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There are too many dramas I want to watch. I mean, this is a good problem to have. But I gave up trying to catch up with dramas I already started. And there are so many I haven’t even started, and I do want to. Gone are the days when I could watch 8-10 episodes of a show in one day. And it’s not even because I don’t live alone now. But these days I can manage maybe 3-4 episodes in one day, if I’m really invested in something. When I try to watch more I feel like I stop absorbing anything after a certain point. One of the reasons is probably that blasted menopause, because my concentration has been shit for like the last three-four years. But well, what can you do, life is brutal and full of zasadzkas, as we say in Poland sometimes. 😊

But my fannish life is good, fortunately. I almost finished my next Klao/Warich fic. I’m rewatching The Matchmakers at the pace of one episode a day, and it’s as fantastic as I remembered, and it makes me squee a lot again.


I’m also expanding my BL horizons, and after watching Taiwanese, Thai, Korean, Japanese and Chinese BL dramas, now I started Vietnamese BL call My Sweet Brother in Law. It’s a short drama with only 5 episodes, and three aired for now. And well, this is ‘infidelity, the drama’ basically. One guy has a fiancée, another guy has a wife. Although not everything is as clear-cut as this sentence suggests.

But I guess I’m in the mood for some infidelity, which is strange, because usually it’s a DNW for me. Maybe it’s because the drama does not vilify the women involved? Anyway, I for sure will watch the last two episodes, too. Because it is entertaining and the lead actors are good and pretty, and have great chemistry. 😊

More with detailed spoilers here.

Guy with a fiancée is called Bao. And his future marriage is a marriage of convenience. He’s gay and his fiancée Huyen is a lesbian and has a girlfriend, who is Bao’s former roommate. That’s how Bao got involved with them.

The other lead is called Khanh. And it seems he only got married because this what was expected of him. And because his family is rather conservative. Which is coincidentally Huyen’s family, since Khanh is Huyen’s older brother. It also seems that Khanh’s wife is sincerely in love with him. And it absolutely is shitty of him to cheat on her, and IMO the drama doesn’t try to justify his behavior.

But I wonder how can they resolve this in only two remaining episodes if they want to have a happy ending for our main couple? I’m assuming there will be a happy ending, since both guys already caught feelings even though neither of them would admit it for now, and they both pretend it’s just sex between them. But there is really not that much time to make a plausible happy ending happen.

It’s available on Youtube with English subs. The playlist is here.


In other fannish news word on the street is that Memoir of Rati has a sad ending. Aww, no, I don’t wanna... I’m still going to watch it though. And maybe it’s just a rumor. GMMTV’s dramas usually have a happy ending. So maybe this one will, too.


And now trailers. So many trailers. Really, when am I going to watch all this? 😉 Behind the cut there are embedded teasers and trailers for:

Bon Appetit, Your Majesty – a kdrama about a talented chef from 2025 who travels in time to Joseon era, and there she meets a tyrant king who is also a gourmet.

Three BL dramas – Korean drama Ball Boy Tactics (university BL with basketball and antagonists-to-lovers plot), Thai drama Suntiny (MaxNat in a continuation of Sun and Nuea’s story from Y Destiny), and Chinese drama Revenged Love (about a seduction that starts as revenge but becomes a real love).

Two Thai GL dramas – Be My Angel (about a romance between a girl with worst luck and a rather inept angel), and Whale Store xoxo (MilkLove in a love story about a girl, who inherits her father’s unprofitable grocery store and a flirtatious store regular, who hides a truth about her family’s business).

Watch them here.

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Because the second round of the presidential election is tomorrow, and I’m starting to get so nervous, damn. So I’m distracting myself by browsing twitter of all things. Mainly because Only Friends Dream On workshops started and I’m squeeing over all the pics. Especially over AouBoom, because just look at them:



Also Neo was there on day 2. Which can mean that his role will be more than just a cameo like I expected after the pilot trailer. It would be great if that was true. Add Boston to all that messiness and complicated relationships and you will have such an explosive mixture. Gimme. 😊 I’m already vibrating with excitement. Filming is supposed to start in June so if everything goes well, airing starting at end of the year might be possible.


I also watch a lot of short vids about GMMTV mascots. They have this thing at GMMTV where they make mascots for all their fixed ships, and they are treated as the ships’ kids. It’s silly but very cute, and perfect for cheering up.

