The Turtle Moves

[madreen_rua]

Sentence Starter Meme

Use any of the sentences below as inspiration to start your thread.
• Leave a comment with your character name, and canon
• Whether you want to write a starter or simply list preferences is up to you
• Others tag in - rinse, repeat

1. Go and tell the children of the night to make wonderful music somewhere else, will you? I have a headache.
   

 

2. There’s no better present than a future.
   

 

3. Good and bad is tricky,’ [ _____ ] said. ‘I ain’t too certain about where people stand. Perhaps what matters is which way you face.
   

 

4. When people were in serious trouble they went to a witch. (Sometimes, of course, to say, ‘Please stop doing it.’)
   

 

5. “It doesn’t stop being magic just because you know how it works.”
   

 

6. “When I die,” said [ _____ ], inspecting the patient, ‘I’m going to instruct them to put a bell on my tombstone, just so I can have the pleasure of not getting up when people ring. Put him down, please. Looks like concussion.”
   

 

7. "I was at a party, you know."
   

 

8. “[ ____ ] sighed when he heard the scream, but he finished shaving before he did anything about it.”
   

 

9. Why don’t we just mix up absolutely everything and see what happens?
   

 

10. When you break rules, break ‘em good and hard.”
    

 

11. Blessings be upon this... tent.
    

 

12. There’s no triumph over a corpse, but a beaten opponent, who will remain beaten every day of the remainder of their sad and wretched life, is something to treasure.
    

Source: Discworld, Terry Pratchett

The prompts can change with reposts of this meme, and feel free to PM me ideas you want to see. Based off the Bulwer-Lytton contest.

Comments

Loki Odinson | MCU | OTA

[wearenotdoinggethelp]

1. "When I die, I’m going to instruct them to put a bell on my tombstone, just so I can have the pleasure of not getting up when people ring."

2. It doesn't stop being a tool just because it's alive - I meant the stone.

Peridot | Steven Universe | no smut, toddler stone mentally, don't be like That ;)

[acrystalclod]

♧ When people were in serious trouble they went to their Diamond! (Sometimes, of course, to say, ‘Please stop doing it.’)

♧ When I die -----aaaaaahhhhhhh, saaaave meeeeeee!!!!!

Noé Archiviste | Book of Vanitas | OTA

[disgustinglygladtolive]

Blessings be upon this... tent.

[cauponate]

Tent? Well, I guess this is still probably better than sleeping in the coffin.

[Or the hammocks. It's rare if ever that he actually gets a proper bed. Even a sleeping bag or something with a pillow would do for him. As long as he was careful of vampaneze or vampire hunters roaming around.]

[disgustinglygladtolive]

[He smiles.] I think this tent rather cozy, really. Don't mind.

i’m only partially sorry

[vanitass]

Is that a euphemism, dearest Archiviste?

[ completely bypassing the fact that they are, in fact, taking a shelter under a tent and a certain religious bundle of joy has abandoned them. ]

gertrude "gert/arsenic" yorkes ♥ mcu - runaways

[velocipathic]

a. "I was at a party, you know."

b. "When you break rules, break ‘em good and hard."

c. "Why don’t we just mix up absolutely everything and see what happens?"

Poe Dameron | Star Wars

[starfights]

1. When you break rules, break ‘em good and hard.

2. I was at a party, you know.

3. There’s no triumph over a corpse, but a beaten opponent, who will remain beaten every day of the remainder of their sad and wretched life, is something to treasure.


(( Prefs in journal! ))

Sirius Black | HP: The Marauders Era

[the_whitesheep]

1. "I was at a party, you know."

2. "Why don’t we just mix up absolutely everything and see what happens?"

3. It was there and then it had gone, why would a rabbit be on the bathroom floor?

Re: Sirius Black | HP: The Marauders Era

[furryproblem]

[Hey, interested in a Remus?]

Juri | original

[halfacat]

5. “It doesn’t stop being magic just because you know how it works.”

"What does it matter if it's a mathematically precise musical composition that speeds up the... atomic entropy..?" He had no idea what that was, and shook his head slowly, fur still more ruffled than usual. "Of everything around it? It's still manipulation of energy and it happens to start the apocalypse. It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works!"

