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❄ muse a is sick of their family making fun of them and saying that they’re going to end up with 28 cats someday at every family gathering they’ve ever attended. enter muse b, a charismatic (and sometimes flirty) coworker who muse a pays to be their “date” for the holidays optional: “oops, i just kissed you in front of my family because they were pestering us and i’m not sure if you felt what i did, but wow”

❄ muse a is throwing a christmas party and now it’s almost 4 am and the music still hasn’t stopped and, frankly, muse b is over it

❄ muse a slips and falls on a patch of ice on their way to buy some egg nog & cookie dough and thinks their wrist might be broken. muse b happens to be walking by as this happens and initially laughs at muse a for being so clumsy before realizing it might be serious and now they’re the asshole who laughed at a hurt person

❄ muse a’s car breaks down in a small town they’re passing through to get to their parents’ house for thanksgiving/christmas dinner. muse b works in the restaurant right down the street that muse a happens to walk into to borrow a phone, but comes to find out that there’s no mechanic doing business this late at night/this close to the holidays, but muse b offers to help (could offer to fix the car/drive muse a to their parents’ it’s really up to you)

❄ muse a and muse b are in the same friend group and everyone has been trying to get them together for months. cue the christmas party where the two are - quite literally - shoved under an arch with mistletoe hanging over them

❄ muse a and muse b are coworkers who never really got along, but at the office holiday party they both get a little too drunk and end up in the same bed the next morning

❄ muse a doesn’t have a significant other to kiss at midnight, as usual. new year’s comes along and they decide to all go downtown and barhop for the night. when the countdown rolls around, muse a still has no one, until muse b grabs them and kisses them as the clock hits 12. optional: they never exchange names or numbers, but muse a goes back to that same bar the following new year’s with the hopes that muse b maybe wanted to see them again, too

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❝ I want to feel good about myself. The way you do. And I don’t know how. I don’t know if I can. ❞

❝ I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! ❞

❝ You didn’t know me. Then you fell in love with me. And now you know me. ❞

❝ You know, it’s funny. When you look at someone through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags. ❞

❝ Not understanding that you’re a horrible person doesn’t make you less of a horrible person. ❞

❝ I need you to tell me that I’m good. ❞

❝ It gets easier. Everyday it gets a little easier. ❞

❝ Well that was another in a long series of regrettable life choices. ❞

❝ It takes a long time to realize, how truly miserable you are, and even longer to see that it doesn’t have to be that way. ❞

❝ I spend a lot of time with the real me and believe me, nobody’s gonna love that guy. ❞

❝ Everybody loves you, but nobody likes you. ❞

❝ I don’t know why everybody keeps asking if I remember things, I don’t. ❞

❝ Yeah I ate them all in one sitting because I have no self control and I hate myself. ❞

❝ Do you think it’s too late for me? ❞

❝ I was just thinking about how nice things could’ve been if you had chosen this life. ❞

❝ What do you mean what’s next? Why does everything have to have a next? ❞

❝ You know what’s the worst part? I knew this was gonna happen, and I let myself get excited anyways. ❞

❝ Give me a bottle of something to help me forget my problems. ❞

❝ It’s not you, it’s that bad thing you did. ❞

❝ Family is a sinkhole, and you were right to get out when you had the chance. ❞

❝ What else could the universe POSSIBLY owe you? ❞

❝ The only thing to do now is just keep living forward. ❞

❝ Everyone was worried about you, you know. You can’t just disappear. You really hurt a lot of people. ❞

❝ In this terrifying world, all we have are the connections that we make. ❞

❝ Nobody completes anybody. That’s not a real thing. ❞

❝ I think I’m just a dumb asshole. Can’t it just be that? ❞

❝ It’s so sad that when you see someone as they really are, it ruins them. ❞

❝ You like being there to rescue me. Because it makes you feel good about yourself. ❞

❝ You’re such a self-pitying masochist, I could say ten nice things and one mean thing and you would only hear the one mean thing. ❞

