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latest work : help me, mr. cupid! [ duang x qin ]

[allthefakepeople]

DUANG & QIN'S NECK- the study continues

[pt 1]

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Honorable Mention

[pointlesscandies]

They make me sick what am I going to do without them each week?

[qinduang]

Qin only getting jealous when Duang is getting too close with women makes sense if you're the first boyfriend of a man who exclusively only dated women.

[qinduang]

People that are heavily critical of Jamie and Marvis' scenes/dialogues in English do not consider what "natural" sounding English means to non-English speakers.

Obviously, I can't speak on behalf of Thai people, but I'm also multilingual with an accent when I speak English that I don't notice! The thing is: learning a language is one thing, speaking it is another. Reading can widen your vocabulary and improve your sentence structures, but speaking requires exposure. Developing an accent heavily based on what you hear is inevitable! And if you share a common accent with everyone around you, it becomes the standard, the natural.

So, I hope before calling JamieMarvis cringe and awkward for speaking in a foreign language, think about the context and experience North and Otto share.

Also, it's fucking rude to bully characters/people over their accents when they clearly get each other's points across anyway. Think about it.

[qinduang]

Do you also just think about how Duang, who believed that Qin would leave him for someone better, trusts and waits for Qin to approach him after the concert performance in EP 12?

He doesn't run to Qin first, doesn't fidget, nor does he make jokes to mask his insecurities. He just stands there. After a long time believing that he needs to chase or turn his world upside down to be deserving of Qin, Duang finally trusts Qin to come to him naturally in a crowd. As if Qin has nowhere else to be but in his embrace. As if fear is obsolete, and he only knows that Qin loves him in every way.

Duang is such a beautiful lover, but he is just as beautiful when he's loved and he knows.

[uppoompat]

I am right here.

LOVE UPON A TIME (2026)

[chinzhilla]

DUANG WITH YOU episode 12

[nonglukest]

DUANG WITH YOU // EP 12

[embersinthefirelight]

They are both exactly where they want to be

Duang With You Ep. 12

[qinduang]

the ending being duang and qin leaving the crowd as if they're stepping away from the spotlight that allows us to follow their story but now that the show ended and they will have to keep living without us. i feel lightheaded.

[qinduang]

The average Duang With You viewing experience is usually calm until Duang or Qin or Duang and Qin make dumbfounding financial decisions that's, in a way, incredibly inconsistent or just purely on brand for rich people. I will never fully understand how Qin got angry at Duang for getting him a 55,000 THK camera only to gift him expensive Gucci slippers, a 70,000 dog, and invite him on a short-notice vacation to Japan right after! No wonder these two are endlessly happy together. This is a first world romance that I can never afford.

[qinduang]

I'm thoroughly impressed with Duang With You's consistency with the casual touches department, because Qin mindlessly drawing circles on Duang's clothes is somehow so intimate it almost felt wrong to keep watching. There's something so tender about unconscious movements around your partner as if your only following your instinct. Qin's finger wasn't even the emphasis of the scene—not until the end, at least—which only adds to the casual feel of it.

Not to mention Duang's eyes naturally looking at Qin with so much passion, care, love, and admiration? I can reduce this to him being horny, sure, but I need to appreciate the layers to Teetee's eye acting! Because he looks at Qin (Por) like he's right where he wants to be, like this is what he's enduring life for, like he's memorizing every detail of Qin's face in case everything turns out to be a dream.

Granted that they were both teasing each other until the phone call ends, but eitherway, the follow-up NC scene was just a love letter in film my eyes started tearing up with them like I was in the cuck chair.

[qinduang]

My favorite Qin and Jamie friendship crumbs is the phone call in Japan. Because first, it's a pivotal moment for Jamie's character, which ultimately led him to coming in terms with his feelings for Marvis.

But also because it proves that Qin is close enough with Jamie to not only know about his secret English-speaking lover, but also tease him about it when Qin gets the chance.

While I would've loved to see Pae in this conversation, I also see why it makes sense that Qin is this close with Jamie specifically.

