#the eclipse os2

[chinzhilla]

every akkayan kiss

[khaotunq]

TYPECAST: Khaotung Thanawat edition

[gennianydots]

Shit! I’m collecting pinky holds 🥹🤚🏻✋🏼

[whitnerd]

I only drew them from the waist up, but you know Aye's got a leg thrown over Akk 🐨

[sollucets]

I kinda want to ask you to write all touch prompts for akk and aye but because that is unreasonable and way too greedy, how about 26, 27 and maybe 33? thank you so so much! And congratulations on your followers!!!!

you know, i'd write them all too if i had the fuckin Time [sobs] thank you very much nonny

26 (kissing the top of their head) + 27 (pulling them closer) + 33 (tasting their smile) from this list for my lil event; right around 1k of height difference & nickname shenanigans and talking around another bigger issue!!!! set in the summer after ourskyy, rated t for 'tall'

💜

“Hand me that plate, Shortstop.” 

Akk does, but not without making sure to splash Aye with the water running off of it. “We’ve been over this." They have, although it's been a while since Aye had first tried it in the tent. "That’s your name.” 

With a little yelp, Aye snatches the plate from his hand and sets to drying it with slightly more force than strictly necessary. The water drops stand out against the gray material of his t-shirt. “Why can’t we switch?” 

“Do you not have eyes?” Akk takes another bowl out of Aye’s mom’s sink and starts washing it with a little grin. “Grow a bit taller and we can talk.”

He expects Aye to fire back with a water attack of his own, or an insult, so when neither comes he turns to look at his boyfriend in faint surprise. Aye is giving the plate an undeservedly contemplative look, lips pursed. It’s very cute. Akk splashes him again. 

“Akk,” snaps Aye, his nose going all scrunched the way it does when he’s actually annoyed. 

“Aye,” Akk answers, grin reaching all the way up to his eyes. 

Aye stares for a long second, then softens all at once, mouth curving up in turn. He still elbows Akk in retribution before picking up his next dish, though. “So if I was taller than you, we could switch? I could be your Bigfoot.”

“If you were taller than me, I would’ve come up with a different nickname in the first place.”

“But I wouldn’t have,” Aye says decisively. “You’d have been Shortstop to me.”

Akk shoots him a sidelong look, dubious. “It's annoying, so yes, probably. In a hypothetical parallel universe where you’re taller. Why are you suddenly so obsessed with this? Don’t you call me enough things already?” 

“Do you not like it, darling?” asks Aye, all coy and playful, and it devolves from there. He doesn’t bring up the height thing again that day. 

But apparently he didn’t actually forget, because in the time following that initial conversation Aye starts taking every possible opportunity to be taller than Akk. 

It starts small, like Aye insisting Akk sit on the ground while he’s on the couch so he can reach his hair to dry it, calling him Shortstop in a tone of such overdone honeyed affection that all he can do is laugh. Or like Aye crawling into Akk’s lap so he has a height advantage when they kiss, and Akk making sure he doesn't get a chance to use any nickname at all.

Then it escalates, as things frequently do with them. Aye sits on top of the couch backrest at Akk’s house instead of on it, buys a pair of shoes with these ridiculous heel boosts, sits on Akk's desk while Akk writes his admission essays. At one point, very memorably, he gets on a table at a party they’d attended with Kan and refuses to come down until Akk has to drag him. 

Akk doesn’t mind as much as he’s pretending he does, which is something he’s found works for them with these things. It makes Aye happy to see him annoyed, so if he gets what he wants and the behavior isn’t actually that annoying, it’s a win for both of them. And it is funny, honestly, and frequently ends with Aye hanging off of him somehow. 

Still, though, after nearly two months of their summer together being intermittently marked by Aye’s new favorite running joke, something starts to nibble at the corner of Akk’s mind. It’s late summer now, and they’re running up closer to the thing they’ve barely managed to talk about: Aye’s impending departure, and his own entry into a northern university. And— well. He can’t manage that, but he might be able to manage this.

So the next time Aye makes a point of standing two stairs up in his own home to talk to Akk, he turns and looks up at him and asks, point-blank, “Does it bother you that I’m taller?” 

