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scealaiscoite · 8 months
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unreal unearth prompts ˗ˏˋ ꒰ 🍊 ꒱
⋆ "i'd still know you."
⋆ "i'd block the sun if you want it done."
⋆ "some part of me must have died the first time that you called me baby."
⋆ "come here to me, when was the last time?"
⋆ "when i was young, i used to guess."
⋆ "do you think i'd give up?"
⋆ "do you think i'd give up? that this could've shook the love from me?"
⋆ "how could you think i'd scare so easily?"
⋆ "my life was a storm since i was born."
⋆ "if i could hold you for a minute, i'd go through it again."
⋆ "heaven is not fit to house a love like yours and mine."
⋆ "i feel lighter than i have in so much time."
⋆ "how could i fall when i am lifted by every word you say to me?"
⋆ "if you need to, darling, lean your weight on me."
⋆ "but if we fall i only pray, don't fall away from me."
⋆ "i do not have wings, love, and i never will."
⋆ "i'm starvin', darling."
⋆ "honey, i wanna race you to the table."
⋆ "two outfits then to my name, and you'd end up in one when you'd stay."
⋆ "we'd go out with no way to get home."
⋆ "but I know being reckless and young is not how the damage gets done."
⋆ "we knew what our love was worth."
⋆ "hold me like water- or christ, hold me like a knife."
⋆ "it's who we are."
⋆ "darling, we sacrificed."
⋆ "if there was anyone to ever get through this life with their heart still intact, they didn't do it right."
⋆ "we didn't get it right but, love, we did our best."
⋆ "there are some things that no one teaches you, love."
⋆ "but it came easy, darlin', as natural as another leg around you in the bed frame."
⋆ "so far from home to have a stranger call you "darling"."
⋆ "i would do everything if you'd hear me."
⋆ "the feeling came late, but i'm still glad i met you."
⋆ "i knew i'd no choice but to love you."
⋆ "i thought you were like an angel to me."
⋆ do you know i could break beneath the weight of the goodness, love, i still carry for you?"
⋆ "it's like i lived my whole life before the first light."
⋆ "the sun's coming up."
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warpedlegacywrites · 3 months
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happy dadwc friday Duchess! How about a prompt for Cullen coping with addiction/recovery 🥺😭💖
❝ All the things that I ran from I now bring as close to me as I can. ❞
happy writing :3
Happy @dadrunkwriting! Thanks for this prompt. Here is some slightly circular narration about Cullen's withdrawal, with a focus on his early nightmares post-lyrium.
CW for torture, sleep deprivation, claustrophobia, psychological torture
Sleep isn’t a problem at first. In fact, for the first week or so, he barely notices a difference. His dreams remain blurred, unfocused. Filtered by the last filter he’d taken in Kirkwall. His last one ever, so he keeps reminding himself, though practiced hands still reach for the vial at his bedside when he wakes blearily with the dawn. Muscle memory. Habit. Conditioning.  Sleep isn’t a problem, even after the symptoms start setting in. When his reaching hands shake so hard they can barely grip the glass of water. The water he gulps greedily down, while wishing it were gleaming blue instead of clear. The water he can’t seem to keep down, retching it back up moments later. No, even when his insides are on fire and his whole body is racked with the searing pain, sleep isn’t a problem.  It’s not until the worst of the pains and the cravings subside, when the Song is little more than a half-remembered tune in the back of his skull, and his body can actually, truly rest. That is when sleep becomes a daunting, dreadful torture. 
Every night, when he lays his head down, he knows what’s coming. He’ll try to stay awake as long as possible, reflexively wincing away from the pain. But inevitably, his eyes will close, and he will open them again in the blood-stained halls of Kinloch Hold. Torchlight flickers over bodies, too many to count. 
The light is tinted by the magically manifested curtain of his cell. A slender column holding him captive. Too narrow to do anything but kneel or stand – he can’t even properly sit, let alone lie down. No matter how many hours, days, nights pass, no matter how his feet and legs and back ache. He remains standing until he can bear it no longer, and then he kneels in prayer. His knees are bruised and bleeding. He’s exhausted. More tired than he’s ever been. Somewhere in the back of his mind, he understands he’s still asleep, but the fatigue is just as he remembers it. He doesn’t recall how he ever managed to sleep, if he ever did. 
