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Another heatwave is here, damn. I thought we were done with those this year, but apparently not. Add to that a few minor health problems that just had to happen at the same time. Grrrr...

Fortunately I have plenty of good dramas and fanworks to cheer me up, so I’m making this a rec post.


I finally started Extraordinary Attorney Woo – a kdrama about a lawyer with autism spectrum disorder. It is as good as everybody said it was. I saw the first two episodes and I already love it. Park Eun Bin is fantastic, the other actors are great, too, it’s well written, and it’s adorable and heartwarming and optimistic. I wholeheartedly recommend it after just these two episodes.


Another drama recommendations is The Eclipse – a Thai BL from the genre I call “a respected and exclusive school hides a dark secret”. The Gifted was from the same genre. I was supposed to wait until all the episodes air before watching, but I didn’t have anything else to watch so I started it already last week. And that was a bad idea. ;) Because I enjoy it a lot. And only two episodes aired for now, and now it will be so hard to wait a week for each new episode.

The main couple is a classic enemies-to-lovers ship and I like them, but, and that is not surprising to me at all, I’m already head over heels with the secondary couple. Their names are Thua and Kan. Thua is openly gay and he clearly has a big crush on Kan. Kan, also very clearly, already has feelings for Thua, but he’s deeply in denial about it. He’s all “I’m so straight, see how many girls like me, please don’t joke about Thua being my boyfriend, somebody might get the wrong impression.” Which is absolutely the right impression, seriously. :) But he always protects Thua, and he’s not an asshole, which is so nice.

The Eclipse is on Youtube and here is the link to the 1st episode.

Thua and Kan are played by Louis Thanawin and Neo Trai Nimtawat, and they both so great and have such fantastic chemistry, that I also started watching another BL Fish Upon The Sky for them, where they also play the secondary couple. I watched four episodes for now, but I don’t know if I will watch more despite my newfound love for Neo and Louis. I have to fast-forward a lot – the main couple doesn’t work for me at all, there is a lot of cringy humor, and Neo’s character is very annoying.


So those were my drama recs, now let’s move to fanworks recs.


Don’t you just hate that thing when you’ve read the most perfect fic for your newest fascination and you check the author’s profile to see what else they wrote, and disappointingly find out that this perfect fic is the only fic the author wrote? For me it happened once with a Vincenzo fic. And now for the 2nd time with a KinnPorsche fic.

I’m talking about Machine Gun Kick, which is a fantastic almost 15.000 words long post-canon fic from Porsche’s POV. But in this case luckily for me the author decided to expanded it into a series of post-canon stories, and wrote three more long, fantastic fics in it from the POVs of Pete, Kim and Kinn. And I dearly hope there will be more. I don’t want to check my AO3 history for number of times I’ve read those four fics, because I’m sure that number is embarrassingly high. :)

Machine Gun Kick (14359 words) by majestictortoise
Fandom: รักโคตรร้ายสุดท้ายโคตรรัก | KinnPorsche: The Series (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Porsche Pachara Kittisawat/Kinn Anakinn Theerapanyakun, Porchay Pichaya Kittisawat/Kim Khimhant Theerapanyakun, Minor or Background Relationship(s)
Characters: Porsche Pachara Kittisawat, Porchay Pichaya Kittisawat, Kinn Anakinn Theerapanyakun, Pete Phongsakorn Saengtham, Kim Khimhant Theerapanyakun, Khun Tankhun Theerapanyakun, Yok (KinnPorshe: The Series)
Series: Part 1 of checkmate
Summary: Porsche watches the security video from Yok's bar. He has so many questions.


And here are a few KinnPorsche fanart recs – all Vegas/Pete and not really SFW.

One

Two

Three

Four

Five

Before I start raving about Lee Joon in Bulgasal again, a quick information about Hu Yitian and Zhang Yunlong’s new drama Checkmate. It's supposed to start airing on iQiyi in August. I think. And I found this short Making of Special on Youtube. It looks good and slashy already. I’m all prepared to ship their characters again. :)


And now let’s commence with my raving about Lee Joon in Bulgasal Immortal Souls, with spoilers and gifs, and fanvid recs.

