writing patterns tag game
rules: list the first line of your last ten posted fics and see if there's a pattern :)
The crystalline expansions on Ashton’s body shattered away from him as they made it to the surface, and he fell. He fell. He wasn’t moving. (On Being Tired)
“Gather ‘round, folks, that’s right, come on over to hear a tale that will have you right at the edge of your seats!”
“Ma’am, you can’t be standing on the table, that’s unsanitary,” called the bored-sounding bartender. (The Tower (Reversed))
A sort of heavy emptiness hung in the air around Velune's friends these past few days. (The (Lack of) Answers)
They had been a bit too cocky. (Fire with Fire)
Sitting cross-legged up to her shoulders in a warm bath, Fina felt a bit like a frozen slab of meat tossed into hot water to thaw. (Quiet (Come Another Time))
Ashton had slept in a lot of strange places recently. Skyships and caves and tiny fucking-nowhere towns and inside the portable hole. They were good at passing the fuck out and being dead to the world for as many hours as they could get away with. They were especially good at it when they were drunk. (On Being Home)
Meltyre loved magic, he really did. It's just that sometimes it was hard to love it fully during a fight with another spellcaster. (The Mindfire)
The sky is red, the moon is fucked up, the leylines have shifted, and half of Milo’s kitchen appliances have spontaneously disenchanted themselves.
In short, things are fucking weird. (A Hundred Gold, Don't Fuck It Up)
The sun was setting as Elam Genar knelt in her garden and carefully covered some seeds in rich soil. (Timing)
It hadn’t escaped Ashton that where they were standing now was the same continent as where he had likely been born, where the ruins of the Hishari village might still be somewhere under piles of broken stone rubble. What had also crossed their mind was the fact that whatever the fuck had happened yesterday hadn’t been the first time they had been unexpectedly teleported across the face of the fucking planet. Like those poor unlucky bastards who got struck by lightning twice–what were the fucking odds? (On Being Enough)
Some patterns:
all but one are in past tense, because apparently I only write in present tense when it's the POV of one Milo Krook
60% are either POV or entirely abt nonbinary characters. slay.
I thought I started w/dialogue more often than this! I guess I used to, and maybe my style has shifted away from it in recent years
I guess I like to start by establishing the mindset of the POV character and/or a sensory or physical experience they're having!
I was tagged by @augustheart (thank you!!!!!) and I'm gonna send the tag off to @just-a-funny-little-brain and @ninja-kitty-more-like-no and anyone else who wants to do it! (and if u guys dont recognize this url hiiiii it's Marto fldsjkhfkj idk if u follow my main)
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First Sentence Tag Game
"Rules: share the first lines of ten of your most recent fanfics and tag ten people. If you have written less than ten, don’t be shy and share anyway."
Thank you to my wonderful friend @maxwellshimbo for tagging me in this. Finally getting around to it. 😅
Well, lookee there. I have 11 fics on AO3. I'm just going to skip over the poem/song and post the first line of each of the others. They're split between just two fandoms, Penumbra Podcast: Second Citadel and Inn Between podcast. (Disclaimer: on the slight chance this crosses Hannah's feed: Hannah, please don't read, sorry.)
Not sure what is usually done about multi chapter fics, but I'll take from chapter one of each of those.
Going from earliest to latest, from when the fic was posted (when chapter one was posted for the multi chapter ones).
1: Balancing the Scales (SC)-
"The first indication that Arum had that things were not quite right was that Damien’s voice was not the first one he heard through the portal into the Keep. It was rare that either of his two humans brought anyone with them, for obvious reasons. So, the sound of another voice, though far off, already made Arum stiffen and hiss."
2: Habits in Love (SC)-
"If someone were to ask her, Rilla might brush off any inquiries about her temper. When pressed, however, Rilla would probably admit that she was prone to bouts of angry ranting and yelling, taking out her feelings on those around her. Few, though, could get Rilla to say so. Indeed, it was mostly narrowed down to her two loves, with perhaps a handful of others at most, since these were the people who saw Rilla when these moods took her, and did their best to help her through them."
