#khaojao x sky

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14 and 17

Shan! Hello and Welcome to the SECRET CRUSH ON YOU ASK GAME RESPONSE!!!

Shout out and appreciation for the the perfect combination with which I get to talk about a show you have been torturing me with gifs of for the last couple weeks. I blame you for the internal war that has been brewing between me wanting to rewatch this show and knowing that I have a never-ending list of other content I need to get through. 

ANYWAY 

14- Sunshine/Sunshine 

Daisy and Intouch

This may perhaps be a little untraditional because I know that Daisy does carry a sadness within her, but my GOD when she smiles? The entire world lights up, and Intouch lights up with her. These two are fucking adorable and I really wish we had gotten more time with the two of them. I mean, look at my girl. She is just so sweet and full of life, and she knows herself even if she struggles with it at times. And Intouchis just so enamored with her in the kindest and sweetest possible ways. I will never forget the translator’s note that made sure international audiences knew just how respectful of Daisy’s identity Intouch was being. I LOVE THEM, YOUR HONOR! 

17- Ugly Duckling 

Now, we all know Seng and Surprise are beautiful, attractive people HOWEVER Secret Crush on You does not treat them this way, and that is fantastic because it means that we get to watch these boys go from being seen as “losers” to being seen as attractive and desirable. I appreciate that we got a story where the usual side characters are actively being pursued by the conventionally attractive and popular boys in the school. And honestly, I consider Khaojao x Sky to be a wonderful Ugly Duckling trope in the way that Khaojao starts to see himself as desirable and attractive and becomes more confident and secure in his relationship to Sky without really changing…anything about himself. It’s phenomenal. 

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Gonna give you a bonus, non-SCOY response to 14...

14- Sunshine/Sunshine 

Akafuji and Aoyanagi, BL Drama no Shuen ni Narimashita: Crank Up Hen

My loser simp, his leg kabedon, and his bright, smiley, anxious main. This entire show was sunshine so maybe it just bled in to everything else in the show. But dear lord I loved every minute of their unhinged, fanboy interactions.

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To be honest, I’m a little surprised that so many people are surprised by the quality of The Sign. Did none of y’all watch SCOY?!?

Look, if it’s not your cup of tea and you never intend to actually watch it the whole way through, I get it. It is a bit much, but at least watch the highlights cause it has some great points.

The production value is both high and utilised well, the acting is good, the chemistry between Billy and Seng is off the charts (Keng and Surprise do a good job too) and yes the cringe factor is high but I feel like the progression of the story arch as well as the character development counterbalances it fairly well.

The negatives for me were solely in a handful of tropes that caused me the most cringe and a minor plot device in the last few episodes that it probably could’ve done without. The positives though, far outweigh the negatives, especially when you take the above and add to it;

Actual conversation about what it means for one of the characters to be trans and be themselves.

Epic level loyalty amongst both the friendships and the couples.

Consistent communication between the couples.

Multiple variations of couple dynamics ie; M|M, M|F and F|F amongst the main cast.

The nerds and weirdos are the heroes of the story (I say this with love and as a self-professed weirdo).

All in all Idol Factory and Saint Suppapong did a great job with challenging some stereotypes (even if they fed others) and making a quality show that I have actually watched more than once. Secret Crush On You is a good series to spend your time on, even if you don’t end up watching the whole thing.

THE SIGN THE SERIES

Thai BL ACTION FANTASY and I'm totally here for it!! I was surprised how good the pilot was: the high level production, the cinematography, the acting, the CGI that are really good and doesn't look cheap/fake👍🙌 the chemistry between the main couple is intriguing, everything was above my expectations! Let's hope they will keep up the good job 🤞🙌

Ok...the stolen kiss at the beach was meh...but I'm ok with it for this time 🤣😆😉

This villain...I hate him...but he is so good in his role that I kinda like him...and then I hate him again 🤣😉

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Ships: every SCOY pair

I see you, villain, I see what you are doing and it is not going to work. I will not rewatch SCOY. 

I love this show for what it says, I love getting a chance to see all the “undesirables” getting romance, and not just getting romance, but being actively pursued in those relationships. Never know what you’re gonna get out of Cheewin, but I am forever grateful to him for this show. 

So, without further ado, here is what I think about every SCOY pair. 

Toh and Nuea 

[by the way, I wrote this and then saw @ginnymoonbeams response, so please note I did not copy her, that just how Toh and Nuea are, and I thought the similarities in our responses were too funny to change how I wrote about them]

You’ve heard of bi4bi, you’ve heard of t4t, but you know what I don’t think we ever get enough of? Freak4freak. 