TayNew’s child Polcasan is the cutest with his sweet little voice (not all the mascots can talk, but he can). He calls Tay ‘Papa’ and New ‘Phor Phor’, aww... But I also really like Forcebook’s kid Tomafox. Here are proud parents with their baby:



According to Bookie, Tomafox is a boy who likes to wear a skirt and to put on eyeliner and mascara. Again aww...

And of course there is a new episode of The Next Prince today and of Boys In Love tomorrow. That’s a good distraction, too. 😊

On Sunday afternoon I’m going to Warsaw for a few days because I have to take care of a thing there. And then to Lublin for a few days, too. And that trip is purely for fun. I’m not taking my laptop since it’s heavy. And my eyes are not very fond of my tiny phone screen, so I won’t be here much in the next week. So today I’m making a long post and dumping a lot of trailer links I acquired lately here, plus my latest drama musings. 😊

Trailers and teaser first. There are six of them – for three kdramas and for three tdramas.

See embedded trailers behind the cut.

Mercy for None – an eight episodes long drama on Netflix about ex gangster who has to go back into the underworld when he wants to avenge his younger brother’s suspicious death. I mainly want to watch this one for Choo Young Woo who has one of main parts here. Based on the trailer it might be too bloody and brutal for me, but we’ll see.

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Our Movie - Nam Goong Min’s new drama about a struggling movie director who meets an aspiring actress suffering from a rare incurable disease (played by Jeon Yeo Been). And really, beloved, did you have to choose such a depressing looking drama again? My Dearest already made me cry buckets, and now this? But for my beloved I’m still going to watch it. And I like Jeon Yeo Been a lot, too.

Watch on YouTube

The First Night With the Duke - Taecyeon’s new drama about an ordinary young woman, who one day wakes up as a minor character in her favorite romance novel set during Joseon era. Taecyeon plays Lee Beon, the lead male character in the novel. Isekai is not my favorite genre, but I love Taec so much and this drama looks cute and funny, so I’m in.

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Reset - a BL drama about a famous actor who dies after being betrayed by his lover, who then wakes up in the past on the set of his first movie where he was just an extra. I linked to the pilot trailer before. And this is the official trailer, which I like even more than the pilot trailer. The drama starts airing on June the 1st.

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And last but not least two Thai GL dramas - B-Friend about a complicated love triangle (I think?), and Un-trovert about a romance between an introverted closed-off girl and an ultra-confident extrovert. Both look very nice to me.

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And now let’s talk about dramas.

I started:

The Next Prince

It’s entertaining and funny, although I have to say that the 1st episode was just so-so for me. The 2nd ep was much better. And wow, very good production values, it’s visually stunning, you can see that they had a lot of money for this drama. And NuNew’s acting improved so much. Not that he was very bad in Cutie Pie. But it was his first acting job and it showed. But here he is genuinely good. I like Khanin a lot already. Zee as Charan is gorgeous as always, but a bit stiff for now. But I guess it suits his character.

A bit more with minor spoilers here.

I think I will like it much more now that Khanin and Charan finally arrived in Emmaly in the 2nd episode. And because we finally met Jimmy’s character Prince Ramil. Who’s a hot arrogant jerk, clearly playing a role of a villain for now. And you know me, it’s my kind of character. 😊 And I already know that I will ship Ramil/Paytai so hard - a cruel prince and his loyal servant is my kind of pairing. And I love Princess Ava, too. She’s feisty and lovely and I can’t wait to meet her love interest. Give me my secondary GL pairing now, show. 😊

My Sweetheart Jom

It’s Idol Factory’s new BL drama about 19 years old Yo, who’s heart is in the right place, but who has a penchant for getting into trouble that is serious enough that he couldn’t even finish high school in Bangkok. He gets into a fight with a violent asshole, who’s unfortunately a son of a prominent politician. And since that fight put the politician’s son in the hospital, Yo’s father, afraid that the politician would want to retaliate against Yo, sends Yo to live in the small village when he himself used to live many years ago. Jom from the title is a young Chief of that village, who is loved by everyone, because he’s always helpful and caring, and kind.

The first episode aired on Friday and I liked it a lot. It’s cute and funny, and Saint who plays Jom is great. I only saw Saint in Why R U, which I haven’t even finished, since it was pretty bad IMO and the only good thing about it was explosive chemistry between Saint and Zee. But I know he had very hard time in this industry, and that he later decided that he still wants to do it, but on his own terms, and he set up his own successful company Idol Factory. While being only 24 years old. I’m in awe. 😊


Twinkling Watermelon

I’ve heard a lot of good opinions about this kdrama and it has time travel, so I wanted to check it out for some time.

