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hi again

how are you? i hope you had a good week so far

i have two questions

1. i’m watching manner of death and the sound quality is driving me mad. i tried on yt and then switched to we tv site and it still is not good. like it’s way too quiet (you can barely hear the background when they talk) or the music comes in and it gets too loud. i wonder if it’s me or if the mixing (?) got messed up. i’ve seen a few clips of other series (can’t name them of the top of my head) and just wanted to ask why does it happen? is it a budget problem or mic one or maybe copyright? or just honest mistake or my laptop is just weird.

2. how did the pairing in thai bls stared? like did they just randomly decided to pair the actors who did good together and keep casting them both for roles? because they got popular with fans or was it more planned and conscious effort to sell that?

side note just wanted to thank you for all of your commentaries and reviews and language posts. they make me super interested in the dynamics of characters and make me pay attention to stuff i normally wouldn’t. so thank you for making me a little bit more perceptive.

Hi hi again!

So far so good, it's a slow week, I got a lot of stuff out that I'm waiting to come home again with work, which means I am sitting around twiddling my thumbs doing busywork (as the gran would call it) and distracting myself on Tumblr.

At some point in the not too distant future a big project is gonna hit and I’m gonna disappear except for the weekly updates and y’all are gonna think I’m dead. 

Manner of Death = terrible sound production?

1. i’m watching manner of death and the sound quality is driving me mad. i tried on yt and then switched to we tv site and it still is not good. like it’s way too quiet (you can barely hear the background when they talk) or the music comes in and it gets too loud. i wonder if it’s me or if the mixing (?) got messed up. i’ve seen a few clips of other series (can’t name them of the top of my head) and just wanted to ask why does it happen? is it a budget problem or mic one or maybe copyright? or just honest mistake or my laptop is just weird.

I think I remember it being pretty bad always. But then I watched MoD grey so everything was terrible, rips and all, and thre were random ads and threats of viruses. Count your blessings in that regard, trust me, it could be A LOT worse. 

I’m just getting around to a rewatch on WeTV but I’m not expecting much. I’ll let you know if I feel like the sounds is significantly worse than I remember. 

Honestly, with very few exceptions Thailand is TERRIBLE with sound, even worse when they go on location. Their looping is bad (if they bother). I mean we JOKE about how terrible they are with boom mics so much that Our Days referenced it. 

For goodness sake they use wired mics for intimacy scenes, and cheap wireless mics at WINDY locations. It’s just *throws hands into air.* 

Speculation is there just aren’t any sound techs in Thailand. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. 

How do Thai BL Pairs Happen? How did it start? 

2. how did the pairing in thai bls stared? like did they just randomly decided to pair the actors who did good together and keep casting them both for roles? because they got popular with fans or was it more planned and conscious effort to sell that?

SOTUS started it. Ironically, we get to blame SingtoKrist. 

OffGun made it popular and caused everyone to realize it was possible to make more money as branded pair (sponsorship deals). 

But it was MewGulf who actually broke the internet. They caused Harper/Vogue something fashiony (?) Thailand’s website to crash when they appeared on the cover together, also won best kiss Asia against all the het couples. 

Originally I believe it was unplanned, but KirstSingto did so well on variety shows and with fan meets when promoting SOTUS and then SOTUS S they got given their own travel-esk show (by GMMTV). Say what you like about Krist he’s really good on a “yes, and.” Then GMMTV started to just sort of do a hard push with any pair they could, to try to get them to stick and recreate this magic. 

For the first few years 2016-2019 or so, the boys were just farting around and not really intentional about it. I think as the IRL shipping got worse (especially with MewGulf and ZeeSaint), expectations started to be different from within the industry (as well as from outsiders). Things have changed after multiple fissures and problems with pairs disbanding (and this having a career impact). 

Sometimes GMMtV’s intentional approach works (EarthMix) sometimes it fades away (PodKhaotung) sometimes it’s purposefully made-over by the studio (BrightWin). 

Career-minded and more savvy actors and managers are now, understandably, both wary and intentional in their approach to pairing up (and IF they will have an approach at all). Watching how Nanon and Ohm handled it for Bad Buddy was eye opening. (Ohm’s previous pairing from Make It Right seems to have left in industry for... not great reasons... So I’ve always assumed Ohm is relatively jaded and definitely guarded about BL.)

On the flip side, indie pairs started to form with specifically an eye towards acting together as the leads in dramas (e.g. KaownahTurbo and SantaEarth).

I talk a lot about it and the history of pairs in this (OLD AND NO LONGER UPDATED) post here:

A Guide to Thai BL Actor Pairs for New Watchers 

and a little bit on the new ones in 

Thai BL Actor Pairs... REDUX! (newer pairs)

and

GMMTV and Co-Branded BL Couples - pairs and marketing tactics

I keep meaning to do an update on all the pairs, but the skinship side of BL fandom makes me very uncomfortable so I keep avoiding it. 

#thai bl #thia bl couples #thai bl pairs #branded pairs #sotus #SingtoKrist #manner of death #maxtul #Thai BL Actor Pairs. #KaownahTurbo #SantaEarth #PodKhaotung #EarthMix #OffGun #our days the series

[crying-over-gay-dramas]

heyyyy, i know you must get this question a million times but what site do you watch bl dramas on?????? i watched SOTUS on netflix and now im hooked!!!! please help netflix in my country has nothing else available!!!!!!!!

I gotchuuuu

Okay so depending on what country you’re in some sites might be blocked but I’ll tell you all the ones I use and hopefully some work for you. Plus, if you get a VPN (Virtual Private Network) you can change your location and have access to the sites.

The main site I use is youtube. You can find essentially any BL on there. GMMTV’s you tube channel has many BL’s (such as Sotus, Kiss me again/dark blue kiss, waterboyy, My Tee, 2gether, Theory of love, and Sotus S (which is season two to sotus). On Studio Wabi Sabi’s youtube channel you can find: Love by chance, En of love, and Until We meet Again. On motive Village Official’s youtube you can find 2moons and 2moons2.

Another site I use to watch BL dramas is Line TV. They have links for international fans with eng sub on their twitter There you can find even more BL dramas such as TharnType, YYY and why r u. You might have a hard time finding the links to all the episodes through there though so if you need it I have google docs I made with all the episodes linked.

I also use Viki where you can watch the HIStory series (some of which can also be found on youtube) 

*whispers* I also use a website called KissAsian where you can find a lot of eng subbed BL dramas (and Asian dramas in general) but you didn’t hear it from me

If you can’t find a specific BL you want to watch let me know and I can link you to them ^_^

And as the BL world is very large, you might not know where you want to go from here so if you want you can consult this flow chart I made to see what you might want to watch next :)

Hope this helps!