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How to Write Angst That Hurts <3
🐝 * ― 𝑵𝑶𝑵-𝑽𝑬𝑹𝑩𝑨𝑳 𝑨𝑵𝑮𝑺𝑻 𝑷𝑹𝑶𝑴𝑷𝑻𝑺. ( some triggering content ahead. add " + " to reverse the action. )
[ wipe ] sender wipes away receiver's tears [ hurt ] sender hurts receiver with words [ lonely ] sender finds receiver alone in a dark room [ wounded ] sender patches up receiver's wounds [ crying ] sender finds receiver crying [ help ] sender runs to receiver when they scream for help [ nightmare ] sender wakes receiver up from a nightmare [ dying breath ] sender talks to receiver before dying [ hold on ] sender pulls receiver into their arms [ anger ] sender takes their anger out on receiver [ argue ] sender gets into a heated argument with receiver [ scared ] sender scares receiver [ sick ] sender cares for receiver while they are sick [ palm ] sender places a hand on receiver to stop them from doing something [ fight ] sender gets into a physical fight with receiver [ comfort ] sender tries to comfort receiver [ blood ] sender notices that receiver is bleeding [ collapse ] sender collapses into receiver's arms [ pressure ] sender puts pressure on receiver's wound [ slap ] sender slaps receiver in the face [ panic ] sender helps receiver through a panic attack [ lie ] sender catches receiver in a lie [ sobs ] sender sobs uncontrollably while receiver holds them [ hiding ] sender finds out that receiver has hidden an injury from them [ death ] sender just died, receiver finds out [ chin up ] sender lifts receiver's chin to stop them from hiding their tears [ fears ] sender talks to receiver about their fears [ scream ] sender screams at receiver [ coping ] sender teaches receiver some coping mechanisms [ loss ] sender is there for receiver after they've lost someone important to them [ needs ] sender asks receiver what they need [ bullet ] sender takes a bullet for receiver [ bruises ] sender finds bruises of unknown origin on receiver [ rainfall ] sender finds receiver out alone in the rain [ hospital ] sender wakes up in a hospital bed and finds receiver sitting by their bedside [ intrude ] sender walks in on receiver treating their wounds [ calming ] sender tries to calm down receiver [ inspection ] sender holds receiver's face while inspecting an injury they got [ rescue ] sender carries receiver to safety [ clean ] sender cleans blood off of receiver's body
i'm a mess by bebe rexha;
various sentence starters taken from the lyrics of this song and adapted to be usable dialogue in roleplay! feel free to change up pronouns, adjust wording to your preference, as well as combine starters or just use sentence fragments if that's your vibe. have fun and be easy on yourself always <3
everything's been so messed up here lately. ❞
pretty sure he doesn't wanna be my baby. ❞
he doesn't love me, but that's okay. ❞
i love myself anyway. ❞
everything's gonna be alright. ❞
everything's gonna be okay. ❞
it's gonna be a good, good life. ❞
'everything's gonna be alright', everything's gonna be okay', it's gonna be a good life' — that's what my therapist says. ❞
that's what my therapist says. ❞
everything's gonna be just fine. ❞
i'm a mess. ❞
i'm a loser. ❞
i'm a hater. ❞
i'm a user. ❞
i'm a mess, i'm a loser, i'm a hater, i'm a user. ❞
i'm a mess for your love, it's not new. ❞
i'm obsessed. ❞
i'm embarrassed. ❞
i trust no one around us. ❞
i don't trust anyone around us. ❞
nobody shows up unless i'm paying. ❞
have a drink on me. ❞
cheers to the failing. ❞
have a drink on me, cheers to the failing. ❞
Sadderday Prompts
Feel free to change pronouns as necessary, and remember to specify muse for multimuse blogs.
CW: Self Deprecation, Depression, Anxiety, Mental Health, Medication, Abandonment Issues
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"You wouldn't understand."
"Why me?"
"It's not fair, is it?"
"It feels like it's always an uphill battle."
"I'm tired. Like a bone-deep, never getting better kind of tired."
"If you want it that way, then fine."
"What's the point?"
"I'm too tired to fight anymore."
"Whatever light was in my life walked out with them."
"Don't leave."
"I can't stand seeing happy couples."
"Sometimes it just... Hurts. It still hurts."
"There's nothing left of the person you used to know."
"How many times are you going to call me dramatic when I'm telling you something is wrong?"
"Hope's a curse, or poison, or something similar."
"You say 'tomorrow's another day' like that means it can only get better. News flash: It never gets better."
