Newwieland

thinking about a dog and a plane + the heart killers and how sometimes we get so wrapped up in questions of representation (i.e. are they representing this institution or this population correctly within the larger political conversation) that we forget to ask whether it's serving the people it's representing and their own experiences under and after those institutions. like, thk did not deliver some narratively explicit acab anti-prison industrial complex thesis statement the way many of us tumblrinas expected. the characters had to make deal with going to prison, living through it, and making it out the other side. and it wasn't some tragic story. it was just life for these characters. similarly, adaap represented the thai draft for the first time in bl (that i know of), and there's no "fight-the-power" narrative arc going on here. akki, like many other working class men in thai society who have less access to the military training alternatives in high school, had to attend the draft and got drafted (Daou and Frank are two actors who've served military duty after being drafted fyi). our rescue squad is not bringing an end to the draft or the Thai military. they're here showing us a common experience in thai working class life.

Me because TotoKanit kicked me out of their bedroom