#eclipse series

Birthday present for @gaym3bo1 ❤️

Anon, this is one way of looking at it.

Let me make it clear, I DO object when a third person makes assumptions or outright asks a gay couple who is the husband or who wears the pants in the relationship. It's not anyone's business but theirs. So it does become heteronormative when someone outside of the couple does it. But when the couple use it themselves and either or both are okay with it, it's different.

For ex. The bit where Rain from LITA actually enjoys being called P'Payu's wife.

Vs Where in Bad Buddy Pran shuts it down when Pat tries to say it. And Pat corrects his mistake.

Both are fine because the couple is talking about it and coming to an agreement.

Now what we saw in The Eclipse was more of a teasing tactic by Ayan to get Akk being open about it. I myself have seen people struggling with internalised homophobia, it's not pretty. So getting some one to ease into queer language and stuff is a challenging task. It may require various tactics, and I saw it as one of that.

I would also like to comment on a different aspect of it. I am an queer Asian living in West. I have seen more of this kind of language in Asian queer couples than is White or western queer community. Hence you see this in a lot of Asian BL dramas but not Western BLs. The roots lie in the languages and cultures. A lot of Asian cultures relate care, softness, gentleness with the feminine side. And it's not in derogatory sense. Most Asians culture actually put the feminine form on pedestal and worship the female side of the nature in different types of goddesses, which you don't see in West at all. So when you say wife or a mother it automatically assumed that it is a good thing. The notion that wife word is demeaning has actually come from the West. It's very common in Asian friend groups to have a common wife or a mother, it's the person in the group who is most caring or gentle irrespective of their gender. Wife material is one common phrase used in Asian youths to identify a friend who is caring gentle etc etc.

So these are some cultural nuisances you would not understand unless and until you have been part of those cultures.

One major one would be Akk and Ayan’s first conversation in the teachers’ bathroom. The tension there makes a lot more sense when you know that Akk knows Ayan just saw him set off the car.

But we also have a lot of context that a lot of characters don’t have. Here are a few examples:

Thua doesn’t know that Wat has been watching Kan look at him for a while now. Thua didn’t see the look of devastation of Kan’s face when he was talking to Ayan.

Wat was the only one who noticed Akk was trying to side with Waree in the class to try and settle things. Most people do still think Akk is just a suck up

Almost nobody has seen Namo be shady

To date nobody knows why Kan was late to class because he got in a fight

Nobody knows Wat is making a short film 

Kan knows about Akk and Ayan but Wat and Akk don’t know about Kan and Thua

Wat doesn’t know about Akk and Ayan - not really

Nobody outside Chadok’s office knows that Dika is dead 

Thua took over the curse from Akk very quicky - there wasn’t a lot of downtime between those two events. Even for people looking into who is behind it, it’s the same person. That’s why even though Akk almost set the school on fire it seems like escalation because he didn’t, and the banner was more drastic and public than throwing paint on the posters.

And in that same vein, Thua never knew that Akk was being brainwashed, or that he had decided to stop the curse, or that he had changed his position and beliefs. For the most part, if anyone knew that outside of Ayan or Wat or Kan, it was The World Remembers because Akk quietly apologised to them the last time he took their things - it was the most he could do.

[THE ECLIPSE SERIES EP 6 SPOILERS!]

> I watch Love in the Air and I don't know why I'm doing it, because I don't buy the plot of this production

> I'd like to get more involved in the depths of Eclipse and all theories (I love theories!), but I think it's too little time since the end of KP and I'm not ready to fall into another such character and plot study well. For now, I love Ayan and the scene when he cries.