maggie33

Yuletide is very generous for me. I got two lovely fics for Meet You At The Blossom and The Time of Fever (details below). And as of today all my recipients commented on the fics I posted. And a few other people commented, too. Yay! And there is a lot of fics for me to read, really a lot. I already left many comments, because almost every fic I started was ranging from good to excellent for me. And I still have so many tabs open.

Flying Kites (1796 words)
Fandom: 花开有时颓靡无声 | Meet You at the Blossom (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jin Xiaobao/Zongzheng Huai'en
Characters: Jin Xiaobao, Zongzheng Huai'en
Additional Tags: Missing Scene, Epiphanies
Summary: Huai'en still has a lot to learn about love but he is willing to try.

Playing with Matches (2520 words)
Fandom: 내 손끝에 너의 온도가 닿을 때 | The Time of Fever (2024), 비의도적 연애담 | Unintentional Love Story (TV 2023)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Go Hotae/Kim Donghee
Additional Tags: Canon scenes, Vignettes, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Getting Together, Kim Dong Hee's internalized homophobia, and Go Ho Tae's complete lack of it, Yuletide Treat
Summary: Ho Tae has been smacked around by angry girlfriends dozens of times and barely felt a thing. He’s taken handbag bruises and cuts—and acquired dozens of tattoos, too—all the while believing he has an unnaturally thick skin. His nerves are permanently deadened after so much swim training at school, he’s reasoned, or his father’s passing severed something crucial in his heart, rendering him numb. But Dong Hee’s punch—which is serious, yes, but doesn’t have much force behind it—lands like a blazing meteor smashing through Ho Tae’s chest.


Drama watching goes well, too. I watched a few more episodes of Fangs of Fortune – still beautiful to watch, still very entertaining and still making me too emotional. 😊

I watched the 1st episode of Thai GL drama Petrichor. It’s a crime drama, and the main romance is between a police officer and a forensic scientist. I liked it, and I will definitely watch more.

I watched four more episodes of Under the Skin 2. I still love it, but I have to take long breaks between each episode since it’s so depressing to watch for me.

Luckily I have something cute and funny to watch to cheer myself up in between watching all those other dramas that make me cry. It’s Rented in Finland. It continues to be a reliable source of amusement and cuteness for me. After watching the 2nd episode I had only one question – what would they do without Kwak Dong Yeon? 😉 The other three are such city boys who can’t handle living in wilderness. Lee Je Hoon tried for 15 minutes to light a fire in episode 2 and he couldn’t do it. Heh... Lee Je Hoon also can’t cook, like at all. He was trying to make scrambled eggs in episode 3, and it was one of the funniest things I’ve seen lately. I laughed so hard I had tears in my eyes. As for Kwak Dong Yeon - he can cook very well, and knows how to start a fire in seconds, and he’s such a meticulous planner, always prepared for everything. And he is a loner, often trying to find a bit of time to be alone. I love him. ♥

Oh, and I started A Virtuous Business on Netflix, and I’m very glad I did. It’s a Kdrama about four women who started selling adult products door-to-door in a rural village in 1992. I watched four episodes for now and I like it so much. It’s such a lovely, touching drama about a female friendship, and about these four wonderful women being awesome and always supportive of each other. It makes my heart all warm when I watch it. 😊

I’m still pretty busy, but I should have more free time starting the next week. And good, because Yuletide singups are open, and I really should finish my letter. And maybe try to shorten it a little? Because it already has 1400 words divided between five fandoms. But I think one of those fandoms definitely needs more words, not less. And I’m deliberating now if I want to add the sixth fandom. And I have to sort my offers, too.

And here have a few recs, and other good news, so I can clean up my bookmarks a little.

Two great fanvids for The Time of Fever:

Love, Maybe

Unconditionally


The 2nd season of Tengu No Daidokoro is currently being filmed and here is the link to Instagram with a few BTS pics. And yay – Yui is there, too. And Motoi has his cute little wings. 😊


And now trailers for dramas I’m impatiently waiting for.

Love in the Big City

It’s a kdrama based on the novel by Park Sang Young. It premiers on October 21. Don’t know if it will be available legally for international audiences, since there is no news about it being on any of usual streaming services yet. But I plan to watch it anyway. I'm sure there will be some way to do that. 😊

Pluto

It’s GMMTV’s GL drama with Namtan and Film. And it looks good. And a bit like a female version of Not Me. It starts airing on October 19. I can’t wait.

First let me brag a little about my Yuletide writing. 😊 I finished my assignment fic, and I finished the first draft of one treat and I have 1100 words written of the second treat. Yay, me!


And now onto the trailers and drama watching.

Studio Wabi Sabi presented their lineup for the next year. And it seems 2024 will be the year of vampires in Thai BL. Because here is the pilot trailer for their drama called for now The Vampire Project. It looks campy and sexy and entertaining. And since I love vampires I’m very much in.

One other trailer caught my attention - for a GL drama called Sunshine in the Wind. It looks pretty and sweet, and I’m all for more Thai GL dramas.


And here is a teaser trailer for supernatural kdrama Gyeongseong Creature with Han So Hee. I plan to watch it, even though it’s creepy, and creepy is not my thing. But I love Han So Hee a lot, and it looks intriguing and intense. The 1st part will be on Netflix in December.


Love Senior continues to be lovely and brings me so much joy. Manaow is such a brave, strong, wonderful girl and I love her. And I want to hug her and tell her ‘you’ll have your happy ending with Gyo, sweetie, just wait for a little bit longer’. 😊 Also wheeee, Max Nattapol guest starred in episode 3. What a nice surprise it was, to see his beautiful face on my screen again.


Last Twilight is very good. If you like more mature BL then this is the drama for you. The 3rd episode made me tear up a little and then made me smile so much. The screenplay is good, the directing is perfect, our leads are both decent actors, the supporting cast is wonderful (Mark Pakin, Namtan, Film, Ohm Thipakorn). And Jimmy and Sea are both very pretty and they have this kind of warm, easy chemistry that is really pleasurable to watch.

And when it comes to our main characters - Day (Sea) is ok, I like him. But Mhok (Jimmy), ahhh, Mhok... He is my baby, and I already love him so much. Bad boy? What bad boy? Mhok is the sweetest guy alive. 😊


I also watched the 1st episode of The Sign (Thai BL, which is a fantasy action romance with a little murder mystery added to the mix). It’s fine, I’m interested for now, and it will be nice to have a BL drama to watch on Saturdays again.

RL is half-and-half good and blah. Health wise still blah, could be better. But the opposition won the election and PIS is going down. Hurray!!!!

Fandom wise – only good things, and very good things, and excellent things. 😊

I finished my Yuletide letter, yay. I’m too tired to do my sign-up today, will do it tomorrow, but there are already a few requests I could write for, so things are looking good here.

Only Friends and Naughty Babe were both again wonderful last week. Dangerous Romance’s last episode was a bit disappointing, but still entertaining. And I have a lot to watch: a new episode of Kiseki Dear to Me and two new episodes of My Dearest.

Last but absolutely not least – today GMMTV presented the first part of their line-up for 2024. And there are so many dramas I’m interested in. I’ll write more tomorrow, but for now I present to you two trailers I’m interested in the most.


My Golden Blood

GMMTV does vampire BL. I’m not a big fan of Fluke Gawin, but he’s not a bad actor, and it’s a first Thai vampire BL. I’m so there for it. And there are also Neo and Mond as bad guys. I can’t wait.


Wandee Goodday

It’s about a romance between a boxer and a surgeon, that starts as “friends with benefits” thing. There is also the fake dating and the cute sexy bunny roleplay (yes, really 😊). And since watching Manner of Death I wanted to see Great Sapol with his sinfully hot body as the lead in a BL drama. And here he is, looking sinfully hot as always. 😊

And the secondary couple is Thor Thinnaphan (I love him, he was Porsche in A Boss And A Babe) and the newbie Fluke Nattanon (who is the fourth actor named Fluke in GMMTV, so people call him Fluke IV, heh), and they look so cute together.

