I've made my fanfiction debut! <3
LOL2024 was such an inspiration to me. I love all the couples, I love pirates and the concept, the performances they showed us... So I started planning this story just for fun and then...it wasn't just for fun anymore. It turned into an actual fanfiction (in progress)!
A few short facts:
Pirate AU (obviously)
Every one of the 9 LOL2024 pairs will get their own love story
The stories will cross over at different points
We're starting off with ForceBook, because apparently that was easiest for me - Their story features sass and unresolved feelings :D
There will be mermaids, kidnappings, fights, gods, timetravel, treasuers, Peter Pan inspiration and hot nights ;)
Other GMMTV actors will appear as guests
1 chapter each week (I'll try, I hope I can keep it up!!)
If this sounds like something for you, I'd love if you check it out <3
Like mentioned in the description, this is my first story in English and I am not a native speaker, so sorry if there are any things I keep mistaking or use wrong. <3
It can be read on AO3 or on Wattpad! :)
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
I am weak and I will and do love nearly all of them. And I do have ones I am more biased about and less so I tried to go from there. I feel like writing stupid stuff today so I'll just gush over them under the cut 😂
Favorites
ForceBook - If anybody made me choose ONE couple, it's this one. They're my babies and I love them the most. It's not even reasonable. I just like their concept of friends to lovers, the whole "know each other since school days" and the way they present themselves. I like their dynamic - somehow playfully romantic but mostly friends - and how they work through problems. They have a special place in my heart.
EarthMix - I did try to rank the couples a tiny bit in that list (it's impossible). EarthMix just are very special and my favorites, too. Their acting is great, their dynamic and their honesty... I adore them through and through.
GreatBright - I loved GreatInn, so I love Great already. IFYLITA is my ABSOLUTE favorite show. So when they meshed GreatBright together I was ecstatic. The wait for Lovers and Gangsters seems endless and the couple content way too little (;_; sometimes I'm worried about that...) But they already are one of my favorite couples. I'll buy stuff. I just hope they work out as well as I imagine and then stay together for a long time :')
JuniorMark - I started liking Mark with one of my first shows (Star & Sky) and I'll be honest, I was kind of skeptical about them in Cherry Magic, but I did enjoy Cherry Magic and P10L is what sealed the deal. It does help endlessly that they also like to hang out with ForceBook. Love comes naturally to those that love my favorite couple haha
JimmySea - Jimmy was my first favorite in GMMTV and he still benefits from that. I just can't ever let go. All their shows are amazing. Their grown-up attitude is just up my alley. I love Sea being a bit naughty and that their ship is (most of the time) less over the top. And then they go and joke around with ForceBook and JuMark and make me think that maybe I just have a type? Since they all seem to get along so well 😂
SurfJava - they are my underdog pairing. I don't know how it happened but somehow they played their way into my heart from the first second I saw them. For the younger couples I'm not as good at following them on social media as with the older couples - mostly because I feel like...I'm not their target? But I still enjoy looking at their pictures and will watch over their shows.
SeaKeen - They are the second underdog pair, but whenever I look at what merch to buy, their stuff is in my final choices. It doesn't help that I thing NongNoong is one of the most adorable mascots out there. What I've seen so far somehow makes me believe that we can expect a lot in the future and I love to watch artists grow so I'm excited to keep a close eye on them!
JoongDunk - Some people might gasp that they are this far in the back when I said I tried to rank them, but it's true. And I still love JoongDunk. I just distanced myself because fandom is crazy and I couldn't escape the crazy, no matter how hard I tried with blocking and curating my TL, so...my love for them has taken a hit. DYTD also wasn't my favorite show (I'm stuck at ep 2, I think) and there's just something I'm currently missing. Doesn't matter they're not my favorites anymore hehe I still love their chemistry, their goofiness with each other. How ready they are to deliver fanservice and just play with each other.
PondPhuwin - I religiously follow their TV shows and so many of them are in my favorites (We Are is my second all-time-favorite show with IFYLITA). I do like most of their music, I love JASP.ER and I watch whatever else they do. Phuwin is just SO DAMN BEAUTIFUL. Pond is amazing and funny. There's no way I couldn't love them.
