#patpran×my playlist

[thegayneurodivergentagenda]

Lvr Boy (by Awfultune) × Bad Buddy The Series

(Pran)

I used to get on my knees

And I'd pray for love

To come find me someday

For love to come meet me my way

Your love hit like a brick to the face

And when I put up a fight

You put me back in my place

I thought I wasn't cut out for this race

(Pat)

I used to find things about me

That were wrong to me

But then you came along and showed me

Showed me where I was wrong

So thank you, 'cause now I'm where I belong

In a world where I finally feel strong

I got my boy and he can tag along

(both)

You know how I feel

You don't need a song, but just in case

(Pran)

You're my lover boy

My stay in bed under the cover boy

My only you and no other boy

My face is red, come smother me boy

'Cause you're my lover boy

Come on and meet my mother boy

(Pat)

You made me a little tougher boy

My life was black and white

But now I see color boy

You're my lover boy

You own my heart, you own my heart and it's no one else's

(Pran)

I fall apart, And when I fall apart I'm no one else's

I could be your baby (I could be your baby)

I could be your baby, Always your baby

(both)

I'm always yours.

Lvr Boy (by Awfultune) × Bad Buddy The Series

BadBuddy× my Playlist 10/n

[laesas]

KPTS Playlists

Kim's Album || Chay's Album

So the concept behind this is that Kim releases a post-canon album and Porchay releases an album of his own in response. I love the idea of how the songs on each of these would affect the other person listening to them, as well as giving both characters the ability to use songs to communicate feelings that they can't express openly in person.

KimChay - Why else would I tutor you?

A big mixture of both KimChay albums + some extras that didnt fit either album but fit KimChay as a whole or inspired me while writing.

Additional Playlists and rambling under the cut 🖤

VegasPete Shoot Me || VegasPete Let it Out

I love both these VP moods but struggled with mixing them in a single playlist! The vibes were too all over the place - so now theres one for the emotional stuff and one for the self-destructive decisions bourne from hedgehog funerals and bisexual lighting

SO! Thoughts on playlists:

The concepts behind the KimChay playlists are my favourite and they're the ones I put the most thought into! - I started them back in july and I'm still adding to them now! They're not necessarily all about Kim and Chay's relationship per-se, there are a couple that I think really fit Kim's relationship with his brothers for example, or the way that Porchay feels living in the compound with his lack of autonomy. I've tried to keep a consistent sound/vibe throughout and match both the lyrics and the sound to the melancholy post canon situation!

My absolute favourite is Chay's album (lovingly referred to as the chaylist). Picturing the absloute breakdown Kim would have listening to some of these songs sang by Chay is so delicious to think about. Hopefully these would be the catalyst to a KimChay resolution!

There are a couple of other less developed/experimental playlists like for KinnBig, Tankhun (sad lol) and KimBig on my spotify profile! (as well as some other non KP playlists)

If you liked any of these, found a new favourite, or found them useful/helpful for art/writing/rotating the faves in your mind, feel free to share and to come yell at me about them here! DMs are open, anons are on! I'd love to hear your thoughts!!!

[thegayneurodivergentagenda]

Case in point:

(One Direction was a hyperfixation for 12 years and now even THAT is about Bad Buddy The Series and so like????)

"you can't just relate everything back to this ship" prepare to be stunned and amazed at how little control i have over my own brain

[fiercynn]

traffic was slow for the crash years (bad buddy fic, patpran, 80k words)

written by fiercynn, cover art by @architectxengineer

“Hey,” he says, stopping short. Pran keeps walking. “Hey!” Pran stops as well and turns to look at him, exasperated. “What?” “What if this is how we get our faculties to stop fighting?" says Pat. "By pretending to date?

featuring:

canon-divergence

fake dating

pining pran, oblivious pat

architecture & engineering shenanigans

angst with a happy ending

read the completed fic here!

everlasting thanks to my BRILLIANT team of betas, @scribescribe, @hydrochaeriswrites, & @nicolasechs!