Aye blinks once, twice, then laughs a little. After a second, he seems to realize that Akk is honestly asking and tilts his head with an expression of mild bemusement. “No, baby. I like it, you give great hugs and have great legs. Why?”

Akk makes a sputtering noise and tries not to get derailed thinking about Aye’s feelings about his legs, which he did already know about for— various reasons. Instead, he pointedly jerks his chin at Aye, noticeably needing to tilt his head up to do so. 

“I'm just messing with you,” Aye says, reaching a hand out with a little smile. “I thought you knew.” 

“I do,” says Akk, and lets Aye take his hand and pull him one step up the stairs. It doesn’t equalize their heights; Aye’s still just a little taller like this. “But... it’s been going on a long time.”

“Yeah, I guess it has,” says Aye a little thoughtfully. “I just like seeing—” 

“—My angry face. I know.” 

Aye outright giggles at that, gently intertwining his fingers with Akk’s. “If you know, then why are you worrying about it?” 

Akk can feel his resolve failing already. He sighs. 

“I guess,” says Aye thoughtfully after a moment, “I do also like it when we… switch.” He wiggles his eyebrows and continues talking over Akk’s incoherent noise in response. “So it’s fun for me, to try and turn the little nickname thing on its head. Not that you’re cooperating.” 

“You wouldn’t like it if I cooperated,” Akk says, half-sure, and tries mostly unsuccessfully to glare up at Aye. 

“Oh, but I do,” Aye says, tugging him even closer by their twined hands and putting his other one on the back of Akk’s neck, pushing his head down enough to press a kiss to the top of it. “Just not right away. I like getting you to admit things."

There's an odd-- hesitation there, a long moment of silence. Akk looks back up, their faces close enough to kiss properly now, and sees Aye looking away from him, eyes big and preoccupied. 

“What?” Akk prompts, and when he doesn’t get an answer, adds, “Bigfoot?” 

Aye’s gaze snaps back to him, suddenly focused and intent and sparkling, and he grins. “Yeah,” he says, slowly like he’s savoring the confirmation, “That’s nice.” 

Akk leans up a little further and kisses that smile, gently and then less so when the fingers on the back of his neck tighten and pull him closer. He leans into it with a sigh and tries not to think about other things Aye might like him to admit, and instead thinks about how — it is nice, sometimes, to be the smaller one. 

[waitmyturtles]

I caught up with Our Skyy 2 x The Eclipse, episode 2, late last night. I likely won’t have time to write more about it, but I just want to say:

I love that Akk and Ayan’s relationship storyline ended wonderfully imperfectly — both physically (possible separation) and emotionally (clearly a lot of jives and vibes to be ironed out).

That was an utterly fabulous move on Golf’s end to leave their relationship so OPEN to growth, that we as viewers could really VISCERALLY imagine what the road of their relationship COULD look like — all the bumps and the smooth paths forward. We got such a deep sense of their character personalities that we can really imagine the trials and tribulations that they’ll face in their future

Genius art. And so beautifully balanced. The commentary about the pressures that we face, no matter WHAT KIND OF PERSON WE ARE — intro- or extrospective, giving or demanding — was so predictive to the roads that Golf was indicating for all their characters.

I LOVED THE OPEN-ENDEDNESS OF IT ALL. OF COURSE this epilogue would end open-ended. Because the lives of teenagers, who are about to embark fully on their adult lives, are only just beginning. No way was this an end for any of these characters— it was just the start for all of them.

[quodekash]

very important question here cos idk what to do for the next couple of weeks

[malepresentingleg]

Akk and Aye complaining about each other's sleep habits just to show how much they sleep together is something that can be so personal :')

[pigeonriot]

the wat aroace agenda is going strong

[wen-kexing-apologist]

Ask game!

3, 16, 23

3. Screenshot or description of the worst take you've seen on tumblr

I was BIG mad about some of the takes I was seeing around Our Skyy 2 x The Eclipse episodes re: characterization. 

People said that Akk’s low self esteem and feelings of inferiority would mean that he wouldn’t be sulking about Aye forgetting his birthday and would in fact expect that his boyfriend would genuinely not know when his birthday was. 

People said Aye was out of character because he is letting his boyfriend sulk instead of engaging in the emotionally intelligent communication style that he displayed during The Eclipse. 

