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😂 we need a season 2 of 40 episodes

All the couples seem happy in the finale but what they don't tell you is that a few years after what happens in this series Wine's old crush will come back and seduce Jet, breaking up the original 10 liners couple, to then marry and scam him 😔

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Faifa deserved to have better friends in the show! Because they didn't give him that, I think Yotha is just bearing the brunt of the show deciding Faifa only needed (romantic) "love" to be "seen". And Yotha is sadly the only one who talks about Faifa constantly enough to have to deal with it.

Listen, I love this show, especially the faifawine arc (honestly, because of the faifawine arc!). But this arc uses a storyline that I hate so much- "you just haven't met the right person" and somehow handles it so beautifully! Because the concept isn't that Wine was enough to change Faifa, it is that they loved each other enough to be a positive influence on each other. And that I 100% believe in and will always eat up!

But Faifa had virtually no friends in figuring anything out!! He is a very private person, obviously, he bottles everything up! And this arc was supposed to be about him not doing that anymore.

(ep22)

They made it a point to show us how often Faifa shows up for other people (which is constantly) and that is the reason most of us fell in love with him.

And when his arc started I was really excited about him finding love, but I was soooo excited to see Phuri, who was apparently his only real friend!

Louis is a delight in this show! Steals every scene he is in. What Phuri unfortunately isn't, is a good friend to Fa (at least he doesn't have enough screentime to prove otherwise). I love their playful banter, but he doesn't even do as much as Ben and Jay!

No one shows up for Faifa except Wine.

(ep21)

And Yotha- he shows up for Faifa when there is an external conflict. He's never been good with emotions.

(ep20)

I mean, he was so bad with Gun, Arm and Fa had to play mediator. So it's not a shock that he doesn't see Faifa is in soo much pain because of what their mom did. Yotha understands anger; he doesn't understand sadness over something that should make Fa angry.

(ep16)

But he still understands Faifa! (He's probably the only one at the table to make this connection and continues to do nothing about it :) )

(ep18)

And I think that's why he's getting so much flak. I think he's getting a disproportionate amount of hate (and defence) for what is happening to Faifa. But I'm still mad at Yotha, and this is why I feel justified about it.

I'm mad at Yotha because I want Faifa to be mad at Yotha. Because Yotha might be the safest person for Faifa to show his anger to, and he's too scared to do that, too! They are brothers, and it doesn't matter if it wasn't Yotha's responsibility to inform Fai of anything about his mother's flight being delayed- Yotha knew, and that alone should let Faifa be whiny and angry- but he wasn't.

(ep21)

I am angry because having a fight, showing you're upset, and knowing that your relationship is stronger than that is a privilege - one that Faifa doesn't seem to allow himself to have. If he has it with anyone, it should be with Yotha (or Phuri, but the show didn't give him much to do at all, but I digress).

We, as the audience, have seen Yotha, we know him, and we know he loves Faifa. And knowing he loved Fa makes it so much worse that he still doesn't feel loved or wanted. I don't think Yotha is a bad brother or a bad character. In fact, I'm angry because he's a well-written character!

(ep13) (Like, where did this Yotha go after he got a boyfriend??!)

It just seems like the show decided that he is going to be a Gun simp and nothing else. And that falls back into another trope I hate. Being in a romantic relationship is not an excuse to ignore everyone in your life. Priorities can change, but not to the extent that you only have one priority! Yotha is a better brother than that, and I think we deserve to see that side of him as well!

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I CANTTT HOLY SHIT POWER COUPLEEEE

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SO beautiful 🤩

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During the series, we hear some memorable phrases from our obsessive Saint. I’ve listed them here. I’m not sure if I got them all, but these are the main ones.

Title:

THE GREATEST DECLARATIONS OF LOVE

By SAINT

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Shin had some memorable lines too.😅

These boys throw these phrases at us and call it bromance. #BromanceMyAss

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During the series, we hear some memorable phrases from our obsessive Saint. I’ve listed them here. I’m not sure if I got them all, but these are the main ones.

Title:

THE GREATEST DECLARATIONS OF LOVE

By SAINT

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HSF worked some real magic, because how on earth is it better than the current BL airing right now? 😭. It’s completely taken over my time. If I’m not watching the series, I’m camping on AO3. Gosh, I’m going to miss it so much. Now that it’s over, someone please write some fanfic!