Love
AouBoom - I think I'd actually consider them Favorites, too, but put didn't want the best tier to feel too crowded... Their shows are amazing. They are a stable couple, which is ALWAYS a plus for me. I'd really like to spare myself from more heartbreak :') I really have no reason to put them in the second tier aside from me not following their activities as closely as I follow the others. And I don't buy much of their merch... But I still love their dynamic, I love Boom's little pouty sessions but also how clingy he can get. They just are adorable
FirstKhaotung - They also are supposed to be one level higher, but if I have to compare my obsession with them to PondPhuwin, they just are a step lower. I absolutely love their range and acting, the dynamic and chemistry. I love their softness with each other and their fans. I will always be there to support the stuff they do. They are amazing. <3 Just my bias is a bit weaker for them.
ChokunAston - I wholeheartedly adopted all the "Boys in Love" babies. They just are adorable and I want to hug them and keep them safe. While I think the older couples are hot, I just want to adopt these two.
KenPaul - I was so close to put them in favorites - and can you blame me? With their "ForceBook and JuMark are their parents" agenda they absolutely have me and I really enjoy their part in When Oranges Fall. I just know that I will love them more in the future.
BounPrem - I am late to this game, but I really like them now. I haven't watched much aside from Revamp (please don't scream at me, I know. Their pre-GMMTV shows are on my to-watch list. But also: I genuinely liked Revamp?? 😂) I know there's more potential for my love to grow and that scares me. I already have so many people in favorites. But I'll add them anyway when the time is right haha
LukeMick - Boys in Love just was complete damage for me. I didn't even like Mick's visuals, but I still couldn't stay back. Absolutely in love. So excited to see more of them!
OffGun - OG BOYS! How can I not love them? Every show a hit (reminds me: I still need to watch Burnout Syndrome...) and their acting is amazing and their looks on point and their comedy just peak. Just don't let me see their mascot and we're good. 😂
WilliamEst - I'm trying to hold back, because I've seen enough fandom stuff to not want to get in too deep. But I really like their dynamic and how much talent can one couple have?! They are just everything that makes me enjoy a couple so why would I not love them? :D
PerthSanta - We have a bit of a hit or miss situation here, but since I usually am weak and open my heart to the GMMTV boys fast, I don't think that I just like PerthSanta. There's a lot I love about them and I am excited for their newly announced show!
NutHong - Technically I should put them in "Don't know well enough" but I am SO excited, I already love them. Nut is my favorite LYKN member and Hong just has the right vibe for me to be sure that I'll love their little ship. Let me sail with you <3
TayNew - I love the TayNew shows I've seen so far, but also: I love Tay as Tay and New as New? Even when I'm not always excited for their series, I love seeing them on social media or watching clips of them from events... They are fun people in any constellation - solo event or together or with other GMMTV artists. And that's what makes me love them so much, even if I'm not as deep into their ship (yet. I've started ADAAP already. <3 And I loved Cherry Magic!)
GeminiFourth - For GemFourth it's the exact other way than TayNew. I absolutely LOVE their shows (minus My Love Mix-Up. I'm not going to talk about that car wreck). And I do watch a few clips but I am not following much. I don't even know why, I just didn't click very well with them from the start. But I still got a lot of love for them and their acting and music so no way I'd put them in a lower level. :D
Like
AlmondProgress - When I put them here I was trying to be strong to make the Love section less crowded. I already regret my decision a bit. I really enjoy their show. They're cute. I'm sure they'll grow on me even more. Until then, they're parked here :D
OhmPoon - Let's be honest, nearly all of them should be one category up, but I had to put some here. I really like OhmPoon but compared to other couples I sometimes forget about them and don't check out much until somehow they end up on my timeline again. I didn't really like the writing for them in My Romance Scammer at the end, which should've been a key moment (in my opinion) so they kind of fell flat for me there, too. But I enjoy Poon's twitter posts, I'm absolutely watching whatever they give me and I would go to see them live, too!
MarkOhm - I am kind of waiting for something to happen here. The dentist show just wasn't it. It was painful, because Mark is amazing and I know that Ohm wasn't paired with him for nothing! (Or at least I hope) Seeing how unbalanced my tier list is, I don't mind them being lower but I absolutely don't want them to get broken up so... I really hope for better times.
MondRyu - These two should be ranked higher. I know, I'm repeating myself. I like their acting and balance, the chemistry is really able to pull me in easily and if I exposed myself to them more, I'd probably have to rank them at least in Love.
PoddPapang - MY MEN! I want to see them more. I know I enjoy them together. But I am not on the hunt for their content and thus I haven't seen much yet and not expanded my love. I'm sure it'll happen soon.