And when I started to write this post that link above was still working, but now the video is private, I don’t know why (but I’ll leave the link here for now, maybe they will make it public again soon). But the trailer is still available here in GMMTV 2024 Up & Above Live vid (the link goes right to the beginning of the trailer).

I still haven’t watched the last episode of The Secret Romantic Guesthouse because I can’t tear myself away from Nothing But You, which is a constant source of joy and happiness and squee. I don’t know how that drama manages to do everything right for me, but somehow it does. At least it did for the 22 episodes I watched already.

Well, ok, I did tear myself away to watch Our Skyy 2: My School President, and it was the Multiverse of Cuteness indeed (that’s what they called it: The Multiverse of Cuteness 😊), and it made me laugh a lot.


Home School (the Thai drama about a creepy boarding school with Gun Atthaphan) has finished filming. People are saying that it may start airing in June. I hope it will, I can’t wait to watch it.


Kdrama trailers:

Woo Do Hwan’s new drama Bloodhounds.

It’s a noir action drama. It premiers on Netflix on June the 9th. I haven’t watch Joseon Attorney: A Morality yet, which is the first drama Woo Do Hwan did after he was discharged from military service. And I will one day. But that one looks more interesting to me. And it’s shorter. 😊


Two teasers for Taecyeon’s new drama Heartbeat:

One

Two

After the first teaser I thought that would be a serious drama, but the second teaser makes it look like a vampire rom-com. But still Taecyeon as a vampire? Sign me up. Dark or comedic – I don’t care. 😊 It premiers on June the 26th. Hopefully it will be on VIKI.


I nominated a few of my rare pairings for Rare Pair Exchange. I’m still not sure if I will sign up. I probably will, I miss doing exchanges, and my last one was Yuletide five months ago.


And now a few fanworks recs:

Fanart - Not Me: Sean, White & Black

Fanart – KinnPorsche: Vegas/Pete

Fanvid - Kim Nam Gil: Battle Royale (it’s a wonderful fanvid with Kim Nam Gil’s characters from The Fiery Priest, Island, The Pirates, Queen Seondeok, Through the Darkness, The Shameless, Memoir of a Murderer, Emergency Declaration, Live Up to Your Name, Hunt, Zombie for Sale, Shark, and Bad Guy)

Happy New Year, everyone! May this year be better than the previous one. :)

And first let me tell that it was +15°C today. On the 1st of January in Poland. I don’t really mind that much, it was a lovely, sunny day today, but come on, weather, really, what are you doing? ;)

And now a bit of Yuletide bragging. Because I wrote four fics. I wrote fucked-up Vincenzo incest for my assignment, and at first I planned to write two treats – the second Vincenzo fic and While You Were Sleeping fic. But then I fell in love with Big Dragon and I saw that there was one request for that fandom in Yuletide, and I really wanted to write a fic for it. And I did.

( Fics I wrote )

I still have a few fics left for reading in the collection. And a few lovely comments to respond to. So I’m going to go and do that now. :)

Is anybody watching Song Joong Ki’s new drama Reborn Rich? And if yes what do you think about it? I didn’t want to watch it since it didn’t sound like anything I would be interested in, but I love Song Joong Ki and all the reviews I’ve seen are raving about it. Maybe I should check an episode or two while I wait for Under The Queen’s Umbrella to finish airing on Netflix. I watched the 1st episode and it was very good and Kim Hye Soo was amazing, but in this case I prefer to have all the episodes available and watch one or two episodes a day instead of two a week.

In the meantime I watched Choco Milk Shake. It’s a Korean BL drama with such a weird premise that I didn’t plan to watch it at first. But I wanted something short to watch on my phone during my latest short stay in Warsaw since I didn’t take my laptop. And I don’t like to watch regular sized episodes on the small screen of my phone.

