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💻  for me to use a line from my favorite TV show as a starter | @arielsmackay

“WHAT I HEAR WHEN I’M BEING YELLED AT IS PEOPLE CARING REALLY LOUDLY AT ME,” sitting at the Gryffindor table was LOUD above all else, especially when it came to breakfast food as she tried to grab the bacon for Ariel. “I’m about to bop someone or steal some from my own table for you.”

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🎧 for me to shuffle my playlist and use the first line of the next song as a starter | @griffinkowalski

“I HOPE THAT YOU REMEMBER ME,” Alice triumphantly stated as she walked up to Griffin with a cat she was sure was his. “This lil’ babe has been following you on and off for days, can’t believe you haven’t noticed your cat following you around, Griff.”

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“I want you to hit me as hard as you can.” | @gwenahg

“You’re taking those muggle STEROIDS I keep hearing about, aren’t you? That’s the only reason you’d willingly ask me to punch you.” Comically, Alice started to position herself so she could actually punch Gwen in the face without injuring herself in the process. “I’m going t’try to go for the arse, though, that’ll be fun.”

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🎵for me to shuffle my playlist and use my favorite line of the next song as a starter | @acarrow

“MAY YOUR LIMITS BE UNKNOWN AND MAY YOUR EFFORTS BE YOUR OWN,” Alice rose a glass of water to Alecto, “my uncle always says that, got him pretty far in life too.” 

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💻  for me to use a line from my favorite TV show as a starter |  @nettymacmillan

"NETTY, YOU BEAUTIFUL TROPICAL FISH,” Alice marveled at the work in front of them as well as the books, the creatures, ones she hadn’t even seen before as well as information she desperately needed for their next essay. “You’re brilliant, how’d you find this? Did you knick it off of someone like ..... New Scamander himself?” 

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little-dorcas-meadowes:

“So… you’re doing all this completely sober?” Dorcas questioned, not completely convinced. While she was completely sober herself, she could not fathom dancing like Alice was without at least four drinks in her system.

“Okay, I’m not COMPLETELY sober but I’m sober enough to promise you that when I’m stone cold sober, I’ll definitely dance like this for you.” Alice stopped, offering her hand out to Dorcas to shake, “I’ll even shake on it.”

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“fight club” (1999) sentence starters

Send me one to see how my muse reacts.

Trigger warnings: violence, murder, depression

“The first rule of ______ is: you do not talk about _____. The second rule of ____ is: you do not talk about _____.”

“Hit me before I lose my nerve.”

“Fuck what you know. You need to forget about what you know, that’s your problem. Forget about what you think you know about life, about friendship, and especially about you and me.”

“When you have insomnia, you’re never really asleep… and you’re never really awake.”

“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need.”

“I found freedom.”

“You can swallow a pint of blood before you get sick.”

“I’d fight Gandhi.”

“If you don’t claim your humanity, you will become a statistic.”

“People are always asking me if I know [name].”

“Never been in a fight. You?”

“I don’t even have to come into the office, I can do this job from home.”

“We’re a generation of men raised by women. I’m wondering if another woman is really the answer we need.”

“You wanna see pain? Swing by First Methodist Tuesday nights. See the guys with testicular cancer. That’s pain.”

“My dad never went to college, so it was real important that I go.”

“Ah, flashback humor.”

“I didn’t create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility!”

“Hitting bottom isn’t a weekend retreat. It’s not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go!”

“All right, if the applicant is young, tell him he’s too young. Old, too old. Fat, too fat. If the applicant then waits for three days without food, shelter, or encouragement he may then enter and begin his training.”

“With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.”

“Look, the people you are after are the people you depend on. We cook your meals, we haul your trash, we connect your calls, we drive your ambulances. We guard you while you sleep. Do not fuck with us.”

“I don’t wanna die without any scars.”

“Listen up, maggots!”

“Fuck Martha Stewart.”

“For a second I totally forgot about [name]’s whole controlled demolition thing and I wondered how clean that gun is.”

“I know everything you do, so if you know I know.”

“You met me at a very strange time in my life.”

“I’ll bring us through this. As always. I’ll carry you - kicking and screaming - and in the end you’ll thank me.”

“It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.”

“The things you own end up owning you.”

“This is your life, and it’s ending. One minute at a time.”

“[Name], I’m grateful to you; for everything that you’ve done for me. But this is too much. I don’t want this.”

“More than one side? You’re Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jackass!”

“Motherfucker! You hit me in the ear!”

