Collect Your Novelty Beads / Prompt sources

[silvercat17]

If you're owed novelty beads for a graffiti game/challenge, please post a link to the fill and let me know what game (with year). I'll go through challenge posts the last few years to find where people have claimed novelty beads and not gotten them yet.

Also, I'd welcome sources form prompts for novelty beads and other uses.

In general, if you want novelty beads link to your fill in the comments of the challenge or its wrap-up.

Edit: I have not forgotten this! I'll finish it up tomorrow (April 28)

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[thisbluespirit]

bookblather has been very good at keeping up with the novelty beads. To the best of my knowledge the only ones owing are from Lilith Faire last year (Aug/Sept 2022) and then I don't think we had any more challenges till the ones beginning this year, but we haven't had novelty beads for any of those yet either. So, afaik, everyone has had novelty beads up to last summer and nobody has had them since, so the bets way is to just go through entries tagged graffiti since then.

(I'll come back with a bunch of quotes & things for you. <3)

[silvercat17]

Thank you. I hope I didn't sound too negative

[thisbluespirit]

No, of course not! Just going through the past challenge posts for years would have been unlikely to be very useful for you, or for anyone else. <3

[thisbluespirit]

Okay, I also promised some quotes for Novelty Bead use, if wanted. These are all random quotes I collected (often for possible text icon use) over the years:

Framed:

Home is where the art is.

Note: the best bits are between the lines.

"I'm not perpetrating a fraud. I'm being polite."

Sometimes your friends are enemies in disguise.

Time is the greatest mutagen of them all.


Miss Marple:
"What I like about you is your delightfully practical mind."

"The most frightening word there can be is love."


Joan Aiken:
"My mother used to say that every little girl should be able to cook, play the piano, sing and shoot."

What can have been the object of this deceit?

"I could not see why a person who had done such harm should be allowed to stay alive."


I Capture the Castle
"I think it worthy of note that I have never felt happier in my life."

Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.

I tried... but there are limits to human invention.


Doomwatch
"You've done the impossible, now don't try do the intolerable."

"He's wearing a very small bandage and a large halo!"

"Morals are not a question of mathematics."


The Power Game
"Facts are for people who make encyclopaedias."

"He's lost his talent for optimism."

"I wouldn't give you a broken pencil."

"It's your head. I just provide the wall."

"50% of the guests are likely to be fools. She'll merge quite happily."

"Confidence is the feeling one has before one understands the problem."

"If you can't win, you'll destroy. Where will it end?"

"The last thing I want on my tombstone is 'Ambition killed him'."

"Why are you so formal when you're at your most devious?"

"Life is not your actual bowl of cherries."

"It's just that failure would be so embarrassing."

"Executive procedure, rule 1 - always kick a man when he's down. You'll never get a better chance."

"I'm far too fond of winning."

"All this sink or swim stuff gives me earache."

"In business, no such animal exists as a gentleman."

"I'd think the government had been very clever... if only I could believe it knew what it was doing."

"There's always a loose end to tie up somewhere."

"Heaven preserve me from ambitious men!"

"I don't know how you get any work done... you're all so busy trying to manipulate one another."

"You ought to found a society - martyrs anonymous!"

"Power is never non-political."

"If he gets any more irons, he'll need another fire."

"I have to dash off - I've got to catch an early grave."

"Oh, absolutely. You're right - you were wrong!"

It wouldn't be better, it would only be easier.

"I know when I'm beaten, but there's no law says I have to be reasonable about it!"

"The day you can count on me will be a nasty shock for us both."

"When they make a hypocrite of the year award... remind me to nominate you!"

"You've changed, haven't you, over the years. What is it - age or shame?"

"It helps to give a fairly convincing illusion of activity."

[more later. Or, you know, just tell me to stop. I have a lot of these sorts of things!!]

[thisbluespirit]

I run a DW prompt comm that is pretty much unalive by now. It's DW-related, obviously, but lots of the prompt tables are just random proverbs, episode titles, quotes etc and you may rifle it all you please for novelty beads, if it's at all useful: who_allsorts

OUaT:

"That is indeed a complicated story. The timelines alone would make one's head spin."

"The future is not written by our past."

"Who needs a plan when you've got blind luck on your side?"

"Now I have a curse... the curse of knowing the difference between good and evil."

"If you think summoning a giant squid is the answer, I've already tried that."

"There's magic everywhere if you are willing to see it."

"I'm afraid sometimes I'm too clever."

"Sometimes people just cannot ever move on."

"We're going to the one place in hell where the Devil is too afraid to go."

