#our skyy 2 x atots

[rayandgay]

you're so handsome, got a boyfriend?

[liyazaki]

girlfriends 😭

OUR SKYY 2 | BAD BUDDY x ATOTS

[thisautistic]

ᴘʜᴜᴛɪᴀɴ ᴋɪꜱꜱ ɪɴ ᴇᴘ 16 ᴏꜰ ᴏᴜʀ ꜱᴋʏʏ 2 dir. aof noppharnach

[heretherebedork]

In which we are all Yod.

[waitmyturtles]

HYPERBOLIC SPOILERS FOR THE PHENOMENAL SECOND EPISODE OF OS2 x BBS x ATOTS

Can I feel so much in just one sitting?! Besides the UTTER giddiness of yesterday’s episode, at least for today, I think I have some actual, sensible, legible analysis to offer. I’m really moved, almost to tears.

I mean, as I blogged just a few minutes ago, part 4/4 of this second episode WILL go down in history in my heart as OBVIOUSLY some of the BEST, most STUNNING content in the HISTORY of anatomical and muscular analysis filmmaking. Yes. 

I’m seeing on Twitter some grumpiness for the comedy of this all (the girlies want more woop woop?! I mean?!), but I seriously think this whole crossover set up and the way it’s been written is brilliant. And I don’t think this is just for fun. 

But first, regarding the comedy and some other one-off points -- I mean, I knew that all four of these guys would be great, but their comedic TIMING, with the writing, is spectacular. They clearly had a FANTASTIC time filming this, and you can see it -- while they didn’t have much time to actually film it, it’s so well done.

I really want to call it, I really want to see it, I wanna see more subverting of the ships, and I wanna see these guys do more with each other separately -- I’m excited to see the implications of OhmEarth and NanonMix next week, and I think that Aof might be making a huge point by separating these guys, pairing them up together with others, and mixing shit up, because that’s what he does (especially while I have He’s Coming to Me on the mind soon on my OGMMTVC watchlist). 

Another one-off point: like I wrote yesterday, we’re getting a double-dose of nostalgia, and I also wrote that I haven’t had to wait NEARLY as long as most of y’all for the return of BBS and ATOTS. But that being said, even though I only watched ATOTS last fall, I actually literally nearly cried when I saw the ATOTS flashbacks and heard the music. Because the way that show was designed in 2021 (I got so much OGMMTVC on my mind) -- those motifs WERE designed to imprint themselves in our memories as remarkable for a kind of cinematic, bildungsroman BL that we weren’t used to seeing back then. That show was nostalgic not JUST for the damn ship, but for Pha Pun Dao, for Chiang Mai, for the Thailand that Aof celebrates vis à vis EarthMix in ATOTS and Moonlight Chicken. 

It’s gorgeous, and he knows what he’s doing by putting PatPran in that mix -- another couple at a different stage of their relationship, with a background and shared struggles that are different than TianPhupha’s, but that still offer both freshness AND nostalgia to the backbone story of ATOTS.

What’s moving me about these first two episodes reflects on what I just wrote -- this is no longer a story about Bad Buddy or ATOTS. This is a story about two couples going through their shit. Pat and Pran have ALWAYS been about going through their shit. We went through a A LOT of SHIT with them, including forward flashes after they graduated and seeing how they were faring in their long-distance relationship. 

Remember: we haven’t spent ANY time with Tian and Phupha in their relationship yet, ABSOLUTELY NONE. They smooched once on the hill, we saw them cuddle, and Oishii sent us off. So we’re JUST finding out, NOW, how they’re faring, and we get thrown in a fight.

A fight that’s similar to the kinds of struggles that Pat and Pran have already shown us and are showing us now. Tian wants Phupha to see a slice of HIS life in Bangkok. Tian wants Phupha to yield a little, to stop being so stubborn. 

