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Well, he seemed to enjoy it

Damn. Now, I can't unsee it 🤣🤣🤣

Now, that's just slander 😂😂😂

The “red shirts” were a populist political movement in the country originally associated with the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship, which formed to protest the coup d’état against Prime Minister Thaksin (an extremely complicated political figure)—I hope your seeing some parallels to the series here already. The movement is usually seen as including leftists and academics as well as Thaksin’s rural and working-class supporters. One of their main oppositions at the time were the “yellow shirts,” aka The People’s Alliance for Democracy, a monarchist movement that opposed Prime Minister Thaksin and facilitated the coup d’état against him. And these two political groups were hashing it out specifically about issues of economic inequality, workers rights, and government coups—all the things Wu is bringing into the plot.

Let’s look at some facts. directors/producers Aof, X, Jojo, Fon, New, Ninew, Waa, Koo, Film, and Ark are all out (and I’m just saying that I’ve never been able to find info about P’Tha’s family life lol). In the past year we’ve had Memoir of Rati depicting resistance to historical homophobia, a bunch of gay theater kids in OFDO trying to put on a BL play, the trials of a pair of gay elementary teachers being affectionate in public on Love You Teacher, a full exploration of every legal right and responsibility involved in marriage equality through My Romance Scammer, multiple series depicting the corporate limits of queer support, and I haven’t even mentioned a Jojo show yet! Then this next year, they’ve got more GLs than ever before to add to all this discourse.

To act like queer experiences and rights are not baked into the very marrow of these shows and that the creatives and executives aren’t working hard to make that happen means you are ignoring so much clear evidence to the contrary. GMMTV is making very queer work, but they are allowing it to go far beyond the queer coming-of-age tragedies that queer narratives had been locked into for years and years, and BL/QL has been the key used to unlock that potential.

My knee-jerk reaction was not about the queerness in the shows or of the people involved. My fears have to do with what kinds of queerness are allowed to be expressed publicly and in performance. And this isn’t gmmtv’s fault but fans and sponsors are often timid to show their love to clockable effeminacy. DMD and CopyA have been the most forceful in pushing back against that, and we saw GMMTV explore possibilities with Diva Deva Mata (GIVE FLUKE A LEAD PART YESTERDAY!) Still, there seems to be a bigger hurdle to building excitement around more overtly effeminate performers.

When I hear actors told to treat BL as typical love stories, I wonder if it doesn’t limit the potential for actors to push into more effeminate places with their characters and performance; not a caricature of effeminacy, mind you, but characters who others might read as gay based on their body language or voice. Instead of the exceptions like PP Krit and Gun Atthaphan, could effeminate boys be a norm? Could we cheer for them, too, or does everyone need to be masc for us to care? On the other side, we could look at how (un)willing the GL industry has been to depict more butch characters so far—thank you 4 elements for giving us wlw who we can clock from a mile away, though! And then there’s the dearth of trans/tom/kathoey love stories in the genre.

You dared to risk your life because your man’s going to dump you. How about this? If I help you with this, can we consider my debt paid? If you can prove it with evidence, I might consider forgiving your debt. Then don’t worry. Other people’s business is my area of expertise, Mr. Boiling Tofu. Just don’t be all bark and no bite. I need results too, Mr. Black-Smoke Barking Dog.

I have switched to using Startpage.com and vastly prefer it. for one thing, instead of displaying an "AI summary" at the top of the search results (unless you turn it off, yes I know), it displays the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article, with link, whenever it finds one that's relevant.

also a waaayyyyy better sense of design than duckduckgo

Search Engines

Infinity Search is an alternative search engine with a special focus on privacy

DuckDuckGo is a popular search engine for those who value their privacy and are put off by the thought of their every query being tracked and logged. Uses bangs, ![site] for in-page search (sells your data to microsoft and draws from fucking bing)

WolframAlpha is a privately owned search engine that allows you to “compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase, and AI technology.” A data search engine.

Boardreader is a search engine for forums and message boards. It allows you to search forums and then filter down results by date and language.

Based in France, Qwant is a privacy-based search engine that won’t record your searches or use your personal details for advertising. Uses “&” as a bang search.

Another privacy-based search engine is Search Encrypt, which uses local encryption to ensure that users’ identifiable information cannot be tracked. Metasearch across multiple engines. 

Offering unbiased results from several sources, SearX is a metasearch engine that aims to present a free, decentralized view of the internet. Can be self-hosted. 

Gibiru’s tagline is “Unfiltered private search” and that’s exactly what it offers. Requires AnonymoX Firefox add-on for privacy. 

Disconnect allows you to conduct anonymous searches through a search engine of your choice.

Swisscows provides fully encrypted searches to protect your privacy and security. Built-in violence/porn filter cannot be overridden. 

MetaGer offers “Privacy Protected Search & Find” through its anonymised search. A plugin will allow it to be made a default.

Gigablast is a private search engine that indexes millions of websites and servers real-time information without tracking your data, keeping you hidden from marketers and spammers. Variety of filtration and refinement options for searching. 

Oscobo is a search engine that protects your privacy while you search the web. By not using any third-party tools or scripts, your data is protected from hacking and misuse. Has a Chrome extension to allow use in toolbar. 

https://search.marginalia.nu/ an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed. Use old-school searching rather than query-based for the best results. 

https://www.mojeek.com/ 

https://wiby.me/ - It’s goal is to index as many personalized websites as possible, and NOT commercial sites. 

https://4get.ca/ it works a lot like SearX, but honestly better. It doesn’t have its own index, but pulls from many others. I think it’s the best for research, since it allows you to search for answers from different indexes, is easy to configure, add free, and avoids censorship as much as it can.

https://www.searchenginemap.com/ for more on how search engines relate to each other.

https://yep.com/ is a crawler

https://www.etools.ch/ retrieves from Google, Mojeek, Bing, and Yandex, like Searx

https://www.dogpile.com/ 

https://searxng.org/ (next gen Searx)

https://luxxle.com/ - possibly conservative?

https://presearch.com/ - good for academic?

https://kagi.com/smallweb - free/randomised Kagi.

Other Searchers

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.