the sunlight was so bright.

send a symbol for our muses to:

🌲  ─  visit a tree farm to pick the perfect christmas tree 🎄  ─  decorate a christmas tree together 💋  ─  be caught standing under the mistletoe 🍽  ─  prepare the christmas dinner together 🍪  ─  bake & decorate christmas/holiday-themed sugar cookies ☕️   ─  drink something warm and/or festive ( either at home, at a coffeeshop, christmas market, etc… ) 🏠  ─  decorate a gingerbread house together 🎬  ─  watch a christmas movie 🎭  ─  see a christmas musical/play at the theater 🔥  ─  have an indoor picnic by the fireplace and/or christmas tree 🌟  ─  drive around the city to see the christmas lights ✉️  ─  send each other a christmas card 🎅🏻  ─  be each other’s secret santa 🎁  ─  exchange & open chistmas presents 🛍   ─  go christmas shopping together 👕   ─  go out wearing matching christmas sweaters  🎉   ─  attend a holiday party together 📷   ─  have a holiday photoshoot 🎶   ─  go christmas caroling  💃   ─  dance around the living room to christmas songs 💖   ─  volunteer together at a local charity  ✈️   ─  go on a christmas getaway ✏️   ─  create their own christmas/holiday tradition 😈  ─  decide who has been the naughtiest and the nicest and give each other rewards & consequences accordingly  ( can be funny/platonic or sexy/nsfɯ, depending on muses’ relationship ) 🃏   ─  wildcard !  choose your own activity !

taken from maria dahvana headly’s translation of beowulf. feel free to change pronouns, etc.

if the crown fits ... take it.

i promised myself a great love. that didn’t work out. 

you fired something in me, and when i look at you now, i must have you again. 

i have carried a romantic idea of people all my life.

it was an act of love, not an act of betrayal.

i saw a great love as a kind of perfect love. maybe it's not.

you're delusional about people, about the world.

that is your great gift. but it's a curse as well.

we cannot change without cost, even if it is our own.

you are always seeking for me to look at reality. well, i am, and it's horrifying. 

it is a flaw for a leader to want love so much.

you don't believe in me. i've spent my life trying to get you to.. and you just don't.

the worst thing in life is to come up against your own limitations and stumble.

i can't stop loving you when you talk, it rushes me.

no morality, no philosophy, just win.

i think you have a large appetite that is not constrained by morality.

you are complicating me.

a great love, like a great country or a great leader even ... is a flawed one.

not as fun as me. because i am known for being fun.

it's .. close to enough.

you do this, and you can't come back. i mean it.

there are many versions of you, and you know i'm the only one who sees them all.

i never thought being doomed would feel so pleasant.

i am fucked. i have decided to embrace it.

sometimes you just take the next step and the path appears. 

i look at you ... and my heart breaks. for your pain. for your sorrows.

i will not live a powerless life.

i do not wish to avoid bloodshed. what part of that plan do you not understand?

sometimes i'm so clever, i have to take a breath not to become dizzy.

i think i was angry because no one has ever not liked me.

there is no other way. i am a prisoner here.

you think me more naive than i am.

we are always not quite as good as we wish.

i don't want to kill you. you're not a bad person.

i could kill you. you are a bad person.

you're so sweet sometimes, i could just kiss you on the nose.

people underestimate the joy in suffering.

it wasn't destiny that did it. i did it.

i'm not scared, and i'm not holding your hand.

you're lying, which is both out of character and really annoying.

i am as good as dead here. that's why i have nothing to lose.

i will not be at your, or anyone's whim.

( dialogue  prompts  taken  from the script of  everything  everywhere  all  at  once  (2022),  directed  by  daniel  kwan  and  daniel  scheinert.  feel  free  to  edit  and  change  as  you  seem  fit. )

❛ you look really pretty right now. ❜

❛ stop changing the subject. ❜

❛ every day i fight, i fight for all of us. ❜

❛ what are you doing? what is wrong? ❜

❛ if i have to think about one more thing today, my head will explode. ❜

❛ you may be in grave danger. there is no time to explain.❜

❛ we can make our own way. please, come with me. ❜

❛ don't even talk to me about this because i won't remember.❜

❛ i am not your husband. at least not the one you know. i am another version of him from another life path, another universe. ❜

❛ i’m here because we need your help.❜

❛ sorry, very busy today. no time to help you– ❜

❛ all those years of searching have brought me here. to this universe. to you. ❜

❛ i’m here to tell you every rejection, every disappointment has led you here. to this moment. ❜

❛ i'm not ready to fight yet. ❜

❛ maybe we don't have a choice. ❜

❛ now, you can either come with me and live up to your ultimate potential, or lie here and live with the consequences. ❜

❛ i... want to lie here. ❜

❛ how often do people literally die laughing? ❜

❛ my husband won't even kill a spider. how are you the same person? ❜

❛ we are talking about infinity. if you can imagine it, somewhere out there, it exists. ❜

❛ how did i die? ❜

❛ i've seen you die a thousand ways. in a thousand worlds. in every single one, you were murdered. ❜

❛ what!? who wants me dead? ❜

❛ you’ve been feeling it too, haven’t you? something is off. your clothes never wear as well the next day, your hair never falls in quite the same way, even your coffee tastes... wrong. ❜

❛ maybe we would have been better off if we had never gotten married. ❜

❛ i never said that. ❜

❛ you didn’t have to. it’s the way you look at me. ❜

❛ can’t you see it? how wonderful it would be if you came with me? ❜

❛ i saw my life without you. i wish you could have seen it. it was beautiful. ❜

❛ shhh, you're not thinking straight. ❜

❛ what is worse than death? ❜

❛ i saw your face on a billboard and — this is silly — i wondered if you remembered me... ❜

❛ is it that i can’t be here, or that i’m not allowed to be here? ❜

❛ there is no good, there is no evil. there is only “goovil”. ❜

❛ if you can imagine it, you have fucked it. ❜

❛ do not be so closed minded that you blind yourself from the truth! ❜

❛ don’t make me fight you. i am really really good. ❜

❛ you're capable of anything because you're so bad at everything. ❜

❛ you can't remember anything because your bodies were under the control of other universes. ❜

❛ you were like puppets. and you could do things you normally can't do. you were like, what's that movie... raccaccoonie? ❜

❛ how can you defeat her in every universe, if you can't even kill her in one? ❜

❛ the sacrifices necessary to win this war... i know all too well. ❜

❛ i cannot lose another loved one to the darkness. ❜

❛ i know you have feelings. feelings that make you so sad. that make you just want to give up. that is not your fault. ❜

❛ i'll see you again soon, somewhere out there in all that noise. ❜

❛ just think happy thoughts. ❜

❛ you okay? caught you staring off into space again. ❜

❛ i'm the one you've been looking for. ❜

❛ i’m the one who will defeat you. ❜

❛ you’re finally free, like me. ❜

❛ you don't have to choose anymore. between loving me or hating me. you can do both at the same time. ❜

❛ before, you were asking about "our daughter". it's crazy, but it really got me thinking. what if you had come with me all of those years ago? ❜

❛ all of this time, i wasn't looking for someone who could defeat me. i was looking for someone who could see what i see, feel what i feel... ❜

❛ oh, good, you're here too. ❜

❛ i'm sorry about ruining everything, i– ❜

❛ we're all stupid. small stupid little humans. it's like our whole deal. ❜

❛ everything is going to be okay. ❜

❛ you think i’m weak don’t you? ❜

❛ when we first fell in love all of those years ago, your father would say i was too sweet for my own good. maybe he was right. ❜

❛ please! can we just stop fighting! ❜

❛ you tell me that it's a cruel world and we're all just running around in circles. i know that. i've been on this earth just as many days as you. ❜

❛ the only thing i do know is we have to be kind. be kind. especially, when we don't know what's going on. ❜

