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No cause I need to take a moment to acknowledge the music in Ramil and Paytai's scenes cause its so so good!!! Like it feels so beautiful and romantic and tragic and ahhhhhhhhhhhh, it just fits them so well!!!

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i dont talk about them enough but its the way RamilPaytai are really just in this together. In a position where, stacked against Ramil's father they have absolutely no power. So Ramil demands what little power he can have, doing his best to protect Paytai against the consequences of his own actions. He takes back his power by acting out and defying expectations.

But the thing is that Paytai gets to have his own power, too. I'm not the first to point out that he absolutely controls the dynamic between the two of them. He knows Ramil well enough to anticipate his reactions to things, and acts in ways he knows will get the response he wants. He likes feeling desired, controled, and owned by Ramil. And its not at all hard to understand why. Ramil is not just a dom. He cares deeply for Paytai, to the extent that even inflicting consensual pain that Paytai wants to feel causes him to falter. Because he never wants to be his father, and sometimes even knowing Paytai wants this isn't enough to make him do it. He protects Paytai and loves him and cherishes him, thats why Paytai loves being dominated by him so much. Because its done out of love and devotion, not a need to control or demean him.

I love seeing their dynamic play out because its so clear in every interaction that they both are doing this to maintain a bit of control over their bodies. Because outside of their private engagements, they have no bodily autonomy. Clearly they have been together a long time - since childhood. They have both had to suffer under the forceful hand of Ramil's father for so long, and this is how they reconcile that fear and suffering together.

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♫ This moment feels like it's truly mine. The world's a fairy tale, in your arms tonight.

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While I'm enjoying The Next Prince, I can't help but feel there is a better show beneath the surface of this one.

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Kant, these past few episodes: Why does everybody keep threatening me with my own tattoo gun?

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Watching the guilt settle inside Kant like oh yeah it's all coming together

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📞 food & safety, yeah we got major health code violations happening in the heart burger kitchen

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Dunk Natachai | Good Morning!

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Upcoming FirstKhao fluff era

First, khaotung, cats, a touching mother-son story, slice of life and fluff💗💗💗

That's all I need to say. It's all the things I love and it's perfect for my heart. I know this will make me blush, smile and cry.

The change of season for FirstKhao is welcome.

I was born ready ☺️

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Maybe Bison is in pain on the ground because he was dancing on the tracks at the bowling alley and slipped

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It's Style just throwing in English words/sentences at any given opportunity, for me😂

"GOOD MORNING KRUB."

"LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT, you know..."

"Careful with my nipples. They are SENSITIVE."

I can't be sure yet what's gonna happen when THK airs but for now, Style has the potential to be my fave character in this thing.

Dao, my former love, don't despair. You still have room in my heart always ☺️

Thank you for your hard work Dunk💯🤝

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the vegaspeteification of sandray.....

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narrator voice: he could in fact NOT differentiate between love and sex

ONLY FRIENDS ✗ EPISODE 3

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Wandee Goodday Ep. 1 + Textposts

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Going through the "Wandee Goodday" tag today makes me increasingly convinced that some people literally take no joy in anything.

This show was a sweet, fun, rom-com (and was always pitched that way from the start) not a twelve episode psychological study on grief, trauma and the human condition. Maybe don't take everything so damn seriously?

And as others have pointed out all GMMTV shows have a very distinctive flavour. They have a way of doing things that they stick to and they are not going to change that any time soon. Clearly it's not going to be for everyone. Not liking it and having criticisms is fine but don't act shocked and write lengthy, angry diatribes picking holes in every single plot point and script choice when you absolutely knew what this series was going to be like.

For my part I absolutely loved this show. Was it perfect? No. Were there things I wish had been done differently? Yes. But personally I'm willing to overlook minor flaws in comparison to how much joy, happiness and quite frankly giddy enjoyment Yak, Dee, Oyei, Cher and all the other characters have brought me over the past 12 weeks.

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Oh. My god.

