On Prompts and Fiction

[scribblemyname]

So I've a friend in need of prompts and I collect prompts like candy, even getting a ton of fic written to them besides being chronically behind.

So. Throw in prompts, write to prompts, comment on prompts, whatever pleases you.

1. Canon (fandom or original)


2. Character and/or pairing (optional)


3. Prompt (can be text or image - detailed as you want)

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PROMPT MASTERLIST



Text Prompts

• any, who turned out the lights: filled


• any, any/any, we could have danced all night


• He/she knew something was wrong when the regular tipped more than usual.


• "I'm not the girl you once put your faith in just someone who looks like me."


• "So better take the keys and drive forever / Staying won't put these futures back together / All the perfect drugs and superheroes / Wouldn't be enough to bring me up to zero."


• "Get out while you can / Baby, I'm pouring quicksand / And sinking is all I had planned / So better just go."


• "You look like a perfect fit / For a girl in need of a tourniquet."


• "And you will say / That you're making headway / And put it in overdrive / But you're mistaking speed / For getting what you need / And never even noticing / You never do arrive."


• "And you're powered by / The hopeful lie / That it's just around the bend."


• Author's Choice, You're all the time believing / The Very Best In All, / The Devil Was An Angel, / But He Took A Little Fall, / Oooh, You Keep Your Guard Up, / For The Lurkers In The Dark, / The Day You Let It Down, / Your Chased Through The Park: filled


• "I'll get a pen and make a list / And give you my analysis / But I can't write this story / With a happy ending / / Was I the bullet or the gun / Or just the target drawn upon / A wall that you decided / Wasn't worth defending?"


• MCU, ex-Winter Soldier (or pre-WS Bucky Barnes), A soldier on my own, I don't know the way / I'm riding up the heights of shame / I'm waiting for the call, the hand on the chest / I'm ready for the fight and fate


• Leverage, Parker(/any), Money or Person?


• Two people each about to pull the last flower from the garden/meadow/place.


• The one where they've grown up best friends and everybody but them realizes they're practically together: filled


• any, home is a person you cannot live without: filled


• any, this is the way we say goodbye (it's not how we said hello): filled


• Agents of SHIELD, Melinda May/Andrew Garner, culinary catastrophe


• any, "Technically, I didn't actually blow up the oven—just the spaghetti squash inside it.": filled


• any, "Is that your solution for all problems? Tea?" "You should try it.": filled


• any, she only pretends to know everything (but everyone believes she does): filled


• any, you're the answer and I am the question: filled


• any, 5 reasons they would never work and 1 reason they totally do: filled


• "Je ne t'ai pas vu partir / Ni entendu la porte claquer / C'est un peu facile a dire / Après quelques annees" — ("I didn't see you / leave / Or hear the door shut / That is easy to say / After a few years")


• any, friend is a part of you in someone else's body: filled


• any, any brothers, reconciliation: filled


• Kingdoms and Thorn, "In the hearts of men / In the arms of mothers / In the parts we play to convince others / We know what we're doing / We're doing it right."


• "Vous savez bien / Que dans le fond he n'en crois rien / Mais cependant je veux encore / Ecouter ce mot que j'adore / Votre voix aux sons caressants / Qui le murmure en fremissant / Me berce de sa belle histoire / Et malgre moi je veux y croire" — (You know well / That in the end I believe nothing / But in the meantime I want again / To hear the word I adore / Your voice and your caresses / That murmur in trembling / Soothe me in its beautiful story / And in spite of myself I want to believe)


• There is something utterly depressing about having to remove the carpet from one's home and knowing those bare floors are going to stay that way for a long time. It's like having poverty and failure stare you in the face every time you take a step.


• "I bruise you, you bruise me / We both bruise too easily / Too easily to let it show."


• "You said you liked storms / So I let you in / / Turns out you can only handle a little rain / And I am a hurricane."


• "If I could say anything, anything / What would it be? / Good question for our destined reality / I would tell you that I love you / Even when it didn't show / I would tell you that I love you, baby / By now I hope you know."


• "If your mind is always moving / It's hard to get your heart off the ground / Yeah, your mind was always moving / Your thoughts never made a sound."


• "You got my heart on a string / You want me back and you know / I'll do anything / Just when I thought I was free / Knock knock the door is locked / But you still got a key."


• Doing laundry like this: [link]


• "Today I realized, / You didn't care anymore / / And then I realized / You probably never did anyways. / / And the saddest part of it all / Is that you made me believe you did."


• "A perfect relationship isn't actually perfect at all. It consists of two people who never give up on each other despite any hurt or pain."


• "Never forget what someone says to you while drunk. Drunk confessions are sober thoughts."


