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@xmind-palacex
Welcome to my mind palace🏰
Who am I? I go by many name:
Ulf
I'm 30+
Pronouns: He/They/Xe
I'm a Gemini
I'm a minefield of creative thoughts!
This blog is going to be a place for me to reblog all my fave writing stuff and writing recourses
Writing Prompt #4096
"I'm in pain, asshole. I'm not playing your stupid fucking riddle games."
"Surely it can't be that bad—"
"If you say that again, I might fucking kill you."
Send 🃏 And I’ll Generate An AU From The List Below!
Send 🎰 for a combination of two or three of them!
Android AU
War/Military AU
Apocalypse AU
College AU
Fairytale AU
Afterlife AU
Genderbent AU
Steampunk AU
Doctor AU
Actor AU
Criminal AU
Reincarnation AU
Pirate AU
Royalty AU
Wild West AU
Mafia AU
Mythology AU
Sorcery/Wizard AU
Supernatural AU (as in creatures, monster hunters, demon hunters; not the show)
Angels/Demons AU
Childhood AU
Single Parent AU
Arranged Marriage AU
Prison AU
Superhero AU
Supervillain AU
Vampire AU
Werewolf AU
Spy AU
Time Travel AU
Space Travel AU
Professor/Teacher AU
Treasure Hunter AU
Artist AU
Baker AU
Florist AU
Tattoo Artist AU
Stripper AU
Prostitute AU
Lawyer AU
Guardian Angel AU
Runaway AU
Secretly Dating AU
Soulmate AU
Roommates AU
Imaginary Friend AU
Biker AU
Shapeshifter AU
Musician AU
Greaser AU
[feel free to add other AUs to the list!]
— adding a few more !
51. Nurse AU 52. Dancer AU 53. Alien AU 54. Mermaid AU 55. Magician AU 56. Circus AU 57. Wedding Planner AU 58. Restaurant AU 59. Model AU 60. Detective AU 61. Bartender AU 62. Writer/Author AU 63. Mechanic AU 64. Bodyguard AU 65. Servant/Slave AU 66. Blind Date AU 67. Haunted House AU 68. Island AU 69. Immortal AU 70. Animal AU 71. Assassin/Hitman AU 72. Exes AU 73. Role Reversal AU 74. Wonderland AU 75. Amnesia AU 76. Urban Fantasy AU 77. Athlete/Sports AU 78. Hanahaki Disease AU 79. Ghost AU 80. Amnesia AU 81. Harem AU 82. Monster AU 83. Time Travel AU 84. Bookshop/Library AU 85. Neighbors AU 86. Wrong Number AU 87. Deity AU 88. Addiction AU 89. Fortune Teller AU 90. Test Subject/Experiment AU 91. Personal Assistant AU 92. Coach/Trainer AU 93. Gardener AU 94. Maid/Butler AU 95. Animal Trainer AU 96. Scientist AU 97. Reporter AU 98. Mind Control AU 99. Crossover AU 100. Evil Twin/Clone AU
Hurt, No Comfort
“What, did you think I was going to help you? Help yourself.”
“Stitch yourself up.” “What?” “You heard me. You’re conscious, your hands work. Fix it yourself.”
“If you pass out, I’m leaving you.”
“You left me for dead!” “You'd have done the same.”
“I told you, we are no allies. You're on your own.”
“Your compassion is truly heartwarming.” “Quiet.”
“Please… Someone…”
“Aren't you going to help me?” “Why would I?”
“Where is [name]? Are they still in there?” “Why would I know? I'm not their sitter.”
Chaotic duo / best friend energy!!!
⟢ "I need you to bail me out." - "Again?" - "...the number of times is not the point right now."
⟢ "I have a plan." - "Last time you had a plan I had to explain to three separate adults why we were on a roof." - "This is a different plan." - "Is it though."
⟢ "You're my best friend." - "You literally just said you hated me four minutes ago." - "Yeah and now I need a favor so."
⟢ "I would die for you." - "I just need you to return this library book."- "I would die for you." - "It's two weeks overdue." - "I would absolutely not do that."
⟢ "Nobody has to know." - "Seven people already know." - "Nobody important has to know." - "I'm important." - "Debatable."
⟢ "This is your fault." - "You made the decision." - "Based on your advice." - "I said and I quote 'that sounds like a terrible idea.'" - "In a very convincing tone!"
⟢ "I need you to pretend to be my partner for one evening." - "What do I get out of it." - "My eternal gratitude." - "I have that already." - "Fine, I'll buy you dinner." - "I want to be your fake partner so bad right now."
