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eiyalist Ā· 2 years ago
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Happy Dew cause that is how I need him. So so happy. My baby! šŸ˜­ā¤ļøā€šŸ”„
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eiyalist Ā· 2 years ago
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crop top pat (kind of)
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eiyalist Ā· 2 years ago
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HYPERBOLIC SPOILERS FOR THE PHENOMENAL SECOND EPISODE OF OS2 x BBS x ATOTS
Can I feel so much in just one sitting?! Besides the UTTER giddiness of yesterdayā€™s episode, at least for today, I think I have some actual, sensible, legible analysis to offer. Iā€™m really moved, almost to tears.
I mean, as I blogged just a few minutes ago, part 4/4 of this second episode WILL go down in history in my heart as OBVIOUSLY some of the BEST, most STUNNING content in the HISTORY of anatomical and muscular analysis filmmaking. Yes.Ā 
Iā€™m seeing on Twitter some grumpiness for the comedy of this all (the girlies want more woop woop?! I mean?!), but I seriously think this whole crossover set up and the way itā€™s been written is brilliant. And I donā€™t think this is just for fun.Ā 
But first, regarding the comedy and some other one-off points ā€“ I mean, I knew that all four of these guys would be great, but their comedic TIMING, with the writing, is spectacular. They clearly had a FANTASTIC time filming this, and you can see it ā€“ while they didnā€™t have much time to actually film it, itā€™s so well done.
I really want to call it, I really want to see it, I wanna see more subverting of the ships, and I wanna see these guys do more with each other separately ā€“ Iā€™m excited to see the implications of OhmEarth and NanonMix next week, and I think that Aof might be making a huge point by separating these guys, pairing them up together with others, and mixing shit up, because thatā€™s what he does (especially while I have Heā€™s Coming to Me on the mind soon on my OGMMTVC watchlist).Ā 
Another one-off point: like I wrote yesterday, weā€™re getting a double-dose of nostalgia, and I also wrote that I havenā€™t had to wait NEARLY as long as most of yā€™all for the return of BBS and ATOTS. But that being said, even though I only watched ATOTS last fall, I actually literally nearly cried when I saw the ATOTS flashbacks and heard the music. Because the way that show was designed in 2021 (I got so much OGMMTVC on my mind) ā€“ those motifs WERE designed to imprint themselves in our memories as remarkable for a kind of cinematic, bildungsroman BL that we werenā€™t used to seeing back then. That show was nostalgic not JUST for the damn ship, but for Pha Pun Dao, for Chiang Mai, for the Thailand that Aof celebrates vis Ć  vis EarthMix in ATOTS and Moonlight Chicken.Ā 
Itā€™s gorgeous, and he knows what heā€™s doing by putting PatPran in that mix ā€“ another couple at a different stage of their relationship, with a background and shared struggles that are different than TianPhuphaā€™s, but that still offer both freshness AND nostalgia to the backbone story of ATOTS.
Whatā€™s moving me about these first two episodes reflects on what I just wrote ā€“ this is no longer a story about Bad Buddy or ATOTS. This is a story about two couples going through their shit. Pat and Pran have ALWAYS been about going through their shit. We went through a A LOT of SHIT with them, including forward flashes after they graduated and seeing how they were faring in their long-distance relationship.Ā 
Remember: we havenā€™t spent ANY time with Tian and Phupha in their relationship yet, ABSOLUTELY NONE. They smooched once on the hill, we saw them cuddle, and Oishii sent us off. So weā€™re JUST finding out, NOW, how theyā€™re faring, and we get thrown in a fight.
A fight thatā€™s similar to the kinds of struggles that Pat and Pran have already shown us and are showing us now. Tian wants Phupha to see a slice of HIS life in Bangkok. Tian wants Phupha to yield a little, to stop being so stubborn.Ā 
Pat wants Pran to open up more. Pat KNOWS why Pran keeps everything so close to the chest. Pat is SO USED to being the balancing effect of their relationship, to push forward, to pull back, but to ALWAYS HOLD PRAN DOWN AND REMAIN AS PRANā€™S ROCK, because Pran has not had the same kind of large family structure as Pat could rely on in his childhood and doesnā€™t know how to take emotional risks. Pat knows this and works hard on balancing it out.
