#and pran is one of them

[mxqiulin]

anyway i'm taking this as literal canon evidence of transmasc jeremy and 🥚 transfem pran

[buried-in-autumn-leaves]

I lied ab going offline I lowkey cope by scrolling so I have created two (2) more xod ocs that will get intros at some point.... THESE ONES ARENT AWFUL PEOPLE LOWKEY THEYRE KIND OF ALRIGHT

[bevioletskies]

pat & pran + every episode ever | episode four (our skyy 2)

“Your mom likes every photo of yours. Is she really happy about it?” “She is. She knows it’s just a play. Nothing serious.” “Now that we’re behind the curtain, can we kiss as Pat and Pran?”

[thequeenofsastiel]

Where's that one BTS video in which Ohm and Nanon are on a bed and Nanon is trying to give an interview and Ohm keeps poking at him the whole time while Nanon casually swipes his hand away?

[sunstream7]

Bite Mark in the Shape of the Sunflower State- 3

>1486 words

In her group’s defense, this absolutely sucked.

Getting dragged into ANOTHER meeting so soon after the last was far from the worst thing to happen ever, but was firmly ‘the worst thing to happen today.’ Delilah did not have a meeting, and from the looks of it, nobody else did either. Wonderful, their own little circle of hell. Wandering over towards the room, she was, once again, firmly late. Disregarding Nate's attempts at chastising, and Lynn’s offhand comment about ‘not having any trouble finding the meeting room,’ Chiara settled onto one of the tables at the far end of the room, and without fail, the bickering started.

This was going to be a long year.

Maybe it was good she had only just started, because with the character jabs that were being slung, she had no doubt that anything directed at her would result in fists being swung as opposed to words. It seemed to be working for Pran, at least. Just sitting on the outskirts and letting everyone go for the throat in relative peace. She could pick up a few snide remarks about ‘losing the right to make your own decisions’ and a dig at Everett calling his mom a lot. Her chest tightened a bit at the latter, her mind wandering back to her own little scrapbook. She should probably get it out from under the bed. Not right now, but eventually. Maybe before winter break… yeah. She could do that. Chiara was only brought back to reality by a ‘Happy birthday!’ from Lynn, and then the news that celebrating the birth of the second worst haircut in the room would be pushed off until the next meeting. How. Fucking. Splendid. At least Bae’s superiority complex matched him being the oldest- in his mind. 

Wait. 

No no no- Chiara had had her birthday before the year officially started- making her just about a month older. Ha. The bigger issue was having her own birthday meeting. Maybe she had lucked out, and Lynn hadn’t known until it was already too late. Probably not, if anything, it was for the same reason some of the administration and teachers walked on eggshells around her- being just a bit too delicate to write it off. The same reason she’d caught a glimpse of ‘vulnerable’ written on her and Delilah's files. A less than ideal situation. 

Well. At least her mom could still help out in some way.

Lynn dismissed them, but Chiara still lingered just a bit, hoping to slip out with the quickest ‘happy birthday.’ At least everyone else was also less than enthused with being forced to interact. 

‘But let’s not tell the ones who already left that you can get out of wishing someone a happy birthday, okay?’

Whipping around, she could see Pran leaving and Lynn just grimacing slightly as he turned back to her. 

“Chiara, will you please-”

Oh. She would not please. It wasn't anything against Bae in particular, but she had now seen Lynn cave to obtuse behavior twice. The precedent had been set, and with almost nothing else going for her, Chiara could always get worse. Pulling her headphones on, she slipped around one of the tables and out the door, ignoring Lynn’s call for her to come back. 

It was hard to be an alright person. It took every ounce of self control, every day, to not go off the deep end. It wasn't helped by not having Del glued to her side. Sure it had gotten obnoxious at times, but having a little sponge of a child who adored you- and would mimic your behavior- helped to curb some… lesser habits. Sure, she wasn't a model citizen by any means, just scraping by in every aspect of her life, it was worth it to ensure Delilah was taken care of. She had a vivid memory of arguing with a teacher after class in eighth grade- she’d fallen asleep in class, and couldn't get it through the woman’s head that she had been up all night helping her sister with states and capitals, and making sure everything was done around the house so ma could get some sleep. All she had earned was a detention and the wisdom that ‘it was her mother’s job to do those things.’ 

She knew it was. Or it was supposed to be. But you try working two jobs to make sure your kids are well tended to. Granted, Ma did get on her ass a lot about needing to focus on her studies and leave some of it to her, because she was the adult. She hadn’t been pleased to learn that Chiara had been working at Cy’s mom’s shop after school, saying she needed to enjoy her youth and spend time with friends and whatnot, but Cypress worked there too- albeit less ‘employment’ and more ‘do these things because you’re my child’ so that was spending time with her girlfriend, and it gave her enough pocket money to cover her and Del’s lunches, with occasional treats.

She had set herself a precedent of being self-sufficient. Ma would have argued that it was ‘stubborn as a mule’ but in the grand scheme of things, it was all the same. 

All that to say, Pran had done the legwork and shown that being unshakably obstinate worked. Chiara could be as stubborn as she wanted, and come out on top. She’d always been damn good at digging her heels in- literally and metaphorically. She was sturdy and obtuse as all hell. She would go to those meetings (not that she had much of a choice in that) and she wouldn’t do anything.

