I've wanted to write a post about this for a while, and after much consideration, I decided that I'd just rather say it. Because who cares?
So, I've been in the TeeTeePor/PorTeeTeePor fandom for a little over a year now. I've been their since a bit after their DMD friendship era, like, early 2025(?).
I feel like I didn't say it enough or at all back then, for that matter, which is why I wanted to address it.
Both Por and TeeTee went through massive backlash solely for their shipname last year. It was so bad, that it had both the actors at a very tough spot, with both of them constantly worrying about their own hard work and lowkey feeling insecure about their fans' love and support.
They posted about it, talked about how it was emotionally and mentally affecting them. TeeTee had even admitted on crying about it to Por and the first time I read that post, it broke my heart.
Initially, they had decided to keep a free dynamic for their projects. With many shipname ideas like PorTeeTee, PorTeeTeePor, TeeTeePor etc. It gave them more freedom to choose the kind of script they wanted to work on, freedom on what kind of roles they wanted to explore.
But this received significant backlash because certain "fans" couldn't perceive the idea that heteronormative standards don't necessarily apply on queer relationships. I had someone once tell me that it's not a big deal, just a ship name, and people prefer it to be a certain way, why are you getting so worked up about it?
Because the people in question were getting downright harrased on the internet for it! Everywhere, it was just negativity, people throwing around random words of disagreement on something as small and insignificant as a shipname.
The amount of homophobia I came across at that time baffled me because hello! It was 2025, and I was still coming across such gross, outdated standards. I am not gonna be political about this, but I have every right to say that people were wronged!
I don't care if someone finds my words too harsh, but it was bullying, it was harassment and it was inhumanity we are talking about here.
TeeTee and Por had the chance to finally break those outdated bl standards, be the first Thai bl ship out there to have a switch sort of dynamic, or a label-less dynamic. And if not first, then atleast one of the many few.
And given that both TeeTee and Por are so young (Tee's literally, barely 2 years older than me), not to mention it was supposed to be their first big acting project.
Because I didn't know people cared so much about two downright strangers' bed preferences! You wouldn't go to a straight couple and ask them how do they like their bed-dynamics, now would you? Because it sounds freaking ridiculous to me!
Queer ships and shows aren't for entertainment. They are mostly out there to raise awareness, make actual queer people feel better about themselves and make them understand that they, too, matter.
It's not meant for people to fetishise and downgrade and just go on about with their lives without even acknowledging the damage they've left behind.
Tee and Por were eventually pressured into getting a fixed dynamic in December last year. And I don't think it was because of the company, but after much discussion of all the parties involved to finally put an end to all the drama once in for all.
And there and then we lost another ship to the same, useless heteronormative standards.
I am not making this post with the intention of urging them to change their dynamic again. I am not. I don't want them to pressure themselves because of something like this again. Although I would definitely NOT hate the idea if they ever decided to change it to a non-fixed dynamic again, either.
It's completely their choice. Their comfort is what matters the most. Because Por and TeeTee didn't ask us to stand for them, speak for them— we chose to.
And I think that people who include themselves in fandoms like these have at least that certain level of maturity.
Although, if we actually did have that in the fandom, such useless online-bullying ordeal wouldn't have happened in the first place.
Still, all I want is for both of them (Por and TeeTee) is to be comfortable and reach much more heights. Without stopping for anyone to tell them that aren't doing their best. Because they are. They are doing their best. And it shows.