i am not a prince

the beast. an amalgam of many versions of the story. written by bel

[duprince]

“When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”

[duprince]

@imbicilite for liking this post! 

“Save your compliments, they mean nothing to me - I am the Beast, do you understand? I am no ‘sir’.” There was almost a sneer on his face, thin, animal lips curled as he turned from the man, a tufted tail peeking out from the sweeping cape at the creature’s back.

[duprince]

“i’m strange and offputting.” ( from arnold over on tiimescout 🐸 )

Just a shadow of a smile passed over the Beast’s face. Such words weren’t so foreign to him, although they were usually in his own mind, repeated as fact in his more melancholy moments. 

“What is it that makes you any more ... off-putting than the rest of them?” In his time alone, the Beast could view men as an ‘other’. He didn’t need to compare himself to them, because there was no longer anything to compare. That this person should have anything more about him that would make him at odds with everyone else - well, it seemed both ridiculous and pitiable.

[phantomemes]

sentences from the youtube series  ,  buzzfeed unsolved .  primarily taken from season 5′s supernatural investigations .

“ it doesn’t matter because you’re dead ”

“ it’s not impressive  ,  no one’s impressed ”

“ the spot of your death is now a lovely gift shop ”

“ as god as my witness  ,  he snapped him in half ”

“ i seriously want you to throw something right at my face ”

“ you can live in the cave ”

“ i’m a big fan of your name ”

“ the fact that you steal  ,  that’s really funny to me ”

“ that’s the greatest thing to steal  :  a man’s joy ”

“ because i’m a masochist ”

“ i’m going to regret this ”

“ i’ve lost the ability to feel ”

“ they’re gonna fucking murder you ”

“ the way you shushed me was quite rude ”

“ cowards  ,  all of you ”

“ i’m strange and off putting ”

“ i should not feel confident in the face of any man ”

“ here you are  ,  smiling in the face of the devil ”

“ i hate bats ”

“ bats sometimes carry rabies and that’s a thing i’m afraid of ”

“ not today devil birds  ,  not today ”

“ i think i’m blacking out right now ”

“ i don’t think i’m going to remember this moment ”

“ i think i’m gonna cry ”

“ i keep forgetting there’s ghosts in here ”

“ if you know me and my debilitating fear of bears  ,  this is my worst nightmare ”

“ i’m standing on an altar alone ”

“ maybe you’ll wake up in the middle of the night and eat your cat ”

“ i’m so glad that’s over let’s go eat taco bell ”

“ were you making horse noises ? ”

“ in case any of you needed a reminder this place is a twisting nightmare ”

“ there’s a good chance i’m gonna fart in here ”

“ well this is horrifying ”

“ let’s do each other a favor and not show ourselves to each other ”

“ if you could do me a big solid and not do anything that would be sublime ”

“ this is just as horrifying as i thought it would be ”

“ you talk to hide from the silence ”

“ do i look like the kind of man who could give advice ? ”

“ several bad choices have lead me to this moment ”

“ let’s play look at the ceiling tiles !  1 , 2 , 3 , 4 … ”

“ i just wanna know if you think they have belly buttons ”

“ i did meet some of the most insufferable people but they also met me ”

“ if it sounds like a duck and walks like a duck ”

[duprince]

trying to break back into writing and fandom stuff, so if you’d be interested in writing with a somewhat disney-inspired (but also a few other iterations) Beast of Beauty and the Beast, go ahead and give this a like or a reblog, and i’ll write you up a quick little starter!

[duprince]

tiimescout·:

the look was lost on the florist’s son —- arnold had never been all that adept at reading facial expressions. he didn’t exactly understand the turmoil that louis went through. ❝ why wouldn’t they welcome you? ❞ it didn’t dawn on him that the other villagers would be terrified. to him, louis was nice —- there wasn’t cause for fear. 

❝ —-wait! how do you know you’re not welcome if you’ve never even been to the village? surely they can’t hate you if they’ve never met you before! ❞ 

The Beast wasn’t a violent creature (nor had he been a particularly violent man, before the curse) by nature, although his appearance belied that fact. That the young man so easily seemed to overlook the clear dilemma of his beastly form almost frustrated the Beast, so used to being forced to acknowledge it every time he took a breath or stalked down the long halls.

A hiss of breath escaped him at the question, and then again as it was repeated, as though he hadn’t heard it the first time. “I can scarcely imagine their reaction to be anything but duly horrified when a monster descends among them. Wolves are enough of a threat to them, but what of a creature that can kill one with its two paws?”

[misterhunnam]

CHARLIE HUNNAM as Henri ‘Papillon’ Charrière

in ‘Papillon’ (2018). | Dir. Michael Noer

[rarerpmemes]

the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald; starter sentences.

