Maki

⚠️This is not meant to police how anyone engage on BL/fandom. I’m just sharing where I personally draw the line between what I think is reductive vs meaningful.

As a queer woman, I see conversation about top/bottom dynamics to be a nuanced one. While this framework (?) does not really map out in my own experience, it’s still part of the bigger conversation on how queerness is represented in BL.

When the discussion leans into cultural baggage where traditional gender roles are projected/ forced on queer relationships, flattening them into stereotypes without recognizing their complexities as characters, it becomes very frustrating.

There’s an important conversation to be had here. Proximity to power, access to resources, & privilege can blind us to the struggles of those without them. It can lead us to offer solutions that feel unrealistic or unreasonable to those who don’t share those advantages. Conversely, the absence of such access can narrow how we imagine possibilities for resolving issues not because solutions don’t exist, but because even recognizing them as options is a privilege in itself.

So while violence may not always be the answer, silence risks dimming hope in ways that speaking up rarely does.

You see, I stand with Krailert on this. History teaches us that power (military power among others)has been used time and time again to suppress the masses. Many governments have relied on fear to control the very people they were meant to serve. I appreciate that he voiced his views so clearly to his superior (plus the other men in the room).

(Kinn in EP7)🫢🫨

First, we have Dr. Trin trying to understand his feelings (c/o Thanwa). 😏🙂‍↕️

Then we have this motherf*cker (compliment) shake his whole f*cking world with his slutty (positive and negative) ways. 🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️

Then the confrontation aka Trin tries to run away from the menace that is Thanwa but it was so painfully obvious it hurts 😶‍🌫️🫢

And then we have this mess: The Klai Rung x Sarasawadee intellectual foreplay comes to a close.