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klaus mikaelson in the vampire diaries (season 3)
so... people should really send me blog recs, because my dash is agonizingly slow 90% of the time...
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" sentence starters
❝ There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. ❞
❝ The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. ❞
❝ We shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly. ❞
❝ I have grown to love secrecy. ❞
❝ Your cynicism is simply a pose. ❞
❝ You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages. ❞
❝ Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. ❞
❝ I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. ❞
❝ A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. ❞
❝ Is that very vain of me? I think it is rather vain. ❞
❝ None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. ❞
❝ I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. ❞
❝ There is nothing that art cannot express. ❞
❝ The harmony of soul and body—how much that is! We in our madness have separated the two, and have invented a realism that is vulgar, an ideality that is void. ❞
❝ My heart shall never be put under their microscope. ❞
❝ It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue. ❞
❝ I feel that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer’s day.” ❞
❝ In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. ❞
❝ Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies. ❞
❝ People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. ❞
❝ Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. ❞
❝ Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us. ❞
❝ The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. ❞
❝ Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. ❞
❝ You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know. ❞
❝ Wherever you go, you charm the world. Will it always be so? ❞
❝ Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses. ❞
❝ Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to. ❞
❝ You like your art better than your friends. ❞
❝ I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. ❞
❝ Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. ❞
❝ Credit is the capital of a younger son, and one lives charmingly upon it. ❞
❝ Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. ❞
❝ The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. ❞
❝ I can sympathize with everything except suffering. ❞
❝ Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different. ❞
❝ Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes. ❞
❝ You are quite delightful and dreadfully demoralizing. ❞
❝ I am always late on principle, the principle being that punctuality is the thief of time. ❞
❝ I adore it, but I am afraid of it. It makes me too romantic. ❞
❝ Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. ❞
❝ Passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do. ❞
❝ If I ever did a crime, I would come and confess it to you. You would understand me. ❞
❝ When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. ❞
❝ There is always something infinitely mean about other people’s tragedies. ❞
❝ I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain. ❞
❝ People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity. ❞
❝ The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. ❞
❝ It often happens that when we think we were experimenting on others we are really experimenting on ourselves. ❞
❝ Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. ❞
❝ To be in love is to surpass one’s self. ❞
❝ Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window. ❞
❝ Our proverbs want rewriting. They were made in winter, and it is summer now; springtime for me, I think, a very dance of blossoms in blue skies. ❞
❝ I shudder at the thought of being free. ❞
❝ I know you would never harm anyone I love, would you? ❞
❝ Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. ❞
❝ Of course, it is sudden—all really delightful things are. ❞
❝ The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. ❞
❝ Unselfish people are colourless. They lack individuality. ❞
❝ You are much better than you pretend to be. ❞
❝ I cannot understand how anyone can wish to shame the thing he loves. ❞
❝ When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy. ❞
❝ The real tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self-denial. Beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich. ❞
❝ Being adored is a nuisance. ❞
❝ You are dreadful! I don’t know why I like you so much. ❞
❝ You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit. ❞
❝ Love is a more wonderful thing than art. ❞
❝ There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating—people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. ❞
❝ The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming. ❞
❝ I knew nothing but shadows, and I thought them real. ❞
❝ You taught me what reality really is. ❞
❝ You used to stir my imagination. Now you don’t even stir my curiosity. ❞
❝ I have grown sick of shadows. ❞
❝ You don’t know what you were to me, once. ❞
❝ You have spoiled the romance of my life. ❞
❝ Without your art, you are nothing. ❞
❝ There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. ❞
❝ There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. ❞
❝ I can’t bear the idea of my soul being hideous. ❞
❝ You cut life to pieces with your epigrams. ❞
❝ Things like that make a man fashionable in Paris. But in London people are so prejudiced. ❞
❝ One should never make one’s début with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one’s old age. ❞
❝ How extraordinarily dramatic life is! ❞
❝ I don’t think I am heartless. Do you? ❞
