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YOU WOULD BE. 

Was that a grumble? It was hard to tell with his toneless voice, but Death’s eternal smile seemed somewhat more fixed than usual. Which was a paradox all by itself. 

OTHER TIME TRAVELERS MANAGE TO STILL LIVE THEIR SECONDS CONSECUTIVELY. 

“ I can say I am awfully proud of that. “

It was disturbingly pleasant to see Death, he had seen him before,  just not like this, he had never welcomed him, but things  past made him do so, and wasn’t acting very much like  himself lately.

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YOUR LIFE TIMER IS WORSE THAN RINCEWIND’S.

Death was not often put off by things. But this. He simply had to comment. Something told him (though not a little bird -- he’d never understood that colloquialism) that this person in particular would have no trouble seeing him.

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GENERALLY ONLY THE DEAD SEE ME. And witches, wizards, cats, some children -- well many actually -- and his Granddaughter, Susan. THEY TEND TO WORRY MORE ABOUT WHERE THEY ARE HEADING THAN WHO IS COLLECTING. 

Speaking of -- in one swift, powerful movement, the scythe in his hand arced about in a circle -- over the body of one Joseph Bouquet. Aforementioned spirit stopped chattering what had been insults of some kind and moved on. 

DAMN. I SHALL HAVE TO FIND THEM ELSEWHERE. 

Despite the fact that his current occupation was that of a false ghost, his belief in the supernatural was not particularly strong. He was familiar enough with the personification of Death in art and various other media, but he had not given any credence to the thought that death was anything but an abstract concept. He was a man of practical beliefs. He was not given to fanciful beliefs. 

He was still not convinced that this was anything but some sort of waking dream. That is all it had to be. And certainly it would be his subconscious that would conjure a matter-of-fact sort of Death. As this likely was some sort of fit of madness, it would likely be best to go along with it until the dream passed.

“You can hardly be surprised. I expect that few people would react in an ordinary fashion when they met Death. And I’m afraid to say that I don’t have a coin for the ferryman, as it were.”

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“locked in a room” starters

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the wolf among us || starters

offabletown:

❝ Is that a threat ? ❞  ❝ These lips are sealed . ❞ ❝ It is better to be feared than loved .❞  ❝ I’ve seen the way you look at ___ , okay ? You’re not foolin’ me .❞ ❝ You’re not as bad as everyone says you are . ❞ ❝ Anyone ever tell you you got a big fuckin’ mouth ? ❞ ❝ Whatever . I’m too out of it to get into it . ❞ ❝ We all have our parts to play . ❞ ❝ You can’t change the past . ❞ ❝ ____ , I’m gonna break your fucking face . ❞ ❝ I’ve heard stories about you . ❞ ❝ In some tiny little bottled up way , deep inside … you kind of enjoy it when things go wrong . ( Because it gives you an excuse to just … stop pretending ) . ❞ ❝ Life is easier with friends . ❞ ❝ Well I’d appreciate it if you’d fuck off . ❞ ❝ But no , hate’s the wrong word . They fear you more than anything . ❞ ❝ I know you like this whole ’ lone wolf ’ thing you got going for yourself . ❞ ❝ I wish I could have seen it. ❞ ❝ I’ll see you around . ❞ ❝ You almost looked peaceful . Except you’re lying in a dirty alley . ❞ ❝ Just … try not to be like ( yourself ) … ❞ ❝ Pardon the intrusion . I wasn’t aware this was a munchkin’s house .❞ ❝ I didn’t realize you were the bitch of the bitch . ❞ ❝ Hey , what are your plans now ? ❞ ❝ I’m not yours to lose ! ❞ ❝ Blah blah … blah blah blah . ❞ ❝ Are you saying you need a friend right now ? You can trust me . ❞ ❝ People are scared of you . I mean , look at your hands . ❞ ❝ You looked like when you take an action figure and bend it’s limbs the wrong way . ❞ ❝ But at the end of the day I’m still the bad guy . ❞ ❝ Everything used to be so simple … we had a beginning , a middle , & an end . ❞ ❝ When we suffer , we do it in silence . ❞ ❝ You should worry about your own fucking situation . ❞ ❝ I’ve made mistakes . ❞ ❝ You do what you want … you always do what you want . ❞ ❝ I’m glad you’re not dead . ❞ ❝ We need to do things the right way ! ❞ ❝ You’ll pray to any god who’ll listen that your mother never shit you into this fucking world .❞ ❝ Wait a minute … someone’s watching . ❞ ❝ I know it’s dangerous , but I’m not helpless . I can take care of myself . ❞ ❝ Not now , not now , shhhh , the grown ups are talking. . ❞ ❝ Out of my way ! I’ll show you how it’s done ! ❞ ❝ Do you want the Big Bad Wolf to take you away ? ❞ ❝ That was about 8 on the asshole scale … ❞ ❝ Cut the bullshit & quit wasting my time . ❞ ❝ This was really the wrong day to try & pull this shit !❞ ❝ You’re a monster ! A fucking monster ! ❞ ❝ You understand wanting to protect what you care about , don’t you ? You’d do anything . ❞ 

