I must not qualify my answers with âI might be wrongâ. Qualifying my answers with âI might be wrongâ is the confidence killer. Qualifying my answers is the little time-wasting digression that brings total obliteration of my credibility.
I will face my fear of being wrong in front of my peers that causes me to append that stupid little disclaimer every time I attempt to share my ideas with others to preempt anyone else doing so, like haha donât worry guys I donât trust myself either donât take me seriously itâs not like I think my contribution to this discussion is worth anything either.
I will permit it to pass over and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the to see the path of the conversation. Where âI might be wrongâ would have gone there will be nothing. Only productive exchange of ideas will remain
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Elorianna (@elorianna) :
- Blame It On the Summertime = Rating: Explicit. [Words:3511]
Alex and Miles are touring with their second album during what feels like an endless summer. The release of the record has brought them to a new place in their relationship, and Alex is keen to enjoy every moment of their time together for all that itâs worthâŚ
- In My Wildest Dreams = Rating: Teen And Up Audiences. [Words:9582]
It's a few days before their first ever Shadow Puppets festival gig, and Miles and Alex are having a quiet night in.
Chilling on his bed while Miles plays the guitar, Alex finds himself in a reflective mood, and he begins to quietly ponder the nature of their friendship and the fondness of his feelings for Miles.
But their peaceful companionship is about to be interrupted, and their evening soon takes a turn for the strange after the arrival of two very unexpected guests...
- On the Cusp = Rating: Explicit. [Words:7087]
On a hot summer day during their EYCTE Puppets tour, Miles and Alex find themselves stuck on a tour bus without any air conditioning. As they try to find ways to distract themselves from the heat, the boys end up struggling to maintain their cool in more ways than oneâŚ
- Ain't Got Anything to Lick Without You Baby = Rating: Explicit. [Words: 3,595]
At some point during their usual stage antics, Alex and Miles start playing an innocent game of one-upmanship â but with neither one of them willing to back down, things eventually get a little bit out of handâŚ
- The Mirror's Image = Rating: Mature. [Words: 40,666]
Miles is in a rut. Life in London suddenly seems a whole lot less colourful now that Alex has moved away to LA for good. When Alex invites him over to the States for a summer holiday, Miles jumps at the chance for a reunion and a much needed break. However, across the pond Miles finds his best mate embracing his new identity as a rock star, and he begins to discover that his feelings for Alex are much more complex than heâd previously imaginedâŚ
- I Want You, I Want You So Bad = Rating: Explicit. [Words: 4,862] Alex and Miles find themselves trapped in a lift after a night of heavy drinking. As they wait to be rescued, they struggle to find ways to keep themselves occupied, and events take an unexpected turnâŚ
- The Never Ending Games That You Play = Rating: Explicit. [Words: 3,668]
Alex likes to tease Miles during their live shows with his outrageously flirtatious behaviour. It's a game to see just how far Alex can push his luck before Miles either laughs or becomes embarrassed. But at their Coachella gig his teasing goes a bit too far, and Miles doesn't react in quite the way that Alex expects...
- A Place in Your Heart = Rating: Mature. [Words: 4,092]
During the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, the world has become a different place. Alex finds himself longing for something more familiar, but where in the midst of all this strangeness can he find somewhere that still feels like home?
- Shy of a Spark = Rating: Mature. [Words: 39,986]
The Arctic Monkeys are about to play Glastonbury, their biggest gig yet, and Alex is struggling with stage fright. Fortunately for him, he has Miles to help him feel braver, and with his best friend by his side, surely nothing can go wrong.
Except that now it's the day of the show, Miles is acting strange, and the gig is no longer the only thing giving Alex stage fright. With the hours racing past, will he get his head in the game in time for their headline performance? And will he find a way to be brave, in more ways than one?
- Sometimes I Fantasise About You Too = Rating : Mature. [Words:4031]
The months of lockdown have left Miles sleepless and a bit disorientated. But as it turns out, Alex is feeling somewhat stir crazy too...
