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likeabulldozer ([personal profile] likeabulldozer) wrote in [community profile] thingsthatshine2016-01-16 11:00 pm
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Open Post 2016 2017 Edition



Pick one of my characters or drop any of your characters in and get a random choice.
Pick a scenario or use RNG (or make one up if you don't see what you want here).
Have fun!




I. Roadtrip

1. BREAK DOWN. Oh snap. Your car decided to break down out in the middle of nowhere. WHAT DO? Is that Leather-face? Will this be "Children of the Corn"?
2. HITCHHIKERS? Is this even a good idea? Threads may also have a third participant. Go wild.
3. WHAT THE FUCK DID I JUST HIT? Dude, I hear deer mess up cars... Or I think that was a deer...
4. DON'T MAKE ME TURN THIS CAR AROUND. Alas. You're the parent or disgruntled friend who has had it up to here with all the fighting in the back. This thread may also have a third or even fourth participant, if you can wing it.
5. OMG, I WANT TO TAKE A PICTURE OF THIS LANDMARK! No, no, and no. You tell that person that they're going to be driven around and they're going to like it.
6. THE GREAT ESCAPE. Either dinosaurs or the moth-man is chasing you. Don't stop now.
7. MAKE OUT. For whatever reason, the person you're traveling with in the car. You would love to make out with them and then some.



II. Cuddles

1. SWEET DREAMS. It's been a long day and all you want to do is sleep or just rest your eyes for a bit. Hopefully whoever is close by doesn't mind if you use them as a blanket.
2. STORMY WEATHER. The heavy rain, thunder, and lightning won't be letting up anytime soon. Luckily, it's the perfect weather to stay indoors and snuggle up close and keep warm.
3. SLOW DANCE. It's the end of a party, or maybe it's only the two of you, but the tempo is slow and the lights are low. Let your dance partner take the weight and just sway.
4. SURPRISE ATTACK. Time to invade someone's personal space. Are they working too much and need a distraction? Maybe you just wanted to brighten their day. Either way, they won't see it coming.
5. MOVIE NIGHT. It can be on the sofa or in a darkened theater, but you've got your popcorn and someone to settle against during your favorite movie.
6. I LOVE YOU, MAN. It's totally platonic, really. You're just very good friends, no matter what people like to think. But you just love your friend so much you want to hug them, whether they like it or not.
7. JEEPERS CREEPERS. Welp. You were just frightened. Was it a spider in the washroom, a ghost in the attic, a bad dream? Either way, you're looking for someone to cling to right now, and who better than that person right there?
8. HURT AND COMFORT. Whether you're sick in bed, just been dumped, or suffered a traumatic event, you need someone to wrap their arms around you and make everything go away.
9. SUNDAY MORNING. Maybe you just had a wild night. Maybe there's just not enough space at your place and you need to share your bed. Or maybe you just got really tired and someone else happened to be there. Doesn't matter because now the person with you looks way more comfortable than any blanket or pillow. Drape to your heart's content.
10. MOMENT AFTER. You just had incredible, vigorous sex and if you weren't a cuddler before, you are now. You're probably too exhausted to do anything else anyway. Just enjoy the moment.
11. PLAYER'S CHOICE. Pick one or make up your own!




III. Hurt/Comfort

1. INJURY. You've been injured. Broken bones or bleeding out or maybe just a tiny little paper-cut. The choice is yours.
2. SICKNESS. You're sick and laid up in bed, at home or in a hospital. The severity is up to you.
3. FEAR/ANXIETY. Something is happening and you're scared beyond belief.
4. LOSS OF SENSES. Sight, touch, taste, hearing, smell, etc. You've lost some important sense or ability and now you're left to deal with it.
5. DESPAIR. Nothing is good or right anymore and you can't shake the depression. Maybe that friend of yours can help though.
6. MAKE UP. Fight or break up, it's time to make up.
7. RESCUED. You've just been held captive and/or tortured for however long and finally, someone has come to the rescue.
8. BAD ROMANCE. Fight, cheat on, abuse, whatever the case is, someone else can clearly see you need comfort from someone who isn't your terrible lover tonight.
9. LOSS. You've experienced a loss of some kind and need help getting through it.




IV. Texts from Last Night

1.Go here
2. Make Magic happen




V. Intimacy

1. PHYSICAL INTIMACY. It might just be innocent touches or it might be foreplay.
2. LONG CONVERSATIONS. Honest words can be more intimate than touch.
3. DRUNK. You're over-sharing or simply maudlin.
4. FORCED INTIMACY. Magic. A truth serum, whatever - you didn't mean to bare your soul, but that is precisely what you're doing right now.
5. SLOW-DANCING. There is something inherently intimate about trusting someone else to lead you, and someone trust you to lead them.
6. OTHER. Intimacy can come in many forms. Pick your poison.




