#i love pran and pat so much

[thegayneurodivergentagenda]

ceasefire (by Only The Poets) × Bad Buddy The Series

Here they roll in like a storm on the waves

Shots fired and nobody's safe

We're in trouble

No, no, no, not yet

Gripping the seams but the dreams slip away

On-board by them warm in their graves under rubble

Baby, we can't win this war, no

-

You had a vision of life in your mind

But this is a mess and the words never rhymed like a poem

No, no, no, not yet

You're taking the questions and toeing the line

Are you coming or going, you're wasting your time

You should love it

-

Maybe we won't win this war

But from here

until the door

ceasefire

I call a ceasefire

My love, your long day is over now,

over now

You've been that lost voice in the choir too long,

I call a ceasefire

Ceasefire

this is for @honeysachet and them only.

ceasefire (by Only The Poets) × Bad Buddy The Series

BadBuddy× my Playlist 4/n

[thegayneurodivergentagenda]

There's also a deeper more insane version of this in my head where Pran sneaks into the apartment because of the spare key he has to surprise Pat. And when Pat returns he smells Pran first in the doorway, and the kitchen, and the living room to the point that he feels like his mind has finally descended into the sixth stage of grief: delusion. (And maybe he breaks down in the living room because he just misses Pran so much and he avoids the bedroom just a little longer)

Until, Jazz-Hands Pran walks in to find Pat on his knees crying and looking blindly at the door of the bedroom and he understands and they both cry.

thinking about singapore-era pran just walking through the front door of pat's apartment one evening for an unexpected visit, and after pat has gotten over his shock and hug-tackled and kissed the hell out of him, he goes, "baby why didn't you tell me before?" and pran just shrugs a little and says, "you said if i missed you i should just come in"

[nick-nellson]

[thamekisspo]

People say it’s rushed, I choose to think that the minute Colin kissed Penelope, he realized he cannot live without her in his life. And not as a friend, but as a partner. As a lover. As his forever. The minute he realized his feelings for Penelope, he couldn’t let her go. I honestly think if he was to yearn for any more eps, he would die. I mean literally. His heart wouldn’t be able to take someone who wasn’t him courting Penelope. You call it rush, I call it being all consumed by your best friend and being stupid to realize it too late

[jimmysea]

OUR SKYY X ATOTS X BAD BUDDY Episode 3

[inventedfangirling]

bad buddy textposts part 9 🥹❤️

[bevioletskies]

pat & pran + every kiss scene ever | episode one (our skyy 2)

“Damn. We’ve been fighting for three years. How could we screw up?”

[greenteadumplings]

Can't stop thinking about @sinistergooseberries tags on this post pointing out that since Prans name origins from the Sanskrit word Prana, which means 'life' or 'life source' in Telugu, Hindi and Sanskrit. So everytime Pat calls to Pran as "My Pran" he is pretty much referring Pran as "his life".

My heart can't handle it when Pat calls Pran "My Pran" whenever I read it in fics. Now I'm sure I'll never recover after this.

[ohmnnnezz]

i think they kissed too

[sailorbryant]

PatPran may have invented love, but damn if TinnGun didn't come out with Love 2.0

[faillen]

realized moments ago that i'm almost out of my fragrance of choice (the pran fragrance!) and truly like. idk, adulthood is a series of letting yourself use up the things that make you feel good, huh?

[thegayneurodivergentagenda]

Snippets (by Multiple Artists) × Bad Buddy The Series

1. Home (by Catie Turner) × Bad Buddy The Series

I don't take spoonfuls of romanticism in my tea

But this is not a love song

It's my truth I have to speak

Oh, you are so important to me

And I won't let you go

I won't let you go

'Cause wherever you are is home

So won't you please come home?

2. Mastermind (by Taylor Swift) × Bad Buddy The Series

No one wanted to play with me as a little kid

So I've been scheming like a criminal ever since

To make them love me and make it seem effortless

This this the first time I've felt the need to confess

And I swear, I'm only cryptic and Machiavellian 'cause I care

I laid the groundwork

and then saw a wide smirk on your face,

you knew the entire time

You knew that I'm a mastermind

And now you're mine

3. For @desi-yearning , Maaeri (by Euphoria) × Bad Buddy The Series

[Translated from Punjabi to English ]

[teriya meriya, bhull gaya

bhull gaya, haar te jeet]

I've forgotten what's his or mine,

Forgotten who lost or won,

[hey mae, ki karna mein jeet nu

hove naa je meet, hove naje meet]

Mom, what good is this victory?

if there are no friends, if there is no friend.

