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@pickletrip gave me the BEST pre-easter present today (not that I really celebrate mind you, I just appreciate the long weekend off 😏) by pointing out an unexpected early appearance of a shirt on the Thai Communal Wardrobe list in Love By Chance season 2.
I'm not updating the original post with it yet, though, because it's also going to be worn in Deep Night at some point, but I can't tell you how happy it has made me. This shirt has been worn seven times now, with 3.5 years between the first sighting and the most recent.
Anyway, this brilliant news spurred me on to do a scroll through of LBC 2 and I was pikachu-faced when I saw this dinosaur shirt on Can...
...because it's one that's stood out for me from another well-known series that I've always wondered if I'd see it again (to be fair there are a lot of items of clothing like this for me 🤭) AND NOW I HAVE!
So, before I make a post about this new item, I'll give 1000 bonus points to whoever recognises where else it's been used/worn 😁
#the thai communal wardrobe#deep night#deep night the series#there's a select group of people who should recognise this#but also I completely understand if no one does#but I thought I'd set the challenge anyway#I'll reblog a few time with some hints if no one gets it#thai bl#thai drama#thai series#bl drama#love by chance#love by chance the series#love by chance: a chance to love#love by chance season 2
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Turtles Catches Up With Old GMMTV: Love By Chance, New Siwaj, and MAME
[What’s going on here? After joining Tumblr and discovering Thai BLs through KinnPorsche in 2022, I began watching GMMTV’s new offerings -- and realized that I had a lot of history to catch up on, to appreciate the more recent works that I was delving into. From tropes to BL frameworks, what we’re watching now hails from somewhere, and I’m learning about Thai BL's history through what I’m calling the Old GMMTV Challenge (OGMMTVC). Starting with recommendations from @absolutebl on their post regarding how GMMTV is correcting for its mistakes with its shows today, I’ve made an expansive list to get me through a condensed history of essential/classic/significant Thai BLs produced by GMMTV and many other BL studios. My watchlist, pasted below, lists what I’ve watched and what’s upcoming, along with the reviews I’ve written so far. Today, I’ll cover Love By Chance, the PerthSaint ship, my first experience with a solo New Siwaj project, and my first MAME adaptation.]
TW: anti-queer derogatory language, sexual assault
Well -- wow. Love By Chance, huh? My first-ever solo New Siwaj project, AND my first-ever show with an original book by MAME. Lots going on here.
My thoughts are quite jumbled on this show, so let me list away by means of setting up this review:
1) My thoughts on Perth and Saint,
2) My feeling that for the first half of the show, I was watching my first derivative structured BL, as influenced from what came before it,
3) A missed opportunity to take a deeper dive into how individual characteristics can shape a relationship,
4) What is New Siwaj’s deal with not being able to hold storylines strong through to the end, and
5) Brief thoughts on MAME.
I know that LBC is a fan favorite, and this absolutely makes sense to me. I will DEFINITELY be fast-forwarding to beloved AePete scenes in the future. The show started off STRONG, the AePete storyline was written cleanly, and I mean -- Perth and Saint.
This is my first rodeo with Saint. @manogirl, you asked in a comment what I thought of his acting. I thought he was superb. I don’t know the MAME source material for this show, but it seemed to me like Saint was playing up to Pete’s character as originally written, and that Saint NAILED it.
I’m also on a Perth Tanapon HIGH right now, having finished Double Savage recently, and I’m heartened to see his very natural ability to turn up maj chemistry with partners like Saint and Ohm, who just naturally give and respond back. (I understand that we’re on tenterhooks to see if things can improve with him and Chimon in Dangerous Romance after their turn in Never Let Me Go -- I haven’t seen NLMG, but understand his Chopper to have been milquetoast.)
But anyway -- of course, as the majority of the fam knows -- the strength of the AePete storyline and the stunning acting between these two ABSOLUTELY carried this show. @manogirl, probably the only criticism I would offer about Saint/Pete would be that Pete’s manner WAS flat and restrained, and it wasn’t until the football field scene that I realized that I could understand where that manner came from.
I think we all know that without the incredibly strong acting of Perth and Saint, that there wouldn’t have been a show to speak of here (especially as I now understand what the second season of this show was about, yikes). But Perth and Saint kept this whole project together, literally. They were a DELIGHT to watch, and when their scenes petered out at the end of the run, I wasn’t thrilled about it.
But rewinding back to when I started the series: I think, with the help of the strength of their acting, that I felt something early on in my watching -- that I was watching my first true derivative BL, influenced by what came before it.
Can I list all the tropes that I saw? Engineering, beach trip, sniffing of shirts, guitars and singing, shrimps, the to-be-expected top/bottom dynamic, etc. I am positive I’m missing more tropes.
In Love By Chance, I really saw the tropes become structure. I remember noticing in Love Sick the tropes being born -- the hoses, the beach trip, alllll the music and singing. And of course, in SOTUS, they become canon.
I saw the tropes settled in Love By Chance, like a board game that everyone knows how to play by now. And you know what -- I’ve never considered myself a trope person, but I utterly LOVED how these tropes were handed to Perth and Saint, and I saw what they did with them. PerthSaint handled the meet-cute with such PACE and steadiness, that they made the tropes feel natural and fresh. The tropes, in my opinion, actually helped move the story forward.
Some quick thoughts on AePete’s relationship. I think we were lucky in seeing as far as we could go into AePete’s relationship, as much as we could see, up to the “I love you.” I really liked that we saw much more of their relationship develop after the first kiss and the first sex, when we learn that Ae is a serious horndog, is a jealous bro, but is FULL of loyal love for Pete, and couldn’t give a hoot about what the world around him thinks about it -- to the extent of holding Pete’s hand as close to Ae’s family as I had seen in a BL so far on the chronological watchlist.
But New Siwaj had to New Siwaj (cc @bengiyo) -- in that, with the TinCan and TarTum (wtFUCK) stories, and that KengklaTechno SHIT going down, that a ton of time was taken away from the show being able to focus on elements that I thought were FASCINATING in AePete’s relationship, such as Ae not being able to take Pete’s help, and Ae’s tendency towards stereotypically masculine POVs and behaviors.
Ae’s randiness and jealous tendencies were huge drivers of their storyline, and they didn’t seem to unsettle Pete, which I thought was fascinating and -- only in my humble opinion, PLEASE feel free to debate and disagree, I am all ears on this -- harkening to a kind of macro cishet perspective on their relationship.
