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▲ 187 r/ThaiGL

Me watching Thai GL stans slowly ruin the space for everyone

Fans and stans are different, btw. Ever since stan culture entered the Thai GL space, it's been a whole lot of unnecessary fanwars, ship wars, overanalysis, and general nonsense.

u/Fluffy-Secretary-578 — 3 days ago
▲ 71 r/ThaiGL

I don't think Bambi gets enough credit as a character.

I know I've been glazing Girl Rules a lot recently... and yes, this is another glazing post. 😭

After rewatching the series, I realized Bambi is easily one of the most complex characters in the show. I think her complexity often gets overshadowed because of how poorly her relationship with Prim was written. For the longest time, I was one of the people calling it "the Prim and Bambi show," but on a rewatch, I realized she's so much more than just half of a messy ship.

She's constantly battling guilt, massive expectations, and her own erratic emotions. Those struggles are right there on screen, but because 99% of the fandom discussion revolves around PrimBambi drama, people rarely talk about Bambi as an individual.

Honestly, Girl Rules has one of the strongest casts of female characters in GL. Almost everyone is layered in some way—Shasha is another character I'd put in that top-tier category for how she hides behind that cool facade.

The show definitely has its flaws (especially with how they handled PrimBambi's actual execution 😭), but I appreciate the character depth more every time I watch it.

Did anyone else come away from a rewatch with a completely different appreciation for Bambi? Or did the ship writing ruin her individual arc for you?

u/Fluffy-Secretary-578 — 5 days ago
▲ 23 r/ThaiGL

“Gen should’ve chosen Irene because she’s human” is such a weird argument to me. Rant.

I don't understand the "Gen should have chosen Irene because she's human" argument. Gen doesn't have a relationship with Irene. She has a relationship with AI. AI being based on Irene doesn't mean Gen suddenly has the same emotional connection to Irene herself.

If anything, Irene's storyline makes the ending more tragic because she had opportunities to approach Gen honestly but chose to send AI in her place and observe Gen without her knowledge. By the time she finally confessed, Gen had already developed a genuine connection with AI.

I actually feel bad for Irene because her feelings are clearly genuine, but I also don't think Gen's choice of AI is an obvious moral failure. You can't expect someone to choose a person they barely know simply because that person is human.

Maybe things would've been different if Irene had been honest with Gen from the beginning. However, that's the tragic irony of her storyline: she wanted a relationship with Gen while avoiding the vulnerability of actually having one herself.

Edit: Even if the premise isn't for you, I still think the series has themes worth discussing. It touches on identity, personhood, love, grief, and what really forms a connection between two people. So, yeah, there's more to it than "girl falls in love with robot."

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u/Fluffy-Secretary-578 — 6 days ago