#prompt: blessed/curse

[deepwaterfiction]

Deep Water Prompt #3444

The blessing fell on the child, a gift at birth, so unspecific it was up for debate whether the granter knew what it would really mean. “You will be sharp.” 

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 281

I had a wonderful Ghosts are Dragons idea thanks to @fairy-lights-and-blobs 

Nocturne, the great feathered wyvern of dreams, son of Morpheous, created of the sands of dreams itself, might be a bit, oh what’s the word, stumped. He had been twisting through the smog of the living world, and honestly should have been unseen. Keyword being should. 

Because? 

There’s a tiny? Hatchling? Growling at him when he slips into a warehouse, having been searching for a… misplaced item. And he says it with a question mark because? This is a hatchling, he knows his own senses, but they’re also… seemingly stuck in a human form. 

Dear Dreams, this is worse than how Phantom was- and he had been so injured from too much ecto at formation, even for a baby Primordial, that… Ugh, Nocturne wants to slam his horns against the ground repeatedly. 

Alright tiny red hatchling, let him just scoop you up aaand… alright, off to the Zone to see doctors, because really, he wasn’t expecting to get another child, but he’s also not going to just leave the equivalent of a chronically sick toddler!

Jason, currently Red Hood? No clue what the Fuck is happening, he just got kidnapped by an overgrown owl-lizard thing! And his comms are out and genuinely what the fuck-

[cursedwithcaution]

uh, a little question (well, not so little), but do you know about the headcanon (I don't know if that's the right way to say it) of Belos leaving a Grimwalker of himself behind after his death? Well, there are like, two comics about it with Hunter taking this grimwalker under his wing. But I wanted to know your vision on this take with your Hunter headcanons. To you and in your vision, how would Hunter react to the existence of a grimwalker of Belos?

Oooh okay this is a fun one and I have more to say than I thought I would so here is my not so little answer

[I’m not gonna get into the details of how/why/when Belos would make a self-insert oc grimwalker of himself, though I have a lot of thoughts on directions that could go as well.]

Hunter’s reaction to the discovery of a Philip/Belos grimwalker would depend on so many factors. Age, degree of trauma recovery, stability re: his sense of self, how he feels about Belos generally, etc.

I think my version (/Finding Palismen's version) of Hunter would definitely spiral, especially at first. The length and severity of that spiral would depend on when it happens in the theoretical timeline. He has a lot of complex feelings about being a grimwalker and how that does or doesn't affect his (for lack of a better word) humanity.

I think that, at first, he would be terrified to interact with this grimwalker for many reasons. The grimwalker would look more like Philip Wittebane than Emperor Belos, which may make it easier for Hunter to face them.

When Hunter does inevitably meet this kid, I think what will strike him more is the fact that he's meeting someone like himself. Even if he doesn't have red eyes anymore, that's what he grew up seeing in the mirror. He sees himself and he sees a child, and the more time he spends with them, the more he disassociates the grimwalker from Belos, to the point he pretty much forgets about that little detail.

I feel like it would be a big/little sibling situation. Hunter really naturally falls into the role of older brother. He's protective and snarky but also sensitive and kind. I could see a Lilo and Stitch type scenario (much older sibling taking care of young child) if the ages line up with that.

It would also make him accept the fact that he isn't just a copy of someone else; he's his own person. Seeing the grimwalker become their own person who isn't anything like the person whose bones they were made from would be confirmation that he isn't and never was Caleb Wittebane, and this kid isn't and never will be Belos.

Alternatively, if Hunter is a bit older (late 20s, early 30s, or older), I think that (ironically) it could go the way of "uncle and nephew." But I think they wouldn't use those labels. I don't necessarily think Hunter would take on the responsibility of raising a child for a variety of reasons (some specific to Finding Palismen), but I think he would very much want to be a part of this grimwalkers life in some capacity. I say uncle/nephew based of my relationship with my nephew (I see myself in him because he's also autistic and being raised in a family that doesn't always understand him).

tl;dr: After taking some time to process, and regardless of the exact dynamic, I think Hunter would choose to see them (the grimwalker) as family. He would try to be everything he didn't have when he was kid, probably to a fault. He would be more worried about them turning out like him than them turning out like Belos.