Why do I say that? I’m jumping ahead on my list of themes, but quickly: from the REST of what I saw in the show -- TinCan, TarTum, KengklaNo, and Pond’s behavior (I honestly QUITE liked Pond, actually) -- I’m working with a theory that part of MAME’s story structure here is based in Asian cultural homophobia, in stereotypes of how the queer community should act by way of societal expectations in Asia. But more on this in a bit.
Back to AePete for a second. In Ae -- there’s a lot to be explored. Where does his jealousy stem from, besides testosterone and an unending urge for bodily intimacy? I want to KNOW how Ae’s expression of masculinity affects their future relationship. I want to KNOW why Ae can’t take Pete’s help -- does he truly think of Pete in the wife role, and that Ae, as the husband, doesn’t need any help? I want to know WHY Ae is so patriarchal to Pete. I want to KNOW why Pete doesn’t question it, at least at first.
Maybe they were going to get into it in the second season, if the PerthSaint ship hadn’t split. But there’s A LOT THERE.
While I’m working through this, I’m thinking of Bad Buddy/Our Skyy 2 x Bad Buddy (of course), and seeing the embodiment of Pran wanting to NOT take Pat’s help on Pran’s play project in Pha Pun Dao -- and how this desire for being able to do things ALONE, without ANYONE’s help, likely led to Pran working in Singapore after the boys graduated.
I’m spoiled, now, by seeing this internal need of Pran to explore his independence play out through Aof Noppharnach’s lens in OS2. We don’t get that depth here in LBC with AePete, and I really wish we could have gotten more. Ae IS SO FASCINATING. @bengiyo, you mentioned to me in a side conversation that Ae might be tagged as demi, and I just wish, I WISH, we could have had more depth there. IT’S THERE AND IT’S FASCINATING TO HAVE KNOWN WHAT WE COULD HAVE HAD with these guys.
Because: between New and MAME, good lord -- these side storylines! We had literally almost TWO FUCKING EPISODES devoted to TinCan!
Flatly put: I don’t think we had a worthwhile payoff with any of the side stories. And I think the side stories ultimately took the show down for me. I might even say that AePete weren’t strong enough as a foundational column to hold the show up as a whole -- but I can’t write that totally off, because they were SUCH a gem couple, and Saint and Perth’s acting was SO GOOD. We just missed so many opportunities to really get to know them better.
New Siwaj’s screenwriting and filmmaking — smdh. I’m not as pissed as others about what went down in Double Savage, but we saw New using flashbacks as a way to cover his ass for jumbled storytelling throughout the series. Flashbacks, side stories, whatever -- New likes to clearly make things complicated in his work.
And maybe he was intrigued to turn MAME’s novel into Love By Chance BECAUSE he saw what he likes to play with in filmmaking in MAME’s story. But as an auteur, I wonder if he has contemplated a linear beginning-middle-end perspective on a main couple, one that can actually be satisfying! (Hello, ATOTS.) I will say, though -- that New and MAME might be a natural pair to complement each of their tendencies towards fringe-ier filmmaking techniques and perspectives.
I want to offer a few quick thoughts on my perception of the story as crafted by MAME specifically, with the absolute understanding that she’s controversial, and I welcome all feedback on my thoughts here. (And I also understand that the other directors I mention below used source material written by other novel authors, so naturally, the comparison between MAME and the directors is not quite fair. But let me go there anyway.)
@bengiyo has shared with me (thank you, my ever patient friend) that she’s popular in many circles by way of the chemistry of the leads in her stories and her penchant for heat, which are two qualities that I also appreciate in BLs. In any case, here goes my critique.
Between the TarTum and TinCan traumas, plus the questionable KenglaNo scene, I have an unsettled feeling that MAME has tapped into Asian cultural stereotypes of homophobia in LBC. I’ll explain through a personal anecdote.
When I was a kid, like pre-teen, the ONLY band I listened to was Queen. Queen WAS IT. Freddie Mercury was MY HERO. MY HERO. A mixed Indo-Persian gay Brit with a voice like god. Kicking down doors and prejudices. He’s up there today with my slate of utter heroes.
My father -- traditional Indian-from-India guy -- was taken aback. He made reference often to his discomfort that I was enthralled and inspired by a gay man who had died of AIDS. To me, what I think of as the “usual” homophobic stereotypes from my family were thrown out often -- Freddie Mercury had multiple partners, he dressed like a woman, he was dangerous and filthy, etc.
I know that MAME is known for processing her own personal trauma through her art vis à vis queer storylines. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion about this.
It gives me the minor jibbles. I’m not sure this sits well with me. I don’t want to deny ANYONE, ANYONE their right to make art. But I can’t help but think that MAME ISN’T aware of Thai/Asian cultural homophobic stereotypes towards the queer community (not to conflate specifically Thai and Indian perspectives, which is why I’m glomming on “Asian” here). From the kind of commentary I grew up with with my dad -- I was hit on the head, SPECIFICALLY vis à vis the side stories, that Asian cultural homophobia was being leveraged in LBC as a potential means of connecting with fans that may have otherwise ignored this show. That elements like gang rape must be a given. That incestuous implications have to be a part of a queer story. That intentionally non-consensual sex must be a part of the telling of a queer story. That the TinCan story had to have ended with Can pulling back, with Tin left to suffer.
It makes me jibbly with a concern about trauma porn. That trauma porn MUST be a part of a storyline, in MAME’s eyes, regarding stories about queer people.
Again, I don’t want to deny anyone their chosen modality of creating art. But I reflect on this against, say, Aof Noppharnach’s storytelling in Bad Buddy, in a world where there’s no homophobia; or Cheewin’s storytelling in Bed Friend, where nuclear AND office families are accepting. Trauma is STILL a given in these fictional queer worlds, created by queer auteurs, because there IS homophobia in real society (Bed Friend) and intergenerational trauma IS a reality (Bad Buddy).
But the trauma isn’t leveraged AS AN AUTOMATIC, ABSOLUTE GIVEN for the SAKE of the storyline HAVING queer characters -- which seems to be an equation that I think is making me jibbly about MAME’s perspective here. @bengiyo, my question is: is the trade-off between having high heat and great chemistry worth it, for MAME to HAVE to include what I’m seeing as Asian absolutist stereotypes (as I grew up with these stereotypes) in the telling of queer stories?
I’ll certainly have more to say and think on this when I get into TharnType, and I’ll likely be able to answer some of these questions on my own. As an Asian raised in America, and as an ally, I have enough concern about what I saw by way of MAME’s story, as compared to what I heard in my childhood home by way of prejudices, to at least hold a red flag in my hand.
