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[ID:  cut-outs of the Defenders, draw in in shades of grey in cartoony style;  the cut-outs are set on a floorboard-like background.  First on the left is Jessica Jones on blue paper, holding her camera;  then to her right Daredevil in his TV horned suit, snarling and holding  his batons on a magenta background; then Colleen Wing and Danny Rand on a  green background. Danny is powering up his fist and Colleen is  brandishing her katana. To their right on a yellow background, holding a  chain and with his hood up, Luke is smiling. Finally, Frank is holding a  coffee cup and wearing his Punisher vest with the skull, on a white  background. His dog is sitting at his feet. They are all very cute even while trying to look fierce! End ID]

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Nautika on AO3, nauticalypso on tumblr   
- Rick Astley - Never gonna give you up   
- Trust   
- Bodyswap: somehow, Matt and Frank find themselves in each other’s bodies the morning of the trial where Matt is supposed to represent Frank in court.    
- “Amen & Attack” by Powerwolf https://youtu.be/KmqgRAXygDg
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DJ Clawson   
- It would be cool to have a fic where Danny does something that genuinely impresses the other Defenders and gets some respect for it
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context-is-for-kingpins on Tumblr   
- Eye   
- “I don’t have resting bitch face, I’m just a resting bitch.” -My brother    FIGHTING by SAINTS OF VALORY (https://www.google.com/amp/s/genius.com/amp/Saints-of-valory-fighting-annotated)
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whitchry9 on AO3, ijustreallylovedaredevil on tumblr   
- Bethlehem by Semler (https://genius.com/Semler-bethlehem-lyrics)   
- autistic    
- Dreams shouldn’t have just one meaning. Not dreams that big and not dreams that important. (From The Unsleeping City, a dimension 20 d&d series)
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Politik   
- I Know the End (Phoebe Bridgers)   
- Siren   
- “It’s not easy when what you think of me is important, and I know it shouldn’t be so important” Julien Baker/“Good News”   
- Chiles (food or restaurant, take your pick)
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lovetincture on AO3/Twitter/Tumblr   
- “Play with Fire” by Sam Tinnesz / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr0z14pG49E    Gasp   
- “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” - Annie Dillard   
- “Slow Dancing in a Burning Room” by John Mayer? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32GZ3suxRn4)
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FunkyBetsy on tumblr and AO3   
- Soft   
- Hurt/comfort whump
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StripedScribe on AO3 + Tumblr   
- In A Week by Hozier https://genius.com/Hozier-in-a-week-lyrics   
- Skeleton   
- Daredevil and the people he meets on patrol - civilians, other vigilantes. Not fighting, but the things they do to help each other   
- Image prompt https://fern-and-bone.tumblr.com/post/653710952462794752“
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inkforhumanhands (tumblr & ao3)   
- "Ziptie” by Julien Baker. https://genius.com/Julien-baker-ziptie-lyrics   
- peacock   
- “So many people will do. But once you’ve actually been in love, you can’t live with “will do”; it’s worse than living with yourself.” - Andrew Sean Greer, from “Less”
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Tumblr: mitch-pell  AO3, Dreamwidth, LJ, FF.net: mitchpell    
- Just Cause I Love You by Avery Anna https://genius.com/Avery-anna-just-cause-i-love-you-lyrics   
- Taboo   
- Carnival   
- Profession sports event or concert.
