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I have one problem now. But it’s a good problem to have – there are too many things I want to watch. 😊 I’m so behind on so many dramas. My to-watch list keeps getting longer and longer.

GL dramas

Pluto

I watched the 1st episode a week ago right after it aired. I loved it. Namtan is wonderful and beautiful. Her and Film have great chemistry, and I’m intrigued by the main mystery. I do plan to watch that one every week as it airs.

The Loyal Pin

I finally got around to watching Freen and Becky’s new drama. I watched four episodes for now (it goes a bit slowly, because see above about my main problem now 😊), and I like it a lot. Freen and Becky are both great actresses, and their chemistry is burning up the screen. And they’re so good at kissing, seriously so good. Currently they are my favorite GL couple.


BL dramas

Perfect 10 Liners

The first episode will air later today, and I can’t wait. ForceBook my beloveds – I missed having them on my screen every week. I don’t even care if it is good, I just want it to be entertaining.

My Damn Business

It’s a very short Korean BL drama (just seven 10 minutes long episodes) about an office romance between team leader Han Yu Jin, whose sales team gets dissolved amidst the company’s management crisis, and Yun Su An (an assistant manager from another team). Yu Jin has to wrap up all the current projects and he gets assigned Yun Su An to help. There’s just two of them in the office, and even though their relationship is a bit cold and formal at first it soon starts to change.

It airs of Youtube. Here is the playlist. Four episodes aired for now and I like it a lot. It’s cute and funny, and manages to pack quite a lot into such short episodes.

And I have to say that Korean BL dramas keep surprising me nicely lately with wonderful, hot kisses. First The Time of Fever, and now this drama. Because that kiss in episode 3 was so, so hot. Here's the link to the beginning of that kiss, if you would like to see for yourself. 😊


Kdramas

Love in the Big City

I watched six episodes, still have the last two to watch. And it’s ok, I like it well enough. And of course I’m very glad it got made, and I love that Nam Yoon Su is so unbothered by all those hate comments they got. In one interview he said “I just laughed it off when I got malicious comments. Those people were actually 1 in a 100. I got a lot of messages of support.”

But I guess I expected it to hit me harder and make me very emotional, and I have to say it left me rather cold. There were a few scenes in the middle that were hard to watch for me because of personal baggage. But in general I am a bit underwhelmed.

Family by Choice

I’m so conflicted about this drama. On one hand I’m all heart eyes about OT3 subtext with our main trio. They are all great, and especially Hwang In Youp as my sweet, broken woobie Kim San Ha. But I love the three of them – they love each other so much, and care for each other. It’s so beautiful – the way San Ha always protects the other two, and the way both boys always drop everything to protect Ju Won. And the way Ju Won and Hae Jun always know what to do to drag San Ha out of one of his dark moods. It’s so heartwarming and lovely to watch. I mean, I know what the endgame pairing is, and I’m fine with it. But that’s canon. I just really hope there will be at least a few fics about my lovely OT3 later. And I ship the dads, too. They are really good at co-parenting their three kids. 😊

At the same time I have issues with how all the women in this series (except Ju Won) are portrayed. Even Ju Won I feel isn’t as developed for now as the two boys. It still can change, just six episode aired for now, but I am a bit disappointed now.

More here with spoilers.

All the mothers are horrible here. San Ha’s mother especially or course. And she is horrible, don’t get me wrong. But for me narrative here unfairly blames her and only her for the tragedy from their past. San Ha and her sister had two parents after all, so why is only a mother blamed for leaving the children alone for two days? Where was the dad then?

And then there is Hae Jun’s mother, who abandoned her son, and Hae Jun’s aunt to some extent. And if that’s not enough there is Dal’s mother, too, constantly putting her daughter down and making her cry, even in front of her friends.

And in the background there are all those gossipy aunties from the neighborhood, who are so unkind about our three kids coming from broken homes.

I don’t know, like I’ve said it could still change, there are ten more episodes to go. I’m not disappointed enough to stop watching for now. But we’ll see.

As for fanfic writing - I posted a little SCI ficlet two weeks ago for Fandom Gift Basket 2024.

All I need is your sweet kiss (1027 words)
Fandom: S.C.I.谜案集 | S.C.I. Mystery (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bai Yutong/Zhan Yao, Bái Chí/Zhào Zhēn
Characters: Zhan Yao, Bai Yutong, Bai Chi, Zhào Zhēn
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Banter, Teasing, Kissing
Summary: Just a little scene from their post-canon life, with banter and laughter, and kissing. :)


And I finished my second Meet You at the Blossom fic and posted it yesterday.

