Well, I Heard You're Back Together And If That's True You'll Just Have To Taste Me When He's Kissin'

AUSTIN BUTLER as BENNY

The Bikeriders (2024) dir. Jeff Nichols

that smitten little smile is everything 💕

[id: a photo of Toni Morison, with her quote across it, which reads “it’s not possible to constantly hold onto crisis. You have to have the love and you have to have the magic. That’s also life.” End id]

They wouldn’t be trying so hard to keep us from our joy if joy were not liberation.

Forever thinking about the short story “The Husband Stitch” from Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties.

Thinking about bodily autonomy in romantic and sexual relationships, especially with men. Thinking about the expectation of martyrdom in womanhood. How complete servitude is the status quo. How women give and give until we’re empty and that’s considered a job well done. How much it hurts that women have to fight to keep the scraps of humanity we’re able to acquire.

Thinking about:

“A wife,” he says, “should have no secrets from her husband.”

“I don't have any secrets,” I tell him.

“The ribbon.”

“The ribbon is not a secret; it's just mine.”

Thinking about:

Resolve runs out of me. I touch the ribbon. I look at the face of my husband, the beginning and end of his desires all etched there. He is not a bad man, and that, I realize suddenly, is the root of my hurt. He is not a bad man at all. To describe him as evil or wicked or corrupted would do a deep disservice to him. And yet—

“Do you want to untie the ribbon?” I ask him. “After these many years, is that what you want of me?”

His face flashes gaily, and then greedily, and he runs his hand up my bare breast and to my bow.

“Yes,” he says. “Yes.”

“Then,” I say, “do what you want.”

I’d like to think Hotch has these framed somewhere in his house

Musical Numbers in A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter (2024)

CHALLENGERS (2024) Dir. Luca Guadagnino

John 'Bucky' Egan and his bikes

ZENDAYA, JOSH O'CONNOR and MIKE FAIST in CHALLENGERS (2024, dir. Luca Guadagnino)

SCREAM VI (2023) dir. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett