お金で幸せは買えないけど、貧乏人も幸せは買えない。/ okane de shiawase wa kaenai kedo binbounin mo shiawase wa kaenai. / Money can not buy happiness, but the poor can not buy it, either.
若かった頃、紙の隅っこによく太陽の絵を描いたものだ。/ wakakatta koro kami no sumikko ni yoku taiyou no e wo kaita monoda. / When I was young, I used to draw the sun in the corner of the sheet.
あなたに今、この時間にここにいてもらいたいのよ。/ anatani ima konojikanni kokoni ite../ I want u here, now, at this time.
１分が２３時間５９分をぶち壊してしまうことがある。/ ippun ga nijuu san jikan gojuu kyuu fun wo buchikowashite shimau koto ga aru. / Sometimes one minute destroys 23 hours and 59 minutes.
嘘をついたり、誤魔化したり、守れない約束をしたりしてはいけません。/ uso wo tsui tari, gomakashi tari, mamore nai yakusoku wo shi tari shite wa ikemasen. / Do not lie, cheat, and not make promises you can not comply.
Gradual agony seeped through the skin like venom, so inhumane and aggressive, making physical pain look so diminutive. I wanted to shake the pain away, but it took root- negating and incomprehensible, refusing to depart from sweet memories. Grief’s spindly hands took hold of my mind and hurdled me into an abyss every time his presence awoke me at night. You deserve this. My mind screamed. No one is here because of you. My conscience screeched, but he couldn’t hear my thoughts anymore. I was screaming to an empty shell, pleading with a hallow body.
He was haunting me-it was easy to conclude. My mind tried to grasp his death; analyze it, break it apart in small pieces and formulate a proper answer that would make sense as to why he was gone. But alas, I couldn’t even explain the simple question, the one inquiry that branched off into countless possibilities:
quotes from tabletop games, part i. thank you to whomever decided in the first game i was in to start collecting quotes being said during the table—here’s a sentence meme featuring 100 sentences that have been said out loud or written down during various tabletop roleplaying games i’ve acted as a game master for, or in conversations surrounding it. sentences edited to fit written roleplay better. it’s a mixed bag, y’all.tw: implied sexual content and jokes, death and violence mentions.
❝ holy shit, /i’m/ the professional in this situation. ❞
❝ i don’t think there’s a lot of water in her birth chart. ❞
❝ you know how much I love goading you into bad decisions. ❞
❝ [i/you] did faceplant. ❞
❝ i hope you know this is all your fault, [name]. ❞
❝ wouldn’t it be nice if you could bite it back? ❞
❝ [person] could’ve bonked the knob to death. ❞
❝ a little bit of making out in the cupboard is not a security threat. ❞
❝ no-one else can see it, but [person] is definitely being haunted by an ex-girlfriend. ❞
❝ she’s a new yorker, leave her alone ❞
❝ we’ve all known each other for about four hours and we’re making goblins of ourselves. ❞
❝ you’re laughing! [name] is dead and you’re laughing! ❞
❝ god, what a weird little man! ❞
❝ i don’t speak [fandom/media]. ❞
❝ because, of course, you don’t immediately run out of blood in your head— ❞
❝ technically shoes are skin without feet. ❞
❝ if it helps, she does have a youtube channel. ❞
❝ should we even play d&d, maybe we just do therapy instead. ❞
❝ oh great, what can i do with a dead body? ❞
❝ the man with no face is just a raccoon. ❞
❝ or whatever the victorian equivalent of reaching into the fridge and grabbing a block of cheese. ❞
❝ i do not acknowledge more men than i need to. ❞
❝ he footless because he got paws. ❞
❝ [i am/they are] intrigued by the bundle of scarves. ❞
❝ i thought she landed on her wrists? ❞
❝ i’m glad i didn’t faceplant, at least. ❞
❝ it is not resistant to bonk damage. ❞
❝ my interpersonal skills are shit! ❞
❝ is he made of bees? ❞
❝ oh well, she’s got one of those as well. ❞
❝ —which is objectively the wrong way to eat books. ❞
❝ no teeth, no feet. simply vibes. ❞
❝ we’re going to have to listen to soft ballet while we fight this thing. ❞
❝ that was my third frowny face. ❞
❝ puff puff pass but instead of getting high you have a coherent thought ❞
❝ oh yeah, i killed your neighbour, didn’t i? ❞
❝ we’re city kids, we know what traffic is. ❞
❝ give me a gay vibe check. ❞
❝ THE QUEEN IS MICE. ❞
❝ doesn’t matter which of us die because i’ll see you all again on hell. ❞
❝ you know how when a person’s decapitated— ❞
❝ i don’t even have my eyebrows on. ❞
❝ we will create chaos. ❞
❝ i heard g-string. ❞
❝ i have a masters degree in library science and i googled ‘ feetless man ’! ❞
❝ am sad. want ham. ❞
❝ you are the most powerful person in the room with that cheese tray. ❞
❝ you’ll wake up to something you don’t wanna see ❞
❝ buff mice. ❞
❝ —but it would’ve been a sexy thing to do. ❞
❝ THE GAME’S OVER! THE GAME’S OVER! WHY ARE YOU STILL DOING THIS TO ME? ❞
❝ it’s mice mentality. ❞
❝ i know the implication was not that we were little beans but shh… ❞
❝ it’s your turn! ❞
❝ charlie’s angels, more like [name]’s headaches ❞
❝ it’s me, the bitch who failed ❞
❝ i’m really good at that! … no, i’m not. ❞
❝ i love this absolutely doomed party. ❞
❝ unless someone wants to try to overpower two peasants. ❞
❝ we don’t make good leather. ❞
❝ you could definitely be mistaken for a respectable person now. ❞
❝ unfortunately, my alibi is dead ❞
❝ you would not think that english was my first, and frankly my only, language. ❞
❝ what the fuck happened to my music? ❞
❝ [name], that’s gay behaviour. ❞
❝ i truly just want u to imagine putting a hand on a titty and feeling a sack of dust through the skin. ❞
❝ we’ve conspiracy theory’d this ghost and now it’s a feral raccoon. ❞
❝ does the number of heads you have factor into how easy you are to hit? ❞
❝ i wanna do something weird. ❞
❝ are you trying to reason with a drugged cat? ❞
❝ what die do i roll? the one with numbers? ❞
❝ i’d avoid plants if i were you. ❞
❝ i want to be the burger king of a ruined world. ❞
❝ just because i can be charming doesn’t mean i will initiate conversation. ❞
❝ that scream didn’t have an american accent. ❞
❝ i guess he was just two horses in a trench coat in the end ❞
❝ make meth, i dare you! ❞
❝ holy shit, you read french?! ❞
❝ i’ve already put down two frowny faces on my notes. ❞
❝ [person/animal] doesn’t have good stamina, actually. ❞
❝ we’ve established that the bees are trustworthy, [name]! ❞
❝ i can’t find the fucking d! ❞
❝ frostbite’ll do that to you too. you’re not so special. ❞
❝ we laugh in the face of a vengeful god ❞
❝ sorry, but for the sake of the mission, i gotta drown everyone. ❞
❝ i don’t know anything about… men. ❞
❝ i didn’t consider all the emotional implications! ❞
❝ it’s a little known fact, but the h in ‘ goth’ stands for hrt. ❞
❝ thank you for giving me an opportunity to murder you. ❞
❝ don’t worry, i’m a very gentle dom ❞
❝ i’m gonna stay riding it, then. ❞
❝ just two dudes who may or may not have done a murder ❞
❝ you can’t even count on [name] for numbers. ❞
❝ 'twas the night before christmas and all through the house not a person was stirring, because they were all dead. ❞
❝ how is that rat bastard looking? ❞
❝ maybe [name], because he has rights ❞
❝ maybe [name], because he has no brain ❞
❝ i’m cruel but i’m not an asshole. ❞
❝ we’re just two cartoon dogs vibing in the fire. ❞
❝ in the spanish dub, [person a] and [person b] kissed before [person a] left ❞
goodnight moon — valley girl, part three. here and below the cut, you can find roughly 100 lines of dialogue from the next two videos of the series—topics largely around compliments, commentary, gossiping, advice, with room for more serious lines left in. edited for roleplay purposes, feel free to change around literally whatever you feel the need to to make it fit your muse better—especially as there’s a lot of gendered language and pet names here.
