Ardent Intrigue

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

[weltenwellen]

Ellen Bass, “The Thing Is”, Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems

[vinegarss]

captchas are getting way too hard man I can't do this

[lakevida]

i went to navy pier as a child and clowns took my father away and built a table out of him with three other dads and i always thought this was some unpleasant and vivid dream and i mentioned it to my mom one day a couple years ago and she was like Yaa when we went to chicago they made him do chair tricks with other men

they did this to him

[what-even-is-thiss]

A lot of “realistic” facial expressions in video games look weird because irl everybody’s top eyelid almost always covers the top part of their iris. If you can see the whites of someone’s eyes above their iris they’re either doing that on purpose or there’s a problem with their eye that they need to get checked out.

In a lot of modern video games I’ve noticed that characters open their eyes wide even when their eyes are following you around. Like boy why are you showing off the upper whites of your eyes so much that’s obscene.

[neerathestar]

The beauty of Will’s and Hannibal’s relationship has me in chokehold. Yes they are toxic, there is no word in the english language to describe just how toxic they are, even. And yet they are so sensual, so intertwined with one another that you can’t say what was Will or Hannibal, and what is the part the other carefully stitched into the other. They were not soulmates, they tied that red string around their necks themselves, knowing it will choke both of them. Their love is beautiful, despite it’s teeth because its raw and authentic and all consuming. They were not perfect for each other, so they made themselves fit into the other. Either by choice or by force. They were quite literally each other’s design.

[rocktheholygrail]

Hannibal (2013-2015)

1x07 - “Sorbet”

[cracked-actor-r4t]

Hey, hey hey. Anyone up to gently bathing the blood off of my sore, bleeding knuckles after I just killed a man who had a whole ass furry suit made out of Frankenstein-ed prehistoric mammals with my bare hands as I straddled him imagining it was you. And whilst you are bandaging my said bloodied knuckles with gauze, you say "Stay with me." To which I reassure you "Where else would I go?" Dw, dw, it won't seem gay

[5555ilenthill]

[urie]

americans are sooo desensitized to guns and sometimes it manifests in ways that affect your media literacy. like remember in the first episode of sherlock when john watson opens up his drawer and you see a gun in there and youre supposed to understand that this is narratively significant and conveys his suicidality as well as his willingness to skirt rules and laws but the first time i watched it i was like oh well theres his desk gun. lots of people have those

[intoxicatedincubus]

Now I understand why Mads said he would put Hugh in his pocket, he literally could 😭

[patchouii]

It’s just so funny to me that like. All the other iterations of Hannibal are only too happy to be cold bastards who want to mess with Will Graham like a mouse in a lab maze at most. But tv Hannibal wanted someone to match his freak almost pathetically badly. And tv Will just happened to match his freak in a way that was lethal to the general public 💀

[sloppystyle]

[depsidase]

[tristealven]

“When people ask me what Emily Dickinson poems are about, I want to run away and hide, simply because for me, some poems are not about the ‘about’. They are metaphysical spells that you hold close and don’t really want to elaborate on. They help you to go on when you have nothing else left to go on with, the kind of poems you remember even when you don’t want to remember them.”

— Ilya Kaminsky, before reading ‘hope is the thing with feathers’ (via juliens-bakery)

[lynnluan]

Hannibal finale is the most insanely beautiful cinematic 5 min i've ever seen.. breaking hannibal from jail, escaping together, acting as if they were on a date, the music, killing together, looking into eachother's eyes while taking a bite out of the guy's neck and opening his stomach while his guts fall on them, looking into eachother's lips while shaking and dizzy from blood loss, hugging eachother and falling into the ocean to die together?? It doesn't get better than this.

[sadclowncentral]

so many misguided metaphors around violence and desire. if the open maw of a panting beast fills you with the want to be devoured, that does not make you prey. while the rabbit trembles in fear, its deepest desire is to run. evolution demands it. in fact, the desire to be eaten does not make you any small animal at all.

it makes you a fruit.

[patchouii]

[theoptia]

Hermann Hesse, from Reflections