#standing too close

[reecedarlene]

Imagine

I imagine small moments with you

Lingering touches no one else notices

Sly glances no one else sees

Inside jokes no one else interprets

Imagine me standing just a little too close to you

But you don’t move away so I stay still

Imagine our hands colliding

And hesitating before letting go

Imagine legs pressed against one another

Under the guise of not enough room

Imagine shared song lyrics as secret notes

Moments between us no one else knows

Imagine each of us hoping for a message

Searching for reasons to reach out

Imagine you craving the contact

Me smiling at the thought of your satisfaction

Imagine the timbre of your voice buzzing through me

Me enraptured by the rhythm of your words

Imagine your light being the only thing I can see

To pull me out of this darkness I’ve been coasting in

Imagine you knowing exactly what I mean, how I feel

You giving me the courage the grow and the strength to do what I must

Imagine these tiny flickers of affection

Becoming all consuming flames devouring our senses

Imagine our passions overpowering our reason

We’ll have ask forgiveness since we never asked for permission

Imagine this being reality instead of a fantasy

Growing inside the part of me I thought had been snuffed out

I imagine small moments with you

Can you imagine?

[silveragelovechild]

Short Review:

If you like John Wick style fight scenes, you’ll probably like it… but after the third or fourth time he single handedly fought dozens of henchmen alone and survived, my interest waned (and that was only 1/2 way through the movie).

Spoiler Filled Review:

A trailer for Ryan Gosling’s “Fallguy” was shown before the screening of “Monkey man”. In one scene, Gosling is holding a gun on one of the film’s villains. But he’s standing too close and the villain easily takes the gun from Gosling. You’d think that is might be better to not stand so close. But that a well worn trope in most action films.

In fact, it’s such a well worn trope, “Monkey Man” uses it not once but twice in its 2 hour run time.

“Monkey man” stars Dev Patel, who also directs and co-wrote the script. He plays a young man out for revenge against the corrupt cop who yadda yadda yadda.

I enjoyed the first Wick movie but the sequels were overkill - literally as John Wick kills dozen of henchmen men sent after him. “Monkey Man” is more of the same - in his quest for revenge Patel kills dozens and dozens of henchmen, narrowly surviving each encounter, then he killing dozens more. After the third or fourth time I started to lose interest. BUT the movie was only half way through.

When Patel is finally ready to pull the trigger and get his revenge on the corrupt cop, he’s standing too close and pretty soon the cop takes the gun. There’s an extended fight sequence (very similar to the bathroom fight in “Mission: Impossible – Fallout”) and Patel barely makes it out alive.

At that point Patel’s bullet riddled body is fished out of a polluted river and sewn back together by a tribe of transgender people living in a monetary. There Patel gets his mojo back during an extended training sequence with the help with the help of the bongo playing leader of the tribe.

Now Patel is ready to take on the corrupt cop AND the corrupt religious leader who who is introduced as the villain behind the villain. Again Patel fights and kills dozens of of henchmen. He gets a little help from the transgender tribe, before finally killing the cop.

Then he corners the corrupt religious leader… BUT he stands too close and… (You’d think he’d have learned his lesson after the first time!)

I think “Monkey Man” would have been a better movie if it was more tightly edited, cutting 20 to 30 minutes of its 2 hour run time.

[starry-bi-sky]

on a completely separate note; shizun luo binghe with a disciple shen yuan who fell into the abyss??? *thinks about LBH canonically stealing SQQ's corpse for 5 years* he'd hallucinate i think. like, like visual and audial hallucinations.

Keeps thinking he's seeing SQQ in the corner of his eyes, or wandering between the trees, amongst a group of disciples. Thinks he hears him calling for him, but its just the wind or another disciple.

Gets Xiu Ya reforged but patently fucking refuses to make a sword mound. Because his disciple Is Not Dead :))) There was No Body. He's Not Dead. And If You keep Insisting That He Is, He's Gonna Skewer You :). He's holding onto Xiu Ya so he can return his most favored disciple's sword when he returns. It's on his hip right next to Zheng Yang where it's supposed to be.

Also this motherfucker?? does not sleep btw. He has the image of SQQ, wide eyed and hysterical and standing at the mouth of the abyss burned into his fucking eyelids. Can't use the dreamscape to escape it either because he keeps trying to save him and either he does and it's an incredibly cruel trick to wake up to, or he doesn't and he gets his heart broken in several different pieces again.

There is no convincing this man that Shen Qingqiu is dead. Absolutely nothing at all. He is buried so deep in denial that moles would be jealous of how deep he is. He keeps making tea for two in the bamboo house only to remember that it's just him. SQQ's fans are hiding everywhere, little reminders of his presence. He goes to wake up SQQ on the mornings he sleeps in-- only to find the room empty.

[hurtingbuck]

Just let me know what you would call this thing between us

[tendermiasma]

I made this at 2am because it was an emergency

[anouchard]

PSA: @jonnywaistcoat just threatened to kill Gwen off because I kept punning in the @macguffinandco stream, so if Gwen just ... disappears, please know that I am sorry, I love her, I have only myself to blame, and I went down laughing.

[gilly-moon]

𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖜𝖎𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝖎𝖘 𝖆 𝖍𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖗𝖞 𝖇𝖊𝖆𝖘𝖙

[ririrules60]

A dreadful night

[sharkthinker]

the vibe in the conclave novel is that Lawrence/Lomeli has mild crushes of varying degrees on half of his coworkers which is just an excruciating experience all around. not because of the vows of celibacy but because his coworkers are some of the most annoying ppl on god's green earth

[halflifebutawesome]

anyone wanna be boy bestfriends in a scary research facility and get increasingly concerned for eachothers well-being?

[leonardalphachurch]

I've never heard of a grown man asking for so many piggyback rides. Hey, I already told you-- that was for science.

[mohntilyet]

is this a safe space to admit i really don't even like the lines in lucanis' first romance scene where he says something like "perfectly gathered clouds of doom" . but that does not stop me from loving him very much. i'm choosing to see this as a guy who is the terrible combo of reads romance novels, has never had a romantic relationship before AND his definition of 'good flirt' is synonymous with 'illario' so he's got an incorrect definition of what's actually romantic. the less lucanis is specifically trying to be romantic the more he becomes irresistible but i don't think he's caught onto that yet

[miyano-shiho4869]

so. you're telling me these girls are straight and both have male love interests? sounds kind of fake ngl.

[idle-compy]

edge of town - middle kids

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

#I’m Richie