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CLEVER AS THE DEVIL AND TWICE AS PRETTY ! ( by arcos . ) PERSONALS DO NOT REBLOG .
faulinus:
❛ the aftermath of your life affords you three real options: obscurity, legend, or horror story. ❜
@burneternal / sc
“seems insulting that you’ve met me yet still think i could ever be at risk of falling into the former. and i cannot conceive of a possible reason why anyone else would want to, yourself included. so which of the remaining options do you think you are?”
( * & . — BILLIE EILISH LYRICS .
‘ don’t you know i’m no good for you ? ’
‘ nothing ever stops you leaving . ’
‘ i could lie , say i like it like that . ’
‘ don’t you know too much already ? ’
‘ i’ll only hurt you if you let me . ’
‘ call me friend , but keep me closer . ’
‘ nothing is better sometimes . ’
‘ let me let you go . ’
‘ i just wish you could feel what you say . ’
‘ i know you too well . ’
‘ if ‘ i love you ’ was a promise , would you break it if you’re honest ? ’
‘ i don’t wanna be you anymore . ’
‘ losing feeling is getting old . ’
‘ only you know the way that i break . ’
‘ if we were meant to be , we would’ve been by now . ’
‘ all i see is him right now . ’
‘ go ahead and watch my heart burn with the fire that you started in me , but i’ll never let you back to put it out . ’
‘ your love feels so fake . ’
‘ if i could get to sleep , i would have slept by now . ’
‘ when you call my name , do you think i’ll come running ? ’
‘ so good at giving me nothing . ’
‘ when you close your eyes , do you picture me ? ’
‘ you should see me in a crown . ’
‘ your silence is my favorite sound . ’
‘ i like the way they all scream . ’
‘ i think you’re pretty . ’
‘ i’m not your baby . ’
‘ where’s my mind ? ’
‘ what an expensive fate . ’
‘ my v is for vendetta . ’
‘ thought that i’d feel better , but now i got a bellyache . ’
‘ i wear my noose like a necklace . ’
‘ i wanna make ‘em scared . ’
‘ don’t be cautious , don’t be kind . ’
‘ i don’t belong to anyone . ’
‘ by the way , you’ve been uninvited . ’
‘ why so sad , bunny ? ’
‘ call me calloused , call me cold . ’
‘ you better love me . ’
‘ i would hate to see you go . ’
‘ i hate to be the one that told you so . ’
‘ you just crossed the line , you’ve run out of time . ’
‘ sorry , sorry , i’m sorry , sorry … sike . ’
‘ wake up and smell the coffee . ’
‘ is your cup half full or empty ? ’
‘ i love it when you’re awfully quiet . ’
‘ you don’t have to keep it quiet . ’
‘ i know it makes you nervous , but i promise you it’s worth it . ’
‘ i promise you it’s worth it to show ‘em everything you kept inside . ’
‘ too shy to say , but i hope you stay . ’
𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐓𝐓𝐘 𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐎𝐒𝐂𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐒 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐈𝐈
sentences from amrit brar’s shitty horoscopes series. you may adjust as needed. part i.