-The Great Pretender = Rating : Mature. [Words:3,470]
Alex likes to pretend that it's nothing. But when it comes to him and Miles, some things are difficult to hide...
Gasdancer (@gasdancer) :
- Telephone Line = Rating: Explicit. [Words: 4,118]
After a tumultuous year between them, Alex travels back to LA while Miles is touring across Europe. One night, after a few drinks, Alex decides to make a bold move.
- Bring Your Love Baby, I Could Bring My Shame = Rating: Explicit. [Words: 2,380]
This here, though, Miles' commanding gaze, and Alex's nearly full surrender to it, is reserved for very specific moments, when they're electrified and pumped from a gig, and they've gone past the point of sobriety.
Alex is not sober.
Young Volcanoes =>
- (Part 1) Joie de Vivre = Rating: Explicit. [Words:39020]
"Two young men decamp to rural France to make an album together. It ~is like love."
- (Part 2) The Boy with the Thorn in His Side = Rating: Explicit. [Words:32226] "In a world where music-making frequently seems to resemble just another career choice, theirs is an old-fashioned affection, one based on humour, shared tastes and the fact they can both knock out dozens of tunes in the time it takes most bands to take a toilet break. Watching them finish each other's sentences, agonize over their answers to questions of how well they know each other and embrace when it's time to leave... well, you'd need a heart made of Hoosiers CDs not to find it incredibly sickly sweet."
- (Part 3) Between Two Lungs (WIP) = Rating: Explicit. [Last updated : Words:13352]
"We wrote a couple of tunes together."
"Like friends do?"
"Just like friends do indeed! Some friends..."
WeirdChick333 (@girlinthepictureframe) :
- The Briefest Kiss = Rating: Mature. [Words: 97,251]
This story begins as the EYCTE tour comes to an end. Miles and Alex are closer than ever. But what happens when they get too close? Can they contain their deepest desires? Do they even want to?
- Now We Know = Rating: Mature. [Words: 126,526]The Last Shadow Puppets are in the midst of the EYCTE tour. Things turn complicated when, thanks to some snarky remarks from his Monkeys bandmates, Alex starts to see that his friendship with Miles has slowly turned into something much deeper and scarier. Plenty of sex, jealousy, confusion, humor, and problems in this one...
Last part: Matt takes charge.
- A Trip Into A Dream = Rating: Mature. [Words: 167,353] What if Miles and Alex never hit it off as friends?
What if, after thirteen years of never-ending arguments and fights, they suddenly see each other in a different light?
What if sex gets in the way?
And why must love make things so complicated?
- All About Eggs = Rating: Mature. [Words: 12,423]
It's Miles' birthday and at his party, he and Alex discover a strange gift that one of his mates has made him.
Eggs. Six white eggs in a clear container, to be precise. At least, that's what he and Alex think. Naturally, they are intrigued. Miles googles the eggs. Alex, as always eager to know everything, wants to find out more, too. But, suddenly, Miles is making a big effort to keep the eggs to himself. To the point of not even allowing Alex to look at them!
Alex makes it his mission to figure out the curious case of the eggs. And Miles? He enjoys an egg. And an egg. And an egg...
- Forever Young = Rating: Mature. [Words: 189,045]
It started out innocently enough all those years ago, in the summer of 2002. Miles was the new kid in school and Alex was teen royalty. They became friends. Best friends. They shared everything. Until, in November 2003, Miles ran away and never said goodbye.
Fourteen years later, Alex is still angry. He wouldn't mind staying that way, either. But fate and Matt Helders decide to get involved.
Drawing in a shaky breath, Milesâ lips twitched into the saddest smile Alex had ever seen. âThe kind of dreams you made me dream, you donât dream âem at seventeen."
- Roommates = Rating: Mature. [Words:155,754]Cosmic events or dumb decision-making, depending on viewpoints, lead to Alex being homeless. He turns to Miles, a former one-night stand turned frenemy, for help and finds himself a new room to stay in. Alex thinks it's the ideal solution, much to Miles'
frustration. Having Alex stay at his heavenly peaceful apartment not only brings with it a constant battle of wits, but it also impacts his dating life in the worst ways...
