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The Thai Communal Wardrobe 2024 Round-up, Stats, and Awards

Last year, I wrote about the most memorable items of clothing in bl series (to me) for my yearly wrap-up. This year, I'm drawing on stats from the communal wardrobe spreadsheet to dole out awards.

As of Dec 31st 2024, there are 260 items of clothing on the Thai Communal Wardrobe (individual items of clothing which have been worn in two or more different Thai series) - that I have found.

In 2024, 71 new items were added to the communal wardrobe list - meaning they were worn for the first time in a series which finished airing in 2024 and then were subsequently worn again in another series. (This number is going to increase because of the items of clothing worn in Only Boo that I already know will get worn in ThamePo). 62 of them were in two series, 5 were in three series, 2 were in four series, and another 2 were in four series but with two or three colour variations in one of them making five appearances in total.

Now on to the stats and awards!

The First Past The Post Award

The date of the first appearance in 2024 of an item of shared clothing previously worn in other series was Jan 5th, with two items - one in ep 10 of Twins and another in ep 9 of Last Twilight.

The green and grey shirt in Twins was first used in Middleman's Love in 2023, then went on to be worn in Hidden Moon, Peaceful Property, and Love Sick 2024. The L.A Core t-shirt in Last Twilight was first used in Only Friends in 2023, and then went on to be worn in 23.5 and Peaceful Property.

The Most Popular Date Award

There are four joint winners for this category - each having 7 items of clothing (whether new or reappearing): Jan 5th (with one in ep 10 of Twins and six in ep 9 of Last Twilight), Jan 26th (all seven in ep 12 of Last Twilight), Jul 4th (all seven in ep 7 of Knock Knock Boys!), and Sept 8th (all seven in ep 11 of The Trainee).

The Newcomers Award

The series which introduced the most new items of shared clothing that went on to be worn in other series was Last Twilight with 22 items (with Cooking Crush a close second with 20).

In this example, both Mhok and Day's shirts went on to be worn by Uncle Somkid in Peaceful Property, and Mhok's shirt might also get worn in My Golden Blood.

The Only Friends Environmental Sustainability Award

In 2023, Only Friends used 71 items of shared clothing - 28 of which had already been worn in another series and 43 which were new and went on to be worn in more series. (This is the highest number of shared clothing used in one series and I don't think any other series will come close - the next is currently Last Twilight with 49).

In 2024 Peaceful Property re-used the most items of clothing which had been previously worn in other series -> 34 (with 16 from Only Friends and 15 from Last Twilight, amongst other shows). This series has yet to spawn any new items of shared clothing.

In this example, the Dudes shirt was previously worn in Only Friends and Be My Favourite.

The Overachiever Award

Last Twilight also had the most items of shared clothing overall (both new which then got worn in future shows and ones which had already been worn in other shows) with 49.

The Blink and You'll Miss It Award

The shortest time in 2024 between the same item appearing in a different series was one day - this black and white striped shirt worn on Jul 6th in ep 10 of Wandee Goodday and on Jul 7th in ep 5 of Love Sea.

A special mention to this jacket below which was worn in ep 8 of Wandee Goodday and ep 2 of Sunset x Vibes on the same day - Jun 22nd - and which would have won had they been the same colour.

The Good Things Come to Those Who Wait Award

The longest time in 2024 between the same item appearing in a different series was 9 months and 8 days - this white polo shirt with brown collar worn on Jan 5th in ep 9 of Last Twilight and on Nov 13th in ep 12 of Peaceful Property.

The Surprise Mutherfucker! Award

The longest time since the previous appearance of an item worn in 2024 was 2 years, 7 months, and 27 days - this Santa of Attention t-shirt first worn on Dec 12 2021 in ep 1 of Not Me and then not again until Aug 8th 2024 in ep 3 of Monster Next Door.

The Miss Popularity Award

The item of clothing new to the communal wardrobe list in 2024 which was re-worn the most times was this brown t-shirt with double blue stripes worn on May 12th in ep 6 of Only Boo!, Jun 6th in ep 3 of Knock Knock Boys!, July 14th in ep 3 of The Trainee, and Aug 8th in ep 1 of Monster Next Door. (There's something very satisfying about them being consecutive months).

Runners up include the following 3 items but since they have colour variations and the above doesn't, they lost the top spot. Incidentally, I think the one on the left that Peat and Book are wearing will be worn in Jack & Joker special ep...but we'll see in Feb!