BOOK VIII: MEDICINE
❛ you might not be afraid to die, but that doesn’t mean you’re ready. ❜
❛ you were a plague none were prepared for. ❜
❛ you are the mind and the malady, the medicine and the machine. ❜
❛ assholery is incurable. unfortunately. ❜
❛ no one’s going to notice the difference between you pushing dandelions or daisies, so leave them something worth talking about. ❜
❛ there’s no rule stating that parasites can’t be pretty. ❜
❛ justice: just us. ❜
❛ anathema - me without you. ❜
❛ you aren’t obligated to be anyone’s cure. ❜
❛ some are the bandage, some are the knife, some get creative.. ❜
❛ soothe what you can, fight what you can’t. ❜
❛ the only difference between a pathogen and a person is that one is far more creative with how they’ll infect you. ❜
BOOK IX: THE BODY AND THE WRECKAGE
❛ stranger things have happened. like you. you are happening all the time and should probably stop. ❜
❛ let none be the noose. ❜
❛ take what you can and run. ❜
❛ gratuitous violence: unnecessary, satisfying, heartbreaking, and so like everything else you love. ❜
❛ understanding builds bridges, suffering grows gardens, antipathy sets both on fire for shits and giggles. ❜
❛ there is a variety of sadness that makes a home in your guts and never quite leave. ❜
❛ you could have been anyone, operating this body. the good news is that you won! the bad news is that you’re stuck with it. ❜
❛ being loathsome and lovely in equal measure is probably a talent. somewhere. ❜
❛ why fear the dead, when you can fear the living? corpses in motion, cruelty and kindness. ❜
❛ if you’re forging your own path, be prepared to light your own pyre. ❜
❛ what possessed you to come this far? no, honestly. was it cute? ❜
❛ you can’t wrestle apologies from the sea or the sun but by fuck are you every going to try. ❜
BOOK X: LOVERS & LOSERS
❛ pick a place and die there. ❜
❛ i know you mean well. ❜
❛ may fortune favour the fuckups. ❜
❛ remarkable that one plane of existence can host so much (and so little) distance. the spaces between people, ideals, fingertips, the sky and the sea. ❜
❛ learn it’s best to bite your tongue. temper the nest of hornets in your loveless mouth. ❜
❛ i worry. i worry. worry. ❜
❛ time sours, rots, renews, sours again. ❜
❛ grief and growth live hand-in-hand. ❜
❛ sleeping, like dying, delivers you from one world to the next - to rest in crypts and wake in gardens. ❜
❛ words in couples carry weight: “fuck you.” “hell no.” “oh god.” “sorry mom.” ❜
❛ make room for small, fragile things, even with bones like cement and a leaden heart. ❜
❛ you win some, you lose some, you lie, cheat, and swindle some, you vanish on a crisp winter’s day never to be seen again. ❜
BOOK XII: ILLUMINATE
❛ quiet reflection is next to impossible if you mental landscape is one long scream. ❜
❛ you inspire me to be better! a better “what” is up for interpretation. (person? arsonist? alien?) ❜
❛ we don’t know where you came form, but we need you to go back. ❜
❛ the dark doesn’t intend to hurt you - only the creatures who plot during the cruel, cold light of day. ❜
❛ i lived better when i was ignorant of the sun, tucked away in your chest. ❜
❛ there’s asking for forgiveness, there’s asking for permission, and then there’s saying “fuck it,” and doing what you may. ❜
❛ if only it were easy! to wish and want for nothing. if only you weren’t less human for it - wishing and wanting for nothing. ❜
❛ in the end there is no blaze of glory. ❜
❛ love to distraction, die due to carelessness. ❜
❛ in the span of your life there’s plenty to avoid: the wicked, the merciless, the things you want for no reason other than wanting them. ❜
❛ you are dazzling and terrifying - those words are not as removed from one another as you may think. ❜
❛ flirt with death, tease the inevitable, give the void a saucy wink. ❜
BOOK XII: OBITUARIES
❛ things to bother believing in: love, switchblades, extraterrestrials. ❜
❛ let the record show that they were ill-equipped to deal with you. which is unsurprising, since you ill-equipped to deal with you. ❜
❛ you’ll be fertilizer regardless, might as well have interesting stories for the dirt. ❜
❛ there is an exhaustion that comes with living in an embrace like a vice, a kiss like a canker sore. ❜
❛ fear is an absence of understanding. horror is the act of understanding perfectly. ❜
❛ to labour in love, to toil in tenderness. ❜
❛ your love will always be rooted deeper than any grave. ❜
❛ you’ve long seen your downfall spelled out in another’s bones. ❜
❛ the victor spoils, the loser learns. ❜
❛ the body is rot waiting to happen. ❜
❛ you will have never loved for nothing. ❜
❛ the aftermath of you life afford you three real options: obscurity, legend, or horror story. ❜
requinal:
❛ yeah , you know this look already —– which means , ❜ he doesn’t even bother to tone it down , ❛ that you’ve got no say in what I’m about to do . and if you do want to try your luck , then be my guest ! not gonna change anything , CO - CAPTAIN . besides , who doesn’t feel like going on some SHORE LEAVE every so often ? didn’t work out so bad last time , remember ? ❜ | @burneternal + megatron !
should there ever possibly be a moment (primus forbid) he could forget that being on this ship is a punishment, that face is all it takes to remind him. if only it were less painfully so. “that may depend on whose opinion you ask for. but that’s not my problem. my problem is that my co-captain”—at least he can now say that without outwardly cringing—“announced it without first consulting me. there is a procedure, despite how constantly you enjoy flouting it.” how had tarn once put it? the decepticon empire will stand or fall on the strength of its internal administration. an apt sentiment for any time and place. he might have been one sadist among many but at least they’d all understood that.
