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she/her. late 30s. made in 🇮🇹. most ardent admirer of fresh produce. i dunno.

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ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · Sep 1

📌 Stuff, things (including, but not limited to):

📺 tv, mostly asian dramas (especially BL/GL/QLs 🌈);
📚 lit & poetry;
🎬 films;
🐈 cats;
🌱 mental health;
🔀 aroaceness; Notion; food;
🪫 occasional grumbles about this mortal coil.

Screenshot from the first episode of variety series #BasedOn2Stories. Actor Sea Tawinan, wearing a white and blue striped shirt, is clutching his right cheek with his right hand and saying: "I'm a repetitive person." He's extremely relatable.

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ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 2m

#BasedOn2Stories Give Nani some rest and let him star in a rom-com!!!

(But I do love him in those roles, and in fact in all the roles!, so I am TORN.)

Screenshot from episode three of Thai variety series Based On 2 Stories. Actor Nani Hirunkit wearing a cozy pink sweater is laughing and saying "I'm not a big fan of emotional roles myself".

Same as previous, he continues: "It's kind of torturing, isn't it?"

Same as previous, he continues: "I have to leap deep inside myself
to dig these emotions up."

Same as previous, he continues: "The deeper I go into myself, the more tense I feel."

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 38m

#Khemjira When a character who believes they're completely alone learns how much they're loved and cherished!!! 😭🤧

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 1h

#Khemjira Preemptive apologies for the person I will become once #YourtuberSeries starts. 😵‍💫 Charn's little nod!!!

Screenshot from episode 10 of Thai BL drama series Khemjira. Jet, played by FirstOne Wannako, a brunet fair skinned young man, is looking at someone whose back is to the camera.

Screenshot from episode 10 of Thai BL drama series Khemjira. Charn, played by Tle Matimun, a dark haired bespectacled fair skinned young man, is looking at someone off frame.

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 1h

#Khemjira The first ten minutes of this episode really were just a lovely paean to friendship. I am verklempt. 🤧

Screenshot from episode 10 of Thai BL drama series Khemjira. Three young men hugging at a train station.

Same as previous, but it's a close up of their arms around each others.

Same as previous, but it's a close up of the titular character's crying face.

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 1h

#Khemjira MY BEST LITTLE GUYS. 🥹

Screenshot from episode 10 of Thai BL drama series Khemjira. Two brunet fair skinned young men sitting next to each other wearing white shirts, black ties and black trousers. One of them is saying "First day or ten years,"

Same as previous but it's a close up of Jet, played by FirstOne Wannakorn. Continues from prev: "you're my friend now."

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 2h

#LoverMerman This drama is so low budget, the music actively makes me feel as if I'm on the phone with the doctor's office and I'm put on hold 🥲.

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 2h

#LoverMerman Big fan of this little dude's no-nonsense attitude.

Screenshot from episode 3 of Thai BL drama series Lover Merman. Close up of a young lightly tanned brunet man man who is asking someone "So, are you happy to see me?"

Same scene as previous, but the close up is of a dark haired fair skinned young man with a perplexed expression on his face. He's saying "I'm indifferent".

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ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 17h

#TheWickedGame We simply cannot escape a childhood connection, but...

Screenshot from episode 3 of Thai BL drama series The Wicked Game. Pheem (played by Offroad Kantapon), a fair-skinned dark-haired in his late 20s, wearing a dark brown suit, is sitting on a bench with Than (played by Daou Pittaya), a fair-skinned dark-haired man in his mid 20s, wearing a white shirt and dark trousers. Than is asleep and leaning on Pheem's shoulder, Pheem's left hand gently touching Than's left ear.

Same as previous, but it's a wider shot and the entire park is in the frame. There are lovely little lights illuminating the scene.

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 17h

#TheWickedGame I can't tell you how delighted and happy I am that Offroad is the one ✨ Looking ✨.

Screenshot from episode 3 of Thai BL drama series The Wicked Game. Than (played by Daou Pittaya), a fair-skinned dark-haired man in his mid 20s, wearing a white shirt and black trousers, is sitting on a playground half wheel. He's gazing down at Pheem (played by Offroad Kantapon), a fair-skinned dark-haired in his late 20s, wearing a dark brown suit, who is gazing right back up at him.

