*PRINCESS!

’  525,600 minutes — how do you measure a year?  ’

’  how about love?  ’

’  how do you document real life when real life’s getting more like fiction each day?  ’

’  we’re hungry and frozen, some life that we’ve chosen.  ’

’  how we gonna pay last year’s rent?  ’

’  zoom in as they burn the past to the ground and feel the heat of the future’s glow.  ’

’  how do you leave the past behind when it keeps finding ways to get to your heart?  ’

’  when they act tough you call their bluff.  ’

’  what happened to ___? what happened to his heart? and the ideals he once pursued?  ’

’  you’re wasting your time.  ’

’  it’s what we used to dream about, think twice before you pooh-pooh it!  ’

’  time flies, and then no need to endure anymore. time dies.  ’

’  what’d you forget?  ’

’  i know you — you’re shivering.  ’

’  i’m just a little weak on my feet.  ’

’  would you light my candle?  ’

’  they say that i have the best ass below 14th street. is it true?  ’

’  i didn’t recognize you without the handcuffs.  ’

’  i’m nineteen, but i’m old for my age. i’m just born to be bad.  ’

’  do you wanna dance?  ’

’  today for you, tomorrow for me!  ’

’  darling, be a dear. haven’t slept in a year.  ’

’  we agreed on a fee, a thousand dollars guarantee, tax free. and a bonus if i trim her tree.  ’

’  say something, anything.  ’

’  i’m so mad that i don’t know what to do.  ’

’  feel like going insane, got a fire in your brain, and you’re thinking of drinking gasoline.  ’

’  have you ever doubted a kiss or two?  ’

’  i’m defeated, i should give up right now.  ’

’  i’d fall for her still anyhow.  ’

’  look, i find some of what you teach suspect because i’m used to relying on intellect, but i try to open up to what i don’t know. because reason says i should’ve died three years ago.  ’

’  forget regret or life is yours to miss.  ’

’  what’s the time? well it’s gotta be close to midnight.  ’

’  my body’s talking to me, it says time for danger.  ’

’  i’ve had a knack from way back at breaking the rules once i’ve learned the game.  ’

’  let’s go out tonight.  ’

’  in the evening i’ve got to roam, can’t sleep in the city of neon and chrome.  ’

’  i should tell you, i should tell you ——  ’

’  looking for romance? come back another day.  ’

’  there is no future, there is no past. i live this moment as my last.  ’

’  if you’re so wise, then tell me — why do you need smack?  ’

’  long ago you might’ve lit up my heart, but the fire’s dead and ain’t never ever gonna start.  ’

’  will i lose my dignity? will someone care?  ’

’  times are shitty, but i’m pretty sure they can’t get worse.  ’

’  let’s open up a restaurant in santa fe.  ’

’  live in my house, i’ll be your shelter. just pay me back with one thousand kisses.  ’

’  i’ve longed to discover something as true as this is.  ’

’  last night i had a dream.  ’

’  moo with me.  ’

’  you make fun, yet i’m the one attempting to do some good.  ’

’  not to mention, of course, hating dear old mom and dad.  ’

’  la vie boheme.  ’

’  and ___ will preview his new documentary about his inability to hold an erection on the high holy days.  ’

’  excuse me, did i do something wrong? i get invited then ignored all night long.  ’

’  life’s too short babe, time is flying. i’m looking for baggage that goes with mine.  ’

’  i should tell you, i’m disaster.  ’

’  the opposite of war isn’t peace, it’s creation.  ’

’  so be kind and don’t lose your mind, just remember that i’m your baby.  ’

’  take me for what i am, who i was meant to be.  ’

’  folks would kill to fill your shoes.  ’

’  i hate mess but i love you.  ’

’  i quit unless you take it back.  ’

’  guess i’m leaving. i’m gone.  ’

’  without you, the earth turns, the sun burns, but i die without you.  ’

’  how could a night so frozen be so scalding hot? how can a morning this mild be so raw?  ’

’  that’s poetic. that’s pathetic.  ’

’  will it mean that it’s the end and i’m alone?  ’

’  you said you’d never speak to him again.  ’

’  who said i was talking to you?  ’

’  run away, hit the road, don’t commit — you’re full of shit.  ’

’  i’d be happy to die for a taste of that — someone to live for, unafraid to say ‘i love you’.  ’

’  love’s not a three way street.  ’

’  i can’t believe this is goodbye.  ’

’  ___ has got his work, they say. ___ lives for his work and ___’s in love with his work. ___ hides in his work.  ’

’  yes, you live a lie, tell you why — you’re always preaching not to be numb when that’s how you thrive.  ’

’  perhaps it’s because i’m the one of us to survive.  ’

’  you don’t want to watch me die.  ’

’  i just came to say goodbye, love.  ’

’  please don’t touch me.  ’

’  don’t breathe too deep, don’t think all day.  ’

’  you’re living in america — leave your conscience at the tone.  ’

’  and when you’re dying in america at the end of the millenium, you’re not alone.  ’

’  i should tell you — i love you.  ’

’  your eyes as we said our goodbyes — can’t get them out of my mind.  ’

’  i have always loved you, you can see it in my eyes.  ’

’  hold onto love, it’ll keep your strong.  ’

A bundle of seasonal starters for winter, unrelated to any particular holiday.

