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atots / cupid’s last wish / moonlight chicken / our skyy: atots
can’t wait for the day that somebody tells me i’m the best thing that’s ever happened to them and they mean it
OKAY??
I think something I love about Moonlight Chicken is that you get three different generations of LGBTQ characters sharing the same space and you can see, through the subtleties of their interactions and their outlooks, the events and perspectives that have shaped them and how much (and how little) the world has changed.
You have Jim, nearing 40 and clearly shaped by countless people (including his loved ones) not welcoming who he is and who he loves and who believed, to a certain extent, that it was "normal" for people to think that way, who accepts himself but still has difficulty with what it means to be gay in the wider world.
Then you have Wen, 10 years younger and proud and open and comfortable with who he is and his place in the world. He knows all the lingo, he seems like a little bit of an activist (if his taste in decor is to be believed) and he's used to having discussions around sexuality and social norms.
Finally, Li Ming, even younger still and so comfortable in himself that he doesn't particularly feel the need to explore or explain his sexuality and his attraction to Heart, he just embraces it as another part of what makes him him and leaves the nail biting and the questions to other people.
They literally show us the transition from "being LGBTQ is something I must live with" to "being LGBTQ is something I must fight for" to, finally "being LGBTQ is one of the many bits that is me" without ever saying it out loud.
It's genuinely such a beautiful piece of commentary and, in my eyes, it makes the show even more meaningful and beautiful.
He could’ve just asked Soo Ho to add him on Instagram
I think about this more often than I should
moonlight chicken as text posts (pt. 2)
Isn't It Difficult Enough to Be Born Poor?
Once again, I must start this post out by saying...Fuck you @respectthepetty. You did this to me, I currently have eleven (11)...ELEVEN (this will be 12) long as all hell analysis posts about Moonlight Chicken and at least half of them are your fault. Because you started posting about colors and then I had to start thinking about my feelings when I watched television. And here we are. If you are worried about what your legacy will be as a role model. Don't be. Your legacy has been talking about colors so much you have converted half the interest in to color analysts. This one isn't about color though, I just needed to curse you out for creating an analysis demon.
All that said, let's get in to Jim and Li Ming this episode.
So, Li Ming has just had a very emotionally draining conversation with his mother, and he is trying desperately to leave the house and just go, go anywhere cause Heart's not home, when Jim comes waltzing in and accidentally blocking his exit. "Where are you going now?" and GOD LI MING DOES NOT HAVE FUCKING TIME FOR THIS.
The most exasperated face to date. But it's not really Jim's fault that Li Ming is acting like this, he's just a casualty of war. A safe vessel that will hold all Li Ming's emotions.
"Outside." "Where?" "Don't know yet," "What do you mean?"
Guess who's making eye contact again after a conversation with his mother where he very rarely looked in her direction????
Side note: I love this line "I haven't decided where I want to be yet," because it can be relevant to so many things and is a foundational theme of this episode, with no one acting on the choices they have before them until Gaipa's mother dies
"Then stay home and study," and here we go, another adult, telling him what to do, not being there for the conversation beforehand and having no idea they are plucking at an already frayed cord.
"I'm going to Heart's home," he tries to leave, Jim stops him.
Li Ming already knows exactly what Jim is implying here. But his mother is home, and he's already exhausted, and he just...he just wants to leave. But he's not afraid, he's calm, if annoyed.
He's happy to entertain the conversation, just not right now. Right now he is tired, and he just wants some time alone, some time with Heart.
Jim, once again, does not respect Li Ming's question, and forges ahead, because he needs to know, needs to confirm his fears.
Get, his ass Li Ming! To me, it helps so much prevent a fundamental breakdown in Li Ming and Jim's relationship here to have Li Ming know that Jim is gay as well. I think that knowledge, coupled with the exhaustion he is already feeling, just lets the rest of this conversation go over surprisingly smoothly.
"Li Ming, I'm your uncle," "Adults can do no wrong? Adults can kiss but kids can't? Is it the wrong thing to do? Is the world coming to an end?"
For Jim? The answer feels like a yes. Because Jim grew up in a very differently world than Li Ming has. He has internalized so much homophobia, not just from society but from his own sister, the person he had to rely on the most when he was young. A person whose opinions are very clearly shown to matter to Jim. Everything Jim has repeated so far in this show that is homophobic is a direct quote from his sister.
To Jim being gay has made life so much harder for him. Hell, he himself was a victim of the legal system, with Beam's family taking all the money he and Beam had saved, because gay marriage is not recognized so they could not open a joint bank account and everything was in Beam's name. This is a very real struggle, and a possibility Li Ming himself could face one day. A reality that Li Ming has no concept of because he's eighteen, and he hasn't lived his life yet, he hasn't faced society the same way Jim has...
But to Li Ming? Being gay isn't a big deal. Because Li Ming was raised by an openly queer man. Even if Jim is far more careful and restrained about showing physical affection or giving too much attention to Wen men in public, his friends all know. Leng teases him about it, Leng teases Gaipa about it. Jam knows about Jim. Beam's family knew. Wen literally walked in to Li Ming's room the night Wen and Jim had their "one night stand". Li Ming knows Jim is gay.
So while Jim and Beam were navigating being queer even just ten, twenty years ago with no one obviously queer elders around them to guide them, Li Ming has grown up around multiple queer seniors, one of whom is his uncle. Of course he has an entirely different perception of how significant it is to be gay. He had nothing but positive queer role models around him to guide him as he grew. Role models who were open. And I love the post from @respectthepetty and this post from @heart-ming that talk about the pressure Jim puts on himself, especially after he realizes that Li Ming is gay. All he can think about is every way that he has failed, when the fact that Li Ming is able to say so casually, so quietly, with a touch of disgust on his face: "So what? What's the big deal [that I'm gay]?" proves that he has succeeded at being a queer role model. Because Li Ming does not hate his queerness.
Boyfriend. The seller's boyfriend. What did you say? It wasn't very clear. [Lung Jim proceeds to kiss the daylights outts Wen] Clear enough now?
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Wake Me Up
Li Ming: How do I make that man appealing to my uncle? What do old people like?
Oh right - the dishes!
why do Earth and Mix have me in a goddamn chokehold?! its been this way since january 29th 2021, and they just wont let up! i cant get over them! i told wifey about the 2 year anniversary of atots and she was like "damn, you've been obsessed with them for 2 years already?" and im like I KNOW! thats dedication huh? hahaha
If I have one thing to say about Jim so far, it’s this:
The man has no idea of his own worth.
Everything he has ever done ever since his heart got broken has been entirely out of duty. A need to survive, to serve his community, to raise his nephew. And in doing so, he’s lost what it means to be him, what it means to want something for himself, how to be selfish. He loves, passionately, with his every breath, but he has no idea how to be loved. And the saddest part is, he has no idea how loved he actually is.
Sure, he may not have a lover, but he has a home and a family: his community. The neighborhood aunties who keep sending food and sweets for him to eat, the temple folk where he donates food, the old lady who asks him to say a prayer and eat a mooncake, gaipa who gently flirts with him every time they meet, leng and praew who show him the kind of disrespect that only family could possibly show, even li ming with his stubbornness. It’s evolved beyond respect into love. As much as Jim considers this community of Pattaya his home, they all consider him to be a part of their slice of home too.
After all, home is where the heart is, wouldn’t you agree?
Wen revealing that he’s been spending time at Jim’s house via Instagram pictures with his cat is the most EarthMix thing I’ve ever seen.
moonlight chicken as text posts (pt. 1)
so um I just realized
the reason Wen was celebrating so hard he passed out the night he met Jim?
the promotion meant he could finally afford to move out.