for a number of different records
four more first-line meme responses, these at two hundred words each: The only good thing about being Batman is getting to work with Robin a lot. (petronelle, batman!tim and robin!steph)
"Quick, what's the capital of Bogatago?" (caia-comica, young justice)
After the day he's had, Dick is exhausted, and the bed's really not as soft as it feels. (rubynye, long-ago bruce and dick)
"When is this ever going to come in handy?" Jason's talking enough that he knows someone should try something, but they haven't. (miakun, pre-crisis jay)
this has been, sad to say, most of my fic output for the year. i went back farther on a random sampling -- which, wow, do i always put characters' names in the very first sentence of each story? -- if anyone wants to play for me:
It's a nightmare Ed has had before; on some level, he recognizes that. ( Process)
Maria came to see Al, even though he didn't remember her. (Sensei)
"Do tricks for me!" Dante said. ( What They Were Told To Do)
The trouble started with a shiny silver ray gun. (Hug-O-War)
The bar was dark and hot and smelled like the bottom of Jimmy Lennox's stationwagon. (Around the World)
Mellar bowed low. "This is, then, the book in question?" (Information Which May Be Of Interest To Certain Parties)
He wasn't crying, of course. ( A Brief Lesson Before the End of Term)
James dropped heavily to the snow-covered ground behind the trunk of the large tree and with intense concentration began reloading his pistols. (Peacocks and Pistols)
"The fruits of my valley are sweet, but you are the sweeter," Dionysus said, and he waved away the Maenad who approached, grape-laden and gleeful, who then whirled away into her perpetual dance. (Libation)
"He's not an elf, you know." ( [untitled])
It was extraordinarily frustrating, being dead. ( Stayin' Alive)
Fingers curl over heavy fabric -- soft hands, incongruous in her newly chosen profession, but she can't bear to let go of all of her dedication over the years to being the perfect girl right down to the tips of her fingers -- so Frannie's fingers slip smoothly over the rough edges, the thick braids that mean success and privilege, the impenetrable surface of the woman who pushes her up against the wall now. ( Touch and Go)
"Yeah, well maybe I don't like performing for an audience," Ray says. ( Odd Lots)
Halfway between Hickville and The Sticks, Ray Vecchio lost it. ( Nowheresville, America)
(the game, in case you've missed it so far, is to take one of these first lines and use it as the first line of a new story.)
...and in other news, i now have boyband hair. yes, purple roots + bleached tips = lance bass, apparently. i am perhaps having too much fun with this.
"Quick, what's the capital of Bogatago?" (caia-comica, young justice)
After the day he's had, Dick is exhausted, and the bed's really not as soft as it feels. (rubynye, long-ago bruce and dick)
"When is this ever going to come in handy?" Jason's talking enough that he knows someone should try something, but they haven't. (miakun, pre-crisis jay)
this has been, sad to say, most of my fic output for the year. i went back farther on a random sampling -- which, wow, do i always put characters' names in the very first sentence of each story? -- if anyone wants to play for me:
It's a nightmare Ed has had before; on some level, he recognizes that. ( Process)
Maria came to see Al, even though he didn't remember her. (Sensei)
"Do tricks for me!" Dante said. ( What They Were Told To Do)
The trouble started with a shiny silver ray gun. (Hug-O-War)
The bar was dark and hot and smelled like the bottom of Jimmy Lennox's stationwagon. (Around the World)
Mellar bowed low. "This is, then, the book in question?" (Information Which May Be Of Interest To Certain Parties)
He wasn't crying, of course. ( A Brief Lesson Before the End of Term)
James dropped heavily to the snow-covered ground behind the trunk of the large tree and with intense concentration began reloading his pistols. (Peacocks and Pistols)
"The fruits of my valley are sweet, but you are the sweeter," Dionysus said, and he waved away the Maenad who approached, grape-laden and gleeful, who then whirled away into her perpetual dance. (Libation)
"He's not an elf, you know." ( [untitled])
It was extraordinarily frustrating, being dead. ( Stayin' Alive)
Fingers curl over heavy fabric -- soft hands, incongruous in her newly chosen profession, but she can't bear to let go of all of her dedication over the years to being the perfect girl right down to the tips of her fingers -- so Frannie's fingers slip smoothly over the rough edges, the thick braids that mean success and privilege, the impenetrable surface of the woman who pushes her up against the wall now. ( Touch and Go)
"Yeah, well maybe I don't like performing for an audience," Ray says. ( Odd Lots)
Halfway between Hickville and The Sticks, Ray Vecchio lost it. ( Nowheresville, America)
(the game, in case you've missed it so far, is to take one of these first lines and use it as the first line of a new story.)
...and in other news, i now have boyband hair. yes, purple roots + bleached tips = lance bass, apparently. i am perhaps having too much fun with this.