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bl-bracket · 18 days

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Horny on Main Round 1

Round 1

Kinn (Kinnporsche: The Series) vs Aob (Playboyy: The Series)

Hira (Utsukushii Kare) vs Tinn (My School President)

Porsche (Kinnporsche: The Series) vs Jang Jaeyoung (Semantic Error)

Pran (Bad Buddy) vs Time (Kinnporsche: The Series)

Lan Zhan (The Untamed) vs Joke (Hidden Agenda)

Sarawat (2gether: The Series) vs Chun Sangwon (Love for Love's Sake)

Wen Kexing (Word of Honor) vs Choi Jun (Jun & Jun)

Pluem (Ghost Host, Ghost House) vs Yechan (Love Tractor)

Rain (Love in the Air) vs Muang (Be Mine SuperStar)

Fighter (Why R U?) vs Nuea (Secret Crush on You)

Pat (Bad Buddy) vs Fiat (Don't Say No)

Boeing (Only Friends) vs Payu (Love in the Air)

Babe (Pit Babe) vs Sailom (Wedding Plan)

Kongpob (SOTUS) vs Bai Zhong Yi (Kiseki: Dear to Me)

Phaya (The Sign) vs Vee (Love Mechanics)

Jin Xun An (My Tooth Your Love) vs Chu Yi Ping (Anti Reset)

Boston (Only Friends) vs Nont (Playboyy: The Series)

Han Ying (Word of Honor) vs Palm (Never Let Me Go)

Ray (Only Friends) vs Yi (Cutie Pie/Naughty Babe)

Tan (Manner of Death) vs Segasaki Mizuki (My Personal Weatherman)

King (Bed Friend) vs Karan (Cherry Magic TH)

Korn (Bad Buddy) vs Charlie (Pit Babe)

Wen (Moonlight Chicken) vs Toh (Secret Crush on You)

Charn (Laws of Attraction) vs Yai (The Sign)

Prapai (Love in the Air) vs Prom (Playboyy: The Series)

Teh (I Told Sunset About You) vs Togawa (Old Fashion Cupcake)

Yok (Not Me) vs Win (Between Us)

Xiang Hao Ting (HIStory 3: Make Our Days Count) vs Tawan (Kinnporsche: The Series)

Nick (Only Friends) vs Jeng (Step by Step)

Phupha (A Tale of Thousand Stars) vs Tin (Triage)

Zhao Yunlan (Guardian) vs Mangkorn (Big Dragon)

Tharn (The Sign) vs Ritsu (The End of the World with You)

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aprilblossomgirl · 1 month

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Just tell me right here that you miss me. My tiredness will be gone. Are you crazy? How can I say that? Take care then. Hold on… I miss you, Kong.

SOTUS (2016) Episode 15 | Dir. Lit Phadung Samajarn

#sotus #sotus the series #sotusedit #*gifs #april.gif #kongpob x arthit #krist perawat #singto prachaya #did i just gif a 2016 show? yes i did.#do i have something to say about my feelings toward this drama. yes. a lot. but that would belong to a blog post. not tags.

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jane-journal · 8 months

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Krist ‘Thank U’ Speech to Gawin

#be my favorite #gawinkrist #be my favorite the series #sotus #Thai bl #krist perawat

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kristsingto · 2 months

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#krist perawat #sotus the series #sotus #be my favorite #i’m tee me too #hack the jungle #idk how to tag im not doing all those #Yes. i am aware i snuck an advertisement character in here

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brazilian-whalien52 · 8 months

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I have been considering something really important

#i mean you need some self reflection for these but idk #bad buddy #kinnporsch #gmmtv #bl drama #boss and a babe #cutie pie #i really want to buy oishi #my school president #be my favorite #not me #moonlight chicken #a tale of thousand stars #2gether #sotus #love in the air

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iguessitsjustme · 16 days

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Rose's Day of Asks

Top 5 umbrellas in bl.

