Bad Buddy has once again showed us how yes, it’s a queer show, a BL for sure, but a queer show with the intention to show us how real gay people live in today’s society. Now, some of you might tell me that I’m reading too much between the lines as it’s still a GMMTV series and full of cliches, but to me this series is the perfect example of how a BL can also be a queer show. For me a BL is a show with gay people that act in ways and situations that would be unusual in real world, that never say the word ‘gay’, that often use the ‘’I don’t like boys, I only like you’’ line, that only shows parents as negative figures or doesn’t show them at all! I mean, you know what I mean (and if you don’t, go watch Lovely Writer that talks about toxic BL culture a lot) Bad Buddy instead is showing us what queer people really want to see, love. That easy. Yes, the drama is fun, otherwise it wouldn’t be a rom-com! But the sweet and tender moments we get to see through Pat and Pran are almost non-existent in other BLs where intimacy is mistaken with sexual times and hugs and cuddles are overlooked with the fear of certain masculine looking characters and actors might not look masculine enough. Bad Buddy doesn’t do that, it’s shameless in the way it shows both sexual innuendos and affectionates touches that have nothing to do with bed related things. Pat and Pran here look their ages, not grown ups in university or naive boys that act like they’ve never seen adult contents. It’s both the director (and his team) and Ohm-Nanon’s work, I know that, but it’s so refreshing to see something that can be categorized in the BL rom-com ‘genre’ but can also be believable from a queer point of view
I probably have a lot more to say about it but I hope that people that had the same impression as I did can add their view on this!!
Ness is one of the most amazing people you will have the chance to meet in the Philinda fandom. She is always supportive and so fun to be around. And yes, she’s an extremely talented writer too!
I can’t even explain how much this means to me! I never thought I would EVER be given such an honor. I only started writing because I love this couple so much. I never thought people would LIKE them or actually ask for more!!!! GAH!
I love this fandom and its people so much. I love what a great little community we’ve built and how we love and support each other’s ideas, headcanons, fangirling, art, gifs, and fics. You guys are the reason I keptwriting. I love yall. <3
I’m seriously so ecstatic and I will never get over this. Thank you so much, Philinda Library, and ELLE who does so much for this fandom!!!!!!
oscar wilde’s early fame is so nuts, i mean just think about the type of person it takes to create a counterculture SO iconic and SO irritating to the mainstream that they can’t stop lampooning you, LITerally they can’t stop, they draw caricatures and write comic operettas making fun of you, the press mocks and disparages everything you say no matter how inconsequential because they’re so annoyed by your existence and your dedication to Art and Beauty, but in order for their cottage industry of mocking you to expand beyond the little london enclave of people who already are either obsessed with you or obsessed with hating you, they have to hire YOU – pay YOU – to go on an all-expenses-paid national lecture tour across america to talk about Art and Beauty – to hype YOUR counterculture – to make sure that the rubes in omaha and salt lake city understand how funny the jokes and satirical songs about you are.
THAT’s your first job that isn’t being witty at parties or diva-worshipping sarah bernhardt. you’re twenty seven.
If you want to know more about this era/phenomenon in Wilde’s life specifically I highly recommend this book! I gift-linked the NYT review so it should be free to read.
The only exaggeration is maybe the idea that Wilde created Aestheticism - there was definitely a generation of Aesthetes that came before him (and inspired Wilde) that the mainstream was already making fun of by the time Wilde finished at Oxford and went to London. Wilde basically inserted himself as the face of Aestheticism by going to the opening nights of all the plays and operettas making fun of Aestheticism and making a public show of accepting the satire as if it were positive attention and flattery, because he’s the funniest person to ever have lived.
