#They are still thee mlm wlw solidarity to me

[sailorsally]

The heart stickers 🥹

[kattahj]

Laws of Attraction ep 4 thoughts

The hand sceeeene! I can't make screencaps on bilibili, but: Charn reaching out, tentative – will Tinn pull back? No! He doesn't pull back! Charn puts his hand on Tinn's, and Tinn lets him do it! Oh, Charn is giddy with triumph and excitement. But then! Tinn doesn't just accept the touch, he returns it. Holds Charn's hand, caresses it. This is tenderness. Charn's grin disappears. He shudders. "I feel so drunk." Yeah, honey, we all do!

Rose and Maya cheering them on from the sidelines is wlw/mlm solidarity at the finest. Also, Rose and Maya are just the finest, period.

I don't usually think of actors playing different characters as being the same character in different universes, but it amuses me to think of LOA as an alternate universe to NLMG. Nueng and Palm have already travelled in time in OS2, imagine them travelling to the LOA universe and Nueng being all, "Mom!?" and Rose, "Huh. I've never had a kid. Curious."

(Yes, I'm aware that LOA as a prequel to NLMG is another option, but that would make either Rose quite a bit younger, or Thanya quite a bit older, than I think they are.)

Thee continues to pine in the most beautiful way possible. And this actor is mostly known for playing tennis? What a waste. Nobody cares if you pine at a tennis ball.

I was at a thrift shop the other day and heard someone in the toy section say túktā, which made me all, oh! I know that word!

The plot stuff is... mostly expected at this point? Which isn't necessarily a negative. I think the chips are falling in a very natural way, it feels like things happen because they would happen and not just because the plot demands it, but yeah, there weren't really any surprises. Still can hardly wait for the next ep!

[lurkingteapot]

Laws of Attraction กฎแห่งรักดึงดูด Ep 8

I really, really enjoyed this finale. I'll have to rewatch with subs at some point, at least in parts, because some of the details were lost on me (what was that new case of Chaan's about?), but I'm looking forward to it. I hope we get more queer shows out of One31 going forward -- can Organ and Sylvie get a spinoff, maybe? aaah I'll keep dreaming. Anyway! The live blog.

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Six days late, but I'm watching this! I'm very sad that this is going to be over. Excited, too, though. Alright, going in.

WHAT THE FUCK is this cold open with the flashback in the moment of death type scene

Oh no, going to pay respect to his mum before he goes join her, huh.

ooooh is Maayaa going to broadcast whatever confession Rose catches at that warehouse live during her announced live? I BET she is and that's such a smart move, can't make something tens of thousands of followers saw unseen

this house remains an abomination

oh god Nawin please shut up

asdfasdf of course they're gonna punch each other about it

pick up the gd necklace, that's a tripping hazard or something

oh baby, crying in business class, huh

well that knot came apart easily

rescuing our lovers solidarity, huh

YIKES those boinks to the head with that thing would've had a pretty decent chance of killing the dudes if this were real

hahaha of course Chaan planted stuff. Let's hope this plays out as he hoped. can hardly believe Thatthep is this dumb, though on the other hand …

… oh god is Tinn going to ruin this take. He IS, isn't he.

I am SO nervous, goodness

he's pretttty convincing

250k viewers is pretty incredible

WOW this dude is cold as ice

ahahaha of COURSE someone was going to tell them this was getting streamed and they REALLY should've seen that coming

just put the freaking doll away and HIDE ffs Chaan

Tinn to the rescue

you fuckers, RUN

what are you doing

oh ffs Tinn don't RUSH the guy with the gun, and you, Chaan, don't just STAND there ffs

yeah that … was going to happen and I sure hope he's wearing body armour of some sort

how many shots does this thing HAVE??

