#dechmek

[superfandomlife]

"Did you bite me?"

"No."

Memoir Of Rati (จาฤกรติชา) - Episode 08 (2025)

[heretherebedork]

Praise kink discovered and exploited successfully.

[i-got-the-feels]

Favorite Cinematography Shots from the 11th Episode of Memoir of Rati, 2025

[doublel27]

Memoir of Rati and the continued themes of eschewing the trappings of class and the influence of the West being tied to the acceptance and reverence in a queer relationship hits on so many levels.

The show is really doing such a lovely job of showing both Thee and Dech crossing the boundaries of propriety in expected of their station in favor of a more egalitarian world alongside the pursuit of their chosen man.

Both pairs also engage in work alongside each other. Dech helping Mek at the grocers when he’s struggling to hear and spending the day doing something his father specifically considers servant work, to both spend time with and protect Mek. And while Mek resists Dech doing this work with him, it’s fully supported by the grocer. Thee and Rati, dressed in traditional clothes, harvest essential Thai herbs from Mae Buaphan’s garden: basil and lemongrass. There is an understanding in the narrative that there is an effort that is involved in love, and a work. An importance of being evenly yoked to move forward. Mae Buaphan also accepts Thee and Rati after they’ve engaged in their work in the garden.

The choice to include the shifts in level of intimacy for both under mosquito nets in traditional beds that belong to Rati and Mek, while dressed in more traditional common clothes. Mek and Dech engage in an escalation of intimacy after Mek sleepily reaches out to stroke Dech’s cheek and immediately pretends to be asleep upon realizing what he’s done. But it’s Dech that crosses the line into biting followed by peck kissing first and after Mek responds in kind, saying theyre even, it’s Dech that initiates the first deep kiss.

Meanwhile, Thee and Rati also play a level of mirrored actions in their scene in Rati’s bed in the house of his mother’s, in turning toward, then away and toward, before the soft exchange of putting each others fingers in their mouths (it’s so soft and intimate here as well)

And again this sense of reciprocity and being evenly yolked a pair weaves into these scenes., in character appropriate ways. My Rati is a pillow princess but he doesn’t rise his hands off of Thee and encourages him further.

The contrast to Rati playing with Prince Mai, and needing to be tutored, rather than the shared work alongside the paired couples, as well as the preview that shows the reality of when the aristocratic families become aware of what their sons have been up to…

I love this show.

[btwinlines]

That was clearly a prank on me. What good would that do for me, sir? You are kind enough not to get me in trouble for hitting you, and now you are going to teach me French. You are a literal angel to me, sir.

Oh.

I want to float a lantern like everybody else. Can you come? My father wants me to go with some lady (...) He forbids me to say no. That's good, a festival is the perfect opportunity to go with a lover. But I want to go with you.

Oh.

[stormyoceans]

im actually soooooo here for dech being the one pathetically in love chasing after mek first

[athousandbyeol]

pretty, you are. [mekdech fanfic]

"i like watching you this way. i can see the passion. the eagerness to learn. not many are like you, mek. i'm not like you either." "but you are now, sir," mek intervenes, catching dech's fall, never too late or too early, just the perfect timing, just when dech believes he doesn't want to be a devotee of fairytale endings and better beginnings—he's now, again, under this enchanting spell, this dizzying stupor—of mek and everything about him.

or a young master who falls for the boy teaching him muay thai—softly, word by word, paper on paper, touch by touch, against the lines that divide them.

[outofthemouthsof]

I scoured the tags desolately trying to find gifs of this scene but alas finally made my own shitty screencap ones.

I know the fight only lasted 5 seconds once Mek got serious and that there were a lot of other great moments in this episode, but I couldn’t get over how hot they looked fighting each other. I could’ve watched a whole episode of this. I hope Dech convinces Mek to become his Muay Thai trainer!!