stay helpless

Jellyfish, Bermuda Life on Earth, David Attenborough 1979

life if comes fucks me

[text ID: The dead are for morticians & butchers to touch. Only a gloved hand. Even my son will leave a grounded wren or bat alone like a hot stove. When he spots a monarch in the driveway he stares. It’s dead, I say, you can touch it. The opposite rule: butterflies are too fragile to hold alive, just the brush of skin could rip a wing. He skims the orange & black whorls with only two fingers, the way he learned to feel the backs of starfish & horseshoe crabs at the zoo, the way he thinks we touch all strangers. I was sad to be born, he tells me, because it means I will die. I once loved someone I never touched. We played records & drank coffee from chipped bowls, but didn’t speak of the days pierced by radiation. A friend said: Let her pretend. She needs one person who doesn’t know. If I held her, I would have left bruises, if I undressed her, I would have seen scars, so we never touched & she never had to say she was dying. We should hold each other more while we are still alive, even if it hurts. People really die of loneliness, skin hunger the doctors call it. In a study on love, baby monkeys were given a choice between a wire mother with milk & a wool mother with none. Like them, I would choose to starve & hold the soft body.]

FREDDIE FOX as Ser Gwayne Hightower HOUSE OF THE DRAGON | Season 3

山河剑心 || Shan He Jian Xin

sorry, prev, your tags are too true to be silenced

and kid me went "huh, that's awfully intimate. theyre definitely SOME sort of great friends." I am honestly pretty ashamed to admit i only realized they actually wore normal clothes under their dressing gowns when i started searching for Sherlock Holmes fanart and saw people drawing it. oops.

I haven't seen anyone gif my favorite moment of the finale yet, which is Baipor toasting with the lamp lol

Musée des Arts Décoratifs

(Reminder that anklets would not fit over the generally high-top boots back then, or even stockings with low evening pumps, and would seldom be visible under long skirts anyway. So this gift has an erotic component inherently- it only works, given late Belle Epoque clothing, if worn when nude or scantily clad)

Tom and Patricia Widow's Bay, Season 1 (2026)

I translated the Ea-Nasir complaint into vulcan and engraved it in on a cooper plate

jealous

ANAKIN SKYWALKER and THAT look of his in Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith