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RL is meh. I don’t feel well lately, probably because of menopause. But I did go to my cardiologist just in case. And my heart is fine, but my blood pressure is too high, and I have to start taking a pill for that, too. As if I didn’t have enough health problems as it is. *sigh* And I have five mosquito bites on my face. Ugh... There were no mosquitos here all summer, maybe because we had a swallow nest on the top of our apartment building and there were a lot of swallows around in previous months when they were teaching their young ones to fly. It was so entertaining to observe as they were zooming outside our window like teeny tiny grey planes. But now there are no swallows and a lot of mosquitos. Just go away, you little bloodsuckers. 😠


On the positive fannish front – I bookmarked five wishlists from this year’s Guardian Wishlist. There is no way five fics are happening, but I hope at least two might. I already started writing them, and here is hoping they will get finished. My last Guardian fic was written in 2023, and I forgot how fun it is to write Zhao Yunlan bickering with Ye Zun, or Chu Shuzhi and Guo Changcheng saying ‘I love you’ and kissing a lot. 😊


And now my drama watching report.

I finished:

Love is for the Dogs

It was a lovely and adorable drama with a sweet happy ending. I was trying very hard not to get my hopes up about this drama ending with a proper threeway, because the finale teaser was very suggestive IMO. And it is a Japanese drama, so it could happen. Well, it didn’t, but even without it I enjoyed this cute, little drama a lot.

The Winning Try

It was fine and I enjoyed it. It was the best when the drama focused on the students and an underdog rugby team, and not on the school politics and disappointingly boring villains. Sometimes there was too much of the latter and not enough of the former IMO. But it was good when it was about the bonds between the rugby players, and about Ga Ram being an unconventional and inspirational couch. The romantic relationships were very much in the background in this drama, and I liked that, too. And I even ended up enjoying a cute budding romance between two students, and a mature and complicated exes-to-lovers relationship between Ga Ram and Bae I Ji.


I’m still watching:

Kill to Love

It finished airing, but I still haven’t see the last four episodes, because something happened in episode 8 that dampen my interest. Don’t get me wrong, it is entertaining. And everyone is so pretty. But I guess I wasn’t very deeply invested after all.

Major spoilers here.

I found the main couple fine, but nothing special. Even if on paper it does sound like my kind of thing. But I was much more interested in the secondary pairing that gave me heaps of loyalty kink. And it’s a dark and fucked up flavor of loyalty kink. I loved it. I was also very much into a complicated and intense relationship between two princely brothers. And the death of the Crown Prince in episode 8 meant no more of my two favorite things in future episodes.

I do plan to watch those four episodes soon. But mainly because I want to have the knowledge of the whole canon in hope I will have a fix-it fic with the Crown Prince being alive to read in the future. 😊

Shine

Episodes 5 and 6 were excellent. But I’m so anxious about the last two episodes. I’m preparing for a lot of angst and heartbreak.

More with spoilers here.

Wow, switching in a BL drama, that’s something you don’t see often. 😊 Or like at all. They only allude to it sometimes. I haven’t seen a BL drama explicitly showing it yet. Although apparently it happened in Suntiny, too, which I still haven’t watched.

After it happened I thought that it would be so cool if they went with ApoMile instead of MileApo for Trin and Tanwa’s first time. And they did. And it was hot and perfect. ♥

About more serious matters - I’m so scared for Naran. He says to Krailert that he cares more about fighting for change for the country than his own safety. It’s obvious that Naran was torn between his love for Krailert and his morals and doing his job as a journalist right. And at the end, as we see in episode 6, the latter won.

And after what happened to Win, I think Krailert is terrified that the same thing will happen to Naran now.

Also I was pretty sure that Trin and Tanwa would get their happy ever after, but after these two episodes I’m not so sure anymore. It probably won’t end happily for them, either.

Also I dipped briefly into tumblr’s Shine tag and I’m so amused by majority of fans being so invested in Shine’s background het couple (just like I am), and urging Dhevi to just have an affair with Veera already.

Affair

My newest love and obsession. I love Harmony Secret a lot, but this drama speaks to my id even stronger than Harmony Secret. And I have only one last episode left to watch. And then I think I’ll start a re-watch. And write at least one fic. Probably more. 😊

A bit more with mild spoilers here.