VI. SENTINEL GUIDE
Prompts
oo1. The Meeting:
How did you meet? Was it at an event organized specifically for finding your other half? By accident? Did you follow a mystical calling to them? Some other way?

oo2. Rejection:
Sometimes Sentinels or Guides propose a match but it's just not perfect. You don't feel the pull or maybe you think there is someone better or maybe you're already claimed. Maybe you were claimed and someone better came along?

oo3. Protection:
Sentinels are meant to protect Guides, any Guides, but it's even worse when they feel their Guide is in danger. They go feral; blind to anything but stopping and killing whoever threatened their Guide or the bond. Maybe someone attacked your Guide or you haven't bonded yet and you feel threatened or maybe you're the one doing the threatening. Whatever the reason, Sentinels in a feral state are dangerous and only their Guides can stop them.

oo4. Lost:
Sentinels often lose themselves in their senses. Either you're a Sentinel who has lost themselves or a Guide that has stumbled on one or a friend trying to draw them out. Unbonded Sentinels will find it hard to escape without a Guide. Or maybe you're bonded already which means you just need yours to come home.

005. Persecution:
Sometimes normal people or the government fear the power of Guides and Sentinels. Guides are empaths, feeling the emotions and sometimes passing thoughts of others and it can make people feel violated. Sentinels often have enhanced strength, which can make them dangerous. So they scorn them, hurt them or in the case of governments, regulate them.

oo6. Old-School:
Guides used to be treated on the same level as slaves. Unable to work unless their Sentinel said. Not allowed out on their own. They used to wear collars and couldn't own land or inherit money. Maybe the old ways haven't completely fallen out of style.

oo7. Unbonded:
Nothing sucks more than being an unbonded Guide or Sentinel. Always looking for your other half to fill that empty feeling but you probably have friends that aren't your match or who are trying to set you up with someone. Maybe you're skeptical about the whole love at first sight thing and haven't been looking.

oo8. Wildcard: Some mish-mash of the above or anything else you can come up with!



Other Options
Don't like any of the above? Here are some other options:
1. Picture Prompt: go here or any of your other favorite picture sites. Leave me a few pictures and I'll set something up.
2. Pick a prompt from this prompt tumblr or try googling OTP prompts
3. Insomnia! One or both of you can't sleep. Be awake together.
4. Leave me a scenario, lyrics, a word or a quote
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[personal profile] littlefaith 2016-11-17 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
Ideally, they would be married now. Since Maggie's wedding, she's thought about that a lot. Of course, they can't have that idyllic life now and Beth knows that, no matter how much it hurts. They could get married though. Most of the time, it doesn't bother her that Derek hasn't asked. She assumes it's because things have been crazy, because something always seems to be happening, because survival is so much more important than a ceremony that would be entirely meaningless legally because there is no government anymore. She knows it's silly, but she still wants to marry Derek. More than anything that isn't survival.

She tries not to think about ideally because if anything can get Beth down, it's spending too much time thinking about things that she can't have anymore.

And Beth will be happy without what they can have because she loves Derek. He gives her something to survive for.

She laughs a little at him, shaking her head. "Sorry, they were out of boyfriend scented soap at the store." She wishes Maggie were around for a lot of reasons. Derek's reason is a very good one. No, she's got no idea that Hershel had anything to do with she and Derek getting together. It wouldn't surprise her thought. Her father had wanted both she and Maggie to be happy. He'd wanted to make sure they wouldn't end up alone and she is so crazy in love with Derek, she knows he loves her the same way. It doesn't matter that it'd taken a nudge from her father.

She wrinkles her nose a little at the mountain man comment. "I think we both smell that way," she says with a sigh. That sigh turns into a smile as she watches Derek strip his shirt off. She will never, ever get tired of looking at him. She curls her fingers into the palm of her hand, an unconscious little gesture that keeps her from reaching out to touch him. "Of course. You'd wonder if I'd lost my mind if I just jumped in."

She does start to unbutton her shirt as she watches him though.
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[personal profile] duelo 2016-11-17 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
Derek laughs in spite of himself as he unzips his jeans and drags them down — which only takes effort because they're so thickly caked with gunk that they're stiff. It certainly isn't because he's gained weight lately, in fact, quite the opposite. As a wolf, Derek is a pretty great hunter...but even the greatest hunter can only do so much when the game is limited to damn near nothing. "What kind of store runs out of boyfriend-scented soap? Come on, Beth."