❝ you could totally take on a dragon in a fight. ❞
❝ you have a terrible sense of direction. you manage to get lost literally anywhere. ❞
❝ you wanna see some other work from [me/person]? ❞
❝ fuck my flowers. ❞
❝ here’s that tea set you asked for. ❞
❝ when i first met you, it was one of the first things i noticed about you. ❞
❝ do you wanna have a whiff? ❞
❝ there’s literally no limit to how many [baked goods] you deserve. ❞
❝ catacombs… quite romantic. candlelit. a little bit of wine-drinking, a little bit of bat-watching. ❞
❝ in the couple of times i’ve tried to teach you to drive, you’ve run over four mailboxes. ❞
❝ i was thinking about, potentially, putting rose gold highlights among the mids and the tips. ❞
❝ it should be here in just a few minutes. ❞
❝ you’d be really good at mushroom foraging. ❞
❝ you’re gonna be so happy with the finished product. ❞
❝ if anyone could do it… it’s your girl. ❞
❝ i can’t wait to see you in the morning. ❞
❝ he drives a ford mustang. he eats fruity pebbles with almond milk for breakfast. is exclusively into girls who golf. ❞
❝ stunning. eat your heart out, [name]. ❞
❝ you have a sharp eye for [thing]. ❞
❝ i heard you did amazing tonight. ❞
❝ you look adorable in glasses. ❞
❝ very ‘ mysterious girl studying in a cafe ’ vibes. ❞
❝ i really rarely work with clients. ❞
❝ you can type really fast. ❞
❝ whatever you fancy, whatever catches your attention… you should take the jump to try. ❞
❝ even if there are full-on skeletons on the ground… carpet will cover it. ❞
❝ you are completely capable of mastering any craft you’d like to try. ❞
❝ the plant equivalent of a grim reaper arrives. ❞
❝ because you can do literally anything. ❞
❝ totally down for as long as the terrain will accommodate my stilettos. ❞
❝ i lose my hair ties constantly. ❞
❝ so i spent my morning doing a little bit of research… mild stalking… the typical procedure. wanna hear my notes? ❞
❝ oh, you like… completely, /totally/ despise golf. got it. ❞
❝ i’m sure they’re like, tax-deductable or something. ❞
❝ that’s not hot, i’m sorry babe. ❞
❝ aromatherapy has been doing wonders to my headaches and stress. ❞
❝ you look very cultured. very educated. like you know all about geography… and geology… and genealogy… and algae… ❞
❝ this was custom-made by an artist in tokyo. ❞
❝ let’s read your horoscope. ❞
❝ do you think that smells tasty? ❞
❝ i don’t even wanna try to compete. ❞
❝ i worked long and hard [making/collecting] these for you, and loved every minute of it. ❞
❝ if you were a cat, you’d be a norwegian forest cat. or a scottish fold. i feel like those two really represent your personality. ❞
❝ every plant you try to take care of /immediately/ dies. ❞
❝ you look cuter in it anyway. ❞
❝ this place is 100% lava-proof. ❞
❝ are you obsessed? ❞
❝ oh my god, i’m seeing it, right now…. in my third eye… ❞
❝ if you were a type of fruit, you’d be [fruit], just because they’re my favourite. ❞
❝ your dog knows how much you love her. ❞
❝ emojis or no? ❞
❝ your dog has a complete understanding of how much love you have for her. ❞
❝ i think you’d suit me to a t. ❞
❝ you’d be a dashing lumberjack. ❞
❝ if you played roller derby, your name would be killbo baggins. ❞
❝ you thought at all what you wanna wear for [event]? ❞
❝ too distraught to even speak. ❞
❝ you’re too sexy for driving. ❞
❝ you look perfect in weird lighting that would look super weird on other people. ❞
❝ everyone and their mother has been seen in that lately. ❞
❝ i hope you’ll be happy with what i’ve come up with. ❞
❝ i know it tends to haunt your dreams, but you don’t need to worry about it. ❞
❝ narrowly saved you from looking basic. ❞
❝ if a dragon started to fire breathe on you, you could just blow it out with your air breath. ❞
❝ sorry, literally just broke /both/ my legs. SO embarrassing. i’m sure you’ll find someone with two intact tibias in no time. ❞
❝ okay, let me just get you set up with an extra pillow. ❞
❝ [he/i/you] like girls who hate the beach. ❞
❝ if kronk from the emperor’s new groove was really, he’d /love/ you, babe. ❞
❝ i feel like you’d be so good at operating a submarine. ❞
❝ you have incredibly impressive lung capacity. ❞
❝ it’s okay that you don’t know how to drive. ❞
❝ it smells divine, right? ❞
❝ i can’t wait to see you in it. ❞
❝ we have to put a little bell on you, like a cat. ❞
❝ you could text me the entire communist manifesto. ❞
❝ you did match with [name] this morning. ❞
❝ i thought [we/i] blacklisted her. ❞
❝ you look good in all lighting. every kind. you look good in blacklight. ❞
❝ enjoy the sunset before a wild night. ❞
❝ nobody noticed the lipstick on your teeth. ❞
❝ you have the most beautiful hair, besides me. ❞
❝ what a nightmare. ❞
❝ wanna hear my thoughts? ❞
❝ according to your horoscope, you could be feeling quite lazy today, and you definitely deserve plenty of time off. ‘ after all those activities last week, give yourself the gift of a true day off. ’ ❞
❝ couldn’t you just die? ❞
❝ you can have as many bagels as you want. there’s literally no limit. ❞
❝ she didn’t kill me, i just gave up. ❞
❝ it’s literally six feet under. ❞
❝ oh, no, it’s [name], isn’t it? ❞
❝ i did pick up the lavender aromatherapy items. ❞
❝ you don’t have to worry about any volcanoes erupting. ❞
❝ are you all comfortable, can i get you anything? ❞
❝ i haven’t seen you since like four, what gives? ❞
❝ you know everyone loves a touch of dweeb on a hot girl. ❞
❝ the strawberry midi dress looks better on you than anybody else. kendall jenner can eat shit. ❞
❝ everyone is losing their minds over the pictures. ❞
❝ i’m proud of you. ❞
❝ i can’t believe how soft this thing is, oh my god. ❞
critrole sentences — thursday by night, part one. here and below the cut, there’s 160+ lines of dialogue from with the first installment of the two-part show. themes in these sentences are supernatural, survival situations, danger and murder.some more casual things dropped in there to spice things up… but mostly it’s about weird or bad things happening. go wild with horror and supernatural and zombie aus. change names, pronouns, diction, anything to your liking. tw: death, violence, uh… consumption of humans, gore mentions.