"I want to be alone."
"I'm at my wit's end."
"I can't."
"I can't keep doing this."
"It's not enough anymore."
"I'm not taking my meds. They make me feel like a zombie."
"I'm not crying."
"I... I don't know. I guess the dam just... Fucking broke."
"Don't stay."
"You should have left already."
"I don't want to be alone."
"Look, you shouldn't love me. All I ever do is let down anyone that's ever had faith in me."
"I... Know it's been a while."
"It's only been a couple years. You couldn't have missed me that much."
"What's there to even miss?"
"Have you even met me?"
quotes that broke me starters
feel free to adjust pronouns / names as needed !
quotes taken from random sources or tiktok. i claim no ownership whatsoever.
❛ i’m supposed to be the one who protects you from monsters. i’m not supposed to be one. ❜
❛ if i could make a deal with god, and i’d get him to swap our places. ❜
❛ no one heard our screams for a long time. ❜
❛ i know so many last words. but i’ll never know hers. ❜
❛ there is a home for every departed thing. ❜
❛ it reminded me that i will never truly know you. ❜
❛ i also buried a part of myself alongside them. ❜
❛ after you died i could no longer hold a funeral. so my life became the funeral. ❜
❛ you don’t have to be awake to cry. ❜
❛ forgive me, for all the things i did. but mostly the things i didn’t do. ❜
❛ the human eye is the loneliest creation of all. ❜
❛ fairness is for happy people. ❜
❛ the things we lost will always be heavier than the things that stayed. ❜
❛ perhaps it is the greater grief, to remain on the earth when another is gone. ❜
❛ you stain the pages with yourself. ❜
❛ tears will not wash away the sorrow. ❜
❛ beautiful things grow a certain height and then they fall and fade off. ❜
❛ who in all these centuries has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? ❜
❛ i have scars on my hands from touching certain people ❜
❛ despite everything, i believe that people are really good at heart. ❜
❛ you tried to change, didn't you? ❜
❛ you can’t make homes out of people. someone should have taught you that. ❜
❛ i hid my deepest feelings so well, i forgot where i placed them. ❜
❛ we have no scar to show for happiness. we learn so little from peace. ❜
❛ i didn't leave because i stopped loving you. i left because the longer i stayed, the less i loved myself. ❜
❛ at every moment in our life, we have one foot in a fairytale & the other in the abyss. ❜
❛ there are too many sad eyes on happy faces. ❜
❛ it's strange, i felt less lonely when i didn't know you. ❜
❛ things change, friends leave. life doesn't stop for anybody. ❜
❛ it takes a lifetime to die, and no time at all. ❜
❛ i am deathly afraid of almosts. of coming close to what i want and then falling just a little short. ❜
❛ i felt your absence. ❜
❛ what do we do now, now that we are happy? ❜
❛ you honestly thought anybody would love you? purely and truly love you? ❜
❛ don't stop looking. he deserves to know someone saw his end, that someone noticed him. ❜
❛ i can bear my pain so long as it has meaning. ❜
❛ i dont have a single friend - not one. ❜
❛ i've had more than enough pain in my life, what's a little more going to do? ❜
❛ it would have been you if i met you first. ❜
❛ i really thought he was going to be my forever. ❜
❛ maybe in the next life it would work. ❜
❛ in spite of everything, you're still you. ❜
❛ the dead have it easy. ❜
❛ there's an ocean of silence between us, and I'm drowning. ❜
❛ there have been countless times in my life when i thought i’d be better off dead. ❜
❛ what on earth... have i become? ❜
❛ don’t look at me! i don’t ... i don’t want you seeing me like this. ❜
❛ i wish i could’ve been like you. ❜
❛ your fate was sweeping you away, like a flood. ❜
❛ the future should know the mistakes we made. ❜
❛ of course you have. you feel guilt. you want redemption. ❜
❛ i'm here because you can't accept what you've done. it broke you. ❜
❛ even now, after all you've done, you can still go home. lucky you . ❜
❛ you're all that's left, and we can't live this lie forever. ❜
❛ prometheus gave us light, and warmth, and eternal damnation. ❜
❛ take a gamble that love exists, and do a loving act. ❜
❛ i know i ruined your life. i suffer for it every day. ❜
❛ don't let yourself get killed for... for pride. i’ve seen it kill too many folk. ❜
❛ you and me, we ain't decent... but those folk... they were. ❜