His cell is round, affording him a panorama view of the carnage. Every so often, a new body will race through in an attempt to reach the stairs to Cullen’s right. They’re always cut down before they clear the first handful of steps. Every time, Cullen tries to warn them. Every time, his voice doesn’t penetrate the perimeter of his cell. He hears its echo bounce back and forth over his head, driving him mad with his own voice. Every time, the demon emerges from the shadows it hides in. Razor claws rake across torsos, drawing forth gushing red. The room is infused with the smell of blood. Fresh and stale, the stone is saturated with it. Eventually, Cullen stops smelling it. But as tortured with guilt as he is over his failure to save even a single soul, watching them die is still the lesser evil. 
Because when the demon is bored waiting for new victims, it amuses itself with Cullen. It knew his desires almost the instant it captured him. All his training was for naught – Desire is a powerful demon, and it read him like an open book. It cackled, mocking his boyish infatuation. It delighted in taking her form and parading around in front of him in her skin. Calling to him in her voice, whispering in his ear, while standing well out of reach. Sometimes wanting, willing. Others, screaming in pain. Spitting vitriolic hatred at him. But always beyond his reach. 
He can beat his hands against the curtain of magic until they bleed, scream until his voice is raw and his throat is like cracked glass. But he will never break through it. 
Until he wakes, covered in sweat and hands aching from gripping the sheets so tightly, his throat sore. Surely, he must be screaming on this side of the Veil as well, but if anyone has ever heard it, they keep it to themselves. He will wash his face with cold, clean water, drink from the canteen he keeps full at his bedside, and dress for his day. 
And the next night, it will start all over again. He will try to stay awake, and then he will fail. He will try to warn his would-be rescuers, and fail. Try to escape, and fail. No matter how he tries to outrun his failures, they follow him, relentless and tireless. 
Until one night, when he looks down at the blood-soaked bodies at his feet… and there is no cell to separate them. He reaches a hand out, tentatively, and meets no resistance. He steps forward, and is not repelled back. A sob escapes him before he can stop it, though he clamps his hand over his mouth to prevent more sounds from betraying him. Yet no demon appears. It’s only him, and the corpses of his colleagues. 
He turns to the exit, and he’s halfway across the room before his steps slow. Stop. He turns. His eyes travel up the staircase, stopping at the door at their peak. There’s no way out of that room, he knows. He’s conducted Harrowings and Rites of Tranquility from inside that room. There is no escape but the way you’ve come. 
There is no escape. 
Step by step, his feet carry him to the base of the stairs. He watches himself climb them, as if observing from the outside. He screams at himself, pounding against the rounded wall of his cell, tries to tell him no. Turn around, run away. Escape. But it’s no use. 
He watches the demon emerge from the shadows, claws impossibly long and razor sharp. No matter how he screams and pounds and begs. There is nothing he can do to stop what’s about to come. Cullen watches his hand come to rest on the doorknob. Watches it turn. Watches the demon’s arm raise, and strike. He feels the burn of its claws in his flesh. 
And then he wakes up. 
He flexes his fingers, releases their death grip on the sheets. Rises with a struggle from the low cot given to him when he’d arrived at the base of the Temple of Sacred Ashes. Drinks long and greedy from the canteen. Splashes his face with cold water. And pushes aside the flaps of his tent to start another day. 
Tonight, he’ll do it all again.
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ky-landfill · 10 months
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Jayroy!!!!
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"Gently, princess. She's a little shy."
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rillils · 27 days
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One bright morning changes all things.
Hozier, First Light | @catws-anniversary
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the-overanalyst · 1 year
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unhinged, bloodthirsty women and their gentle, moral boyfriends >>>
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nightprompts · 1 year
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&. 𝐡𝐨𝐳𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬.
