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“But I must admit I miss you quite terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby. I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept.”

— Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters (via books-n-quotes)

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“If I love you is that a fact or a weapon?”

— Margaret Atwood, from Power Politics; We are hard on each other.  (via xshayarsha)

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“And suddenly, the monster in him falls silent as he rests his head on her lap.”

— L.W. // Everything feels better with her (via cleopatrawrites)

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YOU KNOW WHAT THE BEST THING EVER IS? IT’S SOULMATE AUS LIKE GOD DAMN I HAVE SEEN SO MANY ON FFN/LJ/AO3/TUMBLR OVER THE YEARS LIKE:

the one where you only see color once you meet your soulmate (so you don’t know them until you see them), and it goes away when they die

the one where you don’t know your soulmate until you touch them

the one where you don’y know your soulmate until you hear them speak, or hear them speak a certain word; your name, for example

the one where you get the name of the person in their handwriting on your body somewhere at a certain age

the one where the first thing they say to you appears instead

the one where you get each others’ fingerprints

the one where you get matching marks/symbols/tattoos

the one where your marks or words that change depending on what’s going on with your soulmate

the one with the clock that counts down the time until you meet your soulmate

the one where when you sleep you dream of whatever they’re experiencing from their point of view until you find them, or AFTER you find them

the one where you can straight up talk to them in dreams until/after you find them

the one where you form a telepathic/empathetic link until/after you find them

the one where you share extreme physical sensation until/after you find them; if one of you hurts the other one hurts, if one of you is getting lucky the other one gets a little hot and bothered

the one where the closer you are to them the more aware of them you become, and you find them playing a hot/cold game; for instance, colors get brighter and brighter the closer you are and fade into gray when they’re too far away

the one where once you turn a certain age/one night a year you swap bodies with them for one night and you have a limited amount of time to leave/collect clues to their identity

the one where being next to your soulmate can heal you from things people don’t normally heal from

the one where only your soulmate can kill you (can you still be killed by age/disease? who knows!)

the one where reincarnation is also a thing and meeting your soulmate either unlocks or erases memories or your past lives until the next one

the one where in universes with magic meeting your soulmate activates your powers/unlocks more powerful magic

SOULMATE AUS WITH COMPLICATIONS:

blind characters who can’t see if the world’s in color or black and white

characters like x-men’s rogue who literally can’t touch people; characters who have been through trauma who don’t want to touch people

hard of hearing characters like clint barton who can’t hear their soulmate speak without hearing aids/at all or on the flipside characters who can’t speak; maybe it still works in sign language, or maybe it doesn’t

people who can’t read/can’t read the language the words on their body are in

characters like bucky barnes who’ve lost hands and/or had their fingerprints removed

soulmate clocks that time out in the middle of the crowd; there’s an entire craigslist category for finding who else was there that day with a clock that timed out too

famous characters speaking to or performing for a crowd and suddenly their world is in color/thier clock times out/etc and every member of the audience pretends to be this celebrity’s soulmate and a cinderella type situation ensues with the finding

soulmates playing the hot/cold game and they kEEP MISSING EACH OTHER

insomniacs who rarely sleep, much less at the same time/different time than their soulmate

soulmate ot3s/ot4s/otmores where you dream in varying people’s povs every time you sleep and get super confused

people who get sick or injured and frantically search for their soulmate so they can survive

people who need to be in medically induced comas and their soulmates have to stay away so they don’t accidentally wake them up

the one where soulbonding is actually a choice and someone chooses to bond with someone they may not know or like to save their lives

new souls who don’t get memories of past lives because they don’t have one and panic

muggles/people without powers who don’t get them upgraded or unlocked

COMBINATION AUS:

the one where you one or both of you have to do all three (see your soulmate, touch your soulmate, hear your soulmate), or all three have to happen at least once between the 2+ of you

or it’s completely random how you find your soulmate: one of you gets a name and the other gets a fingerprint, one of you has to hear your soulmate and one of you has to see them, etc; particularly useful if you happen to be blind or deaf

same for characters with disabilities/who have “complications”: they get or find a different way of finding their soulmate, not better or worse, just different

