TheLITAeffect

Asian drama + BL watcher (not spoiler-free) Thai learner (my translations are loose)

[thelitaeffect]

Me watching this show that flew under the radar of my usual feed for new shows coming out until a few days ago: Damn this show is giving me so much!

Looks up MDL for the show: same director as Love In The Big City

I’m locked in and now disappointed I have to wait 6 days for another episode.

[shamebats]

"it's just stress" oh thank god, it's just the silent killer that slowly kills you, perfectly harmless, no need to worry

[jimmysea]

I’ve never slept over a friend’s house. It’s the first time I ever visited a friend’s house. I’ve always wanted to try it.LIGHT ON ME (2021)

[juliawvicker]

[chinzhilla]

favorite ql kisses 6/?

LOVE FOR LOVE'S SAKE episode 8

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Just saw an absolutely wild take that “you can’t claim to be woke and hate an entire religion” - they were specifically talking about “Christians”

The only answer I can give as a former Catholic- fucking watch me

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I’m absolutely on board with this

And then the backstory

And the bitchiness that they give each other when they meet again

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If there is one way to get me to pay attention to a show it’s Daddy Boss Legs

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Wasn’t dear old mommy dead by the time of the wedding? Wasn’t that why he felt he had to do it, cause it was her dying wish?

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Am I stupid or is the timeline of ticket to heaven not making sense?

“Hard to believe it’s been almost 20yrs”

But it opens in 2025

Then flashes back to 1996

Then mentions it would be 10 years to ordination

So it’s obvious they aren’t talking about Fourth’s character when they say “someone important to me” so it’s a red herring, but also that would still make you believe that he has been back at some point because it wouldn’t be 30 years since he has seen the priest.

I’m only 1/2 way through the first episode so we will see

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They really are making Lu Feng out to be a more tragic character than the complete psycho he is in the books. They also softened their relationship A LOT, I can remember maybe 2 or 3 instances when YC (who is the narrator) actually seems to be at all happy and I can think of only 1 instance, when they are reunited, that he seems to get any pleasure from their intimate interactions. Because it doesn’t have all the inner monologue it’s hard to fully understand some of the framework of YC’s decisions.

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I did not have Erotic Dental Work on my bingo card

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My favourite thing about the To My Shore special episode is the staff member trying to get tourists to not walk through their shot in an emotional scene

The tourists were definitely not paid extras and the entire production you can tell they had to keep doing this cause the “people are looking” line was absolutely true the entire show

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How do I explain that he has Who energy

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Thai BL watch checklist

Tagged by @ellsieee ☺️

Red - dropped

Green- completed

Purple- skimmed/watched for 1 character/storyline

I used to live as a completionist when I first started watching BLs and Kdramas, but there are too many now and I have let that go so. The guilt over dropping something used to be too real, but I now I have very strict limits and things get cut so much faster.

Blank image below. Tagging some folks from my interactions if they want to play along, if I didn’t tag you but you want to play consider yourself tagged: @lazzarella @30secondstothailand

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[redstonedust]

unfortunately i dont think its queerbaiting if the creator is just so terminally heterosexual that they never remotely considered the same gender relationship their show is centered around could be read as romantic. it is deeply painful however.

[melanqueerly]

Maybe accidental queer baiting? The way someone may not mean to say something rude, but it may come off rude, so it's rude. Frustrating either way.

[phinarei]

Not being a dick, just a friendly clarification.

By definition you can't accidentally queerbait. Queerbaiting is specifically using a same sex pair from the show to market the show to queer audiences with no intention of ever following through on a romantic relationship.

There is officially licensed Destiel merch signed off on by Kripke. Teen Wolf had a commercial with the actors for Derek and Stiles draped over each other talking about being "on a ship." Both shows actively used scenes between them as marketing while actively mocking fans for wanting them together. Sherlock has multiple characters refer to Johnlock as a couple, including characters we're supposed to believe are never wrong about human behavior and pushed those scenes in marketing. Then they acted insulted when fans saw them as a couple.

That's queerbaiting.

Done on accident it would just be queer subtext. Done because they had no other choice due to censorship is queer coding.

The specific meaning of the word is really starting to get lost and it's a pretty important one to keep accurate. It describes a very specific phenomenon that was done repeatedly and maliciously for decades and is meant to examine that specifically.

Doing it on accident sucks, but it isn't a tactic of capitalism intentionally intended to suppress queer representation while making money from queer fans.

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Unpopular opinion?: Net’s kisses with James looked more convincing