writing patterns
Rules: List the first line of your last 10 (posted) fics and see if there's a pattern!
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i called her on the phone and she touched herself (stranger things — ronance)
“It’s getting pretty late.”
crystal clear (all time low — flykat)
“You’ve been really weird with me lately.”
destined to explode (stranger things — harringrove)
“Look son, I told you already, I’m not paying that, I haven’t had the goddamn tape that long.”
treasure finder (stranger things — harringrove)
Steve Harrington’s got beautiful feet.
on the edge with no control (stranger things — steddie)
“I could cut your pretty little cock off right now.”
gold-skinned eager baby (stranger things — harringrove)
Steve’s not so used to having his knees pinned to his chest, firm hands on the backs of his thighs to keep them there; to keep him spread.
static screams (all time low/pvris — gunnskarth)
Every day is just static screams.
come bail me out of this godforsaken precipice (stranger things — steddie)
The quarry’s cold at dusk, Steve thinks.
dirty with harmony (all time low/grayscale — alex gaskarth/collin walsh)
Collin’s on his knees, bowed down with his head to the floor, legs spread wide apart behind him.
pothole (stranger things — steddie)
“That’s just perfect.”
still an innocent (stranger things — no pairing, steve character study based around his mother)
He felt his mother’s absence more than he felt her love, even though it was not that she wasn’t there in body to hold him.
i skipped out on the two fics from the explicit email series because the format is really specific obviously. cos it's an email. but anyway. clearly i'm a fan of dialogue as an opener.
edit: honestly it's kind of hilarious two of these openers are just straight up ass-eatin'
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do you guys ever think about how Wyll is introduced as an archetypal fantasy hero, but then it turns out he’s a warlock, who made a pact with a devil. Do you ever think about how Ansur is described as this fantastical dragon of myth, but then when you find him, he’s turned into an undead monstrosity. Do you think about how when Wyll does the right thing, he is punished to become more monstrous. Do you think about how as Wyll’s warlock powers grow, his spells get more horrific. Do you think about how Ansur was killed by his closest friend. Do think about how Wyll was cast out by the most important person in his life. do you guys ever think about Ansur and Wyll.
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part of the reason i love mean, bitchy, rude, domineering, firecracker female characters and loathe seeing them defanged is because the prickliness repels men and the defanging is ALWAYS to make them more fuckable for whatever man they have a weird sexual tension with. like yeah i don't like the Mean Lesbian stereotype either but at least the mean lesbian isn't shelving her career to become a tradwife after spending however many episodes/chapters/issues saying how much she didn't want to do either of those things
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i love when words fit right. seize was always supposed to be that word, and so was jester. tuesday isn't quite right but thursday should be thursday, that's a good word for it. daisy has the perfect shape to it, almost like you're laughing when you say it; and tulip is correct most of the time. while keynote is fun to say, it's super wrong - i think they have to change the label for that one. but fox is spot-on.
most words are just, like, good enough, even if what they are describing is lovely. the night sky is a fine term for it but it isn't perfect the way november is the correct term for that month.
it's not just in english because in spanish the phrase eso si que es is correct, it should be that. sometimes other languages are also better than the english words, like how blue is sloped too far downwards but azul is perfect and hangs in the air like glitter. while butterfly is sweet, i think probably papillion is more correct, although for some butterflies féileacán is much better. year is fine but bliain is better. sometimes multiple languages got it right though, like how jueves and Πέμπτη are also the right names for thursday. maybe we as a species are just really good at naming thursdays.
and if we were really bored and had a moment and a picnic to split we could all sit down for a moment and sort out all the words that exist and find all the perfect words in every language. i would show you that while i like the word tree (it makes you smile to say it), i think arbor is correct. you could teach me from your language what words fit the right way, and that would be very exciting (exciting is not correct, it's just fine).
i think probably this is what was happening at the tower of babel, before the languages all got shifted across the world and smudged by the hand of god. by the way, hand isn't quite right, but i do like that the word god is only 3 letters, and that it is shaped like it is reflecting into itself, and that it kind of makes your mouth move into an echoing chapel when you cluck it. but the word god could also fit really well with a coathanger, and i can't explain that. i think donut has (weirdly) the same shape as a toothbrush, but we really got bagel right and i am really grateful for that.
grateful is close, but not like thunder. hopefully one day i am going to figure out how to shape the way i love my friends into a little ceramic (ceramic is very good, almost perfect) pot and when they hold it they can feel the weight of my care for them. they can put a plant in there. maybe a daisy.
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