*PAIGE

✫ · 　 . ✦ 　. 　 paige. she/they. 21. infp 　　 ⊹ 　 ⋆ 　 . * * 　 ˚ 　 ˚ * 　　 ⊹ * ⊹ ✷ 　 · * * 　.　 　　 ⊹ 　 ⋆ 　 . * * ✷ 　 · * * 　.　 Trying to get back into the rp community after a 5+ year hiatus! Hmu :) ✷ 　 · * * 　.　 　　 ⊹ 　 ⋆ 　 . * *

[heireating]

                 BOOK STARTERS VOL.11      ( ANNA KARENINA )       ( LEO TOLSTOY ) 

❛ All happy families are alike but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. ❜

❛ If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content. ❜

❛ There are as many minds as there are heads. ❜

❛ There are as many kinds of love as there are hearts. ❜

❛ Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels? ❜

❛ Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver! ❜

❛ Anything is better than lies and deceit! ❜

❛ It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it. ❜

❛ If you love me as you say you do, make it so that I am at peace. ❜

❛ I don’t want to prove anything, I just want to live. ❜

❛ It’s hard to love a woman and do anything at all. ❜

❛ The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable. ❜

❛ Love even those who hate you. ❜

❛ Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget. ❜

❛ I’m like a starving man who has been given food. ❜

❛ There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed. ❜

❛ Enough or not – it will have to do. ❜

❛ I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now. ❜

❛ Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people – that’s in your hands. ❜

❛ I don’t allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment. ❜

❛ There can be no peace for us, only misery. ❜

❛ The pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in searching for it. ❜

❛ One must live for the needs of the day, in other words, become oblivious. ❜

❛ We are all created to be miserable. ❜

❛ When one sees the truth, what is one to do? ❜

❛ You’re not going to get away with it. ❜

❛ Where love ends, hate begins. ❜

❛ I’m afraid I’m becoming ridiculous. ❜

❛ Command me to disappear, and I’ll disappear. ❜

❛ You shall not see me again if my presence is distasteful to you. ❜

❛ I can’t think of you and myself apart. ❜

❛ Whomever the gods wish to destroy, they first drive mad. ❜

❛ They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox. ❜

❛ It is terrible but true. ❜

❛ When you understand that you will die tomorrow, if not today, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant. ❜

❛ What’s all this arguing? Pointless. No one ever convinces anyone else anyway. ❜

❛ I didn’t know you were leaving already. ❜

❛ Ideas, work - it’s all dust and ashes. ❜

❛ I have nothing but you, remember that. ❜

❛ Where am I? ❜

❛ There is something in me, hateful, repulsive. ❜

❛ I don’t get on with other people. ❜

❛ No, I have no pride. If I had any pride, I should not have put myself in such a position. ❜

❛ It means such a great deal to me, far more than you can understand. ❜

❛ You have conquered me, I am yours. ❜

❛ If I could ever forget and forgive what happened. ❜

❛ I have never ceased to love you. ❜

❛ It is as if all that was good in me has hidden itself, and only what is horrid remains. ❜

❛ That only shows you have no heart. ❜

❛ I hate them all, and you, and myself. ❜

❛ Vengeance is mine, I will repay. ❜

❛ It’s all the same to me. ❜

❛ I don’t imagine that I shan’t appreciate your choice. ❜

❛ What shall we drink? ❜

❛ I’m not living, I’m waiting for a solution. ❜

❛ If one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. ❜

❛ The one sure and never - failing resource is slander. ❜

❛ If I do not succeed, still I will have known happiness. ❜

❛ I must ask what it is you want of me. ❜

❛ I want love, and there is none. ❜

[givemeameme-blog]

Fantasy Sentence Starters - Archery Edition

“Draw back, find your target, and then fire.” “Mind that bowstring doesn’t get wet.” “This takes more strength than I thought it would.” “You’re almost out of arrows.” “I’ve been trying for hours and I can’t even hit the target, nevermind the mark.” “Hey! Watch where you’re walking!” “Alright, new plan. Find me a crossbow.” “Think you can check the tension on this?” “Your stance is all wrong. How are you ever going to get better if you don’t work on the basics?” “Screw it. I’ll throw knives instead.” “We’re firing into the wind here.” “Archers! Cover me!” “I swear I have no idea what I’m doing.” “This? I found it. Watch me make an idiot of myself trying to shoot it.” “Have you any idea how hard it is to fire arrows while mounted?” “See, I told you you could do it.” “That was a difficult shot.” “The tips are poisoned, so be careful.”

[johannescena]

42 character development questions!