AePete were an absolute delight in this show. But I’m not sure, yet, if it’s worth setting queer characters up for traumatic fictional journeys BECAUSE an author has chosen to tell stories of queer people to process THEIR OWN personal trauma. I don’t know. As an Asian, I’m really conflicted. Because it seems to me to tap into easily understood and dangerous stereotypes that Asians might otherwise hold about the queer community and queer rights -- and that it’s easier to ride the bandwagon instead of hopping off of it and running on your own. Processing one’s pain is one thing. Trafficking in stereotypes because one might think queer sex and queer love is of a specific type and kind by way of continental and cultural stereotypes is something vastly different, and quite concerning for me.
This thought train isn’t over until I watch TharnType. I’m sad that PerthSaint didn’t continue, and I’m sad that Earth Pirapat doesn’t inhabit the role of Type in TharnType, but like I said before -- PerthSaint were worth it alone for me watching this show. And MAME and New Siwaj, separately, have had TREMENDOUS influence on Thai BLs, and I needed to watch their first show to understand where this particular trajectory started, and where it’s going to go, with TharnType, Until We Meet Again, and other projects on the list coming up. Let’s see where this takes me next.
[LBC is done: PERTH! I don’t think I have anymore Perth on my watchlist, wah. Come back to me, Perthy-werthy!
Okay: I finished the BL cuts of Kiss Me Again this weekend, and I’ve gotten familiar with TayNew/PeteKao. I have THOUGHTS! (I really like them! I know there’s ish with New, but I’m waiting until I get to DBK to dive into that research.) I will NOT review the BL cuts, and will just wait to do a big old review after Dark Blue Kiss -- but I’ve watched the BL cuts FIRST to get their airing dates chronologically correct (I’m saving their Our Skyy for after DBK).
THAT MEANS THAT I’M STARTING He’s Coming To Me this week (FINALLY!). I have a few homies out there who mentioned rewatching this and possibly doing a watch with me (!!!). Please note that I can’t binge at all (mom lyfe), and that it usually takes me around a week to finish, so: go at your own pace and don’t wait for this old mom to catch up! And anyone who wants to join at your own pace as well, PLEASE DO! I would LOVE to commiserate on what I know will be a ridiculously amazing show -- and I’m shaking with happiness that I’m finally diving into Aof’s earlier work in the OGMMTVC series, which was a huge original point to my starting this project.
Here’s the watchlist as it stands. Lovely Writer is a new addition to the list as meta-BL commentary. As EVER, I’ll take recommendations!
1) Love Sick and Love Sick 2 (2014 and 2015) (review here)
2) Make It Right (2016) (review here)
3) SOTUS (2016-2017) (review here)
4) Make It Right 2 (2017) (review here)
5) Together With Me (2017) (review here)
6) SOTUS S/Our Skyy x SOTUS (2017-2018) (review here)
7) Love By Chance (2018)
8) Kiss Me Again: PeteKao cuts (2018)
9) He’s Coming To Me (2019) (watching)
10) Dark Blue Kiss (2019) and Our Skyy x Kiss Me Again (2018)
11) TharnType (2019)
12) Senior Secret Love: Puppy Honey (BL cuts) (2016 and 2017) (I’m watching this out of order just to get familiar with OffGun before Theory of Love -- will likely not review)
13) Theory of Love (2019)
14) Dew the Movie (2019) (not an official part of the OGMMTVC watchlist, but I want to watch this in chronological order with everything else)
15) Until We Meet Again (2019-2020)
16) 2gether (2020)
17) Still 2gether (2020)
18) I Told Sunset About You (2020)
19) Manner of Death (2020-2021) (not a true BL, but a MaxTul queer/gay romance set within a genre-based show that likely influenced Not Me and KinnPorsche)
20) A Tale of Thousand Stars (2021) (review here)
21) Lovely Writer (2021)
22) I Promised You the Moon (2021)
23) Not Me (2021-2022)
24) Bad Buddy (2021-2022) (thesis here)
25) Bad Buddy (2021-2022) and Our Skyy 2 x BBS (2023) OGMMTVC Rewatch
26) Secret Crush On You (2022) [watching for Cheewin’s trajectory of studying queer joy from Make It Right (high school), to SCOY (college), to Bed Friend (working adults)]
27) KinnPorsche (2022) (tag here)
28) The Eclipse (2022) (tag here)
29) My School President (2022-2023)
30) Moonlight Chicken (2023) (tag here)
31) Bed Friend (2023) (tag here) (Cheewin’s latest show, depicting a queer joy journey among working adults)]
#love by chance#perthsaint#perth tanapon#saint suppapong#aepete#ae x pete#pete x ae#turtles catches up with old gmmtv#turtles catches up with thai BLs#turtles catches up with the essential BLs#the old gmmtv challenge#ogmmtvc#MAME#new siwaj
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For Contents Moving Forward...
The very first post in my tumblr and it ends as my final notice for 时空中的绘旅人 / For All Time / HLR / Lovebrush Chronicles / LBC.
The irony.
But anyway figured I should do here cuz it's going to be quite the long essay from me.
We're now halfway through March, White Day's almost here and so is my 3rd Anniversary Emerald's Wedding Ring Merch.
THAT'S RIGHT
I'm gonna get married with Emerald / Cael and retire for good to enjoy my marri-
...
To hell with that, I really can't bring myself to finish that bs.
But anyway the intention is still there - I am planning to retire from HLR / LBC but before that, I will clear off some of my stuff and I will drop the game as a whole:
1. Retrospring QnAs for the guide account I'm part of: @stshelterpedia
2. Chronological Summary to the game's story (had been requested to do this cuz the event release is now extremely messed up)
3. Claiming all my remaining monthly pack resources
For my followers from Twitter, new and old, I have gone missing from releasing the translation of game news for a long time, and now I feel the need and for the first time, share my thoughts in a very elaborative manner instead.
Sorry for ghosting on you guys for so long and from the bottom of my heart, thank you for all the follows all this while, even with me neglecting the translations here and there.
Although I believe many take me as a source of news translation and no more than that, there are still some who I've build relationship with as well throughout the years.
Now onto my retirement from this game and the translation thereof:
Do take note there's going to be some spoilers too -
Work may have been one of the reasons behind it as I've been way too occupied this year comparatively, but the very main factor would be the fact that I've lost my love and passion for this game.
In all honesty, I've stopped reading the Card Stories since Paradise / Eden and Event Stories since Onmyoji Collab. And for my long-time followers, I'm not sure if it's that obvious, but I have stopped fangirling or make any remarks on the game content for years - which I guess is quite the obvious sign from then on.
I loved HLR / LBC for its plot. I loved how plot is the driving force and priority of the game since the beginning. I loved how everything revolves around the plot, including the charaters to Event Stories and Card Stories.
