#lost touch

[browneyesandhair]

Incorrect Bridgerton Quotes Colin: No, that’s not it. It’s like there’s an itch in my brain and you scratch it to provide relief. Penelope: An itch? What an interesting turn of phrase - I’m not sure that I should be trusted with the role of scratching your brain. Colin: It’s just something about you. I feel comfortable in your presence. It’s as though I’ve known you for years. Would you be open to me calling on you tomorrow?

Insp: SS

[poisindonottouch]

Queer Reads: Eliot Grayson

For rec 15, we have more werewolves! And also a very salty were-bobcat. 

First off, I love Eliot Grayson. Seriously. I have devoured everything she’s written, and she’s written a lot. Featured in the little graphic are the Mismatched Mates books, of which there are 10 total books. The first three follow the Armitage Pack, then we get vampires (First Blood), and werewolf academics (The Werewolf Experiment), and then we get into darker waters, following some characters who have escaped from a lab run by evil warlocks doing nasty magical experiments on people (Lost and Bound and Lost Touch). And then we finish up with two very different brothers from the Castelli pack, with another vampire book thrown in there.

I should say, these books deal with alpha weres, the most common of which are alpha werewolves, but this is not omegaverse. There's no mpreg, and no omegas in these books, though there is lots of knotting, and if you need to google that, uh, I'd recommend you don't.

Grayson is currently working on another series, The Twilight Mages, set in a fantasy world where magic is a gift from the gods, unless you’re born at dawn or dusk, when the magic is far more of a curse than a gift. I read a review about these books that called them indescribably horny, and that’s very accurate. There is a plot, but it is 100% centered around banging. Luckily, all this horniness is surrounded by feisty characters, laugh-out-loud banter, and spicy chemistry resulting in well-earned HEAs. 

Grayson’s writing has been described as having too much graphic sex, so if you like your romantasy to be heavier on the plot than the porn, Grayson is probably not for you. But if you like any excuse for sex as a plot device, check her out. 

[tomsmusictaste]

Broadside // Come & Go

We Were Sharks // Hotel Beds

Yellowcard // Hang You Up

[macrolit]

I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be.

Joan Didion (1934-2021)

[clunge]

We Were Sharks - Stay

[lunarexile]

*heavy sigh*

[lastwordpodcast]

It's been three whole years of me thinking about you every day, sometimes for hours,sometimes in passing. Saw you from the bottom of the staircase, stood out for hours as you complained, about how you haven't seen your friends yet, that you're too drunk to stand and you not knowing if you can love him forever. Bullshit. You fucking miss me. There I said it, I guess I'll talk to you in a few months. sitting drunk on the sidewalk, I guess I'll get up, I guess I'll go for a walk. Press my shoes against the pavement, I swear this has got to be the hundredth time I've thought of you tonight.

[mysticrosepoetry]

This fragile string

connecting my heart to yours

I fear is vanishing

right before my eyes

one moment

you were brand new

eyes wide to the world

hand in mine

ever so small and gentle

now I can’t even remember

the color of your eyes

I can’t even know

the size of your hands

or how big your heart is

now there’s just

a faded blue

where you used to be

unwashed memories of

sibling love

and I wish you were here,

just always know

that I will always love you

even if you don’t

ever know me.

M.R. — For my brother