Well look at that. Heckin unanimous. I’ll be liveblogging Deep Night I guess

I POSTED IT TO THE WRONG BLOG LIKE AN IDIOT. Let’s try this again:

Sorrt if you voted on the other one but that blog is for glasses only. Not my potentially unhinged ramblings

Han dropped a banger today and honestly listening to it just pulled me out of whatever mental funk I was just in. Bless

We have not had internet for an hour and a half. It is Friday. Why will they not let us go home?

Did this while I was supposed to be working oops. I was tagged by the wonderful @pose4photoml to post what I collect so I figured why not? Cause I collect a lot of stuff:

1. Umbrellas - Obviously. I have a very specific design that I’m looking for right now that is very hard to find I might need to have one custom made.

2. Shot glasses - I used to have a much larger collection but it is no more. However, my older brother used to travel a lot for work and even thougb he lives 1000 miles away, he always picks up a shot glass for me wherever he travels so he can give it to me next time we’re together.

3. Travel mugs/reusable water bottles - I drink a lot. I am very well hydrated. It’s rare you catch me without some type of beverage.

4. Cardigans - I love a good cardigan. And also my desk at work is haunted so I need a cardigan to keep me warm

5. Manga - One day I will have space for just a manga shelf. One day.

6. Cruel polls - y’all already know and I’m sorry but not sorry enough to stop doing it

7. QL characters that wear glasses

I’m sure there are more things. I like my things. Looking at them makes me happy. But that’s all I can think of off the top of my head. Anyway not tagging anyone specifically but if you want to do it than *boop* you’ve been tagged

Thailand Part 1

Thailand puts out so much BL it will have multiple polls. Sometime. Eventually.

the screencap folder this was in is called "baby bird behavior" in my laptop

I POSTED IT TO THE WRONG BLOG LIKE AN IDIOT. Let’s try this again:

Sorrt if you voted on the other one but that blog is for glasses only. Not my potentially unhinged ramblings

I POSTED IT TO THE WRONG BLOG LIKE AN IDIOT. Let’s try this again:

Sorrt if you voted on the other one but that blog is for glasses only. Not my potentially unhinged ramblings

One half of my desk is papers and the other half is snacks/caffeinated beverages. What a year this week has been. I am now accepting thoughts and prayers

Will this vanilla latte save me?

Babe and Charlie raising a toddler: Pit Babe 2: The Terrible Twos

North/Sonic/Kim get together: Pit Babe 3: Finally Poly

A Vampire Shows Up: Pit Babe 4: Retcon Some Lore

*walks into my manager’s office with a question*

Me: “I’m about 70/30 awake/asleep right now”

Pit Babe 2? PIT BABE 2??????? I may need someone to resuscitate me

I swear to god I’m gonna start a class on how to write an email because why do people keep sending me emails with literally NO information. Who are you? What do you want from me???

I NEED MORE INFORMATION!!!!

Sorry. but honestly, the Vivaldi, I'm gonna need a bit more...

💜💜💜

More information you ask? Of course. I have a lot to say. I’m writing this at lunch (and my tendonitis is very, very bad today) so sorry if it’s not as coherent as I might normally be. ANYGAY.

I would like to reiterate that this is an extremely western perspective but gmmtv started it by playing Vivaldi. I have a lovehate relationship with The Four Seasons but I’ll spare y’all and not get into that.

I think The Four Seasons is perfectly fine to have in a soundtrack for a show. I do not think that it’s a good choice for Ossan’s Love (though Spring is obviously the only one that stands a chance). I should also say that I’ve seen the Hong Kong version, the original Japanese version, and like 3 episodes of Ossan’s Love Returns. It’s not my favorite but I also don’t have major issues with it. So my first issue is that Vivaldi is just so tonally different than the show. It doesn’t match. Ossan’s Love relies heavily on slapstick for comedy and when I think of classical music and slapstick comedy, Vivaldi isn’t even a composer I consider. I think most people would probably think of Flight of the Bumblebee. Maybe Into the Hall of the Mountain King if I’m being generous.

My second issue is that it didn’t match the tone of the rest of the music in the trailer! So not only does it not tonally match the show, it doesn’t even match the rest of the music. One entire element of the trailer was inconsistent and that worries me. It was clearly chosen as the hook at the beginning of the trailer to catch and keep the attention of the audience who is already likely overly familiar with the story. But the rest of the music in the trailer was very…Thai BL. Hard to explain. But do you know what I don’t associate with Thai BL soundtracks? Vivaldi. The Four Seasons. Most classical music. I’d be less annoyed by it if it was another random arrangement of a Christmas carol since BLs are so fond of that. And honestly that would have matched the rest of the music better. But speaking of…

My last issue (and this is my supremely western perspective) is that if they were going to insist on using one of the most well-known classical pieces for a wedding at the beginning of the trailer that they were going to subvert literally 2 minutes later in the same trailer, that was NOT the correct piece. I can’t believe that I am about to say this because I also have a lovehate relationship with this piece but they should have used Pachelbel’s Canon in D Major. That is THE wedding piece. It is known for being THE classical piece played at weddings. Like it is so much the quintessential piece played at weddings that some people (*stares in mirror*) get annoyed because it is so overused. So if they wanted to set up the expectation of a beautiful, normal wedding before ripping the rug out later on, they should have used the song freaking known as the beautiful, normal wedding song. Hell, I’d be fine if they had switched to Vivaldi’s Spring when the two love interests started fighting about whose wedding it is. I still don’t think it would be right, but it would have been better.

I’ll end this by saying I think the music in the rest of the trailer was perfect. It fit the tone of the show. It matched my expectations for the Thai version of this story. It’s just that one choice they made at the beginning of the trailer took me out. I literally had to pause it for a few minutes and try again.

I can’t sleep because I can’t stop thinking about this. And I know. I KNOW that I am approaching this from a very western perspecitve with my western upbringing and western expectations. But gmmtv started it by playing Vivaldi…VIVALDI…in the Ossan’t Love trailer and that was just the entirely wrong choice. Listen, I can explain more if y’all want (and when I’m not supposed to be asleep) but that song choice for the trailer has my eye twitching and I have a whole essay in my head for why

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