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dribs-and-drabbles · 10 months

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Colours in Our Skyy 2 A Tale of Thousand Stars (with a little Bad Buddy) ep 4

It had never been certain but I had hoped all along that we would see Pat and Pran in ep 4...and how wonderful that we did...and hence this post exists!

I had thought this would be a quick, short post since the Bad Buddy elements weren't that long/the ep focused mainly on Phupha, Tian and the ATOTS side of the crossover. But, HA!, this is me after all and I've ended up with 23 screenshots 🤦🏽‍♀️ So let's dive in so this doesn't get longer than it needs to.

First, all the red and blue details so common around Pat and Pran: It's hard to see in the left pic but the red of the triangle cushion mat and the blue of Pat's clothes offer the first pairing. Then it's the pens, post-it notes, mosquito net, watering can, mailbox, and sign that offer some more (I'm including pink as red here). I love the "Pat and Pran's love sprout" sign, which feels like an upgrade of the "Pavilion of Peace" sign which Pat brought with him to the bus stop build in BBS ep 3. Yellow - love and happiness - also features, as it has done a lot in these four eps, as well as the olive greens (obstacles to their happiness), which might hint to the 'conditions' Phupha leaves for Pran in his permission for him to put on the play.

And then Pat and Pran leave Pha Pun Dao...but their colours stay with Phupha, Tian, Yod, and Kampung. Even the pouch the children made has these colours, along with yellow. Note that Yod is wearing blue when he drives Pat and Pran away, but then later he wears red when he leaves with Tian - however, an extra walks by in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment in blue to add another pairing.

I loved @grapejuicegay's addition to my ep 3 post in which she talked about how both Tian and Phupha lying under the red and blue blanket could show the influence that Pat and Pran were having on them. And even once Pat and Pran leave we can see that their influence remains with Phupha and Tian: In the childrens' clothes, the registration plate and the sign in the car park, and even on their 'date' in the city in the sign of the photo booth. Of course it goes beyond just the colours, as Pat and Pran's influence has played a role in enabling Tian and Phupha to have these moments together.

I'll interrupt the colours for a moment to talk about Tian's elephant pj pants. At first, I loved that it reminded me of Pat's shirt in BBS ep 11, and of the shot of Ink and Pa's feet in BBS ep 9 that I love so much... But then I rewatched the scene before and was reminded of Phupha's line, "I want to know if you forgot how to set up a mosquito net". It's probably not meant to be read as deep as Pat's shirt but I love the connection between Phupha's words and the elephant pants - an elephant never forgets! - and I wonder if it might have been intentional.

Back to the colours, and I'm not surprised Pa and Ink are in red and blue again - but this time the opposite of how they were in ep 1. I do like the styling of putting Pa in similar shirts each time, with the colour trim on a white shirt with a logo print. I haven't talked about any browns above - the earthy colours - since they are used a lot in ATOTS and for different reasons to BBS...but the browns on Pa could relate to my BBS interpretation of the colour - yielding or sacrifice - because we see Pat and Pran yield and kiss each other after being encouraged by Pa (and Korn and Wai) at the end of the play. There's also more red and blue in the bouquets of flowers, and the lighting/curtain behind the group.

And so we come to the end of our time with Pat and Pran and I'll just highlight the obvious/more of what I've already said. Pran is in Pat's blue with his own red in the blanket to the side, with yellow - their love and happiness - in his lap. (Read into all that as you want). Pat is in yellow with teal shorts - mint green/teal being symbolic of their union as a couple (incidentally, I love that in BBS it seemed that Pat wore Pran's mint green shorts a few times...but as their relationship has gotten stronger the mint green has gotten deeper to this teal colour we've seen Pat wear a few times in these OS2 eps). Even the crisps packet Pat picks out is yellow with red. All of this, to me, is as delicious as Pat finds Pran's finger.

And lastly, I'll leave you with Tian and Phupha, since this was supposed to be their ep, and a more neutral palette...because I absolutely ADORED the complementary colours of these outfits, absolutely showing they are a perfect match for each other. Also, it's interesting the way their 'city clothes' are all quite monochrome whereas in Pha Pun Dao their life is full of all different colours.

[ep 1] [ep 2] [ep 3] [ep 4] (<- I was right to be hopeful!)

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aliceisathome · 11 months

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I've just finished Our Skyy 2 last 2 eps. I've seen a lot of people giving these ATOTS and BB crossovers an absolute hammering but i bloody loved them. Yes, it was lazy writing to have them lost in the forest TWICE but it was so they could set up each character to spend time with both of the other couple separately.

