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Dear MAGNE7IC writer,
First of all, thank you for writing a story for me! I really like most everything so I'm really excited to read whatever you choose to have fun exploring/writing.
These are my general reading preferences (favourite aus, things I like, as well as my will-not-read/squicks list) and crossover/side-character suggestions.
Note: please feel free to mix and mash and meld these prompts however you like, as well as using them simply as starting off points for your own ideas. I know a lot of these prompts are gloomy/serious but I also like funny and light-hearted things!
1. What I would like MOST is if you could take any of your WIPs lying around and finish one of those, because I'd love to be surprised and I'm sure you'd love a chance to finish one of your pet projects. The only thing I'd ask is that it not be a WIP that has anything on my will-not-read/squick list. Thank you!
2. these two coffee shop aesthetic tweets:
JB
Text:
JR
Text:
He's reading the book IT by Alexa Chung.
Description:
If you wanted to add the song Glitter (Spotify YouTube lyrics) that would be extra cool but totally optional.
completely optional but potentially inspirational brainstorming:
I think jr is a book reviewer/fashion blogger/literature person maybe
independently wealthy
but estranged from his parents
probably hangs around people like alexa chung because of his job
fun conversations but nothing profound
he notices the brokenness under the glitter of the people around him.
and then he meets jb
also wealthy but more business oriented
not the social media/fashion/party circuit
very "ok but coffee first"
quiet but goofy
they clash terribly
3. This mark/jackson kabedon photograph where Mark looks more curious than anything else:
and bonus:
4. person A is really excited about the idea of aliens when they start getting strange communications from a random source that might be aliens, but they're all in rap/haiku (you pick) and honestly what is up with that? rap aliens? that might be the coolest thing ever if it's legit.
5. inspired by the song/video for Crack the Shutters by Snow Patrol.
Open interpretation or something about the tiny parts of a relationship.
6. Historical au inspired by this photo art of Fan Bingbing
You can make it reincarnation or plain historical or change it into space au or do whatever you like!
7. ex machina trailer information - there's a new project with person a scientist, person b employee act as a test interactor, and person c the A.I. but what defines human consciousness? what is real? what is false? note: use as much or little of the au as you want; feel free to take it in a horror or romance or sci-fi direction.
8. dennou coil!au - in a future where everyone lives immersed in a digital super-layer of reality viewed via the glasses they always where, a group of children investigate a flaw in the system that might lead to the truth. what is real? what is love? what are feelings? is it real if you can't feel it? note: feel free to change whatever you like and they don't have to be children.
9. inspired by the life of García Lorca. person a is a brilliant film maker in a group of artistic friends, but affections are not always returned and love can lead to betrayal. optional: character death. notes: feel free to set this however, wherever, any time
10.person a is a student who works as a telemarketer to pay for tuition, a job which he hates. On one of the last calls before the end of the night (it's very late), he calls a house/apartment and the one answering is in the midst of a big crisis (health (major allergy/appendicitis, heart problem, asthma?) or emotional (major panic attack, suicide attempt?)).
11. inspired by 4post - We are the stars -
One person is a kindhearted university student (in psych or counselling) doing a free hugs project (standing in a public place) for a period of time as a study. The other person is having some trouble at/with school.
Bonus: Jackson is the "hugger".
Double bonus: make this Jackson/Namjoon (BTS) or have Namjoon somehow involved as friends or something.
12. open interpretation:
Home Wrecker
WRITTEN BY OCEAN VUONG
And this is how we danced: with our mothers’
white dresses spilling from our feet, late August
turning our hands dark red. And this is how we loved:
a fifth of vodka and an afternoon in the attic, your fingers
sweeping though my hair—my hair a wildfire.
We covered our ears and your father’s tantrum turned
into heartbeats. When our lips touched the day closed
into a coffin. In the museum of the heart
there are two headless people building a burning house.
There was always the shotgun above the fireplace.
Always another hour to kill—only to beg some god
to give it back. If not the attic, the car. If not the car,
the dream. If not the boy, his clothes. If not alive,
put down the phone. Because the year is a distance
we’ve traveled in circles. Which is to say: this is how
we danced: alone in sleeping bodies. Which is to say:
This is how we loved: a knife on the tongue turning
into a tongue.
