First Line Meme
I come home with plans of being all productive...and then I end up spending the evening on a meme. Oh well.
Taken from several people:
I'll post the first line of all my full-length fics. You choose one and comment with a drabble/ficlet starting with the same line, unrelated to the original story. Ready? Go!
The ficlets I've written:
"Confession Isn't Always Good For the Soul" (Gaeta/Baltar, angst, PG-13) for geekbynight
"Get to the Punch Line Already, Baby" (Gaeta/Hoshi, fluffy fluff, PG-13) for tin_o_biscuits
"The Blue Film" (Gaeta/Hotdog, "How to Live and Love" 'verse, PG-13/light R) for trovia
"A Nice Little Psychotic Break" (Romo, Lance, really cracky, PG) for puszysty
ETA "The Best Medicine" (Gaeta/Hoshi, PG) for lls_mutant
ETA "Turning Over a New Leaf" (mentions of Gaeta/Baltar and Gaeta/Hoshi, PG) for safenthecity
The first lines of my fics (and chapters/movements for longer fics), if anybody is interested:
1. Two days after Dee moved out of Lee’s quarters and into the rack above Gaeta’s, Felix did the nearly impossible and not only managed to get both of them an extra shift off but also wrangled two seats on the shuttle to the Salpica.
2. “That’s enough, Major, Captain.”
3. Dee waited until 0300 to go down to the corridor where everyone had hung up their photos of the dead-people were already becoming accustomed to calling it by a proper name, the Hall of Remembrance-on the slim chance that she might be alone there at that ungodsly hour.
4. For some reason, nights on New Caprica always seem unnaturally dark.
5. Two didn’t care that the tears continued to stream down his face even after the last note of Felix’s song died away.
6. Though Specialist Linstrum fairly salivated at any chance she got to man astrometrics in the CIC, she’d almost traded her shift for KP duty when she realized she’d have to sit between Ensign Meeker and Specialist Alonzo for ten hours.
7. “You know what I was really looking forward to?” Felix finally said, staring up at the bottom of the rack above him.
8. Dee hunched down in the seat and ducked her head when she heard the hatch creak open, hoping that whoever was there wouldn’t see her and would go away.
9. It wasn’t until Tyrol found himself in the gym instead of Cloud Nine’s bar that he realized just how thoroughly Sharon had frakked him up.
10. Laura Roslin was intrigued by how many people very pointedly did not visit Mr. Gaeta in the infirmary.
11. Dee shook her head as she marched down the corridor to the bunkroom.
12. “Felix! Gods, no!”
13. Helo hadn’t walked down that corridor that day intending to round up the last of Kara’s missing personal effects.
14. Tyrol was used to Nicky awakening him in the middle of the night.
15. “Yo, Admiral Hoshi!”
16. “Hey Dee! Have a seat-I’ll deal you in.”
17. There were two Fives, a One, a Four, and a Six already in the President’s office and speaking in hushed tones when Eight pushed aside the curtain in the doorway.
18. “Mr. Gaeta, what have you done with the water ration distribution report?” Doral snapped.
19. “…When the girl was alone the manikin came again for the third time, and said, what will you give me if I spin the straw for you this time also?"
20. Felix had put off asking President Baltar for signatures on a collection of bills and executive orders as long as he could.
21. As happy as Eight was not to report directly on her liaisons to the biggest pervert the Cylon race could boast, One assigning Caprica Six to debrief her clinched Eight’s suspicion that One had been setting her up to be boxed all along.
22. Felix was so full of desperate questions and righteous anger when he burst into President Baltar’s office that morning that he very pointedly did not knock before entering.
23. Lamplight shone through the tent so that she could see his silhouette, puffing on a cigarette.
24. “Alone she sleeps in the shirt of man, with my three wishes clutched in her hand…”
25. She wasn’t lying.
26. Lee did a final head-count of the group Doc Cottle was leading to their new home.
27. “Wake up, Felix.”
28. “And what are we going to do with this?” asked Tory.
28b. Or, if anybody would like to write what Felix had to barter for the king-sized vibrating bed in “Housekeeping”…be my guest.
