How To Create An Atmosphere: Train Station

How to create an atmosphere: Train Station

Sight

people patiently waiting for their trains, lost in their phones

passengers running down the platform to catch their train

someone struggling with all their baggage

small children running around

people waiting for their loved ones

a sad, but sweet goodbye

an excited and happy hello

people drinking and eating on the platform, waiting for their trains to arrive

people getting confused at the ticket vending machines

passengers waiting in line at the service desk to complain or to find a new route

people routinely checking the time and arrival of their delayed trains

Hearing

passenger trains arriving and leaving the station

the beeping of the doors opening and closing

the whistling of the conductor when the train is about to leave

a freight train speeding through the station, making it impossible to hear anything else at all

announcements of trains arriving, being late or being redirected to another platform

announcements about being careful to not let their baggage unsupervised and to only smoke in designated areas

pigeons flying around

passengers running down the platform, screaming for the train to wait for them

Touch

the stickiness of the floor

the gush of wind when a train drives through

Smell

that specific smell of every train station, that can't be pinpointed

the smell of fresh pastry from the bakeries inside the station

the smell of fast food and old oil

the smell of pigeons living inside the train station

that specific smell of train tunnels

the smell of cigarette smoke coming from the designated smoking area

Taste

stale air on the roofed platform

overpriced coffee or tea to go

sweet kiss goodbye

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black and asian vikings 100% definitely existed (also, saami vikings)

you know how far you can get into eurasia and africa by sailing up rivers from the baltic and mediterranean seas? pretty fucking far, and that’s what vikings liked to do to trade

then, you know, people are people, so love happens, business happens, and so ppl get married and take spouses back home to the frozen hellscape that is scandinavia (upon which i’m guessing the horrorstruck new spouses went “WHAT THE FUCK??? FUCKING GIVE ME YOUR JACKET???????”)

and sometimes vikings bought thralls and brought them home as well, and i mean, when your indentured service is up after however many years and you’re a free person again, maaaaaaaaaaaaybe it’s a bit hard to get all the way home across the continent, so you make the best out of the situation and you probably get married and raise a gaggle kids

so yeah

viking kingdoms/communities were not uniformly pure white aryan fantasy paradises, so pls stop using my cultural history and ethnic background to excuse your racist discomfort with black ppl playing heimdall and valkyrie

Assorted writing prompts #8

1.“Yes, you look great in my shirt. But I kind of need it back.”            

2.“Go ahead, leave, I am not going to stop you.”    

3.“That hit hard, are you okay?”      

4.“The amount of alcohol I am going to need to forget this is going to kill me.”

5.“How did you get pen that high up the wall?”

6. “I am madly in love with you.”

“Why?”

“I don’t have a clue.”      

7.“You’ll come crawling back to me.”

“Never.”  

8.“Please breath, please… oh god.”  

9.“I may have… mildly panicked?”

“You shot at me!”          

10. “Please don’t vomit on me. Please don’t vomit on me. Please don’t… You vomited on me.”

11. “Kiss me. Now.”        

12. “Please don’t say that, I don’t think I can take it.”          

13. “Did you get shot?”  

14. “You drank my coffee? Why must you hurt me in this way?”          

15. “How many coffees is that?”

“You try having a toddler who refuses to go to bed.”

me when i'm with other people: i am loved 😌

as soon as i'm alone: but am i 😰

𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚝 𝙻𝚒𝚜𝚝

1. "You make me want you in the most rawest ways possible."

2. "Falling isn't what I would call this—this desperation I feel toward you; this feeling is unlike anything I've ever known."

3. "You don't need them, you need me."

4. "Why won't you talk to me? Am I not good enough? What did I do wrong? Do you not want me? Tell me before I lose my mind."

5. "If only you knew how much I loved you."

6. "What do you want me to say?! That it's over? That there is no more hope for us? I can't lie to you—I never could."

7. "This is all for us. We make the rules."

8. "What a picture perfect moment."

9. "I've loved you since the day I saw you."

10. "I'm highly suspicious of your sudden urge to be sweet, you know? Very suspicious."

11. "I take you to be mine."

12. "It's dark a-and cold and I don't know where I am."

13. "Payback's a bitch." - "Isn't the saying karma' s a bitch?" - "Shut up and let me enjoy my moment."

14. "You're really gone this time, aren't you?"

15. "I let my guard down for you—I told you my worst fears and you laughed in my face."

16. "I'm simply one helluva motherfu—"

17. "Only fools rush in, honey."

18. "How can you be in love with me when we barely know each other?" - "That's the magic of soulmates, baby."

19. "Take my hand."

20. "She gets everything. The house, the cars—everything."

21. "I don't want it—this life. I don't want it if you don't get to share it with me."

22. "Aw, you got me flowers?"

23. "I just got friendzoned."

24. "Fall apart if you need to. I'm here and I am not going anywhere."

25. "Please don't panic. If you panic, I panic."