Have a great Day💜

This took me a minute to get to because I had to work and then I had to go and find screenshots because I have something to say about umbrellas in BL.

I'll get to my top 5 in a moment, but first I need to talk about how my top 5 are ALL in 1000 Years Old because that show is the only show with any vision.

Because 90% of BLs have decided that clear umbrellas are the only umbrellas (pardon my horrendous screenshots):

Don't get me wrong, I have no problems with clear umbrellas. I own a couple myself. HOWEVER. Clear? Really? That's all they can manage? In these queer shows, they can't even give their umbrellas any flair? Listen, I have a clear umbrella but it is kind of chrome. It's got style. It's got flair. It's got flavor. I need these shows to give me something. I digress.

There are a few that have a basic umbrella that is a dark, solid color:

Shoutout to Blueming though, that umbrella does look like the most practical and useful umbrella out of all of these.

BUT other than 1000 Years Old, the umbrella winner is Love in the Air with this yellow beauty that fits the characters and the lighting in the scene:

But for my top 5 umbrellas in BL?

5. This beauty:

4/3. Look at the COLOR

2. Absolutely obsessed with this one and need it immediately:

And the number 1 umbrella in BL? It can be none other than this beauty. Not only is it gay, but it looks like a phenomenal umbrella to use. That's an umbrella that will keep you dry.

#kieta hatsukoi #sotus #together with me #2 moons 2 #we best love #bed friend #blueming #love in the air #1000 years old #thanks for the ask!#you really know my interests lol #would you believe that i don't actually track umbrellas?#i just...knew all of these #to be fair though i did make a video edit with umbrellas #it's dumb but i had fun #i kind of want to make a new one now that we have pun and his thousands of umbrellas

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gmmtv-bl-tournament-but-evil · 3 months

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Worst GMMTV BL Series - LB SemiFinals Round

SOTUS VS Dangerous Romance

#lbsemifinals #gmmtv #thai bl #thai drama #bl drama #thai bl drama #bl series #thai series #thai bl series #sotus the series #sotus #dangerous romance the series #dangerous romance

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waitmyturtles · 4 months

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SOME GOOD SHOWS THAT I LIKED IN 2023! (AND SOME THAT I DIDN'T)

I watched A LOT of stuff that did not originally air in 2023 by dint of my Old GMMTV Challenge. This list is inclusive of this recognition!

THE BEST SHOW I WATCHED THIS YEAR: HE'S COMING TO ME

I have no other words: this is my favorite Thai BL of all time. Perfect length, perfect plot, perfect celebration of Thai culture, perfect acting, the greatest coming out scene of all time, the BEST of the best BL moms. Perfection.

THE OTHER BEST SHOW I WATCHED THIS YEAR: BAD BUDDY

I don't even want to think about how many words I've written on Bad Buddy this year, but they're well deserved for this REMARKABLE show. I've got a thing for shows by Aof Noppharnach that feature Ohm Pawat, what can I say!

THE MOST INFLUENTIAL SHOW(S) I WATCHED THIS YEAR: LOVE SICK AND SOTUS

The influence of Love Sick and SOTUS can be seen in SO MANY Thai BLs, even through today. Without having watched these two shows to start my OGMMTVC project, I wouldn't have the context for what later shows like Bad Buddy and Theory of Love were commenting on by way of their content and structures. Love Sick in particular was a HELL of a lift -- but I am damn glad I watched it, and I certainly feel nostalgia for it today.

Honorable mentions of influential pieces that had impacts on Thai BLs: Love of Siam and Dew the Movie

MY OTHER FAVORITE OLD SHOWS I WATCHED: UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN AND THEORY OF LOVE

BANGERS!!!

If New Siwaj ever tops Until We Meet Again, I'll fly to Bangkok and give him a gold medal. That long-ass show, 17 EPISODES, I WANTED MORE! OhmFluke's chemistry was great, the story delved SO deeply into historical homophobia and how culture and acceptance changes over time -- scrumptious. Theory of Love, man, the way this show ate up implicit compassion bias and gave it right back to us. I loved it. KHAI FOREVER!