Maybe if she was a better person she’d give it an honest go- a real attempt to make this little pocket of hell more tolerable. But this was a boarding school. Delilah had other, probably more competent, adults around to make sure she turned out alright. And even if Chiara loathed the thought of living with their father, that option was always open for Del. 

If Lynn was going to make her go to all these godforsaken meetings, she was going to make it as difficult as possible. Authority figures only had so much fight in them. Her eighth grade science teacher had stopped giving her detentions after the paperwork started to become less tolerable than just letting her sleep or ditch. She had raised enough hell for two weeks to get sent to this boarding school. Lynn already had one unbending student. She was the easy one- just let her do her own thing and she’ll be happy as a clam. There was a whole group to fight with, and Chiara was simply another battle that didn't have to be picked. She would show up, sit, and leave- on time, even, so long as she could do just that. She had bigger things to worry about for all of her life; fighting tooth and nail to make sure it would all be alright, milking loopholes for all they're worth. Not to toot her own horn, but she was pretty damn resilient. She could get by just fine on her own. Damn that ‘vulnerable’ scrawled on her paperwork, damn the mandatory attempts at making her a better person, and damn every single power at this school who thought they could strong-arm her into cooperating. 

Upon laying on the floor and staring at the ceiling for a few hours, Maybe she had been overreacting. Of course, she was still going to make this as hard on everyone as possible until she was left to her own devices, but she didn't need to go full scorched earth. She’d been here long enough that it was starting to get… lonely. Of course Cy and her other friends still checked in, but it’s been slowly slipping. Whatever. They’d broken up, after all, and everyone else had other friends, but it stung when she realized she had nobody to commiserate with. There were no shared classes to complain about, no shitty customers, no overlapping homework. She couldn't flop down on Cypress’ floor and whine about things before going and wandering around at night on their skateboards, getting slushies and crashing house parties and just taking in the world from whatever the highest point they could get to was.

She found herself looking over the list of her contacts. It was always short. Cy, Ma, and her little group chat. But over these past weeks, she’d gotten quite a few new editions- Del’s dad (Her dad too, technically. But she felt it was more fitting of their relationship then to have his actual name or ‘dad’), Lynn, and then all her group members. She wouldn't just cold call any of them, She’d only shared a few words at most with them, but there were a few promising ones. Well, as promising as the lot of them could be.

[grapejuicegay]

BAD BUDDY EP 1 OUR SKYY 2 BAD BUDDY EP 1

[ranchthoughts]

"I don't have to tell you I love you. I fed you [pancake]"

Aof is trying to tell us something...

[dribs-and-drabbles]

Colours in Our Skyy 2 Bad Buddy x A Tale of Thousand Stars ep 3

In which I get a little bit more meta than I usually do...

So as we know, this ep was spent mostly in the forest on a few days during which the characters couldn't change clothes, which means there are less colours/clothes to comment on. That being said, the red and blue pairings were provided in all possible places.

Tian's plaid shirt from the night before also has thin red stripes to accompany the blue, and kampung's jersey and Pran's tote bag offer another pairing. I think there's also blue, red and yellow in Kampung's t-shirt. I love that Pran brought his bag with him - despite being lost in the forest, Pat is still metaphorically with him. I think it's also interesting that Pran's shirt looks almost camouflage, and that he mostly wears it when he's taking the lead - looking after Tian on the way to Bull Camp and then accompanying Phupha when Kampung goes missing. Knowing that Pran ends up portraying Phupha in the play - and despite Pran playing Tian in his and Pat's role-playing of the other couple - it's a clever choice in this ep.

Pat, on the other hand, does get a change of clothes at the start of this ep, and with the brown, green, and cream he looks like he's trying to imitate the rangers' uniform to be included in the search party.

Plenty of people have commented on how Pran and Tian have been made to look very similar, especially with their hair, but in the below scene it's so clear how the show is trying to have the characters 'imitate' each other. Pran and Tian are in the same colours, only the white and yellow are reversed in their clothing. Pat and Phupha, as already mentioned, also sporting the same colours. But the mixed-pairings also have similar shoes - Pran and Tian in canvas lace-ups with cream toes/soles, and Pat and Phupha in leather boots. The show is really drilling into us, 'look how similar these people are!', but as we learn from their interactions it seems Pran and Phupha are more alike, as are Pat and Tian (hence why they end up playing those roles in the play).

Once Pat and Tian have made their way back to the village, Pat changes into his teal shorts and a brown shirt. I haven't offered much colour-interpretation yet in this post but in general brown and olive green feature quite heavily this ep, especially with all the camouflage. I think this partly comes more from the atots side of this crossover and the use of earth tones in the original series, but it's incheresting that there's been so. much. talk. about sacrificing arising from this ep. I won't go into it all but they're all dealing with something (or multiple things) they have to yield on or sacrifice.