But Pat can go overboard, right, and thatā€™s partly why Pran drove away to Pha Pun Dao ā€“ to prove to himself that he could complete this project on his own, but also, flirtingly, knowing that Pat would ultimately be by his side, and to play the competitive games that these guys always play with each other, because theyā€™re still college dudes with bones to pick.Ā 
What weā€™re seeing is BOTH COUPLES FINDING THEMSELVES IN THEIR MATURING GROWTH STAGES OF THEIR RELATIONSHIPS.Ā 
Hello, mic check, thereā€™s something happening here in Our Skyy 2. WHAT HAPPENED IN THE ECLIPSE EPISODES?
Same damn thing, the same damn thing that pissed the girlies off before. WEā€™RE SEEING AWLLLLLL THESE GUYS IN THE GROWTH STAGES OF THEIR RELATIONSHIPS. Akk was frustrated by all the expressions of care that Ayan is overabundant with. Ayan WANTS Akk to RECEIVE the care, because the RECEPTION OF CARE IS the signal, the trigger, the MEANING of the relationship for Ayan ā€“ it tells Ayan, when I care for you, Akk, I AM SHOWING YOU MY LOVE FOR YOU, and thatā€™s how *I* DEMONSTRATE IT.
Tian: Phupha, come with me to Bangkok.
Pran: Pat, let me do this by myself.
Akk: Ayan, I donā€™t need as much care as youā€™re giving me, itā€™s too much.
Phupha: Youā€™re making only about me being madly in love with you.
Pat: I want to help you, my boyfriend.
Ayan: This is how I show my love for you, Akk.Ā 
Yā€™all. Aof, Golf, these filmmakers. QUEER RELATIONSHIPS ARE RELATIONSHIPS THAT DESERVE THE INVESTMENT AND RESPECT OF EMOTION AND GROWTH IN ART. Not all queer art/BLs need to be about the thrills and frills of the first kiss, of the first sex, of the first whatever. Weā€™re expecting these guys to live together forever in fiction, right? Aof and Golf and the other homies are saying ā€“ kk, girlies, weā€™ll give you the fan service, alright, but weā€™re going to show you HOW WE, AS THE QUEER COMMUNITY, DURING PRIDE, GET THERE IN OUR OWN RELATIONSHIPS, TOO, messy details and all. Shit.
Hereā€™s something from reality. Iā€™m the youngest girl of my Indian family ā€“ I was not equal to my older siblings at all, expected to fail, treated as if I didnā€™t know how to function in society. Yā€™all can predict what happened. Your gal got a great career, a great family, a husband, the whole thing.
So when I first met my husband, Iā€™m riding my life on my own ā€“ paying my own rent, my own bills, everything. I had already proved I didnā€™t need my birth family for anything.
But what I didnā€™t consider during those first years of the relationship was the following: my future husbandā€™s love language was dependence. He was certainly IMPRESSED by dating a woman who had her shit together. BUT. He WANTED me to DEPEND on him, AT LEAST emotionally, if not for other things. I wasnā€™t going to like, quit my job for a relationship, but ā€“ I was ALSO having REAL trouble DEPENDING on him emotionally.
Like Pran, maybe. I didnā€™t trust trusting anyone emotionally, because that was a paradigm already created by my family in my upbringing. I had TRAINED myself to NOT need emotional feedback from ANYONE romantically, because I learned to survive in other ways.
Of course, with great communication AND TIME (TIME), I came around and learned to lean on him and trust him.