“i have no issue with the taking of a shore leave itself, particularly when the men have earned it. i may have been a tyrant but i wasn’t a slave-driver.” dear allspark, was this idiot making him start to attempt humour now? “as long as they keep out of trouble. it will be interesting to see how well that’s accomplished if you leave the ship.”
Palpatine raised his clawed hands. “I executed them with these! And with the power of my mind. I became a storm, Magister- a weapon strong enough to warp bulkheads and hurl bodies across cabinspaces. I was death itself!”
Star Wars: Darth Plagueis (2012)
“The pomp of the Jedi was insufferable. I set the Galaxy aflame, my apprentice. I have purged all weakness and impurity. From the ashes, we would have a new age.”
Star Wars: Darth Vader #20 (2016)
It’ll look even better with blood on it. “What makes a man a monster, Tarkin?” - Tarkin (2014), James Luceno
have you ever heard the tragedy of...
DARTH PLAGUEIS THE WISE? I THOUGHT NOT. IT’S NOT A STORY THE JEDI WOULD TELL YOU. IT’S A SITH LEGEND. DARTH PLAGUEIS WAS A DARK LORD OF THE SITH SO POWERFUL AND SO WISE, HE COULD USE THE FORCE TO INFLUENCE THE MIDI-CHLORIANS TO CREATE…LIFE. HE HAD SUCH A KNOWLEDGE OF THE DARK SIDE. HE COULD EVEN KEEP THE ONES HE CARED ABOUT…FROM DYING. THE DARK SIDE OF THE FORCE IS A PATHWAY TO MANY ABILITIES SOME CONSIDER TO BE UNNATURAL…HE BECAME SO POWERFUL. THE ONLY THING HE WAS AFRAID OF WAS…LOSING HIS POWER. WHICH, EVENTUALLY, OF COURSE, HE DID. UNFORTUNATELY, HE TAUGHT HIS APPRENTICE EVERYTHING HE KNEW, THEN HIS APPRENTICE KILLED HIM IN HIS SLEEP. IT’S IRONIC. HE COULD SAVE OTHERS FROM DEATH…BUT NOT HIMSELF.
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‘ i don’t — i don’t know how to do this without you . ’ ( gandalf & saruman )
deep-set eyes bear a gaze as dark and impenetrable as the night around the tower, as the pits dug at its foot; but now there is a moment in which it softens, and the faintest glint of light that had sat so long there in that ancient stare beside wisdom and power and pride returns. for a brief time it seems that even all that cannot protect saruman the wise, high and mighty as he deems himself, from a plea for aid. particularly that uttered by his long-time friend; yet to call the grey one such does not accurately surmise the long ages their bond has endured, and just how the white has valued and cherished it since they first stepped foot in this land of lesser folk. and he wishes it to endure further still, for there had been no other he believed worthy of receiving a chance to join him.
a chance spurned, a choice rejected; and all too suddenly the light fades away, as do the many fine colours of his shimmering robes when the moon passes behind thick clouds of black. there is none left to see by save that from the far-off stars and whatever faint glow of his forges can reach the top of orthanc. “without me?” he echoes, voice honeyed as ever yet sickly so; honeyed in venom and hurt and thinly-veiled rage. “without me? long have i sat here, gandalf, attaining knowledge on the affairs and powers of this world, so that i may counsel those who seek aid appropriately. yet i failed to find you among my frequent visitors. long and far have you travelled, making friends with varied and unsavoury sorts, achieving plenty of your own ends ‘without me’. indeed, it was only at my behest that you came to find yourself here now. and i offered aid unprompted, the path that should clearly be taken, a road which only we together are fit to travel. yet now i see that even the wise can be made fools of, for hoping that you might think better than to continue on ‘without me’. alas! to pursue in your folly without me is what you have decided. do so, then; i will leave you here to ponder on it. there is much work to be done and many matters to attend to. perhaps you will see sense before it is complete, but i know now not to hold such false hope in my heart.” instead a strange sense of sorrow sits deeply there as the wizard turns and descends his tower’s steps, for it almost feels as though the loss of a dearest companion has cast a shadow deeper than any the evil in the east could conjure.
