Love the continued commentary on an unseen other recording people and that recording becoming public with the intent of causing harm coming into Only Friends Dream On.
In the original, we had Boston surreptitiously recording a kiss between Ray and Mew and then saving it for two years to just use the kiss part to fuck with both Mew and Ray as they tried to move into relationships with Top and Sand, especially to get Top to sleep with him.
We also in the OG, had Nick recording Top and Boston fucking in the car, which he and Sand used to hurt Boston and Top for their own revenge.
And then in the continuation of this universe, Raffy gets his hands on a recording of Dean in his work as a host to share with the drama faculty to hurt Dean and to get closer to Jack.
And I just…
Considering how often these men are recorded by a third party, sometimes without their knowledge, and then that is put online.
The continued commentary on performance and what is acceptable and what isn’t and how we shame people for their choices continues to delight as we move from business management to drama.
As well as the ways the groups react to them. No one in season one seemed to have a major issue with someone leaking recordings unless it was a recording of them. The swift rebuke of Raffy in season 2 by Rome and the way Jack, Tua and Timmy rally around Dean — to the point that Raffy’s scheme backfires (whereas arguably Boston, Nick and Sand got what they wanted from their leaks)…
But also, the first friend group from Only Friends OG was heading into that rupture for a long time whereas we are picking up with the Dream On friend group trying to piece themselves back together after several major ruptures, what with the break up between Jack and Dean as well as Jack and Rome’s disdain for each other and Rome and Dean’s connection as well as Tua’s Boston hook up. It’s narratively continuous while being entirely distinct.
We are getting an idea of what repair could look like, just with a very different group of people. Whereas the majority of characters of season one were self righteous in their anger and feelings being wounded, the characters of Dream On are very aware of their flaws and pitfalls.
you know someone has invalid opinion when their fav show is my stubborn
No, I really don’t, Anon. I don’t think that loving one particular show over another makes anyone’s opinion invalid (that’s the TLDR answer.)
The longer answer, and I have no idea why you came into my inbox with this ask (and no idea who TF you’re trying to shade and if you just spammed it to as many BL blogs as possible trying to get someone to agree) but in my little house for hermit crab, we don’t value judge people’s favorites or their enjoyment of things.
See, I’m a fandom old. My fandom existence predates the existence of tumblr by a decade. And we have a saying: YKINMKATO - or your kink is not my kink and that’s okay.
Or to phrase it another way:
“It’s just not for me” - Jocelyn Schitt
See, things can be something you dislike and other people really like. Or vice versa! You may love something and someone else thinks it’s the worst! This does not make either of you wrong or bad, and I think that the wish to ascribe value judgement to someone’s enjoyment or dislike of a show is one of the worst things about modern fandom.
So you don’t enjoy My Stubborn? That’s great. It’s just not for you. And it being for someone else, it’s FOR them.
I’m also a BL fan that says: there’s so much cake why not eat it all?
Currently I’m watching: The Ex Morning, Pit Babe 2, My Sweetheart Jom, The Next Prince, Boys in Love, My Stubborn and Reset (and back watching Until We Meet Again) and I enjoy them all for different reasons. They all bring something different to the table! And I am sure if I polled the greater BL fandom there would be a very diverse selection for favorite show currently airing (there’s stuff airing right now that I’m not watching, which may be someone else’s current favorite thing airing.) If you did it out of BLs of all time! Even wider! And that doesn’t make anyone’s opinions invalid.
So…nope. Invalidating opinions are like: you can still fuck around with Joanne’s work in this day and age when she’s actively funding anti-trans legislation. Or: there’s only one right way to enjoy BL and it’s mine. That’s also not cool.
Okay, why did no one tell me that Tonhon Chonlatee opened with a Chinese Wuxia opening sequence that has a variant of hanihaki disease that is just abstinence related?!
So I’m still trapped in Jack and Joker. Specifically, the ways the personalities of Tattoo, Jack and Save alter the ways that they approach the same goal: protecting the person (or people) that matters to them most.
Tattoo is impulsive. He’s a talented engineer, but all of his decisions when it comes to stealing the necklace and getting out and betraying his friends is based on the opportunity presenting itself. He’s shaken after Hope threatens his mother next. It’s clear she’s the most important person in his world, even if they don’t fully understand each other. His decisions are very much of the moment and focused on getting his mom out (and Hoy if Hoy will go). He’s fine with doing a bad thing to get out because it’s the only way to survive.
