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spicyvampire · 8 months
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Biting as a love language
LAWS OF ATTRACTION (2023) EP.6 + EP.8
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heretherebedork · 9 months
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The evolution of Tanthai's head on Thee's shoulder.
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littleragondin · 9 months
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So they grew up together, they were childhood friends.
Do you think Tanthai used to come to Thee every time he had a scrap, every time he got scolded by his father? Was Thee, a little older, maybe just a little more serious, always there to wipe his tears and put a band-aid on his knee, to take his hand and run away with him to hide and play in the garden until his father calmed down? (Do you think the gardener knowingly kept silent about the mess they made in the flower beds when they played ball, indulgent ?)
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Do you think that's why, despite Thee's current silence and inaction, despite how he accuses him of only staying by his side for money, Tanthai still seems to trust him? Why he keeps turning to him, keeps asking him again and again and again to please take him away from here? - like Thee is the only who could.
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They were friends, and now Thee looks like he can't even touch him, taking a step back when Tanthai moves like he's going to reach for him. What happened since that picture? Did Thee grew up, a little faster than Tanthai, realizing that what he felt was changing? That the way they were with each other would start to attract disapproving looks and comments? Did he add this to the awareness of his situation regarding the Senator's family, of propriety and what was acceptable, and realize that this could not happen? That he had to distance himself (as much as he could, because despite it all he knew he couldn't go away)?
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Did Senator Thatthep notice the comfort his son found in Thee, the closeness between them that was becoming more than the friendship of young boys? Did he take Thee aside, did he leverage the debt Thee feels he has toward him, did he threaten to send him away from Tanthai? What did Thee have to promise to be able to stay by his side? (would he have promised anything to not have to live with the emptiness in his chest when he thinks of not being around Tanthai?) Always be professional, follow Thatthep's order, never, ever forget your place and think you can even pretend to be anything more than a loyal bodyguard to Tanthai. Come back to him ready to protect him with your life but never showing him any form of tenderness, of kindness that could be seen as inappropriate. And so Thee did as he was told and kept his distance.
(Is that why when Thee finally reaches for him, his hand a gesture of quiet worry, Tanthai breathes again?)
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Is that what Thee remembers, when he looks at the photo of them as children? All he has given up to be with Tanthai, in that shadow of a relationship, only to see him miserable, suffering, and hating himself. Is that what will finally make him decide that just being there isn't enough? That he has to give Tanthai more than mere presence if he wants them to make it through it?
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Well, I sure hope so. For both their sake at this point.
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sparklyeyedhimbo · 9 months
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not thee telling tan that is okay that he is carrying him around because he always does it when tan is drunk. not tan slapping back with these banger lines.
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..i am good people i am just fearing the worst 😭
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blue-grama · 9 months
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The parallels of these two characters believing themselves fundamentally broken and unlovable because they blame themselves for their mothers' deaths...
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...both finding someone who will believe in their inherent goodness no matter how badly they behave.
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i stg they'd better give me a happy ending dammit
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idontknow178 · 9 months
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Why did Thaenthai post that story on IG?
Because he was happy for the first time in his entire life, a kind of happiness that needed to be shared, otherwise his heart would explode.
Because he never received love, affection, or care from his abusive father, and in that moment Thee was filling the void in his soul.
Because this was Thee's gift, to make Thaenthai feel truly seen for the first time in his life, beyond the money and power, beyond the bad-boy pose, and to make him know how much he is worthy of being loved.
Because he's just a boy who could never really be a boy and who let himself sink into the false freedoms of being an adult (parties, drinks, money).
Because Thaenthai loves Thee and needed, just needed, to let the world know that.