But Pat here, below, has a moment - a mini-Oh! moment - where he realises he has to yield to himself. Having this 'nonsense' fight with Pran and going through their experiences in Pha Pun Dao has made Pat confront and admit to himself something which he either hasn't realised or has been repressing for a long time - that he can't live without Pran. Yes, Pat has always wanted to be around Pran, he always wants to help him, and he's been depressingly lonely without him...but being unable to live without Pran seems heavier. And this realisation goes beyond acquiescing on the fight with Pran, because it has consequences for the bigger picture of their lives and hiding from their families. And that's scary. So no wonder he's perhaps repressed this from himself, instead feeling easier to tease Pran about him always needing Pat, to bicker about who needs the other the most, and to sit in the nonsense fight rather than acknowledge what it really means.

Incidentally, I like that Pat pulled the watch out of his shorts pocket - the object that Pran links to Pat and the teal that seems to symbolise their union as a couple.

Someone (sorry I don't remember who) mentioned that Pat wears a lot more stripy shirts now than he ever did in BBS, which is potentially an influence from Pran, but I love that they're both wearing their love and happiness when they reunite back at the village. I also sat up at seeing Tian's brown t-shirt with the yellow rectangle over his heart - reminiscent of Pran's long-sleeved top in ep 8 of BBS. Tian is ready to sacrifice himself and his health again to go into the forest to look for Kampung and Phupha, with his love for them driving him to do it. (In ep 8, Pran's love for Pat took him away from drinking with Wai to comfort a sullen Pat).

And then on to that final scene with Pat and Pran and we get Pat in Pran's red and cream/yellow shorts, and Pran in Pat's dark blue (or their teal)...and an ominous dark green. They're finding a resolution to their little fight but it's bittersweet.

Coming back to what I was saying about Pat's Oh! moment above, I think him asking Pran to apply the bruise cream was a way for Pat to admit to himself and Pran, albeit subtly, that he does need Pran, and for Pran to understand that admission. (And I'll quickly say that I don't think Pran needed to be the one to say it first but I'll come back to that below). When Pat gives Pran's watch back, however, he reverts to the teasing "Like I said, you can't live without me", he's trying to keep things jovial. Tian has already told Pran about Pat's realisation though - not to aid any teasing or to bolster one side of the fight, he doesn't seem that type of character (he's not a gremlin like Pat and Pran). No, I think he sees that Pat and Pran need this knowledge open between them and facilitates a way for it to happen. In true PatPran fashion, Pran goads Pat into saying it and Pat's soft look to Pran shows his gratitude to have the opportunity (below). Pat needs to admit it out loud to himself and to Pran - the person to whom it means the most for him to hear it. His sigh before he says it is a relief, it's releasing the hold he's had on his fear about what it might mean for them, and Pran's reaction helps alleviate that.

Pran's "Neither can I" isn't as big and dramatic as Pat's statement, but that's because it's not revelatory, not for Pran (who's known it since he fell for Pat in high school and couldn't get over him even after being sent away and pushing Pat away once they had reunited at Uni), and not for Pat - there was always some truth in Pat's original words, "without me, he can't do anything" and they both know that. Pran wasn't the one who needed to admit to Pat that he needs Pat because it's been known all along. But Pran repeating now, in his own way, that he can't live without Pat helps to strengthen their bond.

This moment is bittersweet because of their situation - there is no option to not be together, they've known this already but now it's been explicitly said, so until their parents can be comfortable with them together they will always be hiding something, making sacrifices. This is their life. They're able to understand that on a deeper level.

With this understanding, Pran, unable to do or say anything else, takes his focus to something tangible: The watch, and what it represents - Pat, his time with Pat, their history and connection from childhood, the gaps when they were separated, and their reuniting in Uni. @btwinlines started off a great thread about how time stops for Pat and Pran when they're apart, but the watch also represents how time might make things easier in the future and that all they can do is hope. And, in the meantime, love each other the best they can through all these little fights they have. It's not a grand resolution for them, like Phupha and Tian get later in the show, because they're not in the same place as the other couple. This is just a snapshot of their journey towards where we see them at the end of ep 12 in BBS, so if it feels like they're in limbo when we leave them, they are, but with a renewed perspective of each other and the poignancy of it all.

I'm almost certain this will be a coincidence, but I love that when Pran puts the watch on again it's almost at the same time as when he reset it at the end of BBS ep 1. I love that it's ten minutes later though, because it symbolises how time has moved on for them - i.e how much has changed - since they got together, and therefore how much more will change as time keeps moving forward. And that's something they can trust in.

[ep 1] [ep 2] [ep 3] [ep 4] (<- I was right to be hopeful!)

[airenyah]

thank you so much for your tags under my post 🫶 i read them all and you always put a smile on my face! - badbuddyingifs

ohhhh @badbuddyingifs my beloved!! you don't know how much this message means to me 🥺🥺🥺

especially because i'm mostly just saying things and so i'm glad you find my thoughts entertaining 💗💗💗

i know your blog/mission was created for and born from tumblr user @miscellar's (whom i miss dearly) comment about how the entirety of bad buddy should exist in gif form on tumblr, but i can't help but feel like this is a blog for me, you know? i miss bad buddy so much and so whenever you upload a new gifset i get as excited as if a new episode had just dropped. even if everone else stops caring about your mission/gifs, you'll always have a target audience of at least one (1) person (me!! it's me!! hi!! i'm so happy you're back!! i love you!!)

your blog is incredibly important to me and i always make sure i reblog every single one of your gifsets that i catch on my dash 💙❤️

