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June, and by Alessia Di Cesare

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brain empty no thoughts just sasha colby

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“Say it. Say it again: I am and I am and I am / in spite of—”

— Malcolm Tariq, from “Bop: Black Queer Southern Studies,” Heed the Hollow

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"There's a patch of sunlight in my room / on the carpet where I held you for a moment..."

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"I want to be a body for you. I want to chase you, find you, I want to be eluded and teased and adored; I want to be defeated and victorious—I want you to cut me, sharpen me. I want to drink tea beside you in ten years or a thousand..."

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Donika Kelly, from "What Is the Measure"

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1.05 Looking for the Future | Looking Movie

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Love stories are often hard to execute on TV, because ongoing shows will try to manipulate romances for plot purposes — yet at the same time, it’s so easy to get hooked on a tale of two people finding each other. The couples featured below have undergone no shortage of strife as they forged their own unique paths, but one thing these narratives all have in common is that they illustrate the ways in which romance can be found in the most unexpected of circumstances, and how it can become the foundation of something so much bigger and profound.

Patrick and Richie, “Looking”

The rise-and-fall romance between Patrick (Jonathan Groff) and Richie (Raúl Castillo) provided the strongest emotional backbone in HBO’s short-lived gem “Looking.” Groff and Castillo’s remarkable chemistry and natural rapport turned episodes like “Looking for the Future” and “Looking for Truth” into intimate romantic epics on par with “Before Sunrise.” Their connection was universally felt, allowing “Looking” to create an emotional anchor for every viewer, no matter their gender or sexual orientation. Groff and Castillo were so good at falling in love in Season 1 that their eventual breakup forced Season 2 to become a waiting game for when they would get back together, or at least reconcile their differences. Patrick went off and had a passionate fling with Kevin (Russell Tovey), but every fan was simply waiting to see how his path would end up back at Richie’s door (or barbershop). It was a series-defining romance that we hope is revisited again sometime in the future.

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I guess, just because you feel you shouldn't need something, it doesn't mean you don't.

- Richie

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“Do you wanna try?”

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@wh0re-behavi0r appreciate this for me bc i think you’re the only one who will <3