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I was wondering who put cocaine in the Big Dragon ost for it to be that good and it turns out it was fucking Jeff Satur, can I have a break sir, I’ve reached my simping level for the month

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If you don't like the effect then don't watch it.

I read a lot of hatred on the show from people who definitely did not look for information on the story beforhand, and it shows.

The effect has never pretended to be a cute love story because it is not. From the very first episode, you can clearly see and feel that while Keng is definitely interested in Shin, the latter doesn't feel anything but respect toward his P'. Maybe the music is sometimes misleading, that's actually how I felt in the few situations where Shin and Keng were close to each other, but the main objects from this lakorn / novel are the somewhat "domino effects" harrassment can have. Rape can be one.

I found the second episode even better than the first. James prapatthorn is an amazing actor, and not once can we be deceived: No, Shin does clearly NOT love Keng, never has and would have maybe if Man did not start spreading photos and rumors about him and Keng, but we would never know. Now from the begining of the ep to the end we got Keng's point of you.That dude, god knows how much he deserves to be happy. And here again, the actor portrayed him perfectly. In a matter of fact, you can sense the tension bulding, the pressure accumulating. When Shin gets into the classroom and leaves him on his own, the camera zooms in on his clenching fist and that's when you know that he reached the point of no return. You get that Keng, even if he is surrounded by many, does not really have true friends. Plus his parents are terrible. I believe that he truely loves Shin with all his heart, and yet, what he does to Shin, blinded by anger and extreme sadness due to unrequited love, is the most terrible thing that could ever happen. The last scene is near unbearable, and that's how it's supposed to be. Rape is a nightmare that haunts you for life. (Must admit that I cried, AND YET I like this scene a lot because that's how it's supposed to be: horrible and NOT romanticised!!)

I'm eager to see the third episode. It's going to be a real challenge for both actors. And if you can't watch the show because it triggers you, then do not. Indeed, if they follow the storyline (which it looks like it), it will get darker. (No more rape, but PTSD, suicidal thoughts... stuff like that).

Before watching a show the scenario of which stems from a novel, try to look for some basic information on it. Some are lovely and cute stories and others are just very dark. Be careful.

(Also shout out to the support roles, Yacht Surat is yet again the friend everyone wants to have, Pramote is a sweetheart and I felt you, Man, you a b**** but I can relate [unrequited love, jealousy] and that talk on how Keng should accept the fact that he loves men regardless of what his parents think is 👍)

hi kpop stans, stop being stupid and anyhow cancel kpop artists because u don’t know the context & start cancelling artists who need to get cancelled (aka bp i am still salty)

anyways about hyunjin: in asian culture, what hyunjin did was okay because poofy hair = auntie’s hair (not related but older female) and big lips = gossiping lips (a lot of aunties love to gossip). so, next time when you guys start staning asian group, you guys should read up about our culture y’all 0 braincell fools.

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I’ll keep this short, sweet and to the point. Sorry not sorry. I am prepared to respectfully fight.

Western K-pop stans need to stop demanding responses from their idol groups in regards to things that happen in America.

In this instance I’ll be mainly talking the issue in regard to BLM.

While I applaud groups and companies who have shown their support for BLM I don’t find it nessicary, and it really pisses me off when other fans think otherwise. S.Korea’s political, justice , education system and etc, are fare different then America’s. Both countries have their own set of problems that they are dealing with and don’t really have time to always keep itself updated with the other country’s happenings.

BLM isn’t a priority in S.Korea for many factors.

The percentage of blacks within the country is significantly lower.

The system is different.

Not many Koreans can relate or maybe even understand.

They have their own political problems to fix, why would they focus on ours?

This isn’t their fight.

S.Korea is a less outspoken country then America (Not saying its a bad thing, they just deal with things differently, respect that)

And so on and so forth.

I’ve actually come across Koreans who have voiced that they believe Americans are too expecting and pushy when it comes to certain matters we perceive as important. We don’t have the right to get upset when a group doesn’t do a political stunt we think we should do, American artists don’t do it for them, why should they do it for us? I’m not saying that it’s a bad thing when they do, I’m just saying that we need to stop expecting them as if it’s their job. It’s not. It can be understandable for big groups like BTS to put out statements, but any other group doesn’t really make sense. A lot of artists want to stay neutral, I’ve gotten the sense,from some of my Korean friends, that unlike the United States Korean artists aren’t as open about their political stance like a lot of Western artists are, I think that’s partly why BTS got some backlash back in the day.

Please understand that this issue with BLM isn’t S.Korea’s fight, it’s not an issue we need to drag their artists into, they have they’re own battles. On top of that Korean news outlets hardly ever cover American oriented news unless it’s something about K-pop in the Western market or Trump.

