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love how the moment ao3 goes down we all start acting like housewives waiting for their husbands to come back from war

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hello everyone and welcome to the ao3 down group therapy session

the times ahead will be hard but we will get through this together

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#the untamed

mxtxnet's october event | day 31: wei wuxian

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mxtxnet's october event | day 31: wei wuxian

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I was thinking about my beloveds Prommont and suddenly I thought

Damn, poor Prom

- Your father has a sugar baby. He has you as playboyy's manager so you can take care of any problems that may arise. It seems like he doesn't loves you too much

- You meet a handsome boy by chance. You have a dom/sub relationship and you pay him (with the money you steal from your father) but it's not just sex for you, you adore that boy, but he doesn't seem to like you in that way. You like him so much that you even give him a dog mask that matches yours

- You help the cute boy to fake his suicide because he is trapped in debt and so he can escape. Also, just in case, you record a video in which it appears that a masked man killed him

- the cute boy disappears (as you planned)

- Your not brother/father's sugar baby tells you that your beloved boy has returned. You meet with him, but you notice him differently and decide to go along with him. You have sex (multiple times) with your beloved boy's substitute, who turns out to be his twin brother who wants to find out what happened to his brother. He saw the video of the masked man and you just pretend to be clueless and offer to be of help. You will still have sex with him.

- you start to really like this crazy boy and you are his emotional support

- He discovers that you were the masked person in the video just when the news comes out that his brother's body has been found and he hits you (you deserved it, that's why you don't try to defend yourself). You tell him the truth and tell him that you don't want him to think you're the bad guy.

- You want his forgiveness and you imitate romcoms to confess and ask him to forgive you. He forgives you but still doubts a little. You give him the key to your father's room and help him in his escape plan by getting him to safety. You kiss and have cute moments.

- Problem, your deranged boy ends up in trouble with your father's men and to try to stop them from killing him, you have to point a gun at him and pretend that you want to kill him. Everything goes well and you kiss in front of his friends while you have another cheesy moment

- Damn, your not brother/your father's sugar baby has killed his lover. Furthermore, your unhinged baby has a mental breakdown and you have to be there to give him some comfort but not too much, because you have to run away because your father has burned down your house. You go to the hotel where you recorded his brother's fake suicide. You hatch a plan to catch your father in a drug exchange so that justice can finally be done, but it doesn't turn out well.

- your new favorite crazy boy disappears.

His father kidnapped his two favorite boys (who are twins)!!

Prom you should burn Playboyy to ashes with your father inside, as a suggestion.

On the other hand, I don't know what to think about the fact that Nant was kidnapped in Playboyy and Prom didn't know anything????? Please don't be a traitor too.

#playboyy the series #playboyy #prom x nont #promnont #too much thinking

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y'all, it is March 1st...

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After a few days trying to assimilate episode 14 of playboyy and that "to be continued" I just thought something...

The moment when Nont meets up with the twink gang and they eat together…

...I don't know why it reminded me of The Last Supper in the sense of "one of you will betray me"?????? (I am not christian, I don't know why I remembered that image of Jesus Christ and his twelve apostles)

That was really Nont's last dinner with his friends. And the traitor is Zoey (I'm very sorry for what happened to you, but I don't like you and I hope Nont punches you)

For my mental health I need them to confirm WHEN my Playboyy Thursdays are coming back (another day is fine too, I just want my boys back)

#playboyy the series #playboyy #it's probably a crazy idea #I'm still processing info about the episode

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Me seeing the Playboyy cast saying goodbye to their characters on IG

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me: why are the pillows always so fucked up

my cat:

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The excluded tags filter on Ao3 is such a fucking lifesaver. I love it so much.

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Playboyy is about gay rights but also about gay wrongs 🤷‍♂️ and "be gay do crimes".

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for any people who aint boycotting Starbucks read that bro the coffee is shit anyways

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I honestly don't know what to expect from the final episode

what I would like most would be PromNont killing Jason and then having nasty sex covered in his blood

Naaahh im just kidding

or maybe not?

#playboyy the series #playboyy #a good ending would be Nont going to therapy #I would prefer that no one die but I think that is not possible

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It makes me a little emotional to think that there are only a few days left until Playboyy ends

It's been a while since I've been so involved with a series…

#playboyy the series #playboyy #ugly crying

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PromNont parallelism Ep 6 - 12

Different angles, lights and colors, but same kiss "interrupted" with different energies

In EP 6 we have Nont who continues investigating Nant's death by chasing the doggo man (completely useless and that leads to nothing). Here he opens up about how all this scares him, that sometimes he doesn't want to know anything more. He doesn't want to change (just as he feels that Nant has changed). When the kiss is interrupted he does not even look at Prom. He remains convinced that he is a predator and Prom is his prey whom he will be able to discard when he stops being useful to him. He doesn't recognize that he may have feelings for him.