13.Paper Valentine by Brenna Yovanoff!au - it's a hot summer and person a's best friend has just died. there's a serial killer on the roam. feel free to change everything/anything and you don't have to read the book - getting inspired by the synopsis is fine!
14. Inspired by this real Japanese service. There's a kind of paid escort service where a client pays a hot guy to come and make them cry before wiping away their tears. Person a is a seasoned veteran but he's used to getting only female clients, so when he arrives and meets person b, he's surprised.
15. inspired by this Tumblr text. Open interpretation or person a neutralizes powers and person b is being detained due to losing control.
16.NELL the day before mv lyrics
Prompt idea: Person a is a documentary filmmaker tasked to film person b's life story.
Note: please take the mv/song/lyrics/book sections, discard which ever parts you don't want and run with the rest. Feel free to disregard the prompt idea above as well
Note: in the mv a clear liquid is poured into the coffee. Just to clarify, most coffee shops in Korea provide simple syrup as sweetener. This is NOT necessarily poison.
Note: Lee Minki's character in the mv is reading a book: John Berger's And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos (1984). The camera zooms up on the first parts of section 1 (below), the other sections are other pages that show up briefly in the mv.
# section 1
3. Leaving
pain
cannot
endure long enough
tracks vanish
under snow
the white embrace
of leaving
I have tried to write the truth on trains
without an ear
the tongue takes fright
clings to a single word
the train is crossing a bridge
black ice collects
on each letter
SAVA
my river
# section 2
We woke up in a friend's house where there was a piano. We had slept on a mattress on the floor. The piano was in the room below. The two children of the house were playing an exercise before going to school. An exercise for four hands. Sometimes they stumbled and began the phrase again. If ours were the eighteenth century, when questions opened idly like doors onto gardens, I might ask you: Do you remember? But in our century, when only evil and indifference are limitless, we cannot afford unnecessary questions; rather, we need to defend ourselves with whatever there is to hand of certainty. I know that you remember. The two children were playing lightly and dutifully and the notes filled the house. You were lying with your back to me, your breasts in my hands. Neither of us stirred. The music commanded a little listening and we listened—just as one can gaze at the wallpaper in a hotel room without really looking at it. Waking up to that music played lightly and dutifully by the children before going to school was the nearest we shall ever be, my heart, to waking up at home before we left.
# section 3
A VIEW OF DELFT
In that town,
across the water
where all has been seen
and the bricks are cherished like sparrows,
in that town like a letter from home
read again and again in a port,
in that town with its library of tiles
and its addresses recalled by Johannes Vermeer
who died in debt,
in that town across the water
where the dead take the census
and there are no vacant rooms
for his gaze occupies them all,
where the sky is waiting
to have news of a birth,
in that town which pours from the eyes
of those who left it,
there
between two chimes of the morning,
when fish are sold in the square
and the maps on the walls
show the depth of the sea,
in that town
I am preparing for your arrival.
# section 4
What reconciles me to my own death more than anything else is the image of a place: a place where your bones and mine are buried, thrown, uncovered, together. They are strewn there pell-mell. One of your ribs leans against my skull. A metacarpal of my left hand lies inside your pelvis. (Against my broken ribs your breast like a flower.) The hundred bones of our feet are scattered like gravel. It is strange that this image of our proximity, concerning as it does mere phosphate of calcium, should bestow a sense of peace. Yet it does. With you I can imagine a place where to be phosphate of calcium is enough.
17.Inspired by otsuichi's GOTH PLEASE DEVIATE AS MUCH AS YOU LIKE/EXTENSIVELY
Person a has a habit of meeting murders and getting mixed up in their lives, but person b keeps them in their sight, though person a seems to come out okay. But will person b ever step in if necessary? (feel free to write whatever)
Bonus: junior high or high school or university would be fun but anything is great
18. person a is in a long-term happy relationship with person b. person a also is an avid (your choice or real or invented) MMORPG player and in the course of their game play they end up forming a partnership and getting "virtually married" to an online player, person c, with the knowledge of person b. but after a while, considering the amount of time person a spends interacting with person c, person b gets curious and wants to meet them. what happens next?
19.Purity Ring - Lofticries song and music video
image (into the past)
“Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.
Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.
Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.
Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.”
