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I wrote four fics for Yuletide this year. My assignment was for The Time of Fever, and then I wrote a treat for Laws of Attraction. I thought that would be it from me this year, since RL was kinda sucky. My sister was sick again, nothing serious, just one of common infections this time a year, but after the year she had I can’t help but get anxious every time she’s sick. But after a few days on antibiotics she got a lot better, and in the surge of relief and sudden inspiration I wrote a short ficlet for Moonlight Chicken and even a shorter one (a triple drabble) for The Time of Fever. 😊

Fics I wrote.

Beautiful days spent loving you (6534 words)
Fandom: 내 손끝에 너의 온도가 닿을 때 | The Time of Fever (2024), 비의도적 연애담 | Unintentional Love Story (TV 2023)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Go Hotae/Kim Donghee
Characters: Go Hotae, Kim Donghee (Unintentional Love Story), Go Hotae's Mother
Additional Tags: Romance, Getting Together, Kissing, First Time, Light Angst, Emotional Hurt/Comfort
Summary:

Go Ho Tae and Kim Dong Hee navigate changes in their relationship through a lot of hugging and a little bit of talking, all the way to the happy ending. :)

Alone tonight (300 words)
Fandom: 내 손끝에 너의 온도가 닿을 때 | The Time of Fever (2024)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Go Hotae/Kim Donghee
Characters: Kim Donghee (Unintentional Love Story)
Additional Tags: Character Study, Angst, Triple Drabble, Yuletide Madness Drabble Invitational, Yuletide Treat
Summary:

Kim Dong Hee's first nights in Seoul.

This happiness of ours (1419 words)
Fandom: กฎแห่งรักดึงดูด | Laws of Attraction (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Thaenthai/Thee Methee (Laws of Attraction TV)
Characters: Thaenthai (Laws of Attraction TV), Thee Methee (Laws of Attraction TV)
Additional Tags: Domestic Fluff, Feelings, Kissing, Blow Jobs, Yuletide Treat
Summary:

Tanthai never thought that he could have this – a normal life, a boring life, a life with someone who loves him, someone who said that they would never leave him. Tanthai never thought that he could be doing these normal things that people usually do with their boyfriends. Like watching silly movies in bed and munching on popcorn. Like joking and teasing each other, and laughing. But that’s what he and Thee are doing now.

Us today (719 words)
Fandom: Midnight Series: Moonlight Chicken พระจันทร์มันไก่ | Moonlight Chicken (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jim Jaruek Nueangna-uam/Wen Wongsakorn Thunapakarn
Characters: Jim Jaruek Nueangna-uam, Wen Wongsakorn Thunapakarn
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Warm and Fuzzy Feelings, Domestic Fluff, Yuletide Treat
Summary:

Waking up with Wen by his side was one of Jim’s favorite things.

And I have two other good things to rec.

Genic's new song FUN! FUN! FUN!

It’s catchy and very fun, indeed.

My Damn Business｜Ep.1-Ep.7 Complete Edition (Remastered)

This is the whole drama in one handy vid that is one hour and eight minutes long. Remastered means “sound and color adjustments”, and yep it definitely sounds better than the original vids. I think the subtitles are a bit better, too.

Depressing RL stuff under the cut here.

November sucks. At least for now. My sister will have another operation on Tuesday. It’s a planned operation, nothing urgent, and hopefully it will be the last one, and she won’t need another operation in the future. But still I can’t help but be worried.

And you know, the weather here is also depressing. It’s dark, often rainy, and gloomy. I don’t like this November at all, ugh...

Fandom is a good distraction thankfully. There are always dramas to watch, and fics to read, and fics to write, too. My Yuletide assignment has 1400 written already, but that’s only one-fourth of it, considering that my estimate for the whole fic is around 6000 words.

