#an overwhelming majority of the posts tagged for kp are actually vp posts

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I posted 7,649 times in 2022

That's 2,389 more posts than 2021!

445 posts created (6%)

7,204 posts reblogged (94%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@janedrewfinally

@spiders-hth-is-an-outlier

@fairandfatalasfair

@fleur-aesthetic

@unashamedly-enthusiastic

I tagged 3,498 of my posts in 2022

#kinnporsche - 721 posts

#vegaspete - 623 posts

#pete phongsakorn - 455 posts

#vegas theerapanyakul - 434 posts

#word of honor - 381 posts

#the untamed - 340 posts

#zhou zishu - 248 posts

#wen kexing - 232 posts

#bad buddy - 195 posts

#jiang cheng - 182 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#(and he's likely able to get back on those radial pulses on both sides when he curls his fingers around pete's wrists to kiss his knuckles)

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

I ...

Listen. I’m rummaging through parts of Ep 11 again. And as someone who has to do wound care on a pretty regular basis and who also has to move people around all the time who aren’t able to move themselves, I am going to tell you that I fully believe, with every fiber of my being, that there was some point when Vegas was trying to get Pete wrapped in that gauze, while he was bandaging those belt lacerations on Pete’s chest, when he had to just stop and sob in frustration at trying to manhandle a completely limp, unconscious body by himself with no help whatsoever and get that fucking gauze wrapped around Pete in any way that was helpful, let alone neat - particularly if he was worried that Pete was maybe dying at the time.

I’m NOT taking any criticism WHATSOEVER on this. I realize this is Vegas Theerapanyakul I’m talking about, but TRUST ME WHEN I TELL YOU. It’s not like he wasn’t already emotionally overwrought after finding Pete hanging unconscious and limp in his chains. He clearly got it out of his system and collected himself and went on, but the parts that we didn’t see? That was absolutely something that happened - Vegas Motherfucking Theerapanyakul crying in frustration and maybe, just maybe, a little bit of fear.

And this was probably with Pete’s unconscious body sprawled out on the bed on his back with Vegas bent over him, forehead pressed into Pete’s sternum and fucking pissed as hell that he has to pause for a break to cry before he can collect himself and get back to it.

(ETA: Little bit of a follow-up here.)

478 notes - Posted September 1, 2022

#4

See, here’s the thing. I don’t really need Vegas to come out of this a better person. I just need him to be willing to murder anyone who’s mean to Pete.

Rabid dog!Vegas on a Pete-leash is a perfectly acceptable character and ship dynamic.

And then maybe - maybe - we can work on getting him some morals in the S2 I’ve been hearing rumors about. Maybe.

535 notes - Posted May 29, 2022

#3

HOW WE FEELING VEGASPETE NATION? Because I don’t know about the rest of y’all, but I personally am feeling like I’ve done AN ENTIRE FUCKING KILO of that cocaine from the warehouse in Ep 7.

So, LISTEN. I can kind of see now why they’ve been so stingy about doling out VP material, because if they did, it would have immediately eclipsed the actual Kinn and Porsche material. If this is the electricity Build and Bible generate on-screen (no pun intended) when Vegas and Pete are at loggerheads, I cannot even imagine what their sex scene is going to be like. I am going to need some supplemental oxygen.

Although, let’s be honest. Pete dominated this scene. Build owns it. I don’t know if Bible consciously stepped back or if Build is actually just this fucking magnetic when they let him off the leash, but I literally couldn’t take my eyes off of him. I kept forgetting to look at Bible – at Bible – because I couldn’t look away from Build and his perfect beautiful feral face. His smile when Vegas accuses Pete of foiling his plan, Pete’s so pleased with himself for outsmarting Vegas. The way he leans forward into what’s happening. And the sheer fucking determination that sets in at 40:00, when Vegas starts sparking his jumper cables at him, the way the smile falls away, but it’s not replaced by fear, OH NO. Wait, let me go dig out a thing I posted during my breakdown of the “consume you” trailer, what was it, oh yeah, when Vegas gets his hand around Pete’s throat: “You think you’ve got the upper hand? Are you sure? Am I reacting like you thought I would? Did you want to see fear? Tough shit, you’re not getting that from me.” AND HERE WE ARE. NO TURNING BACK.

