First-line meme (from Mucca and Kore)

[nenya_kanadka]

List the first lines of your last ten stories. See if there are any patterns.


1. Once upon a time the Smoking Alpaca was lounging about in her smoking jacket, reading forbidden Belladonna femslash on the compound divan, when the Sweater Pony clopped in.

2. "Oh no!" cried the Twelfth Doctor.

3. The Doctor slams the TARDIS doors shut behind him and leans back against them, hearts pounding.

4. The flash of black fire from the Shadow vessel masks the stomach-dropping lurch as the rip in spacetime grabs her.

5. The last thing Susan had ever expected to be doing in Tuzanor was watching Daffy Duck.

6. "Close your eyes."

7. The figure in brown and grey melted out of the shadows and matched his stride before Stephen even realized he was there.

8. Michael wasn't sure what it was that brought him out of a sound sleep at three o'clock in the morning.

9. Autumn in the Shire was always glorious, but Frodo thought the orange and red and yellow leaves and the hazy mists over the Water were especially beautiful this year.

10. "Go to bed, Ma. Really. We're fine."


First of all, ten fics takes me back three years. O.O God, I write slow.

Less opening dialogue than I thought! Less present-tense than I thought, too. (All the dialogue ones that don't show tense immediately are past tense in the next sentence.)

Does tend to bring up the protagonist's name fairly quickly. I seem to be attempting to grab people's interest with the first line; don't know how effective that is.

I still write in small fandoms. (The Twelve & Clara fic was for FFA's Bad Bang, thus a small corner of a megafandom, and not serious fic in the slightest.)

Comments

[nenya_kanadka]

I would LIKE to be as awesome as Vir is. <3 He's like the Sam Gamgee of the B5 universe. Only with a much worse master than Frodo. :P (And I just realized, they both end up as the Mayor/Emperor--which admittedly is a much more shit job for Vir than Sam, but still. A similar kind of external validation. I suppose Sam Gamgee only had the one wife, but then he was probably shagging Mr. Frodo anyway, y/y?)

Oh man, I ship Delenn/Mayan so hard. Between her and Draal I loved that Delenn had, like, friends from back home and wasn't one of these female characters who sprang into the story ex nihilo. Later I felt like they sort of quit paying attention to that, the more human Delenn got (though there was Neroon and the flashbacks to Dukhat) which made me sad. But I totally shipped Delenn with Mayan. Like, imagine them back in whatever passes for Minbari college years, arguing over philosophy and civil rights and foreign policy and art...Delenn from a political science and religion kind of angle, Mayan from a poet's point of view. And Delenn's the shy one, right, Mayan's all outspoken...cue later when Delenn is all badass and Mayan has to keep up! <3

(I do basically ship Delenn with everybody. Like I can imagine the same version of Delenn having had a thing with Mayan, then having a mentor/student hot-sex-against-walls-between-arguments thing with Dukhat, then years later a close friendship-with-benefits with Jeff, a mentor/student thing with Lennier but from the mentor side of things [and how much do I wish she'd gotten to introduce Lennier to Dukhat?], then John obviously because canon, at least some UST with Neroon, and a longstanding low-level simmering crush on Susan that ends up becoming an actual relationship when Susan is head of the Rangers. Delenn gets laid a lot in my head, basically. :P :P)

Be somewhere else! HI DELENN YOU ARE AWESOME AND BADASS

Also here is the Delenn/Neroon thing if you are interested, I liked it though it's not the pairing of my heart, but you might enjoy:

In The Light Of Two Moons
http://rivendellrose.livejournal.com/836978.html

[kore]

I would LIKE to be as awesome as Vir is. <3 He's like the Sam Gamgee of the B5 universe. Only with a much worse master than Frodo. :P

Aww, I hadn't thought of that! That's great. Londo totally winds up on the wheel of fire. //cries

Oh man, I ship Delenn/Mayan so hard.

DUDE SERIOUSLY
STAYING UP ALL NIGHT TALKING AND READING YOUR POETRY ETC. ETC.

Between her and Draal I loved that Delenn had, like, friends from back home and wasn't one of these female characters who sprang into the story ex nihilo. Later I felt like they sort of quit paying attention to that, the more human Delenn got

Yeah, it felt like some of the Minbari worldbuilding stopped when she got human, altho then we got some more of it through Marcus and other Ranger recruits, but they were more military types. I loved seeing daily Minbar stuff.

I totally shipped Delenn with Mayan. Like, imagine them back in whatever passes for Minbari college years, arguing over philosophy and civil rights and foreign policy and art...Delenn from a political science and religion kind of angle, Mayan from a poet's point of view. And Delenn's the shy one, right, Mayan's all outspoken...cue later when Delenn is all badass and Mayan has to keep up! <3

WHERE IS THIS FIC? THERE MUST BE ONE
SOMEWHERE ON THE ENTIRE INTERNET

I can imagine the same version of Delenn having had a thing with Mayan, then having a mentor/student hot-sex-against-walls-between-arguments thing with Dukhat, then years later a close friendship-with-benefits with Jeff, a mentor/student thing with Lennier but from the mentor side of things [and how much do I wish she'd gotten to introduce Lennier to Dukhat?], then John obviously because canon, at least some UST with Neroon, and a longstanding low-level simmering crush on Susan that ends up becoming an actual relationship when Susan is head of the Rangers. Delenn gets laid a lot in my head, basically

That is A GOOD THING. (Was it me, or did she and Sheridan have not a lot of chemistry? Whereas I thought Delenn/Sinclair was pretty sizzling, especially in the first season.)

Be somewhere else! HI DELENN YOU ARE AWESOME AND BADASS

I love that moment on the commentary track when JMS is like "Five years, and people remember one line....okay, it _is_ a great line," and then he shushes himself to hear her say it and then goes "Yeah!" You can hear him punch the air. Awww yeah.

Also here is the Delenn/Neroon thing if you are interested

Oh, thank you! I was sort of fannish-but-not-into-fandom when B5 was airing, so I spent a lot of time on UseNet but didn't read fic....I don't think I started regularly reading fic until after Buffy S6, when I went looking for Spuffy and fell into slash. (Heh.) So I missed so much of it!