#maxtul ig

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MAX NATTAPOL's igs for TUL PAKORN's birthday feat TUL's replies 08.10.24

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tul_pakorn instagram stories repost

[mikuni14]

15 Day BL Challenge - Day 9

Day 9: Most Visually Pleasing Love Scene

(I took into account the love scenes and the heavy making out sessions)

The Sign the pink one

TharnType the ice cube one (please don't hate me 🥺)

every MaxTul scene, I mean.. come on, it's them

every scene of Kinn and Porsche

Siew Sum Noi - IG and Ruk scene

Be Loved in House: I Do

Love Class 2 this scene

gif by @nanihirunkits

Twins both scenes, I especially like this one

Ghost Host, Ghost House this scene

every DaouOffroad scene in Century of Love and Love in Translation

cold blue:

red hot:

Destiny Seeker

The Eighth Sense so beautiful

Bake Me Please both their scenes

4 Minutes all scenes, it's the same as with KP

well I'm not 😭

[allovelyhappily]

MaxTul cr. each ig

[petrichoraline]

Thai BL Favorites List Tag Game

i got tagged in the summer lmao i've been struggling cause i simply can't make a completely honest list - my taste is too fluid and the definition of "fave" is a blur to me

thank you to my lovely @tenprem and @littleragondin for tagging me, consider yourselves tagged again in case your answers differ vastly from your previous ones hahah

💓Fave bl: default answer is Bad Buddy, current - Last Twilight and Cherry Magic..and Cooking Crush

👨🏻‍🤝‍👨🏻Favourite pairing: as in actors? if i say GunSing am i gonna get ToddBlack again? (im fine with DrakeSing too y'know, im just being teased atp)

honestly i don't know, i think of actors i really like but i'm not big on their counterparts..? i enjoy it a lot when they mix and match, i don't have anyone i particularly follow.. i will say MaxTul were super powerful, i really appreciate the bonds between a lot of pairs like ForceBook and i think some of them have amazing chemistry like FirstKhao but even though there are a few i would always try to tune in for like OffGun and YinWar, there's no one i can call a fave, i don't think..currently JimmySea are eating it up tho

🎭Most underrated actor: just the Wayufilm crew in general, I see them do fundraiser lives on yt all the time and I don't think they're that well known by the fandom

🧍‍♂️Favorite character: ig it is Karan currently, Tay really made the character shine in a different way than Machida Keita's Kurosawa and i can't get enough of those puppy eyes

🕴Favorite side character: rn it might be Metha from Cooking Crush? he's just a bit too charming for someone i'd punch if i met him irl..or Fire, i think writing about him made me fond, they're both so..this

📽Favorite scene: from all the thai bls i've seen?? there's beauty like THAT ITSAY scene, there's unexpected scenes i come back to like WaanTul in the last episode of Between Us, there's Nuea and Toh finally getting everything out in the open..there's the Kitty Gang in FUTS going up the elevator, the ep.5 KinnPorsche scene..most of PatPran's scenes!! like how am i supposed to even start choosing lmao

i'm gonna say (after i catch up with my shows this whole list would prolly be different, it could be Karan's scream soon) the one from my recent shows is the rooftop scene from LTTS..sue me for being basic, i'll plead guilty

📝Favorite line: nth has ever quite stuck with me as "do you want us to be friends?" "no." so let's go with it

🃏Most anticipated bl and why: let's say Jack and Joker hahah, I hope it works out <3 i want to see a project YinWar have certain freedom over completed successfully - even if it ends up not being my thing, they deserve to share their talents and artistic vision. they are trying something new, maybe there will be a nice balance between comedy and drama and also it seems like those characters are meant to be whipped for each other and YinWar can pull that off splendidly

👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨Healthiest relationship in a bl: PatPran and PuenTalay are the first to come to mind, the communication and conflict resolution skills are on another level

💢Most toxic relationship in a bl: I suppose it would be VeeMark before the end or maybe DimGreen from 2gether? I also personally don't like Mayom and Nadia from My Ride but I can't tell if they're actually toxic 😄 and im reminded of GramBlack cause that friendship sucks imho

OH WAIT PiMork is pretty bad. yeah, maybe not the worst but they've got a spot on the list..and ig TehOhAew but I have not actually seen s2 so overall I don't have a definitive opinion :')

🍿Guilty pleasure series: i guess it would be Cause You're My Boy (My Tee) because everyone hates on it but I binged it and had a good time 🤷‍♀️ also I Will Knock You cause it has some questionable elements but it's also very special

❎Most underrated series: out of what I've seen it would obviously be Rainbow Lagoon but it's two episodes, not sure if it counts as a series.. really sweet short watch though, you should give it a try here 🥰

also maybe The Best Story? I didn't like it that much because of the ending but it's younger YinWar and I never hear anyone talk about it; I'd say they were pretty good at it 😊

i'm tagging @sommmnus @forcebook @catboyjosten @sparklyeyedhimbo @lovesickfolly @sollucets as per usual no pressure and sorry if youve done it ❤

[chaos0pikachu]

Hey Pikachu (or do you prefer chaos?)