He manages to get the jeans off and smirks over at her before he starts toward the water. "I know you do, anyway," he says with feigned disgust before wading into the creek. "You know, you're probably right. I would wonder who you were and what you'd done with the love of my life. It's nice, come on," he replies, reaching his arms out for her, still only standing about knee high in the water, stripped down to his boxer shorts.

Of course, his assessment of the water, as it always is, is flawed; werewolves run warmer than humans and, on top of that, he's exaggerating to get her in the water. If he told the truth — it's fucking freezing — she'd never come in with him on her own.
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[personal profile] littlefaith 2016-11-17 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
Yup, she's still enjoying the strip show. They're both too skinny, but pretty much everyone in existence now is too skinny. It's part of living in the world that they live in. She shrugs. "I don't know, but they've definitely lost my business."

She slips her shirt off, laughing as she lets it drop to the ground. She unbuttons her jeans and starts wiggling out of them. They're a little less gross than Derek's simply because he usually does any of the gunk collecting work that has to be done. She suspects that he's lying about how nice the water is, but she can't resist the lure of his arms, or of being clean.

Well, she'll curl up against him in the cold water and eventually she'll get used to the temperature. He can help her get warm afterwards. Stripped down to her underwear and bra, she jumps into the water, squealing and already seeking Derek's warmth. "You're such a dirty liar," she laughs breathlessly.
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[personal profile] duelo 2016-11-17 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
Beth getting into cold water is maybe one of Derek's favorite things in life. It's impossible not to laugh and be all that much more in love with her. She's not the type to wade in slowly type; she's the kind that likes to jump right in and the way that she always squeals and hurries to the warmth of his embrace never ceases to make him happy.

"Oh, don't be such a baby," he teases her and he pulls her up against him, knowing that she's searching for his body heat to make up for the cold water. He leans down then to kiss her. Derek hums against her mouth, a soft and contented sound. It only life could always be like this. Kisses and playfulness. Derek likes to pretend sometimes that the creeks and rivers and ponds and lakes aren't their only source of bathing, but that they're here because they're young and in love and why not, because it's fun. He wishes that was true.

Parting from the kiss, he smiles. "Warmer now?"
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[personal profile] littlefaith 2016-11-17 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
She knows that she ought to be quiet, that she ought to avoid squealing, but she also knows that Derek would tell her if there was anything in hearing distance to be worried about. She's never been the type to wade in slowly. Jump in and get acclimated. It's the only way to go. That fact that this makes Derek happy is just a cherry on top.

She's already curling up against him, shivering as he pulls her up against him, his arms wrapping warm around her. She tiptoes up into the kiss, loving the way he hums against her lips. It's the best sound. She wants their whole life to be like this as well. This would be a perfect life. She runs her hands over his shoulders and down his back as they kiss. They are young and in love and it is fun. Maybe that can be enough, though Beth is always going to want more than this. She knows Derek will too. Maybe that's part of being in love as well.

"Much," she chirps, snuggling against him a little more. She lays her head on his chest a moment then looks back up at him. "Soap is still out there."
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[personal profile] duelo 2016-11-17 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Beth always feels so small and fragile in Derek's arms, but the good thing about that is that Derek gets to always feel like he's protecting her, even when there's nothing to protect her from.  He relishes the way his girlfriend feels in his arms and with her head on his chest. It makes him feel important and sometimes Derek needs the reminder that he is.

When Beth looks up, Derek feels the movement and looks down. His expression drops with her words. "Really, Beth? Really?" he asks, feigning upset — some days it would've been genuine annoyance; they're not perfect and of course they fight once in a while. But he has a good feeling about today and nothing is going to get him down — as he sighs. "Who's the worst, now?" he teases as he starts to disentangle himself from her to go get the damn soap.

"Stay there, I'll be right back," he promises, moving back toward the bank to get out of the water.
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[personal profile] littlefaith 2016-11-18 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
By contrast, Derek always feels safe and strong when his arms are wrapped around her. When Derek is holding her, Beth can believe that they might really live to see old age. He is so very important and maybe he's only important to Beth, but he is the most important thing in her whole life.

Everyone fights, but today is too good to ruin with a fight over something so petty. She raises her hand. "Me. I'm the worst," she says, not sounding terribly upset about this. As soon as he starts disentangling himself, Beth's arms wrap around herself to hold in that warmth he left behind.

