i know this was like a month ago but jacob on the shift saying what makes connor so perfect for the role is that he was so good at playing “what i wanted out of ilya, which was a slyness. that ilya’s always trying not to laugh, especially at shane. that he doesn’t want shane to realise how much he likes him, and how charmed, how endlessly charmed he is by making shane uncomfortable. it actually lights him up inside, he really loves it.”

literally the mandate of heaven that jacob tierney has 😭😭😭 it lights him up inside i-

something something ilya likes to cause a hurt then soothe it.

these images are the same to me. he likes to push too hard to bruise to needle to sink his teeth in to know he’s making an impact. and then follow it up with a good fucking or to say in so many words i love you. to know he is loved enough for his impact to be felt. it lights him up inside. and god you just KNOW shane bruises up so pretty, and he looks so pretty when he cries 😮‍💨

YOUNG ROYALS 2.04 • HEATED RIVALRY 1.01

has anyone done this yet

More of Connor Storrie for Tiffany & Co.

man with excellent self restraint dismayed to realize that not wanting anything is more likely a depression symptom than a carefully honed skill that atones for other aspects of his character

i’m fine this is fine don’t even worry about it

Frank Bertram & Pierre Emö Dear Father (2020)

jonny bolduc, “gut” 2015

I Will Get The Light Back In My Eyes in 2026

& actually i’m not done talking about heated rivalry. no offense to the author i’m not trying to end her whole career or anything but it’s actually crazy to me how ashamed the book is of itself. like shane mentions several times that he prefers to be submissive, but he always apologizes for this or backs away from it by saying that it’s not actually degrading to suck dick or whatever. like bro if you want him to spit on you and make you beg for it then we are NOT going to judge. however his own narrative is judging him harshly. his own internal monologue is so ashamed of itself. and as a result it ends up being like… kinklite. it’s like the whole book is saying “we’re just going to dip our toe into these concepts, because that’s for freaks, and we’re not sex perverts over here!” like why is there an entire conversation in canon where ilya says out loud he would like to call shane a good boy and then it just never happens? twist him up pretzel style make him cry tell him he’s a good boy he’s literally dying for you to do that! but he never does, because the author won’t let him, because she is only brave enough to skirt around the mentions of these topics. every time they come close to anything seriously resembling a D/s dynamic they back off and say “only joking by the way gotta remember we aren’t sick and/or freaks” and it’s tedious as fuck. in fairness, this is an issue in a lot of contemporary mainstream erotica, i’m just particularly focused on this one right now. once again we find that people don’t think kink is Actually Real and it’s not something real people do when they fuck. anyone with a desire to submit must first look at the camera and say “but i’m not REALLY submissive” before they get down to it because we’ve decided there’s something wrong with fully committing to this. it’s really boring & kind of frustrating. because you CHOSE to give this character the desire to submit. you CHOSE to do that. and then you chose to make him punish himself for it and never have that desire realized because you are too ashamed of what that might mean. too often we see the author’s hangups manifest in the text as consequences towards the characters. does anyone know what i mean am i making any sense