❝ i’d say you’re dead to me, but, you know. you’re dead to everybody. ❞
❝ he’s wearing my jacket. if you get blood on my jacket, i’m gonna be very upset. ❞
❝ they like disney films. cheese. amazon gift cards. ❞
❝ maybe they have some leftover chinese. ❞
❝ finish it. finish it, i dare you. ❞
❝ are you gonna suck [name]’s blood?! ❞
❝ if we break the magic, everything comes back to normal, that’s how these things work. ❞
❝ it’s probably just sean. he works so late. ❞
❝ we’re gonna get the fuck out of here, and we’re gonna take you with us. ❞
❝ look at my teeth! ❞
❝ come and sit down, have some tea, it’s just what you need. ❞
❝ don’t fucking jump out and scare me, i’m gonna fucking attack— ❞
❝ i never get this kind of positive feedback, i’m actually liking this. ❞
❝ he’s your [petname/friend/brother], man. make sure he’s gonna… ❞
❝ you’re actually the person i’m most concerned about. ❞
❝ it doesn’t look like you’re in a lot of pain, i can’t tell? ❞
❝ yeah, you guys are fucked. ❞
❝ it’s the only door the keycard won’t open. /i don’t know why./ ❞
❝ don’t think i don’t have plans. ❞
❝ we would be doing so well if [name] was with us right now. he would know what to do. ❞
❝ this looks like a really crazy game that you’re playing. ❞
❝ we don’t tell [name]. ❞
❝ you’re nothing without us! ❞
❝ i found a bunch of pencils. ❞
❝ somehow, he looks less creepy. ❞
❝ you’re here to keep everybody safe. ❞
❝ i just kicked someone in the face and they laughed! ❞
❝ you wanna switch? i take the dagger, you take the giant sword? ❞
❝ whoever comes out, it’s not gonna go well for that person. ❞
❝ i am not going to kill you. ❞
❝ /i/ am not going to kill you. ❞
❝ you really need to keep me safe so i can get us out of here. ❞
❝ i’m gonna be honest with you. not all of this was the plan. ❞
❝ how do i end? ❞
❝ do you usually touch things that look like they’re gonna explode? ❞
❝ what did we learn about drinking the tea? ❞
❝ there are, for some strange reason, lucky charms in the cabinet. ❞
❝ those might also be worth some money. ❞
❝ you guys have your own language. ❞
❝ you and i will just get out of here. ❞
❝ i wanna eat [food/“food”] again. it was really good. ❞
❝ if you’re really squeamish, it’s gonna get a little weird. ❞
❝ how well and intimately do you know [name]? …could you recognise him by just—parts? ❞
❝ you could’ve lied and i wouldn’t have known that! ❞
❝ knock… seven times when the coast is clear. no one knocks seven times, that’s ridiculous. ❞
❝ i gotta get to the office. ❞
❝ dad’s coming back any second now. ❞
❝ evil people don’t pinky-swear! evil people middle-finger-swear! ❞
❝ is anything safe? i mean, come on. ❞
❝ can i take my shirt off—? ❞
❝ what’s the matter? you love lucky charms! ❞
❝ we’re really thankful that you’re here, but… ❞
❝ oh man, this is intense. i’m not even sure this feeling is a high, i don’t know what this is. ❞
❝ i’ve been busy all week. ❞
❝ that’s a very good keycard. ❞
❝ the wedding is probably not happening. ❞
❝ welcome to terrible decisions in my life. ❞
❝ she’ll freak out. ❞
❝ i convinced [name] that i’m on her side. ❞
❝ i really like [name] but i kinda feel like we should kill her. ❞
❝ half the people you’ve talked about i’ve never heard of. ❞
❝ you stay close to me. ❞
❝ [name]’s a goner. ❞
❝ mushrooms have never sat well with me. ❞
❝ life needs things to live. ❞
❝ how cute is the rat? ❞
❝ there’s still time. things can still get weird. ❞
❝ it’s gonna get a little weird and i’m so sorry. ❞
❝ will it explode if i touch it? ❞
❝ do we get a refund on the wedding gift? ❞
❝ they’re saying that if things go pear-shaped, they’re gonna fuck us and take care of each other. ❞
❝ i could ask upstairs. ❞
❝ we’re all kids when we’re in the jaws of a werewolf. ❞
❝ i mean, if you’re gonna be a big girl about it. ❞
❝ okay, if shit goes down, i’ll help you. ❞
❝ this is not a riddle, i don’t have time for that shit. ❞
❝ i feel funny. i’m really hungry. ❞
❝ i’m glad you asked though, it’s very polite. ❞
❝ you don’t wanna go upstairs. ❞
❝ only i know. ❞
❝ we can’t tell [name], they were about to get married! ❞
❝ this doesn’t make any sense, but so much sense, at the same time. ❞
❝ you have some weird people working here, you know that? ❞
❝ [softly] jazz hands. ❞
❝ i didn’t seem like it was possible to win. ❞
❝ if things go pear-shaped, i got you. ❞
❝ can i just quickly admit that i don’t know the layout of the building at all? ❞
❝ pick up the ashes! ❞
❝ have some tea. we’ll explain everything. ❞
❝ something is wrong. ❞
❝ quick note: we could get out of here and leave everybody else. ❞
❝ oh my god, i killed someone? ❞
❝ something is wrong, including the giant sign on the wall painted in blood that says ‘ something is wrong ’. ❞
❝ this place is even more trashed than normal. ❞
❝ wow. you /love/ me. ❞
❝ is this one of those magician tricks where you’re telling me to pull a certain card and i don’t realise it? ❞
❝ i’ve been wanting to get you in one of my games for a while. ❞
❝ i love the impulse for violence. ❞
❝ evil people don’t pinky-swear! ❞
❝ we are in a survival situation! ❞
❝ i ate a rat, baby! ❞
❝ don’t burn the company down [when/while] i’m dead. ❞
❝ could somebody get me out of wherever the fuck it is that i am? ❞
❝ i know you’re not supposed to be in this meeting. ❞
❝ how much you overestimate me. ❞
❝ you are super cute and all but could you get me out? ❞
❝ [name], this is messed up! [other person] and [other person] are dead! ❞
❝ [name]… [i/you] don’t drink tea. ❞
❝ hey, that was a tough night, but i’m sorry, are you okay? ❞
❝ you’re huge! you can like, deadlift a house, you can’t bust down a door? ❞
❝ what the fuck happened to you?! ❞
❝ i feel like you haven’t /earned/ that kind of information yet. ❞
❝ it doesn’t taste right. ❞
❝ i hate to rush into anything too hastily. ❞
❝ oh, yeah, right, you’re married. ❞
❝ i’m having fun in the most terrifying way possible. ❞
❝ now we all know how you feel about us. ❞
❝ i’m just terrified i’ll still have a deadline if i ever get out of here. ❞
❝ stop sticking your fingers in your mouth! ❞
❝ i never know what you’re talking about. ❞
❝ maybe there’s a way to undo it. ❞
❝ i feel like this is real life. ❞
❝ [it/she] thinks you’re the nicest, sweetest, most wonderful person. ❞
❝ we’re gonna find a phone. ❞
❝ there’s a lot of work to be done. ❞
❝ i’m judging you hard. real hard. ❞
❝ i don’t know what any of these buttons do. ❞
❝ i don’t see his head. ❞
❝ i think we’re all fucked up. ❞
❝ we keep the lights on at this place. ❞
❝ we’ve never fucking drank tea. ❞
❝ you know me: this is not a riddle. ❞
❝ it was like breakfast pizza and… gyros. ❞
❝ i’m gonna club her in the back of the head, and then we’re gonna run off like bandits. ❞
❝ don’t judge. ❞
❝ sorry about the stabbing. ❞
❝ well, ask me no more questions and i’ll tell you no more lies! ❞
❝ man, you’re nervous! ❞
❝ the fuck are you talking about?! ❞
❝ it’s not safe out there, shut the—! ❞
❝ [name], show me your hands! ❞
❝ you think this is magic? ❞
❝ i was born in a box. ❞
❝ this is like jumping out of an aeroplane without a parachute but knowing it’s foam underneath. ❞
❝ we said that we would look after each other. ❞
❝ everybody’s a kid when you’re a vampire. ❞
❝ everyone here, i don’t know why, kinda likes me. i’m an idiot, but they do. ❞
❝ [name] must be so worried. ❞
❝ i’m sorry i told you you look like shit right after everything happened. i didn’t think about it. ❞
❝ i just punched through the floor. ❞
❝ it’s not that cute. ❞
❝ you know, you should never meet your heroes. ❞
❝ they’re kind of refreshing. don’t judge, man. ❞
❝ you’re my best friend. /they’re/ my best friends, but they’re /married/, they have to help each other. so you and me—… ❞
❝ everybody likes me here. ❞
❝ you keep me alive—we all live. ❞
❝ i ate a /man/. ❞
❝ of course! of course, i know what’s going on; that’s my job. i know what’s going on. ❞
❝ i have a good mind for these things and you know what? my intuition is saying i go first. ❞
the sheridan tapes part two. here and under the cut, you can find over 130 lines of dialogue from the horror podcast the sheridan tapes, specifically from episodes four to six, edited for roleplay purposes. some of these focus heavily on survival, war, science, and spooky stuff, but a lot can be used by anyone. tw: war, unreality, a mention of cannibalism, implications of manic behaviour.