• Come tell me your story to unload your glorious grief / Where you are the valet of honor and I am the thief / And don't ever mention the stains that you left on my track / How from a beautiful girl I became someone ruined and wrecked / Was all in your back, all in your back / / So I spin in the dance of your absence and put on a show / But why do I smile baby, you of all people should know / The one that you loved died a long time ago...


• And all those things I didn't say / Wrecking balls inside my brain / I will scream them loud tonight / Can you hear my voice this time / / This is my fight song / Take back my life song / Prove I'm alright song / My power's turned on / Starting right now I'll be strong / I'll play my fight song / And I don't really care if nobody else believes / Cause I've still got a lot of fight left in me


• Hey now don't you runaway, don't you runaway. / You're safe. / Hey now don't you be afraid, don't you be afraid. / You're safe.


• So slow down / There's some kind of blessing here / But you have missed your cue / / So keep your eyes set on the horizon / On the line where blue meets blue / And I would let that silver lining / Where I know it'd find you soon / / 'Cause I have sailed a 1000 ships to you / But my messages don't seem to make it through


• The whole world is watching / When you rise. / The whole world is beating / For you right now. / Your whole life is flashing / Before your eyes. / It's all in this moment that changes all. / / What are you waiting for? / What are you fighting for? / Cause time's always slipping away.


• I'm gonna run to the edge of the world / Run to the edge of the world / Feel that I'm gonna get home if I try


• Shadowboxing the other half / Learning how to react / I've spent most of my time / / Catching my breath, letting it go, / Turning my cheek for the sake of the show / Now that you know, this is my life, / I won't be told what's supposed to be right

Other Prompts

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Comments

[scribblemyname]

any, home is a person you cannot live without

[(Anonymous)]

I was going to do this before I got the news about my cat. I couldn't decide who was best because Garan/Effie have a conversation about that in the end of book three and there are others, too, that would fit. In the end, I went back to this. It's probably not great, but I did like the idea behind it.

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“It's taking its toll on you, isn't it?” Malina asked, sitting down next to the other women. Felise looked up from her book and frowned. Lisea tensed, but neither of them answered. “The running. The constant moving. Never being in one place for more than a day.”

Felise wrinkled her nose. “It's not great, but it's what we have to do to survive. So we do it.”

Lisea nodded. Malina figured it was harder for her. She'd had more stability in her life than any of the rest of them—aside from the time she was sent off to Devington, that was. She hadn't lost anyone like Felise had, hadn't been forced to run from her home or for her life before, whereas that had been a near constant for Malina since she was seventeen.

“How do you do it?”

Felise turned her frown on her cousin. “You just do. We don't think, we do. We react. I hate it, because I'd rather be on the offensive, but it's how it goes.”

Lisea shook her head. “I wasn't asking that. I just... Malina knows how to cope with it better than anyone else.”

“That's right,” Felise said. “That's what Enadar said you've been doing for years now. Running.”

“You don't need to say it like that,” Lisea said, shaking her head. “It's not like you can really accuse Alik of cowardice, not after all he's done for us. Running is... it's survival, like you said.”

“I'm not calling anyone a coward.”

Malina sighed, leaning back in her chair. “I didn't intend to start a fight. That's usually Enadar's job, and I don't want it.”

“No, Lisea's got a point. How do you stand it all the time? Living like this?”

Malina shrugged. “When we stop somewhere, we do our best to make it a good place to stay. We build it up, bring with us the important things that we value most, and we settle in as much as we dare. Even if we've had to rebuild and restart over and over again... The one thing that doesn't change is that we're family. We have the most important things even when we've got nothing. Alik is there, he's safety, and he makes it home just by being there. He carves it out for us every time, that place where we can hold on, and I love him for it. I don't know what I'd do if he wasn't there, though. Mom used to say where family was, that was home. I think it's more that it's the person you can't live without. Though I say that, and people will think the wrong thing about me and my brothers.”

“I don't see how.” Lisea's voice carried a note of envy in it. “A family that loves each other that much is beautiful.”

“You are so sheltered,” Felise muttered, and Lisea glared at her. “I'm not saying it's not... sweet. Just so long as it's not the wrong kind of love.”

“Well, since Enadar's in love with you and Alik claims not to be able to love, I don't think that's anything anyone has to worry about,” Lisea said, and Malina thought she just might have enjoyed Felise's reaction to that. Just a little.

[scribblemyname]

Lisea is not above teasing when she can get her own jabs in.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah.

I think I should have gone with my first thought of Effie/Garan, though. They did a lot better and less awkward with this conversation. Anango and Migizi, too, as much as I know Alik is safety and home for Malina.