What happened at night at the campsite after Klao and Warich’s proposal. Or the alternative summary – they all have sex in the tent. Well, except Pond and Sand, because they are stuck babysitting poor heartbroken Po. 😉 But don’t worry, Po. Arm is still in his matchmaker era and he might have found you someone special. 😊

So it seems I slept through the great deanoning of Yuletide, heh. Meaning that there was a glitch that revealed all the authors for a short while, soon after works reveal. I missed it, since I was too tired to read my gift right away on 24th, and didn’t even look at the Yuletide collection then.

I received a lovely and funny Meet You at the Blossom fic about my favorite threesome. This is basically Outsider POV fic even though the author didn’t tag it as such. But I love Ousider POV fics, and I enjoyed Que Siming’s sarcastic comments and Jinbao’s sweet cluelessness here a lot.

Throwing Flowers into the River (4,861 words)
Fandom: 花开有时颓靡无声 | Meet You at the Blossom (TV)
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jin Xiaobao/Zongzheng Huai'en, Jin Xiaobao/Su Yin, Jin Xiaobao/Su Yin/Zongzheng Huai'en, Jinbao/Que Siming
Characters: Jin Xiaobao, Zongzheng Huai'en, Jinbao, Que Siming, Su Yin
Additional Tags: Weddings, Requited Unrequited Love, Polyamory Negotiations
Summary: Jinbao and his Miracle Doctor return to the Jin mansion for the wedding of Jin Xiaobao and Zongzheng Huai'en, but a light-hearted game played between the two of them uncovers a secret that could turn the entire wedding day on its head.


Apart from reading Yuletide fics, yesterday I watched Exhuma, that horror movie with Kim Go Eun I mentioned before. It was pretty good and Kim Go Eun was wonderful. And it was tense and gory, but goriness was on an acceptable level for me, so I didn’t even have to fast-forward.

I also started Yumi’s Cells, because I wanted something cute and fluffy after Exhuma. I watched an episode and a half, and it’s fine and amusing at times, but for now I’m not very emotionally engaged. I do plan to watch more though, because I’m still very much in my ‘in love with Kim Go Eun’ phase, and she’s so good, and sweet and pretty here.


I also watched the new episodes of Burnout Syndrome (very good) and Dare You to Death (rather meh). But wow, Joong and Dunk both look exceptionally beautiful in this drama, so for now I will be watching for this one very shallow reason. 😊

I also wanted to rec a Youtube vid with Dew, Gun, and Off’s reaction to episode 5 of Burnout Syndrome, because it’s very funny, and it made me laugh. More with the embedded vid behind the cut, because thumbnail images are spoilery for the last episode.

See it here.

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I enjoyed this vid so much. From Gun commenting about his and Dew’s height difference and saying “I literally only come up to his shoulders”. To the three of them arguing about who’s the biggest red flag in this episode, and both Off and Dew saying it’s Jira, because he fools and manipulates both Koh and Pheem. And to Off first getting hilariously jealous over Dew and Gun’s romantic scenes, and then cheering Dew on during the last scene. And all three reacted to the ending of this episode the same way all the viewers reacted: “That’s it? It ends like this? That’s so mean.” 😊

My elbow hurts a bit less today, so here have a short drama watching report. Plus a very short review of one movie. 😊

The Price of Confession

It was amazing till the end. I was a tiny bit disappointed with ‘who the real murderer is’ reveal, but really just a teeny tiny bit. It didn’t detract from the amazingness of the rest of the drama. And Kim Go Eun, wow... 😍 What a fantastic actress she is. I mean I knew she was good, but here it’s like another level. I’m very impressed and so in love.

You can say Kim Go Eun is my new obsession, since after finishing this drama I instantly watched Love in the Big City (a movie with her and Steve Noh, not a drama with Nam Yoon Su). Now I plan to watch a horror movie Exhuma, and later I will either re-watch The King Eternal Monarch, or start watching You And Everything Else.


10 Dance

It was wonderful. Machida Keita and Takeuchi Ryoma have sizzling chemistry, and for my non-expert eye are very good at dancing. And they are very good at kissing, too. 😊 I will be re-watching for sure, probably more than once.

