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[caprart1]

i DO believe that a good writer can make mischaracterization work. oh there's a character who doesn't normally cry? figure it out!! disect the character. make the situation cryable for them. make that character cry ugly tears even if it goes against their very nature. YOU CAN MAKE IT WORK!!!

[amyrosedefensesquad]

A great piece of advice I've seen is "Don't fixate about what the character would never do. Think about the circumstances that would drive them to do this, even if they wouldn't normally."

[ficsinhistory]

Best advice ever!

[screechingcowboycat]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Style: Multi-chaptered

Pairing: Naran Pitayatorn/Krailert Suwannaphat

Word Count: 6087

Tags: Post-Canon, Fix-It, Fluff and Angst, New York, Reunions, Happy Ending cus krailert and naran deserve it, Slow Burn, Historical Inaccuracy (shine did it first), Original Character(s), 1970s, Other Additional Tags to Be Added

Summary

Krailert had always thought he'd have to wait for another life to find happiness again. The world had made it clear to him that happiness was not meant to be his forever. Or so he thinks.

The existence of evil and divine providence may not coexist, but why must one make theodicies when one can forego divinity itself? Not choosing is a choice in itself, and Krailert must once again make a choice for or against an order predestined for him.

[screechingcowboycat]

I forgot to update, but I've updated it to six chapters now

if you ever chance by it, do let me know if you liked it!

[cactusringed]

I think fanfiction as a medium is different enough from mainstream literature in the tools it offers writers that it's a shame that it's not talked about more often. And it's not me saying "fanfic is better than books xD" because that sort of mindset is a symptom of people who aren't particularly well read in either medium. I'm just speaking of like... The little things you get to do with a fanfic that you genuinely can't really do in an original story.

I had a big fanfic in a previous fandom where one of the big reveals was the involvement of a kind of infamous villain, whose presence was built up to and foreshadowed through the whole fic until his reveal without ever mentioning his name, so that the name drop would be a gut punch. It worked especially well because of who the villain was and his presence in that fandom space specifically (it's very complicated) and if it was an original story this reveal wouldn't work at all the way it was written in the fic. Because if you don't have a predisposition to think about that character and his relationship to the hero in a very specific way, then just seeing their name won't do much to you; the reveal and the recontextualisation it pushes upon you hinges on your previous knowledge of the source material.

I think it's an interesting tool fanfic authors are given. One of my favorite fanfic of all time is partially a re-imagining of its source material's canon, and something it does is introduce antagonists much earlier in the story or deepen npcs' stories. It then works to evoke a tragic irony that again wouldn't work if you didn't know the source material, and it's something the author obviously has a lot of fun with.

You could call it cheap or a crutch and I mean, yeah, sure, it is a little bit: the fanfic relies on previously established emotional bonds and stakes to achieve its goal, and in some cases it saves the author from having to 'properly' build up its stakes. But I think it's INTERESTING that it has that tool at its disposal. I think it's a fun thing to play with and I think these built in expectations and emotional bonds are especially why I find story driven aus in particular to be fascinating in the amount of ways you can play with them. You know??

[nerdycosplayaddict]

[bl-verse]

Mar 10, 2026 | SonEuro x Shine in Mexico

[poesmanuscript]

Just realized that when I first watched yuri on ice a was about the same age yurio and now I'm closer in age to yuri....

[gotmehookedonthekpop]

Fuck yes! Decriminalize and unionize sex work.

[clairedaring]

If anyone is interested in knowing the news story they were referring to in here and the group therapy scene with Nabnueng and queer sex workers, this is the Pattaya-specific trans sex worker murder case that made headlines at the beginning of 2025, just a few months right before filming Love Like A Bike started

Chinese tourist confesses to murdering transgender woman in Thailand, removing her heart A Chinese welder has confessed to killing a Thai transgender woman in Pattaya and cutting her up to remove her parts because he wanted to “play” with the body, Thai media reported on April 27. The suspect, identified by Thai police as 42-year-old Fu Tongyuen from Hubei province, said he killed Ms Woranun Pannacha, 25, in his rented apartment room in central Pattaya, Khaosod English. Through a translator, Fu told police he met Ms Woranun on the evening of April 25 at a beach in South Pattaya and they exchanged contacts. At that time, he did not known that Ms Woranun was transgender. At 9pm the same day, Ms Woranun contacted Fu and they agreed to meet at his apartment where he paid her 8,000 baht (S$314.66) for sex. However, Ms Woranun had cold feet and refused to have sex with him, so Fu demanded a 50 per cent refund. She refused which led to an argument. He said she scratched him in the face and kicked him off the bed.

[toughdough]

[alxina]

Things I wish we'd got in the 10Dance movie (that was in the manga):

Suzuki's sexy accented English. That was one thing I found absolutely hilarious in the manga, that whenever Suzuki started speaking English, everyone around him thought that either he was trying to pick them up, or he was faking it to sound sexy. Truth was that Suzuki picked up his English from his Cuban grandmother, whose English had that added sweetness to it.

Suzuki's 9 half-sisters. Come on, we have all seen the Suzuki genes, can you imagine how drop dead gorgeous his sisters would be? Also, the sister training to be a doctor seemed very cool. And growing up with 9 sisters meant that Suzuki was very well-versed in girl talk.

