#moonlight chicken ep 3

[wanderlust-in-my-soul]

Thank you for trying to speak with me.

[soukana]

Episode 3 of Moonlight Chicken. Y’all. Please tell me I wasn’t the only person ugly crying through this entire thing.

It’s the conversation about college not being the right choice for everyone.

It’s the inevitable change coming for both Jim and Wen, which neither of them quite knows how to face.

It’s Wen’s loving relationship with his stepdad being the thing Jim needed to realize he can be a father to Li Ming too.

It’s Heart & Li Ming talking less and less as they understand each other more and more.

It’s sharing a learned language as a metaphor for queer awakening (and a beautiful homage to ITSAY).

It’s the way time itself is another character in the story, with the comfortable presence of the long stretches of nothing that characterize adult life.

It’s the way our shared human rituals provide us a framework for measuring our relationships with others.

It’s two gay men having a conversation about parenting.

It’s the reverent depiction of the many complexities and different types of love, not reduced at all but instead given shape by color and light and story.

It’s the fact that Li Ming is safe in Heart’s bed because they can communicate in total silence.

I’m not okay in the best possible way right now.

[hughungrybear]

You know what I hate (affectionate) most about watching Moonlight Chicken? It's the fact that even in cutesy scenes, you can still feel the tension in the air. It's as if Les Miserables and A Series of Unfortunate Events spawned these sad, angry, and desperate characters.

I am so ready for the next episodes to break me 😭😭😭

[aliceisathome]

Wen checking Insta during a meeting was deeply relatable (and it's a real account btw - wernnn.w ). Poor Jim with his cheating ex* How is he going to feel when he finds out that this time he's the affair partner now? Can he resist those soulful eyes for much longer? I know I couldn't. Mind you I wouldn't have been able to resist Gaipa either - I'd have a nice polycule and Alan could join as well.

I love the push and pull of the old traditions, buildings, businesses and the new, brash modern project - mirrored by Jim and Wen themselves (or possibly Jim and Alan with Wen in the middle being asked to make a choice). BUT I don't want this realism to extend to the relationships. I want Jim and Wen to be happy, and Heart and Li Ming*, and Gaipa and Alan. Give me ALL the couples.

*who are precious and must be protected at all costs.

[trytojudgemeseeitdoesntwork]

I'm really enjoying MLC so far but what if - hear me out - what if First Kanaphan was actually in it? Could we handle that???

[gennianydots]

can we just… ?

*shoves Alan and Gaipa together*

🤓🥺

THAT’S BETTER NOW KISS

[malepresentingleg]

Mark's characters are always the biggest shippers

[trytojudgemeseeitdoesntwork]

Jim's just bitter cause Li Ming figured out how to be gay, poor AND happy

Jim's just bitter cause Li Ming figured out how to be gay, poor AND happy

[wanderlust-in-my-soul]

First Affection, First Confusion

[soukana]

Heart and Li Ming got the “falling in the love” framing in episode 3 and I cannot deal with it AT ALL.

[gunsatthaphan]

“I can walk alone now.”

[j-adorejy]

Li ming really brought the light in Heart's life while Heart became someone Li Ming can talk to and be open with without worrying about anything else !

don’t mind me just getting emotional over heart finally having someone who is making the effort to listen to him, speak with him, understand his language… something that not even his parents seem to do. 

i can only imagine how painful and lonely it must have been to go through an illness that resulted in losing your hearing and when you needed support and community more than even, your parents just lock you away in your home cutting you off from the life you knew. whether they did it out of protection or shame or something else entirely, they isolated heart during what was probably such a scary period of his life and we can only imagine what he went through during that time

so now having liming who doesn’t pity him, who is making an effort to understand him, spend time with him, support him and just be a friend and soon to be boyfriend hehe it’s just so special and beautiful to watch them develop and i can’t wait to watch them come into their feelings

GOD they’re just so important to me

[aliceisathome]

Oh god it comes out SO EARLY. Damn you GMMTV. Do I try and watch it at lunchtime and restrain myself from doing what I usually do (talk back to the screen) or can I wait until I get home?

[lyknest]

i'll always have bad buddy & moonlight chicken though thanks <3

[whatisgodtoanonbeliever]

Okay so it's such a little thing, but Li Ming getting progressively more agitated as his friends discuss why his uncle was called was so good to me

The nail picking, the obvious bouncing of the leg, his eyes kind of shifting trying to exit that environment somehow

Fourth is def going to be an actor I keep my eye on in the future, he seems to have a great handle on his character for his age

[malepresentingleg]

god jim was cheated on and now wen is cheating with him without Jim's knowledge? 🤮