Wan is like a character made exactly for me. I love her so completely. I love that Wan isn’t simply in love with Pleng, she’s obsessed with Pleng. That love is Wan’s reason for living, for doing what she’s doing all her life, even for becoming a doctor.

And Wan’s love is possessive and controlling. Ahhh, that scene when Wan gets angry and drags Pleng home just because Ek tried to kiss Pleng’s hand. And then she says: “I don’t like anyone touching you.” Her intense jealous possessiveness pushed my buttons so hard.

This kind of possessive and controlling love interest doesn't work for me at all in M/F pairings, and only rarely and in special circumstance works for me in M/M pairings. But give me F/F version and I will eat it up with a spoon every time. 😊

And wow, Lookmhee and Sonya’s NC scenes are hot, hot, hot. I would make gifs, but I still prefer not to strain my elbow too much. Even writing this post took me three days. But the official playlist on youtube have an uncensored version, so you can see it for yourself in episodes 5 and 6, if you want to. 😊

I dropped:

Twelve

I watched the first two episodes. It was mildly entertaining, and Park Hyung Sik makes a very sexy villain with those beautiful black wings. But I feel like the plot should move a bit quicker when they have only 8 episodes. But no, in these two episodes a lot of time was dedicated to, frankly speaking, not even very good fights instead of character development for our main characters. At the end of episode 2 I realized I didn’t care for any of the heroes, and that the villain was sexy, but also rather boring. So I don’t plan to watch the rest.

Doctor’s Mine

I rarely anti-rec things. But this is an anti-rec from me.

I take back everything I said about this drama being surprisingly good about consent issues. I dropped it after episode 5, and I haven’t watched the next episodes, only read discussions on reddit and tumblr, because I was so disappointed. And I’m glad I didn’t watch them. Because even reading about it was infuriating. It ruined Mon and Pak’s storyline for me, too.

Here is a good post on tumblr explaining what happened in episodes 5 and 6, if you want to know more.

I wanted to make a much longer post, because there are so many upcoming dramas I’m excited about. But unfortunately lately I started to have problems with my right elbow, and I can’t really write or browse the net for too long. *sigh* Good thing watching dramas doesn’t require you to move your right arm too much, heh. So here is a short post with one good drama news and a few trailers.

Good news is that The Bangkok Boy Season 2 is confirmed and coming soon. I’m very pleased, because I loved the 1st season.

More here with spoilers for season 1.

And because they brought two people back from the dead in the last episode.

One of them is Aim. My favorite villain with his beautiful crazy eyes is alive and well, yay. And now I ship him with Ji Hoon. They should become a couple and rule the underworld together. 😊

But also apparently Kong is alive, too. As in the boy who was in love with Sun, was killed by Junho, and whose murder was Sun framed for and went to prison for. But who knows, it might not be the original Kong, but his secret twin brother out for revenge for instance. 😉 Or it is Kong, but he has amnesia or something, because it’s really hard to believe that Kong we saw in the 1st episode would let Sun suffer in prison for a crime he didn’t commit.

Anyway, I’m full of questions and very excited. Here is hoping we get more specific news about the 2nd season and time of airing soon.

And now trailers. Maybe some of you will find new dramas to add to that already too long to-watch list. 😉

Behind the cut there are embedded trailers for three Thai BL dramas and one Korean BL. And precisely:

Revamp the Undead Story - the second vampire BL from GMMTV and Barcode’s first GMMTV drama. Boun and Prem are the leads, and I haven’t seen them in anything else before so I’m excited to check them out here. Here is hoping it will be more to my taste than My Golden Blood.

Love In The Moonlight - it takes place in 1995, and it’s about a prince from a fictional country, who is sent to Bangkok to marry a girl in an arrange marriage. There he falls in love with a girl’s older brother instead. It looks pretty angsty, and one of the leads is Pearl Satjakorn, whom I loved as Thee in Laws of Attraction.

The Wicked Game - a bodyguard romance with Daou and Offroad. This is another fixed ship I haven’t seen before. And the trailer looks good with a lot of angst, drama, shooting, fights and kissing.

My Bias Is Showing?! - it’s a Korean BL drama about a high school teacher, whose school becomes a filming location for a show starring his bias from the idol group. As you can guess the teacher and the idol fall in love, of course. The trailer looks very cute, so let’s just hope it will be good.

Watch the trailers here.