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AND OF COURSE THAT’S BROMANCE 👯‍♂️. GMMTV 😬. I Swear if I get you

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it makes me so sad that more people aren't watching 'you're my sky'. it's so soft. and good. and the cinematography is fucking gorgeous. it's the only bl i've watched with multiple couples where i have been equally invested in each couple !!

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listen if you don't like a drama that's all good, just drop it and move on. whats the point of flooding their tag with negativity and then say "defend the drama to me" like you're just set on not liking it which i guess it's cool, but move on. go watch something that make you happy. you're not superior to anyone just because "you can't stomach the characters" or "can't see why Pran likes Pat" like babe go do something that brings you joy.

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thinking about how pha's always watching out to find pran like its a habit of hers. how she will praise him in front of her father his ego be damned. she couldn't glorify him openly for saving her life, so instead she's made him her idol in quiet.

i just wonder whether her habit of looking out for pran is smth that started after he saved her life, both bc he was her hero and she too, like her brother, must have felt indebted. or if this was smth she picked up after his transfer, waiting and checking day after day to see if now, if today, p'pran will return.

maybe it was smth she always did, silently watching pran in school just in case he needed help, going to her brother to tell him to loosen up on the rivalry is pran ever walked home w his shoulders tense. pat would relent to pran and excuse himself saying it was pha even during times it wasn't.

she didn't want pran to know about this, but they all know he knows, but instead of shutting out or watching his gait, he comes to her himself to complain about pat now. he likes having a friend who genuinely wants to unload his burdens, a little sister who fights her own family for him. she thinks of it as repayment first, still uses that card against pat - bc what's larger than a life, how can u ever repay such a favor - but somewhere, sometime, she's stopped caring about her debt, looking after pran is a second nature to her.

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BBS: My Favorite Pat Moments

This is my follow up/companion piece to My Favorite Pran Moments, please check that out if you missed it. Small request: I don’t mind if you screenshare this post to other sites, but please source/link back to my tumblr and do give me a heads up, I love reading all the comments! Thank you. Now onto our clingy engineer/ loveable puppy.

Everyone wants and needs a Pat in their life. Someone who goes full throttle, balls to wall in their quest to help you. Someone who challenges you every step of the way. Someone who’s zest and optimism for life is contagious. Who is annoyingly charming yet so earnest in his efforts that you can’t help but smile through your irritation. Pat is a loud, walking chaotic ball of energy, but his heart is always well-meaning and his intentions are never misplaced. There is an innocence to Pat that is pure and honest, where he constantly seeks out that silver lining even when there is none. Someone who stands confidently in his convictions but is the first to apologize when he’s wrong. Someone who loves HARD, forgives easily, and consistently says what he means and means what he says, never faltering. So, is it any wonder that Pran fell as hard as he did? Who would be immune to any of that? Especially when its packaged in all of THIS:

Here are my favorite Pat moments from the series. It would be impossible to ask me to put these in any sort of ranking order because I truly love them ALL, so like Pran’s moments, I will list them chronologically as they appeared on screen.

**Fair warning: there is a small section of slightly NSFW content buried under the cut. Nothing too crazy but just thought you should know in case that’s something you’re not comfortable reading. It will be clearly marked for those that want to skip.

EP3 - He kept the guitar! FOR YEARS!

All moments leading up to this reveal could possibly be explained away as Pat just being Pat, unconsciously flirtatious in both words and action. I’ll even forgive his physical affection towards Pran as Pat being a very tactile person and because Pran keeps his distance, Pat has to put forth that much more effort with the chin boops and head ruffles to pry a reaction out of him. BUT when Pat pulls out the guitar from its hiding spot, all bets are off. He knows how much this guitar means to Pran and kept it for him for YEARS, inside its case that has Pran’s name clearly marked on it. How many times throughout the years did Pat pull it out to look, touch and think about Pran? What must have crossed through his mind? Imagine all the times Pat did well on an exam or in a sports match and looked around for that very specific person to rub their noses in his victory, only to see no one smirking back and thinking Oh, I forgot. He’s not here anymore. The palpable sadness in winning a meaningless victory when there’s no one to brag about it to. He might as well have lost. He comes home and pulls out the guitar, the only remaining part of Pran he has, to curb that feeling of loneliness. Can you just imagine? 

