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DINNER IN AMERICA Dir. Adam Rehmeier | 2020

Strange Darling (2023) dir. JT Mollner

This is the most passionate first kiss I’ve ever seen in a movie or anything. HE BIT HER LIP, LIKE WHAT. THE WAY SHE GOES BACK IN. THE WAY HES LOOKING AT HER LIPS. BRUH

hvitserk + text posts // part II

hvitserk + text posts // part I

rest stops on highways

trails by the highway just out of earshot of traffic

schools during breaks

those little beaches right next to ferry docks

your friends living room once everybody but you is asleep

the lighting section of home depot

A lot of these places are called liminal spaces - which means they are throughways from one space to the next. Places like rest stops, stairwells, trains, parking lots, waiting rooms, airports feel weird when you’re in them because their existence is not about themselves, but the things before and after them. They have no definitive place outside of their relationship to the spaces you are coming from and going to. Reality feels altered here because we’re not really supposed to be in them for a long time for think about them as their own entities, and when we do they seem odd and out of place.

The other spaces feel weird because our brains are hard-wired for context - we like things to belong to a certain place and time and when we experience those things outside of the context our brains have developed for them, our brains are like NOPE SHIT THIS ISN’T RIGHT GET OUT ABORT ABORT. Schools not in session, empty museums, being awake when other people are asleep - all these things and spaces feel weird because our brain is like “I already have a context for this space and this is not it so it must be dangerous.” Our rational understanding can sometimes override that immediate “danger” impulse but we’re still left with a feeling of wariness and unease. 

The purest form of human connection.

tiny hands in big hands

calloused hands in soft hands

cold hands in warm hands

hands with the perfect ratio to each other for hand-holding

platonic hand-holding

running their thumb over the other’s hand

dancing with their hands holding onto each other

squeezing hand for comfort and encouragement

holding hands across the table

happily doing everything with just one hand, if it means they don’t have to let go

not wanting to lose each other in a big crowd

possessive hand-holding

linking hands together during sex

grabbing hand to show them something

loosely holding onto each other’s hands, laying in one’s lap

only linking the pinkies together, not ready to let go completely

holding hands while skating

excitedly grabbing each other’s hands during a concert, jumping up and down together

playing with each other’s fingers

pressing the other’s hand against their cheek

holding hands while one is balancing on a small wall

grabbing the other’s hand to pull them back from something

holding hands under the table

only realizing it when they have to let go

standing in front of each other, holding both their hands

holding their hands above their head, fingers linked together

passionate hand-holding

grabbing the other’s hand so they don’t fall

holding hands while running through the rain

brushing against each other, linking fingers together for a second

grabbing their hand to grab their attention

not really paying attention, both doing something else, but still holding hands

bandaging the other’s hand and not quite letting go

holding hands while driving

grabbing the other’s hand to pull them back to them

unconsciously searching out each other’s hand while sleeping

not realizing they’re holding hands till someone points it out

swinging hands back and forth, skipping like children

holding hands in a museum to pull them to the next exhibition

letting go when there is an obstacle in their way and immediately grabbing each other’s hand again when they pass it

loosely holding onto each other’s hand

dragging the other with them, holding their hand

raising the other’s hand to their lips to kiss it softly

holding hands while jumping down from somewhere together

comparing hand sizes, then linking fingers together

THE INVITATION (2022) dir. Jessica M. Thompson

Bonus:

THE INVITATION (2022) dir. Jessica M. Thompson

Bonus:

THOMAS DOHERTY as WALTER DEVILLE || The Invitation (2022)

(for @madamewriterofwrongs) 

[Image ID: six gifs of Thomas Doherty as Walter DeVille in The Invitation from the scene where Evie meets Walter for the first time. He is dressed in a white shirt with multiple buttons undone.:

GIF 1: Walter walking up to where Evie’s dressing down the butler for being rude. His hands are jammed in his pockets.

GIF 2: Walter smiling at Evie before turning his head to dismiss the butler.

GIF 3: A closeup shot of Walter realizing who Evie must be, mirth filling his smooth expression.

GIF 4: A closeup shot of Walter wrinkling his nose in amusement as he tells Evie that she can just call him Walt.

GIF 5: A closeup shot of Walter’s expression creasing with amusement as he drawls out “hi” in response to Evie’s greeting.

GIF 6: Walter standing with his hands jammed in his pockets, telling Evie that he hopes she’ll enjoy her time at his manor.