SingtoKrist - Ha, this one, I could put one tier lower. But I respectfully put them here. I am not too much in love. I barely know them. But I couldn't bring myself to put them in "Managed to stay away" because for that, I know them too well? In any case, all the respect to them. I will watch whatever I'm given with them. I'm just not as hyper as with other couples.
AunStamp - The potential I see here leaves me scared once again. I know I'll fall deep once I fall so I'm glad I got to put someone here for now haha
The ones I managed to stay away from
Before I say anything - this doesn't mean I hate anyone. It just means I am not following anything they do.
SaveFranc - They are really, really cute together. But the chemistry isn't working for me and that is okay. <3 I still hope they get their projects and can make their way for all the people that it's working for :D
Sky-Nani & Dew-Tee - I am kind of upset about the Bromace strategy. I wanted to watch proper BLs forever. Japanese BL was the ultimate for me, because at least they gave us something even if the highlight was a mouth-pressed-together kiss at the end that took away from the story no matter how well it was written (which it usually wasn't). Even with Cherry Magic the highlight was an elevator kiss where the door closed before anybody touched. And if there was more happening, it was usually so low budget that I didn't want to see them do anything with each other. And then I find the holy land of Thai BL and not even 3 years in they go the Bromance route??? I would never take this away from anybody who likes Bromance. Everybody can have their stuff to enjoy. I just am not the target group and I will stick to my officially labeled BLs, where there is no dash separating the boys and they are fine sharing one kid.
Don't Know Well Enough (Yet)
Anybody here could be a future Love candidate.
SingChimon - I am not sure what's happening here. Will they really be an official couple? I just want Chi to be happy and healthy so whatever goes for him. I don't really know Sing so I'm excited to get to know them!
BarcodeKin - I have seen the hype. I have not been part of it yet, but I know that Barcode is charming and this could go south for me very fast. There's potential 😂
ThamMac - I don't know anything but the trailer for their show and it looks like something I'd like, so there's that! Ready to launch into Like or Love 😂
TeshowPing - I didn't even know Ping was in GMMTV until they showed the trailer. I'm not sure they'll become my absolute favorites but like we already know, I'm very easy with adopting new couples and they stand a real chance, since I've liked Ping with Meen in their shows!
If you ask me to do this again tomorrow, things might have already changed but I still had fun writing this down 😂
Also, I'd love to put WinnySatang and GreatInn up to the Favorites, since they were. I still love the stuff they made. I wish we'd know why they broke up like that. Especially for WinnySatang... 😭
First, let me say that it is hilarious how last week some of the same people complaining about the hickey scene WANTED Arthit to BITE Dao while he was sleeping…..
But I digress. Was the scene a bit too long for my taste? Yeah?
But it’s also important for their dynamic. It’s the first real “no” Daotok gives and it sets a firm boundary that Arthit never crosses again.
I don’t mean to minimize anyone’s response or reaction to the scene. Everyone has different reactions and opinions to media.
But the outrage is a bit performative at this point in my opinion. Things like that happen in relationships, it doesn’t make it right, but the real test is how both parties move from it.
The show demonstrates healthy communication. Dao set a boundary - Arthit apologized, checked in, gave space, and then they adjusted.
That’s how healthy relationships work.
When I first saw the outrage before watching the episode, I thought it was going to be something truly horrific. And I do understand that a large portion of viewers simply don’t have the lived experience to help them understand things like this. I do get that.
Anecdotally, the show has largely removed all the questionable consent stuff. Jo, Tonfah, and Arthit all do far more questionable things in the books. It’s a good change in my opinion.
It was interesting to go on Reddit (yes, always a mistake, and yet I keep doing it) and see a whole thread of people bemoaning the scene, and saying it gives the wrong message about consent, because to me, it comes across as such a misread of the scene.
Arthit is an incredibly impulsive character - he has been through the entire series (the man eats food he finds on the bathroom floor) - and frankly, bulldozes into his "courtship" with Dao with absolutely zero care for Dao's stated wishes. We're able to feel cutesy about a lot of it because we know it's a romance, we know Dao likes him back, and Ngern is very hot.
And in the book this seems to be par for the course, and played as fully romantic, but for the series the decision was made to accurately convey that Arthit having no control over his impulsiveness is going to be a problem for a healthy relationship. We get to see that when Dao is genuinely upset he will put up that boundary hard, and that Arthit immediately reacts, responds with genuine contrition, and refocuses on what Dao needs, not himself. He's showing he's really taking this seriously, and that in turn leads to Dao actually feeling safer with him.