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AO3: thebeespatella, twitter:thebeespatella_, Tumblr:the-bees-patella   
- Future Starts Slow - The Kills (https://genius.com/The-kills-future-starts-slow-lyrics)   
- Anthropology   
- “I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.” - JRR Tolkien, foreword to The Fellowship of the Ring
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‘maniskordaze’ on tumblr and ‘givemesomewings’ on ao3   
- ‘10/10’ by troye sivan! https://youtu.be/xGSaPto0ZXY   
- tension   
- “Some things are meant to happen, just not meant to be. Some things are meant to come into your life, just not meant to stay.” - Trent Shelton   
- my free prompt is the song ‘note to self’ by mariah the scientist (i couldn’t find a lyric video so i attached a link with the lyrics instead: https://genius.com/Mariah-the-scientist-note-to-self-lyrics)
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Tumblr: unkind-ofravens, ao3: UnkindOfRavens, Twitter: unkind_ofravens   
- Someone needs to not go to an event alone    “I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”–F. Scott Fitzgerald
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SoulfireInc on Tumblr & AO3   
- The Horror and the Wild + The Amazing Devil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUFRAriKBko   
- Disabled   
- Trapped in rubble/buried after an explosion   
- “That creaking you hear in my bones, it’s not pain, it’s applause” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOp74PhjVMM&ab_channel=lyricsandstufflyricsandstuff   
- “Yes this guy does look like Foggy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg5judX8lyc
Lyrics here (scroll down to Heave Away) https://www.musicglue.com/the-eskies/lyrics”
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DowneyStarkJr (Tumblr), JOKERSTARK (Ao3 and Wattpad) and DowneyStark(YouTube)   
- All I have to give (by Hurts) https://youtu.be/1Jq_kjsD4BE    Protect     “Sometimes you’ve got to do what you think is right, and damn the consequences.” - BBC Merlin   
- A Little Bit of love (Tom Grennan)- https://youtu.be/SsdkvYdSzlg
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Anna-hawk on Tumblr / AnnaHawk on AO3   
- Break the spell by Daughtry https://www.lyricsreg.com/lyrics/daughtry/break+the+spell/   
- Someone keeps eating their favorite snack (yes, food is a theme for me)   
- “I need you to know, I would never be this strong without you.” From the song Control by Zoe Wees.
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Tumblr: gracenm / AO3: LilyEllison (GraceNM for Kastle) / Instagram: pagemurdock   
- committed   
- Two characters meet under very different circumstances than in canon (tropey AU, canon divergence, etc.)   
- “Call me friend but keep me closer.” Billie Eilish, When the Party’s Over   
- “as we forgive those who trespass against us” - The Lord’s Prayer
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Tumblr: Unwanted-Animal  Twitter: YourBoswell  AO3: Johniarty   
- Sounds of Someday - Radio Company https://youtu.be/un2AAqNCYtw   
- Mirrored   
- Frank doesn’t kill Billy.   
- https://youtu.be/0XLdxxJEB80
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Bleedxblack on Ao3, bleedxblack-ao3 on Tumblr   
- Petal by Every Time I Die. Deeply emotive song about grief, the singer almost losing his wife and daughter in childbirth, very poetic. Link: https://youtu.be/LXgTYWndBuk   
- A/B/O universe where an omega member of the team goes into heat during a critical moment for the group   
- Intubation/extubation
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katbelle @ AO3, katbelleinthedark @ Tumblr   
- Post-series, Matt and Foggy run a busy practice so they sometimes take cases solo. During one of those cases, Foggy apparently presents forged evidence in court(?!) and gets disbarred. Matt is determined to figure out which villain set Foggy up and why, while Foggy starts dressing like a hobo and behaving suspiciously. Ah, and somehow they also come into the possession of an 8-year-old girl that starts calling Foggy “daddy” and really, Matt should NOT be finding this both adorable AND sexy. (You may be asking, is this disbarred!Phoenix Wright scenario? Yes, it is.) Make it cracky and funny and ridiculous. Matt and Foggy definitely have feelings for each other, but they don’t have to fess up.
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siriuslyyellow (Tumblr, AO3, Twitter, DreamWidth, etc.. I use AO3 and Twitter the most out of those!)
- First   
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Enthusiasm Girl on AO3, enthusiasmgirl on Tumblr   
- “… you need a license to buy a dog. You need a license to drive a car. Hell, you even need a license to catch a fish. But they’ll let any butt-reaming asshole to be a father.” - Todd in the movie Parenthood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31pQOiclaTo&ab_channel=JULIEeTOD   
- Another scenario/situation: What if it turned out that Rosalind Sharpe really was Foggy’s biological mother in the Netflix universe? Make it work in canon.
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gelishan   
- Muse: Undisclosed Desires (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8OOWcsFj0U )   
- Knowing how hard it hurts when we fall / we lean another ladder against the wrong wall, and climb high, to the highest rung / to shake fists at the sky!  Others have excuses / I have my reasons why.  (Is using song lyrics cheating?  I hope not.)
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SandyEffingFrank (tumblr & ao3)   
- Beautiful Hell - Adna -https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DrNN6y5AsfNg&ved=2ahUKEwizn6upubnxAhWEbs0KHbztAAkQxa8BegQIBxAE&usg=AOvVaw1msdWazHLRC34asEnFUjNd   
- Allergies   
- Literally anything with Brett Mahoney!
