#Saint Suppapong Udomkaewkanjana

[gabrielokun]

[strategist-scientia]

MTE! The Sign, I Feel You Linger in the Air, and KinnPorsche are revolutionizing the Thai Boys' Love genre precisely because they're not your stereotypical high school/college dramas and they actually focus on quality storytelling.

Taking a break from squeeing over all this juicy stuff on my dash for a moment, I have to say that what both Saint & YinWar are doing here is really important for the creative side of QL.

Let's be clear, most media executives are not creative people. They may have some business acumen (though most I think fake it quite a bit), but a vast number are incapable of understanding what it feels like to be creative, or how to connect with the people (us) who engage with creative material in any kind of passionate way.

Which is why they so often make decisions like "this college BL was cheap to make and did well - let's make 20 more". It's why they keep adapting books that fit pre-established norms while ignoring the vast number of QL books in other genres. It's why they so often will only take a "risk" once it's already been proven profitable by some smaller more independent enterprise. It's why they are chomping at the bit to replace writers with AI (I hate calling it that, it's not remotely intelligent), because they truly don't see the difference between an algorithm and a human being. Both can produce "content" and that's what they care about.

Now I'm sure that part of YinWar making Jack and Joker is because they want to play in something cool & fun (get it boys!), but also they're no dummies. Partner in Crime was a test, and they saw how the people reacted.

Same with Saint. Each series pushes the QL bubble open a little bit wider, because he understands that despite what most executives think, we as viewers are not a mindless monolith that you can endlessly feed the same content to.

And vitally, what they get and most executives don't, is the FANDOM of it all. They know we want to pour over gifs & photos, and swoon over this sexy moment, and talk about that cool bit of action. We want to be fed.

We're not subtle about what we like. If you take the time to actually pay attention to us

The ironic thing is that I think both of these productions are going to do very well, and then more executives will jump on the genre bandwagon and recycle ideas, without understanding just what it is that makes us so feral for these particular properties.

But in the meantime, I am grateful for creative people who fight to make their own content. How much more colorless our world would be without them.

[brigitta21011]

2024 Calendar April

[lukewarmspicysoda-mahp]

I just know he fell from the sky

[bl-bam-beyond]

A LOOK BACK at Ae & Pete

LOVE BY CHANCE (2018, THAILAND)

This was my first experience with original creator MAME and I adored her because I loved this story (meaning Ae and Pete and even Tin and Can)

I loved that Ae (TANAPON SUKUMPANTANASAN aka PERTH) hadn't really thought about his sexuality so the presumption was he was a heterosexual and then he met the timid heart of gold Pete (SUPPAPONG UDOMKAEWKANJANA aka SAINT) by running into him with his bike and a seed was planted.

From that moment on Ae was in Pete's universe and vice versa beginning with Ae helping Pete with disgusting bully Trump.

In the sequel (for lack of better word) I learned MAME herself wrote it deciding to retell the Tin and Can as the lead couple since due to behind the scenes issues between the managers of Saint and Perth, Saint was not asked back for the "sequel" what I didn't know is though Love By Chance is based on a novel called My Accidental Love Is You by MAME the series screenplay was written by NEW who also directed.

Love By Chance 2: A Chance To Love was directed by NEW but written by MAME.

Anyone who watched these series knows that Tin and Can were brought together because of Ae and Pete's relationship as Tin was a snob that looked down on Pete and Ae's relationship and as such he had several run in with Can and they develop a instant hate for one another until one day Tin kissed Can and turned Can's world upside down.

Without Pete, MAME decided to have Tin and Can meet randomly on the campus as if the Pete component didn't exist anymore all the while Tin and Can were starting at zero. Ae, Pond and some newbie were in a parallel storyline where Pete left Ae and Ae became a sniveling idiot about losing Pete. It was like two different series that barely had anything to do with one another. I hated Love By Chance 2: A Chance To Love so much.

I will always love this BL. Then came the unsequel sequel. Love By Chance: A Chance To Love so began my love to hate with MAME.

But I always loved PerthSaint and AE & PETE

@pose4photoml @lutawolf

[madeinjapan-thailand-blbambeyond]

MADE IN THAILAND

SUPPAPONG UDOMKAEWKANJANA

[Nickname: SAINT]

TANAPON SUKUMPANTANASAN

[Nickname: PERTH]

[zhaozi]

[gabrielokun]

[longinglook]

saint being zee's baby for anonymous

[misscatleya]

ZAINTSEE as Max and Atsawin

Saint as Max

Zee as Atsawin

Series: Mai Krua Kon Mai 2021

Can you believe that this is the last project of zaintsee together as a couple?

[multilingual99]

Saint Sup looking GORGEOUS on IG

[aylinaliens]

[yourstype]

[bl-bam-beyond]

A LOOK BACK at Tutor & Fighter

WHY RU? (2020, THAILAND)

With the Korean Remake soon hitting screens I decided to do a rewatch of Thailand's Original Version.

Can Korea replicate what Thailand created successfully. Time will tell.

Fighter (PRUK PANICH aka ZEE) didn't understand why he had such excitement when it came Tutor (SUPPAPONG UDOMKAEWKANJANA aka Saint) so he set out to tease him. Or so he said until he finally admitted he was attractive to his junior.

WHY RU? had a few couples including Zon and Saifah and that thing with Tanthai and Japan.

Let the rewatch commence.

@pose4photoml @lutawolf

[madeinjapan-thailand-blbambeyond]

MCF: MADE IN THAILAND

PRUK PANICH

[Nickname: ZEE]

SUPPAPONG UDOMKAEWKANJANA

[Nickname: SAINT]

[annoyed4thsister]

I want Zeesaint in a new drama! Look at this chemistry😍😍 🔥🔥🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