The sweet sound of you (3086 words)
Fandom: 花开有时颓靡无声 | Meet You at the Blossom (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jin Xiaobao/Zongzheng Huai'en
Characters: Zongzheng Huai'en, Jin Xiaobao
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Porn with Feelings, Manhandling, Possessive Behavior, Jewelry, Jin Xiaobao Jingles During Sex
Summary: At first that sweet jingling sound was an innocent sign of love and warmth, of safety and belonging. But now it will be associated with something different in Huaien’s mind, too. Because that sweet and soft ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong is heard with every slow, sensuous movement of Xiaobao’s body on top of Huaien’s.

Now I can focus fully on my Yuletide assignment, which I love a lot. And on possible treats, because there are so many great requests that I would love to write something for.

RL is so annoying lately – a lot of tiny problems that tire me so much. Do I really have to deal with a shower head that stopped working and a leaky toilet at the same time, life, really? Add a few problems with my new phone, too. Urgh... I consider myself lucky that I fell in love with Meet You At The Blossom so hard. At least I have this cute, funny, angsty, emotional and pretty drama to help me unwind. You bet I’m in the middle of another re-watch. 😊

And good news is that I finished the 1st draft of my first Huaien/Xiaobao fic. Yay! Now it’s needs some editing (but not that much, it’s nothing complicated, just 2000 words of porn with feelings 😊), and it will be ready to send for beta-reading.


And I have fanworks recs. Three fanvids first, all Huaien/Xiaobao:

Love Me Wrong

Hold On

Love Won't Let Me Leave


And now a fic – it’s this one threesome fic I really liked:

hurt me tenderly (soothe me roughly) (38422 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 4/4
Fandom: 花开有时颓靡无声 | Meet You at the Blossom (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Jin Xiaobao/Zongzheng Huai'en, Jin Xiaobao/Su Yin, Jin Xiaobao/Su Yin/Zongzheng Huai'en, Su Yin/Zongzheng Shaoyu (one sided), Jinbao/Que Siming
Characters: Jin Xiaobao, Su Yin (Meet You at the Blossom), Zongzheng Huai'en, Zongzheng Shaoyu, Que Siming, Jinbao (Meet You at the Blossom), Zhaocai (Meet You at the Blossom), Prince Shen, assorted ensemble
Additional Tags: Threesome, is it a threesome if two of the guys never really touch?, Angst, Seemingly unrequited love, su yin is going through it, no one communicates. everyone believes sex will fix their problems, established xiaobao/huaien, Aphrodisiacs, and the dubcon that that implies (but they're into it), updated to now be plot with porn, Get Together, Fuck Or Die, attempted murder (fuck or die), gratuitous descriptions of qi, Angst with a Happy Ending, is it slow burn if they fuck in the first chapter and keep fucking all the way through?, Post-Canon
Summary: The post canon ot3 get together with imperial politics and plots, aphrodisiacs, attempted murder, and a lot of angst filled fucking


And not MYATB stuff is about two upcoming Japanese BL dramas I’m interested in.

The first one is the Japanese version of Love In The Air with Naguma Shomo as one of the leads. I loved Naguma Shomo as Kazuma in At 25:00 In Akasaka, he’s hot and charismatic, so on the one hand I would love to watch this drama. On the other hand it’s Mame, and Mame’s id is like my anti id, so I don’t know. But on the third hand Japan is really good at making stuff with problematic tropes in a way more aligned with my id, so who knows I might even like a Japanese version of Mame. 😊

The other drama is Love Is Like A Poison. It’s about Ryoma, an elite lawyer, and Haruto, a brilliant con artist, who becomes business partners and start living together. It premieres in Japan in September. Here is mydramalist page for this drama.

Actors look good together and the summary sounds like my thing. I really hope it will get the international release, too. And if not then let’s hope that some kind fan will make fansubs.


Oh, one more thing – Guardian Wishlist fest started posting wishlists. Woohoo! I have to sit down one day and take a look at them. Maybe something will spark joy and summon a plot bunny or two. I miss writing Guardian fics. 😊

Ahhhh, it was wonderful and I loved it. 😍 I have to go out now and will be back late in the evening, so I’m just quickly writing down a few thoughts behind the cut.