Feel free to change the prompts and/or sentences as you see fit, or combine them to make a new prompt.

TW: Swearing/cussing.

Emoji prompts:

❄️: Our muses are caught out in the snow together.

⛸️: Our muses go ice-skating together (at an ice rink or frozen body of water).

🔥: Our muses make a bonfire together.

🏔️: Our muses take a winter hike together.

🛒: Our muses go winter shopping together.

🥾: Our muses go camping together in the snow.

✨: Our muses go stargazing together.

☃️: Our muses make a snow sculpture together.

🧥: My muse offers your muse their coat to keep them warm (add a ‘+’ for the reverse).

✋: My muse puts their cold hands onto your muses back to surprise them (add a ‘+’ for the reverse).

🌨️: My muse throws a snowball at your muse (add a ‘+’ for the reverse).

♨️: My muse offers your muse a warm beverage (add ‘+’ for the reverse).

🧤: My muse catches your muse as they’re about to slip on some ice (add ‘+’ for the reverse).

🧣: My muse gives your muse their scarf (add ‘+’ for the reverse).

Sentence prompts:

“It’s colder than a witches tit out here. Should’ve brought a coat.”

“Your face is all red from the cold…”

“Feel how cold my hands are! Feel them.”

“Aren’t you cold in just that? I’m freezing in my coat!”

“Maybe it’s time we head back inside… I think I’m going to catch a cold if we sit out here all night.”

“The snow is so pretty when its freshly fallen. Shame it gets ruined by the time everyone’s trodden in it.”

“It’s a bit nippy. You’re gonna need a scarf, at least.”

“I don’t feel the cold. I just power through it.”

“Maybe we could get some hot chocolate from that cafe, over there?”

“Are you looking forward to the new year?”

“I have a… slush on you. Or does ‘I glove you’ sound better?”

“Quit playing in the snow. We’re not kids.”

“The star’s are so pretty in the winter. I love it when the sky is so clear.”

“You know what? There’s… snow way out of winter… hehe.”

“What if I pelted you with a snowball. Would you cheer up then?”

“I think you need to get some better shoes. You’re gonna slip and slide all over the place in those things, with all the ice around.”

❝  don’t be ridiculous,  there’s enough room on this bed for both of us. ❞ 

❝  please stay.  i don’t think i can be alone tonight.  ❞

❝  i’m staying,  okay?  you don’t have to be alone tonight. ❞

❝  you shouldn’t be alone right now.  i’ll take the couch,  it’ll be fine.  ❞

❝  will you sleep with me?  i know how that sounds i just mean—  i feel safe when you’re there.  ❞

❝  i’ll be here the whole night okay?  nothing will get to you while i’m here.  ❞

❝  wait— have you been here all night?  ❞

❝  i thought you went home after i went to bed.  you didn’t have to do that— you could’ve at least joined me in bed that couch is shit for sleeping on.  ❞

❝  can i stay with you tonight?  i don’t wanna go home yet.  ❞

❝  it’s late,  you might as well just stay here.  ❞

❝  can you just…stay here?  and hold me.  ❞

❝  i know this might sound weird but,  do you wanna stay over?  i guess ‘sleepover’ sounds kind of childish but.  i think it’d be nice.  ❞

❝  i’m not expecting anything,  i just,  thought it’d be nice to keep you company tonight. ❞

❝  i don’t have nightmares when you’re there.  ❞

❝  i get you’re doing the whole protective thing— and i appreciate it.  i do,  but there’s no reason for you to stay awake all night.  might as well come to bed.  ❞

❝  thank you for staying.  it just gets so lonely at night sometimes.  ❞

❝  i don’t want you to be alone tonight and honestly,  i don’t really wanna be alone either.  ❞

❝  do you wanna stay with me tonight?  ❞

❝  stay,  please.  ❞

❝  i’ll stay.  ❞

❝  i’m staying.  ❞

❝  i’m staying.  end of discussion.  you gotta learn to let people take care of you.  ❞

❝  i’m not ready to say goodbye yet.  ❞

❝  i don’t wanna have to say goodnight.  ❞

❝  honestly i can’t sleep,  so if you wanna stay up with me?  ❞

❝  i don’t sleep a lot either these days.  we can be insomniacs together.  ❞

❝  well,  i can think of some ways to wear you out.  ❞

❝  if you can’t sleep,  there are other things we could do.  ❞

❝  i’d rather fuck than stare at the ceiling counting sheep to be honest.  ❞

❝  it doesn’t have to mean anything,  i just don’t wanna feel lonely tonight.  and i want to feel good for once.  ❞

