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If New can sneak in an Ohm Pawat and Sammy spot in Perfect 10 Liners a member of every show he’s ever directed will be in this show.

Of the main and supporting cast, only 9 of the 26 cast members who film regularly have never had a project with New before. And two of those nine are set to film with him again.

I’m fairly certain the Thai BL world can only ever have maybe two degrees of separation from New Siwaj at this point.

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I am so so late to this party, but I just found this podcast and ran to listen to this episode. So great, I resonated with the whole conversation so much and I loved hearing from seasoned horror fans (the recommendations at the end were just what I needed).

Thought I'd send a recommendation your way if your interested in getting more insight into Thai horror as a genre: Mary Jane Ainslie's book Contemporary Thai Horror Film. It just came out last year so it might be hard to come by cheap, but if you can get access it's a really informative read. It has some great overview of different genre expectations and covers various shifts including the tension between class dynamics in both narrative and form.

It particularly made me think of a comparison you made during the podcast to haunted house horror. Because Thai horror has a really established tradition of supernatural or Nang Phi tales that are different from more western style slashers (Nang Sayong Kwan or terror films). It's interesting that as much as the early episodes throw established slasher tropes our way only to subvert being placed in that genre, these episodes also are throwing recognizable haunting tropes our way as well with the story of the cult and then Tee and Top's fear of it being a ghost (Top even specifically says "Thai ghosts can do anything). I can't speak for Thai viewers, but it strikes me as interesting that western fans prioritized the slasher label even early on over supernatural/haunting possibilities which are as much gestured to as the slasher tropes. In either case, I love how the show sets up genre expectations before deliberately shifting into the psychological horror aspects through the flashbacks, making us question all our assumptions, including those about genre.

In this episode we discussed Dead Friend Forever, a series that caused a surprising amount of discourse as the youths call it. Especially over that ending. 

Some questions we wanted to ask were: is DFF a slasher? Why or why not? If not a slasher what type of horror is DFF? Where the concepts of catharsis vs retribution fall in horror. Tee's redemption and what horror themes it represented. And what were some fandom theories that just...were unrealistic. 

If you want to know more about the topics we discussed in our episode on Dead Friends Forever check out some of the links below! 

Further Reading:  

‘Scream’: not your average horror movie

The 13 Key Elements of a Slasher Movie

The psychos down the street

Who is Junji Ito?

The ‘Midsommar’ Ending Explained

Midsommar: The Horrors of White Sympathy

When Horror Was Cathartic

AN INTERVIEW WITH THE ANTS PLAYWRIGHT RAMIZ MONSEF

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hell yeah

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I feel cheated. no one on Reddit told me that tumblr is a serotonin factory. Keep liking and reblogging my posts please thanks

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Jan 28, 2025 | Perth Nakhun

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Quickly coming back to the story of two color-coded girls in love: Megumi, an angel, and her trash girlfriend.

I want to know hy No-Name likes to wait for Megumi where the trash is because this must be telling us something about her and the past she is actively hiding from Megumi.

But I think both of them are living in a prison of their pasts because the show keeps showing them in tight spaces and now behind bars.

The show also emphasizes Megumi superiority to No-Name by making her higher than No-Name.

Even when they are sitting.

But even though they are color-coded,

No-Name keeps wearing Megumi's clothes.

So maybe they have a lot more in common than being prisoners to their past?

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Background Noise - Futtara Doshaburi

I liked that right after returning the umbrellas to the restaurant, the guys had to take refuge in a nearby building to escape from the unexpected rain.

And it gave a peak into their reactions when the unexpected happens. Hagiwara Kazuakia laughs. He finds joy in the break of monotony, but Nakarai Sei pauses and assesses.

Then he explores.

And while he reflects on the pieces and his placement with them,

Hagiwara Kazuakia gets far more personal with the art and inserts his physical presence in the art.

This was also seen in their responses to the "two types of women" question since Hagiwara Kazuakia, who is sexually frustrated with his girlfriend, saw women as objects to be fucked or not fucked, and Nakarai Sei, who is sexually attracted to men, viewed women as an aesthetic who either put on makeup in front of others or didn't.

The building they enter is an actual gallery, and a majority of the artwork is Akio Omori's, but without knowing the artist's intentions, his artwork seems to rest in a space of spirituality and the feminine, which is an interesting theme for these two to journey through together.

The flowers, which are viewed as feminine object, have some spiritual correlation. The translation of the first dark flower, which could be incorrect, is "Devil's Thoughts" and it seems to have dragon-like wings and thorns. The second red flower with its gold butterfly-like wings that Nakarai Sei closely looked at was titled "Angel's Face," so we have the abstract (thought) and the physical (face), but also good and evil.