"It's going to be a nice eternity after all."

"Were you this self-righteous when you were alive?"

"Once again, I let optimism cloud my judgement."

"I'm glad your reflexes are better than your sense of style."

"You always did have a soft spot for a monster."

"You defeated me in a way no one thought was possible. You made me your friend."

"You lot managed to find a whole new way to fail."

"I do love a loophole."

"Do you really want to see what I can do with a sword?"

"I'm either optimistic or desperate or both."

"I'm more of a hit first, ask questions later kind of lass."

"Have fun with a lifetime of resentment."

"I have always seen the man behind the beast."

"If I'm the one on the moral high ground, you've fallen quite a ways."

"Our memories are gone... again."

"A curse isn't a curse any more when the afflicted one wants it."

"You gave me the worst thing you can give anyone - hope."

"The best way to show your love for those who are gone is to tell their stories."

"They always underestimate a girl in diamonds and furs, don't they?"

"Enoy the upper hand while it's still on your wrist!"

"One small, dead author, that's all I asked."

"The affection I have for you... there are limits."

"There's an explanation. You see, I'm a really terrible person."

"This isn't our first monster bash."

"Believing in even the possiblity of a happy ending can be a powerful thing."

"Have you come to kidnap me again?"

"If only your wits matched your looks."

"So the only thing you accomplished was property destruction?"

"Love how you underestimate me. Adorable."

"So why should I think this new plan will work when all the others failed?"

"I suppose we should go and see what's killing property values this time."

"Being good doesn't mean good things will happen."

"I don't need your validation. I know I did the right thing. I know because I'm miserable. Again."

"Love is a weapon. It's as dangerous and persuasive as magic."

"There is magic in this world. You just need to know where to look for it."

"So glad I don't give a damn."

"Love is weakness."

"Magic always comes with a price."

"I think I'm even more devilishly handsome and charming than usual."

"You can't steal what's been given to you."

[yet more to come....]

[thisbluespirit]

Mr Palfrey of Westminster
"I don't think that's quite the sort of question to put to a prissy bastard."

"Our country, right or wrong. We leave small matters, such as crises of conscience, fastidiousness over the truth, to traitors."

"There are times when you're quite heroic."

Spooks | MI-5
"Well, if that isn't illegal it's very, very naughty."

"That is a totally illegal, madcap scheme. I like it."

"It's like it's stopped raining in my head."

"I had a sign hanging over me... end of the world, end of the world, end of the world."

"Let's all slide along the learning curve."

"It's the usual survivalist fantasy - destroy the cities, only the pure in heart survive."


Miscellaneous:
"Do we own up or lie like gentlemen?"

"One does not climb the social ladder in order to slide back down again."

"Can we impose a levity embargo here?"

"I think we have a slight togetherness shortfall."

Even the stones weep here.

"What woman could say no to a bit of first class mail?"

"You are not the only sneaky pebble on the beach."

"Why do you have to go around assuming that boxes have things in them?"

"I know, I know - virtue ought to triumph and all that, but that ain't the way the world works."

"A game with high stakes, in deadly earnest."

"If I'm wrong, you can say I told you so - provided you can speak loudly and quickly."

"We can afford no more hollow heroes."

"All the fabric of my reign, little by little, is beginning to fail."

"Before it goes out, the candle always flares."


Cranford
"I find myself charged with vile and pressing news!"

"I cannot deny that I was very vexed, but we ought not to invest them with the power to upset us for a fortnight!"

"A woman is never the equal of a man. She is his superior in every case."

"Winter is the darkest season when one is alone."

"Do you think I am made of stone? Do you think the endless drip of water will make a dent in me?"

"You can't put a price on kindness."

"People who have been married are all the same. They leave their powers of judgement at the altar."

"I think it is not the despair that hurts one, but the hope."

"We would not, even if we could, be ostentatiously vulgar."

"I sometimes wonder if the presence of money is not more unsettling than the lack of it."

"What good is a husband to the consitition?"

[thisbluespirit]

[What's in this notebook is very random, btw, although you've probably worked that out by now.]

Campion
"I rarely tell lies, but sometimes I'm a bit picky with the truth."

"Go away, your cover is blown. You've been unmasked as a human being."

"I am absolutely in the wrong place at the wrong time."

"My dear young optimist, what you're saying is, here's a nice war, come and join it."

"Do you believe in happy endings?"

Doctor Who (audio edition)
"Nothing which gives people hope, strength and courage is stupid."

"Well, we've come this far. I think we might as well save the world."

