If when Tamtawan and Pathapi met in university, Tamtawan was head hazer and Pathapi was his junior.
(They didnāt give much information on how Pathapi got together with Tamtawan ā what am I to do except autofill this information in my head until proven wrong?)
Lately Iāve seen the narrative around Krist shifting from āheās homophobicā to āhe was homophobic, but he got better :)ā so!
Letās go back to a moment in 2017 during a ceremony where Krist and Singto accepted an award from the Thai branch of the gay magazine Attitude (now defunct). Thatās the magazine that published this photoshoot:
[Attitude, 2018, promoting SOTUS S] (they also did one in 2016 for SOTUS)
Krist said that a friend of his once came out to his parents, and the parents wouldnāt accept him, so Krist told his friend, āItās okay. If no one accepts you, you have me, and I accept you for who you are.ā
So, yes, Krist was hotheaded when people kept harassing him about his sexuality, but can anyone truly blame him? No one looks at all the times he answered politely. Just the one time he broke.
There are people today who film these guys at the urinal. Who treat them like property because of money and time spent on them. Who hire trucks to drive around their company building making demands. And itās 2024. GMMTV has legal teams on this stuff now. But you and I canāt imagine what kind of invasiveness Krist and Singto went through in 2016 as one of the first pairs in the BL industry to gain overnight fame and rabid, unprecedented focus from millions. Of course he snapped. Itās widely known that fans and reporters target Krist over Singto to get information even today because Singto never gives anyone the satisfaction of a reaction, but Krist is a people-pleaser and truly struggles with saying no to people. Heās always been the emotional one, the one who overthinks, the one desperate to make people happy. And when fans wanted to force KristSingto to publicly say that they were secretly dating, fans thought they could get Krist to break first, and they were right. (Personally, I always thought the Instagram story was an exaggerated joke that was a barely veiled ādrop it.ā)
Then interfans came along, marked him as an easy target, and maliciously miscast him as a bigot to wave after wave of new interfans who never bothered to research further after a random person on the internet told them heās a homophobe.
Krist asked his parents for their blessing to audition for SOTUS when he was still a teenager. He was afraid of what theyād think, but because his parents are lovely people, they supported him. And they still do. Kristās father has a running joke that heāll let Krist marry Singto if Singto brings a durian for the dowry.
I never included Singto in my clarification thread because I knew how quickly people would dismiss anything with Singto as conniving, tricksy fanservice. But you really donāt know anything about Krist until you see him with people he considers his safe spaces. That includes people like Mike. Like Gawin. Godji. Oat. These people who love him because heās earned it.
I know I talk about this a lot. But I wonāt ignore it when people try to twist his character, especially with I see them making assumptions about the premise of Ex-Morning. All I believe is that he was angry and afraid and overwhelmed. Then he reacted, apologized, and learned how to handle the fame and the invasiveness better.
Please stop trying to claw marrow out of a past mirage.
Since I see people snidely saying Krist is just using BL for clout, Iām gonna remind yāall whose debut series lifted GMMTV off the ground and made it into a company with clout.
Youāre a guest in his house. Use your inside voice.
i understand why some people might not be into concerts with bl actors, but i love the concerts so much and could talk about my favorite performances forever. aka: I'M WATCHING POLCA TIME TRAVELING CONCERT RIGHT NOW AND I LOVE IT SO MUCH y'all who don't watch these don't get it, i swear
I have to say, I myself don't have many peers in gmmtv, it's always been just KSOGTN. So when we separated, I was quite lonely, because everyone else could still work as a unit, while I was going solo on my own. P'Sing, too, for that matter. So for us to reunite... In our personal lives we still see each other from time to time, but in terms of work I think both of us don't want to be lonely anymore.
I feel like now the timing is right. I finally came to the conclusion that I'll need to halt my plan of further studies for now. And if I'm not going abroad to study just yet, working the same old way still makes me happy. I like working where it feels comfortable, and being here makes me comfortable. I don't need to go anywhere else.
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Press Tour for Peraya Party Begin Again soon! Lots to look forward for. And I love Krist with a phone (Call Me reference) and Singto with a camera (since he's such a photographer). So cute. Love it.