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Silent Hill Sentence Starters

“Listen. Suffering is a fact of life. Either you learn how to deal with it or you go under.”

“You can stay in your own little world, but you can’t keep hurting people!”

“Are you still following me? Do I have to scream?”

“What a nightmare.”

“Stay back! Get the hell away from me!”

“What’s wrong? You don’t trust me?”

“I’m just looking out for myself. Everyone does it.”

“Don’t stand there looking so smug! You’re the worst person in this room!”

“You come here and enjoy spilling their blood! And listening to them cry out! You feel excited when you step on them and snuff out their lives!“

“Well, the guest of honor has arrived. Let’s get this party started!”

“Calm down?! How the hell am I supposed to do that?!”

“Burn everything you’re afraid of.”

“That’s strange… It’s getting darker.”

“Maybe it’s all just going on in my head.”

“It doesn’t matter who I am.”

“I’m here for you ____. See? I’m real…”

“____. That’s what you’re call now, isn’t it?”

“What you call ‘faith’ is nothing more than a child crying out for love.”

“Look at me. I’m burning.”

“You thought they looked like monsters?”

“Be free from the bonds of the flesh…”

“When you’re hurt and scared for so long, the fear and pain turn to hate and the hate starts to change the world.”

“Don’t die on me, okay?”

“I don’t particularly want to die!”

“If you hadn’t met me, I’d be fine on my own.”

“Killing a person ain’t no big deal. Just put the gun to their head… POW!”

“It’s hot as hell in here…”

“You see it, too? For me, it’s always like this.”

“I’m looking for my momma - I mean, My mother. I’m looking for my mother.”

“I was weak. That’s why I needed you… Needed someone to punish me for my sins… But that’s all over now.”

“I know the truth. Now it’s time to end this.”

“I got a letter… The name on the envelope said… _____.”

“I’m not trying to be a badass or a hero or anything, I just want to do something that matters.”

“Sometimes I wonder how things would have turned out if I were born into a different family…”

“You always were a klutz.”

“I can’t tell you what happened. You’ll never believe me! Shit, I don’t even believe me.”

“Stop giving me orders, _____. You have no idea what I’m capable of.”

“_____ thinks you’re a little baby who can’t do anything on their own.”

“So what’d you do? Robbery? Murder?”

“Liar! That’s a lie!”

“You’re the same as me… It’s easier just to run… Besides, it’s what we deserve.”

“No! I’m sorry… I’ve been bad… Please don’t…!“

“Don’t touch me! You make me sick!”

“Thank you for saving me. But… I wish you hadn’t.”

“So what do you want, then? Oh, I see… You’re trying to be nice to me, right? I know what you’re up to! It’s always the same! You’re only after one thing!”

“I want to die. That is my one and only wish. But it’s a wish that’s proven difficult to obtain. I want to die, and yet I’m forced to keep living.”

“Do I look like your girl/boyfriend?

“Do I look like a ghost to you? See… Feel how warm I am.”

