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Abby Infrequently Writes Fic and Meta; A Masterpost
Honestly didn't ever plan to make a post like this, but there's a decent amount now. I'd like to keep track of things in one place for my own reasons. (This is really meant mostly just for me, but I don't mind if others find this useful.)
I will periodically update this when I remember.
Tinn's tie had the pink flowers from their childhood tree on it!!
Pond Ponlawit as Chat THE EDGE OF HORIZON Episode 3
for @abstractelysium 💜
Your Highness, from now on, I will stop my son from being around you. It is entirely my son's fault that caused all this mess. He was ungrateful to your family. Instead he tried to ruin your reputation. It's not his fault. Not true, it is his fault. He dragged the sky to stoop to his level. THE EDGE OF HORIZON - EP 5 // EP 2
What do you want me to say? You want me to say that a servant took advantage of his master? That I didn't know my place? That I thought of you in an inappropriate way? So that you can be disgusted by me even more? Do you still think that you're disgusting to me?
The Edge of Horizon Ep. 2
My feelings don't really matter here.
Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?
It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!
It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.
Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this
Hell yeah moon holiday
Ooh coming up we should celebrate
PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)
HAPPY MOON MO[O]NDAY!!!
Why did you have to risk your life like that? I tried to protect Chat, protect our family. Are you sure about that? It wasn’t because you still have feelings for Phob? And you would die to protect him?
I love how intricately the Edge of Horizon is portraying the balance between Tin's sense of duty and his love for Phob.
Duty is obviously super important to him, so much so that he wrote the breakup letter to Phob, behaved perfectly for eleven years, and then tried, albeit unsuccessfully, to stand by the letter once Phob came back into his life.
We even see him trusting his father and feeding Phob info on his father's command, even though he knows it might reveal that Phob is a revolutionary. As long as his dad says that Phob won't be hurt, he seems minimally conflicted.
But as we saw when Tin freaked out over Phob's hand injury, duty gets a lot less compelling to Tin as soon as he sees that Phob could be hurt by it. And the moment his dad reveals that he lied and that Phob will be killed if he participates in rebellion, Tin's duty can suck it. He's abandoning the royal event, he's in the street yelling Phob's name, he doesn't care who sees him hugging Phob, etc.
If Tin can believe that following his duty is somehow for the best for Phob, then he can be talked into some pretty shitty stuff. But once he stops believing that duty and Phob's well-being are aligned, there's no contest.
Idk I just think he's neat it was cool to see his hard line on duty in action
He has his priorities and duty might weigh more than his and Phob's happiness but it does not outweigh Phob's safety
Letter to Phob: A deep dive into a man who couldn't refute your politics, so he chose to love you instead.
A Character Study of Prince Thinnakorn's Heartbreak Across the Timelines of Siam
Tin is psychologically incredibly consistent across both timelines. On the surface, he seems full of contradictions: he rebels for love at eighteen, then abandons Phob, then repeatedly claims he has forgotten him, yet melts every single time Phob appears. But when you look at the pressures weighing on him, his behavior follows the exact same internal logic from start to finish. The real conflict here isn't love vs. a lack of love. It’s love vs. duty, and Tin has been conditioned to believe that duty must always come first.
1. Why did Tin actually obey his father and send that letter?
You have to remember that Tin is not just some ordinary son. He’s a Mom Chao, a literal prince. From the day he was born, he’s had these heavy truths drilled into him: his life belongs to the royal family, his father's reputation is his own, his personal happiness comes dead last after his duty, and every single move he makes reflects on the monarchy. That level of conditioning is incredibly hard to break.
Notice how before they're even caught, Tin is actually incredibly rebellious. He treats Phob like an equal, literally sleeps in the servant quarters, apologizes first, kisses Phob knowing full well the class divide, and even convinces his dad to let Phob take the scholarship exam. This isn't a guy who's afraid to push back against convention. He’s already been doing it this entire time.
But then his father catches them, immediately reframing their relationship as a massive abuse of trust. To Tin, that is absolutely devastating because he genuinely loves and respects his father. His dad isn't a villain; he’s portrayed as fundamentally kind. He educated his servants, sponsored Phob, and trusted him completely. So when his father drops that "Is this how you repay me?" guilt trip, Tin suddenly sees himself as the source of immense pain to someone he deeply cares about. Now, he’s trapped between the two people he loves most: Phob and his father. And he knows he can't save them both.