THE BEST SHOW I WATCHED THAT ACTUALLY AIRED IN 2023: MOONLIGHT CHICKEN

Not only was Moonlight Chicken my first real live fandom experience on Tumblr, it was a hell of an amazing show, incorporating so much of what I love particularly about Thai BLs, and how many Thai BLs do not shy away from celebrating Asian cultural touchpoints. From exploring Jim's internalized homophobia by way of his rural upbringing, to juxtaposing Pattaya's spiritual symbols with growing development that upends older strains of local culture, Moonlight Chicken offered a lovely commentary on what it means to be queer in an ever-changing Thailand.

THE OTHER BEST SHOW I WATCHED THAT ACTUALLY AIRED IN 2023: WHAT DID YOU EAT YESTERDAY?/KINOU NANI TABETA? SEASON 2

BRILLIANTLY ACTED by literally the best actors in the Asian BL game: we are blessed that Nishijima Hidetoshi and Uchino Seiyou have given so much to this franchise. It's hard to write about this show because it's so perfect -- it needs no extraneous words. Plot, pacing, acting, character development, gratuitous food shots. It has it all.

THE OTHER OTHER BEST SHOW I WATCHED THAT ACTUALLY AIRED IN 2023: I CANNOT REACH YOU

Just like Bad Buddy looked at Thai BL tropes in the eye and said, "over my Nong Nao," I Cannot Reach You asked Japanese BLs about the efficacy of almost every trope we've gotten used to, and questioned them with efficiency. The biggest shocker for me? REAL COMMUNICATION, encouraged by the CIPHER, Hosaka, that allowed the two lead protagonists to confirm their love and understand each other. It was straightforward and FUCKING GOOD.

A SHOW THAT AIRED IN 2023 THAT I HAVEN'T WRITTEN ABOUT YET, THAT I NEED TO REWATCH IN CHRONOLOGY, THAT ALSO DID SOME TROPE/GENRE ASS-KICKING THAT I'M STILL THINKING ABOUT: LA PLUIE

La Pluie was FEARLESS. The show had a LOT to say about romance and soulmates not being as much of a realistic thing as content-makers... and, frankly, majority society would like us to think. La Pluie made its characters WORK for love and understanding, and had us viewers face our implicit biases about how romantic content should and could work. I watched this show out of order of the OGMMTVC watchlist to see it it was one of the best of the year, and it certainly is. I'm planning a deep rewatch for early 2024 to pen my words on it.

A SHOW THAT ALMOST TOPPED MY 2023 LIST BUT GOT DOCKED BECAUSE I ENDED UP LIKING THE NOVEL A LOT BETTER: I FEEL YOU LINGER IN THE AIR

@neuroticbookworm and @lurkingshan know that I flipped THA FUCK out over this show -- FABULOUSLY acted by Nonkul Chanon and Bright Rapheephong, FABULOUS cinematography, great story up until the end of the series. My fangirling led me to read the original novel by Violet Rain, and -- I found out that Jom was a lot more damn sassy than we got in the show! Tee Bundit's penchant for sadness won. This is not to dock the show, but the novel had more than enough material to carry the series through without repeating themes in the end. So it fell on my 2023 list, womp womp. BUT I STILL LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS SHOW, DON'T GET ME WRONG.

TWO SHOWS THAT I'M SUPER GLAD I CAUGHT UP WITH WHILE THEY WERE AIRING: THE EIGHTH SENSE AND BE MY FAVORITE

Be My Favorite looked at Krist Perawat's checkered past as a BL idol and said: we are going to examine this and make an honest BL out of inspiration from it. It wasn't a perfect show, the time travel shit didn't end up adding up in the end, BUT -- excellent acting from two GMMTV VETS made up for those tangles, and I loved the contextual philosophical references throughout the series. The Eighth Sense looked at the tug-of-war that Korean BLs have with K-dramas and their tropes and said, actually? We will have these dudes full-frontal kiss, and placed that energy against commentaries on mental health, both topics that Korea hasn't quite embraced as quickly as other countries.

