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forcebookish

*cuddles* bonus forcebook:

crispywizardtale

tanrak

Pool boyfriends 🧡

tanrak

TopMew + cheek/sniff kisses in episode 12.

forcebookish

brb learning to hack in the hope that i can find another angle of this shot where you can properly see mew's face

forcebookish

Can I ask you for one more gift?

tanrak

Thank you for choosing to keep me.

jeonjeha

Only Friends เพื่อนต้องห้าม | Episode 1

jiratchapongs

FORCEBOOK FUNTOPIA D2

tomatoland

Mew’s “READ ME” tote & becoming unreadable

When Mew goes to Boston’s house in episode 7, there’s a wide shot where you can see he’s brought his “READ ME” tote, but it’s not facing the right way so we can’t read the writing.

And you might think so what? What’s the big deal?

But this is every instance of Mew wearing his tote or it set down in the previous episodes.

The one shot in living room would be one thing, but then he and Boston go to Boston’s room and Mew sets it down again and we still can’t read it. Then when he leaves, he holds the bag, still facing the wrong way, below waist level, so it is in camera range with Boston in the background.

So not a coincidence then.

And not a coincidence it’s the first time we see Mew’s tote after this moment.

tomatoland

Foreshadowing: RayMew vs TopMew and trust

Mew removes himself from the situation and physically distances himself after Ray breaks Mew's trust and kisses him while he's asleep.

Even a couple days later, Mew is a bit cold/reserved when he opens the door and see it’s Ray at his door.

Mew has told us that TRUST is something he values deeply. It’s one of his checklist items.

He trusts Ray explicitly even given their brief moment where Ray confessed to liking Mew and they kissed two years ago. This shows us if you've earned Mew's trust and you break it, he is capable of cutting off from even his best friend and he won’t be easily receptive to repair.

RIP Top when Mew finds out Top’s broken his trust and continues to lie to him even when given opportunities by Mew to admit to the truth. And since Top & Mew are intimate partners, Top's betrayal of Mew's trust will cut in a much deeper level than with Ray who is his (best) friend.

tomatoland

I think I would miss you even if we’d never met

Top & Mew are two people who don't know what love is. Mew gets too comfortable in his singleness, while Top is never alone. If they had never met, Mew would still never let anyone into his heart and Top would never know what it would be like to love someone and have someone truly care about him. Their relationship is about being vulnerable enough to let someone in.

I think I would miss you even if we'd never met.

I think I would miss the way you call me on my bullshit and make me want to be a better man.

I think I would miss the way my chin fits on your shoulder and how you keep me grounded.

I think I would miss the way you fit in my arms and how we always fall asleep cuddling.

I think I would miss kissing you and being in your world because you’re my whole world.

I think I would miss eating ice cream with you and sharing new experiences with you.

I think I would miss playing and laughing with you.

I think I would miss holding your hand and seeing your face light up when you see me even if we haven’t been separated for very long.

But most of all, I would just miss you.

Even if we never met, even if— I would miss you somehow. Somehow, something inside me would just know... and miss you.

tomatoland

something i have noticed about mew is that although he dressed similarly to ray since episode 7, the designs or the patterns of his outer layer have slightly changed. he used to wear a lot of bold or edgy design/prints but i think when his moms visited him episode 9, he started to wear a lot more floral/plant designs? it may be a redundant observation or I’m observing too much, but mew mostly wear them around top or his moms? I’m curious to know if you have any thoughts about it.

+ since you have been putting down songs for topmew, i have one for them: again - eden, sophiya (i personally feel the lyrics fit them so well, since how many characters and viewers are so against them together🫢). Thanks for reading!

This song is absolutely beautiful and you're right, the lyrics fit them amazingly. I've been listening to it nonstop. Thank you so much for recommending it to me! <3

Observing too much? No such thing!

Yes, I do have thoughts. I'm actually really glad you asked about Mew's clothing because it gives me a reason to make some collages of my favorite characters.

The super deep-dive into Mew's clothing choices I'm sure you were not expecting.

Clothing can be considered armor we wear when we interact with the world. It's what others first perceive when they meet us. It tells people about who we are or who we want to be. Clothing can also give you confidence. And for Mew, it is exactly this. He even says as much to Cheum here.