⟢ "You could've warned me." - "I did warn you." - "You said 'this might be mildly chaotic.'" - "And?" - "There were police involved." - "Mildly is subjective."
⟢ "I'm not saying it was a bad idea." - "It was a terrible idea." - "I'm not saying that." - "You're thinking it." - "So loud."
⟢ "We need a code word." - "For what." - "In case one of us needs to be rescued from a conversation." - "What's wrong with just leaving." - "SOCIAL ANXIETY, DEREK."
⟢ "Tell me honestly, on a scale of one to ten, how much trouble are we in." - "Eleven." "So a four, roughly." - "An eleven." - "I'm going to need you to lie to me right now."
⟢ "I can explain." - "Please don't." - "It's actually a funny story." - "I don't want to laugh right now I want to be angry." - "You're going to laugh." - "...okay but I'm still angry after."
⟢ "You're a bad influence." - "You love me." - "Genuinely against my will."
⟢ "I followed your advice." "- I have never given good advice in my life, why would you do that."
⟢ "We should do something productive today." - "We could." - "Yeah." - "...you wanna do literally anything else." - "So bad."
⟢ "This is fine." - "Nothing about this is fine." - "I'm choosing to believe it's fine." - "That's not how reality works." - "Watch me."
⟢ "Nobody panic." - "Why would we panic." - "No reason. Definitely no reason. How do you feel about light jogging."
⟢ "I googled it." - "You're not a doctor." - "I googled it very confidently." - "That's worse."
⟢ "Do you trust me?" - "Absolutely not." - "Perfect, follow me anyway."
⟢ "We are never doing this again." - "Agreed." - "I mean it this time." - "Same time next week?" - "Obviously."
Fortesa Latifi, from The Truth About Grief.
THE GOLDEN GIRLS 2.03, “Take Him He's Mine”
Normal people lied about the darkness inside them. They never did. They offered it up openly, like an animal dropping carrion at its owner’s feet.
Look what I killed for you.
Writing Prompt #4084
"One of you has lied to me..." The king's gaze fell across his heirs, who offered varying degrees of shock and disinterest. "And I know you all know quite well what we do to traitors around here."
“Oh, so now you care?”
“I've always cared!”
“Well, you got a real funny way of showing it.”
“Oh, get off my ass. I'm doing my best, you act like you're easy to get along with!”
Some writing advice I will never give up:
Your characters are allowed to be bad people. Your story is allowed to have no moral lesson.yyour ending is allowed to be sad. The villain can win. The good person can do something unforgivable. The lovers can destroy each other. You are allowed to write the thing that no one asked for and everything that everyone told you doesn’t work and you are allowed to not explain yourself.
It’s your story. Burn it down if you want to.
We live on morally ambiguous characters, chaos and mayhem whilst continuously pressing the make them suffer button
Things to consider when writing a character!! --2
continuing--
⊹ How do they treat people who can't do anything for them? Waitstaff? strangers? people they'll never see again? this is the oldest trick in the book for a reason. It works. How someone behaves toward people with no social utility tells you everything about their actual values versus the values they perform for an audience.
⊹ What's their relationship with their own body? Are they comfortable in it or is it something they carry around like a problem? do they take up space or make themselves small? are they aware of how they look or completely indifferent? Physicality is psychology and most writers forget the body entirely until someone needs to throw a punch.
⊹ What do they lie about and why. Not dramatic plot lies necessarily. the small everyday ones. the things they exaggerate or omit or reframe. Because people don't lie randomly, they lie to protect something. Find what your character is protecting and you'll find what they're afraid of. That fear is the ENGINE!!
⊹ Who did they used to be? not their whole backstory. just: who were they before the thing that changed them. because that person is still in there somewhere, showing up in small ways, wanting things the current version of them would never admit to. The ghost of a former self is one of the most interesting things you can write into a character without ever stating it directly.
⊹ What would make them walk away?? from the goal. from the relationship. from the person they're trying to be. everyone has a breaking point and it should be specific to them, and please not a generic "too much" but the exact thing, the particular betrayal or loss or realisation that would finally be enough. know this even if the story never reaches it.
⊹ What do they love that has nothing to do with the plot?? a specific kind of light in the afternoon. the smell of old paperback books. bad television they watch without apology. something small that belongs only to them. details like this cost you nothing and they make the reader believe in a person completely. characters who only care about plot-relevant things are not people. they're chess pieces. sorry not sorry.
