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hiiiii if you were following me during the heart killers' run you'll know that i kinda sorta ended up doing a weekly meta series in which i took a closer look at style's behavior and actions. here's a master list, just in case anyone needs it <3
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Functionally, there's very little difference between watching a movie on poob and watching a movie on basic cable. Yet, for some reason, the advertisements on poob offend me far more
ad breaks on poob always interrupt important scenes or make really jarring cuts.
when it's on cable, they've timed the commercial breaks in a way that generally isn't as disruptive. someone took the time to "reformat" the movie for tv.
ads on poob always KNOW that they're on poob and want me to interact with them or click them. the number of QR codes or ads-in-separate-ad-framing/window are infuriating and jarring.
cable commercials are just stupid little skits i can mute to go use the bathroom.
ads on poob are less than 2 minutes--not enough time to do anything, but enough time to piss me off.
cable commercials are 2-5 minutes, which is enough time to go do something/bathroom or snack break, or talk to whoever you're watching with.
ads on poob are the same 3-4 commercials over and over and over and over again, often cutting to them immediately with no warning, and poob struggles to like, catch up to the fact that it's having to show a different progress bar, or a different timer.
cable commercials, esp during primetime, generally cycle through like 10-15 minimum, so you can go an ad break or two without seeing the same commercial. and they usually only pop up during quiet moments, at regular intervals, so you can see them coming--and there isn't a weird lag/loading time.
in both cases i am being accosted by advertisements and treated like a consumer to manipulate and exploit. the volume changes on cable and poob, the brightness level is eye-searing in both cases.
but poob doesn't respect that i'm here for the MOVIE. cable, thanks to preexisting, decades-old norms around broadcast television, still kind of does. kind of. it's easier to ignore those commercials than the ones on poob.
basically i think poob follows ad norms established on the internet--pop-ups, invasive flashing bullshit, creating lag, taking up time and attention--and cable follows established cable norms of, "time for a few minutes of ads that are just stupid little skits instead of spam machines, and then back to your otherwise uninterrupted movie."
I mean i know what you're saying, but there's about a dozen free ad-supported streaming services and i respect none of them to use any of their names. Meanwhile, Poob has fully entered the tumblr lexicon as a shorthand for stupidly-named tech products, especially streaming services.
saw this on Insta and the idea that people who are anti-AI are just using it anyway like... willing to give it up? I ACTIVELY AVOID THAT SHIT BUD! WHAT ARE YOU EVEN TALKING ABOUT?
ALSO
It's not as if this shit has been around SOOO LONG. We all existed JUST FINE before this shit became THE THING someone decided to shove in our face like...
prev: #u forgot the best part#the artist figured out the gig and was like#i draw for u for the rest of my life#these chinese netizens are having shojou level romances
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people who use "cat person" and "dog person" as though they are describing two opposing sides in a war are very tiresome to talk to for me. and the same for anyone who assumes a personal preference Must Necessarily be a statement of supremacy. TIRESOME!
people who do this really do not enjoy when I bring up that our ideas of "what dogs are like" and "what cats are like" are socially and culturally influenced. "dogs are big and stupid and dirty and slobbery and too friendly" this is not how dogs are viewed in many places, did u know? this is largely a stereotype in the places where dogs like retrievers are the most common type of dog to own, like the US. in many places this is not the case, and in those places the stereotypical dog is often characterized very differently.
I know we talk a lot about the literacy crisis and the horrible anti-intellectualism happening rn but I think we need to talk more about how much of an entitlement complex the stupidest among us have developed
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Kinda crazy to me that when your phone's storage is too full, the phone is now wired to suggest you to delete your photos and the apps you chose to put on it instead of allowing you to remove the mostly malware of shit you don't use that are default on the phone
i've been on holidays with my parents for less then a week and they are allergic to headphones. we have rented a small flat that consists of one kitchen/living room and one bedroom. my dad is in the living room/kitchen watching a thing without headphones. my mom is in the bedroom watching a thong without headphones. this has been the case for the past few days. i have nowhere to go except the bathroom, the storage room and the outside where there are mosquitos. i just complained to them. if they forget to use headphones again tomorrow then i'll just blast the new hard launch episode on 100% volume tomorrow without giving a shit. and if two gays yapping doesn't do the trick then i'll put on a 10h version of nyan cat or something. let's see if they then remember that headphones exist :)
just had an absolute beautiful interaction in the parking lot just now. me and my parents were returning with our groceries and when we got back to our car some guy was just getting done parking his car right next to ours. and by right next to ours i mean he parked so close that there was absolutely no way any of us could have managed to squeeze into the driver's seat. someone would have had to climb in over the passenger's seat. the three of us just stared at each other and shook our head at the audacity
now the guy had parked in reverse, so his driver's side was on the same side as ours and so he had the same amount of space (as in none) to step out of the car that we had to enter it. and since he had only JUST parked the car, he was still sitting inside it. and he had the window open. and so my dad gestures in italian and goes "and how are you getting out of the car?"
and the guy says "...objectively, you're right" and immediately drives off in embarrassment
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What makes a BL?: A look at Thailand's "Esplanade gay movies"
Originally posted on Reddit April 2022.
"Esplanade gay movie" is a term some in Thailand have used to describe mostly low-budget, small-studio gay-themed films that received a limited release, often at the Esplanade Cineplex in Bangkok (no relation to Singapore's durian-shaped theatre). I briefly mentioned the influence of indie filmmakers on the formation of Thailand's live-action BL genre during the early 2010s in my Early history of Thai BL post, but felt that a closer look was warranted.
The above posters are of films that had limited theatrical releases, though some are nearer to the mainstream than others. There's considerable variety in their subject matter, which ranges from fluffy young romances (essentially BL as we now know it) to erotic adult dramas, with plenty of experimental stuff in between.
There's Boring Love from 2009, a romantic comedy adapted from a very popular story on the Pantip.com forums. The story also inspired Is This Love?, one of two gay-themed student films from 2011, the other being Just in Case. These two only had special charity screenings, but are early examples in the development of school-romance BLs. Another student short film, Present Perfect (2012) by Anusorn Soisa-ngim, had a remake which was released in 2017 and became quite a festival darling, with a sequel in 2020.
As mentioned in my earlier post, as the category diverged, some of these indie productions were the first to enter BL territory, including Timeline (2013, with a sequel in 2016), Love's Coming (2014, with a 2015 sequel) and My Bromance (2014). On the other end of the spectrum, a trend of erotic dramas being produced for the big screen was also emerging with Me, My Familiar People (2013) by Rachyd Kusolkulsiri (who would go on to make Love Sick), and Teacher and Student (2014) and Father & Son (2015) by Sarawut Intaraprom, who'd previously directed Boring Love. The 2015 sex comedy Love Next Door 2 is a follow-up to a 2013 online-only original.
A supernatural/horror trend seemed to follow, with Summer to Winter (2015) by the creators of Timeline, and The Blue Hour (by Anucha Boonyawatana, who would later direct Not Me) and Red Wine in the Dark Night (Tanwarin Sukkhapisit, The Eclipse) in 2016. The latter two would also be picked up by several international festivals.
More works on the BL side include Water Boyy (2015) also by Rachyd, Sweet Boy (2016) by Sathanapong Limwongthong (Gen Y), I Love You (2017) by Phadej Onlahung (Dear Doctor) and Boyfriend (2016), an adaptation of a popular web comic also originating from Pantip.com in 2005. The last was rather curiously also directed by Sarawut, whose company usually focuses on erotic gay stuff. (Edit: It's because he was the original author of the web comic.)
Works heavier on drama include My Bromance director Nitchapoom Chaianun's The Rain Stories (2016), and Fathers (2016), which was praised for tackling the subject of gay-parent families and also made the festival rounds. And then there's Driver (2017) by Love Next Door director Thitipan Raksasat, which is an erotic drama thriller. I haven't included some better known works like Anucha's Malila: The Farewell Flower or Tanwarin's earlier films that touched on transgender issues.
While I'd have liked to make this an analysis of how these films influenced and/or interacted with the development of the BL genre, that's pretty much beyond me (and I haven't actually seen most of them). But maybe those of you who know the works could share your thoughts. (Or actually, please share even if you haven't seen them.) What do you think defines a work as belonging to the BL genre, and how it could apply to these works (as well as others, like all the stuff by Nitchapoom's Wayufilm, which I've always had trouble categorizing)? Do BL films somehow differ from the recognized characteristics of BL series, given that they are almost entirely the work of queer creators and none are adaptations of BL novels? Do gay viewers form a larger part of their target audience compared to TV?
And did you notice how aggressively shirtless these posters are?