The We Bought This on Wholesale Award

The item of clothing already on the communal wardrobe list which had the most reappearances in 2024 was this striped cardigan with white collar in three different colours worn on Jan 20th in ep 6 of Cherry Magic Thailand, Feb 22nd in ep 5 of The Outing, Apr 8th in ep 8 of To Be Continued, May 18th in ep 3 of Wandee Goodday, Jul 26th in ep 3 of This Love Doesn't Have Long Beans, Sept 8th in ep 11 of The Trainee, and Oct 7th in ep 10 of Summer Night. (Previously worn in Bed Friend, Step By Step, Only Friends, and My Dear Gangster Oppa between Apr and Nov 2023 and might get worn again in a few series I have my eye on).

Runners up include item #8 (with 6 appearances) and item #13 (with 5 appearances).

The One Size Fits All Award

The actor who wore the most items on the communal wardrobe in 2024 was Sea Tawinan who wore 31 in total as both Day in Last Twilight and Tae in The Trainee.

In these examples, Day's red and white striped top was worn (two days!) after in Cooking Crush, whilst Tae's Feel The Fear sweatshirt was previously worn (two months earlier) in Wandee Goodday.

Incidentally, Sea has also worn the most items on the communal wardrobe of all time - with 43, as Talay in Vice Versa as well as Day, and Tae.

The Better Late than Never Award

The date of the last appearance in 2024 of an item of shared clothing previously worn in other series was Dec 29th - and just like the first appearance there were 2 items, both in ep 10 of Perfect 10 Liners.

The Don Juan Pond Salinity Award

From BTS media, I felt I had been promised the More Than Friends Less Than Lovers t-shirt in Wandee Goodday - which would have been the perfect series for it - and I spent three months eagerly anticipating its appearance...which ended up not happening. It was also worn platonically in Peaceful Property, which we all ignored because the show is a BL in our hearts and minds if not in explicit actuality.

The What in the Baseball Mom is this?! Award

Originally worn by Book as Mew in Only Friends, the Friends Don't Let Friends Go. to Stanfurd t-shirt was so odd that I thought it would be left in the Crazy Singles drawer along with Baseball Mom and Fart Proudly. I was amazed, therefore, to see it again in Jul in ep 15 of We Are...then a month later in ep 9 of Century of Love...and after another month in ep 5 of Summer Night. But that was nothing compared to my shock at seeing it on Book once again in Dec in ep 10 of Perfect 10 Liners. (I predict it will get worn again).

So there we have it! Or...I'm getting close to my image limit for this post (*shakes fist at tumblr*) so I'll leave you with this yin and yang pairing of opposite sentiments (these two are not on the communal wardrobe...yet), also because this post is severely lacking in the ladies.

Take whichever one you need into the new year!

fear not... or ahhh!

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❝They would only think of P'Ton as a fool man who easily forgives someone like you if he really takes you back. Chonlatee! How dare you be rude to your senior? I order you to run around the building, and say, "I won't do it again. Sorry, P'Amp." Do it now. Go! I will no longer follow your order.❞

KHAOTUNG THANAWAT as CHONLATEE and KAPOOK PLOYNIRA as AMP episode 8 of TONHON CHONLATEE

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if i had a nickle for every time user @ranchthoughts was thinking a lot about a character portrayed by dunk natachai in a show she isn't even watching i'd have two nickles. which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice

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gmmtv's girls kissers hall

AYE SARUNCHANA and RAISARAT PRINEE in FRIENDZONE 2 (2020) JAN PLOYSHOMPOO and PEARWAH NICHAPHAT in P.S I Hate You (2022) JAN PLOYSHOMPOO, JESSICA PASAPHAN and SILVY PAVIDA in The Warp Effect (2022) LOOKJUN BHASIDI and NONNIE PITCHAPORN in Only Friends (2023) EMI THASORN and BONNIE PUSSARASORN in Us (pilot trailer, 2024) MILK PANSA and LOVE PATTRANITE in 23.5 (2024), Whale Store xoxo (pilot trailer, 2024), Girl Rules (pilot trailer, 2024) VIEW BENYAPA and JUNE WANWIMOL in 23.5 (2024) JUNE WANWIMOL and MEWNICH NANNAPHAS in Whale Store xoxo (pilot trailer, 2024) VIEW BENYAPA and MIM RATTANAWADEE in Girl Rules (pilot trailer, 2024) NAMTAN TIPNAREE and FILM RACHANUN in Pluto (2024-2025), Girl Rules (pilot trailer, 2024) KAPOOK PLOYNIRA and PIPLOY KANYARAT in The Trainee (2024) KAPOOK PLOYNIRA, CIIZE RUTRICHA and EARN PREEYAPHAT in Pluto (2024)