Just.... my heart is badly broken... daaaamn :/

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K-pop artists wearing braids and cornrows is NOT culture appropriation.

Note: I’m black.

If I had a dollar for the amount of times people have told me that I should be offended when K-pop artists “Steal” my harritage I’d be a billionaire. And, if I had a dollar for everyone THEY then get offended when I say I couldn’t care less...I’d be richer than Amazon.

Truth of the matter is that, I could give two fucks, for two reasons.

1. Just because someone is wearing a Certain style, hair, cloths, shoes, etc. doesn’t mean that they are disrespecting it.

2. Why would I get offended that they wear “my hairstyle” when I wear theirs? (I straighten my hair, dye it black, etc)

This

Is not appropriating African American culture. They are simply wearing a style. They aren’t saying hateful things about black culture or people while wearing the style and they aren’t making fun of the style. Again, they are simply wearing it. I don’t find anything wrong with that.

Now, if they were wearing these types of hairstyles and embodying stereo typical African-American manners, THEN I wouldn’t be okay with it. Call out appropriation when it clearly shows, but understand that when it isn’t a big deal. I actually feel honored when other cultures wear braids andor African-American oriented hairstyles. It’s a form of flattery and we need to start understanding that.

On my second note, African-Americans don’t have straight hair. This

Does not come naturally to African-Americans. Our hair comes in different stages of curls. I have yet to meet an African-American who has naturally straight hair, if you have good for you however that is not the majority of African Americans. This kind of hair requires a wig or a weave. If other culture wearing “our styles” is disrespectful then what do you call this?

“It’s not about them wearing the style is about them not knowing the culture behind it and what it means to African-Americans” You may argue, to which I argue back: before you go and buy/use a shirt, pants, shoes, hair etc, of a certain style, do you look up where it originated from? EVERYTHING we have acquired here in the United States we have acquired from other countries and their cultures. So technically, we have been appropriating since the beginning.

Again, I don’t have a problem with K-pop, or any other cultures for that matter, wearing African-American oriented hairstyles. Do you agree? 

Okay here I come with thoughts that I'm not sure many people will be on board with, but I'm gonna share anyway because who cares! Wandee Goodday is doing a fantastic job selling characters who are ridiulous, and many of them are charming. I'm gonna talk about the guy who isn't. Charming that is.

I Think Ter Is In The Closet

And I'm only using bits from episode 4 to demonstrate this. Sorry if you need more to be convinced.

Ter is a strange character because we meet him through Wandee, when he's still up on a pedestal. That image almost immediately gets crumpled and tossed into oncoming traffic to be flattened in a rubbery, Bangkok traffic death. Dee confesses his feelings and Ter insists he's straight. He's straight. He's straight! He likes women, not men. Sorry. To make matters worse, he pulls the asshole move of just asking Dee to leave the scholarship to him.

These men have known each other for eight years. Eight fucking years and this is where things are going? If we know how much of a disaster Dee is, then it really makes me wonder what disaster side of himself Ter has (aside from what we know).

(thinking them gaaayyy thoughts) (also this weirdo doesn't listen to music while working out? no wonder he's the devil)

Ter is recalling the moment when Yak came into the hospital with flowers for Dee, called him tee-rak, and the two of them are looking at each other like. Like That.

Super normal for a hetero dude to focus on that part of his long-term colleague's life. And if he were a huge homophobe, I could understand it being a possible upset, but then he wouldn't be so close to Dee if that were the case. This is Golf Tanwarin we're being led by here.

Our Devil Doctor is pulled out of his train of thought by the appearance of a shirtless Plakao

Guys, I won't lie to you, I yelled NO aloud because for a second I thought he was going to have his come to Jesus with our favorite asexual king, and as an asexual who worships Plakao and how amazing he is, I just wasn't gonna have it!

And the first thing Ter notices? Kao is alone - specifically, he isn't accompanied as usual by his bestie Wandee. So Ter immediately interrupts his workout to question him. Kao responds that Dee's with his boyfriend now, which prompts more questioning about their relationship from Ter.

Yeah, Ter. What's it matter to you?

You turned Wandee away because you're straight. So, obviously that's a no, right? Right?

Not addressing that then. Okay. We'll just hit the skip button for that dialogue option, I guess.

As a tenured colleague and friend, that would be the natural reaction to this. Kao is a wise, wise man, and like many an asexual, he has done the work of figuring himself out while living in an allonormative world (while also recognizing he likes men! I cannot stress enough how beautifully nuanced his okay). From what he understands (and is stating for Ter to ponder), is that this would make sense for someone who doesn't harbor any other kinds of feelings toward Dee and until recently, has been on good terms with him.

