It's Decided I Would Be Watching The Show For This Majesty Alone.

I need to know if Mix was always meant to make a cameo or if P’Jojo just saw the opportunity to make the funniest joke ever and ran with it

#jurassic park

Oh it has a name.

you. yes you, person with rejection sensitive dysphoria. this message is for you. your friends DON'T hate you. they aren't mad at you. they aren't talking behind your back or wished to cut their friendship with you. they love you and treasure you and they are good people who wouldn't hurt you like that! ok, that's all. have a nice day.

NICO WAS NOT OUT OF CHARACTER

My mans is touch starved and has been depraved off affection for YEARS. He just learned how affection makes shit better but his shiny boyfriend is the only current safe space, the only outlet he has. Baby learned how the deep dark negative things that he's feeling can be made better with a single touch. Plus his boyfriend heals with a single touch. Touch is something he understood most from love. THAT'S WHY HE'S SO AFFECTIONATE.

His jokes are stupid, his pop culture references sucks BECAUSE HE JUST STARTS DOING THEM. This is a 15 year old boy who's got his whole childhood ripped off of him. He used to devour Mythomagic. Then after the whole Kronos/Gaia/Nero crap, AS EXPLAINED IN THE BEGINNING, Nico was trying to fit into being a proper camper. A Proper Teenager. Again, his only constant source of reference was Will, of course he would swallow pop culture whole and naturally become cringy.

He literally told us the whole Tartarus story from his first trip. He was witty and sarcastic in the Underworld and Tartarus. He always has been that. Your brooding, cold, distant demigod is shown in presence of other people, not monsters. MY GUY'S A CHRONIC INTROVERT.

He built a skeleton ramp, called on skeleton army multiple times, he ordered Menoetes around. He LITERALLY told Nyx to suck it, attacked Nyx, Mother of Darkness, with only his sword and shitton of guts. HE'S STILL SCARY AS FUCK.

THE SUN AND THE STAR IS GOOD.

When Jack put the red blanket on Joke, I noticed Joke has a little J with a heart tattooed on his shoulder, which I got a glimpse of in the second episode.

He doesn't have a chip on his shoulder. He has a heart on his shoulder. He wears his feelings on his shoulder. In his color.

And it's a J.

There is no Joker of Hearts. There is only a Jack of Hearts!

The Jack of Hearts sits on Joke's left shoulder which is normally concealed.

And the Jack of Hearts represents young men in love.

Every tattoo Joke has is about Jack.

Joke fell in love in one night five years ago and has been thinking about it ever since.

And that's why the ring with Jack's name on it belongs on Joke's finger. He already has Jack tattooed all over his body. Now he just needs Jack to allow Joke to permanently place Jack's name in his heart.

Apothecary Diaries season 2 key visual

Maomao knows what it is to be loved. Luomen loves her. Her big sisters love her. Lakan loves her (though she has no interest & may not believe he actually does because of thinking he'd abandoned her & her mother). Those who love her aren't perfect, but they want what's best for her.

And then there's Jinshi.

He has no idea if the people who love him actually do, or if it's because of his position/title/looks. He doesn't have good reason to believe people's feelings about him, because there's almost always going to be a condition to it, or some intention to use him. Even people like Suiren, who do love him, can't love him fully because of who he actually is

And I think that's why he falls so hard and fast for Maomao. Here is this woman that has no interest in his flattery, no desire to climb the social hierarchy at all. She doesn't sugar coat things. Jinshi knows where he stands with Maomao. All the tricks of the trade that he knows don't work on her, but what does work is when he drops the facade & is genuine with her.

Think about the scene when he gives her the hairpin.

It's the first time she's really seen him be himself. There's even a line in it where she is startled by the fact he's being sincere. I think up until that point, she thought he was just a vain & shallow guy. He'd really given her no reason to believe there was anything else to him. She likes seeing him be himself, not some sparkly shell of a person.

Yes, Maomao goes hard with the denial, but she also does show him real feelings. She gives him a measure of grace & is willing to forgive. Most of the time the feelings he gets from her are frustration/aggravation. Other people don't give him that. When she tells him she'll keep his secret & that he'll always be Master Jinshi to her, he doesn't doubt it. He knows he can trust her. In fact, I think he trusts her more than he trusts anyone else in his life. He knows that no matter who he becomes, she's still going to know who he actually is, warts and all.

He is so desperate for real, human connection. So desperate for real love (not even necessarily romantic love, though that's definitely something he wants). I think he's smart enough to know Maomao may never love him the way he loves her. Knows that hoping she will may be little more than a fool's hope. He knows that whatever he does get from her is real, and knows how unlikely it is he'll find anyone else that will be that real with him.

GMMTV BL KISS COUNT TRACKER

So...I'm more of a visual person. I love my graphs, and I love the idea of these GMMTV boys and their floating heads competing for the number one spot. I was inspired by this post to keep a continuous track of all the GMMTV actors and their BL kisses on this fun lil line chart. Please note that any non-BL kisses are not included in this kiss count, and any actor with less than 3 kisses is not included. The chart adds each male kissing partner each actor has had per year.

This is posted as of October 28, 2023 (aka the end of Only Friends)

As always, we have First Kanaphan re-taking the BL Kiss King title with 7 different kissing partners, after sharing it briefly with Mark (for like a week)!

For reference:

First Kanaphan - 7 kisses - Ohm (The Shipper), Gawin (Not Me), Khaotung (The Eclipse & OFTS), Mix (Moonlight Chicken), Mark (OFTS), Mond (OFTS), & Force (OFTS)

Neo Trai - 6 kisses - Louis (FUTS & The Eclipse), Mark (OFTS), Force (FOTS), Drake (OFTS), Title (OFTS), Mond (OFTS),

Khaotung Thanawat - 5 kisses - Podd (Tonhon Chonlatee), First (The Eclipse & OFTS), Pawin (55:15), Book (OFTS), Mond (OFTS)

Mark Pakin - 5 kisses - Ford (MSP Our Skyy 2), Neo (OFTS), Papang (OFTS), First (OFTS), Title (OFTS)

Singto Prachaya - 4 kisses - Krist (SOTUS), Ohm (HCTM), Nat (Friendzone), Plustor (Friendzone)

Fluke Pusit - 4 kisses - Jay (Warp Effect), New (Warp Effect), Thor (Warp Effect), Ohm (ABAAB)

Mond Tanutchai - 4 kisses - Book (OFTS), First (OFTS), Khaotung (OFTS), Neo (OFTS) - BOY CAME INTO THE BL SCENE HOT AND READY TO SURPASS THEM ALL

Ohm Pawat - 3 kisses - Singto (HCTM), First (The Shipper), Nanon (Bad Buddy)

Fluke Gawin - 3 kisses - Podd (DBK), First (Not Me), Krist (BMF)

Krist Perawat - 3 kisses - Singto (SOTUS), Lee (Jungle), Gawin (BMF)

Earth Pirapat - 3 kisses - New (Waterboyy), Mix (ATOTS, CLW, MLC), Papang (MLC)

Book Kasidet - 3 kisses - Force (Enchante, ABAAB, OFTS), Khaotung (OFTS), Mond (OFTS)

Force Jiratchapong - 3 kisses - Book (Enchante, ABAAB, OFTS), Neo (OFTS), First (OFTS)

I was going to wait until the end of the year to post this, but none of these actors have any BL works coming out (that I'm aware of) that could have them surpassing First or adding too much to their kiss count. With the ending of OFTS, I thought it was the perfect time to share!

Huge shout out to Force, Book, Mond, Mark, and Neo, who all destroyed the numbers this year by hoeing it up in Only Friends. We love you guys.