But alas, all of that are past tense for me.
I may have been biased cuz I stopped reading all the side contents, so it's just the impressions I'm getting from the discussions I have with my friend. But for me after Destiny Corridor (DC) iirc? Fan service becomes the driver in this bus.
DC has its own share of service, but I feel the wrmth from deep down. All the nostalgia and warmth, and that's the peak storytelling before its downwards slope for me.
Personally I don't mind fan services, but for me it feels like Event Story has become more and more irrelevant to Main Story, unlike in the past. Card Story is there to build some background story, but since it's more fan servicey now, it's just a stalemate story with barely any development.
At least that's what I feel and my impressions here and there.
Some may wanna ask: "But isn't Empire series the most Main Story relevant Event Story?"
Yeah, it should be, cuz it's almost the deadline (iirc supposedly by 4th year) that Empire Chapter will begin for Main Story and the final route of it marks the end of Season 1.
But the latest one I've read - Tidal-Disruption, Admiral Star / Prefect Luminance side specifically, actually disappointed me a whole lot.
Chosen is written brilliantly to make us fear Maker more, but in juxtaposition Star / Luminance had a great start but a meh ending.
I find that the appeal behind Star / Luminance is that he is interested in MC for how strong she is emotionally and wants to break her, believing she will also be his greatest and most perfect creation cuz his other 'collections' can't withstand his 'molding'. All the revelations is nice and all, then suddenly he becomes so infatuated with MC he accepts his name as Alkaid (THAT DUDE HAS BEEN DENYING AND REJECTING OF SO STRONGLY SINCE HIS APPEARANCE) and play family with MC, imprisoning her and the story went like husband going back home to a lovely wife waiting for him treting his wounds.
I just
??????
DUDE WHERE DID YOUR COLDNESS, INDIFFERENCE WENT?
WHY DID YOU BECOME SO LOVE LORNED?????
I believed he had been better than that but he made my inner Asian Parent Disappointment surge up and I can only shake my head at the end when he decided to just let MC go.
Others let go cuz they are interested to see how far she can go, cuz she's not a threat at all, cuz she's a great piece for their plans, or cuz of their own twisted obssession; but for him it feels like a bad attempt in making him more romanceable.
End of ranting for now else it's gonna be for eternity.
Stories aside, what prompted me to ultimately announce my retirement as a whole is the moment I realise I hadn't logged into the game for 2 days (my birb brain had thought it's only 1 day).
That's right, 2 days and I didn't feel any urgency or frustrations for missing out on the resources. This is as of today, 10 March 2024:
While on the other hand I feel like choking myself for missing my morning grind for another game.
With such comparison, I figure it's high time I check this off with a notice for everyone.
It has been a long journey and I enjoyed the companion of this game that also bring many new encounters for me.
But it is also time for me to bid the game adieu.
Feel free to unfollow me on my Twt if you're not interested in seeing me anymore.
Moving forward, I might begin some other translation project for games I took interest in (time to see if 世界之外 Beyond The World's grip be that strong on me) and I will also share a more elaborative train of thoughts here too.
Thanks for reading all the way here, my DMs in Twt are open for chats, and feel free to interact with me. I will be more than happy to share my thoughts with you too :)
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scary relationship chart
I made a messy visual for this a few months ago but here I will attempt to put it into words!!!
If you've spent enough time around Thai actors you've probably realised a lot of them happen to know each other. I like making connections drawing lines and once I fell into a hole because of these 6 20something year olds.
Ohm Pawat, Nanon Korapat, Chimon Wachirawit, Perth Tanapon, Saint Suppapong and Mark Siwat all know each other in one big circle. Here's a short video showcasing it (this is not as detailed as my post will be but it has the rough idea).
(It's hard finding a place to start when it comes to a group of 6.)
1. Saint, Ohm and Chimon went to the same high school, Assumption College (Thailand). Ohm and Chimon are in the same year, while Saint is 2 years above them.
Ohm and Chimon became close friends here (I don't have any clips where they mention this but it's evident from how they act). I'm unsure when exactly they met but they've been friends for a very, very long while.
Saint wasn't close with them because he's older but in School Tales The Series interviews he mentions sometimes seeing Chimon around campus. In one of these interviews he also said they could get closer by talking about football and he was relieved to be working with an old schoolmate.
Saint and Ohm would later attend the same university (SWU) and I don't know if they were friends. Everyone here except Chimon actually went to SWU so this doesn't mean much 😭
2. Nanon and Chimon met while filming Senior Secret Love: My Lil Boy season 2 in 2016. Nanon was in S1 but Chimon wasn't. They got along quickly because they were close in age (they're both born 2000, even though by Thai conventions Nanon is younger). They would go on to film several series together in the next few years.
Similarly, Perth and Mark met while filming Please... Siang Riak Winyan in 2017. Mark was the first to approach Perth and became Perth's first friend in the entertainment industry. They also spent more time with each other because their characters were close.
Chimon was also in Please, and this is where he met Perth and Mark. The two weren't super close with Chimon since they didn't share scenes.
3. Mark and Ohm became friends in SWU. There are old videos of Ohm being annoying (affectionate) around Mark.
In Ohm and Mark's first year at SWU, Ohm met Perth (still in high school). According to a Double Savage interview, they'd met through a mutual friend. I am unable to find anything that confirms or denies this but I am almost certain Mark introduced them. They became good friends afterwards and have described each other as like blood brothers.
(Ohm thought Perth would be arrogant because he was already an established actor by then but he was very polite HAHAHAHA he is soooo cute 🫳🐯)
Also this isn't really in chronological order but Nanon and Perth met in SWU in 2019 as well!
4. In 2018, Ohm, Nanon and Chimon were cast in Blacklist. When they were filming the pilot, Ohm and Nanon met for the first time. Chimon helped to introduce them (having been friends with both for years at this point) and when Nanon saw Chimon speaking casually to Ohm, he started doing so as well.
(Nanon is a year below Ohm and Chimon, but he's close enough to Chimon that he speaks to him like they're the same age. Ohm has mentioned seeing Nanon skipping class in uni wwww)
Perth and Mark met Saint while working on Love By Chance. Perth and Saint were paired together. I'm not certain about LBC because I don't want to touch anything related to it but there seems to have been a LOT of promotion featuring the full cast.
5. Perth and Chimon met again at some point, likely around when Perth joined GMMTV. They were both close with Ohm and Nanon. Perth was asked early on who he'd want to work with in GMMTV and he answered P'Ohm, P'Chimon and Nanon 😊🫳🐯.
