that-random-citizen

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── ★ ˙🌱 ̟ !! touch prompts

¹⁾ knuckles brushing across a cheek

²⁾ a fist knotted in the collar of a shirt

³⁾ lips pressed against a brow-bone

⁴⁾ legs intertwined under covers

⁵⁾ shaking hands knotted together

⁶⁾ two fingers pressed against a pulse point

⁷⁾ unsure fingers braiding hair

⁸⁾ thighs wrapped around a waist

⁹⁾ feet kicked up into a lap

¹⁰⁾ hands guiding a spoon up to waiting lips

¹¹⁾ linked pinkies

¹²⁾ a head leaned against a stomach

¹³⁾ footsie under a dining table

¹⁴⁾ hands playing gently with hair

¹⁵⁾ a thumb pressing down on a bottom lip

¹⁶⁾ fingers scratching at a scalp

¹⁷⁾ a chest pressed warmly against a back

¹⁸⁾ foreheads leaned against one another

¹⁹⁾ hands kneading at sore muscles

²⁰⁾ fingertips tracing the notches of a spine

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You are a princess. Your evil witch stepmother turns you into a swan. Instead of running away to mope around in a lake and be beautifully tragic, you decide to stick around the palace and cause problems on purpose.

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｡ﾟﾟ･｡･ﾟﾟ。 ﾟ。　 august prompts

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¹⁾ a grain silo

²⁾ butcher’s hooks

³⁾ wet hair

⁴⁾ a plastic tiara with missing gems

⁵⁾ starlings

⁶⁾ sour breath

⁷⁾ an overflowing laundry basket

⁸⁾ prosecutor’s office

⁹⁾ stonefruit pits

¹⁰⁾ a rattling pill bottle

¹¹⁾ mother-in-law

¹²⁾ bitten nails

¹³⁾ a fistful of sea glass

¹⁴⁾ a long-since borrowed hoodie

¹⁵⁾ blue chalk

¹⁶⁾ a half-faded nightclub stamp

¹⁷⁾ a fractured pelvis

¹⁸⁾ bitter instant coffee in paper cups

¹⁹⁾ perfumed skin

²⁰⁾ two jade bracelets

²¹⁾ a towel slung loosely around still-wet hips

²²⁾ stale birthday cake

²³⁾ crumpled cinema tickets

²⁴⁾ bullseye

²⁵⁾ a warm redbull

²⁶⁾ library books stacked on a nighstand

²⁷⁾ a broken water heater

²⁸⁾ tuesday morning

²⁹⁾ the purple of fresh bruises

³⁰⁾ a bathhouse

³¹⁾ coal dust

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i've heard it both ways ⋆｡𖦹°⭒˚｡⋆

buddy-cop banter/scenarios for your characters' shenanigans

⇴ "sure is quiet out here..." "what did you just say?"

⇴ a duo that commits to the bit no matter what. they go from pretending to be world-class act magicians (they have no idea how to do magic and just say fukitweball) to really good detectives.

⇴ person a and person b have to act like they're siblings even though they look nothing alike. "so... you guys are related?" "adopted. they were, not me. i still remember the day we took you out of that cardboard box." person a squeezes person b's cheek.

⇴ the classic good-cop, bad-cop. except the usual good-cop, bad-cop switch roles.

⇴ ↑ person a slams their hands on the desk, "you don't wanna talk? fine, we can make you talk," and person a starts pulling out random items (vase for ashes—for intimidation; really long pencil—to threaten to harm the suspect; other stupid trinkets).

⇴ "i'll have you know i am the best lawyer in this city!" person a has not practiced any law and is one misdemeanor away from getting thrown in jail, "and you do one thing to harm or discriminate my client," aka person b, who got dragged into this for no reason, "you are going to jail."

⇴ "i mean seriously, what happened to public decency these days?" "not sure but i think it started to decline once you came to this city."

⇴ "should i... ask?" person c says. "absolutely not." and "yeah, what could go wrong?" person a + b chime in at the same time.