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And here are fanvid recs:

River

Take Me With You

Clay


After I finished Bulgasal I started The Silent Sea, because Lee Joon plays one of main characters here, too. I’ve watched three episodes already and for now I like it. It’s a bit boring at times, but I’m intrigued by the main mystery enough to keep watching, and two other main characters are played by Bae Doo Na and Gong Yoo, who are both reliably good.

I have to go to Warsaw tomorrow and I don’t wanna. Ugh... I don’t want to think about it, so let’s talk about dramas instead.


Triage finale was a bit disappointing. Partly because I built up expectations too much during the whole week of waiting. That’s why now I prefer to wait unit the whole drama airs before watching. I think that I wouldn’t judge the finale so harshly if I watched it right after the 12th episode. Or like a day after at most. But it was also disappointing because they tried to cram too many things into this one episode, and too many characters had to carry the idiot ball for the plot to move forward.

But in general I really liked this drama and I’m glad that I watched it. And AO3 tag for Triage is finally canonized, yay! And there are already two sweet Sing/Gap post-finale fics there.

Two Years On (1330 words) by Kiranokira
Fandom: ทริอาช | Triage: The Series (Thailand TV 2022)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Gap Worawit Inthra/Sing Singharat Wanchaisee
Characters: Gap Worawit Inthra, Sing Singharat Wanchaisee
Additional Tags: Canon Compliant, Established Relationship, Slice of Life, Sleepy Cuddles
Summary: Sing and Gap cuddle a lot.


Sugar and Sing (5251 words) by Kiranokira
Fandom: ทริอาช | Triage: The Series (Thailand TV 2022)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Gap Worawit Inthra/Sing Singharat Wanchaisee
Characters: Gap Worawit Inthra, Sing Singharat Wanchaisee, Tin Tin Sukprasert, Tol Aekkarin Wijitkul
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Established Relationship, Cats, Domestic Fluff
Summary: Sing is left one day with an unexpected cat to take care of.




I’m still obsessed with Vegas/Pete – that obsession won’t be going away for a while. And compared to my other Asian drama fandoms KinnPorsche fandom is big. There are so many fics already. And after the finale around 40 new fics are posted daily – and I’m talking only about fics for this pairing, because that’s the only tag I check regularly.

I want to squee with other fans, but I guess the fandom is mainly on twitter and discord. And, unfortunately for me, I can’t do fandom on these platforms. I even glanced at the tumblr tag a few times, and there are sometimes interesting posts there, like this one about the pronouns and honorifics Vegas and Pete use for each other and how they change through the drama. But there are also a lot of stupid people there, and I’m too tired for that right now.

But I do have a few more fanvid recs, they are all for Vegas/Pete of course. :)

Set Fire To The Rain

I'll Be Good

Psycho Too – this one is NSFW and you have to be signed in to watch it.



And I missed watching kdramas, so I started Vampire Detective while I was waiting for the last episode of KinnPorsche to air. I liked it for the first 5 episodes. Then it started to get boring. What was a point of making the main character a vampire? It barely even matters while the main trio solves cases, and those cases usually have nothing to do with the main mystery about vampires in this drama. Don’t get me wrong, I like normal crime dramas, too. But here I was promised a crime drama with vampires, and Vampire Detective didn’t really delivered on that promise IMO. :)

But it’s short, only 12 episodes, and I have only the last two episodes to watch, and I can stare at two very beautiful people while watching, so I will finish it. Those beautiful people are: Lee Chung Ah, whom I admired before in Awaken, and the male lead played by Lee Joon, whom I’ve never seen in anything else, but he is really super hot, and a good actor. He also plays a villain in Bulgasal: Immortal Souls, so I think this is what I will be watching next. And then later probably Extraordinary Attorney Woo, which is on Netflix here. I like Park Eun Bin and I heard only good things about this drama.