Jack on the other hand is lawful and rational. He will try every avenue to get out which is why Boss has to hem him in and out smart him (and he has help). Boss knows Jack won’t go outside the bounds of his own morality to solve a problem but if you can make him worried enough about others, you can bend him within those bounds. When he feels he has no other choice of how to solve the problem of getting money but to rejoin Boss Jack does. Yes, Joke would help him in a heartbeat, and tried going to his dad. But Jack would never ask or let Joke go back to stealing. It would break the promise Jack asked for and break his own moral code that Jack tries to live within while Boss lives in a world with no codes. And it’s why every threat made to Grandma and Joke pushes him to decide to do what he can to protect them and distance them from his own danger.
Which then leads us to Save, who is cold and calculated, and the only objective he has is saving Hope. The moment Save found hope bloodied and unconscious in the floor of his house, he decided he would do whatever is necessary to save him. Now it’s clear he regrets these choices and that they’re done with a heavy heart, but Save’s world is Hope no matter how much he pretends otherwise. Joke is an interloper who has upset the status quo of their neighborhood and has lead to Hope being nearly beaten to death. It’s personal and not personal all at the same time because it’s only about Hope and saving him.
And then it’s interesting how some of these defining characteristics are mirrored in their current/potential partners, in terms of their goals and how they operate.
In the same way Tattoo is focused on his mother and saving her, Aran’s focus for the first half is getting back the necklace, a major connection to his mother. For all of his ego and spoiled behavior, Aran is looking for the love and respect of his family. It’s his father taking away the necklace and nearly killing hope that sends Aran out of the house. And it’s altering the path of things.
While Joke’s thieving does not fall within Jack’s lawful stance, he’s also driven by a morality that dictates his actions. Joke has always had very specific criteria for who he steals from and what he steals. It’s his disdain for the wealthy and the elite that drove the majority of his jobs. He was angry with Tattoo for both the impulse stealing of Aran’s mom’s necklace and going to the black market pawn shop that has long profited off of stolen goods and misery. Going about it differently, Joke aligns with Jack in this way and it’s why he’s so angry that Jack goes back to Boss, because he sees Jack rejoining a man who stands for everything they hate.
And then Hope mirrors Save in that I’m pretty sure Save is his whole world. He’s built his life around being strong enough and big enough to fight anyone that dares to hurt Save. Hope then turned that into his job for Boss. I have so many questions about what of Hope’s Boss has on him. Mostly because Hope openly said in ep 2 if he was guarding his collateral he would take it and be out of there so fast. He was certain that Jack stole the ring because it is exactly what Hope has done. He’s talked about running away with Save multiple times. Hope enjoys beating people up, yes, but it’s what he’s good at. It’s the thing he thinks makes him valuable, to Save first and then to Boss. He doesn’t mind getting the shit kicked out of him either, as long as Save is okay.
Okay, so fresh Wandee Goodday theory coming through.
I know we all thought Yak was going to be the one who knew he fell first, because he’s in so deep, but after Ep 4, I’m not so sure.
One, Dee has Plakao to be his voice of reason and is already admitting to Kao that he’s jealous of Yak’s crush and Kao is making observations like this.
Conversely, when confronted by Cher about his feelings for Dee through the evidence of giving away his prized name necklace and effectively claiming Dee, Yak denies it by saying that Cher already knows who Yak has feelings for and when pushed says this:
Which, the phrasing of “I’m not someone who changes his mind easily.” Is a really interesting denial. Because he’s affirming his commitment to his feelings for Taem. That just because he has Dee and they’re close doesn’t mean he’s going to change his mind or his feelings.
And it got me thinking of some other bits of nuggets we got about the Phadetseuk family.
His mom opened the gym and when asked about his parents Yak makes the saddest faces.
We now know thanks to the cold shower that was this week’s cold open that their mother died. But that leaves us with the question of where is their dad. Because my sweetest boys were alone at the hospital.
And their dad wasn’t there. Now maybe something happened to their dad, but there is an actor listed for Yei and Yak’s father and step mother.