- Hotel Room = Rating: Mature. [Words: 7,494]
Alex and Miles end up stuck in a hotel room forced to share a bed. There's some back and forth, it's funny, not much plot. Stuff happens. Of course it does. It's milex.
- A Room For Two (WIP) = Rating : Mature. [Last updated : Words:100,837]
Four weeks ago, Alex Turner's life had been perfect. Heâd been a successful singer, had just come back from the first half of a madly profitable world tour, in his pocket heâd carried a hefty diamond engagement ring, and the course for the rest of his life had seemed set.
Now, he was a drunk fuck at a wedding he couldnât get out of, shedding the confetti remains of his torn heart out to some guy he scarcely knew safe for a few random words over the years, and to top off this multi-tiered wedding cake of catastrophic events, a few feet away sat his ex-girlfriend kissing her new boyfriend, making a show of it.
Being a sensible person was not something that could be expected of him at the moment. Instead, Alex took one giant step further toward insanity. âBe my fake boyfriend.â
"You're nuts," judged Miles Kane.
- The Truth = Rating : Teen And Up Audiences. [Words: 6944]
To Alex, the occasional lie means as much as a mouthful of fresh oxygen or a good cigarette.
Suddenly, he's stuck telling the truth. And Miles spots a chance.
TightRedPants (@tightredpants) :
-The Foro Sol Incident = Rating : Mature. [Words:2543]
After months of being separated, Alex finally decides it's time to face the music and see Miles. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned for him.
- A Million Kisses = Rating : Teen And Up Audiences. [Words: 620]
Alex loves Miles' kisses.
- Love Came in a Bottle With a Twist-Off Cap = Rating: General Audiences. [Words: 422]
Alex decides he likes rainy days after all.
- This Once, And Then We Can Forget = Rating : Mature. [Words: 1,067]
Pick me up and set me down gently, Iâm too fragile.
- Daily Routine = Rating: General Audiences.[Words: 1,535]
Five times Alex was reminded of how much he loves Miles.
- Soft Sights = Rating: Explicit. [Words: 973]
An intimate moment.
- Iâd Have You Anytime = Rating: Explicit. [Words: 700]
Miles comes home to a delightful little surprise.
RichieBrook (@richiebrook) :
- See Ya When I See Ya = Rating: Teen And Up Audiences. [Words:3244]
Lots of affection and a goodbye (for now?).
- The Sun Machine is Coming Down = Rating: Mature. [Words:1814]
Ăyafestivalen 2016. Miles and Alex are on stage together. Alex decides that he really needs a cuddle right when Miles starts playing a guitar solo. Miles is more than happy to indulge him, because who needs personal space, anyway?
- The Galaxyâs Edge = Rating: Mature. [Words:37127]
Alex hasnât been feeling like himself. He's used to it â tour life usually makes him feel a bit out of it, as if he were drifting in space - but it does put a strain on his relationship with the rest of the band and his girlfriend Taylor. Miles, his best friend turned lover, calls him up twice a week to make sure he doesn't drift too far. Their biweekly ritual helps Alex. The same can't be said for Taylor, who is perfectly aware of what Miles really is to her boyfriend. And so the Monkeys tour continues, Alex drifts and Miles anchors. But is it really drifting if you know exactly where you need to be?
- Mardy Bum = Rating: General Audiences. [Words:2455]
Whenever Alex gets broken up with, he drags himself to Miles's place for a good sulking session and even better sex. However, this time Miles isn't having any of it.(Or: Alex and Miles are idiots.)
-Why Colour in the Lines = Rating: Teen And Up Audiences. [Words:5365]
Miles isn't great at transitioning from tour life to home life. Alex has turned up at his new flat to make the transition go a bit smoother. They both really want to think that he's helping.
- A Last Shadow Snippet = Rating: Explicit. [Words:2662]
Miles and Alex are on tour
together.
They get up to things in Alex' hotel room. Miles reflects. Also, they enjoy themselves, because of course they do.