And what couples! The younger but more stable Pat and Pran (not that they're perfect but they seem to have more emotional maturity) and the new, older couple, one of whom feels like he's not good enough (and is set in his ways). They resonate with each other, recognising both their own and their partners' traits within the other couple's dynamic

And now I'm just going to ramble incoherently. I bloody loved it. LOVED IT. Loved all the parallels and call outs, the humour, and the growth of all of them. The asking for a score was just *chef's kiss* - especially after that ACTUAL kiss. And Chief in his new clothes, sunglasses and a sports car with the hood down? I would have fainted. Turns out that Yod is an even bigger shipper than we are. Did anyone else get a IRL EarthMix vibe when Tian was taking photos of himself and the dessert and Chief was taking pix of him? Just me? OK. I guessed Chief's conditions were that they play the parts but the fact that they switched the expected casting was genius. The PatPran kiss that kept not happening finally happening when they were Chief and Tian was fab.

And I was fine with the last half of this ep being heavy on the Chief and Tian because their relationship was the most unformed being only just properly established at the end of their series (unlike Pat and Pran who we know went on to be happy bunnies). The bedroom chase happening with our ATOTS boys was a funny final nod at the end of BB as well.

Random thoughts: Earth looks STUNNING in a suit. Wai and Korn kissing! Pat with his hair tied up! LAYS! Finger sucking! Pa interrupting the actual PatPran kiss AGAIN! White - bleurgh. Approving parents - yay! Rooftop tears and kisses! Proposal!

Was it perfect? No. But Aof did a fabulous job and I am positively giddy.

#Do I want a Nong Nao eye mask? Yes - yes I do.#Nipple acknowledgement AND pinching from GMMtv! Has the world gone mad?#Tian wears elephant pants as pjs. I am delighted by this.#The mosquito net kiss was EVERYTHING #EarthMix #OhmNanon #PatPran #PhuphaTian #a tale of thousand stars #1000 stars #a tale of a thousand stars #bad buddy the series #ATOTS x BB #Our Skyy 2 #Aof Noppharnach

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absolutebl · 10 months

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I have a language question to throw out to the bl ether. im rewatching atots/bb and im confused about Yod's name. It sounds like people are saying "shahn" when they address him, which sounds nothing like how Yod is spelled in english. Is this a title that's just subbed in as his name? (im specifically thinking about the moment in ep14 right before Pat returns to the karaoke party)

Sorry I can't remember this. It's possible they are using a nick name or a different pronoun or honorific. For example, characters will often call doctors mawh, or khun mawh (Mister Doctor) but the captions will just say the doctor's name for ease of communication. They do this with phi and nong all the time.

#asked and answered

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damnslippyplanet · 9 months

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Slippy Rewatches: ATOTS, Episode 2

Next up for Friend Who Needs Recaps Right Now: ATOTS, Episode 2.

This is going to be extra-funny because I haven’t watched this show in about two years so I barely remember the set-up. But ALSO, this was my first Thai BL, so I had no idea how many tropes I was swimming in, which ought to make this really fun to come back to.

What I remember of ep 1 is basically: Tian, The Most Beautiful Boy In The World, is a spoiled rich brat with heart problems who gets into a car accident and has a heart transplant. But I don’t know where we left off. The “previously on” reminds me that the person he got the heart from was a volunteer teacher in a rural area of Thailand, and Tian decides he needs to go find and teach this volunteer teacher’s class to fulfill her wishes. And there he met Chief Phupha, our tsundere, bless him, and they stared at each other weirdly for a while.

AND NOW, episode 2:

We’re flashing back to how Tian got to be a teacher, i guess! He shows up at the foundation that sponsors the teachers, with Teacher Torfun’s lanyard in his hand. I am immediately losing my shit because I’m so much more immersed in the Thai BL cinematic universe than I was when I watched this, and have just realized that Torfun is Pearmai from “Be My Favorite”, and the head of the foundation plays dads in like three other shows I’ve watched. Oh, man. This is going to be an EXPERIENCE.

Tian rolls up with his application which reads "Hello, I would like to be a teacher in this specific rural village, my qualifications are that I am very pretty."

Foundation Head Guy recognizes his name and says kindly, "hey, rich boy, you are not going to want to live on the salary or in the lifestyle that rural volunteer teachers get, please go home and roll around on your bed of money or at least let us send you somewhere with running water. Don't be the jerk rich kid who burns our foundation's money and goodwill on going off to teach, fucking around with the lives of the local population, and coming home again a week later."

Tian: "Yes but have you SEEN how pretty I am? Also I am being really earnest about this."

