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That intimacy doesn’t just develop an aesthetic sense. It also develops an empathy for the athletes involved.
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William Luu: Calling it a Day
Posted in fighting, Kickboxing, Martial Arts, MMA, Muay Thai, Women's fighting with tags healing, life, love, mental-health, Rebellion Muay Thai, Roots 31, W.L. Fight Photography, William Luu, writing on August 20, 2026 by Jarrod Boyle
Better Than the Real Thing? Love in Blade Runner 2049
Posted in Film with tags Blade Runner 2049, Elvis, K, kindness, love, Pornography, Stanley Kubrick, The Shining on April 23, 2023 by Jarrod Boyle
‘…On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth…’
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera.
The protagonist, a blade runner named K, is in love with his AI. She’s essentially a hologram, and in a pivotal scene, she organises a ‘pleasure model’ to come to his apartment so she can merge herself with it in order to make love to him.
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The Dark Side of Unconditional Love
Posted in Observation with tags love, unconditional love on April 8, 2021 by Jarrod Boyle
Anyone who has been abused by a family member, or a partner, understands unconditional love.
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Twisted Valentine
Posted in Love letters, poetry, sonnet with tags love, piercings, Shakespearean sonnet, sonnet, tattoos on February 14, 2019 by Jarrod Boyle
Tattoos and piercings lodged in the weave of her becoming
A pale flame that undulates from my hips towards the ceiling
She feels like mine but is held within the darkness’ grip
Its heavy fingers printed in the slats between her ribs
I want to reach up inside and touch her deep as she can take
But the one who came before me is coiled there like a snake
Suddenly cruel, I insinuate the word ‘love’ into her ear
It is the single weapon I have that will cut into her
At the impact of my cruelty her groan shatters into a cry
And I see the truth congealed upon the mirror of her eye
Satisfied, I watch the tracking of a single salty tear
As it snakes along her cheek to hide in the hair below her ear
I apologize in a voice almost innocent of the lie
But if I couldn’t make her love me then at least I made her cry.
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Desperate Romantic: My Life as a Stalker (A Lamentably True Story)
Posted in Acts of devotion, Love letters, Observation, Real Men with tags Bob Marley, Corinthians, Eurydice, Gregory David Roberts, India, love, obssession, Psychiatrist, psychopathy, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, sex crime, Shantaram, slum, stalking on November 20, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
“If she’s amazing, she won’t be easy. If she’s easy, she won’t be amazing. If she’s worth it, you won’t give up. If you give up, you’re not worthy. Truth is, everybody’s gonna hurt you; you just have to find the ones worth suffering for.”
– Bob Marley
“Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres…”
– Corinthians, 13: 6-7
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Sometimes it’s best to begin a story at the end. Which, in this case, was in the office of my psychologist. Continue reading
Theme Park at its Darkest 