Which made me speculate that perhaps there’s a reason that Yak is committed to not changing his feelings for Taem. Perhaps his determination to not be a person who changes his mind easily is tied to their father leaving their mother for their step-mother. And the concept of being like his father, someone whose feelings change easily, and can leave someone they care for, is not something Yak would want.
And I wonder, if this is true (and I could be wrong) how long Yak will hold on to his feelings for Taem even though she does not return them and how committed he will be to becoming a different person so that she might like him when Dee likes him exactly as he is.
Definitely curious if part of his feelings for Taem are tied to her helping him study and how his mom sat and encouraged him. Dee filled a bit of that function this week and it was a beautiful parallel but Taem has been doing it longer.
And don’t get me wrong, Dee is gonna have his own issues. He’s a hopeless romantic who definitely is not always the most reliable narrator, but he’s coming around. Still waiting to learn more about his parents car accident and how that’s left him desperately wanting someone to care for him.
These two are delightful and well fleshed out characters. I cannot wait to watch them continue to stumble through this fake dating disaster they’ve created.
It’s taken 9 eps (of me admittedly watching We Are through gifs and clips on Twitter, because I have yet to pay for iQIYI and I am bad at grey watching) but I think I have figured out the central conflict/plot of We Are and why the mostly linear narrative of Phum and Peem with the in media res relationships of our other three pairings made this impossible to fully tease out until we got all the pieces.
The through line that connects all of these stories about how incredibly hard it can be to be part of a queer friend group when the lines of friendship and romance blur, especially when there’s a real aspect of found family to that group.
Two things really cemented it for me this week: Tan telling the gang (and therefore the audience) the full scope of his background with Fang, as well as the beginning of Phuwin’s IG live where he talks about why he likes Kluen as a character is that he’s very direct with people he likes and isn’t blurring the lines between friends and possibly fucking up the friendship.
Because that’s the central problem that all four main couples of the show grapple with in different ways. I’m gonna get into all of that under the cut.
I’m going to start with Tan and Fang because aou contains multitudes and is my beloved while going for Fang could have always messed up his relationship with Phum, we find out in episode 9 that Tan met Fang first. Unsurprisingly, it’s not a great first meeting between what are seemingly two known fighters of what appear to be rival high schools. But then Tan finds Phum and Fang being jumped by a group from his own high school and saves them and eventually becomes friends with them sometime two years+ before the start of our story. Within this time, Tan falls so far in love with Fang, who can both out bitch and out fight, him that Tan goes full simp instead and cuts out the fighting(love that for him).
And mixing his reveal to his friends of how he met Fang and how Fang eventually consumed his waking thoughts to the point he would wish to order Fang as a pizza topping (my love for Tan is immeasurable).
But take us back to episode 2 (which is now on YouTube for US watchers for how long I don’t know) and Tan has clearly not seen Fang in awhile. He asks Phum to invite Fang out where Tan will happen to be. At the time, it was taken as Tan and Phum are university friends and Tan and been obsessed with Fang ever since and needs Phum to make the connections. But the clues that Tan and Fang were also close were already laid down. Their exchange goes:
Tan: Hey. It’s been awhile. Right?
Fang: I thought you were dead.
Tan: Come on. I haven’t seen you in ages either. (That’s the English translation, but the flow of the conversation connotes that Fang hasn’t sought him out either)
At which point Phum makes the face he always makes when Tan is in Fang hyperfocus mode of looking away and sighing. And Fang pointedly asks why Phum invited him out and what is going on.
Which is a weird exchange when you think Tan is Phum’s friend who is obsessed with Fang. It is a less weird exchange between friends that have been avoiding each other for an unspecified amount of time. And we can assume Tan started avoiding Fang because he was madly in love with him and didn’t know how to handle it and didn’t tell Fang why he was avoiding him.
In the episode 9 speech to his friends, Tan outlines that he didn’t think Fang would ever reciprocate his feelings (that it was impossible) and didn’t want to fuck with the friendship (at which point Pun sends a longing look to Chain but we’ll get back to that later) with Fang and Phum and he buried it. Until he couldn’t live with it any longer and decided to do something about it.
Which with the limited information we have, his feelings were already fucking with his friendship. He already didn’t know how to approach Fang because of his feelings at the start of the show, so is it better to not try and hope the romantic feeling dies while avoiding your friend or shoot your shot and maybe get a boyfriend out of it or maybe continue to fuck up your friendship. Tan chooses to roll the dice and it’s clear from the moment they leave the bar in episode two that Fang likes him back.
