#p'aof

[tatasoom]

In case you haven't seen it yet: P'Aof and Sea reacting on love making scene. Once again P'Aof is us.

#last twilight the series #last twilight #jimmy jitaraphol #sea tawinan #jimmysea #mhokday #morkday #p'aof #gmmtv #aof noppharnach

[allovelyhappily]

JimmySea & Director P' Aof

#jimmy jitaraphol #sea tawinan #jimmysea #thai actor #p'aof #last twilight #last twilight the series #thai drama #mhokday #thai bl

[hirmienworld]

For a moment I was annoyed by how the scene where Day and Mhok make love was so dark and full of shadows that you can barely understand what's happening.

Then it struck me how right, almost obvious, it is that the scene was shot this way. Just imagine what it might have been like for Day, now almost completely blind, to experience this moment. And then, there are very brief moments in which we are allowed to have a clearer vision, almost as if we were experiencing that scene alternating between the points of view of Mhok and Day.

And this is proof of how brilliant p'Aof's direction and Jimmy and Sea's work was, in managing to convey every single emotion and all their chemistry in such a powerful way, without almost any help from the scenography, lighting etc

“Last Twilight” is so damn deep. I am in pure awe.

#last twilight #last twilight the series #jimmysea #mhokday #p'aof #aof noppharnach #jimmy jitaraphol #sea tawinan #bl drama #thai bl

[wen-kexing-apologist]

By god do I just need to scream into the ether about the Heart and co. confrontation scene.

First, the tension, incredible. Gemini and Fourth are phenomenal actors. Heart and Li Ming know they are walking in to a very emotionally fraught situation and their hesitation is palpable.

It's scene breakdown time babyyyy! Let's start from the beginning

For a boy who admitted last episode that he has no idea what he is doing, he sure keeps doing things right. He's letting Heart know he's going to talk. Now, granted I don't know what he is saying here precisely if he is just simply saying "I'm going to talk for us/first", "I'll interpret," or if he's saying "I'm going to talk?", I don't think his face moves in any way that would imply a question, but his face is partially obscured. Either way he is at the very least keeping Heart in the know, and at the most asking for Heart's explicit consent to lead this conversation. You can't see it from pictures, but I appreciate the fact that before they cut back to the wide shot, Heart nods, so we as an audience, and Li Ming as the speaker here knows that Heart is okay with the power dynamics at play, with Li Ming talking for both of them.

It's a blink and you'll miss it moment, thankfully I'm obsessed with this scene and therefore have been looping it endlessly, but I feel compelled to point out the way eye contact in this moment goes a long way in conveying how Heart's Mom and Li Ming view Heart. When Heart's mother points to her son she doesn't even look at him. The most she does is cast a downward glance at his bandage, and that's before she even points. And you can argue all you want that she doesn't look at him because she's specifically talking to and addressing Li Ming. But I call bullshit on that because Li Ming is specifically talking to and addressing Heart's mother, and he's looking straight in to Heart's eyes when he refers to and gestures towards Heart. I'm sure that both of these characters believe they love and care about Heart, but of these two characters which one actually recognizes Heart's personhood?

But uh oh! Li Ming stood up for himself and for Heart, and talked back to not just an adult, but a powerful adult. And now she's mentioning past debts, and now there will be more to pay as a result. And Li Ming can only work so much with school and life and everything. He clearly doesn't know what he's getting himself in to, or what he has gotten himself in to. Li Ming and Heart's Mom are both getting angry, tensions are rising, something needs to happen to de-escalate the situation or this might go wrong. Uncle Jim absolutely must intervene (I hope you can hear the sarcasm in my voice). Interesting note: Guess who else doesn't look at their child when making a decision for them. Jim does look at Li Ming directly after this though, but it's to ask him why he did it. It's to place the blame for the accident on Li Ming. "You Li Ming, why did you do it?" "Heart asked me to." "Stop saying that."

Jim is scared, Li Ming is pissed. "He was bored at home" "I said stop!" Jim is used to the way powerful and wealthy people can control and punish the poor. Jim and Li Ming have had conversations before that indicate this very mindset. Jim has mentioned power to Li Ming before and Li Ming's response has always been "what, so we just let them?" "He's a police officer so he can just do anything he wants to us?" to a young adult like Li Ming, this is an absurdity, to an older man like Jim, this is a reality. "he can just do anything he wants to us?" the answer is yes. Which is why Jim is so desperate to get Li Ming to stop talking here. But it just serves as a reminder to Li Ming that Jim thinks he's a child, and that he needs all his battles fought for him. If Li Ming doesn't keep pushing, nothing is going to change (social and political commentary anyone?)