❝  please don’t go—  i need.  i need someone—  i need you.  ❞

❝  the night doesn’t have to end here,  you know.  ❞

❝  i like it when you’re here.  so stay.  please?  ❞

❝  you’re just as lonely as i am.  might as well be lonely together.  ❞

❝  you can stay but i’m not letting you sleep on that couch.  ❞

❝  chivalry is overrated,  get in my bed.  ❞

❝  you’re clearly exhausted.  you can go in the morning.  ❞

❝  you don’t have to pretend to be fine,  if you need me to stay i will.  ❞

❝  when i said i wanted everyone to leave me alone i didn’t mean you.  i can’t handle everyone else right now but you…you’re different.  ❞

❝  you need someone right now.  and i’m the one that’s here.  let me be what you need.  ❞

SCENARIOS

[ GUARDED ]  sender insists on staying the night to keep watch over receiver who has been in some kind of danger. 

[ GUARDING ]  receiver insists on staying the night to keep watch over sender who has been in some kind of danger. 

[ UNEXPECTED ]  one muse stays the night to keep an eye on the other after something traumatic and they end up having comfort sex.

[ CONSOLE ]  sender asks receiver to stay the night because they don’t want to be alone and they end up cuddling.  

[ CONSOLED ]  receiver asks sender to stay the night because they don’t want to be alone and they end up cuddling. 

[ ACCIDENT ]  sender winds up staying at receiver’s house all night because receiver fell asleep against them/in their lap and they didn’t have the heart to wake them. 

[ UNPLANNED ]  receiver winds up staying at sender’s house all night because sender fell asleep against them/in their lap and they didn’t have the heart to wake them. 

[ STAY ]  sender is carrying receiver to bed because they fell asleep somewhere else but when they start to walk away,  receiver grabs their hand so sender joins them in bed. 

[ STAYING ]  receiver is carrying sender to bed because they fell asleep somewhere else but when they start to walk away,  sender grabs their hand so receiver joins them in bed. 

[ APPROACHED ]  sender is staying with receiver for safety and asks if they can sleep in their bed with them. 

[ APPROACH ]  receiver is staying with sender for safety and asks if they can sleep in their bed with them. 

[ SHARE ]  sender is unexpectedly staying with receiver overnight,  receiver insisted sender sleep on the bed while they take the floor but sender winds up insisting they join them in bed. 

[ SHARED ]  receiver is unexpectedly staying with sender overnight,  sender insisted receiver sleep on the bed while they take the floor but receiver winds up insisting they join them in bed. 

[ FOUND ]  sender is staying with receiver who had them take the bed while receiver takes the couch.  in the middle of the night,  sender goes out to join receiver on the couch because they don’t want to sleep alone. 

[ FIND ]  receiver is staying with sender who had them take the bed while sender takes the couch.  in the middle of the night,  receiver goes out to join sender on the couch because they don’t want to sleep alone. 

[ DISCOVERED ]  receiver wakes up in the morning to find sender asleep on their couch because sender was watching over them. 

[ HAVEN ]  receiver wakes up in the morning to find sender asleep on their couch because sender felt safer with them. 

[ WEARY ]  sender cries themselves to sleep in receiver’s arms. 

[ TIRED ]  receiver cries themselves to sleep in sender’s arms. 

[ PROPOSITION ]  one or both muse(s) are having trouble sleeping so they have sex to pass the time. 

[ PURPOSE ]  one muse can’t sleep so the other initiates sex to wear them out. 

[ TRAPPED ]  one muse ends up staying the night with the other due to a storm. 

feel free to adjust pronouns / names as needed !

quotes taken from random sources or tiktok. i claim no ownership whatsoever.

❛   i’m supposed to be the one who protects you from monsters. i’m not supposed to be one.  ❜  

❛   if i could make a deal with god, and i’d get him to swap our places.  ❜  

❛  no one heard our screams for a long time.  ❜  

❛   i know so many last words. but i’ll never know hers.  ❜  

❛   there is a home for every departed thing.  ❜  

❛   it reminded me that i will never truly know you.  ❜  

❛   i also buried a part of myself alongside them.  ❜  

❛   after you died i could no longer hold a funeral. so my life became the funeral.  ❜  

❛   you don’t have to be awake to cry.  ❜  

❛   forgive me, for all the things i did. but mostly the things i didn’t do.  ❜  

❛   the human eye is the loneliest creation of all.  ❜  

❛   fairness is for happy people.  ❜  

❛   the things we lost will always be heavier than the things that stayed.  ❜  

❛   perhaps it is the greater grief, to remain on the earth when another is gone.  ❜  