The main character is Ha Eun Gyeol, who’s a CODA and whose older brother is deaf, too. His family is lovely, his parents are loving and he has a great relationship with his brother. But he feels like he has to excel at school and always behave properly, because when he does not his parents are blamed twice as much for not raising him properly. And when all this starts to overwhelm him, he discovers a mysterious music store, where a kind old man teaches him how to play a guitar.

In 2023 Eun Gyeol tries to navigate the responsibilities of the last year of high school and his secret dream of becoming a guitarist in a band. After the fight he had with his father he's unexpectedly transported back to 1995, where he meets his father, Ha I Chan, as a high schooler.

I watched the 1st episode yesterday and I enjoyed it so much. It’s cute and touching, and it made me laugh, too. Will watch more for sure.


I finished:

4 Minutes

It’s a Thai BL drama written by Sammon, who also wrote Manner of Death, Triage and Petrichor, amongst other things. I tend to like her dramas and I wanted to watch this one, too. I actually did watch the first two episode back when it was still airing, but I guess then I just wasn’t in the mood for awful people behaving badly, a lot of angst and timey wimey weirdness. But I finally watched it all this week and I enjoyed it. Mostly.

More with major spoilers, an a bit of complaining, here.

The screenplay IMO fell apart a bit in the second half. And I found the ending unsatisfying.

But my main problem was that I didn’t really like one of the leads Great. It was very nice to see Bible on my screen again. He’s so beautiful and an excellent actor, but his character was very much not great for me. Such a spinless cowardly egoistic rich boy. He was annoying and awful in a very realistic way, and that is always a hard sell for me. Only Bible’s charisma and acting talent stopped me from fast-forwarding through most of his scenes. I really didn’t care about him getting his happy ending, and would feel much better if the ending here was more ambiguous (like in Dead Friend Forever for instance). I guess you can read that last scene in the boat as a bit ambiguous about whether they both survived getting shot, but I read that Sammon herself confirmed that it was supposed to be your regular unambiguous happy ending for them. Which, meh...

But I really loved two secondary characters – Korn played by Bas Asavapatr and Tonkla played by Fuaiz Thanawat. I liked Bas as Arm in KinnPorsche, but he seriously impressed me here. Same with Fuaiz, who I saw in Dead Friend Forever before and thought he was fine. But here he was so, so good.

Korn and Tonkla were both complex and fascinating characters, and their relationship was messed up and complicated and dark. They kept me watching in the second half of the drama. I knew they wouldn’t get a happy ending, and for sure their ending was tragic. But I liked it much more than Great and Tyme’s sugary sweet happy ending.

Good RL things

The 1st of May and the 3rd of May are the national holidays in Poland. So we decided to make a really looong weekend out of it and on Tuesday we arrived at my sister’s summer house in the country. And we will stay here till Sunday. It’s so green here, and quiet. The weather is very pleasant, too. And it’s been so long since we were together like that – just the three of us: me, my sister and our mom (my brother in law will join us on Saturday since he has to work till Friday).

Here have a few pics of the beautiful Polish countryside + one of a cute and pretty horse.

This is a local rural road – I usually go for walks there.

And here is out closest neighbors’ cute and very friendly horse. He always trots closer when someone comes by his pasture, and he lets you pat his head.

And here is our hanging outdoor chair perfect for some light swinging or reading, or drinking a nice cup of coffee or tea.

Good fannish things

Two beautiful new songs from my two favorite Thai singers – Jeff Satur and NuNew. NuNew's song is from OST for The Next Prince.






Two trailers for new BL dramas – one Korean and one Thai.

Sweetheart Service – Strongberry’s new drama with fake dating that of course turns into a real romance.



Mission to the Moon – a new drama with Mon and Pak. It has reincarnation, which is not really my favorite trope, but I don’t care. Because it’s enough for me that Mon and Pak are the main couple looking so cute and sexy together.



And I posted my new Klao/Warich fic.

Just like I fit into him (4158 words)
Fandom: สายรหัสเทวดา | Perfect 10 Liners (TV 2024)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Klao/Warich
Characters: Klao, Warich
Additional Tags: Pre And Post Marriage Proposal, Moving In Together, Feelings, Kissing, Smut
Summary: Klao and Warich and their love in three scenes – with a lot of feelings, a lot of kisses, and with a bit of smut, too. 😊

Boys in Love

The trailer aired a few days ago. And it looks so sweet and cute. It starts airing on April 20. And yes, I will be watching this drama for the teachers, because I love Papang, and because Pod and Papang look great and hot together. But all the kids and their love stories look like an adorable piece of fluff, too.


