Last year, UNESCO officially designated 'Songkran in Thailand, a traditional Thai New Year festival', as an Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Here's a link to help introduce you to the beautiful culture of Songkran.

KP Quick'n'Dirty, Prompts, Week #5, ***Partnership with SongkranFest***

KP Quick'n'Dirty is teaming up with @songkranfest! This week, let's celebrate Thai culture, specifically Songkran, the Thai New Year. Your quest, should you choose to accept it, is to create KinnPorsche quick'n'dirties related to Songkran.

Make something quick'n'dirty (keep it short, keep it rough).

@ message this blog to get reblogged.

Say "remix" next to the @ mention or in tags if you welcome others to create something inspired by your piece!

*** DOUBLE UP THE REBLOGS! *** Also tag your qnd with #SongkranFest2024 or @ mention songkranfest to get reblogged.

Prompts - Your Pick

You can use one prompt, multiple prompts, or any other inspiration. These do not have to be used together. (You can also find more SongkranFest prompts.)

Text 1: Cleaning/cleansing in any sense of the word.

Text 2: Home (family); for instance, a story around returning home, finding a new home, or the meaning of home.

The reason behind these text prompts is that home, family, and water are key elements of the Songkran festival. The festival includes rituals around cleansing, particularly with younger family members showing respect to their elders by pouring scented water over their hands. LEARN MORE

Video:

Use this video for inspiration AND to learn about Songkran!

This post on the SongkranFest blog has more info and videos on water guns/fights.

Hiii! Can I be really dumb for a second and ask for a summary of current events in Thai BL Land? 👀 I look away for one second and there’s a partnership with BounPrem and/or WabiSabi and GMMTV? And GMMTV 2024 Part 2 was announced? And maybe more stuff I missed? I am so confused, please help me. I honestly don’t know where to find info on these things. Again, sorry for just dumping this ask on you instead of figuring it out myself. Thank you so much!

(On a completely unrelated side note: I was considering watching Ploy’s Yearbook too, but GMMTV straight shows have bored me before. So, is it worth watching in your opinion, are you enjoying it?)

Honestly? You got most of it! The GMMTV/WabiSabi merger happened on Monday—and Boun’s already been spotted on the set of Peaceful Property, which is wild. And then today, GMMTV finally announced that their Part 2 event will be held next Tuesday. Jimmy and Sea have both confirmed that they won’t have a show in Part 2, but I haven’t been following the news closely enough to know if anyone else in the BL world was excluded. First and Khaotung are going to be there and that's all that matters.

Today in particular was just a one thing after another. I woke up to news about GMMTV Part 2, then James Supamongkon essentially came out on a live stream, and then the new Idol Factory GL released a super spicy teaser. I was an hour late to work 🙈

Plus, this weekend was Songkran—Thai New Year—so everyone’s been extra active on social media. We got months of drought and then everything happened all at once.

As for Ploy’s Yearbook, so far it’s about on par with GMMTV’s usual het stuff. I’m enjoying it, but that’s mostly because the girls are pretty and I’m really, really gay. My one major qualm is that it’s following the same format The Jungle did where instead of telling an entire cohesive story, it seems like each individual couple is going to get a 2-3 episode arc. I wasn’t a huge fan of the first couple, but the others seem more interesting. 

Would I recommend it? Not really. It’s fine, but nothing special. I’m having fun ogling the attractive people and that’s basically the extent of it. But I’ll let you know if that changes.

Spring Fling— A K-Vanity event

Spring is all about new beginnings and transformations— starting fresh and starting over. There are many traditions around the world that celebrate this wonderful season and K-Vanity is inviting you to our exclusive event: Spring Fling!

Imagine yourself throwing colorful powder in India or going the Teotihuacán Pyramid in Mexico dressed in all white. In this event, you will create either fiction or visual art about your favorite idols and the many spring traditions around the world 💮

Rules

Writers:

You must create a piece of fiction that clearly includes a spring tradition. Here are some ideas you can use below (you aren't limited to these) :

Songkran Water Festival – Thailand

White House Easter Egg Roll – USA

Holi – Northern India

Nowruz – Central Asia

Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake – Gloucester, England

Cimburijada – Bosnia

Spring Equinox in Teotihuacán – Mexico

Floriade – Australia

The content must be at least 500 words and all regular rules and regulations of the net still apply.

