sometimes i'll think about how, at the start of episode four, pete offers to help porsche guess who he might have kissed at the pier the night before, and i imagine a crackfic where porsche goes on a quest to find out who it was by kissing his colleagues one by one - starting with pete of course that man was ready to sacrifice himself for the cause when porsche had questions about casual hookups later in the episode, offering himself up without hesitation
he visits them one by one; pol is confused... but intrigued, it's like one of tankhun's series! arm already knows it wasn't him but insists they check it anyway... just to be sure, right? you never know. ken says he'll break his face if he tries anything (very suspicious, porsche makes sure to highlight his name). big doesn't know whether to be angry or confused, he wasn't even there??? no he and ken didn't sneak in halfway through because of a secret crush, this isn't one of tankhun's series! tankhun asks what they're doing and if he can join but porsche isn't about to open that can of worms.
maybe at some point kinn catches on and realizes porsche doesn't remember but is rating the others based on if they kiss better or worse than the ~mystery person~, which is giving him an ego boost up until porsche declares that one of his friends is actually a better kisser and therefore can't possibly have been involved (said friend is very confused about why khun kinn is giving him death glares for the rest of the week)
you can even throw in some chan or vegas or anyone else if you want to, just go crazy with it, i think that'd be really funny especially if porsche just casually blasts vegas after they make out for a solid minute saying "no you're good but the other guy was just less desperate you feel me, sorry bro".
week 8 (may 22nd - may 28th): favourite antagonist/villain(s) + music
oh man this scene....we have vegas being his absolute worst (love that)...being all sweet and supportive and caring and indulgent towards porsche WHEN HE DRUGGED HIM JUST LAST EPISODE (NOT EVEN AN ENTIRE HOUR AGO IF YOU'RE BINGING THE SERIES) this is top tier villainy from vegas; shouldn't expect anything less
BUT!
the thing that hits the most (for me) is the soft romantic background music the show runners decided to add to this scene....like COME ON!!! it gave SUCH conflicted emotions to me....i wanted to believe vegas was being nice coz of the music and it warmed me that porsche was enjoying himself after being SO HURT up till this point in the episode BUT NOT LIKE THIS!!!
it is important to note that we DIDN'T KNOW THESE WERE THE BEGINNING NOTES OF WHY DON'T YOU STAY!!! (the episode aired on 7 May and the OST was released on 9 May)
so now when i watch this scene (which is a lot coz episode 5 is my fav and you guys are probably sick of me saying this again and again lol) THERE IS SO MUCH....STUFF!!!!!!...IN MY HEART REGARDING THIS SCENE!
so yeah...A+ villainy and A++ music (esp in retrospect)
I made and deleted a post about this a few weeks ago but I've been thinking a lot about projecting onto toxic ships/dynamics in fiction, and not onto the romantic parts ("I relate to Pete in Vegaspete because I want someone to unlock me to human touch") but onto the very toxic parts ("I relate to Vegas in Vegasporsche because he's lying his ass off and orchestrating Porsche's downfall, and mentally blaming Porsche for everything he's planning to do to him, for believing the wrong things and choosing the wrong side, AND for falling for Vegas's obvious facade! Dummy I've always been your enemy it's SO OBVIOUS!! Yet in the moment, when they're riding bikes or hugging and Vegas is compartmentalizing, he does genuinely care about Porsche and feel honest affection for him, and that's what sells the lie... and makes Vegas hate himself for his traitorous weakness and want to sabotage any sincere moments they have"), and how huge this distinction feels to me.
So I wanted to do like a Tell me the most toxic fictional thing you overidentify with meme.
Not sure that's the best way to word it, and you don't have to (and probably shouldn't) explain why, but like. Don't tell me "I relate to Korn as a parent;" tell me "I relate to Korn when he's preventing his children from competing by pitting them against their cousins instead, because he can blame that on their grandfather and his brother and not himself, and pretend his kids are fine and it's just the cousins who are getting destroyed". Does that make sense? This way also I don't have to know your toxic blorbo to understand your toxic emotion.
Anyway do it