[theprofessionalpromptmaker]

Blame Someone Else Day & National Marriage Day & Random Acts of Light Day

Person A has the curse/gift to glow in the presence of people who love someone, with different glows for different types of love, but to avoid them being used as a relationship mood ring or experimented on to understand their specific gift/curse, their parent took them away, and always teaches Person A to surround themself with people who are horrible and incapable of love. Person B is one such person vetted and allowed near Person A, but who triggers Person A’s powers, because Person B loves themself.

[Overflow prompts for today's obscure holidays is available on Patreon!]

[jen-with-a-pen]

Alice idk what the FUCK kinda drugs you smuggled into this simple, singular ask, but goddamnit it made me sprint to my docs and start writing for the first time in God knows when. I literally have created an au in a matter of hours of seeing this. Fuck you and thank you🫣😋😈

[this is currently an untitled au and a WIP]

Photographer!Dark!Bucky Barnes x RunwayFashionModel!Reader

The overhead spotlights drop the second the showrunner points to the cameras, who, in turn, point to you. Big white bounce cards blind your peripherals and the sound of murmurs throughout the studio, executives and assistants alike, work their way into your ears. The voices swirl into one drone of static and the lights start getting brighter and brighter. Your grip on the arms of the chair grows tighter. Manicured fingernails threaten to dig into the upholstery, the gaudy necklace resting on your chest beginning to brand into your skin. The makeup caked onto your flesh feels like it’s melting, taking your dermis with it.

You can't tear your eyes away from behind the host's head, staring off into space and trying not to focus on the bile beginning to bubble in your pitted stomach.

You knew you should've eaten something.

As the host waits for her after-ad-break cue, shuffling her question cards and sipping coffee from her custom show-branded cup, you feel restless. Legs bouncing out of sync, begging to get up, to run off set and out onto the bustling streets below and never look back. Maybe a bus or cab will make it end, make it stop. You were never cut out for this, never supposed to be here.

"Bunny."

You gasp, your trance broken as the deep bass sounding out your nickname cuts through the noise. It's like oxygen for you. He is oxygen for you. You can’t escape him willingly- he’ll only find a way to be there. To always be there.

You whip your head around to face the herd of people and producers staring at you. Out of all of them, through the blinding lights, you meet his gaze. All six feet four inches, built-like-a-god, broad shoulders of him. His eyes shine like sea glass behind the camera operator, baby blue and looking only at you. For that moment, you are the only one he sees. His target. His. You are the only one he can touch, who he can feel, halfway across the room.

The pit only grows larger, filling your hunger with nausea. You'd bet all the money in the world he schmoozed some P.A. just to make sure he was there to see you. To surveil you.

You wish you were playing in traffic.

[lovinggreeniehours]

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[puer-writings]

my fill for May Trope Mayhem 2025 prompt 5: Inherited Blessing or Curse.

Title: apple of my eye Fandom/Series: N/A - Original Work Summary: On the deathbed of Mother, Meredith Williams receives a ring that she is required to keep on at all times. Rating: PG-13 Word Count: around 300 words Content Warnings: a character's death is described briefly at the beginning. Notes: the quote on the ring and its translation is taken from Book of Sundials Mottoes pp.48.

the full text is under the cut. a somewhat interactive twine version is available here on itch.io (the password is 1234)

[1]

Under the draperies of the grandbed, Meredith Williams kneeled besides the mattress.

Mother was sick. That she knew. The Reaper was coming for her – every breath that Mother took was another step towards the wide-open arms of the Darkest One. What surprised Meredith was how fast the Darkest was approaching. The sunken eyes and hollow gaze was an indication that no matter how silent Mother was now, she could still see the approach.

Mother turned to Meredith, her silver eyes gazing at the point beyond Meredith, and she reached out, her palms up, her arm drooping alongside the blankets.

Her mouth moved but not a sound rose from her throat.

“Yes, Mother?” Meredith said, moving closer. The ring on Mother’s finger had gained a curious quality to it, a waxy sheen as though covered by spider-fume. Mother began touching the ring as if aware of this quality, though she could not see it by light.

In all of her life Meredith had never once seen Mother take off this ring. Now Mother beckoned Meredith in the way suggesting “take your palms out to receive alms”.

