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If Tumblr shuts down you can find me on the rooftop of Chana City Residence. 💖

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Oh wow. The stars aligned. I've long had it in my head that all the rugby in Bad Buddy really IS standing in for American football:

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He kissed me, and grabbed my hair in a way that made me understand the difference between rugby and football. - Alex Claremont-Diaz (Red White & Royal Blue)

PatPran did it first.

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Just finished watching ‘Bad Buddy’ EP 1 for the first time… I regret not watching it sooner… Loved every second of this <3

I think you guys would probably be jealous of me for getting to experience this series for the first that too in 2025 but I’m gonna be one of you after 11 more episodes.

Ps- if you wanna let me know anything about the show/ warnings pls comment without giving away any spoilers.

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The epitome–

Your friends watching something for the first time and getting to that scene VS you, the knower.

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We cordially invite you to Pat's Birthday Bash!

Okay super sleuths, you got me! I have been planning something: A BIG BIRTHDAY BASH!

As you all know, Pat's birthday is in just one month's time and I want to invite you all to celebrate!

On 23rd April, let's flood the dash!

We're calling on all Pat enthusiasts to add a little homage to the dash this 23rd April.

We're looking for any and all fandom creation:

metaposts

fanedits

fanart

gif sets

fanfic

collages

etc.!

Basically, anything that's focused on our number one green flag!

And of course we're not missing out Pran!

Now, we were never given any exact dates on the Pran's birthday but we know it must have been close so we're planning his celebration for 23rd May!

If you want to jump on in and join us for one or both, just sign up with the form to let us know you're interested!

We'll be using the form to track who might be interested in the event but also send out email encouragement and reminders to those who want to be involved!

You don't have to sign up if you still want to me involved but if you'd like the encouragement then please do! We'll have the form open until the 16th April :)

We'll be posting more info about the event as the next days go as well, so if you're interested, follow and keep an eye out for up dates!

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Bad Buddy fandom, remember this? 😭

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my own personal contender for this is:

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Bad Buddy Episode 12

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When the narrative dooms you, simply laugh in its face and go 'nahhh'

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a little Nong Nao example postcard for the @mailed-it exchange :D

I was entertaining myself the other week thinking about all the things Nong Nao's been subjected to, and then came up with this little collage idea. going thru the show and collecting some of my favorite (and most memorable!) PatPran ridiculousness for the screencaps in here was v fun hehe.

Just as a reminder, fandom nominations for the exchange are still open through Thursday! If you're interested, you can fill out the nominations form here (and see the current nominations here) :D

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“Being with you, already feels like freedom”

- Bad Buddy, episode 11, 2022

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Type of Queer: MLM, WLW

Additional Info: "This was a gamechanger. One of the best first kisses in television history. If you don't know about Bad Buddy you're missing out"

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👀 OMG. 😍 It's The Guitar from Bad Buddy. That Pran left behind, and Pat saved and that they wrote Just Friend? on and that Pran wrote Our Song with...

Well spotted @airenyah! THIS is how you know a dyed-in-the-wool Bad Buddy fan. 😂

We see Pran's PP logo on the headstock and all the emotions come whooshing back, like we never left – the beach, Uncle Tong's house, Uncle Yod's bar, Pran's bedroom across the balconies, their student apartment corridor, the music room at Prasertsilpwittaya School...

The Bad Buddy Guitar lives on! 💖

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hnggggggggggggggggg it's the patpran guitar 😭😭😭😭😭

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I think the softest lesson Bad Buddy taught me was that love does not have to feel like a revolution. I don't need to scream my love on the rooftops or wave it in front of anybody's face. I can love sitting on my balcony, surrounded by candles, wearing my softest shirt and making eyes at the love of my life. My love does not have to be loud for it to be real.

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Bad Buddy Tumblr, can y'all help me out? I've been trying to find the music over a couple scenes and I haven't been able to! I've tried the Spotify playlists I could find, with no luck. So if anyone knows what pieces play over Pat's audition speech in ep 7 and Pran's confrontation with Dissaya in ep 10, please lmk

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A BAD BUDDY PARALLEL I MISSED – EVERY DING WILL HAVE ITS DONG

I'm currently following @‌impala124 and @‌troubled-mind on their respective journeys liveblogging as they watch BBS, and it's so much fun tracking newbies to Bad Buddy getting to know it for the first time: 🥰

(I'm not going to tag them in this post though, just in case my write-up below turns out to have spoilery reveals that mar their first watch. 😊)

So Bad Buddy (for me, at least) is one of the foundational, sacred texts of the BL experience (commenting on and righting the wrongs of BLs that had gone on before) and I hope it continues to inform every BL fan's journey. 🤩