The Next Prince

Finally - the official trailer is here. And it looks good. It will start airing on May the 3rd. I can’t wait for this one, and I hope that it will be very entertaining and sexy.


Perfect 10 Liners Finale

That was indeed perfect. I had very high expectations and this episode exceeded them all. I laughed a lot and made a lot of delighted aww noises. I already watched the whole episode twice, and I watched Klao/Warich scenes so many times it’s embarrassing to admit. 😊

More squee with spoilers here.

What I loved the most of course was everything about Klao and Warich. A beautiful proposal, a lot of hot kisses, Boom looking so ethereally beautiful, and them being so in love with each other, and as always so horny for each other. I wrote ‘what happened in that bathroom in episode 16’ fic, now I’m planning to write ‘what happened in that tent in episode 24’ fic. 😊

And I read that their second super hot kiss during a proposal wasn’t in the script, it was improvised by Aou and Boom. I don’t know what to do with that knowledge now. Because damn... It kinda makes me want to write my first RPF fic. Oops.

But I loved everyone else, too. Arc and Arm being adorable, and Arm’s little reference to his part in Peaceful Property. Yotha and Faifa being similarly clingy boyfriends. Po’s appearance and his last hilarious scene. All the gang together, all the great friendships and couples. And so many funny, cute and touching scenes.

I will miss this drama so much. And I’m sure I will re-watch when in need of cheering up since it joins the short list of my perfect comfort shows.


Heesu in Class 2

This is a new Korean BL about 18 years old Hee Su, who’s considered a dating expert at his school, because his relationship advice is always spot on. But Hee Su has never been in a relationship before, and he has a big secret – that he has feelings for a boy, his best friend Chan Yeong.

I watched four episodes available for now. I like it, it’s very cute. But also a bit unusual because it is a BL drama and marketed as one, but it has two main pairings – one gay and one het. And in those four episodes both these pairings had more or less equal amount of time dedicated to them. I don’t mind that, I find het couple in this drama interesting and lovely, too. But it’s not something that I’ve seen in Korean BLs before.

This drama will have 10 episodes and it’s available on VIKI.


Secret Relationships

This is another new Korean BL drama that finished airing not so long ago. And oh wow, I enjoyed this one a lot. It was surprisingly good. It’s another unusual Korean BL because it’s rather dark, and it’s about messy, fucked up and complicated relationships. And when I say fucked up I mean it. I would say it’s messy and fucked up Japanese style. Japanese BL is good at messiness like that. I’m not used to Korea doing this kind of thing.

The trailer is here.

The main character Da On is smart, handsome and hard working. And he catches the eye of three different men – his new colleague Seong Hyeon, his former tutor and longtime friend Jae Min, and rich heir Su Hyeon.

Da On’s actor Kim Jun Seo is very pretty with those beautiful, huge, beseeching eyes. And he has this kind of vulnerable sweetness and gentleness in him. It’s easy to believe that those three guys went gaga over him.

I was also very impressed with Su Hyeon’s actor Cha Jung Woo. And I find it amusing that he is the younger brother of actor Choo Young Woo, who is now very famous after main roles in The Tale of Lady Ok and Trauma Code Heroes on Call, and who also started his career in a BL drama. It was You Make Me Dance in 2021.

This drama has 8 episodes, and it is available on iQIYI and GagaOOLala.

More with major spoilers here.

Jae Min is an intelligent psychopath with love for mind games. Da On is sweet and naïve so no wonder Jae Min fooled him completely. But he also fooled a lot of other people, since his students (he’s a teacher at the university) clearly think he’s a great guy. And who he can’t fool he manipulates or threatens or buys.

I feel like the drama didn’t do a good job with showing what his motivation for his behavior was. He says it’s because he loves Da On, but was afraid that he was losing him since Da On started to develop a big crush on Su Hyeon. And that’s why he orchestrated Da On’s assault and later manipulated Su Hyeon into going abroad. But then when he was the only one in Da On’s life and Da On clearly had feelings for him, he did nothing about it. And when Da On finally confessed he reacted with anger and rejected him.