❝ The moment she touched actual life, she marred it, and it marred her. ❞
❝ Life has everything in store for you, ❞
❝ We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful. ❞
❝ If one doesn’t talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things. ❞
❝ You must not tell me about things. What is done is done. What is past is past. ❞
❝ I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them. ❞
❝ You talk as if you had no heart, no pity in you. ❞
❝ if I told you, you might like me less than you do, and you would certainly laugh at me. I could not bear your doing either of those two things. ❞
❝ Your friendship is dearer to me than any fame or reputation. ❞
❝ You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream. ❞
❝ Whatever I have done that is good, I owe to you. ❞
❝ There is something fatal about a portrait. It has a life of its own. ❞
❝ Perhaps one should never put one’s worship into words. ❞
❝ There seems to be something tragic in a friendship so colored by romance. ❞
❝ It has a corruption of its own, worse than the corruption of death itself—something that would breed horrors and yet would never die. ❞
❝ The past can always be annihilated. ❞
❝ How exquisite life had once been! How gorgeous in its pomp and decoration! Even to read of the luxury of the dead was wonderful. ❞
❝ Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities. ❞
❝ I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else. ❞
❝ I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty. ❞
❝ You don’t want people to talk of you as something vile and degraded. ❞
❝ You must not say things like that. They are horrible, and they don’t mean anything. ❞
❝ You have had more to do with my life than you think. ❞
❝ Each of us has heaven and hell in him. ❞
❝ Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms. ❞
❝ Keep your horrible secrets to yourself. They don’t interest me any more. ❞
❝ What is it to me what devil’s work you are up to? ❞
❝ I wish you had a thousandth part of the pity for me that I have for you. ❞
❝ The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes. ❞
❝ I am not at all surprised that the world says that you are extremely wicked. ❞
❝ It is perfectly monstrous, the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one’s back that are absolutely and entirely true. ❞
❝ Nowadays all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men. ❞
❝ Everybody I know says you are very wicked. ❞
❝ I like men who have a future and women who have a past. ❞
❝ Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast. ❞
❝ He atones for being occasionally somewhat overdressed by being always absolutely overeducated. He is a very modern type. ❞
❝ What do you want? Money? Here it is. Don’t ever talk to me again. ❞
❝ Each man lives his own life and pays his own price for living it. ❞
❝ The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for. ❞
❝ I think that it is better to be beautiful than to be good. But on the other hand, no one is more ready than I am to acknowledge that it is better to be good than to be ugly. ❞
❝ To be popular one must be a mediocrity. ❞
❝ We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible. ❞
❝ I wish I could love, but I seem to have lost the passion and forgotten the desire. ❞
❝ My own personality has become a burden to me. ❞
❝ Death is the only thing that ever terrifies me. ❞
❝ The world has always worshipped you. It always will worship you. ❞
❝ Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets. ❞
❝ The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. That is all. ❞
❝ The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history. ❞
❝ stop! ❞
Ever a stream of people followed in his wake, seeking to prevent him from seeing his intentions through. Always they did it in the name of morality, e t h i c s, paltry human concerns that even Elijah insisted upon protecting. When it suited him, at least. Klaus was no fool; he knew all too well that not one of his siblings had any moral high ground on which to stand, for all they delighted in doing so. Her interference, however, is as little appreciated as theirs, for all the tolerance he may have shown in the past.
His eyes burn amber when he looks over his shoulder at her. His hand, embedded in his old friend’s chest, did not withdraw, his fingers only tightening about the heart they threatened to tear from his chest. ❛ Give me one convincing reason why I shouldn’t end this here and now. ❜ Somehow, the words carried both the softness of a whisper and the gravely edge of a shout, rage underlying all. How many treacheries had he overlooked by now? Klaus little cared to count Marcel’s betrayals, the little things for which he ought to have claimed his life over the centuries.
There was an old cliche, one Klaus little cared to use: the straw that broke the camel’s back. And while he did not see himself as breaking ( if anything, surely this was the opposite, an awakening to realizations he ought to have come to long before ), perhaps it was apt, for his patience, his tolerance, his a f f e c t i o n, could snap, and Marcel had pushed too far one too many times.
// @hisbeautyindarkness.

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❝ everything has its consequences. ❞
❛ Precisely! ❜ It ought to strike him as odd that she would agree with him; that alone should serve as a warning sign, a great big glaring neon light crying ‘ s t o p.’ Stop, think, reevaluate, notice that there is a missing piece, something he’s failing to see. The day Klaus mastered such self-reflection might be the day Camille achieved the most impossible of accomplishments. That day, however, was not this day.
