#Ohm Thiphakorn

[gunsatthaphan]

🏳️‍🌈!!!

[morkofday]

last twilight + tweets i saw pt 1

+ bonus:

this series is a romcom, it cannot hurt me <3

[neonsbian]

LAST TWILIGHT | ep. 6 dir. Backaof Noppharnach

[benzatthanin]

A BOSS AND A BABE Episode 9

[moonkhao]

It's pretty quiet today.

SWEET TOOTH, GOOD DENTIST (2024ISH)

[my-rose-tinted-glasses]

GMMTV 2024 - PART2

Sweet Tooth, Good Dentist

Trailer

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Last Twilight: Episode 6 reflections

Welp! Once again! Aof Noppharnach! Thanks, buddy! Fist bump. HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO LIVE AFTER THAT.

I'm gonna live, because we get ANOTHER flirty episode 7 next week, woop woop. But let me review what we've all been screaming about today.

Anti-August rhetoric is abounding, yes. I would argue that the narrative themes that the character of August presented during this episode were set up in episodes well before this disaster that August created happened.

This episode demonstrated Aof's mastery of dissecting interpersonal engagement and relationships, as well as offering an examination of chosen vs. unchosen familial bonds. The examination in particular of the nature of nuclear (unchosen) family bonds -- especially in the face of the impact of a traumatic event like Day's sudden blindness -- is subtle and exquisite so far. I'll get more into this in a moment.

The show's been laying all of this down for us since the start, paralleling the impact of the unchosen bonds Day has with the world he has left around him, with the chosen bonds he's made with Mhok, and vice versa. That is all happening alongside Mhok's continued internal emotional journey of change and stablization, which again, I'll touch on in a moment.

In episode 5, we heard Day describe his sports partnership with August as akin to an "arranged marriage."

Day showed us in the last episode that he did the majority of the lifting of the partnership he had with August. Day HAD to be the emotional stabilizer of the partnership in order to win championships. Akin to the Asian practice of arranged marriages -- it certainly takes two to tango. But if the CULTURAL expectation--

(THE HUGE AND ENORMOUS AND ASSUMED CULTURAL EXPECTATION IN ASIA, mind you, which we are reading between the lines here) --

of the OUTCOME of an arranged marriage is to 1) have children, and 2) not get divorced -- well, if someone isn't pulling their weight, the partner has to clock some overtime shifts.

Day did overtime, and boop, fell in love with his badminton partner. I don't blame him. All that work to get to know August's ins and outs? And the way August looks, mmhmm? Yeah, I get it. August may have been a butt, but Day doing that all that work to accidentally find himself on the attraction path wouldn't be surprising to me.

We get to episode 6. We see that Day is being failed by his unchosen family. We still don't know what the deal is with Night, despite Mhok's inquiries. (I apologize to @respectthepetty for not finding their theory post that Night was behind the wheel of the car accident that first affected Day's eyes -- shout-out, Senpai.) We see Day's mom sort of failing him prior to his birthday. We see that Day was sort of expecting his mom to fail him anyway.

I wanted to capture Day's mom's emotional reaction here because... we know past stuff is percolating. Day's mom's career comes first and has come first. The wins come first, as they should have been for Day when he could still see and could still play badminton.

Day was prepared to be disappointed. That hug at the end of this scene with his mother was a sigh of relief for Day that his mom came through, but we don't know the extent to which his mother hasn't come through in the past, except by way of having kept Day inside for a year after the onset of his blindness.

And then Day was failed, again, by unchosen family.

August says, "I'm willing to do whatever makes him happy," but, just like nuclear/unchosen family -- you have to KNOW the people around you to KNOW what ACTUALLY makes them happy. Nuclear/unchosen family can't just clock in and clock out of family work. It takes more zhuzh than that.

For example: changing diapers might be a role a parent performs. It'll make a baby happy to feel clean and dry. But are the babies happy to actually wear a diaper? No. They don't know from diapers. The babies will be happy with loving, caring, and attentive parents showing them attention. From there, emotional growth will flourish.

Love, here, is not exactly about roles and tasks, as August is defining happiness above. Love is about something different -- it's about paying attention, at all times, to the people you love, and responding accordingly.

Unchosen family can very well fail you, because at the end of the day, they're still "family" by blood and sometimes bond. That's why it's important for so many of us to have CHOSEN family that shows up for us.

REMEMBER: BETWEEN DAY AND MHOK? DAY CHOSE MHOK. THAT'S A CHOSEN RELATIONSHIP FOR DAY, FINALLY, FOR ONCE IN HIS LIFE.

And Mhok comes into Day's house, starts to take care of Day like a partner, starts to get to know Day's ins and outs, and boop -- Mhok has found himself falling for Day. Quite the different paradigm from August, who did and does shit.

And in episode 6? Here comes Mhok, barreling in from the start of the episode, re-shifting the paradigms in Day's life that were created by the unchosen people that preceded Day in close proximity. I love how the VERY first scene of this episode started with Mhok announcing himself to Day in Day's room -- very unlike the way that August had silently slunk away from the bar in the previous episode.