I mean, ok, he says it one time that he wants to have Da On in his life forever, and starting a romantic relationship would also mean a possibility of a breakup and losing Da On. So I guess he is this kind of a psychopath who wants to possess the object of his affection completely. In Jae Min’s mind Da On is Jae Min’s precious property, his beloved pet, who he wants to have in his possession forever. He doesn’t want anyone else to have him, but he also doesn’t want to change the status quo of their relationship where he is the most important person in Da On’s life, where Da On is still hung up on him and always indebted to him.

But I have to admit that out of all four guys I love Su Hyeon the most. He’s a violent guy with an obsessive and possessive love for a kind, soft spoken, beautiful boy. Kinda reminds me of Klao from Perfect 10 Liners a little bit. And we see glimpses of his fucked up relationship with his parents, and we see how masterfully Jae Min manipulated him. And you can understand why he behaves the way he does. Of course none of that justifies his behavior towards Da On – that possessive jealousy, the physical violence, the way he uses his position at work to try and control Da On, and force Da On to spend time with him.

Also, for a kdrama there was quite a lot of very good kissing. 😊

And for a moment there I thought: yay, they subverted that very common and annoying to me kdrama trope of 'we have a childhood connection and I saw you first so of course we’ll end up together.'

“Now you understand, right? I was the first one to know you. So the person who should be by your side is me.”

Here it’s a psychopathic villain saying this not a male lead. And it’s another sign of how unhinged he is.

But of course Seong Hyeon was the one who saw Da On first in the past. I guess that trope is unbeatable in kdramas after all. 😉 But ok I don’t mind it too much here, because it also works as a counterpoint for Jae Min’s claim. Like you thought you saw him first, so he’s yours according to kdrama rules, but no, it wasn’t you, it was that sweet and caring guy other there. 😊

On Sunday I wrote five ficlets for Poetic Fic Meme. I snatched it from two people on my reading list: shipperslist and extrapenguin.

1: Pick five fandoms and list them in alphabetical order.

2: Click to receive a Random Famous Poem. Write down the 5th line (yes, even if it's an e.e. cummings poem and you wind up with an apostrophe). Repeat five times and list them in alphabetical order.

3: Write a very quick 50-word half-drabble for each fandom (try to do it all in one sitting), using the line from the poem as a prompt. (You don't have to include it in the half-drabble - it's just inspiration.)

But I ignored 50 words limit and followed extarpenguin’s example by increasing the number of words – in my case to a double drabble or a triple drabble. 😊

I was pleased with how they all came out, so yesterday I cleaned them up a little and posted them all on AO3. I chose these five fandoms: Bump Up Business, Chief Kim, Meet You At The Blossom, Perfect 10 Liners, Vincenzo.

Fics I wrote.

Rehearsal (200 words)
Fandom: 범프 업 비즈니스 | Bump up Business (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Gong Jihoon/Kang Eden
Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Fluff, Kissing, Double Drabble

Comfort (300 words)
Fandom: 김과장 | Good Manager (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Kim Sung Ryong/Seo Yul
Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Fluff, Kissing, Triple Drabble

Belief (200 words)
Fandom: 花开有时颓靡无声 | Meet You at the Blossom (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Jin Xiaobao/Zongzheng Huai'en
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Character Study, Feelings, Double Drabble

Reconciliation (300 words)
Fandom: สายรหัสเทวดา | Perfect 10 Liners (TV 2024)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Klao/Warich
Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Possessive Behavior, Reconciliation, Kissing, Triple Drabble

Reunion (200 words)
Fandom: 빈센조 | Vincenzo (TV)
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Jang Han Seo/Jang Joon Woo | Jang Han Seok
Additional Tags: Unhealthy Relationships, A Little Tiny Bit Of Smut, Double Drabble

And last week I posted my Perfect 10 Liners Arc/Arm fic:

Boy who knew how to love me (1347 words)
Fandom: สายรหัสเทวดา | Perfect 10 Liners (TV 2024)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Arc Anol Paraminphisan/Arm Anon Phuwakomol
Characters: Arm Anon Phuwakomol, Arc Anol Paraminphisan
Additional Tags: Boys In Love, Warm and Fuzzy Feelings, Fluff and Smut
Summary:

One of many, many things Arm loved about Arc was his ability to pick Arm up so easily and carry him wherever he wanted to carry Arm. Like their bed, for instance, which was usually a prelude to a lot of very pleasurable things you could do in a bed while being naked with your lover. Arm liked to take advantage of that amazing ability of Arc sometimes, and who could blame him for that.

