Ohhhh Wilyyy, holds her gentle like hamburger... ಥ﹏ಥ

Alternatives to "Touched"

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When the touch is gentle:

»-♡→ Brushed
»-♡→ Grazed
»-♡→ Caressed
»-♡→ Stroked
»-♡→ Patted
»-♡→ Cradled
»-♡→ Rested against
»-♡→ Smoothed
»-♡→ Trailed along
»-♡→ Glided over

...or comforting:

➺ Squeezed
➺ Held
➺ Embraced
➺ Wrapped around
➺ Clasped
➺ Pressed gently against
➺ Rubbed
➺ Supported
➺ Steadied
➺ Cupped

...or affectionate:

➵ Ruffled
➵ Nuzzled
➵ Kissed
➵ Linked arms with
➵ Nestled against
➵ Curled around
➵ Leaned into
➵ Rested a hand on
➵ Laced fingers with
➵ Pulled close

...or romantic:

̗̀➛ Traced
̗̀➛ Ghosted across
̗̀➛ Brushed against
̗̀➛ Skimmed over
̗̀➛ Lingeringly stroked
̗̀➛ Ran a thumb along
̗̀➛ Tilted their chin
̗̀➛ Tucked a strand of hair behind their ear
̗̀➛ Pressed their forehead against
̗̀➛ Intertwined fingers

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growing closer.

prompts for characters getting to know each other.

• “i don't think you realize how much people notice you.”
• “you don't seem particularly trusting. then again, maybe neither am i.”
• “you have a habit of appearing at interesting moments.”
• “you strike me as someone who trusts their gut. am i wrong?”
• “i've noticed you always leave before everyone else.”
• “i think you enjoy keeping people guessing.”
• “you seem restless.”
• “it's strange how you can be surrounded by people and still feel alone.”
• “have i ever told you that you're difficult to read?”
• “you look like you haven't slept.”
• “you know this place well enough that i'm starting to wonder if you've always lived here.”
• “do you ever worry about the kind of person you're becoming?”
• “i've known a lot of people. none of them were quite like you.”
• “i can't decide whether people truly change, or if they just become better at hiding parts of themselves.”
• “i had the strangest dream last night. do you remember yours when you wake up?”
• “the more i get to know you, the more i keep noticing little similarities between the two of us.”
• “i didn't realize you'd remember that.”
• “most people seem uncomfortable with silence. i never minded it much.”
• “you seem to know more than you're saying.”
• “you seem comfortable on your own. i wonder if that's the same thing as never feeling lonely.”
• “do you always look this serious?”
• “you're easier to talk to than i expected.”
• “i've always thought trust is harder to earn than people pretend.”
• “you always seem to be watching.”
• “i think you've been avoiding me.”
• “you're not at all what i thought you would be.”
• “whenever i ignore my instincts, i end up regretting it. what about you?”
• “i wasn't expecting to run into you again.”
• “i can't tell if you're someone who enjoys solitude or just tolerates it.”
• “i know it sounds childish, but i can't help believing some people are meant to find one another.”
• “you make a terrible liar.”
• “you don't strike me as the sort of person people forget.”
• “i think people underestimate you.”
• “i can't decide whether you're charming or frustrating.”
• “i don't think i've seen you smile before.”
• “i wasn't sure you'd come.”
• “it's a little strange. i think i've started looking forward to seeing you.”
• “sometimes i wonder if we ever really know anyone.”
• “you're surprisingly good company.”
• “i think most people would like to believe they're good. i'm not sure it's always that simple.”
• “i think being truly understood is a far rarer thing than people realize.”
• “i don't usually tell people this...”
• “you make that look easy.”

I saw an “OC Red Flag Bingo” floating around but it was not toxic enough for my needs so I decided to make my own LMFAO Feel free to use, but please credit me and link back to the original! :D (And @ me if you’d like—I’d love to see how bad your OCs can be!)

Answers for my main six below:

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the ultimate collection of jealous rivals losing it quietly (aka: “who’s that? no i’m not staring. shut up.”) dialogue prompts. adjust phrasing as necessary.) feel free to make edits to better suit your muse, but please don’t edit or add on to the original post <3 if you like, please consider supporting me through tips.

• “i don’t care who they’re with. it’s none of my business.”
    (translation: i’m going to stalk their insta in 5 minutes.)
• “you like them? oh. cool. totally not my business.”
    smiles through internal devastation
• “they’re not even your type.”
    “how would you know?”
    “…i just do.”
• “funny. didn’t know you liked boring people.”
    (bitter? me? never.)
• “you looked happy with them.”
    “were you watching?”
    “…no.”
• “just thought you had better taste.”
    “you mean like you?”
    “…shut up.”
• “what’s so special about them?”
    lowkey hates anyone that makes you smile that way
• “you’re allowed to flirt. just don’t expect me to pretend it’s cute.”
• “you know they’re only into you because you’re hot, right?”
    “and what about you?”
    “…irrelevant.”
• “wow. they’re really all over you.”
    “jealous?”
    “…no. why would i be?”
• “i hope they make you happy.”
    (said in the tone of someone who does not, in fact, hope that.)
• “i liked it better when you only hated me.”
    (quiet realization hitting hard.)
• “i was going to tell you something tonight.”
    “you still can.”
    “…it doesn’t matter anymore.”
• “is that who you’re smiling at now?”
    (ouch.)
• “go. enjoy your date. i won’t wait up.”
    (he’ll definitely wait up.)
• “no, i don’t want to talk about it. just… go back to them.”
• “i shouldn’t care. but i do. and it’s pathetic.”
• “i know we fight a lot. but seeing you with them felt worse than every argument we’ve had.”
• “just tell me you don’t feel anything for me. so i can finally let you go.”
• “i want to hate them. but they make you smile. and i love that smile more than i hate anything.”