Aof and Golf are giving their couples the benefits of growth and time to make the relationships better, and stronger, and working, and functioning, and I canā€™t emphasize enough how REAL THIS IS.Ā 
Thatā€™s what these episodes are giving me. I WANT TO SEE MORE BLs with established relationships (@bengiyo, @lurkingshan, @wen-kexing-apologist: WHAT DID YOU EAT YESTERDAY FTW). I want to see contextual heartache. I want to see fights. I want to see tears. I want to see snottiness and shittiness and passive aggression, because all of that is worth examining in human emotional art.Ā 
Thatā€™s real, thatā€™s worth reflecting in art, and I see Aof and Golf doing this on purpose to give RESPECT to the emotional structures that theyā€™ve created in their work.Ā 
Iā€™m having so much fucking fun with these episodes, but I should have expected this, I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN, that Aof would already render me an emotional mess as well. It always happens. That itā€™s happening to our BELOVED COUPLES, AT THE START OF PRIDE, Iā€™m just like. Weā€™re just so blessed to have this art to enjoy.
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eiyalist Ā· 2 years ago
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I watched Dew and now Iā€™m sad cause I just want him to be happy. Precious baby! šŸ˜­šŸ’”
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eiyalist Ā· 2 years ago
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missed them and their shenanigans
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eiyalist Ā· 2 years ago
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Can we kiss as Pat and Pran?
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eiyalist Ā· 2 years ago
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ep.13 got meā€¦..
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pat & pran + every episode ever | episode two (our skyy 2)
ā€œIā€™ll help you. You didnā€™t ask me to. I just want to help my boyfriend.ā€ ā€œBut your faculty wonā€™t get to produce the play, then.ā€ ā€œI told you already. If I win, but that puts my boyfriend in trouble, whatā€™s the point of winning?ā€
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eiyalist Ā· 2 years ago
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"Happy now?" "Not yet."
Aaaaaa! Don't touch me I'm very emotional about these two T-T
A4, pencils.
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eiyalist Ā· 2 years ago
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eiyalist Ā· 2 years ago
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colored those sketches (and added a couple)
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eiyalist Ā· 2 years ago
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Imagine what I say. The sky is dark. The vibe is good. The weather is cold. We sit here by the fire. We lie down in there and look at the stars.
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eiyalist Ā· 2 years ago
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THIS IS A CALL OUT POST
I am calling out Pran's complete and utter fakery right here:
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"I want to sleep" - yea, right, Pran. You are a little liar who lies and I am going to prove it.
Exhibit A:
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You've already admitted that you need your Nong Nao eye mask to sleep and do indeed wrestle back off your boyfriend and put it on to fall asleep. We know this is a regular routine for you as we saw you also wearing it for bed in the previous episode so we can assume that this is entirely true.
However!
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When you lie down to "go to sleep" after your little teasing roleplay as chief and volunteer teacher, the eye mask is right next to you and yet you make no attempt to put it on. It's there, all prepared for your night's sleep, but you deliberately choose not to place it on your face. Hmm...
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Here again, after your little heart-to-heart about Pat wanting to help you and you finally giving into him. You turn away but you still do not put on the mask. You're acting as though you're ready to head off into the land of Morpheus and Pat even falls for it, doesn't he? Wiggling in closer for cuddles...
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Look at you snuggled up with the love of your life. So cute. So darling. So completely ignoring your Nong Nao eye mask which you proclaim to need for sleeping!
You've even got a smug, little smile on your face. It's not just because your bf's being cute though, is it Pran? It's because you're waiting for him to figure out.
Which he does.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight-
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-here!
And there's the reason Pat's eyes pop open like a doll in a horror movie! HE'S REALISED YOU'RE NOT WEARING YOUR SLEEPING AID. He's realised that you're not interested in the sleeping AT ALL!!!
So protest all you want Pran - you engineered this whole thing from the start!
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Liar.
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eiyalist Ā· 2 years ago
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Aof took his two characters that DEFIED expectations;
Chief Phupa, who we were scared would only like Tian because he had Torfunā€™s heart, but then was like nahā€¦ she was like a sister to me and then people ALLUDED to him being queer,
Pat, who was prime ā€œgay-for-youā€ fodder, but then said miss me with THAT bs
AND MADE THEM HAVE A SEMI HOMOEROTIC COMPETITIVE FRIENDSHIP THAT HAD THEM END UP IN BED AND BOTH THINKING ā€œyeahā€¦ if I got drunk enough I COULD have had sex with this personā€ā€¦ likeā€¦ AOFā€¦ AOFā€¦
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eiyalist Ā· 2 years ago
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Ohm* boy. An opportunity missed šŸ˜…
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Oh boy is he gorgeous!