Now I’m going back to writing my next Klao/Warich fic. And to deliberating if I want to sign up for Bite-Sized Fandoms Exchange. 😊

Ossan’s Love ended on Monday, my beloved Perfect 10 Liners will end next Sunday. I would love to have new GMMTV BL to watch, but neither My Golden Blood nor Sweet Tooth, Good Dentist work for me. I don’t like Gawin at all in MGB. And him and Joss have no chemistry IMO. Pity, I wanted to have cheesy vampire BL to watch. And I watched only half an episode of Sweet Tooth, Good Dentist and found its humor too cringy.

Of course I do have a to-watch list with many other BL dramas on it. But you know that mood when you have too many new shows you want to start so you’re just doing that ‘eh, choosing something new is hard, I’ll just re-watch something I already know instead’ thing? It’s me right now. So instead of choosing one of the dramas from my very, very long to-watch list I started another re-watch of My Personal Weatherman. 😊


Perfect 10 Liners

Episode 21 was good, episode 22 was amazing.

Squee with spoilers here.

They made me laugh, and they made my heart ache for Faifa. And I didn’t even want to fast-forward through the completely unnecessary song. Junior is not bad at singing. And he is an excellent actor. I’m in awe. 😊

And wow, I adored that lovely rooftop confession scene in ep 22. It was perfect. Emotional love confessions from both sides, passionate kisses, and then that interruption by the rest of the main gang. It was great, it made me laugh out loud, and it didn’t IMO take anything from Faifa and Wine’s getting together.

Oh right, I almost forgot that there was one scene that I was a bit :/ about. I’m talking about the scene with Faifa and Yotha’s horrible mother. But by now I’m used to Asian dramas doing that thing where a child forgives a horrible parent even if that parent never apologized or did anything to make up for all the horrible things they did.

But let’s not talk about that. Let’s talk about Faifa and Wine being a proper couple, so the three main couples are all official now. So only fluff and humor and sweetness in the next two eps, right? Please, show, I need this. 😊

And there was a talk about engagement in the next ep’s teaser. I wondered who’s getting married. Probably Jet and Pun. I saw rumors that it might be Klao and Warich based on one BTS vid where Warich had an engagement ring on his finger. I don’t dare to hope. But yes, I will die and go to heaven if that happens. 😉

Ossan’s Love Thailand

Episodes 11 and 12 were very disappointing. Especially the last ep.

One spoiler here.

Seriously, show? Amnesia? *sigh*

I fast-forwarded a lot during the last episode. Ah well, at least I had fun watching the previous ten episodes, and it was wonderful seeing Earth in such a typical comedic role. He was great. And it was so nice to see Thor, too, even if in a small secondary part. He looked so gorgeous in glasses.

RL sucks health-wise. Menopause is a bitch, and there are a few other annoying health problems I have to deal with at the same time. Ugh...

But fannish life is good. I wrote my second Klao/Warich fic and sent it for beta-reading. And I started a third fic. And of course I can always count on fluffy dramas to cheer me up and on not so fluffy dramas to make me think about something else than RL problems.

Call Me By No-Name

That was so good, but so dark. These last two episodes... Damn... They were very dark and depressing. I had to take a break for a few days after watching episode 7. But the ending healed me, it was such a touching and beautiful happy end.

Detailed content warning.

A mother sexually abuses her daughter.

There is one vague flashback scene when Kotoha looks like she’s maybe 12-13 years old. And that scene, despite vagueness, was still very hard to watch. And Kotoha tells Megumi that her mother abused both her and her older brother, and that she was convicted only for sexually abusing Kotoha’s brother because he was a boy, and the law didn’t recognize Kotoha’s abuse, because her mother and her were the same gender.

More with spoilers here.

Kotoha thinks she doesn’t deserve love, that she’s dirty, that she’s fundamentally unlovable. She went through hell in childhood, but she isn’t a perfect victim. She’s cold and abrasive, she’s often rude and nasty, she tramples all over Megumi’s feelings. And her trauma is absolutely no excuse for her behavior, and the drama knows it.

I love Kotoha so much with all her sharp edges and her bad behavior, and her lashing out to make people hate her, because she doesn’t believe that she’s worthy of being loved.

And Megumi is not perfect, too. She’s not some selfless angel saving Kotoha from herself. She has her own sharp edges, too, and complicated feelings about being selfless and saving someone due to events from her past.

