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tomatoland · 7 months

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I was pretty curious to see what Thai reactions to this part would be. The reactions were wide in range. Some people not reacting or just going quiet, but these reactions were more— well, you could see the wince.

Mew & Top have used rao and each other’s names as pronouns since their first official meeting when Boston introduced Top to everyone in episode 1. During their first unoffical meet, Top uses pom.

Cheum & April also use rao and each other's names as pronouns for reference.

Mew switching pronouns is SIGNIFICANT. It shows he’s really angry.

Top’s reaction immediately afterwards

cr: tweet, reactions 1, 2, 3, 4, absolute bl post

#topmew #am i becoming nick? i had to watch this so many times to make this video #check my rb for more info #only friends the series #ofts #ofts analysis #have a terrible gif #only friends mew #only friends top #top tanin #forcebook #ofts context

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firelise · 4 months

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#me and all the bitches I pulled by being a friend-zoning hypocritical virgin Only Friends (2023)

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heretherebedork · 7 months

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Boston's position in front of Mew, Mew leading with his hips are he stood before rejecting Boston's offer of anything and swearing he isn't as nasty or awful as him, the shock on Boston's face as he is forced to stand up and meet Mew's eyes straight on, Boston raising himself from that low position and willingness, just all of it there's just so much and this is the first time that Boston has felt like this is serious, like this might really matter, like he might truly lose his friends and his life before he has to lose them and that what he is losing might be more than he thought.

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thatgirl4815 · 7 months

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I feel like a broken record but like. You know what’s strange? Mew knows Ray hates himself. He knows Ray doesn’t think he’s worth loving. He has to know too that those beliefs haven’t changed much since what happened two years ago. Yet he still says this line so flippantly, with such exasperation. Like he can’t possibly understand why Ray would let himself fall this far.

I’m not saying he has to tell Ray how much he loves him every two seconds. But when have Ray’s friends ever said anything nice to him outside of his attempt to hurt himself? Someone telling you how much they love you doesn’t mean much if they only ever say it at your lowest point.

I’m not trying to make sweeping generalizations about the friend group, but at this point I am very frustrated by the complete lack of empathy for Ray’s very obvious mental health issues. It’s not their job to devote themselves to “fixing” Ray, but as friends, they could at least do more than the bare minimum.

#every time I rewatch I find something else that breaks my heart ugh #only friends the series #only friends #ofts #only friends Ray #Ray pakorn #raysand #sandray #RayMew #only friends mew #mew only friends

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prapaiwife · 7 months

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WHEN MEW SAID I LOVE THE SOUND U MAKE WHEN WE HAVE SEX I WAS LIKE!!!

#ofts #only friends series #only friends the series #mew x top #only friends mew #book kasidet #forcebook #force jiratchapong

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nongnaopat · 7 months

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I love the sound you make when having sex.

#ofts #only friends #only friends the series #only friends series #topmew #book kasidet #forcebook #force jiratchapong #only friends spoilers #only friends mew #only friends top #neo trai #topboston #nat.gifs

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pigeonriot · 8 months

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"dont be picky like me" mew your standards dont even lift off the ground shdhhd

#only friends #ofts #only friends the series #only friends ep4 #only friends mew #my post

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lu-sn · 3 months

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i know it's 300 years late to be making this post but man. i am still SO angry about mew

the setup was perfect!!! you have mew, this probably-aspec character who hits all of the checkboxes for prim-privileged-gay and seems fully unaware of that privilege, and you have boston, fully unashamed of his sex drive and his many sexcapades while still partially closeted, and they hate each other, okay. they constantly sling barbs at each other right from the beginning, and they're not friendly about it. mew thinks boston is an uncontrollable slut and boston thinks mew is a horrendously stuck-up prude and they're constantly judging each other. at the beginning of the show, they're two fundamentally incompatible people.

and then top comes along, and he's this character who's willing to put up a facade for mew -- willing to play the part of the sweet, unproblematic boyfriend -- but under the hood, he's a lot more like boston than anyone wants to admit. he's a piece of shit to everyone but mew, and he's slept around, and he openly likes sex. he wants it. he's struggling a little without it.

it's perfect because boston is a character that mew is fundamentally at odds with, and top is a character similar to boston that mew does not want to be at odds with. it sets up this huge clash of principles for mew, who is going to either have to learn to accept some of top's behavior and realize that boston might deserve that acceptance too, or he's going to be unable to accept some parts of top in a way that will hurt their relationship.

... or so you would think.

instead, mew gets to have his cake and eat it too: top cheats on him (and frankly, the circumstances of this cheating are suspect; top was basically manipulated into it), and instead of digging into why top did this, why top might feel compelled to secretly have sex with someone behind mew's back, mew lets top grovel at his feet for months, then takes him back while "forgiving but not forgetting". there's no attempt on mew's part to understand top or the cheating, only to corral top back into the persona that mew thought he was in the first place. and top lets it happen. by the end of the show, all traces of the "problematic" man he was in the beginning have been mysteriously wiped away. his cocaine problem is gone, his debilitating fear of fire is gone, and he is perfectly content in this relationship with mew where they have relatively little sex, even though mew is constantly making eyes at all of the new men who show up (cough cough boeing COUGH COUGH MIX) and even though this supposed straying on mew's end and the ensuing jealousy from top was a big factor in why top cheated in the first place.

and because mew didn't need to understand anything deeper about top, there's no way in hell he gains any sympathy for boston; he kicks boston to the curb and is obnoxiously righteous about it.

