"It Is Worth Trying To Dissect How Certain Root Causes And Social Dynamics Lead Some Groups Of People

I always thought about it 🤔

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.

I ❤️ self-loathing characters, characters who struggle with monstrosity (either fearing or embracing it), characters who are so lonely, who have a gaping hole in their chest, who bottle up & repress their feelings, who claw their way up & have ambitions, who fall down & lose everything, who search for identity & purpose yet can’t see themselves outside of what others want from or expect of them, who are hurt & hurt others, who long & grieve, who lie & pretend. characters who are messy & flawed & human

T-shirt that says “I’m not the trans man, im the trans that manned up”. Is that anything

Do not name a character after a common food ingredient. They will haunt you... they will be on menus...

Not having a traditional job or plans to get an education will have people asking you things like so what is the purpose of you staying alive?

he’s got a reputation to maintain

Not sure about anyone else but I re-read all my favourite AO3 comments when I’ve had a rough day so if you’ve ever taken the time to write a deep, funny, or just kind comment, thank-you.

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fics are almost-entirely centred around Turmeric's tapdole disaster journey so I will also have to dip into some unpublished stuff, but here we go-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!