Spoilers here.

Huaien in black! I love that look on him. And I’m glad we got it here, since it seems he will be back all in white in the next episode.

And Su Yin is in his villain era, being all controlling and making decision for Xiaobao without listening to what Xiaobao wants. It seems men who like Xiaobao also like to knock him out when they don’t want to hear him arguing anymore. My poor baby... 😊

And I still can’t tell if the drama wants me to think that Su Yin has romantic feelings for Xiaobao and represses it deeply, or if the only feelings he has for Xiaobao are purely brotherly. I read that in the novel he only cares for Xiaobao like an older brother. So maybe it’s just the case of Su Yin’s actor Li Junliang having inappropriate romantic chemistry with Wang Yunkai. 😉

And aww, it looks to me as if Xiaobao already forgave Huaien. His mouth says ‘no’, but his heart already said ‘yes’. ❤️

And everything about that talk when Jinbao admitted to liking Siming was hilarious. Especially poor Zhaocai rolling his eyes about having to deal with two love sick fools now. And Jinbao dreamily saying how handsome Siming is, and Xiaobao instantly asking “Can he compare with Huaien?” I laughed out loud, which was very welcomed during watching this very tense episode.

This is the best news ever: My Personal Weatherman manga will have the additional 7th chapter to be released on Japanese online manga platform CMOA on August 18. Here is the twit by the author Taino Nikke with a lovely cover pic. Please, please, please, let it mean that maybe there will be at least a post-drama movie with Higuchi Kouhei and Mashiko Atsuki in the future. Because I don’t dare to dream about the 2nd season.


There are four more days till the next episode of Meet You At The Blossom, and there’s only so many times you can re-watch existing 10 episodes. And believe me I’ve re-watched them a lot already. So I’m trying to distract myself by watching Snowafall – a vampire cdrama set in the Republican era. And it works a little bit. Because I love vampires, the Republican era, and age gap relationships. And the main villain is gorgeous and I love watching him being menaced by our male lead. I watched seven episodes for now, and I find it very entertaining.


And now something about two new non BL GMMTV dramas.

Since I’m on the lookout for a Monday drama to watch, I checked the 1st episode of Summer Night with a few familiar faces in the cast – mainly Phuwin, Dunk and Lookjun. I had very low expectations before watching, after all it is a high school drama where the main plot seems to be a teenage love triangle. But I was very pleasantly surprised.

The 1st episode was pretty good, and very cute. The female lead Star played by newbie Parn is super adorable, Phuwin and Dunk both look so pretty, and their characters are interesting, too. (and I admit that I ship Lune and White a little, Phuwin and Dunk have nice chemistry, and Lune and White’s friendship started with an accidental kiss. 😊). And there is a cute secondary m/m couple. And maybe there will be a f/f couple, too?

Spoilers here.

Since Lookjun’s character Ivy clearly has a big crush on Star, and I really hope she will get a girlfriend later.

So that’s another enjoyable watch for me, and for now I do plan to watch the rest of the episodes, too.

And here is the trailer for Peaceful Property with Tay and New as leads. It’s a comedy about friendship and ghost hunting. There are a few other familiar actors in the cast – most notably for me Force and Book. They have one tiny scene in the trailer, so I don’t know if they will be there as secondary characters, or if it’s just cameo. But still the trailer looks entertaining, and I will watch at least the 1st episode. It starts airing on August 28.


But yep, can’t have a post these days without something about Meet You At The Blossom. 😊

A rec first: Dynasty - a lovely Huaien/Xiaobao fanvid.

And usually the only AU fics I read are canon divergence AUs. I’m not saying I never read other AUs, I do sometimes especially when the fandom is small and I’m starved for fanfic, or if I trust the author. Right now when it comes to MYATB fanfic I want all the fics in canon setting. Fix it, angst, fluff, smut – give me all of it and I’ll try to read it.

But then I see pics of Li Le and Wang Yunkai looking adorable together, like this for instance:



And I think now I also want all the modern AUs, too? I might have started writing one already, oops. 😊 This is the third MYATB fic I started writing. Brain, I would really appreciate it you could focus on finishing at least one fic before getting distracted by a shiny new idea, ok? 😉

♥ ♥ ♥ It was intense, and beautiful, and painful. We’re still in the ‘ouch, ouch, my heart hurts’ phase. And the next episode will have more of that pain and suffering – I saw the teaser, I know what to expect. But bring it on, give me all that delicious angst. 😊

Spoilers here.