❛ we're more ghosts than people. ❜
❛ despite my best efforts to the contrary... it turns out i've won. ❜
❛ i gave you all i had ... i did. ❜
❛ this whole time, I've blamed myself for that decision. ❜
❛ do you think even the worst person can change...? That everybody can be a good person, if they just try? ❜
❛ i don't want to break their hearts all over again. it's better if they never see me. ❜
❛ please leave me alone. i can't come back. i just ... can't, okay? ❜
❛ no matter the struggles or hardships you faced... you strived to do the right thing, you refused to hurt anyone. ❜
❛ people like you don't ever want to be happy. ❜
❛ i don’t want to let go. i’m not ready to say goodbye yet. ❜
Angst Starters! change pronouns where necessary TW: depression, trauma/PTSD
❝ it doesn’t feel as good as i thought it would. ❞
❝ i don’t need your help. i don’t need anybody’s help. ❞
❝ nobody should talk to you that way. ❞
❝ your heart is pounding. ❞
❝ i need to sit down. ❞
❝ you need to sit down. ❞
❝ i didn’t know if i’d ever see you again. ❞
❝ i don’t even recognize you anymore. ❞
❝ i’ve been waiting. and waiting, and waiting, knowing nothing’s ever gonna change. ❞
❝ slow down. i need you to slow down. tell me what happened. ❞
❝ don’t be sorry. i did it to myself. ❞
❝ i’m not like you. i have nothing left to lose. ❞
❝ i can’t help you if you don’t let me. ❞
❝ what the fuck is wrong with you? ❞
❝ what the fuck is wrong with me? ❞
❝ it’s not just a feeling. it’s the truth. ❞
❝ i don’t care what you did. you didn’t deserve this. ❞
❝ he was supposed to protect me. ❞
❝ i was supposed to protect him. ❞
❝ you don’t love me. you just think you do. ❞
❝ i thought— this was what you wanted? ❞
❝ no. i’m not explaining this to you again. ❞
❝ they always say, it’s okay not to be okay. but they don’t really mean it. ❞
❝ i needed you. and you weren’t there. ❞
❝ it’s okay to struggle. you know that, right? ❞
❝ i can’t get that image... out of my head. ❞
❝ how am i supposed to believe it’s not my fault? ❞
❝ i don’t— i don’t know what’s happening. i don’t— ❞
❝ stop. stop talking. ❞
"DON’T” sentence starters
32 starters || TW: violence, abuse
« don’t go »
« don’t get any closer »
« don’t do it »
« don’t do anything bad »
« don’t say it »
« don’t say that »
« don’t say anything »
« don’t talk to me »
« don’t talk to them »
« don’t move »
« don’t move it »
« don’t think about it »
« don’t read too much into it »
« don’t touch that »
« don’t touch me »
« don’t hit me »
« don’t hurt me »
« don’t fight it »
« don’t fight them »
« don’t cry »
« don’t stand up »
« don’t you dare »
« don’t mock me »
« don’t yell »
« don’t yell at me »
« don’t open that »
« don’t eat that »
« don’t worry »
« don’t worry about it »
« don’t worry about me »
« don’t be scared »
« don’t scare me like that »
crumbling relationship starters.
“I’m breaking up with you.”
“What were you doing out with him/her/them again?!”
“Wait, you don’t want kids?”
“You’ve been so distant lately?”
“You’re always lying...”
“I can’t believe you forgot our anniversary.”
“Do you think that everyone was right? That we just don’t work?”
“You’re smart and gorgeous and amazing…but I don’t feel the way you do.”
“I love you, but I can’t stand you.”
“You spend way too much time with your ex…”
“Did you think I wouldn’t notice you sneaking out of bed every night?”
“You left me out there all by myself!”
“I was always there for you! Can’t you do this one thing for me?”
“Are you dumping me?”
“I’m not keeping anything from you.”
“I thought you forgave me a long time ago!”
“My friends were right about you.”
“I know things have been really tough lately, but I want to work things out.”
“You can’t keep spending our money on stupid things.”
“I can’t believe that you never loved me.”
“Not tonight. I have a headache.”
“I’ve been sitting at this table for three hours. Where have you been?”
“Maybe we should take a break.”
“Listen…this is hard for me to say, but…I’m in love with someone else.”
“Pack your bags and get out.”
“Hey, talk to me. I don’t want to feel like I’m dating a stranger.”
“I don’t know if this is something we can fix.”
“Is there something you want to tell me?”
“I want us to be together, but I don’t know if we can.”
“Don’t think you can just cry every time you do something wrong! I’m not falling for it this time.”
“Do you love me? It’s a simple question.”