❝ god, i hate snowstorms like this. not just getting caught in them, but the storms themselves. it feels like the earth’s trying to bury me alive every time it locks in like this. like nature’s rightly pissed off at all of us and doing its level best to crush us to death. ❞
❝ that’s what yom kippur means: the day of atonement. ❞
❝ that wasn’t the first time i’ve caught him in my office, going through my stuff. ❞
❝ normally i’d be annoyed at someone calling me young lady. ❞
❝ thank you… you are so warm… thank you for letting me in. ❞
❝ suddenly, everything fell into place. i made more progress than i had in about half a year. ❞
❝ the thing i remember most was catching disapproving glances from my father every time i went to the library. ❞
❝ why does time only run forward? why does cause need to precede effect? ❞
❝ no one knows if they can trust me with casework or not. ❞
❝ i didn’t say i was interested. ❞
❝ [he/i] was taken off duty and sent for psychiatric evaluation the next day. ❞
❝ coffee. i was making coffee. ❞
❝ i didn’t mean to get stuck out here. ❞
❝ that just goes to show how small humans really are in the grand scheme of things: take away our tools and our toys and our technology, and we’re still just as vulnerable as we ever were. ❞
❝ she was good at that: making you feel like you were safe, like you could open up to her. ❞
❝ i’m just going to cover that one up. no harm in keeping it out of sight for the moment. ❞
❝ maybe there was someone in the stairs. ❞
❝ i think i did the lion’s share of the talking, which almost never happens. ❞
❝ i couldn’t get to sleep… i figured i’d get a head start today. ❞
❝ i’m afraid i don’t have all of the details of your involvement with the… tragic events in [place]. and i don’t think i’m the only one. ❞
❝ i’m still not sure i understand the whole tradition. ❞
❝ whatever it is, it’s chasing me. i can hear it’s footsteps in the snow, i can hear it— ❞
❝ when you work nights here, the less you really think about them, the better. ❞
❝ honestly, i just can’t get it out of my head. ❞
❝ snow is one of nature’s simplest and most effective ways of killing you dead if you aren’t prepared for it. ❞
❝ i wish you’d tell me what you’re doing here. i could lose my job if anything gets broken or if you end up getting hurt in there… ❞
❝ would you say you… considered her a friend? ❞
❝ would you mind saying your name again? for the recording? ❞
❝ if that was true, then there was something—and as a scientist, i hate to say this—supernatural going on in that lab. ❞
❝ most of them didn’t make it. a lot of them died afraid and alone, too. ❞
❝ i know you don’t like listening to these things, so i just wanted to help you out with… ❞
❝ if i could sleep, then trust me, i would. ❞
❝ i’m guessing the new owners are trying to make this place seem less creepy than it already is. ❞
❝ my schooling was expensive and unremarkable. ❞
❝ a lot of them died afraid and alone, too: ideal conditions for the making of poltergeists, in my experience. ❞
❝ look, i’m sorry, but this really isn’t a good time for anything, so if you wouldn’t mind… ❞
❝ basically, i was picturing a slightly creepier morticia addams. i couldn’t have been more wrong. ❞
❝ now i have to deal with [name]’s aspirations to write drama.. ❞
❝ i promise i won’t get you sacked. ❞
❝ i’ve never been very religious, but for some reason… it made me think of hell. ❞
❝ i think it may have been a thank you. ❞
❝ i’m working the graveyard shift and i noticed the lights were on. ❞
❝ i shouldn’t be here. no one asked me to come in this early. ❞
❝ everyone around here looks at me like i’m some kind of leper. ❞
❝ i had to go home for a few hours. i’m already on thin ice around here, and i didn’t want to get in more trouble for screaming obscenities up and down the wall. ❞
❝ it was… darkness. no, that doesn’t do it credit, the whole place was dark. this was just… void. ❞
❝ if i’d seen her anywhere else, i’d think she was an athlete or a backpacker. ❞
❝ better scientists than me have been bashing their heads into that particular wall since 1927. ❞
❝ i just want you to know that… whatever you really are… you’re safe here. ❞
❝ goats being goats, it would just come back the next day looking for food. ❞
❝ i would like you to leave my office now… and i’ll ask you not to tamper with evidence in the future, understood? ❞
❝ no, of course, i don’t have signal out here, so i can’t just call triple-a. ❞
❝ what are you doing in my office—at four goddamn thirty in the morning? ❞
❝ you ever wonder where the line is? you know, between human and not? ❞
❝ the funny thing i’ve noticed about war: no matter how terrible the fighting is, there always seems to be too much waiting. too much quiet. too much sitting around, bored to tears between fits of chaos and violence, lost in routine while waiting for the other shoe to drop. ❞
❝ a lot of people condemn them for that. we’re so sure we’d never resort to that—that we’d rather die than cross that unspoken boundary. ❞
❝ i’ve been at the [workplace/institution] for ten years now. that’s long enough to know that the ones who ask questions are the ones who can’t cut it. ❞
❝ the program blew every fuse in the lab. including the lights. ❞
❝ it was soon after they left that i began to have trouble sleeping. ❞
❝ perhaps we never knew each other as well as most friends do, but… we cared for one another. ❞
❝ most of her questions are a bit above my pay grade. ❞
❝ i’m trying, i’m trying! i can’t get the door open! ❞
❝ i don’t know why she needed my help: i think she had a better grasp of it than most science fiction writers. ❞
❝ we both had places to be afterwards, so we kind of rushed. i really wish i’d taken the time to say goodbye. ❞
❝ i guess some things just… don’t want to stay buried. ❞
❝ it was completely against orders of course, but no one really noticed or cared that far from the front. ❞
❝ i offered to buy him a cup of coffee. ❞
❝ newspapers praised them at the time: saw them as heroes of exploration and paragons of pioneer courage. ❞
❝ i signed a lot of big, scary nda’s during my time there. ❞
❝ i did the only thing that came to mind: i took a grenade from my belt, removed the pin, and threw it. ❞
❝ i doubt this storm will last more than a couple of days, and once it lets up we can sneak out of here and get going again. very, very carefully. ❞
❝ given enough time, everything will rot away to its elementary components, and that, you can’t reverse. ❞
❝ i really can’t see anything from inside the van. ❞
❝ i knew there were a few experiments that dealt with some pretty high-level theoretical concepts, but i wasn’t directly involved with any of them. ❞
❝ it’s a strange choice, but then again, he’s a strange man. ❞
❝ i know, it sounds ridiculous. trust me, i’ve done everything i can think of to make that conclusion go away. ❞
❝ scared the bejeezus out of a bunch of skiers, but they were nice enough to let me in after deciding i probably wasn’t a ghost. ❞
❝ please… it burns my skin… please… ❞
❝ i forgot how fast storms blow in up here. ❞
❝ it’s not like i felt out of control: it felt more natural than breathing. ❞
❝ i didn’t know what i was doing, not at any conscious level. but one step seemed to lead to another, then the next, and then the next. ❞
❝ it’s called a butcher’s shop in some places, but a mortuary in others. as much as i’d love to imply there was some sweeney todd style recycling going on here, i think the place has just been a lot of things over the years. ❞
❝ god, these things are creepy as hell. ❞
❝ if you wouldn’t mind, please, tell us what happened? in your own time, of course. ❞
❝ it took a few long, nerve-wracking days to work up my courage and visit the section again. ❞
❝ it’s not that odd to think that people ate each other out there. ❞
❝ i didn’t think there was a ghost in my room or anything like that, i just kept hearing noises whenever i was about to fall asleep. ❞
❝ i downed half a dozen energy drinks at 6 and called it dinner—i know, i know, it’s a nasty habit i picked up in grad school. ❞
❝ they told me that the cpu and motherboard had somehow been melted into a solid lump of plastic and silicon. ❞
