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Marry My Dead Body

It’s the cute, funny and surprisingly touching Taiwanese supernatural LGBTQ+ comedy on Netflix. It even made me teary-eyed at the end.

It’s about a rude and homophobic police officer (Wu Ming Han played by Greg Hsu) who is forced to marry a ghost of a young gay man (Mao Mao played by Austin Lin) who had been struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver. It happens because of the machinations of Mao Mao’s loving and super cool grandmother, who promised Mao Mao that she would live to see him get married one day, and she wanted to keep that promise even after her grandson was dead.

Together they fight crime. 😊 And they try to find Mao Mao’s killer before Mao Mao’s ghost can move on in the afterlife, and then be reincarnated. And slowly they fall in love in the process. I mean, ok, they learn to love each other and their relationship is never defined, although yes, I think it’s supposed to be read as enemies-to-friends trope. But IMO you can absolutely read it as a romantic love.

A bit more with spoilers behind the cut.

Because come on, Mao Mao sacrifices his ghost self to save Wu Ming Han’s life. And Wu Ming Han when he’s dying and asked what he’s so desperately looking for says very seriously “I’m looking for my husband” when he can’t see Mao Mao around.

The ending is bittersweet in the sense that yes they found Mao Mao’s killer, and Mao Mao got closure with his dad, but he left to be reincarnated and Wu Ming Han is alone and clearly missing him a lot. Although he has a cute dog now, and he did get a new family in Mao Mao’s dad and grandmother, who treat him as a son in law.

There are a few fics on AO3, but they are all in Chinese. I hope there will be fics in English in a near future.


And here are recs for two wonderful canon divergence AUs for KinnPorsche and Not Me.

coffeehouse play (79965 words) by AirgiodSLV
Chapters: 28/28
Fandom: KinnPorsche: The Series (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Porchay Pichaya Kittisawat/Kim Khimhant Theerapanyakun, Porsche Pachara Kittisawat & Kim Khimhant Theerapanyakun, Khun Tankhun Theerapanyakun & Kim Khimhant Theerapanyakun & Kinn Anakinn Theerapanyakun, Porsche Pachara Kittisawat/Kinn Anakinn Theerapanyakun, Porchay Pichaya Kittisawat & Porsche Pachara Kittisawat
Characters: Kim Khimhant Theerapanyakun, Porsche Pachara Kittisawat, Porchay Pichaya Kittisawat, Khun Tankhun Theerapanyakun, Kinn Anakinn Theerapanyakun, Macau Theerapanyakun, Vegas Kornwit Theerapanyakun, Pete Phongsakorn Saengtham, Arm (KinnPorsche: The Series), Pol (KinnPorsche: The Series), Chan (KinnPorsche: The Series), Korn Theerapanyakun, Big (KinnPorsche: The Series), Tawan (KinnPorsche: the Series)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Sibling Feelings, Slow Burn, Asexual Character, Found Family, Reconciliation, Mafia Politics, Chess Metaphors
Summary:

Sometime after the food is gone and the iced teas have been refilled, Kim realizes he’s just listening to Porsche tell stories and Porchay talk about music. He's not thinking about how to turn the conversation to his advantage.

They don’t seem to mind that he’s quiet, or that his additions to the conversation are stilted, censoring everything he can’t say about himself and his life. They don’t push him when he evades personal questions. They fill his awkward silences with jokes and banter with each other. They listen whenever he finds something to say.

He can’t tell whether he’s pretending to be Wik or pretending to be Kim, or something else entirely.

It’s…nice.

(or, Kim meets Porsche first.)

ten thousand craters where it all should be (68617 words) by KouriArashi
Chapters: 15/15
Fandom: เขา...ไม่ใช่ผม | Not Me (TV 2021)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sean/White (Not Me TV 2021), Black/Tod (Not Me TV 2021), Black & White (Not Me TV 2021)
Additional Tags: Alternate Canon, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Mystery, Family, Angst, Developing Relationship, Hurt/Comfort, Families of Choice, Class Issues, Corruption, Imprisonment, Past Child Abuse, Self-Harm, Panic Attacks, Solitary Confinement
Summary:

White, newly returned to Thailand, looks for his brother but can’t find him. Instead, he finds the garage gang.

“Hey, Black! Where the hell have you been? We said ‘lie low for a few days’ not ‘go AWOL for over a week’!”

“You know Black?” White demanded, and the other man blinked, confused. “Ah - my name is White. I’m Black’s twin brother. I’ve been looking for him.”

Or, the AU where Todd doesn’t put Black in a coma so someone else steps in to solve a problem for Tawi.

And I guess I will be still paying for GagaOOLala, because I just watched a trailer for the new Taiwanese BL drama Kiseki: Dear To Me about a medical student and a gangster, and I’m intrigued.


And it’s Only Friends day today. In more or less four hours I will be able to watch the 1st episode. Yay!