Slowly, Juri eased up on his grip on his flute, clutched in both hands, and glanced up at the scorched wall. Sure, they'd destroyed the carving ahead of more unpleasant people after it, but they'd both read it and the people on their tails would know that.

or

Why don’t we just mix up absolutely everything and see what happens?

(bring your own. either way, info is on the journal, m/m for any shipping!)

Jon Snow | Game of Thrones | ota

[betterthannoone]

[ all prompts are good, down for original version or modern flavor. cross-canon and assumed cr are always welcome, let me know if you want to work something out ahead of time. I'm woefully behind on things but don't let that stop you, I'm working to catch up. ]

Eames | Inception | ota

[tricksandchicanery]

[ cross-canon and assumed cr always welcome. all prompts are good, let me know if you want to work something out first! ]

Ada Wong ✯ Biohazard (Resident Evil) ✩ OTA

[wineredlips]

1) Blessings be upon this... tent.
2) Why don’t we just mix up absolutely everything and see what happens?
3) Go and tell the children of the night to make wonderful music somewhere else, will you? I have a headache.

[ Edit: You know what? all the prompts are awesome. Give me all of it. ]

2)

[wearenotdoinggethelp]

That might be quite a glorious mixture. Let us try!

Selina Kyle | Gotham | OTA

[itsbetter]

1. When you break rules, break ‘em good and hard.”

2. Good and bad is tricky,’ [ _____ ] said. ‘I ain’t too certain about where people stand. Perhaps what matters is which way you face.

3. Go and tell the children of the night to make wonderful music somewhere else, will you? I have a headache.

1

[wearenotdoinggethelp]

Oh, I quite agree.

Julian Reed | OC/ WoD: Mage the Ascension

[magicink]

[Open to all of them.]

Chris Yukine | Senki Zesshou Symphogear

[trustheart]

A. "I don't care what happened here, someone has to pay for this trainwreck, and it's not going to be me!" B. "I have yet to find a problem where the solution isn't yelling and/or gunfire." C. "I can explain! This isn't my fault! It's the work of an ancient conspiracy!" D. [Throw a sentence starter at me.]

[ooc - Ask about shipping.]

B

[blahblahblah]

Most interpersonal relationships. Toothache. Not being able to find the spot marked on your map.

[Deadpan, trying hard not to glare and not having a great time of it, before shaking her head and letting a more normal expression between boredom and annoyance at the world settle on her face.]

But the vast majority of problems can be solved with yelling and violence.

C

[beyondtheblade]

[...]

Yukine, quite a lot of what's happened has been the work of an ancient conspiracy, that can't be the explanation for everything, can it?

[...right?]

A - Crossing the streams

[loveandapiece]

Wait, what?! Are you saying you plan to blame all this on me?

[I mean, sure, he wasn't supposed to be there, who even knows where this idiot in the red coat came from in the first place. Or how he'd turned a portion of the ceiling in a pile of rubble between the attackers and the crowd of civilians but it had somehow all worked out in the end, hadn't it?]

Come on! Can't you just take a little bit of the blame?

Hikawa Hina | Bang Dream!

[shoobydooby]

A.
"... And that's when everyone told me what I said was inappropriate."

B.
"I'm afraid of what'll happen if I let the dog go!"

C.
"I am functionally useless without sugar! You know that! You've always known that!"

D.
[Throw a sentence starter at me.]

[ooc - Ask about shipping. Hina is a teenager so nothing below board.]

C

[5mm]

I know, Hina-senpai. I've certainly gotten used to seeing you here after so long! But you know, there are three of us that would happily make you something to keep you going in a pinch. You could just ask instead of coming into the cafe like you're out of gas.

[Of course, Tsugumi's still sliding a slice of cake in front of Hina along with a cup of tea, so she can't really object. But really, you'd think she'd just carry cookies by now? Or maybe-]

-you'd probably just eat them if you had some on you, huh?

A

[twinproblems]

[Sayo shouldn't be terribly surprised by her sister at this point, but that proves to be wrong. The fact she nearly spit out her tea while going over some sheet music while Hina was talking probably speaks to that.]

That- ... that shouldn't be that surprising, Hina...