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Here's my "prompts" tag on Pinboard; I was going to link separately but there's more of them than I thought!

I tend to like prompts which consist of single words or short phrases (not that you could tell or anything).

But! On a more concrete matter, if you like, I could probably dredge up a few dozen names for actual shapes and types of novelty beads XD.

=D I have complete and total faith in your ability to give us endless prompts, including actual novelty beads.

That is amazingly helpful, thank you!

YAY! Someone has a faith in me!

Expect a list circa Sunday :D.

You're very welcome!

"I can't believe that you'd believe that I would fake it/Wait - unless you count the things I said when we were naked" -- "Wind It Up" by Barenaked Ladies

"If you're the best, then maybe so am I" -- "Perfect" by Alanis Morissette

"And I'll pretend she's justified/And she'll pretend I've got my pride" -- "Last Time" by Anthony Stewart Head

"I ain't no damsel in distess and I don't need to be rescued" -- "Not A Pretty Girl" by Ani DiFranco

"This is how it works/You're young until you're not" -- "On The Radio" by Regina Spektor

"Because if you want to talk about it then it isn't love" -- "Anna Begins" by Counting Crows

"I don't wanna live inside this daydream anymore" -- "Otis Redding" by Everclear

"Maybe we forgot/They are not alone" -- "No One is Alone" from Into the Woods

"You make me feel like I am clean again" -- "Lovesong" by The Cure

"I'm sorry but I'm tired of trying/To be some picture of compassion" -- "Bite Your Tongue" by Duncan Sheik

"And all the stupid things I do/Have absolutely no reflection on how I feel about you" -- "The Stupid Things" by Robin Thicke

"On sleepless roads, the sleepless go" -- "hear You Me" by Jimmy Eat World

"'Cause underneath the scars of your broken dreams/An undone war still wages and stings" -- "Let Your Troubles Roll By" by Carbon Leaf

"But my silent fears have gripped me" -- "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" by The Police

"Humiliation, investigation/And if you cross your fingers, rehabilitation" -- "Know Your Rights" by The Clash

"And you know we could do better than anything that we did" -- "You and Me" by Dave Matthews Band

"Chased down all my demons, see you do the same" -- "Fuckin' Perfect" by Pink

"No one in the world ever gets what they want and that is beautiful" -- "Don't Let's Start" by They Might Be Giants

"Well I can roar like a lion, I can sting like a bee/But some times I think, baby, I've got rabbit blood in me" -- "I'm A Lover Not A Fighter" by The Kinks

"Sometimes I wanted to cry/When the people on TV were not quite the way we were" -- "I Didn't Know I'd Love You So Much" from Repo! The Genetic Opera

"The poetry of earth is never dead" -- Keats

"Pale grew thy cheek and cold/Colder thy kiss" -- Byron

"And much it grieved my heart to think/What man has made of man" -- Wordsworth

"I love you as certain dark things are to be loved/in secret, between the shadow and the soul." -- Neruda

"Sorrow has paled my young mouth's vermilion/And Ruin draws the curtains of my bed." -- Wilde

"No other soul shall bear mine company" -- Lowell

"Ah Little Rose -- how easy/For such as thee to die!" Dickinson

"So at a knock/I emptied my cage/To hide in the world/And alter with age." -- Frost

"I too, haughty Shade, also sing war—and a longer and greater one than
any" -- Whitman

"If thou must love me, let it be for nought/Except for love's sake only" -- Browning

"To while away—forbidden things—/My heart would feel to be a crime" -- Poe

We have everything from both your comments saved now, thank you!

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."
"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."
"A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape."
"Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often."
"Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in."
"Ah, well, I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God’s fool, and all His work must be contemplated with respect."
"To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble."
"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."
"Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned."
"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."
"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."
"As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular."
"Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man, that wastes and withers there."
"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
"When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers."
"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."
"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."
"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."
"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."

1. Petrified library
2. Once is not enough
3. Rust internally
4. A lot of silence here
5. Sleeping lessons
6. Three changes
7. Late goodbye
8. No reaction
9. Won’t come back here again
10. Find the colour

Thank you! We'll add those to the prompts table.

I've been hunting for a specific word-translation and stumbled over these:

http://talkirish.com/blogs/wordaday/
http://talkirish.com/blogs/irishproverbaday/

http://www.transparent.com/word-of-the-day/today/chinese.html

Fairly specific in a weird way, but they might be handy in certain situations!

Oh, thank you! We'll see what we can do with those. They might be applicable for certain games. =) And we could probably use one of them to make another color. Thanks again!