Part of the reason I do desperately owe this show a rewatch is because I fully skipped through a lot of the first couple episodes because I was extremely uncomfortable with Toh’s obsession with Nuea and how he was collecting things from him. But, now I love my little fucking freak, and love Toh and Nuea even more knowing that Neua a) knew that Toh was stalking him from the jump and b) was Here For It! 

So I want to go back and watch it from the beginning, without skipping through those parts this time. Billy and Seng have great chemistry, once we actually get to them in a relationship I feel like Toh and Neua make sense together, and I believe their attraction to each other 100%. I love how horny they both are for each other all the time, and how much they want to just be making out in the car instead of actually participating in necessary life tasks, like going to school. I swear to God I have never seen a character with such visceral stars in his eyes as Toh has when he looks at Nuea. Nuea and Toh are so obsessively in love it makes me homophobic, and I wish them many more happy years of collecting Nuea’s straw wrappers and recycled soda cans. 

Also, I love that they are verse. 

Also also, and I am so sorry but I do just have to say that the first thing that always pops in to my head when I think about Toh and Nuea is how fucking sweaty Toh is all the time. Billy and Seng worked well together, they are phenomenal actors, but dear lord did it pull me out of a scene sometimes seeing Toh just absolutely drenched. 

Sky and Khaojao 

This is how you do blushing maiden. I have never been in a romantic or sexual relationship with anyone before, and I will attribute some part of that to uncertainty and anxiety. There is some part of me that really believes that I too would struggle with initial physical advances, and so I love every single character that both reacts to their own anxieties around intimacy while at the same time being brave enough to push past it. I love the scene where Jao pulls away like he’s timid and shy about making out or having sex with Sky, and Sky puts a stop to the action, only for Jao to be like “you don’t have to stop”. Incredible. Phenomenal. Show stopping. 

I love watching Jao’s self confidence and security blossom throughout the show as he started letting himself believe Sky wanted him and loved him. They are so great together, I love how much of a unrepentant fool Sky is for his boyfriend. I want Sky and Jao to be fucking all the time so I can systematically steal all of Sky’s shirts while he is otherwise occupied. 

And I seriously don’t know what they are putting in the water at Idol Factory but again, Heng and Surprise had incredible chemistry. Such good chemistry in fact that I despite knowing they wouldn’t actually do it, I would Not Be Mad if Dr. Chalothorn met a certain handsome technical specialist while working with the detective force…all I’m saying is another show with a HengSurprise match up? I would like to see it. 

That said, I think my biggest difficulty with their plotline is that Secret Crush on You is about how all the people that are normally sides in these shows, the neurodivergent freaks, the trans kids, the fat kids, etc. are also attractive, worthy, and deserving of love but Jao isn’t fat. And it’s a hard thing for me because I love Surprise, I loved Surprise in that role, I don’t think I would have wanted another actor in there, or that the chemistry would have been the same. But I wish Jao had been fatter. 

Intouch and Daisy 

Shan, I am being so incredibly serious when I say Intouch and Daisy mean everything to me.

I will never ever be over these two. I wish, I wish with my whole entire being that we had had a bit more time with them. I don’t need a whole show. But Daisy is such a beloved character, she is oh so very dear to me, and with the emotional rollercoaster Daisy went on over the course of this show, she really deserves some dedicated time to be loved. I’ve said before one of the things I love about Thai BL is how frequently you have non-cis people just living life, vibing, existing etc and how that feels revolutionary. But despite how frequently I see non-cis people in Thai BL, I feel like we are still severely lacking in ~Gender~ romance. We have Yok in Only Friends, we have Mae in 3 Will Be Free, Molly in The Warp Effect, Ah Jain in About Youth and that’s pretty much it. 

Every moment Daisy and Intouch were on screen together, there was instant joy, and to this day, almost a year after I watched that show for the first time, I still get fleeting thoughts about the translator’s note that said (paraphrasing here) “wish there was a way to explain how Touch’s way of speaking is so respectful to Daisy’s identity”. Like?????? That’s poetry to me. 

They are a gorgeous little couple and I love them dearly. 

Kongkwan and Fon 

Becky and Freen have incredibly tangible chemistry that makes it so easy to read these two as girlfriends immediately. We got like thirty seconds of them but within that time frame we did at least get sexually suggestive jokes, and an obvious and confirmed relationship between them. To that I say let’s go lesbians!

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