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This is our first couple photo in years. If you're this happy, why don’t you print it and frame it? Damn, that's a good idea. I’ll go to the photo shop tonight. I’m being sarcastic, you dumbass.

HIGH SCHOOL FRENEMY | EP12

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“Shit, man. That bastard Jeng really made me cry.”

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"I have something to tell you."

↳ requested by the lovely @malec4everr ♡ 

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SKY WONGRAVEE as SAINT and NANI HIRUNKIT as SHIN in HIGH SCHOOL FRENEMY (2024)

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SKY WONGRAVEE as SAINT and NANI HIRUNKIT as SHIN in HIGH SCHOOL FRENEMY (2024)

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I'll stay just like this until you agree to be my friend.

HIGH SCHOOL FRENEMY | EP6

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Let’s talk about queerness and High School Frenemy. There’s a large portion of BL fandom that refuses to engage with the show, and while that rubs me the wrong way, I do understand it. If you only wish to consume queer media, it’s easy to dismiss HSF since it is not explicitly queer. It’s also a show that on a surface level, looks like classic queerbaiting. And before I get a bunch of HSF fans in the tags or comments, I am a huge fan of this show. It is possibly the best thing I’ve watched all year. But on a surface level, it is doing the literal definition of queerbaiting even if I personally do not think it is. 

As a person who is OLD and came of age in the 90s, I do want to talk about this show from a queer perspective. I grew up in a time when queer characters were not abundant. If they did show up in media, it was newsworthy. These characters were always support characters and seldom had love interests or explored what it was like to be queer. None of them looked like me or made me feel seen or represented. Heteronormativity was the standard, as it is today, but back then, a queer kid seldom encountered anything that made them question that heteronormativity. 

HSF, and Shin and Saint specifically, resonate with me more than most queer media I’ve consumed, and I’ve consumed a lot. The intense, obsessive love that Shin and Saint have for each other under the guise of friendship IS my story. For me, it was a wild girl named Jennifer, who I was attached to the hip with from 6th grade until our early twenties. I loved her. I was obsessed with her. I was probably in love with her, but it never occurred to me until years after we’d stopped speaking that what I felt for her was more than friendship. The heteronormative brainworms are real, and they infected me until my late 20s when I suddenly had a revelation about myself. 

Hindsight is 20/20. Suddenly, my obsession with Charlize Theron in Two Days In The Valley, Helen Hunt in Twister (1996), and Kate Winslet in Titanic made so much sense. My relationship with Jennifer was also at the forefront of my mind. Ah, I thought. That’s what that was.

HSF is a show about friendship, a show about community, a show about the ways adults fail their children, a show about class and poverty. It is also a show about unrealized queerness. The director, Fon, told that story purposefully through music, lighting, and dialogue, she told a story about two boys who can’t live without each other, but don’t have the knowledge, the vocabulary, or the self-awareness to understand what they are to each other.

In every choice Fon made, she dangled queerness without explicitly naming it. I would call it queerbaiting in any other media,  but for me, she made one other choice that I believe is purposeful and elevates this show into the queer category for me. She completely stripped the show of heteronormativity. There are no couples. None. We never see Chatjen’s parents. Any parents we do see are single - Ken’s father, Shin’s mother, Saint’s father, Cable’s mother.

In any other media, the male and female homeroom teachers with clashing teaching styles would  be an enemies-to-lovers side plot. Here, they grow into supportive co-workers and friends who become better versions of themselves to help the children in their class. In any other media, there would be talk of crushes among the teenagers. Here, we see them grapple with the pressures of academia, abusive or absentee parents, bullying, drugs, and the hopelessness of poverty. In fact, the only mention of sexuality or romance at all comes from Eve, a girl who befriends Airy, a girl from their rival school, and confesses that she had a crush on her when she was younger. Nothing comes of this revelation, even though we see Airy become curious and seek out Eve’s company prior to this revelation, and we see how pleased Airy is about Eve’s confession. But this is a show about unrealized queerness and even Eve and Airy, two girls who understand what they are feeling for one another, still can’t bring themselves to name it.

The lack of heterosexuality creates a void that is filled by Shin and Saint’s relationship. It’s purposeful, and Director Fon uses other friendships in the show to highlight the ways Shin and Saint are not the same. Knot, Nate, and Ken are extremely close friends. They, too, have a “no one left behind” friendship pact. They fight for each other and get hurt for each other and very obviously love each other. Chatjen and Shin’s friendship is also very deep. Chatjen considers Shin his best friend. He hero worships him a bit and sees him as his protector and savior. Yet, anyone watching can understand the ways the producers use music, lighting, costuming, and dialogue to elevate Shin and Saint’s relationship above all the other ones. 

High School Frenemy is queer. Shin and Saint are purposefully queer coded in a world devoid of heterosexuality. You are seeing what you are supposed to see, and it's a hill I’ll die on. If you were on the fence about this show, I can not recommend it enough. It’s great and will leave you feeling warm and happy and loved. If you only consume explicitly queer media, I still encourage you to watch it. Sometimes, our queerness eludes us. Sometimes it’s hidden under other words like “friendship” because we haven’t learned the right words for it yet. I enjoyed watching a show that reminded me of my youth and gave me a glimpse of the girl I used to be. She was still queer even if she didn't know it yet.

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Wait for me, I’m all soaked. No.

HIGH SCHOOL FRENEMY | EP16

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POND NARAVIT in ME AND THEE (2025).

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#meet the new CEO of GMMTV

ME AND THEE | GMMTV 2025

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"She pulled me close, touching her small forehead to mine, then the tip of her small nose. Our quiet breathing felt so loud, as if it were confirming that we truly existed. Her soft lips slowly tasted every part of mine, as if savoring something delicious. Each of her touches was gentle yet filled with longing, deep yet tender, as if she were afraid we might break. The moment a sweet, tempting touch of love took over us, I forgot that she was my little sister’s girlfriend."

PLUTO | EP1

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do you have any plans to continue "in the cracks of light, I dreamed of you" really need to know they got their happy ending.

hi anon. mhm. i have thought about it. but im so unclear what to do with it. phum and peem will meet again for sure, so i hope that can put your mind at ease somehow. im glad you enjoy this one shot because its possibly one of my favorite things i have ever written. and if it ever strikes me to continue, i promise i will. though as of right now, i don't have much plans for it.

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Hi, I just wanted to say that I'm obsessed with "you drink it just like water". Please write more dirty smut for pondphuwin 🥹🥹

im glad you enjoy it anon. im open to any smut prompts/ ideas so don't be scared to get nasty in my inbox. if it strikes me, i would love to write more.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: We Are คือเรารักกัน | We Are (Thailand TV 2024) RPF, Thai Actor RPF Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Pond Naravit Lertratkosum/Phuwin Tangsakyuen Characters: Pond Naravit Lertratkosum, Phuwin Tangsakyuen Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Explicit Sexual Content, Blow Jobs, Rimming, lots of dick touching if you're into that Summary:

pond watches phuwin’s body gives a little shiver, watches him touch himself. like touching his own body is an extension of touching pond.

his heart kicks when phuwin’s knees brush his hips. his breathing is too loud to his own ears. his pulse pounds against his temples. it’s like he actually is being pulled under a wave. already drowned.

maybe he is.

maybe that’s what love is. the physical manifestation of it at least. like being inside of them, having them inside you, or against you, or just touching you, you touching them, being drowned in them. your body is saturated in love.