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The last twenty-one first lines I wrote in fanfic. If you want to ask me about any of these, I'll talk about how I came up with it/why I wrote it that way, if I remember.
1. There are coins in his purse.
2. There's a snoring Northman in Athelstan's usual sleeping spot.
3. Ragnar's eyes are pale like the winter wind.
4. The moon grows full in the nighttime sky and the moon grows thin like the sickles kept in Ragnar Lothbrok's house.
5. There is a man sitting at a desk…
6. The door bell jingles as he enters, walking from the cool station air outside and into what feels like a wall of tropical heat.
7. As the plane touches down on the tiny Scottish airstrip, he reflects that today it's been exactly a year and a day.
8. In the end, he's surprised.
9. On wednesdays, barring any saving-the-world emergencies, Steve sees his therapist.
10. It's the middle of the night - though quite frankly, Tony wouldn't know it. He's been up for hours - days? - riding that mix of sheer focus and unadulterated exhilaration that is invention, that is creation, and the only reason he's left the workshop is because JARVIS is re-doing some calculations on the specs of the vacuum proofing he's adding to the suit (because apparently his life now includes the possibility of ending up in outer space by way of not-actually-magical wormhole portals and he needs to be prepared for that).
11. It had been something in the nature of an escape, him leaving New Zealand.
12. It occurs to Dean that there is something seriously fucked up with your life, when - upon regaining consciousness - you can immediately recognize the sensation of being tied to a chair.
13. There is a man in a church.
14. The first time John hears the name Rory Williams is from Sarah, over the Chinese take-out that they've wound up having instead of the planned dinner at a fancy restaurant due to a really-should-have-seen-it-coming-a-mile-away case of Sherlock being an absolute prat and dragging the pair of them along with him on his latest case of running about London and jumping off a bloody bridge in a vain attempt to catch the criminal-of-the-day's specially trained courier bat before it got away with the evidence.
15. "You can always go home - it just might take a little while. It's one of the benefits..." but she's not listening anymore, distracted by the sudden pain, ripping through her innards, making her double over, gasping and reaching out to steady herself.
16. The snow-covered landscape is eerily silent.
17. Will cast a glance back at Henry doing - something to the helicopter.
18. "Savvy?"
19. They say that Jack Sparrow is a son of a gun, born in the eye of a hurricane, his father the craziest pirate to ever sail the seven seas, his mother a witch and a savage (though which flavour of savage tends to vary with the telling).
20. Somewhere else, there's a woman, standing by a fold.
21. Sam can't remember what it's like to feel warm.
ETA: second half of the meme, stolen from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
goldenusagi
1. "Welcome to the family, priest."
2. "Oh."
3. Athelstan
4. When Ragnar wraps his arms around him, Athelstan is lost.
5. Then he's gone.
6. (Excerpt from: King of Graceland: Journal of Music and Musical News, 06-12-2239)
7. For now, it will do just fine.
8. He's just about to place the toy rabbit in the cradle next to his baby girl when the door's kicked in...
9. Next wednesday he'll tell Dr. Sato about the dream.
10. He goes to find Pepper.
11. For just a little while.
12. The troll choosing that exact moment to come bursting out of the cellar isn't exactly the distraction Dean had been hoping for, but still, beggars can't be choosers...
13. Of course, that's when the alien fleet chooses to invade...
14. John is surprised to hear Sherlock join in on the falalas.
15. "Indeed," says James.
16. In the hand, completely still, lies a single locust, perfectly covered in ice.
17. "Damn."
18. At the end of dinner she's surprised to realize that she's still smiling.
19. The truth is threefold...
20. It's just that she always wishes that she didn't have to.
21. Somewhere far above him, the moon's gone out.
1. There are coins in his purse.
2. There's a snoring Northman in Athelstan's usual sleeping spot.
3. Ragnar's eyes are pale like the winter wind.
4. The moon grows full in the nighttime sky and the moon grows thin like the sickles kept in Ragnar Lothbrok's house.
5. There is a man sitting at a desk…
6. The door bell jingles as he enters, walking from the cool station air outside and into what feels like a wall of tropical heat.
7. As the plane touches down on the tiny Scottish airstrip, he reflects that today it's been exactly a year and a day.
8. In the end, he's surprised.
9. On wednesdays, barring any saving-the-world emergencies, Steve sees his therapist.
10. It's the middle of the night - though quite frankly, Tony wouldn't know it. He's been up for hours - days? - riding that mix of sheer focus and unadulterated exhilaration that is invention, that is creation, and the only reason he's left the workshop is because JARVIS is re-doing some calculations on the specs of the vacuum proofing he's adding to the suit (because apparently his life now includes the possibility of ending up in outer space by way of not-actually-magical wormhole portals and he needs to be prepared for that).
11. It had been something in the nature of an escape, him leaving New Zealand.
12. It occurs to Dean that there is something seriously fucked up with your life, when - upon regaining consciousness - you can immediately recognize the sensation of being tied to a chair.
13. There is a man in a church.
14. The first time John hears the name Rory Williams is from Sarah, over the Chinese take-out that they've wound up having instead of the planned dinner at a fancy restaurant due to a really-should-have-seen-it-coming-a-mile-away case of Sherlock being an absolute prat and dragging the pair of them along with him on his latest case of running about London and jumping off a bloody bridge in a vain attempt to catch the criminal-of-the-day's specially trained courier bat before it got away with the evidence.
15. "You can always go home - it just might take a little while. It's one of the benefits..." but she's not listening anymore, distracted by the sudden pain, ripping through her innards, making her double over, gasping and reaching out to steady herself.
16. The snow-covered landscape is eerily silent.
17. Will cast a glance back at Henry doing - something to the helicopter.
18. "Savvy?"
19. They say that Jack Sparrow is a son of a gun, born in the eye of a hurricane, his father the craziest pirate to ever sail the seven seas, his mother a witch and a savage (though which flavour of savage tends to vary with the telling).
20. Somewhere else, there's a woman, standing by a fold.
21. Sam can't remember what it's like to feel warm.
ETA: second half of the meme, stolen from
goldenusagi1. "Welcome to the family, priest."
2. "Oh."
3. Athelstan
4. When Ragnar wraps his arms around him, Athelstan is lost.
5. Then he's gone.
6. (Excerpt from: King of Graceland: Journal of Music and Musical News, 06-12-2239)
7. For now, it will do just fine.
8. He's just about to place the toy rabbit in the cradle next to his baby girl when the door's kicked in...
9. Next wednesday he'll tell Dr. Sato about the dream.
10. He goes to find Pepper.
11. For just a little while.
12. The troll choosing that exact moment to come bursting out of the cellar isn't exactly the distraction Dean had been hoping for, but still, beggars can't be choosers...
13. Of course, that's when the alien fleet chooses to invade...
14. John is surprised to hear Sherlock join in on the falalas.
15. "Indeed," says James.
16. In the hand, completely still, lies a single locust, perfectly covered in ice.
17. "Damn."
18. At the end of dinner she's surprised to realize that she's still smiling.
19. The truth is threefold...
20. It's just that she always wishes that she didn't have to.
21. Somewhere far above him, the moon's gone out.