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Prompt Collection.
Struck prompts are ones I've used for titles already.
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shitty horoscopes
2. nobody really knows the nuances of what you get up to in your spare time, and honestly they're probably better off that way.
3. busy yourself with the affairs of the living, for once.
4. the answer is no.
5. ohhh boy. you. fuck you. yes, you specifically.
6. delete your search history.
7. please practice blinking as others can be unsettled by your inhuman ability to maintain an unbreakable stare during casual conversation.
8. what did you ever do to deserve this? in all probability, something terrible.
9. you are a crayon. get out of the toolbox.
10. none will love the butcher. don't take it too personally.
11. some relationships, like warts, can be handled with the tactful application of liquid nitrogen.
12. take a long shower. wash your hair. wash the clothes you were wearing. wash the memories from your mind and body.
13. frostbite is considerably difficult to heal from.
14. there is poetry in brutal efficiency.
15. HELLFIRE HELLFIRE HELLFIRE.
16. people would take your raging far more seriously if you weren't crying the entire time.
17. what made you so vindictive?
18. some bodies may be temples, but all are ruins at your feet.
19. your contempt will always taste like grief.
20. in the process your body is subsumed piece by piece.
21. you are the bone-deep fury of an abscessed tooth.
22. you are notorious for rubbing salt in the wound. cheap vodka in the wound. battery acid in the wound!
23. vehicular arson is not the answer.
24. hate is a verb.
25. the sooner you accept your impending expiration, the sooner you can stop trying to swallow the sun.
26. embrace the inevitable, snuggle with the inevitable, take the inevitable out to a nice, candle-lit dinner.
27. there are forces outside of your control. most of them don't care for you.
28. when it all goes to hell just remember that it's what's inside that counts (though many would not find you very appetizing).
29. not all things have significance, which is scary. the things you overlooked tend to have the most, which is scarier.
30. your teeth are only porcelain, your ribcage simply glass. like all delicate things, they can know no permanence.
31. in time you'll learn that "just" and "right" only mean the same thing when they're coming from very specific people. please don't cry.
32. you may not want to change, but the world is unforgiving and will do it for you anyway.
33. sometimes we put our hearts in the wrong places. (what the fuck is it doing between your teeth?)
34. nothing can stay.
35. you can put all the flowers in your mouth that you fucking want, but dying is dying and rot is rot.
36. loneliness is the fracture that never heals quite right.
37. lay them to rest.
38. they are there, hovering nervously. you will watch the skies. you will wait.
39. eat the other.
40. there will be scrapes and sutures: viciousness and victory.
41. no loose ends.
42. a cacophony of awe and joy and terror.
43. an eye for an eye. a tooth for a tooth. a knife for the ribs.
44. you will not be swayed by the morally destitute.
45. decay will feed the bloom.
46. devour death like crows, for all the feathers between your teeth.
47. twisting/screaming/uncompromising. every inch. every iota.
48. once, answers were found in mouths, bathtubs, and bottles: this time around, get inventive.
49. romancing yourself is possible, narcissistic, and recommended.
50. contrary to popular belief, it is unwise to temper creatures of flesh and bone like steel.
51. one bad apple ruins the bunch. two bad apples leave no witnesses.
52. you know it's the real deal when you can see past the meatsuit and into the yawning dread.
53.
to break your teeth on love.54. when people ask for someone "out of this world," they often don't mean it literally.
55. when it's good it's great, when it's great it's a small calamity.
56. you are every mother's cautionary tale.
57. harpoons, while more effective than arrows, are not as wieldy.
58. a study in complacency. an essay on sensibility. a dissertation on disenchantment.
59. make up your fucking mind.
60. there are plenty of fish in the sea. some just happen to be imbibed with mercury.
61. lies you have told yourself: your humanity is the largest burden you will bear.
62. decorating your meltdowns is all well and good, but a trainwreck is a trainwreck and it might be time to get a paramedic.
63. they tell you "there is nothing to fear, but fear itself." but you have seen yourself in the mirror.
64. you may have been gutted but your mouth is soft, your tongue is silver, and your teeth are gemstones cut to size.
65. it's less like biting off more than you can chew, and more like dislocating your jaw.
66. even spectres can tire.
67. seeing yourself for what you really are would be great if you knew where to start looking.
68. it pays to kill with kindness when you're your own worst enemy.
69. you're only armed to the teeth because you're more brittle than you'd care to admit.
70. your ego cannot afford cremation or caskets.
71. frequent tastes of your own medicine can get poisonous real quick.
72. self reflection is important! whether you like what you see is up for debate. whether it can be contained in a dark basement is another matter entirely.
73. you are a quiet god, and your hunger is cavernous.
74. at times your body is simply a prison laid in gold.
75. death, dust, party, repeat.
76. devour the monsters and you can call any place home.
77. you're only as lucky as your expectations are low.
78. worse than having too many secrets is having no secrets at all.
79. if seeing is believing, you might be in some trouble.
