private . selective . independent . toothiana of the guardians of childhood series .                               ✎ mem

soon i’m going to have my new theme and then it’s over for all of you .

Doesn’t matter how tall he is when he’s on his knees

The word “eclipse” comes from ancient Greek ekleipsis, “a forsaking, quitting, abandonment.” The sun quits us, we are forsaken by light.

Anne Carson, “Totality, The Colour of Eclipse”, in Decreation  (via antigonies)

David Foster Wallace | Infinite Jest | 1996

@hamartio

Lucy Keating, Dreamology

                                                    26           jealous kiss  .

          it is likely unintentional          the lipstick left staining his cheek          she knows  .  it is also an understood reality that his outings are that of an esteemed bachelor to most of the city  ;;  idle banter  &&  flirtations are not only expected but in some ways  required  .  she further knows better than to think anything personal of it  ,  but she cannot help a mischievous whim to use it as  pretense  .     ¨  you have been quite busy  , ¨  she remarks when she saunters up to him  ,  rubbing the waxy residue off of his face with her thumb  .  when he leans down to greet her with a kiss her she turns her face so he just barely can’t reach her lips  &&  moves instead to start trailing kisses along his jaw  &&  neck .  she can smell the city  &&  its festivities on him  ,  masking the usual coffee  &&  copper  (  that she has learned to prefer  ,  if she is honest with herself  )  with alcohol  &&  perfume  .         &&  when she has lulled him properly into a false sense of security  ,  toothiana nips at his skin  ,  taking it between her teeth  &&  sucking the spot with enough force that a mark is guaranteed to be forming already  .  she is polite enough not to break skin  this time  around  ,  but the bruise which forms is bound to be sensitive for some time  .

    ¨  i believe i have earned the right to be  territorial  ,  ¨  she says between doing it again  &&  again  ,  mercilessly  .  ¨  would you not say so  ?  ¨

                                      @hamartio​              76 reasons to kiss  .

                                           23           exhausted parent kiss  .

           she isn’t certain how it happened  ;;  isn’t sure she wants to know really ,  but  somehow  she has returned to find both valrún  &&  the faerie meant to be watching him covered in the most  glorious  messes of paint ever managed under her roof  .  perhaps this is what ought to have been expected when she suggested it as an option for his assistance to her work  :  that somehow  ,  some way  ,  it would not go as smoothly as it was meant to  . if the look on her faerie’s face is anything to go by  ,  it was as much their fault as  valrún’s  ,  but regardless what’s done is done now  . 

    ¨   perhaps rather than painting memory boxes i should be asking you to mix the paints themselves  .  you seem to have quite the affinity for it already  , ¨ she muses  ,  smile wry .            toothiana sighs  ,  although her expression is telling of fond  bemusement  more than anything else  .  she runs her thumb over the young man’s cheek  ,  smearing a bit of blue paint in the process  &&  draws his head close so that she can place a gentle kiss on top of it  .

     ¨  go on          both of you          get yourselves cleaned up  .  some of the other faeries will take care of what you’ve left behind  ,  while i prepare dinner for the evening  .  off you go  .  ¨ 

                                  @ofdeathandfear​            76 reasons to kiss  .

It does me no good; violence has changed me. / My body has grown cold like the stripped fields; / now there is only my mind, cautious and wary, / with the sense it is being tested.

Louise Glück, from Averno; “October” (via lucillesharp)

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a collection of kiss prompts  ,  both platonic  &&  romantic  ,  adapted to ask meme format  per this list  .  none are explicitly nsfw  ,  but may imply or lend to such  .   minor content warning for alcohol  .

1 .  ‘ good morning ’  kiss  . 2 .  kiss on the forehead  . 3 .  drunk / sloppy kiss  . 4 .  awkward kiss  . 5 .  angry kiss  . 6 .  ‘ i’m sorry ’  kiss  .

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ofdeathandfear​:

“I was just trying to be helpful,” Val said, ducking his head a little with embarrassment. Maybe it was best to leave that kind of work to the professionals. “It looks exhausting.”

       ¨   exhausting  is a very  pleasant  way to put it  ,  ¨  she replies with a certain tone of pride  .  the smaller faeries do not seem any worse for wear in the long run  . 

      ¨   but none are better-prepared for the task than  us  ,  i assure you  .  ¨ 

I know better than anyone that I’m more accustomed / to holding a knife / than holding someone’s hand.

Meggie Royer, from “Psych Ward Lover,” Potions for Witches the Boys Couldn’t Burn (via lifeinpoetry)

       ¨   as your  dearly beloved  i think i am  permitted  to                       steal your attention away from time to time  .  ¨

                                   @millenniumpharaoh​            ‘ pay attention to me . ’

also super important urgent update : my dog is still a very good girl .