They both watch each other when they think the other isn’t looking. Fang is the one who sends Phum and Peem home together and sets himself up with a taxi ride with Tan. It’s particularly interesting to me after episode 9, this exchange, because Fang looks at a passed out Peem, mouths Peem? And proceeds to ask Phum if this is the guy that hit him while Tan snickers and Peem looks like the saddest wet cat. It’s only after the affirmative from Phum that Fang is essentially like “well, you can take him home Phum. Take home your drunk friend who hit you and I will go home with Tan.” Which our besotted Tan jumps at.
And considering the parallel between Tan and Fang meeting and Tan immediately sassing him and Fang throwing a punch leading to a fight, and Phum ruining Peem’s painting which led to mutual sassing and a kick to the nuts and a fight…I don’t know if Fang is a mastermind and connected the dots because these brothers need someone who will occasionally not be afraid talk back if need be and sees the potential for Phum to care as much about Peem as Fang does for Tan. Or if he just wants time alone with Tan and doesn’t see it. Look, I wouldn’t be surprised if Fang is secretly a long game mastermind.
Once they’re alone, Tan and Fang steal glances and flirt in the way that Tan makes very loud attempts at flirting and
Additionally, Fang is reserved like Phum, and seemingly as isolated as his only friends seem to be Phum’s friends. We don’t know if he is just not paying attention to other members of the architecture faculty or knows stuff about Kluen he won’t share. As previous parts of this narrative are folded in later episodes, we may find out. What we do know is he’s either ever only appeared alone or in connection to Tan and Phum and Phum’s friends. Even with the flashbacks, Tan points out that the head of the Fang, head of cheer club, approaches him alone and later it’s just Fang and Phum when Tan finds the group of guys jumping them. We know he and Phum adopt Toey who is bullied in high school. It makes sense why he’s potentially reserved about pushing things with Tan if Tan becomes his first real high school+ friend that he has outside of his brother.
Which is why by the time we get to episode 5, Fang says yes before Tan finishes talking. He’s been waiting but also wasn’t willing to be the first to put himself out there. And considering how much Fang and Phum seem to live in their heads and not in the world with everyone else, I can see why he needed Tan to be the one to commit to it first, especially with Fang’s later comments about not understanding why hanging out with him is a preference of Tan’s. I do hope we cross his “don’t tell tan how gone I am on him” bridge later in the narrative. Cause I think Tan knows, but also it’s nice to hear.
Let’s go back to another long-suffering pair where only one half really knew why they were suffering, and the other got a nasty shock, QToey.
I know the guys are all team if Toey loves Q and Q loves Toey then why is Q so hesitant? And I get it, but let’s talk about the double shock Q suffered and the potential layers of risk Q is facing.
It’s not just that Q is cautious with his heart. That is a factual truth. It’s why he ghosted Milk Frappe Boy, because while he fell in love with Milk Frappe Boy I think there was a deep worry, and a self esteem issue that the reality of Q, instead of Pencil Senior, would not be enough for Milk Frappe boy. So Q bolted and then deeply regretted said bolting enough say so to both Toey, not knowing the truth, and to Peem.
But the fact that he learned that Toey was indeed Milk Frappe boy at the same time he learned all of his best friends, his family for all intents and purposes, also knew and no one told him. And the way the confrontation is staged between Q and Toey, it is Q against Toey and everyone else is behind Toey.
And that, friends, that’s the real third rail for Q.
It’s one thing to know that he loved Milk Frappe Boy and that he loves Toey. And that is scary enough. The fandom loves to joke about how Toey is everyone’s little brother and they’ve all adopted him: and that is a correct assessment. But that means if Q fucks it up with Toey, he stands a chance in his mind of everyone else choosing Toey over him.
That fear doesn’t even feel that unfounded when everyone calmed Toey down mostly before Peem, Q’s true bestest friend, came out to be with him. Like Peem caught Toey before going after Q. The next episode nearly every character but Q (aside from Fai who is at all connected to this group) shows up to plan how to support Toey in getting Q.
And while I know my brain cell-less brain trust fully believe they’re helping Q, no one actually seems to ask what Q wants. Aside from Peem trying to get him to come to some that first night on the curb, no one ever asks. And that night all Q wants is to sleep in a pile with his four best friends, because that’s his family. Losing them is even scarier than losing Toey. In essence he’s lost Milk Frappe Boy once. He could do it again. But if they chose Toey…IDK.
