#ofts ep7

[misspoetree]

#not only this scene #but literally every BostonNick scene in a nutshell #only friends the series #ofts ep7 #ofts + text post #bostonnick #ofts spoilers #ofts nick #ofts boston #in the queue you go

[airenyah]

Only Friends (2023) Episode 7 ft. The Boston Zoom™

This gifset is dedicated to @newyearknwwme <3

#only friends #only friends the series #ofts #ofts ep7 #meine grafiken #oftsgifmine #adrm #@p you're in luck 🙌 #i couldn't sleep the entire night bc there were two mosquitoes in the room (one of which i managed to kill‚ the other one... not so much) #and when the cat puked at 7am i was like ''aight i'm officially too awake to try and fall asleep at all'' #so instead of sleeping i made the boston zoom gif you requested. enjoy <3333

[jenyifer]

So we finally get a view of the matching photos that Boston and Mew have in Mew’s Apartment. Characters have gone and picked up the photo frame or looked at it a couple of times. Top has looked at it at least 3 times and Ray picked it up before his apology to Mew. But it’s been out of the camera frame everytime except the opening until now. Still don’t know why Boston and Mew have these matching photos & frame but I find it interesting when we do see it episode 7. The episode where Mew basically blackmails Boston back into being part of their friend group. If Mew wanted to punish him take him out of his life that would be possible. It’s not like Ton’s contribution to their group project was significant most of the work was done by Nick CCTV and website. Mew apparently has a way of direct contact with Nick so doesn’t seem like ton is necessary. But no he goes over threatens Boston then keeps a copy of the video on his phone so that Mew can be “friends” with Boston still while holding the clip over his head for future mistakes to feel superior over Boston. Mew likes having Boston around to buffer or hand off Ray to and to compare how good Mew is.

I also think Boston did value their friendship to some extent be it out of connivence or just having people who are permanent fixtures in his life. I lean towards the second one since he kept saying he didn’t hate Mew. Also I don’t think I’d take a photo with friends of connivence then put them at the end of my bed to see everyday. So low key having an in again is what Boston wanted it’s why he went to visit Ray at his home when he found out that his arm was broken.

Idk probably means nothing but thought I’d share.

#only friends #only friends the series #only friends meta #only friends mew #ofts meta #only friends Boston #ofts mew #ofts Boston #only friends episode 7 #ofts ep7 #Jenny’s rambling

[karmaismy-pronouns-friend]

This is me watching all the drama in ep7 unfold;

#only friends bl #ofts ep7 #only friends #only friends the series #only friends ep7 #sandray #only friends mew #only friends sand #ep7

[xceanlynx]

Nick nooooooo stop

#ofts #ofts ep7

[gunsatthaphan]

baby wants, baby gets 💁🏻‍♂️

#only friends #only friends series #only friends the series #only friends ep7 #ofts #firstkhao #sanray #sand x ray #first kanaphan #khaotung thanawat #gmmtv #thai bl #bl drama #i totally get sand because i too would give this boy anything he wants #one look at his cute face and I would melt like chocolate #i already do

[tswizzlesfan]

one of the things i adore about this fandom is the collective sand protection squad we got going on

sand acts a little unhinged?? GO BABY YOU DESERVE IT

sand is sad?? everyone loses their mind and wants whoever hurt him perish

sand is happy?? EVERYBODY CHEERED AND FLOWERS START BLOOMING

in conclusion: the first kanaphan effect must be studied bcs every time i look at him i go "hes so pretty i will cry"

also his whole character is just so daddy and no i will not elaborate

#only friends ep7 #only friends the series #ofts #sand #first kanaphan #only friends #sandray #firstkhao #only friends ep8 #only friends sand

[blmpff]

!!! LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK !!!

#only friends the series #ofts #sand #san #ofts lb ep7 #favorite scenes #episode 7 #blmpff

[hotasfahrenheit]

Mew trying to become Ray let alone date him was not on my bingo card for this week but I'm no professional bingo card designer, let's talk about this anyway

We all went into this show knowing it was going to be messy, asking for it to be messy, we're all weak for SandRay so RayMew is upsetting because we want Ray with Sand, sure, but setting all of that aside, the thing that is really concerning to me about the fact that Mew is choosing to rebound with Ray is the fact that he is very creepily BECOMING RAY while doing it. He's putting on a persona to handle his life right now and it's really unhealthy and boy needs to cut it out and get some therapy. (they all need therapy.)