"You have an appointment with death and I wouldn't want you to be late."

"There's devilish business afoot here, make no mistake."

"It's never a wasted journey to see a good friend."

Press Gang
"Make a sentence out of the following words: I you told so."

"When I say you can go, that's an order, not an opportunity."

"Lord, take me now. Death would be a promotion."

"Just stay cool, deny everything, and fake a panic attack with breathing complications."

"I hope you realise there's a queue of people a mile long just waiting never to speak to you again."

"Thanks. It's nice to know you're behind me. I just wish you were still in sight."

"Thanks for the immoral support."

On the Up
"I suggest a meeting on neutral territory with no concealed weapons."

"It isn't symbolic, you know. It's just silly!"

"I don't have any immediate plans. I think I'll just sit in the cupboard under the stairs until I'm called."

"I'll put some fresh straw down if you're thinking of ravishing me."

"Do go on, I love flattery."

"I wouldn't want you to think I was irreversible."

"I like to think of myself as a shady, rather mysterious figure about the household. But I'm not, I'm not. I'm just the general dogsbody."

"My advice is general, never specific."

"I have a dream... that one day when she goes riding, it'll be the horse knocking at the door to say he's lost her somewhere."

"You screamed, madam?"

"Actually, I'm silly all the time. It's just more noticeable in the mornings."

[thisbluespirit]

Random Quotes (more literary this time. but also very random.)

All sin tends to be addictive and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation.

If you live a lie you'll die a liar.

Unfriendly, friendly universe, I pack your stars into my purse, And bid you, bid you so farewell.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only and adventure wrongly considered.

[Her] demeanor was rather like that of one who, picking daisies on the railway, has just caught the down express in the small of the back.

The glory of life did not consist in taking and then piling the goods about one like a prison wall.

We are not ourselves alone; we are all that has gone before.

Stand as a tower stands firm in time of trouble, Nor bends its head though winds may bawl and batter.

Some of us are born in the right place and some of us have to go look for it.

"There's no such thing as bad weather. There's only inappropriate clothing."

"One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world."

Time in my pathway strews few flowers.

Sick in head and sick in heart, Sick in whole and every part: And yet sicker thou art still, For thinking that thou art not ill.

I am not sure I would always fight for my life. Life might not be worth fighting for.

Her boredom is exquisite and excessive.

may my heart always be open to little, birds who are the secrets of living.

[thisbluespirit]

More miscellaneous

"Back off, I'm doing math!"

"Magic is not an exact science. If it were, it would be science."

"Fatal, yet interesting."

"Do not fear the villain, fear the hero."

Everyone stretches the truth a bit in memos to head office.

Sometimes, despite everything, peace breaks out.

"Perhaps all loving ends in sadness. Therefore one needs a sad philosophy."

"I may not be great, but I am secure... Like a dull fortress with thick walls. I would withstand a long siege."

"It won't be forever. Nothing is forever. Take it while we can. Live it. Love it. Laugh it. Take what life gives and make it ours."

"Do you know what my problem is? I never learn from my mistakes."

"Once you blacken your heart, it only grows darker and darker. Trust me, I know."

"Why must I always be spurned?"

"It's not the fault of the sun if the eye sees not its beauty."

"I find myself having a conniption fit."

[thisbluespirit]

I will stop presently, but just a few more while I think of it & I've got stuff bookmarked:

Spooks | MI-5
"I like the niceties. They protect us from tyranny."

"You have to put your real self in a box. And only when you come home, do you open up the box and say 'Hello, real me.'"

“I was inconveniently dead at the time.”

"It's never over. We may dance with the devil, but it's always to his tune."

"I don’t want to die. There are books I want to read and I still hate my kitchen."

"Lovers leave, friends annoy us and families mess with your head."

"These days most people's idea of a secret is something you only tell one person at a time."

"It's one thing to get rid of democracy. It's much harder to get rid of the monster you replace it with."

"We should be with our loved ones. Even if we've only got a cat."

"Patience is just procrastination without the anxiety."

"Shall I hit him again?" / "Only if you want to."

"Betrayal is a cancer. Let it eat your soul, not mine."

Books (assorted):
I knew I had seen them for the last time on this earth, but some day I shall return to be with that brave company of shadows.

His men spread fear abroad almost like the Black Death, they pushed it under doors and through letter boxes, they painted it on walls and stable doors until it infected everything.

Fear kills everything. Your mind, your heart, your imagination.

"Stories never really end, even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first."

Press Gang
"I don't do conversation. Anything I say comes out like an order. I say hello and people salute."