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To celebrate the end of 2024- and to look back at all the different trends and patterns that emerged along the way- I decided to collect some data on (and do a little bit of analysis about!) many of the different shows that were released this year.

I looked at a total of 55 different series- mostly tracking shows that either aired on primetime networks or mainstream streaming platforms, or were at least thirty minutes long.

All of these were Thai BLs that finished airing this year- spanning from Twins in early January, to Caged Again just recently in late December.

However, I also counted a few queer/BL-"adjacent" shows towards this total, too. For more on that and how some of the data was collected, I've left some end notes under the cut at the bottom going over everything, and discussing some data-related choices that i made (if you want to known more!)

Now that all of the introductory stuff is out of the way, let's discuss: what did this year look like in terms of Thai BL?

By Genre

To track genre, I sorted the shows based on their categorization in MDL (making a few minor adjustments along the way).

Romance was the most popular genre at 34.5%, followed by drama and comedy at 20% and 13.1%.

2024 saw the rise of several newly emerging categories, such as the crime (Kidnap, Jack & Joker), horror (The Whisperer, DFF), and sci-fi (4Minutes).

Other significant ones also included action (1.4%), fantasy (4.1%), and supernatural-themed series (7.6%)- suggesting to me that 2024 continues to be the year of the genre BL.

To see the full percentages for all of the categories, click on the alt text of the chart- you can repeat the same action for all of the images below if some of the labels are cut off due to space.

By Amount of Television Viewership

There are three different ways to track which show was the most-watched one of the year, and I thought that I'd share some stats related to all of them here today.

Each method has its own pros and cons: while ratings (seen above) measure the most watched series on television, these numbers remain highly channel and time slot dependent, and often don't reflect the viewership of international audiences.

Youtube views track the most watched shows on the site, but not all series are uploaded to Youtube, and there are other, more minor reasons as to how portions of the data might be off (such as if a show is only uploaded online several months after it originally aired- like what happened with Two Worlds).

The third and final way is through the amount of watchers on MDL, which covers the total number of people who have indicated that they have seen a series. This is helpful, especially in terms of looking at the popularity of non-YT shows (such as Jack & Joker, which was only uploaded to IQIYI). However, these stats skew heavily in favor of international and/or more "online" fans (most casual tv viewers don't have an MDL account, for instance).

Each method offers up a different work that potentially might have been the most-watched one of the year (across different platforms)- so let's begin by discussing some of the rating data!

In 2024, Spare Me Your Mercy broke the previous record set by To Sir, With Love to become the BL series with the highest average tv rating (1.94).

As a result, episodes 5 and 1 of the show also became the fourth and fifth most-watched QL episodes of all time (with a rating of 2.22 and 2.20, respectively). For more information on SMYM, see this post here.

Century of Love also did extremely well, averaging 1.09.

While I don't have data for most of the GMMTV shows that aired in 2024 (after late 2023, the only numbers that have been reported have been that for shows that aired on more mainstream channels), Cherry Magic Thailand did the best at 0.2, and Cooking Crush the worst at 0.12.

Shows that have stars next to their names contain data that is incomplete, and thus might be slightly off. For more information as to why this is the case in this section, as well as in others, check the end notes down below.

By Youtube Views

This year, We Are was the most-watched series on Youtube- garnering a cumulative total of over 140.8 million views.

Last Twilight and The Sign came in second and third place respectively, with between 81-86 m views.

In case longer series have an inherent advantage, I also divided the total number of views across each show's total number of episodes, but We Are still came out on top- averaging 8.8 m views an episode.

The mainstream show with the least number of views was I Wish You Love- a two episode mini series that aired on Amarin that only had a total of 149,608 views by the end of the year on Youtube.

Pit Babe was uploaded two different ways- once as four different parts per episode, and once as the full length thing. I used the numbers here from the original set of uploads (the four parts, which have since been unlisted), but if I added those from the full-length episodes, the total number of views would be over 52,620,000.