Anyway, following the liveblogs highlighted a parallel that I'd missed, and it was so lovely to be surprised again when I had thought BBS could hold no more surprises… 😍

When Pat grabs a clean shirt from Pa's laundry delivery and tosses it to Pran at Ep.1 [3‌/4] 2.19, this is a little foreshadowing moment that gets its callback at Ep.4 [4/4] 10.51:

(top) Bad Buddy Ep.1 [3‌/4] 2.19 – Pat tosses a clean shirt to Pran after rescuing him from the Engine gang, saying "Take it"; (bottom) Bad Buddy Ep.4 [4/4] 10.51 – with another "Take it", Pran tosses his personally-scented Friend/Unfriend t-shirt to a shirtless Pat, after rescuing him from Keyless Night 2 out in the corridor

On one level you can read the second shirt toss as Pran diligently keeping score in their neverending rivalry – as in "You tossed me a shirt once, and now I'm returning you the favor so I don't owe you anything" (noting from Ep.2 [4/4] 10.22 that – in the constant back-and-forth ding-dong of their rivalry – any ding not donged back between the two means the competition is still in play, at least until Ep.7's Bet Era™ put a seeming end to their non-stop scorekeeping).

But on another level the exchange of shirts also shows the care and concern each has for the other, even while each act of kindness is cloaked with antagonism on the surface.

In Ep.4 Pran tosses Pat a shirt, ostensibly unwashed to show he doesn't care – but it doesn't hide the fact that he's gifting a grateful Pat with warmth, shelter and comfort (especially since Puppy Pat gets all horny for undiluted eau de Pran – eau de Pran faim? 🤣).

In Ep.1 Pat tosses Pran a shirt ostensibly because he doesn't want Dissaya to see evidence of a fight and blame him for it, while Pran stomps away all grinchy and ungrateful. But we now know that they were probably just following their ages-old playbook of acting out a bitter rivalry when in front of an audience (Pa in this case).

And Pat avoiding blame from Dissaya isn't the same as redeeming himself in her eyes (it wouldn't change a thing about her opinion of him), so his reasoning seems more like an excuse to help Pran out (and maybe save him from a scolding by Bad Buddy's Tiger Mom too). But I guess this should be obvious to all.

The idea of Pran putting on Pat's shirt in Ep.1, and Pat putting on Pran's shirt in Ep.4, also foreshadows Episode 8 when each tries to inhabit the other's perspective to see things from his faen's point-of-view in their newly-confirmed couplehood:

(above, left) Bad Buddy Ep.5 [1‌/4] 1.29; (above, right) Bad Buddy Ep.8 [1‌/4] 1.36 – in Ep.5's opening scene Pat wakes up and mistakes the smell of cooking for a fire, while it is Pran who does that in Ep.8 (although I don't think that's Pat's shirt he's wearing); still, when read together these two scenes signal that Ep.8 will be switching up the boys' perspectives

Also in Ep. 8, Pat ripping off the same Friend/Unfriend t-shirt after their backstage spat hits especially hard when we circle back to Ep.4 and see how he first put it on with such appreciative relish:

(top) Bad Buddy Ep.4 [4/4] 11.02 – Pat's first time getting acquainted with Pran's Friend/Unfriend t-shirt; (bottom) Bad Buddy Ep.8 [4/4] 2.45 – Pat strips off Pran's t‑shirt in a huff, during their backstage blow-out

Remembering also PatPran's Ep.5 confrontation under the white arches at Ep.5 [1‌/4] 7.43 (which foreshadowed Ep.8's backstage argument over the same t-shirt) we can now see that BBS was diligently establishing how important wearing that t-shirt was to Pat, and how wrenching it must have been for him to doff it and lay himself bare in Ep.8. 😥

And then we see Pran pass the t-shirt back to Pat at their reconciliation behind the red curtain, calling back to their two shirt exchanges in Episodes 1 and 4:

(above) Bad Buddy Ep.8 [4/4] 6.29 – an apologetic Pran hands the Friend/Unfriend t‑shirt (together with a conciliatory bottle of water) back to Pat, reaching across the visual barriers of backstage scaffolding that seems to want to cage and separate them just like the constraining circumstances of their lives

In all of this, the ding-dong of shirts between the two boys is a metaphor for the constant back-and-forth competition between them, and also how each gives a bit of himself to the other during their journey to couplehood in Bad Buddy.

Ep.1's shirt toss is also an example of how so many little throwaway lines or narrative details in the early episodes will get their own parallels or callbacks later on.

A couple of examples:

Pa turning up in the family car with Pat's clean laundry plays into her early depiction as nothing more than a loser side character, existing only to further Pat's narrative with no agency of her own – until Director Aof and his writers switch out her portrayal later on, launching her on her own story arc and acing the Bechdel test in the process.