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bunnakit · 9 months
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laws of attraction ep 7 react
oh OHOSLGKJSG TANTHAI AND THEE OH IM GONNA CRY, YOU SWEET BABIES, THEE LOOKS SO HAPPY AND THEIR LITTLE BANTER-- AAAA
still confused if its charn or chan bc of the early subtitles but i think i remember his building said chan??? so im just going with that
chan idk what youre doing but you better shove that plushie up your ass if you wanna keep it bro
oh tinn, sweet baby. chan if you don't get your shit together soon i swear to god. that man is so ride or die for you
alksjglk LMAO MR NAWIN COVERED IN BLOOD WITH FUCKING RAINBOW HIS BRASS KNUCKLES OH I ADORE YOU HELLO NEW HUSBAND
he's like a puppy oh my god i adore him the little freak
wow!! communicating about your feelings!! what a concept!!
nawin's pink suit no shirt is such a look, and the way chan can talk him down is unfairly attractive
YOU HAVE TO PROMISE ME WHEN IM GONE TO TAKE CARE OF TINN AND GRANDMA-- HEY CHAN WHAT DOES THAT MEAN-- HEY BUDDY WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT MEAN
oh meeting the dead parents, ok, im so normal about this.
chan i am so tired of you disappearing in the night. you gotta knock this shit off, man.
OH TANTHAI BUDDY YOU CANT -- OH SWEET INNOCENT BABY YOU CAN'T POST STUFF TO SOCIAL MEDIA COME ON NOW
oh thee. oh man. this scene is So Much. poor tanthai was doomed to fail from birth fuck M E . "i'm sorry for being born" fuck OFF OH MY GOD.
AND THEE. BRAVE SWEET PROTECTIVE THEE. HE'S EVERYTHING. PLEASE I NEED THEM TO HAVE A HAPPY ENDING.
i need that man to burn in hell P L E A S E. like just leave everyone alone for fucks SAKE.
NAWIN SLKJGLAG OH BLESS UR SOUL YOUR LITTLE MANNERISMS ARE EVERYTHING.
HE BROKE THE BED FRAME LMFAO TINN THE MAN THAT YOU ARE.
hey chan this would all be more believable if you didnt look one second away from bawling your eyes out.
YESSS THE 'THEN LOOK AT ME' A CLASSIC, MY BELOVED, ONE OF MY FAVORITE TROPES.
OH MY GOD
EXCUSE ME
OH BOY
OKAY
YEAH THATS FINE
I'M NORMAL ABOUT THAT
FEELING SO NORMAL
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squeakygeeky · 9 months
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Laws of Attraction Playlist
After seeing this post from @panncakes with From Eden lyrics I made a very moody LoA playlist that to my own surprise ended up being both couples.
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spicyvampire · 8 months
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Good riddance [insp.]
LAWS OF ATTRACTION (2023) EP.8
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heretherebedork · 9 months
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I love them so much your honor. Look at the light colors and the bright surrounding and how they're both comfortable in light and under such a sot blanket and in such an informal place. This is a home. They're on a couch bed. There is nothing rich here, nothing about money and power and influence, just two men in love sharing popcorn and watching dramas and being together.
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Just in love and happy and comfortable, together and knowing that they chose each other. That they built this family. No longer constantly seeking approval that will never come or attention that can only hurt but loving. Being loved. Staying loved.
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AND A KISS.
A tiny kiss!
Sweet and quick and full to the brim of love and silliness and freedom for them.
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They might have given up a lot of things, but they gained so much more than gave up. No matter what.
I love them so much. I'm so glad with the story we got for them and I just... I love them so much. I will miss them.
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heretherebedork · 9 months
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Parallels between the two couples... one just discovering sincerity and understanding and the other steeped in loyalty and guilt.
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heretherebedork · 9 months
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sjgkldfsdfj THEY GET THEIR SOFTNESS FOR A MOMENT MY INNOCENT BABIES.
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heretherebedork · 10 months
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Thee looks at Tanthai like he can see right through his emptiness and into the hurt he can't escape that leaves him in such pain he can't even feel it anymore and Tanthai looks at Thee like he's terrified of what this might mean because he can't feel anything but knows the feelings are pounding at the door of his mind.
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And then we go back to the night of the crime and we see how Thee has the same look and Tanthai is even more like a caged animal trying to escape, hurt and angry all the time.
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Tanthai surrounded by people who are drinking with him because of his father's money and so drunk and lashing out and angry at his father but paying for everyone around him and then Thee. Thee who is also paid by his father but is there for him and takes him away before he hurts himself more.
It's such a good dynamic and I like it even more because most of the spoiled princes we've gotten lately just haven't actually been that spoiled. They've all been Good Boys who are Also A Bit Spoiled. But Tanthai is an asshole because he's been spoiled and abused at the same time and I love it. @absolutebl It's not quite whipping boy since Thee doesn't take punishments but it's also past the usual spoiled princes we've been seeing and I love it here.
