#theetanthai

[spicyvampire]

Biting as a love language

LAWS OF ATTRACTION (2023) EP.6 + EP.8

[heretherebedork]

The evolution of Tanthai's head on Thee's shoulder.

[littleragondin]

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 ?)

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.

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)?

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?)

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?

Well, I sure hope so. For both their sake at this point.

[sparklyeyedhimbo]

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.

..i am good people i am just fearing the worst 😭

[idontknow178]

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.

[blue-grama]

The parallels of these two characters believing themselves fundamentally broken and unlovable because they blame themselves for their mothers' deaths...

...both finding someone who will believe in their inherent goodness no matter how badly they behave.

i stg they'd better give me a happy ending dammit

[bunnakit]

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

[squeakygeeky]

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.

[heretherebedork]

I really love this and absolutely agree because the parallels between these two couples just makes me so happy and I wanna talk about the latest parallel we're getting from the preview for next week which is huge and this post was like a sudden shift in me remembering how I was looking at their parallels so... thank you!

ANYWAY.

In the preview for next week we see that Charn and Tin are going to the place where Charn's original trauma happened.

He is returning to the place that changed him but with the man who is changing him again and now it's Tin's turn to see what happened in Charn's past and to understand him more deeply.

On the other hand, we've got Thee and Tanthai who are fleeing the place of their shared trauma, trying to escape and take a change at healing because there is no healing without leaving.

They are trying to get away. They are trying to have any chance at all of moving forward. They are fighting for their fight to their own freedom and to their own lives and they are failing.

It's about places of trauma and places of pain and how you can heal by leaving or by returning and how the people who love you being there can change everything.

(Charn and Tin are making choices, again and again, but Thee and Tanthai are constantly trapped. Even in the pictures above, it's Tinn holding onto Charn to steady him while it's Tanthai trapped by a guard while Thee fights.)

Also, my favorite parallel of their actions is the heads on the shoulder moment.

So many beloved, traumatized, struggling boys.

(Also, Tanthai's constant pleading for Thee to get him away from where he is versus Charn constantly trying to make a home with Tin's family and my heart for all of them.)

Take two rich, overconfident, broken men with huge traumas.

And add two poor, powerless people who care about them and want better for and from them.

I think this parallel in the main two relationships is what I adore about this show so much, because it's the same story being told in incredibly similar yet wildly different ways. Because while Charn and Tinn at least have some agency and control over their lives, both Thaenthai and Thee are stuck and can't do a thing to change their situation (yet). Charn and Tinn are choosing to play this game for fun/power/(whatever Charn claims it to be) (on Charn's end) and justice (Tinn's), whereas Thaenthai and Thee are forced to play it (for the other) to survive.

[spicyvampire]

Good riddance [insp.]

LAWS OF ATTRACTION (2023) EP.8

[heretherebedork]

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.

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.

AND A KISS.

A tiny kiss!

Sweet and quick and full to the brim of love and silliness and freedom for them.

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.

[littleragondin]

Alternative title of this episode "Tanthai's no good very bad day - the remix" (And the start of me screaming at Thee to give at least one comforting touch to that boy please)

Hard questions getting no answer and everyone is even more hurt now...

+ BONUS

That man's does powerless sadness a little too well ;_;

[sparklyeyedhimbo]

this..this has to be a dream

[chicademartinica]

Whew they are doomed coded but DAMN THE FACT THAT THIS ACTOR’S NICKNAME IS PEARL FITS HIM SO WELL.He is precious indeed !

[bunnakit]

current top 10 pairings?

oh boy UHHH - sticking strictly to my current tastes and hyperfixations

VegasPete (kpts)

BigChan (kpts)

ChanGun (kpts - purely bc I'm enjoying writing this fic so much)

Arm/literally anyone (kpts)

Jom/literally anyone (kpts)

KinnPorsche (kpts ofc)

TheeTanthai (loa)

TinnCharn (loa)

RoseMaya (loa)

TeamWin (between us)

[squeakygeeky]

Laws of Attraction Episode 7

This was the penultimate episode of doom of course, although I did not expect to be so amused by the lead up to the Doom. I genuinely love melodrama done right, but this show can be emotional whiplash.

We learned the truth about Tonkhao finally and it was what a lot of people including me suspected. Everytime she appears the show somehow makes me love her more and I hate it here. This time I noticed she was wearing a dinosaur print shirt.

We met the kid from the village, like I kind of expected. I'm not sure exactly what Charn was planning when he was running off like that, but if he wasn't already turned towards the light then I think a combination of actually hearing Tonkhao's voice and this interaction was the turning point.

I guess we're just skipping to the morning after and not getting a TheeTanthai kiss. Anyway good for them but why post on IG for real?? Thatthep just gets more and more hateable, but I don't have the brainspace to think too much about this couple because I am of course fixated on Charn's ex.

Where to even begin with Charn's ex. This was 100% not what I was expecting. Like, how did Charn even manage to find someone he considers crazier and weirder than himself? How did this relationship even work? I mean, I'm assuming the answer is 'fairly poorly, with a lot of arson and murder along the way.' This is a couple that made each other worse, including sartorially. I fully buy that this is a house with real handcuffs in the nightstand of every bedroom.

I love that Tinn just broke the bed. Like of course, he's a taekwondo instructor. And it's totally predictable how Charn tried to play things but I liked that Tinn didn't buy it at at all. He's always been good but not particularly stupid and Charn's facade was cracked already. Charn has something stupid and risky planned.

Anyway, next up, shirtless hot men will punch each other for contrived reasons and I guess we'll also wrap up the plot.

I love this show.