#its just bc i want to see earthmix

[witski]

everyone says the chicken at this place is amazing. personally, i'm here for the gay sex

[quodekash]

EPISODE 2 BAD BUDDY OS2 LETS GOOOOO im so freaking excited holy hell 

i still cant believe that patpran and earthmix are going to INTERACT WITH EACH OTHER??? AND EXIST IN THE SAME SPACE???? HOLY HELLLLLL 

wait hang on 

will we get longtae?? pls give us longtae i need to see my boy 

WAIT hang on how does this work. how do bad buddy and 1000stars exist in the same space if drake plays korn and also rang. i need to make some kind of murder board of the connections between shows holy hell 

tut tut, phu, you need to take care of yourself for goodness sake 

pran is too autistic for this, he doesnt know how to Social Situation and communicate what he was actually trying to say and now they think he wants to be a teacher 

also im gonna slide past the phutian relationship problems bc i dont want to think about it. my dads are not getting a divorce, and thats final 

hang on. there’s new kids now??? where the hell did they come from? 

tian’s teacher frustration is so real 

autism 

HEY 

LOOK AT THAT 

ACTUAL REPRESENTATION OF SOME KIND 

THATS AWESOME 

I KNEW HE WASNT NEUROTYPICAL 

FJEHSBGKVJREB 

i know ocd is an anxiety disorder but there’s a lot of overlapping symptoms and apparently autistic people are more likely to experience ocd 

and even if its just ocd, im still allowed to hc him as autistic 

but either way HELL YEAH REPRESENTATION AND ITS CANONICAL AND ITS NOT JUST IN HIS HABITS ITS AN ACTUAL CANONICAL DIAGNOSIS GJERBDHBDRT 

MY BOY! 

(definitely didnt completely forget about him) 

his gaydar is going off so much he can smell it (i made the screenshot too big and now phupha in the foreground is making me laugh so hard omg- i swear its the funniest thing ever. im probably tired. its 1:30am) 

THE LOOKS PATPRAN GAVE EACH OTHER WHILE PHUTIAN WERE INTERACTING- THE GAYDARS THE GAYDARS 

(yes, i know they already know about phutian bc of tian’s online diary thingy, but it still counts) 

i wanna read this diary so bad but i cant read thai. and also idk where i would find it. its probably online somewhere. it might be a merch thing. who knows man 

GEHRKDBGV THE FLASHBACKS WHILE HES READING 

IM CRYING 

“why would a good guy come to watch me take a shower?” THE LOOKS PATPRAN JUST GAVE EACH OTHER- OMG I LOVE THIS SO MUCH 

THE LOOKS THROUGHOUT THIS WHOLE EXCHANGE 

ITS SO FUNNY 

I LOVE THIS 

iconic 

i love everything about this so so so much 

the amount of joy that just this one image brings me? help 

ive been wondering why they keep making those movies 

wait hang on 

guys i think we might actually be onto something 

on another but related note: what do you guys spend 25 minutes doing at 2 in the morning when you should be sleeping? cos apparently i make beautiful atrocities like that. 

anyway. 

theyre like little kids, “he liked me first” “NO HE LIKED ME FIRST” 

this is starting to sound very familiar 

pran screaming at the waterfall reminds me of patpran screaming off the top of the hill at the beach 

THEY ARE PLAYING IN THE WATERRRR I LOVE THEMMMMMM 

“i think they kissed” “agreed” “they certainly did” “i agree” okay they didnt but they absolutely should have and we all wanted them to 

they so in loveeee i love themmmmm 

IM SCREAMING AS QUIETLY AS I POSSIBLY CAN, HOLY HELL THE FREAKING PARALLELS 

hah, you bloody americans, they probably had to google what 18ºC is in fahrenheit, but i, a superior australian, know that that is... warmer than it has been recently. its currently 13º. its really weird, im not used to it getting this cold, even in winter, and winter only technically started two days ago. anyway, enough about abnormal australian weather, back to patpran 

i love them so much 

pat, i- 

HELL YES 

OISHIIIII 

FINALLY 

the kid demanding payment through sips of oishi tea? thats my kinda style 

id adopt that kid if i had to. 