the AMAZING cover art is a commission by the fabulous science (@architectxengineer) - you can commission them yourself by emailing them at sleepygoom [at] gmail [dot] com!

wonderful people have also made related works for this fic:

apart from the incredible cover art commission, science (@architectxengineer) did a super-cute sketch for chapter 2, and these adorable animated illustrations of the bus stop scene in chapter 3

the brilliant atria (@mahuhumaling) made an edit to "don't blame me" by tswift about scenes from chapter 4, it's amazing, you can watch it on twitter or instagram

the awesome greybrocolay on twitter made a wonderful comic of a scene from chapter 8!

this fic also has a playlist that you can listen to on spotify or youtube! i also wrote my commentary on the song choice but that is spoilery for the fic, read at least through chapter 7 before you look at that. enjoy!!!

[brazilian-whalien52]

PatPran Fanfic Rec!

So I have been reading fanfics of my boys and wanted to sharedsome titles

* Pinocchio by aworkingprinter

It had been a long time since he was a scared twelve-year-old, terrified that his Pinocchio syndrome would leak his thoughts to the outside, that he could keep no secrets. He was sixteen now, and he was made of secrets, and he could keep them safe.

Or so he thought.

Pran is born with a disease that makes him hiccup every time he lies.

* An Eon and Six Days by Hazzapixie

- Part 1 of the On My Skin, In My Heart Series

"Pran is six days older than Pat. It has forever been something of a pain in Pat’s side, knowing that his biggest rival is older than him. 144 hours. 8640 minutes. Sometimes it feels like a lifetime.

Six days. Not a lot, but enough that he will turn twenty six days before Pat. Which means that Pran will know his soulmate six days before Pat. Hence, the month before Pran turns twenty, Pat is having a minor breakdown.

Pat had grown up with two ideas swinging in tandem. There is someone out there for him to love, and to hate."

Or the soulmate au that desperatly needed to be written.

* You can hear it in the silence by threewontons

Pran takes a deep breath and opens his Spotify, going to the playlist titled “❤️” that’s been waiting for him since he created it four years ago. There’s only one song on the playlist, saved precisely for this moment. Ever since he first heard it he knew that he wanted it to be how he introduced himself to his soulmate.

Before he presses play, he freezes, a melody starting to form in his head. It’s almost as if the volume is being turned up, louder and louder and…

It’s Baby Shark.

His soulmate is listening to Baby Shark.

(or an au where you hear whatever song your soulmate is listening to <3)

* The Hardest Thing I Had To Do Is Not Kiss You by Ablazen

Pran's friends organize a kissing booth. It goes just about as well as you'd expect.

* Up the Ante by Incandescentflower

“You’re so cocky. You are just asking to lose this thing.” Pran put his hands on the wall on each side of Pat’s head and leaned forward, whispering, “If I put my lips on yours again, this would be over.”

Pat’s pulse raced, but still somehow he knew exactly how to respond. The exact thing to get what he wanted. “You’re making excuses. if you kissed me again, you couldn’t stop yourself from confessing.”

“Oh, is that so?” Pran asked. “Then I guess we should find out.”

* The Fine Line Between Hormones and Home by seekingmoonscapes

Pat didn’t care what anyone had to say about the miracle of life and the wondrousness of nature and the celebration of creation; being in heat was just fucking annoying.

---

AU set between episode 2 and 3: Pran comes home from university to visit his parents one weekend only to discover Pat is also at home but for a very different reason...

* Alpha x Alpha the series by JustImproving

Alpha Pran and Alpha Pat

[dimplesandfierceeyes]

bad buddy fandom getting-to-know-you meme!

Another tag game I finally managed to get to! Thank you to @tiistirtipii, @dudeyuri, @feralmuskyscentedhoepran, @softpran, @dancing-out-in-space, and of course, @fiercynn for tagging me in this one!

name and whatever you want to share about yourself

Hello, I’m Kayla! I’m, as probably noticeable by my spelling, not American haha. Yeah I guess that’s it. I’ve never been good at talking about myself.

when did you watch bad buddy/join the fandom?