Foundation Guy asks Tian what the most difficult thing in his life is, and before he can say, "I maybe killed someone and took her heart and it might have made me gay if I wasn’t already?” we smash cut into the credits. I forgot how cute these credits were! Fuck, I’m gonna end up rewatching this whole show

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And now we’re back to the village, where Tian is trying and failing to get a signal on his cell phone. He gives up and gathers his towel to go explore his bathing situation, only to basically trip over the Chief perched outside his little cottage waiting to take him to the school.

Tian would like to take a bath, and Chief does a life-ruining little smirk and leads him away down the path. Tian brushes his teeth along the way to what he thinks is going to be his bath, and that's how he ends up at his new school, with a bath towel slung over his shoulder, still brushing his teeth, to meet his assorted youths.

The youths are five adorable moppets. Four of them are full of questions and one of them is asleep. (One of them is also wearing a shirt that says "Snatch: The Best Thing On Earth".) Tian hits up Ranger Yod to find out what the schedule is and if there's a lesson plan. Yod nominally thinks there should be lessons in the morning and play in the afternoon, but also thinks that it's Tian's first day so if he wants to just send everyone home now that's fine. Yod would be the teacher who shows movies all year long with only vague relation to the curriculum.

Tian makes a vague effort to start an animal-guessing game but Ayi, the kids' ringleader, apparently just leaves school when he's bored, and now he is bored So he gets up and leaves, with all the other kids following him. Which means that when Chief shows up again the schoolroom is just Tian, sulking because he hasn't had a bath and the kids have better things to do than play with him.

Chief glowers a little but actually takes pity on Tian and agrees to show him what his new bathing situation is going to be like.

Oh. Oh, man. I think we’re about to get to something I remember very fondly. Let’s GO.

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Okay, so Chief leads Tian and his bath towel off to a waterfall-and-stream situation. Very picturesque.

Tian: So we don’t have bathtubs here?

Chief: Look, city boy, I can drive you to the city if you can’t hack bathing like a villager.

Tian: I’m fine, go away.

Chief: Conveniently, the other side of this river is a dangerous border where skirmishes happen so I am duty-bound to stand here and watch you bathe. In case ruffians try to kidnap you. While you’re naked.

Tian: FINE but can you turn AROUND while I wade into the water fully clothed?

Chief: FINE

Chief: immediately starts peeking at Tian and his wet clinging shirt situation as he wades into the quiet of the stream. It’s CUTE.

Chief turns away for a minute to get a product-placement drink and when he turns back, Tian is MISSING. Because he is HIDING because he is a BRAT. The upshot of this is that Chief leaps in to save him and ends up shirtless and wet and cranky about how into brat-taming he is.

And this? This moment here? This was when I simultaneously met Earth Pirapat’s tattoos, and Thai BL’s love of lingering product-placement shots where beautiful shirtless men suck down cool beverages in loving close-up while we watch their throats bob. This moment changed my life, I think. JFC. Who allowed it.

This moment is also changing Tian’s life, he is doing the MOST minx-y little lowered-eyelashes side-eye at Chief’s nipples.

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Presumably he did not immediately blow the Chief, but we will never know because we cut back to them arriving back at Tian’s cottage, where Yod has brought lunch. Yod is like, funny that you went swimming, when you have your own little outhouse and bathing situation out back, I just asked the villagers to bring you a full water jar and everything so you can bucket-bathe yourself!

Tian: Oh my god I hate the Chief.

Chief: gives Tian the WORST little smirk.

Oh my god, I forgot what a little shit he secretly is.

Tian goes in and changes and we get a look at his gnarly chest scar while he stares pensively in the mirror for a while and, oh, THAT’S why he went into the stream fully clothed, I forgot he’s hiding his cardiac patient situation. What a terrible idea, Tian. TELL SOMEONE.

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It’s time to meet the village chief! His name is Khama or maybe his title is Khama? Anyway, he’s nice to Tian but also wonders why Torfun didn’t come back?

Chief: Torfun’s…um. Busy? Definitely not dead. Ha ha ha.

Tian, side-eyeing Chief: Yeah, I too know nothing about Torfun’s hypothetical death.

Khama is genial and delightful, and his wife has prepared a huge meal to welcome Tian, including a very special dish of pig brain. Everyone including Chief is leaning in real close to watch Tian try it. This is clearly a fun thing they do to city people, feeding them spicy pig brain to see if they can be cool or will freak out.

What is this Wang-Yibo-ass facial expression on the Chief?

Tian is like, “awesome, excellent pig brain, thank you!” and then proceeds to have a flashback to his transplant doctor explaining that to avoid rejection of his new heart he should live in hygienic places and not eat spicy or unusual foods, while Khama explains the ten different spicy dishes on the table.