(  lyric  dialogue  prompts  taken  from  various  hozier  songs.  free  to  change  how  you  seem  fit.  )
❛ i’ve walked the earth and there are so few here that know how dark the night and just how cold the wind can blow. ❜
❛ i’ve no more kept my warmth than blood upon the snow. ❜
❛ it’s not my arms that will fail me, but this world takes more strength than it gave me. ❜
❛ the only heaven i’ll be sent to is when i’m alone with you. ❜
❛ i’ll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies. ❜
❛ i’ll tell you my sins so you can sharpen your knife. ❜
❛ good god, let me give you my life. ❜
❛ so tired trying to see from behind the red in my eyes. ❜
❛ every version of me dead and buried in the yard outside. ❜
❛ you knew who i was with every step that i ran to you. ❜
❛ would things be easier if there was a right way? ❜
❛ honey, there is no right way. ❜
❛ i fall in love just a little, a little bit every day with someone new. ❜
❛ when you kill the lights and kiss my eyes, i feel like a person for a moment of my life. ❜
❛ you don’t know what hell you put me through. ❜
❛ there’s something tragic about you. ❜
❛ i have never known peace like the damp grass that yields to me. ❜
❛ i have never known hunger like these insects that feast on me. ❜
❛ i’d be home with you. ❜
❛ there’s nothing sweeter than my baby. ❜
❛ no grave can hold my body down, i’ll crawl home to her. ❜
❛ what did you bury before those hands pulled me from the earth? ❜
❛ i will not ask where you came from. i will not ask and neither should you. ❜
❛ just put your sweet lips on my lips. we should just kiss like real people do. ❜
❛ i know who i am when i’m alone. i’m something else when i see you. ❜
❛ you don’t understand, you should never know, how easy you are to need. ❜
❛ don’t let me in with no intention to keep me. ❜
❛ don’t feed me — i will come back. ❜
❛ i’ve known the warmth of your doorways. through the cold, i’ll find my way back to you. ❜
❛ still my heart is heavy with the hate of some other man’s beliefs. ❜
❛ i need you to run to me, run until you feel your lungs bleeding. ❜
❛ when i was a child, i heard voices... some would sing and some would scream. ❜
❛ i learned the voices died with me. ❜
❛ don’t you ever tame your demons, but always keep ‘em on a leash. ❜
❛ you’ve done me wrong for a long time. but after all you’ve done, i never changed my mind. ❜
❛ honey please, try to love me. my love will never die. ❜
❛ nothing fucks with my baby. ❜
❛ if i was born as a black thorn tree, i’d wanna be felled by you, held by you, fuel the pyre of your enemies. ❜
❛ ain’t it warming you, the world going up in flames? ❜
❛ i couldn’t utter my love when it counted, but i’m singing like a bird about it now.❜
❛ i’m almost me again, she’s almost you. ❜
❛ i’ve had no love like your love. from nobody. ❜
❛ make your good love known to me, or just tell me about your day. ❜
❛ i’d suffer hell if you’d tell me what you’d do to me tonight. ❜
❛ that’s the kinda love i’ve been dreaming of. ❜
❛ i fell in love with the fire long ago. ❜
❛ with each love i cut loose, i was never the same. ❜
❛ i had been lost to you, sunlight, and flew like a moth to you. ❜
❛ know that i would gladly be the icarus to your certainty, oh my sunlight. ❜
❛ i have never loved a darker blue than the darkness i have known in you. ❜
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agronzky · 8 months
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⠀⠀⠀𝐔𝐍𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐋 𝐔𝐍𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐇 (𝐇𝐎𝐙𝐈𝐄𝐑) 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐒. ♡
"At last, when all of the world is asleep you take in the blackness of air"
"Your reflection can't offer a word to the bliss of not knowin' yourself"
"No closer could I be to God or why he would do what he's done"
"Darlin', it finds a way to live in you"
"I wanna fade away with you"
"Want to be when you fall on me like night, every time"
"I don't need to know where we begin and end"
"Remember once I told you about how before I heard it from your mouth"
"Some part of me must have died the first time that you called me, baby"
"Whatever keeps you around, it keeps you around"
"Are there limits to any emptiness?"
"Do you think I'd give up?"
"How could you think, darlin', I'd scare so easily?"
"What good would it be on the far side of things?"