I watched it from the start, but somewhere around episode 3 I started actively looking into the fandom and by the end of ep4 I was already in a discord group and writing my first fanfiction. The rest, as they say, is history XD

favourite ship(s)

I am a PatPran, InkPa enthusiast although I did also like the LouisSafe idea which is why i wrote a whole fic about them haha

favourite character(s)

Beyond Pat and Pran, Pa, Korn and Ink will always be in my heart

favourite episode(s)

As much as I love episode 5, episode 3 is probably the episode I’ve watched the most haha I just love watching Pran coming out of his shell (even if he does get crushed in the very next episode T-T)

favourite scene(s)

The Rooftop comes in at number 1 every time, but also the fight in front of the apartment block just before it, the bus stop scene and guitar scene in ep3, the balcony scene in ep8, the bedroom scene in ep9, so many scenes in ep11, and everything after Pran turns up at the apartment in ep12. Serotonin factories every one. 

one thing you would change about the show if you could

I’d have liked Pat’s anger in episode 7 to have been dealt with a bit more definitely but they pulled it back by giving it proper consideration in episode 11.  Honestly I would have also loved more flashbacks to their pre-transfer era as well as a little more on Icy Pat, but I understand why we didn’t get them. 

what are your some of your favourite fanworks made by other people?

This is a difficult one for me! So I actually did a list of my favourite bad buddy edits here and also fanfics here and here plus I’m pretty sure I did another, but can I find them? No. So I’m gonna add to this by saying also anything by @miscellar (aworkingprinter on AO3).

(if you create fanworks) what are your favourite fanworks that you’ve made?

Some of my own favourites? Well, that’s trickier haha! Probably A Fine Line Between Hormones and Home, The Space Pirate and the Officer of the Law and, just because it was my first fanfic in the fandom, He’s No Romeo.

a song that makes you think of bbs (the ones in the show don’t count lol)

Pancakes for Dinner by Lizzy McAlpine always makes me think of pining Pran, Heather by Conan Gray also gives huge Pran in episode 4/5 vibes. Alas I can’t think of one that screams Pat though I know I have thought that about songs before. No doubt I’ll be listening to a playlist tomorrow and be like “oh yeah, this one!”

idk anything else you want us to know?

So out of the 494,256 words I’ve written on AO3 over an 11 year period, 426,682 of them were written in the last 3 years and all for the Bad Buddy fandom. If that doesn’t encapsulate both my obsession and love of this show, I don’t know what does haha

Now who to tag?! I can't tag everyone so going with people I'm not sure if I've seen do this yet, though no pressure for anyone! @lurkingteapot @galauvant @snimeat @loveongsa

[belladonna-and-the-sweetpeas]

I was tagged by @waitmyturtles (thank you <3) to do the spotify random list. I don't use Spotify - so I shall put my current personal playlist on shuffle and list the first 10 songs that play. I have music on here from yesterday and from 15 years ago, so this is going to be fun! :D

BigBang - Fantastic Baby

I heard this song my first year in China. I had never heard K-Pop before hahaha. I've had a soft spot for this song since then, as it was the first non-chinese song I'd heard in public in nearly a year.

2. Paloma Faith - Upside Down

I went to an open-mic night at a bar in China between two of the covid lockdowns in 2021 and an acquaintance of mine sang this song. I love the genre and the lyrics.

3. Proxie - Silent Mode

Look, the music from My School President hooked me, I watched the concert, and then found so many amazing Thai artists from there. Proxie is one of them.

4. Demon Hunter - Carry Me Down

This song has been in my playlists for so long, I don't remember when or how I found it lol

5. Gemini and Fourth - You're Blushing

I like both of their voices and this song is light and summery. But let's be honest - I have every MSP OST and adjacent song in this playlist.

6. Elvis Presley x JXL - A Little Less Conversation

Throwback to high school. From an AMV playlist curated by my group of friends who turned out to all be queer - not surprising from a group of art and D&D nerds!