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We have the last few days of oppressively hot and humid weather here. Luckily starting on Monday it’s supposed to be colder and much easier to breathe. 😊 And luckily for me I spend this weekend at my sister’s summer house in the country. This stuffy heat is much more bearable here than in the city.

Kdramas

Branding in Seongsu

In between watching all the currently airing dramas I also decided to start Branding in Seongsu on a whim a few weeks ago. I finished it last week. It didn’t have good reviews when it was airing, but you know what? I enjoyed it a lot. I love Kim Ji Eun and I was in the mood for bodyswap trope. And this drama delivered both a good performance from Kim Ji Eun, and a lot of laughs at our leads bodyswaping.

There was also a nice surprise in the form of a supporting canon gay character. Sure Rex was a bit stereotypical as in, flamboyant and fabulous, but he was competent and good at his job, and never treated as the punchline of a joke. And for a mainstream kdrama that’s a lot.


The Winning Try

It’s a new kdrama about a former star rugby player Ju Ga Ram, whose career was ruined by a drug scandal. Three years later Ga Ram agrees to become a contract coach for the high school rugby team at his former school. This high school rugby team is currently the weakest team in its league.

On the surface it looks like a straightforward feel-good underdog sports story. And it is that, too, of course. And this is the part of this drama that I like the most. All the boys in the team are adorable, their interactions make me smile and laugh and go aww a lot.

But there is the other, more serious subplot, too. Unfortunately it is the one connected to the trope I dislike. Fortunately it doesn’t irritate me too much here, so I can just sigh and grumble a bit and then get over it. 😊

More with major spoilers here.

Ga Ram is very seriously ill. He has myasthenia gravis, a rare condition that causes voluntary muscles to tire rapidly. In the present day, Ga Ram is taking medication for the condition, but nobody at the school knows, of course. And I don’t mind him not telling anyone at school. But this is where one of my most disliked tropes appears – not telling your loved ones about your serious illness.

When he was diagnosed with it he also never told his long-term girlfriend about it. And when he was hospitalized for a long time he never told her either, and cut all contact with her. So now his former girlfriend thinks he was an asshole who disappeared from her life for no reason. And then appeared three years later and behaved like nothing happened.

I could do without this subplot. I could also do with less time dedicated to the machinations of main villains. Because villains in this drama are very, very boring.

Just give me more Ga Ram training and taking care of his ragtag team of enthusiastic and adorable rugby players. I don’t even mind cliched love triangle subplot with two team members liking the same girl. Who is an awesome character, so I totally don’t blame both of them for falling for her. 😊

BL dramas


The Next Prince

Well, that drama will probably win the disappointment of the year award for me. I fast-forwarded through most of the finale, because I really wasn’t interested in anything but Ramil and Paytai’s fate.

A bit more complaining behind the cut.

And I was hoping that Ava, Khanin and Ramil would work together, and I don’t know, lead rebellion against the monarchy, or fight for the future leader of Emmaly being elected by the people. I don’t really care what, I just wanted something more than Khanin meekly believing his father’s vague promises, and Ava withdrawing from the competition. And I have to say that I didn’t think that I cared enough to get angry, but the whole thing with Ava pissed me of a little. Because seriously, what was the point of her fighting earlier against Emmaly’s sexist practices? She really wasn't allowed to be a character at all, was she?

And wow, in the last episode we hear this grand statement: “Gender doesn’t matter. It’s skill that matters” as we cut to Ava sitting in the audience and watching the competition. *sigh*

Doctor’s Mine

Consent talk in the 2nd episode, nice. I thought, with all these comments from the creators about going back to basics, that this drama would probably be bad about consent issue. I’m pleasantly surprised I was wrong. So for now I’m watching. One of the main couples (not MonPak one) is fine if a bid bland for me. I’m not fast-forwarding through their scenes yet. 😊 And Mon and Pak being hot and adorable together more than make up for blandness of that other pairing. And there is a promising secondary GL couple on the horizon.


Shine

This show is very good. I’m so impressed and entranced. Episode 2 was excellent. But wow, the secondary couple syndrome strikes again. And how. 😍

Spoilers here.

Krailert and Naran, holy shit... I’m so in love. Trin/Tanwa is great, too, absolutely. But damn, Naran/Krailert is like made for me. Antagonists-to-lovers with flirting through articles published in the newspaper, and with so much trauma in Krailert’s past. And yes, they are both gorgeous, and hot together, and very good at kissing. 😊 I can’t wait for the next episode today evening.