"Heaven is not fit to house a love like you and I"
"I feel lighter than I have in so much time"
"If anything could fall at all, it's the world that falls away from me"
"If you need to, darling, lean your weight to me"
"I wanna feel the edges start to burn"
"There's money to be made, whatever's still to come"
"Let me see the heat get to you"
"We had nowhere to go and every desire for going there"
"We knew what our love was worth"
"You were steerin' my heart like a wheel in your hands"
"You only feel it when it's lost"
"How can somethin' be so much heavier but so much less than what it seems"
"Quietly, it slips through your fingers, love"
"If there was anyone to ever get through this life with their heart still intact, they didn't do it right"
"We didn't get it right but, love, we did our best"
"I havе never known a silence like the one fallen here"
"There are some things that no one teaches you, love"
"And I wish I could say that the river of my arms have found the ocean"
"You may never know your fortune"
"So far from home to have a stranger call you darling"
"I wish I was the sunlight just sitting on The Mississippi"
"I don't wanna be anything but I would do anything just to run away"
"I wanna be the shadow when my bright future's behind me"
"Go look another way"
"I will not be great, but I'm grateful to get through"
"The memory hurts but does me no harm"
"I remember the view, streetlights in the dark blue, the moment I knew I'd no choice but to love you"
"All my love and terror balanced there between those eyes"
"You know the distance never made a difference to me"
"So I thought you were like an angel to me"
"You know I'm good on my own"
"Do you know I could break beneath the weight?"
"And there are some people, love, who are better unknown"
"Could this be how every day begins?"
"And I am never going back again"
"I lived my whole life before the first light"
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elysianymph · 1 year
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read through my newest wip again instead of studying physics. enjoy this snippet of regulus panicking:
“Why are you…” Regulus trails off, swallowing the lump in his throat, “shirtless?”
James raises his eyebrows like he hadn't noticed he was walking around flashing his built chest and wide shoulders and making everyone drool at the sight of him. He looks down at his naked torso and up at Regulus again with a sheepish smile. “Oh, I lost my shirt,” he says with a shrug like it's no big deal, like he hadn't just helped Regulus’ mind create a fantasy he will be thinking about for the next two weeks.
“You lost your shirt?” Regulus repeats dumbly as he commands his eyes to stay focused on James’ face lest he look like a complete idiot drooling over James Potter who has a girlfriend. A really nice, pretty girlfriend. Said girlfriend also wears peach scented lip gloss and Regulus is dying to know if it tastes like the fruit too. Oh, right- James!
“Yeah,” James nods, “I brought it here with me but someone must've taken it while I was showering. I swear I had placed it on the bench over there, but well… it’s not there anymore.” He gives Regulus another smile, scratching the back of his neck.
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brocollisucks · 1 month
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I want the kind of love that Hozier sings about. I want to feel the pain of a tragedy. I want to feel my heart drop to my stomach everytime I see that person. I want to share a kiss that was so gentle like we were both fragile, and also one where it feels like we would both rather face death than not touch the other. I want it to be akin to cannibalism, to swallow up the other with everything in me. I want to feel their heat like when the sun shines on me in the desert where I'd rather gaze at the it for as long as it burns than never again. I want it to be filthy, caked with obsession and possession.
I want to feel love, and not just live through it.
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sollucets · 11 months
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there's something tragic about you / something so magic about you
khathadome + aquamarine feat. from eden by hozier for @ahxu-laowen
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electricserenade · 18 days
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TUNE IN TO STATION 333.33
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THIS STATION IS PLAYING SONGS FROM ALL OVER, INSPIRING YOU TO WRITE YOUR DEEPEST AND FILTHIEST, ANGSTIEST TO SMUTTIEST — FLUFFIEST TO DARKEST WORKS OF THE SUMMER, SPINNING THE FOLLOWING ALBUMS AND TRACKS:
COWBOY CARTER — Beyoncé | Unreal Unearth: Unheard — Hozier | Prelude to Ecstasy — The Last Dinner Party | SOS — SZA
If you gain inspiration from this station and its prompts, be sure to tag me in the work or like/reblog — thank you listeners
PROMPTS DOWN BELOW:
COWBOY CARTER — Beyoncé
"You're my love"
"I just hope you love yourself like that"
"I really hope the best for you"
"Born to be a protector" / "I will be your protector"
"I feel proud of who I am, because you need me"
"Inhalin' whiskey when you kiss my neck"
"They couldn't have me and they never will"
"Sometimes I hold you closer just to know you're real"
"Sometimes I take a day off just to turn you on"
"I don't like the way she's lookin' at you"
"You say change religions, now I spend sundays with you"
"Something 'bout those tears of yours"
"How does it feel to be adored?"