Yes, it felt uncomfortable in the moment, no, you don't have to like or agree with it, but there was intention behind it. Arthit's lack of consent wasn't being romanticized, the way he listened to his partner and corrected his behavior was.
I’ve been lapping up Fourever You Part 2 likes warm soup on a cold dreary day, and one of the things it’s got me thinking about is how much I need to continue to resist an auteur theory approach to discussing BL. It’s so easy to blame or celebrate the big names for what they brought to the industry. But this has never been a solo project.
New Siwaj directed the first entry in the Fourever You project, and the company he founded, Wabi Sabi, produced it, but Fourever You Beside the Sky, as @doublel27 reminded me, is directed by one of his protégés, Natthanon Kheeddee. When I looked up Natthanon’s credits, I noticed he worked on editing or cinematography for almost all the New Siwaj series that stunned me with the choices in their color-grading, creating a vivid and unique atmosphere within the throngs of BL series: Between Us, We Are, Fourever You, and Revamp. (He also worked on P10Liners, which was less bold with its coloring but still looked sharp).These were also some of the series that fine-tuned the sound effects into something a bit more harmonious with the soundtrack and tightened the editing to more steady, musical rhythms. I was only surprised his name wasn’t listed under the other visual break-through for P’New, My Only 12%.
You see, New Siwaj doesn’t work alone. He doesn’t even just work at one company. Since the start he’s collaborated with different companies, codirectors, writers, and teams of people working to make one of the many series he’s directed happen. There are certainly patterns and interests you can see across New’s work, but to identify every single element as his own is using a view of film and television-making that doesn’t apply to any series in BL.
Auteur theory, developed by Francois Truffaut, imagined the director as the author/god of the film-making process who held total control and final say over every element. There have been few true auteurs in cinema (Kurosawa, Orson Welles, Ozu, Truffaut, Tarantino) and even fewer in TV with its smaller budget, tighter production schedules, writers rooms, and oversight by commercial interests. BLs have had plenty of unique styles and artistic merit and even visionaries, but none of them have acted in an auteur manner. They are all deeply indebted to commercial interest and depend upon the collaborative efforts of their teams.
Aof Noppharnach is someone whose name gets thrown around as an auteur. His works certainly have a distinct style, but how thorough is that style and in what elements does it show through. Aof Noppharnach is my favorite writer in BL. His lyrical realism with a deeply existential bent gets me OFF!!! The pacing of his plots are perfection, and his opening sequences sweep me into new worlds every time. He gets incredible performances (out of the 15 actors he’s willing to cast), but is that casting or coaching? Is writing all there is to a series? Couldn’t we credit some of his most visually stunning sequences in Moonlight Chicken, not to P’Aof, but to the incredible cinematographer Rath, who’s fluid neon-lit style has become a touchstone for the Aof-Jojo-Ninew corner of gmmtv. Shouldn’t we consider the fact that Aof had the future director of KinnPorsche and My Stand-In working as his assistant director for a large portion of his directing career? Or that he’s had production support from P’X since he entered the industry on the Bang Channel? And even his writing, which I adore, often comes about from a writing team rather than him alone!
You could play these kinds of six-degrees of separation games with any director in the industry. These are productions as complicated as any cathedral or temple they’re building for us on tv. It takes many minds and many hands to bring them to life.
I love when someone like Natthanon comes along out of the previous credits we paid less attention to so we can suddenly take notice of all the ways they might’ve been contributing before. Fourever You Part 2 is visually stunning, sunk in its deep sad sky blue, with some of my favorite sound-editing choices submerging the slapstick world of typical Wabi Sabi BLs within a hushed melancholy. The actors, too, understand the fragile realm that’s been rendered, vulnerable, trembling, like water droplets clinging to a window about to fall. The power of his direction here, similarly supported by others as he once provided to P’New, suggests the strengths he’s been offering when he was helping with the sails instead of the helm. As Phoon’s story shows, it takes many kind and helpful hands to lift someone’s artistic dreams into reality.