Then comes the duty argument. His father reminds him: "You are my son. You have obligations." This isn't merely about parental authority; it's invoking Tin’s entire identity. He’s been taught since birth that a prince exists to sacrifice himself, an idea reinforced by every Siamese aristocratic ideal he knows. In the end, Tin chooses sacrifice. Not because he stops loving Phob, but because he believes his duty demands killing that part of himself.
Why write such a cruel letter?
Because Tin thinks a clean break heals faster than a festering wound. Notice what he actually writes. He doesn't write, "I still love you." He writes, "I mistook friendship for love." It's a blatant lie, and the fact that he's crying while writing it is our cue that every word is tearing him apart inside. So why lie? Because if he confessed, "I love you but I can't choose you," Phob would wait. He'd hope. He'd stay emotionally trapped. Tin genuinely believes he's setting Phob free, but ironically, he does the exact opposite.
2. Why does Tin keep insisting he’s moved on, only to crumble every single time he sees Phob?
Because he never actually forgot.
It was just survival. Look at Tin’s life from 1921 to 1932. He goes to Britain, becomes the King’s private secretary, and climbs the royal ranks. His entire identity is built on being the perfect prince. How do you pull that off? By burying everything that threatens to break the illusion. His coping mechanism is repression, not healing. Repression tells him: If I never acknowledge this, maybe it doesn't exist.
Then Phob suddenly appears, and that entire wall of repression collapses. Just look at their interactions:
Scene 1 (The Party): Their mouths say, "Nice to meet you," but their eyes are screaming, "I never stopped loving you." They’re performing. The second Phob brushes his hand (a tiny, accidental touch) Tin visibly reacts. It's completely involuntary, immediately bypassing eleven years of carefully built mental defenses.
Scene 2 (The Office): When Tin says, "You should forget it. It meant nothing," he’s not demanding it from Phob. He's begging himself. If Phob can let it go, then maybe Tin can keep pretending. When Phob kisses him, Tin's automatic instinct is to push him away. That's his sense of duty talking.
Scene 3 (The Car): Again, he tries to push him away. But then he sees the tear, and everything shifts. Why? Because while the kiss reminds him of the love, that single tear reminds him of the cost. Tin is no longer fighting temptation; he is looking at the pain he inflicted. Duty loses, and love wins. Again. It's eighteen all over again, Tin has always folded for Phob. The love never left; it was just suppressed.
3. Why does Phob's suffering make Tin feel such crushing guilt?
This is probably the most devastating part of Tin’s psychology. For eleven years, he survived by telling himself a comforting lie: I broke both our hearts, but Phob eventually found another life. It was painful, but it was necessary.
But then reality slaps him in the face. Phob didn’t just move on. He suffered. Miserably. That scar on his hand changes the entire equation. To Tin, it’s not just a scar. It's cold, hard evidence of his own failure. He realizes he wasn't the only victim in this story.
Instantly, his brain constructs a toxic loop of "what-ifs": If I hadn't obeyed, Phob wouldn't have left. He wouldn't have been at the mercy of an abusive nobleman. He wouldn't have been conned. He wouldn't have almost gone to prison. He wouldn't be scarred.
Objectively, none of those things are Tin's fault. They were caused by other people being terrible. But psychologically, guilt works by connecting separate tragedies into a single chain of "if onlys," forcing you to take the blame for outcomes you had absolutely no hand in.
Why does he bolt from the car?
Because the intimacy suddenly becomes too much to bear. Minutes earlier, they’re making out and Tin is finally letting himself feel happy. Then he spots the scar. Immediately, his brain kicks in: This hand suffered because of me. In a split second, pleasure turns to pure guilt. He simply can’t reconcile the paradox: I love him, I hurt him, I want him, but I don't deserve him. Running away is easier than facing all of those truths at the exact same time.
Tin's defining trait (and ultimate tragic flaw) isn't weakness, it's self-sacrifice taken to an unhealthy extreme. Whenever he's forced to choose, his default setting is always: "I will bear the pain." But the real tragedy is that he assumes he's the only one who will suffer. He genuinely convinces himself that leaving Phob protects him, that lying frees him, and that burying his feelings prevents further damage. Yet every one of those choices cuts Phob just as deep. In trying to protect everyone, Tin ends up completely breaking the one person he wanted to shield the most.
Why the dynamic between Tin and Phob is such a perfect mirror: each has internalized a completely different social wound.
