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PAT JINDAPAT | NICK NELSON
aka golden retrievers with hearts of gold
I am craving something that will consume my soul.
Preferably something gay and produced in an Asian country
rooftop kisses will be the end of me
Many people in the fandom are convinced that SandRay won't get a happy ending because it's 'not a bl' and it's 'realistic'. First of all, even I, the resident hopeless romantic, understand that realism is not the same as pessimism. Second of all, it's P'Jojo we're talking about. He loves giving people happy endings after a couple of tragic twists and time jumps. Just think about Bad Buddy or Never Let Me Go and their endings. I am a SandRay-is-endgame truther, because of the reasons listed above and because I will bawl my eyes out in the case they don't end up together.
you do not understand i am so obsessed with them it hurts
Just like Uncle Tong said, we might not be able to change the world, all we could do was adjust to it, and live happily. We might not be able to change people around us. But they couldn’t change the two of us either. BAD BUDDY (2021-2022)
Have you ever said to yourself, "I'm okay. I moved on", then somebody posts something bad buddy and suddenly you're like "man, I think I need to rewatch this scene." 😂
*cries in bad buddy
Just a random day missing Pat & Pran
patpran's notes to each other (cr. @ohmnanoned)
P'aof adding to the collection..
A small Bad Buddy meta
After much reading and rewatching I just had to say...
We see pat use the four signs on ink and then see pa use it too. What stood out for me was that while they thought they were using it to test the other person's feelings, they were unwittingly using it on themselves. And we see the dichotomy so clearly, because pa confirms her own feelings in the process while pat doesn't respond to those signs himself. I've seen a lot of y'all say how he wasn't too disappointed when ink didn't react but note he didn't react either and he must have realised that. That the feelings he once felt weren't exactly the same and we see him wonder a bit as to what changed.
He's contemplating this when he's at the instrument shop and pran arrives and automatically realises. Here we see him use the signs not on pran but on himself! It just shows how he understood that the signs are better when used on oneself because only you truly know how you feel about someone, whereas the other person may not openly react to your signs. And this is proven by how pran nor ink reacted when the signs were used because they were both repressing and hiding their crushes, obviously they are not going to let on that they have feelings, they were anyway finding it difficult to do so(pran in the hallway when pat gives him his guitar...his face was such a giveaway and ink at the restaurant with pa ..again her face after pa helped her with the dirt in her eye was telling)..so both have their guards up.
So here pat notices how he himself reacts to pran in the context of how their relationship has been going and it sort of falls into place. It explains not just his behaviour but also pran. Because pran could easily cut him off and not associate at all with him, he could have moved out of the form if he actually wanted to..the only reason he is staying then and keeping up their secret association must be because of something pat is just coming to put his finger on. Its here he realises that they shouldn't even be friends with the way their families work and now he questions..what exactly are they? And we see that so beautifully communicated at the end of the episode on the rooftop.
Coming back to pat noticing him response to the four signs...he notices his feelings now and the only reason he hasn't so far was because he probably didn't think it was possible.....for him to like also like boys and for that boy to be pran. But that's why we get the flashbacks and all the things they went through in high school to show that pat always did like pran but he never got a chance to explore those feelings and because he never expected them. What is so amazing and one of the highlights of this show, is that he doesn't for one moment grudge himself his feelings. He doesn't beat himself up or question it, he accepts that sexuality is fluid and understands that he can like whoever he wants. This says so much about his character and it was at this point at which we all fell for pat (cause by then we were all already gone for pran) and it was after this that the "walking green flag" posts started showing. The way in which they portrayed Pat's character arc was so true to a realistic experience of understanding fluid sexuality, I cannot stop applauding.
me before bad buddy: yeah no I’m aromantic asexual I prefer to not be in a relationship. I’ll just get a bunch of cats and live with my parents and eat my mom’s cooked dishes happily till the end of our lives
me after bad buddy: where do i sign up to get myself a love like patpran have???? come on it shouldn’t be that difficult-
romeo and juliet, william shakespeare // bad buddy episode 12
inkpaa endgame 🙏
All my life, I’ve been told not to be friends with this one guy.
BAD BUDDY October 29, 2021 — January 21, 2022
— thank you, thank you, t h a n k y o u BAD BUDDY (2021-2022), dir. b.n.c
Two more days guys! In the meantime, a mini analysis for you all!
The Romeo and Juliet act where they commit suicide is actually represented in Bad Buddy!
Remember this scene? aka the only moment we get to laugh in this curse ep?
Here me out. So we all now Bad Buddy is somewhat based on a modern version of Romeo and Juliet.
[Pat is Juliet. Fight me.]
So. In the ending of that tragic play we have the iconic sequence in which Juliet supposedly drinks a poison that kills her, but in reality just makes her appear dead. Then Romeo follows killing himself for real, and then, Juliet stabs herself, and the whole thing is a mess of non-communication.
So let’s compare, shall we?
1. We have Pat, “throwing away” his cellphone chip. Aka, Juliet faking her death.
2. We have Pran, doing the same right after Pat. Aka, Romeo actually following Juliet.
A this time we’re all like. Shit. They really did that.
But THEN
3. “Haha, you dummy!” Aka, no, Romeo, Juliet was not really dEAD! Pran really threw it out? He really actually killed himself?
4. Haha! You thought! Of course he didn’t! And then this:
“Do you really think I don’t know you?”
Here’s WHY I think this scene heavily shows a representation of the suicide scene in Romeo and Juliet:
Let me start with a question. How many of you would simply get rid of you’re phone number? Throw it away into the sea without a care? Throw away your whole life, cause FACE IT. It IS your whole life. Your family? Your friends, a huge part of yourself?
Exactly. You’d have to be in a lot of pain to do that right? Commiting suicide is the very last stage of indescribable pain. Throwing away the “heart” of your phone could be thought of as throwing away your life.
But they didn’t. Here’s where it obviously goes differently. Pran knows Pat to a point where he knows he would never do that. Pat knows Pran to a point where he knows Pran would never believe he’d do something like that.
Here’s where it doesn’t end up tragically. They both live.
Because they know each other. They understand each other. They communicate. They love each other too much to ask the other to take such risks.
And I think that’s beautiful.
Thanks for reading!
PAT and PRAN in BAD BUDDY (2021)
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, who is already sick and pale with grief- that thou, his maid, art far more fair than he.
All my life, I was always told not to be friends with this one guy- but we all know that forbidden fruit is always sweeter. From two people who can’t be friends, without knowing it, we became two people who couldn’t just be friends. I wrote this song for him.
Thank you. For what? For trying to make a silly guy like me happy.
‘Don’t you want to be free?’
“Do you think your mom will ever forgive my dad? If you were her, would you? We can’t change what happened. We can just live with it. If you want to, go ahead. I will not live with it. What are you going to do then? Run away to a place where there’s only us. Do you think they will allow that? Our parents won’t. But some people might.”