Mother took off the ring and dropped it onto Meredith’s awaiting palms. And then she faced the ceiling again and was no more.

[2]

The ring itself was composed of a gold band, coupled with a tiny sixteen caret ruby inset at the middle of the band. Inscribed alongside was the French words “allez vous” — “pass on”.

When Meredith gazed at the ruby under the candlelight, the jewel gave a flash as she turned her palm this way and that. The band had lost the waxy quality Meredith had seen when it was worn on Mother’s finger.

An idea came to her then: the wax only meant that one was approaching death. She decided to test her feeling at the period of sundown. At that time, the Darkest One would not be able to harm her. But first she had to build up courage, and it took her a week until she was able to perform the act.

[3]

Meredith tore the ring off her finger as the sun lingered over the horizon, faint, the haze which burning through a dense layer of cloud would linger in the midst of terracotta earth and mirage-like would rise up and blanket the whole evening sky.

the end

[cultivating-wildflowers]

I am an uncomplicated woman: tell me you need me and I'll be there.

[smolcrow465]

Day 5: Eclipse

Much like how animals panic when the sun goes dark, the eclipse hinders beasts who get caught out in it. It's common knowledge to remain on the ground when an eclipse is supposed to take place. Despite this, it's not exactly uncommon for divines to smack into trees when all goes dark.

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 193

Once again I put forth cryptid batfam. But with a Marvel crossover. Because why not. 

See Gotham isn’t really talked about by the others in the US. The other cities ignore, ignore, ignore as best they can manage, pretending that if they don’t see it, it doesn’t exist. 

That being said, they aren’t completely oblivious to it either. Oh they don’t believe the tales and whispers that come out of the place, because if they were true surely someone would have done something. But they are aware of things like Wayne Industries or Drake Enterprises, right up there with Stark’s. 

Both of which are based within Gotham, though have plenty of things outside the dreadful city as well. Now the Drake couple were constantly seen at galas outside of New Jersey before their tragic demise, but the Waynes? Never once have they been seen outside their city for a single Gala. 

Which makes this invite that one Tony Stark get to one of the Gotham Galas incredibly surprising. Suspiciously so actually, but he has the option for a couple plus ones. His team might be interested- Shield definitely would, seeing as Gotham is a complete blackout on their files. And from his hacking he’s discovered that any information gathering attempts of theirs have failed. 

But really, how bad can it be, it’d only be a couple days after all.

…

Okay what is that fucking thing on top of the building-

[ask-the-scrapper]

December Asks

Some winter prompts/asks for the holidays!

-Throw a snowball at muse

-Mistletoe kiss

-Give muse a gift or muse gives someone else a gift

-Give muse a cookie

-Bundle up! Pick an article of clothing to give- scarf, gloves, jacket, etc.

-Build a snowman together

-Share hot chocolate

-Decorate a tree (or whatever is available)

-Dress up! Examples: elf costume, deer onesie, santa costume, etc.

~

-Holiday curse (pick a condition to break the curse or a certain amount of asks the curse stays for)

Examples: turn into a nutcracker or become small, tell the truth, can't get warm, frequent sneezing, hair color change (pick a color)

-Holiday blessing (same as holiday curse but good)

Examples: feeling comfortable, make a simple wish, eat a pleasant meal

[if-roger-tailored]

Late night scrabble with the boys be like

[lovinggreeniehours]

really random post sponsored by me almost sleeping on the couch but man what if esper fell asleep on sylus's couch. idk

[theprofessionalpromptmaker]

Lotus 1-2-3 Day & Spouse’s Day

Person A is a gardener with a gift that allows their wishes to be granted by their flowers - every time one blossomed, there is something they wished for inside. Person B is their neighbor who decides to steal a flower for their crush from Person A’s garden, but before they can give it to their crush, it blossoms and grants the wish of Person B - for love. So now Person B gained the boon of having everyone they meet fall in love with them, and Person A is desperate to get the flower back and do damage control.

