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heartfelt, cozy and heavy all at once ⭐?
"i see people eat Chicken Rice every day. and they enjoy their Chicken Rice in their own way."
awhh, no joke this series was super cute but also uhm soul-crushing because why did firstkhao not get a single break 💔
and don't even play with me about the scene with heart and li ming talking to heart's parents - but i'll talk about that later.
been on my list for aaages probably and feels so refreshing to finish 💖🥹
☆ jim and wen (earthmix)
this is my first earthmix series, even though i've heard of all their other ones and i'm so pleased! their chemistry is insane and i really enjoyed wen chasing jim 7/8 episodes and jim giving in to his stupid logic in the last. i know he had an unresolved past but even when wen took him to the other woman and helped him move on, jim still was reluctant. anyway, they were so entertaining to watch! while i don't think their acting is the strongest, they still managed to pull off the sad and angsty scenes really well! i even shed a few tears. i feel like their story was cut short due to only 8 episodes (i was so shocked when i found out it was only that many) so i felt that both: wen chased after jim for too long/jim pushed wen away for too long. as i said, it just felt like wen was pushed away right until the last minute. it was obvious they had mutual feelings but i still would've liked it to feel like i didn't just press fast forward. nonetheless, they were so adorable to watch and they have a truck together!! lemme just order some Chicken Rice, i'll be back
job promotion: declined
reason: i just built a home. i dont want to move anywhere.
☆ heart and li meng (geminifourth)
AHH, my cuties!! as probably the majority of watchers have done, i watched this series and even discovered it because of geminifourth. if you couldn't tell already, i am a sucker for any kind of media that brings disability awareness to the table. i loved their little use of sign language between them and their notepad 📝. i got frustrated with jim more times than i can count but the times when i was most furious is when he was scolding li meng - especially in THAT scene. honestly, a relationship like heart and li meng's - in any case: romantic, platonic, relative etc - is such a clear case that soulmates exist. to think that heart would probably still be stuck inside his boring house, his parents ashamed of him and never living like the normal person that he is if he hadn't met li meng. i can't beat to think about it!
"deaf people are the loneliest people. they see everything, but they can't hear a thing. if no one talks to them, they won't understand anything at all."
this quote actually sat with me for a while. i genuinely had to research if deaf people could still speak because every deaf people i have seen in media either doesn't speak well or at all. when i saw people say that they have been deaf since their toddler years and even birth and they can speak clearly with 98% accuracy, i was like oh!! which is what made the quote stick so well. if no one had bothered to teach those people how to regain their speech and just disregarded them, they wouldn't be able to communicate as well as they would. especially since so many people don't bother to learn sign language so those that can't speak are just stuck.
li meng hearing heart speak is genuinely so heartwarming. even when heart spoke for the 4th time in front of him, he was still amazed 🥹. especially since he said li meng's name. i will love geminifourth even more for this representation and amazing acting 🤍
☆ alan and wen
oh, i was NOT ready for all of this angst. i will never tire of saying this - first and khaotung are my favourite pair in terms of acting ability. they make me feel like im on a rainbow in the clouds but then suddenly there's just a fucking thunderstorm from nowhere and now im miserable. first was so good as alan - even though the character was more than partly in the wrong. i swear, every time this man was crying, he did it like he had bottled up his feelings for 10 years. mix also played into the angst of alanwen really well. his emotion was at its max and i honestly was so emmersed.
"but now you like chicken better than beef, right?" / "you were not this sarcastic back then." / "i have always been like this. you just started to not like it."
alan, who taught you these ways. stop playing with my heartstrings!! i absolutely adored the constant metaphors this series used to describe the character's feelings towards one another. i will never say that wen was in the clear because it is so so wrong continue being with somebody for anything other than love - ESPECIALLY sleeping with them. that whole scene was just so not funny. #gmmtvlovesemployingprettycriers
☆ praew and saleng
this is the part when i wish this series was longer. their story deserved to be shared as much as the others, if not more!! poverty pregnancy is such a curse, i can imagine. when praew still had to work while she was pregnant because they didn't have the money 💔. oh girl, just saw you want my money; it's all yours. i feel like this mark is one of those gmmtv actors you just manage to see in every other series that you watch. like how high are the bills?! but i love this character, and obviously mark himself 🤍
☆ overall
although this seems like an adorable, heartfelt, cozy bl, to me it actually has a lot of serious topics discussed: poverty (pregnancy), disease, loss + grief, politics (about lgbtq+ rights at the time) and of course, disability. i think that's what makes it stand out from other cozy bls because it has all of these serious issues mixed into the story and handles them very well. from what i have seen previously, im pretty sure that earthmix are strong advocaters for the lgbtq community, so when jim and wen were talking about thailand in 2022/2023 and talking about the lack of same-sex marriage laws, i thought that really fit them. the discussion of poverty is huge in this series, and as it should be! even now, the world is covered in poverty as people wonder if they'll get to eat tomorrow. what with the wars (PLURAL) going on, poverty grows every day. i just wish everyone got the chance to dream 💔
awhh, no joke this series was super cute but also uhm soul-crushing because why did firstkhao not get a single break 💔
and don't even play with me about the scene with heart and li ming talking to heart's parents - but i'll talk about that later.