hey. hate to interrupt but thatthep is still RIGHT THERE and ARMED

ROSE <3 <3 <3 I love her so much oh my GOD

okay everyone here is useless, why hasn't anyone called an ambulance

also I feel like Tinn should've been able to FEEL the body armour but w/e

so did they pull Thaenthai off the plane or what

adsfasdfasdasdf oh no he was being that passenger but I guess it's all for the best, huh

over the top and overdramatic, 10/10 no notes

asdfasdfasf Chaan being a BRAT because he can

GRANDMA 😂

asdfasdfasd of COURSE she'd be like "this is a HOSPITAL"

oh poor baby, your dad doesn't even want to see you in this situation, huh

and he said it himself

man I feel bad for Thaenthai.

offering Chaan "everything/anything" is a dangerous thing, Tinn

Tinn is so cute in his slow realisations. yes it's sorta overacted. no I don't care.

awww POST IT NOTES

oh no this is so cheesy (I love it) 😂

(it's a northern song!)

a proposal! wow. you've not even lived together yet! you only know his regular bad habits, not the living together ones! AND THEY'RE SHADING THE LEGAL SITUATION I love them

god they are ADORABLE

oh no, shovel talk!!!

asdfsdfasd TINN 😂😂😂

aaah the wlw mlm solidarity we love to see

I really dislike proposal and marriage plots but I'll give it to them, this admit this is cute

Nawin 😂

MORE shovel talk, oh no

oh, perfect drowning opportunity!

… is Thatthep trying to be a big man even in prison? I was so sure they'd ostracise him for killing a kid

ffs someone shut this dude up already (let it be Thee)

… oh WOW yikes ouch

I kinda hate that it was this was something Chaan probably set up. Not a fan of people making third parties get their hands dirty for revenge

awwww Thaen

whatcha gonna do with all this, hm? sell the house, get an apartment somewhere, be happy with Thee?

I really wanted for them to get to kiss, but you know what? these hugs are so heartfelt, I'll take them

oh Tinn, don't do that to yourself

look at grandma! look at Tinn with that ridiculous oversized bow tie!

Chaan subscribing to the "sun's out guns out" philosophy of fashion even on his wedding day, I see

ah, so he does have a jacket

oh they look good. hair and make-up on POINT

I have opinions on the set-up of this but there's a time and place for salt and this is probably not it

ASDFASDFDS GRANDMA

I like the "noise fades away and they're in their own world" of this love Sylvie's singing voice, godDANG

oh, Rose, looking at her all in love <3

Win 😅

of course they watch wuxia. probably domestically produced ones, too. incredible.

oh god I love them

KISS!!!!!!

aaaaaah can Rose and Maya kiss, too? for me?

god Chaan's "I'm so lucky" in love eyes. Film's expression here is so different from Thian's in-love-face and I love both of them.

AAAAAH MY GIRLS!!!!!!

PRODUCT PLACEMENT hello. I want twenty of those but also this REALLY shows the age of the intended target audience

ahaha Chaan back on the job, stirring shit. I love him.

oh my goodness, Chaan actually said it

this is reaching PatPran levels of interruption

I love them

I guess that was supposed to be cute but I couldn't see it as anything but overstepping, sorry, Tinn

oh, I love these long shots

… and that finaly second of that shot was 100% Film turning to the camera like "are we done yet" 😂

[c-is-for-circinate]

So I’ve been thinking about Much Ado About Nothing this week*.

In particular, I’ve been thinking about how badly I want to see a version--in my head it’s a modern adaptation a la ‘10 Things I Hate About You’, but you could literally do it with the original Shakespeare, you just need to get very coy with emphasis and make some interesting acting decisions in later scenes--wherein Beatrice and Benedick are a lesbian and a gay man surrounded by oblivious straight people on all sides.

At the beginning it’s hilarious, because B and B obviously know what’s up with each other and everybody else has the most ridiculous heteronormativity blinders on.  Benedick with his endless string of best friends eyes the ass of every male actor on stage or screen.  Beatrice goes around wearing converse and flannel and actual rainbows.  They are massively catty to each other in that way media for years taught us gay men and lesbians can be, the way that says ‘your entire gender is the enemy and I don’t even have to worry about offending you because you don’t want to date me either’, the way that says ‘I see way too much of myself (and my secret unhappiness) in you and hate you for it’.