"There you go again," Heart's mother says, and this is Li Ming's initial reaction. This moment of annoyance and anger that this woman who doesn't even know him is once again accusing him of something he didn't do. This woman who is pointing once again to her son without even a glance in his direction "You know that he's mute, so you can say whatever you want?" First of all, even people who are mute have ways to communicate, so it's not like even if he was mute Heart would be helpless. Hell, even if Heart was mute he still has fucking sign language.

The face of a woman who was, in fact, not aware that deaf people dislike being called mute.

GUESS WHO FINALLY LOOKS AT HER SON AFTER THAT!!!! Please please if the writers are kind and merciful, this will be the point in the show where Heart's mother does so deep deep introspection and realizes how much she has fucked up. "He's just deaf," Li Ming says, loudly, and he steps forward, to try to engage Heart's mom in further conversation, in more dialogue. And what does Jim do? Pulls him back, takes him off his even footing "I said stop,"

The face of a man who is very scared for the trouble his nephew might be getting himself in to, and the face of his nephew who is very disappointed that his uncle keeps not only backing down, but forcing him to back down as well. Who keeps asking him, in these small ways to lie instead of tell the truth. To remain quiet, to take the blame, to stick to the status quo.

And then the part I hate (emotionally) begins. Heart asks Li Ming to tell him what they're saying. And I hate it because Heart's parents refusing to learn sign language does not only hurt Heart but it hurts everyone around him, themselves included. But specifically here, it hurts Li Ming, because he has to be the one to look Heart in the face and repeat the words his mother said, knowing that to do so will hurt Heart. Knowing that he has to be the one to hurt Heart.

And this moment is also a great reminder for the audience as well that no one else knowing sign language creates really uncomfortable power dynamics between the person who is able to interpret and the Deaf person. Because Li Ming is hesitant to repeat it. Heart has to repeatedly grab his arm, repeatedly ask Li Ming to tell him what was said. Li Ming has absolute power over Heart right now, to refuse to say it, or to flat out lie. He doesn't, but it also should not be Li Ming's decision whether or not Heart knows, accurately, what was said. Even after we see it in his face that Li Ming agrees to translate, he still hesitates for a few seconds to move, to reach for the notepad, to have to write it down.

And once he writes it down, Li Ming's eyes do not leave Heart. He is honed in on Heart, on Heart's face, on his shoulders, hell even on the back of his head until Heart asks him to translate. And god as much as I hate this moment in the scene for the pain that it causes Li Ming, I hate it even more for the pain that it causes Heart.

He is fucking livid. Rightfully so, because HE'S NOT FUCKING MUTE, HE'S HAD LANGUAGE THIS ENTIRE GODDAMN TIME. He just wants to live his life like everyone else AND HE HAS TO TELL HIS PARENT'S THAT USING SOMEONE ELSE'S VOICE. Because they have refused to use his own. GOD. I'll be surprised if anyone makes it this far down in the post but I just...AHHHH I have no coherent thoughts about this moment, I just....Heart's parents do fucking better. Damn. And the worst part of this scene is yet to come because his Mom tries for like 0.2 seconds, but it looks like she's going to start signing something and Heart just looks SO surprised.

He's so focused on it, he's paying so much attention to it. Is this it? Is this the moment he finds out that his mother has actually been trying? That she has learned and is ready to start using sign language with him? To talk to him, to understand him?

No.

She can't do it. She doesn't know how to. And it's just..it's so easy to see how much hope he had for just a second, how much that one millisecond of effort obliterated all the logic in his head that told him they didn't know it, they didn't care. And how quickly that disappointed anger snaps right back in to place. So Heart starts talking, in sign language, like he has been able to do for years, and he speaks his mind, and his mother still can't understand him. And we see the same dynamic here as with the "mute" comment. Heart's Mom wants Li Ming to translate, Heart wants Li Ming to translate, Li Ming knows how hurt Heart is, and yeah, probably some of his hesitation in voicing what Heart said is because he knows what Heart said will hurt her. But more so because I think it hurts Li Ming to know how much pain Heart is in.

God, poor Heart, literally having to beg to be heard.

"He said you are ashamed of him being deaf,"

His mother shakes her head and says "Heart, I'm sorry. I don't know what to say, dear," and therein lies the problem. She doesn't know what to say, she never has. She has never bothered to learn how to communicate with him since he went deaf. She has kept him locked away. And it doesn't matter if she thinks she did that to keep him safe, Heart feels like he's being hidden away. And she doesn't say "No. No I'm not ashamed. I have never been ashamed." she doesn't know what to say. Because she can't say that. She can't deny that, and it just confirmed everything that Heart has known. So he leaves, because that's too much to handle.