So the plot is this – a cat and a dog come back as humans to comfort their former owner Jung Woo (he saved their lives as a child and lost them when he was in high school, one due to an accident, and one due to an illness) during a hard time in his life.

And it’s the cutest thing I ever watched. It made me laugh so much and the actors playing Choco (the dog) and Milk (the cat) are amazing (and they both are so beautiful) and when you watch their behavior and their mannerisms as humans you’re like “yep, that’s a cat and that’s a dog”.

It’s made by Strongberry and there are 10 short episodes available on Youtube here. It was supposed to be just these 10 episodes, but two or three weeks ago Strongberry announced that there will be a special 11th episode that will air on the 20th of December. And I’m so happy about it.

Spoilers below.

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Here have two pics of beautiful men as an additional incentive. :)







As for writing - I finished my Yuletide fic and sent it to my beta-reader. Yay! I have plans for two treats but we’ll see how it goes.

And I posted that short Kan/Thua fic for the Eclipse fandom.

Be yours (1603 words) by maggie33
Fandom: คาธ | The Eclipse (TV 2022)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kan/Thua (The Eclipse)
Characters: Kan (The Eclipse), Thua (The Eclipse)
Additional Tags: Boys In Love, Kissing, Hand Jobs, Blow Jobs
Summary: Kan and Thua kiss a lot now. As if they wanted to make up for lost time. And these are not kisses like that slow gentle kiss when they were both pretending to be asleep. Or that quick, happy peck Kan gave Thua on the beach. Their kisses now are deep and intense and there are tongues involved.

Sunday was a good day, Monday not so much health wise. But I’m not going to complain about that and about work again, let’s just talk about good fannish things instead.

Yuletide is here again and I did have a moment of doubt if I should sign-up this year, but eventually I did and now I’m glad that I did. And I love my assignment. I had one possible recipient in fandom A and one in fandom B based on available letters (and both I knew I would be happy to get), and eventually someone from fandom C where there were two requests without visible letters. I got a person from fandom A, and I have one good idea already, and I’m excited to start writing.


As for drama watching things are good, too. I’m on the lookout for a new Kdrama to watch since One Thousand Won Lawyer is ending soon. There are only three episodes left. The amount of the episodes was reduced from 14 to 12. People are speculating that it’s either some secret drama behind the scenes or that they already know they will get the 2nd season. I really hope it’s the latter.

I want to try Little Women with Kim Go Eun. It’s very loosely based on Louisa May Alcott’s "Little Women". But I’m waiting for all the episodes to become available on Netflix.

And in the meantime I watched the 1st episode of The Great Shaman Ga Doo Shim, because I was very impressed with Nam Da Reum as young Han Ji Pyung in Start-Up and wanted to see him in a major role. It’s entertaining and cute, so I will watch a few more episodes for sure. The drama is on VIKI and it’s short – only 12 episodes, and each episode is only 25 minutes long.


One Thousand Won Lawyer episode 9

Spoilers below.

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The Eclipse episode 11

After 10 good episodes that one was disappointing and weird. And I blame it entirely on bad writing. There is a chance that they will fix at least some things that disappointed me in the last episode. And if not, oh well, I can still enjoy the previous 10 episodes. I know that sometimes a bad finale can retroactively ruin the whole show for some people, but I’m not one of them.

Minor spoilers below.

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Interview with the Vampire episode 5

Spoilers here, too.

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And now I’m going to browse through Yuletide requests because they are now visible. I already bookmarked 4 letters, let’s see if I’ll find more interesting prompts. No way there are 4 treats happening of course, but I hope at least one will. :)

I regretfully decided that I wouldn’t sign up for Guardian 520 Day Reverse Exchange. I wanted to, I missed last year because of covid, but I’m not in the right headspace to give it the attention it deserves.