"Sunrise in the morning, you're all I need"
"Didn't know what I wanted 'til I saw your face"
"Don't know what you're doin' tonight"
"Been a while since I haven't tried to pull away"
"I'd go wherever you take me"
"Love you down to the bone"
"I hope you know that once I loved you"
"I just pray that we don't crash"
"When i'm long gone, you'll call my name"
"I stayed away from you too long"
"And I come home tomorrow"
"It's yours, baby, you can crash here, come here"
"Put on a show make it nasty"
"Baby, let me sink into your arms"
"Drink me 'til its done"
"I plan to steal your heart again"
"Ain't that the scary thing"
"Slip into my dreams every night"
"Who am I to judge, my baby?"
"Baby, I've been waitin' my whole life for you"
"This is the real you, huh"
"This is the real me, huh"
"And when I get up to walk, I wanna feel weak"
"I ain't goin' far"
"I'm gonna give you the best years of your life"
"Baby, I've been waitin' my whole life for you and I"
"Have mercy on me"
"I need to make you proud"
UNHEARD — Hozier
"How do you sleep so well?"
"You're too sweet for me"
"But you worry some, I know"
"Put my body to work"
"I wanna lose me"
"I wanna fade away with you"
"I wanna kill the lights"
"I don't need to know where we begin and end"
"I only need the working of my hands"
"Some part of me came alive the first time that you called me baby"
"C'mere to me, when was the last time?"
"How could you think, darlin', I'd scare so easily?"
"There's not one thing that I would change"
"If I could hold you for a minute"
"Heaven is not fit to house a love like you and I"
"I feel lighter than I have in so much time"
"If you need to, darling, lean your weight to me"
"Don't fall away from me"
"Let me put my lips to somethin'"
"Come and get some"
"Let me see the heat get to you"
"Wake up feeling like a millionare"
"I haven't felt it since then"
"We knew what our love was worth"
"We didn't get it right, but love, we did our best"
"I know we want this to go easy"
"When people say that something is forever either way it ends"
"As natural as another leg around you in the bed frame"
"Look, I wanna be loud, so loud, I'm talking seismic"
"I'm still glad I met you"
"I'd no choice but to love you"
"I thought you were like an angel to me"
"It ain't hate being alone" / "It ain't the empty home, baby" / "You know I'm good on my own"
"You know, it's more the being unknown"
"One bright morning changes all things"
"Your eyes open, at first a thousand miles away but turning, shoot a silver bullet point-blank range"
"Could this be how every day begins?"
"Like I lived my whole life before the first light"
"But after this I'm never gonna be the same and I am never going back again"
Prelude to Ecstasy — The Last Dinner Party
"Bite marks on my neck I could never say no"
"You don't wanna hurt me but I want you to"
"My darling, believe me, I was born to be with you"
"Ain't it fun to hold the world in your hands?"
"Do you want me or do you want control?"
"I can't win them all"
"Do you want me to care when you just disappear?"
"I wish I didn't want you"
"I will hold your hands to stop them from shaking"
"If it takes all night, I will be on your side"
"When you're lyin' here, I believe you love me"
"And what I'm feeling isn't lust, it's envy"
"I wish I knew you back when we were both small"
"Pray for me on your knees"
"Stay through the night I'd spend the mornings by your side"
"Cleanse my soul, make me whole"
"Dance in the morning glow"
"Hold me, we can't go back"
"Foolish thinking I could have you"
"Picture me in bed under your crucifix"
"I'd die for you, no questions asked"
"If anyone could kill me, it would probably be you"
"I wish that I had the guts the dignity to put up a fight"
"Oh anyone could kill me, and I'd never ever let it be you"
"'Cause we're a lot alike"
"I will fuck you like nothing matters"
"I'm putting all my bets on you"
"This is the only thing I know how to do"
SOS — SZA
"Damn right I'm the one"
"I can't let you finish"
"He's so needy"
"I just want what's mine"
"If I can't have you no one should"
"How'd I get here?"