i hate kids 

but ice tea? it bonds people. 

lucky kid 

i rly like this karaoke idea, i was wondering how they were gonna incorporate the ost but i guess pat’s gonna sing it 

P’AUUUU 

I THOUGHT I RECOGNISED HIM IN THE BACKGROUND EARLIER AND I WAS RIGHT 

HELLO P’AU HOW ARE YOU 

“actually, my boyfriend and i also fought about who fell for the other first. but in the end, it isnt important. what matters more is that we love each other” AWWWWBHFGHBR 

OH 

ITS THE SONG 

ITS THAT SONG 

GEIURHGUKERJBGHJK 

YAYYYY PHUTIAN ARE SNUGGLINGGGG 

IM SMILING SO HARD ITS DIFFICULT TO SEE 

i love him 

THE SIGNATURE FISTBUMP RJDGBJR 

i love them 

NOOOOO THEY STILL HAVENT MADE UP, GOSH FREAKING DARNNIT 

ooooo phu vs pat drinking challenge, this’ll be fun 

i really like how the young ones are giving advice to the older ones for a change, its very nice. and also just goes to show how powerful patpran are 

omg this kid is everywhere, i love him 

the pure RELIEF when they both see that they are, in fact, wearing pants. 

BRO THAT WAS STRESSFUL 

PRAN NEARLY DIED 

its so funny to me how intense the music is rn 

OF FREAKING COURSE 

well at least we know that means we’ll get more patpran next week, we dont have to say goodbye to them today 

anyway that was wonderful, its 3am and i feel fine currently, cant wait to feel like a dead banana peel tomorrow, goodnight folks, see you next time! 

[swtchaeos]

S3, Chapter 3 Late, Late Realization

Listen it's EDITS TIME

I literally realized so late that i needed Edits ? like i just completely forgot we usually do edits Anyway, hi, edits preps

ngl i had to go back to last year's thread to see who tf i did and to figure out who tf i need to do last year we had - yuchan - jeff - jeonghan - oli's men

and the year before - earthmix - dotae - doyoung - mix - taeyong - oli's men

so this year we have - oli's men S3 update (dotae, earthmix, jeonghan, yuchan, rie, nine, haechan) - RIE - NINE (i might have the hardest time with ooo cause bro i don't know them i only can spot yoojung,junji, kb and mill i'm always afraid i'll mix the two) - haechan getting his own one (third nct member to do so) - JIHYO (olivia my friend find yourself more women because i want to make a oli's women next year) (i know technically there are ryujin and karina and i do plan on adding them but the oli's women needs to start with 4 people just like oli's men so please lose it over someone else before july 2024) stan ggs my friend

that makes -> 5 edits ???

do i make a beomgyu one just for laughs ? (i saw he kicked yeonjun out of the stan list) that might make 6 if i have time

The same way i forgot i needed edits i just now only realized i need songs?? ok ok

SHALALA ??? -> (one of the ooo dudes bc they didn't do the challenge)

KANG DANIEL SOS -> (jihyo)

identity shinee -> (other ooo dude) I HATE WHEN I CAN'T SHARE STUFF RIGHT AWAY CAUSE 😭 my brain went "identity edit, so who's gay ?" and then " wait all of them" literally almost dm-ed you to say this

oli's men as its own song so i only need 4 or 5

I NEED A SONG FOR haechan topline ? karma ? bouncy ? ok not topline but maybe karma or bouncy i will figure it out i have had a song in mind but

charmer skz ?? (the beomgyu edit)

THOSE ARE NOT SOFT 😭 welp good luck to me and to you 😭

[ryansjane]

gmmtv not promoting offgun is so weird to me. they might be older now but they obviously still have a huge following and gmmtv knows that, i mean they sell the most random merch for offgun and is always selling out lol. gmmtv might be trying to push their rookies to create the next big bl ship like offgun, so maybe that's why but i feel like their success can't be recreated.