Phob's core belief: "I am beneath him. My love is improper because of who I am." That’s why he kneels, apologizes for "taking advantage" of Tin, and later defends his heart with, "My love has dignity, too" when his worth is questioned.
Tin's core belief: "I belong to my family and my title before I belong to myself." That’s why he loves Phob so deeply behind closed doors, but yields the moment his father frames their love as incompatible with his royal duty.
Neither of them ever stops loving the other. Instead, they've both been conditioned to believe that love must always bow to something "greater," for Phob, it's social hierarchy; for Tin, it's princely obligation.
By 1932, both have built outwardly successful lives (Tin as a royal official and Phob as an artillery captain) but emotionally, they’re still carrying the raw, unresolved wounds of 1921. Tin’s constant insistence on leaving the past buried isn’t because he doesn’t care; it's because he's terrified of revisiting a choice he believes already destroyed the person he loved. Every time Phob shows up, that perfect royal facade cracks. The love never actually died, it was just forced underground.
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You have no idea how many times I’ve replayed the scene where Phob puts Tin's hand on his cheek and kisses his forehead. Because my god, the literal English translation,"Your Phob is here now" barely scratches the surface.
The emotional weight here comes from three things happening all at once:
He deliberately drops his military identity.
He returns to the exact identity he held when he first loved the prince.
He reminds the prince that a promise made by a servant still stands, surviving revolution, rank, and history.
For international viewers, it’s less like he's saying "Your Phob is here" and more like he's saying: "I’m still the exact same Phob who promised you eleven years ago."
1921: Palace servant
Let's look back at that gorgeous scene under the Dok Phuttan tree, when they're alone on the fallen petals right before the prince leaves for England. The prince is royalty (Phrabat), while Phob is just a servant. That moment is the first time we hear Phob refer to himself in an intentionally humble, rawly intimate way: "Ai Phob khong Phrabat." Literally: "The Phob who belongs to you." He promises right then that no matter what happens in the future, he will never change, and he will wait for him forever. (Side note: this is exactly why "18" by One Direction fits them flawlessly. The lyrics are literally them!)
The prefix ไอ้ (ai) is so fascinating. While it's normally rude, here it shifts completely. Used between childhood companions (or by someone of lower status speaking of himself affectionately) it becomes a term of raw, intimate self-deprecation. He's basically saying, "I'm just your idiot Phob."
Why does "Ai Phob" matter so much here?
Fast forward to 1932. He's no longer a powerless servant kneeling below him. He is Captain Phob, a French-educated artillery officer and one of the men who will help overthrow the absolute monarchy. He has every reason to abandon that past self, but he still chooses "Ai Phob." It's absolutely heartbreaking. He's saying: "Before I was a captain... before I was a revolutionary... before history rewrote us... I was your Phob. And I still am."
And think about when he says it. The prince is unconscious after taking a bullet for him, and Phob whispers: "Ai Phob khong Phrabat yu thi ni laeo" (ไอ้ภพของพระบาทอยู่ที่นี่แล้ว).
Literal translation: "Phrabat's Phob is here now."
Better translation: "That idiot Phob who promised to wait for you... he's here."
Ultimate emotional translation: "I'm here. I'm still your Phob."
It completely freezes time. For one sentence, the Revolution is forgotten. The prince isn't the King's secretary, Phob isn't a captain, they're just the prince and his palace servant.
Buuut, what makes this line so devastating is that, politically, everything has changed.
In 1921: "I'll always be Phrabat's Ai Phob."
In 1932: He's literally one of the officers dismantling the political world that gives meaning to the title Phrabat. Yet emotionally, nothing has changed.
So when he says, "Ai Phob khong Phrabat yuu thii nii laeo," he's essentially saying: "The Revolution will take my station. France changed my education. The army changed my rank. History will change our country. But none of it changed whose Phob I am."
It’s not just a declaration of love, it’s a deliberate rejection, for one intimate moment, of every new identity he’s spent eleven years earning. By choosing the old self-reference Ai Phob, he momentarily steps out of history and right back into the promise he made as a palace servant.
THE EDGE OF HORIZON Episode 5
I just want to take another moment to thank all of the gif makers out there. You are blessing us with your skill.
I love you all deeply. I could kiss you on the mouth. Platonically. Or not. Whatever you want.
The lesbians are happening!! This is not a drill!!
hey mom, great news! i'm definitely NOT leading a revolution that may or may not get me killed, and i'm definitely NOT still madly in love with the prince you told me to forget about!