We don’t know anything about their families really, aside from Peem’s lovely aunt and the fact that Phum doesn’t get along with his dad. And I get why when the focus is really on these large groups of found families (that are becoming one large found family) that the audience is really in love with. The bonds between the friends are just as much a part of the romance as the actual romances. Because the friendship is where the complications come from.
And while I can’t speak to mlm spaces, as I have never identified as a man, within queer wlw and non-binary spaces there are jokes about dating yourself out of friend groups. There are people you used to know who you don’t anymore because you dated someone in the friend group and were too new and got bounced. Or you date and the way it ends make everyone choose one side. Or, a person in the friend group has a crush on another person in said group, that is an open secret but when the person who was crushed upon gets a new relationship people get mad at them for not dating the person in the friend group who liked them all along because didn’t everyone know. (None of these are from personal experience I assure you 🙃)
And it doesn’t always happen like that. Sometimes the people figure out a friendship or a queer platonic solution when they’re not attracted to each other anymore. Sometimes they orbit around the friend group like two comets on opposite trajectories, occasionally crossing in awkward moments. Sometimes everyone gets past the weird. Sometimes no one does.
But that’s the risk that we’re playing in this show. I can choose the romance, but if it doesn’t work out, I am gambling this safe zone.
Which is gonna bring me to our last two pieces of this: one has had the most development and one the least but both are struggling.
I’m gonna start with Chain and Pun who are the most unhinged, gay yearning codependent besties that exist in the middle of the week and give Potae and Payos on Only Boo a real run for their money. (Both have lips touching earlobes and I don’t have a platonic answer for either) The thing is, I think both Chain and Pun are very aware of the mutual feelings. They both have moments where you know they’re aware but neither will do anything about it. And they are in the case of the story, the most embedded in one single friend group, and have the potential to explode their core group of five if things go sideways.
Now, they’re also the pair that has been effectively dating this entire time without actually dating. The ear biting and the blowing on things in the other’s mouth and the…I don’t have platonic explanations for their behavior okay? I don’t. Not naming it keeps it from being real though. It’s a collective hallucination or the biggest game of chicken.
Eventually, though, one of them is going to cross the line in a way that can’t be erased or the line redrawn. And it’s gonna have to be big because their friends watched them gaze longingly into each other's eyes for 20+ seconds and thought it was normal. Because this is how they are.
And that brings us to not quite friends not quite lovers and not quite enemies, Phum and Peem. The risk is, as discussed in many other metas, mostly on Phum’s side here and it’s why he spent the episode so hesitant. Yes he started off particularly entitled and rude. His and Peem’s relationship started as a fight (but so did Tan and Fang) and Phum feels incredibly comfortable with Peem. He’s definitely neurodivergent coded my Phum, which doesn’t make his assholery okay, but it explains his hesitancy to try new things and his struggle with making friends and expressing his feelings.
He’s got friends but he doesn’t feel particularly deeply connected to them. Yes, Beer makes time for him and actively seeks him out to give advice. He and Fang have a level of sibling codependency that hints at neglect and Fang protecting Phum at all costs. We see Tan approach Phum most of the time and while some of that is angling to get to Fang, Tan does genuinely care. But Tan is also incredibly loud which seems to be a lot for our neurospicy Phum, and Tan also has his large found family with Peem. Same with Toey, who Phum and Fang adopted long ago, and clearly Phum adores him, but he’s also the little brother of the art faculty.
And Peem is a very loving and giving soul and he makes time and space for Phum even though he’s annoying and high handed and gets Phum out of his ruts and comfort zones. And Phum clearly wants Peem to choose him, because Phum has already chosen even if he hasn’t said “I like you and want to date you.” He’s said other very direct things about how safe he feels with Peem and how connected he feels to other people by hanging out with Peem. And Peem is this safe space for him to go out and connect with the world without it being overwhelming and he even feels more connected to his own friends.
And that’s the danger that Kluen represents and what Phum struggles with. He wants Peem to choose him, but he also doesn’t want to force Peem to make a choice and not choose him, and then lose out on the experiences he’s building with Peem as well as a break in some of the connections he has with the people closest to him as Fang and Toey find love within Peem’s group. And so again, the question comes around, is it better to stay in this limbo where no one says anything and maybe Peem dates Kluen but I get to keep him as a friend, or do I roll the dice like Tan and maybe win.