And in the end they both choose to be together and work on their relationship. Even though it might hurt, even though it might be uncomfortable sometimes. But they also know that they love each other and that they make each other happy, and they want to have that happiness, even with potential hurt and terrible things they might face in the future. But they will face them together and that what matters to them.

Perfect 10 Liners episode 20

This is always my perfect comfort drama. I love it so much.

Spoilers here.

Faifa and Wine are adorable. And Arm found his calling as a matchmaker. And Gun is his eager apprentice. They are the cutest when they are scheming to get Faifa and Wine together. 😊

Klao and Warich had just one short scene again, but it was wonderful. And wait, are they living together now? Because it sure looked like that. And it was so sweetly domestic with Warich admonishing Klao to behave on his first day of work. And aww, Klao talking about getting rich and asking for Warich’s hand in marriage. Now I really want to see that wedding. And if not in canon then at least in fanfic. 😊

Ossan’s Love Thailand episode 10

Really, show, did you have to? I’m a bit disappointed in you.

Spoilers, of course.

So we had an obligatory 11 episode breakup at the end of episode 10. Also, wow, it was so unnecessary, so stupid, and it made Mo looked like a colossal jerk for lying to Heng’s mother despite Heng wanting to tell her the truth, and for dragging Chicha into this ridiculous charade.

But also – it gave us these funny scenes at the host club... I started smiling when Sadistic started playing while the hosts appeared. And then the hosts’ names made me laugh out loud. Also hi, Drake, nice to see you looking so fine. Also also - ThorDrake? Yes, please, I like it. 😊

My Golden Blood episode 1

It’s ridiculous and cheesy, but so entertaining. I will have so much fun watching it each Wednesday.

Spoilers here, too.

The special effects are pretty bad. But who cares about that where there were so many amusing and wonderful things in that episode. Sexy blood drinking. Vampires with mind controlling powers and vampires with healing powers. Joss looking so gorgeous and sexy, and thank you for that swimming pool scene, show, really.

And I don’t care much for Gawin, and IMO he’s a bit too old to be playing a sweet and naïve 19 years old, but I don’t mind him here. He’s okay, even though I don’t really care for his character yet. But he does one thing very well, and it is looking at half-naked Joss with visible thirst in his eyes. Yep, Tong wanted Mark hard when he saw him coming out from that pool – all muscular and wet and hot as hell. 😊

And wow, Mark almost had an orgasm after just one drop of Tong’s blood. I can already imagine fun fanfic writers will have with that piece of canon’s vampire lore. 😊

And Mond is absolutely gorgeous and properly menacing as a villain. I love Nakan already so much. I wonder if there will be a pretty boy to ship him with.

The trailer for My Golden Blood is here.

It's GMMTV's vampire BL and it looks good. I love vampires, and I’m so ready for this drama. Joss and Gawin look great together, there is Mond looking absolutely gorgeous as a villain, plus Neo, Junior and AJ. It starts airing on March 12 and I can’t wait.


Domundi 2025 Lineup

They presented it on the 20th of February. Good news first - The Next Prince will air in April 2025. Finally, yay. 😊 And they will make their first GL drama. No information what it will be about yet, but yay here, too.

And now about the presented pilot trailers. Behind the cut there are links to trailers and my short opinions about them in the order I watched them.

Read more here.

Your Third

MaxNat’s new drama – looks sweet and funny. Max is a spoiled rich guy, Nat is a cute glasses-wearing office worker tasked with bring him back after he runs away from his family. Predictably they fall in love. Also Max plays twins here. I love Max and Nat, so I’ll be checking this one out for sure.

Hug E-Lhee The Musical

ZeeNuNew’s new drama and it’s a musical with rivals-to-lovers romance. On one hand I love NuNew’s singing, so yay, but on the other hand Zee is not really a good singer, so eh. But they’re good at chemistry and kissing, so I’ll try it anyway. And hey, another drama with twins – here it’s NuNew who plays twins.

Magic Lover

Three young wizards have to go live in the human world and find true love in 30 days or they will be transformed permanently into an animal. And it’s like each one of them stars in a different genre of BL drama. One in a sweet high school BL with antagonists-to-lovers pairing, one in an office BL with boss/secretary romance, and the third one in ‘falling in love with someone you really shouldn’t fall in love with’ kind of plot.

It looks cute and cheesy in an entertaining way, but I don’t know. The only pairing I’m interested in is JimmyOhm, because I loved them in the pilot trailer of The Next Prince. That one is in my ‘maybe’ pile.

