no more words now

Paul Butler, “Untitled (Two with Puck – Red)” - Collage, 2018  / Detail from Kazuo Nakamura, Suspended Landscape, 1967 / Heated Rivalry 1x01 / Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man / Detail from Kazuo Nakamura, Suspended Landscape, 1967/ Heated Rivalry 1x04 / David Hannan, Falling from Grace, 2024 / Paul Butler, “Untitled (Two with Puck – Blue)” / Detail from LEE U-Fan, From Line (1976) / Rebecca Bellmore, At Pelican Falls/ Heated Rivalry 1x02 / Heated Rivalry 1x01 / Sally Prasch, Neon Series / Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds / Robert Matta, Bleuêtre, 1993 / Heated Rivalry 1x04 / Kazuo Nakamura, Blue Reflections, B.C., 1964 / Heated Rivalry 1x02 / Sally Prasch, Shattered Shell / Heated Rivalry 1x02 / Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House / Heated Rivalry 1x02 / Kazuo Nakamura; Blue Morning / Detail from Rebecca Bellmore, At Pelican Falls/ Jennifer Walton, Frozen Lake Series / Heated Rivalry 1x04 / John Steinbach, East of Eden / Koichi Nabatame, Morning Mountain Range

HOLLANOV + PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005)

#happypridemonth

Jacob Tierney on It's Open With Ilana Glazer

HEATED RIVALRY 1.04 — Rose

HUDCON + THE LANGUAGE OF INTIMACY // hudson and connor slowly pick up on each other's mannerisms and language // quinn // golden globes // familiarity creates a new language // "i can't even see you with all the cameras flashing" // a relationship is about inventing your own language // the laughs and inside jokes // we had our own language // sex sells // they just created a whole language for it

Because with alarming accuracy she’d been identifying patterns I was unaware of—this tic, that tendency, like the way I’ve mastered the language of intimacy in order to conceal how I felt— I knew I was in danger of being terribly understood.

And how even touch itself cannot mean the same to both of us, even in this small country of our bed, even in this language with only two native speakers.

Heated Rivalry Week 2026 | Day 3: Favorite Kiss | I can smell the cigarettes from here. I had one. You shouldn’t be smoking. And you shouldn’t be talking.

suck his tongue friday

'sex scenes are gratuitous' mmhm please enjoy these complete character/narrative arcs composed exclusively of sex scenes

How did you work out the dom/sub dynamic of your characters? Sometimes sexually people seek out the opposite of the energy that they want in their real life.

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I just love that it's the handshake that breaks him

Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980