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 18h

#TheWickedGame Pheem is such a cat.

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ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 18h

There's always entirely too many kdramas starting at the same time 😵‍💫.

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 19h

#BasedOn2Stories Another win for me 🥰.

Promotional image for the third episode of Thai variety show Based On 2 Stories. Actors Gemini Norawit and Nani Hirunkit, two dark haired fair skinned men in their 20s, will be the guests.

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ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 23h

Morning routine.

💙📚 KD Casey, Breakout Year (Self-published, 2025), 6%.

Photo of an excerpt from the book mentioned in the post. It reads: He checked the comments—a mistake—then Instagram—a bigger mistake—then Reddit—a true error in judgment.

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 1d

This thought he had was the most punk thing about him.

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ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 1d

(I'm only 18% in, so not an endorsement yet! But the book is Breakout Year by KD Casey. MM romance with baseball players. [What do I know about baseball, you ask? Absolutely nothing.]

It also happens to have the funniest dedication I've seen in a while [people are odd?! Did you know that...].)

Partial screenshot of the foreword page from the book mentioned in the post. It's a list of AO3-style tags: fake dating, old friends reunite, families of choice, first-gen immigrant anxiety, not so much a gay awakening as a gay confirmation, golden retriever/black cat, talking to plants, books & authors, jew4jew

Partial screenshot of the dedication page from the book mentioned in the post. It reads: To the person who said my books contain an "absurd" number of Jewish characters, here are two more.

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ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 1d

I don't want to jinx my own luck, but I started a romance novel last night and I didn't want to go to sleep so that I could keep reading. It's been possibly years??? since that happened, my goodness. 😭

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ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 1d

Sorellaaaaa 🤝.

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 1d

Spell your name with bl drama titles 🌈

A Tale of Thousand Stars
Not Me
GelBoys
Eternal Yesterday

maria .✧˚ @fakethedaytime.bsky.social · 1d

Spell your name with bl drama titles 🌈

Moonlight Chicken
About Youth
Reset
If It's You, I Might Try Falling in Love
A Boss and a Babe

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 1d

Remember when I was* a smoker and a friend brought back for me cigarettes from her Japan trip because we were teenagers obsessed with Yazawa Ai's Nana? Yeeeeah. 😭

(*I quit. But Japan has the coolest-looking cigarettes. That is a fact.)

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 1d

(I have a REAL need for the black bandages, ngl.)

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 1d

#PunksTriangle I don't know if this is for me, but for now I can at least vibe with the hand focus.

Screenshot from episode one of Japanese BL drama series Punks Triangle. Close up of a hand putting a black bandage on someone else's finger.

Screenshot from episode one of Japanese BL drama series Punks Triangle. Close up of a hand grabbing a young man's shoulder.

Screenshot from episode one of Japanese BL drama series Punks Triangle. Close up of a hand holding a cigarette to a young man's lips.

Screenshot from episode one of Japanese BL drama series Punks Triangle. Close up of a bandaged hand holding a pack of cigarettes while the other hand is lighting one.

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ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 1d

And not even 😂😅.

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 1d

#ThatSummer Hiiii, Thor!!! 🥰

Screenshot from episode four of Thai BL drama series That Summer. A young man (Thor Thinnaphan) with large beautiful eyes wearing an open blue shirt over a grey tee.

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 1d

I hope you enjoy it! It's nothing exceptional at the moment, but the ep really went by in a breeze, and it was fun seeing so many of the BL boys all at once!

ange @actofwhimsy.bsky.social · 1d

Plus, the amount of BL boys in the first ep (+ ep 2 preview) alone was hilarious. 😂

Screenshot from episode one of Japanese drama The Golden Egg. Actor Okura Takato who starred in #jbl Kimi to Nara Koi wo Shite Mite mo.

Screenshot from episode one of Japanese drama The Golden Egg. Actor Sato Yusuke who starred in #jbl Mr. Unlucky Has No Choice but to Kiss!

Screenshot from episode one of Japanese drama The Golden Egg. Actor Motojima Junsei who starred in #jbl Our Youth.

Screenshot from episode one of Japanese drama The Golden Egg. Actor Soma Satoru from the preview of episode two. He starred in #jbl The Proper Way to Write Love.

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