So yes, Huaien is the Emperor’s son. But he doesn’t want to have anything to do with the court and his biological father. He only wants to save Xiaobao.

And, as far as my viewing experience goes, that is really rather unusual for an Asian drama - the emperor being a decent guy, and wanting to make up to Huaien for being abused by the second prince in the past. And then not stopping him when Huaien said ‘no, thanks, and fuck you’.

And of course everything about Xiaobao and Huaien and their beautiful, fucked up relationship was so, so good to me.

Like Xiaobao taking off his matching hairpin and throwing it away. And the pain in Huaien’s eyes when he saw that.

But also, damn, Huaien is just so... He really was convinced that Xiaobao would instantly forgive him if he just appeared in front of Xiaobao wearing the hairpin Xiaobao gifted him, and saying in a soft voice that now he knows how to love, now he loves Xiaobao, after all Xiaobao only lost some money, what does it matter, after all Xiaobao promised that he would forgive Huaien no matter what Huaien did wrong. Because Xiaobao did something wrong and Huaien forgave him. Because getting drunk in a brothel is exactly the same as destroying someone’s family according to Huaien. Wow, and I’m saying this with all my love, is that boy damaged...

And of course he resorted to violence as soon as Xiaobao said ‘no’ and lied that he doesn’t love Huaien.

And of course Xiaobao lies that he doesn’t love Huaien, he throws these words into Huaien’s face because he knows it will hurt him. But he’s so scared when it looks like Prince Shen might kill Huaien. And he makes a choice not to use the poison Prince Shen gave him, and later he burns it.

And I do love the scene with Huaien realizing how badly he fucked up, and that his actions didn’t just cause Jin family to lose money. It caused Xiaobao to be tortured and poisoned, and now he’s in so much pain, with only the tiny chance for recovery. That shocked, anguished look on his face when he was looking at Su Yin taking care of Xiaobao, at Su Yin putting his cloak around Xiaobao’s shivering body, at Su Yin saying: ‘you did this to him, it’s all your fault’.

And ahhh, that scene with Huaien just lurking unnoticed outside and checking up on Xiaobao, and smiling slightly when he heard Xiaobao laughing and having that moment of happiness with his family. Even if that happiness doesn’t include him.

I still didn’t have time to re-watch episode 7 properly on my laptop, because I came back from Warsaw earlier today just in time to watch episode 8. So here have my impressions for episode 7 written yesterday after watching. And my fresh reaction to episode 8. Be warned – it’s mostly screaming and crying. 😉

Episode 7

Ouch, my heart. It is a cdrama, all right.

Spoilers here.

So much angst, so much suffering. My heart was stomped upon and everything hurts. And I’m eating it up with a spoon. 😊

My poor, poor Xiaobao... That was the worst birthday ever. His family got destroyed, he got tortured, and he’s convinced his beloved betrayed him and left him to die. And he still tries to reach out to him even when he’s out of his mind from pain.

And my poor little meow meow Huaien… Of course what gives him strength to break up his chains is his obsessive love and his possessive jealousy over Xiaobao. As soon as he heard that Xiaobao was with Su Yin those chains didn’t stand the chance. 😉

And the way Huaien screamed when he woke up in chains again and realized that this time he couldn’t get out of them to go to Xiaobao. There was so much pain on his face, and his anguished scream made my heart hurt.

And Su Yin is wonderful, and I love him. He’s a good person and a good friend.

And finally, finally we meet the second half of our secondary couple – the miracle doctor Que Siming, Jinbao’s love interest. It was the great first impression. I like him already.

Episode 8

Aaaaaa!!! How can you end it here?! And now I have to wait another six days? That is unacceptable.

Spoilers here, too.

Yes, they have a connection (like a cultivation connection, maybe, I’m not sure, I don’t watch a lot of wuxia dramas) – Huaien feels when Xiaobao is in pain.

And Xiaobao tells himself that he hates Huaien now, my poor baby...

“That’s the last time I think of him. He’s not worth it.”

Ouch, ouch, ouch, it hurts so much. Don’t make Xiaobao suffer anymore, show, I’m begging you. I can’t stand to see tears in his pretty eyes. I want him to be happy and carefree again. Even though he can never go back to how things were before, after all this.

