#AINHAI

[xacid-bath-princessx]

My dear gangster oppa is an underrated bl honestly. The main actors have such cute chemistry both in this drama and Ai Long Nhai

This pair should get more attention honestly.

[heretherebedork]

And that was darling. @absolutebl More gay marriage and family acceptance and love! It was definitely predictable but cute and fluffy and exactly what I wanted from AiLongNhai.

[thegayneurodivergentagenda]

A boss and a Babe, Between Us and Ai Long Nhai have taken the "rich soft top with Immense Patience(tm) with Awkward Outloud power bottom who gets shy when complimented" trope and wrapped it up in fancy cars and idiot NON oblivious (I'm looking at you Pat) friend group who are just happy to be there. And I love them for it.

Cher, Team, Nhai : I'm always making jokes and poking people half heartedly but I'm also incredibly sensitive to people's emotions and I would die for my friends and I would very much like to be held and told that it's okay to cry

Vs (or with)

Gun, Win, Ai: I'm in love with sunshine and the sunshine is also the biggest idiot known the mankind. Neat.

[bl-bracket]

Round 1: Nozue and Togawa First Kiss (Old Fashion Cupcake) vs Ai and Nhai Cheek Kiss (Ai Long Nhai)

[Submitted Reasons Under Cut]

Nozume and Togawa First Kiss: "This kiss is ridiculously hot and is a culmination of so much that’s been simmering beneath the surface for the entire show up to that point. Togawa has been pining so hard for Nozue for so long that when Nozue gives him a glimmer of hope and then tries to leave, everything he’s been bottling up comes surging out. Kimura Tatsunari exudes a level of desperate lustfulness in this scene that’s as intense as anything I’ve seen in any genre. We’re all familiar with the idea that people look at a person’s mouth when they want to kiss them, but Togawa looks at Nozue’s mouth like he dreams about it every night and sees it every time he closes his eyes. No wonder he feels a need to stick his thumb in there. Takeda Kouhei also communicates so much in this scene. Nozue is shocked and confused but he can’t help but respond to Togawa’s kisses. You can see the gears turning—and refusing to turn—as he tries to make sense of what’s happening—and keeps kissing Togawa back even though he still can’t process it. Togawa’s declaration, “I’ve been trying to seduce you, with everything I have,” is the cherry on top."

Ai and Nhai Cheek Kiss: "There has never been a cheek kiss as erotic as this one. Wow. Anybody would be seduced."

[absolutebl]

ABL, hello! I finished my second rewatch of Ailongnhai and I have a linguistics question please? You have done an incredibly wonderful and indepth post previously on SCOY and Daisy & Touch regarding particle use and pronouns, which I loved reading and understanding the culture a little better. Coming back to watch ALN a second time made me realise that Ai is also using kha with Nhai. While Nhai accepts this and calling Ai hubby (if Ping wasn't as cute and endearing as he is, I would've had to cringe out), I'm interested to hear whether this is a regular occurrence (the kha usage, not hubby ugh) as I feel like I haven't heard it before in many shows - or whether this is specific to how Ai views/wants Nhai to act accordingly with him, and as a result we get the gradual softening over the series?

Yes, but the level to which Ai uses it is very queer coded. Like he "learned this from the gay dad's" kinda thing. It's pretty household and private, when Ai trots it out in public it's pure claiming. He is making A POINT to Nhai and others.

Kha is a real softening (its most common use by men is on much younger girls in a sibling way, see Pete do this with Ai's niece in Love By Chance), so it's usually only used (by a BL lead on a BL lead) to tease (and even then ja is more likely) or in private if the other half is significantly sweeter (or the kha user wants him to behave in a more needy manner). Kha implies under this context "I will look after you because I like you but also because you need looking after, you clearly can't take care of yourself."

So I could see Dino eventually using kha with Rak. Or trying to.

But Pat would never even attempt this with Pran (Bad Buddy) evcept as a big joke. I wouldn't put a ha past them (in private) though.

Another example might be DeanPharm. Pharm is the kind of character who might take a kha from a boyfriend, and Dean would use it on him if they'd worked that out, but because of Dean's formal reserved personality, the most likely would be ha, and then only in private. Dean doesn't have anything to prove, he knows their dynamic perfectly well.

Ai is almost entirely defined by a need to prove himself, his claim, his relationship, his gayness.

If Solo was the older character he likely would have used kha with Gui in Oxygen, but he's too young.

I guess what I am saying is you need the right character synamic to use this one.

It tends to work best and most naturally with a non-tsundere uke character. If Pete and Ai didn't have such a vast class difference between them, Ai might have gone to kha eventually with him. But the act of using kha ALSO softens the speaker, so the speaker has to be very confident in himself and his status to use it. Or very uncaring about others' perceptions of him.

I keep thinking of Dino similar to Ai. But that show has only just started. We shall see were it goes.

[aliceisathome]

Ai Long Nhai was just sweet. Nothing happened except boys meet and fall and become faen then bicker about snacks and dreams. Even the main antagonist Evil Mum was done and dusted in an ep or two. The dads were sweet (all three of them), there were hints of side dishes which never materialised, perils (dengue fever) that fizzled out, and background stories hinted at but never explored. And yet I continued watch because it was just so soft and it was nice having a BL which didn't make me anxious. Thanks guys.

[essentiallykpopandbl]

"My sincere condolences that you have a male daughter-in-law"

This might be the best response to a homophobic bitch ever. And I love Nhai even more for saying it.

[caresscoffee]

Every time I rewatch Ai Long Nhai I die of laughter because of how dumb Nhai's friends are... like, how do they not already know that they're dating? Aiyaret babies Nhai... plus he's the only person Nhai hangs out with & Nhai constantly has a hickey, but they can't put together that they're boyfriends?

Not to mention that Nhai comes to school with an ironed shirt after he gets with Ai and they know he's not ironing it himself

Episode 7 is when they decide they should just ask Ai about his relationship with their friend...

[madeinjapan-thailand-blbambeyond]

MAN CRUSH FANDOM • MADE IN THAILAND

KRITTANUN AUNCHANANUN

[Nickname: PING]

NICHAKOON KHAJORNBORIRAK

[Nickname: MEEN]

[fan-fricking-fiction]

Ai long nhai | ep 12

other Ai long nhai posts <3

[my-boys-love-boys]

When your boyfriend is hugged by his sister, the completely logical response is to run his clothes through the wash with his cactuses of course.

[heretherebedork]

Nhai is the best and this show is a blessing. @absolutebl the fact that people aren't watching this is so ssad.

[lgbtally4ever]

AiNhai Special Episode on iQIYI

(I won’t say it’s good, but the sweet outcome is!)

[blmpff]

[celebelei]

AiNhai’s subtitles continue to be as atrocious as they were on the main show. And apparently no one at iQIYI knows how to properly time subtitles because holy shit some of these lines are off.

[aliceisathome]

The main conflicts in Ai Long Nhai are over snacks and a dream. And that's about it - its's very slow and very low conflict - their relationship kinda reminds me of Solo and Gui's in Oxygen.

Still watching though!