80. suspend belief. expel fear. throw reason into a frigid cell, never to be seen again.
81. killing the monsters is the easy bit. it's finding them that's the hard part.
82. there exists a tipping point between gods and monsters.
83. a mouthful of ashes bested by a life of smoke and mirrors.
84. what's to be gained from keeping the heaviest of treasures behind your teeth?
85. you might not be afraid to die, but that doesn't mean you're ready.
86. you were a plague none were prepared for.
87. you are the mind and the malady, the medicine and the machine.
88. assholery is incurable, unfortunately.
89. no one's going to notice the difference between you pushing dandelions or daisies, so leave them something worth talking about.
90. there's no rule stating that parasites can't be pretty.
91. justice: just us.
92. anathema - me without you.
93. you aren't obligated to be anyone's cure.
94.
some are the bandage, some are the knife, some get creative.95. soothe what you can, fight what you can't.
96. the only difference between a pathogen and a person is that one is far more creative with how they'll infect you.
97.
stranger things have happened. like you. you are happening all the time and should probably stop.98. let none be the noose.
99. take what you can and run.
100. gratuitious violence: unnecessary, satisfying, heartbreaking, and so like everything else you love.
101. understanding builds bridges, suffering grows gardens, antipathy sets both on fire for shits and giggles.
102. there is a variety of sadness that makes a home in your guts and never quite leaves.
103. you could have been anyone, operating this body. the good news is that you won! the bad news is that you're stuck with it.
104. being loathsome and lovely in equal measure is probably a talent. somewhere.
105. why fear the dead, when you can fear the living? corpses in motion, cruelty and kindness.
106. if you're forging your own path, be prepared to light your own pyre.
107. what possessed you to come this far? no, honestly. was it cute?
108. you can't wrestle apologies from the sea or the sun, but by fuck are you ever going to try.
109. pick a place and die there.
110. i know you mean well.
111. may fortune favor the fuckups.
112. remarkable that one plane of existence can hold so much (and so little) distance. the spaces between people, ideals, fingertips - the sky and the sea.
113. learn when it's best to bite your tongue. temper the nest of hornets in your loveless mouth.
114. i worry. i worry. i worry.
115. time sours, rots, renews, sours again.
116.
grief and growth live hand-in-hand.117. sleeping, like dying, delivers you from one world to the next - to rest in crypts and wake in gardens.
118. words in couples carry weight: "fuck you." "hell no." "oh god." "sorry mom."
119.
make room for small, fragile things, even with bones like cement and a leaden heart.120. you win some, you lose some, you lie, cheat, and swindle some, you vanish on a crisp winter's day, never to be seen again.
121. quiet reflection is next to impossible if your mental landscape is one long scream.
122. you inspire me to be better! a better "what" is up for interpretation. (person? arsonist? alien?)
123. we don't know where you came from, but we need you to go back.
124. the dark doesn't intend to hurt you - only the creatures who plot during the cruel, cold light of day.
125. i lived better when i was ignorant of the sun, tucked away in your chest.
126. there's asking for forgiveness, there's asking for permission, and then there's saying "fuck it," and doing what you may.
127. if only it were easy! to wish and want for nothing. if only you weren't less human for it - wishing and wanting for nothing.
128. in the end there is no blaze of glory.
129. love to distraction, die due to carelessness.
130.
in the span of your life there's plenty to avoid: the wicked, the merciless, the things you want for no reason other than wanting them.131. you are dazzling and terrifying - those words are not as removed from one another as you may think.
132. flirt with death, tease the inevitable, give the void a saucy wink.
133. things to bother believing in: love, switchblades, extraterrestrials.
134. let the record show that they were ill-equipped to deal with you. which is unsurprising, since you're ill-equipped to deal with you.
135. you'll be fertilizer regardless, might as well have interesting stories for the dirt.
136. there is an exhaustion that comes with living in an embrace like a vice, a kiss like a canker sore.
137. fear is an absence of understanding. horror is the act of understanding perfectly.
138. to labour in love, to toil in tenderness.
139. your love will always be rooted deeper than any grave.
140. you've long seen your downfall spelled out in another's bones.
141. the victor spoils, the loser learns.
142. the body is rot waiting to happen.
143. you will have never loved for nothing.
144. the aftermath of your life affords you three real options: obscurity, legend, or horror story.
145. whatever i am may not be good, but it's me. and i gotta be me.
146. the dead don't care if you played pious.
147. if people were considered as faceted as precious stones, you would find them more beautiful.
148. i need you to care about anything. i need you to care about me.
149. you could live with indifference or claw at your heart, the responsibility for both rests on your shoulders.
150. the unjust is not always ugly.
151. the truth is not your concern to bear alone.
152. you could think yourself better, but you know yourself worse.
153. there are "smarter" ways to cope but they'll never be as fun.
154. your word is only your bond if they catch you.
155. there are no potions or poisons like you.
156. you will reach out, touch, find nothing empty.