Visual Artists:

You will create an edit (gif, moodboard, gfx, fanart, etc) of any spring tradition. The prompt must be included in your work (where it's in the caption or in the gif/gfx/edit itself). You can use the same ideas above if you like but you are also not limited to those!

Additional Info:

You must be a member of our network to participate

No sign ups. Just use the tag #kspringfling along with the net tag #kvanity when posting your work.

Posting Period: March 29th -May 31st

Masterlist will be posted June 9th

If you have any questions please reach out to the K-Vanity entertainment team admin @beomcoups!

im actually the worst for making more work for myself we're doing projects on spring festivals in spanish class so like carnival marto gras songkran etc etc. Anyway the one I chose was Tlacaxipehualiztli. I couldnt find much info on it but I COULD find this handwritten book/journal detailing a lot of things abt it

the issue is its in spanish AND in cursive so im just. struggling 2 decipher it

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Kanchanaburi

13. April 2019

Wir laufen zum Hostel und wollen einchecken. Leider war es gerade mal 11 und somit nicht möglich. Ich war von oben bis unten nass, denn bei diesen Temperaturen streikt der Körper. Naja kann man nichts machen, so sind wir los zu der Brücke, die wir unbedingt sehen wollten. Die >Todesbrücke<, Brücke am Kwai. Im 2. Weltkrieg sind wohl um die 100.000 Gefangenen gestorben, weil sie diese Zugstrecke bauen mussten. Die Bedinungen, Essen, Trinken und das Leben waren so schlecht, dass ganz viele arme Menschen gestorben sind. Heute ist die Brücke ein beliebtes Touristenziel und es stehen auch Denkmäler für die Gefallenen am Gleis.

Wir dachten eigentlich, dass man unter 2 km locker laufen kann, aber wie gesag, bei 41 Grad ist das nicht so lustig. Nach der Hälfte sind wir in ein gekühltes Restaurant und haben uns erstmal ausgeruht, ca. 1 Stunde hat es gedauert bis wie soweit waren, dass es wieder ging. Die Brücke war sehr cool anzuschauen. Es war wohl die einzige Eisenbrücke von Thailand damals, zum Vergleich Myamar hatte 6-7.

Ich war dann noch im Kriegsmuseum und auch das hat mir sehr gut gefallen. Es war erstaunlich, wie groß der Unterschied ist zu unseren Museen. Hier wurde seit der Eröffnung nicht abgestaubt, aber dennoch habe ich viel gesehen und gelernt.

Cooles Museum - weitere Bilder ein Post darunter

Gitte hat in der Zwischenzeit in einem Cafe auf mich gewartet und als wir soweit waren fuhren wir mit dem Tuktuk zurück zum Hostel. Auf dem Weg haben wir erstmal mehrere Eimer Wasser wahrend der Fahrt abbekommen und kamen klatschnass an. Naja wir wollten sowieso duschen, da war die Abkuhlung ganz cool.

Am Abend sind wir dann zu einem vegetarischen Restaurant, auf dem Weg dorthin habe ich leider wieder einen Eimer abbekommen und meine Gelassenheit wurde auf die Probe gestellt. Denn ich war das erste mal seit in der Früh um Sieben trocken und nicht verschwitzt und ja.... dann nicht mehr. Aber was solls.

Das Essen war gut, ich hatte Melanzani mit Basilikum und Reis oder so ähnlich. Das erste richtige Essen seit vorgestern, denn gestern hatten wir eigentlich nur Eis, Kekse und Chips. Heute nur bisschen Toast und Knoblauchbrot. Bei der Hitze muss man sich fast zwingen etwas zu Essen, aber bei Eis muss ich nie 2x überlegen. Zur Info: ich habe heute ca. 4 Liter getrunken.

