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twig-tea · 4 months
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✨2023: A Summary✨
tagged by @dribs-and-drabbles and @lurkingshan 💕
I couldn't be bothered to toggle on/off privacy settings so I did this manually instead!
January to June 2023:
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[I was a lurker through to July so we start there]
July
Popular: Translation note in Laws of Attraction ep 3
Favourite: My Ride rewatch (& self-reflection)
August
Popular: Be My Favourite ep 11 clown checkpoint
Favourite: : Be My Favourite ep 11 meta roundup [shocked this was less popular but it was linked in the other one so maybe people reblogged only the one]; Tonhon Chonlatee [this was a response rather than an original post; it felt good to get this this out of my head]
September
Popular: Only Friends episode 6 scene by scene [when the brainrot was real]
Favourite:  Love Class 2: A Love Letter, In Defense of Dan and Yok [had to give it to two this month; the second is a response]
October
Popular: Only Friends finale reaction
Favourite:  IFYLITA and found family
November
Popular: Liminality in Last Twilight
Favourite: [ditto; I had a hiatus this month so this was one of the few things I posted but I'm so glad I was able to get this out before real life took over]
December
Popular: Cigarette in the Cake from Last Twilight [by a landslide lol and thank you everyone for being as obsessed with this as I am]
Favourite: Beyond the Star rant [I wrote this entirely for me lol];  Why Phaya took the couch in The Sign [response]
[And I've added these two additional categories so that i can use this as my new pinned post lol]
2023 end of year round-up posts:
2023 Watch List
Top "5" (lol) characters I would help bury a body
Top 5 Couple fights
Top 5 Yearning scenes
Five other posts that I want to highlight because I can:
Why R U Korea mistranslation
Alternatives to Measure Your Life By
Grand Guignol review
Love in Translation review
Shadow the series squicks and scares
Ask game re: my BL start and fave shows [previous pinned post]
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rocketturtle4 · 4 months
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✨2023: A Summary✨
Post your most popular and/or favourite edit/gifset/analysis for each month (it’s okay to skip months!)
tagged by @dribs-and-drabbles, @lurkingshan, @wen-kexing-apologist @twig-tea - I really appreciate everyone still tagging me and reading my few meagre contributions despite the fact I feel like I've become a tumblr ghost in the last few months only briefly gaining corporality for a moment before I vanish again.
January - May
I only got on Tumblr in very late May of this year (for the second time but the mid 2010s were a different time lol) so no posts till after that, also It has still been less than a year since I even started watching BL.
June
I had to go manually searching for some of these, nobody used to know who I was.
Most popular: Dying over having Emotions (basically just me having no idea how to convert myself to weekly viewings without agony lol)
Favourite: Arthrit was my Favourite Character and I want to write about him; My reflection on the SOTUS Franchise as a newbie - my first proper attempt at meta
July
Most popular:  Be My Favourite - When is the present actually the future - This was my first go at analysing an airing show (about ep 5)
Favorite(s): To Sir With Love - A Reflection - My first deliberate grappling with western vs eastern family norms and how this informs me as a western viewer + Why Kawi Felt Intentionally Ace Coded (something I absolutely stand by)
August (OF started but I got Shadowbanned lol)
Most popular: Thaenthai's shirt (Laws of Attraction) - Not a meta just an observation
Favorite: Aceness in BL, Lets go for a Ramble (My Favourite Post of the Year) + Tonhon Chonlatee is Phenomenal - Long Post Edition (because it is)
September
Most popular meta: I am adoring the heart of Only Friends
Most popular post (ever lol): Determination (to have sex) (MPW)
October (My PhD thesis was seriously eating me by here)
Most popular/Favourite: Only Friends, Shipping Culture, Cross-Generational Differences, Themes and Endgame
November
The only post I made in November was this one lol
December 
Most popular/favourite: I am here to freak out about the sign and it's portrayal of masculinity
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I'm still trying to figure out a new balance of Study and Tumblr and Work and Shows but I will continue to try to be around into the New Year
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Tagging (possibly double/triple tagging): @ranchthoughts @he-is-lightning-in-a-bottle @plantsarepeopletoo @sparklyeyedhimbo @thegalwhorants @grapejuicegay
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absolutebl · 10 months
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Hello! As always, you're awesome. The Awesomest even.