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eiyalist Ā· 2 years ago
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Oh boy is he gorgeous!
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eiyalist Ā· 2 years ago
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Iā€™m thinking a lot about the scene between Pran and Tian where they discuss the fight Tian and Phupha are having. Not the fake one about who liked who first, but the real one about Phupha refusing to travel home with Tian or change anything about his life to meet Tianā€™s needs. Itā€™s a funhouse mirror image of the conflict Pat and Pran are having about how much Pran should let Pat help him, and their long-term dynamic of Pat letting Pran win every disagreement and always being the one to compromise or give in when their needs are in tension.
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What I love about it is that Tian doesnā€™t know anything about their relationship, heā€™s just (drunkenly) talking about his own experience, and how frustrating and exhausting it is to be with someone like Phupha who never meets him halfway. And Pran is sitting across from this guy who looks like his twin, whose story he has already memorized and connected to, who he now thinks of as a sort-of friend, and he is self-aware enough to see the parallels instantly, and to feel a little embarrassed and ashamed that he is essentially the Phupha in his relationship. And you see him react, just a little, and maybe start to think for the first time about what it must feel like for Pat to yield to him on everything, and never have that reciprocated by Pran.
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Reading this wonderful post from @waitmyturtles earlier where she mentioned how she empathizes with Pran, I was also reflecting a bit about where I see myself in this story, and let me tell you, I am such a Phupha. When it comes to how I want to live my life, where I want to be, and how I want to spend my time and with whom, I am uncompromising to a fault. I completely get where Phupha is coming from - I told you who I am, and now youā€™re telling me itā€™s not enough. He is frustrated by the idea that he has to change himself for Tian, and I get that, I really do. Itā€™s something I am personally not willing to do. The key difference between me and Phupha, however, is that I am not in love and I do not desire to be in a romantic partnership. He very much is, and very much does.
So what might a guy like Phupha think, as he is struggling so much with the idea of yielding to Tian, when he is met with someone like Pat? Someone who is so like him in some ways - in his strength, his masculinity, his physicality, his confidence, his loyalty, his desire to help others - and yet so unlike him in other ways - his emotional openness, his vulnerability, his comfort with compromise, his absolute willingness to put his pride aside for his lover. Where Phupha is rigid, Pat is versatile, in every sense of the word. There is a lot Phupha might learn from talking to someone like Pat about how he sees his relationship, why he is always willing to bend to Pranā€™s needs, and why ultimately feels itā€™s worth it, even if he sometimes feels some of the frustration that Tian does. Might Phupha have his own epiphany next week, opening up a path for him to finally compromise on something important to Tian?Ā Ā 
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@dribs-and-drabbles, Iā€™m not sure how this might fit into your theory about the patterns playing out in these episodes, but I really hope we get to see this happen next week, and watch both of these couples learn from each otherā€™s experiences and find a way to meet their partners in the middle. Because as @waitmyturtles said, this is the work of being in a long term relationship.
In the server with @bengiyo @shortpplfedup @ginnymoonbeam @kyr-kun-chan @wen-kexing-apologist we talk often about how amazing it is when romances address what happens to couples after they get together, and how exciting it is that we are starting to see more bl shows about the work of staying together, and Iā€™m so glad that the genius minds behind Bad Buddy and A Tale of Thousand Stars took the opportunity of this special to dig into that so authentically. And to have done it in such a brilliant way, by mixing and matching these characters from beloved shows, putting them side by side and demonstrating how they are similar and also how they can learn from each other, creating a sense of community in this shared universe, and making it all so damn fun along the way, is just an unbelievable treat for us as an audience. Can't wait to see how it all comes together next week.
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