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grace @echofarandfaint.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The new Padawan is curious, that’s all. “Answer her questions with patience,” Luke tells Ben. But how can he, when he feels her narrow fingers brush against the gland on his wrist? Rey looks up with wide eyes. “What happens if I press this?”

In a yellowish orange tinged light, two hands reach out and grasp a third, veined masculine looking hand

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grace @echofarandfaint.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Working my way thru some 90s classics. Just watched State of Grace (1990) & once again must note how romance/sex was key even to a noir mob thriller - movies simply used to be hornier (in a good way)

Gary oldman, Robin Wright and Sean Penn in State of Grace (1990)

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grace @echofarandfaint.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So sorry for your loss, amp! Here’s Bonny, my 5 month old baby puppy and my cat, Cleo

A white dog with a brown spot cuddles with a brown tabby cat

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grace @echofarandfaint.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This essay is wildly good on writing, sex and writing about sex

Even so, it is impossible to consider gratuitous anything that can explore such a wide range of human being. Sex manages to be a reckoning with the body, the self; with desire in myriad ways; a reckoning with the forbidden; with other people as adversaries and allies even when an encounter is consensual; and a reckoning with surrender.

We are in a cultural moment that demands purity of characters, particularly characters in romantic narratives (whether the romantic storylines are primary or secondary). In book reviews, readers bemoan the “problematic,” and unequal power dynamics make them “uncomfortable.”[1] This insistence on only the most upstanding and unblemished unions erases all possibility of person-making, which is to say, growth and change. Instead, we end up with narrative corn syrup: an uncomplicated, saccharine meal that goes down fast but is, at the end of the day, unsatisfying.

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grace @echofarandfaint.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hux sits forlornly in the box office trying to read his dog-eared novel. Customers keep interrupting him to buy movie tickets. They’re all here for the Star Wars rerun, which is better, in his opinion, than most newer garbage. Even so, he prefers foreign cinema.

A couple in a dark cinema, their heads close together

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grace @echofarandfaint.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

No gifs available for this one somehow 😂 buts it’s Reds (1991)

The poster for Reds (1991) starring Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson

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grace @echofarandfaint.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Such a joy to spend some of this past weekend with @peculiargalaxies.bsky.social, baking cookies, adventuring around, going to bookstores & reading each other’s fic in person—the power of the reylo/fandom community!!

A black and white photograph of a blonde woman in a hair band reaching up to the top shelf of a bookstore to grab a book

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grace @echofarandfaint.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#sapphicreylo They meet again at a mutual friend’s wedding. It’s been at least five years. Rey tells herself she won’t do it again, that her therapy is working this time. She’s manifesting abundance. She’s casting out limerance. Kyla is a thing of the past, a part she can let die.

Two blurry women on a dark red sheet, one looking down with dark hair, her face hidden. The other is beneath. With lighter hair and a hand over her face

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grace @echofarandfaint.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

When it’s 87 degrees in October there’s nothing for it but to:

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grace @echofarandfaint.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sappho, translated by Anne Carson.

You will remember
For we in our youth
Did these things

Yes many and beautiful things

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grace @echofarandfaint.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I normally post someone else's poem but I've been thinking a lot about trauma and recovery today and so here's one of my old ones on exactly that theme - holding together/falling apart/what remains

maybe you lose nothing and become everything

maybe all the homes that were are still your home

maybe moving on is moving back around

maybe you can hold what is and always was

maybe all lost things are found together

maybe all lost things wanted to be lost

they found their way among the discarded

maybe you lost all that’s to your name

I dream there’s no destruction only change

I have lived a little time and all that is

seems so much to carry, what if I cannot hold

shedding selves like skins to pass through doors?

can I be everything and lose nothing? clasp

fist around those moments pinned to glass.

I try to capture all but sand runs fast --

I’ve always loved what is already ruin

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grace @echofarandfaint.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not going to engage directly with this post bcos I actually hate drama but...being generous here, the worry is that TLH normalizes abusive dynamics in academic settings. As someone who has experienced that very thing, fiction is not the same as reality...