It’s fine, this is fine. I’m not at all worried about Tian’s heart, as Chief basically eggs him on to prove he can eat spicy food. Tian, TELL SOMEONE, Chief is a brat too but he wouldn’t try to actually KILL YOU if he knew your whole deal.

Khama also mentions that his song Longtae is about Tian’s age and is studying in the city, but will be back to visit this weekend. Tian wants to see the cliff nearby for no particular reason (it’s because he read about it in Torfun’s journal) and Khama is like, yeah, my son can be your tour guide! But if you want to go before then, take Chief, because it’s too dangerous to go alone.

Tian says he wouldn’t want to bother such a busy and important guy, and Tian and Chief hate-fuck each other with their eyes for a while. Khama eats more spicy pork. He’s having such a good time, I love him.

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Later at night, Chief walks Tian home and discovers that the city boy doesn’t know about mosquito netting and got fully destroyed by mosquitos. So now it’s time for a Sexy Mosquito Netting scene where Chief fully kabedons Tian to show him how to put up the netting. Love it, zero notes.

And then, because we are still in the pulling-each-other’s-pigtails stage of this relationship, Chief takes the whole thing down, tells Tian to do it himself to get practice, warns him about ghosts, and fucks off back to his base. Tian gets the net up, but then he has to go use the outhouse while he’s terrified of ghosts, poor city boy.

Meanwhile back at the base, Chief has pulled out a wooden flute, had a flashback to Torfun giving it to him, and now he is staring mournfully into the fire while tootling a tune on the flute. My recollection is that when I first watched this with friend Hoyden, I started howling because I was having a full Lan Xichen flashback, but she had not yet watched The Untamed and just thought I had completely lost my mind.

Anyway: Chief’s having a real Moment here.

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The next morning Yod picks Tian up to take him to class - apparently that’s usually his job, Chief just did it yesterday as a special First Day of School thing. They detour through the fields and learn that the village’s chief economic engines are growing tea and sewing. Tian asks him about the cliff too because he is just going to be Extremely Normal about the cliff, and Yod is like, yeah, it’s over there, but if you take the wrong turn you end up in Ghost Hill. Also very normal. If you end up in Ghost Hill without doing the right rituals, the ghosts kill you. So again the takeaway is: please wait for an escort to the cliff.

And now we meet another ranger, Rang, who’s happy to do some introductions and some gossip. Apparently Yod and Rang both know that Torfun died, but Chief told them not to tell the villagers. They are standing a few feet away from the villagers during this conversation. The rangers are not stealthy.

Then we go to school, where Tian is finding out the kids are more advanced than he expected - he was going to teach them letters, but Torfun already taught them letters. And numbers. The kids are bored as shit.

Tian, desperate: Hey, okay, but did Torfun ever take you on a FIELD TRIP? To the WATERFALL that’s like TWO MINUTES FROM A DANGEROUS BORDER?

Rang and Yod know this is a terrible idea and Rang peaces the fuck out to go find Chief and let him know Tian is going rogue.

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Chief is off in the city meanwhile, meeting with his doctor who is also his friend. Did we meet this character in episode 1 or is this the first time we meet him? I remember liking this character, I think.

Doctor Friend: Hey so I heard your new teacher is a hot twink and you’ve been paying him a lot of attention.

Chief: LOOK he is a MENACE and I am DOING MY JOB.

Doctor Friend: Okay SURE. Now I am going to talk about how Torfun was in love with you, so you can get weird and sad.

Chief: *soulful eyes*

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Tian is taking the kids on a nature walk and has finally found something they don’t know - how to name colors in English. So they’re having a good time learning English words for things, while Yod panics and flails about how Chief is going to murder him for this.

It’s all sort of nice, until Yod gets called back to base right as the kids are clamoring to be allowed to swim in the river.

Tian: This will be fine.

Yod: Will it?

Tian: Absolutely, go back to base, I got this.

Tian does not got this. Everyone splashes around and has fun for a while and then OOPS one of the kids (Kalae) is drowning. Which, let us note, Tian fails to even notice until one of the other kids is like, hey, is that, uh, is that what’s supposed to be happening?

Tian pulls Kalae out of the water and is just starting to try to figure out how to revive him when Chief and Yod arrive with Doctor Friend. Kalae is quickly saved and hustled off to the med center to recover. Doctor Friend pulls Chief off to the side to be like, okay, kid’s saved, now go tend to the twink teacher, he looked absolutely devastated.

Chief: Well maybe he shouldn’t have LET A CHILD DROWN.

Doctor Friend: You have a point, but he’s a brand-new teacher and he’s trying, please don’t actually murder him.