And the most important reason right now is that I have problems with my right arm again, and I don’t know how long it will last this time, and I really should limit the time I spend at the computer after work. So lately I spend my evenings mainly watching dramas, since it doesn’t require me to use my mouse a lot, and when I need to use it I’ve gotten quite good at operating it with my left hand. :)

It’s also frustrating because I finished the first draft of my new SCI fic two weeks ago, but every time I try to sit down and edit it, my right arm says “nope, sorry, not today”. *sigh*


As for drama watching:

I finished Racket Boys and it was super adorable and heart-warming. For me this is the drama along the same vein as Hospital Playlist – an optimistic story about good people doing good things. Villains appear rarely and are always punished. Add a competent script and very talented actors and that’s exactly what I want to watch these days. The guy who wrote it also wrote Prison Playbook, which I gave up after one episode, because it bored me. But maybe I will give Prison Playbook another chance now.


I watched The Man Who Defies the World of BL season 2 (it’s only three short episodes) – I didn’t find it as hilarious as season 1, but it was funny and entertaining and it made me smile.


I started a re-watch of Hot Stove League, because looking at Nam Goong Min’s beautiful face always cheers me up. And it is also a pretty optimistic and comforting drama.


With all those heart-warming dramas around I decided it’s safe to watch something a bit darker, too. :) So I started Under the Skin – a Chinese crime drama about the painter Shen Yi, who becomes a sketch artist at the Public Security Bureau, and Captain Du Cheng who hates him because he considers Shen Yi partially responsible for the death of Du Cheng’s partner and friend, who worked as an undercover agent, 7 years ago.

I watched the first episode yesterday and I liked it. It’s a crime drama but it’s not very gruesome, the leads are good and have nice chemistry (yes, I already ship them a little, enemies or antagonists to lovers is one of my favorite tropes :)), and it’s short – just 20 episodes. There is also a medical examiner, who’s prickly and strict and whom I already like a lot, too, played by Zhang Bo Jia (she was Qing Ge in The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty).


And one more thing that cheered me up this this week:

2Pm's Taeckhun speaking english to bless your ears

That’s it, that’s the vid – Taecyeon and Nichkhun speaking English. But it’s very cute. :) I love when they talk with each other and mix Korean and English - one says something in English and the other responds in Korean or vice versa.

Happy New Year, everyone.

I wrote only one fic for Yuletide, but it’s a long one for me. And it’s my first Vincenzo fic.

Climbing an ice wall (6308 words)
Fandom: 빈센조 | Vincenzo (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jang Han Seo/Jang Joon Woo | Jang Han Seok, Choi Myung Hee & Jang Han Seok
Characters: Jang Han Seo, Jang Joon Woo | Jang Han Seok, Choi Myung Hee
Additional Tags: Unhealthy Relationships, Possessive Behavior, Dark Han Seo, Hybristophilia, Mild Smut, POV Alternating
Summary: Han Seok is back and Han Seo finally gets what he’s always wanted. And Choi Myung Hee tries not to fall down during her ice climbing.



I finished The Fiery Priest. I enjoyed it a lot and it made me fall in love with Kim Nam Gil. But now Vincenzo really looks to me like the result of screenwriter Park Jae Bum thinking “hmm, let’s write The Fiery Priest again, but darker”. :) There are so many similarities.

More with spoilers for both dramas behind the cut.

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I’m very glad I finally watched this drama, since there is supposed to be the 2nd season, although I couldn’t find any specific information yet.

And I found out while browsing Youtube for BTS stuff and fanvids that the whole drama is available there for free with English subtitles. The playlist is here.


And I have two recs for fanvids showing what a badass Kim Hae Il is:

Light Em Up

Believer


And because of my new found love for Kim Nam Gil yesterday I watched Memoir of a Murderer, which is available to buy on DVD in Poland – it’s a movie where he plays a psychopathic serial killer. And I started Pandora, also a movie, available on Netflix here, where he is again a good guy trying to save a small Korean town during the serious accident at a nuclear power plant. I enjoyed Memoir of a Murderer a lot, I like when pretty boys play psychopathic serial killers. :) Pandora is a bit boring, but I plan to finish it today.