By Number of Viewers on MDL

These stats come from MDL, and measure the number of viewers/watchers listed at the top of each show's page.

Last Twilight takes the lead at over 30,000, followed by Pit Babe and Cherry Magic (in terms of the number of completions, the order of the top three stays relatively the same- except for the fact that We Are moves into third).

If the shows that are currently airing were counted, The Heart Killers would currently rank 10th, with over 18,500 viewers.

By Role/Occupation

This part is probably the one that I'm the least confident in (data-wise) because there's so many different things to adjust for: some characters have no job, and others have several.

Regardless, I wanted to share the chart with you guys anyway because I thought it might be interesting (even if I'm a little unsure of the end result).

For this section, I went through as many of the shows that I could and tried to figure what sort of jobs/occupation the main characters had, or if they had another defining attribute (i.e. having supernatural powers).

Out of 88 characters, 26 (or 29.5%) were students- with 15 in college and 11 in high school.

The second most popular category was performer, with 8 actors/idols, 2 stuntmen, 1 musician, 1 dancer, and 1 model.

Other significant jobs included athletes (7), supernatural creatures/those with supernatural powers (8), office workers (7), writers (5), doctors (4), and police officers (3).

Splitting things down even further, the athlete section had 2 volleyball players, 2 basketball players, 2 race car drivers, and 1 boxer.

The supernatural creature section had 1 angel, 1 grim reaper, 2 vampires, 2 shapeshifters, and 2 psychics.

By Rating on MDL

Returning back to MDL, I also wanted to look at what shows received the highest and lowest ratings.

Ratings on the site can be pretty subjective, but I was still curious to see what show was the most highly reviewed.

Jack & Joker was the clear winner this year, receiving a score of 8.8. Other top shows that reached a 8.4 were The Sign, My Stand-In, Century of Love, Last Twilight, and Only Boo!.

The lowest rated BL was Time, which got 6.1 stars.

If all of the numbers from 2024 were averaged together, Thai BL (in general) would land around a 7.4.

I did not count currently airing shows since the rating tends to fluctuate a lot in the weeks leading up to the show's conclusion, but, if I did, THK & Thame Po have an 8.5, Perfect 10 Liners 8.3, Your Sky 8.2, and Fourever You 8.0.

Most Popular OSTs

In the next couple of sections, I thought it might be fun to look at some more "random" categories that I also collected data on.

The most popular OST of the year was Re-Move On by Gemini & Fourth- a song that surprisingly beat out industry juggernaut Last Twilight.

In 4th and 5th place was The Parkinson's OST for Century of Love, and Winny & Satang's song Missing Me for We Are (which received 5.4 and 3.4 million views, respectively).

Most Popular Tags/Tropes

In order to find some of the most popular tropes of the year, I went back to MDL to sort through different tags (sometimes tags are applied unevenly to different shows, so I did my best with what was provided).

Common tropes included enemies to lovers, fake relationship, meet again, rich/poor male lead, and age gap couples.

Flashbacks were prominently included in at least 4 different shows are part of their narrative structure, and many series grappled with themes related to adulthood and friendship.

Outside of the ones listed above, the tag "neighbor's relationship" appeared 4 times, investigation 4x, suspense 3x, and trauma 2x.

Most Anticipated

The most anticipated (upcoming) series on Youtube was My Stubborn- a show whose pilot garnered over 4 million views in two months. In second place was Khemjira's, with over 3.6 million views.

The most watchlisted show on MDL was The Next Prince, with around 15,600 followers.

Revamp came second, with approximately 11,800 viewers, followed by Love Upon a Time (9,300), The Boy Next World (8,200), and My Golden Blood (6,900) - two vampire shows in the top 5!

Other Stats and Superlatives

The most popular words to appear in titles this year were "dream," which appeared twice, and "love," which appeared nine times (Refund Love, I Wish You Love, A Secretly Love, Century of Love, LoveSick 2024, My Love Mix-Up!, Love Sea, Live in Love, and This Love Doesn't Have Long Beans).

The most expensive series to make was The Sign, which cost close to 100 million baht (3 million dollars)- followed by Jack & Joker, which cost over 25 million baht (730,000 dollars).

At least 31 BL shows this year (56.4% of the total) were adapted from novels, webcomics, or other works, while the remaining 43.6% had original scripts.