In EP12 he is now chasing the real bad guy and has to run away with Prom to be safe. There's something about the way he looks at him after the kiss: Fragility and love perhaps? If Nont thought that he could abandon Prom and forget about him in previous episodes, I think that is no longer possible. Nont was afraid to change and now he has changed. He wanted to leave and return to his old life, but the reality is that is not going to be easy (It is impossible in my opinion), not only because of all the trauma, but also because he himself is a different person.

I hope this makes some sense, in my head it does?

#playboyy the series #playboyy #prom x nont #promnont #my beloveds #I need a happy ending for them

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idk maybe we wait till the drama is over before we do the big judging?

Because so far the drama always played with social expectations vs reality AND we constantly get evaluations and realizations from Nont summing his opinions or change of opinions up in monologues (he is one of the characters kind of representing the popular opinions at first just to learn the other side!)

You have to look at the whole drama and characters developments. not just moments because they all go through good and bad (example) phases.

Let's see where the last 2 episodes go before swinging the hammer?

Reminder: Playboyy is NOT about how the ideal world would look like but it is about how it is right NOW (in Thailand especially). Of course our characters get punished for certain sexual behaviors because that IS how society reacts. Part of the characters even represent some of those stances now and then as example. And us audience feeling bad about it is the goal. Also I think it is very well established that Captain is an ass with the worst morals sometimes. Of course we are not supposed to take his opinions and actions as valid life lessons or message even. We are supposed to dislike him (literally the cast says he is annoying and hate-able).

PLUS very important, a misunderstanding I feel happens with some dramas interpretation: sex positivity does not mean to ignore issues that come with sex and pretend as if there were none... But is especially also about talking OPENLY about those things as well as sexual freedom. There are certain possible dangers of working in the sex industry or if you constantly sleep with different people you don't even know who they are.

(bear with me a lot of rambling ahead about topics I have seen here and there the past weeks)

Playboyy is literally about what Nont says in the fist minutes of episode 1

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(* "can create problems" might be a better wording here in the context. basically "sex is more than just some nasty business" and "sex causes problems sometimes" are two things that coexist)

A lot of the plot is Nonts POV which so far had the theme of Nonts discovery of the variety of sex, human feelings and relationships. GOOD and BAD. As well as the dark side of the sex industry (+ drug and mafia connections). He knew nothing about this world and was / still is very judgy of certain things... like the whole doggo video was about him thinking it's murder when it was actually kink play at the end, which he never considered (that's what I mean with expectation vs reality). The treatment of sex worker (btw intentional of the drama that we see both sides here! Please DON'T ignore that in your judgement of what the drama is telling!), the harsh way he judges Nants drug addiction.

aaand all that combined with these 6 categories for each pairing they introduced via one of Nonts monologues as well:

"Mutualism, Protocooperation, Commensalism, Parasitism, Competition, Predation" (btw not set in stone, they can grow out of these)

Do you guys remember that "Y-Destiny" (same director) was based on the week days characteristics and superstition in Thailand? I feel like Playboyy is a bit similar to Y-Destiny just with these relationship categories.

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Here just some of the things I remember characters said in response to the happenings in the drama or despite the things happening in the drama (which are mainly based on real life issues I remind you)

on the society AND some characters judging virginity:

(Nants downward spiral only happened because he got coerced into losing his virginity to strangers in an industry you shouldn't go in naive. Meaning he wasn't ready for it and stumbled into things just to prove it to his judgy friends)

ignorance in the LGBTq community (is a thing obviously, see trans & queer exclusionists as worst example)

(this statement was about their physical appearance and age. But is by the only 2 characters who wear support trans and 'fuck gender norms' message shirts)

sex as a taboo topic in society:

the whole sex tape issue:

We have Puen calling Captain out on his bs. We see everyone suffering the consequences of leaked sex tapes. As well as the victims of it but also Captain himself (boy just has no self reflection abilities). But also the question on WHY leaked sex tapes are such a big deal (sex as taboo topic) that someone loses their whole career over simply just bein caught having sex. Making sex tapes such a good blackmail tool as well...

the "sex worker get treated like trash" issue:

again, yes that's the point of showing something like this as real life issues. You can't take Captain, First or even Nonts statements as "this is the shows statement" when they are all portrayed as morally grey till morally twisted even. AND we still have this whole big plot point of Aob and Puen AND Phob constantly showing and talking about the issues they have to deal with as sex workers. (+ the Soong, Teena, Jump at the beginning saying it wouldn't be that bad of a job under better circumstances, if their boss wasn't so horrible. again not just a black and white image here). THIS TOO is part of the show and it's message, which weights way more than Nont calling Puen "that sex worker" or whatever (maybe he doesn't even know his name). Nont is pissy and biased of that whole topic and specifically about Playboyy employees because of his brothers death.