TL;DR
Ohm, Chimon and Saint went to the same high school. Everyone except Chimon went to the same university. Nanon-Chimon, Ohm-Nanon, Perth-Mark, Saint-Perth met through series. Ohm-Perth were introduced by a mutual friend.
(I don't know anything about Nanon, Mark and Saint. Half the industry probably knows Nanon but I don't know if they're friends with him.)
What about the shows?
Aside from the aforementioned shows, many of them were also cast in the same series.
- Perth and Mark were cast as a couple in The Stranded. They were very comfortable with each other by then so there weren't many problems. They even improvised a kiss! Perth-Mark did some promotion together (Pepsi ad and Mint Magazine video for example) but went their separate ways career-wise after.
- Around the same time as Blacklist, Ohm and Chimon were both cast in He's Coming To Me as friends.
- I don't know WHEN because My Precious production was SLOW but Ohm Nanon and Chimon were all cast in the movie. The series version was also filmed at the same time.
- In 2021, Ohm and Nanon were paired for Bad Buddy. They did around a year of promotion before, well, divorce.
- Saint and Chimon were cast in the same episode of School Tales The Series. This was done before PerthChimon became an official GMMTV pair but I find it very funny that by the time it aired PerthChimon had already done an event together. This twitter thread has links to videos and interviews with Saint and Chimon.
Mark was also in School Tales, but in a different episode.
- Ohm and Perth played brothers in Double Savage. Given what their characters are like I would hope Ohm and Perth didn't put TOO much of themselves into it but I presume their friendship helped with bringing their characters to life.
- I've done a separate PerthChimon timeline so I won't talk too much about them but they became an official pair around mid 2022, likely also when Perth joined the cast of NLMG.
- Music projects! Perth and Nanon have been in Musicon, both Japan and Jakarta. Perth was also a special guest at an Ohm-Nanon fanmeet, where he performed with Ohm.
😬😬😬 typed this out on a whim so I might be missing things. The 6 of them make me so (TEARING HAIR OUT) genuinely. Hoping for a Perth and Nanon project next year 🫠🙏
#gaiaxyposting#nanon#ohm pawat#chimonac#perthppe#mark siwat#saintsup#RRRAAAAHHHHHHHHHH#THIS IS SO HARD TO VISUALISE LMAOAOAIAOAOAO#gaiaxymeta
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9 fandom friends to get to know better
I was tagged by @clowncroccharms thanks!
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3 ships I love
Obviously my favorite ships are forever rotating and I’m only gonna stick to bl land if that’s cool so this is who I’m liking currently
1- kor and namsom (city of stars) second lead syndrome always and forever😘✌🏽 (I just love how much he loves her he will do anything to be with her again)
2- miyata and iwanaga (koi wo suru nara) need I elaborate
3- Achi and Ji (to be continued)
First ship ever
Gun to my head I couldn’t tell you who my first ever ship was but since we’re sticking to bl land anyways I’ll do the first ship that got me into BLs in the first place which is tin and can from love by chance, like I said forever and always a second lead syndrome having bitch and I meant it when I said it like forreal I didnt even know that Pete and Ae were the main characters going in, anyways i saw them on tumblr and said who and what is that and started watching lbc a couple weeks later
Last song I listened to
-Overdrive by Conan gray
Favorite childhood book
-I would have to say Diary of wimpy kid probably
Currently reading
Nothing right now but I am about to start "Solomon’s Crown" By Natasha Siegel a gay period book which is not my vibe usually, I don’t like non modern set books usually but then I read Breeze Spells and Bridegrooms By Sarah Wallace & S.O Callahan and fell in love, This book is really good if you like fairy’s, magic, gay romance, and (I believe) regency era this is the book for you this is not my usual genre very far from it and I truly loved it enough to read it again and don’t really reread books it’s also set in a queer normative world which is like why I don’t read period cause I don’t want to read and about period specific homophobia and secret sneak around relationships so without that I was really super optimistic going in and truly 10/10 I’m not gonna go into to details but it did make me cry and feel so much love in my heart but go read the blurb and if you are even slightly interested in it from that I think you should give it go, so after finishing that now I’m trying to chase that high so I hope Solomon’s Crown is also really good, I have a bunch lined up in similar worlds so wish me luck
Currently watching
Next level chef UK cause I love next level chef and I’ve already ran through the American seasons and now I’m working on the UK
edit: I rough draft this last night when I was watching NLC: UK but right right now I'm watching station 19
Currently consuming
Nada, I’m in bed chilling I did just have brekkie, cherrios
Currently craving
I could really go for some cotten candy ice cream
I'm tagging: @monroeurfnboat @hautegirl07 @good-night-space-kid
Yall have been in my notifs lately so do it if you wanna :)
#thai bl#Ask game#love is better the second time around#Koi wo suru nara#to be continued the series#city of stars#city of stars the series#Lbc#love by chance#Solomons crown#breeze spells and bridegrooms#Conan gray#Next level chef#Station 19
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Consumer Guide / No.119 / Q & A with writer / author Greg Lansdowne, with Mark Watkins.
MW: Teenage Kicks. Tell me about some of the books, comics, records, TV and radio you enjoyed during your teenage years…
GL: The media I consumed, and enjoyed, during my formative years in the 1980s continue to shape my career – so I have a lot to thank them for. My earliest reading material were comics such as; Beano, Dandy, Buster, Whizzer and Chips, and Roy of the Rovers alongside any football magazine going in the children’s sector (Shoot! and Match being the mainstays).
From there, I graduated to publications such as World Soccer, Wisden Cricket Monthly and, when it came out in my late teens, 90 Minutes. I had a voracious appetite for magazines – and still do – so read as much as possible relating to my interests.
As far as records go, the first seven inch single I bought was, Take On Me, by a-ha. My first album was, Hunting High And Low, by a-ha. There’s obviously a pattern evolving there and I have bought every release by a-ha since (not to mention writing a book about them which was published in 2016).
Besides watching any TV coverage of football and cricket (and plenty of other sports in the ‘80s) my favourite programme was Grange Hill – an all-time classic which stands the test of time. It’s one of the few of my childhood loves that I haven’t written about... but there is still plenty of time!
With a lack of live football coverage during the ‘80s (there was far more cricket available to watch) supporters were very reliant on the radio when not attending matches. BBC Radio 2 with voices such as Peter Jones, Bryon Butler and Jimmy Armfield talking you through the games was manna from heaven.
Saturday afternoon broadcasts in London were provided by LBC in the early part of the decade (Jeff Stelling was the host for a period) before Jonathan Pearce, with a stellar list of summarisers including Bobby Moore, Terry Neill and Alan Mullery became required listening on Capital Gold Sport from the 1988-89 season onwards.