Bullshit 'he'll be fine, honey'. Your fucking son just told you that you never bothered to learn sign language in THREE FUCKING YEARS, and stormed away after admitting that he feels like you are ashamed of him, and you think no need to go after him, he'll be fine??? Fuck you. ACAB.

Does this...

look like...

he's fine, to you?

No. I didn't think so.

I don't really feel like I need to say much about this last shot. It stands on its own so strongly. Mirrors reflecting back, Heart and Li Ming only ever being able to see each other, to be seen by each other. Warm light at Heart's back, Li Ming in front of him, sandwiched between warmth in all of that blue, isolating coldness. All that evidence of how much time and the energy Heart has spent learning sign language. I don't know what the post-its say, I don't know that I want to know.

I don't know if they are notes Heart has written to himself when he was learning, and this is just what remains of his effort. Honestly I hope it's that, because if it is what I think it is, general, every day responses that he might have to give in reply to his parents that he can just pull off his wall and return, that is so much fucking worse. Because then its just the evidence of all the effort Heart has put in to communicate with his parents on their level when they have not put in the same effort to communicate on his. Even if it's something cute, even if it's all the notes that he and Li Ming have passed back and forth to each other over the last few months, serving as a reminder that someone cares, you still are left with the heartbreaking shot of two young men, desperate to be understood by their families, only having each other to hold on to, surrounded by reminders that they are the only two people that can understand each other. No matter how hard they try.

#moonlight chicken #mlc #mlcts #moonlight chicken episode 5 #moonlight chicken ep 5 #heartliming #heart x li ming #heart x liming #fourth gemini #geminifourth #gemini norawit #fourth nattawat #p'aof #aof noppharnach #the midnight series #gmmtv #this show is driving me insane #i have jobs i need to be applying for and instead im spending literal hours typing up analyses about this show #moonlight chicken the series #moonlight chicken analysis #seriously gemini and fourth are incredible actors #they are playing such distinct characters from their my school president counterparts

[guzhufuren]

never trust this man with an 11th episode. never trust him. my finger was legit shaking from p(aof)tsd and apprehension every time i had to click play on the next clip and yet he still managed to smack me in the face with the 4/4 clip. i'm in your walls, sir. run

#p'aof #last twilight #last twilight the series #mine #to be clear this is a GREAT episode im just in PAIN.

[maggiecheungs]

“The right love consists of the right person at the right time. At midnight.”

EARTH PIRAPAT as JIM and MIX SAHAPHAP as WEN in MOONLIGHT CHICKEN (2023) dir. AOF NOPPHARNACH

#moonlight chicken #jimwen #asiandramasource #thaidrama #asiancentral #asiandramanet #usergif #asianlgbtqdramas #mix sahaphap #earth pirapat #backaof noppharnach #aof noppharnach #moonlightchickenedit #p'aof #earthmix #ellisgifs #fofm #myseriesgallery #making this was lowkey a nightmare but i'm happy with how it turned out i think #and the gay chicken show deserved it <3 #happy finale everyone #and thank you abd well done to the cast and crew

[mommyzhilla]

BYE.

#last twilight #last twilight the series #mhok x day #jimmysea #p'aof #aof noppharnach chaiyahwimhon

[bl-inded]

Okay but Mohk is such a green flag. It hurt me to watch this episode 😭. Like we've known for a few episodes now that mohk cares deeply for Day. He himself only put words to that feeling this episode.

Call it whatever you want but he is starting to realise this is more. And it hurts because the thing he struggles with most is if he is wanted. The previous episodes even pointed out that he broke up with Porjai because he didn't want to burden her.

With all that in mind the way he treats August is of someone who genuinely believes in Day's happiness. He doesn't assume he knows better. He doesn't assume he's the one who has to "protect" Day. Don't get me wrong, he's protective. he's always there in case he does need him, but he tries to let him fight his own battles.

There is a certain kind of jealousy that always gets glorified in media. And i get it's appeal. But this kind of jealousy - the kind where you want to be the helper (or the match maker as Mohk says). Where you have to be aware of yourself and your place- that speaks to me way more. It's the kind of jealousy where you aren't claiming ownership, but you're wishing you could be their safe space. And if you can't you will make them that safe space even if it's at the cost of your feelings.

