#2gether

[squeakygeeky]

Calling all BL academics! You should check out Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific Issue 49, June 2023. It's devoted to Thai BL and it's Thai scholars, publishing in English, and available free. So basically everything I ever wanted.

Thai Boys Love (BL)/Y(aoi) in Literary and Media Industries: Political and Transnational Practices - This is the introductory article. One interesting takeaway is that there's a market for western M/M romance in Thailand and I'm dying to know what sort of titles have gotten Thai releases.

Chinese Historical BL by Thai Writers: The Thai BL Polysystem in the Age of Media Convergence - I didn't read this one. It's about the phenomenon of Thai writers writing danmei set in ancient China.

Authorial Revisions of Boys Love/Y Novels: The Dialogue between Activism and the Literary Industry in Thailand - This one was super intersting. It was about how the backlash to certain problematic tropes affected both revisions to Y novels and their tv adaptations. It uses Jittirain as a case study and includes passages from 2gether that were rewritten.

Boys Love (Yaoi) Fandom and Political Activism in Thailand - This article has a lot about Not Me, both about the backlash to the novle due to it being originally a GOT7 fanfic (allegedly) and the political context for the series. It also discusses a few other series related to the youth movement and marriage equality.

Heterosexual Reading vs. Queering Thai Boys' Love Dramas among Chinese and Filipino Audiences -This really only covers up to 2019 and as we all know everything is changing fast. I'll be interested in future scholarship that covers the current period. Basically expands on some of Baudinette's work.

Provincialising Thai Boys Love: Queer Desire and the Aesthetics of Rural Cosmopolitanism -I just skimmed this since I'm not familiar with either series mentioned or the rural culture of Isan.

[fydramas]

@asiandramanet event 03 ㅡ dynamics @asiandramanet creator bingo ㅡ lgbtq+ rep @lgbtqcreators creator bingo ㅡ free choice lgbtq + overlay

just gays supporting gays ♡ (insp)

[nick-nellson]

[aylinluna]

KHAOTUNG THANAWAT as FONG in 2gether the series EPISODE 2 & 3

[katzenjammerd]

You decide to check out that kinn porsche show after spotting the gifs on your dash and four months later you’re knee deep in Gay Bangkok Bridge, Stairs of Death, lays and seaweed crisps product placement, architecture and engineering as the only two options in university, wet towel on head is the best medicine, rhapsodising over fan service, head pats and little hoop earrings in the left ear…

[allovelyhappily]

Bright Vachirawit for GQ, BAZZAAR, VOGUE

[forkaround]

What I need people to realize is there shouldn't be an either-or in BLs to begin with. It's not either Kinnporsche level high heat problematic content or 2gether level inoffensiveness. It's not either Moonlight Chicken honesty or BL Alt reality where being gay is okay. It's not either GMMTV softness or MAME level angst. It's not either SOTUS level bad jokes or Cutie Pie level political correctness.

One would think that shows about people on a spectrum would have an audience that understands the concept of spectrums and evidently I would be wrong.

Liking one over the other doesn't make you a better, right-er person.

What is significant and important is that this content gets made. Pre mid 2010s there wasn't any such content, anywhere! So chill the fuck out and enjoy what you enjoy and let others enjoy what they enjoy even if it is completely different.

[aylinaliens]

What are you playing at Tine? I hate movies with sad endings.

2GETHER, THE SERIES (2020) dir. Champ Weerachit

[thescrumptiousstuffs]

Bestie Fong

Innocent Chon

Sweet Longtae

Wise Songpol

Sassy Aye

Gentle Gaipa

Alcoholic Ray (* I need to add disaster muffin here after watching OF Episode 1)

(Khaotung Thanawat, the actor you are!)

And bonus - BEST CAMEO EVER 👇🏽

Psycho Zero

[my-boys-love-boys]

The sunset told me about him

[louisapennyfeather2021]

HELLO?!! WAT??? ALEX???

[waitmyturtles]

[bl-bracket]

Horny on Main Round 2: Lan Zhan (The Untamed) vs Sarawat (2gether: The Series)

[Submitted Reasons Under Cut]

Lan Zhan: "Man realized sex with Wei Wuxian was an option and immediately thought of nothing else for over a decade, instituted an "every day means every day" policy the second he got his horny little hands on him"

Sarawat: "“Can I touch your boobs?”"

[aylinluna]

KHAOTUNG THANAWAT as FONG in 2gether the series EPISODE 1

[krystaljungs]

BI PRIDE STAND UP!

↳ happy birthday @fydramas ♡