Still praying to whatever weather god is available to ease up on stifling heat and upcoming storms. I see another summer blockbuster at the movies in my near future (like this afternoon), because it’s not even 11 a.m. here and it’s already so fricking hot. My thermometer shows 35°C now. But apart from that RL is pretty good. And I have new cute reading glasses, and they’re great. 😊

Fannish life is good, too. I posted my new Klao/Warich fic.

Just like he fits into me (5503 words)
Fandom: สายรหัสเทวดา | Perfect 10 Liners (TV 2024)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Klao/Warich (Perfect 10 Liners)
Additional Tags: Feelings, Kissing, Teasing, Semi-Public Sex, Kitchen table sex, Dom/sub Undertones, But very light and brief undertones, Orgasm Delay, Anal Fingering, Anal Sex
Summary:

Sometimes when Warich looks at Klao now he still sees that young man with a heated gaze and impatient hands, and a touch which felt so good on Warich’s body. A hothead, quick with his fists, and prone to outbursts of jealousy, which made Warich despair. Possessive in a way that brought a dark thrill into Warich’s heart. Sometimes, when he’s being honest with himself, Warich can admit that he found it intoxicating – that feeling of being someone’s whole world. And he always feels like congratulating his past self for saying ‘yes’ when this arrogant boy asked Warich to be his boyfriend.

A look at Klao and Warich's relationship through Warich's POV.

And as always there are so many new dramas to watch. And some of them are even good. Here are the two good ones I started watching lately.

Shine

This is Be On Cloud’s new BL drama with Mile and Apo. The first episode aired yesterday and I already watched it. And that episode was very good. Good writing, very good acting, fascinating characters and very interesting story.

But I feel like now I have to do my homework on the political climate in Thailand during the late sixties. I’m joking about homework, of course. I love doing research like that. And I already read a bit on the popular uprising of 14 October 1973 in Thailand, because the drama is based on events that led up to that uprising.

On the more shallow note, Apo looks absolutely gorgeous. And I like Mile’s carefree hippie look, long hair and all. 😊

A bit more with spoilers here.

You can see that Tanwa is instantly infatuated with Trin, like lust at first sight thing. And who wouldn’t be with Apo looking like that. 😊 But at the end is also clear that Trin is drawn to Tanwa’s charisma as well. And we got the kiss already, yay.

But I find it funny that in this very serious and political BL drama I’m already also invested in a minor romantic, and probably doomed, het subplot. I’m talking about Krailer’s poor neglected wife and his underling. Because it looks to me as if the underling has a thing for the wife. He was the one reminding his boss that today is their wedding anniversary. He was the one that knew that Dhevi’s favorite flowers are purple tulips and bought them for her despite his boss telling him to just buy roses. And he looks at her with such soft longing in his eyes.

It's a short drama. There will be 8 episodes in total. It’s officially available only on WeTV for now.


Only You

It’s a new Thai GL with singer/bodyguard romance. Main characters Ayla and Tawan met in high school. Tawan was a cool senior who saved newbie Ayla during a dangerous situation, and then they very clearly fell in love. But they never did anything about it, never confessed their feelings or dated. And then Tawan left, because something dramatic happened. After the first three episodes, neither Ayla nor viewers know what was the reason.

8 years later Ayla is a famous singer, and Tawan has her own bodyguarding company. They meet again when Ayla is threatened by a dangerous stalker fan and needs a new bodyguard. And Ayla’s father (with a bit of sneaky prodding by Ayla) hires Tawan to protect Ayla.

I watched the three available episodes (there will be 14 episodes in total), and I like it a lot. Both leads are great. Ayla is sweet and cheeky and kind and optimistic. Cute as a button as a highschooler and sexy as an idol. Tawan is serious and a bit closed off, very good at bodyguarding, protective and devoted. There are a few great secondary characters, too, especially Tawan’s three underlings. And Ayla’s best friend Khatou. They were in high school together and Khatou was and is also a big Tawan’s fangirl, and a big Ayla/Tawan shipper. 😊

As for our two main actresses – LingOrm is the most popular Thai GL ship and now I get why. Orm is very charming, pretty and adorable. And Lingling is wow, just wow... What a gorgeous woman. I think I’m in love. 😊 Their chemistry is fire, too.

New episodes air on Fridays on Netflix in Southeast Asia and on a streaming service called 3Plus Premium worldwide. But they are also put on Youtube a few days later. Youtube playlist with the first two episodes is here.