⇴ "nonono, trust me. this will work." "the last time you said that i got my car ripped in half. my car. RIPPED. IN. HALF." "but you got a new one?"

⇴ person a and person b are working together to open a steel door that won't budge. there's a pin pad on the side that allows people to come in, but after millions (twenty) tries, they give up. person a decides to shock the pin pad into malfunctioning, but actually blows a fuse and causes the entire building to power down. now, the pair have to find their way into the room AND get out in the dark

⇴ classic mystery-solving except person a and person b have absolutely no idea what they're doing. plot twist if it's some kind of social experiment by a bigger antagonist but your characters still cannot solve the damn mystery (even if the clues are right in front of them)

⇴ ↑ "does this seem... too easy to you?" "hey now that i think about it, yeah it does. let's go the other direction. the suspect can't be that stupid, right?"

⇴ in order to get out of a sticky situation, person a has to pretend that they killed person b to escape. person a screams once they're found, "HELP I KILLED HIM," and flees the crime scene. person b flees shortly after

⇴ "who's that person next to you?" person c asks, referring to person b. "what person?" "that person." "are you mentally ok?"

⇴ person b is trying to reverse out of a parking lot with person a in the car but they're taking forever. "give me the damn wheel," person a says. "no i can do this myself" person b hisses. "you just turn the wheel in a circle but you're choosing to make a sixteen-million point turn!"

⇴ "oh my god is he dead?" and person c is very obviously dead. "hello!!" person a slaps at person c's still face "can you hear us???"

⇴ person a and person b need to hide paper evidence, so person a convinces person b to stuff the paper in their mouth. when asked about it, person a says, "wisdom teeth surgery. now stop pressing them! they're in pain and going to get an myocardial stress infection if you keep doing this!" mind you... myocardial pertains to the heart.

⇴ person a and person b are somehow transported to an alternate universe where they meet a more skewed version of themselves. now, they must find a way to fix this reality AND get a way back. bonus if the alternate pair are totally uncooperative and have no idea what they're doing

⇴ "hey, woah, you got your impression of us totally wrong!" "is it because person a is ___"

⇴ "yes, me and person b do not get along sometimes. yes, we butt heads and argue and call each other profanities and whatnot. but let me tell you, person b has more integrity in their damn fingernail than you have in your entire body. and you should be grateful if you even have an ounce of the nobility person b has."

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He was as tall as he was tall, and his eyes were the color they were. To describe his hair one would say that he had some. His face had all the features you'd expect, and none of the ones you wouldn't. "There he is," people would often say of him, but only when he was there. And they were right.

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Soft prompts to make you YEARN

✭ brushing your thumb over their knuckles while you're both not saying a word, just existing quietly in the same space like it's the most sacred thing.

✭ them absentmindedly playing with the hem of your sleeve because they want to touch you but aren’t ready to say it yet.

✭ “can i kiss you?” whispered like they’re afraid the moment might shatter if they speak too loud.

✭ their voice cracking just a little when they say your name for the first time in a long time.

✭ them resting their forehead against yours and just… staying there. No words. No movement. Just breath. Just nearness.

✭ sharing headphones and they keep looking at you during the best part of the song. you don’t even know what the song means to them but suddenly it means everything to you.

✭ "stay the night?" said so soft it might’ve been a wish.

✭ dragging their fingers gently down your back like they’re trying to memorize the map of your spine.

✭ tracing your features with their fingertip like you're a sculpture in a museum and they were not supposed to touch you, but god, they can’t help it.

✭ “don’t leave yet.” not because you’re going somewhere. but because being with you is the safest they’ve felt all day.

✭ their voice in the dark. low. quiet. like the night is just for you two.

✭ "this reminded me of you" and it’s just a stupid rock or a weird leaf but you hold onto it like it's a diamond because it's you to them.

✭ laying in bed, face smushed into the pillow, sleep-drunk and murmuring, “you make me feel like i’m home.”

