stories from the city, stories from the sea

on hiatus.

[girlfictions]

Mary Oliver, Moments

[lousolversons]

Sydney Adamu and Richie Jerimovich in Season 4 of THE BEAR

[gyrovagi]

just love an unclassifiable weird intense relationship. what are they to each other well they're two of them. what are their feelings towards each other they're strong ones for sure. and of course this can only be improved when one or both of them are in happy committed romantic/sexual relationships with someone else entirely, and then there's whatever the fuck these two have going on.

[sarawaybourne]

She's just a silly little guy

[didanagy]

EMMA (2020)

dir. autumn de wilde

[hamletthedane]

Fun fact: this scene is a direct reference to a pretty common joke in Regency-era erotic cartoons:

Historically, English women did not wear any version of underwear under their dresses until the very late 1800s (unless they were menstruating). When dresses slimmed way down during the Regency era's neoclassical movement, skirts became much easier to fully lift - apparently leading to many women warming their bare skin in this way.

It was a common enough practice that there was even a suggestive slang term for it, as others have pointed out:

[percussiveadventure]

Nice to know these gentlemen were eating ass

[lasmarginatura]

sometimes I want to come back to tumblr but I fear I have nothing to say... I don't know what to post about any more, I haven't been reading much and certainly not with any level of the crazy invesment that drives one to post incessantly about it... idk! but occasionally I miss being here and going insane over fictional characters

[lameventanas]

[smute]

Virginia Woolf, The Waves

[dailyclassicart]

Frederick Judd Waugh - "Ebbing Waters"

[sarawaybourne]

The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt

[terrorignitis]

Juansen Dizon, i am the architect of my own destruction

[lilalenus]

The Story Of A New Name, Elena Ferrante

[epifaniacintilante]

Do you think there's something wrong with me?

Raffaella Cerullo and Otherness

My Brilliant Friend (2018-2024) // Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave, Those Who Stay // Barbara Creed, The Monstrous Feminine

[kosmogrl]

sundays rule number 1: DON'T THINK ABOUT YOUR LIFE

[lookforher]

[huariqueje]

The Reunion - Jess Allen , 2023.

British , b. 1966 -

Oil on canvas , 18 x 24 cm. 7.1 x 9.4 in.

[retrotech]