― Yoko Ono
20. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs music video and song, the video is from scenes taken from the short film "Scenes from the Suburbs"
clip from the film the Watchmen
image (solder with gun in city, ambulances)
We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.
— Robert Oppenheimer
21.Garbage - tell me where it hurts music video and song
image (garden gate)
Madame Anais: I have an idea. Would you like to be called "Belle de Jour"?
Séverine Serizy: Belle de Jour?
Madame Anais: Since you only come in the afternoons.
Séverine Serizy: If you wish.
— from the 1967 film Belle du Jour
22.Placebo - Bosco
image (sunrise in the city)
poem Je t'adore à l'égal de la voûte nocturne by Charles Baudelaire (with English translation)
23. Jin Akanishi - Mi Amor music video and song
Miyavi - Itoshii Hito music video and song
image (father and baby hand)
All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood - all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience.
— Penelope Cruz
24. Placebo's Exit Wounds music video lyrics
two people holding hands (photo)
“Still, being alone doesn't mean you have to be miserable. In that sense it's different from losing something. You've still got yourself, even if you lose everything else. You've got to have faith in yourself and not get down just because you're on your own.” ― Yōko Ogawa, The Diving Pool: Three Novellas
25. dúné - dry lips
#Ghosttown #20 (photograph)
Childhood
For today
I am
Invisible -
These thin
Glass walls
Only break
When I
Breathe
Let's sit
Very quiet
And pretend
To be mice
10.03.2014
26.Halsey - Hurricane
mini heart tattoo (photo)
I am not a Sunday morning inside four walls
with clean blood
and organized drawers.
I am the hurricane setting fire to the forests
at night when no one else is alive
or awake
however you choose to see it
and I live in my own flames
sometimes burning too bright and too wild
to make things last
or handle
myself or anyone else
and so I run.
run run run
far and wide
until my bones ache and lungs split
and it feels good.
Hear that people? It feels good
because I am the slave and ruler of my own body
and I wish to do with it exactly as I please
―Charlotte Eriksson
27. [this was the original number 4, w/o the link] person a loses a dare and has to brush person b's teeth.
First of all, thank you for writing a story for me! I really like most everything so I'm really excited to read whatever you choose to have fun exploring/writing.
These are my general reading preferences (favourite aus, things I like, as well as my will-not-read/squicks list) and crossover/side-character suggestions.
Note: please feel free to mix and mash and meld these prompts however you like, as well as using them simply as starting off points for your own ideas. I know a lot of these prompts are gloomy/serious but I also like funny and light-hearted things!
1. What I would like MOST is if you could take any of your WIPs lying around and finish one of those, because I'd love to be surprised and I'm sure you'd love a chance to finish one of your pet projects. The only thing I'd ask is that it not be a WIP that has anything on my will-not-read/squick list. Thank you!
2. these two coffee shop aesthetic tweets:
Got7 jb cafe edition☕️
-Bree pic.twitter.com/mTzm5gRQ8F
— Got7 Aesthetic (@got7aesthetic) January 13, 2016Text:
| "Ok, but first coffee" |
Got7 jr cafe/coffee edition ☕️☕️
-Bree pic.twitter.com/naVTJBv3mF
— Got7 Aesthetic (@got7aesthetic) January 13, 2016Text:
"June 24, 2015 One small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day." |
He's reading the book IT by Alexa Chung.
Description:
 In It, her first book, the global fashion-trendsetter Alexa Chung shares her own very personal inspirations, musings and eclectic sense of style. A truly one-off collection of Alexa's writing, doodles and photographs, It combines stories of early style inspirations such as her grandpa and the Spice Girls, discussion of figures of obsession like Jane Birkin and Annie Hall, and reflects on heartbreak, how to get dressed in the morning, the challenges of taking a good selfie, and more. Interspersed with pages from Alexa's notebooks and many a photo of a good night out, It appears in real cloth, with hand-crafted marbled endpages covered in polkadots, stripy head and tail bands, and luxiouriously creamy paper. Witty, charming and with a refreshingly down-to-earth attitude, It is a must-have for anyone who loves fashion, worries about growing up, or loves just about everything Alexa Chung. |
If you wanted to add the song Glitter (Spotify YouTube lyrics) that would be extra cool but totally optional.