7. Ava Max - Kings and Queens

I tend to search for FMV's for all my obsessions (old habit from highschool days) and this song was used for a multi fandom edit. It went straight into my girl power song category :p

8. Pet Shop Boys - It's a Sin

For some reason, considering how into classic rock and older music my whole family is, this song didn't cross my radar until it was on a Bad Buddy playlist here on Tumblr. How could I not love it?

9. IVE - Love Dive

Another multi fandom song edit. That edit used a male cover of this song, but as I have no idea who the artist is (sorry!) I'm linking the original IVE version here.

10. 5 Seconds of Summer - Teeth

The art teacher at the kindergarten I taught at loved this song. Every time we had to stay late to do prep work, we'd blast it at full volume. I think it has also been used as a fan edit favourite for almost every single romantic pairing ever.

It's missing some of my top favourite artists and songs, as well as some that are currently on repeat, but not a bad random selection of my musical taste. It's been fun! I've been taking notes of songs to check out from everyone else's lists, so tag me in if you do do this. If you've been tagged before, ignore this, and if you want to do it and haven't been tagged, take this as your invitation! @sorry-bonebag, @petrichoraline, @chalkrevelations, @toastedpoptartsarelife, @user-patpran

[dudeyuri]

tagged by @chickenstrangers to listen my 5 favorite songs right now. this was fun to reflect on. i listed 9 songs here because i too have been listening to quite a bit of music lately

anyone reading this...if you want to do this and haven't yet please do it & tag me. i love finding new music. @dimplesandfierceeyes @jjsanguine @hereforlou @ranchthoughts @verit no pressure though <3

okay 5ish favorite songs:

spinning by wishy. super dreamy. i think this is what "shoegaze" is lmao?

2. blood like lemonade by morcheeba. an older song i'm always listening to. if it's about vampires i'm just so there.

3. born for loving you by big thief. i LOVE big thief. their 2023 album will knock you flat if you haven't heard it yet. 'from the last breath of my first death, to this lifetime and lifetimes left'

4. heavun by hemlocke springs. so reminiscent of synthy 80s pop which is one of my favorite things ever, to the chagrin of anyone who has ever driven with me

5. pop art blue feat. martha tilson by zero 7. another older song always in my rotation. listen for the most british pronunciation of "opportunity"

honorable mentions: cmat's where are your kids tonight (feat. john grant) killer vocalist & lyricist. hemlocke springs & cmat are two artists i found out about in 2023 and are now my new faves.

chanmina's tokyo 4am is so fun

touching yourself by the japanese house

and lastly. because a CRJ song is always on the playlist. lately it's been bad thing twice. it's giving patpran only friends au

[paint-music-with-me]

this is fucking ridiculous- I've never seen 9-1-1, I've been a lurker ever since Buddie came onto my screen but like...

buck being confirmed bi???

be still my beating heart motherfucker

and im here listening to my patpran playlist like it's a buddie playlist??? and it fits??? and i cant fucking breathe??? gtfo this is ridiculous- IM NOT EVEN IN THE FANDOM?? WHAT DO I KNOW?? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING OMFG

[lamonnaie]

People I Want to Get to Know Better :)

Thanks for the tag @spicypussywave !! <33

last song: 你不是一個人 by Jeff Chang and Joker Xue (Currently got my playlist on shuffle so the last song is constantly changing lol)

favorite color: purple !!

currently watching: i'm waiting for the last ep of the sign to air (🙄🙄) but apart from that nothing rlly?? i haven't been able to get into the mood to watch shows lately 😩😩

last movie: uhh probably a random indian movie whose name i can't remember

sweet, spicy or savoury: i like them all, depends on my mood, but maybe a slight preference for sweet

last thing you googled: winny thanawin (i dont even remember what for now lol)

relationship status: lol v single, i'm not particularly looking for a relationship either

current obsession: bad buddy and patpran fics (but i think that's just an eternal state of being for me atp), nothing rlly apart form that, which is truly a travesty, i need something to obsess over at all times kasdjkf

selfie/another picture you took:

went to an arcade for valentines with some friends, dumped way too much money, and all we have to show for it are kid's rings and play wands 😭😭 it was a fun day tho <33

tagging: @dramalets @soundwin @xinhua-jun @distant-screaming @blackstar-gazer @kess-in-the-perthchimzone @neonsbian @thattiredthot @allie-elle , no pressure !! :)

[dimpledpran]

8 Shows to Get to Know Me

I was tagged by the lovely @talays-portkey and @i-got-the-feels​ !