In several of my rabbit hole spirals through your blog posts I have clicked on links that lead to me a "URL not found" screen with your former @ you-had-me-at-bl name and Icon. Do you know if these post's are gone gone? (e.g. have you deleted them, do they no longer exist because you changed things or do you still have links, it's just that I'm looking at very old posts where the links understandably don't work).
In particular I've been trying to find and bookmark all your episode by episode watches (trash watch or otherwise) for me to come back to as I work my way through Thai BL (because the one's I have read as I watched are extremely entertaining). Several of the older shows links have lead me to this screen. Most recently I clicked on TT2 episode by episode recap which lead me to finally asking about it.
Totally fine if they're just gone obvs but thought there was no harm in asking :)
(If you do have the links and are happy to share I will be going on a long spiral to find broken links I want to read just FYI).
Thank you for the kindness!
Yeah Tumblr backend code is a NIGHTMARE. Piece of advice, never change your handle.
You have two options,
you can ask me for the specific blog post (because I keep a somewhat substantial link chain record) or
you can hop off Tumblr to google and Google "AbsoluteBL + some string of keywords you're looking for.
Honestly, if I lose a thing I wrote that is what I do.
Sorry can't be more helpful, but at least this blog is publicly searchable?
The TT2 trash watch ia here:
But I did pull a meta post of all the tash watches. If any of those links don't work let me know I can try going in and fixing them. (Tumblr doesn't always let me update old blog posts.)
The hard code on this site is insane.
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aprilblossomgirl · 1 year
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The Eclipse Index Page
In my attempt to organize all my posts related to The Eclipse for easier access for myself when I wanted to make a final thought post later, I decided to make this index page. As I plan to do a rewatch soon and write the episode’s notes and reviews, this index post might still be growing to list those. In any way, this is a very belated post, but just in case someone still going through the tag. I classified my posts into six categories based on the content, with each category sorted chronologically (at most), as listed and described below: 
Shorter Text Posts: Brief thoughts and observation of certain scenes, instances, elements, or characters. 
Wondering about what are the Suppalo’s rules.
Hermit.
Ayan leaving his belongings and Akk found them.
Akk can't say no to challenges.
Akk and Ayan: the rule keeper and the rule challenger.
A different side of the three good friends: Akk, Kan, Wat.
Ayan on Akk, and his revenge board.
Personal space. 
That first kiss: the cheek kiss and a snapshot.
Akk, Ayan, and Singto.
That comfort spaces.
Wat and his interest in indie filmmaking.
The story behind the World Remembers. 
Ayan on Akk’s questions about Dika.
Akk and Ayan’s hoodie. 
Reflecting back to episode 1.
That (imaginary) first kiss.
Ayan being vulnerable with Akk at the beach of Akk’s home. 
About the backstory of Dika.
Wasuwat’s drunk confession about studying film.
The hugs and the kiss.
Ayan and sleeping Akk.
About that first real kiss.
Things I love from episode 10: Part 1, Part 2
Favorite scenes from episode 10.
Akk and his status as the head of student prefects club.
About Namo.
Favorite scenes from episode 11.
Favorite final quote: “I love you. And I want you to love yourself too.”
Incoherent thoughts prior to the finale.
Longer Text Posts: Analysis, description, or reviews.
Context: Ayan’s (and Akk’s) names.
Visual symbolism - symmetrical composition and formality.
Context: grade school scholarship system vs. student prefects’ position.
Analysis: The Eclipse and the School Curse.
Analysis: Suppalo, Uniforms, and (Assumed) Equality.
