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exuberantocean · 2 years
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Rules: List the first lines of your last 20 stories. See if there are any patterns. Choose your favorite opening line. Then tag some people to take part.  Tagged by @sparrowsarus
If you want to do this, consider yourself tagged!
1. So Close (WIP, Ted Lasso, Tedbecca)
Rebecca blames the bloody biscuits.
2. Breathe Deep the Gathering Gloom (Ted Lasso, Gen, Ted & Beard)
The alarm blares, jarring Beard's already frazzled nerves, until fumbling, he manages to slap it into silence.
3. Fingertips (Ted Lasso, Ted/Trent)
Trent Crimm (newly independent) carried with him a secret.
4. Bird by Bird (Ted Lasso, Gen Diamond Dogs)
“I’m so proud of her, but I just…feel like I’m being left behind.”
5. Onward (Ted Lasso, tedbecca)
The papery rustling of the wind through fields of corn was the first thing he became aware of.
6. Over Troubled Water (Ted Lasso, Gen/Preship, Ted & Rebecca)
“Hiya, Keeley!”
7. Heart (MASH, Hawkeye/BJ)
BJ’s eyes shot open as he awoke with a gasp.
8. Good Night Sleeping Beauty (MASH, Hawkeye/Trapper)
When the truck rolled to a stop, Trapper gave Radar’s cuff a little tug.
9. On Writing Panic Attacks (Original Essay)
One morning three years or so ago I was driving to work.
10. Humming Down the Night (MASH, Hawkeye/Trapper)
It wasn’t hard to sweet talk Henry into giving Frank the first shift in post op.
11. A Little Comfort in the Night (MASH, Gen, Hawkeye & Charles)
Charles Emerson Winchester the third’s precious sleep was being interrupted yet again.
12. Families (MASH, Gen, Hawkeye & Margaret)
It pleased Margaret Houlihan to find post op a model of order and efficiency at the start of her shift.
13. The Feline Incident (Schitt’s Creek, David/Patrick
David knew something was wrong the minute Patrick greeted him at the door.
14. Rosetta (MASH, Gen, Hawkeye)
The closer the bus gets to Crabapple Cove, the more distant, the more flat the world around him appears.
15. Regrets (ST: Disco, Paul/Hugh)
“Ohmygodohmygodhmygod-”
16. Ways McShep Could Have Happened: A Ficlet Collection (SGA, McShep)
“What did you touch.”
17. Heat (Due South, Fraser/RayK)
The summer brought an unexpected heat and though the taiga east of Inuvik offered shelter in the shade of it’s evergreen trees, the plains to the west held no escape the intense sunlight.
18. Grounding (SPN, Sam/Gabriel)
Sam usually knows it’s coming before it hits.  
19. Under the Sway of the Sycamore Trees (SPN, Gen, Sam & Gabriel)
Once the initial shock wore off and explanations were given which, to Gabriel, felt like a semi-comprehensible whirlwind of words, Dean gave him a sound thump on the back and, to the archangel’s surprise, Sam enveloped him in a warm hug.
20. Bring Me Back Home (SPN, Gen)
“And you’re sure this will work, Rowena?”
BONUS: Because going 20 fics back doesn’t get me to two of my favorite stories I wrote:
There is Some Relief in Letting Go (Twin Peaks, Gen-mostly)
He is letting Her go.
Decomposition (SPN, Cas-centric with Dean/Cas mention)
I pray to thee o’ Castiel to give me a call as soon as you can; we’ll pick you up.
It's the Third Time that Counts (SGA, McShep) 
“When are you two getting married?”
The Valentine's Day Curse (SGA, McShep)
“…but seriously Carson, I can walk. Kind of.”
Patterns: I’m not sure I really see any patterns, other than a lot of the first lines are short, with some notable exceptions.
Favorite first line: I’m not sure I’m really that gifted at first lines, tbh.  I should work on that.  I think it’s a tie between Onward’s " The papery rustling of the wind through fields of corn was the first thing he became aware of.” and Breathe Deep the Gathering Gloom’s “The alarm blares, jarring Beard's already frazzled nerves, until fumbling, he manages to slap it into silence. “
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jackymedan · 7 years
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butterflydm · 4 years
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The Untamed Rewatch (ep 9)
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NHS is really cute in this episode, you guys. It’s also a really good episode for the building of the partnership between Wangxian.
