Sarge's Nook

If this show is actually just BL bait, GMMTV will have used a queer media platform to shore up a non-queer project. That will be unforgivable, and I will block GMMTV and all of their shows past and present going forward.

incredible

you say “nail jello to a tree” and most people think jello all by itself.

but if you put any actual thought into what you’re doing and then give it just a little support

well gosh. look what happens.

Nonnie, respectfully, that's just too many characters to write about. However, I have written about The Knowing and why I identify with those characters, and I've written about Framboise, one of my favorite characters of all time.

However, now is as good a time as any to join @lurkingshan and @waitmyturtles in reaffirming my love for Dynamite!

In her post, Turtles talked about how Dynamite and Fire are products of internalized and externalized homophobia. Shan went on in her post to talk about how their story works because of how Fire shifts as he becomes comfortable with himself and his relationship with Dynamite.

I think part of why I feel so protective with it comes to Dynamite and his friends is that I care so much for fem gay men and the kinds of visible queers that don't get loved, especially when they're assertive about themselves. It was always obvious to me why Dynamite, Prem, and Samsee were together. They're all lonely queers who don't expect others to love them or take care of them.

I've noticed over the last decade that fandom really struggles with friend groups like these. It was somewhat similar with the SCOY quartet on the front end, especially Toh. I often wonder if there is a component of visible queerness or gender play that doesn't reach sections of the audience. However, as a gay man who is loved and protected by queers like this, these are my best friends. You've heard my best friend on @the-conversation-pod when David guests, and he is one of those queers. He is a fighter. I am not.

Prem and Samsee clearly know Dynamite's story. The crux of why Samsee is upset with Dynamite at the end of episode 9 and going into episode 10 is because he felt like he should have been trusted with something important about Dynamite. Samsee is the kind of man who is like Whoopi Goldberg: He doesn't want people in his house. However, he opens his door for Dynamite when he loses his apartment, and keeps letting him live there even when he's pissed. Samsee believes in his friends and loves them. Dynamite is the de facto leader of their friend group because they love and trust him. Dynamite is more than just his persistent attraction to Fire.

Dynamite likes Fire because Fire protected him from what clearly reads as a bashing. Dynamite has been thinking about that for years, and toughened himself up because of white Fire inspired in him.

We also know that Dynamite lost his parents to homophobia. You don't get a queer like Dynamite if they're loved and supported by the people who were supposed to do it. You get this when he's loved and supported by the people who chose him. I keep my guest room ready because we sometimes have to take care of a friend in the local community.

When Fire gets serious about Jane and weird about Dynamite, he backs off, forcing Fire to come after him. He knows that Fire is also into him, but he isn't going to be jerked around. It's the sincerity of Dynamite's attraction that makes Metha force Fire to reckon with how he's suppressing who he is.

More than anything, it's that Fire admits this to himself when he can't put up the front anymore. Dynamite is so important to me because so many of us who were closeted are like Fire. We pretend like we don't like gay men chasing us, like Intouch chasing Korn in UWMA, and then we lose them! You will lose confident gays like Dynamite if you treat them like shit and keep calling them annoying. Their friends will call you DL trash and you will not be invited out.

I just love Dynamite so much. He is the kind of gay character I love the most in BL. He's a kinda fem gay man who is earnestly pursuing his hot, super fit love interest. He has the support of his visibly-queer friends. He knows what he wants out of his relationship. He supports his partner through a major difficulty while still being clear about what he wants as secondary to his partner's safety. He is passionate about his goals, and wants to succeed with his friends (I ugly cried about their dish narrative in episode 10).

Yellow Mango Tomato Ya'll bunch of Bootyful people, Happy Pride Month and what not it's been a while but ya super duper local loco unhinged boy is back (for like a bit.) To yell at the Aether why everyone and their mothers should watch this beautiful piece of art.

(disclaimer this show is currently only available with eng sub on Viu in Thailand and few other countries so do what you need to watch it wink wink nod nod)

Without going too much in spoilers first thing first, unlike Some GMMTV Show, although this show advertised itself as Family Drama and it is that and a goddamm good one, it's genuinely also a bonafide Capital B bl, The romance in this show got the respectful treatment it deserved.

The grandpa show (this is what I'm gonna call it) is a show that after recent societal setbacks in Thailand feels like some Toxic Positivity of a show that would glazes over generation of queer traumas for the bubbly heartfelt story of hey look a cranky old man is writing yaoi to save a foster home. The older people in this show feels realistic although they're good people, they're not magically understanding of younger people views on queerness and other "Woke" subjects. This show depicts them as something that makes my cold death gay heart needs later than what my delulu BL brain wants, Family that willing to learns from talking to their kids from listening to young people feedback and the willingness to walk away from their peers that cause their kids harms. the realness of even after coming out they still sometime says the wrong things even with good intentions is something i need myself after recently coming out to my mother and sister.

Lastly let talk Labels (Hot take is coming, if you don't want to get burn don't starts kitchens fire bitch mua556565656) So aahemmm with The recent WU drama and y'all bitches got them takes on whether or not that show should be count as a show under QL umbrella i would be a gasoline and coming to say it 100% is not "Queer Love" because 1. as a queer man, girlies i don't feel the love for queer people coming from that show or its fans 2. after a year of hanging with young people that consumed BLs to the points of rotting their brains, that kind of shows are enabling the worst kind of behavior of the so call "S̄āw Y" 3. I don't like it. I know for a fact that them younger S̄āw Y put a label on this show as boring PSAey Family Drama and would never give it a chance because their favorite fake couple are not in it. but this show Queer Love is not in the bubble or limited itself as just romantic love, i won't say more because go watch it! But its Love in Queerness is the only reason i need to call it one of The Best QLs of all time

eventually I got older (and medicated), but in the meantime spending time in woodland really helped. it comforted me to be around plantlife, which feeds not on life but on sunlight, and therefore causes no harm.

then you get shit like epiphytes that decided to just grow on top of other plants. strangler fig vines, for instance, which decided well fuck, im just gonna cling to this tree trunk and let it do the support work. maybe entangle our roots and envelope my host completely over time. oopsie my host died? that's ok I'll just cling to its corpse for eternity

equally horrifying is the honeysuckle, which preys on young trees boa-constrictor style, squeezing the life out of saplings, which grow with permanent deformities before dying prematurely (makes for a neat walking stick though)

then you get out and proud parasites like mistletoe who are happy to attach themselves to tree canopies and suck their blood extract water and nutrients. so yeah some plants do eat each other actually. gives ya some perspective on the old christmas tradition of hunting mistletoe with guns (yes that's a thing, shooting them down out of trees like squirrels. yes, unlike squirrels they deserve it). as for the romance angle, who doesn't want to kiss a lover beneath the dying corpse of a parasitic trophy kill? sexy as heck.

in conclusion, PLANTS ARE VIOLENT AS FUCK, and that's not even getting into the eternal chemical warfare they are forced to wage against insects, fungi, microbes and other enemies.

one day soon the forests will turn on us, and when that day comes I'm cheerfully betraying humanity and skipping away to cross enemy lines 🫡