And of course, since I should be writing my Yuletide fic, yesterday I wrote 900 words of a new Big Dragon PWP instead. Brain, why are you like this? 😊


Family by Choice episodes 9-10

I still like it a lot, and these episodes benefited from not having a lot of San Ha’s horrible mother in it. I do have a few complaints, but fluffy family feels make up for all the disappointing things in spades.

Spoilers here.

Because really San Ha couldn’t find even a one day during those ten years to come from Seoul and meet with Ju Won in person? I get why Hae Jun never did, he was in USA, so it would be much harder for him to do.

And I’m absolutely 100% on Ju Won’s side when it comes to her being hurt and feeling abandoned by both boys after they left. But at the same time – even if San Ha couldn’t come from Seoul for whatever reason, couldn’t she try to go and see him there even once?

I mean, ok, they did try to explain and justify why San Ha and Hae Jun behaved like that during that time, but they didn’t really do a good job with it IMO. And it felt more like it was just drama for drama’s sake.

But of course there was a lot of good, touching and funny things, too. Like my favorite fatherly relationship in this drama between Hae Jun and Dad Yun. Seriously almost every conversation they have makes me teary-eyed. Because you can clearly see deep love between them and worry about the other person, and trying not to burden the other person with your problems.

And of course Dad Yun and Dad Kim behaving like an old married couple is the best thing. They kept a joint savings book, aww... They bicker and support each other, and understand each other so well. I ship them hard, and I even already have one tiny plot bunny. There might be a fic later after the whole drama aired.

My Damn Business episode 6

Can I just repeat that I love this cute little drama? Why is there only one episode left?

Spoilers here, too.

A guy from Su An’s past appeared, and poor Woo Jin was so jealous. It was hilarious. But it was also so lovely and sweet. Aww, those hand kisses... I love these two so much and I want the happiest ending for them the next week.

Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo

I started it as the next drama in my quest to watch more things with Lee Joon Gi. I watched the first two episodes, and it’s ok, nothing special for now, but entertaining enough that I want to watch more.

Joon Gi is of course very beautiful and his character is again such a woobie, even if this time he certainly did a few bad things. But surprisingly (or maybe not, considering my usual preference for villains 😊) I’m more enamored with Hong Jong Hyun as the main villain the 3rd Prince Yo. That cruel smirk, those pretty eyes made even prettier by very visible eyeliner (which is totally a kdrama way of saying ‘beware, he’s evil’ 😉)... I only saw Hong Jong Hyun in The King Loves before, and he was a good guy there. But he is a very beautiful and captivating villain. I’m in, especially since that drama’s ending is kinda famous, but I know it since I like spoilers, so I won’t be blindsided by it. 😊

I have one problem now. But it’s a good problem to have – there are too many things I want to watch. 😊 I’m so behind on so many dramas. My to-watch list keeps getting longer and longer.

GL dramas

Pluto

I watched the 1st episode a week ago right after it aired. I loved it. Namtan is wonderful and beautiful. Her and Film have great chemistry, and I’m intrigued by the main mystery. I do plan to watch that one every week as it airs.

The Loyal Pin

I finally got around to watching Freen and Becky’s new drama. I watched four episodes for now (it goes a bit slowly, because see above about my main problem now 😊), and I like it a lot. Freen and Becky are both great actresses, and their chemistry is burning up the screen. And they’re so good at kissing, seriously so good. Currently they are my favorite GL couple.


BL dramas

Perfect 10 Liners

The first episode will air later today, and I can’t wait. ForceBook my beloveds – I missed having them on my screen every week. I don’t even care if it is good, I just want it to be entertaining.

My Damn Business

It’s a very short Korean BL drama (just seven 10 minutes long episodes) about an office romance between team leader Han Yu Jin, whose sales team gets dissolved amidst the company’s management crisis, and Yun Su An (an assistant manager from another team). Yu Jin has to wrap up all the current projects and he gets assigned Yun Su An to help. There’s just two of them in the office, and even though their relationship is a bit cold and formal at first it soon starts to change.