3: The Wizard (IB)-
"Previously, on Inn Between:
¨The Wizard Orune has been terrorizing our land long enough! Adventurers, heroes, I beg of you to save us!¨
¨What do you know about this wizard, Meltyre?¨
¨So, Velune, er. . . According to what I've heard, his specialty is. . . messing with the mind. Mind-reading, so he always knows what you´re about to do, that sort of thing. He is really full of himself, but it makes sense, because he's also really, really powerful.¨
¨Not as powerful as you. Right, magic man?”
¨Well . . . . ¨"
4: The Comfort (IB)-
Previously, on Inn Between:
“Are you sure there is no other way through, around, whatever? Any other way?
“Do you think I would ask this of them if there was any other way, Fina? We have a small army of giants at our back and the only way that I can find is through here.”
“Velune, we. . . we can help, we will help as much as possible. Do you think. . . Do you think you can. . . .?
“Oh, I. . .I. . . With you all with me, I. . . I can. . . I will. . . try.”
5: His Humans, Their Monster (SC)-
"The Keep was silent and still, and this frightened Arum.
This was definitely not the I’m-not-talking-to-you-until-you-apologize, Arum lack of communication of any sort that Arum had experienced from the Keep a handful of times. (Not since he was a hatchling, mind you, no matter what his humans said.) It was not even the I’m-sick-and-napping, please-let-me-rest quiet Arum had dealt with a few months prior. This was eerily silent, conspicuously still, and had happened too suddenly to be anything but something very wrong."
6: The Faith (IB)-
"Previously, on Inn Between:
“What? What are you- How did you get in here? Wait, I remember you, you’re-”
“All in good time, wizard. Now, good night.”
“No, what- Guards, somebody! Oh-”
“Right then.”
“What’s this? A note?”
“Lord Sterling Whitetower, I have. . . Meltyre, your friend and Court Wizard to the Throne. . . .”
“Oh, gods. . . oh, gods, no.”
“If you wish to see him. . . alive. . . again, meet me at the location shown here. Tell no one. . . and come alone. If you do not, he dies.”
“Cuthbert, help me.”"
7: The Poet's Dilema (SC)-
"One of the things Damien enjoyed most about his loves- and ah, the plurality of that statement, so new, so strange, so exciting- was when they could spend time together, doing nothing much of import, but simply being together. True, there were countless other things- so many that even a poet such as himself would be hard-pressed for the time or words to express them all. But to Damien, this was high on the list, these small moments that he could count on, that he could treasure, that he could practically write an epic in itself about afterward."
8: A Gift of a Ring (But Not Like That) (IB)-
"Meltyre wasn’t sure when the idea grew, from a wistful hope in the back of his mind to an actual plan. The vague thought that later became the idea, that crossed his mind soon, very soon after Sterling first shared his secret. But when he first resolved to do something about it . . . ."
9: Within These Rooms (IB)-
"It was Sterling’s turn to fetch drinks that night at the inn. When he came back to their usual table with their usual fare, he also came with a strange look on his face, brow furrowed and eyes lost in thought."
10: The Proposal (IB)-
"Previously, on Inn Between:
“MeltyredoyouandSterlinglikeeachother?”
“Sorry to disappoint you, but I do not plan to marry Sterling anytime soon.”
“Aww.”
“You just want to be a flower girl.”
“Yeah.”
“So you aren’t married?”
“We are not.”
“Good, cuz I want to be flower girl.”
“She would never forgive you if you didn’t let her be flower girl.”
“Another May day come and gone.”
“This time, with only the on-purpose explosions.”
“I am glad of that. And glad to be with you, Meltyre.”
“Oh. . . Oh! You, too, Sterling. Love you, too.”"
Even though I am pretty sure I know a bunch of writers on tumblr, I have a hard time remembering names and who is who and whatnot. 😳 So I'm just going to tag this a bit, and also share this in the relevant discards. 😁 Aka the discards for Penumbra: SC and for Inn Between. Anyone else who wants to do this, have fun! 😁
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Fic Masterlist
Everything is on AO3 at BookishFlyingGecko unless otherwise stated, and a couple are also on fanfiction.net under the same name.