And this song from the OST sang by Lingling is really pretty (there are minor spoilers in the MV).

Weather here is so annoying. Either it is so windy that it almost tears your head off. Or it’s too hot and humid. Or there are storms. Can we just have a normal gentle summer with none of these things, pretty please.

On account of this stupid weather and impossibility of being outside for too long I lately went to the movies twice. It’s not Warsaw and there’s not a lot of choice here when it comes to watching movies at the theatre, so I saw two latest summer blockbusters.

I like Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey and Mahershala Ali a lot, so I expected to like Jurassic World: Rebirth at least a little bit. Surprisingly I enjoyed it a lot. I liked that there was no romance between Scarlett Johansson’s character and Jonathan Bailey’s character. I liked that a tough, disillusioned mercenary was a woman and a sensitive scientist was a man, because even 10-15 years ago characters’ genders for these two parts would be reversed. I liked ( this spoiler ) a lot, too.

In contrast I was expecting to love Superman, since I read many positive opinions about this movie, and it was just meh for me.

I watch one more movie lately, this one at home. A few weeks ago aurumcalendula mentioned Korean movie available on VIKI called Phantom. She wrote that “it's one of the many adaptations of The Message and the most actiony and texually queer of them.” It piqued my interest, so I checked MyDramaList page, read the summary, saw Honey Lee’s name, and thought ‘ok, now I have to see it.’ 😊 The movie is set in 1933, during the Japanese colonization of Korea, and Honey Lee’s character is a spy for the anti-Japanese resistance.

But first I found out that of course the movie is not available in my region on VIKI, so I had to look for another source. But I’m so glad I did it, because this movie is very good, and I liked it a lot. It’s also dark and violent, so I had to watch it in two parts. But it was worth it. Honey Lee was amazing, Park So Dam was so amazing, too.

These spoilers are also amazing.

Honey Lee’s character is a lesbian, who loses her lover, after her lover is killed during an unsuccessful attempt on the life of a new Japanese governor. Park So Dam plays a secretary of a powerful man, with a secret of her own. She and Honey Lee have great chemistry. And their characters both survive the movie and continue fighting together for Korea’s independence. You can very easily headcanon them becoming more than friends, too. At least I absolutely did. 😊

And now let’s talk about dramas.

Love Is for the Dogs

It’s a new Japanese drama about a talented lawyer Hanamura Aiko, who lost faith in romance and love and enjoys her single life with her recently adopted dog Sakura, and about the director of a 24-hour animal hospital Shirosaki Kai, who lives with his adorable dog Shogun – a stray dog he rescued after it was brought to his hospital a year ago. The third main character is a young Korean man from a very rich family, who came to Japan with a secret mission relating to Shogun.

After watching three available episodes (it’s on VIKI) my main reaction was like that: cute doggies! And potential M/M/F OT3! YAY!!! That second thing rather certainly not in canon, just in subtext, but I’ll take it. 😊

But look at these two four-legged cuties:



The white fluffy one is Shogun, the small black one is Sakura.


Memoir of Rati

I’m happy, because it’s very good. I’m trying to prime myself for eventual unhappy ending, but for now I’m enjoying all the longing and pining, and sweetness so much.

And I love Thee and Rati, they are adorable together. And Great and Inn are both wonderful. But Aou and Boom as Mek and Dech own my heart.

Spoilers for episode 5 here.

Ahhh, that scene when Mek teaches Dech Muay, and Dech is so disgruntled because Mek knocked him on his ass so quickly. He accuses Mek of playing a prank on him, and Mek says sincerely:

“What good could that do for me, sir? You are kind enough to not get me into trouble for hitting you, and now you’re going to teach me French. You are a literal angel to me, sir.”

And you can see Dech just melting, his angry, frowny pout changing into awe and pleasure. And he gets all shy smiles and a dropped gaze. It’s adorable. And Mek saying: “You love being praised, don’t you?” gets me good, too. I was never that much into praise kink. But I might be a little bit into it here. 😊

Also I love that during that scene Mek is on the bench, and Dech is sitting on the mat, so he has to look up at Mek. It’s like a complete reversal of their status, since in this era in Siam servants always sit on the floor when serving their masters.