And all the ways that Mhok is right behind Day as August engages through the episode, checking in, vibing. And respect to Mhok for taking some time away from the birthday party at the end, too. Did it break my heart to hear Day calling for Mhok before August's final arrival? For sure. But Mhok needed some space to process --

-- and then he came back, watched what was happening, and you know what struck me? We again saw a moment where Mhok has changed, as I mentioned last week.

Mhok could have pummeled August! Imagine if that shit went down at the start of the series. Lil' August wouldn't have any damn teeth left. Remember that Mhok pummeled that m'fer that Porjai was with, TWICE.

Mhok didn't kick August's ass this time around. Mhok held himself, he asked August questions. Day also knew what Mhok was capable of, but Mhok held himself. FUCK. Exquisite!

And then.... we got the rooftop, we got the rooftop.

This is a great series. THESE ARE GREAT EPISODES.

Couple other quick notes:

1) JIMMY AND SEA! JIMMY! THOSE LOOKS ON THE ROOFTOP! YOOOOOOOO.

2) I just want to acknowledge all the sensualness of this episode by way of scent and touch, and trust the family on posting about it.

That being said:

I've been known to be intrigued by scented things emanating from Aof's shows in the past. He had posted on IG a few weeks ago about a perfume company he likes, I went to check it out, and bloop, I got myself a sampler for the holidays.

I clocked the cologne that Day gifted Mhok.

As far as I can tell, this specific bottle called Tiwa doesn't exist -- although I love that the fake brand is "UNTOLD STORIES," written at the top. Tee-hee.

Coincidentally, a scent called "Tiwa" was created by a company called Parfum Prissana, out of Thailand (they look great, I want to smell them one day).

A website reviewing Prissana's Tiwa notes the description of the scent that came from Prissana itself:

Atmosphere of the day time in a countryside of Thailand. The smell of local cooking herbs and spices and there is fruits orchards and precious woods near by. Tiwa means day time in Thai.

Well, well, well.

[earthfluuke]

Cher & Zo, The Cuddliest of Friends A BOSS AND A BABE (2023)

[ppeonppeonhan]

I only just now realized that

August from Last Twilight

and Zo from A Boss and a Babe

are the same actor -- and I feel some type of way about it.

Like...not my baby Zo Zo playing this poor excuse for a heterosexual!!

[gunsatthaphan]

sweet tooth, good dentist 🦷❤️ - coming soon

[morkofday]

last twilight ♡ episode 5

[aprilblossomgirl]

A Boss and a Babe (2023) | ep.7

I need to thank you too. / For what? / For bringing me more friends. + They are all yours, boss. Spending more time with them and your head will explode. 

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Kidnap | Official Teaser

Thai Drama - TBA

Upcoming 2024 Asian Dramas

[visualtaehyun]

Unsubbed but I wish it were so more people could enjoy it :<

Some highlights as quoted from memory:

P'Jo at P'Aof: That's so you!! (Day spraying his perfume on Mork)

P'Aof: I love that improv'd line in the previous episode (Day to Gee: ดูตากูด้วยค่ะ=Look at my eyes), love when Sea says ค่ะ [same, P'Aof! :D]

Nong Ohm: never thought I'd see P'Film use the word เยี่ยว (piss) in my lifetime (and P'Aof amusedly agreeing lol)

P'Jo and P'Aof going ✨ ดารา (the star) 🥰 whenever Namtan showed up haha

P'Aof saying Mark owns every little scene he's in and P'Jo confirming it was the same in Only Friends

P'Jo: ohhh he (Mork) does everything for him. I want a husband/man (ผัว) like this 🥺 (everyone: 😂)

P'Aof and P'Jo comparing some shots, lines, characters' looks to the drama level of Lakorns and P'Jo's shows

favorite scenes: Nong Ohm-rooftop scene, Sea-scene of Mork confronting August and protecting Day after the kiss, Jimmy-rooftop scene, P'Jo-the beat from the getting ready scene to the twist

the rooftop scene apparently was the very last scene they shot so Jimmy said he fully understood the characters and thus played it very emotionally at first, P'Aof said this final edit is the second take because for the first take it read too much like pity because there were tears

at the scene of Mork returning the new pair of sneakers to the cupboard where the old pair is kept now- Nong Ohm saying Put the new ones on top lol then P'Aof saying he's so bad, he ought to join P'Jo in a show of his 😂

Nong Ohm about August putting his headband on Day: like expressing ownership

P'Jo: what's up with August's hand? - P'Aof: just watch!! (gets explained seconds later lol)

everyone predictably losing it at 1) Day: When you (phi) speak sweetly, you're a lot more handsome (+na khrap), 2) Mork: Today I came as a matchmaker -> cue everyone feeling sad and sorry for Mork, 3) the two AugustDay kisses and Mork witnessing it all, 4) the rooftop MorkDay kisses

P'Aof saying the balance of moods this episode was difficult and required a bunch of re-edits and changes so it wasn't super sad, considering it follows Mork's mood the entire episode

[boozles]

NOT JIMMY AND OHM WEARING THE DAY AND AUGUST HEADBANDS AT THE STARLYMPICS

[my-rose-tinted-glasses]

Sweet Tooth, Good Dentist GMMTV 2024 PART 2 - Trailer