❝ i mean, [name] was a pain in the ass, but at least he didn’t… ❞
❝ my schedule was full, but i had something else fall through at the last minute. i had your number on my desk, so i thought i may as well call. ❞
❝ i wonder if it was afraid, or if it even realized what was going to happen. it probably didn’t. ❞
❝ i need to get more coffee. or punch someone. whichever’s more convenient. ❞
❝ god, if that’s really how i sound… ❞
❝ people think i write horror, but i don’t really think that’s true. i just write fiction with all of the comfortable little lies taken out of it. ❞
❝ i have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night. ❞
❝ i think he felt something about this place… some influence or power that needed to be destroyed, so he tried to do it the only way he knew how. ❞
❝ well, it’s a tricky thing. the more realistic you make them, the more… unreal they start to look. i think it’s something about the eyes. ❞
❝ i offered to stay late, just to smooth things over. ❞
❝ maybe i can get some writing done while i’m stuck here… ❞
❝ no child could grow up in a jewish home surrounded by books and not read at least one story about golems. ❞
❝ i just wasn’t a good student, despite my love of reading. ❞
❝ i have to say, i like your jane doe. ❞
❝ she was a scientist herself. maybe not formally, but her way of thinking, her insight, her methods… they were scientist’s qualities. ❞
❝ seriously, what do i need to do to get a little privacy around here, a little dignity? hang a ‘ do not disturb ’ sign on the door? change all my locks? ❞
❝ maybe it was stupid, but i figured, ‘hey, early december, not a cloud in the sky—should still be fine, right?’ ❞
❝ jesus, [name], i wasn’t born yesterday. ❞
❝ maybe doing this while it’s still dark outside isn’t the best idea. ❞
❝ more than a century and a half have passed, and this place is still just as dangerous as it was then. ❞
❝ the [event] was a bust—only about a dozen people showed up all afternoon. ❞
❝ i never put much stock in the idea of inspiration, but for the first time in my life, it felt like i wasn’t pushing myself through the muck of miscalculation and guesswork towards a solution. i was being pulled towards an answer that already existed. ❞
❝ it felt like i was a few steps from finding out something fundamental. some truth about our universe that no other scientist had ever dared to dream of. ❞
❝ huh. that’s… that’s weird. i could’ve sworn there wasn’t a sculpture back there before. ❞
❝ apparently, no one had told them what i was doing, and i wasn’t actually cleared to leave. ❞
❝ maybe he’s trying to make amends. keeping watch over these half-living things to make sure no harm comes to them. ❞
❝ i expected the building to be wreathed in shadow and overgrown with cobwebs, but it’s actually really nice. ❞
❝ sorry, i was trying to get my recorder working, but it froze up on me so i had to find a tape for this old… ❞
❝ okay. just… don’t get me sacked, alright? can’t exactly retire on this salary. ❞
❝ but if it was real—i don’t know if i somehow created it, or if it was feeding me information about itself before it appeared. ❞
❝ i’ve never had a manic episode before, and i was well below the level of caffeine needed to cause intoxication. as far as i can tell, there isn’t a medical explanation for what happened. ❞
❝ i don’t get the appeal of meeting real celebrities. it’s just a cheap shock of recognition, and nothing more. ❞
❝ whatever this… thing was, it sounds pretty dangerous. ❞
❝ are you familiar with temporal asymmetry? ❞
❝ i just want to make that abundantly clear: this /wasn’t/ the plan. ❞
❝ right then, now let’s get started. please state your name and rank for the record. ❞
❝ though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light. ❞
❝ a cracker of a book, young lady. ❞
❝ no wonder they’re keeping them in storage. they’d give anyone nightmares. ❞
❝ i was just going to finish out my shift unless… you want me to stick around? ❞
❝ i went to the university, but don’t remember much of the years i spent there. ❞
❝ having to study textbooks and essays day in and day out took all of the joy out of reading for a long time. ❞
❝ we call paradoxes paradoxes for a reason: no matter how plausible they seem, they can never really happen. ❞
❝ i don’t know what happened to me that night. i still don’t even know if what i saw was real. ❞
❝ when we look into the void for too long, we find the monsters instead. ❞
the sheridan tapes part one. here and under the cut, you can find a little under 120 lines of dialogue from the horror podcast the sheridan tapes, specifically from episodes one to three, edited for roleplay purposes. tw:police, murder, supernatural elements, mentions of apocalyptic scenarios, near death experiences, injuries, vehicular crash, recreational drug and alcohol use.
❝ jesus, [name]. you’re not making this easy, are you? ❞
❝ makes you wonder… do these things follow me because i chase them, or were they always following me? ❞
❝ darkness and complete disorientation does a number on the human brain. ❞
❝ i don’t think he was a werewolf. ❞
❝ i’d call it the customer service smile. you know, the one that says ‘ thank you for shopping with us, please die now ’. ❞
❝ i’ve found the more showy the text, the less impressive the actual phenomena. ❞
❝ my job here is kind of… shaky at the moment. ❞
❝ [name] was also engaged in the study of the impossible in his free time. ❞
❝ so it’s just me who drives you up the wall then? ❞
❝ well, you’ll be happy to hear i haven’t been having any fun. no weed, no ghosts. ❞
❝ there hasn’t been a new lead on her case in more than half a year. ❞
❝ so here i am, wrapped up in a blanket, staring at my little fireplace, so bored i actually decided to call my sister for once. ❞
❝ it’s a little town near bandon. very little. nice little mini-market, and that’s about it. ❞
❝ i doubt i’ll sleep much tonight. that’s okay. i just feel like looking at the stars for a while. ❞
❝ it’s probably for the best. i am simultaneously exhausted from the drive and absolutely wired from the coffee. ❞
❝ i wonder if there will still be ghosts out there when that happens? when the earth is gone? ❞
❝ glad to hear you’re enjoying yourself, then. ❞
❝ knowing doesn’t make things any easier, but it does make them a little less frightening. ❞
❝ that’s all just a lazy way of saying that the real explanation is too difficult—or too horrible—for them to accept. ❞
❝ it almost killed me, but in the end it settled for putting me in pt for a year while i figured out how to use my hands again. ❞
❝ he muttered something about my time being up. or maybe he said it wasn’t up. ❞
❝ i don’t really care that i didn’t get any writing done today. ❞
❝ nothing. not a single idea worth writing down, no itch i needed to scratch or question i needed to answer. ❞
❝ guess there really is no such thing as bad press. ❞
❝ i have no idea what a writer’s ‘process’ usually looks like, but i’m pretty sure it’s not this. ❞
❝ see what i have to deal with? god… siblings, am i right? ❞
❝ what can i say? i have a soft spot for gothic architecture. ❞
❝ computers have never been very good at reconciling paradoxes. ❞
❝ they’re pretty much over funding my little expeditions. ❞
❝ that kind of smile doesn’t normally show that many teeth. ❞
❝ you know, that’s only scary the first few times you do it. ❞
❝ one day, it will be dead. one day all the stars will burn out, go dark and silent. one day, everything will be so dark and so cold that no new stars can ever be born. the old ones will blink out one by one, like candles going out, and then… nothing. silence. darkness. void. ❞
❝ the simplest explanation is almost always the right one. ❞
❝ i don’t remember getting in my van, putting the key in the ignition, or speeding away from that house, but i must have. ❞
❝ no, no, i’m fine, i’m fine, just go bother someone else. ❞
❝ i haven’t eaten, moved, or written anything all day. ❞
❝ but maybe that’s just the fact that it is two in the morning and my brain is running mostly on caffeine. ❞
❝ given how good a [job] he is, i know it’s not the first time he’s done it. ❞
❝ i escaped, but i knew that whatever was in that house has just marked me as prey. ❞