Forget about being a tiny bit obsessed. My obsession with Vegas/Pete is in a full bloom. Their relationship is so fucked up and angsty and dark. I love it so much, and I’m so sorry that there is only one episode left and there are so many things to resolve, because they won’t dedicate a lot of time to Pete and Vegas for sure. And I would gladly watch the whole episode just about them.

Spoilers below.

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I read a lot of fics and I watched a few fanvids, and I have recs.


Fanvids (NSFW)

perfectly wrong

Strange birds


Fanfic

ain't nobody trying to save you (1909 words) by incendir
Fandom: รักโคตรร้ายสุดท้ายโคตรรัก | KinnPorsche: The Series (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Pete Phongsakorn Saengtham/Vegas Kornwit Theerapanyakun
Additional Tags: Under-negotiated Kink
Summary:

Vegas is splitting Pete open on three fingers when Pete gets the idea.

[Or, some additional details on KPTS 1x12]

take me to your planet (1384 words) by any_open_eye
Fandom: รักโคตรร้ายสุดท้ายโคตรรัก | KinnPorsche: The Series (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Pete Phongsakorn Saengtham/Vegas Kornwit Theerapanyakun
Additional Tags: Subspace, Missing Scene, Dubious Consent, Aftercare, Masochism, Anal Fingering, Choking, Wound Play
Summary:

Pete’s face is doing something. He thinks he might be smiling. He feels fucking high.

What the hell is happening to him? He knows afterglow and this isn't it. If it was, he'd be way more into sex. There were people in high school and then one long-term girlfriend a few years ago, but she never—it was nothing like this. This is like… that blissful moment between sleeping and waking when you're conscious of your body but not yet of your mind. Just a vessel of receptors and processes. Electrified meat.

“That was good, right?” Vegas hands are on him. “Tell me it was good.”

Finally it’s less hot, yay! And it will be even less hot tomorrow, double yay!

Kdramas

I watched the 1st episode od Our Blues. Objectively I recognize that it’s a well written and very well acted drama, but I didn’t care for any of the characters, so I probably won’t watch more.

From upcoming kdrama I’m mainly interested in Adamas – the story of twin brothers who try to uncover the truth about a murder that happened 22 years ago. Ji Sung plays both twins, and I’m sure he will be wonderful. The teaser is here on youtube


BL dramas


Bad Buddy

I finished it yesterday. It felt like I was in a constant state of squee during watching. I alternated between laughing and going “aww, so adorable”.

Minor spoilers below.

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KinnPorsche

Eight and a half episodes watched. I’m still pretty meh about it in general, apart from one character, whom I love a lot. Yes, of course it’s Vegas. :)

Spoilers behind the cut.

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And now have a few fanvid recs. I did some cleaning in my bookmarks, because they were getting too cluttered again.


Secret Love: Puppy Honey

Rome/Pick

Take Me On

I Can’t Say That


Not Me

Black - Survivor

Black and White - Brother


Cutie Pie (all the vids are NSFW)

Kuea/Lian – Still Falling For You

Kon Diao/Yi

All About You

My Tongue Right Onto Your Lips

Heatwave is here and I’m dying. Well, not really, but it feels like it sometimes. :) It’s supposed to get a bit colder next week and I hope that’s true. My poor heart doesn’t do well in such weather.

So what do I do to distract myself? Watch more BL dramas of course. :)

The last one I watched was Paint With Love. It’s about an uptight perfectionist – a chairman of a small media agency, who needs to learn to loosen up a little, and a free-spirited artist who can help him do that.

I didn’t hear much about this drama when it was airing, I guess it wasn’t popular. But I was impressed with Tae Darvid’s acting in Triage and wanted to see him in something else.

This drama is not the best, I would say in general it’s rather mediocre, but surprisingly I enjoyed it a lot. At least for the first nine episodes (which I watched in two days), the last three bored me with a completely unnecessary drama based on a stupid misunderstanding and not talking to each other. So I fast-forwarded a lot to get to the happy ending.