[yourstormthlaylirahh]

I need something low stakes to watch so I started watching Hidden Agenda. I'm finding it enjoyable enough (especially compared to SIMM) but the first episode is frankly baffling. They throw us right in without giving us any time to get to know the characters. Rom coms usually have a period of 'normal daily life' at the beginning, to use to establish character traits and get the audience to bond with them. Hidden Agenda just... skips this? We are seeing all these things Zo is doing to try and get Nita's attention, but we have established absolutely nothing about Zo before that, so why should we care or root for him? This feels like at earliest a second episode and they just lopped everything introductory off. We are being clearly shown what the stakes are in regards to the romance, but we haven't been shown anything about why we should care about the stakes because there is no character establishment. One of Zo's friends tell him in part 4/4 that he is acting not like himself, but we have seen really nothing to establish who he is as a person, so without the narrative telling us through dialogue that this is out if character we would be left totally in the dark. It's odd and I keep checking to see if I missed the first episode.

[inventedfangirling]

bonus :

when pran made that elaborate breakfast complete with sausage and a fried egg AND veggies! for pat (cos we know from ep2 that pran usually eats just toast for breakfast) and then proceeded to be mad when pat stole his toast not cos he didnt wanna share food but because he put so much effort into making the actual breakfast for him and this brat just snatched his own breakfast.

Smirk all you want pran but we SEE right through YOU. And we love you, i love you! Does he know that!? I need him to know. Do i cook and send him food across the multiverse? But idk abcs of cooking this is so embarassing goodbye😭

cant stop thinking about how love is stored in the kitchen. when somebody cooks for you or you make food for somebody that’s the purest corner of the heart that gets on the plate

[itwoodbeprefect]

hey guys. i'm only on episode four, so don't quote me on this, but i think the main character of this one might be a ghost

[buried-in-autumn-leaves]

since i now have Lynn's and Jeremy's reaction, how about the rest of the group? :3

The boys !! I feel like before I answer I should say that the ones that are being assholes are not doing it out of bigotry, they are just like that 💀 equal opportunity haters fr

Everett will be unaffected, mostly because he is still in denial about everything with her. "Oh idc ab the strong lady that is exactly my type why the fuck would I care 🙄"

Nate I see as being like almost jealous WHICH SOUNDS WEIRD BUT LET ME EXPLAIN- He already is jealous of the fact that Pran is able to keep her body the way she is without much effort, that's why if you romance her he follows you around. Nate cares so much about everything, and it makes him so mad that Pran doesn't have to. Her being so comfortable in herself when he can't be is upsetting.

Shiloh is.... himself ? I don't know, I don't feel like he's more hostile because of her being trans, I just feel like any time she does anything ever he's like 😒😒😒

Bae is also infantalizing her sorry ladies- HE ALREADY TALKS TO HER LIKE OH LOVE YOU PRANNY 😁😁😁😁 IT IS GETTING WORSE SHE CANNOT ESCAPE HIM. I think in actuality though it doesn't affect how he sees her much.

JB is honestly also unchanged but she is definitely like making it about herself I fear 💀 Straight up like "Soooo you're saying you have so excuse to not take me shopping? Got it, lets go- We're trying on clothes."

[negrowhat]

Hello Neighbor

Well now that we know that Cir "just happens" to live in the same building as Phu, but just one floor down, I think we should talk about some other BL couples who just so happen to live in the same damn building as each other. Sometimes someone is aware and sometimes it's a total shock for everyone.

CirPhu from The Boy Next World. Like I said, last week Cir just casually revealed to Phu that he lives in the same building but just one floor below him. It's a bit weird for him to suddenly reveal that especially after claiming that he and Phu are lovers in another timeline somewhere. Do we believe he's a stalker? Or do we believe he's truly from another world and it's just coincidence that he lives in Phu's building? Let's place bets rn.

WinTeam from Until We Meet Again/Between Us. Win lived on the floor above Team in their dormitory and his room was right over Team's. Team living in Win's dorm definitely came in clutch for Team because he had somewhere to go when he couldn't sleep...which was every, single night. And Win gladly welcomed Team into his space and even offered him a key. They weren't just neighbors, Win's dorm was Team's sanctuary.

GeneNubsib from Lovely Writer. Nubsib was a proud stalker of his beloved Gene. He purposefully bought the condo directly next door to Gene's and didn't tell him. So when Gene kicked his ass out he just silently moved in next door and was just like "SURPRISE SHORTY!" And we all just ran with it. It is 1000% possible that Cir is pulling a Nubsib.

KongArthit from SOTUS. Kongpob was BOLD because he pulled this stunt TWICE on Arthit. First he didn't tell that man that his dorm was directly across from his in the opposite building. He just spent a few months lurking at Arthit from afar, enjoying the show of his cute senior fumbling around. THEN when Kong went to intern at the engineering company Arthit worked at (something else he didn't mention) he purposefully moved into the condo right next door to Arthit and once again DID NOT tell him. He just let his mans find out and was like, "See...what had happened was..."

