#and also because vegaspete and food is my jam

[heretherebedork]

On control through power versus control through manipulation through the means of food and the main and minor families

So, this started because I've been writing a lot about how Vegas and Pete's entire relationship can truly be summed up by how they share food, what they're doing at the moment and how abuse can shape a person's view and handling of food.

And then I start thinking about how those relationships with food are shaped and formed within the show and, more importantly, how they shape our understanding of the characters and their relationships and their jobs as well.

The biggest point here is that both the main and minor families exhibit control over their bodyguards and lovers through the use of food but also in how they exert that control and it's a diametric opposite of each other.

When we're first introduced to the bodyguards of the main family and food, the food is treated as fuel and nothing more. It is formulated for heath and sustenance, not for taste or enjoyment. This is not a time for bonding, this is not a perk of a their job, it's a requirement of their job to eat. In fact, the first way Pete bonds with Porsche is over the idea of the food his grandmother sends him that he enjoys rather than the food he eats.

And when he first meet the minor family bodyguards and food, it's sharing at a large table of food that is designed to appeal to them. Food here is a perk, food brings them together, food provides them with a link both to each other and to the leaders of the minor family who eat with them. The bonding there is the offer of food, their own food, not outside food.

Here is the crux of the different of how they control their men... the main family controls by having power over them and the minor family controls through emotional and manipulative means to gain the same results and you see this in how the two groups work, interact and also fall in love.

The main family bodyguards are distinctly uncomfortable eating around the members of the main family (or the minor family, for that matter) because they are taught the work and food are separate. You do not eat or drink when you are working and so you do not eat or drink at the same table as the main family because their control lies in the power over the bodyguards rather than a bond with them. This is why Porsche makes such a huge mistake accepting that water at the event. That is not how the main family works and thus he must be punished for his transgression to re-exert that specific form of control.

(This also plays into how every time we see Kinn and Porsche eating together, it's outside of the work and outside of anything involving the mafia and is, basically, a different show.)

But the minor family? They eat together. They're working in the bar eating. Gun eats with them, Macau eats with them, Vegas eats with them. They sit together, intermixed. The control that the minor family exerts is in building a rapport with their guards, creating a feeling that they are part of a bigger whole, that they care about them. It's entirely about the emotional manipulation and the idea of being a family extending to the guards as well and bringing a very different kind of loyalty and a very different kind of person.

(This, obviously, plays into the way Vegas treats food and treats Pete with food, especially the first few times they meet when he sits down to eat with them, gives Pete the snack and even throws slop in front of him. Vegas is very used to food as a manipulation tool.)

The core of this is the idea of how they've each achieved power but also what they value in who works for them and what they want from them.

The main family wants bodyguards who are proper in formal environments and have a certain air to them, a certain knowledge, and a certain separation from the main family. They don't actually care about loyalty (they might pay it lipservice but that's truly all it is, just the idea) and it's why guards are cast aside without a second thought and why they so rarely seem to care. Because bodyguards, just like food, are just tools in their lives.

The minor family wants bodyguards and bouncers who can do dirty work, who will carry out jobs on their own, who are much more like loyal independent contractors at times because they need to function in a different capacity than the main family. And the best way to do that? Provide not just what they need but what they want. That's how you earn their loyalty. But they're also lying to their faces the same way the main family. The loyalty they want and need is bought with food and false family and faked camaraderie. But they do want and need loyalty.

Power Through Control versus Power Through Manipulation.

#kinnporsche la forte #kinnporsche meta #power and control #i dunno it's weird #but here it is #i think deeply about a show because of a five hour training #and also because vegaspete and food is my jam

[vegasandhishedgehog]

Fuck this, I wasn't tagged by anybody but since y'all are making me insane sharing your lovely faves on my dash I gotta join the fun!

10 BL People That I Want Carnally

Just so we're clear, I'm immediately not limiting myself to 10. I'm bi. You think we have limits? (Tumblr says yes, but that's why I'm on desktop for this instead of mobile)

Night from Dirty Laundry

Are we surprised? This awakened a whole thing in me. I was constantly yelling from the rooftops about my love for this man in the cheapest drag you ever saw. This is my JAM. I'm already trying to calm myself down making the first entry on this post. GOD. And his whole committed-to-the-bit romancing a mafia leader and then robbing her because he needs money, but really he's a wee romantic who just wants to write exciting stories like all of us bitches on AO3? Honey I am FREE at 5pm on Saturday. Also, shush, I know it's not a BL, I'm counting it as part of the Midnight Series as a whole :P

Yok from Not Me

PAINT ME LIKE ONE OF YOUR POLICE OFFICERS. We already have matching tattoos babe. He isn't perfect but he's a well-intentioned mama's boy and has swagger.

Maya from Laws of Attraction

Listen, I don't think much explaining is necessary here. I'm a woman but she can call me "pretty boy" any day. Is she just Silvy Pavida with a MILF wife? Yeah. That's the point. I'll join. They would let me.

Speaking of Laws of Attraction, Nawin

I deserve an insane golden retriever boyfriend. I deserve a man who can't spell his ex's name but can get a pilot's license. He deserves someone who will enable his silliness, even when there's trouble with the accountant. *kisses all over his wing tattoo*

Togawa from Old Fashion Cupcake

Mr. Hamster Cheeks my love <3 The dates would be so good. And so would the food. And the food naps afterward. I'm a good snuggler, he's tall and there's a lot to snuggle. Win-win.