IN PROGRESS (sorted by update date):
[podfic] Shouyou Hinata and the Mirror of Erised
Fandoms: Haikyuu!!, Harry Potter
Rating: G
Chapters: 16/27
Characters: I'm not tagging everyone it's an ensemble cast lol
Pairings: n/a (lots of friendships tho)
(Current) word count: 64 (because it's mostly audio)
Summary: First book of the Haikyuu at Hogwarts series, narrated by yours truly and written by Jester (Killthespare on ao3)
Varian Is Not a Wizard
Fandoms: Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure/Tangled the Series, Inn Between (podcast)
Rating: G
Chapters: 3/?
Characters: Meltyre and Varian, several OCs
Pairings: n/a for now
(Current) word count: 14,009
Summary: Varian's portal to capture Zhan Tiri malfunctions and sends him into another dimension, where he meets Meltyre at his wizard school.
Sent from the Heavens
Fandoms: Heroes of Olympus, The Lunar Chronicles
Rating: T (currently only on fanfiction.net)
Chapters: 2/?
Characters: Linh Cinder, Leo Valdez, Calypso, Carswell Thorne, various Greek gods
Pairing(s): Leo/Calypso
(Current) word count: 4,837
Summary: When the Rampion crash lands on a (seemingly) deserted island, Cinder goes to look for parts. Instead, she finds a giant bronze dragon and a couple new acquaintances. Set post-Blood of Olympus, during Scarlet. On hiatus.
COMPLETED:
Bent out of Shape
Fandom: Avatar The Last Airbender
Rating: G
Chapters: 4/4
Characters: Toph Beifong, Penga, Ho Tun, The Dark One, various OCs
Pairings: n/a
Word count: 11,726
Summary: Once upon a time, Toph Beifong decided to start a metalbending academy. First, though, she had to find some worthy students. Based on the ATLA comic The Promise, mostly canon-compliant.
Tsuki no Hana
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Rating: T
Chapters: 1 (with breaks)
Characters: Yamaguchi Tadashi, Tsukishima Kei, Tsukishima Akiteru, Miya Atsumu, Miya Osamu, Mother Gothel, Ennoshita Chikara, Hinata Shouyou
Pairings: Tsukishima Kei/Yamaguchi Tadashi, background Ennoshita Chikara/Tsukishima Akiteru
Word count: 20,984
Summary: Tangled AU with Yamaguchi as Flynn Rider and Tsukishima as Rapunzel. Written for the 2023 Tsukkiyama Fic Exchange.
ONESHOTS:
Draw Me Near
Fandom(s): Death Note
Rating: T
Characters: Near, Sayu Yagami
Pairing: see above
Word count: 2,635
Summary: Post-canon AU where Near and Sayu spend time with each other after Light's death.
Midnight Coda
Fandom: Death Note
Rating: G
Characters: L Lawliet, Watari
Pairing(s): n/a
Word count: 938
Summary: L celebrates his 24th birthday.
Mmm, Jello
Fandom: Death Note
Rating: T
Chapters: 2/2
Characters: Mello, Joey (see A Shot in the Dark), Near
Pairing: Mello/Joey
Word count: 3,835
Summary: Unconnected AU oneshots of the pairing getting together. Currently two, but more are possible.
Frosting and Freckles
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Rating: G
Characters: Tsukishima Kei, Yamaguchi Tadashi
Pairing: you guessed it
Word count: 2,716
Summary: Mutually pining idiots decide to make Christmas cookies together. You'll never guess* what happens next!
*you can probably guess if you've read enough fanfiction
Is it ever over?
Fandom: Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure, Tangled (sort of in between so I tagged both)
Rating: G
Characters: Rapunzel, Pascal
Pairings: n/a
Word count: 1,086
Summary: Rapunzel has a dream/nightmare after moving into the Corona castle.
Barfbending
Fandom: Avatar the Last Airbender
Rating: K+ (only on ff.net)
Characters: Toph Beifong, Sokka
Pairing: hints of Toph/Sokka
Word count: 1,156
Summary: Toph wakes up in the middle of the night not feeling well...but she's not the only one. Set during The Painted Lady (s3e3).
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