At the beginning of the episode, before the confrontation with Boston, Mew is dressed more or less as himself. He and Ray do dress similarly on a base level- they both wear a lot of patterned, unbuttoned shirts over a second shirt, but Mew normally wears stripes over tshirts, and mostly light colours with a lot of blues and greens. Ray wears a lot of darker colours and patterns with shapes and designs, with a lot of reds, tans, and oranges, over tanktops/vests/whatever you want to call them where you're from.

After blasting Boston into the pool and delivering one of the most satisfying kicks on television, before going for his confrontation with Nick, we get the creepy tub shot of Mew sinking into his misery and his upcoming revenge era-

To put on his Ray cosplay, he's gotta sink down into the deep. This isn't a rebirth or an emergence of a new, stronger version of himself; this is him descending, covering himself and his hurt with someone else's aura and attitude so that he can cope with the path he's decided he needs to go on to burn his enemies and get his revenge.

He tries it out when he goes to see Nick and it works for him-

This is his soft launch, where he's up against someone else who has, or feels he has, been done wrong by Boston and Top (and done wrong, obviously) but that Mew knows is vulnerable. Mew pushes on Nick to help him get his revenge on Boston, and Nick crumbles. Using this persona, this attitude, is working for him.

He uses it to hunt down Gap next, another trial run, that goes flawlessly for him as well.

He's got the black tank, the necklace, and a black, white, and grey shirt this time, another test of borrowed confidence. And he's successful: he pulls Gap with almost no effort, he gets the file, he's ready to go now. He's used the Ray based persona twice with people he doesn't know, his confidence is up, which means he's ready to use it on someone he does know.

So when he gets ready to confront Boston, we get a whole sequence of him preparing for the battle, and checking all the details. There's a lot of very close up shots of his face and eyes here that I left out of the gifs because this scene was already long, and a lot of focus on each detail.

The necklace like Ray wears, a tanktop like Ray wears (but black! because this is Mew in his angsty villain era!), a patterned button up shirt like Ray wears, check the hair and go. Armored with this other persona, he's ready to handle Boston, and he does. Much, much better than Ray himself, mind you, compared to when Ray went and confronted Boston in the last episode.

The next big outfit switch we get for Mew in this episode (I'm not counting the whole big Top punching Mew confrontation since Mew and Ray are both just wearing their school clothes there) is Top's daydream about dancing with Mew. This whole sequence is so soft focus and Top looks so sad and there's no one else there which implies to me he's imagining this and it's not an actual memory, but either way we're back to Mew in stripes, with Top in stripes as well.

What's different about Mew and Top matching versus Mew matching himself to Ray? Mew and Top don't really MATCH so much as coordinate. They're often in different colours, different styles, different material shirts, etc. Like here, Mew is wearing an unbuttoned dress shirt with vertical stripes over a tshirt, while Top is wearing a collared polo shirt with horizontal stripes, AND they're wearing different colours. They work together without fully matching, and they're distinct to the characters as well. Even when their styles get a little closer, like Top wearing some solid colour button up shirts in episode 6 instead of polo shirts, he styles them differently than Mew does and I at least can't really picture them switching clothes and having the outfits really look right.

Meanwhile, the last scene of the episode, with Mew dancing with Ray, we get this-

Mew is dressed as Ray again, even shifting into Ray's common colour schemes with the flowers on this one. His first outfit when he went to see Nick was a trial and the pattern still had a lot of blues in it, but he's been shifting into darker colours with the tans and oranges we see Ray in pretty often with this.

(Ray, meanwhile, is wearing a shirt that looks like something Sand would have chosen for him, of course.)

Ray is reckless, Ray is fearless, Ray is bold, Ray is confident, Ray is wild and sometimes unpredictable, or he at least seems to be to the much more conservative Mew, so slipping into Ray's clothes and taking on what he thinks is Ray's persona is a way for Mew to push himself in ways he hasn't before. There's no way Mew could have handled his whole spy mission to get the video file from Gap as himself the way he has been; that's not in his wheelhouse.

From the preview for next week it looks like Mew is sliding into more of Ray's persona with the partying behaviors, and I don't think it's going to end well for him. But being with Top has taught him that trying to get someone to change is useless because they're still the same mess on the inside, so his decision to slide down the same path as Ray and let go of his inhibitions instead of trying to fix Ray is as unsurprising as it is self-destructive.

Seeing Mew take some kind of power over his life should have been satisfying, and in some ways it definitely was, like watching him burn the notebook page and try to put his foot down with Top, but then seeing him do it while spiraling mentally and slowly covering himself with Ray's outward persona at the same time was incredibly unnerving. Adding in him deciding to get involved with Ray romantically and it just speed ratchets up the unhealthy factor by a million miles a minute.