❝ calm down. think. you’re just going to confuse yourself. ❞
❝ just wanted to tell you a couple of us are headed out to marvin’s for drinks if you want to come. ❞
❝ one of the most disappointing things about living in america is the lack of genuinely haunted houses. out of all the supposed haunts i’ve visited, maybe one in ten seems like the real deal. ❞
❝ sounds… peaceful. not many distractions, then? ❞
❝ something tells me this tape wasn’t played in court. ❞
❝ one of the neighbours must have called 911. ❞
❝ my infamous accident. it almost killed me. ❞
❝ i just woke up to footsteps in the kitchen. i don’t know who, or what, but there’s someone in here with me! ❞
❝ could you shut the door on your way out, please? ❞
❝ uh, wasn’t expecting to hear from you so soon. ❞
❝ the fire that i said went out? yeah, it just started burning again. ❞
❝ so i asked him to lie. ❞
❝ it’d really be just a few of us. maybe me and [name] and one or two other tagalongs… ❞
❝ apparently, the press had a lot of questions too. ❞
❝ i’ve driven more than 8 hours and drunk enough bad coffee to give an elephant heart palpitations. i’m sure as hell going to get my money’s worth. ❞
❝ oh sorry, am i bothering you now? what happened to ‘ call anytime you want, [name] ’or, ‘ you’re always welcome here, [name] ’? ❞
❝ i’ve forgotten to charge my phone. again. ❞
❝ i… think i’m going to turn around now. ❞
❝ well sorry if i wanted to have a nice talk with my sister for a change. ❞
❝ will it just be left there forever? our legacy? look upon our works, ye mighty, and despair? ❞
❝ no matter how far away from home you are, no matter how different the constellations might look from where you’re standing, you can always look up on a clear, dark night and feel like you’re about to fall right into it—the terrifying, endless expanse of nothingness. ❞
❝ i know authors can do some crazy things to get out of writer’s block, but i’ve never heard of one resorting to arson. ❞
❝ why do you always think there’s something wrong? ❞
❝ ours is not to question why, ours is but to digitize and stay the hell out of trouble. ❞
❝ so let’s try walking backwards. just keep an eye on it. ❞
❝ i got lucky. or maybe i was just fast enough to escape. ❞
❝ maybe there are secret passages behind the walls and corridors. ❞
❝ no matter how far i walked, i couldn’t find the way i came in. ❞
❝ well, i /know/ i’ve had worst nights. i just can’t think of any right now. ❞
❝ i do want you to have fun, [name], i just don’t want you to get yourself killed doing it. ❞
❝ i mean, obviously, i do care, that’s the whole reason i made this trip. to get away from the noise and focus. ❞
❝ i might have… forgotten to tell anyone where i was going. ❞
❝ before i get started, there’s just one thing i need to say. i have absolutely no patience for the unexplained, or the things people call ‘unexplainable’, ‘supernatural’, or ‘paranormal’. ❞
❝ i told [name] that i needed to get out, to get inspired. ❞
❝ okay, if someone is messing with me, they’re going to be very sorry, very quickly. ❞
❝ [name] lied his ass off to save yours. ❞
❝ a crash like that does funny things to your head. ❞
❝ i still don’t know how he got there without me noticing. ❞
❝ any plans i had to travel abroad went up in smoke. ❞
❝ i thought of pulling out the bad cop routine. ❞
❝ strange how something so dead can be so beautiful. ❞
❝ it hated me: hated what i do, and more than that, hated who i am. ❞
❝ lots of tall tales. and more than a few ghost stories. ❞
❝ oh good, you’re still here! ❞
❝ reviewers absolutely grilled it: said it was a nonsensical rip off of the dark tower, whatever that means. ❞
❝ i jumped out the window. cut my hands on the glass, but thankfully not bad enough to need stitches ❞
❝ i told her, tonight. ❞
❝ for a minute, i wondered if that would really be so bad. it was a fitting way to go, given my… well, everything. ❞
❝ i suppose that’s a universal constant—maybe the only one. ❞
❝ i never let myself get this turned around. especially not at night. ❞
❝ i don’t know if it’s actually haunted. but if not, then it was sure as hell convincing. ❞
❝ i’m not one of those people who thinks she’s the spawn of satan or something ridiculous like that. ❞
❝ unless i’m prepared to accept that she was murdered by something that crawled out of a funhouse mirror, this isn’t much help with the case, either. ❞
❝ i have to try and work some actual cases the rest of the time. you know, cases that might have some answers i can find. ❞
❝ it’s cold, damp, and dark as night. i’m in my element, at least. ❞
❝ your place is waiting for you. ❞
❝ yeah, i’m all good. great… hanging in there, you know? one day at a time. ❞
❝ oh, i see you. you think i’m still scared of [thing], huh? think you can freak me out? ❞
❝ trust me, i’ve had a hell of a day, and you do not want to mess with a pissed off… ❞
❝ and tell my sister i’m sorry. ❞
❝ oh god, it’s cold. ❞
❝ the night sky really is beautiful out here. ❞
❝ tell him he shouldn’t have been such a good liar. ❞
❝ i’ve been listening to this for the last two weeks now. ❞
❝ it’s not even that i’m having bad ideas. i’m not having any at all. ❞
❝ can’t get away from the work, no matter what i do. ❞
❝ i made sure i switched off my phone before i came up here, just in case. ❞
❝ god, these things smell of weed. ❞
❝ yeah, well… just wanted to make sure you’re okay, you know? ❞
❝ [name] is dead. that’s all there is to it. ❞
❝ no, i need to get out of here. it’s been a long day. ❞
❝ a lot of the art i found was just paintings of a night sky full of stars. ❞
❝ my job is to look the facts dead in the face and find an explanation. one that will hold up in a court of law. ❞
❝ personal and career choices, i guess you’d call them. ❞
❝ damn. i could’ve sworn i felt something strange about this place when i hiked through this morning… or maybe it was a different part. hard to tell this late at night, anyway. ❞
❝ well, let’s just say a middle-aged man-child running out panicked and tearing at his eyes would hardly be a marketable image. ❞
❝ i didn’t mind that i’d be alone—i always expected that to be how i went. ❞
❝ i’m sure that’s on my personnel file by now, as if it could get any more problematic. ❞
goodnight moon quite a strange. here and below the cut, you can find roughly 110 lines of dialogue from goodnight moon’s quite a strange series. topics contain caring, professional environments, ghost hauntings, sprinkled with some weird girl energy and angst potential. edited for roleplay purposes, feel free to change around literally whatever to make it work for your muse better.
❝ how many doors do you have in this place, anyway? ❞
❝ put that over your head. ❞
❝ i assure you, i find your head perfectly proportional. ❞
❝ i wish it didn’t have to be like this. ❞
❝ that’s why you get the big bucks, isn’t it? ❞
❝ the potential bond of those of the living and those of the unliving is truly limitless. ❞
❝ excellent work. you’re a natural. ❞
❝ it pains me immeasurably to see everyone miss out due to unfounded fear. ❞
❝ i did offer him a few cheez-its to sweeten the deal. ❞
❝ it appears you have experienced each and every sign of a haunting. ❞
❝ everything seems to be in perfectly lovely and normal condition. ❞
❝ if i may be so bold as to suggest… a pink? ❞
❝ you know, in my personal experience, i have found most birds to be very trustworthy. most. ❞
❝ i thought you may have burnt a bagel. ❞
❝ would you prefer to travel via pogo stick, scooter, or rollerskates? ❞
❝ he’s got razor-sharp teeth to keep you safe from any and all predators. ❞
❝ between the two of us, i’m the expert on [topic]. ❞
❝ you are in need of some serious r&r. ❞
❝ why don’t you have a nap? ❞
❝ don’t give up on me now, mermaid pen… ❞
❝ i’d like to show you my notebook. can you read? ❞
❝ i can show you how to make an origami frog. please let me show how to make an origami frog. ❞
❝ i’ll take the right, you’ll take the left, okay? cool. ❞
❝ i have grown pretty fond of all my blood over the year… so i’m not very willing to part with it. ❞
❝ what else do you see? ❞
❝ thank you so much for welcoming me into your beautiful home. ❞