1. Ghost Whisperer (2005-2010) I think this was the first show that i actually tried to watch as it was airing. I still remember waiting for 10pm every Friday, whether everyone else was awake or not. I think I watched all the way from Season 1-4, until it stopped airing on our local channel. 

2. Glee (2009-2015)  Honestly this was my introduction to the English music scene. I did not grow up listening to English songs, so my initial playlist was basically Disney Channel artists and Glee covers. As a music lover, I just enjoyed listening to their takes of the songs. I think I stopped watching somewhere during Season 3, and only did the Cory tribute episode after that.

3. Teen Wolf (2011-2017)  This was the first show that I started reading fanfics for. Well I started reading before I watched it, but Sterek stole my heart. I was very into the series, to the point that I watched Season 3B in one night because I had to find out what happened. Dumb me thought it was a good idea to start a new season at 8pm at night. I stayed up through the night, and texted my friend at 6am to yell about the whole thing. And they replied that it is too early to be awake to scream about it. “What do you mean wake up and watch it. I haven’t slept yet” So yeah. Stiles is my baby, and I will protect him with my life.

4. The Untamed (2019)  My friend recommended this to a few of us during covid lockdown, and I am very glad she did. It really opened me up to a whole new world. This show had such a grip on me. To the point that I started a new side blog for it, and learnt how to make edits for it. I got to know so many incredible people through the network cos of this show. It was such a brilliant show! The plot is so intricate! It has angst and heartache and amazing costumes and stunning sets and a cast who honestly killed it. Definitely a show that I would recommend to everyone. 

5. Bad Buddy (2021-2022)  Obviously I can’t go without talking about BB here. Have you seen my blog URL? Till BB, I never watched a show as it was airing. I usually wait for it to end and then binge, or start watching it just in time for the finale. But I kept seeing gifs on tumblr and it made me want to check it out. And boy am I glad I did it. It was such a fun experience to watch it live and scream on a weekly basis. For some reason the hold that this show has on me seems to be lifelong? I have no complaints though. I am still enjoying all the BB brainrot. Pran is my baby. I have never related to a character as much as I relate to him. He is so precious to me. And this show just blends angst with humour and a touch of reality so well. I am making it my personal mission to read through every Patpran fic on AO3. This show made me want to try writing. I cannot explain how much this show means to me. A definite must-watch as well!

6. Arivaan (2019-2020)  So my sister told me that this is my kind of show and made me watch it. I started it while she was halfway through, and finished it way before her. It was right up my alley. The whole premise is about trying to identify a serial killer who has been murdering women, and leaves an origami paper crane behind. There is a police officer who manages to find these clues and tries to identify him, but the killer disappears and due to personal issues he end up leaving the force. Years later the killer is back and he somehow gets roped into it again, but his partner is now leading the case, and is finding out things that he doesn’t really want to. And I really enjoyed the way it was taken, and the I am really hoping that there will be a Season 2 for this. 

7. Paava Kadhaigal (2020)  Honestly no show has made me as mad as this has, and that is totally the point. (Although I am totally gonna be ignoring the second episode. That does not exist to me) It is an anthrological series, with 4 3 episodes touching on different hard topics/issues prevalent in society. The way it was taken , the music, THE CAST, EVERYTHING WAS BRILLIANT!! I had to pause it and just scream on twitter to release all the frustration that this brought up. Which means it really did its job well. I have not watched this series  since the first time, but trust me when I say I remember every detail because it has such a lasting impact. Especially the first and the last. I was bawling.  NOTE: This can be very highly triggering, so please do check out the synopsis before you watch it. Or feel free to hit me up with any questions, or just scream about it if you do check it out. 