And then we have another adorable scene with Dech demanding that Mek uses his name instead of a title, since they’re friends now. He tells Mek to call him Ai'Dech, and when Mek almost instantly does just that, this tiny soft and pleased smile spreads on Dech’s face. Aww, these two… ❤️ I love them to pieces. And I’m trying not to think about there being a very slim possibility of the happy ending for them. I can maybe see the happy ending for Rati and Thee. Like they could go to France and live there for instance. But what can Mek and Dech do?

Doctor’s Mine

It’s a new Thai BL drama with Mon and Pak. And I don’t know, I found the first episode pretty meh. Mon and Pak are hot together, so, so hot, they are burning up the screen. But I need something more than just good chemistry and NC scenes (even if these NC scenes are scorching hot) to continue watching a drama.

Apparently the creators said something about “going back to basics” with this BL drama. And it seems they meant it. Because wow, it felt like I time traveled 6 or 7 years back, and was watching a cliched university BL in 2019 with all those annoying outdated tropes - with constant ‘wife’ language, and with cheating on one’s girlfriend, but it’s totally fine, you see, because the girlfriend is an awful person and a cheater, too.

Add to that the English subtitles being quite bad (I saw many opinions that Gaga and IQIYI’s subtitles are worse and worse lately, and at least for Gaga that is unfortunately true), and me not caring for the other main couple at all, and eh, I probably won’t watch more. Or I might just watch only Mon and Pak’s scenes and fast-forward through all the rest. Because I really love Mon and Pak, and I so wanted to see them as the main couple after Two Worlds. Ok, they had Mission to the Moon recently, and I did watch it all just for them, but it certainly wasn’t very good. And I want to watch them as the main couple in a good drama. Doctor’s Mine probably won’t be that drama, but who knows, I might be pleasantly surprised. 😊

We have a heatwave here, but a short one thankfully. It should be back to normal 23°C tomorrow. I spent the whole day today eating ice cream, drinking water and watching cute things to distract myself from that exhausting heat.

Seeing new pics from Q3 of Only Friends Dream On shooting helped, too. But wow, Aou, have mercy on me. There is hot enough here as it is, even without you being all bad boy DJ in a see-through shirt. 😊


The Ex-Morning

7th episode aired today, and surprisingly for me I’m enjoying this drama more and more with each new episode.

More with spoilers here.

Mix’s cameo as a vet! And he looked gorgeous, I can’t wait for Only Friends Dream On.

Also, wow, they made me sympathize with Phi. Yeah, what Tam did was shitty. I knew he had to have a reason for breaking up with Phi by sms, and then blocking him everywhere and not talking to him for years. But his reason absolutely doesn’t justify his behavior IMO. Couldn’t he just talk with Phi honestly? I fricking hate ‘I’m breaking up with you for your own good’ trope.

Speaking of cameos – I really, really hope we’ll get Boom’s cameo in the last episodes as a current or future boyfriend of Aou’s character. GMMTV lately loves to do that with their fixed ships, if only one half of a ship is in a drama. Till now we had Force’s cameo in Only Boo, Sea’s cameo in Sweet Tooth Good Dentist, and New’s in Break Up Service.

The Next Prince

I’m getting bored. I thought I would love this drama, but something is not working for me. Prince/his loyal bodyguard is my kind of ship, I feel like I should love Khanin/Charan, and yet I basically lost all interest in them. I blame the script, it’s just not good. Pacing is bad, too. For a long time I felt like almost nothing really was happening story wise. Also where is Ava? She disappeared completely lately.

I still am very much invested in Ramil/Paytai, their relationship is my kind of complicated and angsty and hot, and for them I will watch it to the end. But yeah, for me this drama definitely didn’t live up to my expectations.



I also started MilkLove’s new GL drama Whale Store xoxo. Two episodes aired for now and I liked them. Milk looks so beautiful that I spent the first half of the 1st episode just staring and sighing ‘she’s soooo gorgeous’ in an awed voice. Heh... The drama itself is cute and enjoyable, and perfect for relaxing on Wednesday evenings.



And yay, I did manage to finish something, too, finally. Two dramas, actually. One was the 2nd season of Tengu no Daidokoro. I loved it. It was as good and beautiful, and touching as the 1st season. And all the food porn made me so hungry at the most inopportune times, like for instance after 9 p.m. 😊



I also watched a short kdrama on Netflix called Mercy For None. I did enjoy it, but it was very brutal, dark and bloody, so it took me a while to watch all of it, even though it has only 7 episodes. It got a bit repetitive in the second half, but it satisfied my love for complicated and obsessive sibling relationships. And the fights were excellent.