They also mentioned that the teaser for Peraya Party Begin Again had the concept of the two of them working on their solo work, which is why they start in solo sets, with Krist doing music and Singto on a television set, and being magnetically attracted together by their fandom logo! So sweet. I'm so excited for it in June.
I was thinking a lot about the car accident. It directly follows a scene in which someone attacks Pathapi on a motorcycle, indicating that this was an orchestrated, intentional act to harm Pathapi.
Of course, I know that this parallels reality, with Kristās car crash, and initially thatās all I thought about it. But then I kept thinking and thought, well, isnāt a car crash pretty odd considering the rest of the show? Sure, a big car crash would make sense, but look at that scene preceding it. No, thereās probably a good chance that someone wants Pathapi harmed.
Tamtawan also comes to him after the crash. It might just be worry, but to me, it signals an idea: maybe Tamtawan and Pathapi were investigating something. Like. Pathapi is a reporter! And while at first he reports on celebrity gossip then ends up the target of internet hate? You know what could get him that award at the end for best reporter? Maybe: finding something out. (Okay, maybe this isnāt the main point? But? Like?)
So, what would they be trying to find out? Well, we have a mystery right in the show!
Who posted this online?
Okay, so I think thereās a very easy, very obvious answer, and I am split on if it will be true or not. Aouās character. He would know this event happened, most likely have access to the cameras, and would have ample reason to want to leak this!
Then thereās the question of if it is Aouās character, what does that mean for the story?
Well. A lot of things. I think everyone can think of most of it. Personally, Iād prefer for Aouās character to not be the āvillainā of the show, both because it could possibly undermine the initial character flaws Pathapi has, and because I think itās just an incredibly easy out. I donāt quite like the idea of the story just having an easy antagonist. If anything, I could see Aouās character as a decoy antagonist. Either in a sympathetic āPathapi was a dick and Aouās character leaked it because he was sick of the treatmentā way (assuming the car accident stuff is either not tied to this OR actually just an accident) or in it actually NOT being him, and it being tied to a bigger conspiracy, that Pathapi and Tamtawan would then be working on uncovering.
If it isnāt Aouās character, it could also be just a random staff member or something inconsequential to the story that Iām blowing up greatly. But I think it would be really interesting if Pathapi wanted to know who it was that posted the footage online is.
I am mainly focusing on just the trailerās contents by the way, not the meta of KristSingto being in real life PathapiTamtawan. I have very different ideas for what the show will try to do with the plot and especially the car accident if weāre going to be focusing the plot even MORE on the real-life parallels. (Remember how awful certain haters were about Krist when he had his car accident? Well, I donāt want to. But it could come up in this show, if it wants to comment on that. Which, donāt quote me on that happening, Iām just speculating!) Anyway, in this case, I see much less grounds for my plot speculation here.
Well, who knows. No source material. Original story. Iām just throwing ideas at the wall and seeing if any of them stick. But I think I have a point regarding how sick it would be if we got our reporter Pathapi and his (ex) boyfriend Tamtawan investigating something! Even if it isnāt related to the footage being uploaded online (good chance it isnāt) imagine if Pathapi was trying to be stopped by someone from reporting on something! Then again I might just be reading into it in my many, many watched of the trailer. Please let me know if you agree or disagree, because I honestly have no idea if Iām on mark or off base here. Because maybe nothing is going on. But Iām having fun theorizing!
Thinking about the Mock-Trailer for The Ex-Morning
Pathapi is said to be the Best Reporter of the Year in the beginning. How. I want to know his career accomplishments so badly? I need to know how he got here!
Iāve been considering why Pathapi acts the way he does in the beginning. Has he always been like, since his university days? Or was it perhaps heartbreak and the passage of time thatās made him more like this?Ā
Aou is being made to play the exasperated best friend in Be My Favorite and the rival with coffee thrown on him in The Ex-Morning. Someone give both characters a raise. And a boyfriend!
I looooove the trope of the arrogant, whiny jerkass in a successful position who gets humbled. And that paired with him rebuilding his reputation with his ex-boyfriend of all people? I am so ready to see Pathapiās character arc, and the things Tamtawan makes him do in this trailer makes me think heāll get more in-tune with the spirit of good reporting and why itās so important.
