#it’s about the TENDERNESS

[astrobei]

you know what i need so bad more than anything actually is a byler moment a la the pride and prejudice (2005) hand scene where mike helps will climb up onto a rock/over a tree branch/up from the ground etc and the camera zooms in on mike’s fingers gripping will’s hand as the music swells softly, thumb brushing over his knuckles, lingering a little too long as will goes to move away, and then will flashes him a shy little smile and is like “hey, thanks,” and mike, a little flustered and caught off-guard is like “yeah, of course,” and then he panics and runs off to join whoever’s up ahead and the camera zooms back in on him flexing his hand in stunned silence

#u guys know the scene #tell me u see the vision #100% people have posted about this before #but i can’t stop thinking it #and will definitely write it eventually mark my words #it’s about the TENDERNESS #the YEARNING #the PINING #the stolen glances the buildup the quiet unspoken moments #tender emotional music etc etc YES ITS ABOJT THE TENDERNESS AND EMOTION #HEAD IN HANDS #byler jane austen au When #/astro posts #byler #mike wheeler #will byers

[milesmentis]

"Summer has always been good to me, even the bittersweet end, with the slanted yellow light." - Paul Monette

@adrianspoison drew me this stunning art of Daren and Jowan and I am so overwhelmed to finally have art of my rarepair OTP

#dragon age fanart #warden cousland #jowan #warden jowan #daren cousland my beloved #what if two men were both Grey Wardens and bisexual #cousland/jowan #warden/jowan #daren/jowan #i have been SCREAMING for 12 hours since i saw the finished colors #it’s about the tenderness #hello my old heart intensifies #dao #my otp #boys kiss boys

[mrsdulac]

no matter how many times I see it, I’m never gonna be over that cutscene of Varl finding Aloy after she (barely) escapes from the Proving lab.

#it’s about the tenderness #it’s about her vision of rost #it’s about the comfort and quiet reassurance #don’t TOUCH ME I’m WEEPING #horizon: forbidden west #aloy #varl #rost

[selfconsciousfangirl]

Just in case you’ve missed the Bigolas Dickolas book twt incident: https://bookriot.com/bigolas-dickolas-and-this-is-how-you-lose-the-time-war/amp/

K

That's how I feel about Young Mungo. It grabbed me by the throat and killed me with the unexpected, unending wells of tenderness. Can’t stop rereading because *makes choked noises*

it’s about the tenderness

I live for deranged accidental book recs. that’s how I ended up reading The Half Life of Valery K in, like, two days. Saw a friend in twitter go insane about it, purchased the book and voilà, it killed me. Valery and Shekov forever and ever. Same thing happened to me with Young Mungo. I’m going to buy paper copies of the books so I can clutch them close to my chest when I read them and get overwhelmed with the feels

This book ruined my life. Let it ruin yours.

#it’s about the tenderness #young mungo #the half life of valery k #book recs #book lover me #the bigolas dickolas incident #feel free to post book recs #there’s nothing I love more than deranged book recs #shouldn’t have stayed up until 4am doing this post but here we are #texto

[shifting-worlds]

Call me by your name gives off the same vibes as the Chiron scenes in tsoa.

#it’s about the tenderness #tsoa #cmbyn #the song of Achilles #call me by your name #patroclus #patrochilles #patrocles #Achilles #shifty speaks

[glitch-in-the-code]

Platonic (literal) sleeping together and cuddling is so underrated in media

#it’s about the tenderness

[inkskinned]

the thing is that they're so fascinated by sex, they love sex, they can't imagine a world without sex - they need sex to sell things, they need sex to be part of their personality, they need sex to prove their power - but they hate sex. they are disgusted by it.

sex is the only thing that holds their attention, and it is also the thing that can never be discussed directly.

you can't tell a child the normal names for parts of their body, that's sexual in nature, because the body isn't a body, it's a vessel of sex. it doesn't matter that it's been proven in studies (over and over) that kids need to know the names of their genitals; that they internalize sexual shame at a very young age and know it's 'dirty' to have a body; that it overwhelmingly protects children for them to have the correct words to communicate with. what matters is that they're sexual organs. what matters is that it freaks them out to think about kids having body parts - which only exist in the context of sex.

it's gross to talk about a period or how to check for cancer in a testicle or breast. that is nasty, illicit. there will be no pain meds for harsh medical procedures, just because they feature a cervix.

but they will put out an ad of you scantily-clad. you will sell their cars for them, because you have abs, a body. you will drip sex. you will ooze it, like a goo. like you were put on this planet to secrete wealth into their open palms.

they will hit you with that same palm. it will be disgusting that you like leather or leashes, but they will put their movie characters in leather and latex. it will be wrong of you to want sexual freedom, but they will mark their success in the number of people they bed.