honestly I feel like a lot of it is linked to not me, bc as I said in another post gmmtv wanted not me to NOT be the biggest show out there bc it was way too political for the usual thai dramas landscape. before that, I felt like offgun were getting promoted a lot actually, but then when I see kazz magazine & mint magazine who used to adore offgun, not even give them covers while not me is airing while bookforce got them in both magazines??? (no shade to bookforce btw, I like them, they're just much newer & smaller than offgun let's be honest.) that's when I realized that the thai entertainement industry was genuinely scared of not me & its political message, and it did sadly affect offgun. as for gmmtv trying to elevate their newer ships, ABSOLUTELY! I was talking about it with @disaster-j just yesterday, but since kristsingto are basically dead with singto leaving gmmtv, taynew probably will not star in a new bl together & brightwin won't as well, their only big established ship left is offgun. that's why it's so clear that they've been trying to push earthmix a lot, with a variety show, adding their plushies to the ships' plushy line immediately, putting them in every ad & event they can. and even with bookforce, they got a variety show immediately whereas other non bl actors that have been at gmmtv for YEARS have never gotten the same chance. that being said, I really don't think gmmtv is ruling out offgun at all since they're now their biggest ship that actually still acts together in bl shows. I just think that they didn't promote them during not me bc they didn't want the show to be too big so as not to cause them problems with the thai government, but HOPEFULLY they're gonna resume giving them the love that they deserve now that it's over. no matter what though, offgun are literally unstoppable & babii's will never let them go unpromoted. we'll do the goddamn promotion ourselves if we have to lmao :')

xxx

[jojotichakorn]

Dear Archer,

All jokes aside, thanks SO much for answering all of my messy asks re: new GMMTV series. I will try to reply as orderly as I can.

re: Good Old Days. Gosh, my dumb ass completely missed that the controversial age gap was in this drama. (Guess that’s drama before the drama even started… 🙄) And I think in this plot out of all of them it just wasn’t necessary. 🤷‍♀️ So I absolutely get what you mean. Besides, I think that precisely BL dramas (at least the Thai ones) have proven that you don’t need to cast a older actor to play an older character and vice versa. (Obviously you don’t want Glee scenarios of adults playing children -> every full moon I’m haunted by memories of stanning a show in which 30-somethings portrayed 15-yos. 😩) That way, you can have the looks of a considerable age difference without the creepy implications. 😐 (I’ll get to EarthMix later, but I think that’s a really good example; or Mork & Sun in Dark Blue Kiss (depending on the age of actors, my age difference limit would been between 4-6 yrs). Talking about older people, what I meant was that I liked the concept of this show a lot. (Im general, my rookie self thinks it can perceive a trend where GMMTV diversifies its genres a bit. 🙈 And I am a fan so far. 🙂) But I hoped there would be a more inter-generational approach to the characters (older characters who experienced smth in a further past than 25 years ago) and therefore the objects sold in the stor-y (🏬 very bad pun, sorry 🤭).

re: 10 Years Ticket. We are both gonna give Ohm so much praise for this next year. “I feel it in my singers, I feel it in my tones.” 🎶 High-five bestie! 🙌

re: My Precious. I think this is definitely too sweet for my taste. (Hehe, “taste”.) And I definitely need to binge at least 10 seasons of Law & Order SVU after that. (That’s me: mixing up sweet coming of age with murder and crime. 😈)

re: Home School. This is probably too angsty for both of our tastes. But I like the fact that two of the main roles are played by actors (Dew & Nani) who’ll have their acting debut tomorrow in F4 Thailand (another show I’m low-key curious about…but tbh as long as it features Win I’m probably going to watch it regardless 🤫…CENSOR CENSOR…I need to shut myself in order to not give myself away! 🤐). I just think it’s really cool they get such a major opportunity (and from the promo stuff for F4 Thailand, they both seem adorariable 💕 -> sorry, this one was wai to far-fetched! 😬)

re: Earth-Mix. (I feel confident I can check this one off in one paragraph. 💪 ) As far as Midnight Chicken is concerned; yes I agree, that one is bound to be a success. But they both seem very enthusiastic about Cupid’s Last Wish (apart from missing their cats that is 😹), so that keeps me hopeful. I just don’t how I will handle the inevitable mess that will be the plot. 🥲 (Yes, I may have become a loyal subscriber to Earth-Mix Space bc it features them, cats and food. I’m a simple soul, I don’t need a whole lot else 🙃)

Allrighty, that was it. Just 10 minutes on the clock, I’m going to prepare lunch so I’ll have something to munch (special pun for those who like old school L&O SVU 🤓).