And First being a selfish sadistic prick to said sex workers, when they gave him basic consent is a similar issue he had with Soong in the beginning (him not realizing when Soong is not into it or too tired). He knows that he messed up here, he even admitted it to Soong. My guess is that First and Captain just don't want to admit to the others? That just because they got hurt, they can not hurt others (oh that's a recurring theme in the drama btw). And idk I got the feeling First & Captain being hurt wasn't about Zouey accused them of but them both having some issues which makes them act that way?

Because the following is such a weird thing to say in that context??? (is that their "every episode we remind you this may or may not be a fictional story" thing)

"You think of us as clowns or people who make yourself look like a better person." Spoken like someone who doesn't want to admit he may be not a good guy 🤷‍♂️ aka "Oh you think you are better than me just because I am worse. Everyone hates me because I am an ass" uhm yea.

Anyways Zouey is right about criticizing them for hurting others (not the part where he called them perverted. Look not even Zouey is perfect). And I bet everyone watching it agrees with him on that. It does suck that they made him apologize. But again, First and Captain are both not characters you get your life lessons from, especially not Captain. Also the way the whole apology went was weird with these word plays?? Pretty unserious and deliberate confusing:

Like wtf does that even say? Also we know he only apologizes to get them back to work with them on the case.

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AND regarding BDSM representation: guys, we don't just have Soong x First on that topic! We have:

Prom x Nont / Nant as GOOD example: contract, consent, aftercare, negotiation, communication (regarding sex! not the case)

Jump x Porsche as BAD example: questionable consent, literal abuse cycle and they basically just vent on each other until they realize how shitty that is. While they do have a contract apparently... they don't really follow it. It's just really sad the creators didn't spend more on screen time with developing their change properly... (bruh they literally cut one scene of Porsche kissing sleeping Jump one morning after, it's in a BTS, they should have kept that to show that they do develop feelings for eo...)

Soong x First is a mix, they both have good traits with each other, but also have/had bad traits (Soong consent issue with Nant) and First DOES have a sex addiction since episode 1. That is one of the main issues Soong has in their relationship. And it then happened that First fell down the bad mental path after some people (+ society) treated him already like a monster (treating someone like something evil they will eventually believe it themselves) and then his support system (Soong) left him. He stopped caring since nobody seemed to care about him. The thing with his dad is that the show mislead us here once again (they love to do that but sometimes it's not well done tbh). His dad is not homophobic. But was just worried about the amount of sex and BDSM / kinks his son participates in (based on prejudice tho). Unfortunately he contributed into that self-fulfilling prophecy that way.

That:

VALID and NOT kink shaming!! Having sessions all the time is big effort and can be overwhelming and exhausting if you have that constantly (especially if Soong does the most work in a role that's maybe not his preference)

The key in those BDSM relationships here is to display that bad communication and bad treatment leads to bad outcome (breaking up, causing eo harm) while good treatment and communication leads to them getting together. Them having a bit less violent sex in between (there are more kinks than just rough sex, fam) doesn't mean they turned vanilla. Like Soong x First in ep12 had some food play again 🤷‍♂️ and idk if Jump x Porsche have sex at all atm and considering their circumstances it makes sense if they don't continue the rough path for now (they didn't even had rough sex all the time prior either. It was just that Porsche used power over Jump + one time switch, now they are probably equal). Even as weirdly uncanny it might feel seeing Prom all sappy and softy when he actually tries to get Nont into a relationship outside of their sex sessions. That's not unrealistic either. Most BDSM folks have more personality and interests than just being into BDSM.

While First had his little downfall we have this statement from Prom as well:

Aaaand I will end it here for now. I am at my picture limit for this post and have a migraine ✌

Bottom line is: wait till the finale is over AND view the whole drama together with all characters paths and statements.

I agree on that some parts are rushed, came too short, some bits appear a bit tone deaf (but that can also just be judged at the end since they still have a chance to come around). 14 main characters at once + all the topics they try to address + the different vibes for each pair + connecting all of that in a murder case somehow is definitely a whole ass mammoth project. It's really difficult to manage the storytelling of that and then also consider the limited time frame.

#THISSSS #playboyy the series #playboyy

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#playboyy the series #playboyy #im sure that this isnt going to aged well #zoey is hidding something #but they look cute