#aflame

[gennsoup]

It's the scent of autumn, oxidation: you can smell it on your skin, that sunburn perfume.

Margaret Atwood, Aflame

[dk-thrive]

We cannot count on anything other than a mind that is prepared to live calmly with all that it cannot control.

— Pico Iyer, Aflame: Learning from Silence (Riverhead Books, January 14, 2025)

[thegoodmorningman]

Your passion will set the world aflame!!! GOOD VIBES ONLY!!!

[goldenfox3]

Ryu tries to be romantic. Andy throws a wrench in his plans, but eventually they both get their sweet reward.

Starting the new year off with a bang ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 5k+ words of the next instalment following Embers, Ignite, and Ablaze featuring Ryu being banned from the kitchen (again), Bart being catty, and lots of sappy fun times in bed

[cobrastrikes421]

Doodle December: day 19

This alien is all changed up and burning up with critical power to destroy all of his enemies. With an enough critical damage he takes it gives him extra strength and dangerous abilities to annihilate all of his enemies.

@swan-scribbles

[thethirdbear]

[persuasivestrawberryafternoons]

The Love Missive

I was a missive

Maybe not one full of love

But also not necessarily filled with only kindness

And I was packed like all missives should be

Lightly folded and clutched tight

And neatly addressed in calligraphy

Though fully unaware that the name wasn’t your’s

Your velvet gloved hands ripped through my enveloped

And everything I held concealed

came gushing out

in ink spilled and tear stained parchment

and for a moment 

I was a love letter 

But you were a candle 

 wide brimmed and waxy

lit aflame 

and resting on a metal plate

On a wooden desk

at midnight 

eager and melting

and forever looking away

And as your flames licked the edges

 I curled and gave in anyway

thinking this was our intention

this private correspondence 

But as my pages melted to embers

and my prose into ash

I didn’t realized you consumed me

only in your pleasure

And I was

a letter addressed

 not to you

But will now never see

its receiver 

[mostafa-ze]

Face of Another

[wheretwofacesmeet]

[dk-thrive]

I arrive at the bookstore, exhilarated. In a world of commotion I need more than ever to be reminded of what endures.

— Pico Iyer, Aflame: Learning from Silence (Riverhead Books, January 14, 2025)

[shoof4k]

فيلم Your Lucky Day 2023 مترجم

حيث بعد أن يتحول الخلاف حول تذكرة اليانصيب الفائزة إلى حالة رهينة مميتة، يجب على الشهود أن يقرروا بالضبط إلى أي مدى سيذهبون، وكم الدماء التي يرغبون في إراقةها، مقابل قطع مبلغ 156 مليون دولار.

https://w6.shoof4k.online/?p=1427

[goldenfox3]

Usually the ones who give me the "they are supposed to be getting it on but they won't shut tf up" problem are Ryu and Jack but this time it's Ryu and Andy bc Andy got comfortable enough to let his sassy little shit side out ig lmao. This is about Smoulder again I am trying to finish it in time for Xmas but who knows if they will get to the getting it on any time soon. They kissed once and then Andy started making dad jokes. I also keep saying I wanna draw Rob in a skimpy Santa outfit sitting on Andy's lap but I cannot do both at once. Alas. Ryu wants to take his time with Andy but I the author want to hurry tf up.

[manwalksintobar]

In the Community Garden  // Mark Doty

It’s almost over now, late summer’s accomplishment, and I can stand face to face

with this music, eye to seed-paved eye with the sunflowers’ architecture:

such muscular leaves, the thick stems’ surge. Though some are still

shiningly confident, others can barely hold their heads up;

their great leaves wrap the stalks like lowered shields. This one shrugs its shoulders;

this one’s in a rush to be nothing but form. Even at their zenith,

you could see beneath the gold the end they’d come to. So what’s the use of elegy?

If their work is this skyrocket passage through the world,

is it mine to lament them? Do you think they’d want to bloom forever?

It’s the trajectory they desire— believe me, they do desire, you could say they are

one intent, finally, to be this leaping green, this bronze haze

bending down. How could they stand apart from themselves and regret their passing,

when they are a field of lifting and bowing faces, faces ringed in flames?

[wyrmfedgrave]

Why tRump & his Republikkkans are all wrong for America...

When America is in crisis, we can count on our friends to help us out.

Yet, it's tRump & the Reps who set the flames that divide us all.

Why do we accept such a Rapist Con Man as leader?

Are we just stupid or are we a little bit like him...

End.

[runningfromadream]

It is easier to burn than to admit you are always one match from aflame.

Leila Mottley