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20 Flirty Remarks to Build Romantic Tension Without Being Overbearing

Feeling stuck trying to give your characters a good flirty one-liner that doesn't sound cringe/overdone? Here are 20 ideas/dialogue prompts for you (that I may or may not have stolen from my own books): 

“I must warn you: you have a dangerous effect on my heart rate.” / "You have no idea what you're doing to my heart right now."

"If I said I wasn’t thinking about you, I’d be lying. And I’m a terrible liar."

"You know, I could get lost in those eyes, but I'd probably trip over my words trying to find my way back." (could also double as description/inner monologue).

“I can’t tell if you’re really charming or if I’m just easily charmed.”

“You have a knack for making me forget what I was going to say. It’s kind of impressive/infuriating.”

“I think you owe me a drink. When I saw you, I dropped mine.”

“I’ve been trying to find the perfect excuse to hang out, but I keep forgetting everything when I’m around you.”

“I bet you get away with a lot of trouble with that smile.”

“You must be a magician because every time you walk in, everyone else disappears.” (The right character could pull it off I swear)

"I’ve been trying to think of something clever to say, but all my brain can come up with is how much I want to (kiss) you."

"I saw that little glance—you’re not as sneaky as you think."

"How do you manage to make even the most mundane things sound exciting?"

"You do this cute thing with your hands when you’re nervous, you know?"

“One more word, and I might just have to kiss you.”

"Finally, there's that pretty smile of yours. I've been waiting for it all day."

"You keep staring—should I be flattered?" / "Keep looking at me like that and I might start thinking you have a crush on me."

"Do you have any idea how fun it is to watch you try to keep a straight face?"

"I’m pretty sure you could charm the socks off anyone, but I’d like to keep mine on for now."

"If laughter is the best medicine, then I’m pretty sure you’re my favorite doctor."

"Is it bad that I kind of like the way you’re trying to mess with me?"

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Happy Halloween! 🧛🏻🦇🎃

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The House Is Alive

(A Short, Self-Indulgent Modern Paranormal/Psychological Horror Reinterpretation of The Fall of the House of Usher)

The house is alive, and it feeds on fear. It has been in the family for generations, perched on the edge of a bog that seems ever at the ready to suck it down and swallow it whole.

Rooms are difficult to navigate between, because sometimes they're just... not there, replaced by a black and endless void. Hallways appear where there weren't any before, and sometimes they don't lead anywhere. An apparition of you from decades in the future - or the past - may appear in the upstairs parlor, the one with the crack in the wall. And sometimes, a door that led to a bedroom or the kitchen now leads to a steep flight of stairs down to the bolted and chained basement door. If you shut it and open it again, the regular room will usually return.

No one knows what's in the basement - Roderick and Madeline went down there, once, when they were twelve, but all either of them remember is getting lost in the dark and running through the attached family crypts, separated, calling anxiously for each other and hearing the other twin screaming in the distance as if they were being tortured. Only... when they got back to the house, they were both just fine, if shaken by the experience, and both denied having screamed.

(No one knows what's in the basement, but a deep sense of dread emanates from the door.)

The twins, now grown, alone in their big, crumbling house, fear they are hallucinating. It's not that, though.

The house is alive, you see... and it is always hungry.

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It's technically not Halloween anymore, but have a belated Halloween treat - the relatively new Tim Burton animation inspired additions to my Sims 4 CC, modeled below by my redesigned Sims of Florian and Mislav.

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UPDATE #1:

We got a Grace kill (my first ever, on any of my accounts across the three platforms I play on) - and you'd have thought I was going through a haunted house, the way I screamed - but no Warrior weapons in the bunch of four. Which is actually good, because my game chose the time between collecting my rewards and saving to crash, and I lost the rewards. However, I did get my name on the wall of Hunters of the Ur-Dragon!

On the plus side, it looks like we as a player base are going through a gen of the online Ur-Dragon every two days or so, which means I may get another chance on Wednesday and/or Friday! 😅

I Want To Thank My Fellow Arisen...

... for allowing me to piece together an at-level Arthurian legend team for online Ur-Dragon hunting. 😂

(My Arisen - front and center - is called Medraut, the Welsh version of Mordred's name, because the more familiar English version gets censored by the game's systems. Galahad is my own Main Pawn, and the reason for the Ur-Dragon hunting - I want to get him the Holy enchanted weapon/s for Warriors.)

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I Want To Thank My Fellow Arisen...

... for allowing me to piece together an at-level Arthurian legend team for online Ur-Dragon hunting. 😂

(My Arisen - front and center - is called Medraut, the Welsh version of Mordred's name, because the more familiar English version gets censored by the game's systems. Galahad is my own Main Pawn, and the reason for the Ur-Dragon hunting - I want to get him the Holy enchanted weapon/s for Warriors.)

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1. Dark chocolate (any time, any day, the darker the better)

2. Milk chocolate (if I'm in the mood and it's a tasty brand - that is, most brands)

3. White chocolate (only truly exciting when it's melted in the Fritos popcorn white chocolate sweet and salty snack mix, made into peppermint bark, or flavored with orange, raspberry or key lime)

What's your ranking of milk chocolate, dark chocolate, and white chocolate?

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I may be a smidge tipsy right now, but this just seems like high-key Galahad vibes to me.

andrei tarkovsky

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Mercutio -> Makalaurë -> Mordred

I think hope this will be the last name change.

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erm. obsessed with making stupid little color palettes. most of these are named after songs I like

here is a playlist of all of the music I used in these palettes

please tag me in your art if you use them ! :]

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Learned to make CAS backgrounds from a video tutorial, so I decided to make one from a PC wallpaper of V's starting apartment from Cyberpunk 2077.

Then I got carried away and actually made a Sim to match. 😂

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Elanelis (he/him, high elf, wizard) and Gale approval/eventual relationship(?) progress - how it started and how it's going

The eye roll was at Gale talking to/about Elanelis like he knows nothing about the topic of discussion and his magical ability is lacking. He's like "gods spare me from this cocky, clearly immature human who thinks he's all that and then some".

Not to mention the man's manners initially, however briefly, seemed to be appalling.

But over time, and after seeing how much helping people Gale approved of, out of the things he's done thus far... he's starting to actually like him now.

Not that he's forgotten what a massive pain in the ass he thought Gale was on their first meeting, but now he's like "Ah... he may be cocky, vain, immature and occasionally obnoxious, but he does care about people, and I like that."

And that's where we're at so far.

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I already made a reblog of an older post with the link, but I know it probably won't reach everyone who might be interested, so I'm making a separate post as well.

I recently (finally!) created a Discord server for the Chronicles of Prydain fandom. It's called The Hall of Lore, after the location by the same name at Caer Dathyl, and is an LGBTQ+ friendly fandom space with pronoun roles, creator roles and channels for various forms of fan creativity.

All fans of the series who are willing to abide by the rules - laid out in the rules channel, basically amounting to "respect others, respect each other's headcanons and boundaries, and have fun" - are welcome to join.

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After a couple of years and coming back around to this idea again... the server is now live!

Come and join The Hall of Lore, a dedicated Prydain fandom server! We have pronoun roles, creator roles and chats for all your creative pursuits, and the list of available channels will keep growing as the server does - your input as members helps me decide what topics to create dedicated channels for!

I think I may be sliding back into Prydain Chronicles fan mode! 😅

Tempted to create a Discord server. Like or reblog if you're a fellow fan of the series who'd be interested in joining!

Please feel free to share this post if you think some of your friends might be interested, too!

I used to be on a FF.net forum for the series (Bards of Prydain, as username Arianllyn146) when I was a young teenager, but as an adult I've noticed that the interaction between fic writers and fan artists seems to have fizzled, at least outside of the Live-Action Film Series Initiative on Facebook.

I'm hoping to revive some of the community I'm familiar with for this series. It deserves more love.

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Feeling like doing some short fic/prompt writing.

- Send sentences here for my OCs, Witcher-verse characters, etc.

- Send sentences to @cuuthalion for Silm/HoME/CoH characters.

(Characters will be selected at random using a virtual wheel spinner.)

Hurt or Comfort Game

Totally stealing this from @kim-poce because it's a phenomenal idea!

Send me a sentence and I'll write a fic for it, that'll either be hurt or comfort (as the name suggests).

I'll most likely be using my whumptober ocs but there might be a few generic pieces.

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my dear friends. my beloved followers and mutuals alike. this is a mandatory assessment. report back with your scores

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the only time of the year this can be posted