In the first half of the show, Mew did wear some short sleeved button down shirts, quite a few actually. He usually wore lighter colors with more neutral patterns and ALWAYS with a t-shirt as the base layer.

The catalyst for the change in Mew’s clothes I would say is this moment in Episode 7, part 3, when Mew is the bathtub. This is quite literally Mew's re-birth as Mew 2.0.

The show also pointedly shows us this by contrasting the book shop scene with Ray in episode 8 with a flashback with Top from the first episode. Mew's shirts are the exact opposites. Instead of predominantly white with black graphics like with Top, it's predominantly black with white with Ray.

Mew in his revenge era as Jojo called it wears short sleeved button downs with louder prints with a black undershirt.

The patterns of some of Mew's shirt are closer to Ray's palette than his own. The Outkast one he wore with Gap and the Vegas one he worse when he went to Boston’s house are the most similar to something Ray would wear.

But Ray actually doesn't always wear a black undershirt. He seen just as often, if not more, wearing white undershirts. Ray's also worn long sleeve button down completely buttoned up with no undershirt or altogether different types of shirt. I was going to make a Ray clothing collage to prove this point, but there's already enough Ray content on this site, you're just going to have to trust me lol.

So before his moms visit, the patterns of Mew 2.0’s shirts are darker and more in your face. This is Mew with his battle armor on, trying to fake it until he makes it. But once his moms come, the patterns immediately change.

I think him coming from a warm, loving home with two caring parents is important for him as a character. His moms notice things like the pack of cigarettes on his coffee table. They immediately know something is up with him but they don't know what because he doesn't tell them. But they know this is not the Mew they raised or the one they last saw.

His moms have always been his strength. Their love for him is why he didn't think he needed romantic love, which is a strong stance to have. So when his moms visit, they are able to help ground him a little and he is able to reconnect to who he is. And as result, he softens his armor.

He still wears a a short sleeve button down, but now with more feminine details, softer colors and more whimsical patterns like the aquarium and the ships. These shirts are more Mew.

Now, let's talk about how Top plays into Mew's clothing choices because I actually have a lot I want to discuss.

Mew has only ever worn a black undershirt since that moment. Only ever black, which is extremely curious.

Because do you know who has only ever consistently worn a white undershirt throughout the entire show?

Top. Interesting, huh?

The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference. So even when Mew was rage angry at Top, subconsciously, he wasn't actually as indifferent as he pretended to be.

Mew wanted to become the opposite of who he was before and somehow ended up taking an element of Top's style with him.

Top coming to Mew's family's home is the turning point for TopMew Take 2. And their undershirt colors when they were side-by-side reminded me of something.

Do you see it?

Maybe this will help.

The visual representation of TopMew's fresh start is a yin yang symbol. Yin, the traditional feminine energy is the dark side and Yang, the traditional masculine energy is the light side. Two connected elements in perfect balance with each other.

They are both coming into this fresh start as equals with open communication and dialogue, of their own free will.

And because I love this symbolism, this is literally the Sun hugging his Moon and his Moon embracing him back 🥺

tomatoland

So this position when Top places Mew's hands on the shelf is actually pretty reminiscent to a St. Andrew's cross, which is a type of BDSM furniture which looks like a X and has restraints at the wrists and ankles.

Top puts Mew's hands on the shelf and he doesn't say anything. He doesn't have to. Mew knows what Top wants and he keeps his hands on the shelf the entire time. He does move his hands one shelf lower, but Top might’ve moved them there? There’s a continuity issue with how this scene was edited.

This shot of the Lovebirds book and their hands 😘 xoxo

And since this is mental bondage and not physical bondage, Mew is choosing to submit to Top and he does it deliciously.

TopMew dipping into kink is so on brand for them. Sex is not just their bodies, it's also their minds. The back and forth verbal sparring they do is foreplay to them. They like how each other's brains work.

Sex being more than physical, but also mental for TopMew is actually because of Mew. I’m going to talk more about this in a longer post but Mew only feels desire when he feels secure. I liked this analogy, sexual desire being the gas pedal and brakes being what stops you from engaging in sexual activity.

Everybody is different. Mew has sensitive brakes. Top knows this and is consistently always being a safe space for Mew because he knows how important it is in cultivating desire in Mew.