PatPran from Bad Buddy. The Gods just blessed them to be in each other's spaces eternally. We all know PatPran were warring neighbors since childhood, the Romeo and Juliet of it all, but not them being across-the-hallway neighbors at uni too. Of course Pran seemed annoyed but Pat couldn't be more thrilled to be living next door to his most favorite dimply guy. Pat did seem to spend most of his free time at Pran's place, but that was partially because his baby sister was cramping his style when she moved into the dorm with him. But whatever because he got to annoy and snuggle his favorite guy.

VeeMark from Love Mechanics. What's fun about VeeMark living directly next door to each other was that Mark was Vee's side piece. Some days he was burning with rage that Vee lived next door with his girlfriend but also cackling other days because he was fucking that girl's man on the regular right under her nose. They was on some messy type shit. Wait, now that I think about it...that was ole girl's apartment so Vee was legit just bouncing around from room to room with whomever he felt like cuddling with that night. With his choosing ass.

GodDiew from Monster Next Door. They win because they were semi-anonymous next door neighbors for a long ass time. Gettiing to know each other without seeing each other. Dating while not meeting up. Romance blossoming while vaguely in each other's presence. Bonding without actually breeching a physical boundary until they were both ready. Their being neighbors and how they were neighboring was actual poetry.

I think 2025 might bring back my lists. I can't contribute much but I can make a fun random list. Hope you all enjoyed this.

[virtualtadpole]

A BL viewer's guide to Thai school uniforms

(This is an older one, originally posted at Reddit in 2022, but it should still be accurate. Hope you'll find it useful, as uniforms in Thai shows often provide context that international viewers might not recognize.)

To begin, here's a summary of the Thai school system. There are twelve years of basic education (after kindergarten): six years of primary school (prathom or P.1-6), and six years of secondary school (mathayom or M.1-6), the latter of which is divided into three lower and three upper years. The age range roughly corresponds to the US system, so the years P.1-6 will often be translated as grades 1-6 and M.1-6 as grades 7-12. Most stories set in school will take place during the upper secondary years, which is often translated as high school (though this is rather approximate as it spans three years rather than four). Students typically enter M.4 aged 15 going on 16, and graduate at the age of 18 (or nearing it).

School uniforms are almost universally compulsory, used by all but a few alternative schools (university will be discussed further below). They mostly follow a very distinctive form, which has barely changed since the end of World War II, as there's a default format that's mandated by law and followed by most schools (though schools may elect to specify their own style of uniform). There are official industrial standards that govern the material, thread count, etc. of student uniforms that can be sold, and an entire industry is built around them.

For boys, the (default style) uniform is mostly the same across all levels, and consists of a white short-sleeved button-up shirt, shorts (in either black, royal blue, navy, or khaki), a belt (brown or black), socks and shoes (brown with khaki shorts, white socks and black shoes otherwise). The shirt will have the letters of the school's abbreviated name embroidered at the right chest, in red for private schools, and navy for government schools. It's common for schools to also require student IDs or names be included likewise. In many schools, the upper-secondary uniform will also include the school insignia/logo as a metal badge pinned above the school's initials, or also embroidered.

The colours of the shorts typically reflect the school's status. Private schools will normally use blue or (less often) black, while government schools will use black or (less often) khaki, with very few exceptions. Navy is quite rare, mostly used by certain schools with historical royal connections. This colour-coding serves as a rather convenient tool for series creators to convey the social background of the characters. Blue shorts signify that they go to a private, presumably expensive school. Black is the default that tells the viewer that it's a regular, average school. Khaki shorts used to be the default long ago but have declined in use, and are now mostly seen as belonging to rural or temple schools (though there are also some famous schools that use them). You'll rarely see them in TV or film, unless the creators are purposely saying that the setting is rural, poor, or retro.

Let's look at some examples.

The school uniform in Bad Buddy is pretty much the bare minimum, with just the school's abbreviated name and no pin or ID. With black shorts and navy lettering, it's clearly meant to be a regular government school (though TBH the filming location doesn't really fit). The dot on the collar is a symbol used by some schools to indicate the year the student is in, based on the number of dots. One dot would mean they're in the first year of either lower or upper secondary, which might be differentiated based on colour, shape, or being on the left or right side. Here, Pran is clearly not 12/13 years old, so the year must be M.4.

In The Yearbook, the school uniform also includes the students' ID in Thai numerals below the school name, also quite a common thing. The navy lettering and the black shorts indicate that it's a government school, and the filming location and the teacher wearing the civil service uniform also hint that it's a rather provincial setting. The haircuts of the characters are also more realistic, as schools usually require a short tapered cut for boys.

The characters in 'Cause You're My Boy also attend a government school, in line with the working-class background. Mork is in upper-secondary, so his uniform as the school symbol embroidered above the lettering, while Gord and Morn's, who are in lower-secondary, don't.

Another example of a government school uniform with black shorts is found in Dew. This school also has the student's name embroidered over the shirt pocket. Dew's oversized shirt and long baggy shorts reflect the fashion trends of 1996, when this part of the story is set.

On the other hand, Hormones follows middle-/upper-middle- class kids at a private school. The uniform was directly copied from that of Assumption College Thonburi (ACT), where the series was filmed (so that its students could blend in as extras). As a private school, the lettering is in red, and the student IDs are in Hindu-Arabic numerals. As in the above example, the stars on the collar indicate the student's year (here, dots are used for lower-secondary and stars for upper). Also note the belt buckle with the school logo, which tends to be seen with fancier schools.