4. Something Great (by One Direction) × Bad Buddy The Series

(PRAN)

You're all I want, So much it's hurting.

(PAT)

You're all I want, So much it's hurting.

Snippets Episode of BadBuddy× my Playlist because sometimes not all of the song fits, but some of it does, phenomenally, and I need it to be acknowledged.

BadBuddy× my Playlist 7/n

Crack!edit

You're all I want, So much, it's hurting.

[neonsbian]

rewatched bad buddy ep 3, the engineering hot girl scene was crazy

[inventedfangirling]

thinking about pran having to deal with his "unrequited" crush on pat while pat remains an oblivious clingy puppy who continues to pull at his heartstrings who then ditches their bus stop project for the girl he thought he lost him to in school, who comes back and acts all concerned and calls his dimples cute and proceeds to confuse him more who then annoys him on the morning of the match and then annoys him even more by flirting and then actually caring in front of others and then if that wasnt enough he had to be all wounded sad puppy outside his room to end up getting invited in and then have the audacity to ask him if he were ink if he would have liked him and making him lie to his face and then sleeping right next to his bed peacefully like pran's heart wasnt unravelling blood vessel by blood vessel every minute and yet in the morning when he wakes up, he does it so quietly and softly that pat has no idea that he has to wake up until he smells the breakfast (that pran had made for him and its) scent wafting into the room and now im sad.

[maybe-boys-do-love]

Because I've really enjoyed Peaceful Property and contributed to the discourse on here around it, I want to spend some time exploring the thoughtful critiques of the show by @bengiyo, @lurkingshan, @twig-tea, @respectthepetty, @my-rose-tinted-glasses, and @one-of-tankhuns-neurons. I started writing this out but then it got all annoying and academic so imma just list rant with the utmost respect for everyone's thoughts for making me think so much about this show.

1.I wondered about what shows might be examples of class division themes done with an orientation toward the lived experiences of the working class in BL, cuz honestly it's just not super prominent and well-done in much of media anywhere. The Aof series where he takes screenwriting credit seem to be the best representatives: ATOTS and Moonlight Chicken, especially, but he touches on macro and micro economic issues in all his works. Aof's really willing to depict the hardships and compromises required when living with less financial security, and I can def agree that Peaceful Property is not offering that. I just personally feel okay with that, because I see the latter show as doing a more theoretical and symbolic narrative about economics, and overt symbolism seems pretty in-line with the ghost story horror genre its using.

2. To me, I see Peaceful Property's main critique of class issues as being about Marxist alienation. So we've got our first two ghosts being really literal with this, where they have a labor they do and a final product that they don't get to partake in. Builder wants to have a meal in the house he built. Wig maker wants to wear the luxury wig she sewed. Then, with rider, we get a lil more abstract with him wanting him and his delivery to be recognized and build a meaningful relationship with someone. And since then we've been getting more and more abstract about people finding personal meaning and supporting others through their labor. But all of it still connects back to this idea of alienation from their labor, the magician, Chef Hong, and Peach are all prevented from performing the labor that brings them fulfillment by different circumstances.

3. For my reading, the queerness is very much part and parcel of its capitalism critique. Agree with it or not, but man x man loving stories have been used historically to run counter to the competition between men fighting for the top spot encouraged by capitalism. Maurice is a pretty prime example of this, where Maurice, instead of pining upward for Clive, ends up choosing the lower-class Alex and running away to be happy together. Pat and Pran's love in the face of their family's business related feud in Bud Buddy is an even closer example to how I think Peaceful Property is contrasting queer love and capitalistic competition. There's a few signals for me that Peaceful Property plans to explore this a bit more. The Cok Long sign reminds me way too much of the slang of "dick measuring competitions" and I don't think they gave us a character named 'Best,' who has reappeared a couple of times for no reason. With the magician, Pang, and Chef Hong, we also have a repeating motif of lost assistants who made the work meaningful and possible, a socialist emphasis on the value of all workers and the need to connect with others to produce their labors of love, which we see thwarted for the queer story line. The fact that the Thai dancing was two men working together to create the art offers an alternative to a competition between men. And I want to say that I'm just talking about narrative devices here, not the reality of how capitalism works. We're very much in symbolist land, with this take. I'm just a sucker for symbolist land, and it's hard for me to watch horror especially without taking my brain there.

