#introspective gaze

[vempoebooks]

You don’t always need words. Just presence. From Thrill Me — a curated visual journey in light, silence, and sensation.

[stanford-photography]

Homeward Bound By Jeff Stanford, 2025 Buy prints of this image at: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/homeward-bound-jeff-stanford.html  or more of my images at: https://jeff-stanford.pixels.com/

[miamaimania]

"As Evening" (from ongoing series) by [Artist Name] ◆ Blue-gloved figure meets gaze across white linen

[queerpyracy]

imo a lot of people would benefit from thinking about their own queerness less in terms of naming every aspect of their nebulous inner experience to make it easily categorized and more in terms of who they want to be in relationship with & how

like. "am i ever under any circumstance attracted to men" is a wildly different question from "what kind of relationships do i want to have with the men in my life." this applies to gender too but my feelings on that are less easily articulated

[in-tenebris-et-in-solitudine]

When I gaze into your eyes, the world fades away, leaving nothing but the moment between us. I know it may sound like a cliché, but being with you takes me back to a time when life was simple, when I was a child, untouched by the weight of the world, and everything was pure.

[iniziare]

Okay, finally. Tag drop: Shorekeeper

[batnakednun]

[grayintogreen]

This is my favorite question and I am forcing everyone to answer it! >:))

🎈describe your style as a writer; is it fixed? does it change?

The answer is.... IT DEPENDS.

For some shorter stories or one-shots, I will try to experiment with different styles. I'll write in present tense (my brain was wired that way from years of panfandom RP and I still slip back into it sometimes), second person, first person- whatever suits the narrative I was trying to tell. It gets weird when I've read something super unique and my little sponge brain wants to see if I can replicate it- The Locked Tomb did some FUCKED UP THINGS to my brain when I read it.

For longer form work, I have a heavy introspective, character-driven style and my narrative "voice" changes depending on the character POV so I think the answer is still "no, but also yes?" Like I've been told I am extremely easy to pick out of a line-up of authors because of the specific turns of phrase, grammar quirks (emdash abusing bitch that I am), and writing style, but I can't really describe it beyond "if you've read anything written in third person by Seanan McGuire then you Know."

FANFIC ASK GAME.

[stanford-photography]

Night Portrait By Jeff Stanford, 2025

Buy prints at: https://jeff-stanford.pixels.com/

[dotssu3]

i know u dont really post about introdemo here but im sorta curious about yua! how is she like? what's her backstory? what does she work as

i cant give away too much about her backstory. but tl;dr on her: shes an avant garde performance artist and she considers herself a radical. how radical...?she would say "i'm radical enough" with a wink.

yua and fennel met at a nightclub in los angeles. their breakup came down to a mix of leftist infighting and interpersonal drama (many such cases!).

before, i was more focused on the whole 'whose team are u on lol' and 'x is right' angle. now, i want to use their relationship to explore questions that have been rattling around in my head for a while, even if i never land on a clear answer.

[milabrushwood]

She touches the glass, and the stars look back. Her reflection isn’t hers — or maybe it is.

[elsmaster]

Attempts to Fill the Voids

Chapter 7: Life

Farmers and merchants and just-people become refugees, travelling in groups towards the Waking Sea, in the hopes that life will be better across.

Anders swears he will not fall to this. He is finally free, far from the tower, and he can make his own choices.

He makes a choice, then, and travels across the coast, along the largest roads most refugees travel on, and helps as best he can.

He knows how to heal. Healing spells were the easiest, most comforting to practise, during, and now they feel like breathing. He trusts that no one will turn down magical healing and call for the templars — not at the end of the world.

Read more on AO3!,

[mythicmemex]

We often encounter things we do not like, but how often do we pause to consider whether that dislike is truly about the thing itself? Perhaps it is relational, rooted in the fact that someone we do not align with finds value in it. As Sartre might reflect, our judgments are never made in isolation because our sense of the world is shaped by the presence and influence of others. What if the rejection is not about the object or idea at all, but about the unsettling way it ties us to those we would rather remain distant from? Disliking something becomes less a matter of the object’s qualities and more a quiet reckoning with the connections it reveals about us, about others, and about the delicate boundaries between.

[xandaclaus]

https://www.deviantart.com/xandaclaus/gallery

[mapsbytfb]

it’s sooooo silly to, three years later, have the realization. that maybe. the events leading up to getting kicked out had a psychological effect

[pebblegalaxy]

Windows to the Soul: A Poetic Journey Through Unspoken Gazes #Poetry

Unspoken Gazes I find myself lost in thought, pondering your eyes,Those windows to a soul I long to know.What secrets do they hold, what truths disguise?What stories could they tell, what feelings show?Are they deep pools of brown, warm and inviting,Or piercing blue, like skies on summer days?Perhaps they're flecked with gold, forever lightingThe path to your heart through their gentle haze.I…