The uniforms in Love Sick are also copied from real life, though this was done not for production convenience, but to pay tribute to the source novel, which was inspired by student life at Assumption College (AC), one of the country's oldest boys' schools (AC and ACT both belong to a network of schools operated by the Catholic Church, hence their names). The novel's full title, Love Sick: The Chaotic Lives of Blue Shorts Guys, reflects its focus on the inside world of the school, of which it paints a semi-imaginary image that makes multiple references to actual teachers, locations and customs, stopping short only of referring to the school by name. This is toned down in the series, though the coat of arms and uniform are nearly direct copies of AC's, minus the belt buckle (which was a relatively recent addition and not part of the uniform when the novel was being written).

Notice how Noh's school badge is pinned on the corner of the shirt pocket just like baby Peak and Ohm's real-life AC uniform, which is unique to the school. (Beam is a junior of Peak and Ohm's by a year, and was probably in M.3 when the photo was taken, so didn't wear a badge.) The school also requires leather shoes, unlike most schools which allow either leather or canvas shoes (in which case almost everyone will wear canvas shoes).

As mentioned in my previous post, the current trend of students having their school uniform shorts modified to be very short probably originated with AC students, and spread more widely from the late 2000s. Naturally, the style is shown in Love Sick, though this is also generally well represented in BL media.

Make It Right, by the creators of Love Sick, used the same style for its student uniform, except the shoes (though pinning the badge at the shirt pocket didn't really make sense now that it wasn't meant to refer AC's real-life uniqueness). It's also a bit strange seeing student IDs running into the 60000s, as even the oldest real-life schools don't have numbers that high.

The use of blue-shorts school uniforms to signify wealthy characters/environments is a pretty common trope in BL (and also Thai series more generally). It's also seen in 7 Project, in a more typical appearance with the pin in the usual location, and the student's name over the shirt pocket.

In My Gear and Your Gown, the uniform (quite unusually for private schools) doesn't have any lettering other than the school's initials. It's most likely a cost-saving measure by the costume department, sacrificing a bit of realism to avoid the need to create individualized outfits for every character (though it does use leather shoes).

The uniform in My Dear Loser: Edge of 17 is rather confusing. It's clearly meant to be a private school, given the blue shorts, but this is contradicted by the navy lettering on the shirt. Looks like a mistake, unless it was a deliberate choice to introduce some sort of ambiguity (though this is unlikely, and even most Thai viewers probably won't notice anyway).

In Only Boo!, Moo originally goes to a private school with a blue-shorts uniform, but is sent away as punishment for neglecting his studies. His new uniform, with khaki shorts, emphasizes the provincial nature of the school.

Often, different-coloured uniforms will be used to contrast the characters' backgrounds. This goes back to The Love of Siam, where the blue shorts and leather shoes of Mew's school uniform reinforce its presentation as a Catholic school (and closely echoes AC, which also served as the school's filming location), while Tong's black-shorts uniform may have been a reference to Bangkok Christian College, a nearby school popularly seen as a rival of AC's. BCC is one of the better known private schools to use a uniform with black shorts, and The Love of Siam is one of the less common examples of this. (Note again the school badge, which isn't worn by some of the members of Mew's band, indicating that they're in lower-secondary.)

The colour contrast is also used in Love's Coming, though it doesn't really convey any significant background.

Somewhat amusingly, creators don't always try to be particularly creative with the school name abbreviations, and they will often be that of the production company's name. So here we have ม.ม. and ม.ม.ป. - MM and MMP for Mungmee Production. Above, there's จ.ท.ว. - GTV (GMMTV) in My Dear Loser, ค.ซ.ม. - CSM (Cosocomo) in Make It Right, and น.ด.บ. - NDB (Nadao Bangkok) for Hormones, the last of which is also the actual in-story name of the school.

I Told Sunset About You uses a very unusual colour pairing: Navy and Khaki. Oh-aew's school (and Teh's formerly) is private, while Teh's is the province's main government school. The colour choices are mainly aesthetic - while some main provincial schools do use khaki shorts (and private schools navy), they are quite uncommon. White shoes worn with the regular student uniform is also practically unheard of (they're usually for PE uniforms - more on these below).

Note also how the year-indicating dots above the school initials are differentiated by colour: navy for lower secondary, red for upper. So when Teh shows up at his old school wearing a uniform with three navy dots, that's him squeezing into his old uniform from M.3 to sneak into the school.

Sometimes actual existing schools serve as the setting of a work, and its uniform is used. For example, My Bromance (2014) is set at Wachirawit School in Chiang Mai and uses its uniform.

The Best Story likewise takes place at the Demonstration School of Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University. Demonstration or "Satit" schools are pretty much a class of their own. While they're technically government schools, they're operated by universities for their teacher training programmes, and have a higher degree of freedom in their operations. They also often have uniforms that don't follow the usual format, with no school name on the shirt. This is the case with Satit Suansunandha, which has its logo embroidered on the shirt pocket and pinned above the student's name instead.