Unpopular BL opinions: MaxTul

Personally, I like them as far as the fmv edits are concerned. It's not so much that I don't like their shows, which I've only watched (and heard of) TWM and MOD, but that I don't understand the hype people have over them or their shows. you could say it's the same with OffGun for me. I like them as actors and as a pair and while the writing of these shows isn't special it's serviceable. I don't follow actors IRL. I don't care enough, nor is it any of my business. I got into both these shows after watching the fmvs and the comments about them being the best and the shows being amazing (it might just have to do with the time ig) but like, yeah they are good but really all they are is better than most others. If you get what I'm saying. I'd love to have seen them in something with a little more budget so I could judge better but now that Tul has retired I don't think I will.

I don't get this 'Kings of Chemistry' status they have and hold coz lbr 2022 gave us so much. And maybe my opinion of them is colored by those shows. Just a little bit.

Gimme a moment to bask in the glory of being called Pikachu (I'm good with chaos too tbh I love it all)

So the MaxTul shows I watched were Manner of Death and Together with Me. The latter I didn't finish because it was awful. Lol sorry to the fans but the show was boring and poorly made I think I only made it 2 episodes. Manner of Death had an interesting story but was so sloooooooooooow and the direction was awful and the editing was bad and the acting was hella mid. The show needed a better director, and a better budget and it woulda been a better show. The story was 100% there.

I think that's my biggest issue with Max and Tul is they're pretty mid actors to me? I think Tul is a better actor, so it woulda been cool to see him in a series against a better actor than Max (who's like, very average imo). I think they earned the Kings of Chemistry b/c during their era there was a lot of bad or mid chemistry with super chaste or outright dead fish kissing.

I'll hand it to Max and Tul, they can kiss. They def give it their all. They go for broke. But their body of work is from an era that's really rough quality wise and I think a lot of ppl forgive the lack of quality of a show b/c they specifically like the actors of said show. T

I've said before I don't vibe with a lot of GMMTV's shows b/c to be frank, they low-key suck lol they're low budget, and have sound issues, and acting issues, and lighting issues, and editing issues the list goes on and on. They purposely set a majority of them in university to cut down on costs and their stories tend to be boring (to me!!!). hey're the salt-less potato salad of BL shows imo

They rely on the audience's parasocial relationships with their "acting pairs" to carry the show like let's be real, Ohm and Nanon could star in the most basic, poorly produced university BL GMMTV's ever done and fans would still flock to it b/c they wanna see Ohm and Nanon acting together again especially as a couple.

I don't vibe with that personally, I don't give a fuck about acting pairs which is why I shall forever push Apo and Bible in a series together b/c they have amazing chemistry together and they're both solid actors. They would be dope as like rival assassins with contrasting methods who fall in love after being forced to work together (like Hobbs and Shaw but Thai and Gay)!!!

(sidenote not hating on anyone who does like a specific acting pair y'all live your life, live your truth, I support you)

Anyway Max and Tul are like, okay I think both are kinda mid actors in the two series I saw them in both of which I didn't really vibe with but they can smooch so kudos to them hope Tul enjoys retirement legit

[annoyed4thsister]

Maxtul 🔥

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KHUN TUL 😳

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ew gross can't believe they're in love

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Get ready for a day oF MAXTUL UPDATES

maxiiin_ igs (9s) 12.01.24

[vaynessa]

#PRIDE

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Maxtul so sweeet

[allovelyhappily]

their laughter, so contagious

[thethera-rossa]

[thebroccolination]

Hey key! Sorry for the random question but do you believe most BL couples in real life do fanservice? As you see a lot of couples who buy things for one another etc but is this all for fan service or is it genuine?? I just like to hear your opinion if you don’t mind ☺️

Hi Anon!

No need to apologize! I love random questions. \:D/

Just to be clear, though, my credentials on this are: 1) my own observations and 2) conversations with other BL fans living and/or working in Thailand. I'm a very living-in-Europe white European-American and I've never been to Thailand, so big, big grain of salt moving forward.

Also, just for context, the BL pairs/actors I've followed most closely over the past three years are BounPrem, KristSingto, TayNew, FirstKhao, ZeeNuNew, MaxTul, ForceBook, Fluke (Natouch), Gawin, Tonnam, Gameplay, Earth (Cooheart), and Supanut. I have a general awareness of others, but those are the ones I'll, y'know, drop stuff I'm doing to watch them when they go on IG live and the ones whose projects I'll probably watch even if they're not completely my taste, just 'cos I like seeing and supporting them. (And of course Boun is, has been, and always will be my most favorite of favorites.)

Okay so!