Restart

I fast-forwarded a bit at first because it didn’t look like my thing at all. A poor boy attends an elite school full of spoiled rich kids and has to endure a lot of school bullying. Also he’s in a game (I think?). Or maybe he’s reincarnated to take revenge? It wasn’t really clear.

And my opinion was a firm no, despite Max being a villain in this one (I have a craving for that after crumbs from Two Worlds), and it seems there will be a few non established pairings here, and that’s something I like in Thai BL. But it also gives me Dead Friends Forever vibes with almost everyone being assholes and awful people. And I have to be in the right mood to watch something like that. But damn, Tutor and Yim’s part of the plot looks intriguing. And Tutor looks good with silver hair. So I think that’s a maybe, too? We’ll see.

Duang With You

University BL with newbie actors I don’t know, because they were only in Your Sky earlier, and I watched one episode and dropped it, because it bored me. It’s a cliched ‘a sunshine character falls for a popular, cold and aloof guy and tries to win his heart’ plot. I didn’t like this trailer at all (and that last scene made me cringe so hard). So yeah, not watching this one.

You(r)tuber

Guy wants to become a famous youtuber because he wants to take a revenge on his cheating ex, who’s also a popular youtuber. I think. It was boring, so I didn’t even finish watching the trailer.

Mr. Fanboy

Antagonists-to-lovers romance taking place in an entertainment industry. Main character Wan is a diehard fan of rising star Nine. He manages to win the audition to star as a supporting character besides his idol in a new BL drama. Then he meets Third, a cold and rude leading actor, who’s Nine's love interest in the drama and one half of their popular official ship. Of course Wan and Third fall in love. And of course Nine who is sweet and charming in front of the cameras is a manipulative and mean jerk behind the scenes.

I think this is another BL drama who wants to be the thing and wants to be a critique of the thing. It never works well. But we’ll see, it might be interesting. I’ll probably watch at least the first two episodes.

Love Upon a Time

A modern day student Nakun travels back in time four hundred years to the Ayutthaya Kingdom. He’s mistaken for a man named Klao who just has gone missing, so he assumes his identity and tries to find a way back to his time while also solving the mystery of Klao’s disappearance. Of course he finds a grand romance, too. And there is a lovely secondary couple that I’m already in love with.

It’s time travel, so I’m obligated to check it out. 😉 And seriously, it doesn’t look half bad. I hope it will be entertaining and I’ll like it.

And last week I posted my first Klao/Warich fic. I’m still obsessed with them, so there might be more fics in the future.

Your velvet eyes enchanting me (3134 words)
Fandom: สายรหัสเทวดา | Perfect 10 Liners (TV 2024)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Klao/Warich
Additional Tags: Porn with Feelings, Possessive Behavior, Anal Fingering, Anal Sex, Riding
Summary:

Klao is obsessed, he admits it freely. But every time Warich looks at him with those bedroom eyes of his, Klao has to fight an irresistible urge to grab him and push him onto the nearest flat surface. And just take and take, and take.

Sometimes he does. And Warich always lets him with a seductive smile on his face, his legs spreading for Klao so easily.

A separate post for this mini review, because I’m on cloud nine after these two episodes. 😍

This drama makes me so happy. I’m very impressed with quality of writing, with acting, with chemistry, romantic and non-romantic both, and with them not doing a lot of annoying kdrama cliches. If the last episode the next week will live up to my high expectations this drama definitely will be on my ‘to be re-watched sometime in the future’ list.

Spoilers and two lovely vids behind the cut.

They didn’t drag out the whole ‘Ji Yun’s father died saving Eun Ho’s life’ situation. It took half an episode – and that was enough time IMO to show the way mature adults like Eun Ho and Ji Yun deal with that revelations.

He gave her space she needed. She took time to think things over for a few days. And then this:

“Thank you, Eun Ho ssi, for turning out to be such a great person.”

And it was perfect. She knows she loves him, she knows he loves her. And thanks to all that she could come to terms with her father’s death and let go of her resentment towards him.

And then the reveal of their relationship to the whole office... That was wonderful, and hilarious, and perfect, too, and I laughed so much.

And then the episode made me cry a lot during a talk between Su Hyeon and Seo Jun about Seo Jun’s biological parents. That was another perfect scene in this episode.

And two scenes below were my favorite in episode 11. First an adorable, funny and sweet domestic scene, and then a lovely and aww inducing romantic scene with a hot kiss.

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