‘ journeys don’t end , not if you love someone . they don’t end at all . ’ river @ twelve :)
i can run away from anything i like, time is not the boss of me. brash and arrogant words spoken a lifetime ago, at the start of that new life of theirs, and of their journey with her. how far they’ve come. it took facing death itself and being reborn yet again to learn they can’t run forever, that not everything can be avoided. they’d told her as much twenty-four years ago but they can’t help but wonder if, after tonight, they’ll take it to heart themselves. there’s another echo of something they said, more recently, in this current life; i’ll get in my box and i’ll run and i’ll run in case all the pain ever catches up. (who had they said that to? the pain of forgetting that is something they’d been dealing with for a while. but being with her made it easier. and they can only think of how apt it would be to repeat now.) they’ve taken precautions, one of which is a recently-assembled egg-looking fellow bustling away somewhere deep in the TARDIS. having nardole after this would help. or just be a nuisance. either way it should be enough of a distraction to keep them from running too far if they do, not that they’ll ever admit to such.
but those thoughts fade away as they once again hear the beautiful music made by the towers, and their wife speaks with that ever-burning hope and optimism that they’ve been so lucky to bask in for this night. it’s one last song for them, and they decide that for this moment, nothing else matters.
“you know i’ve never really been sure if that’s true,” they admit, despite how they’ve tried to believe it before. after all, how many friends and companions had had their journeys end, despite the ferocity of their love? but their mind now turns to a far-off library, with a little girl and living shadows, where an even younger self will be unknowingly starting the journey all over again. they suppose, in that way, she’s right; it will never end for them. and while they can’t honestly say it’s impossible to remember life without her (such is their blessing; such is their curse), they know it will be so much harder to return to it. they also know, however, that it pales in comparison to what she’ll have to face come the next sunrise. so they smile for her, one last time, taking comfort in the fact that they’ll still see each other again when they need it the most. “but now i think it is. more than you even know, river. remember that. i’ll take care of everything else.”
( * & . — THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE SENTENCE STARTERS
* warning : may contain spoilers for episodes one through ten .
‘ if you were me , you wouldn’t be such a fucking asshole . ’
‘ the world out there has teeth and it is hungry and it is stupid and it eats and eats mindlessly . ’
‘ you listen to your gut . even if it makes them hate you . ’
‘ i am a dream and so are you and so are we . ’
‘ you are a looker , aren’t you ? ’
‘ honey , someone’s in the house . ’
‘ i’m dreaming , right ? ’
‘ i just need a little time away . it’s nothing more than that . ’
‘ you’re saying it was an accident , so you accidentally put your hand through a mirror ? ’
‘ i’m scared . that’s all i am . there is nothing else . i’m only scared . ’
‘ do you think there’s something wrong with me ? like , really wrong ? ’
‘ it’s alright , sugar . it’s just a dream — just a screaming meemie . ’
‘ we yield to it or we fight it , but we cannot meet it halfway . ’
‘ i seldom am well behaved . ’
‘ i enjoyed the conversation , but i’m gonna say goodnight . ’
‘ did you just punch me in the boob ? ’
‘ just enjoy me . i’m loving you . ’
‘ i wouldn’t have changed a thing . i need you to know that . ’
‘ forgiveness is warm like a tear on a cheek . ’
‘ i loved you completely and you loved me the same . ’
‘ that’s all . the rest is confetti . ’
‘ forgive a girl for being lonely . ’
‘ there’s nothing sadder than a cold bed . ’
‘ journey’s end when lovers meet . ’
‘ journeys don’t end , not if you love someone . they don’t end at all . ’
‘ probably best you didn’t say anything to them . ’
‘ i’m asking you to love me hard for the next few minutes . ’
‘ i’m gonna jump and i’m asking you to hold my hand while i’m falling . ’
‘ i have something that i have to tell you , but i need you to remember when i do that i love you . ’
‘ i wish i would’ve loved you better . ’
‘ pandas don’t like macaroni . ’
‘ i’m just floating in this ocean of nothing and i wonder if this is it , this is what death is . ’
‘ i wonder if this is what death is , just out there in the darkness , just darkness and numbness and alone . ’
