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Matthew_DS9 @matthew-ds9.bsky.social · 8d

OK, fellow babies, here 'tis - #MatthewsMonthofMusic!

My hope is that these prompts inspire you to spin some songs that are NOT universally known - Serendipity is one of the best ways to find new music and artists

Please use the hashtag so that I may find all your MOST EXCELLENT SONGS!

The playlist for #MatthewsMonthofMusic

Day 01 An opening song to an album or a playlist
Day 02 A song that you immediately crank WAYY up the moment it starts to play
Day 03 The best Autumn Song
Day 04 A song with a time of day in the title
Day 05 Lyrics that you wish you had written
Day 06 A song for a rainy day
Day 07 Music that makes you instantly happy
Day 08 A song you love from a genre you don't
Day 09 A song about science
Day 10 A great "GFY" song
Day 11 A literary poem that has been set to music
Day 12 A song you love that you are convinced nobody has ever heard but you
Day 13 An essential song for a Road Trip Playlist
Day 14 A song you love sung in a language you don't speak
Day 15 A song you wish someone would sing to you
Day 16 A song about UFOs or Extraterrestrial Encounters
Day 17 Your favorite earworm
Day 18 A song with a place name in the title
Day 19 A song based on an historical event
Day 20 A song with a natural event in the title
Day 21 A song that you don't particularly like but that you have to admit is a good song
Day 22 TWO songs from different artists that pair well together
Day 23 A song with a rural setting
Day 24 A song about an alternative lifestyle
Day 25 An album in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
Day 26 A song about a garden or plants or food
Day 27 A song with an urban setting
Day 28 An instrumental that would be a good soundtrack for a scene in a movie
Day 29 The song you want played at your wake/funeral/memorial
Day 30 A good song for a long fade out
Day 31 Your favorite Hallowe'en song

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Matthew_DS9 @matthew-ds9.bsky.social · 4h

You have some darn good prompts for this month. Thanks for that!

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Matthew_DS9 @matthew-ds9.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you!

Glad you liked it

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Matthew_DS9 @matthew-ds9.bsky.social · 4h

Touches the KNEE!!

Damned fat fingered typos!!!!

Matthew_DS9 @matthew-ds9.bsky.social · 4h

#bedroomeyesprompt
10/7 Barracuda
#Dragonfly
#horror

Interior - Car

Samuel:
You been real quiet over there.
[Turns on radio - "Barracuda" begins to play]
You wanna, y'know, pay me for picking you up back there?

[Samuel reaches over and touxhes the knew of the Asían girl, whose mouth opens ...

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Phil @pgpayt.bsky.social · 8h

Prompt no. 1969: wind chime

Craft a terrifying tale inspired by the prompt and share your work with #horrorprompt.

Big thanks to Tuzuri for sparking today's terror!

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Matthew_DS9 @matthew-ds9.bsky.social · 4h

#bedroomeyesprompt
@knickersnpearls.bsky.social

BtW I know the prompt is for sauciness and sensuality and so I apologize for going down the horror road there, but the song inspired the scene for a character I've been working on.

Dragonfly is her name - she's a malevolent spirit of sorts.

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Matthew_DS9 @matthew-ds9.bsky.social · 4h

Now THAT is a wish!

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Lady Marmelade#BedroomEyesPrompt @knickersnpearls.bsky.social · 5h

I wish you love, great sex and the life you deserve.

🥀L8te_Bloomer_JJ! @l8tebloomer25.bsky.social · 6h

Make a wish _____________.

Me, first. I just wish for better for all of us. Seriously.

Good day. 😘

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Matthew_DS9 @matthew-ds9.bsky.social · 4h

Tentacles shoot forth, grabbing Samuel's head and smashing it against the steering wheel]

Exterior - Highway

The car crashes into a mile marker sign and rolls into the ditch.

The Asian girl stands by the side of the road, then turns and walks away.

"Barracuda" continues to play.

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Matthew_DS9 @matthew-ds9.bsky.social · 4h

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Matthew_DS9 @matthew-ds9.bsky.social · 4h

That is a beautiful wish.
That is the best wish.

You are an incredible human!

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🥀L8te_Bloomer_JJ! @l8tebloomer25.bsky.social · 6h

Make a wish _____________.

Me, first. I just wish for better for all of us. Seriously.

Good day. 😘

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Matthew_DS9 @matthew-ds9.bsky.social · 4h

God! I break out in a cold sweat just THInKInG about that!

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BEAVE @beaveinflow.bsky.social · 6h

A haunted house but it’s just someone saying “Let’s go around the room and share one fun fact about ourselves.”

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Matthew_DS9 @matthew-ds9.bsky.social · 4h

know this, know
this, that
I will kiss your neck
in the morning,
hug you when you come from
work, rub your legs
as we lay down to sleep -

anything
that will bring back the joy
when I see you smile

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Matthew_DS9 @matthew-ds9.bsky.social · 4h

#bedroomeyesprompt
10/6
When I See You Smile

Mi amor,
I know these days have their dim,
the hot flashes
the joint aches
the desert where once was an oasis,
the pressure to work
as though we we still had half the
years we have now, but know this
that I see your sad
and I see your frown,
but...

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Matthew_DS9 @matthew-ds9.bsky.social · 4h

Anytime!!
😎

Matthew_DS9 @matthew-ds9.bsky.social · 4h

Well then Happy Lesbian Day to you and the coolest Lesbian Horrorwritin' Doctor on any continent, @drspookyer.bsky.social !!!

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Matthew_DS9 @matthew-ds9.bsky.social · 5h

#bedroomeyesprompt
10/5 Hors Devour

MFK Fisher's The Gastonomical Me and Isabel Allende's Aphrodite
and you and I
in our nuptual bed,
eating crackers with cheese
and pouring honey on your belly
and stickylicking it away,
and we were gourmonds
of food and books and
our bodies

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Matthew_DS9 @matthew-ds9.bsky.social · 5h

That should be a joke but alas, it is not

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 8h

the president, the sec of state, and a random reporter are casually discussing whether to designate antifa a foreign terrorist organization

Matthew_DS9 @matthew-ds9.bsky.social · 5h

Those costumes are LIT, btw

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Emory @emory-f8.bsky.social · 5h

Did you know?

In the Victorian era, people still practiced the old custom of souling on All Hallows’ Eve.

Poor children went door to door at night, singing haunting “souling” songs in exchange for soul cakes.

Each cake was said to help release a soul from Purgatory.

#Victorian #history

It shows a photograph of children dressed in Halloween costumes.

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lesbian poetry @lovegarden.bsky.social · 22h

There can be no freedom for any woman unless all women on earth are free.

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Matthew_DS9 @matthew-ds9.bsky.social · 5h

🤣

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Eli McCann @elimccann.bsky.social · 1d

Just heard my husband in the next room yell "are you pooping" so I responded "...um...no?" and he shouted back "obviously I'm talking to our toddler."

So that's a thing that just happened in our house.

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Phil @pgpayt.bsky.social · 8h

Prompt no. 1537: inworm

Craft a horrifying haiku inspired by the prompt and share your work with #haikuhorrorprompt.

Big thanks to 🎭 m i k e ✨ for sparking today's terror!

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