I saw people say this was more like watching First and Khaotung than it was Akk and Ayan. 

And I disagreed big time, so much so I wrote an entire post about it. 

Here's the thing though is I don't think using real elements of a life or a relationship is problematic or perpetuates problems. In fact, I think that helps bring realism and chemistry in to the narrative and gives the actors a good rooted place to jump off from. 

But in terms of like, how they ask their actors to maintain chemistry in public events, yeah that doesn't help with the bleeding effect where people are not able to separate the actors and their dynamic from the characters and their characters’ dynamic. 

I argue it is wildly *out* of character for Akk to assume that no one would know his birthday because he has *succcccchhhhhhhhh* low self-esteem. When that is simply not true, like Akk's main tension was never his self-esteem it was the pressures he and other people put on him, his fear of disappointing people that relied on him, and his anxiety around his queerness. His self-esteem was never really called in to question here.

If people were talking about Hira from My Beautiful Man that would make infinitely more sense for characterization, that Hira thinks himself as so far below Kiyo that Kiyo would simply not know or remember his birthday. But that’s not the case here. 

Even the second point Aye is very good about getting Akk to express his feelings but it is a fucking fight most times to break through that and Akk and Aye both had a lot of competition and brattiness with each other throughout their initial interest and attraction to one another so it would track that once Akk and Aye are past this incredibly difficult and emotionally challenging part of their lives, and Akk is no longer a fucking suicide risk, and they are away from the school pressures that Aye would not be applying as critical or intentional a lens on Akk's feelings.

Also he’s trying to surprise his boyfriend …so he’s gonna let him sulk a little bit. If he didn’t know the reason why Akk was upset that would be a different story. 

Anyway, Golf really did The Most with this episode and I’m sad with how overwhelmingly negative the feedback for this episode was when it was in fact, in character, has Something To Say, and gave my war criminal and his rat bastard boyfriend back. @bengiyo was right, a lot of times when queer characters are morally dubious, the fandom loses a lot of love for queer characters.

Same thing with OS2 x BBS x ATOTS, this was a crossover *for* Phupa’s character growth. You can scroll back through my posts about Phupa and internalized homophobia to see my thoughts. 

16. you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)

Incest, implied incest, accidental incest, incest via step-siblings, incest via foster siblings, incest via adopted siblings.

23. Ship you've unwillingly come around to

I haven’t fully come around to them because I probably will never rewatch Until We Meet Again but I made the mistake of saying I did not like Korn and Intouch as a couple and @bengiyo swiftly and rightly put me in my place about them so I appreciate their dynamic and Korn as a character especially a little bit more. 

also, not a ship but the OS2 x BBS x ATOTS has made me do a full 180 on the character of Phupa! Thank you so much Aof for this story.

[chinzhilla]

if anyone needs me i'll be right here until further notice

[ropebunnykant]

we should discuss how bad aye is at darts btw

[gennianydots]

OS2 Favorite Moments with Genni: Ep 6 The Eclipse

SOME! FAVORITE!! KISSES! MOMENTS!!

Woah! Starting off ~STEAMY~! We made out A LOT in this episode. Who’s complaining? I’m certainly not. Akk deserves his kisses!

WE GOT A COUPLE MAKING OUT IN A TREE. I THINK THAT COUNTS PEOPLE.

FYI 3/3 couples recommend making out by a (some) tree(s)

Also KANTHUA MY BELOVED.

WHY DO WE LET FIRST KANAPHAN CRY? BECAUSE HE’S REALLY GOOD AT IT AND HE LOOKS BEAUTIFUL WHEN WEEPING. 😭🥲😥

Also, 🥹🥹🥹. I saw this plot point coming a mile away. Aye was never going to forget to celebrate his gorgeous boyfriend’s birthday. Surprise? Not really.

YES BOYS GET SOME 😈

👋🏼GOODBYE REASONS I’M IN THERAPY!

[on-stolen-sunbeams]

why is it cloudyyyyy

It is getting darker super rapidly though.

[airenyah]

it's the way our skyy airs right when i'm at uni 😭😭

and tomorrow i can't even watch it right after class bc i'm going straight to a rehearsal...

[bisexualboysbroadcast]

“what kind of friends keep each other company like that?” 👁️👁️ cuts to only friends episode 2