"You don't happen to be jealous of a girl I've never even met, do you?" / "Of course I'm jealous... I wish I was the girl you've never even met."

"That's not what lasting relationships are based on. I should know, I've had hundreds of them."

"Is this a discussion or a chance to agree with you? Or do you not recognise the distinction?"

"I'm not responsible for everything. I just make it look that way."

Public Eye
"That's the trouble with these big gestures - they don't work. You run out, slam the door, and that's it - anti-climax."

"We make a great couple, don't we? We should have a party and invite all our friends. There'd still be just the two of us."

"Parents are always being let down. It's an occupational hazard."

"Point is, I get these twinges of conscience from time to time, but I don't know whether I really feel anything or whether I just feel I ought to."

"A man seems to think all he has to say to a woman is 'I need you' - she'll pack a nightie and a toothbrush and run!"

"This is entirely unofficial. I do not want to know how you discover what you discover. It's nothing to do with me, remember."

"I do not accept that ancient privilege should hang around the neck of future generations like an albatross."

"It isn't always easy to accept the well-meaning of others, but it is a kindliness to try."

"As long as I don't get thumped and I do get paid!"

"All I want now is a little light, a little heat, and a nice cup of tea."

"Do you think you can stop treating me like an accomplice?"

"A rare quality, wisdom, these days... or any days."

"I can't help being suspicious. It's people like you who make me like that."

[thisbluespirit]

Shadow of the Tower
"Everyone on the earth is engaged in a struggle for power, even if it's only the power to remain alive..."

"What more unanswerable question is there than death?"

"I am the goat in the desert, upon whom the guilt must fall."

"Sometimes, you know, I find myself observing my own life like a spectator. People, events, places, pass before my eyes and I observe them with the greatest interest, but they do not touch my heart..."

Random (lit):
And yet, in spite of all these fears, things nonetheless went badly wrong.

It's a good idea to have your books with you in a strange place.

If love can build a bridge, can affection put up a shelf?

Doctor Who (audio edition again)
"Why aren't we running very fast in the opposite direction?"

"You can't hide in dreams. Everybody wakes up in the end."

"She may not have known it was impossible when she did it!"

"You can find out a lot by being annoying."

"I can't even lose a key without it turning into an epic adventure."

"I find that cake is an excellent solution to many of life's problems."

"Nasty thoughts are like buses. You don't get one for ages, and then a whole army arrive at once."

"You can drop the pretence. We're all enemies here."

Misc:
"Sorry. Had a bit of a composure shortfall."

They never fail who die in a good cause.

Reality is very disappointing.

Technically, that's only one drawback, but it was such a big one I thought I'd mention it twice.

"Attempting to murder you was just a silly way of trying to draw attention to myself."

"I never could resist anything that belonged to someone else."

Tough Guide
Ambushes will be of four kinds, and you will have them all.

Dragons can, if they want, eat people.

Whatever is Foreseen is going to happen anyway.

Good means everyone and everything on your side.

Government. Most average folk seem to get on perfectly well without it.

Until you have saved the world with one leg or your soul missing, you do not know what hardship is.

History is generally patchy and unreliable.

Dark Lady. There is never one of these. See Dark Lord instead.


Dracula
We learn from failure, not from success.

I am all in a sea of wonders.

Though sympathy alone can't alter the facts it can help to make them more bearable.

Perhaps, at the end, the little things may teach us most.

Midnight is a Place
Midnight is no moment, midnight is a place.

Light can be found in even the darkest of places.

"So, you have not been dead all these years?"

"When people are gone, you cling to a place."

"What good did it do, that everybody loved him?"

A dozen words could travel so far, like a tidal wave, or an earthquake.

The only answer is to behave in a rational manner.

New Tricks
"When whatever it is comes crawling out of them woods bent on world domination, then you'll all be sorry!"

"If you find a map with an 'x' on it you are intrinsically bound to follow it, go there, and start digging."

"I like catching villains. It makes me feel good."

"Intuition is when you get it right. Guesswork is when you get it wrong."

"I got this the hard way - I married someone!"

Blake's 7
"I had hoped for a more inspiring epitaph."

"Sometimes one's friends can be more of a liability than one's enemies."

"Have you ever met an honest man?"

"law-makers, law-breakers, let us fight them all, why not?"

"I'm just sentimental about money."

"It's a story that doesn't have an end yet."

"Heroic rescues can be embarrassing if you're not actually in danger."

"Modesty would be dishonesty."

"There's no one as free as a dead man."

"Hope is very dangerous."

"Power usually makes its own rules."