❝ i try to adopt the habits of rabbits in all facets of life. ❞
❝ don’t give up on me now. ❞
❝ i must seek a second opinion. ❞
❝ i may be dyslexic, and nearsighted, and iron deficient, but i ain’t no snitch. ❞
❝ i think there’s ghosts. do you? ❞
❝ a little birdie told me you’ve had some troubles. some ghost troubles. ❞
❝ she takes precision extremely seriously. ❞
❝ is today your birthday, by any chance? ❞
❝ just stuck them in a pocket. ❞
❝ let the flickering flames comfort you. ❞
❝ i know exactly how scary it can feel. ❞
❝ good to know that both of us are so… tall and cool together… we should, uh, turn off some ceiling fans, check out the tops of refrigerators… ❞
❝ you are literally always asleep. ❞
❝ i know we haven’t known each other long, but i do have a smell for these things. ❞
❝ a little birdie told me. was the bird a liar? ❞
❝ i don’t know what i was thinking. ❞
❝ dead is cool. ❞
❝ i’ve learnt the hard way about incredibly specific resentments. ❞
❝ now all there is to do is to wait for our offerings to work their magic. ❞
❝ would you mind if i took a moment to examine, investigate? ❞
❝ the finishing touch you’re in desperate need of is a pretty rhinestone hair clip. ❞
❝ i don’t know who has the authority on those kinds of things, but it certainly isn’t me. ❞
❝ i have come thoroughly prepared in not only instruments… but snacks. ❞
❝ it is my personal favourite but i cannot expect everyone to share in my passions. ❞
❝ i have limited availability but would love to squeeze you in. ❞
❝ i actually have an extra moment, do you? ❞
❝ being unsure must be quite a taxing experience. ❞
❝ would you consider yourself to be generally bloodthirsty? ❞
❝ tonight is all about relaxation. ❞
❝ next up is face painting. how exciting. ❞
❝ don’t hold back, you can tell me anything. ❞
❝ don’t worry, i’m not talking to you, okay? ❞
❝ she loves anyone and everyone, except for a busybody. ❞
❝ we hope to see you every day. ❞
❝ he just looks really nice, doesn’t he? ❞
❝ i can free you. ❞
❝ your outfit really is quite nice. ❞
❝ we love and like you just the same. ❞
❝ i assure you, i am the highest calibre of professional. ❞
❝ luckily, i have not one hand, but two. so i can choose both. ❞
❝ four eyes is better than two. ❞
❝ sorry you had to see that side of me. ❞
❝ do you have anything against flamingos? ❞
❝ what can i say, your girl eats a lot of [food]. a concerning amount of [name], some might say. ❞
❝ i’d just like to think that when people look at the moon, they think of me. ❞
❝ would you mind if i take a moment to unpack my things? ❞
❝ target… i remember when i was allowed in there… ❞
❝ shyness is next to sweetness, as they say. ❞
❝ dress to impress, they say. ❞
❝ i profusely apologise for my poor judgement. ❞
❝ hopefully you don’t think of me any differently now. ❞
❝ ghosts may desperately want to befriend you, but simply don’t want to be a bother. ❞
❝ it’s kind of like, when before you hug someone you let them know that you don’t have any bats in your pocket. or bees. ❞
❝ i’m gonna scare them away. ❞
❝ i can’t imagine anyone seeing this and not wanting to be wrapped up in it. ❞
❝ i can speak for your radness, and let me tell you, it is immense. ❞
❝ please, come out to play. ❞
❝ thank you so much for welcoming me back. ❞
❝ they’re better in every conceivable way. ❞
❝ my specialities lie elsewhere ❞
❝ the true tragedy of a haunted home lies not in the spookiness but in the missed opportunity for potential friendships. ❞
❝ i will defend your family and property with my life. ❞
❝ not sure if they’re showing off or just wanna make your life easier. ❞
❝ let’s get you all bundled up, shall we. ❞
❝ exactly how this hand moves is exactly how this hand moves. ❞
❝ is it okay if i come a little bit closer? ❞
❝ as you can tell, this is not a matter that i take lightly. and thus, i have come thoroughly prepared. ❞
❝ i think this one would be really pretty on you if you like it. ❞
❝ i’ve shared nachos with no small number of my enemies. ❞
❝ you might be my first. ❞
❝ did you know that a triceratopses head comprises one-third of its entire body weight? ❞
❝ oh wow, you’re really beautiful. ❞
❝ best of luck with your spectral endeavours. ❞
❝ oh no, i would never dream of vandalising [place/object]. ❞
❝ it can be a wonderful, healing bonding experience. or it can sow the seeds of distrust even deeper. ❞
❝ statistically unlikely, i admit, but can’t hurt to ask. ❞
❝ it is absolutely vital, crucial even, that i thoroughly assess you from head to toe. ❞
❝ this is a little bit more [name]’s dollhouse… warehouse? wheelhouse! ❞
❝ i know just what to do. you better hold on to your socks. ❞
❝ to be honest with you, not exactly my strong suit. the artistic talents lie entirely in [name]. ❞
❝ feel free to go buckwild. really free your inhibitions! ❞
❝ i’d like to dry you off and bundle you up. ❞
❝ we need to make sure you’re thoroughly protected from the elements. ❞
podiots sentence starters. here and under the cut, you can find a total of 55 lines of dialogue from the podcast podiots, all from quite early on in their podcast series. contains mentions of serial killers, death, euthanasia, and some bathroom humour. as always, feel free edit to your heart’s content to suit your needs.
❝ i called you twice! ❞
❝ to this day, i still don’t like murky water in video games. or in real life. ❞
❝ there goes your phone. ❞
❝ love hurts. everything hurts. ❞
❝ finland has it all. ❞
❝ and there’s tapes of them. which, of course, haven’t been released to the public. ❞
❝ my smugness dictates i’ll go first. ❞
❝ i’ll go next. ❞
❝ you need to kill three, and then you get your certificate and badge. ❞
❝ a tattoo’s probably the least harmful thing he’s done to himself. ❞
❝ you guys are very generous. ❞
❝ not a huge fan of serial killers, to be honest. ❞
❝ i’m sure they’re very thrilled about that decision. ❞
❝ the fridge is quite expensive. ❞
❝ i was exposed to some pretty horrible things at a very young age. ❞
❝ [name]’s got a phd, she’s a smart cookie. ❞
❝ i love that guy’s voice. so soothing. what an accent. ❞
❝ that’s fucking stupid, isn’t it. ❞
❝ technically not a serial killer. you need to kill three. ❞
❝ on the box, it says it’s got about 12,000 games. it’s just those 76 games repeated over and over again. ❞
❝ i don’t wanna be a debbie downer, but i don’t think toys “r” us is coming back. ❞
❝ you’re the special one. you’re my favourite. ❞
❝ i’m sure i was probably just a huge distraction to things, but in my head, i was having fun and helping. ❞
❝ one more, and you’re a serial killer. ❞
❝ i think he might—is he okay? ❞
❝ you were the real monster. ❞
❝ at this point, it’s a health hazard. ❞
❝ it’s lost now. ❞
❝ they’re under lock and key, most of the day. ❞
❝ i’m not prepared. ❞
❝ i’m a smiley boy, i guess i’ll go first. ❞
❝ we can’t control him anymore, [name]. ❞
❝ we’re literally children. ❞
❝ i guess if no one ever survives [place], you can’t get a single bad review. ❞
❝ they gave up a long time ago. ❞
❝ i don’t know how old i was, like something sort of early teens, so not /quite/ prepared for proper like junkie, weird, dinky drug dens. ❞
❝ you never went to ratemypoo.com? ❞
❝ that’s what she gets for going to a very specific field. ❞
❝ who would like to ride the euthanasia rollercoaster? ❞
❝ he’s a proper internet [pet] as well. you take any picture of [name] and he just looks like a meme. ❞
❝ slowly, limb by limb, they’ll kill you. ❞
❝ yeah, i just went and beat the shit out of [name]. ❞
❝ i’m glad you asked. she is a xenoflatulogist. ❞
❝ i wanna be number one by next week. ❞
❝ is this the minority report? ❞
❝ that’s a righteous cause. ❞
❝ that’s fine. i'm fine… with swimming. around water. ❞
❝ you wanna go bowling? ❞
❝ what are we laughing at? ❞
❝ then my mum came in and said ‘oh, why couldn’t you have spent your money on something a bit more educational, [name]!’ ❞
❝ i think they’re a bit annoyed now. ❞
❝ this is your second warning. ❞
❝ the charm of stick and pokes is fucking it up and being scarred for the rest of your life. ❞
Hey there! Since my hobby is archery, I’m posting this archery vocab :)
Also check out this question I got about the archery vocab!