The ending seems a bit open. In the sense that it ended as if the sequel was already planned. As far as I know the manga this movie is based on is still ongoing, so here is hoping we will get a sequel in the future.


Dare You to Death

Okay, it feels so weird to watch GMMTV BL drama on Netflix instead of Youtube, heh. But that way it’s not divided into four short vids, so it’s a big plus.

After the 1st episode my opinion is this – it’s entertaining and amusing. I admit I did expect something a bit more darker and grimmer. And judging by that first episode it’s seems to have a surprisingly light, and often even humorous tone, considering the subject matter.

But the main criminal mystery is interesting enough, supporting character are played by actors I like, and both Joong and Dunk look hella fine and have great chemistry. So I do plan to watch more. And it’s nice to have a BL drama to watch on Thursdays.


Heated Rivalry

I’ve just finished watching the 5th episode. It was fine. I wish I liked Shane and Ilya (well, mainly Ilya, I like Shane well enough) and their relationship more, so I could be again in a big, thriving fandom with a lot of fics and discussions. Alas, it was not meant to be, since here I am once again falling in love with a rare pairing. 😊

More here with spoilers.

I wish there was a bit more about Scott and Kip in this episode. I would be satisfied even with one or two short scenes. Because what I loved the most here was that last scene with the kiss on ice. It was wonderful.

I also really liked Shane and Rose’s talk when they break up and he comes out to her. It was very well done and very well acted. I love Rose in general, she’s a great character.

ClaireBell episode 6

Yeah, that was what I expected. It didn’t make it less hard to watch. I even had to fast-forward a little bit, because I just couldn’t look at the screen.

More with spoilers here.

I identified with Claire so much in this episode. I’m an older sister, and what Claire did I would do in a heartbeat, too. I would exchange my life for my sister’s without even a moment of hesitation. I almost cried again because it made me so emotional.

I really need a happy ending for this drama. I hope both Bell and Claire will be released from prison. And it seems that this is what will happen. I think the creepy teacher’s sister will find out what her brother did to Cream. She now has Cream’s phone. And if I’m no mistaken they showed that Cream’s phone was recording when the teacher assaulted her. I can’t check it to be sure, because I’m not watching that scene ever again.

In kdrama news I dropped Moon River. I enjoyed it for the first six episodes, it was amusing and entertaining, but when the bodyswap ended the plot started being really convoluted and ridiculous, and not in a good way. And I lost interest very quickly. It took me three days to watch the 8th episode, and after that I decided that I don’t care at all what happens next.

But two other kdramas made it up to me for that disappointment. One of them is Dynamite Kiss that I only started watching because I read that my beloved Nam Goong Min will have a cameo in one episode. I watched two episodes and I liked them a lot. It’s lovely, funny, and mostly fluffy and I can watch it in the evening.

Because I definitely can’t watch a second kdrama in the evening. I’m talking about The Price of Confession – that dark thriller, which trailer I posted about a month ago. I started it two days ago and I’ve already watched four episodes. It’s very good. Very dark and intense (and a bit too gory for me sometimes, so twice I had to close my eyes for a moment or two), and Kim Go Eun is fantastic. And she looks absolutely gorgeous. I can’t wait to watch more tomorrow.


And in fanfic writing news I finished the first draft of my Yuletide treat. Yay, me! 😊 And I posted my new Big Dragon fic.

Sweet surrender (2339 words)
Fandom: มังกรกินใหญ่ | Big Dragon the Series (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Mangkorn Akira Chitsanupongkul/Yai Alangkan Singhawatthanachok
Characters: Yai Alangkan Singhawatthanachok, Mangkorn Akira Chitsanupongkul
Additional Tags: Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Dom/sub, Possessive Behavior, Spanking, Begging, Coming Untouched, Anal Fingering, Anal Sex
Summary:

Mangkorn has that look in his eyes. Yai recognizes it so well - this is the look Mangkorn has when he wants Yai’s surrender and Yai’s obedience.

It’s in Mangkorn’s voice, too, when he whispers “Undress” into Yai’s ear.

Yai takes his clothes off with shaking hands, desire lying heavy in his stomach, its flames getting stronger under Mangkorn’s hot and possessive gaze.