❛ Thus, having once more sought to usurp the city, Marcel has earned nothing less. And yet somehow it is I who am the villain in this scene. ❜ Though she sat patiently, he paced before the open windows, motions sharp and irritated. A hand gestured in counterpoint to his words, waving through the air to vent his frustration then closing upon his heart in his outrage.
// @camillethebrave.
❝ this is extreme, even for you. ❞ (from elijah)
❛ Nonsense, brother. ❜ But a fraying temper lurked beneath the forced lightness of tone with which Klaus spoke. Already his strides had carried him halfway across the room, the need to act and act now driving him. Elijah’s words can stay him only for a minute, long enough to continue, ❛ This is well within the realm of reason. In fact, I’d even go so far as to say I am being quite m e r c i f u l. ❜
Only one rule existed so far as Klaus was concerned, and it was less a rule than a promise: crossing Klaus, no matter how small the offense, would be punished by the worst retribution imaginable. Now would be no different, even if it required slaughtering an entire coven of witches ( save their leader, the one truly at fault, who must live on with the knowledge of what they did and the fear that Klaus would come for them too, one day ).
An edge of wariness resided in the way Klaus stood, that temporary pause in his movements, turned back halfway from the door. He half expected his brother to interfere, to seek to stop him, and he waited as if on edge, already prepared for a fight, should it come to that.
// @mcnsterinme.
I quite enjoy my obsessions, thank you very much.
❛ Don’t we all? ❜ It was the particular obsessions she c h o s e to interest herself in that Klaus found to be of little interest. Boring, tedious… at least in the terms she presented them in. He wondered sometimes, if her motivations were as pure as she often believed them, but for all he poked and prodded, he could not bring her to acknowledge anything different, not to him, nor, he suspected, to herself. ❛ Yet, the unfortunate truth of life is that enjoying your obsessions does not save you from criticism. Trust me, if it did, I would have been spared countless years of Elijah’s condemnation. ❜
// @wclfgirl.
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On a scale of 1 to 10, how much am I going to hate this little plan of yours?
Klaus thought that, to use a particularly archaic turn of phrase, the entire dome of the heavens might just come crashing down upon them should she approve of a plan of his devising. How much had changed since those days of their childhood, days he chose to forget. Things had been different then; they had not always been at one another’s throats. A dim sadness crept up from the depths of memory, and he squashed it with his usual grin. ❛ Oh, at least a hundred. ❜
But her displeasure would not keep him from seeing it through, anymore than Elijah’s would, were he here. Though he expected a roll of the eyes, a sarcastic remark, Klaus did not wait for them, turning away from her with a single instruction upon his lips: ❛ Come with me. ❜
// @desireshappiness.

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"I’m not gonna lie and say I don’t care for you. I just hoped you wouldn’t have to lie to me and say you didn't feel the same way." (saw this on a meme and i had to tweak & send it)
Her stubbornness came as a surprise; every time he thought he had her figured out, she did something to surprise him, as if she were determined to prove to him that he would never, could never, get a handle on her. Jaw tight, he stood apart, shoulders arching with the tension that ran through the muscles there. ❛ And why not lie? ❜ he managed in the end, the words almost a hiss through clenched teeth.
Lies were easier. They’d danced around enough truths over their acquaintanceship, avoided enough topics better left unsaid. Why should this not be one more? Her refusal to lie seemed almost uncharacteristic, or perhaps he had misjudged her. How often he misjudged her, and how that truth irked him. He would know anyone else inside and out having spent as much time in their company as he had hers, and yet… yet…
His fingers closed dangerously upon the glass in hand, and his hearing could just pick up the tinkling of cracks spreading across its surface. Another moment or two, and it would shatter in his fingers, scatter across the floor in unbendable shards. It seemed, somehow, almost symbolic, poetic in a way he did not care to consider under present circumstances.
// @dissolvedshadows.
does anyone have any suggestions for getting back into writing as concerns muses/threads when you haven’t had time to rp much lately? because I end up disconnected, and then it just perpetuates...