And then Pete’s utter refusal to look away, the way he stares down Vegas from 40:25 to 40:30, I just. I CAN’T. I CANNOT, Y’ALL. I’m fucking feral over this shot, and this is what I’ve been saying since the beginning, for weeks now, and it’s finally happening – you’re gonna lose this one, Vegas, you’re going to lose so completely and utterly and thoroughly, he’s going to get inside your head and inside your skin, and he’s going to crack you open and tear you apart, and then he’s going to stitch you back together, and he’s going to do it all so so so unexpectedly, with his unflinching gaze and his vulnerable wrists and that shroud of grey that he’s got wrapped around him, no villains and no heroes, and it’s going to be the best thing that’s ever happened to you in your miserable life, your entire world is going to be re-made, you’re going to be re-born when you lose this confrontation, the way you’re already losing in this scene, the way he’s dominating what’s going on, naked, defenseless, tied to a post and staring down your paltry little power play.

And Vegas. Oh my god, my dude. You are so angry that it’s making you stupid. It’s like you’ve never met Pete. It’s like he’s never ridden shotgun for you on an op. It’s like he’s never stared you down while you tortured a guy. You’re looking at him, and all you’re seeing is that guy who you freaked out by leaning against his car roof like a working girl offering a BJ, and you’re completely forgetting that Pete is perfectly comfortable with violence. He’d be 100x more freaked out if you tried to kiss him right now, but this? This is the reality he swims in. This is where he fucking shines. Which they’ve actually made literal, because can I also mention how beautifully they filmed this precise shot? The lighting in this scene, the LIGHTING. I don’t have the technical knowledge to know exactly what they’re doing, but they’ve managed the same effect during this staredown that they did with Porsche at the window of Tawan’s room in Ep 9, where it doesn’t even look real, it looks like an anime.

I’m dying, I’m dead, they’ve killed me.

620 notes - Posted June 12, 2022

#2

Submitted:

Pete calling Vegas simply "Vegas," rather than "khun," in front of Korn, Kinn and Porsche when he says "Vegas, don't" in Ep 14 is both an intended parallel to and as significant as Porsche calling Kinn "Ai'Kinn" in front of Big and Ken when they're about to haul him off to the dungeon in Ep 9.

And in both cases, the one who's wanted to keep the relationship secret is the one who ends up speaking the words that give it life outside their particular little sphere of secrecy.

644 notes - Posted July 25, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Y’ALL. LISTEN.

Pete hands Vegas that rope to bind him in Ep 12 and then offers up his wrists, but here’s the thing, GOD, the thing that is making me feral again, as I go back and re-watch the show: Pete is absolutely perfectly capable of getting out of that rope, no matter Vegas’s intentions. We see this in Ep TWO, when Pete’s right beside Porsche - so we don’t miss him, even before we (technically) know how important Pete is to the narrative - during the training exercise in which they’re supposed to get out of rope bonds (which look a shit-ton like the rope that Pete hands to Vegas later in the safehouse) while underwater in the pool at the main family compound. We hear an entire big lecture just before they’re all shoved into the deep end (lit. and fig.) about how “Just so you all know, if you are captured, taken hostage, you have less than three minutes to untie yourselves. Make the minutes count.” We see Pete prepping himself for maximum bodyguard performance during this little speech, rolling his neck and shoulders to make sure he’s ready. He’s the first one Chan pushes into the pool. Not only does he get out of those ropes almost immediately, even underwater - he’s one of, if not the first person out of his ropes and breaking the surface, as we also watch Porsche struggle at the bottom of the pool - but he manages to position himself to float up, near the water’s surface, as he works to free himself, so that he’s right there at the top of the water to break out, immediately up into the air, once he gets his bonds off. He not only can do this, he’s fucking good at it.

I went back to Ep 12 after that. Vegas initiates what ultimately becomes their sex scene at 27:30 by reaching out, grabbing the front plackets of the shirt Pete’s wearing, and pulling him closer. Three minutes later, at 30:30, Vegas initiates the final kiss of their sex scene, just before he pulls out and rolls off of Pete to lie beside him.

Those three minutes that we get counted, all right, and Pete did NOTHING to untie himself, to extricate himself from this situation he found himself in. This was a deliberate choice he made, not just at the beginning, when he handed Vegas that rope, but consistently, constantly, every single second when he chose to remain bound and to offer himself up for 1) whatever Vegas wanted to do and 2) the intimacy of that encounter. At no point was he able to fall back on, “well, I’ve made my decision and now I’ll have to live with it, what can I do?” Every. single. second. was freely given.

Y’all. I’m chewing glass again.

And then I compare that constant, consistent gift of his consent - in the bonds that he could escape at any time, with nothing but his clever fingers and his trained self-sufficiency - to the handcuff, which he needs a tool for - if not the key, something he can pick it with - and I want to cry again.

(And then I think about those goddam bolt cutters that Vegas left lying around, clearly within reach at every point in time post-pill, and I want to chew glass again. They’re such a beautiful disaster, and I love them so much.)

(ETA: Follow-up post on the gd bolt cutters is located here.)

652 notes - Posted August 18, 2022

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