SOOTHSAYER.

o ye prodigal child

[eldermarked-blog]

NOTICE

nyx is also moving to my still under construction multimuse, @destinysought 

again, keeping my threads, if it’s your turn please tag me in your reply so i see it!

[thelovejournals]

…I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

Daphne du Maurier, “The Lover”

[tychememes-blog]

author: lostcap  /  poems used: x . x . x . x . x . x . x . x . x . x . x . x . x . x . x . x  * do not remove this credit , thank you.

❛ what a modern fucking tragedy you turned out to be. ❜ ❛ what do you think the stars wish for then? ❜ ❛ maybe i could have loved you in any life but ours. ❜ ❛ i used to ache for a hurricane, an earthquake. ❜ ❛ i found a catalyst for disaster in you. ❜ ❛ is this what happens when the poem ends? ❜ ❛ i found religion in betrayal. ❜ ❛ things like us only exist in dreams. ❜ ❛ you can’t give your storms to someone else. ❜ ❛ nothing lasts forever, not even the rain. ❜ ❛ it’s okay to fear. ❜ ❛ don’t claw out your own throat while waiting for someone else to scream. ❜ ❛ you are memories and moments. ❜ ❛ in some other universe you’re asleep. ❜ ❛ everyone leaves. let them. ❜ ❛ you are not a ghost.  ❜ ❛ you can’t haunt those that forget you. ❜ ❛ everything ends and it’s okay. ❜ ❛ my heart kept beating, out of sync with yours. ❜ ❛ maybe i get to have a reason for the ache you left in my chest. ❜ ❛ you exist still. ❜ ❛ we can’t remember how to be alive. ❜ ❛ the heavens burn for you and i. ❜ ❛ every star is another story, every night a different sky. ❜ ❛ we end to begin again. ❜ ❛ beyond every somewhere, we exist. ❜ ❛ the gods lie as often as men. ❜ ❛ i sit not upon a throne of bone. ❜ ❛ my kingdom wasn’t chosen. ❜ ❛ the dead of mine do not speak. ❜ ❛ history will write that you were the bravest of them all. ❜ ❛ all stars must burn. ❜ ❛ the greatest things must end. ❜ ❛ hell is just another place i guess i’ll go to keep you warm. ❜ ❛ if the monster always dies at the end of the book, why am i still alive? ❜ ❛ gods don’t care about what might have been. ❜ ❛ men shall fall and gods be forgotten. ❜ ❛ you will be remembered eternally. ❜

[myrmidon-son-deactivated2018060]

@eldermarked

“WHAT A CUTE LITTLE GIRL.”

–– Morgan sheathed his sword and lowered his hood, grinning. He knew that calling Nyx a “little girl” made her upset. He liked to watch her grumble about it, and he liked to poke and prod at what annoyed her. There was something about Nyx that made her so easy to pick on; Morgan figured it was her cute, girlish face and the reactions she gave. It was like annoying a tutor to him, doing things deliberately wrong to get a rise out of them. Morgan knew what Nyx hated, and he’d always get her to show it.

He never went too far, though. Morgan had a distrust for magic and he knew what the ancient sorceress was capable of. Somehow, he’d never been cursed by her, never suffered punishment at the pages of her tome. He knew his limits. He had grown up with a sorceress who also happened to be an evil dragon; he knew not to anger them, never to push too far so as to damn yourself.

But somehow, just by birth, he’d already been damned.

Morgan’s smug grin disappeared as he got closer to Nyx. He was no longer smiling, but he looked softer, no longer so condescending. He held out a large hand with long, thin fingers for a familiar handshake.

“Long time, no see. How have you been?”

[eldermarked-blog]

    A scowl twists her lips, and she pins him with a glare as he approaches, though there’s little malice behind either action. As much as she dislikes being called a little girl, she’s come to accept that Morgan does as he pleases, and she sees little point getting genuinely angry with him at this point. After all, he’s usually careful not to cross the line into anything that might actually hurt, staying well within the realm of an annoyance. 

    And so, once he’s close enough to extend his hand, she clasps it with her own, her sour expression vanishing in favor of a softer one.

    “It has been an awfully long time, yes, though I’m afraid little has changed for me. And you? I take it you’ve been well?”

[thequotejournals]

We don’t realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone

Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You

[thequotejournals]

If you find yourself constantly trying to prove your worth to someone, you have already forgotten your value.

