Raindrops and Rambles

Talks in detail about drawing lots of scenes directly from his own queer experiences or those of others he witnessed.

He also wants to expand on and address a lot of the concerns I’ve heard on this website—where are the dark-skinned leads, why do they need to be thin, why can’t a seme be feminine?

I wanna make one of these that is like a literal curtain of worms

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can QLL get queerer this pride?!

"When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. Love them as yourself." (Leviticus 19:33-34)

1. Why do you care? Why do you need to comment? Is your experience of the series so vapid that this is the thing you want to spend time posting about in the show tags???

2. You as a viewer have a responsibility to use your fucking imagination, too. Your attachment to cinema doing all the work for you is absolutely so fucking boring to me. Realism has been a poison to some people’s ability to engage their minds in generous immersion within a show. Y’all ain’t never gone to a black box theater show, y’all haven’t let a low budget production sweep you away with it’s heart, y’all haven’t loved something with the tenderness of a campy affection. This show is giving us a melodramatic nostalgia trip—the identifications must be clear, the emotional beats unmissable. Do your job as a viewer and take your cynical lenses off to feel it with your heart instead of scrutinizing so intently with your eyes.

3. Even with all that said, this…isn’t a bad job? Y’all act like you don’t know what people in their 30s or their late 60s look like nowadays? Do you want them to look like old lady Rose in Titanic (a great example of the effective tender and campy exaggeration I mentioned above) ? I thought the subtle sun-spotting they did on Gem’s face was such an elegant aging touch; the few silver hairs; a little more bare-faced than usual, too. And Gem, just does look and seem a bit mature for his age anyways? And they did some solid old age make-up on Father without making him look decrepit. Just a bit more sallow and weathered. But y’all acting like they should look like Prince Philip.

Idk if people are tryna gain some clout points for pointing out what they see as flaws or something, or maybe they’re just doing it out of discomfort with such intense subject matter—and they’re allowed to not love it—but I just don’t think they even know what they’re talking about. I immediately started tearing up when he came on screen with the 2025 equal marriage announcement. I knew the struggles I was in for.

And for my two cents: I’m wondering if the ordination is a red herring, and it’s in fact not Tanrak getting ordained but Ashi’s character Kongdech. I personally would love to see Tanrak step away from his seminary path even if he remains faithful, especially since the Catholic Church does not currently recognize same-sec marriage.