#kimxchay

[loveandbeloved816]

The way Kim hasn’t really been active in the family business, BUT THE SECOND CHAY IS IN DANGER - HE FLIPS ON THE MAFIA MODE TO SAVE THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE? I just think that was SO hot of him 🫠

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[everyforkedroad]

Genre romance, bias, and Kinnporsche

I know I'm asking for it, but I feel like I have to get this off my chest.

The bias against the romance genre is one of the constant elements across all media that I consume and Kinnporsche: The Series is no exception. Kinn and Porsche are given a classic romance arc, complete with a meet cute, the end of act crisis, incoming black moment and resolution. And yet, despite the series being marketed as a mafia romance people are still out here complaining about...the romance? Like, did they not get the memo that they are watching...a high concept romance between Kinn and Porsche set in a mafia world? Do they realize romance has conventions like any other genre that need to be followed? If viewers came for the mafia stuff and were disappointed by the lack of gore, angst and trauma wrt the main couple, and are rebelling against the fluff that KP has been serving up, it might simply be that they are shopping in the wrong genre.

I realize a lot of the blame for the disparity between expectation and what the show delivered is also the fault of the novel, which did a piss-poor job of, well, basically everything except for the plot (which, together with the sex scenes, is why I suspect it became so popular despite its numerous and egregious defects). However, the show does a phenomenal job of taking the best elements of the novel and leaving the chaff on the cutting room floor.

Even with this fact in mind, the novel itself is presented as a romance and though it has some moments of grit, it doesn't make it any less of a romance. As such, the romantic elements, including the fluff and showing the couple being in love, are strong because that's kind of the point. It's a convention of the genre to show the reader/viewer why the two love interests should be together. The only way to do that is to show them in full, unabashed love. And that's going to include fluff, sex, and even the kind of rom-com humor that is, coincidentally, also a part of Thai storytelling conventions as well.

We should be grateful because Kinnporsche actually does something very clever, reserving the classic romance arc for KinnxPorsche, while serving up dark romance with VegasPete (very well done, I might add) and even giving us a little traditional BL/yaoi fix with KimxChay. There really is something for everyone, and they manage to make it work.

So when I see people complain about the fluffier elements of Kinnporsche, all I can think is, how do you say you hate romance without saying you hate romance?

[loveandbeloved816]

It’s just the way you can tell how Kim is just so not used to someone being so upfront, and sincere about their feelings for him. The look of admiration for Chay he has, for him being so brave - this man is so smitten. I’m emotional 🥺🥺

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[loveandbeloved816]

And once again Kim coming to protect Chay, the love of his life, was seriously just so hot of him. Like look at his eyes? Absolutely insane 😩

[halliescomut]

So....if y'all read my KimChay Songfic (link here), I gots a question. I intended it to be 2 parts, but I heard another song that gave me some inspiration for another chapter, would you like me to try to write it? The idea is a bit more abstract than the first two, I had an immediate idea and sort of outline for those. It did change a bit through the actual writing, but the same concept and general outline is there.

This song, not country, nor from the last century actually from 2015, so practically current as far my music tastes run. Would likely be Kim POV'd though I think technically I write 3rd person omniscient (I've been out of school almost 20 years). Will definitely be more fluff than the first two chapters, but Kim is full of angst so....

Anyway, if you've read the fic, please comment and let me know if you'd be interested in more. If you haven't read it yet, it's only about 13,000 words, a relatively short read and the link is at the top of this post and you can comment on the fic, or here.

And here's a gif for you for reading (I just fuckin love the face Jeff makes here 😂)

[halliescomut]

Update to my KimChay Songfic

KPweek really kicked my butt (I think I wrote about 10,000 words over the full 7 days) but I finally finished and published chapter 2 of my KimChay fic. Which totalled out to a bit more than 13,000 words, so really I think I'm kind of worded out.

But anyway, here's the link to chapter one:

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

I'd love any feedback here or on AO3. Hopefully you like the song choices, though as mentioned in my first post about this fic, I'm quite old and set in my ways musically, so if you got a 2 at the beginning of your birth year, or honestly even double 9s in the middle, I'll be shocked to know that you've heard of either of the songs in the fic.