“All the ways you wish you could be, that’s me. I look like you wanna look, I fuck like you wanna fuck, I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I am free in all the ways that you are not.”

“You’re not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You’re not your fucking khakis. You’re the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.”

“What would you wish you’d done before you died?”

“Our fathers were our models for God. If our fathers bailed, what does that tell you about God?”

“…We’re the same person.”

“Is that your blood?”

“I can’t believe he’s still standing.”

“He was a decent man, and we’re not gonna bury him in the fucking garden!”

“Three minutes. This is it - ground zero. Would you like to say a few words to mark the occasion?”

“I know this because [name] knows this.”

“You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you. He never wanted you. In all probability, He hates you. This is not the worst thing that can happen.”

“Self-improvement is masturbation. Now, self-destruction…”

“If you wake up at a different time in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?”

“Whoa, whoa, whoa! Okay,  you are now firing a gun at your imaginary friend near 400 GALLONS OF NITROGLYCERINE!”

“It’s cheaper than a movie, and there’s free coffee.”

“Is that what a real man is supposed to look like?”

“Lord knows what they charged.”

“I look around, I look around, I see a lot of new faces.”

“Listen to me, I’m giving you a direct order. We’re aborting this mission right now.”

“With insomnia, nothing’s real. Everything’s far away. Everything’s a copy of a copy of a copy.”

“You’re going to call off your rigorous investigation. You’re going to publicly state that there is no underground group.”

“Why would anyone want this shit job?”

“We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.”

“On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”

“These guys are going to take your balls. They’re going to send one to the New York Times, one to the LA Times, press-release style.”

“[Name], what the fuck is going on here?”

“It’s called a changeover. The movie goes on, and nobody in the audience has any idea.”

“I want you to hit me as hard as you can.”

“Life insurance pays off triple if you die on a business trip.”

“[Name] is dead. They shot him in the head!”

“When people think you’re dying, they really, really listen to you, instead of just…”

“Why do people think I’m you?”

“Yeah, you’re sorry, I’m sorry, everybody’s sorry, but… I can’t do this anymore. I can’t. And I won’t. I’m gone.”

“Get the fuck out of here, you’re fired!”

“This isn’t a real suicide-thing. This is probably one of those cry-for-help things.”

“You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying organic matter as everything else.”

“I haven’t been fucked like that since grade school.”

“Losing all hope is freedom.”

“I’m not [name]!”

“We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives.”

“I ask you for one thing, one simple thing.”

“Fuck damnation, man! Fuck redemption! We are God’s unwanted children? So be it!”

“If I didn’t say anything, people always assumed the worst.”

“People do it everyday, they talk to themselves… they see themselves as they’d like to be, they don’t have the courage you have, to just run with it.”

“I have a better solution. You keep me on the payroll as an outside consultant and in exchange for my salary, my job will be never to tell people these things that I know.”

“[Name] had bitch tits.”

“You’re the worst thing that’s ever happened to me.”

“That’s, um… That’s an interesting theory.”

“Well, what do you want me to do? You just want me to hit you?”

“Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you’re alive.”

“I feel like destroying something beautiful.”

“This isn’t love, it’s sport fucking.”

“It could be worse. A woman could cut off your penis while you’re sleeping and toss it out the window of a moving car.”

“I see all this potential, and I see squandering.”

“Why would anyone possibly confuse you with me?”

“[Name]’s philosophy of life is that she/he/they might die at any moment. The tragedy, she/he/they said, was that she/he/they didn’t.”

“How much can you know about yourself if you’ve never been in a fight?”

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little-dorcas-meadowes:

“I’m embarrassed for you,” she declared, putting a hand half over her face and shaking her head, “How much have you had to drink?”

“For ME?” Alice said, in an exaggerated and comical manner, “I’m the one out here, with deadly as hell dance moves, while you can’t even keep up.  -- “I’ve not had enough to alter or impair my motor abilities or my s p a r k l i n g personality.”

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acarrow:

“ you can keep the soul. I like yours where it is and mine where it is, and swapping at this point would just get so confusing. “ there was a flippancy in alecto’s tone, on par with the smile she shot alice. she accepted the cup, took an easy sip of the easy drink. her gaze shifted to rest wry and judgmental on the crowd before them; she arched an eyebrow on a sideways glance alice’s way. “ there’s something to be said for responsibility, I suppose. but I just don’t feel the need to stay sober when that’s the kind of thing you’ve got to LOOK at with your clear eyes. “

“It would be confusing, ay? Though if it’s anything like Egyptian mythology, they’ll just weigh our souls, well, hearts, and see how full of sin mine is and just know who’s is who’s. The Sinful & Heavy Hearted Alice Fortescue strikes again,” Alice softly giggled, surveying the crowd with her, laughing even more at Alecto’s comment. “These parties are TRULY something else, especially some of the people sulking about letting the rest of the castle into the dungeons. They’ve lost the battle, they might as well enjoy the alcohol. I actually don’t mind the liveliness, maybe it’ll rub off on the rest of my housemates -- which would make for very interesting Common Room people watching.”