i've seen some comments that mew is not a hollow and unrealistic character for acting like this; there are many, many people out there who act just as selfishly as mew. i can't stand those people, and i can't stand mew, and in a sense that does make him a compelling character. so putting aside the fact that i would have much preferred to see him struggle with the crumbling of either his principles or his relationship... the arcs of the characters around him are definitely hollow and unrealistic, as a direct consequence of his position in the overall narrative.

let's look at boston for a second. mew, who you famously think is a stuck-up bitch, ends up catching the unwavering attention of top, who you want to get fucked by; you slowly manipulate top into cheating on mew with you, and you're gleeful about it. this is not a thing you'd do if you felt any sort of sympathy or friendship towards mew! you clearly disrespect the guy! you probably fucking hate him!

and then the guy you hate finds out what you did, and he threatens to out you and circulate revenge porn of you in retaliation, and he's the smuggest little shit about it while he promises to ruin your life and then ten seconds later flips masks and goes "but i wouldn't do it because i'm above that kind of behavior" -- and i would just like to poll all of you, and ask you: if a guy you disrespected so deeply came up to you and threatened to ruin your life while continuing to display all the traits you already hated him for, would you feel sad that he friendship-broke up with you and try to friendship-get him back? or would you, i don't know, hate him for all eternity?

once the cheating news breaks, the narrative tries to convince us, again and again, that boston feels bad and guilty about what he did to mew and that he doesn't hate mew and wants to be friends again. i'm sorry. i don't buy it. the boston we saw at the beginning of the show is not a guy who would grovel at mew's feet. so why does the narrative make him do it? why does the narrative kneecap his character like this?

it's for the same reason that all of top's problems disappear. it's because the narrative wants so badly to position mew as the good guy. mew did nothing wrong, they say, over and over again. look at how top and boston beg him for forgiveness. look at how terrible boston was for wronging mew but how right mew was for threatening boston back. look at how top erases all his own flaws just like mew said he could, and boston doesn't do the same, so top earns a spot in the friend group but boston loses his spot forever.

if the narrative had been brave enough to fracture mew's image a little, to acknowledge that he's a mean, messy hypocrite, i could have respected his place in the show as a whole. but they didn't. instead, they gave his character so much potential for growth and then squandered it all, and if that wasn't enough, they went ahead and neutered all of the characters around him, too.

#whew. i've exorcised the demon #i'm free :')#also i'm tilted that the mew-boston-top dynamic revolving around sex basically repeats itself with the mew-ray-top dynamic about drug abuse #and then the narrative borks that too #but this post is too long for that #only friends the series #only friends mew #only friends boston #only friends top

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funny1723 · 3 months

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Only friends: Top and Mew

#thai actors #thai series #thai drama #thai bl #thailand #only friends the series #only friends top #only friends mew #topmew #forcebook #force jiratchapong #book kasidet

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thewayuarent · 6 months

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Do you also have a feeling that creative team expected us to like Mew and hate Boston and than something went very wrong or it’s just me?

#ofts #only friends the series #only friends #only friends meta #only friends mew #only friends boston

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firelise · 5 months

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Only Friends (2023) as Clueless Quotes ✧･ﾟ

#this might be my favorite thing ive ever done #i had fun lol #there are so many more that fit so well bc mew is literally cher (cher x cher haha ok) both are annoying and iconic #only friends the series #only friends #ofts #cgedits #mygifs #only friends mew #book kasidet #neo trai #mark pakin #lookjun bhasidi #khaotung thanawat #first kanaphan #clueless #cher horowitz #jojo tichakorn

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heretherebedork · 7 months

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The absolute parallels of Top and Sand taking care of Mew and Ray and how the story is showing their relationships and their care and their changes....

The first time Sand meets Ray is him taking care of a drunk Ray to protect him from himself and taking him home without knowing who he is or anything about him at all except that he's a rich, drunk guy who was gonna drive himself home.

The first time Top sees drunk Mew they're practically dating and he drops him off at home alone before going to listen to Boston and leaving Mew to care for himself (and get locked out) thus starting the entire issue in their relationship.

At the Halloween party, Top makes sure that Mew is safe and stays with him until he takes him home to protect him. At his home, he cleans him up and settles in to protect him and make sure that he's okay because he knows Mew and he needs him to be okay.

At the Halloween party, Sand tries to make sure Ray isn't arrested and then leaves with Nick to go home without him, leaving Ray by himself on the couch to come down from his high without anyone there because they're too close for him to stay there for him after everything that's happened.

It's a full reversal. From Sand taking care of a stranger to leaving behind the man he loves to Top walking away from a drunk Mew to talk to Boston to taking Mew back to his home and watching over him for the entire night.

The parallels they are paralleling and it's about love and care and watching someone you care about destroying themselves and having to walk away or knowing that you can't or knowing that your love can never be enough because people have to chose these things for themselves.

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thatgirl4815 · 7 months

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For me, this series is overflowing with cognitive dissonance.

I feel bad for Mew, but I'm frustrated that he would dive into a relationship with Ray that we can be fairly certain he doesn't really want. I love Ray and sympathize with his issues, but I hate what he's doing to Sand (and Mew, by agreeing to be with him in his emotionally vulnerable state). I hate Top for cheating on Mew, but I do genuinely think he loves Mew and wants to make it up to him. I love Sand but am also frustrated that he doesn't love himself enough to leave Ray. I feel bad for Nick but think his pain is kind of deserved because of his choice in men (and his infringement of privacy). I like Chuem for trying to be a peacekeeper, but her comments rub me the wrong way.

The only one I feel no dissonance over is Boston. Hate him through and through.