“Don’t get so mad. I was just joking.”

“You don’t sound very happy to see me! I was almost killed back there! Why didn’t you try to save me?!”

“I’ve never been so scared in my whole life! You couldn’t care less about me… could you?”

“Stay with me! Don’t ever leave me alone! You’re supposed to take care of me!”

“______, honey… did something happen to you? After we got separated in that long hallway? Are you confusing me with someone else?”

“You were always so forgetful… remember that time in the hotel? You said you took everything, but you forgot that video tape we made. I wonder if it’s still there…”

“Don’t you want to touch me? Come and get me. I can’t do anything through these bars.”

“When will you ever stop making that mistake? ____’s dead. You killed them.”

“But I can be yours! I’ll be here for you forever. And I’ll never yell at you, or make you feel bad! That’s what you wanted! I’m different than _____! How can you throw me away?!“

“No! I won’t let you! You deserve to die too, ______!”

“I didn’t do it… I swear I didn’t kill anybody.”

It’s no good… they wouldn’t listen. Nobody will ever forgive me.“

”_____, you can’t just kill someone cause of the way they looked at you!“

“I wanted to see you… Even an illusion of you… that’s why I came here.”

“You don’t recognize me, do you?”

“Now cut the bullshit, cause I don’t have time for this!”

“I get it, I screwed up!”

“I told you, I’m not going back… so you might as well shoot me.”

“People believing in me tend to end up badly.”

“It’s okay… It’s just a dream…”

“_____… Are you still alive…?”

“I might know a way to save you.”

“If you get killed here… Then you die in the real world, too…“

“I… I feel like I’m dying…”

“I don’t feel enough for you to cry. Goodbye.”

“This is beyond my abilities. Only you can stop it now.”

“This is the end of your little game.”

“You’ve been a ghastly little pest, haven’t you ______?”

“They’re not the monster you make them out to be.”

“Shush. No more craziness. You’re freaking me out.”

“You’re pathetic… to think I used to hang off your every word.”

“I shouldn’t have trusted you.”

“Kick a man when he’s down, why don’t ya?”

“My cheek hurts. I hate them.”

“I got hit again. I didn’t do anything wrong. I wish they were dead.”

“Lots of people tried to stop me, but it’s fine now.”

“This is my dream and you don’t even know my name? It’s _____.”

“Don’t worry… You’ll know soon enough.”

“I got this from _____ a long, long time ago… Here, I’ll give it to you.”

”_____. That’s what everybody calls me, but I don’t really have a name. Or a home either…“

“SHOW ME YOUR HEART!”

“Don’t you know? Your power is needed.”

“You’re going to kill me? Is it really so easy for you?”

“____…? Oh, how I’ve missed you!”

“The world must be cleansed with fire!”

“You despise me, don’t you?“

“When did you stop believing in God? God lives! Just look around you!”

“Happy people can be so cruel.”

“Is it so hard to believe that sympathy could be born out of pain and suffering?” 

“I wish I could play outside like the other children…”

“Dreams are just lies, after all.”

“Mother is God in the eyes of a child.”

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Somehow, for a skull with fixed expressions, Death seemed to grin. Well -- he was always grinning. But this time, he seemed to mean it. Skeletal fingers -- for the were indeed nothing but bone -- spread and he made a ‘well, get on with it’ sort of gesture.

The self proclaimed phantom did not get.

FOR A GENIUS YOU’RE RATHER SLOW. BUT PERHAPS IT IS YOUR GENIUS THAT HAS ALLOWED YOU TO UNDERSTAND WHAT I AM WHEN I HAVE NOT INSISTED YOU DO SO.

Hands went to hips. Or rather the sides of his pelvic bone. He managed, somehow to look exasperated.

YOU WOULDN’T HAPPEN TO HAVE ANY GOLD COINS YOU DON’T REQUIRE, WOULD YOU?

After all, he could remember a point int he future where he would need something from Paris -- for whatever reason. Something about a redheaded farm boy.