Nouns
The archery - Het boogschieten
The archer - De schutter
The bow - De boog
The limbs - De latten
The string - De pees
The riser - Het handvat
The arrow rest - De loper, pijlsteun, steunpunt
The sight - Het vizier
The stabiliser(s) - De stabilisator(en)
The bowcase - De bogenkoffer, bogentas
The arrow(s) - De pijl(en)
The tip - De punt
The shaft - De steel, schacht
The nock - De nok*
The arm guard - De armbeschermer
The chest guard - De borslap, borstbeschermer
The quiver - De pijlentas, pijlenkoker
The target - Het doel, blazoen
The distance - De afstand
The finger tab - De vingertab
The sling - De sling**
The draw weight - Het trekgewicht
The archery range - De boogschietbaan
The archery club - De boogschietclub
The competition - De competitie
The point(s) - De punt(en)
The score - De score
The championship - Het kampioenschap
The Olympic Games - De Olympische Spelen
Adjectives
Indoors - Binnen
Outdoors - Buiten
Competitive - Competitief
Far - Ver
Close - Dichtbij
Verbs
To shoot - Schieten
To hit - Raken
To aim - Richten, mikken
To release - Loslaten, lossen
To practise - Oefenen
To assemble (your bow) - (Je boog) in elkaar zetten
To win - Winnen
To lose - Verliezen
Sentences
My hobby is archery. - Mijn hobby is booschieten.
I am an archer. - Ik ben een schutter.
I won the competition. - Ik heb de competitie gewonnen.
My draw weight is 22 pounds - Mijn trekgewicht is 22 pond.
I shoot from a distance of 18 meters. - Ik schiet van(af) een afstand van 18 meter.
I mostly shoot indoors. - Ik schiet meestal binnen.
*: A nock is the back of an arrow that is ‘clicked’ onto the string. **: A sling is a rope that an archer puts around his fingers and the bow to prevent it from dropping on the ground upon release of the arrow.
The (tattoo) studio / parlour / shop - De (tattoo)shop / studio
The (tattoo) needle - De (tattoo)naald
The (tattoo) machine/gun - De (tattoo)machine
The (tattoo) ink - De (tattoo) inkt
The (tattoo) artist - De (tattoo-)artiest
The design - Het ontwerp
The sketch - De schets
The stencil - De stencil / Het ontwerp
The idea - Het idee
The placement - De plaats(ing)
The size - De grootte
The style - De stijl
Black and grey - Zwartwit / (literally) zwart en grijs
Traditional- Traditioneel
Neo traditional - Neo traditioneel
Japanese - Japans
Realism - Realisme
Surrealism - Surrealisme
Portrait - Portret
New school - New school
Lettering / text - Lettering / opschrift / tekst
Trash Polka - Trash Polka
Blackwork- Blackwork / zwartwerk**
Linework- Lijnwerk
Dotwork - dotwork / (literally) puntwerk
Geometric - Geometrisch
The shading - De schaduwen
The art - De kunst
The hygiene - De hygiëne
The aftercare - De nazorg
The healing process - Het genezingsproces
Cream / lotion - Lotion / crème / zalf
The skin - De huid
The scabs - De korsten***
The pain - De pijn
The blood - Het bloed
Adjectives
Beautiful- Mooi
Gorgeous - Prachtig
Well done - Goed gedaan
Experienced - Ervaren
Clean - Schoon (Dutch) / Proper (Flemish)
Hygienic - Hygiënisch
Healed- Genezen
Professional - Professioneel
New - Nieuw
Painful - Pijnlijk
Painless - Pijnloos
Verbs
To tattoo - Tattoeëren
To design - Ontwerpen
To sketch - Schetsen
To be tattooed - Getattoeëerd zijn
To care for (your tattoo) - (Je tattoo) verzorgen
To heal - Genezen
To itch - Jeuken
To scratch - Krabben
To be in pain - Pijn hebben
To bleed - Bloeden
Sentences
I want a tattoo! - Ik wil een tattoo / tatouage
I’m getting a tattoo. - Ik ga een tattoo laten zetten.
I love traditional tattoos. - Ik hou van traditionele tattoos.
I don’t want any coloured tattoos. - Ik wil geen enkele gekleurde tattoo.
My tattoo artist is very professional - Mijn tattoo-artiest is erg professioneel.
*: Tatouage is actually French, but it is sometimes used by Belgians. **: “Zwartwerk” can also mean illegal work in Dutch ***: “Korsten” are also the crusts on your sandwich.
❝Do you want to feel the baby kick?❞ ❝I’m eating for two, so let’s go grab some grub.❞ ❝I’m… pregnant… and it’s yours.❞ ❝We need to talk, I need to tell you something..❞ ❝I’m too far along for an abortion.❞ ❝You want to give our baby up for adoption?❞ ❝I need to know… if you love me, if you love us..❞ ❝I thought you would be happy… it’s our baby.❞ ❝It’s your baby I’m carrying…❞ ❝I want to tell you that’s it’s yours but it’s not…❞ ❝I want to find out the gender with you there.❞ ❝I’m so lucky to have you by side during this pregnancy.❞ ❝I wouldn’t want anyone else by side during this pregnancy.❞ ❝Do you feel that? It’s the baby… it’s kicking.❞ ❝I’m not going to be surrounded in a place were my baby isn’t wanted.❞ ❝How could say that? This is our child to be!❞ ❝I’m pregnant, I can’t act like a child anymore.❞ ❝I’m pregnant, not incapable.❞ ❝I’m sorry you’ve had deal with my pregnancy hormones lately…❞ ❝I just wanted to wait to tell you, I wanted to know for sure I was keeping it.❞ ❝I’m not sure what to do anymore but it is your baby…❞ ❝This is just as much as your baby as it is mine.❞ ❝I’m not lying! We can do a test right now!❞ ❝Why are you blaming me? We at both at fault! It’s not the baby’s fault!❞ ❝I’m not going to be around people like you, who don’t support me.❞ ❝I am keeping this baby and I’m not discussing it anymore.❞ ❝People have told me I’m glowing lately and I know why…❞ ❝I’m ready to be mom! More than what you think!❞ ❝I will be a great mother to my child, unlike you!❞ ❝This is my decision! Not yours!❞ ❝You told me you wanted the baby and now you don’t?❞ ❝Why are suddenly against having this baby with me?❞
the father’s pov :
❝How far along are you? When did you find out?❞ ❝Well, that’s great news! Isn’t it? I think so.❞ ❝Wait, are you telling me, its my baby?❞ ❝Well, how do you know its my baby?❞ ❝You’re carrying my child?! That’s great news!❞ ❝I love you and I’m ready to be a parent with you.❞ ❝I wouldn’t want a baby with anyone else other than you.❞ ❝How long have you known? Have you told anyone else yet?❞ ❝Well, I’ll get a job and help support you and our baby.❞ ❝Hey… don’t worry so much, okay? We can raise it.❞ ❝It’s going to be okay, we can do this.❞ ❝I have the perfect plan for you, me and our baby… a good plan.❞ ❝I was thinking… since you’re pregnant and all, would you marry me?❞ ❝I love you so much, that’s great news after the day I had.❞ ❝As long as we’re happy, as long as the baby is happy.❞ ❝I’m not abandoning you or my baby!❞ ❝I’m not walking out on my kid like my parents did.❞ ❝I’m going to be here for you and our baby.❞ ❝Why would you want that for our baby? You’re talking nonsense.❞ ❝I’m ready to be a father and you’ll make the best mother.❞ ❝I have never felt so lucky!❞ ❝This baby is a blessing and probably saved my life.❞ ❝Did you hear? I’m going to be a dad!❞ ❝I’m going to officially be a dad in a few months!❞ ❝I’ll be a much better dad than you ever were to me that’s for sure.❞ ❝My girlfriend is pregnant and she’s keeping it and I want her to keep it.❞ ❝Don’t tell me anything about being a dad when you never were one for me!❞ ❝Are you serious?! You’re pregnant?! That’s amazing, baby!❞ ❝Well, do you need anything? Anything at all?❞ ❝What? Something wrong with the baby?❞ ❝I just want to keep you and our babt safe and happy.❞ ❝I’m the luckiest guy in the world right now!❞
I think we should bring back the Victorian era photo custom of having parents covered with blankets holding their children still for pictures. I just think it’s fun and silly to have blanket ghost mom holding a wiggly kid for the photo.
I know I’ve posted this one before but it’s one of my favorite photos. It was incorrectly labeled a post mortem photograph even though the little girl’s leg obviously moved during the photo and she’s holding flowers (dead people cannot hold things). I love that you can see her mama’s skirt and shoes under the blanket and that she’s obviously being held in place. I just think it’s so funny that this bad photo was a group effort.
