I Resist the Muses

Prompt#8 - When I'm feeling blue, all I have to do...

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((OOC))
Character: Arianna Wallis
Fandom: Anita Blake/Amber Chronicles OC

Open in journal entry

002 - Family
003 - What Are Your Thoughts On Love?
004 - What Song Best Describes You And Why?
006 - What Makes You Lose Your Temper?
007 - What Was Your Greatest Loss?
008 - When I'm Feeling Blue, All I Have To Do
009 - What Makes You Laugh?
010 - My Life Would Be Better If...
011 - What Do You Want?
012 - Cooking
013 - Are You Superstitious?
014 - What Do You Dream About?
015 - Mistaken Identity
016 - What Moment In Your Life Would You Like To Relive?
017 - What Is The Best - Or Worst - Advice You Have Ever Received?
018 - What Was Your Most Embarassing Moment?
019 - In Your Time Of Need, Who Will You Turn To?

It doesn't take a whole lot to get me all stirred up. Just ask anybody who knows me. I've felt angry almost all my life at something or another. I guess I just want things ta be all fair and even, and they just ain't. Most people avoid me when I'm angry. They know I'm off somewhere shootin' cans or choppin' wood and it's best ta just let me be.

( *locked from everyone* )

I can't think about this no more. *picks up some cans* I'll be outside.

( When I'm feeling blue, all I have to do... )

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((OOC))
Character: Lily Coleens
Fandom: Original Character
Prompt: When I'm feeling blue, all I have to do...

Open for RP or Comments here

5. What is your greatest fear?
6. What makes you lose your temper?
7. What was your greatest loss?
8. "When I'm feeling blue, all I have to do..."
9. What makes you laugh?
10. My life would be much easier if...
11. What do you want?
12. Cooking
13. Are you superstitious?


[Any and all are open for comments.]

Some sadness can be cured simply by listening.

Character: Celena Ducayne
Fandom: The Decay of Dreams; Original Character
Word Count: 197
Rating: PG-ish for mentions of pharmaceuticals
open for roleplay or comments here

Tea. It’s the answer to everything. At least, it allows you six minutes to stop and collect your thoughts. After the water has boiled and the tea leaves have steeped and you’ve added cream and sugar or honey and lemon, the caffeine rush is a welcome aid. You’re a little calmer, a little more awake, a little more prepared to deal with whatever it is you’re confronted with, be it models, deadlines, or the super villain rampaging down main street.

When I'm Blue... We Spar...


Muse: Samantha Halliwell-Turner
Fandom: Original Character/"Charmed"
Words: 200

My partner and I have a wicked sense of humor. Most people think he's too uptight to laugh at just about anything, I have seen him fall out of his chair with laughter. I often catch him laughing at his own private jokes.

True, it's a very dry sense of humor, but one none the less.

Lately, I'm having a harder time finding things to laugh about. War will do that to you, you know. It has a way of stripping away the things that really matter. Why should I laugh when I just spent two days killing thousands of separatists?

Maybe it's because there's less and less time between leave and deployment. There hasn't been ANY in weeks -- except for this hotel that I can't seem to escape from.

Actually, it's not so bad here.

When I feel down after work, I usually go to the dance clubs downtown so I can forget my life and how much it sucks. I can forget the nagging co-worker, the deaths I have to bring about as part of my job and just how empty everything is. The pulsing music and the lights in these clubs can't help but cheer me up, especially when I deal with ladies dressed up all prettily. Flirting with them is a welcome distraction.

Sometimes I can't stand being around people though, so I sometimes meditate and talk to my god. It doesn't exactly cheer me up, but it does distract me and give me something to focus on other than how I am feeling.

...is shoot myself in the head.

Sorry, but that's how I feel at times.

Schuldig stares at the page in his composition notebook for five minutes, then gets up to see what's new in the shared bathroom's medicine cabinet.

Well, when I was still in high school one of my favorite things to do was to think about how much more intelligent I was than the annoying, idiot jocks who beat me up. I always reminded myself that when I grew up I would be making a lot more money than them because I would be a brilliant doctor like my Gran always told me that I would be.

I held onto this belief all the way until after medical school. After my residential work, I found that I really did not enjoy that type of work and decided to settle on an academic career, which wasn't as well paying certainly. In fact, I was only an assistant professor and well, I didn't last long because my teaching methods were...questionable.

I was still probably far more intelligent than those idiots ever were and that still made me happy. Especially since I had a doctorate. That continues to give me great joy.

...And I also like finding victims to scare and making them scream when I'm down, but that is something to speak of on another day.

I...do not know what to say to say to this. I have been "sad" in the past I suppose, but it was never that passive sort of "feeling blue" that others describe. I am disappointed and angered more often than saddened. In fact, I do not remember the last time I allowed myself to indulge in being sad if ever.

That's very simple. I play a game of solitare to pass the time. Maybe if I'm on base I go down and have a snack in the mess hall. Sometimes I exercise; depending on where I'm at it could be push ups, walks, or even lifting weights. Freeing a soul from an Akuma also helps out a lot. Anything simple that I can do to keep my hands busy and to be moving forward in some fashion really.

Jade Dragon
Original Character
Prompt #8: "When I'm feeling blue, all I have to do…"

I go outside and try and immerse myself into nature w hen I'm feeling blue. It is best in a more rural area but even here in the city there are places that are sure to cheer me up. Parks are wonderful little oasis in the midst of the desert of city life.

I love to feel the breeze against my skin. I love being amongst the trees and hearing the songs of the birds. The songs are different here yet in some ways they are nearly the same.

Even the strangeness of the natural world here is a comfort to me. The energy is not so different from that of nature in my world. Standing in the center of a stretch of woods or even a park, I can close my eyes and imagine that I am home.

Getting touchy feeling now aren't we? I never did like talking about these kinds of feelings without alcohol.

( ... )

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I punch something, or some one.

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I work on R2-D2.

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I visit Padme.

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I let it go into the Force like I was taught. It never seems to work though.

Cassandra Marshall Prompt #8 when I'm feeling blue…"
World of Darkness: Vampire The Requiem
120 words

I don't really feel blue all that often, I am a vampire remember. I'm above that sort of thing. Okay, t hat isn't entirely true. I have my moments. I guess I have the tendency to run away and sulk a bit. Not for too long of course. The last time I was in a funk and wanted to escape I had a friend stake me and put me into torpor. It was kind of funny really. I told him it was for an experiment, poor Rick.

If I need cheering up though and I actually want to be cheered up hunting almost always does the job. Sex helps to. Blood and sex are two of my very favorite things.