completely optional but potentially inspirational brainstorming:
I think jr is a book reviewer/fashion blogger/literature person maybe
independently wealthy
but estranged from his parents
probably hangs around people like alexa chung because of his job
fun conversations but nothing profound
he notices the brokenness under the glitter of the people around him.
and then he meets jb
also wealthy but more business oriented
not the social media/fashion/party circuit
very "ok but coffee first"
quiet but goofy
they clash terribly
3. This mark/jackson kabedon photograph where Mark looks more curious than anything else:
and bonus:
4. person A is really excited about the idea of aliens when they start getting strange communications from a random source that might be aliens, but they're all in rap/haiku (you pick) and honestly what is up with that? rap aliens? that might be the coolest thing ever if it's legit.
5. inspired by the song/video for Crack the Shutters by Snow Patrol.
Open interpretation or something about the tiny parts of a relationship.
6. Historical au inspired by this photo art of Fan Bingbing
You can make it reincarnation or plain historical or change it into space au or do whatever you like!
7. ex machina trailer information - there's a new project with person a scientist, person b employee act as a test interactor, and person c the A.I. but what defines human consciousness? what is real? what is false? note: use as much or little of the au as you want; feel free to take it in a horror or romance or sci-fi direction.
8. dennou coil!au - in a future where everyone lives immersed in a digital super-layer of reality viewed via the glasses they always where, a group of children investigate a flaw in the system that might lead to the truth. what is real? what is love? what are feelings? is it real if you can't feel it? note: feel free to change whatever you like and they don't have to be children.
9. inspired by the life of García Lorca. person a is a brilliant film maker in a group of artistic friends, but affections are not always returned and love can lead to betrayal. optional: character death. notes: feel free to set this however, wherever, any time
10.
11. inspired by 4post - We are the stars -
One person is a kindhearted university student (in psych or counselling) doing a free hugs project (standing in a public place) for a period of time as a study. The other person is having some trouble at/with school.
Bonus: Jackson is the "hugger".
Double bonus: make this Jackson/Namjoon (BTS) or have Namjoon somehow involved as friends or something.
12. open interpretation:
Home Wrecker
WRITTEN BY OCEAN VUONG
white dresses spilling from our feet, late August
turning our hands dark red. And this is how we loved:
a fifth of vodka and an afternoon in the attic, your fingers
sweeping though my hair—my hair a wildfire.
We covered our ears and your father’s tantrum turned
into heartbeats. When our lips touched the day closed
into a coffin. In the museum of the heart
there are two headless people building a burning house.
There was always the shotgun above the fireplace.
Always another hour to kill—only to beg some god
to give it back. If not the attic, the car. If not the car,
the dream. If not the boy, his clothes. If not alive,
put down the phone. Because the year is a distance
we’ve traveled in circles. Which is to say: this is how
we danced: alone in sleeping bodies. Which is to say:
This is how we loved: a knife on the tongue turning
into a tongue.
13.
14. Inspired by this real Japanese service. There's a kind of paid escort service where a client pays a hot guy to come and make them cry before wiping away their tears. Person a is a seasoned veteran but he's used to getting only female clients, so when he arrives and meets person b, he's surprised.
15. inspired by this Tumblr text. Open interpretation or person a neutralizes powers and person b is being detained due to losing control.
16.
Prompt idea: Person a is a documentary filmmaker tasked to film person b's life story.
Note: please take the mv/song/lyrics/book sections, discard which ever parts you don't want and run with the rest. Feel free to disregard the prompt idea above as well
Note: in the mv a clear liquid is poured into the coffee. Just to clarify, most coffee shops in Korea provide simple syrup as sweetener. This is NOT necessarily poison.
Note: Lee Minki's character in the mv is reading a book: John Berger's And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos (1984). The camera zooms up on the first parts of section 1 (below), the other sections are other pages that show up briefly in the mv.
