akeijs

[akeijs]

“Andrew?” Neil asked as he would for anything else. “What’s your favorite quality about me? Physically, I mean.”

It didn’t take long for Andrew to notice the uneasy shifting in Neil’s legs.

He didn’t care about looks and Andrew knew that. He’d never once gave himself a second glance in the mirror or spend a moment longer than he needed dressing himself. Neil knew Andrew kept him as he was, so the question seemed strange. Nicky’s Influence, most likely. Andrew would decide later if that was a good or bad thing. For now, he focused his energy on glazing his eyes over Neil’s figure. His mind recounting every detail that laid over and under his clothing.

He thought of the blue eyes Neil had hidden for so long. How the color could have choked Andrew the first time he saw it and the auburn hair that laid messily over the pillows they shared every morning.

Neil was a dream. Something he couldn’t begin to put into words. There wasn’t an inch of Neil Andrew didn’t adore. His very existence twisted him in ways he never dreamed of bending.

Finally, Andrew’s gaze met Neil’s. His tongue sharp against his tongue as he spoke.

“Your ass.”

[akeijs]

faces

[akeijs]

Young gods / Dionysus, Hermes, Eros, Apollo

twitter - ig - prints

[akeijs]

[akeijs]

He grew up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsuY9lHxg88

[akeijs]

MWAH! MMMWAH! 

[akeijs]

Orestes by Euripides, 408 BCE (“…μὴ θεαί μ᾽ οἴστρῳ κατάσχωσι.”)

trans. Michael Wodhull, 1782 (“Lest those Goddesses should seize me/ With frenzy.”)

trans. T. A. Buckley, 1858 (“I fear lest the Goddesses should stop me with their torments.”)

trans. E. P. Coleridge, 1891 (“I am afraid the goddesses will prevent me by madness.”)

trans. Arthur S. Way, 1898 (“Lest the Fiends by madness stay me.”)

trans. Philip Vellacott, 1972 (“This: suppose the Furies drive me mad?”)

trans. Kenneth McLeish, 1995 (“If the goddesses come… another fit…”)

trans. David Kovacs, 2002 (“…the fear that the goddesses may seize me with frenzy.”)

trans. Anne Carson, 2009 (“The ghastly goddessess—they’ll send my wits astray.”)

trans. Ian Johnston, 2010 (“I’m worried the goddesses will stop me with this madness.”)

Edit: Please stop saying Anne Carson’s is the best and that the rest aren’t worth reading. That was the opposite of my intention, which was to get people to read more than three out-of-context lines from one (loose verse) translation.

[akeijs]

i know we’re all feral over ‘i’ll take care of you / it’s rotten work / not to me not if it’s you’ but how did we forget about ‘hold on, hold on, i have to protest / do you think i would choose to live without you’?

[akeijs]

707 IᑕOᑎᔕ // 250 ᑭ᙭ ᙭ 250 ᑭ᙭ // ᖇᕮᑫᑌᕮᔕTᕮᗪ ᗷY ᗩᔕᕼᒪᕮY

[akeijs]

i reread pnp on an especially slow work day and i just think this scene is super funny

[akeijs]

Neil Josten wears a gold band around his left ring finger and is absolutely cheating on his partner.

Before he ever joined the Santa Fe Cougars, Josten was part of a pride campaign for Nike. So was Andrew Minyard. It was a big deal. The interviews around it said every athlete in the campaign was LGBTQ. Josten talked about his husband. Minyard talked about queer foster kids.

That, the Cougars speculate, is where Josten and Minyard reconnected. They went to college together, separated when Minyard moved to Santa Fe and Josten moved to Jersey, saw each other again at this campaign, and then, a year later, were on the same team again.

None of the Cougars have ever met Josten’s husband. Even at team parties, Josten never brings him around. Probably he thinks it would be too risky.

None of them have gotten close enough to Minyard to figure out his relationship status. But, the Cougars collectively believe, Minyard’s relationship status can only possibly make a bad situation worse.

Keep reading

[akeijs]

All for the game cover redesigns,,

[akeijs]

So you know how all the characters make these really erotic sounds when they get electrocuted?

I’m not sorry.

[akeijs]

Here's a love poem I put together using only lines from gay books because they are THAT lyrical

In order of appearance:

●Sappho (the title)

●The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater

●Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

●Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

●Tin Man by Sarah Winman

●Ash by Malinda Lo

●Prince's Gambit by C. S. Pacat

●A Gathering of Shadows by V. E. Schwab

●The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

●Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

●The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

●This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

●Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman

●The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

●The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

●Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by B. A. Sáenz

●The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

[akeijs]

@gsnkweek — Day 5 : MMORPG

rpg inspired roles

[akeijs]

a small but growing collection

[akeijs]

call down the hawk - maggie stiefvater  /  sunflower vol. 6 - harry styles  / cornelia street - taylor swift

for @olreid