HONORABLE MENTIONS OF OTHER AWESOME SHOWS THAT MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE AIRED IN 2023

Make It Right, Our Dating Sim, Dark Blue Kiss, Gay OK Bangkok, Dirty Laundry, 10 Years Ticket, I Told Sunset About You, I Promised You the Moon, 3 Will Be Free, Lovely Writer (underrated?!), Our Skyy 2 x Bad Buddy x A Tale of Thousand Stars (UNDERRATED!), and Manner of Death.

And the shows that are airing that I know will stay with me well into 2024: Last Twilight and Cherry Magic Thailand.

I had fun!

WHAT ELSE, WHAT ELSE: THE "NO" SHOWS: THE PROMISE AND STEP BY STEP

I'm not even hyperlinking my thoughts on these shows, nor gifting them with gifs. Insert Bugs Bunny NOOOOOO gif here! We got Man Trisanu, though.

THE SHOW I WAS THE MOST OBVIOUSLY DISAPPOINTED BY: ONLY FRIENDS

Despite my passionate disappointment for this show and how it ended: in the context of the OGMMTVC, Only Friends is still an incredibly important inclusion to the list. Some amazing Tumblr bloggers offered commentary that the bias against sex that OF contained within the show was actually importantly and culturally contextual to the still-conservative state of acceptance that Thailand is currently in (here and here for more reading).

Only Friends reminded us that despite any kind of marketing that we here on Tumblr, as a majority non-Thai audience, may receive about a Thai show -- that we are still not fully plugged into the non-verbal expectations of what a show like OF could promise to do, and to be okay when it doesn't reach those heights. In light of the seemingly pro-sex marketing blasts that previewed the series before its airing, OF ultimately seemed to want to take casual sex, chew it up, and spit it out. There might be reasons why that happened that we just don't know about as outsiders to Thailand. But as an Asian-American viewer that was hoping for neutral -- and maybe even supportive -- commentary on single folks having casual sex without judgement, OF did not deliver for me.

I'm ending the year reading Dr. Thomas Baudinette's book, Boys Love Media in Thailand, the first book-length ethnographic study on the impact of BL on queerness, media, and more in Thailand and across Asia. Baudinette comes from the world of Japanese queer media studies -- as someone who came to Thai BLs this year from Japanese BLs, I appreciate his trajectory. It's clearly a necessity for me to read this book in the context of the OGMMTVC, to understand how Thai BLs have changed over time, and to understand the incredibly larger impact of heterosexual/heteronormative media and themes on Thai media as a whole, as larger and larger swaths of Thai, Asian, and international societies welcome and watch BLs with open arms.

All of this feeds into my ever-growing body of knowledge about the impact of Thai BLs, both in Thailand and across Asia, as Baudinette writes about, and how these shows have and are developed/developing over time. It's been an AMAZING YEAR of watching old and new dramas for me, and I'm looking forward to seeing how the genre grows even more in 2024.

I also made AMAZING FRIENDS on Tumblr -- y'all know who you are! What a year of growth and discovery for me: this has been a fabulous experience, and I'm looking forward to even more growth in the new year!

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absolutebl · 1 year

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Enemies to Lovers & Cohabitation BLs

I got this request over on MDL and I though I’d just repost the list here, since if I was asked there I might be asked here. There are plenty more in each category I just haven’t rated them as high. Gotta limit the spreadsheet of doom somehow.

Enemies to lovers (as a main trope) that I've rated 8/10 or higher:

Semantic Error

We Best Love (1 & 2)

Blueming

Bad Buddy

Not Me

HIStory 3: Trapped

Candy Color Paradox

My Sweet Dear

My Day

SOTUS

Kiss Me Again - PeteKao Cut

Why R U?

