ryan nicks

dirt cup with gummy worms

[weighty-ghosts]

“I wasn’t sure it was normal or even healthy to be so completely wrapped up in another person— now I know it was neither— but I also couldn’t stop it, not least because it would mean a return to that feeling of before. For good or bad, I was tied, soul bound, to Caspien. It was terrifying and electrifying all at once. I was alive and in love, and the future we could have— that I would convince him we could have— stretched out before me, endless and shimmering.”

—Oleander, by Scarlett Drake

Oleander is a modern MM retelling of Great Expectations, and let me tell you— this book is a masterpiece. It’s a heart wrenching, emotional, painful, lovely, beautiful journey.

Jude and Caspien are made for each other, but that doesn’t mean they’re good for each other. They meet when they’re only 15 and spend the rest of their youth and journey into adulthood colliding together and breaking apart. Jude’s love for Cas is all-consuming, it’s strong and monumental, and Cas has no idea what to do with something so precious, something he was taught is painful and useless.

Their happy ending is hard-won but no one deserves it more than they do 🥺 You just have to read it to understand!!

[vaskianvixen]

Devon and Maddox

Part 1/? of queer romance novel aesthetics: Garron Park by Nordika Night

[ace-artemis-fanartist]

Travis and Jacob from Crash Test by Amy James.

Read this back in July and it made me very emotional, then this month I was in Singapore when F1 was going on there (not planned, I know nothing about F1), and it made me miss these two!

[zaharatide]

Wait the fuck up! Wait the fuck up!!

Are you telling me Rachel Reid had a standalone book named the shots you take, that's basically if Shane and Ilya played in the same team and had broken up, and Shane had married Rose?!?

And then when they are in their 30/40s and retired and divorced, they meet again?!

And there is a hospital scene?! And saying ILY and the other panics and gets a girlfriend? And one has depression? And so much yearning?

And they say things like this?!

Fuck!

[lovelandfrogmansupporter]

NHL Commissioner in The Long Game tbh :/

[amjjey]

Ilya Rozanov after the gossip news about Shane and Rose, poor Ilya

[bubblepenz]

I love seeing Ilya down so bad for Shane. 🫣

[geonbaeeeesblog]

what should’ve happened in the hotel gym 💘

[lukosei]

Just another goddamn thing for you to hold over me

[akmu]

[shaneshollanders]

[notpedropascal]

CONNOR STORRIE, HUDSON WILLIAMS Heated Rivalry behind the scenes

[c-leadraw]

Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid

[anasabdin]

Melancholy

[uredrunk]

[regardlessicarusflew]

Always “I love you” and never

[shakespearesdaughters]

“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.” ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

[kardamonich]

📖☕