MW: What was your first football sticker book? How did this particular love eventually lead to writing three books about collecting?
GL: My first Panini sticker album was Football 79 and so began a lifetime’s love affair with football stickers (especially those by Panini). My brother, Billy, who was a professional footballer with West Ham at the time and had collected FKS stickers as a child, bought me the album and subsequent packets - getting to within one sticker of finishing the album. Although I was a little young to be taking much interest in following scores/a specific team in early 1979 I was fascinated by the badge designs, variously-hued kits and garish haircuts. I became hooked on collecting and football soon after.
MW: What football team do you support? Tell me about your first and last matches...
GL: As I mentioned above, my brother was a professional at West Ham at the time of my first Panini album and my Dad just happened to be reserve team manager - 25 years into his career as player and coach at West Ham. So you’d imagine my answer would be West Ham. Except, just a few weeks into the first season I began to take a real interest in following games (1979-80) my Dad lost his job at West Ham. Out of loyalty to him, I didn’t feel it was appropriate to support West Ham, so I had to find another team. My Mum told me my Dad had supported Arsenal as a boy so there was the solution to my problem! My first game was 4th October 1980 v Leicester (1-0 to the Arsenal!) and I started going regularly with my Dad from the mid-80s until his last game in 2014 (the FA Cup Final v Hull, a good game to finish on). By then, I had three young children to look after and my Dad preferred to follow from his armchair which is generally what I do now, though my kids allow me out to get out to watch a few times a season!
MW: If Brian Clough had been appointed England manager in 1977 instead of Ron Greenwood, what players do you think Clough’s England side would have included?
GL: As ITV4 has been showing The Big Match Revisited from 1979-80 recently it was interesting to note Brian Clough recruited both Charlie George and Stan Bowles at Nottingham Forest for periods during that season. Both were past their best by that stage but Clough was still willing to give them a chance at one of the leading clubs in Europe – no other club of that repute was willing to do the same by then. Therefore, it is likely he would have similarly given those two – and other mercurial talents – a further chance with England had he taken the job in 1977. Judging by his famous comment about Trevor Brooking ahead of the 1980 FA Cup Final (‘floats like a bee, stings like a butterfly’) it might have been less good news for the West Ham midfielder!
MW: What football rules would you like to see changed back and why?
GL: I’m not convinced the removal of the away goals rule in European club competition has been a positive move, but I guess it depends on what end of the result you are on! It can, on occasion, make teams settle for penalties in extra time rather than go for a goal.
I believe the opportunity to use five subs in a Premier League match gives the bigger clubs, with their larger squads, an unfair advantage – as if they didn’t have enough already. Just when one of the smaller clubs think they might have nicked a point, on come another couple of £30m players to potentially impact the game. If a manager can’t change a game with three subs I don’t see why he should get another couple of goes.
MW: Share your thoughts on the recent passing of Dickie Davies and John Motson?
GL: In that ‘70s/’80s era, with comparatively little TV sports coverage compared to now, you are talking about two of the biggest names of The Age.
Saturday afternoons would be spent switching between Grandstand on BBC and Dickie Davies on ITV’s World of Sport.
Then, when it came to football commentary, the three best-known were John Motson, Barry Davies and Brian Moore.
A lot of presenters/commentators these days make it ever more apparent how great the likes of Davies and Motson were at their respective jobs.
MW: What other sports do you like?
GL: In the ‘80s, I was into watching most sports (as well as football and cricket I also watched a lot of snooker, darts and tennis) but once there was wall-to-wall football and cricket available there just wasn’t enough time to devote beyond those two.
Essex CCC is my county so I was lucky to have grown up during an era when they were one of the best county cricket teams around – probably only Middlesex could contest that claim – with Graham Gooch, John Lever, Ken McEwan, Neil Foster, Derek Pringle, Keith Fletcher and many other top cricketers.
I was even luckier to then become Essex’s first ever Communications Manager in 2003, working full-time at the club for six seasons and continuing to edit their Yearbook and other publications for several years after.
I also co-wrote a book about Essex – 60 Classic Essex Matches – in 2011. I enjoyed my time working in cricket – also freelancing for the ICC and the IPL as well as publishing my own cricket magazine, dedicated to Asian cricket, in 2009-10 – and would love to get back into it again in some capacity one day.
I’m still a big fan of Essex and England but am at a stage in my life, with young kids, where it is again mostly viewed from an armchair.
MW: Day at the seaside or a countryside picnic? Pick one and describe the desired experience.
GL: Both sound appealing - but right now the thought of a quiet beach, the radio on Test Match Special and a bit of beach cricket would go down a treat. Obviously the sun is shining at the seaside, England are 300-2 and there’s a nice bottle or two on the go!
MW: Aside from writing books and features, what are your other interests?
GL: Beyond my young family, I love nostalgia – sometimes too much for my wife’s liking! – so that forms a large part of my leisure, as well as work, in terms of researching subject matter for writing books and articles. I have become a proactive part of the retro-football community by selling my books and vintage items at Fairs/Shows. The football card and shirt fan bases have grown exponentially in recent years and I think the nostalgia market in general has a potential for significant growth.
By expanding not only can that be to the financial gain of those looking to sell items but, more importantly, it can also tell the stories of sportsmen and women long forgotten by many but with so much of value to impart. I am also a big advocate of sports nostalgia as a power for good in re-engaging those suffering with dementia, depression or loneliness. Charities do exist in this sphere but there are many more people who would benefit from being integrated.
MW: Where can we find out more about you and your future plans (as currently known)?
GL: My personal website is www.greglansdowne.co.uk and I give regular updates about my current and upcoming projects on Twitter (@Panini_book) and Instagram (@greglansdowne).
Having worked on the Panini UK Football Sticker Collections 1978-85 – The Complete Albums that came out towards the end of last year, I will also be assisting Bloomsbury on the follow-up Panini UK Football Sticker Collections 1986-93 – The Complete Albums, published in October (2023).
I have two other books in the pipeline, including a player autobiography - more of which will be revealed on my social media channels in due course – and also write regularly for publications such as Backpass and Retro Pop.
I will be selling my books and other football-related memorabilia at various Football Fairs over the course of this year and beyond. It’s an exciting time to be in the football nostalgia space.
List and links to Greg Lansdowne’s books:-
Stuck On You: The Rise and Fall…and Rise of Panini Stickers
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stuck-You-Fall-Panini-Stickers/dp/1785310062/ref=sr_1_1?
Panini Football Stickers: The Official Celebration
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Panini-Football-Stickers-Official-Celebration/dp/1472987772/ref=sr_1_2?