"You know," she says as he gets out of the water. "I just do this so I can look at your butt!" She's even going to forget about the shivering for a moment so she can admire her boyfriend's good qualities.
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[personal profile] duelo 2016-11-18 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
Her willingness to almost gleefully admit to it makes Derek laugh as he makes his way out of the creek and toward Beth's bag.

At her comment, Derek barks another laugh and looks over his shoulder. "That a fact?" he asks and bends conspicuously and intentionally — unnecessarily so — to get the soap out of her bag before heading back to the water again. "I'll remember that," he points out to her with a smirk as he hands the soap to her. Derek always lets Beth wash first because he's always a lot more disgusting. Now that she knows he's a werewolf; that he can do things that humans can't, he tends to do more of the grunt work and more of the walker fighting and killing, simply because he can't be infected. He heals too fast. They can try to kill him, but he's stronger than people; he's sure as shit stronger than dead people.

If Derek dies in the apocalypse, it won't be because of a walker.

"Next time, I'm making you get the soap," he says, but he never will; he always says that.
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[personal profile] littlefaith 2016-11-21 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
She knows what she's doing here. She loves making Derek laugh.

"Absolutely a fact," she tells him, grinning at the way he bends over. She is so absolutely in love with Derek. Just seeing him makes her feel giddy. She takes the soap with a murmured thank you, and stretches up to kiss him quickly before she crouches in the water, braving the cold water so she can get her entire body wet and later up with the soap. It's not until she scrubbed her whole body that she ducks her head under water to get her hair wet. Once upon a time she wouldn't have dreamed of washing her hair with soap, nor would she have dreamed of washing it without following up with conditioner. Now, she practically salivates at the idea of getting her hair clean no matter how she does it. Once her hair is soaped up, she passes the soap over to Derek and works her fingers through her soapy hair.

Before she ducks her head back under the water to get the soap out, she takes a deep breath. Just a few more minutes and she'll be on the bank, wrapping up in a blanket.
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[personal profile] duelo 2016-11-22 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
Half of the reason Derek lets Beth bathe first is because he's always more grimy than she is and he'd rather her get to use the soap before he gets it all gross — soap is not self-cleaning, in Derek's opinion — but the other half is because the water is always so cold and if she washes first, then she can get out and get warm while he's washing rather than the other way around. Being warmer-blooded than a human has plenty of uses and not freezing his ass off waiting for Beth to get clean before he can even start is one of them, because Derek will always, always put Beth first.

He waits for her to finish and then reaches a hand out for the soap. "Go get warm, beautiful," he tells her. "I'll be out in a few minutes. Do you want to take a break and eat something before we go?"

Not that there's much to choose from. They'd found a house about a week ago and they'd stayed for a few days. Long enough to filch what little was left in there that was non-perishable. Long enough for them to dry out some of the meat from the deer he'd killed them for their meal. There's jerky and there's...canned food. Those are pretty much the options they have at the moment, but it's still something, after all. Something is better than nothing.
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[personal profile] littlefaith 2016-11-26 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
She appreciates both of those things. Sometimes she feels bad about letting Derek take care of the dirty work, but he's better at it and it's safer. She knows both of those things. She also knows that Derek is more interested in keeping her alive than he is making sure the work is split evenly. Besides, she helps out in other ways. She helps to set up camp and to scavenge for the both of them. She tries to make Derek's life better every day. She hopes she succeeds because he makes her life better simply by existing.

She can't help but smile at his compliment. She leans in to brush a kiss against his cheek as she hands the soap off. She shakes her head at his question. "Let's keep going. We can have a late lunch." She's still hoping they'll find a house as well.

Without any more procrastination, she dashes for the bank, scrabbling in her pack to pull a blanket out and wrap it around her then parks herself on the bank to watch Derek.
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[personal profile] duelo 2016-11-27 06:28 am (UTC)(link)
As far as Derek is concerned, Beth could sit on her ass and look pretty for the rest of their lives and he would be just as happy as he is when she's doing her part. He really never asks her help unless he needs it, but he never rebukes her when she offers. Derek doesn't want her to feel like she's under-appreciated. But just being there, that's enough for Derek. Knowing that she loves him is more than enough to keep him happy.

"Sounds like a plan," he agrees, watching her fondly as she scurries up out of the water to dry off. Derek slips beneath the surface of the water to wet his hair and comes back up shaking the excess water out of it before rubbing the soap over his head to start a lather. It's easier for Derek with his shorter hair.

He gives his girlfriend a smile when he sees her watching him. "I haven't smelled a walker in like two days…" he realizes aloud. "Maybe we finally found the sweet spot."