Some Satit schools also use an unusual colour, charcoal grey, for their uniform shorts. This is seen with Praram's uniform in EN of Love: This Is Love Story, indicating that his school is attached to the university. Having just the student's name and no school initials isn't unusual in this case (though not having any logo at all kind of is).

On the other hand, the lack of any embroidered lettering at all, like in The Shipper, is very unusual. In real life this is unique to Triam Udom Suksa School, which is commonly regarded as the country's top school. GMMTV previously did this in The Gifted, which kind of made sense as it conveyed that the school was unique and special, but this isn't true for The Shipper, so the stylistic choice seems a bit lazy.

This is also the case with 55:15 Never Too Late. Even stranger is the uniform from Nanon's storyline, which has khaki shorts signifying a provincial setting but the top is just a plain shirt with no markings or pin at all. It looks rather like an error in the production process that they had to roll with due to some limitation.

Girls' uniforms are much more varied, as private schools follow a variety of different styles. The standard style is mostly only used by government schools. For the upper-secondary level, it's a white button-up shirt (or blouse? I'm not sure of the terminology) with short sleeves that are pleated at the cuff, a navy (or, uncommonly, black) skirt with three pairs of wide pleats at the front and back, a black belt, white socks and black strapped shoes. The shirt will have the same markings as the boys' uniform. We see Pa wearing this in Bad Buddy (and also Tarn in the ITSAY pic above). Note that they made a mistake with her collar dot, as she was in M.6 in this scene and should have had three dots instead of one. (The same mistake happens with the younger music club students in episode 10. I guess the costume department just created one style based on the main characters and forgot to factor in the others.)

I won't attempt to list examples of all girls' uniforms here, as they're harder to keep track of in BL, but if it's a high-school setting and you see a different style of uniform than the above, it should be quite safe to assume it's a private school (especially if it's long-sleeved, with a necktie, or a blue, red or other brightly coloured skirt, like in the 7 Project example above), or a Satit school.

International schools usually have a different style of uniform altogether. They may be variably coloured, use shorts or trousers, include neckties, and the shirts won't have the usual lettering but commonly feature the school logo. Girls' skirts will commonly have a plaid/tartan pattern. Bilingual schools - private schools featuring a bilingual curriculum, with mainly Thai students - will also often use this style of uniform to some extent. We see it in Brothers, where the setting is supposed to be an international school.

While schools may have a full uniform with blazers and all, they'd only be used on special occasions. If characters wear them on a regular basis, it probably signifies a fantasy setting, or one somewhat removed from real life. This is fully utilized in Great Men Academy, which is as fantasy as you can get with magical wish-granting unicorns.

A similar effect is achieved with sweater vests, as seen in Second Chance. However, this is to emulate the Japanese/Korean uniform style, giving the show something of a J-/K-drama aesthetic while moving it away from the grounded reality of Thailand.

Sometimes, as in Friend Forever, a novel style is created that doesn't really carry any inherent meaning but is presumably done mainly for aesthetic reasons.

In real life, the standard-style boys' uniform (with embroidered lettering) may also use trousers, but this is only done in Islamic schools and the vocational education system, which are pretty much outside the realm of BL stories, so you won't likely come across them. (Update: This is no longer true with the existence of Don't Touch My Gang, but it didn't feature regular uniform, only the workshop shirt, which is covered below.)

Apart from the standard school uniform, most schools will also have a PE uniform, used on days with PE (gym) class, typically once a week for upper-secondary students. These aren't legally regulated, so they come in a large variety of styles, though many government schools will follow the same basic style of a coloured polo shirt made with a woven fabric, usually with the school logo on the pocket. We see Teh wearing this (though with the school initials instead of a logo) in ITSAY, with his usual uniform shorts. Most schools will have students wear the PE top from home and change into the PE bottom (typically sweatpants) just for PE class. Don't expect to see school showers, though, as they're not done in Thailand. Different classes mostly have PE on different days, and in meticulously written shows like ITSAY, where everything fits into the calendar, you can tell the day of the week from the PE uniform (it's Monday if you see Teh in his blue PE top).

As mentioned above, white canvas shoes may be required for PE uniforms, as seen again in The Love of Siam. This is mostly a feature of girls' uniforms, though, as boys' uniforms will more often use the shoes that are already part of their regular uniform, but schools which normally use leather shoes are a natural exception. However, they will more typically have students wear white shoes from home together with the PE top rather than change shoes at school like Mew apparently does. The shirt style here, a custom-patterned polo shirt with a knitted fabric, is also common.

We see another example of the style in Dew. Except for shoe colour, PE uniforms are usually identical for boys and girls.

Since there aren't actual limitations to PE uniform designs even in real life, creators sometimes have a field day with them. In Make It Right, the PE uniform is quite obviously a piece of fan service. (There are real-life schools that do use shorts, though they're not quite that short.)

Another uniform you might encounter is the Territorial Defence Student uniform. In Thailand, men face military conscription at age 21, upon which they will have to draw a lottery to determine whether they must enlist for two years. But there's an alternative to that. By completing three years of military training as Territorial Defence Students (often referred to as ร.ด. - Ror Dor (R.D.)), which is offered to upper-secondary school students, one avoids the need to face the lottery completely. Naturally, most middle-class boys will take the training. It takes half a day a week for 20 weeks each year (which is half the school year), plus up to a week of field training around January-February. For the weekly training days, if the session is in the afternoon, school will typically have only morning classes.