Unknown 

[wnq-movies]

It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.

Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot

[wordsnquotes]

People think of education as something they can finish.

Isaac Asimov

[wordsnquotes]

It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.

Stanley Kubrick

[divinitysquander]

AMERICAN GODS SENTENCE STARTERS

episode six - a murder of gods.

❝ you saved me. thank you. ❞

❝ you already know my name. ❞

❝ what are they ? ❞

❝ oh motherfucker, you never just answer a fucking question ! ❞

❝ that’s not a question, ___ , a question would be: what do you believe you saw ? ❞

❝ i don’t know what i believe. ❞

❝ it was a warning to me, and a sacrifice to them. ❞

❝ sacrifice ? like –– like what, for –– for a god ? ❞

❝ what’s a god ? can we even know they exist ? people believe things, which means they’re real. that means we know they exist. so what came first ? gods ? or the people who believed in them ? ❞

❝ where was all this before i met you ? ❞

❝ there’s always a window. but people are frightened to look through it. it’s safer in the prison cell. ❞

❝ we’re not safe now. ❞

❝ who are you ? ❞

❝ i believe in some things. ❞

❝ your wife obviously has a temper. not used to getting her way, huh ? ❞

❝ your dearly departed has departed and i suggest we should do the same. ❞

❝ was she a ghost ? i mean, do you think you saw a ghost ? ❞

❝ you know, you’re not questioning any of this. i’m questioning everything right now. ❞

❝ i’m not so young nor so narrow to assume the dead are dead, and there’s no spectrum or spectral in between. in my experience, the dead that aren’t rarely come back without purpose. ❞

❝ her purpose was to let you go, now get in. ❞

❝ now you’ve seen who’s after us, and you know what they’re capable of. you can hang around here if you want, but i’m getting out of here. ❞

❝ fuck ! where the fuck is my car ! ❞

❝ yes, it does belong to the dead woman, i am the dead woman. where’s my fucking car ? ❞

❝ first piece of luck i’ve had in days. ❞

❝ worse things out tonight than you. ❞

❝ isn’t she lovely ? ❞

❝ i’ve done the math. this times that equals you’re a cunt, divided by the only way i’m gonna get what i need is if you give it to me equals the only way you’re gonna give it to me is if you don’t need it. ❞

❝ like my friend jesus christ, the only thing you need, ___ , is resurrection. ❞

❝ did you just name drop jesus christ like you know a guy who knows a guy ? ❞

❝ i can be very convincing. ❞

❝ is this you being convincing now ? because you suck at it. ❞

❝ i’m trying to convince you to live. real living. not whatever rot living this is. ❞

❝ why don’t you put that on your fucking scales and weigh it ? ❞

❝ what the fuck are you ? i mean, what the fuck are any of you, but first, tell me, what the fuck are you ? seriously, what the fuck are you ?! ❞

❝ please stop stealing my cab. ❞

❝ i have been traveling in the direction of mecca for days, looking for a jinn. ❞

❝ i’ll tell you where to find a whole murder of gods, demi and otherwise. every god damned one of them. ❞

❝ i know a charm that can lift grief from a grieving heart. ❞

❝ do you know a charm that can stop bleeding ? ❞

❝ i know a charm that can cure sickness and pain and a charm that can turn away the weapons of enemies. i know a charm that can heal with a touch. ❞

❝ excuse the cold hands. ❞

❝ there’s always been a god shaped hole in man’s head. trees were the first to fill it. ❞

❝ mr. wood was the trees, mr. wood was the forest. see, he was a very old god who saw something very new. he saw a god fearing society turn towards complete industrialization. so what did he do ? he sacrificed his trees, he sacrificed his forest, and he became something else. ❞

❝ well, at this stage it’s ‘we’ll see’, or, ‘time will tell’, but if it’ll rest your weary head, then yeah, it’s gone. ❞

❝ religion inspires in those who fear nothing, fear of the gods, and using that fear requires a certain element of fucked up. ❞

❝ i’m not scared of anything anymore. ❞

❝ i’m scared you’re never gonna shut that flapping hole of yours. i’m sitting here having a fucking anxiety attack because i am genuinely terrified that you are never gonna shut the fuck up. ❞

❝ did you kill ___ ? i won’t tell. ❞

❝ my name is ___. or … it was ___. i do not know what my name is now. ❞

❝ i just realized that i’m never gonna see my mother again. i’m never gonna hear her say my name again. i’m never gonna eat her cooking again. ❞