I think it’s been a hard thread to pull because without the context of Tan & Fang meeting first, and Phum and Peem mending their relationship to become something akin to friends who kiss sometimes and don’t talk about it, and the lingering feelings of betrayal for Q by his friends (where they learned about his largest secret/mystery and NO ONE TOLD HIM) which are later revelations in the course of the show, they feel like different types of love stories without the mess of friendship blurring the lines. The story feels linear, because we start in a school year with the meeting of Phum and Peem, the connections between the other characters are older than this year, leaving some of their stories in media res.
And it’s an interesting core struggle taking a risk when the line between who you’re friends with, who you depend on, and who you’re attracted to blurs and the potential for rifts in your safety net are everywhere. It’s not the first show with this as a central tangle nor is it specific to queer television. But the reality of the deep ties that can exist within queer friendships and how they form deep supportive communities makes the stakes higher. And that’s why the friendships are developed nearly as much if not more than some of the romances. That’s where a lot of the risk lies for these characters.
Anyway, that’s nearly 3K of thoughts I didn’t know I had in me about We Are until today. But here we are.
Umm, The Heart Killers Twitter, what do you mean by presenting me with this gif for Ep 3?!
If I am to trust Google translate and reformat for Thai to English grammar, why are you asking me if I have prepared tissues for my assassins romcom tomorrow?!
It’s Ep 3, THK?!
Just because it’s a story about three gaslight girl bosses that all think they’re winning the individual games that they’re playing. Meanwhile they’re building card houses out of their lies and will all end up playing themselves in the end.
And one gatekeep morally motivated assassin who hates people (justifably) and loves playing with knives who would be justified in a stabbing the aforementioned gaslight girl bosses.
I mean does it matter that Khun Mae has been sending these young men out to do her extrajudicial bidding.
Or that he’s being blackmailed to get close to these assassins to stay out of jail and take care of his brother.
Or that Style is mostly flying blind in what he’s gotten himself into for the love of cars.
I definitely don’t have to be worried about @respectthepetty pointing out that there will be a beautiful recreation of a favorite Kat plot point in this episode where Style might realize that Fadel is more than just a bad attitude and find the depth of his trauma.
The reason I engaged with both of your asks is the following:
1. I am 100% certain that both of your experiences with the fandom on Twitter are real. People’s experience of fandom is largely driven by what they engage with and what they block or ignore. If one of you is gathering evidence all of the hate and one of you is blocking the hate and actively working to tune it out, then yeah…you’re going to have a different experience.
2. Harassment and targeting of actors is never okay and some fans (of any fandom) will do so, even as fans, because they want a specific behavior and they don’t think about the person as a person. I will talk about this every chance I get. It’s never okay, even if it is only a few people.
3. Some fans will take everything said or done in a light most harmful to their bias, even if that’s not true. There is a level of infantilization and a need to protect that CAN cross the line. It IS something to keep an eye on. The calls by a few Santa fans to remove Joong and Aou from JASP.er over the fans’ (not Santa’s)?perceived slights is a prime example of this.
I’m not saying either of these things are true of either of you, or the people you talk to, but it is an overall pattern that we should be talking about. I also don’t think fandom is cooked as a whole. I just don’t. Maybe that is because I have been fandoming for a very long time and these things have always been happening. Maybe because I separate behaviors from people. Engaging in a bad behavior does not, generally, make you a bad person wholesale. People can change their behavior.
Joong, himself, has made significant comments on his own and in interviews on both above behaviors.
That being said:
I am not litigating a ship/anti ship mentality. Or how much there was or wasn’t happening on Twitter. That was never the point of either of those posts for me. The point was to talk about the issues above.
If you would both like to post your own feelings about: Joong, JoongDunk, some of the fan behavior that bothers you, ship/anti ship, the trending over Joong at PFW and what was and was not included, off anon, on your own blogs: be my guest. Me continuing to post responses on this is only going to spiral into more things from there, and it’s beginning to feel like you’re sticking in arguments for each other that have nothing to do with what I have said.
Go frolic with the content that they are providing. I wish y’all the best.