- Amsterdam = Rating: Explicit. [Words:3916]
This is the first story in a new series Iâve been working on about what I'd imagine Milex would be like together in their daily lives. This one is set during the first night of Milesâ European tour, after Miles overhears a group of people in the audience singing âWhere the fuck is Alex Turner?â as soon as he leaves the stage. Needless to say, itâs not the big opening night Miles had hoped for. Feeling like he's lost control of his own tour, he calls Alex up, fully intending to blame him for everything. Luckily, Alex knows just how to prove to him that he's still very much in control after all.
- Still Afloat = Rating: Explicit. [Words:15742]âWeâll be all over the internet within a few minutes if you keep doing that,â Miles warns him, and Alex shrugs.
âLike old times, then,â he says. âI can handle it. Can you?â
Fiireside (@fiireside) :
- Time in a bottle = Rating: Mature. [Words:21230]
The story of Alex and Milesâ relationship, told through the myriad of ways to say âI love youâ without using such words
-Saturn's Return = Rating: Mature. [Words:20503]
His heart is racing at the thought of seeing Miles. The last time they saw each other was in August, when Alex had broken up with his last placeholder girlfriend and moved his life back to London. Miles had come to help set up his musical gear, they had chatted for a while about nothing particularly significant, and that was it. Miles didnât spend the night, he didnât ask Alex about the breakup any more than he was obligated to. He certainly did not kiss Alex or make any sort of move that Alex so desperately wanted him to. They had sat a noticeable distance apart on Alexâs settee as they watched whatever TV show Miles was into at the time, and all Alex wanted was for things to be back the way they were. But he knew it was unfair of him to want Miles to make that happen when he was the one who burned the bridge.
- Never ending spiral = Rating: Teen And Up Audiences. [Words:1355]
A brief glimpse into what may or may not have happened after this video was taken.
- Glass-bottomed ego = Rating: Explicit. [Words:3515]
âFuck you, Alex,â Miles says sharply. Alexâs head flies up, shocked at the sudden coldness of his words and tone. âYou donât get to be jealous like this. Youâre the one in a fucking relationship. You donât get to throw a fit if and when I want to snog a stranger in a bar.â
England-is-mine (@england-is-mine) :
- Cosa e' questo? = Rating: Explicit. [Words: 2,681]
When Alex and Miles wrap up their Miracle Aligner shoot, a romantic night ensues.
- Save It for the Morning After = Rating: Explicit. [Words: 1,162]
Miles returns after weeks on the road, leaving a sleepy and aroused Alex waiting for him.
- Cleveland = Rating: Explicit. [Words:2219]
The boys get more than frisky when Alex starts grinding into Milesâ thigh in Cleveland, Ohio.LaNaturalBreezeOf_Books (@lanatural-books) :- Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard = Rating: Explicit. [Words: 18,414]Miles falls in love with a new band and Alex hates it.
He is not, definitely not, amused nor terribly fond of it all.
Youâre a bird and itâs summer.Shethatscarlos :
- Before It's Midnight = Rating: Teen And Up Audiences. [Words:409]
Alex gets really drunk and Miles takes care of him.
Sickpuppyinexile :
- My Love Is Standing Next To You = Rating: Explicit. [Word s:13906]Alex and Miles has always been more than friends but Alex always did his best to keep his feelings under control until one night Miles decided to challenge Alexâs willpowerâŚ
- Your Body Is My Canvas = Rating: Mature. [Words:3763]
Alex and Miles get drunk and wake up naked in the same bed. With a Sharpie.
- I'll Keep You Warm = Rating: Teen And Up Audiences. [Words:3950]
Young Alex and Miles go to Paris for a weekend. Unfortunately, the heating at the hotel is out of order and Miles has to find a way to keep Alex warm.
- Cupcakes On a Rainy Day = Rating Explicit. [Words:3466]
Miles is
busy with cupcakes but Alex has something else in mind
Alexgoeshome (@alexxturner-me-on) :
-The Skeletons In Your Closet = Not Rated. [Words:3,565]
Miles comes to visit Alex just like every other weekend, but their day quickly turns into a mystery that will have them embark on a wild goose chase...
