A King Has Received The Standard Prophecy That His Youngest Daughter Will Be The One To Kill Him But

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Body Language

When someone is...

Sad

Face/Body:

Avoidant/reduced eye contact

Drooping eyelids

Downcast eyes

Frowning

Raised inner ends of eyebrows

Dropped or furrowed eyebrows

Quivering lip/biting lip

Wrinkled nose

Voice:

Soft pitch

Low lone

Pauses/hesitant speech

Quiet/breathy

Slow speech

Voice cracks/breaking voice

Gestures/Posture:

Slouching/lowered head

Rigid/tense posture

Half formed/slow movement

Fidgeting or clasped hands

Sniffing or heavy swallows

Self soothing gestures (running hands over the arms, hand over heart, holding face in palms, etc)

truly some people have no genre savviness whatsoever. A girl came back from the dead the other day and fresh out of the grave she laughed and laughed and lay down on the grass nearby to watch the sky, dirt still under her nails. I asked her if she’s sad about anything and she asked me why she should be. I asked her if she’s perhaps worried she’s a shadow of who she used to be and she said that if she is a shadow she is a joyous one, and anyway whoever she was she is her, now, and that’s enough. I inquired about revenge, about unfinished business, about what had filled her with the incessant need to claw her way out from beneath but she just said she’s here to live. I told her about ghosts, about zombies, tried to explain to her how her options lie between horror and tragedy but she just said if those are the stories meant for her then she’ll make another one. I said “isn’t it terribly lonely how in your triumph over death nobody was here to greet you?” and she just looked at me funny and said “what do you mean? The whole world was here, waiting”. Some people, I tell you.

ahhhhh master and margarita quote!!!!! and old silent movies title frame!!!!!! and red and black theme!!!!

HELLO AND YES :D!

The Master and Margarita is honestly one of my favorite books of all time. It's so horrifically funny and delightfully morbid. It's definitely not for anyone but it deserves more love imo

As for the silent movie title frame, I'm currently fostering an adoration for them sdhisjehehhe. They're just something incredibly charming about them that I can't quite articule

And red and black are just generally really fun duo ❤️🖤

anyway if dracula daily made you realize how great the book dracula is, please read jekyll and hyde, it's also extremely good. and the audiobook narrated by richard armitage is EXCELLENT.

sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

something something despite the all horrors and tragedies of the world, love was there and that's all that matters

we've never spoken before but this seemed fun :)

also have i gone insane or is an unspeakable of the oscar wilde sort a reference to maurice?

giggles

Some one take away my classic literature privileges ong 😭 cause what the fuck you mean I got a 'Of Mice and Men' hyperfixaton

People who write novellas must be absolutely going though it bc I've never read a novella that wasnt utterly devastating. These people really have Things to Say and whats more they do it in under 200 pages.