~ operanon 🎼

my dearest operanon, you already have some brownie points from me for mentioning morksun ;) and i do agree with what you said about good old days.

i can't wait to see ohm in 10 years ticket!! he said at its presentation that he gets to show his side as an actor that he hasn't really gotten a chance to show before, and i am just SO excited!!

i am actually a huge fan of everything sweet, i love fluff, my favorite genre is literally romcoms, so my precious is kind of exactly up my alley tbh!!

i agree about home school being a bit too angsty, but love to see you instantly outing yourself as a win stan. good for you, he is an absolute sweetheart.

and omg since you're an earthmix stan - as i told all of you during the line-up, go get your food hens!! this is gonna be your year!!

[redxblueihateloveyou]

hello 🌻 so I'm kinda new to thai bl, since my tl started going crazy. I saw the discussion under your recent video, I gathered you know things, so I was wondering who is the director you've mentioned and why people are going insane on twitter. or is it not common getting projects so close to each other?

Lol yeah I see lately more and more western fans are joining the madness, can't really tell if its good or nah, cause its totally not the safe place for "unproblematic purists", but we'll see how it goes xD

Oi, I’ll try to do this somewhat shortly, don’t hit me if I’m bad at expalining haha. Tee is most known for directing "Tharntype" and "Lovely writer", Aof directed "1000 stars", "Dark Blue Kiss"… "Bad Buddy". In the world of thai BL, they fall into a category of a very high quality ones, that fans love.

Long story short like we know that directors as it is everywhere play one of the most important parts, but when it comes to thai lakorns it basically can determine not only the quality of the shooting and the whole tone of the creation, but also the quality of the portrayal of the relationships/closeness etc. They in most cases decide everything up to the intimacy scenes and it's even up to them to say "do korean dramas fish kiss bc thats how I see it" (here's the fun fact about thai bl actors/directors for you, sometimes actors themselves don't wanna kiss normally, sometimes directors don't allow actors who wanna kiss normally to kiss normally). It's also their vision that decides how to twist the character and turn him into a complete opposite from the original material kind etc. They just literally hold everything in the hands most of the times, including scripts.

So fans already kinda split directors into categories who either make the original material worse than it is and fail to guide the actors into the right direction and those who can make a candy out of basics by bringing out the best in both the original material and actors.

That being said the two cookies right now due to the fact that they stole everyone's hearts and fired up everyone even just with looks + the fact that they want to keep doing bl together and having too much fun with it are now there basically the perfect snatch.

So the fact that P'Tee is doing a workshop with them already and both of the best directors want them and some famous screenwriters there too, means that they see a huge potential in them. And for fans it means that they can have quality content with their faves.

To describe their vibe/type of directing, I mean, it's different depending on the story for sure, but it's very I'd say.. natural. There won't be any "we're in a relationships but don't touch me" stuff or other "old classic intimacy cringe" you'd see in many lakorns. And when it comes to Tee, he has this great balance between tasteful steamy with all the emotions you need, which is also lacking these days.

So I yelled a bit too, I really was rooting for someone to see the beauty, but aparently everyone did, so it's all good. Good luck to them.

As for the last part. It's definitely not common, but getting projects so close to each other happened before. For example, Earthmix have two bl dramas coming out this year and short movies along with it too (that without counting all of their entertainment shows). What's not common is for P'Tee to grab on GMM actors so fast, but I don't blame anyone in this situation haha.

Hope, I explained it somewhat okay, sorry if its clumsy, it’s a bit hard to explain, depends on how new you are and what you’ve watched so far <3

[swtchaeos]

Atots Final Overall Thoughts

I have had a few days to think and breathe after finishing the show so i'm back to write my "whole serie overall" section because it does deserve one so i can come back on some stuff and add more. I've taken a few notes through the days when i remembered particular elements i wanted to discuss in this. It will be long, i will try my best to make it feel organized but i can't promise it will be mostly because my thoughts are messy. This won't probably be chronological as the past reactions were but i'll try my best to make it make somewhat sense, if not well excuse me.