❝ are you dead ? ❞

❝ this is my afterlife, ___. ❞

❝ did you pray for another life ? ❞

❝ i do not pray to ask god for things. i pray to thank god, for bringing me where i am. to this time, to this place, where i finally know what i must do in this life. ❞

❝ i pray i find ___. he is my afterlife. i knew him. we knew each other. and now i wish to know more. ❞

❝ people will defend the warm safe feeling their america gives them. they will defend it with bullets. ❞

❝ less a funeral than a celebration of a sacrifice. ❞

❝ if i know my friend, somebody got tossed into the volcano. ❞

❝ this was a human sacrifice ? ❞ 

❝ that’s him. head of the crowd. the one they flock to. ❞

❝ please, go in peace. ❞

❝ what rock did you crawl out from under ? ❞

❝ playing a little hide and seek. hiding from the proverbial them, and seeking … you. ❞

❝ i need you to believe in me. ❞

❝ i’ve heard your name on the wind. ❞

❝ we’re at war already, and we’re losing. you, me, all of us. they’re taking honey from our mouths. ❞

❝ i have no use for shame. ❞

❝ it’s easier to pass for the living in the dark, if i felt the need to pass. ❞

❝ your heart’s not beating for this life anymore, ___. this life is done. ❞

❝ that doesn’t obligate him to feel shit. ❞

❝ perhaps i misjudged the kiss. ❞

❝ death do us part, take the fucking hint. he’s gone. your man came, saw you, tasted death on your tongue, and he fucking left. ❞

❝ your kind of love, ___, is the worst kind of love of them all. you can love somebody even when you know they don’t like it. even when you know they don’t want it. ❞

❝ that’s some profound fucking knowledge for you right there, wrapped up in a quaint sexual metaphor. ❞

❝ people do tend to behave if they know they’re being watched. they like being watched. ❞

❝ somebody’s watching. somebody’s always watching. ❞

❝ what did you do to become the god of this little universe that you’ve created ? ❞

❝ you’re no stranger to sacrifice. ❞

❝ they don’t sacrifice anymore. not to me. ❞

❝ you could always sacrifice yourself. you’ve done it before. ❞

❝ you ever see a man hanged, ___ ? throat crushed, gasping for life. it’s a terrible way to find your faith. faith doesn’t have to leave the faithful dangling. ❞

❝ you are what you worship. ❞

❝ the power of fire is firepower. ❞

❝ not god, but godlike. and they believe. ❞

❝ god bless the believers. ❞

❝ i’ll make you a blade worthy of a god. ❞

❝ i know who he is, and who he’s always been. i can depend on that. ❞

❝ you’re not here at the moment. you’re distracted. i wonder why. ❞

❝ she’s out in the cold, but … she doesn’t feel it anymore. or maybe … maybe it’s all she feels, now. ❞

❝ they make blood sacrifices to you. ❞

❝ you could use a blood sacrifice. ❞

❝ you sold us out. ❞

❝ you saw what i was. i was a story people forgot to remember to tell. and they gave me a gun. they put power back in my hands. and i gotta tell you; it feels good. ❞

❝ i never needed my religion to be moral. ❞

❝ moralizing religions are materialistic ones. they all need their martyrs. ❞

❝ i’m laying down a curse. i’m cursing the whole fucking thing. ❞

❝ god is great. ❞

❝ life is great. ❞

[rilesmemesarchive]

A watched pot never boils.

Don’t sneak up on me, man!

What about the big heads?  Don’t you want to see the big heads?

No!  That’s the wrong direction!

Our whole job is a scavenger hunt.

My immortality makes me a living artifact.

I didn’t put in the wrong answer.

The answer’s fire, I swear!

Now you know how I feel.

We’re all experts in our fields.

Let’s be dumb, smartly.

Well finally.  How man Librarians does it take to get _________ out of a box?

We had to be dumb.

Yes well, I’m sure that was difficult.

Give me one good reason I should not squeeze the life out of her right now.

It requires a human sacrifice.

I love you.  Always and forever.

Psycho look in the eyes is right though.

Welcome to the human race.

You know, you guys could have thought of that a lot sooner.  Saved me a lot of trouble.

Clever Librarians.

Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.

I’ll make tea.