(above) Two views of Pa in a car (calling out to her Dr. Seuss t-shirt in the first? 🤣) – Ep.1 [3/4] 1.50 on the left during her Loser Era™, and Ep.7 [1/4] 2.43 on the right after her glow-up and promotion from stereotypical plot device to a fleshed-out character with (at least some) growth and development

The laundry itself is a launchpad for Pat's request at Ep.3 [3‌/4] 5.15 – "Do the laundry for me", which is a sign of his cluelessness at reading his innermost desires. There in Ep.3's music store he thinks he's liking the smell of clean laundry, when it's actually Pran's own personal scent that's giving him butterflies:

(above) Bad Buddy Ep.3 [3‌/4] 5.07 – Pat inhaling all he can of Pran in the music store

And of course Pat's request for Pran to do his laundry is a set-up that allows Pran the opportunity for some zingy comebacks later, at Ep.3 [3‌/4] 5.46 when he sarcastically says he's doing the laundry while sketching ideas for the bus-stop redesign, as well as Ep.9 [2/4] 4.16 when he says he's doing the laundry in response to Pat's question "Washing the dishes?" (itself an innuendo-laden remark – see the note on laang jaan buried within this write-up):

(above left) Bad Buddy Ep.3 [3‌/4] 5.46 – Pran tells Pat he's doing laundry while sketching designs for the bus-stop, in response to Pat's question "What are you doing?"; (above right) Bad Buddy Ep.9 [2/4] 4.16 – Pran tells Pat he's doing laundry, in response to Pat's question "Washing the dishes?"

The exchange of shirts is just a nice little detail, not hugely significant, and yet it ties into the bigger picture with an astonishing consistency. Every time you hear a bell ring in BBS, you betcha there'll be a corresponding echo sometime later.

As it is with Pat and Pran, in Bad Buddy every ding will have its dong! 🤣

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Bad Buddy Ep 5

My thoughts on Ep 1 | Ep 2 | Ep 3 | Ep 4

Me, at the end of this episode:

Well, @starryalpacasstuff, I understand why you were excited for me to get to this episode, because it was a lot. So, here we go:

Pat definitely isn't beating the puppy allegations with his propensity for sniffing everything.

Don't be a lying liar now, Pran; you think Pat's face is the epitome of cuteness. I know they are going to hurt me because they opened this episode with this domesticity.

Ok, I need 3 business days to process my feelings about Pran's doodles of their interactions. Pran, my beloved, is a top-tier yearner.

"There's nothing wrong with rewearing clothes." Pat is a sustainability king.

Ink, are you a PatPran shipper? If so, please join Pa, who is waiting for you in the corner with snacks.

Pat, tell me you didn't bring Ink to the place where you had your first date with Pran. You did? The betrayal! I guess I'll have to forgive you because you yourself weren't aware that you were on a date with Pran.

Pa's in the house, guys. Reason has entered the chat. I love that she encourages him to know if his feelings for Ink are genuine or not.

I hope we get to see more of Ink and Pa together, even if it's just them being friends.

Oh, this is interesting. Pat is subconsciously realizing that he sees Pran in a different light. What exactly? He doesn't know. I do feel bad for my confused son, though.

Pran saw Pat and Ink on their date at the mall. Why is the world conspiring against my boy to only cause him pain?

So, we're going the jealousy route now, aren't we?

Not Pat asking Pran if Wai ever spent the night in the dorm 💀💀. And Pran, totally unaware of Pat's emotional turmoil, answered that Wai in fact did sleep right where Pat did.

These flashbacks are killing me. Pran was really soft-launching a confession by saying that he wanted to compose a song that conveys the sense of 'born to be together.' AHHHHHHHH.

Something about Pat asking Pran if he would like him if Pran were Ink and Pa telling Pat that she would confess her feelings to Ink if she were Pat is making me wanna chew on glass.

Pran asking Pat if Ink is at the contest venue and saying that she should be there to support Pran😭😭😭😭.

NO. HE DID NOT. Pran, bestie, tell me you didn't belt out the song that you wrote with your high school 'friend' in a competition against him. You did! Is it petty? Maybe. Petty Pran is in the house and I AM LIVING. I support him 100 percent.

Ink, the woman that you are!!! "You don't seem to be afraid of heartbreak." She was spitting nothing but facts here. Now that Pat knows where he and Ink stand, I hope she remains being a great friend to him because my boy's a mess, and he can use all the help he can get while sorting out his romantic feelings for Pran. I don't think his friends are going to be of any help in this matter. He has Pa, but I think Ink can be more objective when it comes to Pran.

Pat is jealous that his 'friendship' with Pran is a secret.

Pat really went from saying, "I'm not your wife," to acting like a jilted wife in this episode.