So, last night, I reblogged a gifset of that conversation Pete has with Pol when they’re on stakeout, tailing Vegas, sitting around in the car, and Pete wants to know who Pol thinks would do a better job – Vegas’s bodyguard or Pete? And I added this bit of commentary:

My theory on the closest thing Pete has to a sexual fantasy at this point in the narrative and his life: Pete saves Vegas's life in some kind of shootout or assassination attempt that no one else could have protected Vegas from, thereby earning headpats from Thee Vegas Theerapanyakul, who Everyone Knows is a completely detached sociopath who usually has no more use for his bodyguards than as human bulletproof vests (which is somehow different from the main family for no reason I can discern but apparently exists?). Only now, Pete has proven himself and is both Noticed By and Special To this violent, emotionally inaccessible man (who, as an added bonus, is in a position of power over him). I mean, for whatever variables of "special" Pete can even conceptualize at this point, anyway. And I wonder how many times he's imagined this. It's Pete's very own mafia-filtered version of the Bad Boy fantasy in which you're the only one he cares about - you're the only one who can have that effect on him - and that makes you the Most Special-est Girl. C'mon, who's the most inaccessible Bad Boy in Pete's sphere? Certainly not Kinn, who'll just up and tell Pete that he trusts him the Very Most - even more than Pete's best friend! who Kinn is fucking! - the hot minute that Kinn's coercing Pete into doing something he really, really doesn't want to do. And you know Pete's daydream version of what makes him the Most Special-est Girl involves killing someone the best and quickest and most efficiently - because if he wins in the ring a fight, then the most emotionally inaccessible, violent man he knows (who, as an added bonus, is in a position of power over him) will love him, right? Not to mention, a guy with that many gun posters doesn't get stuck on Tankhun-babysitting detail and not have fantasies about proving his worth via violence. Listen, he just spends an awful lot of time standing around in Vegas's right-hand man spot like he's trying on the position during Ep 7, is all I'm sayin'.

… in which the vague allusions to Pete’s Daddy Issues were absolutely intentional. And I’ve also commented before about Pete finding another home with an angry man at the safehouse. And yet it wasn’t until yesterday’s post rolled up on my own dashboard and I saw it again today that the Brick Of Revelation hit me in the head and I thought about this through the framework of - my god! Pete and Vegas really do play out the very scenario that Pete warns Vegas about when you’re seeking the approval of your father abuser!

In the safehouse, Pete wins. He achieves his fantasy. He pulls the thorn out of the lion’s paw, and he gets the notice and special regard of Vegas Theerapanyakul, and he gets his world rocked on top of that, and then … then it turns out nothing changes. Vegas – the guy who expected that Pete winning in the ring would mean that his father would stop beating him, the guy who continues to seek his own abusive father’s approval, who keeps trying to win against Kinn, in the hope that Kun will stop treating him as a disposable whipping boy – Vegas goes right back to physically and emotionally abusing Pete. On top of that, the fantasy doesn’t play out in reality; Vegas literally tells Pete that he’s nothing special. (I mean, lies, of course, but the fact is that Vegas says it right to his face.)

I just. This is another one of those instances where I walked up to this revelation and even walked all the way around it, poking at it, but I just never looked at it straight on until this moment - the way Pete’s experience in the safehouse so closely mirrors his experience with his father. We watch Vegas continue to recreate the cycle of abuse, and we're like, "oh, dude, you need to make some better decisions," but we've also just spent 2.5 eps watching Pete, dispenser of this very wisdom, fall back into the same patterns he warns Vegas about. Because breaking that cycle and changing your behavior and your expectations is hard. Even when your head knows better. The things this show says about generational trauma and intimate violence and patriarchal control, I just ... god. Just, don't mind me, I have to go claw at some drywall for a while.

Also, it makes me wonder if Pete did kill his father. Because if he ran from home the same way he ran from the safehouse, if we’re supposed to look at this echo forward into the present of what happened in the past, then are we supposed to think that maybe there was a similar confrontation in the past, in which Pete struck out before he extricated himself from the trap he was in and ran?

Vegas is a lot younger and more resilient (and used to being knocked around) than Pete’s dad probably was, at that point.

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