[literaryvein-reblogs]

words for when your characters ______

Agree

accede, acceptance, accord, acknowledgment, acquiescence, align, avowal, bear, cohere, compromise, consent, contract, draft, enlist, give in/give up, go along/go along with, grant, negotiate, unanimous, yield

Deny

abjure, abuse, affront, attack, backstab, bad-mouth, belie, blacken, blemish, confront, curse, darn, defamation, defile, demur, denigrate, detract, dig, disclaim, discountenance, disgrace, disown, disparagement, downplay, explode, flout, fulminate, gainsay, gird, invective, jeer, lament, lecture, malign, minimize, mouth, needle, oppose, protest, put down, put-down, rebuff, refute, remonstrate, renunciation, run down, satirize, scold, show up, sit-in, slander, smear, snap, snub, squeal, sully, swearing, taunt, tirade, turn, underestimate, vituperation, write off, yammer

Explain

account for, admit, apprise, cite, clarify, come clean, concede, confirm, corroborate, defense, demonstrate, dilate, elucidate, enlighten, evidence, expand, explicate, gloss, illustrate, itemize, let on, palliate, plea, prove, recite, simplify, speak out/speak up, spell out, translator, warrant

Fabricate

aspersion, belie, disprove, profane

Inform

acknowledge, address, advertise, allow, allusion, apprise, bare, betrayal, blab, breathe, briefing, broadcast, chronicle, clue, come out with, confession, convey, debunk, define, detail, dictate, divulge, expose, feature, furnish, give, gossip, hint, intimate, issue, lecture, newscaster, orate, out of the closet, pass, post, proclaim, promulgate, publication, publish, release, reveal, show up, speak, spill, squeal, talk, tip, uncover, unveil, weatherperson, whisper

Instruct

bar, educate, prescribe

Persuade

advance, argument, bend, budge, carry, coerce, convince, discourage, draw, drum up, elicit, entice, forward, goad, hammer away/hammer into, induce, influence, invite, lobby, motivate, negotiation, pitch, prevail upon/prevail on, prompt, reason, spur, sway, urge, win/win over

Promise

assurance, avow, commitment, ensure, go back/go back on, oath, portend, vouch, warrant, word

Suggest

advice, advocate, ask, come up with, connote, drum into, exhort, fish for, get at, guide, imply, insinuate, moralize, move, nomination, pontificate, preach, propose, recommend, urge

Praise

accent, acclamation, accredit, adulation, apotheosis, applause, benediction, bless, champion, citation, commend, compliment, congratulations, credit, dedicate, deify, elevate, endorse, eulogize, exalt, extol, flatter, flattery, glorify, homage, laud, lionize, obsequy, plaudits, puff, salute, thanks, tribute, worship

Warn

admonish, alert, caution, caveat, defy, enjoin, exhortation, foreboding, foretell, page, remind, warning

NOTE

The above are concepts classified according to subject and usage. It not only helps writers and thinkers to organize their ideas but leads them from those very ideas to the words that can best express them.

It was, in part, created to turn an idea into a specific word. By linking together the main entries that share similar concepts, the index makes possible creative semantic connections between words in our language, stimulating thought and broadening vocabulary. Writing Resources PDFs

Source ⚜ Writing Basics & Refreshers ⚜ On Vocabulary

[spectral-snippets-and-drabbles]

@fandombrainrots, I have a question and a few additions of my own, if you don't mind.

So what would happen if someone pulled one of Danny's tails? I can't recall exactly how it goes but it's said that how pulling one of the Kitsune's tails would give the person some serious bad luck or get burned by the Fox Fire, burning their souls to nothing. He has an ice core in fandom, yeah?

I can see Danny running from the Batman and his flock one night close to Crime Alley after several months in Gotham and under Hood's protection and getting one or all of them pulled by either Bruce or maybe a younger, trigger-happy Damian (He'd probably threaten to cut them all off if Fox didn't stop running.) to interrogate the meta teen/young adult and stop him from running away...only for it to blow up in their faces when someone gets partially/completely frozen in unmeltable ice or getting cursed with bad luck so severe that they can't go out on patrol because of it due to risks.

If Danny is King of the Infinite Realms in this au, the curse could be powerful enough that it could even affect the entire vigilante roster (minus Jason) in Gotham as retribution on Danny's mythical vulpine instincts.

Where as normal Kitsune's Fox Fire can burn the soul into nothing, the Fox Frost will slowly freeze the soul and body until it eventually shatters both and melt the remains out of mortal existence. It's a race to find Fox before time runs out, but the vulpine doesn't want to be found.