Here's the thing though. Mohk is Day's safe space. He's the first person Day looks for when he feels overwhelmed. His absence at the party clearly affected Day too. Mohk is his shoulder to cry on, his narrator, and his eyes. He's someone Day knows he can rely on without feeling like he's being 'taken care of'. And yet.

Honestly. I get it. You do not get over your lifelong crush that easily. Realising your feelings for one person does not automatically get you guidebook on your own feelings. It's hard every time. (And upto this exact moment I was fully ready to defend August and his actions but the "I kissed him coz I pity him" thing really had me seething)

And Jimmy. Sir. The actor that you are. I felt his pain and confusion throughout the episode. The despair, the longing, the butterflies, the desire. Doc. UNFAIIIIRRRR

Based on nothing but the way he was looking at Day in this scene I knew we were getting a kiss. He manages to pack sooooo much emotion in those eyes I was DYING IN ANTICIPATION OVER HERE. I knew Jimmy and Sea were going to ruin us with this series and I was right. Damn.

#last twilight #and it will not be a me rant unless i sing praises of P'Aof #sir you are my muse #how do you manage to get soooo much out of your actors #i was sobbing the whole episode #heart went on a rollercoaster ride #but i live this series sooo muchhhhh🥺 #thai bl #gmmtv #p'aof #bl rants #jimmysea #jimmy jitaraphol #sea tawinan

[towardthehurricane]

P'Aoooooof

GMMTV....

you clown

#a tale of thousand stars #p'aof #gmmtv series #my school president #gemini x fourth #geminifourth #gemini norawit #fourth nattawat #tinngun #earthmix #earth pirapat #mix sahaphap #1000 stars

[vegasandhishedgehog]

P'Aof: So, I have this idea

GMMTV: Go on

P'Aof: Earth is absolutely in love with Mix but his character won't admit it-

GMMTV: SOLD. TOP RATED SHOW. HYPE THIS BITCH.

#a tale of a thousand stars #atots #moonlight chicken #gmmtv #p'aof

[manogirl]

Every time I think, "well it's impossible that Last Twilight could get any more beautiful", P'Aof steeples his fingers, taps them together, and snickers, and Last Twilight gets EVEN more beautiful.

#last twilight #p'aof #in p'aof we trust

[tatasoom]

Here we go again!

P'Aof (with Sea beside him) reacting to Last Twilight ep 9 ending like it's not him writing and directing the story that torture us every week😂

#last twilight the series #last twilight #jimmy jitaraphol #sea tawinan #jimmysea #mhokday #morkday #p'aof #aof noppharnach #gmmtv

[allovelyhappily]

JimmySea & Director P' Aof

#jimmysea #last twilight #thai drama #thai actor #jimmy jitaraphol #sea tawinan #thai bl #p'aof

[hirmienworld]

MhokDay, a journey about hope, love and second chances🌄🌻❤️

#thai bl #bl drama #last twilight #last twilight the series #jimmysea #mhokday #jimmy jitaraphol #sea tawinan #p'aof #aof noppharnach

[wen-kexing-apologist]

Here's a parallel I hate

What Heart signs in the background of the church.

What heart signs to the sign language instructor at the church:

gif from @ablazenqueen

In order the signs are DEAF. THREE. YEARS. NOW. FIRST. MEET. DEAF. SAME."

Thank you to @deafcruz for pointing out the sign: SAME

So for a rough English translation: "I've been deaf for three years and now is the first I'm meeting others who are deaf"

What Heart signs to his mother in their fight: DEAF. YEARS. THREE.

gif from @maxescheibechlinichacheli

followed by "You never learned sign language. You are ashamed of me being Deaf,"

And like...yeah...we knew this already, but I can't believe that I didn't pay attention to what Heart was saying at the church until literally last night because he mentions how long he's been deaf and how long he's been deprived of community so casually in that scene. Probably cause he's just excited to meet other Deaf people. But that simple statement looms overhead, getting ready to be used again when Heart finally speaks his mind to his mother. When Heart finally shows her how isolated she has made him because her feelings have been more important than his life.

#moonlight chicken #moonlight chicken the series #mlcts #mlc #modern thai sign language #mtsl #american sign language #asl #heart x liming #heartliming #heart x li ming #gemini fourth #fourth gemini #fourth nattawat #fourthgemini #geminifourth #gemini norawit #the midnight series #gmmtv #p'aof #aof noppharnach

[guzhufuren]

how does P'Aof manage to squeeze our hearts with every single show in a way that is so sincerely queer

#last twilight #last twilight the series #mine #aof noppharnach #p'aof