Pat wants Pran to open up more. Pat KNOWS why Pran keeps everything so close to the chest. Pat is SO USED to being the balancing effect of their relationship, to push forward, to pull back, but to ALWAYS HOLD PRAN DOWN AND REMAIN AS PRAN’S ROCK, because Pran has not had the same kind of large family structure as Pat could rely on in his childhood and doesn’t know how to take emotional risks. Pat knows this and works hard on balancing it out.

But Pat can go overboard, right, and that’s partly why Pran drove away to Pha Pun Dao -- to prove to himself that he could complete this project on his own, but also, flirtingly, knowing that Pat would ultimately be by his side, and to play the competitive games that these guys always play with each other, because they’re still college dudes with bones to pick. 

What we’re seeing is BOTH COUPLES FINDING THEMSELVES IN THEIR MATURING GROWTH STAGES OF THEIR RELATIONSHIPS. 

Hello, mic check, there’s something happening here in Our Skyy 2. WHAT HAPPENED IN THE ECLIPSE EPISODES?

Same damn thing, the same damn thing that pissed the girlies off before. WE’RE SEEING AWLLLLLL THESE GUYS IN THE GROWTH STAGES OF THEIR RELATIONSHIPS. Akk was frustrated by all the expressions of care that Ayan is overabundant with. Ayan WANTS Akk to RECEIVE the care, because the RECEPTION OF CARE IS the signal, the trigger, the MEANING of the relationship for Ayan -- it tells Ayan, when I care for you, Akk, I AM SHOWING YOU MY LOVE FOR YOU, and that’s how *I* DEMONSTRATE IT.

Tian: Phupha, come with me to Bangkok.

Pran: Pat, let me do this by myself.

Akk: Ayan, I don’t need as much care as you’re giving me, it’s too much.

Phupha: You’re making only about me being madly in love with you.

Pat: I want to help you, my boyfriend.

Ayan: This is how I show my love for you, Akk. 

Y’all. Aof, Golf, these filmmakers. QUEER RELATIONSHIPS ARE RELATIONSHIPS THAT DESERVE THE INVESTMENT AND RESPECT OF EMOTION AND GROWTH IN ART. Not all queer art/BLs need to be about the thrills and frills of the first kiss, of the first sex, of the first whatever. We’re expecting these guys to live together forever in fiction, right? Aof and Golf and the other homies are saying -- kk, girlies, we’ll give you the fan service, alright, but we’re going to show you HOW WE, AS THE QUEER COMMUNITY, DURING PRIDE, GET THERE IN OUR OWN RELATIONSHIPS, TOO, messy details and all. Shit.

Here’s something from reality. I’m the youngest girl of my Indian family -- I was not equal to my older siblings at all, expected to fail, treated as if I didn’t know how to function in society. Y’all can predict what happened. Your gal got a great career, a great family, a husband, the whole thing.

So when I first met my husband, I’m riding my life on my own -- paying my own rent, my own bills, everything. I had already proved I didn’t need my birth family for anything.

But what I didn’t consider during those first years of the relationship was the following: my future husband’s love language was dependence. He was certainly IMPRESSED by dating a woman who had her shit together. BUT. He WANTED me to DEPEND on him, AT LEAST emotionally, if not for other things. I wasn’t going to like, quit my job for a relationship, but -- I was ALSO having REAL trouble DEPENDING on him emotionally.

Like Pran, maybe. I didn’t trust trusting anyone emotionally, because that was a paradigm already created by my family in my upbringing. I had TRAINED myself to NOT need emotional feedback from ANYONE romantically, because I learned to survive in other ways.

Of course, with great communication AND TIME (TIME), I came around and learned to lean on him and trust him.

Aof and Golf are giving their couples the benefits of growth and time to make the relationships better, and stronger, and working, and functioning, and I can’t emphasize enough how REAL THIS IS. 