8. 3 Will Be Free (2019)  Insane plot with amazing characters with so much depth. Loved that each character was so complex. There is no character that is purely good or bad, like it was so real, and you feel for them all equally. This really set a standard that no other show has reached so far. I need another series like this. And of course anyone who put Tay Tawan in funky suits gets a plus from me. Also more female characters need to have guns!!

Honorary Mentions: Mindhunter: This would have been number 8, if it wasnt cancelled!! The casting directors for this deserve all the bonuses for how creepily identical the actors look to the actual serial killers! It was so interesting to try and get into the head of the serial killers and understand why they did what they did. LOVED IT!!! Until We Meet Again: This used to be my favourite BL series until Bad Buddy took over. I loved Fluke’s effortless acting. He is brilliant. And I love the whole concept of reincarnation and finding you soulmate. And this did it so well with the angst and touch of humour and romance. And of course TeamWin stole my heart. 

Theory Of Love: Honestly, wasn’t that much of a fan the first time I watched it. But the redemption arc is so goood, that I felt so much for Khai the second time I watched it. That train station scene just lives in my head. So for rewatch factor, this deserves a honorary mention.

The Good Place, Word Of Honor, We Best Love, Stranger Things, RE:Mind

Tagging: @highwarlockkareena , @eohachu , @markpakin , @fangrui , @fuujiikaze , @gege @seawherethesunsets @gaiamochi (no pressure)

[thegayneurodivergentagenda]

Matilda (by Harry Styles) × Bad Buddy The Series

You were riding your bike to the sound of "It's No Big Deal"

And you're trying to lift off the ground on those old two wheels

Nothing about the way that you were treated ever seemed especially alarming 'til now

So you tie up your hair and you smile like it's no big deal

Matilda, you talk of the pain like it's all alright

But I know that you feel like a piece of you's dead inside

You showed me a power that is strong enough to bring sun to the darkest days

It's none of my business, but it's just been on my mind

You're just in time, make your tea and your toast

You framed all your posters and dyed your clothes,

You don't have to go

You don't have to go home

Oh, there's a long way to go

I don't believe that time will change your mind

In other words, I know they won't hurt you anymore as long as you can let them go

You can let it go

You can throw a party full of everyone you know

You can start a family who will always show you love.

You don't have to be sorry for doing it on your own

You don't have to be sorry, no

Matilda (by Harry Styles) × Bad Buddy The Series

BadBuddy× my Playlist 9/n

[idletype]

was tagged by @petrichoraline to post my receiptify, thank you petri!! my life is just listening to every existing version of just being friendly and also the city cover. bodybag is on there because it's on both my patpran and soundwin playlists ^_^

i'm not sure who has spotify and who doesn't so anyone who would like to can do this and pls tag me!

[thewholedamnboulangerie]

song 6 😝😝 okayy 14 17 and your fave number

alinaaaa hiiiiiii i'm braiding lil flowers into your hair!!! 🥰🌸✨

6) Why Don't You Stay by Jeff Satur, pardon, I mean, Why Don't You Fucking Stay by Fucking "Jeff" Satur I heard all the cool kids have this as number 6 on their spotify wrapped actually 🥰😘

14) Love Score by Sizzy & Nanon this is the lil song that PatPran sing along to in the car in ep 8 of Bad Buddy!! I first watched this ep like 2 days after finding this song on spotify (not knowing that it was in the show), and then when it popped up in the show in a super cute scene I was so delighted that I had to listen to it MANY more times to recreate the JOY! and then I listened to it a ton more times bc it's a fucking BOP

17) Physical by Dua Lipa this one is 100% Talia's fault, it was on her KinnPorsche playlist (she was so right for that) which I listened to A LOT this year, oddly enough

8) Ost Ninto Shostya (On Your Knees) by Lorne Balfe Lorne Balfe was my top artist this year solely bc of the Wheel of Time OST, which absolutely fucking slays in its entirety and which has therefore been on repeat all year, and this is THEEEEE number one banger from the entire tracklist. first of all it contains the power to fend off an entire army and secondly the title is a reference to season 1's lesbian sex scene like literally WHAT could be better!!!!