"I get the sense that it's a lost cause"
"I did it all for love"
"I get the sense that you might really love her"
"I had to do it to you"
"The art of war, goddamnit, I'm drained"
"With a rush that feels like, we committin' a crime"
"You know where you belong"
"Wherever you are, whatever you need, don't call me"
"I lay awake if you're not around me"
"Help me understand how you speak your love language"
"You don't wanna be without me"
"I don't want to be alone"
"My, my, how the times change"
"Moments stolen taste better"
Oh, I need you, but it takes time"
"Loved me better when you tried less"
"I can't lose when I'm with you"
"I still wonder if you notice me"
"Don't care, just lay here beside me"
"I need your touch, not your scrutiny"
"You better learn how to face it"
"I make no exceptions"
"You can trust in me"
"Can you make me happy? Can you keep me happy?"
"I been thinkin' 'bout you, haven't got much sleep"
"Can you still come and get me?"
"I fuck him 'cause I really miss you"
"It's too late, I don't wanna lose what's left of you"
"I don't wanna see you with anyone but me"
"How am I supposed to let you go?"
"Only like myself when I'm with you"
"I got everything that I need, and I want more"
"Hate how you look at her 'cause you never saw me"
"I wish I was special"
"Is it bad that I want more?"
"Figure out how I should be loved"
"Is it too late for us?"
"Everything reminds me of us"
"Lead me, don't look back, it's all about you"
"It's what you say and how you do me"
"Who needs self-esteem anyway?"
"For you, I try"
"I can't shake this habit"
"I've been up, baby"
"Shitty of you to make me feel like this"
"You've been making me feel like I'm always in my mind"
"I don't mind who's watching"
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magswrite · 10 months
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for years or hours
prompt: forest (july 14th). 178 words. @jegulus-microfic
”D’you think we could stay here forever?” Regulus asked, his head resting on James’ stomach. They’d been like that for nearly an hour, laying on the forest floor, skin stuck so perfectly together that it made James wish they'd never have to separate.
Here, no-one would be around to notice them. At this time, near sunset, the forest was dead quiet, nothing but the bugs and the birds making a sound. Nothing but them.
“Sure. I’d like to,” James said back.
“Even if we get old, just lying here?”
Regulus meant it as a joke, but as with all things Regulus said, James really thought about it. He gave it a moment, a slow thought.
And he decided that he’d like it, being old with Regulus. Maybe not ancient, but like his parents. Settled.
“Yeah, I’d like that. Right here, in the dirt.”
Regulus made a face, and then he closed his eyes, basking in the sun, draping himself further across James.
“James?”
“Yeah?”
“I love you,” Regulus muttered, eyes still closed, eyelids pointed up at the sky.
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warpedlegacywrites · 6 months
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For Cullen and Theresa anytime: From Hozier prompts ❛ i have never loved a darker blue than the darkness i have known in you. ❜ and/or 'Come back to me in dreams, that I may give Pulse for pulse, breath for breath:' - Echo by Christina Rosetti
Happy @dadrunkwriting! This was one of those scenes that sprang fully formed into my mind and I realized it was a perfect fit for this prompt! BOTH of them! ^_^
When having horrific nightmares is your normal, and it's the same for your partner...
Theresa startles awake, her whole body wrenching her violently from smoke and screams into softness and warmth with one sharp jerk. 
“It’s alright,” Cullen whispers, his breath stirring her hair. “I’m here.” 
She sighs, and nestles deeper into the nook of his arm. Outside, the Frostbacks are singing their nightly song, the wind whistling past the towering windows of her quarters. Inside, there is only the sound of their breathing, and Cullen’s steady heartbeat against her cheek. Her screams hadn’t passed the Veil. The Fade swallows all sound.
“Sorry I woke you,” she says. 
“You didn’t.” 
It’s the barest of hesitations in his voice, but she hears it. Understands what it means. 
“What was it this time?” she asks, gently. 
“Oh no.” His tone is stern, but she hears the wry smile behind it. He shifts his other arm to pillow beneath his head. “You first.” 