The second half of the main pairing is played by Singto Prachaya, who was in a lot of Bl dramas, but whom I haven’t seen in anything before. He was good here, and he’s very pretty.


In other good BL news – Plus & Minus is getting a special episode that will be released on July 7th. Yay!

RL is pretty tiring lately, not just work, other things, too. That’s why I’m so grateful that I have a new fascination, which lets me forgets all the problems in the evenings.

I decided to wait for KinnPorsche to finish airing before watching it, the same with Old Fashioned Cupcake, which just started airing on VIKI. And I put Plus and Minus on back burner for now, too. Because for now I watch only dramas with Gun Atthaphan. As is my wont when I fall head over heels with a new actor. :)

Well, ok, I lied. I did managed to tear myself away from Gun’s dramas for long enough to watch the first two episodes of Triage – that medical BL drama with a time-loop. And I liked it. I will watch the rest later for sure.

Now I will ramble for a bit about Gun’s dramas I watched, mainly The Gifted and Secret Love: Puppy Honey (with minor spoilers and with a picspam from Puppy Honey), so to spare anyone who isn’t interested it goes behind the cut. :)


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I want to sign up for RMSE, but my writer’s block right now seems to extend to writing exchange letters, too. :) I want to request two new fandoms and my mind goes completely blank every time I try to think up prompts. I also worry that I won’t have anyone to write for. I still have a few days to make up my mind, so we’ll see.


I finished Not Me. It was a very good drama – well written, well directed and very well acted. I’m especially impressed with Gun Atthaphan Phunsawat. He was great here. I’m thinking about trying one of his other dramas later. Maybe Theory of Love? But first KinnPorsche. And then Why R U for Zee Pruk. And then two Japanese BL dramas, because I find it so amusing that three main actors from Kamen Rider Build went and did BL dramas later. Inukai Atsuhiro of course did A Man Who Defies the World of BL. And Kei x Yaku if you count it as BL. And then Akaso Eiji (who was so wonderful and funny and cute as Banjou Ryuga) did Cherry Magic, which I previously wasn’t interested in, but now I am. And Takeda Kouhei (Sawatari Kazumi) did Old Fashioned Cupcake, which will premiere in June. This drama has a trailer released by Rakuten TV channel on Youtube, so it will most likely be on VIKI. The trailer is here. It looks sweet (pun intended :)).

I also would like to say that Kamen Rider Build itself was very shippy. And I ship Kiryu Sento/Banjou Ryuga hard. They are a great example of antagonists (or at least guys who don’t like each other much at first) to best friends, who love each other and motivate each other, and inspire each other to be a better person. It’s seriously so touching and adorable. As soon as I have a bit more time (maybe on weekend) I plan to dive into AO3 and read some fanfic.


And one more things – a fascinating article on MyDramaList about the processes and techniques of forensic art in the drama Under the Skin. And if you watched it and thought that what Shen Yi did in the drama was exaggerated or impossible – it wasn’t. It’s based on real accomplishments of real life police profilers and portrait artists in China.

Cutie Pie

Ah, my perfect mind candy, so ridiculous and so entertaining. There was of course completely unnecessary last minute drama in the next to last episode to delay the inevitable happy ending. But I don’t care, I enjoy it so much. The actors are all very pretty, kisses and sex scenes are scorching hot, and all very consensual, which is nice to see in a BL drama.

There isn’t much fanfic and there’s even less that I find readable. So yeah, I started reading RPF, too, not that there’s much RPF for this fandom either.

I’m still kinda boggling that I got so invested in this silly, tropey and not very well written drama. Usually I’m pretty good at predicting what could be my next fandom. Here I was completely taken by surprise. :)


Not Me

I watched two more episodes of Not Me, and I’m more invested now that I was after the first two episodes, but I don’t think I will get fannish about this drama. And this one is good. But I admit that I have to suspend my disbelief a little, because White is so completely unprepared for pretending to be his twin in front of Black’s friends. I watched just four episodes and there were already a few situations when someone says to White “remember what you told us about?” And White is all “?????” and eventually someone else will always conveniently repeat what Black said, and White will be saved. I get that even if they think that Black is behaving weirdly they won’t jump straight to “it’s not Black, it’s his secret twin” conclusion, but still it bothers me a bit that White gets away with it so easily. But not enough to stop watching for now.

