Rules: Share The First Lines Of Ten Of Your Latest Fanfics (or Up To If You Have Less!) & Tag 10 People.
Rules: share the first lines of ten of your latest fanfics (or up to if you have less!) & tag 10 people.
Thank you for the tag, @terezis! All my published fics are almost-entirely centred around Turmeric's tapdole disaster journey so I will also have to dip into some unpublished stuff, but here we go-
1. More Graves to Dig (BG3)
It starts in the House of Healing.
(Succinct, that one.)
2. Exhuming the Past (BG3)
“We agreed you would remain within-”
3. Whistle Past the Graveyard (BG3)
It's a relief, Shadowheart realises, to work in daylight again.
4. Wings Outstretched (Talons Extended) (BG3)
As unfortunate as it is for Ulder, Wyrm's Rock Fortress is the best place to regroup after the fall of the Absolute, and the tower – the former-Archduke Gortash's quarters – the most suitable location to organise the efforts.
(Bit of a run-on, here. You can really tell I've started to lean into endless dashes as punctuation since the beginning of the series.)
5. Moments Between (BG3)
“I really do think I preferred staying in ignorance, darling, I don't know why you had to point out that this place is actually some ghastly shithole.”
6. White Rooms with Red Floors (Firefly - a really old one from way back in the day that I'm still not sure why I wrote, and I'm too afraid to reread past the first line in the fear it won't hold up. I do still have a fondness for the title though.)
Simon remembers the exact moment he realised the Academy wasn't an academy.
Okay, here's where we get into random work-in-progress stuff that will probably never see the light of publishing day anyway but oh, well.
7. You can now use the workshop at Oberland Station (Fallout 4)
The slow ticking of a Geiger counter rouses Preston from his peaceful sleep, on a mattress that doesn't make his back ache, in clothes not weighed down by weeks worth of grime- in a place that finally, for the first time in a very long time, makes him happy to be waking.
8. Rat Sucker (Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines)
There's nothing like the smell of a Nosferatu – the pungent aroma of sewer drain mixed with the all the revolting fragrance of a festering sore – which, unfortunately, Therese knows all too well.
It's quite clear with all these in a row that I try to introduce the perspective character within the first line - unless it starts with dialogue I guess - but I do like to make it clear who we're with and who we're following as soon as possible.
I don't think I can think of ten whole people to tag, but @fandang1, you might like a go!
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ANTI-CAPITALIST AFFIRMATIONS
i am allowed to spend my time creating things, even if they are not beautiful.
there is no such thing as a "real job." all forms of work are real and valid.
there is nothing that i need to accomplish to be worthy. i am already worthy.
doing nothing is good for my soul.
i am not defined by what i produce.
my worth cannot be measured by my paycheck, my job title, or a list of professional or academic achievements.
i do not need to monetize my hobbies, it is enough to spend time doing something i love.
i will not let society decide what success looks like. i can define what successful life looks like for me.
We sharing anaesthetic stories?? I had to have dental surgery when i was in middle school.
According to my mom and sister the very first thing i did upon waking up was BOLT upright and proceed to try and shove my ENTIRE fist in my mouth as fast as possible.
I had to be physically stopped, and i proceeded to sob my eyes out for the next 20 minutes. Somehow, i didnt damage anything 🤣
sorry that imagery is so vivid i just..
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what they don’t tell you about writing is AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!! AAAAAAAAAAHH!!!
Big fan of characters realizing they don't get to die. They have to live. And grow. And be a person. And deal with shit they thought they'd never have to. And be fucked up about it. I would like more of this. Enough dying for honor or as redemption. It ain't. You're just a corpse. There is no moral value in dirt time.
Tried visible mending for the first time !
love the effect on this old turtleneck filled with holes.
@fandang1 if you want more dragonborns, I also have this girl from my multiplayer run - her name is Coral and I love her.
I made Klearrhishkminal in the game for fun a while ago, so I thought I ought to share her so you could all see why Turmeric was (and still is) so enamored with her. I mean, look at her, she's gorgeous!
She's a pretty important character for someone who's literally been dead the whole time- or at least, I like to think so, I hope that impression comes across. She is the entire reason for Turmeric, well, being called Turmeric for starters.
As a reminder, she is bronze and definitely not brass - if you think you've ever seen me describe her (or Ansur!) as that because they're similar words and I forgot to check and got confused, no you didn't, that never happened. Because then Turmeric's whole character quirk of having a fondness for lightning spells because her last girlfriend had lightning breath wouldn't make sense and nobody would pick up on it! (I do hope some people have picked up on that, it's a subtle little thing, but it's there. (because we carry those we love with us, long after they're gone, after all))
Shout-out to the time I was doing He Who Was' quest and everyone was just... stood in the way? I'm trying to have a conversation here, lads.
having an oc you havent drawn / written about publicly yet that only exist as a concept is so funny. i have special access to this limited edition guy from my brain
Wyll, Scratch and the Owlbear cub taking a short rest~
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I write BG3 fanfic about having a bad time and learning to carry on anyway! It's good fun! And also devastating!
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