❛ i know you go through life with your fists held tight. you see yourself as a fighter. well, i see myself as one too. this is how i fight. ❜

❛ in another life, i would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you. ❜

❛ you know what i say? cold, hysterical, unlovable bitches like us make the world go round. ❜

❛ you aren’t unlovable. there is always something to love. ❜

❛ even in a stupid, stupid universe where we have hot dogs for fingers, we’d all be very good with our feet! ❜

❛ in a universe where we both agree that no one could love you, if we look hard enough, something will prove us wrong. ❜

❛ we are all useless alone. so its good you're not alone. ❜

❛ maybe you win in this universe. but in another, i beat you. or we tie. or we eat crepes. ❜

❛ i don't want to hurt anymore. and for some reason when i'm with you, it hurts both of us. ❜

❛ out of all of the places i could be, why would i want to be here with you? ❜

❛ i still want to be here with you. i will always want to be here with you. ❜

we begin in the dark and death is the birth of us.

leave my death alone.

a husband or a child can be replaced, but who can grow me a new brother?

nothing vast enters the lives of mortals without ruin.

i’ll be so lonely.

you think you are iron but i can bend you.

i was born for love, not hatred.

we’re all here. we’re all fine.

an enemy is always an enemy, alive or dead.

you are a person in love with the impossible.

i share the blame.

you did nothing.

but of course there is hope.

do not say that. or i will have to hate you too.

i can give you reasons not to die.

some god is heading you on the high road to ruin.

it wouldn’t help you. it didn’t help me.

this terrible thing we’re witnessing now is not unique. 

you know it happened before, or something much like it.

they’ll welcome me.

shall [name] prescribe to me how i should rule?

why not find a desert and rule all alone?

watch out. i see the future plunging toward you.

that is so wrong. that is so wrong.

i am your defender.

i am yours.

everything i touch goes wrong.

your soul is blowing apart.

blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil.

i want to row the boat with you.

you’re not ashamed?

no shame in honoring one’s kin.

you’re late to learn what’s what, aren’t you?

to die is my only prayer. 

          each  may  be  adjusted  appropriately for  pronouns  or  really  anything,   including  character  speech  or  semantics.     use  it  however  you  like     !

not a sound out there, but i know they’re following me everywhere.

butterflies sigh and flutter by.

goodbye to a spell and the night coming to an end.

‘right, knew all along’ sounds like such a lie.

coffee stains covered my life.

i don’t know how i can move again.

we never saw a thing until it came for you and me.

they’re imitating and debating me and never making any sound.

deny my heart or deny the mess i made?

words so tender, but that’s not what you were really like.

or be afraid, and here you’ll always stay.

i would laugh at myself, fallen down behind.

but i don’t know a thing, love or losing, see?

i threw to the side any human in me.

if i live a lie of shallow words and empty replies, then what am i?

play it out like a scene, posing every lead.

run to front stage. you’re all actors anyway.

no one to watch, you’re all part of a play.

there no one inside me.

there’s no one that’s hiding.

always been me, empty, a body but nobody here to see.

hurry up and bite down whoever you found.

and here i wait for something to twist the plot dramatically again.

we’re pulling at the boundary unseen.

those eyes are watching.

head shot, we took it too far, but if you aim, go for the heart.

broke it all with a touch, if i do recall.

we were young, never bound with a single sin.

before we could see, we were monsters in skin.

i was alone way before i knew, blocking every little thought that i couldn’t sit through.

    some lines modified to be more usable.     change any gendered language to your needs.  ♡

𝐌𝐀𝐘𝐁𝐄 𝐈’𝐌 𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆   (   2008   )

“   are   you   there ??   ” “   cold  nights  make  staying  alert  so  hard .   ” “   for  heaven’s  sake ,   keep  me  awake .   ” “   i’ll  find  a  place  to  stay .   ” “   i  feel  your  heartbeat .   ” “   the  feeling  of  letting  go ,   i  guess  we’ll  never  know .   ” “   we  should’ve  known  that  we’d  grow  up  sooner  or  later .   ” “   she  was  everything  to  me .   ” “   everything  was  my  fault .   ” “   when  you   &   i  are  alone ,   i’ve  never  felt  so  at  home .   ” “   do  you  wish  we’d  fall  in  love ??   ” “   when  we’re  apart ,   whatever  are  you  thinking  of ??   ” “   if  this  is  what  i  call  home ,   why  does  it  feel  so  alone ??   ” “   we’ll  get  a  head  start  on  the  day .   ” “   relax  your  back   &   let  the  noise  sing  you  to  sleep  in  my  arms .   ” “   if  you  awake  before  we  arrive ,   i  will  carry  you  down .   ” “   i’m  just  a  shell  as  far  as  i  can  tell .   ” “   i’ll  meet  you  there .   ” “   i  tend  to  disappear ,   here   &   there .   ” “   open  your  eyes   &   see  everything  you  can  be .   ” “   you’re  not  alone .   ” “   it’s  quite  clear  that  i’m  stuck  here .   ” “   am  i  awake ,   or  is  this  just  a  dream ??   ”

𝐎𝐂𝐄𝐀𝐍 𝐄𝐘𝐄𝐒   (   2009   )

“   i’ve  been  dying  to  leave .   ” “   i’ve  had  just  about  enough  of   ‘  diamonds  in  the  rough   ’ .   ” “   i  won’t  even  look  back .   ” “   you   &   i  left  our  troubles  far  behind .   ” “   i  still  have  just  one  more  question  on  my  mind .   ” “   with  friends  like  these ,   well ,   who  needs  enemies ??   ” “   you  make  me  blush .   ” “   it’s  plain  to  see  that  we  were  meant  to  be .   ” “   sing  me  to  sleep ,   tonight .   ” “   i’d  rather  pick  flowers  instead  of  fights .   ” “   somehow ,   i  still  get  the  chills .   ” “   don’t  have  a  fit ,   this’ll  just  pinch  a  bit .   ” “   i  say  the  stupidest  things .   ” “   i  can  finally  see  that  you’re  right  there  beside  me .   ” “   please  don’t  let  me  go .   ” “   i  desperately  need  you .   ” “   everything  is  never  as  it  seems .   ” “   please  take  me  away  from  here .   ” “   i  feel  like  such  an  insomniac .   ” “   i’m  far  too  tired  to  fall  asleep .   ” “   i’m  weird  ’cause  i  hate  goodbyes .   ” “   my  dreams  get  real  bizarre .   ” “   i’ll  keep  you  warm .   ” “   you  keep  me  warm .   ” “   i’ll  do  whatever  it  takes  to  change .   ” “   i’ll  miss  your  arms  around  me .   ” “   it’s  not  the  same  without  you .   ” “   the  spaces  between  my  fingers  are  right  where  yours  fit  perfectly .   ” “   i  haven’t  slept  in  two  days .   ” “   when  i  think  of  you ,   i  don’t  feel  so  alone .   ” “   as  many  times  as  i  blink ,   i’ll  think  of  you .   ” “   i  swear ,   i  won’t  forget  you .   ” “   i  wish  i  could  cross  my  arms   &   cross  your  mind .   ” “   i  forget  the  last  time  i  felt  brave ,   i  just  recall  insecurity .   ” “   you  make  my  frown  turn  upside  down .   ” “   close  your  eyes   &   cuddle  close  to  me .   ” “   thank  the  lord  i’m  not  going  bald .   ” “   i  can  still  feel  your  heart  beat  fast  when  you  dance  with  me .   ” “   do  you  feel  alive  ??   ” “   if  my  heart  was  a  compass ,   you’d  be  north .   ” “   i’ll  catch  you  if  you  fall .   ” “   if  my  heart  was  a  house ,   you’d  be  home .   ” “   all  my  clothes  smell  like  you .   ” “   i  swear ,   i  heard  you  scream .   ”

𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓   &   𝐁𝐄𝐀𝐔𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐔𝐋   (   2011   )