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Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004) dir. Raja Gosnell

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“My story has so much gay rep in it!” Awesome. How are you treating your female characters btw

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USERDRAMAS EVENT 01: FAVORITE ⇢ thai bl + friendship groups

so make the friendship bracelets, take the moment and taste it, you’ve got no reason to be afraid  

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the next prince - coming 2023

#yo this looks fun

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You ever watch a trailer and instantly recognise the directing style so you know you are going to dislike the show even though you like the concept and actors.

Thats Cooking Crush for me. I will give it a fair shake but I don't have high hopes purely because I have yet to enjoy any of Golf's works.

#thai bl #like oof i hated futs #i think he went into it in bad faith #and i think he showed his views on certain groups #and then i found cupids last wish to be hot mess that relyed so heavily on it's main actors to distract from said mess #and unfortunately the trailer gives futs vibes with i would have been excited for before i saw futs

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D’Artagnan: Fuck therapy I’m becoming a knight

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I feel like I watched a very different show to a lot of the audience with kinnporsche.

I wanted it to be what you are saying it was but it literally had much of the same pitfalls of the usual bl series but with better cinematography and acting.

Like it's was fine, I enjoyed it, but it wouldn't make my top 10.

#thai bl #kinnporsche #and im seeing some shit that makes my blood boil in tag #like mate dont pretend like there wasnt rape in this show. there fucking was and it was handled better than most but it was there #you pretending the show is a becon of consent is a joke #oh and there is a post about this bodying bls. and its really popular and its got some shit in there that aint had thought in #like bordering on acephobia and the fetishisation of gay men whilst criticising others for it in the same paragraph #oh and avoid mydramalist at all cost. it aint worth it. that comment section is oooofff

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Following this previous post :

I got a reply asking how I think Porsche could make it work as the leader of the minor family and I thought it over and realised it would be too much for a reply.

This will be extremely long, sorry about that, it turns out I had a lot of thoughts on it. Heads up my dissertation was mostly on European and North American mafias . As a result my knowledge on the mafia system in Thailand is next to zero, so there might be a lot of culture elements I'm missing so please take this just as an interesting thought experiment on my understanding on mafias and how Porsche would interact with that.

I hope this makes sense as I am writing this very early in the morning so please forgive any errors.

We have to go into this with the assumption that Porsche would want this to work and was willing to do anything to achieve it (which I don't think the character would but for the sake of the thought process lets pretend he would). And lets assume he has enough time to pull this off.

Porsche would need to establish control over the family before he tries anything with bringing the families together. I think the only way to make it work would be the method used by King Sejo of Joseon in his coup, obviously this was not a crime organisation but the methodology can be adapted.

First Porsche would need to make allies. It is a mafia, it will have a hierarchy, even the Russian mafia which is more of a network than family type system has a hierarchy. Porsche should bypass what's left of the established underbosses and begin making allies among the level below. Especially if this mafia has the equivalent of a Russian boyevik who were usually the muscle in charge of recruiting and training the underlings and associates. Think about who did most of the heavy lifting training Porsche in the main family and find their equivalents in the minor family. We will circle back to these as they will be useful later.

Great, Porsche has allies but now what? He gets rid of the high ranked members he previously bypassed, whether through exile or killing them. One of Sejo's first acts in the coup was the assassination of General Kim Jong-seo who was Left State Councillor at the time. This meant the ruling side was left without one of its main political and military figures and it also meant there was a power vacuum occurring to replace him. 2 birds, 1 stone. It leaves the established ruling section weaker as they no longer have anyone giving orders and it also opens up positions for Porsche to put his newly created allies in.

(These were also the ranks mostly likely to try and stage their own coup against Porsche as they has the existing authority, influence, and backing from their own loyal fractions. Best to get rid of the competition.)

Porsche now leads and has a newly created structure where the top levels are loyal to him. Here is where the newly promoted boyeviks come in. They know all the underlings and trained them, for the underlings who were used to answering to them anyway very little has changed. Its still the leadership they knew as they would have had very little interact with the big boss regardless, but now they are watching those of their own rank be promoted and will likely try to stand out to be promoted themselves.

And how would these underlings try to stand out? By taking on the role of the boyevik and going out to recruit new underlings. This will give Porsche an entire new wave of underlings whose only experience in the mafia would be of him as leader. It is far easier to keep loyalty to what is perceived as an instilled authority rather than sway it to something new.

Porsche now had a mafia family under his control. From here Porsche would have to learn fast and ensure the loyalty through maintaining the relationships with the new ranks. Getting control of a mafia is easy, maintaining a mafia is extremely hard. The Italian mafias tend to prefer to do this with a familial concept with the boss often alluded to as a doting but stern father doing what is best for the family. The modern Russian mafias find their origins in prison gangs in the gulags where 'thieves in law' developed as people who govern over criminal life and have a strict code of conduct. The code demands devotion to the criminal life and devotion to other criminals including taking the fall if caught by police. Most of the code has been left behind in recent years but the key to maintaining leadership of a mafia is devotion to it, whether that's to the people in it or to the concept of a thief in itself. I don't know how the Thai mafia works but I imagine it will require the same level of dedication to make it work.