Meaning Alfred was exempt from the blast and could probably play an important part in this story. Maybe he can coax the clearly traumatized young fox-man into lifting the curse after explaining everything during a nice hot meal? Maybe get some silver shotgun shells ready for a certain "fruit loop" because the butler won't hesitate to put this 'Plamus' fellow another 6 feet under after what Fox told him what the S.O.B did to the fox boy and his family.

Just because Bruce hesitates doesn't mean he won't.

The butler also wants his idiot son and vigilante family to keep their distance from the boy until he's ready to talk. They've already made things bad by assaulting him and Alfred will make it worse by taking an extended, lengthy vacation with Fox in tow if they don't leave the poor soul be.

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The Justice League Dark Members can't do anything because the puller's/family's very soul(s) has been branded by an abnormally powerful bad luck curse and tampering with it can destroy said soul.

John Constantine doesn't even want to get near the Batfam and the idiot who was stupid enough to grab the tails of a very young, freakishly powerful Fox Spirit with death magic on Venom because it could risk anyone who tampers with it getting irreversible bad luck and dying. He can't have his luck or life getting affected, so John just tells them over the phone to simply find the fox and sincerely grovel at his feet with meaningful gifts so the curse can probably be lifted. Attempting anything funny will only made things go from bad to worse...like, turning all of Gotham into the Kitsune's personal playground to play with and break as he saw fit levels of worse.

(So now the odds are stacked very heavily in Danny's favor and the Batfam must appease him or suffer even further.)

...The only problem is that Danny has never let anyone touch his tails before without his consent since they emerged with his ears while he's was running and is still very scared (he just doesn't show it). The only times where they did get yanked on were by children who were scared and didn't want 'Mr.Fox', Jason's/Hood's bodyguard, to leave them alone after he rescued them.

(No literal threat on his literal tails = No curse upon ye.)

So this means Danny literally has no idea of the extent of the danger he has put on the Batfam and thereby all of Gotham by cursing the Caped Crusaders into being benched. To make matters even worse, the bad encounter has triggered Danny's fight or flight response, making the traumatized meta go into hiding with no means to contact anyone.

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Everyone in Hood's turf knows the crime lord is absolutely furious as they are at the Bats because Danny was finally starting to warm up to Crime Alley and Hood himself before he was attacked by the Dark Knight and his posse before running away to wherever it was that he fled to. The people who live there hurl insults and anything they can find at the Bats if they try to enter Crime Alley to search for Fox, telling them to fuck off and to not come back.

Jason saw how cautious Danny was at first when he saw the small, bushy tailed...person(?) and how it was practically borderline paranoia.

The only times he saw his bodyguard's defenses go down was to reassure the civilians he saved from rival gangs and traffickers with gentle reassurances. That soft, loving voice he used for the youngest children who clung to him like glue, making ice figurines for them to take home...Only to raise them back up when talking to the adults who weren't victims of crimes committed by non-Crime Valley gangs.

The way Fox would keep his eyes on exits and potential escape routes if the need to run arised, refused to be touched by anyone, not eating or drinking anything given to him out of fear it was tampered with and making his own or getting take out. That sort of trauma and stress makes Jason sympathetic to Danny and spreads the word to give him space. He's been brought a lot.

The kicker was the fact that the Fox had bluntly told Jason about the origin of his pit madness like it was no big deal and swore a steely-eyed vow to heal it made the crime lord feel something blooming in his heart and wishes he could get a fraction of that anger back so he could brandish it at his family for chasing Danny away.

Ok just a random idea that I had to put down before I forgot it- and it feels so silly but it makes my brain go brrrrr

So, Kitsune AU Danny after a classic reveal gone wrong, the kitsune is from a meta gene he discovered while on the run. He winds up in Gotham, hiding his ears and tail as he starts trying to settle in. Cue Red Hood’s gang approaching Jason, telling him he needs to get himself a body guard, because everyone knows he has a thing going with sweet book-nerd Jason Todd. Red hood catches Danny saving a child, and just goes, “ya I’d let him protect me.”

I will flesh this out more later I swear-

( psssss @stealingyourbones can I has opinion)