3. Leaving
pain
cannot
endure long enough
tracks vanish
under snow
the white embrace
of leaving
I have tried to write the truth on trains
without an ear
the tongue takes fright
clings to a single word
the train is crossing a bridge
black ice collects
on each letter
SAVA
my river
We woke up in a friend's house where there was a piano. We had slept on a mattress on the floor. The piano was in the room below. The two children of the house were playing an exercise before going to school. An exercise for four hands. Sometimes they stumbled and began the phrase again. If ours were the eighteenth century, when questions opened idly like doors onto gardens, I might ask you: Do you remember? But in our century, when only evil and indifference are limitless, we cannot afford unnecessary questions; rather, we need to defend ourselves with whatever there is to hand of certainty. I know that you remember. The two children were playing lightly and dutifully and the notes filled the house. You were lying with your back to me, your breasts in my hands. Neither of us stirred. The music commanded a little listening and we listened—just as one can gaze at the wallpaper in a hotel room without really looking at it. Waking up to that music played lightly and dutifully by the children before going to school was the nearest we shall ever be, my heart, to waking up at home before we left.
A VIEW OF DELFT
In that town,
across the water
where all has been seen
and the bricks are cherished like sparrows,
in that town like a letter from home
read again and again in a port,
in that town with its library of tiles
and its addresses recalled by Johannes Vermeer
who died in debt,
in that town across the water
where the dead take the census
and there are no vacant rooms
for his gaze occupies them all,
where the sky is waiting
to have news of a birth,
in that town which pours from the eyes
of those who left it,
there
between two chimes of the morning,
when fish are sold in the square
and the maps on the walls
show the depth of the sea,
in that town
I am preparing for your arrival.
What reconciles me to my own death more than anything else is the image of a place: a place where your bones and mine are buried, thrown, uncovered, together. They are strewn there pell-mell. One of your ribs leans against my skull. A metacarpal of my left hand lies inside your pelvis. (Against my broken ribs your breast like a flower.) The hundred bones of our feet are scattered like gravel. It is strange that this image of our proximity, concerning as it does mere phosphate of calcium, should bestow a sense of peace. Yet it does. With you I can imagine a place where to be phosphate of calcium is enough.
17.
Person a has a habit of meeting murders and getting mixed up in their lives, but person b keeps them in their sight, though person a seems to come out okay. But will person b ever step in if necessary? (feel free to write whatever)
Bonus: junior high or high school or university would be fun but anything is great
18. person a is in a long-term happy relationship with person b. person a also is an avid (your choice or real or invented) MMORPG player and in the course of their game play they end up forming a partnership and getting "virtually married" to an online player, person c, with the knowledge of person b. but after a while, considering the amount of time person a spends interacting with person c, person b gets curious and wants to meet them. what happens next?
19.
image (into the past)
“Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.
Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.
Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.
Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.”
― Yoko Ono
20.
image (solder with gun in city, ambulances)
We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.
— Robert Oppenheimer
21.
image (garden gate)
Madame Anais: I have an idea. Would you like to be called "Belle de Jour"?
Séverine Serizy: Belle de Jour?
Madame Anais: Since you only come in the afternoons.
Séverine Serizy: If you wish.
— from the 1967 film Belle du Jour
22.
image (sunrise in the city)
poem Je t'adore à l'égal de la voûte nocturne by Charles Baudelaire (with English translation)
23. Jin Akanishi - Mi Amor music video and song
Miyavi - Itoshii Hito music video and song
image (father and baby hand)
All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood - all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience.
— Penelope Cruz
24. Placebo's Exit Wounds music video lyrics
two people holding hands (photo)
“Still, being alone doesn't mean you have to be miserable. In that sense it's different from losing something. You've still got yourself, even if you lose everything else. You've got to have faith in yourself and not get down just because you're on your own.” ― Yōko Ogawa, The Diving Pool: Three Novellas
25. dúné - dry lips
#Ghosttown #20 (photograph)
For today
I am
Invisible -
These thin
Glass walls
Only break
When I
Breathe
Let's sit
Very quiet
And pretend
To be mice
10.03.2014
26.
mini heart tattoo (photo)
with clean blood
and organized drawers.
I am the hurricane setting fire to the forests
at night when no one else is alive
or awake
however you choose to see it
and I live in my own flames
sometimes burning too bright and too wild
to make things last
or handle
myself or anyone else
and so I run.
run run run
far and wide
until my bones ache and lungs split
and it feels good.
Hear that people? It feels good
because I am the slave and ruler of my own body
and I wish to do with it exactly as I please
―Charlotte Eriksson
27. [this was the original number 4, w/o the link] person a loses a dare and has to brush person b's teeth.