they will crow that it's inappropriate for children so there will be no lessons on how to properly apply a condom, even to teens. it's teaching them the wrong things. no lessons on the diversity of sexual organ growth, none on how to obtain consent properly, none on how to recognize when you feel unsafe in your body. if you are a teenager, you have probably already been sexualized at some point in your life. you will have seen someone also-your-age who is splashed across a tv screen or a magazine or married to someone three times your age. you will watch people pull their hair into pigtails so they look like you. so that they can be sexy because of youth. one of the most common pornography searches involves newly-18 young women. girls. the words "barely legal," a hiss of glass sand over your skin.

barely legal. there are bills in place that will not allow people to feel safe in their own bodies. there are people working so hard to punish any person for having sex in a way that isn't god-fearing and submissive. heteronormative. the sex has to be at their feet, on your knees, your eyes wet. when was the first time you saw another person crying in pornography and thought - okay but for real. she looks super unhappy. later, when you are unhappy, you will close your eyes and ignore the feeling and act the role you have been taught to keep playing. they will punish the sex workers, remove the places they can practice their trade safely. they will then make casual jokes about how they sexually harass their nanny.

and they love sex but they hate that you're having sex. you need to have their ornamental, perfunctory, dispassionate sex. so you can't kiss your girlfriend in the bible belt because it is gross to have sex with someone of the same gender. so you can't get your tubes tied in new england because you might change your mind. so you can't admit you were sexually assaulted because real men don't get hurt, you should be grateful. you cannot handle your own body, you cannot handle the risks involved, let other people decide that for you. you aren't ready yet.

but they need you to have sex because you need to have kids. at 15, you are old enough to parent. you are not old enough to hear the word fuck too many times on television.

they are horrified by sex and they never stop talking about it, thinking about it, making everything unnecessarily preverted. the saying - a thief thinks everyone steals. they stand up at their podiums and they look out at the crowd and they sign a bill into place that makes sexwork even more unsafe and they stand up and smile and sign a bill that makes gender-affirming care illegal and they get up and they shrug their shoulders and write don't say gay and they get up, and they make the world about sex, but this horrible, plastic vision of it that they have. this wretched, emotionless thing that holds so much weight it's staggering. they put their whole spine behind it and they push and they say it's normal!

this horrible world they live in. disgusted and also obsessed.

#this shifts gender so much bc it actually affects everyone #yes it's a gendered phenomenon. i have written a LOT about how different genders experience it. that's for a different post. #writeblr #ps my comments about seeing someone cry -- this is not to shame any person #and on this blog we support workers. #at the same time it's a really hard experience to see someone that looks like you. clearly in agony. and have them forced to keep going. #when you're young it doesn't necessarily look like acting. it looks scary. and that's what this is about - the fact that teens #have likely already been exposed to that definition of things. because the internet exists #and without the context of healthy education. THAT is the image burned into their minds about what it looks like. #it's also just one of those personal nuanced biases - #at 19 i thought it was normal to be in pain. to cry. to not-like-it. that it should be perfunctory. #it was what i had seen. #and it didn't help that my religious upbringing was like . 'yeah that's what you get for premarital. but also for the reference #we do think you should never actually enjoy it lol' #so like the point im making is that ppl get exposed to that stuff without the context of something more tender #and assume .... 'oh. so it's fine i am not enjoying myself'. and i know they do because I DID. #he was my first boyfriend. how was i supposed to know any different #i didn't even have the mental wherewithal to realize im a lesbian . like THAT used to suffering.

[mysticfemme]

Getting railed to the point I go nonverbal, the only noise I'm making are little whimpered uh uh uh's. They notice and in between rough thrusts gently ask me if I'm doing okay, so I reach my hand up to tap their arm twice. They smile at me in recognition and praise me before pulling my hips into their lap and going even harder.

men dni

#ok yesss I'm fantasising about check ins what about it #it's hotttt #trusting someone and being so bonded with someone that you can just do that #and even through the roughness #there's still that tenderness reaching around and holding you #mysticfemme's post #lesbian nsft #femme nsft #butch nsft #butch daddy #wlw nsft #sapphic nsft

[proxycrit]

(I point. Gently, in the voice of somebody who’s mind touched by the outer gods, i whisper truth in your ears:

Your honor the horses are now lesbians

(Anyways here’s the designs)