She can’t help a low chuckle. This is their usual dance, trading personal horrors as if they are steps of a courante. She considers a deft turnabout, or redirect, but doesn’t want to hide from him. 
“It was the pyre,” she says flatly. 
“I thought so.” He pulls her closer. “Those pilgrims seemed to have really shaken you yesterday.” 
Theresa represses a shudder at the memory of half a dozen faces, turned up toward her with eyes wide and devotions on their lips. 
“Were you bound this time?” Cullen asks. 
“No.” She flexes the hand that rests on his chest, remembering the pain of her nails pulling as she’d clawed and scratched, desperate for purchase… “I was being dragged.” 
He makes a sympathetic hum she feels vibrating through her. “You haven’t had that version in a while.” 
“Not in a while, no.” She pokes him in the ribs, eliciting a small jolt and indignant protest from him before he can ask any of the follow-up questions she knows were on the tip of his tongue. “Your turn.” 
He sighs, and answers with a snarl, “The ever-shrinking cell.” 
Theresa frowns, concerned. “That’s the third time this week.” 
“It’s all the construction on my wing of the battlements,” he answers dismissively. “I’ll be fine once the builders have stopped using my office as temporary storage and I can finally clear out all their clutter.” 
“Were you in the dungeons under Haven?” Theresa hazards a guess. 
“...Yes.” There it is again, the hesitation. 
“Cullen.” 
“Alright.” He shifts to preemptively catch her hand, preventing a second jab, then brings it to his lips to kiss the knuckles. “It was Kinloch. And it wasn’t just the walls – the ceiling was lowering down on me as well.” 
Theresa rests her hand along his cheek, holding his gaze, hoping he sees the love in hers more than he sees the sweet ache that always stirs when he tells her these things. As much as it pains her to hear, she doesn’t want him to stop. It took him so long to begin to open up to her, for the words to pour forth under cover of the deep blue hours of night, in the liminal space between sleep and awake. For her to do the same. Words darker than the privacy they’ve wrapped themselves in. 
And as hard as speaking them had been, holding them in had been far worse. 
“What a mess we are,” she says, almost rueful. 
He leans forward, kissing her with such tenderness it makes the ache all the sweeter. 
“At least we have someone to talk to when we wake up,” he says. 
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mymummydustxx · 4 months
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havent made a legitimate post on here since tears of the kingdom came out but i have moved onto baldurs gate 3 and yall lemme tell ya whats been on my mind about astarion...
WORK SONG BY HOZIER
a lil one shot based around this would BE SO GOOD i just know it
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chiropteracupola · 6 months
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Teresa in Heartaches??
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First and fierce affirming sight / Of sunlight, sunlight, sunlight...
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clovenly · 1 year
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𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐓 𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓 ; lyrical writing prompts, hozier, part two!
‘i have never known peace’
‘our heartbeats becoming slow’
‘we lay here for years or for hours’
‘so long we become the flowers’
‘i'd be home with you’
‘your hand in my hand’
007. sedated
‘any way to distract and sedate’
‘you and i, nursing on a poison that never stung’
‘gree and young and we can feel none of it’
‘something isn't right, babe’
‘i keep scratching, but somehow i can't get in’
‘lord we should quit, but we love it too much’
‘darlin', don't you, stand there watching’
‘won't you come and save me from it?’
008. work song
‘is that the kinda way to face the burning heat?’
‘i’m so full of love i could barely eat’
‘there's nothing sweeter than my baby’
‘she give me toothaches just from kissin' me’
‘no grave can hold my body down, i'll crawl home to her’
‘but I swear i thought i dreamed her’
‘if the lord don't forgive me, i'd still have my baby, and my babe would have me’
009. like real people do
‘honey, just put your sweet lips on my lips’
‘we should just kiss, like real people do’
‘i knew that look, dear’
‘in some sad way, i already know’
010. it will come back
‘you know better, babe’
‘honey, make this easy’
‘you know better, babe than to smile at me, smile at me like that’
‘you know better, babe than to hold me just, hold me just like that’
'i'm something else when i see you’
'you don't understand’
‘you should never know, how easy you are to need’
'through the cold, i'll find my way back to you’
‘that's a kindness you can't afford’
‘i warn you’
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