THEN THERE’S SOULMATE AUS THAT DON’T HAVE TO CONFORM TO LIFELONG MONOGAMY:

the ones where you have more than one romantic soulmate at the same time or you get a new soulmate after the first die

the ones where people have multiple soulmates of different types and it’s color coded; a red name/mark/etc for love, a blue one for friendship; for the ones where you start seeing color you get a new one for each soulmate

the ones where some people have romantic soulmates and some don’t, and those that don’t are still perfectly happy anyway, maybe in a relationship anyway, maybe not

the ones where some people have multiple romantic soulmates who may or may not also be soulmates with each other

aromantic or asexual people who have soulmates who are not and they manage to work it out

romantic and sexual people who don’t have soulmates but find happiness anyway, either with someone like them or someone not like them

SOULMATE AUS THAT EXPLORE THE RAMIFICATIONS OF SOULMATES BEING A THING:

the ones where soulmates are for everyone and get legal aid to help stay together, like if their in-laws try to keep them apart/someone risks getting deported/someone gets drafted/whatever

the ones where soulmates are super super rare and TECHNICALLY get exempted from shitty things like “people of different races/the same sex/etc can’t get married/have relations/etc” but maybe still face a lot of prejudice and they fight to get those types of awful laws lifted for everyone

agencies that exist to help you find your soulmate or figure out which soulmate thing you have but some of them are just shams, bonus points for this being in a verse where the thing is exceedingly rare to begin with

people pretending to be soulmates to take advantage of the laws, for good or ill; the couple who loves just as fiercely as a soulmates who will do anything to stay together, or the shitty people who try to claim they’re mated to people who’ve rejected them so they “have” to stay together

tabloid mags photoshopping matching soulmate marks or following big legal cases where someone tries to prove or disprove that they are soulmates with someone else

soulmates in universes where they’re a rarity or rare soulmate types like ot3s in dodging government officials because they don’t want to become lab rats

people who don’t believe in soulmates until it happens to them, or people who believe hardcore and want to find theirs but they don’t necessarily have one

little rituals that make finding your soulmate more likely, like shaking hands with people as often as possible, repeating each other’s names after you’re introduced, etc

just give me alllll the soulmate aus ok, give me people finding each other in spite of complications, give me all the delightful plot twists, give me detailed worlds where this changes the norms

feel free to reblog with sources! (or MORE AUS.) a little over half of these are things i’ve seen elsewhere over time and i cannot remember where they are all from

haha or if you’re into this sorta thing you could just take pity on me and reblog it anyway this took an embarrassingly long time to type up oh my god ;;;;;;;;;

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jungkook is the type of sleepy boyfriend that holds you closer and says ‘youre warm dont leave’ when you try to get up in the mornings

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angel

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Four Word . Prompts

“Please, come with me.”

“You’re always number one.”

“I can’t do this.”

“I won’t let you.”

“Maybe I’m just crazy.”

“I’m not even sorry.”

“Honestly, just stop it.”

“I believe in you.”

“Don’t be an ass.”

“Who were you with?”

“Please talk to me.”

“I can’t trust you.”

“I need you, though.”

“Don’t be fucking rude.”

“Is that my shirt?”

“So, it was you.”

“I need to go.”

“Just stay with me.”

“You can trust me.”

“Alright, I love you.”

“I’m sorry, but no.”

“Will you help me?”

“You’re a terrible cook.”

“Can you shut up!?”

“You love me, right?”

“I really need you.”

“I don’t love you.”

“I’m not doing this.”

“I really need you.”

“You don’t want me.”

“Let me help you.”

“You’re such a bitch.”

“I can’t do this.”

“You think you’re funny?”

“Hey, I said stop!”

“Will you marry me?”

“Wanna go out sometime?”

“I don’t want this.”

“You always this quiet?”

“Are you fucking insane!?”

“I don’t want you.”

“I’m not wearing that.”