[glamrpmemes]

★*ﾟ‘ﾟ･Taylor Swift (Unreleased)

here is a bunch of sentence starters of lyrics from taylor swifts unreleased music. ( this is part one)

❝ Yeah, I slept in my makeup again ❞ ❝ He tried to teach me from the very start the meaning of love so nobody breaks my heart  ❞ ❝ I have always been a bit reckless ❞ ❝ I’m fine just a bit of a mess ❞ ❝ And sometimes I think of you late at night. I don’t know why ❞ ❝ I want to be everything you need ❞ ❝ Let me love you ❞ ❝ Life’s so sweet right here ❞ ❝ We don’t have to do things their way ❞ ❝ I’d have never guessed that starting over would look so good on you ❞ ❝ So many things that I forgot to say ❞ ❝ I should’ve let you know all the ways you made me feel alive ❞ ❝ I’d say the chances of that are getting slim ❞ ❝ If you ever wondered still got the same old number; just in case ❞ ❝ I must’ve been crazy to let you get away ❞ ❝ Any day now, they’re talking war ❞  ❝ I always knew this time would come ❞ ❝ This crazy world’s come undone ❞ ❝ I knew I wasn’t gonna take this very well ❞ ❝ I’ll pray for you and me and hope I’m right  ❞ ❝ I don’t want to jinx my luck ❞ ❝ Do you believe in miracles? ❞ ❝ I got me a nice new apartment. In a city, wouldn’t you have hated that? ❞ ❝ He was lying when he said he moved to L.A.. He’s just hiding out on the other side of town ❞ ❝ Won’t you come back to me? ❞ ❝ It’s scary how things change ❞ ❝ And didn’t they call you? Didn’t they need you bad enough?  ❞ ❝ Don’t walk away now ❞ ❝ Honey where are you? ❞ ❝ Little that I knew love is different when you play the fool ❞ ❝ Don’t you make cry tonight like you always do ❞  ❝ Things are meant to happen like this I know it’s right for you ❞ ❝ Don’t hate me for loving you ❞ ❝ There are people you just come back to ❞ ❝ I won’t tell nobody ❞ ❝ Maybe we’ll stop talking and I’ll haunt you like a ghost ❞ ❝ For a while I thought that I could hold you, but you were just a temporary high. ❞ ❝ I like to think I’d be all that you wanted. Not even that is enough ❞ ❝ It’s nice to know you’re here ❞ ❝ Don’t try me ❞ ❝ Don’t fight me ❞ ❝ You never met a mirror that you didn’t look again into ❞ ❝ I came out alive but i’m black and blue  ❞ ❝ I know that you ain’t used to no ❞ ❝ And I’ll bet, you thought you’d beat me  ❞ ❝ You were wrong and I was right ❞  ❝ Please don’t leave tonight ❞ ❝ You know I would die before I let them see me cry  ❞ ❝ Let me think I’m strong ❞ ❝ I need reasons why you’re leaving ❞ ❝ Could’ve sworn you said you loved me. I guess heard you wrong ❞ ❝ Honestly believe you’d be there ❞ ❝ Nothing comes true, when it comes to you ❞ ❝ I don’t have a plan, I don’t have a map. I don’t even know if I’m ever going back ❞ ❝ I got a lying smile I never pulled out for you  ❞ ❝ I waited half my life just to find someone like you ❞ ❝ They say it’s better to have lost than never to have loved at all. And I say, whoever said that didn’t have too far to fall ❞ ❝ I’ve burned my bridges, had sleepless nights, washed my sins on the neon lights, and I’m still not over you ❞ ❝ There wasn’t much love to lose ❞ ❝ Sometimes I wait to answer just to hear you say my name ❞

[redemptia]

I never believe anyone can love me. At least, not strong enough to stay. I can’t of a reason why they’d want to. No one else has either.

it’s 4:53am and i still haven’t slept. i’ve been crying about you. // t.c.

[oopsiewoopsie123]

The World Ends With You starters pt. 2

“I thought you couldn’t afford to lose. Give up on yourself, and you give up on the world.”

“Did you think you were special?”

“Only by allowing strangers in, we can find new ways to BE ourselves.“

“Life’s little crossroads are often as simple as the pull of a trigger.”

