#bad buddy thai

[elogval]

Date on the roof 🏙️🧡

[live-from-flaturn]

American Television after 5 years of pushing for queer representation: I hope you wanted unnecessary drama, angst with a maybe resolution, and three unfulfilling seasons of questionably written flirtation. And that all comes before anything is half-confirmed with a singular lukewarm kissing scene between two conventionally attractive, white bisexual women!

Thai Television .3 seconds after they figured out queer content is marketable: Did you want something kinky, soft, or stupid? Did you want cat ears? We’ve got cat ears! We’ve got safe/sane/consensual OR off-the-charts bad etiquette BDSM. We’ve got college students out the ass! As long as they’re an engineer or architect, choose your flavor. Do you want an age gap or classmates? Something for adults? Teens? Everyone was childhood besties, how about that??? This is a short order restaurant and I will flip you some gays like they’re hotcakes, just tell me what you want.

[thisautistic]

Bad Buddy ep 1 vs Kidnap the Series ep 1

[heretherebedork]

Just Ohm's characters in music stores watching the man they're going to love while surrounded by guitars.

[thaifanfests]

Coming Soon: Thai The Knot 2025!

The Thai King has signed same-sex marriage into law, making Thailand the first country in Southeast Asia to recognize queer marriages.

The new law will go into effect in 120 days, meaning the first legally recognized queer weddings can start on January 22nd, 2025. Thai Fan Fests will celebrate with a series of educational posts related to weddings and marriage over the next few months, then a fanwork event leading up to the big day!

Exact dates TBD.

Sources: Tumblr, SMCP, CNA

[maybe-boys-do-love]

I will never be over the kind of queer representation we get in BL, especially Thai BL, because not only do you get, even in a single show, a vast spectrum of mlm characters from bi-awakening jocks and stoners to soft boys and nerds to full-on femme-boys and kathoey folx...

YOU ALSO GET to see how each single character is allowed to act in a broad range of queer performance styles instead of being relegated to stock character traits like a camping queen or the sad repressed cowboy. So you have Tinn in My School President acting serious when he's doing his presidential duties but assertively flirtatious when he's trying to win over Gun and then being hilariously giddy or pouty when he's on the phone in his bedroom. Or you have Pat in Bad Buddy bro-ing out, acting cutesy with his partner, or in deep introspection on the verge of tears. And those are just two especially outstanding examples in a genre full of so many others!

All this means you also get a broader range of actor types that includes actors who present much more clearly as gay (whether they identify openly as such or it's just how they happen to appear), which is such an amazing thing to see for my little gay theater-kid heart. Like Oe-aew in I Promise You the Moon, I was told and repeated the fact to myself that there was very little space in the performance industry for actors whose queerness was too obvious, and that space was made only for the most flamboyant among us (and even then it was only the rare instance that they were more than a comedic side character). But seeing an actor like Gun--who, without naming his sexuality, visually presents like a femme twink and is clearly comfortable with exploring feminine and queer expression in his personal life--have a field where he gets to play such a vast range of rolls and not have it questioned is remarkable. And there are actors who have more subtle tells to a sensitive eye that then now have a place at the table where there used to be no chair at all. And creating an environment for those actors who present as queer means that those traits and gestures can be invested into the characters' queerness in a way that has previously been specifically avoided in a well-meant but homophobic attempt to disrupt gay stereotypes. (And I'd even reach to say it gives straight actors better opportunities to develop gay qualities in their characters.)

I'm so grateful to see a world where the variety of queerness for men can exist because it seemed so impossible not that long ago. I can recognize failures and flaws in this industry but there is no media to my knowledge that comes anywhere close to the kind of gay representation happening in the Asian BL world (especially if you include the reality shows in there!). And while that world is technically a fantasy world, it's built in a real professional industry by real people including a lot of queer-folks, and those fantasies they're crafting within that business are propositions for audiences to bring to fruition in their daily lives.

[absolutebl]

BLs to Recommend to Your Queer Friend

I put these in each bracket in levels of accessibility, as in “how easy I think they are for a non-BLer to enter into” without explanations of genre needed. 

Bleeding Heart Romantics 

Semantic Error

Bad Buddy

A Tale of Thousand Stars

Earnest Queer

The New Employee

My Ride

Drama Llama Indoor Kids

Our Dating Sim

Cherry Magic

My Love Mix Up

Repressed Arthouse Aesthetic 

Old Fashion Cupcake 

Love Life On The Line

Restart After Come Back Home

Hot Mess Gay Babies

The Eighth Sense

Moonlight Chicken

Hawt Mess Kinky Fuckers 

Bed Friend

KinnPorsche

My Beautiful Man 

Bonus Round: 

Adventure bois with a side of queer

Manner of Death

Not Me

Long Time No See

3 Will Be Free

He’s Coming To Me

From @mestizashinrin who asked me: 

“recommend a queer person to first start in BL”

(source)

[chicademartinica]

Aof when I catch you Aof WHEN I CATCH YOU !

[livsoulsecrets]

If i got a dollar every time Ple played the mom of a queer kid that has been in love with their neighbor since they were teenagers and had a family issue wrapped up in their love story, I’d have two dollars, which isn’t a lot but it’s still weird it happened twice

[thistle--bug]

Liming's "Person for Men"🤝Mhok's "Fart Proudly"🤝Pat's "Baseball mom" shirt = my favorite unhinged English phrase shirts

[ablazenqueen]

Top two best ways to inform your lesbian friend that her gaydar needs some recalibrating:

[live-from-flaturn]

For Anyone's Next Watch-Through...

I've started noticing patterns. Send me more and I'll make another one!

[mobumobu]

my favorite english shirts in BLs

[khaotunq]

↳ There's one actor with curly hair. I think his name is Mark Pakin

[lurkingshan]

Kidnap truly believes that if you just use the right music and lighting and framing and ignore literally all context, anything can be a bl romance moment. And ya know what, they may be right.