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I like the tense vibe that we pick up with, having the shadow-bird fly across the moon and only very briefly showing the puppet-people. That's a good editing choice.
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Nie Huaisang does come across as relatively sheltered in these scenes with LWJ and WWX. Even though they're all roughly the same age, he comes across as younger. Or more in need of protection, anyway, which is a vibe that he uses to his benefit much later. He's not a fighter. He never becomes one — even when he's at his most desperate, we don't really see him directly using violence against others, instead tricking other people to use violence on his behalf. I don't think it's a moral issue one way or the other; I don't think indirect violence is more morally wrong because it's sneaky or whatnot. It's just an interesting character note. I also think it's interesting that when NHS is panicked, he calls out both WWX and LWJ using the more intimate nickname form — he says Wei-xiong and Lan-xiong. He doesn't usually use that with LWJ, I think? But he does in this scene.
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I like the little fire & ice vibe we get with the… are they called 'spells' in cultivation? LWJ pushes them back and it looks cold, then WWX pens them in and the form he makes looks more like fire. LWJ and WWX are all for charging out and poor NHS is just so panicked over the idea. Oh, honey.
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So, this next bit is a really big thing that CQL changed from the novel! Wen Qing uses a flute to control the puppets and make them leave (or, wait, since she's blowing in the end, is it a xiao? But it's so much smaller than the one we saw LXC use, so maybe it's another woodwind of some kind? help, I don’t know musical instruments). As I understand it, in the novel, WWX literally invented all of this stuff, while in the drama, he doesn't invent it but does refine it beyond what it has been before. I'll probably have more feelings about that, one way or the other, once I've read the novel. When I was watching through the series the first time, all this felt like it flowed pretty naturally from the plotline that the drama had set up with the Yin Metal. It is one of the things, though, that makes CQL kind of an alternate universe version of MDZS rather than a straight (ha!) adaptation. None of the other practitioners of demonic cultivation in the drama, though, show the same kind of… ah, elemental mastery that we see WWX show. He becomes almost a force of nature in himself, feels almost like an avatar of death, when he's embracing the power. And we don't get that vibe with any of the other characters we see who try to master demonic cultivation. Other people may have dabbled with demonic cultivation in the past, was the vibe the drama gave me, but only WWX mastered it in the end.
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The girl doing windmills with her hands while holding the basket kinda cracks me up. Maybe it's partly because her clothes are so bright?
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Jiang Cheng comes in to add some levity to the atmosphere. He's actually quite sweet, almost but not quite confessing how worried he was about his brother. He does have a very hard time being emotionally vulnerable, though that's a trial for a lot of characters in the story, but Jiang Cheng covers it up with anger rather than a smile like WWX does. Different coping methods for different personalities. Jiang Cheng gets very indignant when WWX immediately moves to deflect any blame away from LWJ and onto WWX instead.
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I really like the scene with WWX, LWJ, Jiang Cheng, NHS, and Wen Qing, because there are several different agendas and levels of knowledge at play, all butting up against each other. WWX and LWJ work very well as a team here, supporting each other's moves while they try to figure out the best plan of action. We know from the previous episode that WWX is already considering himself and LWJ as partners on this trip, and they really do get to act like it here. They're the only two people who are on the same page; everyone else has their individual agendas but WWX and LWJ are working together and with the same knowledge set.
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I don't have too much to say about this next bit, but I do love it. I think it looks quite nice, they look very pretty in the fog, and I love seeing WWX and LWJ back to back and there's a bit of cute banter. And both WWX and LWJ get to contribute to the goal.
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Oh, is that A-Yuan? The timeline is pretty short in the drama, then!
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NHS continues to find WWX's brashness charming while poor Jiang Cheng is just so over it all. Even in the midst of the silliness of the three bros, WWX is thinking of his mission and partnership with LWJ, as he does pretty clearly take advantage of the chicken hunt to give LWJ and himself a chance to question Wen Qing.
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Partners! Partnership is one of my favorite ship dynamics — Fraser/RayK (due South), Clois (Superman) — complicated, dynamic partnerships with affection and bantering is one of my great weaknesses in fictional relationships (and for a man who talks as little as LWJ does, he holds his own against WWX). And they have a moment of silent communication at the end of the scene, because they've come to know each other that well already.