I know they made movie!Sugiki a loner because it fitted into the dynamics that they were trying to build there, but in the manga, Sugiki actually has friends, and his closest friend is very gay and was very much in love with Sugiki to the point where he got pissed whenever Sugiki started speaking about his feelings for Suzuki which would have been different if he was a "woman." So yes, would have loved to see Ernie in the movie, even for a moment.

Liana clocking that both of the men she had been dating (and the one she married) were both gay. Giulio totally has the hots for Sugiki in a /coughcough/ heated rivalry sort of way, and when Sugiki tells her that his reason for existing now is because he has found his worthy rival (Suzuki), it totally has her rolling her eyes at him, and lamenting the fact that Giulio wanted to hear these words from Sugiki all his life, but he never got to.

Fusako being married to a guy who is the biggest Sugiki fan, to the point where he doesn't mind the fact that his wife spends all her time with him. Pretty sure he gets off to that, too.

Suzuki dropping out of the pro scene for a while because he insulted a judge (pretty sure he punched him), and then him going underground and returning with a bona fide pro certification and then sweeping all the national Latin championships.

Also, it was pretty much obvious in the movie without having to spell it out, but in the manga, it's hilarious how everyone refers to Suzuki as "walking sex" (which, valid) or Mr. Sexy, because that's the first thing they see about him. He's the living personification of the "everyone in this room wants me carnally" meme, and he's not always aware of it, which is very cute.

Obviously, tonally the two pieces of media are very different, but I feel like a little depth into their characters (like why Suzuki was exclusively dancing only for the nationals and did not apply for the international competitions—it was so that he could send home the championship money, or how Sugiki has an entire network of people in the UK, where he grew up, and how he blends right in whenever he goes back, and even his relationship with Martha, which is more interesting than the two lines she utters in the movie), would have added some much needed complexity to the already nuanced reading of the characters.

[fantasticallyfanatic]

When Sugiki tells Suzuki what he did to Fusako, he is also letting Suzuki see him for who he truly is, a gentleman in disguise, a ruthless man, a grim reaper who will do whatever it takes to win. He even admits a secret that he actually enjoyed being a puppet master to Fusako, that he loved controlling her. This is the moment where he lets his mask slip and dares Suzuki This is me. I’m unlikeable. I dare you to like me. Do you hate me now?

Suzuki responds with one word Lame. Boring in the exact Japanese. Suzuki is essentially saying, Stop with your self hatred. You did what you had to do at the time. Don’t make a big deal out of it. Stop drowning yourself in self pity, it’s pathetic. Be your authentic self. I would rather see you as the grim reaper you are than as someone pretentious. I see the real you, and I like you. I accept you, flaws and all.

Then Suzuki abruptly leaves.

Sugiki is left stunned. How this guy disregards his shortcomings so easily and doesn’t judge him. Sugiki feels relieved. Yet, with that dismissive parting word, fear creeps in. What if he starts to hate me? I can’t let him hate me. If I don’t go after him right now, I may never see him again.

Sugiki is overwhelmed, and panic sets in. The loud sound of a speeding train in the background, accompanied by the blaring siren of an ambulance, symbolizing that the moment is slipping away. A sense of urgency takes hold, as if he will lose him forever if he doesn’t go after him at that very moment.

Sugiki runs, breathless, heart pounding, desperate. And there he finds Suzuki, inside the train. Sugiki can’t hold himself back. He rushes forward and grabs Suzuki, but before he can do anything, Suzuki kisses him. The world tilts, the train moves, and everything around them ceases to exist. It’s only them against the whole world.

This is the first time we see Sugiki being himself. Carefree. Unguarded. Unafraid. Just him and Suzuki, lost in their own little universe, holding each other, pushing, pulling, kissing, dancing, being happy, being alive, being free.

[psychotic-gerard]

me, every single time i see people (especially women) talking about the divine feminine energy, or the sacredness of the womb or whatever it is now:

[image description: a two-panel photo of a person dialling a number and then placing the phone to their ear. the contact is saved as ‘Ursula K. Le Guin’ /end ID]

context is this quote by her:

But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?

[roseburning]

Can we all just agree that 10Dance and Yuri!!! On Ice take place in the same universe? Please?

[simokdongjae]

do you feel like a princess now?

[kangkomi]

Suzuki has the most perfect character design ever his hair is FRIED, his bracelet is CUNTY, his hip TATTED and his shirts DISSAPEAR every two minutes of screen time

[jamefolks-unofficial-hype-man]

I just. I just need to talk about these frames for a second and how absolutely feral they make me. The LOVE HANDLES MYGOD the squish the fucking squish lord almighty

[flamingkorybante]

My friend worked with the People With AIDS Coalition in 1990 and found this while cleaning out some old folders. I can't stop thinking about it.

[superfandomlife]

"Sometimes, love is born in the brief flutter of a glance- that fleeting moment when eyes meet. And once they do, they can never look away. When Klai Rung said that being attracted to someone is nothing more than a fleeting infatuation, perhaps he hadn't yet grasped the true weight of that emotion. This song [...] reminds us that the courage to confront our feelings can give us a chance at first love, a path toward true love- something far deeper than any love we only dare to imagine."

Shine - Episode 02 (2025)