Taken from several people:
I'll post the first line of all my full-length fics. You choose one and comment with a drabble/ficlet starting with the same line, unrelated to the original story. Ready? Go!
The ficlets I've written:
"Confession Isn't Always Good For the Soul" (Gaeta/Baltar, angst, PG-13) for geekbynight
"Get to the Punch Line Already, Baby" (Gaeta/Hoshi, fluffy fluff, PG-13) for tin_o_biscuits
"The Blue Film" (Gaeta/Hotdog, "How to Live and Love" 'verse, PG-13/light R) for trovia
"A Nice Little Psychotic Break" (Romo, Lance, really cracky, PG) for puszysty
ETA "The Best Medicine" (Gaeta/Hoshi, PG) for lls_mutant
ETA "Turning Over a New Leaf" (mentions of Gaeta/Baltar and Gaeta/Hoshi, PG) for safenthecity
The first lines of my fics (and chapters/movements for longer fics), if anybody is interested:
1. Two days after Dee moved out of Lee’s quarters and into the rack above Gaeta’s, Felix did the nearly impossible and not only managed to get both of them an extra shift off but also wrangled two seats on the shuttle to the Salpica.
2. “That’s enough, Major, Captain.”
3. Dee waited until 0300 to go down to the corridor where everyone had hung up their photos of the dead-people were already becoming accustomed to calling it by a proper name, the Hall of Remembrance-on the slim chance that she might be alone there at that ungodsly hour.
4. For some reason, nights on New Caprica always seem unnaturally dark.
5. Two didn’t care that the tears continued to stream down his face even after the last note of Felix’s song died away.
6. Though Specialist Linstrum fairly salivated at any chance she got to man astrometrics in the CIC, she’d almost traded her shift for KP duty when she realized she’d have to sit between Ensign Meeker and Specialist Alonzo for ten hours.
7. “You know what I was really looking forward to?” Felix finally said, staring up at the bottom of the rack above him.
8. Dee hunched down in the seat and ducked her head when she heard the hatch creak open, hoping that whoever was there wouldn’t see her and would go away.
9. It wasn’t until Tyrol found himself in the gym instead of Cloud Nine’s bar that he realized just how thoroughly Sharon had frakked him up.
10. Laura Roslin was intrigued by how many people very pointedly did not visit Mr. Gaeta in the infirmary.
11. Dee shook her head as she marched down the corridor to the bunkroom.
12. “Felix! Gods, no!”
13. Helo hadn’t walked down that corridor that day intending to round up the last of Kara’s missing personal effects.
14. Tyrol was used to Nicky awakening him in the middle of the night.
15. “Yo, Admiral Hoshi!”
16. “Hey Dee! Have a seat-I’ll deal you in.”
17. There were two Fives, a One, a Four, and a Six already in the President’s office and speaking in hushed tones when Eight pushed aside the curtain in the doorway.
18. “Mr. Gaeta, what have you done with the water ration distribution report?” Doral snapped.
19. “…When the girl was alone the manikin came again for the third time, and said, what will you give me if I spin the straw for you this time also?"
20. Felix had put off asking President Baltar for signatures on a collection of bills and executive orders as long as he could.
21. As happy as Eight was not to report directly on her liaisons to the biggest pervert the Cylon race could boast, One assigning Caprica Six to debrief her clinched Eight’s suspicion that One had been setting her up to be boxed all along.
22. Felix was so full of desperate questions and righteous anger when he burst into President Baltar’s office that morning that he very pointedly did not knock before entering.
23. Lamplight shone through the tent so that she could see his silhouette, puffing on a cigarette.
24. “Alone she sleeps in the shirt of man, with my three wishes clutched in her hand…”
25. She wasn’t lying.
26. Lee did a final head-count of the group Doc Cottle was leading to their new home.
27. “Wake up, Felix.”
28. “And what are we going to do with this?” asked Tory.
28b. Or, if anybody would like to write what Felix had to barter for the king-sized vibrating bed in “Housekeeping”…be my guest.