And the pair get to roll their eyes at the Ridiculous Straight People Shenanigans at the costume party, and Claudio is an idiot and everything is ten times more complicated than it has to be and it’s hilarious.  The Straights decide that no, this can’t possibly be real animosity, they must be In Love!, and they all actually think they’re right, and it’s hysterical.  B & B overhear the whole matchmaking plot and are stunned, and it’s still really funny because everything they thought they knew is wrong, oh god, have they just been really terrible at flirting this entire time, I thought the other person knew I was gay.

(They each independently have to decide, ‘do I want to let my friends and family keep thinking I’m a total asshole and my singlehood is sort of suspicious, or do I want to actively explain to my extremely Christian cousin and my military buddies what “homosexual” means?’  They each independently decide, well fuck, maybe I will date this other person.  I’ll date them so good they can’t even handle it, and everybody will see how awesome I am at Being Straight and Dating The Opposite Gender, and also probably they’ll break up with me in like two weeks because I bet I can date them better than they can date me without even wanting to, so there.  It’s still funny, at this point.  Mostly.)

And then the Hero-Claudio sex scandal erupts, and the shenanigans of straight people aren’t funny at all any more.  Maybe they never were.  Maybe it was all, always toxic, when people were being oblivious and making assumptions and deciding that everybody had to want the sort of relationships they wanted and getting jealous at costume parties.

Maybe I love nothing in the world so much as you is Benedick trying to get on top of this passing thing while he can, before the sharp slavering maw of toxic heterosexuality turns on him too.  Maybe it’s two people who’re figuring out they understand each other better than anybody else they’ve ever met, and right now, that counts for everything.  Everything is double-layered, beards and closets and also two people in the middle of this mess from very much the same place who understand each other and agree about what’s important in ways they never thought they would.

At the end, when everything is Fine and Happy as though Claudio didn’t just nearly destroy the woman who’s about to be his wife, as though the Prince didn’t try to help him, as though everything is fine, when B & B declare they really aren’t in love with each other at all, it’s not denial.  It’s a release, a confession, the closest either of them have ever gotten to saying in public “I do not at all like women; I do not and will never like men”.  It’s a promise to each other, don’t worry, no matter what you overheard, I’m not in love with you.  The world still works as you knew it to work.  I know you’re not in love with me, either.  I get you, too.

And The Straights protest and laugh and produce terrible love poetry written by people who scribbled it down because they were supposed to, for the form of the thing, and Benedick says, “I’ll have thee”, or some modern equivalent, and it means--look, we’re not going to tell them, neither of us wants to tell them.  So I’ll stick with you and protect you from the questions for a while.  And Beatrice says she’ll have him back for pity and to save him from dying over it, and means that she gets it and will protect him back.  They have a whole conversation with Meaningful Looks and a few words and body language that nobody around them quite gets.

And maybe, if it’s a modern adaptation and we go off-script, they move away from this terrible small town with its compulsory heterosexuality and its abusive expectations, and set up a two-bedroom apartment together somewhere in all wlw/mlm solidarity of a nearly happy ending.  The couch pulls out so one of them can take it on the inevitable day that Claudio’s jealousy goes too far yet again and Hero is ready to need somewhere else to go.

It’s far from the only way the story could go, but damn if I don’t want to see it done this way and well.

*Do I have a thousand other things to be thinking about and actual fics to be writing right now?  Of course!  Is this mostly because I put the Tate-Tennant Much Ado performance on as background noise last Saturday while I knit?  Probably, but in the interim I’ve also watched the Brannaugh version, read half the AO3 offerings, sat through a bunch of New Zealand teenagers recasting it as a series of vlogs, and also finished two sweater sleeves, so really, I think we just chalk this one to hyperfixation being a bit desperate.