Pinned
Simon clutched at Wilhelm’s back, digging his fingernails in tightly. He wanted to crawl inside of Wilhelm’s body and make a home there, wanted to tear him open and see what was inside, hold each organ in his hands and wonder at every single cell, every atom that made up this marvel of a boy above him.
(ch wc: 14.5k, total wc: 70k)
random little sketch based on @alltoowille ‘s fic: doesn’t everyone belong in the arms of the sacred because i love that fic so so much and i haven’t drawn non-lesbian wilmon in forever. and i also just love the reference pic im sure all the artists on here will recognise it aikajsjsjskddk
"When you are in the presence of a Rembrandt portrait, you’re seeing the warts and wounds of the subject, but you’re also peering into their depths, seeing their inner dignity, the immeasurable complexity of their inner lives. The novelist Frederick Buechner observed that not all the faces Rembrandt painted were remarkable. Sometimes the subject is just an old man or an elderly lady we wouldn’t look at twice if we passed them on the street. But even the plainest faces “are so remarkably seen by Rembrandt that we are jolted into seeing them remarkably.” “Tenderness is deep emotional concern about another being,” the novelist Olga Tokarczuk declared in her Nobel Prize acceptance speech. “Tenderness perceives the bonds that connect us, the similarities and the sameness between us.” Literature, she argued, “is built on tenderness toward any being other than ourselves.” And so is seeing." David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
Joy Sullivan, from "Long Division", Instructions for Traveling West
Ballet, like opera, is wonderful because it is monstrous, the hyper-development of skills nobody needs, a twisting of human bodies and souls into impossible positions, the purchase of light with blood.
Irina Dumitrescu, "Swan, Late: The unexpected joys of adult beginner ballet."
Ok question: the next two installments of rebel rebel are both nearing completion but idk which one to post first.
One is after Simon has a fight and comes home hurt (reach inside and hold you close), one is a sex scene that is excellent but I’m not sure will ring everyone’s bell (to love another person is to see the face of god). Option 1 or option 2?
Sound off pls xx i wanna publish again soon <3
“If we follow the trajectory of eros we consistently find it tracing out this same route: it moves out from the lover toward the beloved, then ricochets back to the lover himself and the hole in him unnoticed before. Who is the real subject of most love poems? Not the beloved. It is that hole.”
— Anne Carson, from Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay (Princeton University Press, 1986)
I see you "teasing" the Rebel Rebel AU, and I love it ! This story is so good !!!
If you ever share more of them with us, I would be over the moon !!!
I have so much more written of these two :’) Nine non-chronological vignettes—a couple barely started, some nearly 20k. Gave the loose titles below, happy to share the first sentence from any of those if anyone wants in a sneak peek 🪽