I love the asshole who is one because of trauma and abuse because it's not an excuse or an explanation but it is part of him and to see him loved nonetheless, to see him being taken care of by someone who loves him even knowing how much of an asshole he is. Thee knows exactly who Tanthai is and he still looks at him like that.
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heretherebedork · 9 months
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They grew up together. They've been together long enough to have played with the gardener when they were young. Thee still thinks of a packed lunch as something he will never be able to repay him. Thee has obviously watched Tanthai be pushed to the place he is now, watched him go from someone who changed a fellow child's life with a packed lunch and played with the gardener to an abused, damaged and lashing out young man who is simply so hurt he feels empty.
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Thee cannot ever pay back a packed lunch but he also can't run with him. Because running with him risks losing him forever. If they run together and get caught, what happens? They lose. They lose everything, even this painful time together and even Tanthai's anger and drinking and pain. Thee would be gone and he'd be unable to be any kind of presence, to check on him, to look at him and be there to try to defend him.
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I think the most painful part is that Tanthai desperately seeks out comfort from Thee that he can only ever half get, that Thee cannot give him the comfort he wants both because of the chains on them from his father and because Tanthai has been too hurt to accept what Thee feels he can offer. And the half-measures of comfort only hurt more in the end and so Tanthai hurts Thee to try to stop the pain, hurts everyone around him to try to stop his own pain.
(Tanthai would fall over if Thee just pulled him into a hug and didn't get go when he started to protest but Thee can't do that because he is the servant, he is the one below him, he has no power and Tanthai tries to wear his golden chains as power the best he can.)
Tanthai is as absolute asshole and constantly getting himself in trouble to prove the point his father is constantly making. If what he does doesn't matter than he might as well just do the worst things possible because at least it gets him something. And Thee is always there. Thee never leaves.
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That's why the preview for next week hurt so much. Because Tanthai believing that Thee would leave him if he wasn't being paid is the ultimate proof of how much he's been hurt. He's screaming out for any kind of reassurance and this time Thee has to give him something.
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Thee has never repaid that packed lunch. Thee has never forgotten them playing together. Thee has never left Tanthai's side. Thee is the last and frayed link Tanthai has to his humanity and Thee cannot let that link break. Or he will lose the person he loves the most, the person he owes the most.
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The history between them, that we know so little about, is the key to what really happened that night and Thee is the only one who can truly tell us what happened... and he will have to do it to protect Tanthai.
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heretherebedork · 9 months
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Look at the difference! Look at the change! Look at him much they both got from that sense of freedom and their escape! The way Tanthai seeks him out so desperately and the way he clings to him so desperately.
And then the smiles.
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This is the first time we've seen them really smile. Either of them! Thee and Tanthai have been trapped in hell for so long and al it takes is a little time together, a little chance at freedom, a taste of what it means to be able to be themselves and all their shields fall down. All their protections collapse. Tanthai goes by Tan and turns into the softest boy in the world who only wants to save a kitten and knows he's a bad person back at home and blames himself. Thee gets to speak his love and to show Tan what he really thinks of him and how highly he holds him in his esteem, to promise him that he doesn't have to be the rowdy, bad boy he acts out as to get his father to look at him.
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And then a hug, A protective hug, a gentle hug, a real hug and Thee loves Tan in a way that never wavers and Tan is discovering what it means to be loved by someone who sees him better than he's ever seen himself and it's like watching an empty vessel have water poured in, expecting it all to leak out, only to realize that the cracks have been sealed with gold by a master craftsman who has always loved this vessel and wants it to be beautiful.
(Next week is about sacrifice, it's about what they will have to give up to have a chance at love and what you can't give up to have love and Thee might have given Tan a respite from his father's abuse but he is still the only one who can rescue him truly and he can only be rescued by the truth.)
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heretherebedork · 9 months
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Tanthai and Thee across the episode, slowly finding their own balance and affection and love from where it's been buried under Tanthai's desperate seeking of his father's attention and the act he put on to make sure he wasn't forgotten. But now Thee has shown him that he is seen.
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