That’s what these episodes are giving me. I WANT TO SEE MORE BLs with established relationships (@bengiyo, @lurkingshan, @wen-kexing-apologist: WHAT DID YOU EAT YESTERDAY FTW). I want to see contextual heartache. I want to see fights. I want to see tears. I want to see snottiness and shittiness and passive aggression, because all of that is worth examining in human emotional art. 

That’s real, that’s worth reflecting in art, and I see Aof and Golf doing this on purpose to give RESPECT to the emotional structures that they’ve created in their work. 

I’m having so much fucking fun with these episodes, but I should have expected this, I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN, that Aof would already render me an emotional mess as well. It always happens. That it’s happening to our BELOVED COUPLES, AT THE START OF PRIDE, I’m just like. We’re just so blessed to have this art to enjoy.

[colourme-feral]

+ BONUS

PARALLELS IN A TALE OF THOUSAND STARS AND OUR SKYY 2 X A TALE OF THOUSAND STARS Other parallels

[trilliastra]

they caught the patpran disease

[dribs-and-drabbles]

At the end of Our Skyy 2 ep 4 of the Bad Buddy/A tale of Thousand Stars crossover, when Pat and Pran (playing Tian and Phupha) hug at the end of the play, Pa says "It's the right moment to kiss!"

Here she's not only calling out us, the audience of qls, since this is exactly what we're thinking sometimes whilst watching ql series...but I think it's also a callback to the filming of A Tale of Thousand Stars series.

I did want to attach a screenshot or link to the behind the scenes video for atots but I can't seem to find it again on youtube, but I'm certain I have watched a clip of the filming of the end scene where Aof/someone mentions how the kiss wasn't supposed to be in the script. However, in the moment of filming, Aof called out to Earth and Mix to kiss at the end.

I'd love to think this moment at the end of Our Skyy 2 is also Aof calling himself out with asking the characters to kiss in a scene 😂

[whatisgodtoanonbeliever]

Here to scream real quick:

That proposal was one of the most well done, least cringe, authentic feeling proposals I have seen in pretty much any visual media

Earth, Mix, the crew, directors deserve so much props for how they played it and this is me handing them their awards

(Also my favorite ring I've ever seen but that's more personal preference)

[aprilblossomgirl]

my favorite QL 2023 recaps: part 1 - look at the stars

+ bonus - the fourth star under the city sky: finally, a thousand stars.

GIF 1. Tinn & Gun in My School President (2022-2023)

GIF 2. Khabkluen & Daonuea in Our Skyy 2: Star in My Mind (2023)

GIF 3. Saengthian (Tien) & Lomfon in La Pluie (2023)

GIF 4. Guy & Nawa in Dangerous Romance (2023)

GIF 5. Phupha & Tian in Our Skyy 2: A Tale of Thousand Stars (2023)

[fadelbison]

If I ever got the opportunity to talk to Aof I would ask him if he’s more proud of ATOTS because of its huge cultural significance and impact or because it’s how earthmix fell in love like I’m watching ourskyy2 and WHY does it seem like they’re trying to make up for moonlight chicken divorce era. PLEASE release me from this fictionalized RPF hell you keep throwing me into Aof!!!!

[rayandgay]

t-shirt is wifey material confirmed!!

[liyazaki]

will you please get out of the way, Chief?

OUR SKYY 2 | BAD BUDDY x ATOTS

[thisautistic]

there are definitely gifs coming but YALL: STRING OF SALIVA. I'M INSANEEEEEE PHUTIAN GIRLIES WE WIIIIIINNNNNN

i don't know if anyone else cares about it but like. it's teeny. but it's there

[heretherebedork]

Tian + grabbing Phupha's tiddies in Our Skyy 2.

[waitmyturtles]

If Twitter is reading this correctly: the first ep of Our Skyy 2 x Bad Buddy will be BBS solo, with the second ep being a crossover with ATOTS.

@miscellar, @telomeke, @telomeke-bbs, @dribs-and-drabbles, @bengiyo, @shortpplfedup

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