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a hundred random starters
below are starters based on/inspired by various sources. change the genders as you see fit ;)
❝ why do you keep lying to me? ❞
❝ have you ever considered the idea that maybe, this world doesn’t revolve around you & your problems? ❞
❝ love is love is love is love. ❞
❝ marriage is an absurd arrangement. one is sold as a fifteen-year-old child and makes a vow one does not understand and then regrets for thirty years or more, and which one can never undo again. ❞
❝ why are you crying this time? ❞
❝ you will never escape. ❞
❝ this isn’t what I wanted! ❞
❝ everything has its consequences. ❞
❝ this face bears the mission of heaven. ❞
❝ no, you shall dismantle the house of lies, but build the temple of the divine. ❞
❝ one copper coin for a bowl of noodles! ❞
❝ that one has the heart of a lion. ❞
❝ I needed to be summoned. ❞
❝ there’s no reason for this hostility! I come in peace. ❞
❝ they died screaming. ❞
❝ why fight anymore? what’s the point of fighting against destiny? ❞
❝ how long have you known? ❞
❝ I can only speak for myself. ❞
❝ the law can be changed. ❞
❝ are you sure you’re not pregnant? ❞
❝ your child is adorable! ❞
❝ you gave him a riddle for his birthday? ❞
❝ you have no fucking right to treat me this way. ❞
❝ your ambition blinds you. ❞
❝ he adores you. ❞
❝ I feel like I should be shocked that you two had sex there, but I’m not anymore. ❞
❝ she’s going to kill you. ❞
❝ have you ever tried the cakes? they’re actually quite delicious. ❞
❝ you’ll need to be punished. ❞
❝ you should learn to lie better. ❞
❝ sometimes I wonder if you’re real. ❞
❝ I will take back what is mine & kill anyone who stands in my way. ❞
❝ then kill me. ❞
❝ there’s no such thing as love. there is only lust. ❞
❝ you’re selfish. you never think about anyone but yourself. ❞
❝ i’m sorry, but they’re gone. ❞
❝ death is just another adventure. ❞
❝ stop! ❞
❝ let them watch. ❞
❝ you have no shame, do you? ❞
❝ I can’t believe we’re talking about this right now. ❞
❝ I need advice. sex advice. ❞
❝ alright, tell me the truth, is he good in bed? ❞
❝ she is the best thing in my life. ❞
❝ you love him? ❞
❝ do you love me at all? ❞
❝ do you believe in soul mates? ❞
❝ please, you have to believe me. I didn’t kill anyone! ❞
❝ history is written by the victorious. ❞
❝ at least she has a heart! you have none. ❞
❝ isn’t it more important that they told you? ❞
❝ the king is displeased. ❞
❝ long live your majesty! ❞
❝ can you stop talking for just one moment & listen to me? ❞
❝ no matter how hard I try, they just won’t stay dead. ❞
❝ he’s a gold digger. he’ll screw anyone & marry them as long as they have money. ❞
❝ o! how sweet love must be! ❞
❝ do you really think that? ❞
❝ quick, you need to hide before they see you! ❞
❝ you taught me to never trust anyone. ❞
❝ this is extreme, even for you. ❞
❝ you guys were pretty loud last night. I guess it was good? ❞
❝ that wasn’t an apology & you know it. ❞
❝ are you a virgin? ❞
❝ I’m married. ❞
❝ best thing I ever did was marrying you. ❞
❝ red roses won’t erase the fact that you broke my heart. ❞
❝ stop taking all the ice cream! ❞
❝ has anyone told you that you’re sort of a little bitch? ❞
❝ it’s deep dish pizza. ❞
❝ do you want to fight for your land back or not? ❞
❝ I never realized how much of a coward you are. ❞
❝ there’s nothing worse than someone who isn’t willing to try new things. ❞
❝ haven’t you ever wanted to escape? to leave this place & explore the world? ❞
❝ i think you’ve had enough to drink. ❞
❝ your ancestors would be ashamed if they saw you. ❞
❝ one of the dolls is missing! ❞
❝ are we going to die here? ❞
❝ well looks like we’ve found ourselves in a bit of a dilemma. ❞
❝ I am no longer a child! ❞
❝ the baby won’t stop crying! i don’t know what to do anymore! ❞
❝ what if something happens to them? ❞
❝ once upon a time, I gave a damn about what people thought about me. ❞
❝ if he can get away with this, then so can i! ❞
❝ the dark shall come & take everything you love from you. ❞
❝ it’s the same story over & over again. you’d think people would know better by now. ❞
❝ there’s absolutely nothing wrong with you. ❞