Only two mainstream pairs served as leads in more than one series: Off & Gun (Cooking Crush, The Trainee), and Sailub & Pon (Pit Babe, This Love Doesn't Have Long Beans).

According to Zanroo's social analytics tracker, which measures the amount of engagement different people get on social media (through mentions, likes, comments, and shares), Gemini & Fourth were the most highly discussed couple, followed by Daou & Offroad, and Zee & Nunew (data is only from the months of May to November).

In terms of hashtags, Jack & Joker was the most trended BL series at over 23,999,000 tweets, followed by We Are, My Love Mix-Up!, and The Next Prince (even before its release!).

GMMTV was the most discussed company (with over 49 million tweets) and Nunew was the most discussed male artist (with over 47 m). (Data for this section comes from the incredible twitter user @ddillkin- please check out some of their work!)

Lastly, the GMMTV actor who appeared in the most number of QL shows this year was Title Kirati, who popped up in at least 5 different works: We Are, Wandee Goodday, Kidnap, Pluto, and Perfect 10 Liners.

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Thank you so much for reading!

As someone who's not a statistician, I tried to do my best with the data collection process, so please forgive me if there's any mistakes or inaccuracies.

Because of formatting space, I wasn't able to include all of the numbers I collected. For instance, besides the 16 shows mentioned under the YT section, I also collected view information for 20 other ones. Feel free to message me or send an ask if you're looking for specific show-related information (and I can share stuff from my [very messy] spreadsheet with you)!

Below the cut, you can find some links to different sources I used or referenced, as well as some notes related to how data was counted for different sections.

End Notes

Sources Used:

TV Update (television ratings)

เขวี้ยงเรตติ้ง (television ratings)

Naja Drama (television ratings)

Zanroo's Socialytics Posts (engagement numbers)

Data from Twitter User @ddillkin (hashtag/trend numbers- everyone should go check out this series of amazing posts, with GMMTV-specific info!)

Various translated interviews (production cost estimates)

Sources Consulted:

My Drama List (genre, tags, actor/show information, watch numbers)

Youtube (view numbers)

World of BL (links to osts and unlisted videos)

The Matter's 2023 Data Analysis Post (although I didn't pull any data directly off of them, I wanted to give the article a quick shoutout because it inspired me to make this post- as well as indicated what sort of things might be interesting to track)

(In terms of collecting and visualizing the data, I used Google Sheets and Canva)

Data Collection Notes:

Introduction: I decided to collect data related to some "non BL" LGBTQ+/queer shows in order to have a more inclusive data set. Three different shows fit into this category, such as the series Lady Boy Friends. None of these shows had a significant impact on the data (most of them weren't very popular or widely discussed [at least by international fans]). I excluded these shows from certain data points as needed (such as if I was trying to find the number of fixed pairs). The 55 show number also does not include bromances (such as HSF), shorter, more independently produced series, international co-productions (unless the show was either set in Thailand or predominantly featured Thai actors- such as BOTW), or as stated earlier, anything that is currently airing. I did, however, include shows that started airing in 2023 but finished in 2024 (such as Last Twilight).

Genre: I took the categories used by MDL and made a few minor adjustments to them (mostly adding different tags if I felt a show was missing them). The "Mature" category only refers to shows that have an extremely high level of violence (such as DFF), or that are very explicit (Playboyy). The "Youth" category only refers to shows that have high school-aged characters, or younger.

Television Ratings: Unfortunately due to a lack of reporting, I only have the stats for the above-mentioned shows. Ratings are heavily channel and time slot dependent, so please keep that in mind when sharing these numbers (shows that air during primetime, like SMYM, will always do better than shows aired later in the night, for instance). The range represents the highest and lowest numbers for individual shows. If a show has a star next to it, it means that ratings were missing for four or more eps (thus, the overall average could be off).

Youtube Views: Data was collected between 12/22 and 12/26, with me waiting until 12/30 to get data on shows that only just finished airing recently (such as SMYM). If a show was uploaded multiple different ways, I usually used the numbers from the original set of uploads. LoveSick 2024 has a star next to it because it's a show that only finished airing this month- with more time, like the January shows had, it would have probably gained even more views. Cherry Magic and Pit Babe have stars because I took the data from videos that are either region-locked or unlisted- again, it's possible that if that wasn't the case they might have had more views. Additional Pit Babe data at the end is from 12/30.