“Dibs on the rainbow.“

“That was a nice distraction.“

“Don’t make this worse for yourself…“

“No no no, I call Pink. Pink is love, and a humanitarian like me loves people.“

“Actually, I should be gold. The color of wisdom.“

“Let’s spend some quality time together.“

“I don’t see how this is my fault. You’re the one who refuses to call me Pink.“

“Don’t be depressed, Yellow. Blue’s already got the emo thing covered.“

“Yes, but you got your clippings from fashion magazines, not comic books.“

“And here’s me, playing the world’s tiniest violin.“

“Everyone has their own little internal world - a secret garden only they can enter. Each world follows its own internal logic - individuality. And the logic of one world means nothing in another. Understanding other people isn’t hard…..It’s Impossible.“

“You watch my behind, and I’ll watch yours.”

“But…I ain’t strong enough to stop a car, man.“

“The plates have been licked…dessert is imminent.“

“Don’t bother struggling!“

“I’m off to listen to bands you kids have never heard of, and when they go major I’ll be there to complain about how much they’ve sold out!“

“I can think of a decillion better ways to spend our time… than by having MEETINGS.“

“No comments from the peanut gallery.“

“Heh. Every inch of my work is flawlessly calculated. Look at the perfectly understated silhouette. How can you not see the beauty!?“

“The world’s made up of numbers! I’ve been reverse-engineering my desired solution all along! And here it is!“

“The world’s made up of numbers. Do the math and you’ll find your desired solution.“

“Oh, don’t act like a child.“

“You know, enough with this “proxy” business. Too formal.“

“I can see you’re taking this hard. But you needn’t blame yourself.”

“The world ends with you. If you want to enjoy life, expand your world. You gotta push your horizons out as far as they’ll go.“

“Enjoy the moment with all your might…whether it’s gloomy, whether it’s bright!“

“Knowing it in your head doesn’t mean much if you don’t act on it.”

“Enjoy every moment with all ya got.“

“I’m coming too. If anything happens I wanna be there to see- I mean stop it.“

“Yo, is it true they sell curry here? A secret base ain’t nothin’ widdout curry, yo!“

[rarerpmemes]

❝   miami   horror   / starter   sentences.

all   these   starters   are   taken   from   the   2015   album   “all   possible   futures”.   feel   free   to   change   the   pronouns   to   make   these   fit !

‘ won’t you listen to yourself? ‘ ‘ we can make it if we try. ‘ ‘ you wanna do this? ‘ ‘ i just can’t get enough. ‘ ‘ can’t take it any longer. ‘ ‘ we’re running out of time. ‘ ‘ you won’t find a love like mine. ‘ ‘ i walked a million miles away to see you. ‘ ‘ if i see ya, can we kick it again? ‘ ‘ i was there when you needed a friend. ‘ ‘ tell me what i gotta prove now. ‘ ‘ it’s always gonna take time. ‘ ‘ can’t sit here waiting for you. ‘ ‘ hey, you don’t have to be so cruel. ‘ ‘ i’ll come if you ask me to. ‘ ‘  i won’t always be this weak. ‘ ‘ have you got somewhere better to be? ‘ ‘ it’s time for me to break off. ‘ ‘ i don’t know where i began to lose you. ‘ ‘ set it free. ‘ ‘ let it go. ‘ ‘ it’s not a question we can answer. ‘ ‘ so many colours fill the sky. ‘ ‘ it’s all i ever was. ‘ ‘ it’s all i’ll ever be. ‘ ‘ it’s all i ever wanted. ‘ ‘ maybe i need you. ‘ ‘ you keep it out of sight. ‘ ‘ you’re a stranger, a stranger, not a friend. ‘ ‘ forget this all began. ‘ ‘ it feels so wrong. ‘ ‘ but it feels so right. ‘ ‘ who’ve we got to save us? ‘ ‘ we can’t move on. ‘ ‘ i’m just as happy without you. ‘ ‘ it doesn’t matter to me. ‘ ‘ i’ll change. ‘ ‘ i got sun in my eyes. ‘ ‘ everything is forever. ‘

[eldermarked-blog]

"What are those marks on your face - tattoos?"

  “Not quite,” she says, somewhat surprised by the question. Or rather, she’s a bit surprised that he’s held off from asking for so long–she’s grown accustomed to the way strangers try to hide their curiosity, and frankly, she does wish people would simply come out and admit it. 

   “I suppose they’re comparable–they’re permanent markings, as far as I’m aware. But they were created with magic, not ink.”

[vincentvangogh-art]

I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.

Vincent Van Gogh (via vincentvangogh-art)