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these-violet-delights-fic on Tumblr, these_violet_delights on AO3   
- Man of La Mancha sung by Linda Eder, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpXNniqJml0   
- Bucolic   
- Stung by a bee   
- “Whisper a dangerous secret to someone you care about. Now they have the power to destroy you, but they won’t. That’s what love is.” ~ Cecil Palmer, Welcome to Night Vale
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c_doves on AO3, confusedandhopeful on tumblr   
- Fuckin’ Perfect by P!nk   
- positivity   
- I told you, I don’t want to join your super secret boy band.    
- Touch starved and seeking out touch while trying to be stealthy/excuses
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iithril on AO3   
- Pray, by the Amazing Devil // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xO5SPRlVDU // Lyrics: https://genius.com/The-amazing-devil-pray-lyrics   
- Someone needs to take dance lessons, and it’s not quite going as planned.     
-  “I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.” Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea “
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Tumblr:  matt-murdok, ao3: AsperJasper   
- Strawberry Mentos by Leanna Firestone   
- Distortion
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hotfrogboy on tumblr and ao3 now jackboxjesse on tumblr   
- poacher’s pride, nicole dollanganger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p4C6UXFyN0   
- constellation   
- trans matt murdock trans matt murdock trans matt murdock-
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MissMoochy   
- What Difference Does It Make by The Smiths: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_F5c_qlB44   
- Trust   
- “My God,’ he gasped, ‘you’re fun to kiss."  ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night   
- https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-imBC5QTxnbM/Wv8CFFs7DdI/AAAAAAAAA9M/fu8ymd0X–gfUO2XZL2EyVwZyITXwAoMwCLcBGAs/s1600/NelsonHemlock.jpg
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pomegranate-belle on tumblr, 94BottlesOfSnapple on AO3   
- Earth-65 - Gwen and Murderdock forced to work together   
- “I thought I could hide in a mask… in the backbeat of music like this… but there’s no hiding from the sound of your own voice.” — Gwen Stacy, Spider-Gwen #32   
- Non-human Matt AU
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brittlestars on AO3; metaderivative on AO3 and tumblr
- "Sound of an Orchestra” by MIKA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUfLf5r1svw   
- A character gets a second chance - do they make a different choice? Is the outcome changed?   
- “…how little ground there can be to hope that men may be reasoned out of their errors, when in fact they were never reasoned into them, but adopted them from prejudice, passion, or policy.” Lyman Beecher, paraphrasing Jonathan Swift.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2n_2piY69k
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tumblr barionyx , twitter vvofurs, ao3 spinosaur   
- an accidental text to the wrong person
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“brandywine421” on Ao3, “brandywine422” on DW, b-421 on tumblr   
- someone wakes up in a strange place with no memory of how they got there and their toenails are painted.  (I never know what to put here.)   
- “Forgiveness is the well that all of my water comes from.  I pour it over my past, apologize to my reflection.  He accepts."  Rudy Francisco    
- Song - "Show Them Who It Made You” - Kai Straw (https://youtu.be/8OMvd5IldfM)
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thelonebamf on AO3 and twitter, amazing-spiderling and ask-nelsonandmurderdock on tumblr   
- Story   
- Foggy takes an art class to broaden his horizons, whatever that means   
- “Can I come inside, please? It’s really cold out here.” - Lucas the Spider

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Anonymous Music Prompts
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soajzjWBaKU “The Devil is my Running Mate” cover by Shawn James
- LCD Soundsystem - New York I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down - https://youtu.be/ZGQCzDqnSyY (lyrics in video)
- Bling (Confession of a King)’ by The Killers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xagvv6R7WVM,https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858627359/ (just for the mood, it doesn’t have to be taken literally)
- When Do I Get To Sing My Way - Sparks, pointing to music video at https://youtu.be/C8dqCQ2MHfQ
- Sanctify - Years & Years (https://youtu.be/f5prsdA12Cs)
- Simon & Garfunkel - The Only Living Boy In New York (https://youtu.be/5biEjyXNa2o)
- “Be Kind” by Marshmello and Halsey (https://youtu.be/flEc35foIg0)
- Hurt - Johnny Cash version, video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHCfZTRGiI , lyrics at https://genius.com/Johnny-cash-hurt-lyrics