The need to attend Ror Dor is probably the most universally hated aspect of high school life for Thai boys, not because of the training itself, which is hardly intensive at all, but because of the military haircut requirements. Naturally this is never portrayed realistically, and many works ignore the existence of Ror Dor altogether. What's kind of funny is that the above storyline concerns Tee needing a haircut to pass Ror Dor inspection, but none of the characters except Mork come anywhere close.

The Ror Dor uniform is a khaki green combat uniform, with the student's name on the right chest and the school patch on the right arm. The Thai numeral on the left collar indicates the student's year. Here, it's ๒ (2), indicating that they're in the second year of training, which means M.5. The green T-shirt worn underneath is often worn casually by some.

In stories that go down to the lower-secondary or primary years, you may also see the Boy Scout uniform. In most schools, participation is mandatory for students up to M.3, and takes place once a week. Here in The Love of Siam, we see young Tong in the Scout uniform, indicating that he's in primary school, while Eiw and Cake in My Only 12% are wearing the Senior Scout uniform (with the maroon shoulder boards) of lower-secondary students.

That's pretty much everything regarding school uniforms, I think. Onto university...

In Thailand, universities have uniforms for undergraduate students. Unlike school uniforms, which are very specific, university uniforms are more loosely defined. In most cases they will be a white dress shirt and black (or navy) slacks for males, with black dress shoes, and a necktie and a belt buckle bearing the university symbol. For females, it's usually a white shirt/blouse with the university symbol pin, a black (or navy) skirt, shoes, and also a belt buckle bearing the university symbol. Some universities will also have metal buttons with the university symbol that have to be attached to the shirt.

While most universities will have defined uniforms, in practice, the requirements vary across universities (and across faculties within the same university). Many require that uniforms be worn for attendance of all classes, but some don't, and expect them only on exam days or special occasions. Strictness and adherence also varies. Often, people won't bother with the belt buckle, sneakers may be allowed (or turned a blind eye to), and jeans may even be permissible. This gives creators more leeway in designing the costumes to a varied visual effect.

In the above scene from Bad Buddy, Pran's upright collar (GMMTV does seem to like these, though I don't quite recall seeing them in real life), Wai's short sleeves (some universities officially have them as a uniform option, some don't), Safe's jacket (which is totally normal, by the way - they do blast the aircon in some lecture halls) and Louis's workshop shirt (more on this below) combine to provide visual contrast. The costume design is also often used for characterization. In Love by Chance, the timid and deferential Pete always wears his necktie, while the brasher Ae is never seen with it, nor does his shirt ever seem to be tucked in. (Untucked shirts are also used for characterization with school uniforms, though it's pretty much the only option.)

Even where uniforms are more strictly enforced, the necktie is usually not worn outside of formal occasions. Some universities have a tradition of requiring them only for freshmen, and similarly female freshmen may be required to wear below-knee accordion-pleated skirts (and for some universities, white shoes) for the entire first year. All of this is shown in SOTUS, as the entire series revolves around these hazing traditions. As freshmen, M and May wear the full university uniform (May with pleated skirt), while the sophomores are seen wearing pencil/mini-skirts and jeans with no necktie. The necktie doesn't have a printed logo, though it's attached as a tie pin - some schools do this. (Quite a lot of series, however, don't bother with having any sort of logo on the tie or belt buckle at all, which is a bit unrealistic, but in some cases could be explained away by the above-mentioned variability in strictness.)

Also famously depicted in SOTUS is the workshop shirt/smock/overshirt, which isn't really an official uniform, but a protective garment meant for practical classes. In some schools, there's been considerable drama over their use, as students often use it as a cover for casual clothing instead of wearing the regular uniform, which the staff disapproves. As so many series show, it's indeed quite commonly seen as an engineering-school symbol.

And that's pretty much all I can think of. If you've made it this far, thanks and congratulations! :p Let me know if I've forgotten anything.

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The first time I watched Bad Buddy was like 2 years after it came out. Why? Because the title sounded weird and I was like it can’t be that good it came out such a long time ago and I think I just started watching 2gether which had such a big hype and it was such a disappointment. But after a long time of convincing myself, I gave it a chance and my god, was I hooked. It was funny,heartbreaking and so perfect. Now, after some time passed, I’m watching it again and my god, the feels are right there where I left them. With Pran and Pat. With Ohm and Nanon. It’s honestly rare that when I rewatch a show it hits just the same like the first time I saw it. Hell,it hits even more. It is still so funny and entertaining, my heart still skips a beat or beats faster when there’s a sweet scene. My heart still breaks into a million pieces when there’s a sad scene. These two boys can act so well, they are so natural with each other, their faces and whole body is so expressive it’s a joy to watch such talented young actors portray the feelings so perfectly. Also, the chemistry is insane. I am drowning in feels right now and I’m just glad I get to experience it again and I am glad that it’s a show that I can rewatch from time to time. And I love the fact that when I rewatch it, I get to enjoy it even more than the first time. Which is rare. Very rare. It’s so special. When I rewatch a show it’s usually just nostalgia that I feel. But with this one I feel everything and even more than the first time.