Ink from Bad Buddy

I know many of us are weak for Milk Pansa, but like, there's a reason for that. She gave us the ICON for lesbian side couples. Please, girl, scare men away from me when they mistake a boner for full-fledged love. Make me feel welcome and important and pretty and like I'm the specialest girl alive. Be taller than me ;)

Wen Qing from The Untamed

She didn't die, actually, we just eloped together, haha. I just think as someone who studied medicine, she'd have a lot of good tricks up her sleeve and I don't mean acupuncture needles.

Saifah from Enchanté

Yeah. I needed to use this gif. Get that record deal my man. Live your dreams king. I also love that he's both the old man and woman here. Impeccable. We deserved more of him.

Uea from Bed Friend

Gimme this catboy realness right now. Also, I just love him so much. He owns his narrative despite all the shit he has suffered and gets everything he deserves for it. We could be besties even. We could be...no I shan't say it.

SamMon from GAP

I just want whatever is going on right here. Let me join. Simple as that.

Tops and Marwin from Ingredients

I'm this guy. Except I think they'd be sad to see the other with someone else so I gotta have them one at a time. Tops, who's a shy cutie who can make yummy foods. And Marwin, who is basically Jeff Satur just pumped with extra himboisms.

Todd from Not Me

All principles out the window. He's evil, he's sexy. I know exactly how much that specific hotel room costs to stay in for a night. It would be luxurious.

Rain from Love In The Air

I know most people would say Phayu, and for Boss, yeah I understand, I am all there. But something about the way that little guy can fuck kinda makes me dizzy, I'm owning that. He doesn't have to be smart, he's just gotta be given compliments. Plus, my bed sheets match!

VegasPete from KinnPorsche

They altered me chemically once and I'd let 'em do it a second time and many more after that.

Tagging @kissporsche @thisautistic @omegaphobe @shubaka @risu442 @khathastrophe @loveable-sea-lemon @fawndlyvenus @viva-yas-vegas @first-kanaphan @wherelanguage-ends @xxatlasxx @adanima @snake-and-mouse @scarefox @scattered-stardust @callipigio @sparklyeyedhimbo @jdotsodomite @futureexmrsmalcolm @suzteel @jeffsatyr @coconuts-mafia

#I really come across like i'm really into threesomes here for being such an asexual virgin #and what of it #maybe i'll get into that #i'm capable of whatever i want #this was really fun #i hit a lot of bases i think

[autisticbokutoenthusiast]

fandom get to know me better

was tagged by @nozunhinged AND @jeffsatyr so i had too

3 ships you like:

ok 3 that im into lately

villaineve- they make me turn into the joker <3

aobpuen - like i feel lik if you get it you get it like... i dont have words for them if i think about them too hard i need to bite something

sakuatsu - ride or dies the great fan artists and fic writers of the world have done such wonderful work

the three that im obsessed with currently (like fundamentally changed me

sandray - if you follow me on here you know. literally the last thing i think about before going to sleep and the first thing i think about when i wake up. they were manufactured in a lab to make me periodically lose my mind actually like, id never watched a thai series or heard of them and the only reason i chose to watch only friends was a ray edit someone made right after episode ONE that felt like it was bat signalling me and here i am 7?? months later a fully changed person..... like they will forever be a part of me now i think ill never be the same

vegaspete - similar to sandray in that i watched kinnporsche because of the vegaspete gifsets on the dash and was surprised to find out the series was not about them having bdsm sex in front of the corpse of a hedgehog like i was led to believe, not that i didnt end enjoying kp anyway. they alone would have been enough to make me obsessed but the things people create about them have changed me, thoroughly, like i am unrecognisable to myself after certain fics and fanart....

bokuaka - they are essential to my lore actually, like i dont post about them or engage with them as much as i used to because they are like my eyelashes like they are just a part of me now. bokuaka fanfic was what got me through high school tbh.

First ship ever: idk because ive wrote fic about characters since i was like 8..... actually im gonna be cringe and say chad and ryan from high school musical cause they were real to me when i was in elementary school <3

Last song you heard: good for what by little simz cause it will always get my pumped no matter what

Favorite childhood book: i read like a book a day when i was a kid but i think my favorite was the box car children even tho it traumatized me...

Currently reading: im always in a state of rereading my poetry collection and its recently been claude mckay but i need good novel recs PLEASE SEND THEM TO ME

Currently watching: at the peak of covid fever i started pit babe and im around halfway? thru now, also 23.5 the series as it comes out, and abbott elementary, and tsukutabe, also want to rewatch iwtv 2022... then theres all the shows my mutuals i posting about that i want to watch (im looking at you dead friends forever and moonlight chicken)

Currently consuming: hamantaschen that are supposed to be for tm but there raspberry jam flavored so im celebrating early 🫡

Currently craving: for food: i havent had cheesecake in like 5 years but i think about her everyday. in life: to try to get into the drag scene

ill tag @le-trash-prince @lilleeboi @jenyifer @kitas-cleaning-supplies @luminouschaotic @bokuto-my-beloved

and whoever wants to!!!

#tag game #abe rambles