Pran, the philosopher that you are. I have half a mind to write about his "Nothing means nothing" to Wai regarding his relationship with Pat.

I'm not really feeling Wai here, guys. Pran asked him to not interfere, but why did he still hit Pat? Thank God that Pran, haver of all brain cells, told him to go home.

Was it only in Ep 2 that Pat wanted to meet the person who was crushing on him on the rooftop? We sure came a long way from there.

Pat is very open about his feelings. He doesn't know why he is feeling what he is feeling, but he still is trying to explain them to Pran.

If we're not enemies, do you think we can be friends? Why? Do you want us to be friends? No.

Can I get this etched onto my soul? Please and thank you.

THE KISS. God, the emotional weight it carried!! Their reactions after they part from the kiss are very telling—Pat has a smile on his face, and Pran is crying and not with joy. After Pran leaves him alone on the rooftop, I think it dawned on Pat as to what all just happened.

Side note on jealousy vs. envy:

Jealousy: to get upset and angry because someone you love seems interested in another person. Envy: to wish that you had something that another person has.

Pat is jealous when he sees Pran and Wai together. Pran, on the other hand, was envious of the person who was on the receiving end of Pat's affections. Jealousy wasn't what Pran had experienced till now when it came to Pat, because he never imagined that he had a chance with him. This is where we see the differences in their personalities and the reason for Pran, with tears down his cheeks, leaving Pat behind on the rooftop after their kiss. Pran has made peace with the fact that he'll be a yearner forever where Pat is concerned. Pat, my beloved, is a bit impulsive and wants to throw caution to the wind and see where things land, unlike Pran, who is a planner and enjoys structure and order in his life. Just because Pran had feelings for Pat for all these years doesn't mean that he thought about how he would deal with them if they were reciprocated. Classic yearner mindset!!

Tagging the usual suspects: @shortpplfedup, @incandescentflower, @starryalpacasstuff, @7nessasaryevils, @greenteadumplings, @grapejuicegay, @madworld-bbs, @usodeshou. If anyone wishes to be tagged in the future, let me know.

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Bad Buddy Ep 3

My thoughts on Ep 1 | Ep 2

Me, at the end of this episode:

WOW. So, Pat very nonchalantly cut up his student ID card to make the most handsome guitar pick for Pran. Pat is such a charmer.

Pat saying, "I'm your lucky charm," to Pran while Pran believes that he brings bad luck to Pat. Let me sit with this for a second.

When Pat, referring to himself, said that "A jinx can't be this hot," Pran makes a face that reads like, Well, you clearly haven't met yourself. Reiterating that Pat is a charmer. An oblivious one but a charmer nonetheless. The flirting—God, this is what is missing in the current shows. Get these writers into the writing room again ASAP!!!

Now, Pat really didn't need to stand like that (I don't know how to say it other than perpendicularly); he could've stood facing the door like everyone else in the elevator. Not my boy, though. Never change, Pat!!

Pat coming in clutch with the presentation. Okay, I see a pattern of Pran losing all hope in a situation and Pat coming in to save the day and not at all concerned with taking credit.

Pat kept Pran's guitar WITH HIM. He didn't know if they would ever cross paths again, but he still did.

Pran is worried about calling it even with Pat because he believes that he'll be forgotten and Pat will move on with his life.

Not Pran looking at the watch that he reset after Pat leaves him in the hallway after giving him back the guitar.

It's fascinating how Pat can't offer help to others directly. It's always under the pretense of something else.

Pat and Pran are both class presidents in their respective faculties, but that's where the similarities end:

Pat wanted that position and was chosen by his seniors. Pran was worried about juggling this responsibility with his coursework, but since his classmates chose him, he wants to do justice to the role.

Pran is a leader who leads from the front and feels responsible for his friends actions. When the professor asks those who weren't involved in the fight to leave, he stays behind, although he had nothing to do with this fight. He even helps them in procuring the required materials and goes as far as to ask Pa for help. Pat, my beloved, isn't that concerned about his friends actions, although he's the class president. Pat feels little to no sense of duty towards his friends as their leader and is only concerned about getting kicked out of the music competition because of their shenanigans.

Neither of them is wrong for reacting the way they did; it just highlights how different they are from each other (which can be a good thing).

Pat is very passive regarding everything that's happening around him. His inaction when Wai was getting bullied by his friends highlights this. I'm sure his dad has hammered into him that the only person he should please is him, the father, and others are dispensable. His friendships certainly feel that way.

Tagging the usual suspects: @shortpplfedup @incandescentflower, @starryalpacasstuff, @7nessasaryevils, @greenteadumplings, @grapejuicegay, @madworld-bbs, @usodeshou If anyone wishes to be tagged in the future, let me know.