Visual symbolism - colors in Thailand. 
Visual symbolism - the double flags of Suppalo: blue and white.
Halfway thoughts (Part 1) - the eclipse, the curse, the story told.
Halfway thoughts (Part 2) - Uniform Regulation & Student Welfare Department.
Halfway thoughts (Part 3) - being a teenager, self-acceptance, and mental health.
The effect of authoritarianism in the education system on people.
Posts about Wasuwat. (I decided to make a separate section for him.)
First thought about Wasuwat.
Second thought about Wasuwat.
Wasuwat and Sani: student - teacher understanding and camaraderie.
Third thought about Wasuwat.
Fourth thought about Wasuwat - or basically just my declaration of love of him. 
Fifth thought about Wasuwat.
Sixth thought about Wasuwat.
Seventh thought about Wasuwat.
Notes: Through Wat’s Lenses - a very personal favorite from all my posts about this show, because to me Wat’s lenses are the meta of this show :)
Reaction Posts. (Just shoutout and non-senses but still need to be documented.)
Reaction post on Ayan’s revenge board.
Reaction post after episode 6: Part 1, Part2.
Reaction post on the (imaginary) first kiss.
Reaction post of me watching The Eclipse: the actual series vs. the behind the scenes.
Reaction post on the pool kiss. 
Reaction post after episode 10.
Reaction post after episode 11: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Reaction post after episode 12.
Posts not (really directly) related to the show but still important to me.
First and Khaotung as Akk and Ayan.
The crossover about school’s rules: The Eclipse X 55:15 Never Too Late.
Casts crossover: Khaotung Thanawat and Leo Trai in Tonhon Chonlatee and The Eclipse.
Cast-related post: The Eclipse Series RECAP (from GMMTV Twitter).
Music - background music during the confession scene in Akk’s bedroom.
Still Sets. (Sets of edited shots, in black/white and in colors, from the show - my commentaries, if any, are on the tags.)
The Eclipse Special (2022) 
Ep. 01.1 | Ep. 01.2
Ep. 02.1 | Ep. 02.2 
Ep. 03.1 | Ep. 03.2 | Ep. 03.3
Ep. 04.1 | Ep. 04.2 | Ep. 04.3
Ep. 05.1 | Ep. 05.2 | Ep. 05.3
Ep. 06 Preview
Ep. 06.1 | Ep. 06.2 | Ep. 06.3 | Ep. 06.4 | Ep. 06.5
Ep. 07.1 | Ep. 07.2 | Ep. 07.3 | Ep. 07.4
Ep. 07 a random 2X2 screenshots of Thua watching Akk and Ayan.
Ep. 07 a random portrait screenshots of Akk and Ayan.
Ep. 08.1 | Ep. 08.2| Ep. 08.3
Ep. 09.1 | Ep. 09.2 | Ep. 09.3 | Ep. 09.4 | Ep.09.5
Ep. 10.1 | Ep. 10.2 | Ep. 10.3
Ep. 11.1 | Ep. 11.2 | Ep. 11.03 | Ep. 11.4 | Ep. 11.5
Ep. 12.1 | Ep. 12.2 | Ep. 12.3 | Ep. 12.4 | Ep. 12.5 
The Eclipse (2022) | Our Skyy 2 Promo Trailer (2023)
If you happen to see/read any of my posts, I hope you enjoyed them :)
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on November 27, 2021, I started watching bad buddy out of idle curiosity, given a mutual's long meta post about the greatest first kiss in cinematic history. i watched all 5 available episodes and fell ass over teakettle for not only the show, but thai BL as well. it is now November 27, 2022. here's everything I've watched, ranked out of 10 (including BL from other countries and some non-BL as well). final count: 116. (92 finished. 18 started/in-progress but did not finish. 6 actively watching that are airing now). I kept copious notes about all the shows I watched so if you're curious why I ranked a certain show like I did, please feel free to send me an ask :) I love talking about my thoughts about things
