TianQi

I'm looking forward to his new drama this year, Immortal.

Ok you win. I lost it at “Now look that monkey behind him.” LMAO

Chinese cultural influence in Korea started around the Tang Dynasty about 1300 years ago. It got even stronger in the Yuan Dynasty when Korea was a vassal state of the Chinese/Mongol Yuan empire. Ming is the dynasty that comes right after Yuan, so this could have been the height of cultural exchange between the two places.

Am I the only one who thinks feels that Chon's also kind of a sh***y person for being in full awareness of ALL of this but still goes the extra mile to manipulate Ton into realizing his own sexuality via the same abusive behavior?

I'm really over gay characters doing stupid stuff for guys who profess themselves to be straight. In spite of ITSAY being the most beautiful Thai gay drama I've ever seen, I had this gripe with it as well at one point.

When someone tells you who they are, leave it at that. Sexuality is HUGE deal. As gay males, running ourselves into the ground over "straight" guys (especially the loud and violent ones) more often than not ends up in an 'experiment' for them and heartbreak, trauma, and depression for us. The fantasy that BL presents that a gay guy's straight bestie will become his true love is cute when the story is told well, but the violent homophobic, bully/bestie becoming the true love?.........it's weird and sadistic. That's how Chon comes off to me. Weird and sadistic. Ton's stupid, but Chon knows better and is carrying on anyway.

He sure is. :)

The way Kit's so serious, but also plays right along with Mark's silly jokes, the "To the moon and back" on the Infiniti loop bumper stickers, and their chemistry is SENDING ME. Mark/Kit are chicken soup for the BL lover's soul and that's that on that.

I think Thanu's indecision is interesting. He definitely likes Phai, but is also falling for Wayu. I don't know how it's gonna end up and an element of mystery is good, especially in such an often predictable genre as BL.

Thanu and Padbook on the other hand...
*insert GIF of Judge Judy tapping on her watch*
Padbook needs to get over by the end of episode 9 or else I might just end up fast-forwarding through his scenes.

I read this like four times before I realized what you were referring to. lol My mind was DEEP in the gutter.

This is gonna be a little hard to explain, but: "刻在你心裡的" more or less directly translates to: engraved in your heart's and "名字" is name. The character 的 here indicate's possession and it's the 's I wrote after heart.

If this were translated another way (a way that I think would have a more common or standard ring to it), it'd be "The Name Etched/Engraved In Your Heart". This would match the Mandarin title better both in translation and in meaning. "Your Name Engraved Herein" means that the speaker has someone else's name engraved in his own heart. In Chinese, the title means that the speaker has his name engraved in someone else's heart....which I guess is more or less the same thing, but still. lol

Simple and sweet. The biggest drawback for me was that I felt like we didn't get enough of what was going on in Sine's head/life. It was very focused on Tan, which is ok if it was meant to be that way, but I would have liked a bit more of sweet, little Sine.

This was nothing amazing, but if you're a BL fan who has nothing going on right now (which is hard because there's a LOT going on in the BL world right now), I'd recommend it, I guess. If you didn't hate En of Love: TOSSARA in terms of shaky acting skills and production quality, you won't hate this.

Loved this film. The actors did a great job and so many shots, especially of Chang Jia Han staring off into space were so beautifully crafted. Another one of my most favorite shots was the one of them lying on the beach covered in sand. This movie was hard-hitting and worth the praise it gets.

Also, does anyone have any idea why the song “O Danny Boy” keeps playing throughout the movie?

Also, before Shin explicitly tells Keng he doesn't seem him romantically, we're not even given any implication from Shin that he actually feels ANYthing emotionally for Keng other than friendship and admiration. That time when Keng puts his arm around him on the bed, Shin is visibly uncomfortable and takes it off. Shin and Keng were the protagonist and the antagonist of this story, not the main couple. It really is gross that people would ship them...I'm almost uncomfortable at how this is advertised (based on the promo pics above) in such a way that kinda makes it seem like a romance too.

I think things are starting to pick up again. Quite a few pieces were put together this episode.

This was the icing on the delicious cake that was Cherry Magic. Just sweet and well-produced as the other episodes. Tsuge may fumble over his words sometimes, but in the end, he's writer and that shows. Love him.

Back to normal now. lol

LOL I’ve had MDL for four years, this is only my third change. I’m feeling a little uncomfortable about it too. I may switch it back.

And here we are at 7.2. lol

What's holding Leo back? Well, what I had a suspicion about previously has been more or less emphasized by this last episode. To put it plainly: Leo might just be a bit of a coward. He can handle Fiat being completely rejected/hurt by Type and being there up the pieces later on (no matter how long it takes), but is too afraid to run the risk of openly expressing himself and being rejected directly. Hopefully, they'll resolve this and it'll be over, but nevertheless, I'm over them.

Champ and Doc have been most of my reasons to smile during this show. I love their ridiculously mushy interaction. Naming a flower pancake after Doc? The way Doc always looks away and smiles whenever Champ says something romantic (albeit unconsciously) and how Champ's like "Please don't think I'm dumb."...I almost hate myself for being so completely sucked into their cuteness. haha

" if they're both actually secretly into each other, don't you think they would've just naturally slipped into making out and/or boinking each other a whole while ago? "

Yes and no? I haven't read the books to know enough backstory on them, but. I feel like Leo may have always had something for Fiat and never really made any kind of move because he didn't know what reaction he'd get and that's just been the status quo, but maybe now that he sees Fiat being into other guys, it's finally started to take its toll on him? Not sure.

"and how hard is it to take it to "I'm actually into you" from there?"
Not very. lol

"I don't know, they're both super weird and neither one in a fun way that's entertaining to watch... at least not for me."

Agreed. If we'd gotten a love confession there in the hospital, their arc could have been redeemed for me, but at this point, I'm kinda just like "wtf" with them and I don't care what comes of their 'thing' over the course of these last four episodes. Of course, I hope whatever it is will be good, but I'm no longer as invested in them as I might have been before...which I barely was.

In my opinion, Fiat wouldn't know if someone were into him unless the person used explicit words to say it. The only experience of someone being interested in him he's ever had is sexual. We saw this some episodes back and in this last episode, he reiterates that and equates the entire experience of being a gay man to hookup culture. Fiat needs love and attention. He's getting that 100% from Leo. Leo gets him and is there for him...which is what he needs/wants. However, I truly believe Fiat's too immature and/or dumb to see it beyond the friendship level largely because he doesn't know what it looks like when it's given to him...in spite of having attempted to give to so many others. I can genuinely can't imagine Leo finding the proper time and words to express this and Fiat completely rejecting him, but I do see where the anxiety would come from on Leo's part about that.

On Leo's part, he came all the way across the world because Fiat injured his knee (really because he's in love with Fiat), but now, seeing Fiat devastated and more in need than ever, instead of taking the chance to say, "Hey, actually, while everyone's rejected you, I've always loved you and I'm IN LOVE with you", he hands him off to Type (by giving him his address) so that he can learn the hard way through harsh rejection from Type/possible aggression from Tharn. While I guess I can see where Leo is coming from with this method especially since we know how stubborn Fiat is, I still just don't like it. Fiat was in a very raw state at the hospital. That was a really good time for Leo to express his true feelings and reassure Fiat that he doesn't need to be a desperate, home-wrecking jerk to Type/Tharn to get the type of attention that ultimately won't be given to him from them.

Seoul is so lucky. This entire cast just looks like so much fun to be around.
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