❝ Don’t fetishize your own sadness. ❞

❝ You can’t keep doing this. You can’t keep doing shitty things and then feel bad about yourself like that makes it okay. You need to be better. ❞

❝ I realized people don’t change because they want to change. They change because they have to change. ❞

❝ There are some people you can’t save. Cause those people will thrash and struggle and try to take you down with them. ❞

❝ I have nothing to show for the live I have lived. And I have nobody in my life who’s better off for having known me. ❞

❝ I’m poison. I come from poison and I have poison inside me and I destroy everything I touch. That’s my legacy. ❞

❝ It doesn’t get better and it doesn’t get easier. ❞

❝ I can’t keep lying to myself thinking I’m gonna change. ❞

❝ It’s so cruel to let people love you. All you’re doing is promising you’ll one day break their hearts. ❞

❝ Your heart is tender, so you protect it from people, but sometimes you open up a wall and it’s incredible. ❞

❝ I’m not gonna give you closure. You don’t get that. You have to live with the shitty thing you did for the rest of your life. You have to know that it’s never, ever going to be okay! ❞

❝ I’m not gonna be your prop so you can feel better! ❞

❝ You’d probably sleep a lot better at night if you just admitted to yourself that you’re a selfish goddamn coward who just takes whatever they want and doesn’t give a shit about who they hurt. ❞

❝ …It’s not too late for me, is it? ❞

❝ I know you want to be happy, but you won’t be… and I’m sorry. ❞

❝ You were born broken, that’s your birthright. ❞

❝ All I ever wanted was to be your friend. And you treat me like a big joke. ❞

❝ Everything comes so easy for you. ❞

❝ I know I don’t always have the right words and I don’t always have the right feelings, but I love you so much and I need you to know that. ❞

❝ I don’t know what I am. I think I might be nothing. ❞

❝ Wherever you are, please come home. ❞

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     TRUE LOVE DOESN’T EXIST.   not in the way that movies tell you it does.   it’s a sad,   painful   thing ; one that can change you overnight, or even in the    blink of an eye.      TRUE LOVE , in all accounts of the phrase ,   is a demon , a deadly thing that feeds on souls and on   laughter -   drinks tears like a fine cognac ; aged to perfection.   true love    is doing   anything   you can to make sure the other person is    happy ;    even if it means tearing yourself up   over and over ,   setting yourself aflame to keep them warm ; to drown in their eyes.  SINK OR SWIM , choose to swim and you will survive, but at the cost of letting your loved one   DROWN ,    and to sink is to hold one another - delving   deeper and deeper   into the depths of the   unknown,   clinging to one another like you’re the only thing left.

        TRUE LOVE is rarely defined in a   first look ;   a momentous occurrence when eyes meet and   souls collide ,  but one knows that   beings entwined  and   stars crossed , they are the most rare and   special of loves ,   ones that can never die.

                                                  Dᴇᴀʀ Dɪᴀʀʏ

Everyone  cares  about  youth,  not  the  individual.  There’s  nothing  organic  about  growing  up  in  a  mass  produced,  chain-smoked,  copped  out  neighborhood  with  as  much  diversity  as  an  Aero-post  cool  clearance  bin.  Your  parents,  your  teachers,  your  guidance  counselors  -  they  act  like  you’re  some  status  point,  like  a  new  TV  or  the  LATEST  FORD.  A  write  off  on  their  fucking  taxes.  Being  trivialized,  patronized,  experimented  on  like  guinea  pigs  -  how  can  anyone  stand  it  ??  Why  do  I,  and  all  of  my  classmates,  allow  ourselves  to  be  put  down  by  adults  and  synthetically  made  syno-names  ??  This  routine  -  this  machine  -  pukes  out  slates  and  blanks  and  nobody  notices,  NOBODY  PUTS  A  S T O P  TO  IT.  I’m  afraid  if  this  keeps  going,  something’s  gonna  give,  and  it’s  not  going  to  be  PRETTY.