10/10 (i had fun 100% of the time I was watching or it made my brain produce happy static to think about)
Kinnporsche
Manner of Death
Tale of 1000 Stars
Until We Meet Again
HIStory 3: Trapped
9/10 (great show, great characters, but there was 1 or 2 things I didn't like about the writing/acting/production)
Bad Buddy
Not Me
A Man Who Defied the World of BL
Lovely Writer
My Beautiful Man
A First Love Story
Semantic Error
Cherry Blossoms After Winter
The Sound of Magic
DNA Says Love You
Triage
Old Fashion Cupcake
Roommates of Poongduck 304
8/10 (same as above, with slightly more egregious errors)
He's Coming To Me
Cherry Magic
Keita Hatsukoi
Where Your Eyes Linger
Kei x Yaku
The Eclipse
You Make Me Dance
Long Time No See
Tinted with You
Please Tell Me So
You're My Sky
Love and Leashes
My Only 12%
TharnType Special Episode
HIStory: Obsessed
HIStory: Stay Away From Me
Secret Crush on You
Plus and Minus
Mr. Unlucky Has No Choice But to Kiss
Love Stage (Thailand)
We're Both Grooms
Hey Rival! I Love You
Kimi no Koto Dake Mite Itai
On Cloud Nine
We Best Love
7/10 (flawed but I enjoyed it. a pulp that is a 7/10 has a much higher score than a high-budget/polished show that has a 7/10)
Cutie Pie
BeLoved In House: I Do
SOTUS
Color Rush
Nobleman Ryu's Wedding
Light On Me
Wish You
To My Star
7 Days
HIStory 2: Crossing the Line
HIStory 2: Right or Wrong
Dear Doctor, I'm Coming for Soul
HIStory 4: Close To You
Because of You
You Are Ma Boy
Gameboys
Love from Outta Space
Blueming
Tonhon Chonlatee
Cupid's Last Wish
Close Friend 2
The Ring Goes Missing
About Youth
Mr. Heart
Zero Photography
Takara-Kun and Amagi-Kun
Love in the Air
6/10 (seriously flawed and/or disappointing. usually in the 'I can fix it' range)
Star in your Mind
Theory of Love
Golden Blood
Why R U?
My Secret Love
My Tee
Mood Indigo
Senpai This Can't Be Love
Want to See You
5/10 (everything here I got through on 1.5x-2.0x speed)
Together with Me
Close Friend
Kissable Lips
Puppy Honey
Puppy Honey 2
Love's Coming
Meow Ears Up
The Promise
En of Love: Love Mechanics
Zero Supporter
4/10 (I finished it so i must have liked something about it)
Love By Chance
3/10 (hatewatch)
The Pornographer
TharnType
DFN (did not finish for various reasons. sometimes shows I enjoyed greatly are on this list. some I am still watching at my own pace)
3 Will Be Free
7 Project
Ingredients
Love is Science?
Enchante
War of Y
Ghost Host Ghost House
Lovesick
Big Dragon
Second Chance
The Gifted
Miracle of the Teddy Bear
I'm Tee, Me Too
Even Sun
Extraordinary Attorney Woo
Love Between Fairy and Devil
Coffee Melody
Ocean Likes Me
Still airing
GAP
Choco Milkshake
Between Us
I Will Knock You
Remember Me
My Tooth Your Love
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heretherebedork · 3 years
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Ai and Ni are just so unique in Thai Bl. They’re an established gay couple that are heavily implied to be actually gay and not ‘gay for him’. There’s talk of gaydar, recognizing one of their own and shared attractions. Which is just... amazing. Chaotic gay himbos for the win.
Honestly, THCT has so many out and gay characters it’s pretty amazing. Na, Nueng, Chon, Ai, Ni, the nameless guys hitting on Chon... I mean, most of the cast is gay AND out about it.
Is the show perfect? Nothing is perfect. Is it still one of my favorite shows and will probably stay that way? Yes.