60 Classic Essex Matches
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Classic-Essex-Matches-Tony-Debenham/dp/0956701523/ref=sr_1_3?
Living a Fan's Adventure Tale: A-Ha in the Eyes of the Beholders
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Living-Fans-Adventure-Tale-Ha/dp/1908724382/ref=sr_1_5?
Panini UK Football Sticker Collections 1978-1985
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Panini-Football-Sticker-Collections-1978-1985/dp/1399405225/ref=sr_1_4?
Panini UK Football Sticker Collections 1986-1993 (Volume Two): 2 (Published October 2023)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Panini-Football-Sticker-Collections-1986-1993/dp/1399405284/ref=sr_1_6?
© Mark Watkins / April 2023
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LOVE BY CHANCE
SEASON 2
Listen, this show irked me like no other. Why? Because I adored LOVE BY CHANCE except the rape of No by Kengkla or whatever his name was with the help of No's own brother.
Love By Chance Season 2 had more problems in its story. Starting with Perth returning as Ae after on screen love interest Pete (A FIRED SAINT) left presumably for Ae. And Ae's constant crying in his room, in the bleachers, on the field, behind the school or wherever and if he wasn't sniveling he drinking or both. The we have the introduction of eye candy Mai. Who the fuck was this guy? Never saw hide nor hair of him in LBC but suddenly he's the only one that can bring Ae to his senses. While Pond who was in the first series was useless as tits on a boar hog. Everytime he found his friend Ae in a bad way he had to call Mai. NONSENSE.
Then there's Job, who the fuck was he. A replacement for Can's sloth like friend Good. More useless eye candy because he was tall and cute.
Then we have the other MEEN who was a recast of Tin's older brother played by a hotter and younger actor that was younger than the actor MEAN playing Tin. More useless eye candy given a BL story of his own. He never loved his wife. He loved a guy yet he was sleeping with a woman that got pregnant and he married her while fantasizing about the boy he left behind. NONSENSE but more eye candy.
Then the Tin and Can rewrite was the most ridiculous. Pete no longer existed in their story when in my opinion he was a huge part of it. Yet in the rewrite Tin and Can met randomly in front of the university. Tin blamed Can for being in the way. He wasn't. Plenty of space to walk around. And they just kept running into one another all the FUCKING TIME.
Now in LBC the International College was across campus and Tin and Can met because Ae was dating Pete. It was out of the way for one to go to the others faculty. Suddenly they are all up in one another's faces.
This series made me hate MAME for such a long time and I refused to watch her content until LOVE IN THE AIR.
#MY GRIEVANCES#A THAI BL SERIES I HATED#SECOND SEASON OF LOVE BY CHANCE#A CHANCE TO LOVE#TIN & CAN RECONSTRUCTED LOVE STORY#ALL EYE CANDY AND NO SUBSTANCE
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rules: you can usually tell a lot about a person by the type of music they listen to. put your playlist on shuffle and list the first 10 songs, and then tag some people. no skipping!
I was tagged by @infp-obsessing-over-everything , thank you ❤️
I swear this is purely coincidental 😂
(more than half my playlist consists of Eminem songs, statistically he should appear quite a few times)
Idk what these songs say about me, but these are the 10 songs that played on shuffle
I'm tagging @the-magpieprince, @beautifulcheat, @maeglinthebold, @builtfromthesamestar
(if you don't wanna do it, this is me giving you a pancake I just made and awkwardly waving hello ❤️)
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LeoFiat Masterpost
Google Drive (post linking to it and updating on status - includes youtube links)
More logic based meta:
Timings
Interests Masterpost
More headcanon based meta:
Demi Leo, and how this could have contributed to where they were at the start of the season.
Liveblogs:
Rewatching early scenes before Ep 9 aired (old blog)
TTTS S2 Ep 9 (old blog)
TTTS S2 Ep 10
TTTS S2 Ep 11
TTTS S2 Ep 12
TTTS S2 Special Ep
LBC 2
Fic/AU ideas: (feel free to steal)
Color Rush AU
AU continuation of novel
Links:
Ao3 LeoFiat tag
Wattpad LeoFiat tag
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tagged by @movementsofmylife thank you! i did this before but that was like a month ago and i love any excuse to talk so i'll do it again <3
THREE SHIPS
sound / win (my school president): you already know......
ae / pete (love by chance): i just watched lbc for the first time last month and aepete were SO SWEET!!! the drama that happened behind the scenes that resulted in lbc2 being like that makes me sad, but i'm glad we got to see what we did of them in the first season. i didn't care about any of the other ships lmao
heart / li ming (moonlight chicken): geminifourth are magical and lovely and i love how their fondness and comfort with each other translates so well everytime they're onscreen, even if they are playing vastly different characters. fourth is quickly becoming one of my gmmtv favs in terms of acting. seeing people compare him to nanon makes me so excited.
FIRST SHIP
i said percabeth last time so i'll say another formative ship: tenrose (doctor who) altered my brain chemistry when i was 10 and i have never been the same!
LAST SONG
beautiful beautiful - onf. sung hanbin is legendary for performing this song for the bp999 star test. i LOVE this song.
CURRENTLY READING
nothing for fun because of school and i study english lit/history so all of my schoolwork is already reading (yes this is just an excuse).
CURRENTLY WATCHING
my school president, never let me go, moonlight chicken, utsukushii kare 2
i just finished the 1st episode of boys planet and will probably finish the 2nd episode tonight. if you are watching this show PLEASE talk to me i'm going to go insane over it
CURRENTLY CONSUMING
tea and water, more tea than water.
CURRENTLY CRAVING
more soundwin in the next episode of msp </3
tagging anyone who would also like an excuse to ramble haha
#mint talks#tag game#so far in bp i'm rooting for ppl that are already voter favs so i'm not that stressed#my only underdog is maybe anthonny but he has a big following online. also the main vocal from k yuehua is rlly good!!#and i'm distantly supporting hojin and echan but i'm not that attached rn
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Hi, this is more of a share moment. On "My Engineer" you can see that King (Talay Actor) wears a black ring so as I keep watching the series I notice that I have the exact same ring (it has a simple design). I was quite surprised because it was so random but at the same time I was happy for the coincidence.
Between a little disappointed that there won't be a Season 2 to close some stories but I guess it was something that I saw coming especially because I watched the series later than it was aired but who knows what the future holds, right?
I forgot My Engineer 2 was still planned, season 1 ended like 37 years ago 😂😂😂
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I think I mentally cancelled the show about a year ago or so 😂
After such a long time I just didn't expect them to come through anymore. And I'm kind of glad they didn't. Because imagine them doing a sequel now, 2 years later where everyone is in different places and half of the audience probably forgot about season 1... it would be weird lol. It kinda worked with LBC 2 but not with this.
