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Lochlan is being 100% accurate when he says he's a people pleaser in a family full of narcissists. He's the one the others get to use for their own gratification, because that's the only way he feels he can be loved. He's narcissistic supply, mainly for his siblings but particularly for Saxon, who (as we've seen) can't get enough worship from him. Now that boundaries have been eroded, their co-dependent trauma bond reaffirmed, and there will always be a chance of something sexual happening again, Saxon should renounce that intoxicating devotion altogether but he just can't, he's still bullshitting about "right" vs. "wrong" worship when deep down he knows that distinction doesn't apply anymore (cue Tim alluding to trauma and the brothers locking eyes).

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White Lotus | S03E05

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SAXON RATLIFF & LOCHLAN RATLIFF SEASON 3, EPISODE 8: AMOR FATI THE WHITE LOTUS (2021-)

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"lochy's dying memories showing saxon as a faded silhouette is representative of the state of their relationship" yeah but alternatively it could be because lochy is actively repressing tf out of his own feelings trying to cope with saxon's inability to process and cope with his

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THE WHITE LOTUS 3.08 "Amor Fati"

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SCREAMING. lochlan owning up to the handjob is god tier incest behavior i literally thought he was going to act like he didn't remember shit. he said yes i did jerk you off saxon your dick looked lonely over there and i'm a people pleaser so i let you fuck my fist since you're so horny all the time what's the issue. I LOVE HIM 😭

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i literalyl can't tell who is alive/dead rn bc reddit is telling me one thing but people here are doomposting fjhdjsjflkds

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PATRICK: One of the other things that is so genius about him [Mike White] is that as an actor you want this huge turning point for a character, these big payoffs. But on the shoot he told me, which I loved, was, "Don't worry about how you want the audience to see it. This is a real person having a vacation for six days - not everybody has this massive change in six days. I want some characters to have massive changes, I want some characters to not change, I want some characters to have just the slightest change and the audience wonders where they're going to go after this." That's the level of detail someone as genius as Mike can bring. It's cool to be on a project where you're nervous and anxious about delivering, but you also feel safe and that he's got your back. I also play younger than my age, I think in the script I'm 26 years old.

Patrick Schwarzenegger in conversation with John Owen Lowe via HERO Issue 33.

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there's a sun-sized ache where your hands used to be. — memory is a deathbed. remembrance is a grave. the memory of you is a scab that i keep picking so that it scars.

(The White Lotus, Mike White // did i tell u that i miss u, adore // My brother's Two Screams, Dustin Pearson // Things I've Thought, Things I do, Dustin Pearson // coffin heart? bury me., fatima aamer bilal)

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White Water Crowfoot

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completely lirious and ranged. absolutely lusional. not only mented but fective, too. engaging in praved behavior. a real generate

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SAXON RATLIFF AND LOCHLAN RATLIFF THE WHITE LOTUS (2021-) SEASON 3 EPISODE 5: FULL-MOON PARTY

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So, it’s kind of like his worst nightmare was actually his erotic fantasy.

THE WHITE LOTUS 3x07 | Killer Instincts

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interesting so in this episode the fight divided the scenes of people who are ideologically against/opposite to each other. laurie and kate, rick and jim, mook and gaitok, belinda and greg, and then... interestingly enough... piper and lochlan

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FASCINATINGGGGG okay so lochlan is a mirror we all know that. i'm not... 100% sure he knows what his 'dark shit' is tbh. its almost like he's saying that because he wants piper, who may or may not have her own 'dark shit' to deal with, to relate to him. and she does. she says she loves him! he gets her! and the look lochlan gets omg. wide eyed and entranced like 'omg i did what she wanted i did the right thing' and then he goes a step further and says he wants to stay in thailand with her.

yeah. and then he says he doesn't really feel like going home. its strange, i almost feel like he means it and he doesn't. like he's reflecting her feelings but also his own are mixed in there because piper absolutely doesn't want to stay away from home 'forever'. that's lochlan's current wish. because of what happened with his brother. so lochlan is in every reflection of his siblings, but its twisted up and almost inseparable from the desires he's projecting back to them.

and then the freaking. 'i thought you would be excited :(' and she totally sees through him for being Not Quite Right whereas saxon fell for it hook line and sinker. not that lochy was intentionally deceiving him or anything but he definitely didn't clock that lochlan wasn't being 100% honest with his engagement in saxon's 'interests'.

then the immediate hard cut back to saxon from the monastery scenes. LMAO.