So Chief storms off to Tian’s place to yell at him about how he can’t just show up and be careless with these children’s lives and education as some sort of holiday from his life. He’s right, and Tian knows it, and Tian heads inside and starts to pack to leave.

But Doctor Friend may have done some good work here, because Chief rolls his eyes and takes a deep breath and is like, okay, but actually don’t be a huge baby and walk out on them either.

Tian reaches out to pack Torfun’s lanyard and now we’re back to the flashback at the beginning, where he was asked what his most difficult experience was. Apparently his answer was “I almost died, but now I have a second chance and I want to use it to do something for others.”

Foundation Guy told him to remember the way he feels and come back to it when he’s feeling discouraged by hard experiences. Which Tian does, and decides that he WILL stay and finish out his term.

Chief has about six face emotion journeys about his complicated feelings about this terrible beautiful twink, and then is like well OKAY then. But please stop DROWNING CHILDREN. And then they stare at each other intensely for a while as we go to credits.

And then post-credit scene!

We’re back to Tian and Chief walking home after the visit to Khama, and Chief pulls a huge bag of instant noodles out of his rucksack so Tian won’t actually starve.

Chief: You know how to make a fire and boil water, right?

Tian: …….

So then Chief makes some noodles for Tian, who pretends he’s not hungry, but then eats them anyway, and Chief makes the satisfied eyes of someone whose caretaking kink has just been activated. And then scolds him into saying thank you properly to an older man who has done something nice for him and, woof, yeah, there are some cultural/language layers there I didn’t get at first watch.

And then they just stare at each other for a while in beautiful flickering firelight, and yeah. Fuck. I have to rewatch the rest of this show now. Fuck.

this way to: episode 3 recap

#slippy watches things #atots

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nongnaos · 2 years

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Liveblogging atots episode 10!

1/4

Hahaha I hate how everything is making me feel like this is sad and not gonna end happy I am very nervous...

Dangling P'Aof over a shark tank in case this turns out bad. The kids are crying and I am loosening my grip on P'Aof's rope as we speak. Khaoneung has been crying in the background this whole time...

Khamaaaaaaa

Phupha... this is not the man you are, where are you? 😭😭

Tian's whole face is tears, this is very relatable. P'Aof getting closer to the sharks.

2/4

Wearing the ring 🥺 writing to Phupha 🥺

I love so much how Chief has such a strict persona until he gets teased and he's suddenly the youngest brother of the group.

At this point Tian has had like 6 life threatening things happen to him, at some point his mother's gonna have to accept that he's gonna do what he wants bc life is short. Between this and Bad Buddy it feels like P'Aof's general theme is "your parents are trying but at some point you have to live for yourself, hopefully with their blessing but that's not always viable".

3/4

Really thought mum was gonna do a solid and be like "the university is in Chiang Mai". I could not be more wrong.

Go to the wedding!! Wear your fuck-me jeans even! Get railed and have your own dog howling night!

Daaaamn his wife is gorgeous and he's looking at other women??? Dr. Nam... pls

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.... NO GO TALK TO HIM

He made him a coffee 🥺 tbh these coffees look chronic but whatever floats your boat and pays for gay romance dramas.

4/4

Genuinely barked a laugh at Tul being like "sexy foreign men? 😏😏"

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Gays are so dramatic and I feel so called out by this show bc everything that feels dramatic I'm like "yeah, I would do that too though".

Mama's in for a surprise I guess. Dad knows. TUL BEST BOY.

(I am gonna rewatch this forehead kiss appropriately 12 million times before I can move on to the next scene)

The second half of this segment better be the sappiest shit I ever saw.

Ah, it's already adorable. Much like the children I am very entertained by the sock puppets.

"Stay with me" "I can't hear you, say it louder" Yesss tease him! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

For a sec there I wasn't sure we were gonna get a kiss and P'Aof's toes were in the shark tank but delightfully I have been able to release him back in the wilds of the GMMTV production lot.

Phupha is such a giant puppy of a man. He is unbearably cute when begging. He's also topless after Yod checks on them, good for them, it's taken long enough, I hope they have many nights of wild passion etc etc.

Started this at midnight, its now 2:30am, that's how long it's taken me bc I'm rewatching everything so much.

So now that it's over what do I do? That was so sweet and I've loved watching it over the last week, especially getting to see other people also be hyped about it, was so fun! Thanks @smittenskitten for hosting this rewatch/ watch-along!

#atotsrewatch2022 #atots #atots spoilers #liomsa #i am genuinely bereft at the thought of leaving this show #i think im gonna have to watch all of earthmix's other shows bc i really like them together #they seem to have such an easy chemistry #long post #i loved it soooo much

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