4. And then there's the way queerness alienates one from the accepted 'normal,' which has emerged as a dominant theme in the last few episodes. But if we take this theme and apply it back on previous episodes, we can see traces of it throughout the characters. Home's statements have been the most explicit in illustrating an internalized homophobia with his desire to be part of a 'normal family.' And the tensions with his family about whether he deserved to inherit the properties has queer connotations about queer people's inclusion in their families and the legal and financial repercussions of that (What Did You Eat Yesterday is the top tier of detailed impacts of queer rights in that vein). Peach's social anxieties and depressive behaviors, ostensibly related to his close call with death and ability to see ghosts, parallels queer experiences, too, and we see how it shapes his and his sister's financial predicaments. (Aside: I wonder, regarding some of the complaints about their behavior in the context of poverty, if we might better read the two of them as broke middle class characters. We don't have much context about their childhoods, but their behavior has never really presented as people familiar with getting by on a dime.) Queerness and the threats of financial insecurity have been articulated as interrelated by the series.

5. Home's redemption? We'll know more as things get revealed, but it seems that we're meant to see Home's biggest failing as the negligence that allowed him to hit Peace and his cowardice in not standing up to his family and taking responsibility for the harm he caused. If that is his chief issue, in my view of a restorative process (and thank you so much @respectthepetty for naming this aspect of the show!), the necessary amends are...

facing up to his family (partial check)

admitting his mistakes and seeking forgiveness from Peach (he was in the process of doing so in the latest ep)

addressing the distraction that led to his negligence so that he can attend to Peach and people like Peach so it does not occur again (hmmm...)

That last point is key because we still don't know why it was significant that he was on his busy ignoring the call of girlfriend number 32 or whatever. But I'm suspecting it will connect to Home's internalized homophobia (and @heretherebedork has done some great writing about that subtext). That would give the accident a significance regarding horizontal violence between gay men that the privileged can then run away from while others who can't escape have to suffer the consequences. There's lots of ways queer men can and have done this to one another in everyday life and hook-ups but at the most extreme historically we have the the AIDS crisis, where someone's negligence regarding sexual health inspired by the psychological fear induced by being in the closet could truly be a life-or-death matter with major financial ramifications. For Home to truly own his mistake he is going to have to risk his own financial security in standing up to his family, and he's going to have to stop hiding from himself so he can develop compassion for others in the world. And the last scene in which we see him in the same predicament as Home I saw less as a cop out so Peach and the audience would feel bad for him and forgive him and more as a representation of his ability now to truly understand what Peach has gone through.

6. Do I think this series is going to solve capitalism? This show is about the spiritual dimensions capitalism robs from people, and I think it has real answers about disrupting capitalism through reconnection with our relationships to our work and to other human beings. I'm not religious, but I respect religion's ability to help people find and emphasize a deeper meaning in life, and I think that that doesn't necessarily but can challenge capitalist practices. Peaceful Property is working to show how caring about spiritual well-being breaks up the automaticity of capitalism and has never let go of that thread. To discuss Peaceful Property's takes on class division without speaking about its religious elements seems disingenuous to its greater purpose and a bit disrespectful to the Thai culture the series is so infused with. I'm intrigued about how Kan's plot will play out with the Vimarnsukmun family and it's impact on their finances. What would actually disappoint me and run counter to the show's themes is if the gang somehow inherited the family's wealth or properties other than the ramshackle Cok Long Cocktail Lounge. In Aof's work and in Maurice, the endings involve a disinheritance to represent that life is about connection not financial gain, which contrasts philosophically with the upward fantasies of capitalism. So in ATOTS, Tian moves to the village, in Moonlight Chicken, Jim trades out his diner for a smaller food truck, etc. To find the true meaning of home, Home will need to release himself from his attachment to his inheritance of financial privilege. Of course, being dead might be an option for that lol, but we'll see how the rest of the series plays out.

[inventedfangirling]

bonus :

when pran made that elaborate breakfast complete with sausage and a fried egg AND veggies! for pat (cos we know from ep2 that pran usually eats just toast for breakfast) and then proceeded to be mad when pat stole his toast not cos he didnt wanna share food but because he put so much effort into making the actual breakfast for him and this brat just snatched his own breakfast.

Smirk all you want pran but we SEE right through YOU. And we love you, i love you! Does he know that!? I need him to know. Do i cook and send him food across the multiverse? But idk abcs of cooking this is so embarassing goodbye😭

cant stop thinking about how love is stored in the kitchen. when somebody cooks for you or you make food for somebody that’s the purest corner of the heart that gets on the plate