HE AIN'T GONNA JUMP NO MORE!

starters  /  prompts taken from f. d. soul’s work ,  between you and these bones .  feel free to change pronouns  /  tenses as necessary .

‘  the problem is you keep trying to use your eyes  ’

‘  how i soften when you pull me against you  ’

‘  you are teaching me to love  ’

‘  i will pretend that i have not already heard the question in your eyes  ’

‘  you perhaps will become my swan song  ’

‘  it is a very human thing to love  ’

‘  you are my good days  ’

‘  i have been loved dearly  ’

‘  i promise you will not always be this war  ’

‘  thank god for the stubbornness of organs  ’

‘  it takes me seven days to stop being in love with you  ’

‘  there will always be another day  ’

‘  there will always be another mercy  ’

‘  perhaps i will take up dancing again  ’

‘  what a pretty little disaster you will be  ’

‘  i am terrified for you  ’

‘  i will fold inside of myself  ’

‘  today i am thankful  ’

‘  i didn’t want to sleep because i didn’t want to wake  ’

‘  come and get me  ’

‘  i tell myself i do not need you  ’

‘  i think i broke again last night  ’

‘  i’m just trying to connect with you  ’

‘  you are an ocean that will perhaps never stop crashing  ’

‘  burn the house down in search of yourself  ’

‘  don’t you dare ever stop looking  ’

‘  i struggle not to feel guilty  ’

‘  you are a wild  ,  unkempt thing  ’

‘  sometimes it is a very sad thing to be human and longing  ’

‘  find that you are made of russian nesting dolls  ’

‘  the trees are always kindest with spring comes  ’

‘  teach yourself the hymns again  ’

‘  he is every amen i have ever laid down on lips  ’

‘  this life is an altar  ’

‘  i am sorry i do not have more time  ’

‘  there is a mountain in me  ’

‘  by the morning i am a triumph  ’

‘  there are words playing hooky in the back of your throat  ’

‘  today is by far the most beautiful creature i have ever come across  ’

‘  there are many things that will fit beneath your skin  ’

‘  forgiveness does not take up much room  ’

‘  some days you will breathe and it will be enough  ’

‘  you do not have to hold it quite so tightly  ’

‘  there is a prayer in me  ,  still  ’

‘  you scare me a little  ’

‘  you can be a good thing and not a whole thing  ’

‘  there are flowers in my chest again  ’

‘  the rain comes and sounds like you  ’

‘  i cannot tell you why i still trust god  ’

‘  find peace and build a home out of it  ’

👿.     “     𝐒𝐎𝐅𝐓     𝐀𝐅𝐅𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒     ”     𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐄     .

a     collection     of     scenarios     that     involve     our     muses     being     ‘     soft     /     affectionate     ’     .     feel     free     to     specify     ,     or     send     ‘     SOFT     ’     for     me     to     randomly     generate     a     number     .     do     not     copy     &     redistribute     as     your     own     .

01. my muse pulls yours into a tight embrace .

02. our muses press their foreheads together .

03. my muse rests their head against your muses shoulder .

04. our muses hold hands .

05. my muse runs their fingers through your muses hair .

06. our muses share a bed .

07. our muses bathe / shower together .

08. my muse brings yours breakfast in bed .

09. our muses reunite after time apart .

10. our muses go for a late night drive .

11. our muses watching the stars together .

12. our muses cooking together .

13. my muse wiping cream / chocolate / food from your muses cheek .

14. our muses dancing together .

15. my muse throwing yours over their shoulder & carrying them .

16. our muses sharing inside jokes .

17. our muses out on a date .

18. our muses share a quiet moment together .

19. our muses have a movie night together .

you fucked me so good that i almost said i love you.

you’re fun and you’re wild, but you don’t know half of the shit that you put me through.

i can’t change that, and i can’t change your mood.

