#aobpuen

Playboyy FMV | Aob/Puen | Work Song by Hozier

fun fact: i have so many feelings about aob as a character and aob and puen together that it took me until now to be able to sit down and actually make this vid!

anyway! aob is difficult to love and puen loves him anyway! i'm very normal about this!

-This sucks.

Ugh, this scene. The way Aob is being so gentle with Puen, the way Puen has let Aob in again, let him take care of him the way Aob so desperately wanted to.

And the way this show continues to have such important conversations just catches me every time.

Here's two queer men, two sex workers -- one injured because of his job -- talking frankly about the way their work causes them harm/leaves them vulnerable to violence, and how powerless they are to access justice.

This very frank discussion of the ways in which their marginalization puts them in danger, and keeps them at a societal disadvantage that the government and those who have a higher social standing ignores and exploits in turn.

"Who is going to take care of us?"/"Me. At least I will" kinda broke my heart. While this is very much about sex workers, and these particular men -- this group of friends who have had to rely on each other, but made a family of sorts out of each other along the way -- it's also about queer people, and how sometimes, we're all we have. We need to step up for each other, and be there for the ones that need help, who are more disadvantaged, more at risk, less likely to be taken care of by society at large, or by not-queer people (sex workers, disabled people, etc).