Like Stars Above Baron

                                    {   I  SURVIVED.   }

                                    {   I  SURVIVED.   }

Change pronouns / tense / etc. to your liking !

❛ how long have you been out here?

❛ stand back.

❛ whoa! are you okay?

❛ i’ve got this.

❛ i don’t need your help, you know.

❛ you’re bleeding!

❛ we need to get you to medics. this doesn’t look good.

❛ you shouldn’t be fighting.

❛ i’m saving you no matter what.

❛ drop me! i can still fight!

❛ worry not. you have me to protect you.

❛ it’s my duty to be fighting beside you.

❛ you cannot possibly do this alone.

❛ there’s so many of them!

❛ hey, there’s an escape route over there…

❛ we should flee.

❛ stop being stupid and run, you fool!

❛ i’ll be okay on my own.

❛ backup! we need backup!

❛ run!

❛ they don’t look that scary…

❛ nevermind. they are DEFINITELY scary.

*General TW for grief and misery below*

~ How would your muse behave if they are at their angriest? Would they lash out and hurt someone?

~ What is the most extreme thing your muse would do for someone they love?

~ Your muse now has the ability to bring a deceased loved one back to life perfectly (no decay or anything, just as they last saw them). The catch is, their loved one would have no memory of your muse at all. Would they do it anyway?

~ Your muse opens their door one rainy night to find a child (of their same species) standing outside and soaking wet. They say they have no family and are lost, would your muse take them in as their own?

~ What is the saddest state your muse has ever been in? Describe them in their most depressing, loneliest state. How do they behave?

~ What subject tends to make your muse go into a “soul searchy” state?

~ What is your muse’s personal hell like? Is there anyone or anything there to terrorize them?

~ Describe your muse’s top 3 worst nightmares they have ever dreamed up.

~ Describe your muse’s top 3 nightmares in real life.

~ What is the worst situation your muse has ever been in?

~ Describe a moment in your muse’s life when they have been seriously injured or sick. How close could they have been to dying?

~ Are there any sights or images that make your muse feel sad or lonely?

~ Describe a time when your muse was completely alone. How did they handle it?

~ If your muse could make one perfect wish, what would they wish for?

~ When was the last time your muse found themselves crying alone, with no one to support them?

~ Your muse has to sacrifice something or someone precious to save the world. What would their sacrifice end up being? A cherished memory or memento? Or something greater than that…?

~ What is an activity your muse will do to clear their head?

~ Have your muse describe the worst physical pain they have been in.

~ Have your muse describe the worst emotional pain they have been in.

~ The five stages of grief are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Describe your muse in each stage after losing a loved one.

~ What is one thing your muse deeply regrets doing?

~ If your muse found out they were dying in 42 hours, who would they visit and spend time with? Would they try to do anything on their bucket list or spend the last few moments of their life surrounded by loved ones?

~ What is something noble your muse has done that they never got credit or recognition for?

~ What is the meanest thing anyone has ever done to/said to/ called your muse?

~ Are there any holidays your muse cannot celebrate properly without feeling upset or lonely?

~ Your muse has “gone savage” for an hour and has injured everyone around them in some way as a result. How bad would they feel after snapping out of it?

moon bois

warsan shire is a kenyan-born somali writer, poet, editor, and teacher.  you may know her as the woman whose poetry was adapted into beyonce’s visual album, lemonade.   i am using snippets of her poetry EP “warsan vs melancholy (the seven stages of grief)” which can be found here (the link redirects to a bandcamp page).  last time on our poetry sentence meme series, we used warsan shire’s poem “34 excuses for why we failed at love” which you can find here.  

feel free to change pronouns, punctuation, words, etc., as needed to make these prompts make sense—and please be sure to look up her work if you think it sounds as divine as i do!!!   –  LIZZY

the unbearable weight of staying (the end of the relationship)

❛ i don’t know when love became elusive. what i know, is that no one i know has it. ❜

❛ i think of lovers as trees, growing to and from one another, searching for the same light. ❜

❛ this is all i know how to do: carry loss around until i begin to resemble every bad memory, every terrible fear, every nightmare anyone has ever had. ❜

❛ did you ever love me? ❜

❛ of course, of course. ❜

❛ are you made of steel?  are you made of iron? ❜

❛ i need someone who knows how to stay. ❜

dear moon (the distraction)

❛ you cold, unimaginable thing. ❜ 

how to wear your mothers lipstick (the desperation)

❛ your mother is a woman and women like her cannot be contained. ❜

❛ you look nothing like your mother. ❜

❛ you look everything like your mother. ❜

❛ i thought i told you to stop calling me. ❜

❛ you taste like years of being alone. ❜

questions for the woman i was last night (the honest conversation)

❛ how far have you walked for men who’ve never held your feet in their laps? ❜

❛ how often have you bartered with bone, only to sell yourself short? ❜

❛ why do you find the unavailable so alluring? ❜

❛ where did it begin? what went wrong? ❜

❛ who made you feel so worthless? ❜

❛ if they wanted you, wouldn’t they have chosen you? ❜

❛ all this time, you were begging for love silently, thinking they couldn’t hear you, but they smelt it on you. you must have known they could taste the desperate on your skin. ❜

❛ and what about the others? that would do everything for you? ❜

❛ why did you make them love you until you could not stand it? ❜

❛ how are you both these women, both flighty and needful? ❜

❛ where did you learn this, to want what does not want you? ❜

❛ where did you learn this, to leave those that want to stay? ❜

i think i know what we did wrong (the realization)

❛ we loved like two people who did not know god. ❜

❛ what a shame. ❜

for women who are difficult to love (the affirmation)

❛ i could never leave you, forget you, want anything but you. ❜

❛ you dizzy me; you are unbearable. ❜

❛ every woman before or after you is doused in your name. ❜

❛ you fill my mouth. my teeth ache with the memory of taste. ❜

❛ my body is just a long shadow seeking yours. ❜

❛ you are always too intense, frightening in the way that you want me. ❜

❛ no man can live up to the one who lives in your head. ❜

❛ so what did you want to do, love? split his head open? ❜

❛ you can’t make homes out of human beings. someone should have already told you that. ❜

❛ if he wants to leave, then let him leave. ❜

❛ you are terrifying and strange and beautiful. something not everyone knows how to love. ❜

(the prayer)

STOP MAKING FEMALE LOVE INTERESTS BARRIERS TO M/M SHIPS.

STOP CHARACTERIZING FEMALE CHARACTERS AS ‘BITCHY’ WHEN THEY POSE A PROBLEM FOR A M/M SHIP.

STOP CHANGING FEMALE CHARACTERS FOR THE SAKE OF A M/M SHIP.

STOP BEING HYPOCRITES. 

(female characters are important and so are their relationships with male characters, romantic or platonic.  if a female character does pose a ‘barrier’ to ship, since she’s in a canon relationship with one of the male characters, find a nice way to separate the f/m relationship.  don’t make her a jerk and don’t be afraid to make characters bi, for heaven’s sake.  it’s 2017.)