#mlp #based off my mlp redesigns (no i will not be taking criticism) #mlp redesign #fluttershy is now a giant jacked carnivorous shire horse with anxiety #rarity is a trans queen and she’s carrying the plot on her back #applejack’s been bequeethed the oldest child syndrome after the traumatic death of her parents and learned to do taxes at the tender age of #13?? how do horses age #and rainbow dash is both loved and reviled by her pegasi foundry because she has ‘too much gryphon in her’ #(but she FAST AS FUC BOI.) #anyways pinky’s my favorite. we don’t know whats up with pinky but she smiles a lot and the world distorts around her at exactly 1014 am. #twilight is celestia’s favored pupil prophet and is trying her best to figure out what the hell is up with pinkie and failing spectacularly #twilight also hatched a dragon from an inert stone and people have opinions about that #mostly ‘what are you feeding her’ #(holds rarity and applejack) i think they’re neat together #they bond over growing up too quickly and have a vi-caitlynn thing goin on #(squints) didnt draw the cute mark crusaders but they’d be like. the batmen of the town. and it was fun and games until twilight heard #and gave them ACTUAL weapons #rarity #applejack #rainbow dash #twilight sparkle #fluttershy #pinkie pie #spike the dragon #I FORGOT SPIKE #spike’s a stone dragon that hatched from a stone egg. he is not meant to exist. he’s an elderitch horror and a baby boy and we love #and cherish his adorable little face #art #critdraws #Rest your Weary Hooves in our New Found Home

[ayakapartx]

shadowheart has the shoujo filter on when shes romanced, laezel hijacked my brain and now shes taking over all the illustrations

I LOVE DRAWING GITHYANKI EARS

#i finished the draft i suppose #shadowheart #lae'zel #laezel #shadowzel #bg3 #GITHYANKI EARS GITHYANKI EARS #tender expressions on shadowheart kills me #she lies about faerunian customs to laezel for cuddles #lae’zel is confused all the time but lets her anyway #some act 2 shenanigans and love-hate kegel excercises for the girls #source of my bruises is so gay #SHES COVERED IN THEM #shadowzel nation rise #ayakapartx

[mod2amaryllis]

despite everything

(happy 8 years undertale)

#it's 8pm 9/15 there's still time i'm still on time #undertale #chara #asriel #m2a #m2art #comic #my art #not your traditional anniversary piece #but you know me #if it's not a comic going hard on one tiny intimate moment i'm not interested lol #have spent all day feeling very tender about ut agh #he put socks on their ears i'm worried that's not obvious

[pirateprincessjess]

One time I walked into a bar and the bartender looked at me and said “Hey! I am ready for more train facts!”

I had never seen this person in my life, but apparently another woman, who also happened to be a transwoman, and who looked a lot like me sat at the bar and told her a bunch of facts about trains.

I really want to meet the train fact lady

#for the record #I do know train facts #and I had to stop and think about if I had info dumped about trains to a bartender #and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t me #especially since the bar tender was also pretty sure that it wasn’t me after she talked to me for like 2 seconds #but man I absolutely would have done that #it was weird

[slavhew]

r/offmychest My girlfriend washed my hair today

#homestuck #hom3stuck #home24ck #dirk strider #jake english #dirkjake #jakedirk #admin draws #fanart #bug collection. working on another thing for them rn too and once again recieving massive poison damage #AACCHVHGJH MY FOOT WENT COMPLETELY NUMB I JUST NOTICED RN #Holy FFUCK #OUGHGH WFHAT anyways. wanyways. #do you ever think about how neither of them have felt tender human touch in ages slash EVER #because i do. a lot. #i forgot to include the message at first so now theres 2 versions of this post out there. salute

[wizardsimper]

There's something about how in Act 3 after Gale has visited the Stormshore Tabernacle, he tells the player (if romanced);

“I would much rather gaze into your eyes than hers. Yours are capable of tenderness, and feeling. No god could ever compare.”

It's worth noting that throughout the game one of Gale's most prominent characteristics is his very expressive eyes, we see it in almost all of his scenes when he looks at the player, in particular his Act 2 and Act 3 romance scene, as well other instances throughout.

But compare that to Gale after he becomes a god, his eyes are no longer the same soulful, emotional eyes as before, but glowing with ambition even if he's trying to express his emotions. He'll never truly look at the player like he once did, even if he still loves them.

#the discussion how gale loses himself to becoming a god has already been talked about #but on a physical level he also loses one of the things that has been a part of him for his whole mortal life #his eyes were once filled with tenderness and feeling too #something gale the god of ambition loses #you know what they say #eyes are the windows into ones soul #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 gale #gale of waterdeep #gale dekarios #god!gale #bg3 meta

[binart]

TOUCHA CHEEK...

#klance #i am thinknig about them being tender with each other lately... ou gh... #vld #vld keith #vld lance #voltron #bina's doodles

[yrsonpurpose]

PAUL MESCAL & ANDREW SCOTT All of Us Strangers (2023) dir. Andrew Haigh

#all of us strangers #aous #paul mescal #andrew scott #aousedit #filmedit #lgbtq #lgbtedit #mine* #aous spoilers #still thinking about it........................... #the softness the tenderness of it all #im not over it :(( #harry is just a baby :'(