Fluff Starters
✮⋆˙ "I looked up your favorite meal and practiced it three times before I made it for you."
✮⋆˙"You mentioned it once, months ago. I remembered."
✮⋆˙"I turned the shower on early so it'd be warm when you got in."
✮⋆˙"I kept the porch light on. I always do when you're out late."
✮⋆˙"You seemed tired so I cancelled our plans. I hope that's okay."
✮⋆˙"I charged your phone while you were sleeping."
✮⋆˙"You don't have to explain yourself. I already understand."
✮⋆˙ "I know that smile. That's not your real one. What's wrong?"
✮⋆˙ "I know you hate asking for help. You don't have to ask. I'm already here."
✮⋆˙"I saved the window seat for you. I know you like to look outside."
✮⋆˙"I saw it and thought of you. I couldn't not get it."
✮⋆˙ "I knew you'd forget to eat. So I brought food."
✮⋆˙ "You were going to apologize just now, weren't you. Don't."
✮⋆ ˙"I don't know when it happened. I just looked up one day and it was you."
✮⋆˙ "I think I've been yours for a while now. I just didn't say it."
✮⋆˙ "You're the first person I want to tell things to."
✮⋆˙ "I used to hate mornings. Then you started being in them."
✮⋆ ˙"I'm not scared of a lot of things. Losing you is the exception."
✮⋆ ˙"I think about you in the most ordinary moments and it still surprises me."
✮⋆˙ "You have no idea how many times a day something makes me think of you."
✮⋆˙ "Can you just--hold me for a second. I don't need anything else."
✮⋆˙"Your heartbeat is really calming. Can I stay like this."
✮⋆˙ "You give the kind of hugs that make everything feel less heavy."
✮⋆˙ "I fit perfectly right here. I'm not moving."
✮⋆˙ "Stop, your hands are cold--here, give them to me."
✮⋆˙ "I didn't realize how much I needed that hug until you gave it to me."
✮⋆˙ "Will you play with my hair? You don't have to stop."
✮⋆˙ "I don't have to be anyone else around you and that's the rarest thing."
✮⋆˙ "Being with you feels like exhaling."
✮⋆˙ "I love how you don't rush me."
✮⋆˙ "You make the world feel smaller in the best way. Like it's just us."
✮⋆˙"I hope you know you're someone's favorite part of the day."
✮⋆˙ "I watch you when you don't notice. You're just--really something."
✮⋆˙ "I never want to stop knowing you."
✮⋆˙ "You called me at 2am just to say goodnight. I'm still smiling about it."
✮⋆ ˙"I don't care that it's late. Your voice is worth it."
✮⋆ ˙"Tell me something. Anything. I just want to hear you talk."
✮⋆ ˙"I'll stay on the phone until you fall asleep. I don't mind."
✮⋆ ˙"I always sleep better when I know you're okay."
✮⋆ ˙"The whole day felt too long without you in it."
Writing Prompt #4045
"It's a little frustrating that everyone looks at me like the fucking devil for everything my family's done, while his is doing just as much to hemorrhage power but with bright smiles on their faces."
"I think it's in the way you carry yourselves—"
"This is how I fucking stand! This is what my face looks like! What the fuck do you want from me?"
moment of connection with a rival
they have been competing for so long that it had become the natural state of things: the other is the rival, not a fellow student. that is, until something happens to humanize them in some way
finding them crying behind the building
realizing they took up smoking again
they suddenly stopped showing up for class out of nowhere and no one knows anything
sickly appearance and voice lacking the energy and strength it used to have
defending them when a member of the faculty is being condescending / otherwise discriminates against them
finding them fishing food out of the trash or working a shitty night job to stay afloat
seeing them get ready to sleep in their car after losing their home
hidden injuries (classic)
flinching away when they take steps towards them during an argument
Saying I love you without saying “I love you”
“Being around you makes every day just a little lighter.”
[fondly] “You're such an idiot.”
“Got you, always.”
“I can imagine growing old with you.”
“I could sit here and listen to you forever.”
“Let me take care of you.”
“Nothing makes me happier than being with you.”
“Of course I trust you.”
“Seeing you happy makes me happy.”
“Something about you makes me feel safe.”
“Stay for a bit?”
“Stop making me smile, dork.”
“Why didn't you tell me you were cold? Come here.”
“You mean everything to me.”
“You were in my dreams tonight.”
“You're my favorite person, just… ever.”