And here is why it won't work:

Porsche is an outsider. King Sejo's coup worked partly as he had an existing claim to the throne as uncle to the ruling monarch and because he was already within that system. Porsche is a member of the main family as the partner to the head of the family. For a modern example how would you react if the new manager on your department was related to the ceo of the company? Probably wouldn't show them as much respect as the guy whose been working there for 8 years who just got passed over for the promotion.

Vegas is alive. Sejo first exiled his own brother and then sentenced him to death because he knew the brother had a claim to the throne and could be used by people in their own coup against him. Vegas has a better claim to leadership and is known within the family, they would be far more likely to rally around someone they know than this stranger sent from the main family. ( Further Vegas now has Pete on his side, and though Pete is loyal to the main family that loyalty is not equal to what he is giving to Vegas. The show has done a good job showing us the connection Pete has with the other bodyguards and especially Tankhun. If Vegas is pushed into taking back control then it triggers the switch from Pete being a bystander to one of the most influential pieces on the board.)

Porsche himself. Despite the common perception, mafias are extremely bureaucratic. To a truly ridiculous nature. Even if we ignore that Porsche is only in the mafia to protect Chay and to then be with Kinn, no part of his personality says he could deal with the bureaucracy. Most mafias have some form of self regulation to stay viable. In the Italian variations of the mafia we see that in 2 major ways: 1. the consigliere, someone who can question the boss in their decisions and also works to keep them honest to the family, and 2. the Commission, used by the Five Families as a board of directors type affair to keep an eye on things going on in the US and a place for them to mediate disputes. Both methods force the head to justify their decisions and why they are in the best interest of the family. The only viable option the show has given us to take on these roles is Kinn and I'm sure I don't need to go into detail on how badly that will turn out. Porsche will essentially have no one calling him out in a situation he neither enjoys nor excels in. (For those wondering this role is done by Tankhun in the main family)

This could never be seen as a 'unification' of the families. This is linked to point 1 but is the consequence for the minor family rather than Porsche. The best analogy I have for this is say you work for a small business and that business was sold to a megacorporation. You've been working fine in the small business but now the megacorp has sent one of their own executives to over see your business. That executive begins making little changes here or there, like he changes when you can go for your break or how lunch hours are divided or the rota and suddenly you have to start work an hour earlier than you used to because thats how its done in the megacorp. How quickly would you resent the megacorp? This was never meant to be a unification, it was an acquisition. Break the minor family down and then pick up the scraps left over whilst saying fancy words about unifying.

In conclusion this was a terrible idea and Kinn should have brought him a new ring and Porsche should just run a bar instead. Porsche could in theory successfully take over as leader, however I don't think he could last as leader even if he did. His loyalty will always be to Kinn more than the family and so how could the people serving the minor family put their trust in him to have their best interest in mind. Chances are this would result in him being ousted from leadership which would fracture the relationship between the 2 families for good and result in both houses being weakened leaving them vulnerable to outside attacks.

#kinnporsche #long post #@bookittyboop #thai bl #he would be killed within 3 months and it would cause a turf war with the main family #also its healthy for porsche to have something in his life that isn't related to kinn #you should have let him have a bar and given him a sense of his own identity away from kinn

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I imagine this is going to be an unpopular opinion but I absolutely hate the choice to give Porsche control over the minor family on a narrative level

#thai bl #kinnporsche #like the scenes can be visually cool and work well with the chemistry between kinn and porsche #and still be a bad story element #like i get why people would like it #its all about joining together as 1 #i get that #but porsche's interest in the mafia is entirely based around kinn and protecting chay #what about that says hes going to be good at leading a part of it? #or on another level why the fuck would the minor family put their trust in someone who will always be more loyal to the head #of the main family rather than the minor family as a whole #listen i did an entire dissertation on historal crime organisations #that shit only works if the underlings believe the leader (correctly or not) has the best interest of the organisation in mind #they accept personal losses because they believe in the whole not the individuals in a sense

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Ohmfluke excel at acting a very specific mood which I'm going to call tender melancholy that works so well for the series they do

#oh my sunshine night #until we meet again #like i cant articulate the mood well #but its just 2 good people in bad circumstances who choose to be kind without letting others know of the kindness #thai bl

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Old Fashion Cupcake » Episode 5

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These men will do anything to remind the world they should have gotten a happy ending...

No, seriously. I appreciate this from them. A+ guest appearance. Thank you for your service, may it continue for as long as you're willing.

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Am I avoiding starting Triage?

Yep

Am I doing that entirely so I can prepare myself in case it has a sad ending?

Oh yeah

#thai bl #triage #triage the series #listen i will never trust a show after history modc #i cant have such sadness sprung on me #i need warnings

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I've watched the first episode of old fashion cupcake and it already has a hold on me

#old fashion cupcake #japanese bl #i will have no chill about this show