“Sorry, were you sleeping?”

“This was never right.”

“You look really tired.”

“I’m out of here.”

“You need to go.”

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That was our tragedy. Both of us in love, but never at the same time.

Excerpt from Modern Romantics // L.H.Z

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you know how the moon reflects the sun?

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dreaming with our eyes open [preview]

◽ pairing: yoongi + reader ◽ genre: demon au ◽ word count: 479 ◽ warnings: none !  

The demon prowled towards you, its face flickering between man and monster.

A predator hunting down its prey.

You took one step back. And another.

From the moment you caught the gaze of those unearthly gold eyes, you felt a weight drop into your stomach. And now, cornered and breathless from the dead sprint you just finished, you could see how it would end.

That is, until you walked into a warm, solid wall. You flinched, starting to turn around, but a casual arm was thrown over your shoulder, and the voice that spoke was immediately recognizable.

“How kind of you to escort her to me,” drawled the man behind you.

The mutilated figure not ten feet away from you, still hidden in shadow, paused. Weighing its options. You realized that although the demon was draped in darkness, so were you and your companion.

“Would you like me to show you the way out?” The man stepped forward once, taking you with him.

You could only imagine what the demon saw, for a raw sort of terror filled its face. It halted for only a moment before it stepped into a pocket in the world and disappeared with a snarl.

You stared at the vacated spot a while longer, until an amused voice said, “You’re welcome,” right into your ear.

You jumped, shaking off the arm that was still wrapped around your shoulders. “Thank you.” Your voice sounded tense and thin to your own ears. “But who are you? Why did you help me?”

The man let out a low chuckle, and a shiver of fear ran down your spine: if that demon was petrified with just a mere glance in his direction, what was going to happen to you?

As if reading your thoughts, the man smiled without showing teeth, stepped closer until he was a handbreadth away. Your legs were leaden, immovable. “You know me very well. Almost as well as I know you.” He looked straight into your eyes, searching for something with his gaze.

At once, his name came to you: Min Yoongi.

Your eyes widened in surprise, your lips mouthing the name unconsciously.

Yoongi continued, that devil’s smirk still painted on his lips, “We grew up together–don’t you remember? Or have you erased those memories?”

He took another step forward; you took another back. There was no place to go; your back was already pressed against the cool wall behind you.

“But you should at least remember me teaching you that anything that lives in your mind never truly goes away. Even,” he added, “if you don’t want to remember it.” His eyes glinted in the dark alleyway. “Even if you don’t want to remember me.”

You barely dared to take a breath as Yoongi said his next words.

“And now I’m here to take back what’s mine: you’re going to be my bride.”

author’s note: please look forward to the complete story 😊

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私のことを覚えていてほしいの。私が存在し、こうしてあなたのとなりにいたことをずっと覚えていてくれる？

Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

Translation: “I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this.”

(via thelovejournals)

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The universe has no center. No center, no limits. We live in the midst of infinity.

Kristopher Jansma, Why We Came to the City (via resistancepilots)

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And the nights, bigger than imagining: black and gusty and enormous, disordered and wild with stars.

Donna Tartt, from ‘The Secret History’ (via aegeane)

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“I’ll cut my soul in pieces, And breathe half into you,”

— Heinrich Heine, from Book of Songs; “I Don’t Believe in Heaven,”

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“i’m sorry for all the blood i left on your lips / for loving you into ruin.”

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WHISPERS IN THE WIND | 

a.e.m. (via inkstay)

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( * &. ━ list of gestures and body language

if you’re like me and struggle with varying the gestures your characters show — this might help ! a comprehensive (bordering on too long) list of different gestures and body language you could include in your literary ventures. i claim no ownership for this list, it was sourced here: x

he lowered his head

she hung her head

he ducked

she bowed her head

he covered his eyes with a hand

she pressed her hands to her cheeks

she raised her chin

he lifted his chin

her hands squeezed into fists

his hands tightened into fists

she clenched her fists

she balled her fists

he unclenched his fists

her arms remained at her sides

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