Saejay

Rule: Post the first line of your last ten fics—posted or written, I suppose. You do you ✨

Tagged by @voxofthevoid-furious with this post, and I thank you for tagging me!

I've never done this before, but it was a lot of fun. This will be a mix of written and posted, with the vast majority being WIPs. 1. "This really all you're going to give me?" Satoru mocked, dancing around Yuuji to avoid a punch. (Jujutsu Kaisen, Goyuu, BDSM exploration, WIP)

2. Dazai hated book signings. (Bungo Stray Dogs, Dazatsu, gift fic, meet-cute, on AO3 here)

3. "Careful," Iruka-sensei said as Naruto stuffed piping hot ramen into his mouth and immediately made pained sounds as it burned.  (Naruto, Gaara/Naruto, soul-mate AU set in canon, on AO3 here)

4. The first thing that hit Satoru when he warped into the basement was Yuuji's scent. (Jujustu Kaisen, Goyuu, non-traditional omegaverse, on AO3 here.)

5. Atsushi tilted his head and considered the picture in front of them. (Bungo Stray Dogs, Dazatsu, prompt list, Royal AU, based on Apothecary Diaries, WIP but part of this series)

6. He knows better to believe in happy endings, but with the book content in his pocket he dares consider the possibility. (Bungo Stray Dogs, Dazatsu, series finale, WIP but part of this series.)

7. Nanami was, in theory, trying to teach a class. (Jujutsu Kaisen, omegaverse, fuck or die and fuck or die aftermath, WIP)

8. Kugisaki Nobara knew three facts about Itadori Yuuji that no one else knew. (Jujutsu Kaisen, pre-relationship Nobara/Maki, pre-relationship Goyuu, an excuse for Nobara and Yuuji friendship chaos, on AO3 here)

9. In his time observing the way people worked, Dazai had learned that everyone had their own idea of what "normal" was, and they almost always assumed everyone else had the same, or at least similar, idea. (Bungo Stray Dogs, omegaverse, found family, pre-relationship with a Dazatsu planned sequel, WIP)

I tend to keep my first lines in fanfics/scenes short and precise, so I feel like all of them will just come over stupidly simple on their own 😂 Let's see...

Dazai was certainly touching his things. (Bungou Stray Dogs, Dazatsu (all of the fanfics will be...), college/university AU, chapter 3 WIP for my latest fanfic)

2. The bar he chose to visit today wasn't anything special - the Port Mafia held control over dozens of establishments like this one, but this particular bar just happened to be on the way to his destination, so Dazai decided he might as well come for a drink or two. (BSD, Dazatsu, PM Dazai/PM secretary Atsushi, opening for my biggest and also most popular fanfic. It was also my first BSD fanfic so 'The bar he chose to visit today wasn't anything special' part is burned into my memory haha)

3. “Kunikida-senpai, there's a fight behind the school!" (BSD, Dazatsu, highschool AU WIP base on 'Sasaki to Miyano')

4. It will be one time, he told himself. (BSD, Dazatsu, BEAST AU, hurt/comfort with a happy ending, gift fic for dazatsu day)

5. Atsushi was nine when he met the Boss. (BSD, Dazatsu, BEAST Swap AU, PM Boss Atsushi/his personal guard Dazai, WIP)

6. Dazai hated pain. (BSD, Dazatsu, PM Dazai/ADA Atsushi, omega verse, another long fics of mine)

7. Hikaru's parents didn't like to talk about the Book. (BSD, Dazatsu, WIP for a sequel to this fanfic)

8. Dazai rarely was surprised by anything, but he didn't really anticipate that his evening would go like this. (BSD, Dazatsu, age swap PM Dazai/ADA Atsushi, my most unplanned long-ish fanfic)

9. “This is just embarrassing, Chuuya.” (BSD, Dazatsu, highschool AU, WIP that may never see the light of day because it's a guilty pleasure of mine...)

10. Dazai had always found humans boring. (BSD, Dazatsu, yokai AU, shortest fanfic I ever done)

Hmmm, I'm kind of the same, my first lines are usually very short. Here goes! (Below the cut since tag games can get a lil lengthy)

1.) Daylight was streaming through the gap between his bedroom curtains. Sans groaned and dragged his blanket further up his face as he shifted in an effort to avoid it. He wasn’t sure he’d ever get used to that. (Frans fake dating AU, except Frisk doesn’t know it’s fake and Sans needs to keep it that way.)

2.) Do I have to? (Photoshoot prompt from Franstober 2025, some good old wholesome yearning)

3.) He thinks it’s working. (Carve/Scarlet prompt from Franstober 2025, set during Sans’ fight in the No Mercy run)

4.) “Need any help with that?” (Patches prompt from Franstober 2025, featuring Underfell Frans from @the-writing-mobster’s “What Do You Want?”)

5.) The world crinkles and spasms around nothing. How long has it been like this? How long will it stay this way? (DDLC fic exploring the relationship between Monika and the boy whose life she technically couldn’t have ruined, because it never existed in the first place. WIP)

6.) “You’re not going to want to hear this,” Robin warns, and already Kalliope is eager to walk away from this conversation. Or kick her in the shins. Or kick her and then walk away. Anything to avoid the stupid, gravely responsible tone Robin insists on taking every time she opens her dumb mouth. (D&D fic where the party members are forced to figure out exactly how many lesbians it takes to cut a man’s arm off. Not posted)

7.) Despite his best efforts, Arthur doesn’t think he’ll ever really be ready to die. (D&D fic about an artificer who traps himself in a time loop in order to cure his family’s curse. Not posted)

8.) Gawain didn’t know what he’d hit until it had already dropped to the forest floor. (D&D fic about a nobleman who wants his right hand man to be as singularly devoted to him as is humanly possible, and instead gets something decidedly inhuman. Not posted)

9.) “…huh.” That’s all Kalliope bothers to say before she turns back to the dying embers of their campfire. Sef swallows awkwardly around the questions in his throat—is that a good or a bad “huh”, can you maybe give me anything more than one word?—and goes to sit beside her as she pokes halfheartedly at the ashes. (D&D fic about a girl on a revenge quest and the enemy-turned-babysitter who reluctantly lets himself get dragged into it. Not posted)

the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like. 

So you know. 

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