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frnklongbottm:

       frank GASPED, a dramatic hand resting on his chest out of pure shock.                ❝ oh, how you wound me, ally.       but if we’re really tossing around ‘ i’m with stupid ’ tattoos,                          don’t ya reckon you should be the one getting it to point to me ?? ❞

       Quickly, a p o i n t e d  look was shot his way,                           throwing something akin to daggers         even if the small curve of her lips ( a smile )                      betrayed her looking completely unamused.                                “YOU’RE RIGHT.”                                       A beat.        “I’ll have it on my wrist and charm it to light up                    every time you’ve come ‘round, as a WARNING.

        “You better not get my Da thinking that’s the sort of tattoo I’m going to get.                Though I have a feeling that joke would catch on                    with him really quickly, and I’ll be getting letters about it from him.” 

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daisyhcckm:

       ❝ ohhh, i’m so glad to hear that, my love. you deserve to have a good holiday. and paris ?? and a — wait, did you say a tattoo ?? oh my gosh, where ?? you have to show me. ❞ smiling back with the same level of warmth, daisy reciprocated the hug with great enthusiasm ( granted, she’d by now had a couple of cups of the punch… ). ❝ yeah… a couple of my friends didn’t return. and i guess i understand, too, it’s just… sad. and scary, i guess. ❞

“We should catch up more tomorrow or sometime this week, we have to plan SOMETHING, because there’s just so much. With the tattoo it was just getting permission for it, even though I’m of age he’s been very adverse to the idea but not anymore!” Alice’s voice was filled with excitement, though she immediately then zeroed in on Daisy’s sadness wanting to ease it -- she was right, it was sad and scary. “It is, isn’t it? At least we still have mail, yeah? At least after graduation we’ll have more freedom to visit and see people during the school year.”

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oknarcissa:

                                 “ YOU’RE TOO KIND.    i would give you my secrets, but what is a woman without a little mystery ? … i assume you’re enjoying your night ? seeing as you’re still here. and smiling, no less. ”

       “You’re too RIGHT, full of wisdom too, as usual. Maybe you’re a Ravenclaw at heart, hm?” Alice teased, though she did know Narcissa was certainly one of the smartest and most clever people in the entire castle, her social grace unmatched, it had been interesting to see her work a room all the years she’d been in school with the other. “I am, I am, and you? You’re still here as well, unless you’re just being a good prefect and making everyone practice safe drinking.”

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ssirriussb:

“I’ll do it but I’m going to need you to hold my drink.” He said holding his cup out to her. “Unless you like to be splashed in the eyes by firewhiskey. And I’ll trust that you won’t drink it, either?”

“Getting splashed in the eyes by firewhiskey is easily one of my FAVORITE hobbies, of course,” she grabbed the drink, all too excited to see Sirius Black foot loose and fancy free, doing the Charleston. “I’ll only drink it if you’re horrible. Even then, I might take pity on you and let you drown your embarrassment with liquor.”

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acarrow:

“ this is a prime people-watching spot, and I’m quite afraid I’ve claimed it already. are you willing to share that drink of yours with me if I allow you to share the space? “ she made an expansive gesture around the room, turning towards the footsteps with mock sincerity. “ if you say no, just know you’re missing out on some wonderful commentary, and the flask I’m saving for later. “

“Anything else I have to give up? My soul?” Alice joked, her voice very obviously light as she handed the cup of water to Alecto. “Really, my drink is uneventful. I’m here to get responsibly buzzed, but I’d be delighted, no, HONORED to hear your commentary. I’ll even let you keep your flask for yourself.” Positioning herself next to Alecto was easily done as Alice stared out into the crowd, watching several people letting loose like the world was going to end the next day. “Some of these people dance like they’re at a Grateful Dead concert.”

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ssirriussb:

“You’d love them, Fortescue. They are super jazzy. I bet your hustle has nothing on my charlestons.”

“Well....... --- you’re just going to have to prove it, won’t you? We won’t know until you TRY, Black, so please, go ahead, I’ll even clear the floor for if you’d like.”

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