[fiercynn]

As it usually happens on here, we become fans of things by osmosis if we didn't seek it out for ourselves. So I've been following you for a bit and I have finally crossed the threshold from "this person I follow really loves this media and I love seeing their love for it on my dash, so glad they're having fun" over to "I wanna have fun, too." And that's all thanx to @thatgothsamurai's photobooth art.

So, I hope you can guide me on where I should start with patpran and inkpa, and the rest. Like, are they on separate shows that crossover? A spinoff? Like, what's going on, where do I start, how do I watch. Like you, I'm in the US. Any suggestions are appreciated.

AAAAAAAH THIS MAKES ME SO HAPPY and thank u @thatgothsamurai for the amazing fanart as always (the photobooth fanart in question, a classic in the fandom)

okay so both patpran and inkpa are canon pairings from the thai bl bad buddy and its related special episodes! all are produced by the thai production company gmmtv.

the show and all related episodes are available to watch on youtube with english subtitles - i'll link to relevant playlists.

THE MAIN SHOW: BAD BUDDY THE SERIES

directed by "aof" noppharnach chaiyahwimhon (who is gay himself), and starring "nanon" korapat kirdpan as pran, and "ohm" pawat chittsawangdee as pat. the original show is twelve episodes, which aired from october 2021 to january 2022. i watched it for the first time in february 2022 and have not known peace every since

the premise is that pat and pran, who have lived next door to each other since birth, have been rivals all their lives because their families hate each other. after pran's sent off to boarding school for three years, they are unexpectedly reunited at university - where they find that their friend groups are also enemies, so they have to keep up the pretense of hating each other. but of course they fall in love instead!

the main story is about patpran, but inkpa is a canon side pairing featuring "love" pattranite limpatiyakorn as pa, pat's younger sister, and "milk" pansa vosbein as ink, a classmate of pat and pran's. though they get less screentime, i still think they have a delightful romantic arc themselves!

SPECIAL EPISODES

zero photography: an inkpa special episode that is set after the main show. directed by "tee" bundit sintanaparadee, whom i don't know much about, and aired in august 2022

our skyy x bad buddy x a tale of thousand stars: so our skyy 2 was an anthology of special episodes released between april and june 2023 for a bunch of different gmmtv bls. each show was supposed to have two special eps for their characters, but since two shows directed by p'aof were getting special eps (the other one being a tale of thousand stars, also a delightful show), he decided to use four episodes as a crossover of the two shows. in the bad buddy timeline, these eps take place during a timeskip that happens in the original show between episodes 11 and 12, and features patpran but has a few great inkpa appearances too. you don't really need to have seen atots to understand the eps, i don't think? but they probably are more enjoyable if you have haha

EXTRAS

"just friend" music video: nanon sings two songs on the bad buddy soundtrack, and ohm sings one for our skyy 2, all of which have music videos, but i'm linking to this song of nanon's particularly because the music video its own story unrelated to the show at all! it's very cute and is basically an au where they are employees at the same hotel (and in love of course)

23.5 degrees the series: this is not technically related to bad buddy, but milk and love are going to be starring in gmmtv's first full-length gl, 23.5 degrees, which will be directed by "fon" kanittha kwunyoo (who i believe is a lesbian)! thai gls are just starting to get attention and backing by the major tv studios, and milklove's known chemistry from playing inkpa, as well as an exciting supporting cast and director, are making everyone super excited for this

there are also TONS of behind-the-scenes and making-of extras if you get into the show but i figured this was enough to start with :D

let me know if you have questions about any of this! i'm not sure how familiar you are with thai media or fandoms, so definitely happy to share/explain more as would be helpful! <3

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the pain and agony that enters my body every time i listen to my patpran playlist