- Straight Razor by Matt Maeson, https://youtu.be/vsXK2VSZCvE
- Photos from When We Were Young by Nana Grizol (lyrics: https://www.google.com/amp/s/genius.com/amp/Nana-grizol-photos-from-when-we-were-young-lyrics )
curses by the crane wives : https://youtu.be/gEhuGPXxRrA
- Condemnation - depeche mode https://youtu.be/bjG7MhfeQRA
- Fighting For? by Roots Manuva Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZjAN6YX6l8  Lyrics: https://genius.com/Roots-manuva-fighting-for-lyrics
- Low Roar - Breathe In [ https://youtu.be/JUdTyB6LX5M ]
- You’re gonna go far kid by offspring
- Seven Devils by Florence + The Machine   https://youtu.be/OJNnZy9yTJ0
- Beat the Devil’s Tattoo - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn9C1vKd7Gc
- Coming Down by Halsey (Lyrics are here: https://genius.com/Halsey-coming-down-lyrics)
- Hanni El Khatib - Come Alive (song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ60iKYQabk) (lyrics: http://www.songlyrics.com/hanni-el-khatib/come-alive-lyrics/ )
- “Super Charger Heaven” Rob Zombie, lyrics in description https://youtu.be/SRshPCM9lhk
- New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
- Flyleaf — All Around Me, lyrics: https://www.google.com/amp/s/genius.com/amp/Flyleaf-all-around-me-lyrics
- the mask by matt maeson (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKV3nM_IFlQ)
- Two men in love - The Irrepressibles https://genius.com/The-irrepressibles-two-men-in-love-lyrics
- Gravitate to Me - The The, short version at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2pbJYVkVQ0 , full version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1Oh1EXEuq4 , lyrics at https://genius.com/The-the-gravitate-to-me-lyrics
- Pumpkin by the Regrettes
- The Problem with Frank by Czarface
- flatsound - by your side [ https://youtu.be/_sjpeRu9U4w ]
- Talking old soldiers by elton john
- “Worry About You” by 2am Club https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT7O_-NR4KA&ab_channel=2AMClubVEVO

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Anonymous One-Word Prompts
Hands
Dancing
Uncontrollable
Favour
Kiosk
mirror
enough
Rollercoaster
College
feast
Blind
burns
locked
Fractured
Benausic
vertigo
Cryptid
magic
monsters
Crutch
underground
Rout
Fogwell’s
Family
Paper

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Anonymous Scenario Prompts
- The Defenders (core four) decided they need a break and take a single night out to themselves. (Board games, carnival, bar, idk) They swear it’ll be totally normal. (Whether it is and they spend the night on their toes anyway or they end up getting kidnapped or something else entirely is up to you.)
- Matt’s dark glasses hide the chemical burn scars around his eyes. People have … mixed reactions when they see him without the glasses on. Matt, of course, doesn’t need to hear what they’re saying to get an idea of what they’re thinking.
- An inspired hook-up with a potential to be something more (or not!). Explicit scenes are not required, General Audiences hints are fine.
- Heat stroke or heat exhaustion, avoiding it or dealing with it.
- DD vol. 3 missed opportunity: Matt, finding himself in a monkey’s paw situation as Foggy loses weight with illness, acknowledging he has been cruel and fatphobic to Foggy, and now wants to apologize and make amends. Can be either shippy or gen
- Being protective over someone they love, either from a real or percieved danger
- A Foggy-centric story where Foggy’s the one who gets to be the hero/saves the day. Scale of the problem is up to the author, but the situation is definitely more Daredevil-appropriate. Basically, I’d love to see Foggy well outside his comfort zone, but in the end, gets to have his own big hero moment.
- Chuck E Cheese
- Matt is tired of waking up alone, he just wants there to be someone else there that understands when he has nightmares
stuck in an elevator
- Matt and Frank and an injured dog. Can be fratt, can be gen, can be any rating
- Forbidden love in the monastery
- Trapped in a bunker
- all of the defenders have worked with frank individually, but they dont know that the rest of the defenders have.  the defenders and frank have to team up and hilarity ensues
- Frank castle in thigh highs.
- Matt in the snow. Maybe he’s caught in a blizzard? Maybe foggy dragged him on a trip to the mountains? I love seeing him in the snow and in the comics
- meet the family
- Vacation road trip
- An unexpected visitor
- a day off
- Zombie AU (I think I’ve prompted this before but I never go one, so here we go again)
- power outage
- Bullseye loses his memories and becomes a Defender for a day.
- Hogwarts au
- Star Wars xover where Matt is a Jedi
- The Defenders go camping, with as many of the side-kicks, friends, and significant others as feels appropriate
- interactions between the defenders associates (foggy, claire, colleen, malcolm, ect) and the defenders?