However them terminating their contracts with Tri Creation doesn't necessarily mean they can't do a sequel as independent actors so I guess it's not completely off the table 🤷🏼♀️
But if I had to choose between an awkward My Engineer season 2 with outdated tropes and one actor short and a possible new show for Perth and Talay, I know which I would choose 😂
xxx
#my engineer#my engineer 2#also at least they didnt recast anyone lmao#yes offence gmmtv#manifesting perthtalay to work together again because i really need them to#for science 🥺#but yeah i dont think perth is returning to bl anyway so yeah#but a girl can dream skjhgr#also that thing about your ring is really cool anon 1 lol
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For the character thing (Can I pick 2 ?) Cantaloupe. Morgana.
Oooh, these good ones! Ok, let's go...
CAN
First impression: I actually saw a gifset of TinCan before I started watching the show and it was one of those scenes where Can was like really shy about Tin flirting with him so I initially assumed he was like... one of those soft, shy lil cuties so I was jarred when his first scene came on and he was just a hyperactive monkey
Impression now: My son, my child, my beloved baby boy who I love with my whole ass heart
Favorite moment: This is SO hard to pick. Cantaloupe is a very good contender. But Imma say the moment when Tin and Ae are high intensity glaring at each other and he like, interrupts and is like "are you guys having a staring contest? can I join???" because that is the moment I was like... this is my favourite boy ever
Idea for a story: For LBC I wanted a story where post the 'breakup' Can like goes to China to be with his grandparents and when he comes back Tin is like lowkey dating some rich girl that his parents made him go on dates with and Can gets jealous. For ACTL, I want a story based on that moment where Can lies and says Ley is his girlfriend (LOL) and Tin continues to believe it
Unpopular opinion: Him being annoying is actually high-key a part of his charm.
Favorite relationship: Tin. Duh.
Favorite headcanon: That he's on the aro spectrum and is ace
MORGANA
First impression: Honestly, I loved Morgana from the very start. Like her calling out Uther in her very first scene was a stellar beginning for her and really set up her character in a great way
Impression now: I honestly love her still. Like she's a baller and a great villain, but tbh woman went OFF the rails in season 5. Like idk why she grew to hate Arthur so incredibly much and she did do a bunch of hypocritical things which bugged me, so I would say my love for her reduced past a certain point in the series
Favorite moment: Telling Uther to go to hell. Queen shit. I also love when she fights in Ealdor and goes "Reminds you of the time I used to beat you?" to Arthur. Also Queen shit
Idea for a story: I want a story where Morgana like builds up a proper villain empire and hires an assassin Merlin to kill Arthur. Yeah it would be a Merthur story but Morgana as a crime boss would be so good!!
Unpopular opinion: People blame Merlin for poisoning her but tbh she shouldn't have agreed to let Morgause literally murder everyone in the kingdom so it was kinda justified on Merlin's end
Favorite relationship: I do really enjoy her relationship with Arthur and the ups and downs it had, like I really wish we'd gotten more interactions between them after she became a full-fledged witch because their dynamic was so nuanced and interesting and could have been even better with more screentime
Favorite headcanon: I think she's still a baller swordsman and that she likely could still beat Arthur in a fight or two
#lbc can#love by chance#thaibl#morgana#bbc merlin#thank you for sending me these - this was really fun! ❤#confusedismymiddlename#ask
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Hello!
🧡 - What show did/do you have the most fun watching?
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Oof.... How do we define fun here? If we mean something truly chaotic and joyful, probably YYY the series? That entire thing was an ACID TRIP.
LBC season 1 might also be up there because I just kept swooning for Ae. Season 2 Ae needs help. Season 1 Ae was charming as fuck.
More recently? Semantic Error was always a good time too.
BL ask game
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So, Love By Chance 2 has nothing to do with the first season, and also they broke up Pete and Ae?
So, I guess I'm not watching it?
(I skipped a lot of TinCan in LBC but somehow Tin's tragic backstory reveal and Can's earnestness got me anyway, but now they're strangers again, and there's no AePete? Do they at least retcon the awful wrongbad "how Techno got a boyfriend" story, because fuck that)
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Spy x Family (Season 1)
After speaking with a coworker about anime recommendations and combing through my CrunchyRoll history, it struck me that I have no memory of a handful of the one season shows that litter that list. As I’m also doing with video games, I hope this acts as a little memory boosts for why I stuck with a show. (I may have to go back and re-watch those ones that escape me.)
But first!
Goddamn, pal. What a hell of a way to get myself out of a TV rut. I tell myself that I can only rewatch Laid-Back Camp so may times before it’s no longer acceptable, and that I need to branch out and discover new series that make me feel the way LBC does.
I’m not sure that Spy x Family ticks those same cozy, slice-of-life boxes that I find comfort with, but hell if I’m not blown away by this. As with most of my general knowledge, I had heard high praise of Spy x Family and kinda understood premise from snippets? I’m not sure what finally gave me that little push to hit play on the first episode, but dammit if I had being right.
Is Anya somehow one of the best characters in recent memory? My sell to folks recently is that “she’s an idiot because she’s four,” and I mean it reverently! I haven’t found myself laughing at a character in this way in a hot second. Anya cracks me the hell up.
I look forward to the forthcoming seasons, because as I was working my way through the existing episodes, it kept occurring to me that Yor’s story is still so unspoken. Season 1 was all about Twilight and his role as Loid Forger. Anya is there to speak in third-person a la George Costanza, but Yor is lurking in the shadows. Under what affiliation is Yor working? Who is the Shopkeeper? Will the first target that collides with Loid’s work be Desmond? Or Twilight himself? The opening credits of the second half of season 1 feed this fire further, focusing almost exclusively on Yor and her relationship with Anya. I’m in, you got me. I’m ready for a bit more character development for her in season 2.
It’s so difficult for me to tell how long this story is intended to be. It’s also occurring to me that I have no idea of manga creation works. Is that shit ever cancelled? Surely, right? I guess if it makes the transition to anime, it’s established itself as a player and will probably see its way through to the end. (A thought previously unthunk till this point.)
I don’t know if I really want to summarize the seasons here; I can look that shit up on my own. But I’m hoping just writing something about how I was feeling while watching is enough to get those memories flowing again. Spy x Family should’ve been an expected hit, but it still snuck up on me. Bring on season 2.
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trying to control his emotions
#second born of medthanan#love by chance#lbc tin#a chance to love#tincan#tin medthanan#mean phiravich#lbc season 2#love by chance 2#lbc spoilers
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