* Sacrifice!

1774-1792 Suit (France)

silk, embroidery with silk floss

❛❛  Something they can NEVER take away.                                                No matter what they tell you… ❜❜  

don’t go. 

please, don’t go. 

it hurts. 

this hurts. 

we can’t be friends. 

you shouldn’t be here. 

stay here with me. 

it doesn’t feel like you care. 

i can’t feel your heart. 

i’m so alone. 

i need you here, with me. 

there’s nothing left. 

we’re up in flames, the both of us. 

it all comes crashing down. 

i don’t know what to do. 

you won’t go with me? 

why don’t you stay here? 

i’m going alone.

my heart’s broken. 

they broke your heart. 

where did this come from? 

how did you get this scar? 

who is {name}? 

what are you saying? 

i shouldn’t have come here. 

it’s like we’ve become strangers. 

who hurt you? 

who did this to you? 

please, don’t ignore me.

please, say something. 

is there something i should know?

i’m not leaving you here. 

you can’t do this to me. 

after all that we’ve been through… 

@skyfallensoldier​ : “A gift for you.” John took his right hand and slipped a ring onto his finger. The men’s band was vibrant and beautifully brushed platinum. It’s tendrils swept upwards and circled around a large garnet, it was a deep blue-purple color that sparkled under the light. At either side there were two others - an onyx and an aquamarine. Their birthstones. “I gave Eliza hers already. Congress has ordered my departure to France in a week. I don’t know when I’ll return… Wait for me?”    /    unprompted.

gaze softens, and alexander isn’t sure how to reply. he is so often a man of many words, and yet here - the very moment it counts the most - he finds himself to be speechless, stumbling over what he so desperately wants to voice. the ring sits just above the wedding band - if necessary, he will pass it off as a ring to mark his engagement to eliza. a belated wedding gift, or something similar. when words fail to come, he throws his arms around john’s waist, pulls him close to press his face into his lover’s chest. he adores him - adores the life that they have built together. the life that they will continue to share for as long as fate permits. 

Good Friends:

Support you

Own up to their fuck-ups and apologize with sincerity when they do something that hurts you

Encourage you

Comfort you when you’re hurting

Share laughs and cheer you up when you’re feeling low

Get excited about shared ideas

Discuss plots and help get you pumped about your characters/storylines

Tell you when they have a problem so you can try to work it out together

Stand up for you/encourage you to stand up for yourself

Listen to your problems and try to help when possible

Is loyal, kind and respectful

Sticks around even when things get tough

Is trustworthy and willing to tell you the truth, even when it’s hard for you to hear/hard for them to say

Reach out

Love you even when you aren’t able to love yourself

Toxic ‘Friends’:

Leave you unsettled

Apologize without sincerity

Make you feel unsafe about standing up for yourself or walking away

Constantly blow off your concerns as nothing/not important

Lash out at you when you tell them they’ve hurt you

Stay silent when you’re being bullied/harassed

Lie to you

Circumvent your rules/try to find loopholes

Push at your boundaries to try to get their way

Use your insecurities/fears against you

Stay friends with people who talk badly about you, send you hate, etc.

Play hot/cold where they go from angry and accusatory towards you, to ignoring you outright in an attempt to manipulate you

Gaslight you or try to spin the truth around to make you the one at fault

Make promises and break them constantly

add + to reverse who does the action

Instead of said, consider:

For normal responses:

stated

spoke

remarked

reported

For question responses:

added

asked

required 

requested

begged

For answered responses:

answered

replied

retorted

explained

acknowledged

responded

For happy responses:

rejoiced

laughed

giggled

sang

cheered

smirked

marvelled 

smirked

chimed

For loud responses:

shouted

belted

yelled

shrieked 

screamed

boomed

exclaimed

called

For quiet responses:

murmered

mumbled

muttered

breathed

sighed

hissed

mouthed

uttered

intoned

susurrated

purred

gasped

hinted

spoke softly

spoke in a hushed tone

insinuated

For worried/nervous responses: 

quaked

trembled

stammered

stuttered

gulped

For angry responses:

demanded

hissed

fumed

thundered

snapped

sneered

barked

ranted

grunted

roared

bellowed

For bossy responses:

commanded

ordered

dictated

insisted

For crying responses:

cried

sobbed

groaned

bawled

whined

For silent responses:

thought

pondered