People argued that he was mentally deranged, but if they met this man who dressed as Death himself and seemed to casually offer his would-be killer help in ending his life, those people that believed Erik mad would likely change their minds. 

“Your assistance is not required, though it is quite refreshing to find that you are willing to aid me in my actions.”

He lunged forward, about to wrap the rope about the man’s neck and pull it tight, but he was stopped in his tracks when he was several inches in front of the skeletal man. Even if he had been wearing a costume of some sort, the outline of his neck should have been visible. But–

There was no neck, aside from off-white vertebrae holding up the skull of the personage’s head. 

On second thought, maybe Erik was mad. In that case, he would have to rescind those thoughts he had had just moments earlier regarding the veracity of his mental wellness. 

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This blog is a sideblog for chrcnonaut! I cannot follow you back!

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CAN YOU EVEN REACH MY NECK? He was, after all, a seven foot tall skeleton. SHOULD I PERHAPS FETCH YOU A STOOL? 

Death was incapable of sarcasm, or what human beings typically called humor -- aside from perhaps puns. That said, he was being entirely sincere. His toneless ‘voice’ made that rather hard to distinguish, however. 

“What an astute observation. And I fail to see how there will be an issue in carrying out my threat.” 

He was already twining a cord of rope between his hands beneath his cloak. He was not certain whether this man was unafraid, or genuinely believed himself to be immune from Erik’s retribution. Or perhaps he was feigning bravery. Either way, he was inordinately calm, which was either admirable or incredibly stupid. 

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Susans and Grandfathers by Alda-Rana

This week’s theme at the Francophone Classic Whovian Club is ‘Crossover’, so I had to go back to this old WIP of mine that’d been gathering dust for almost a year.

When you think about it, having a granddaughter named Susan is only the beginning of the resemblance between Death and the Doctor. They both like humans and try to act like them, they live in dimensionally transcendantal homes, they have seen the beginning and the end of the world… I think a meeting between them could be quite interesting.

It was also fun trying to imagine what the Doctor’s lifetimer might look like. Certainly worse than Rincewind’s. Bits of it are probably in other dimensions or a few seconds ahead of the rest.

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Tiffany again by Alda-Rana

I hadn’t reread the Tiffany books since I Shall Wear Midnight came out, so I had got used to teenage Tiffany - so it was great to reread the Wee Free Men and rediscover wee nine-year-old Tiff with her oversized clothes, her frying pan and her attitude.

I also came out of it loving this book more than ever - the Feegles are on top form, the dream sequences are wonderfully unreal and Tiffany’s world is so amazingly real, especially the character of Granny Aching whose loss resonates throughout. (I had a similar relationship to my own paternal grandmother, so I relate, even though mine wasn’t a witch, of course).

If you go to the Spring Fling in Wincanton this weekend, you will hopefully be able to purchase this piece! I can’t make it this year so I’m counting on the speed of the postal service to convey it in time for the Great Charity Auction. Fedecks, I am counting on you!

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Time for a Let’s Draw Discworld challenge, and it’s a crossover with Lord of the Rings! Hurray!

http://letsdrawdiscworld.tumblr.com/

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Death canted his head to the side, not quite understanding at first. But that wasn’t exactly uncommon for him... 

AH, I SEE, YOU ARE MAKING A THREAT, ARE YOU? I’M AFRAID YOU MAY HAVE SOME TROUBLE GOING THROUGH WITH THAT.

He was welcome to try of course. He certainly wouldn’t be the first. Albeit generally (with one rather mad exception from the Hogswatch several years ago) those who tried were already quite dead.

Hm. That had been unexpected. He thought he had the Opera House’s sole monopoly on lurking about in the dark in dark clothes and a mask. Still, if this…person knew what he had done, then a certainly couldn’t be permitted to leave.

“Well spoken. I do believe the two of you shall have a grand time together, as you both appear to have been foolish enough to get mixed up in my business where you do not belong.” 

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@xcomeandsee

THIS IS A NEW EXPERIENCE. He’s actually quite pleased with that fact. HOW IS IT EXACTLY THAT YOU ARE SO -- FLESHY?

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