i’d  beat  him  bloody  for  the  way  he  talks  about  you.
   —    TOXIC RELATIONSHIP DIALOGUE PROMPTS  .

prompt list by @arialpng !

• 〝 okay. yeah. keep yelling at me. get it out. it’s aaall my fault. 〞
• 〝 you’re not listening to me! you never do! 〞〝 says the one who never lets me get a word in. 〞
• 〝 i kept you around because you were supposed to love me! you were supposed to want me and nothing else! clearly that’s not longer the case, so … i don’t know what to do anymore … maybe you should just go. yeah! go! everyone else did so what do i care if another one does! 〞
• 〝 if you had just done what i’d said i wouldn’t have to do this to you. 〞〝 then don’t, please don’t … 〞
• 〝 oh i know all about love. i know how it twists and distorts and breaks and withers and dies. and that is how i know i love you. 〞
• 〝 you know i’d never do this to you, right? i wasn’t thinking straight. i’m sorry, baby, let me make it up to you. 〞〝 you said that for the third time this month. 〞
• 〝 oh aren’t you a sweet, obedient little pet? 〞
• 〝 nothing i do will ever be enough for you, will it? 〞 〝 no, because i tell you what i want from you and you just can’t help but do something else. 〞
• 〝 you bring out the worst in me, you know that? and yet … you’re so delicious. 〞
• 〝 why aren’t they with me right now? 〞〝 it’s their first off day in a while, man, they’re out with their friends. 〞〝 and why aren’t they spending their free day with me? who do these friends of theirs think they are? 〞
• 〝 i don’t care if it burns, i need you to touch me, please, i have nothing left to lose, not even you. 〞
• 〝 why do you always make me out to be such — such a monster? please just tell me what’s wrong i’m trying my best — 〞〝 not hard enough! 〞
• 〝 you’ll be fine, it’s not a big deal. 〞〝 i just got lied to by my best friend, who is now with my ex. how can you say it’s not a big deal? 〞〝 honey, how do you think this relationship was built? 〞
• 〝 oh, darling, you’re telling me all this time you seriously deluded yourself into thinking you had any sort of hold on me? yes, it was cute when you’d convince me not to punch that guy’s teeth in, the serious look you had on your face like we were playing a tug-of-war with our eyes. i enjoyed handing myself over for once, but let me be absolutely clear; i handed you a paper leash, my dear. and i’ll bite it right out of your hands over and over and over again until you finally decide you’ve had enough poison for a lifetime, then i’ll make sure it will be the last thing you’ll ever taste. 〞
• 〝 i wasn’t scared of you! never! i love you! so i did what i needed to do. if you kept going out and seeing all those people i knew you’d eventually convince yourself i wasn’t the one but i had to protect you from the lies i knew you’d repeat in your head if i’d let you go on like that! i know you love me, i know you do, that’s why i know you’ll forgive me for whatever i’m going to do next. it’s for our future! everything i’m doing and have done is for us, my love. nothing and no one else! 〞

yearning.
subtle signs of want.

eyes tracing over their features while they're turned away, catching on their eyelashes fluttering against their skin, the slope of their nose, the curve of their lips.

hands brushing, fingertips twitching, savoring the sparks that ignite from touching them, and resisting the urge to chase after it.

hanging onto their every word, engraving the sentences they speak into their very bones.

bodies in close proximity, focusing on how electric the air is, and being hyperaware of how their heat is searing itself into their skin.

idealizing them, imagining them in their fantasies, thinking repeatedly about their best qualities.

having them constantly on their mind, finding reminders of them in the most mundane of daily activities.

a tightness in their chest, an ache in their body at the thought of what they don't have.

leaning in to gaze at them better, taking note of every little detail, every new addition to their appearance, and staring like they'll slip through their fingers if they ever look away.

staying silent when the topic is brought up, too fearful to broach it in case of rejection, or maybe just unwilling to fully commit, and merely returning to their longing afterward.

overthinking what they say, what they do, desperate for the other's attention, just to have their eyes on them.

being unable to believe that what they feel could ever be returned, becoming complacent with the absence in their chest despite its heaviness.

many people sharing the writing post today... hard to keep up with..... know my universal advice:

• if it sucks you should still write it
• if it'll be unfinished you should still write it
• if you never share it you should still write it
• if it's not a linear fiction adventure you should still write it
• if you will have fun writing it you should write it :)