But Ter doesn't get to ponder because he gets called away and immediately forced to face Dee happily walking hand in hand with Yak. It's awkward. Dee excuses himself and Yak. And then Ter's eyes foooolloooww.....

And later he gets back to his room with the number of the beast and fondly recalls when Dee used to leave snacks on his door....

(crowd goes awww)

But this guy can't help but notice while he's doing an evening workout -

Hey! There are Dee and Yak again! Being all cute in the pool! It's too coincidental! (He had not considered that his colleague works at the same place and has a similar schedule, therefore all this appropriately timed boyfriendism could only happen within that schedule)

So he has to conclude that it isn't real.

Little does Ter know that it was originally intended for YakDee to be fake boyfriends; that he'd stumbled upon the truth immediately. What he wasn't expecting was for Dee to double down not only to not be caught plotting like that, but because he's way further into his feelings for Yak than he is fully aware of.

I cannot stress how interesting it is so see this man be so obsessed over their relationship. Anyone who would call themselves a close friend or colleague would simply be happy for Dee, maybe warn him about some people who are less accepting if that were an issue, and then continue focusing on whatever it is he's doing for the scholarship. And maybe he does focus on the scholarship - we aren't shown his side of it because it's not important - but if that's true and his secondary focus is theorizing that Dee's relationship is fake? TER? WORSTIE?????

And then this happens!

Now I've seen a lot of people taking this as manipulation and I'm not going to call them wrong. It is exactly that. But I think he's also seeing if maybe he missed a chance? It wasn't that long ago that Dee was reminiscing about the past eight years together and Ter had decided the scholarship was more important than pursuing whatever thing they had between each other. Ter is realizing he doesn't want to throw either of them away, but still has his heart with the money. So he improvises a lame little plea, it's badly executed, and we get sad eyes watching Dee leave.

I would've expected him to curse under his breath, or have some sort of small scale tantrum after that interaction if he was fully planning to manipulate Dee like that. His melancholy here is what has me thinking that it wasn't well thought out, and there's a part of him who cares about his relationship with Dee and wishes it could carry on as it used to.

Ter continues to obsess. We know he'd immediately seen the story Dee posted, and it seems he's returning to it again (knowing social media habits, he's likely checked it several times in between).

CAUGHT.

Kwan, in contrast to Ter, is also Dee's colleague. She finds him and his boxer boyfriend just charming!

This line kills the entire conversation. There's very obvious tension about this subject.

To me this is where Ter has kinda said the quiet part out loud. He's more concerned about his own image. To whom? His family? His patients? Future opportunities? To himself? Not that there's nothing for Dee to be worried about (this is in Thailand where gay marriage is not legal yet, after all), but he has had a good reception of being publicly queer so far. Is that due to his queerness being more pronounced? Has Ter ridden for most of his life on being able to pass as straight because he was afraid of the consequences?

I'm gonna take a hard left for a moment, and then redirect.

There's a scene in the film To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar where a sheriff (who has had an altercation with a drag queen and is looking for her for severely homophobic reasons) sits in a saloon and essentially narrates gay erotica aloud like he's trying to process the concept of homosexuality. He's disturbed about the idea. The people around him are also disturbed by his imaginings. It almost gives the sense that his thoughts come from desire, but he's been taught too much hate about that desire to recognize it.

And this is the moment where I just felt sorry for Ter. It seems like he maybe has some deep-seated denial, and it's being overturned by everything Dee is doing. It doesn't excuse him, but shit's gotta suck. And it's clear his disturbance with the idea of Dee having gotten over any feelings for him will be hard to reckon with on top of deciding how he feels about Dee himself. P'Golf does their antagonistic and confused gays well.

Watching the trailer for Happy of the end: "It's...it feels very Ogeretsu Tanaka like"

Yep. Turns out it is adapted from the eponymous manga written by Ogerestu Tanaka, one of the many Ogeretsu Tanaka works that I read in the past. I just love how they almost always write beautiful fucked up love stories and doesn't shy away from depicting and condemning obsessive and destructive behaviours in relationships. They are like "Nope, nothing romantic in an abusive relationship, get your shit together" and I love them for that.

(Also, very unpopular opinion, but Yaribu is forever underrated.)

No. I can’t.

It just hits me right in the feels all over again. It has been over a MONTH, and Absolute Chanyeol still has this effect on me. It’s just so bittersweet, you can never get over it.

I love this fic with all my heart. It’s as if it seriously just put a huge impact in my life.

I just love this so much. When I saw this fanart, I just cried Niagra Falls. I am such an emotional mess.

Here are the links:

Pt.1 - http://almightyblinger.livejournal.com/9098.html

Pt.2 - http://almightyblinger.livejournal.com/9437.html#cutid1