✭ them looking at you like you're not just a person, but their favorite story. one they’ve been rereading since forever and still keep finding new parts to fall in love with.

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On writing sexual tension

⊹ standing too close. like just barely not touching. why are their shoulders breathing on each other??

⊹ conversations that sound normal but feel like foreplay. “pass the salt” has never been so loaded.

⊹ one of them says something flirty and the other freezes for 0.2 seconds like “oh.”

⊹ eyes dropping to lips and then—back up. with effort.

⊹ holding eye contact just a little too long. like... are they gonna kiss or duel??

⊹ unintentional physical contact that lasts one second too long and now they’re both broken

⊹ a hand on the small of the back. that’s it. that’s the tweet.

⊹ tension so thick that other characters start noticing like “hey are you two okay?” (they are not)

⊹ “accidental” sleepovers. “oh no there’s only one bed.” yeah. suuuure.

⊹ biting back a smile. biting back a moan. biting anything really.

⊹ one of them walks away and the other has to physically restrain themselves from watching the hips

⊹ lots of sighing. frustrated sighs. horny sighs. “i want to kiss you but I’m emotionally unavailable” sighs.

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Please make art. You don't have to bare your soul or make a masterpiece, you can be silly and you can be derivative if you want. You don't even have to show it to anyone. Just please make something, it's so good for you

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"just write a little every day" ok but what if i write nothing for 3 weeks and then suddenly type like i’m being hunted by god

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“What if I write it and it’s bad-”

WHAT IF YOU WRITE IT AND ITS GOOD? WHAT IF YOU WRITE IT AND ITS EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANTED? WHAT THEN????

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the "came back wrong" trope except like... they didnt. like this mad scientists wife died, and so he studied necromancy, brought her back, and she came back and it all worked. like she came back exactly the same as she was before with literally no difference. but the scientist guy is like "oh no... what have i done.... shes Different now!!!! she came back Wrong!!!!" and shes just like. chilling. reading a book. cooking dinner. shes just so so normal but in the guys mind hes like "oh shes soooo weird" but shes just normal

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when in doubt about whether or not to make a thing, do it for your 3 hardcore fans.

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｡ﾟﾟ･｡･ﾟﾟ。 ﾟ。　 april prompts

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¹⁾ red leather

²⁾ four months

³⁾ a burner phone

⁴⁾ barbed wire

⁵⁾ faded blue jeans

⁶⁾ chamomile tea

⁷⁾ fingerprinting ink

⁸⁾ a pull-down attic ladder

⁹⁾ instant ramen

¹⁰⁾ sergeant

¹¹⁾ a rusted gate

¹²⁾ eighteen minutes

¹³⁾ an unmade bed

¹⁴⁾ a johnny cash cd

¹⁵⁾ striped candy wrappers

¹⁶⁾ a locked drawer

¹⁷⁾ last wednesday

¹⁸⁾ resignation papers

¹⁹⁾ half-burned candles

²⁰⁾ a dry riverbed

²¹⁾ brown sugar cubes

²²⁾ an envelope with a broken seal

²³⁾ a gold lighter

²⁴⁾ full moon

²⁵⁾ freshly turned earth

²⁶⁾ a train platform

²⁷⁾ spearmint gum

²⁸⁾ an overflowing bathtub

²⁹⁾ sand clinging to skin

³⁰⁾ iodine

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Two rules for creating anything.

1) Make it weird.

2) Make it with love.

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foreshadowing done well makes me go feral like there’s NOTHING better than getting to the end a book or an important storyline moment and realising that the author laced information so intricately into their writing that weren’t noticeable upon first read but when you read back sections they’re light giant red flags like wow writing is amazing

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A demon simply called The Brother. It doesn't have siblings or any family, and it's ambiguous whether that creature itself is even male at all. It just keeps turning everything and everyone into broth.

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baby i’ve got half finished wips you couldn’t even imagine