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.

So last week I posted my list of top 10 GMMTV series and invited others to share theirs. And many did! In the end, between replies here and asking in a couple of other places, I got lists from 21 people. Now I've put together the numbers to come up with a consensus top 10.

Methodology:

First of all, 21 is quite a small sample size, and responses did not get further than two degrees of separation from me, so it's a highly biased sample at that. I don't care, this isn't an academic project.

I only counted shows in people's top 10 lists. Many, including me, also gave a list of runners-up, but I did not count these, except in one case: if the top 10 list included non-gmmtv shows, I filled in any gmmtv shows from their runner-up list to make up 10.

Some people gave two lists, divided broadly into "top 10 recommended shows" and "10 personal favorites." In these cases I counted both lists, but if the same show appeared on both lists I only counted it once. Out of curiosity I also looked at the numbers with only recs or only favorites, but either way it didn't change what shows made the top 10, and only slightly changed the order.

I did not take list ranking into account: most people didn't rank their lists so it would not have been meaningful.

And now, the list! Top 10 GMMTV series, as voted by you:

Moonlight Chicken

My School President

Bad Buddy

Not Me

Be My Favorite

3 Will Be Free

The Warp Effect

Peaceful Property

The Eclipse

Love You Teacher

I think this is a great list! ATOTS just missed a spot: Eclipse and Love You Teacher each got 8 votes, while ATOTS got 7. Moonlight Chicken, at the top, got 16, which means 3/4 of respondents included it in their top 10. The top 5 all got 11 or more votes, which means they were listed by more than half the respondents.

Below ATOTS, quite a handful of shows got 4 or 5 votes:

5 vote club:

Cherry Magic (Thailand)

Theory of Love

My Romance Scammer

ThamePo

He’s Coming To Me

Only Friends

4 vote club:

Me and Thee

High School Frenemy

Burnout Syndrome

Midnight Museum

MuTeLuv, as an anthology show, was a little hard to count - two people listed the whole series and several other people listed specific installments only. If we add the whole-series votes to each specific installment's tally, then Love Me If You Swear also gets a spot in the 5 vote club.

In all, there were 60 shows listed, including a couple I had never heard of, so we did get quite a breadth of opinion despite a strong consensus on the winners.