#skyjao
We’re lovers now. It doesn’t matter if you look cool or not. I want to see every side of you.
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I really liked that like Jao is allowed to have desire and *be* desired. Not only bc he’s like got body issues but also bc he’s cute and quite often if his character archetype is engaging in sexual activity then they are a reluctant participant and Jao is not.
Jao gives enthusiastic consent (a thing scoy is big on) and knows what he’s doing, quite often the characters who are given the “cute” role are shown to be completely clueless about sex and so innocent that they don’t even know what it is. He picks up what Sky is putting down and is all for it.
I like that this show acknowledges that these characters are like in their early 20s and are not children.
Secret Crush on You said “You know all those people you’ve been mocking in BL for years? The feminine boys, the chubbier people, the overly invested fans, the queer friends? What if they were people? What if they were loved? What if they truly mattered, to each other and to the world and to the people that you have held in such high esteem all along? What if the engineers loved these boys, loved them with all their hearts and their souls and they were the ones being chased, the ones being pursued, the ones being loved?” and ran with it.
And the end of Secret Crush on You says exactly what the show has been saying to us this entire time… you are loved. you are worthy of love, you can love. you can love with gentle words and you can love with kindness and you can love with acceptance and you can love with softness and you can love easily. you can love even when you’re scared and you can love when you’re hurt and you can love because you are human and you are worthy. you can love, you will love, you are loved. let yourself be loved.
Jao’s the one who reaches out and Sky’s the one who takes his hand and they want inside to meet Sky’s mom and we know, we know, their future is bright and full of love.
Sky and Jao and the world’s sweetest date of love and softness and sharing memories and building a future together.
The handfasting, the blessing, the way Toh’s mother and the father love not just their son but all of his friends, all of their lovers, all of the family they’ve made and the love they’ve found and the way it is treated as only what is natural and right, to love them and support them and to show them how much they matter, to their families and to each other and to the people around them. They are told to care for each other, to love each other, to talk and to be calm and to let themselves just be in love and it’s beautiful.