Also liebe Grüße nach Hause zum schlechten Wetter, ich beneide euch.

Soviel zu heute. Morgen gehts weiter.

Motto des Tages: duschen bringt nix, man ist e in 2 Minuten wieder nass

Erkenntnis des Tages: an Songkran bleibt man wirklich nicht trocken

Tag verbracht mit: Gitte

Throughout history, the dates that count as the "new year" have changed a couple of times due to regime changes and political decisions within Thailand. Today, the official new year is on January 1st, like the rest of the world. The 1st of January is called ปีใหม่ (“pi mai”), ปี is “year,” and ใหม่ is “new.”

Alongside this is Songkran-สงกรานต์. Songkran is considered the Thai New Year that takes place in mid-April. The date of Songkran used to be calculated each year by a royal astrologer, but now, for practical reasons, it is officially on April 13–15 every year. Taking place during a long weekend, Songkran is the time of year when people emphasize the importance of honoring their ancestors and taking a break to go home and spend time with their families. Offices and shops close to accommodate the holiday and travel plans, which can be the whole weekend or extend to the entire week.

Like many Thai traditions, Songkran has a lot of Brahmanism influence and many aspects that involve Buddhism. Buddhism is the most prominent religion in Thailand, with more than 90% of Thai people being Buddhist. Therefore, many significant acts during Songkran symbolize cleansing, unity, and good fortune for the upcoming new year. Bathing Buddha images and making merits with family members is traditionally done, and other fun activities, such as water fights, feasting, games, and folk dance, are also part of the celebration (UNESCO, TheNationThailand).

Currently, to boost tourism in Thailand, the Thai government has extended Songkran celebrations in various ways. Places such as Silom Road and Khao San Road are spotlighted as destinations to attract international travel, all while encompassing the usual Thai traditions of water fights, street food, and music (SindhornMidtown). Many places and institutions have begun their countdown to Songkran!

Here, at SongkranFest, we will be counting down the days to Songkran by sharing information about Songkran! This information will help our participants become more knowledgeable about the Thai New Year, as well as help them center Thai culture in their fanworks.

🌸 What's SongkranFest2024? 🌸 Guidelines 🌸 Prompts 🌸 Discord & Carrd 🌸

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A gentleman from Sacramento, California, 43 years old, wanted to come to Thailand for Songkran, and then some further exploration. But, with all the changes announced by the government, the restrictions imposed recently for Songkran celebrations, and the hotels still advertising for 14 day quarantines, he’s found it a complete minefield. His main complaint – people ‘on the ground’ don’t appear to know about the April 1 changes to quarantine requirements. Here’s a screen shot from the Royal Thai Embassy in Austria. Other embassies have also updated their information but the changes, mostly, haven’t filtered down to quarantine-registered hotels in Thailand. “I just find it odd that we are less than five days from the first and no official documentation has been pushed out to hotel owners.” Here is his full message to The Thaiger… This link is to official policy changes from the Royal Thai consulate. Can you please investigate why the changes are not being implemented into the local quarantine hotels who are still selling 15 day packages when it clearly states as of April 1 that this is the new policy. I am not sure what official word they are waiting for or why it has not been documented to the hotel owners but I am very curious as to why it is listed as official government policy from the Royal Thai consulate? There seems to be a complete failure of information being filtered down to the standard SOP (Standard Operating Procedures) booklet given to the ASQ hotel managers. I am currently checked into ALQ in Pattaya and my hotel manager refuses to implement any changes to the ALQ until “official word” has been given. I feel the updated policy changes listed from the Royal Thai embassy should be more than sufficient to implement change. Who is the official source of the info? Is it the Thai health ministry? Or is it provincial managers or officials? Who is the man? Bottomline, it’s more complicated to get into Thailand than it was pre-Covid. But many people are travelling here and going through the paperwork, and you can too. But it may pay to be patient during this period of transition and re-opening. https://www.instagram.com/p/CM5i-SiB1o1/?igshid=kr747zwn8ts0

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