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longinglook · 3 years
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gmmtv is making it so hard to enjoy thonhon chonlatee, and it's a pity because i like the focus they've been putting on why thon is so casually homophobic by showing us the environment he's been brought up in and the constant pressure his father has been putting on him. thon is supposed to be unsufferable and clueless now, and i think his path to realizing and acknowledging his true self will be very interesting to watch.
the real problem of this show is the amounts of homophobia, transphobia and jokes on topics nobody should joke about. having ai and ni force chon to come out and confess by threatening him like that was incredibly uncomfortable and unsettling to watch, and it was played as a funny bit that shows that the writers have no awareness for real life queer experiences. one thing is hearing homophobic remarks from a character that's explicitly supposed to be seen as homophobic because of his background and will have a redemption/learning arc, another is the miriad of jokes and slurs that fly by unnoticed because "if a gay character says it then it's okay".
so yeah, no gifs from me this week, this episode was not it
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heretherebedork · 3 years
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I really love that Na is in on the entire plan. This isn’t fake flirting without him knowing, which I was a bit worried about happening? But no. Na knows exactly what’s going on and has his own goals in this, both selfish and altruistic. Which just makes this all so much better. 
Like, yeah, Na is using this as a chance to keep seriously hitting on Chon. But he also knows that he could just be helping Chon get with Ton. And he has no issues with that. He’s doing this because both outcomes are perfectly fine.
I love him so much. He’s in this because he wants to help Chon. Whether that’s by dating him or helping him get together with the person likes... well, either way is helping!
Now I really wish Na had a secondary love interest because I want him to be happy forever after. Also, his friend group growing more and more as they start calling him out on his BS while showing him that NOT doing it gains him more friends? It’s fantastic.
I genuinely love this boy so much. I love all these characters. I love this little queer found family that have come together with humor and drama to show us what it means.
I love this show.
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heretherebedork · 3 years
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Look, I know we all love Na. And we want him to be happy. And we know that he loves Chon.
I really, really want to point out how much Na wanted friends. He was very clear about that when he talked to Chon on their first outing alone together. Na was lonely. Yes, he loved Chon. But he was so happy just to have Chon as a friend. Chon makes him happy, as he said..
Now look at him! He has 6 ride or die friends and a whole little queer found family ready to take care of him. He’s got a whole support system that’s formed around him. They’re at his side, they’re making sure he’s happy, they listen to him and comfort him and care for him.
This isn’t the ending, not yet. But this is good. Na’s gotten a lot of what he wanted. He got friends. He found a family. 
Did he get the boy? No.
But, in the end, he still got something he wanted and needed.
He got friends.
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heretherebedork · 3 years
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Tonhon’s shock that Ai and Ni would even consider moving out after coming out, that they would think he would suddenly be uncomfortable around them...
Tonhon has never, never thought of his words in a personal way. He’s never considered that the people around him fit into the boxes that he mocks. That’s just not a connection he made. 
Because he never considered any of it personal.
He never, ever thought that any of his friends would be gay. Or could be gay. I mean, look at the extent they had to go to just to convince him that it wasn’t a prank!
Yet he’s still shocked when they talk about moving out.
Because none of it, absolute none of it, was ever personal to him.
Look at how happy he is when he watches SOTUS. Look at how much he obviously connects with the characters. Then look at how he talks about gay people. And that’s because he’s never thinks of anything he says in personal terms.
It’s why he’s so shocked. It’s why he’ll probably keep saying those things for a while.
Because, for him, that’s just how people talk. It’s how his family has always talked. It doesn’t mean anything to him.
But it does mean a lot to the people around him. Now he’s being forced to face that his words have had meaning all along. He’s also being forced to face that he isn’t who he thinks he is.
Tonhon is going to rebuild himself in the rest of these episodes. But everyone’s going to have to keep pushing him. Luckily, sassy Chon is obviously here, with the help of his queer found family in Na and Ni and Ai and Miriam and Pang.
