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sabinetzinSo, like a lot of people, I keep a prompt file, full of stuff that I find interesting or inspirational, lines that I had to cut or that never found a story, first lines to stories I've never written, etc.
A lot of what's in here is unattributed song lyrics (it's like a game!), so be careful before you just, like, drop them into a story. But please, take some! Maybe they will find fertile ground elsewhere.
Burn That Bridge (When We Get There)
To fool your enemies, you must first fool your friends.
"There was more than I expected," she said, wiping the blood from her hands.
I caught you knocking at my cellar door
"I love you baby, can I have some more"
Blue light special!
A long tailed cat in a rocking chair factory
I can feel your fingers
Feeling my face
There are some lines you put there
And some you erase
Frostbite and Sunstroke
Override the bunk locks!
Nostaglia (sic)
Morgan Maumelle, Hinton Geary, and Hydro Carnegie
Billboard Man!
I can't dance
I can't talk
The only thing about me is the way I walk
Then stand by your glasses steady
The World's a round of lies-
Three Cheers for the dead already
And hurrah for the next who die!
-Keith A Murray, The Modocs and their War, 204
To snatch defeat from the jaws of victory
advance guard of a season
when I will join you.
-David Young, March 10, 2001
The Scanner Committee
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances.
In camera/In potentia
No jury in the world
Bad Penny/Your Nickel/Stop on a Dime
The Concept of Infinity
The Third Culture
HETEROSEXUAL PANIC
this is how we operate
VOX
the way some ladies do/the way that ladies sometimes do
OH MY GOD KAVANAGH IS WINSTON PAYNE
He's finally standing in front of you, and all you can think to say is, "Kierkegaard sucks."
the only time love is an easy game
is when two other people are playing it
when I am rising like a flood
Must Get Out
that devil that you don't know
Sargasm!
Pro-drop languages
A marriage of inconvenience
Orchid
"Look," Rodney says, rolling his eyes at having to explain the obvious yet again. "Everybody has an outlet. Anthropologists drink, biologists smoke pot, physicists play jazz, mathematicians fuck, engineers build rockets. That's just how it is. We haven't got any drugs, pianos, beer, or mathematicians. I think it's obvious what we have to do."
One Braver Thing
unrequited love's a bore
and I've got it pretty bad
but for someone you adore
it's a pleasure to be sad
to get my fair share of abuse
"There is no I in team."
"Yeah, but there is an m and an e."
"You know what does have an I in it, funnily enough? 'No sex ever again.'"
Sherlock Homo
Cocksucker Blues
This Time The Dream's On Me
I won't stop running till I'm satisfied
and if wishes were horses, I would ride, ride, ride
be thou my vision
Mr. Woolsey and Jack O'Neill Are Dead
"Never taunt a man from Prague when you are near a window."
Jamaican Blue Mountain
"Sure. I don't get tied up," was all Ronon had said when they asked him. Then he went back to devouring his mashed potatoes, leaving John and Rodney to stare dumbfounded at each other.
Oh, he is never going to let McKay live this one down.
As long as McKay never finds out about all those Blake/Avon stories he wrote in high school, that is.
fuckup with marmalade
"Napoleon Zelenka kicked me out of the lab."
If this were home, he'd go out to the bar and drink until karaoke sounded like a good idea. There's something therapeutic about singing “Don't Stop Believing” at the top of his lungs with a room full of strangers.
we rise above
The history of science is the history of the gradual clearing away of this nonsense or of its replacement by fresh but always less absurd nonsense. - Engels
But where would they all stand?
where the sage and sweetgrass grows
"They're eating the MALP!"
The New Bottoming Book: Sweetness and Power, Future History, Power/Knowledge, The Practice of Everyday Life
To Do List
Walked to Alaska, Clawed by a Bear
it's pleasure to try 'em, it's trouble to keep 'em
"When you go home, tell them of us and say: For your tomorrow, we gave our today."
"You can't go around introducing yourself to alien civilizations as the leader of the Fantastic Four!"
"This from the man who told the Ondirans his name was Jesus Christ."
"That is not what I meant to do, and you know it. He startled me."
We, the Undersigned
maybe if you were i would
standard issue regrets
i will not fail because you can't win
top of the pops
“If I could actually gain your trust by sucking your dick, I'd have done it by now, wouldn't I? Oh god, I just said that out loud.”
velleity. n. the lowest level of desire
John the Revelator
The first words out of John's mouth, when he glances at the front page of the newspaper that his loving and unusually solicitous boyfriend has brought him with his morning coffee, should not be, "Holy shit, I fucked that guy!"
"He broke into my room at three in the morning to tell me I wasn't a wartime consigliere."
"If we're all gonna die, I wanna watch the third one tonight."
"You really won't be missing anything."
"And if he doesn't, I'm going to beat him to death with Buikstra and Ubelaker. Excuse me."
"God, this is worse than the time we used CalaGel!"
"Hey, all I said was that it wouldn't itch."
"Look, I'll marry you if I have to."
"How the hell would that help?"
"I'm Canadian. If you had citizenship, I could probably get you into our Air Force. And have you seen our Air Force? You could be a general by Tuesday."
all you debase, all you defend
they all went to heaven in a little rowboat
A Thousand Rainy Days
Jockey Full of Bourbon
don't say that he's hypocritical
say rather that he's apolitical
They're very careful, the first time.
we got married in the desert in the sunshine
she had means I don't mean to say
cause she had dreams I was only in the way of
frankly, the feeling's fucking fantastic
All the Yellow Roses
Adam: See, I'm not used to feeling a pain that's not actually causing me damage.
A lot of what's in here is unattributed song lyrics (it's like a game!), so be careful before you just, like, drop them into a story. But please, take some! Maybe they will find fertile ground elsewhere.