❝ you are what is wrong with this world. ❞
❝ shattered dreams can drive anyone mad. ❞
❝ I am a phoenix. burn me & I shall return, rising from the ashes. ❞
❝ this is my home. ❞
❝ home is where the heart is, where you feel safe & warm & loved. ❞
❝ running away has never solved a damn thing! ❞
❝ fuck me. ❞
❝ oh the things I’d do to you if we were alone. ❞
❝ stop, he’s not here, remember? he’s gone & he can’t hurt you anymore. ❞
❝ your husband/wife – is he/she good to you? ❞
❝ stop & think a moment, you have to stay & rest. there’s a child who needs you now, you can’t just run & be a fucking idiot. ❞
❝ once, I drank a whole bottle by myself. ❞
❝ what do I want? I want to kiss you a thousand times before undressing you & kissing every bit of your flesh a thousand more times. ❞
❛ we aren’t equals & we aren’t friends. ❜ (ana)
Truth, and truth.
For all the eternally indeterminate nature of their acquaintanceship, neither term could be applied to it. None were Klaus’ equal, as far as he concerned. The only werewolf-vampire hybrid, with a thousand years of power, experience, and machiavellian scheming at his back. Not that she was lacking power, but it was if they belonged to two different worlds, scarcely possible to lay side by side in comparison.
And as for friendship, well… that one went without saying. This was not the way friends behaved, simultaneously seeking out each other’s company at all hours of the night, heedless to propriety, and pushing each other to an insurmountable distance. Friends trusted, did not seek ever to dig beneath the other’s skin and provoke.
No, he could not argue. Neither did did he know what term to place in their stead.
❛ And what are we, then? ❜
// @dissolvedshadows.

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“your hands are so cold (idk dont judge me)
The remark startled him, not only because his skin normally ran warm, but because of the accompanying brush of contact. Though surprise flashed across his features, he became all the more eager to relinquish the glass he had poured her into her complete custody. The glass, responsible for the careless, accidental touch, suddenly repulsed him. He rapidly retreated to the most distant couch, his shoulders somehow more hunched than normal.
Some part of him chided himself for the childish, petulant response. He who ought to be above it, undeterred by something so unconsequential. No one else would so much as think twice about such a thing, yet how it plagued him.
He could all but feel her watching him, and though her expression rarely registered true curiosity, he imagined it there on her features, could all but hear it churning in her thoughts. He chose then, to latch upon her ( innocent ) statement, for all the rush of cold air that had accompanied his entrance ought to have foreshadowed the only explanation he could give. ❛ It is bloody cold outside. ❜ Unnaturally so, he thought to himself. Which meant, of course, that he ought to look into it; snow in New Orleans was rare; temperatures far below freezing even more so. Yet, somehow, he was more inclined to nurse a drink than brave the weather.
// @dissolvedshadows.
❛ you want only what you want. ❜ (ana)
Momentary bewilderment ebbed slowly, for all it left him little clearer on her intention. Were the words an accusation of selfishness? That his desires stood paramount to all else? Did she think he would deny such a thing, he who took pride in his behaviour, heinous though many would find it? But where Ana was concerned, so often in the past had what sounded like an accusation been little more than an observation. He ceased his former pacing, standing squarely before her, arms crossed. If a trace of a scowl yet showed upon his face, it was only the remnants of that uncertainty.
He chose to take it as a careless remark, chose to trust that she knew him better than an accusation would imply. ❛ Why should I want anything different? And do not give me that nonsense Elijah no doubt would insist upon: compassion and selflessness and the greater good. ❜ He all but scoffed at that. As if there was any such thing as the ‘greater good.’
// @dissolvedshadows.