I'll get started with production, location and everything scenery related that needs to be adressed, that i really haven't talked about much before (my apologies). All the production choices on location were so beautifully made and it's part of the view series that just get you to completely dive in into that world just from scenery. The Pha Pun Dao village and all those chosen locations like the Pha Pun Dao Hill or the waterfall, as it becomes a place of growth for Tian and a place he can call home, it becomes for the viewer a place they get attached to. Those roads, the school, the hill, the waterfall, all feel by the end of the show places you know and feel the warmth of. So many shots of the village are engraved into my brain because of how beautiful they were. The view from the hill just takes your breath away and makes you feel small and amazed at the beauty of the world when you are just watching on a laptop screen on your couch or bed. I've dived into that little village world, got attached to the people and to the place itself and by the end of it, when Tian left, it felt like i was leaving that place i had never been in and still somehow felt sad i wouldn't get to see that again. Every part of it felt really genuine and you can see through it the intend of the producers, directors and overall the work of all the team through the shots and atmosphere of the show. Did it make me want to go there ? Yes. Will i end up going ? Probably not. Will i make up for it by making sure i have at least one looking up at the stars, counting them and talking date in my lifetime ? (yes it's close enough to me) Absolutely (once i find anyone up for it).

I feel like going on from the village and scenery i have to know acknowledge characters and actors starting with talking once again about Tian's character development. If there is one thing i have been pleasantly surprised with, it's Tian's growth and journey. It's a journey to self-worth, happiness, forgiveness in himself and i'm certain that reflects and parallels to Mix's actor journey given it was his acting debut. I have spoken plenty of time about his growth, the way he acknowledged his feelings and doubts, made sure to express them and was able to find happiness, prosperity and good health (especially mental health) through the love and unity of that place he's able to call home by the end of the show. I have to admit i really wasn't sure about his character at the beginning of the show but the way they handled his development and growth made it worth the wait.

Phupha on the other hand still has stuff to work on. You can feel he'll still have to learn and grow within himself to be able to find a middle ground between his words and his actions. Despite everything, the last episode still showed him protective of himself and the people he cares for, which isn't bad but still showed contradictions between what he was saying and the way he was acting. I got less attached to the character of Phupha than of Tian's because of the way it's written. There are things about his personality and actions i don't particularly agree with but it doesn't make him awful. Phupha's character has depth and is hard to understand. We have seen that from the misunderstanding going on, but he didn't really have the opportunity to grow and evolve his mindset in the serie meaning he stayed true to himself even at the end, which really contrasts with how much of a development Tian got.

Going onto Phutian as a couple. Those two definitely have chemistry, there is no doubt. If you've read all my reactions you know how much i talked about the cliché aspect of their relation at the very beginning. The passing out and getting caught in the arms of the other, the intense stares that go on for way too long, the coming up behind the other to help him do something (tie the mosquito net here) or the "hold me tight" moment on the motorbike, honestly starting with all those romance clichés i was genuinely scared about being able to acknowledge their relation as cute and genuine when most we were fed was romance clichés. But those two genuinely developped a bond and had chemistry through the playful "fights" and smirks, or heartfelt conversations, their chemistry doesn’t come from those romance drama clichés but it was more them aside of that that really convinced me there was more to it. Despite the whole "it's my duty" drama, it was obvious that they both care for each other but that Phupha's ways of expressing are more intricate which added to the communication issues make the whole ups and downs of their relationship. What would have been great though is giving more dimension and acknowledging the differences in their love languages. You can clearly see the characters have different love languages and that Phupha's is the root of his tendency to protect himself as well as protecting people around him. This was more subtle and i feel implied but it's also a source of confusion and what brought conflict to Phutian's relationship and did not really get resolved.

I want to quickly mention how much i appreciate that Tian's growth and happiness did not come entirely from Phupha but more from the place and everyone he was surrounded by, as well as himself. I hate the whole dependance trope so i was happy it wasn't huge part of that, as much as side characters tried to push it onto the couple.

