someone's gotta fill the lipstick power vacuum.

indie nina patterson of scream. returned to @forestdreamt

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apexhe:

          countenance  responds  in  kind,   offering  up  a  half - grin  as  his  backpack  collides  haphazardly  with  the  ground.   ❛   i’m  afraid  you’re  gonna  have  to  be  more  specific,   ❜   he  lilts.   towering  form  lowers  into  adjacent  seat,   nimble  fingers  already  thieving  an  apple  slice  from  her  plate.   ❛   the  jake  has  been  hard  at  work  lately.   makes  it  difficult  to  keep  track  of  his  kinda  smart  deeds.   ❜    

she makes a half-hearted move to slap the STEALING HAND away, but truly he’s welcome to the food she’s already decided she no longer wants. “well, exactly. with this whole ... thing,” a raise of the eyebrows, knowing better than to be too direct in public. “hard work, DISCRETION ... almost as if ‘ the jake ’ has hidden depths.” she leans in, voice lowered. “you know ... will didn’t want you involved. said you’d fuck it up.”

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❝ this was a human sacrifice ? ❞ (from liv)

head tilted, lips pursed in consideration. “i mean … if it helps to think of it that way. not everyone can be ON TOP at once, can they? but if i … knock a few people down … there’s more space for us up here.” the ‘ us ’ is conditional, obviously — nina won’t share her CROWN with anyone for long.

american gods   !   accepting

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❝ i don’t know what i believe. ❞

“it’s not like i’ve invented some ridiculous story! i told you what i saw — you have to believe me. and if you don’t … guess you’ll have to arrest me, AGENT. and yes; i have an attorney.”

american gods   !   accepting

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❝ worse things out tonight than you. ❞

“SWEETHEART.” patronising nickname reserved for only those nina despises MOST. “it’s cute that you believe there’s such a thing. but trust me: i’m it.”

american gods   !   accepting

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somxthingwicked:

“ you THINK you’re not interested, but that’s only because you haven’t heard the plot of my show yet! it’s the story of a beautiful AND talented young woman who overcomes the adversity of being overshadowed by her significantly less attractive younger sister. and it’s a one-woman show because it’s symbolic! come on, you have more followers than anyone i know. you have to go! ”

trini is treated to a long, unimpressed stare. “how do i make it clear that i have ZERO interest in watching you cart your bloated self across the stage instead of attending therapy, as you so clearly need to tell me w h y i shouldn’t just have my followers DOX you instead? that’d be more interesting.” it’s been a few weeks since nina’s ruined a life, after all.

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inthiskingdom:

          ❛  NINA.  you’re looking well…  when aren’t you though?  ❜  grinning with narrowed eyes,  she steps out of the redhead’s way.  ❛  sorry.  i should pay better attention,  shouldn’t i?  ❜

“right --- i’m always PERFECT.” nina tilts her head in what might pass as a thanks as rachel moves aside. “you seem to missing a lot these days. is there something on your mind?”

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ourstcries:

‘  i’m not being uptight,  nina!   i’m just-  ’     emma cuts off,  lips pursed.   somehow that laugh of nina’s always makes her second guess speaking up in these situations.   like nina says,  it’s only a  joke  —  she knows her friends well enough by now that their humour doesn’t surprise her.   resigned,  emma sighs,  giving a small shrug as she continues,     ‘  yeah,  ok,  fine.   i’m being a little  uptight.   but it’s just have a test after lunch i’ve been stressing over all week.   can we maybe just…   cut the jokes ‘til i have a chance to get it over with and chill?  ’

satisfied smile flits across her face. “see? what did i tell you?” nina casts an eye over emma’s notes spread out before her, reaching out to examine one before dropping it back down dismissively. ”what --- worried you’ll FAIL? drop out and become a homeless junkie teenage mom. at least no one would call you uptight then.” did emma say cut the jokes? seems like nina should make m o r e.

[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. ❞

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“hey, jake.” he’s LATE, so nina keeps her attention on her phone for a moment ( she doesn’t want to look like she CARES more than he does. )  then she looks up with a smirk. “just when i think you’re irreversibly dumb, you do something ... kinda smart.”

starter call   !   @apexhe

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“are you appealing to my humanity right now?” short, almost delighted laugh. “that’s not gonna work, you know.”

starter call   !   @bifuried

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“i already told you, i’m NOT INTERESTED.” she flicks her fingers at the other, dismissing them from her presence. “come back when you’re actually entertaining.”

starter call   !   @somxthingwicked

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“so,” her voice is sweet; her expression less so. “are you in my way on PURPOSE or are you blind on top of all your other UNFORTUNATE qualities?”

starter call   !   @inthiskingdom

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“so you’re telling me the rumours aren’t true?” nina pauses, head to one side like she’s truly doubtful. “FUNNY --- i heard them from a trustworthy source.”

starter call   !   @scarredhistory

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“i mean, you don’t have to come with me if you don’t want.” lower lip pushed out in a small, displeased pout. “but i think you should. you might REGRET it if you don’t.”

starter call   !   @deceptjons

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“what do you want?” nina isn’t HAPPY to be interrupted right now, so her voice is characteristically cold --- until she sees who shes speaking to. “hi. what do you want?” now she’s almost purring.

starter call   !   @ravendreamt

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“c’mon em, it was just a JOKE! don’t be so uptight.” she’s prepared to APOLOGISE, to get back on emma’s good side, but only if absolutely necessary. instead she laughs; dismissive.

starter call   !   @ourstcries

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small starter call!