‘ i wondered if that’s what they felt , just numb and nothing and alone . ’
‘ he was a light in the darkness . he was a life preserver in the ocean . ’
‘ i reached for him because i had to feel something . i had to feel anything . ’
‘ god , i’m so glad i did it though . thank god it worked . ’
‘ i felt scared . so fucking scared . ’
‘ honestly i had to do it because it felt better than feeling nothing . ’
‘ that thorough fucking shame was so much better than that horrible empty feeling . ’
‘ you have to live . ’
‘ i don’t — i don’t know how to do this without you . ’
‘ i learned a secret : there is no without . i am not gone . i am scattered into so many pieces , sprinkled on your life like new snow . ’
‘ when we die , we turn into stories and every time someone tells one of those stories it’s like we’re still here . ’
‘ we’re all stories in the end . ’
‘ you’re supposed to protect me , but you say the meanest things to me when i try to tell you things . ’
‘ that was really wild stuff . ’
‘ that was really wild stuff considering you were asleep for , what , like… ninety-nine percent of it ? ’
‘ i’m sorry . i should have made more of an effort with you . ’
‘ you tried the best that you could . i should’ve met you halfway . ’
‘ people fuck up . i guess you don’t get that — you really don’t get it until you fuck up . really fuck up . ’
‘ i felt… nothing . just nothing . and it spread everywhere in me , this nothing , until i couldn’t feel anything anymore . i was just this dark , empty black hole . ’
‘ i felt nothing and so i drank and i drank and nothing worked . i couldn’t feel anything . ’
@vlchtsa
“i’ve come for the girl in the window.”
for a brief second they wonder how a scottish accent might sound in russian. could stick out a bit. still, they’re sure if they ask for some whiskey they’ll fit right in. “well, i haven’t really,” they go on, flashing the young girl a grin. “sort of. that just seems to be what everyone on this street says. it is you i’m looking for, but not to take you out for a hat. unless you want a hat. haven’t got any money though.” another grin as they straighten up and dust snow off their shoulders. “ah, can i come in? or are you gonna come out? there’s no point in us both standing here until we freeze to death.”
demijn:
❛❛ I trade in something that’s far more valuable than MONEY : information . ❜❜ shame , like he once said ; the shame of men who thought their deeds had gone unnoticed —- but not by kaz , not by the man who aims to know the world to use its shame as the NOOSE to hang it from . ❛❛ though I’m not known to turn payment down . now , which one do YOU have to offer me ? ❜❜ | open !
scowl deepens behind blackened lenses. that the child has immediately uttered such a piece of wisdom does nothing to make his insolence permissible. and a child he is, despite his posturing; vader can see that clearly. i am well accustomed to killing children. “i offer nothing. i permit the chance for you to remain alive. your assistance was recommended. not required.” a hand shifts from gripping his belt to brush along the hilt attached to it. “do not make demands of me. then you may live to receive a reward equal to what service you can provide.”
DEATHLESS.
the following prompts were taken from the novel deathless by catherynne m. valente, an american novelist & poet. the novel was loosely based on the tale of koschei the deathless, incorporating other elements of russian mythology, & setting it against the backdrop of the russian revolution. feel free to change the pronouns / prompts as you see fit, but be warned – below the cut, it’s quite long !
❛ the service of your body is not yours to give as you please. ❜
❛ you probably won’t survive. ❜
❛ go. run. don’t look behind you. ❜
❛ i have come for the girl in the window. ❜
❛ i will never be without information. ❜
❛ i will see him with his skin off before i fall in love. ❜
❛ if the world is divided into seeing & not seeing, i will always choose to see. ❜
❛ secrets are jealous things, permitting no fraternization. ❜
❛ no, it’s not like that, when magic comes. ❜
❛ magic does that. it wastes you away. once it grips you by the ear, the world gets quieter & quieter until you can hardly hear it at all. ❜
❛ the sight of it bruised my heart so that i cannot think about anything else. ❜
❛ i’ll be so quiet, i’ll never talk again. ❜
❛ keep me & obey me, for i am your husband, & i can destroy you. ❜
❛ i shall be clever, & i shall not let him go. ❜
❛ it is a new world, & we do not wish to be left behind. ❜
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