- almost kisses

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Anonymous Quote Prompts
-“Then over my head the red timbers floated,
my feet were slippers of fire, my voice
crashed at the truth, my fists
smashed at the flames to find the door–
wicked and sad, mortal and bearable,
it fell open forever as I burned.”“ - Mary Oliver, ”“The Fire”
- “You must strive to find your own voice because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are going to find it at all.” - John Keating (Dead Poets Society)
- “Sonnet To Homer by John Keats
Standing aloof in giant ignorance,
Of thee I hear and of the Cyclades,
As one who sits ashore and longs perchance
To visit dolphin-coral in deep seas.
So thou wast blind; – but then the veil was rent,
For Jove uncurtain’d Heaven to let thee live,
And Neptune made for thee a spumy tent,
And Pan made sing for thee his forest-hive;
Aye on the shores of darkness there is light,
And precipices show untrodden green
There is a budding morrow in the midnight,
There is a triple sight in blindness keen;
Such seeing hadst thou, as it once befel
To Dian, Queen of Earth, and Heaven, and Hell.”
- “How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.”
― Alexandre Dumas (The Count, which has one too many good quotes)“
- “If we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known.”
- Tim Kreider”
- “Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.” ― Bryan Stevenson
- “If you want to forget a person / maybe the heart needs to hold a bit of resentment.” - “Superpower” by G.E.M. (it’s a song in Chinese, but English translations are available online, if you wanted to check out the context.)
- “Is that too much to expect? That I would name the stars for you?” - Richard Siken
- Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today? That with Estragon my friend, at this place, until the fall of night, I waited for Godot? That Pozzo passed, with his carrier, and that he spoke to us? Probably. But in all that what truth will there be? - Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
- “No one can give you your life back, you have to take it back” (Matt to the boy in a wheelchair he’s representing in Defenders
- ‘(I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.)‘ —Allen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in California
- “We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.”“
Orson Welles”
- Serena Williams: “I decided I can’t pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.”
- “Do not think I underestimate your great concern” Sylvia Plath, Lady Lazarus
- I will face god and walk backwards into hell. (I’m pretty sure this is a dril tweet)
- “We know that it’s over now
I feel my faded mind begin to roam”“ [The Killers - Goodnight, Travel Well]”
- “People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” -George Orwell
- “When you’re in the room you get my eyes” (The Neighbourhood, Softcore). (for Matt, feel free to sub in ears for eyes l o l)
- “A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.” from The Handmaid’s Tale book by Margaret Atwood.
- “Ghosts do not happen alone. Ghosts are made
from rooms and glass and cherry trees. They lie down and become
horizons. You see by them.
You remember. ”
https://www.memorious.org/?id=440“
- a city is a place constantly giving birth to itself. —Erin Taylor
- "Here’s what I think. I think maybe everybody falls. I think maybe we all do. And I don’t think that’s the asking. I think the asking is whether we get back up again” - Patrick Ness (Dialogue from The Knife of Never Letting Go. full quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/174681-here-s-what-i-think-i-say-and-my-voice-is)
- “What I adore
is a bug that lives only one day, especially if
it’s a terrible day, a day of train derailment or
chemical lake or cop admits to cover-up, a day
when no one thinks of anything else, least of all
that bug. —Natalie Shapiro”
- “you always see us at our worst. At our ugliest. You forgive us and tell us we can do better. And more and more lately, we believe you” -scott snyder
- “I will never let you fall,  I’ll stand up with you forever, I’ll be there for you through it all
Even if saving you sends me to heaven”“ -  The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Your Guardian Angel ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRehmX3zlwE )

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Anonymous Free Prompts
- https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DgvEUFhUwAA-iJz.jpg [L'Ange Dechu/ The Fallen Angel by Alexandre Cabanel]
- https://www.instagram.com/p/CMAQxuLlKq-/?The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park theater (Delacorte) has resident raccoons. This picture is one of many.
- https://64.media.tumblr.com/68e7ba84d2fd7ffc551232471c72ff70/aa874dba5ade9426-41/s1280x1920/267f13f7199d6586fc2cf9056bc0ade97fc0a97e.png
- Just one? D:  https://64.media.tumblr.com/078aae7bf918332a686dd4779df2a2d2/tumblr_osc0sk9wfi1tc7itxo1_1280.jpg