Today, I had a dream about Great. I went to some event and it turned out to be his fanmeeting, too? And then he chose one person to do a "game" with and of course it was me (it's my dream, okay? 😂) He then made me stand on something like a super high swing, which would pull me up into the sky and have me fly around in a big circle. He gave me a microphone, which would make it possible to talk to him and the audience - just that I was WAY too scared. I really was scared. I could hardly listen to anything he said (I don't think I had speakers on the swing...) and then they let me down again and I told him I couldn't do it, so he adjusted the height and then sent me up again. This time it was really low and so low that I was scared of hitting buildings and statues. I really had a hard time swinging at all. So when the circle finished randomly at some different place I didn't question it and got down happily. But there was no Great and some fans told me to walk into a certain direction. I did and ended up at a park, where half of the fanmeet was waiting with a picnic for me. And I was really moved to tears and so happy that Great thought of doing something like that. I really tried not to cry in that dream and Great was all smiley and nice and told me to sit and eat with him and the other fans. It was such a beautiful place, too. Like all the trees in the park were blooming as if it were cherry blossom season, but the light made it all seem pastel-orange-pink-y and the blankets were nice and the food looked good. It was just warm and comfy.
I am not sure where this even comes from (I mean, I get the swing. That's part of an re-occurring dream/nightmare. I am scared of falling/heights but sometimes my dream makes me semi-fly or swing in big heights like that, which aren't as scary in my dream but still make me really uncomfortable) but I think it was because I recently thought about how my Hubby probably won't give me anything for Valentine's day again this year, which is totally okay because I usually don't care about Valentine's. I don't need anything, tbh. But I somehow wish he'd give me something tiny because he just wants to, without me telling him, but how is he supposed to know I want something this year? 😂
Anyway, I had a nice early Valentine's day in my dream thanks to Great. I am happy. 😂
I absolutely love ForceBook and I love Melody of Secrets so far, but I'm 100% sure this is a show I should binge and not watch one episode weekly. 🙈 I am getting used to where we left off last week and as soon as I'm immersed in the mystery again and think I can think along, the episode is done 🥲
But then again, Dare you to Death isn't doing better with me despite being JoongDunk? I love JoongDunk a lot (my BL friends will agree lol) but something isn't clicking with me for this one? I actually blame that it's not on Youtube for me. I can't just sit down and watch it comfortably. I either have to watch it on my phone or turn on the computer, because on my TV it doesn't show me the series on Netflix and I'm too lazy after work. :/ I'll watch it tomorrow... That being said, I love Dunk's styling in this show. He looks really good! I wish I was a bit more hyped for it. I guess I'm too much of a fluffy, soft love-story girl and maybe I'm just not used to some actual, proper storyline. 😂
I'm so fan life-stressed, because after flying out with friends to Korea - COINCIDENTALLY FOR MY ULT BIAS' BIRTHDAY - I'll come back directly for the LYKN concert (IF I can make it. It's looking bad atm but I'll see what I can do) and then Bao is also coming to the UK in April, which might be impossible for me which is already bad enough. I didn't need JIB threatening me with TWO more couples for May 🥲
And I am very lucky that I am no longer on the ZNN train and am semi-ok missing out on PondPhuwin and JoongDunk this time, because I really don't have any more holidays this year. Everything is planned and done. Can my favorite GMMTV couples please wait until 2027 before coming to Europe (again)? Thanks. 🥲 Because I promise you, I won't miss Winny in Europe. If he's here, I'm going. Even if I have to invent a teleporting machine to make it work. I don't care, I want my picture with Winny! 🥲
(And Satang. I'm so sorry I'm so biased. I'm looking forward to seeing Satang, too! And our picture will be a really cute trio one. 💕 But maybe in 2027. Not 2026. 😂)
JIB getting their asses handed by BL fans was not on my bingo list for 2025. I predict they'll stick to GMTMV couples from now on... 🙈
But also, I am thinking of doing a storytime of my fanmeets. I went to every single one so far, this one with AouBoom is the first I had to skip (financial reasons), I'm not a super big fan of DaouOffroad so skipping that one too and I'm waiting for a second couple to join PondPhuwin or I might skip that one as well.
But all the fanmeets before had some good and bad stuff. I always knew the bad stuff to me wasn't bad enough go NOT come back if they have someone I like - but that only stands as long as I can afford the tickets.
Anyway, if anybody wants a storytime about any of the fanmeets, let me know. If not I'll take my sweet time writing it down when I feel like it anyway 😂
These are the ideas we need! Not screaming we need less people, less couples or less shows. We just need 2 episodes a week. Brilliant! Someone tell GMMTV!! I'm serious 😭
(I never effectively thought about how to solve their problems, so I couldn't think of this, but I'm sold. This is the way to go 😊)