I think "fanservice" varies pair by pair. What ZeeNuNew's fans enjoy and expect is not what TayNew's fans enjoy and expect, for example. As a part-time Polca, I can confirm that TayNew bickering and complaining about each other is Grade A fanservice for their fandom. ZeeNuNew are soft, affectionate, and openly flirtatious with each other in a way that TayNew wouldn't do unless they were drunk and extremely sarcastic about it. Meanwhile, BounPrem have yet to tire of the famous "BounPrem vs. PremBoun" debate, so that's another type of fanservice.

On the other hand, you've got the stuff that fans enjoy, but isn't really fanservice. It's just how they are as people who are close on and off the job. KristSingto have a pre-performance hug ritual backstage that they never skip out on, and that, as far as I know, is just because they've been close for years even before they were famous and they genuinely want the best for each other when they go out onstage.

Similarly, ForceBook are super tactile with each other, but they're also childhood friends who had a close relationship before they started working together.

If you mean the "pretending to date each other" kind of fanservice, I think that's hard to gauge, honestly, and from what I've heard from fans in Southeast Asia, that type of fanservice is meant to be taken in a very lighthearted spirit. It's not, y'know, what western fans think of as "queerbaiting" (real people can't queerbait anyway but that's a whole separate thing). From what I understand, the marketing model of romantic fanservice between actors isn't trying to trick people into thinking they're dating.

On that note, and in that spirit, I think MaxTul are the best of the best at fanservice. Everyone knows they're absolutely platonic friends who are very good at acting and making out with each other. They're good at flirting with each other while keeping everyone in on the joke with them. I mean, I don't doubt that there are fans who speculate about them dating, but I've literally never seen anyone say it in earnest, and I tend to see that kind of thing a lot in passing even when I don't follow the actor in question.

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I miss MaxTul.

So, that's what I think: fanservice varies, and what's "genuine" depends on your perspective.

Unrelated to fanservice, I think hookups and dating have undoubtedly happened, both between branded pairs and outside them. Not all the actors are straight, there are very real psychological "oopsie which feelings are mine and which are my character's" effects that happen to actors around the world regardless of sexuality (people write papers about it), and I think it can be fun to speculate and ship real people if you're respectful about it.

There are very few openly queer actors in the BL industry in Thailand. My understanding is that it just isn't as common in most of Asia as it is in the west to advertise which of the alphabet banners you carry. When I lived in Japan, I rarely heard a Japanese person state their sexuality (and notably, the most common slang word for "heterosexual" during the decade or so I lived there was "normal" sO). So even when actors do flirt with each other, they're very careful about their wording. Like with ZeeNuNew, they've said just about everything but that they're dating. Like, someone once asked Zee something like, "Can I describe you two as boyfriends?" and Zee said something like, "You can think of us like that, yes," rather than, "Yep."

The upper levels of the industry are quite conservative and bigoted, I've heard. More than one friend in Thailand has told me that coming out as queer severely narrows down an actor's options with potential sponsors, producers, etc. And I don't know this for sure, but my guess is that that's why there are a decent number of openly queer directors like Jojo, New, Waa, and Aof, but there are vanishingly few openly queer actors by comparison. If you're in front of the camera, you probably have to watch your image much more closely. If you're a director, the series is what matters. If you're an actor, your marketability as a person is.

Of the actors I follow, I've only heard Earth (Cooheart) come out as queer, and he used the term "LGBT". Fluke (Natouch) is commonly understood to be queer as well, but only because fans know about his ex-boyfriend, and because he doesn't go out of his way to hide that he's into men. But he also hasn't ever labeled his sexuality like Earth has as far as I'm aware. The reason Fluke is independent in the first place is because his former agency asked him to stay closeted, and he refused. But he still has to watch his image, and I've seen fans extremely earnestly defending his heterosexuality, so there's another part of the big marketing problem: fans who can't deal with their actors being queer. Earth is represented by Wabi Sabi whose CEO is openly queer and who goes out of his way to employ queer staff and actors, so Earth has a level of freedom that most don't.

Basically, I'm fascinated by the whole fanservice culture in Thai BL. I don't judge it or think of it from a western cultural standard, and that's helped me see it for the fun it's meant to be. Some people take it too far: stalk the actors, their families, etc. Demand to know their sexualities, make their friendships uncomfortable, and harass their partners, until they snap, etc.

But fanservice is fun when everyone involved knows it's for fun.

MaxTul for joint president/prime minister/rulers of Earth/etc.

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Why don't ppl talk about mosbank more. Literally they have the same energy as maxtul but even gayer. They're very good friends with lots of chemistry and very comfortable with eachother. Their IG lives and interviews are so funny they really have such wonderful energy bro. They're both so charismatic and are very transparent about themselves while keeping clear boundaries with fans and their private lives. I want the best for them seriously. I hope they get more projects and go on to be successful. Their YouTube channel is so comforting.