PHYSICAL PRESENCE AND GESTURE. 1. How do they move and carry themselves? Pace, rhythm, gestures, energy? 2. How much physical space do they use, active and at rest? 3. How do they position themselves in a group? Do they like to be the center of attention, or do they hang back at the edges of a crowd? 4. What is their size and build? How does it influence how they use their body, if it does? 5. How do they dress? What styles, colors, accessories, and other possessions do they favor? Why? 6. What are they like in motion–in different environments, and in different activities? What causes the differences between these? 7. How do they physically engage with other people, inanimate objects, and their environment? What causes the differences between these? 8. Where and when do they seem most and least at ease? Why? How can you tell? 9. How do they manifest energy, exhaustion, tension, or other strong emotions? 10. What energizes and drains them most? 11. How are they vocally expressive? What kind of voice, accent, tones, inflections, volume, phrases and slang, and manner of speaking do they use? 12. How are they bodily expressive? How do they use nonverbal cues such as their posture, stance, eyes, eyebrows, mouths, and hands? DISPOSITION AND TEMPERAMENT. 13. How do they greet the world — what is their typical attitude towards life? How does it differ in different circumstances, or towards different subjects? Why do they take these attitudes, and why do they change? How do these tend to be expressed? 14. What do they care deeply about? What kind of loyalties, commitments, moral codes, life philosophies, passions, callings, or spirituality and faith do they have? How do these tend to be expressed? 15. What kind of inner life do they have — rich and imaginative? Calculating and practical? Full of doubts and fears? Does it find any sort of outlet in their lives? 16. Do they dream? What are those dreams like? 17. Are they more shaped by nature or nurture — who they are, or what has happened to them? How have these shaped who they’ve become as a person? 18. What kind of person could they become in the future? What are some developmental paths that they could take, (best, worst, most likely?) what would cause them to come to pass, and what consequences might they have? What paths would you especially like to see, and why? CONNECTIONS WITH OTHERS. 19. How do they behave within a group? What role(s) do they take? Does this differ if they know and trust the group, versus finding themselves in a group of strangers? Why? 20. What kind of individual relationships do they have with others, and how do they behave in them? How are they different between intimate relationships like friends, family, and lovers versus more impersonal relationships? 21. What kind of relationships do they tend to intentionally seek out versus actually cultivate? What kind of social contact do they prefer, and why? 22. How do people respond to them, and why might these responses differ? 23. How do they respond to difficult social moments? What makes them consider a social situation difficult? 24. How do they present themselves socially? What distinguishes their “persona” from their “true self”, and what causes that difference? 25. What do they need and want out of relationships, and how do they go about getting it? 26. How do they view and feel about relationships, and how might this manifest in how they handle them, if it does? ACTIVITIES AND PREFERENCES. 27. What do they strongly like and dislike, in any category? Why? 28. What are they likely to do if they have the opportunity, resources, and time to accomplish it? Why? 29. What kind of activities, interests, and hobbies do they have? What significance and impact do these have in their lives, both positive and negative? 30. What is their preferred level of activity and stimulation? How do they cope if they get either too little or too much? 31. Is there anything that counts as a “dealbreaker” for them, positively or negatively? What makes things go smoothly, and what spoils an activity or ruins their day? Why? 32. Do they have any “props” that are a significant part of their life, identity, activities, or self-presentation somehow? What are they, how are they used, and why are they so significant? How would these props’ absence impact them, how would they compensate, and why? THINKING AND LEARNING. 33. How do they learn about the world–what is their preferred learning style? Hands-on learning with trial and error? Research, reading, and note-taking? Observation or rote memorization? Inductive or deductive reasoning? Seeking patterns and organization? Taking things apart and putting them back together? Creative processing via discussing, writing about, or dramatizing things? 34. How do they understand the world–what kind of worldview and thought processes do they have? Why? 35. How and why do they internalize knowledge? What effect has that had on them? 36. How much do they rely on their minds and intellect, versus other approaches like relying on instinct, intuition, faith and spirituality, or emotions? What is their opinion on this? 37. Have they had any special education or training that colors their means of learning about or understanding the world? Conversely, do they lack some kind of education considered essential in their world? What kind of impact has this addition or lack had on them? 38. Is there anything they wish they could change about their worldview or thought processes? What, and why? 39. What sort of questions or thoughts recur in their lives, either specifically or as a theme? Why are these never answered, or answered permanently to their satisfaction? 40. What do they wonder about? What sparks their curiosity and imagination, and why? How is this expressed, if it is? FREE FOR ALL. 41. What associations do they bring to mind? Words or phrases, images, metaphors or motifs? Why? 42. I have a question of my own!

[chorta]

          — rough hands gripped his shoulders and chin, forcing him to look skyward at the nighttime painted with a dusty palette of bruised blues and blacks. “Look again at the sky,” his breath smelt like decay against his nose and Adlan wanted to throw up, “what’s out there, that’s home, that’s us. On and around it is everyone you love, everyone who loved you, everyone who could ever love. Who has or hasn’t isn’t the question, but who can or does is. Every living person with a soul in the history of our species lived there on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam, and you really want to end that?”

[iamjapanese]

UEHARA Konen（上原古年 Japanese, 1878-1940）

Waves   波濤図  1900-1920  woodcut print    via