It also shows how well Mew actually knows Ray now compared to how well he thinks he knows Ray and who and what he thinks Ray is, that he could send himself down this path without seeing the writing on the wall about who Ray is trying to be and what Ray is trying to deal with behind Ray's substance abuse problems and everything else, but I imagine that will be part of the inevitable explosion that THIS impending disaster will also turn into, potentially very soon.

You can't fix your problems by pretending to be someone that you're not, especially if who you're trying to be is someone you know who is incredibly problematic and unhealthy themselves. It's a whole toxic situation even BEFORE you start trying to DATE THEM AT THE SAME TIME.

We wanted a mess and boy are we getting it.

(ETA: Should have stuck a credit in here earlier oops, a post from @spokenfromtheheartandsoul got my brain going in this direction last night and this post is what happened after the gears turned on this for most of the day)

#only friends the series #ofts #only friends #only friends meta #ofts mew #ofts ray #ofts top #raymew #topmew #only friends ep7 #it took me all day to write this after having “Mew dressing as Ray to pick up Gap unhinged fiasco” saved in my drafts at 4am #mia gifs things #mia gifs drama things #mia gifs only friends things

[misspoetree]

#I'M SORRY BUT OH. MY. GOD. I LIVED FOR THAT MEW #AND THE WAY HE HAD BOSTON QUAKING IN HIS BOOTS #the satisfaction #only friends the series #ofts spoilers #ofts mew #ofts + text post #ofts ep7

[airenyah]

tonight's mental breakdown is brought to me by ep7 [4/4] 1:48 of only friends which has the exact same music that plays in bad buddy ep3 [2/4] 1:58. made even worse by the fact that the scene includes one character making the other character smell him and getting told he stinks

#hello yes i AM sobbing #why does everything always lead back to bad buddy #and here i was happily enjoying first and khao's faces #only friends #ofts #ofts ep7 #bbs #airenyah plappert #adrm #how is a girl supposed to focus on what is happening in a scene when bbs music is playing #not even first's face can distract me enough rip

[jenyifer]

Quick note on Nick from his Boston fight. I think he handled that fight like a pro. He was honest with Boston 100% there was no trying to conceal the truth or double speak. He didn’t try to minimize what he did. I think Nick has been playing out how this fight was going to go since he made the audio clip. An inevitable conclusion. He really was banking on the fantasy that somewhere in Boston’s heart he felt the same way. To Nick Boston isn’t just an obsession. I think from the moment he saw Boston it was a chemical bond in his brain going off. Nick did try to resist but ultimately everything Boston does Nick is glued to him. I think Nick did think Boston sleeping with Top was wrong. We know Nick thought what Boston said to SandRay was wrong because he said so to Boston. But Nick couldn’t resist him and knew he couldn’t have him. so Nick tried to make Boston fall for him. Instead Nick is the one who is punched to the floor.

That’s what makes Mew’s manipulation spot on. After that fight finding out that all the work he did resulted in the floor. I think Nick does believe Boston doesn’t have the capability of loving anyone but himself. He probably told himself he’d feel vindicated knowing Boston was being punished but I doubt it made him all that happy. Or get over Boston.

#only friends #only friends the series #only friends nick #ofts nick #only friends meta #ofts meta #only friends episode 7 #ofts ep7 #bostonnick #boston x nick #Jenny’s rambling

[pigeonriot]

boston be like i unintentionally tried to get with your boyfriend for an elongated period of time and convinced him that you were sleeping w your best friend and then unintentionally invited him to my car and then unintenionally waited for him until he showed up and then unintentionally fucked him <3 sorry bro it was unintentional <3

#he is so cringefail pls hes the best character #only friends the series #only friends #ofts #only friend ep7 #my post

[tomatoland]

Umm, so this RayMew 👬🏻 moment is actually more than I thought it was 👀

#raymew #ofts #only friends the series #i tried to figure out if the video is slowed down and it is #maybe half speed? #ep7 sneak peak

[gunsatthaphan]

#the only right thing to do.

#only friends #only friends series #only friends the series #only friends ep7 #ofts #gmmtv #chueam #LMAOOO #hands down my favorite scene from this episode kjdghfd #i love her so much #its her against 5x testosterone shes strong af lmao

[tswizzlesfan]

dont get me wrong, that raymew dancing scene was hot asf like HELLO GET IT but not when my baby sand is involved. i will absolutely not tolerate it. you cant give me sand looking like a kicked puppy and expect me to like raymew THIS IS WHERE I DRAW THE LINE THATS MY BABY

sand pls raise hell next episode those people dont deserve you my darling

#only friends ep7 #only friends the series #only friends #ofts #raymew #sandray #first kanaphan #khaotung thanawat #firstkhao