Not only that, but to hide it from his parents FOR THREE YEARS!! and then to BRING IT WITH HIM to uni- an entirely new environment that doesn’t have any Pran memories to trigger him. Why Pat? Did you think you would be lonely without Pran there as well? Mr. Popular and President of His Faculty, lonely? Pat’s situation is that classic example of being surrounded by hordes of people but still feeling exquisitely and breathlessly alone because it’s never the right person beside him. Pat, were you ready to condemn yourself to a life of missing Pran or did you want the guitar close by whenever the depression hit? You know he sniffed the hell out of that case, too. You know he did. Then, imagine how Pat felt returning the guitar to its owner. What went through his mind as he handed over such a symbolic piece of his life that got him through the Pran-less years? Can you now understand his reaction to finding out that Pran left the guitar with Wai in EP7? Pat must feel like the guitar is half his by now. They say it’s usually harder for the person left behind and I think in Pat’s case, depressingly lonely might have been an understatement.

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Bad Buddy – A Case For Why it is not “Just Fluff” or “Bad Writing”

(this will be long LOL I feel like that’s what tumblr is for)

Ok so I consume a ton of Bad Buddy media. Like a TON from twitter, to interviews, to reactions and recap vids, to podcasts. I like to nerd out about a show I really enjoy and listen to all the opinion pieces. The response to Bad Buddy has been overwhelming positive which makes me happy cause I have a deep love for this show. I don’t have issues with critiques either. I don’t think we all have to like the same thing, but I just found some really interesting and I kind of wanted a space to counter them and explain why I disagree. This isn’t an attack on other viewpoints, but I love when they can spark discussion or debate. I really had to exam some things when I heard these two opinions and think about why I disagree.

Bad Buddy is just Fluff and Bad, Basic Writing

To be fair the people saying this, and I have heard several people say it, were not putting the show down. Their point was that it was lighthearted and not too melodramatic and felt like it lacked some substance and that it being “fluffy” is why it was their comfort show. I would never call it just fluff so I was so confused by this reaction. I mean I cried multiple times watching this show. I spent hours dissecting ideas and feelings about real life topics. When I think of a show that is “fluff” I don’t feel challenged by it. I watch it and leave it till the next week. I can have it on as background noise, but this was not that. It wasn’t that for most people. The conversations I read and watched around this show were not lighthearted only. Did we celebrate their love? Yes, but I saw much more than that. I mean it’s hard to trend each week on fluff post. It wasn’t a bunch of “Ohm’s so sexy, Nanon is dreamy” posts. People were engaging is some in depth debates. Fluff doesn’t elicit that kind of response.

For me this show had several moments that had emotional impact and made me examine how I would handle a situation. I wonder if because the implications of certain things were quiet and often not conveyed through dialogue some people don’t consider their depth as valid.

The conflict that drove the whole story was the rivalry of the parents. This is such a real thing. Whether it be as direct as two families that have hate for each other or families who don’t want their kids to be around or fall in love with a certain race or religion. The idea of a parent’s past dictating the interaction of their children is so real and honestly heavy. The generational trauma that that can cause and how it can affect who we love and how we walk through life just isn’t fluffy to me.

Pran’s Character Hurt My Heart The Most – He was so damaged by his mother that it fully informed every decision he made. The fact that the rift between the parents was because of this lost scholarship even better informs why it manifested the way it did (which is why the writing is good and not basic!). I have so much compassion for Pran’s mom as well as contempt. I fully believe Pran’s mom believed she was protecting him. Think about it. She had a close friend who betrayed her and took her future. If you can’t understand how devastating this plot point is then it may be difficult to get the impact it would have on how Pran was raised.

Education for women during the time Pran’s mom was a kid was probably difficult to get. Education can be your ticket out. I know for my mom going to college provided her a future and options. It meant she did not need to rely on a man or marriage to make a life for herself.

POCs and low income families (1st Gen College Kids) know the sacrifice of higher education. I know many immigrant families can relate as well. My mom was the first in her family to go to college and my father went to the military so his sister could go to college. Even with financial aid they knew only one could go.

No matter how good her life may be going now the pain of what could have been will always linger. My father was at the top of his class. Who knows what he could have become if he had not lost years to the military? I know that thought still haunts him to this day.