Burn That Bridge (When We Get There)
To fool your enemies, you must first fool your friends.
"There was more than I expected," she said, wiping the blood from her hands.
I caught you knocking at my cellar door
"I love you baby, can I have some more"
Blue light special!
A long tailed cat in a rocking chair factory
I can feel your fingers
Feeling my face
There are some lines you put there
And some you erase
Frostbite and Sunstroke
Override the bunk locks!
Nostaglia (sic)
Morgan Maumelle, Hinton Geary, and Hydro Carnegie
Billboard Man!
I can't dance
I can't talk
The only thing about me is the way I walk
Then stand by your glasses steady
The World's a round of lies-
Three Cheers for the dead already
And hurrah for the next who die!
-Keith A Murray, The Modocs and their War, 204
To snatch defeat from the jaws of victory
advance guard of a season
when I will join you.
-David Young, March 10, 2001
The Scanner Committee
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances.
In camera/In potentia
No jury in the world
Bad Penny/Your Nickel/Stop on a Dime
The Concept of Infinity
The Third Culture
HETEROSEXUAL PANIC
this is how we operate
VOX
the way some ladies do/the way that ladies sometimes do
OH MY GOD KAVANAGH IS WINSTON PAYNE
He's finally standing in front of you, and all you can think to say is, "Kierkegaard sucks."
the only time love is an easy game
is when two other people are playing it
when I am rising like a flood
Must Get Out
that devil that you don't know
Sargasm!
Pro-drop languages
A marriage of inconvenience
Orchid
"Look," Rodney says, rolling his eyes at having to explain the obvious yet again. "Everybody has an outlet. Anthropologists drink, biologists smoke pot, physicists play jazz, mathematicians fuck, engineers build rockets. That's just how it is. We haven't got any drugs, pianos, beer, or mathematicians. I think it's obvious what we have to do."
One Braver Thing
unrequited love's a bore
and I've got it pretty bad
but for someone you adore
it's a pleasure to be sad
to get my fair share of abuse
"There is no I in team."
"Yeah, but there is an m and an e."
"You know what does have an I in it, funnily enough? 'No sex ever again.'"
Sherlock Homo
Cocksucker Blues
This Time The Dream's On Me
I won't stop running till I'm satisfied
and if wishes were horses, I would ride, ride, ride
be thou my vision
Mr. Woolsey and Jack O'Neill Are Dead
"Never taunt a man from Prague when you are near a window."
Jamaican Blue Mountain
"Sure. I don't get tied up," was all Ronon had said when they asked him. Then he went back to devouring his mashed potatoes, leaving John and Rodney to stare dumbfounded at each other.
Oh, he is never going to let McKay live this one down.
As long as McKay never finds out about all those Blake/Avon stories he wrote in high school, that is.
fuckup with marmalade
"Napoleon Zelenka kicked me out of the lab."
If this were home, he'd go out to the bar and drink until karaoke sounded like a good idea. There's something therapeutic about singing “Don't Stop Believing” at the top of his lungs with a room full of strangers.
we rise above
The history of science is the history of the gradual clearing away of this nonsense or of its replacement by fresh but always less absurd nonsense. - Engels
But where would they all stand?
where the sage and sweetgrass grows
"They're eating the MALP!"
The New Bottoming Book: Sweetness and Power, Future History, Power/Knowledge, The Practice of Everyday Life
To Do List
Walked to Alaska, Clawed by a Bear
it's pleasure to try 'em, it's trouble to keep 'em
"When you go home, tell them of us and say: For your tomorrow, we gave our today."
"You can't go around introducing yourself to alien civilizations as the leader of the Fantastic Four!"
"This from the man who told the Ondirans his name was Jesus Christ."
"That is not what I meant to do, and you know it. He startled me."
We, the Undersigned
maybe if you were i would
standard issue regrets
i will not fail because you can't win
top of the pops
“If I could actually gain your trust by sucking your dick, I'd have done it by now, wouldn't I? Oh god, I just said that out loud.”
velleity. n. the lowest level of desire
John the Revelator
The first words out of John's mouth, when he glances at the front page of the newspaper that his loving and unusually solicitous boyfriend has brought him with his morning coffee, should not be, "Holy shit, I fucked that guy!"
"He broke into my room at three in the morning to tell me I wasn't a wartime consigliere."
"If we're all gonna die, I wanna watch the third one tonight."
"You really won't be missing anything."
"And if he doesn't, I'm going to beat him to death with Buikstra and Ubelaker. Excuse me."
"God, this is worse than the time we used CalaGel!"
"Hey, all I said was that it wouldn't itch."
"Look, I'll marry you if I have to."
"How the hell would that help?"
"I'm Canadian. If you had citizenship, I could probably get you into our Air Force. And have you seen our Air Force? You could be a general by Tuesday."
all you debase, all you defend
they all went to heaven in a little rowboat
A Thousand Rainy Days
Jockey Full of Bourbon
don't say that he's hypocritical
say rather that he's apolitical
They're very careful, the first time.
we got married in the desert in the sunshine
she had means I don't mean to say
cause she had dreams I was only in the way of
frankly, the feeling's fucking fantastic
All the Yellow Roses
Adam: See, I'm not used to feeling a pain that's not actually causing me damage.
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Date: 2010-05-07 08:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-05-08 02:00 am (UTC)"Never taunt a man from Prague when you are near a window."
EEEE DEFENSTRATION FTW!
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Date: 2010-05-08 07:00 pm (UTC)"You can't go around introducing yourself to alien civilizations as the leader of the Fantastic Four!"
"This from the man who told the Ondirans his name was Jesus Christ."
"That is not what I meant to do, and you know it. He startled me."
:D :D :D