I watched the first two episodes of Heated Rivalry. And it’s fine. I like it enough to watch all of it. And I’m very glad that a show like that is so popular. But I have to admit that what I liked the most out of these two episodes was Francois Arnaud as Scott Hunter. I don’t hate Shane and Ilya or anything like that, but I’m also not that interested in their ‘rivals-to-lovers with mutual pining while fucking’ romance. I don’t even know why, on paper is sounds like something I should be very into, and the lead actors are good and have great chemistry. But for some reason it doesn’t ping that part of my brain responsible for fannish obsessions.

And yes, the show is very explicit. But I probably would be more impressed by that if I didn’t have quite a few equally (or sometimes even more) explicit Thai BL dramas under my belt. 😊

I also mentioned in October that I loved the trailer so much that I started reading the book. Still haven’t finished it. It took me a week to read 18 chapters and then I kinda wandered off and never picked it up again. But after I liked those few short scenes with Scott Hunter in the show, I decided to read the first book in the series which is about him and his romance with a cute juice bar barista Kip. And you know what? I liked that book so much more, and I read it in three days. I love Kip and Scott separately and together. I’m very happy that the 3rd episode of the show will be mostly about them.

I heard before that Heated Rivalry is a better written book than Game Changer, and I do agree with that. But despite that I still enjoyed Game Changer so much more. I also heard that these books were very fanficcy. And yes, they are, very much so. Game Changer even more than Heated Rivalry. Sometimes I felt as if I was reading an explicit OW fic on AO3. Especially during smut scenes. But don’t get me wrong, for me that absolutely isn’t a deterrent. 😊

A bit more about Game Changer with spoilers.

When they first meet Kip is out at work, and to his friends and family. But Scott, being a famous hockey player, is very much closeted. At first it isn’t a problem, but later it becomes the main point of conflict between them. And I liked how it was done in the book, where I understood where both guys were coming from. And it wasn’t just that one of them is always right and one is wrong.

And oh, how much I loved all Scott Hunter’s coming out scenes. At first he comes out to his three closest friends at his hockey team, then to his couch. And it made me laugh so much that both times someone always suspects that Scott might be involved with Ilya Rozanov.

First it’s this:

“Thank god,” Huff said. “I thought you were gonna say you were secretly dating Rozanov.”

“Rozanov wishes,” Scott said.

And then this:

They shook hands, and Murdock said, “It’s not Rozanov, is it?”

“Jesus. No! Why does everyone—?”

LOL 🤣

And I loved that Scott (who wanted to do a sensible thing and come out to the world through the interview in Sports Illustrated), after his team won the Stanley Cup, thought: fuck it, why wait, I’m going to kiss my boyfriend hard and deep right there on the ice in front of all those sports fans and all the cameras. And he did just that. ♥

I think now I’ll try finishing Heated Rivalry. And then I’ll start the third book in the series – Tough Guy. And I do plan to read the rest of them, too.

ClaireBell

Episode 4 was very good.

More with spoilers here.

Well, during the last episode I wasn’t sure what Bell’s motives and feelings really are. And she absolutely has real feelings for Claire, I believe that. But that scene when she took Claire to shower in the morning – that was on purpose, right? She does it so the other inmates see them together.

And oh wow, nice NC scene. Soft and sensuous, and bathed in a warm, golden light. So beautiful despite it happening in a dilapidated building on an old, worn-out mattress. I loved that Claire, uncharacteristically shyly for her, admitted that this was her first time, and that Bell was the one in charge.

And heh, that cute moment later of Bell saying “Don’t forget to trim your nails, okay” to Claire. It seems Bell isn’t a newbie when it comes to sex with women.

And yep, we are entering Kae’s villain era now. And I have to say Kae’s actress is very good, too. I felt since the 1st episode that there was something maybe tiny bit off with her, despite her bubbly, goofy, and nice persona. And I love how they slowly showed us what was beneath the surface here.

Also Top is the worst. What a whiny, cowardly asshole.

Under Her Rules


This is a pilot trailer, 11 minutes long. Seems a bit like The Devil Wears Prada Thai GL version, where the boss and the assistant end up together. Also there is a love triangle. Or maybe even two love triangles?

It looks potentially interesting to me, especially since main actresses have great chemistry. And they’re very good at kissing. And at other things. Let me tell you, this pilot is very NSFW. 😊