Making this the reason was so much more compelling than some “break up” plot line. It’s relatable and sad. It can change your whole world view. Pran’s mom felt like getting too close to the wrong people can destroy your future. She convinced herself that Pat’s dad was raising him to be just like him since he showed zero remorse. I think she truly believed she was protecting Pran from a fate like hers. She over protected to the point of damaging him. Not just his relationship with Pat but a fear of “stepping out of line” and “not being perfect”(note his OCD tendencies).

There was a level of emotional abuse there you could see in how he reacted to things. Pran would make himself small whenever he felt like he was at fault for the parent’s situation. He would tighten up and cower. Ugh he hurt my heart. I would get so mad at reactors that would complain when he wasn’t more vocal. The one time he was brave and open with Pat he got sent away for TWO YEARS!! If that doesn’t create a core memory I don’t know what would. It changed him and shaped him. He “had no friends” when he was little. As much as we couldn’t stand Wai it was the closest, he allowed himself to be to someone cause “mom loves Wai”. The toxicity of that mother/son relationship and how it affected his whole life is not “fluff” or “bad writing” to me. There is nothing basic about that story line. To make us angry and how she treated Pran but not a villain because she was hurt too is beautiful writing. Remember writing isn’t just in the dialogue, it’s stage direction and world building. Those are all in the script as well.

Pat was affected too but he is just built different.I think Pat’s need to impress his father was caused by this idea of following in dad’s footsteps that Pat’s father felt. Pat cared less though at the end of the day. Once he realized how much he loved Pran, Pran came first. The shine came off his dad and he was willing to distance himself from that point forward. Remember in the last episode the line “I haven’t been home in a while.” Pat would have run away with Pran and not looked back. I do think it’s important that we know it did change his relationship with his father. I don’t think they will ever go back to what they were which again is so realistic and true to what it’s like when our parents don’t turn out to be the heroes we believed they were. It doesn’t take a dramatic scene or tons of dialogue to convey those messages. A show is the sum of all it’s parts.

Simplicity has Value in Writing

I may be showing my age but has anyone seen the movie The Station Agent? It was an indie film. It was Peter Dinklage’s first staring role and I loved it. There was little to no dialogue and most of it was improved. The show’s focus was on character interaction and relationships. There was not much to the story but there didn’t need to be. I think a story being “basic” or “simple” can be beautiful and powerful especially if it knows it’s focal point. This show is about Pat and Pran and more importantly it showcases Ohm and Nanon. They were allowed to fully stretch their acting prowess and embody the characters. I don’t think that is necessarily a bad thing. The Station Agent was written specifically for the actors that were cast. They were friends prior to the show. They would workshop it in the park and the writer would make adjustments to match their performances. Putting together a collaborative work of art is just as interesting as writing that stands alone.

Also at face value maybe the story is “simple” but when we think of all they tackled while keeping it light, sweet and romantic that is extremely challenging to pull off.

Generational trauma

Eradication of LGBTQ tropes like wifey, “oh I’m not gay I just like you”, cheating storylines, the toxic female, the homophobic friends and family, violence and SA, drunken first times, forced kisses ect.

A true GL side couple (when has GMMTV ever? They haven’t that’s when)

A healthy communicative relationship (finally we get to see gay couples have love in the way that heteros have in romcoms for years)

Those are just a few things. I know I’m missing more. To call it fluff and simple and then ignore all these moments that we have been waiting for from this industry just feels contradictory to me. The show did a lot to move BL in the right direction.

This is already too long and I haven’t even touched on so much. I will be making more posts LOL cause clearly I have a lot on my mind but in the end to me this show has so much depth to it. I wept on the roof top. I lost it when Pran’s mom left the guitar on his bed. My heart broke when Pat realized all the time he’d lost all because of his dad’s pride. Every time Pran made himself small as to not cause problems I wanted to hug him. We talk about the rooftop but the raw emotion Pat showed fighting with Wai outside the condo. The way he couldn’t process his feelings and he poured it out as anger cause now that he knew this was more than friendship he was jealous of what Wai had. Ohm was brilliant in that scene. I feel like we don’t talk about it enough cause we got stuck on the rooftop. LOL!

So many moments that seem simple had so much impact….so much more than fluff. What is so special about what the writers, P’Aof and Ohm and Nanon were able to do with this project is use their extreme talents to convey multiple layers below the surface of something that seems light. I love them for it and I love this show.