been on my list for aaages probably and feels so refreshing to finish 💖🥹
☆ jim and wen (earthmix)
this is my first earthmix series, even though i've heard of all their other ones and i'm so pleased! their chemistry is insane and i really enjoyed wen chasing jim 7/8 episodes and jim giving in to his stupid logic in the last. i know he had an unresolved past but even when wen took him to the other woman and helped him move on, jim still was reluctant. anyway, they were so entertaining to watch! while i don't think their acting is the strongest, they still managed to pull off the sad and angsty scenes really well! i even shed a few tears. i feel like their story was cut short due to only 8 episodes (i was so shocked when i found out it was only that many) so i felt that both: wen chased after jim for too long/jim pushed wen away for too long. as i said, it just felt like wen was pushed away right until the last minute. it was obvious they had mutual feelings but i still would've liked it to feel like i didn't just press fast forward. nonetheless, they were so adorable to watch and they have a truck together!! lemme just order some Chicken Rice, i'll be back
job promotion: declined
reason: i just built a home. i dont want to move anywhere.
☆ heart and li meng (geminifourth)
AHH, my cuties!! as probably the majority of watchers have done, i watched this series and even discovered it because of geminifourth. if you couldn't tell already, i am a sucker for any kind of media that brings disability awareness to the table. i loved their little use of sign language between them and their notepad 📝. i got frustrated with jim more times than i can count but the times when i was most furious is when he was scolding li meng - especially in THAT scene. honestly, a relationship like heart and li meng's - in any case: romantic, platonic, relative etc - is such a clear case that soulmates exist. to think that heart would probably still be stuck inside his boring house, his parents ashamed of him and never living like the normal person that he is if he hadn't met li meng. i can't beat to think about it!
"deaf people are the loneliest people. they see everything, but they can't hear a thing. if no one talks to them, they won't understand anything at all."
this quote actually sat with me for a while. i genuinely had to research if deaf people could still speak because every deaf people i have seen in media either doesn't speak well or at all. when i saw people say that they have been deaf since their toddler years and even birth and they can speak clearly with 98% accuracy, i was like oh!! which is what made the quote stick so well. if no one had bothered to teach those people how to regain their speech and just disregarded them, they wouldn't be able to communicate as well as they would. especially since so many people don't bother to learn sign language so those that can't speak are just stuck.
li meng hearing heart speak is genuinely so heartwarming. even when heart spoke for the 4th time in front of him, he was still amazed 🥹. especially since he said li meng's name. i will love geminifourth even more for this representation and amazing acting 🤍
☆ alan and wen
oh, i was NOT ready for all of this angst. i will never tire of saying this - first and khaotung are my favourite pair in terms of acting ability. they make me feel like im on a rainbow in the clouds but then suddenly there's just a fucking thunderstorm from nowhere and now im miserable. first was so good as alan - even though the character was more than partly in the wrong. i swear, every time this man was crying, he did it like he had bottled up his feelings for 10 years. mix also played into the angst of alanwen really well. his emotion was at its max and i honestly was so emmersed.
"but now you like chicken better than beef, right?" / "you were not this sarcastic back then." / "i have always been like this. you just started to not like it."
alan, who taught you these ways. stop playing with my heartstrings!! i absolutely adored the constant metaphors this series used to describe the character's feelings towards one another. i will never say that wen was in the clear because it is so so wrong continue being with somebody for anything other than love - ESPECIALLY sleeping with them. that whole scene was just so not funny. #gmmtvlovesemployingprettycriers
☆ praew and saleng
this is the part when i wish this series was longer. their story deserved to be shared as much as the others, if not more!! poverty pregnancy is such a curse, i can imagine. when praew still had to work while she was pregnant because they didn't have the money 💔. oh girl, just saw you want my money; it's all yours. i feel like this mark is one of those gmmtv actors you just manage to see in every other series that you watch. like how high are the bills?! but i love this character, and obviously mark himself 🤍
☆ overall
although this seems like an adorable, heartfelt, cozy bl, to me it actually has a lot of serious topics discussed: poverty (pregnancy), disease, loss + grief, politics (about lgbtq+ rights at the time) and of course, disability. i think that's what makes it stand out from other cozy bls because it has all of these serious issues mixed into the story and handles them very well. from what i have seen previously, im pretty sure that earthmix are strong advocaters for the lgbtq community, so when jim and wen were talking about thailand in 2022/2023 and talking about the lack of same-sex marriage laws, i thought that really fit them. the discussion of poverty is huge in this series, and as it should be! even now, the world is covered in poverty as people wonder if they'll get to eat tomorrow. what with the wars (PLURAL) going on, poverty grows every day. i just wish everyone got the chance to dream 💔
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