Viewers on MDL: This section is a little more self-explanatory. Numbers were collected between 12/26 and 12/27. The data for THK is more recent- from today.

Role/Occupation: This part was very tricky to do- like I mentioned earlier, it's probably the section that I'm the least confident in (especially since I was unable to find information on over 20 different characters). I only counted the two main characters of each show in order to make things more even, as well as a lot less time-consuming (and only one if I couldn't figure out what their partner did). If a character had more than one job, I went by the one that was the most important/prominent (Mick and Top's characters from Every You, Every Me get counted as actors, for instance, rather than the other number of roles they played). Unfortunately some of these choices ended up being a little bit more subjective (for instance, does Prem from Cooking Crush get counted as a student or a chef?) but I tried to do my best and be as fair as possible.

Ratings on MDL: This section is also pretty self-explanatory. In the chart, shows are abbreviated by the letters in their full name (ex: 7DBV in the 7.1 section stands for 7 Days Before Valentine).

OSTs: Data was taken from Youtube on 12/24-12/26. I only counted views from one version of the song (the main/most official one).

Tags/Tropes: This section is also a little imperfect: tags are often applied unevenly to different shows. Because things were getting a little too complicated, I ended up just going off MDL's data- so it's possible that there are more shows that fit the same tropes but are missing the correct tags. The age gap tag applies to both characters in series and actors in real life. The multiple mains and multiple couples tag appears 3 times each. When collecting the data, I filtered out more general tags such as gay male lead, LGBTQ+, or gay romance, which applies to virtually all of the shows I looked at.

Most Anticipated: Youtube data is from 12/26, and MDL data from 12/27. In terms of followers on MDL, the shows that have been announced for a while have a clear advantage, but I was super surprised to learn that My Stubborn's pilot, which was only released somewhat recently, was the most popular one this year.

Other Stats: The cost numbers come from different sources/translators on Twitter. The adaption total (31) is out of the 52 QL shows, since I couldn't find accurate info on the non-QL ones. For this category, I also used information taken from each show's MDL page. Hashtag/ trend numbers come from Twitter user @ddillkin. Engagement numbers come from Zanroo. Unfortunately, the site only started collecting this kind of data in May, so it's not accurate (in terms of being completely year-round). However, given the fact that there was such a large separation between the top three pairs and the rest, I think the results would probably be the same. The rest of the stats were made by me, using different kinds of information from MDL.

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heart & li ming + favorite moments (in no particular order)

“You’ve never celebrated the new year with anyone before? With me now.”

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Happy new year, friends in the phone ✨️❤️

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Oh

my god.

If you know, you know.

(We've not had many shared items of clothing from Perfect 10 Liners so far, although I've been expecting the 'blue and grey' t-shirt in today's ep [thanks to @respectthepetty], but I did not expect this...on Book of all people...who has worn the red version in Only Friends [in case you didn't know]. Anyway, I'm glad I haven't done my yearly communal wardrobe round-up/superlatives post yet because this shirt is definitely on it).

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Bad Buddy Ep 5

My thoughts on Ep 1 | Ep 2 | Ep 3 | Ep 4

Me, at the end of this episode:

Well, @starryalpacasstuff, I understand why you were excited for me to get to this episode, because it was a lot. So, here we go:

Pat definitely isn't beating the puppy allegations with his propensity for sniffing everything.

Don't be a lying liar now, Pran; you think Pat's face is the epitome of cuteness. I know they are going to hurt me because they opened this episode with this domesticity.

Ok, I need 3 business days to process my feelings about Pran's doodles of their interactions. Pran, my beloved, is a top-tier yearner.

"There's nothing wrong with rewearing clothes." Pat is a sustainability king.

Ink, are you a PatPran shipper? If so, please join Pa, who is waiting for you in the corner with snacks.

Pat, tell me you didn't bring Ink to the place where you had your first date with Pran. You did? The betrayal! I guess I'll have to forgive you because you yourself weren't aware that you were on a date with Pran.

Pa's in the house, guys. Reason has entered the chat. I love that she encourages him to know if his feelings for Ink are genuine or not.

I hope we get to see more of Ink and Pa together, even if it's just them being friends.

Oh, this is interesting. Pat is subconsciously realizing that he sees Pran in a different light. What exactly? He doesn't know. I do feel bad for my confused son, though.