-The Sun and His Kind = Not Rated. [Words:5,529]
Alex had been lingering all week: on thoughts, on the music, on making this second puppets album, on Miles. He couldnât stop himself. Not that he could if he even tried. Miles was like an epiphany; once there, everything started to make more sense. Especially when they wrote together. All the words Alex ever wanted to say, Miles pulled out of him. It was incredible, and scary, just how entwined they really were.
Alexturne (@alexturne) :
- Pinned down by the dark = Rating Explicit. [Words:10,211]
He knows exactly whatâs going on on the other side of that door. The thought sends a shiver up his spine. And he knows who it is as well. He'd recognise that voice anywhere. Someone's in there alright! It's Al, for fucks sake.
Miles hears a soft moan through the door. And he takes a step back from the door, wondering if perhaps he shouldnât be listening in on his best mate pleasuring himself in the middle of the night.
3 times Miles hears Alex in the middle of the night and 1 time he does something about it.
- You're so pretty and i'm so shy = Rating Explicit. [Words:14,563]
âFine, if youâre so shy then why donât you write him a note? Like in the films, write your number on a slip of paper, give it to him or slip it into his pocket or summat.â
âThat might work!â
âI was kidding Alex!â
AventuriereSideral :
- Sleeping = Rating: General Audiences. [Words:1659]
The French countryside gets really warm in summer, making music is really tiring, and it's absolutely possible to sing in your sleep.
Sunche :
- One Of Those Nights = Rating: Teen And Up Audiences. [Words:4732]
Those nights, they're nights for talking, for listening to every single record there is, for drinking all the weird feelings away even though drinking makes the weird feelings increase, for watching and for long looksââ longing looks none of them would want to call out. Longing looks from one pair of doe eyes to another.
Those nights rarely ever happen in public. They start in public, just like this one, and that's before they realise that tonight will end up as one of Those nights.
Dontcareajot :
- Cigarette Kiss = Rating: Explicit. [Words:26252]
It all starts in Paris. Miles starts to notice some things about his supposedly platonic friend Alex- some things he probably shouldn't be noticing, especially since Alex has Alexa waiting on him back home. Unfortunately Miles has never been very good at impulse control, Alex doesn't do anything to deter him, and their relationship quickly becomes less than platonic, leaving them to figure out what exactly they mean to each other, and what exactly will happen when it's time to leave Paris.
IDontGiveA :
- Little Mister Sweet Dreams = Rating: Explicit. [Words:2932]
To him, Miles was what dreams consisted of.
Lunarcat :
- 4 Times Alex and Miles Were Mistaken for a Couple and The One Time They Weren't = Not Rated. [Words:1604]
Betweenthings2 :
- Alexander the Great = Not Rated. [Words:2,620]
What is Alex if not great?ChloeCeres :
- Let's Get Down To Business = Rating Explicit. [Words:848]
A late night and a comfortable bed, what could happen?
Horrormoviesshoes (@horrormoviesshoes) :
-What Goes Around, Comes Around = Rating Explicit. [Words:2263]
The story behind The Last Shadow Puppet's Coachella backstage photo.
Yellowloid :
-Terra Incognita = Rating Explicit [Words:16,266]
His fear of thunderstorms is something Alex has managed to keep a secret for most of his life. Nobody knows except his parents, and heâs determined to keep it that way. Except now heâs stuck in his apartment with Miles, the world outside is being shaken by a raging downpour, and maybe his fear isnât the only thing thatâs becoming difficult to hide.
Or
They comfort each other in unconventional ways.
GloriousBlackout (@glorious-blackout) :
-This Is Going To Hurt = Rating: Teen And Up Audiences. [Words:28,841]
Today is supposed to be a good day for Alex. He's caught up in the midst of an incredible Puppets tour, he's all set to play a mind-blowing gig in a new city and - best of all - he even finds himself waking in the comfort of Miles's arms.
