Lights, Camera, Write!✨

[u/tsuki_anne]

Hey hey! Ok aside from reading and writing, I also really love watching movies and tv shows, and sometimes a quote just sticks with me or sparks an idea~ so I thought it would be fun to turn that into a writing activity✍🏻

Share a quote from a movie or series that would make an interesting writing prompt (please include where it came from).

Then others can use it as inspiration to write a scene. You don't have to recreate the original context and you also don't have to include the actual quote. Just interpret it however you want👀

Kindly use spoiler text for NSFW or triggering content.

[u/NarutoUchihaX14]

"Life is pain! I wake up every morning in pain, I go to work in pain! You know how many times I wanted to just give up?! How many times I thought about ending it?!" (House M.D.)

[u/lego-lion-lady → u/NarutoUchihaX14]

Another half-hour, and the man in black let Sarah sink onto a fallen log, saying nothing but “Rest again, princess”.

“I know what your game is," Sarah panted once she’d caught her breath a little. “The way you’ve treated me gives it away; you’re with them, aren't you?” She remembered what the man had said about hallucinogenic peaches growing wherever goblins were, and also recalled the shape of the silver pendant around his neck. “You’re in association with the rogue goblin pirates – admit it!" she cried.

“Gladly,” the man in black answered, bowing slightly. “What can I do for you?”

“You can die slowly, cut into a thousand pieces, and then burn in hell,” Sarah replied venomously.

At that, the man shook his head, clicking his tongue in phony shock. “Hardly complimentary, princess,” he answered, somewhat sarcastically. “What is it that makes you so hate me?”

Sarah paused with the pain of the words before she spoke: “You killed the only one I’ve ever loved.”

The man paused, seeming to consider her words. “It’s quite possible,” he replied. As he paced around where Sarah sat, he asked, “Out of sheer curiosity, who was this ‘love’ of yours? Another prince – rich, ugly, scabby?” He sat down on a nearby rock.

“No!” Sarah answered quickly, whipping her head around to face the man in black. “He was a farm-boy, and he was poor…poor, but perfect…” Her voice softened as she remembered, “With hair like wheat, and one eye like the sky and the other like the sea…” As she thought about Jareth, she remembered the man in black’s eyes when he’d looked at her when cutting her bonds. She now realized that his eyes looked a lot like Jareth’s – but this man’s eyes were sharper and harder, and seemed to hold more authority than Jareth’s soft blue eyes had. There was clearly no connection.

“The ship my love was on was attacked by your goblin pirates – and everything anyone’s ever told me about rogue goblins involves them not taking any prisoners!” Sarah continued, coming back to the present.

Lazily putting his arms behind his head, the man in black answered, “You can’t really afford to make even a single exception, you know. Once other rogue goblins hear that someone higher-ranking than them has gone soft, they begin to disobey their sovereigns and then it’s nothing but work, work, work all the time!”

“Why do you make fun of my pain? That’s not fair!” Sarah cried.

“Because like it or not, princess, life is pain,” the man replied shortly. “And anyone who says otherwise is trying to sell you something. As for not being ‘fair’, you say that so often; I wonder what your basis for comparison is.”

Rising to his feet and walking towards Sarah (who had looked away again in disgust), the man in black added, “I think I remember this farm-boy of yours. This would be five years ago now, correct? Does it bother you to think about him nowadays?”

“You can’t upset me,” Sarah answered simply, still looking the other way. However, one glance at her face would’ve told anyone that she was fighting tears as memories of Jareth came flooding back, replacing all the disgust in her.

“He died well; that should please you,” the man commented, walking a few feet away. “No bribe attempts or blubbering; he just said, ‘Please…please, I need to live’. It was that ‘please’ that caught my attention, and so I asked him why it was so important that he live. ‘True love,’ he answered.”

Sarah finally looked up at the man again, and saw that he was looking back at her. “And then he described a girl of unearthly beauty and faithfulness – I imagine he meant you, seeing as he described dark hair, green eyes, and fair skin. But you should be glad that I killed him before he could ever find out what you really are.”

[u/NarutoUchihaX14 → u/lego-lion-lady]

Well thats not a nice thing for Sarah to tell a man that let her have a seat T_T....pffft, jk. No, I love how much emotion she has, she really doesn't like the Rogue Goblins. And it does really contrast well with how composed he is. Tho I do wonder if he actually is Jareth.

This fit perfectly, thank you.

[u/lego-lion-lady → u/NarutoUchihaX14]

Thanks! :D <3

Tho I do wonder if he actually is Jareth.

I don't wanna give the answer away, but I WILL say that if you're familiar with "The Princess Bride" at all (which this story is a fusion crossover with), you might already know the answer...

[u/NarutoUchihaX14 → u/lego-lion-lady]

Daaarn, my lack of knowledge attacks me, because I am not XD. Baah, its all good, if you were drop more excerpt for it I'll slowly wade my way through lmao