And this dichotomy runs throughout the pieces, yet it's more of a question of the complexity of two supposedly different ideas since both flowers are still beautiful and tempting, which we also see with the celestial bodies.

Red is normally the color associated with the devil and aggression. But also love, and the red figure with its gold wings has the halo. It's the angel.

While the blue and white figure, which are normally colors associated with purity and heaven, has the dragon wings and the spiked tail. It is the devil.

Then we come to the grand piece that resides in another space separated from the rest.

As a Catholic, I immediately saw La Virgen.

But I also noted the shaped of the statue because it looks like a vulva.

And it wouldn't be the first time I saw a vulva in art when that was never the artist's intention (hello, Georgia O'Keeffe, we meet again!), but I do think it adds to the way each man reacts to the piece since they have already walked through a room that has planted the foundation for complex thought since the piece is about a devout woman who ascends to heaven while her chest is partially exposed. The piece is about heaven/God/good, and although the bare chest isn't sexual, there is something about the shape of the statue and the exposure that makes it feel a little tempting, like the flowers.

Hagiwara Kazuakia, the one who enjoys the unexpected, the one who gets closer to the art, the one who inserts himself into the art, sees it as a female statue that reminds him of his sexual frustrations. But Nakarai Sei, the one who pauses and reflects, the one who keeps his distance, the one who thinks about himself in relation to the art, sees it as a wooden statue which, although exposed, can't decide if the statue is obscene or sad. It's the "two type of women" question all over again.

Because just like Fujisawa Kazuaki stated, "no matter what I pick, it will apply to men too. Traits that befit women or men don't really exist," so the men aren't simply looking at art that is nestled in the complex relationship between the feminine and spiritual, but they are examining themselves.

Then the rain stops.

In their relationships, the men dream about the past and the future, but only question the present with each other. Hagiwara Kazuakia hates that he can hear the rain in his apartment because it reminds him of what he once had with his girlfriend. He is stuck in the same cycle of replaying the past.

Nakarai Sei hates that he cannot hear the ran in his apartment because it reminds him of how alone he is and what he will never have. He is stuck in a prison he refuses to leave.

And yet Nakarai Sei stood in the rain outside of the restaurant and Hagiwara Kazuakia tried to provide him shelter from the rain. The past and future collided in the present.

So when they arrived on the gallery's steps after returning the umbrellas, Nakarai Sei went inside to hide from the rain, and Hagiwara Kazuakia laughed as he enjoyed the surprise of it.

The art is them. Neither is simply one thing. They are complex. But they also a pair. We have the angel with its spiked tail and the devil with the halo. We have the winged flowers. We have a man who hates the rain yet laughs when it does rain and one who misses the rain yet hides when it does rain. And I think that is why they have this yin and yang quality to them. They see things differently, yet neither is fully right or wrong. They are the celestial figures. They are the statue. They are frustration and sadness. But they need the other one so they can understand that.

They are getting to know themselves by understanding the other. They want BOTH intimacy and sex, but they are figuring that out as they ask more questions of the other since for the first time they are focusing on the present, so their responses to finding out that their pen pal is right next to them after Hagiwara Kazuakia sends the email about the rain noise app is the same response they had when it rained. Nakarai Sei sits in it and thinks it over, and Hagiwara Kazuakia laughs. Because it's the unexpected.

And for two men who keep going through the motions of what is expected of them, they need the other one to shake up their expectations of what is right, what is good, what it is be a man

And what it means to love.

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12 frames of animation I made using knitting! I spent a long time on this and I’m so pleased with the results, really looking forward to trying more ‘yarnimation’ in the future. Process video out now too! 🐑

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I just think if I was lost in the desert for even a couple hours let alone days I would have thought of a name for my horse

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@toastofthetrashfire tagged me in this so better late than never!! Thank you for the tag! 🥰

Share my lock screen, the last song I listened to, and the last movie I watched.

Shane's post was so concise and organized but I don't know how to make mine like that, sorry guys!

Lock screen Maybe I'm a little self-centered but I like having my lock screen be a photo of myself from a trip of mine. It reminds me of good times and makes me look forward to the next adventure. This is my current lock screen, which is me in Thailand after having climbed all over Pai canyon and gotten my dress incredibly dirty. Worth it though!

Last song If you need your mind blown by a piano piece, this is it!!

Last movie This movie was wild! But also all I expected from an indie movie. There's nothing Hollywood about this movie, just a lot of raw truths being delivered to you through a beautiful art piece. 10/10 would recommend

Tagging @nevermindsuga, @emberfaye, @theflagscene, @danniwit and @lazzarella though as always, no pressure!

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just my daily job of posting kenshin and junsei’s daily photoshoots.