❛   you stain the pages with yourself.  ❜  

❛   tears will not wash away the sorrow.  ❜  

❛   beautiful things grow a certain height and then they fall and fade off.  ❜  

❛    who in all these centuries has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?  ❜  

❛   i have scars on my hands from touching certain people  ❜  

❛   despite everything, i believe that people are really good at heart.  ❜  

❛   you tried to change, didn’t you?  ❜

❛   you can’t make homes out of people. someone should have taught you that.  ❜  

❛   i hid my deepest feelings so well, i forgot where i placed them.  ❜  

❛   we have no scar to show for happiness. we learn so little from peace.  ❜  

❛   i didn’t leave because i stopped loving you. i left because the longer i stayed, the less i loved myself.  ❜  

❛   at every moment in our life, we have one foot in a fairytale & the other in the abyss.  ❜  

❛   there are too many sad eyes on happy faces.  ❜  

❛   it’s strange, i felt less lonely when i didn’t know you.  ❜  

❛   things change, friends leave. life doesn’t stop for anybody.  ❜  

❛   it takes a lifetime to die, and no time at all.  ❜  

❛   i am deathly afraid of almosts. of coming close to what i want and then falling just a little short.  ❜  

❛   i felt your absence.  ❜  

❛   what do we do now, now that we are happy?  ❜  

❛    you honestly thought anybody would love you? purely and truly love you?  ❜  

❛   don’t stop looking. he deserves to know someone saw his end, that someone noticed him.  ❜  

❛    i can bear my pain so long as it has meaning.  ❜  

❛   i dont have a single friend - not one.  ❜  

❛   i’ve had more than enough pain in my life, what’s a little more going to do?  ❜  

❛    it would have been you if i met you first.  ❜  

❛    i really thought he was going to be my forever.  ❜  

❛    maybe in the next life it would work.  ❜  

❛   in spite of everything, you’re still you.  ❜  

❛   the dead have it easy.  ❜  

❛   there’s an ocean of silence between us, and I’m drowning.    ❜  

❛   there have been countless times in my life when i thought i’d be better off dead.  ❜  

❛   what on earth… have i become?  ❜  

❛   don’t look at me! i don’t … i don’t want you seeing me like this.  ❜  

❛   i wish i could’ve been like you.  ❜  

❛   your fate was sweeping you away, like a flood.  ❜  

❛   the future should know the mistakes we made.  ❜  

❛   of course you have. you feel guilt. you want redemption.  ❜  

❛   i’m here because you can’t accept what you’ve done. it broke you.  ❜  

❛   even now, after all you’ve done, you can still go home.  lucky you . ❜  

❛   you’re all that’s left, and we can’t live this lie forever.  ❜  

❛    prometheus gave us light, and warmth, and eternal damnation.  ❜  

❛   take a gamble that love exists, and do a loving act.  ❜  

❛    i know i ruined your life. i suffer for it every day.  ❜  

❛   don’t let yourself get killed for… for pride. i’ve seen it kill too many folk.  ❜  

❛    you and me, we ain’t decent… but those folk… they were.  ❜  

❛   we’re more ghosts than people.  ❜  

❛   despite my best efforts to the contrary… it turns out i’ve won.  ❜  

❛   i gave you all i had … i did.  ❜  

❛   this whole time, I’ve blamed myself for that decision.  ❜  

❛   do you think even the worst person can change…? That everybody can be a good person, if they just try? ❜  

❛   i don’t want to break their hearts all over again. it’s better if they never see me.  ❜  

❛   please leave me alone. i can’t come back. i just … can’t, okay?  ❜  

❛   no matter the struggles or hardships you faced… you strived to do the right thing, you refused to hurt anyone. ❜  

❛    people like you don’t ever want to be happy.  ❜  

send a symbol for our muses to:

⛄️  ─  build a snowman ❄️  ─  have a snowball fight 👼  ─  make snow angels ⛸  ─  go ice skating 🛷  ─  go sledding ⛷  ─  take a skiing trip 🍪  ─  have some hot cocoa and cookies 🍿  ─  stay in watching movies, wrapped up in a blanket  🔥  ─  have dinner by the fire 🥧   ─  bake something together 🧑‍🍳   ─  take a cooking class together 🛖   ─  take a cabin getaway  🌲   ─  go on a walk through the woods 🧶   ─  knit something for each other ✂️  ─  start a DIY project together 🎡  ─  visit a winter wonderland 📚   ─  have a coffeeshop & bookstore date 🛁   ─  take a nice, warm bubble bath together 💤   ─  have a pajama day 🕯   ─  have a “no electricity” date night ⛺️   ─  build a blanket fort 🃏   ─  wildcard !  choose your own activity !