Obviously, Jamie's friendship with Qin started through Duang as the boyfriend's best friend, but he's also just as persistent as Duang, ergo, exactly what Qin needs. It's Jamie who kept touching him to spite Duang, it's Jamie who asked for his socials, it's Jamie who called him when the group fought—Jamie approached Qin like an established friend, and it's so easy to see how he must've grown onto Qin little by little.

As a hater of circumstantial friendship, it's really important to me that Jamie and Qin also have a relationship and a dynamic that is solely theirs. That's why I'm greatly pleased to see Jamie seek after Qin specifically to talk about personal issues, because that means he truly finds importance in what Qin thinks and says.

Also, they're just two very surprising duo. I love to see Qin have more friends, and I love seeing Jamie's dynamic with every single character. I just know that Duang secretly adores how Qin gets along so well with his friends.

[qinduang]

Do you also just think about the role of food in Duang and Qin's relationship?

I think about how it's specifically Qin's way to ask Duang for affection—that through his requests to be fed, he's inherently asking to be loved and taken care of. Because food is a basic need for sustenance, and it's a love language of its own. By feeding Qin—and better yet, by cooking for him—Duang performs his love as more than emotional comfort, but a series of acts that nurtures Qin's health for a longer life together.

I think about how Qin eats smaller portions around his parents but larger ones around Duang, and how Duang is always offering his bowl without hesitation, often giving Qin a piece of his food and feeling a surge of happiness when Qin accepts. It's likely representing the contrast between Qin's experienced love and care with his family and his chosen relationship.

I think about how the first thing Duang and Qin did after entering a Talking Stage was to eat Qin's favorite shrimp meal, but not without Duang's labor of love in Auntie's invaded kitchen.

I think about how this became a pattern when Qin asked for food on their first night as boyfriends. While a trip at dawn to Auntie's kitchen wasn't possible, Duang compromised with noodles and a promise to eat a better meal once the morning comes. Because Qin was hungry, and therefore, needed to eat no matter how tired they already were.

I think about Qin having a sweet tooth, and the first thing he did with Duang's mom is prepare desserts together in the kitchen. This prove that food is a shared experience that brings us closer together, as it has always been across countries, cultures, and people.

There's a reason why Duang With You ended with them running out to eat—

Maybe it wants to show how Duang and Qin are the perfect example of loving a person so much you want to make and keep them healthy. Maybe it wants to show that love and care are not exclusive to each other. Maybe it wants to show that Duang took Qin's hand to leave the Tattoo Colour concert because he prioritizes Qin's needs more than any of his small pleasures/wants in the world.

Or maybe I'm just ranting and overthinking. But we all know that there's a universal declaration of love in Asian cultures: food.

[qinduang]

Duang With You ended today, concluding twelve sweet weeks of pure love and happiness a story is capable of telling.

It's beautifully tragic to let stories end— to know that characters keep going, but you're no longer allowed to see.

[qinduang]

The Semiotics during the confrontation scene is so good, I almost teared up just thinking about it.

Because Qin never had his parents enter his home before, but they've been paying for it since day one. It's literally a concrete representation of how Qin's parents supported their son in everything their financial capacities allow—a condo, a college program, every instrument under the sun, 30k shoes—but they never actually made the effort to take care of Qin directly. Never hugged their child before, never knew who he actually was, never supported him in recitals (which mean more to Qin than any sunflower in the world).

That's why they look so misplaced in Qin's home, because they've never been there. They were never there at all. Qin didn't know how to welcome his parents as much as his parents didn't know where to stand.

But Duang gave Qin a reason to try and invite them over. It's Duang who opened the door, it's Duang who accepted their things, it's Duang who greeted them first. He's helping Qin by making it a little bit easier for him to let them in.

Unlike Qin's parents, Duang knew this place like his second home—

Duang knew Qin like the back of his hand, memorized every nook and cranny, because his love taught him to pay attention to Qin's needs without being overbearing.

And ultimately, it's also Duang's love that taught the parents how to take care of Qin in his own home. To hug and hold him in comfort, to brush his hair gently, to listen and wait until Qin is ready.

But this is not Duang's condo. He can't solve everything on his own, and as Qin said, these things take awhile. A leak in a pipe, a broken glass, or a blinking light can be fixed in a house with the right materials, effort, and time, but it also needs people.

So, it starts by opening the door.