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The question of how much loyalty you owe to the people who adopted you gets brought up here with Wen Qing and Wen Rouhan, and of course the question always applies to Wei Wuxian in these cases as well. Like WWX, Wen Qing possesses great talents that mean Wen Rouhan give her more latitude than perhaps he would otherwise (in her case, she's an extremely talented doctor) and that the younger of the blood siblings shows jealousy of because of that latitude. Both Wen Qing and WWX act impulsively to do the right thing, even when it goes against the interests of their own adopted family. 
They part ways with Wen Qing (and possibly NHS, though we don't see a goodbye scene with him. Maybe he's still chasing that chicken), with another of the layering of the bittersweet almost-romance between Wen Qing and Jiang Cheng.
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And it's been a bit of travel, because WWX has changed clothes between scenes. LWJ and Jiang Cheng still look the same, but WWX was definitely in dark blue in the previous scene and now is definitely in black. There's some interesting non-verbal interplay here between LWJ and WWX that poor Jiang Cheng must helplessly watch — WWX drinks some wine, but immediately stops when LWJ walks away from him, grabs LWJ's shoulder ribbon, drops it when LWJ looks at him, then grabs his arm, and then drops that when LWJ looks at him again. Just major push-pull vibes.
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Oh, there's Nie Huiasang! He's meeting up with Meng Yao here! We don't get any Meng Yao in this episode but I really do kinda miss him and his dimples.
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I love WWX's technique here so much: "Hey, any weird deaths happen around here recently? We are such big fans of strange death!" I mean, it works, so more power to him, tbh.
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The scene here with Lan Zhan feeling the effects of the Yin Metal (and, hey, they told Jiang Cheng about it! He's not surprised! So that's nice) and Wei Ying trying to calm him through it is a neat reversal of the dynamic we'll see more often in the future, with Lan Zhan trying to get through to Wei Ying. I like that; parallels and reversals are fun.
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The scene of the three of them walking into the Chang home is very eerie and has a good, strong tragic vibe. So, we're getting Xue Yang in this next bit, and Xue Yang dresses in black. It makes me wonder if that's part of the reason they had WWX change clothes — in the previous episode, they wanted us to associate him with the Jiangs, and Jiang Fengmian in particular, but now they want us to be thinking of Xue Yang, maybe?
Hmm.
Next episode: Xue Yang! Xiao Xingchen! Song Lan!
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vera-invenire · 7 years
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for the meme! 15, 26, and/or 27?
for the meme!
15) Have you ever “shipped at first sight”?Eliot/Leo from the manga Pandora Hearts. I daydream about screenshoting all their scenes and putting them into a nice little collection so that when people ask me, “Wait, who the hell are Eliot and Leo,” I can easily share their Beautiful/Funny/Complex/So Tragic Oh My God story with one and all.
26) Have you noticed a pattern in your shipping? Is there a romantic dynamic you’re more drawn to?…if there’s a pattern at all, it’s that I tend to go Where The Fics Are, tbh. Though I think I’m more likely to gravitate toward ships where the participants are friends, or are in the same friend circle so they have to at least attempt to get along. It makes the pining more exquisite.
27) Is there a ship you’ve shipped for most of your life?Even when I get into new fandoms I keep the old ones on a backburner, so really, any fandom I was in when I was a young teenager counts. The oldest ships I revisit most frequently would probably be RayK/Fraser, Harry/Draco, Clark/Lex.
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california-112 · 3 years
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It only takes an extra second to be courteous.
S01E00 ‘Pilot’ | S03E01 ‘Burning Down The House’
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jackymedan · 7 years
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9, 20, 28
9. What are the best things about your current fandom? I’m currently most active in two fandoms (due south and mfu) and they’re both amazing in their own way tbh..
