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Currently coming to you from my cousin's house in NY so instead of an evening watching BL, I'm chilling with a 2yo watching a show about dogs building a movie theater.

Me: Do you think these dogs are licensed, bonded and insured?

2yo, firmly: Yeah!

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Every single person I’ve interacted with about My Stubborn all week has been delirious with excitement at the idea of Sorn- the character they love- getting the shit beaten out of him. Every person I have spoken to dreamily describes his soul being crushed. Not a hint of mercy detected. If they let us into the narrative we’d all go in with guns.

Truly tumblr is the only valid way to experience this show. No one gets it like we do.

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I love Tai so much. Yes, rip him to shreds. Tear him to pieces! You can call him on everything and not back down.

Sorn and the entire world have very different definitions of holding back. And so he got himself punched.

Tai is the best. Absolutely a hero. I love him so much.

I need more people to call him an idiot.

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Even the rhino judges Sorn

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My Stubborn Novel

Putting this under read more, even though it's not actually a spoiler for the events of the series or really even of the novel. I'm just talking about the first few chapters which give some sorely needed backstory. So if anyone has been super confused about how all the characters even know each other and doesn't want to have to read the novel, here you go.

The novel starts with Jun as a 16 year old, an awkward teenager with pimples, braces, and a buzzcut. His best childhood friend is Win, who moved away, but whose grandmother is a neighbor. Win's family comes to town for Chinese New Year and his older brother Thai brings his two best friends Champ and Sorn. They are 5 years older than Jun and Win. Champ is happy to join Thai in thinking of Jun as another little brother, but Sorn and Thai hate each other at first sight and keep messing with each other. At some point Jun sticks firecrackers to Sorn's shoes.

The next year Win's family visits again and Jun joins them from a beach trip that includes Champ and Sorn. Sorn and Jun continue constantly bickering and messing with each other. At one point Sorn throws Jun into the sea.

Another year later everyone gets together for Chinese New Year and Jun notices that Sorn has gotten a lot hotter. Jun is also significantly less pimply and has a girlfriend. Sorn gifts Jun a pair of NIKE shoes for reasons I am sure he could not even begin to admit if being raked over hot coals. They continue pissing each other off incessently, but stil hook up right in front of Grandma Yi's koi pond, basically the same as in the series.

The older bro gang sneak Win and Jun into a club, which is where Jun gets drugged and almost robbed. He's helped out by Sorn in a scene like the flashback in the series. Sorn tells him not to do things like that with anyone else, then proceeds to ghost him for 4 years. Jun has a major glow up into a campus moon and proceeds to try to date guys, admittedly without getting very far. At 22 he begins an internship at Thai and Win's dad's company which produces furniture and not only HR violations.

As a side note, Jun has never calls Sorn 'Hia,' only 'Phi,' unlike with Thai and Champ so the series dialogue referencing him having called Sorn Hia in the past was a notable minor difference.

The series follows the novel very closely, so I don't understand why they didn't include any backstory. Yes, the koi pond and club incidents get moved up 2 years, which make sense since that way Jun is 20 and a uni student already and not 18 and finishing high school. It does make the age gap less questionable if Jun is older, plus there's the practical consideration of the apparance of the actors given Oat is 30(!!). But they could at least have put more of Win, to expain why Jun is so close to Thai and Champ and so...whatever...to Sorn. Especially since Win is interning at the factory not the office so we barely see him. Also I would want to see more of Jun and Sorn's years long mutual animosity, which sheds a little more light on their dynamic. Sorn and Jun actually match each others energy really well, and that energy is annoyed, annoying, and horny.

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I started the My Stubborn novel but got obsessively sidetracked by trying to figure out how Jun's name is actually spelled, not helped by the baffling modern font in the credits, and it is จวิ้น! Which makes me wonder if the author named him after our beloved Gong Jun, whose name gets written the same way in Thai.

Ya'll know I hate romanization, but it's more like 'Juwin' than 'Joon'

For the curious Sorn is ศร 'Sawn.' Generally when you see 'or' or 'ar' in a Thai word it's like one of those British 'r's which to me as non-Bostonian American is definitely not an 'r' at all.

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Kim absolutely does not care what this series is called and it's very sexy of him

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I can't even criticize Charlie for this brand new self-sacrificing thing because Jeff is just a babby who must be saved at all costs. I'd fleetingly considered the possibility of him taking Jeff's powers, I just wasn't sure if Charlie could steal powers on purpose and not just accidentally though sex. This feels narratively correct and I am pleased.

Charles we are once again no longer on speaking terms due to whatever dumb thing you are about to do for the greater good

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Truly doing me no good because it's been 2 minutes and now we're doing mama papa in the rental kitchen yet still being wet and pathetic

Charles we are once again no longer on speaking terms due to whatever dumb thing you are about to do for the greater good

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Charles we are once again no longer on speaking terms due to whatever dumb thing you are about to do for the greater good

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No one in this show has any chill whatsoever and I'm enjoying that a lot

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I always feel like I would be so much better at time travel than fictional characters and I continue to feel that way.

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Saw someone on Reddit complaining about the subtitles on My Stubborn and I was confused because I'd never particularly thought about the subtitles. And then finally I remembered I've been watching without subtitles.

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Meanwhile Sonic and North are out here like 'mmm yeah it's super awkward between us right now' while on a cute little date

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I want to say 'stop trying to solve your problems by constantly betting your relationships in races' but I do understand I'm watching the go vroom vroom show