Can’t wait! 
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heretherebedork · 3 years
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Look at Tonhon now!
Look at him!
Imagine if we’d seen him like this earlier.
He doesn’t seem stupid. He doesn’t seem brutish. 
Acknowledging his feelings for Chon literally turned him into a better person.
Homophobia makes you look stupid and brutish.
Being honest with yourself makes you look smarter, sweeter and like an overall better person.
Life lessons from Tonhon Chonlatee.
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heretherebedork · 3 years
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I feel like I need to rewatch Tonhon Chonlatee because just from memory... I think Tonhon is getting smarter.
Not... actually smart.
But he’s making better choices. He’s more articulate. He’s still bad at emotions but I’m starting to understand how he could possibly be a good student.
And I think that’s deliberate.
The more Tonhon faces his own homophobia and internal biases, the more he’s able to show his own intelligence. The better he becomes, the smarter we get to see he is.
I love this, fyi.
Because it’s just GREAT. Tonhon is showing that being homophobic was holding him back. Being homophobic was making him sound stupid ALL THE TIME.
And now as he starts tor realize what he was doing, we’re getting to see the good person his friends saw.
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heretherebedork · 3 years
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So, honestly, the idea that Tonhon is bi and has been in denial of it for a very long time is... really hitting me after this episode. The way he’s been raised and the way he talks about the romance between men is very telling. He’s in deep, deep denial. But it’s there, lurking beneath the surface. That’s what he wants. And the only way he can handle it is pretending it doesn’t exists. By parroting that it’s wrong, like he’s heard his entire life. 
Tonhon has a mountain to climb to get to where he can be truly happy with himself and the worst part is that he’s convinced himself that there is no mountain. That this is just what life looks like for everyone.
... Or maybe I’m thinking too deeply into a comedic dumbass character.
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heretherebedork · 3 years
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Tonhon doesn’t know he’s gay because he’s defined the very concept of gay as ‘other’. Gay to Tonhon means ‘not me’. It means ‘not my friends’. It means ‘someone I don’t know and don’t like’.
I mean, this is not a man who engages in self-reflection or introspection or thinks deeply about anything. He’s following his father’s example because, let’s be honest, he’s never had a reason not to in his mind.
Tonhon doesn’t think about how feels about Chon because it would never occur to him to think about it! He doesn’t think about being gay or wanting to touch him because why would he think about that?
It’s also why he overlooks everything about Ai and Ni. Because they’re not Other. They’re his friends and thus they’re not gay. Obviously. He’s so dense because of all that internalized homophobia which has resulted in his othering all gay people as... well, ‘not his friends/himself/people he likes’.
My prediction is that Chon gets outed in the scene from the preview where he kisses a sleeping Ton. Ton flips and Ai and Ni end up outting themselves (might just be Ni outting them with Ai getting upset, possibly) and that’s going to set off an entire lifetime of self-reflection for Ton.
... I can’t wait.
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heretherebedork · 3 years
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I do have to laugh because, yes, Tonhon watching SOTUS is unrealistic because... I mean... I mean, seriously? SERIOUSLY?
But I love it anyway because the timing with so perfect and the scene was perfect and just everything about Tonhon lying on his bed in his childhood home watching that PERFECT speech as he imagines his childhood best friend that he’s fallen in love with and is still denying.
His soft smile, the way he relaxes into the bed and into himself until he starts to thinks about it again.
Tonhon has buried himself in toxic masculinity and homophobia. He’s let his family, mostly his father, dictate his opinions and his personality for years. He’s never thought about it. 
Now he’s being forced to face a part of himself he never knew was there. Because it’s been pulled to the front by force.
This is a hint of how happy he’ll be eventually. He just has to fight his way there against himself.
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heretherebedork · 3 years
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I have exactly two modes with Tonhon Chonlatee:
1. MEME MEME MEME MEME
2. Deep thoughts on internalized homophobia
Nothing in between.
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