How does Tamtawan know and decide to come back? Obviously, he wants to help Pathapi and is still in love with him, but why did he leave? WHY DID HE LEAVE? Later in the trailer, when present-day Tamtawan leaves, itās after heās told āTam. You have two options now.ā What are the two options? The way Tamtawan leaves and the look on his face makes him look regretful, but what exactly is motivating him trying to leave here? Why did he leave in the first place? Does Pathapi know? His face looks half confused rather than just heartbroken!
What has Tamtawan been up to? I am intrigued.
The SOTUS reference in their university days flashback? I am obsessed. They were so sweet in that one frame, it makes me wonder how they fell in love. How different were they? How much of the same remains in them? How did they fall in love? Oh my god!
The transition from Pathapi being awkward with shirtless only-clothed-in-a-towel Tamtawan to taking his own shirt off and asking if Tamtawan has an ulterior motive to fluster him is hilarious to me. I love how forward Pathapi is here! And Tamtawan getting flustered is amazing. Oh my god, I love this trailer. It balances a comedic tone, angst, tension, etc all in one show. Canāt help but adore it.
āYouāre still the same selfish jerk.ā I need to know what happened! I said this above and Iām saying it again. I am intrigued.
Uni Tamtawan pulling Pathapi by his tie? I am obsessed.
The umbrella scene is both so very PāLit and so very much a SOTUS reference, it delights me. I wonder how many SOTUS references weāll have in the show proper.
I wonder if the car accident will coincide with the climax of the show.
That! Last! Scene! I suppose this is a scene when theyāre hooking up but not properly together, seeing as theyāre flirting, shirtless, and probably just had sex, but still wonāt admit they still like each other. This sounds great to me.
Iāve mostly not talked about the meta elements here, because I feel itās less about the contents of the actual trailer and more about the nature of the series as such a KristSingto RPF-type plot. Anyway, I love it. Everything about the meta of this series is perfect to me, and exactly what I wanted. This show is SO fun to think about when you know about the lore of KristSingto in real life. Iām half expecting Tamtawan to have hazed Pathapi at this point!
Side note that is not a side note: I LOVE THEIR ACTING! I love their characters!
Is this vers? Iām going to say itās vers or Top Krist until proven wrong, because that last scene? Well. Letās put the KristSingto into the KristSingto.
I love the small cast and the focus on KristSingto! I just need to say this. I am so excited for this comeback, in-part because it really is just Tamtawan and Pathapiās story.
Tamtawan is supposed to mean āfollowā and āsunā whereas Pathapi means earth/soil/ground. Coming off of KongArt, where Arthit is obviously āsun,ā and KristSingto, who compare themselves to the sun and moon, this seems so definitely meaningful. Aof and Lit, I need to know what youāre cooking!Ā
The coals scene is sooooo perfect, both for the characters AND KristSingto themselves. Again bringing it back to the meta of it all, but, oh my god? This is perfect? Aof wrote a screenplay that was KristSingto RPF? On that note, I keep thinking about the idea of KristSingto channeling their feelings from the irl work-partner ābreak upā and it makes me go a little crazy. Especially with Krist talking about all his efforts to bring Singto back, and how he over-thought it when Singto left. And even more so seeing as they say theyāre basically playing themselves.
The lyrics of the song used in the trailer are so fitting, I am now looping it and thinking about Pathapi and Tamtawan forever and ever.
I noticed that Tamtawan goes by āTamā but did I miss it for Pathapi in the trailer, or do we get no indication of his nickname? Iām curious.
The āBegin Againā for the new Peraya Party speaks to both KristSingto and their new characters, and this is again making me go, oh god itās true theyāre just playing themselves.
I said my ideal KristSingto BL was a vers exes-to-lovers that parallels reality. Evidently, I was not alone.
Is it just me, or do the Pathapi + animals and Pathapi + soil degradation water scenes feel a lot like certain episodes of Friendship with KristSingto? Just me? Maybe itās just Krist. I love him so dearly.
So much is revealed in this trailer, but that somehow makes me more intrigued about what is not being revealed to us?
Krist still goes for the top lip and Singto still goes for the bottom lip when they kiss. This kills me every time. I am so excited to see lovey-dovey Tamtawan and Pathapi!