Unfortunately he also wakes with what feels like the most horrendous hangover of his life, and somehow his day only gets worse from there.
Thank you so much to you, wonderful milex fanfic writers đđ
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According to Hegelâs elliptical account of the transition to absolute knowing,
spirit has risen phoenix-like from the ashes of figurative thought and
language: the final achievement of rationality is to pronounce the funeral
oration for religious-aesthetic Vorstellung. This is Hegelâs version of Christian
sacramental theology. Spirit performs the last rites over the corpse of poetry
by translating finite bodyâlanguage in its most recalcitrant, carnal particularity
infinite spirit: the worldly object is relinquished in being introjected,
abbreviated, âdigested.â Psychoanalytically, we can regard this as a
work of mourning. This contrasts with the melancholic approach to loss: in
this case, the living corpse is cannibalistically taken up within the fractured
vault of the self, where it forms an indigestible pocket of internal extimacy
and imposes a limit to symbolization. In refusing the substitutive work of
language, the melancholic not only maintains the lost object in hallucinatory
persistence but congeals language itself into a corpselike thing: words and
even the diacritical absence punctuating these become magical fetish objects,
stripped of symbolic efficacy, no longer substitutes for the thing but perversely
identified with it as they hover in the mouth as frozen, inassimilable
remainders. [...]
Rebecca Comay, The DashâThe Other Side of Absolute Knowing, MIT, 2018, p 70Â
Hc there are a multitude of art pieces laying around, floating in between notebooks and canvases that you consider unfinished or not good enough EVEN THOUGH GUARANTEE THEY ARE PERFECT please unleash the graveyard of Ace art
They are perfect like you, don't need anything else
Give us the TMNT art or else đŤ
MuahaHahahahahahaha there is so much lying around here, you never should have asked!!! I will spam you with stuff
... Nah, just a few. The newest unfinished piece would be this. I half-assed it and then didn't wanna put the work in to finish it. Tigers are hard
Same with this one. Tried charcoal after a long time of not doing any charcoal and was annoyed with how much I forgot...
These are not exactly unfinished but just stuff I did while watching TV so minimal effort
And TMNT? oh there will definitely be fanart for the movie in the near future. These aren't new, I have uploaded them before but that was ages ago so here you go again. Just screencap redraws
AND STOP BEING SO ADORABLE AND NICE OMG! MORE OF THIS AND IT WILL GET TO MY HEAD AND IT WILL EXPLODE!!!! đđđđđđđđđđđđđđ
Desire is human - or, more exactly, "humanizingâ
For self-consciousness to exit, for philosophy to exist, there must
be transcendence of self with respect to self as given. And this is possible,
according to Hegel, only if desire is directed not toward a given being,
but toward a nonbeing. To desire being is to fill oneself with this given
being, to enslave oneself to it. To desire nonbeing is to liberate oneself
from being, to realize one's autonomy, one's freedom. To be anthropogenetic,
then, desire must he directed toward a nonbeing-that is, toward
another desire, another greedy emptiness, another I. For desire is absence
of being (to be hungry is to be deprived of food); it is a nothingness that
nihilates in being, and not a being that is. In other words, action that
is destined to satisfy an animal desire, which is directed toward a given,
existing thing, never succeeds in realizing a human, self-conscious I.
Desire is human - or, more exactly, "humanizing:' "anthropogenetic''Â
only provided that it is directed toward an other desire and an other desire.
To be human, man must act not for the sake of subjugating a thing, but
for the sake of subjugating another desire (for the thing). The man who
desires a thing humanly acts not so much to possess the thing as to make
another recognize his right - as will be said later - to that thing, to make
another recognize him as the owner of the thing. And he does this - in
the final analysis - in order to make the other recognize his superiority
over the other. It is only desire of such a recognition (Anerkennung), it
is only action that flows from, such a desire, that creates, realizes, and reveals a human, nonbiological I. [...]
Alexandre Kojeve, Desire and Work in the Master and SlaveÂ
Hegel's Dialectic of Desire and Recognition: Texts and Commentary