FACIAL MICRO EXPRESSIONS FOR WRITERS <3

writing characters with one eye

i can pretty much guarantee that ↑that↑ is not a heading you see everyday.

now i will not be giving advice on writing cyclopses, (though it may be sort of the same thing) i still hope this will be helpful for some people out there that are looking to provide a more diverse cast to their wip!

i have never ever ever read a book, watch a show movie etc etc that involves a character with one eye. (aside from those badass characters who wear eye patches bc they lost sight in one eye in some badass way)

for context: i am one of many people who was born with microphtalmia, an eye disease that results in one or both eyes develope smaller than normal at birth. i myself was born with a smaller left eye, which resulted in my left eye being removed exactly twenty days after birth.

microphthalmia (along with many other eye diseases) typically leads to being half or fully blind. i lucked out and only lost my left eye which i am so so thankful for.

i would really really love to see more representation for my community in literature, especially so people would come to see that being half blind isn’t as unusual and weird as people make it out to be.

without further ado, i present to you, a list of information, facts, and first hand experiences from yours truly!

• i’ve had prosthetic eyes made to fit my eye socket for about fifteen years (i’m 16 lol) (the first 6ish months after the surgery i never had a prosthetic)
• in my life i’ve had four different prosthetic eyes made because just like other people, my eye socket grew alongside the rest of me, meaning the prosthetic needed to be made bigger
• i’ve had my current prosthetic for four years now, the past ones lasted about 2-3 years at a time. this one will probably last me through the rest of my life unless i need/want a new one
• as opposed to most media/assumptions, my prosthetic (along with most prosthetics) is PLASTIC (people always think it’s glass) and only half a circle!!
• i’ve had three surgeries related to my eye
• i do not have depth perception which makes doing certain things very difficult (estimating distance, how close/far i am from something etc)
• driving is not affected too much, i just have to turn my head more than other people. i believe being blind in the right eye might be more difficult, but i couldn’t say
• doing my make up is kinda easy, except for eyeliner is a pain in the ASS since most people close their eye to do it on their upper lid, but clearly i can’t close my right eye whilst doing it lol
• my family as well as my friends and even myself often forget i have a prosthetic, which sometimes results in awkward/funny situations
• i hate walking with people on my right bc i can’t tell where they are unless i’m constantly looking down at my/their feet
• i sucked at basketball bc i had such a disadvantage (no depth perception, i could only see half the court, i was constantly turning my head) but professional swimming is much easier for me since it’s not a contact sport and doesn’t really require for me to be paying attention to a million things at once
• i rarely have to take my prosthetic out, and if i do, it’s either to clean it, (we do get eye crusties on our prosthetics just like other people do when they have pink eye or sever allergies) it’s bothering me/really dry, or i want to take it out to show/scare people lol
• a lot of people don’t realize when i first meet them that it’s fake bc my recent prosthetic is amazing accurate to my real eye. others notice and assume i have a lazy eye since it doesn’t move
• for some reason people think i can’t cry out of my left (prosthetic) eye??? i still have a tear duct??? i actually think more tears come out of my left tear duct than my right lol
• i am extremely self conscious about it, but i know there are other one-eyed beauties out there who aren’t which is amazing!! i try to live vicariously through them lol
• i make sooo many jokes about my eye lol, and i’m usually ok w other people making jokes as long as they aren’t like overly rude/offensive, then i’ll feel a lil bad about my self
• people never really made fun of it, but kids in middle school likes to wave things in front of my left eye/on my left side that i couldn’t see which got really annoying after a while
• getting custom designed prosthetics are available, but they’re really expensive (so are normal lol) they costs thousands of dollars, just like other prosthetics do
• i run into things that are on my left side ALL THE TIME it’s actually kinda funny lolol
• i try to hide my left eye/turn more to my left side in photos bc my eyes aren’t always looking in the same direction, which really gets to me
• i wear glasses for both protection and bc my right eye is -1.75 lmao but i did used to wear non-prescription glasses purely for safety
• i do have contacts to wear during the summer, swim meets etc, for when i don’t want/can’t wear my glasses but need to see. bc of this, i have a second pair of glasses that have no prescription
• if doctors/scientists managed to figure out a way to fix microphthalmia (a birth defect), or do a sort of eye transplant, i would not be able to have that done to me because all parts of my left eye have been removed from my body
• microphthalmia is NOT the only disease that results in the haver losing sight in one or both eyes!! there are many others, but it is not my place to share any experiences for something i have not experienced!!!
• for once i just want to see a clumsy character who has one eye that WASNT a result of some tragic event.
• so please please please consider including a character with one working eye in your wip. it would mean the world to myself and all the other members of the community (there’s a lot of us, trust me) plus, i wouldn’t mind starting an acting debut playing a half-blind female protagonist, that would be so dope.

that’s about all i can think of for now! please send an ask or reply to this post if you have any questions, i’m willing to answer any!!! and if you happen to be a member of the one eye club, please add to this post!! that would mean the world to me:)