both of them have A++ super nice and cool people (also there’s a surprisingly big overlap of people who are into both? at least bigger than I would have expected) and many people I consider friends
what I like most about the due south fandom specifically is how there are still active events like due south seekrit santa and the big bang being held every year by devoted fans and I like all our weird tumblr memes like the not saying anything game and bears looking at lenin etc :’).. and I like how we all stick up for each other whenever our (not so friendly) fandom ghost ds anon pops up in someone’s inbox again.. I just.. I love everyone in this bar so much
what I like most about the mfu fandom is that we all collectively (or at least a lot of us)seem to agree that illya is a cat and napoleon is a fox :’) and that there’s so many awesome gifmakers and people actively sharing rare (or less rare but not any less awesome or appeciated) promo/behind the scenes pics or screencaps.. I love how thirsty we all are for any tiny glimpse of skin we can find.. there’s many things I love that I’m probably forgetting to mention but I just.. I love both fandoms so so much and I’m so glad I know all of you lovely people
(also before I forget: shout-out to all the amazing fanfic writers/fanartists/fanvidders/podficcers/etc. in BOTH fandoms who are still going strong and producing AMAZING content for everyone to enjoy and ALSO shout-out to everyone leaving lovely comments/tags/kudos etc. on those fanworks, without you guys we’d all be shouting into the void, you’re all important too
20. Any ships which you surprised yourself by liking? uhm... idk I read some random fics about RayK/Turnbull a few years back, idek what prompted me to look for that but.. it was interesting (I’d never actually ship that romantically btw, I could never ship RayK being in an actual relationship with anyone other than Fraser, but... they were interesting one-offs happening before any F/K happened) that was surprising.. also I’m usually not much into ot3s but I do kind of like the idea of mcspirk (with spock in the middle because I ship kirk/spock and spock/mccoy seperately too to a certain extent -the first one being my main ship- but I tend to see kirk/mccoy as mostly strong friendship.. but I’m weirdly into spock sandwiched between them idk...) other than that most of my ships are pretty... expected I think.. most of my ships are also the fandom’s most popular ships, I’m lucky like that..
28. If someone were to write a fanfic for your fanart, which piece of fanart would it be and what would the picture be of the story/plot be about? WELL, as you know you yourself have already written something based on/inspired by (a) piece(s) of my art three (3!) times :))) once for the big bang with the bb!ray and bb!fraser, once for a silly drawing I did of them both wearing silly underwear and another time based on that post-motb prompt I made once.. so those already did get A+ fics
there’s also a couple of other drawings I’ve made attempts at writing something for myself but they’re all still unpublished wips and I’m really a lot better at drawing than I am at writing.. as for another drawing I’d love someone to write a fic for.... I think the merman RayK series I did would be really cool? it’s technically already based on a super short tag ficlet I wrote myself, but it would be cool if someone were to write an actual fic about merman rayk and mountie prince fraser
as for mfu I wouldn’t mind at all if someone felt inspired to write a fic about illya being a poledancer :))))) not at all
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jackymedan · 7 years
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(character asks) Fraser and (going for an unexpected one that you don't have to answer if you don't want to) Midna from Twilight Princess. :)
Fraser:
1: sexuality headcanon: Demisexual Biromantic2: otp: Fraser/Kowalski3: brotp: Fraser and Vecchio, but also Fraser and RayK.. and Fraser and Dief..4: notp: hard NOPE @ Fraser/Victoria *shudders*5: first headcanon that pops into my head: I definitely read him as autistic.. and I also agree that there’s a big chance he’s  nonbinary in some way.. 6: favorite line from this character: “I’m in the closet for an altogether different reason” is a strong contender.. also “That’s just silly, Ray” and the whole “I first came to Chicago” speech :)) 7: one way in which I relate to this character: his strong sense of justice/conscientiousness (although I definitely have them to a less extreme degree) his inability to lie (although in his case I actually get the strong suspicion he’s a VERY good liar, he just mostly chooses not to.. but he definitely does twist the truth sometimes.. and conveniently neglects to mention things.. I actually legit cannot lie to anyone’s face without immediately feeling guilty or giving myself away.. not even for a ‘good cause’ tbh), his social awkwardness.. his teetotalism.. probably more idk8: thing that gives me second hand embarrassment about this character: that scene where he mistakenly thinks thatcher wants to have his baby and he’s all awkward and tries to offer her flowers etc. I cannot watch that scene without pausing it 345678 times and physically distancing myself from the screen tbh..9: cinnamon roll or problematic fave?: Cinnamon Roll Deluxe
I really like Midna a lot and I kind of ship her with Link but idk if I could really answer the rest of the questions for her, I have only recently played TP up to goron mountain (didn’t enter the temple yet) the rest of the game is a bit too far away in my memory since I last played it  many years ago
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