Star in My Mind

The Eclipse

What Zabb Man!

Nitiman

Big Dragon

Cohabitation (as a main trope) that I've rated 8/10 or higher:

To My Star

Be Loved In House: I Do

He's Coming to Me

Lovely Writer

Choco Milk Shake

Oh! Boarding House

Roommates of Poongduck 304

Like In The Movies

HIStory 2: Right or Wrong

TharnType

Theory of Love

Still 2gether

Cutie Pie

His the movie

Ingredients the series

Manner of Death

Ghost Host Ghost House

Coincidentally the same amount in each. Huh.

Includes only BLs that completed runs before 2023.

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pondphuwin · 5 months

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#sotus #dark blue kiss #my school president #only friends #bad buddy #our skyy #our skyy 2 #gmmtv bl #consulted w b on this one like i do all my polls #dbk is what i feel like most ppl have said is the most iconic but ive seen a lot of love for the only friends one #msp is iconic!!! to me!!!!! they were all so pretty!!!!#*

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thebroccolination · 5 months

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FUN FACT ABOUT THE SOTUS BRIDGE

As a Peraya and eternal SOTUS devotee, I had to visit the Rama VIII Bridge (hereafter The SOTUS Bridge) on my first trip to Thailand.

And while I was there, I was walking around and reflecting on all the famous scenes.

It's where they had their first kiss in SOTUS,

it's where Arthit gave Kongphob their soldered gears in SOTUS S,

and it's where Arthit had a poorly timed anxiety spiral in Our Skyy.

I was prepared to have all those feelings! Because we can see the bridge in all those shots! I figured any scene with the bridge would be really obvious.

BUT GUESS WHEN ELSE THEY'RE AT THE BRIDGE???

HERE.

THIS FUCKING SCENE.

Do you know how I know this?

WELL LOOK.

AND SURE ENOUGH, WHEN I WATCHED THAT SCENE AGAIN:

THERE'S THE FUCKING BRIDGE OVER ARTHIT'S SHOULDER.

DOES THAT NOT COMPLETELY DESTROY YOU INSIDE???

THAT SCENE IS ALREADY HEARTBREAKING BUT NOW THINK ABOUT IT WITH THIS CONTEXT:

READY????

YOU'RE FUCKING NOT I BET!!!!!

THIS IS KONGPHOB'S VIEW AS HE'S WALKING BEHIND ARTHIT:

HE'S STARING AT THE BRIDGE WHERE THEY HAD THEIR FIRST KISS WHILE HE'S TRYING TO KEEP HIS DISTANCE FROM ARTHIT

YOU'RE PROBABLY HAVING THIS REALIZATION SOMEWHERE YOU CAN SIT DOWN AND TAKE IT ALL IN

I WAS ALONE!!!! IN THAT SPOT!!!! SURROUNDED BY JOGGERS!!!!!

I'M GIVING YOU THIS GIFT SO IF YOU EVER GO TO THE SOTUS BRIDGE, YOU DON'T START CRYING IN PUBLIC BECAUSE YOUR FICTIONAL CHILDREN HAD A SAD FEW MINUTES ON THE JOGGING PATH WHILE AUNTIES NEARBY HAVE THEIR EVENING OUTDOOR AEROBICS CLASS ACCOMPANIED BY A TRAINER SHOUTING INTO A MEGAPHONE.

When I visited the second time with a friend, we watched their first kiss with the bridge in the background. It was transcendental; I highly recommend it.

I have sworn to myself to make a pilgrimage to The SOTUS Bridge every time I visit Thailand so that I may scream and cry and pay tribute to the series that paved the way for what we have now, amen.

#sotus the series #sotus #gmmtv #kristsingto #krist perawat #singto prachaya #thai bl

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