#embrace
Enjoying the secluded riverside on a glorious afternoon, cool water and dappled shade, a pleasure today as it has always been; this Plüschow photograph captures the atmosphere perfectly!
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Unlike many of von Gloeden’s nudes posed together, where any faintly suggestive sexual undertones are subtly discreet and mostly in the eye of the beholder, this stunning photograph stands out as undoubtedly & gloriously homoerotic. A passionate, intimate embrace, one’s lips to the other’s cheek - is it a softly whispered sweet nothing, or a chaste kiss we can’t quite see?
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A trio of muscular men, arms interlinked, the image made all the more striking by that contrast between a dark background and the slightly over-exposed brightness of their skin.
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Entwined Nude Young Men, a 19th century highly homoerotic photograph attributed to Wilhelm von Gloeden - perhaps one of his unsigned prints, but not proven so : I tend to side with the doubters, for his few known studio shots do not include this particular painted backdrop.
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Utterly charming but with a hint of the bizarre, one model wearing an extraordinary translucent and faintly striped dress which reveals as much as it hides.
No.1428 in Wilhelm von Gloeden’s catalogue of beautiful pictures.
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Three handsome young men pose for Wilhelm von Gloeden in the late 19th Century, their expressions transforming this into something uniquely beautiful, and open to interpretation - innocent platonic affection, or lustful longing? The boy on the left certainly seems to lean toward the latter.
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An adorable little snipped and mounted 1870s portrait of two dapper young chaps, sharing a tiny stool - I wonder how long it took them to squeeze and shuffle into place, and suspect the embrace is as much to keep them together on the seat as it is to show off their dear affection!
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If everyone knew that you were a sissy, you wouldn’t have to hide your true identity anymore
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“This is how we heal.
I will kiss you like forgiveness. You
will hold me like I’m hope. Our arms
will bandage and we will press promises
between us like flowers in a book.
I will write sonnets to the salt of sweat
on your skin. I will write novels to the scar
of your nose. I will write a dictionary
of all the words I have used trying
to describe the way it feels to have finally,
finally found you.
And I will not be afraid
of your scars.
I know sometimes
it’s still hard to let me see you
in all your cracked perfection,
but please know:
whether it’s the days you burn
more brilliant than the sun
or the nights you collapse into my lap
your body broken into a thousand questions,
you are the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.
I will love you when you are a still day.
I will love you when you are a hurricane.”
— Clementine von Radics
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“ You loved me the other day. You wanted me to sit beside you…Didn’t I feel it- didn’t I know? There’s something between us - a sort of pull. Something you always do to me and I to you.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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A Sudden Hug - by ME
Reference:
- Kung Fu Panda 2
(Note that the context of this request was meant to be platonic. But feel free to percieve it however way you wish ^^;.)
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