‘cause you’re just a man, it’s just what you do.

why wait for the best when i could have you?

i don’t get bored, i just see you through.

you took my sadness out of context.

maybe i could save you from your sins.

take a deep breath, baby, let me in.

just take my hand.

i’m your man.

they mistook my kindness for weakness.

i fucked up, i know that, but jesus – can’t a girl just do the best she can?

who i am is a big-time believer that people can change.

you don’t have to leave her.

when everyone’s talking, you can make a stand.

even in the dark, i feel your resistance.

you can see my heart burning in the distance.

you want this, you need this.

are you ready for it?

oh god, miss you on my lips.

nothing gold can stay.

you’re beautiful and i’m insane.

give me hallmark. one dream, one life, one lover.

it’s just me and you.

touch me with your fingertips.

we’re getting high now because we’re older.

me myself, i like diamonds.

if you weren’t mine, i’d be jealous of your love.

maybe the way that i’m living is killing me.

it turns out everywhere you go, you take yourself. that’s not a lie.

wish that you would hold me or just say that you were mine.

it’s killing me slowly.

dream a little dream of me. make me into something sweet.

fuck it, i love you.

it turns out california’s more than just a state of mind.

if i wasn’t so fucked up, i think i’d fuck you all the time.

we got this relationship.

i love her so bad, but she treats me like shit.

take this veil off my eyes.

my burning sun will, some day, rise.

said i’m gonna play with myself.

we’ve come to tell you that she’s evil, most definitely. evil, ornery, scandalous and evil, most definitely.

i’d like to hold her head underwater.

i’m a star and i’m burning through you.

be my once in a lifetime.

i’m a fucking mess.

thanks for the high life.

i would like to think that you would stick around.

you know that i’d just die to make you proud.

touch me anywhere ‘cause i’m your baby.

i believe that you see me for who i am.

is it safe to just be who we are?

you try to push me out, but i just find my way back in.

there’s things that i wanna say to you, but i’ll just let you live.

if you hold me without hurting me, you’ll be the first who ever did.

what you been up to, my baby?

haven’t seen you ‘round here lately.

all of the guys tell me lies, but you don’t.

you just crack another beer and pretend that you’re still here.

this is how to disappear.

i love that man like nobody can.

i’m always going to be right here.

no one’s going anywhere.

you don’t ever have to be stronger than you really are.

i wanted to reach out, but i never said a thing.

i shouldn’t have done it.

i wanted to call you, but i didn’t say a thing.

i’ll catch you on the flip side.

we’ll do whatever you want, travel, wherever how far.

you don’t ever have to be stronger than you really are.

you don’t ever have to act cooler than you think you should.

you’re brighter than the brightest stars.

you’re scared to win, scared to lose.

whatever’s on tonight, i just wanna party with you.

you make me feel like there’s something that i never knew i wanted.

it’s you. all the roads lead to you.

i see you for who you really are.

i miss dancing with you the most of all.

nobody warns you before the fall.

i’m wasted.

don’t leave, i just need a wake-up call.

i’m facing the greatest loss of all.

i want shit to feel just like it used to.

i guess that i’m burned out after all.

sometimes, girls just want to have fun.

the poetry inside of me is warm like a gun.

it’ll buy me a year if i play my cards right.

i’m just trying to keep my love alive.

bartender, our love’s alive.

baby, remember, i’m not drinking wine.

that cherry coke you serve is fine.

i love the little games that we play.

do you want me or do you not?

i heard one thing, now i’m hearing another.

happiness is a butterfly.

what’s the worst that can happen to a girl who’s already been hurt?

i’m already hurt.

if he’s as bad as they say, then i guess i’m cursed.

don’t be a jerk. don’t call me a taxi.

i just wanna dance with you.

i lose myself in the music, baby.

i’ve been tearing around in my fucking nightgown.

don’t ask if i’m happy. you know that i’m not.

at best, i can say i’m not sad.

hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have.

she couldn’t care less, and i never cared more.

hope is a dangerous thing for a woman with my past.

i’ve got monsters still under my bed that i could never fight off.

        ❝ aw, c’mon, julia, have a little faith! ❞ donny’s no great cook — and they both know it — but he’s pretty sure he can manage toast, maybe some eggs, without burning down the entire house. he wouldn’t want to piss off june, after all, would he? he’s got no doubt that her wrath would hurt more than any bullet wound, and donny’s got enough pain to last more than one lifetime. he hauls it around with him, and it only gets easier for a while. it only gets easier when he plays. so, he’s not looking to add to it. he’s not looking to ruin this amazing thing he’s got going on, here, when he doesn’t know how he’d survive without it.