❛ So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. ❜

❛ I hope she’ll be a fool – that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. ❜

❛ Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away. ❜

❛ And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy. ❜

❛ I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. ❜

❛ Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead. ❜

❛ You see I usually find myself among strangers, because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me. ❜

❛ There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired. ❜

❛ In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. ❜

❛ Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope. ❜

❛ Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. ❜

❛ Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!❜

❛ It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people. ❜

❛ So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight. ❜

❛ All I kept thinking about, over and over, was ‘You can’t live forever; you can’t live forever.’ ❜

❛ I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others–young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life. ❜

❛ No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart. ❜

❛ It takes two to make an accident. ❜

❛ Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures. ❜

❛ He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man. ❜

❛ There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind… ❜

❛ But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires. ❜

❛ I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it! ❜

❛ I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library. ❜

❛ Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window. ❜

❛ It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again. ❜

❛ The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain. ❜

❛ I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known. ❜

❛ So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight – watching over nothing. ❜

❛ Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply. ❜

❛ The rich get richer and the poor get – children. ❜

❛ I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone’s away. There’s something very sensuous about it – overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands. ❜

❛ The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun. ❜

❛ Murder your darlings. ❜

❛ It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such – such beautiful shirts before. ❜

❛ Human sympathy has its limits. ❜

❛ A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about. ❜

❛ I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. ❜

❛ I can’t describe to you how surprised I was to find out I loved her, old sport. ❜

❛ I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. ❜

❛ That voice was a deathless song. ❜

❛ I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie. ❜

❛ All the bright precious things fade so fast, and they don’t come back. ❜

❛ But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot. ❜

❛ She was incurably dishonest. ❜

❛ What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do? ❜

❛ Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on. ❜

❛ Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don’t in the beginning. ❜

❛ I’d like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around. ❜

❛ I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade. ❜

❛ God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing. You may fool me, but you can’t fool God! ❜

❛ He’s so dumb he doesn’t know he’s alive. ❜

❛ I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything. ❜

[tiimescout]

❝ have you ever thought of simply leaving your castle? it must get awfully lonely up here, unable to meet new people! ❞ he adored meeting new people, even if new people weren’t exactly delighted to meet him. ❝ the village isn’t all that far away! ❞

// for @duprince for being too sweet!

[duprince]

The long look the Beast gave him might’ve been enough for some, some mix of exasperation and resignation. Leaving the castle had, in fact, been at the forefront of his mind for years. Unfortunately, there was nowhere for him to go. After all, the castle itself wasn’t what he wanted to escape from. “And go where? Do you truly think a village would welcome something that looks like me?” A rather frustrated, if not outright disgusted gesture toward himself. “I have a revelation that may not have occurred to you, Monsieur. I am not welcome.”

[duprince]

@tiimescout this is a call out. You're cute as heck. That is all.

[duprince]

@jouesrose

"The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes."

[duprince]

Heading home in a few mniutes, but go ahead and like this and I’ll try and throw up a little one-sentence starter for you. Alternatively, go ahead and IM me and I’d be happy to plot something out! (Or, if you’re interested in chatting on Discord, feel free to hit me up for that too!)

[duprince]

@bellethebravebookworm continued from here!

The Beast had been careful to spare Belle his presence. He hadn't missed her shock at his appearance (and who could blame her?), and while his ire had faded at the crime her father had committed, the arrangement was not something he could simply back out of. He could tell her nothing of the enchantment, and likewise, he couldn't release her. Of course, it occurred to him, several times, that perhaps Belle was the one to cure him of his curse, but the thoughts were brief, and brought on by desperation rather than his waning reason.

She was still smiling as she spoke. Of course, he noticed that, just like he noticed the way her eyes met his, and the way she hadn't recoiled when he looked at her. He had had no real visitors in his time, but his own revulsion at his form spoke volumes about what a young woman must think of it.

"Hope is a strong word." He hoped for company as one might hope for salvation - a far-away desire that had no bearing on one's daily activities. "It is entirely possible our interests do not align in a way that would allow us to be... good company." Although Belle had been gracious, albeit stubborn.

He blinked slowly, to prevent himself looking over at Belle again, but found himself angling in her direction just the same. So much for his self-control.

"I am sure you could find some springs somewhere in the castle if you find the table lacking." It was a joke, albeit a weak, surprisingly tentative one. "If you would have me again, I would join you again," he confessed, although soup was hardly what he needed in order to remain properly fed. A monster did not eat as a man, after all.

A slight movement of the cloak at his back, and large, though slender paws carried him past Belle finally, although it was only to the hearth, where a fire roared, as it did in nearly every room that allowed it. "I have been the only resident here for some time. There is not a 'before' to speak of." Not entirely true, but not entirely false, either. Certainly, there was little more he could reveal on the matter.

[duprince]

“ I didn’t think you’d agree to eat with me- surprisingly- I had a nice time.” (Starter if that’s okay,bellethebravrbookworm)

@bellethebravebookworm

A slightly dry smile pulled at the creature’s lips at the admission, and he looked to Belle briefly as if to gauge how truthful she was being. After all, enjoying dinner with a Beast that could hardly hold a spoon anymore seemed many things, but nice hadn’t crossed his mind. Still, nothing made her look as though she was lying - and why would she need to? He’d afforded her nothing but privacy and the luxury that the castle provided besides his own, brief company.

“I was... pleased that you made the offer. I have not had company for dinner in some time.” Years, of course, at least a decade. But then, he hadn’t had company for anything in just as long.

“Have you been enjoying the castle?” Perhaps adjusting would’ve been a more appropriate word. A small worry that the girl had been left with nothing to do niggled at him, unpleasantly, although he reminded himself that there were gardens to explore and books to be enjoyed, even if there was no ability to go beyond the grounds.

[duprince]

"I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability."

[duprince]

❝ Don't address me as "sir." I'm called the Beast! I don't like compliments. Don't try to understand. ❞

independent Beast/Prince from a mishmash of Beauty and the Beast stories written by bel

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[pdqsketch]

A doodle I did this morning versus a doodle I did this evening…. though it’s nearly 2am so I guess it’s technically morning again.