It airs of Youtube. Here is the playlist. Four episodes aired for now and I like it a lot. It’s cute and funny, and manages to pack quite a lot into such short episodes.

And I have to say that Korean BL dramas keep surprising me nicely lately with wonderful, hot kisses. First The Time of Fever, and now this drama. Because that kiss in episode 3 was so, so hot. Here's the link to the beginning of that kiss, if you would like to see for yourself. 😊


Kdramas

Love in the Big City

I watched six episodes, still have the last two to watch. And it’s ok, I like it well enough. And of course I’m very glad it got made, and I love that Nam Yoon Su is so unbothered by all those hate comments they got. In one interview he said “I just laughed it off when I got malicious comments. Those people were actually 1 in a 100. I got a lot of messages of support.”

But I guess I expected it to hit me harder and make me very emotional, and I have to say it left me rather cold. There were a few scenes in the middle that were hard to watch for me because of personal baggage. But in general I am a bit underwhelmed.

Family by Choice

I’m so conflicted about this drama. On one hand I’m all heart eyes about OT3 subtext with our main trio. They are all great, and especially Hwang In Youp as my sweet, broken woobie Kim San Ha. But I love the three of them – they love each other so much, and care for each other. It’s so beautiful – the way San Ha always protects the other two, and the way both boys always drop everything to protect Ju Won. And the way Ju Won and Hae Jun always know what to do to drag San Ha out of one of his dark moods. It’s so heartwarming and lovely to watch. I mean, I know what the endgame pairing is, and I’m fine with it. But that’s canon. I just really hope there will be at least a few fics about my lovely OT3 later. And I ship the dads, too. They are really good at co-parenting their three kids. 😊

At the same time I have issues with how all the women in this series (except Ju Won) are portrayed. Even Ju Won I feel isn’t as developed for now as the two boys. It still can change, just six episode aired for now, but I am a bit disappointed now.

More here with spoilers.

All the mothers are horrible here. San Ha’s mother especially or course. And she is horrible, don’t get me wrong. But for me narrative here unfairly blames her and only her for the tragedy from their past. San Ha and her sister had two parents after all, so why is only a mother blamed for leaving the children alone for two days? Where was the dad then?

And then there is Hae Jun’s mother, who abandoned her son, and Hae Jun’s aunt to some extent. And if that’s not enough there is Dal’s mother, too, constantly putting her daughter down and making her cry, even in front of her friends.

And in the background there are all those gossipy aunties from the neighborhood, who are so unkind about our three kids coming from broken homes.

I don’t know, like I’ve said it could still change, there are ten more episodes to go. I’m not disappointed enough to stop watching for now. But we’ll see.

As for fanfic writing - I posted a little SCI ficlet two weeks ago for Fandom Gift Basket 2024.

All I need is your sweet kiss (1027 words)
Fandom: S.C.I.谜案集 | S.C.I. Mystery (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bai Yutong/Zhan Yao, Bái Chí/Zhào Zhēn
Characters: Zhan Yao, Bai Yutong, Bai Chi, Zhào Zhēn
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Banter, Teasing, Kissing
Summary: Just a little scene from their post-canon life, with banter and laughter, and kissing. :)


And I finished my second Meet You at the Blossom fic and posted it yesterday.

The sweet sound of you (3086 words)
Fandom: 花开有时颓靡无声 | Meet You at the Blossom (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jin Xiaobao/Zongzheng Huai'en
Characters: Zongzheng Huai'en, Jin Xiaobao
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Porn with Feelings, Manhandling, Possessive Behavior, Jewelry, Jin Xiaobao Jingles During Sex
Summary: At first that sweet jingling sound was an innocent sign of love and warmth, of safety and belonging. But now it will be associated with something different in Huaien’s mind, too. Because that sweet and soft ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong is heard with every slow, sensuous movement of Xiaobao’s body on top of Huaien’s.

Now I can focus fully on my Yuletide assignment, which I love a lot. And on possible treats, because there are so many great requests that I would love to write something for.