And when I’m done with Not Me I think I will start KinnPorsche. It looks exactly like another tropey fun I will enjoy and maybe even get fannish about.


Plus and Minus

I like this drama so much. And again I’m a bit sorry that I started watching it before all the episodes aired. Because now after watching one 25 minutes long episode I have to wait a week for the next one. Oh the misery… ;) And I loved the 5th episode so much. I already watched it twice. The main couple is still in the “pining on one side and obliviousness on the other side” stage, but the secondary couple moves with the speed of light, so to speak. :) There was already acknowledging of mutual feelings.

And there was a wonderful cameo at the end of the last episode.

More with spoilers below.

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Triage

It’s a new Thai medical BL drama with a time loop. And apparently I have to start watching it. ;) It’s adapted from the web novel by the same author who wrote Manner of Death. I’ve read that both books are set in the same medical universe. And guess what? Max and Tul had a cameo as Tan and Bun in the 4th episode. Yay! Unfortunately that drama isn’t available anywhere officially with English subs, so I have to look for unofficial sources.

Let’s talk about three Thai BL dramas first. They are all available on Youtube.

Not Me

I watched two episodes. It’s very political starting right away in the 1st episode. So after watching those episodes I read a few articles about the current political situation in Thailand. Pretty depressing reading I have to say. I don’t know if I want so much depressing real life stuff in something I watch to escape from depressing stuff in my own RL. Maybe I’ll watch one or two episodes more and then will decide if I want to watch the rest.

Don’t get me wrong, I like it when a BL drama does something else than the usual romance plot, and Not Me looks like a good, well-acted drama, but I think I’m just not in the right mood to enjoy it right now.


Cutie Pie

In contrast to a very political Not Me, Cutie Pie is a tropey and silly drama about an arranged marriage and secret identities and a conflict that could be avoided if interested parties just talked to each other, and the constant dithering of the “he says he loves me but does he really?” kind. And it applies to both the main couple and the secondary couple. Although with the secondary couple it’s more the dithering of “if he could just say what he really feels” kind. :)

I’m kinda ashamed that I like it so much. :) But to me this drama is perfect escapist fun I need right now. I can turn off my brain and just enjoy it. And I find Zee (one half of the main couple) stupidly hot. And there are a few really nice and passionate kisses, and a very hot sex scene in the beginning of the episode 8.

Here have four gifs of two kisses in the episode 7.

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Dear Doctor, I’m Coming for Soul

It’s about a romance between a talented surgeon dedicated to saving people’s lives and a soul reaper. Five episodes aired for now and I watched them all. It’s ok, but nothing special. I liked it well enough that I plan to watch the rest, but I’m not really that invested.

One good thing that came out of it is that I got curious about one of the main actors and checked what else he’s done, and discovered that he had a supporting part in the Thai version of the Korean drama Tunnel. And since I loved Korean Tunnel I decided to check the Thai version (it’s on Netflix here). It’s a very faithful adaption, I watched 10 episodes out of 16 for now and I only noticed a few minor differences. But all the actors are very good and I love this version, too. And especially I love the same two characters I loved the most in the Korean original – the detective from the present time and the psychology professor that helps the police to solve cases.


And now a little bit about a new Taiwanese BL drama.

Plus and Minus

The main couple is a classic friends to lovers story. Zheng Ze Shou and Fu Li Gong are good friends who know each other since kindergarten. Not only are they childhood friends, right now they are roommates and they even work as lawyers for the same company.

The secondary couple is a divorced laundromat owner who single-handedly raises his daughter and a hot bartender from the pub in the same building.

There are three episodes available on VIKI for now and I watched them all, and I enjoy it a lot, too.