"I must remember to say thank you before I kill him."

"It wasn't a victory. It was only the end of the war."

"Where are all the good guys?"

"Other people's property just comes naturally to me."

"I hate personal violence - especially when I'm the person."

"If that's winning, I'll take losing every time."

Press Gang
"He doesn't understand anything that can't be expressed as money."

"No matter how badly your team is doing, you are not under any circumstances to change sides."

"If I get killed doing this, you're going to feel really guilty."

"You and me, we're held together by a force strong than true love. We both want the last word."

"Up a creek. Running out of paddles."

"I try not to lose good people."

"Out of everyone you don't like, at least I'm your favourite."

"I can be two normal people if you can."

"I don't want logic. I want a half-brick."

"I'm so nice cuddly toys just sneer at me."

"I've always wondered what planet you were on."

"I'm sorry if my problems are not providing enough entertainment for you."

"You are a lady of unexpected depths... to which you regularly sink."

"Philosophy, destiny, the meaning of life - I hate those."

"I promise you one thing: there will be no traditional ending."

"This is life. No guaranteed happy endings."

"Didn't anyone ever tell you money is a dirty word?"

"If you weren't such a perfect friend, I could like you better."

"Haven't you got any other problems? I don't like that one."

"I like to know I'm the smartest one in the conversation."

"It's amazing how you're still a jerk, even under pressure."

"Can you explain to me how I have just argued myself into doing exactly what you wanted me to do in the first place?"

Shakespeare
I will weary you then no longer with idle talking.

Boldness be my friend! Arm me, audacity!

Company, villainous company hath been the spoil of me.

Uneasy lies the head...

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more!

I will be the pattern of all patience. I will say nothing.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win.

(I think that's it from my random old quotes, you'll probably be relieved to hear!)

[silvercat17]

I used to have a file of quotes on my (VERY) old website, theoretically for sig purposes, but I don't know if I still have it...

[thisbluespirit]

I tend to default to quotes rather than the images/songs, but I remembered that I have a tumblr tag for "inspiration" which might be useful for the images etc.: https://thisbluespirit.tumblr.com/tagged/inspiration

Both for what I've saved, and that it can lead to other useful image blogs & sources - such as these three:

https://abandonedography.com/
https://notbeingnoticed.tumblr.com/
https://mutant-distraction.tumblr.com/

[silvercat17]

I keep liking things on tumblr to use as inspiration, but then they get lost of course. I need to start up the Rainbowfic tumblr but I've been a bit busy to get things queued.

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, I bookmark tags (see above) so that I don't completely lose things on there!

[silvercat17]

that would involve me thinking ahead enough to actually tag things...

[thisbluespirit]

Oh, talking of tumblr, that reminds me - this tumblr does quite nice prompts: https://www.tumblr.com/nightprompts

[thisbluespirit]

I found my other notebook with quotes in! Here are some more random, whether you want them or not. (You're welcome, if you do; many apologies if not!)

Press Gang
"You are almost worth knowing for moments like this."

"One question does spring to mind: why?"

"When I say you're in charge, you're in charge!"

Blake's 7
"What's in the box?"

"I'm tired of being indispensible."

"In my position, one never approves anything until it is an undisputed success."

"Civilisation has always depended on courtesy rather than truth."

"Counting yourself, that makes two people who think you're wonderful."

"It felt personal. It always feels personal when someone tries to kill me."

"It's the kind of natural stupidity no amount of training could match."

"Never argue with a computer."

"If you were the girl next door, I'd move."

"I'm really looking forward to this - danger, excitement, sudden death. I can't wait."

"I don't like the dark. I like to see what I'm scared of."

"I don't like explosives. Very crude. It's difficult to reason with a bomb."

"All this breathless solemnity is beginning to annoy me."

"Suddenly I'm hip deep in heroes."

"Just goes to prove what I've always said - stealing's quicker."

"I can be disgusting all the time. It's easy."

"No one ever tells someone who's drunk to volunteer."

"They might get a lot less civil at the thought of losing money."

"What have you got, apart from a halfwit and a corpse?"

"It would be prudent to worry about the details now."

"Only following orders? That's not very original."

"All sweet things have one thing in common - a tendency to make you sick."

"Why deal when you can just steal, that's my motto."

"There are no women like me. I am unique. That makes me rather dangerous."

"Strategic withdrawal is running away with dignity."

"Then let's get the dignified hell out of here."

"Idealism is a wonderful thing. All you need is someone rational to put it to good use."

"What's the matter? Staying alive too complicated for you?"