#this Is Becoming A Habit

#this is becoming a habit

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The Marriage Equality Law has been enacted in Thailand...

The news that His Majesty, the King has signed and approved the Marriage Equality Law was announced in the Royal Gazette today, September 24, 2024. This means that the law will officially come into effect on January 22, 2025!!!

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What new changes has the law brought into effect?

- Two individuals can marry regardless of gender

- The minimum age for marriage has been raised from 17 to 18 (You will still need parental consent to marry should you be under the age of 20, which is what Thailand considers a "legal adult")

- Thai citizens can register their foreign marriages under Thai Law (I am very happy to see this being specified as I wasn't sure it would be-- big excitement for someone who has a 'foreign' partner)

- Joint Adoptions are allowed

- Spouses have the right to inherit after spousal death

- Spouses can be assigned as medical proxies to make any/all medical decisions for their spouse

- Spouses gain rights under social security law: including compensation and retirement benefits in case of spousal death

- Spouses are entitled to tax benefits, including personal income tax deductions

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Looking to the future, there is currently a draft for the "Gender Identity Recognition Act" that, I desperately hope, is on its way to parliament 🤞🏾🤞🏾🤞🏾

The original Addicted was censored and pulled midway through, so it went unfinished.

Stay with Me was censored and didn't receive a second second.

The On1y One (although not exactly the same as the others) doesn't have a confirmed second season.

Now, Thailand's version of Addicted Heroin, which is only ten episodes long, was banking on a second season, yet just confirmed the second season is not happening.

I think this plot might be cursed.

"Jack." "How do you know my name?" "I meant the name engraved on the ring."

—JACK & JOKER: U Steal My Heart! · Episode 03

Peaceful Property went hard with dreams this week. You know, 'dream' like the American Dream? You know, 'dream' like Peach's dream of cooking in a palace for a bunch of rich people and refusing to make peace with a 'hypothetical' rival? You know, 'dream' like Home's nightmare of his poorer friend overtaking him for the harm Home caused him? You know, 'dream' like Home's fake dream of moving to America and having ten wives? You know, 'dream' like Home's real dream of having a normal family.

The dreams themselves had an air of love and hope about them, and they were nurtured with kindness and support by members of the ghost hunting team, but the show kept subtly drawing our attention to the hollowness, violence, and repression of the 'dreams' in this episode. These were capitalistic and patriarchal styles of dreaming.

Notice, they exorcised no ghosts this episode. We saw instead our influencer Chai-Un (Pompam, doing THE MOST with this Old Queen stock character) ignoring Peach's offerings to his family's ghosts and going full glutton all by his lonesome. The upper crust might offer invitation to one or two from the lower class entering into their echelons, but what has that spiritually alleviated?

If the mutual heartbreak at the end of the episode wasn't enough to clue you in, these themes are the biggest indicator that Home and Peach will end up together as family. The show has framed the inherent harm and distrust between the aristocracy and the lower classes as foundational in making the patriarchal family primary. I had previously thought there was a possibility we'd get a little weird found family ending. Home, though, faked drinking to let us know he's faking other things--heterosexuality. BUT ACTUALLY, we got so many references to full-on gayness this episode, but in ways that let us know the show has a queer Marxist vision even for that. Chai-Un referring to his partner as his "wife" and playing the stereotype of Rich Gay: these aren't arbitrary.

This gay baiting question is actually thematically important. I've been enjoying the revisit to some old-school homoerotic subtext, because old-school homoerotic subtext was often tied into the same problems of patriarchal capitalism. They forged intense bonds that they then had to sever to form family units as they economically competed against each other and maintained the honor of their patriarchal position. The participated in societal dick measuring contests to see whose estates were grander and whose cok was long, as the neon sign says.

With Peach's adjustment to the contract, we are now left with the possibility for Home's queerness and desire for Peach to possibly disrupt his family's fortune in a major way. If Home really wants to exorcise the specter of Peach's pain and suffering from his waking dreams, Home can't be one of the 12 gay billionaires in the world. He's not going to be his investor or his savior. He'll have to let go of his patriarch's will to find something that won't sooth his wallet but will sooth his soul, something decidedly 'not normal.'

Side note: Who gave this show the right to let New and Tay and Jan show the true force of their full RANGE????

I wonder if Home changed after that night. He doesn't drive anymore and he keeps the car hidden away so it does affect him in some way. But I wonder if before he was even louder, more outrageous, or if that part of his personality became more pronounced as a weird coping mechanism. How often, if at all, did it come back to haunt him in the states, knowing that living there was his own weird, not at all appropriate or comparable, punishment. How much did it change his relationship with his grandfather? With his uncle?

Did he think about the accident at all when he came back, even if only out of fear that the consequences of his actions would finally come back to haunt him? Did he even know that the person survived after all?

What is he going to do now?