Pran saw Pat and Ink on their date at the mall. Why is the world conspiring against my boy to only cause him pain?

So, we're going the jealousy route now, aren't we?

Not Pat asking Pran if Wai ever spent the night in the dorm 💀💀. And Pran, totally unaware of Pat's emotional turmoil, answered that Wai in fact did sleep right where Pat did.

These flashbacks are killing me. Pran was really soft-launching a confession by saying that he wanted to compose a song that conveys the sense of 'born to be together.' AHHHHHHHH.

Something about Pat asking Pran if he would like him if Pran were Ink and Pa telling Pat that she would confess her feelings to Ink if she were Pat is making me wanna chew on glass.

Pran asking Pat if Ink is at the contest venue and saying that she should be there to support Pran😭😭😭😭.

NO. HE DID NOT. Pran, bestie, tell me you didn't belt out the song that you wrote with your high school 'friend' in a competition against him. You did! Is it petty? Maybe. Petty Pran is in the house and I AM LIVING. I support him 100 percent.

Ink, the woman that you are!!! "You don't seem to be afraid of heartbreak." She was spitting nothing but facts here. Now that Pat knows where he and Ink stand, I hope she remains being a great friend to him because my boy's a mess, and he can use all the help he can get while sorting out his romantic feelings for Pran. I don't think his friends are going to be of any help in this matter. He has Pa, but I think Ink can be more objective when it comes to Pran.

Pat is jealous that his 'friendship' with Pran is a secret.

Pat really went from saying, "I'm not your wife," to acting like a jilted wife in this episode.

Pran, the philosopher that you are. I have half a mind to write about his "Nothing means nothing" to Wai regarding his relationship with Pat.

I'm not really feeling Wai here, guys. Pran asked him to not interfere, but why did he still hit Pat? Thank God that Pran, haver of all brain cells, told him to go home.

Was it only in Ep 2 that Pat wanted to meet the person who was crushing on him on the rooftop? We sure came a long way from there.

Pat is very open about his feelings. He doesn't know why he is feeling what he is feeling, but he still is trying to explain them to Pran.

If we're not enemies, do you think we can be friends? Why? Do you want us to be friends? No.

Can I get this etched onto my soul? Please and thank you.

THE KISS. God, the emotional weight it carried!! Their reactions after they part from the kiss are very telling—Pat has a smile on his face, and Pran is crying and not with joy. After Pran leaves him alone on the rooftop, I think it dawned on Pat as to what all just happened.

Side note on jealousy vs. envy:

Jealousy: to get upset and angry because someone you love seems interested in another person. Envy: to wish that you had something that another person has.

Pat is jealous when he sees Pran and Wai together. Pran, on the other hand, was envious of the person who was on the receiving end of Pat's affections. Jealousy wasn't what Pran had experienced till now when it came to Pat, because he never imagined that he had a chance with him. This is where we see the differences in their personalities and the reason for Pran, with tears down his cheeks, leaving Pat behind on the rooftop after their kiss. Pran has made peace with the fact that he'll be a yearner forever where Pat is concerned. Pat, my beloved, is a bit impulsive and wants to throw caution to the wind and see where things land, unlike Pran, who is a planner and enjoys structure and order in his life. Just because Pran had feelings for Pat for all these years doesn't mean that he thought about how he would deal with them if they were reciprocated. Classic yearner mindset!!

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Tharntype ep 2:

My Engineer ep 10:

Only Friends ep 1:

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Wandee Goodday ep 4:

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He's Coming to Me ep 3:

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Step by Step ep 7:

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bad buddy + this post

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do you have a post about weddings in bls? btw i love your blog, so helpful♥

I have an old one about Marriage Equality in Taiwan and how it impacted there BL as the only country in Asia for a long time, but it hasn't been updated in a while:

I did track representation of marriage for a while there, when it was rare, but that was so long ago it might have been the previous blog handle. (pre 2020)

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obsessed w pat making this face to make fun of pran

if ur not paying attention u might not even catch that he does it specifically to mock him and it's one of those little character details that bring patpran to life bc it's something very uniquely pran that he does all the time when he's being his most pretentious or annoying, and childhood friend pat would notice and would give him shit for it, they're both so lived-in smh

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Pick your fighter

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The knowledge! The silent agreement that if their parents wouldn't be enemies they both know they would be lovers!