It’s about an ex-gangster Nam Gi Jun who left the underworld in dramatic circumstances 11 years ago. And now he returns to uncover the truth about the mysterious death of his beloved younger brother (who in present time was the second in command in Gi Jun’s former gang). And to ruthlessly take revenge on people responsible.

I haven’t seen So Ji Sub, who plays Gi Jun, in anything before. And he is very good here. Very charismatic in that tortured, brooding and silent type of way. And it was great to see Lee Jun Hyuk playing someone so different from his green flag character in Love Scout. Here he guest stars in a few episodes as Gi Jun’s younger brother Gi Seok.

Oh wow, look at that. 😍



These are AouBoom pics from the first day of shooting.

Two more pics (EarthMix and JossGawin) behind the cut.

People are speculating that Only Friends Dream On may even replace Memoir of Rati when it finishes airing in September. It would be great. And I already know I will be even more obsessed with this season than I was with the first one. 😊

Goddammit GMMTV! I really don’t have time to watch another new drama, and you have to go and bait me with this:



This is the thumbnail image of the last episode’s teaser for Off Jumpol’s currently airing drama Break Up Service. I actually watched the first three episodes of this drama. The first one out of general curiosity, the second because Force guest starred in it, and the third, because Drake guest starred in it as a secret lover of a closeted BL actor, and I was intrigued by the plot synopsis for that episode. I found the drama pretty meh in general, and I didn’t really care for the main het romance, so I never watched more. But now I think I’m going to watch the 11th episode and the finale the next week.

And I know it’s a bait, because it’s not a BL drama, and Off’s character has a female love interest, and because OffGun and TayNew are mega popular and sacred fixed ships. 😊 So I know they're not actually going to give us an OffTay kiss. And yet I can’t help but hope. Please, GMMTV, let guys in fixed ships kiss guys other than their ship partner from time to time. Pretty please...



I also forgot to mention in my previous posts that the wonderful person who made English subs for the 1st season of Tengu no Daidokoro, finally finished making subs for the 2nd season, too. Links for the new season are in this tumblr post. I only managed to watch the first three episodes for now, but everything I loved about the 1st season is still here. It’s lovely and cozy, and it makes my heart all warm. 😊

The Ex-Morning

I’m not dropping it after all. I really enjoyed the 4th episode. Even Padtaphi didn’t annoy me this week. And I’m already in love with the secondary GL pairing.


The Bangkok Boy

Ok, the drama gets its own tag, because I love it and I’m so invested. Episode 7 was great. But wow, that show is dark. Very dark. And it makes me anxious. Because I can’t say to myself that it’s just a Thai BL drama and no one I love will die. Because someone for sure will.

But yes, this is definitely a brutal gangster drama first. BL part is a distant second. I like it that way, but I saw quite a few fans disappointed about the BL part being in the background like that, and the main plot being all about gangsters fighting each other. Truly speaking I am a bit surprised that TPTB even marketed it as a BL drama.

Content warning.

When Sun was in prison for a murder he didn’t commit, Sun’s younger sister Mei was sold out to Sun’s enemies. She was forced to take drugs, and raped repeatedly for three years before Sun rescued her after coming out of prison. It wasn’t shown explicitly, but we see the aftermath, and what it did to Mei.

More with spoilers here.

I was hoping that they wouldn't go there with Mei. But they did, in a really dark way. But she is getting help now, and it seems she is slowly getting better. And she has her burgeoning friendship with Peace. And maybe a future GL romance with a kind and cute paramedic.

And I enjoy Aim as an unhinged villain, and the actor gives great crazy eyes. And I kinda ship him with Madam Yao. Yes, I have a het ship in a BL drama, it happens sometimes. 😊 But look at this gifset I found on tumblr. And he’s like a brutal, crazy dog only she has a leash for. It does things for me. But Aim needs to pay for what he did to Mei, so I fully expect him to die before the end. And I will cheer when he does.

And our main romance is slow paced. Very slow paced. But, based on the trailer for the next ep, the boys will finally consummate their love this Saturday. 😊

And Our Movie, Nam Goon Min’s new drama, starts airing today. Now I have to decide if I want to have my heart stomped upon on weekly basis, or if I should wait for a guaranteed heartbreak until all of it airs. 😊