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surskitty

surskitty

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What're some things that enter your head and you're not sure what to do with them? ALTERNATIVELY what are some prompts you'd like to give someone that you're not sure what to use for? :3

"Sometimes, Chicken Little's right. Sometimes it was Chicken Little in the foyer with the hand grenade."

"He fought the law, and the law won, but he'd had a good go at the whole thing and that can of pepper spray meant he sure as hell didn't lose."

"'I don't believe in outdated rituals,' he'd said, but when $name brought it up later, he said that he merely didn't believe in them, not that he wouldn't follow along. It was an important distinction."

"The problem with questioning authority is that there's always a point where authority pushes back, and it uses its elbows and knees."
 
Here's a little bit I just wrote but now can't think of anything:

“What are we gonna do tonight, Brain?”

The simpleton always had to ask that. But tonight was different. I let out a sigh.

“Nothing.” I said.

Pinky looked on in shock.

“You alright, Brain? NARF!” Pinky said, a visible look of worry on his face.

“We have failed all this time. I feel like now…it just doesn’t matter anymore. Why keep trying? I’m just the world’s cosmic chew toy!” I sighed, “Pinky….We’ll never make it.”


And other things:

"I stood up, sighing. I knew he'd call out that dreaded game sometime."

"Please don't tell me he's in the pinata." I muttered just before the pinata broke open on its own."

"I liked to ruffle his feathers, both literally and metaphorically."

Yeah, I'm not a good author type so...
 
I haven't tried writing anything seriously yet, but...

"It was a rather garden-variety hunk of uranium, meaning it was less of a large piece of irradiating matter and more of a garden gnome."
 
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Let's see...

"'I'm afraid that is something even I can't do.'"

"'SPIIIIIIIKEEEEEESSSS!' I yelled, throwing my NES controller down in disgust."

"'Ha! I graduated from the Megaman school of jumping! There's nothing you can-' And as irony would have it, at that very moment I missed my jump. 'Never mind...'"

And a prompt:

"Who is the monster and who is the man?"

Three guesses of where this is from, and the first two don't count.
 
surskitty said:
What're some things that enter your head and you're not sure what to do with them? ALTERNATIVELY what are some prompts you'd like to give someone that you're not sure what to use for? :3

"'I don't believe in outdated rituals,' he'd said, but when $name brought it up later, he said that he merely didn't believe in them, not that he wouldn't follow along. It was an important distinction."
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I want to use this to write Aliens Made Them Do It John/Rodney slashfic. Like. Srsly.
 
"He's a genie?" I muttered, watching my beloved (Who am I kidding?) employer turn into a giant ball of smoke and disco lights."

"I gripped his...well, my....hand. My brain hurts...body swapping will do that to you."

"I fell off the couch. I knew right then something was wrong. I don't have a couch."

"I knew something was off the moment I felt something on my head."
 
I have several scattered lists of things like this (most of which I can't find now, dammit) and hate myself for not knowing what to do with them because they sounded so awesome at the time

"The apocalypse came early for the residents of _____. The [ancient Mayans] had the date pegged at [2012] worldwide, but for ______ it came [more recent date than that] in the form of [whatever]."

oh god I want to use that for something. :( The words "little girl" keep popping up in my head in conjunction with it. HALP
 
One more line that popped into my head.

"My head snapped up.

"We have to do something shocking to get out of this nightmare." I said.

"Okay, I'll kiss you...." he started to say.

"I said something shocking..." I said."
 
Flareth said:
"I fell off the couch. I knew right then something was wrong. I don't have a couch."
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That is...really awesome. I literally came up with a story plot a few minutes ago, and this has developed it. Thank you. ^^

"He was poised to deliver the fatal blow. [character] waited for the cliche quote, 'Any last words?' but it didn't come, replaced by the heavy blade swiftly closing the distance between them."

"S/he watched as a tunnel of light appeared in her/his vision, and suddenly the world went black. Am I dead? S/he wondered frantically. S/he blinked fearfully - oh. S/he had closed her eyes - that explained the blackness. And the tunnel... A streetlight. Oops."
 
"'Congratulations on your divorce'? What's next, 'Happy fucking Abortion' cards?"

I can't be bothered to write the rest of this. DO WITH IT AS YOU WILL.
 
I do not have a line to actually go with this, but! Some phone scam or something keeps leaving "important business messages" on our machine from "Linda", but almost every single time "Linda" calls the caller ID says it's from a different location. Why, the phone rang not five minutes ago with a call from yet another new and exciting location somewhere in the US, and I said to myself, "Hey, look, Linda's calling." And the machine picked up and she was! Over a thousand miles away from the last place she called from! So I thought, "Wow, Linda is everywhere! She's like a... a telemarketer genie or something!" And now I have this burning need to write something about a telemarketer genie or a phone scam fairy or what have you!

That is absolutely fucking dumb but I love it and seriously will try to do something with it if no one else does!
 
"I promised him this, that I'd never leave him. Now, here I am, fighting for my life."

"The girl stared at the creature in front of her. Her look was a look of fear, but a little smirk."

"As she fell through the broken glass of time, she felt a hand wrap around her."

" 'Of course the prosecution's claims are bogus. Faries don't EXIST.' Then I felt a presence near me. A paranormal, magical presence."

Eh, I got bored and inspired and stuff.
 
"When he came in, I knew the fight would be short. He was, after all, only four foot three."

"I couldn't bring anyone to the interrogation. I hoped imaginary friends didn't count."
 
My radio turns on by itself. It happens sometimes at night. I had this fic idea of the US government sending propaganda and brainwashing messages by night through radios.
 
"I was watching me. But I wasn't. I was watching her. But she was me... wasn't she? I had a headache..."

Yah, bodyswap on the brain now, thanks Flareth. I need to go and write something.
 
"Why are you crying? I didn't die."
"You idiot. I'm crying because I'm so happy that you lived."

I've been meaning to use something to this effect for a while, but I just can't bring myself to write.
 
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