(Rather Belated) Emergency Substitute Prompt Post
Er... yes. I was supposed to post these yesterday but couldn't for the life of me remember the login... anyway! Here, have a few prompts to tide you over for the week.
Quotes
"Systems don't change easily. Systems try to maintain themselves, and seek equilibrium. To change a system, you need to shake it up, disrupt the equilibrium. That often requires conflict."
- Starhawk, The Spiral Dance
"The adolescent years of any fairly intelligent youth lie open, and will always lie healthily open, to the contagion of philosophical doubts, or scorns and new ideas, and I will confess I had the fever of that phase badly. Doubt, I say, but it was not so much doubt - which is a complex thing - as startled emphatic denial. "Have I believed this!""
- H. G. Wells, In The Days Of The Comet
"You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind."
- Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, Dune, by Frank Herbert
"I have to believe in a world outside my own mind. I have to believe that my actions still have meaning, even if I can't remember them. I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. Do I believe the world's still there? Is it still out there?... Yeah. We all need mirrors to remind ourselves who we are. I'm no different... Now... where was I?"
- Leonard Shelby, Memento
"Listen, it's too big a world to be in competition with everybody. The only person I'm out to beat is who I am right now. And in your case, that's tough enough."
- Col. Sherman T. Potter, M*A*S*H
About You
What kind of climate would you prefer to live in? Does your daemon agree with you on this?
What's the most frightening thing you've ever done on purpose? How'd that work out?
What's the first thing you, or your daemon, remembers clearly?
Do you dream in color? Black and white? Sepiatone? Something else? Are any of your senses different in your dreams than they are when you're awake? Do you share in any of your daemon's abilities when you're asleep?
Did you ever run away from home, or seriously consider the prospect?
Write About
Moving to a new home
Learning (or forgetting) an important skill
A major test
Discovering you were wrong about something
Quotes
"Systems don't change easily. Systems try to maintain themselves, and seek equilibrium. To change a system, you need to shake it up, disrupt the equilibrium. That often requires conflict."
- Starhawk, The Spiral Dance
"The adolescent years of any fairly intelligent youth lie open, and will always lie healthily open, to the contagion of philosophical doubts, or scorns and new ideas, and I will confess I had the fever of that phase badly. Doubt, I say, but it was not so much doubt - which is a complex thing - as startled emphatic denial. "Have I believed this!""
- H. G. Wells, In The Days Of The Comet
"You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind."
- Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, Dune, by Frank Herbert
"I have to believe in a world outside my own mind. I have to believe that my actions still have meaning, even if I can't remember them. I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. Do I believe the world's still there? Is it still out there?... Yeah. We all need mirrors to remind ourselves who we are. I'm no different... Now... where was I?"
- Leonard Shelby, Memento
"Listen, it's too big a world to be in competition with everybody. The only person I'm out to beat is who I am right now. And in your case, that's tough enough."
- Col. Sherman T. Potter, M*A*S*H
About You
What kind of climate would you prefer to live in? Does your daemon agree with you on this?
What's the most frightening thing you've ever done on purpose? How'd that work out?
What's the first thing you, or your daemon, remembers clearly?
Do you dream in color? Black and white? Sepiatone? Something else? Are any of your senses different in your dreams than they are when you're awake? Do you share in any of your daemon's abilities when you're asleep?
Did you ever run away from home, or seriously consider the prospect?
Write About
Moving to a new home
Learning (or forgetting) an important skill
A major test
Discovering you were wrong about something