As i'm talking Phutian but props need to be given to EarthMix for bringing them to life the way they did. The chemistry between them was splendid. Also i'll touch on it now because i'm talking acting skills but those damn eyeshift and microexpressions were everything. When, during the first episodes, i was very much not convinced by the intense stares, i found them more and more endearing by the end of it because of Phutian's eyeshifts when staring at each other. Those made me feel both so single and warmed my heart very much. I said it in the reactions but i'm not one to notice people's eyes especially not first thing. But those eyeshifts made it so that my attention was brought to their eyes and as much as i don't believe in the "i could see it in their eyes" a lot was conveyed through those.

If i was to talk about all characters in details in that show i’d still be here in 10k words and i don’t think that’s great so i’ll just say that the whole cast was amazing, so good and that no i don’t forgive Dr. Nam.

Briefly, I need to mention my villain origin story : not even one acknowledgement of Phupha, Yod, Rang and Dr. Nam that they knew about Torfun’s death to the village. I would guess they did it "off screen" in a way if it was a real village but for the show not to get that acknowledgment was to me a big deal. Tian acknowledged his mistake of not saying it and payed the price for it even holding too much responsibility on himself. Both Phupha and Tian made that mistake here of not telling anyone, out of fear and love, out of fear then love. And not once, not once are we seeing Phupha acknowledge he made the mistake too. Thats probably one of the reasons i hold disappointment on the growth of Phupha’s character. Tian miscommunicated bc of his view of himself, his self worth being at its lowest in reason to the responsibility of the death he felt, that’s understandable. Phupha didn’t act on Tian’s words right away saying he knew too because of that added factor of feeling betrayed, and learning the man he loves "killed" the woman he sees as a sister, that’s understandable. I also completely get that Phupha and the three others didn’t tell the village right away, as they were grieving, holding onto one’s shoulder the responsibility of announcing a family member’s death (basically family) is a lot. But not giving Phupha a redemption arc in the eyes of the village and for Tian, feels to me like a treason. I know i’m only saying Phupha in here but i also am not forgetting the implication of Rang, Yod and Dr. Nam. Just one scene. That’s all i was asking for. One scene of redemption to make people understand that they all made mistakes.

Going back to stuff i talked about before because it needs to be brought up again, BGM and OST. Phenomenal. It played such a huge part in the show. And not only the OST or the music that’s part of the story. That BGM all throughout the show was splendid and i can genuinely say it’s probably what made me fall for the show. I know, bold statement there because seeing how long this post is getting, there is a lot that is amazingly done in that show. The music was just THAT great.

As for predictability that i touched upon in past reactions it wasn’t that bad that i knew everything that was gonna happen in the show, i’m not that much of a psychic to guess the whole story. But with what you are given throughout the show, it is quite easy to figure out the way the show is heading. I made numerous calls (out loud to myself, while watching, what about it) and maybe one wasn’t right. Out of the whole show. Maybe i have watched too many shows, am able to catch on hints quickly or maybe it’s cause in the back of my head i knew i was gonna write-react to it so stayed really focused. All in all it was slightly predictable and i’m pretty sure the producers and writers give loads of hints and details so that the story makes sense. Overall yes, i was able to guess a lot of how it would unravel which as someone that loves being right made me happy. But i do also like when shows are slightly less predictable so that he catches me off guard.

Also the substory/sidestory was amazing.

i’ll wrap things up here i think i said a lot. Was the best show ever written ? Certainly not (sorry). Do i still find some stuff wrong about it ? Sadly yes. But do i think it’s a great step and still liked it ? Absolutely.

It was different. It is a step in the right direction, away from the toxicity in relationships, awful plot lines and underlying homophobia. I’ve said it plenty of times before but this show was so human-like which made it so touching especially when you’re a human with a lot of empathy. The emotions, the mistakes, the self-worth,... so much you can relate and get attached to. I like to sigh about communication issues but i can’t deny it’s such a human thing and engraved in our society trait not to communicate enough or correctly. But seeing a show showcasing growth and progress in communicating is what i want to see. Stuff is lacking yes but so much is great that it can’t go un-ackowledged. So overall, would i recommend a tale of thousand stars ? Definitely.

And Oli, thank you.