And our secondary couple looks promising. And they have some sort of connection, too. I think it’s a childhood connection. After all Siming recognized Jinbao’s voice before he even saw him. And Jinbao doesn’t recognize Siming at all, but he recognized the bracelet he saw in our dear doctor’s things.

And oh wow, Crown Prince Shaoyu is a spoiled brat. Xiaobao was spoiled, too, but he was also kind, sweet, and caring. Shaoyu is arrogant and selfish. He can disappear for all I care. I really hope him and Su Yin aren’t the endgame third couple. Su Yin deserves better.

And OMG that last scene... They are both finally in one place again. And Huaien is wearing his matching hairpin Xiaobao gave him. 😍

I’m sure Huaien has a secret plan how to outsmart his asshole father, but will it succeed? At the same time there are only four episodes left. Not that much time for solving all the problems before a happy ending. Apparently the novel has a happy ending, so I hope the drama does, too. I want that wedding. 😊

Episode 5

I loved it so much. There were so many good, lovely and beautiful things here. 😍 But then I saw the previews for the next episode and I was so scared. 😨

So many spoilers here.

At least I had a lot of adorable scenes in this episode.

My sweet sunshine Xiaobao holding onto Huaien’s sleeve, Xiaobao declaring his love whenever he can so openly, Xiaobao holding the sword in his trembling hands prepared to protect Huaien.

And my cold kitty Huaien finally defrosting a little, Huaien initiating the hug, and the way his hands tightened on Xiaobao’s robe during that hug, Huaien smiling a wide, happy smile because he heard Xiaobao talking about how much he loves Huaien.

But then that ending... And, wow, jealous Huaien literally murdered people because of it. And like I get why Huaien is so jealous. And it’s really not just because he’s jealous. He feels betrayed. He let Xiaobao convince him that Xiaobao’s love is true, and not just a passing fancy. He opened up to Xiaobao, he started to trust him. And now this happens – everyone around him told him that’s the way Xiaobao was, and Huaien starts to believe them, he thinks that Xiaobao’s brothel visit is the proof of Xiaobao’s fickleness. That Huaien isn’t his one and only love. And Huaien is already on the truly unhinged ‘you’re mine and no one else’s’ level of his love. All he asked of Xiaobao was “don’t lie to me.” And now he thinks Xiaobao did lie to him.

Episode 6

OH MY GOD... Like I’ve said I watched the preview for this ep yesterday, so I knew what to expect. There will be more detailed thoughts later after re-watching, for now just a bit of incoherent rambling right after watching the episode.

Spoilers here, too.

There was so much drama, angst, and tragedy, and betrayal. And dubcon sex, too. My sweet sunshine Xiaobao suffered so much. I can’t stand to see him in pain and crying.

I guess it comes with a price - being loved by a man as damaged as Huaien. But, fuck it, I love it. It’s like the best and most iddy fanfic. And I live for this obsessed, possessive, unhinged Huaien.

“I’ll take everything from you so you have no choice but to rely only on me.”

Damn... It sent shivers down my spine. In a good way. And now I have to wait six days for the next episode? Argh... Give it to me now, now, now.

I can’t believe how much joy this cute little drama gives me. Seriously, while watching I’m giggling, and kicking my feet, and saying ‘awww’ a lot. And after the episode ends I want to re-watch it instantly.

Bear with me, please, while I fall head first into a new obsession. Because I’m full of feelings and all I want to do is to squee about my adorable, enthusiastic puppy Xiaobao and my pretty and prickly kitty Huaien. And about their beautiful, sexy love. 😊

Squee with spoilers and three gifs (a bit NSFW I think) behind the cut.

Xiaobao my beloved, who’s so shameless and open about his love and about what he wants, but he’s also so kind and caring. When he saw Huaien’s wounds he instantly forgot about his other intentions and just wanted to take care of Huaien.

And Huaien who’s so in love already and tries so hard to pretend that he’s not. And who’s smiling so much, with such a happy carefree smile, when he teases Xiaobao (no wonder Xiaobao is so smitten when he sees that smile on Huaien’s face). “To me Jin Xiaobao is just a recreation.” Yeah, right, keep telling yourself that, Huaien. Nobody believes you anyway, not even you. 😊

And wow, they actually had sex for the second time in just three episodes. And no darts with aphrodisiac were involved this time. 😉 And it was such a beautiful, soft, sensuous scene. You know, it was more suggesting than showing, since it’s still a cdrama, but it was lovely.