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Latest Fanfics - Opening Lines

Rules: Post the first line paragraph of the last ten fics (or fic chapters, your choice) you’ve posted!

Thank you for the tag, @teine-mallaichte and @bronzieinthedas!

I changed it to paragraph because I have such short sentences sometimes.

I'm tagging: @potatowitch, @contreparry, @realace, @chaosride, @mordinette, @only-slightly-terrified, @sulky-valkyrie, @anderstrevelyan, @storybookhawke, @vonuberwald

Here it goes, the ten latest fics or chapters and their first paragraphs, covering July 2024 - June 2025:

See Your Name | Dragon Age | Fenris x Anders | Words: 23,327 (WIP) "Healer Anders, please, wake up," Lirene says as she shakes him. "We need your help." He slept through the whole day. Obviously Lirene took care of the clinic, applying and changing bandages, handing out tea, and assisting Firlea and Merrill as they applied what they learned about healing. If Lirene wakes him now, it must be important.

DA Ficlet 86 - you don't get to die | Dragon Age | Fenris x Anders | Words: 1,725 (complete) When it comes to battles at the Wounded Coast, this one was one of the simpler ones. No Tal-Vashoth, no bloodmages, just your run of the mill bandits. There is a dwarf with a nasty crossbow, nearly as nasty as Bianca, but Anders trusts that Varric will take care of him. The battle is like a well practiced dance, one he knows by heart.

cats and chaos | Dragon Age | Fenris x Anders | Words: 28,508 (complete) The ambulance takes Gracie Kerwinkle away, to the hospice her daughter got for her. Anders and Fenris watch after the car. Snow falls gently around them, making everything look white for a few, precious moments, before it turns into grey sludge.

DA Ficlet 85 - indigo sky | Dragon Age | Fenris x Anders | Words: 1,216 (complete) Sleeping in is a luxury Fenris loves to indulge in. Unless he is called for the early watch, even on the outings with Hawke, he likes to sleep in until someone wakes him with a cup of tea. He never could do that as a slave.

DA Ficlet 84 - sleeping | Dragon Age | Fenris x Anders | Words: 1,437 (complete) Fenris can't sleep. It's ridiculous, he is exhausted, he should be dead asleep after that three day trip at the Wounded Coast. Three days in blistering heat, sharing the tent with the mage. Three nights of laying next to him on thin mats, naked, because it was just too hot to cover themselves. Three nights he slept, instantly. And now, back in his home, he can't sleep.

DA Ficlet 83 - to help | Dragon Age | Fenris x Anders | Words: 1,365 (complete) "Have you seen him?" Merrill whispers to Hawke, but Anders hears her anyway. He also notices how Hawke glances at him, before she whispers something in Merrill's ear.

DA Ficlet 82 - seeing | Dragon Age | Isabela x Merrill x Hawke | Words: 548 (complete) Isabela noticed it at first. Not Anders, not Hawke. Isabela.

Not Yours | Dragon Age | Fenris x Anders | Words: 48,582 (WIP) The boy is gone before Anders can ask who sent him to hand him the note. It's just a scrap of paper, a hastily written message he probably shouldn't read out here in Lowtown's market.

Twilight and Soup | Dragon Age | Fenris x Anders | Words: 32,835 (WIP) Anders looks to the top of the wall, where the sunlight draws a harsh, bright line. The courtyard with the market is in shadow already but up there, the sun still shines. His kids run around him, he made sure to stay at the far side of the Gallows courtyard, so that they don't disturb anybody. He has 16 kids in his class, his responsibility. Some of them run around, chasing each other, others sit quietly on the stones still warm from the sun, reading books or drawing.

DA Ficlet 81 - control and possession | Dragon Age | Fenris x Anders | Words: 586 (complete) "Are you here to gloat?" Anders kneels between the meager piles of his belongings, deciding what he can take with him and what he should just leave behind.

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It is, not surprisingly, a fenders fest, Fenris x Anders, with a glimpse of Merrill, Hawke, and Isabela. I'm not sure what the first paragraphs tell me about my writing style, but I'm trying to follow the advice of starting in medias res.

#tag game #first paragraphs #dragon age fanfiction

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From the First to the Last Paragraph

Quote from Hunter J Thompson on first and last paragraphs I have put off writing this piece for some time because I couldn’t think of a first paragraph. In this I detect a common dilemma. Reading through a collection of short stories recently, I realised that several were rather good – except for the first paragraph, the one sculpted to such perfection they said nothing at all. Think of a Barbie…

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#first paragraphs #writing well

"No one came.

They continued on with their lives just past where the treeline stopped, and no one came to help. If they heard my cries for help, or felt the desperate plea of my energy levels, they ignored me. Every one of them ignored me."

#on dating a demon #on dating a demon chapter 37 #first paragraphs

'My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. Everyone else in my family is dead.'

Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle

#first paragraphs #going to love this book

The book of ballads published by Von Humboldt Fleisher in the Thirties was an immediate hit. Humboldt was just what everyone had been waiting for. Out in the Midwest I had certainly been waiting eagerly, I can tell you that. An avant-garde writer, the first of a new generation, he was handsome, fair, large, serious, witty, he was learned. The guy had it all. All the papers reviewed his book. His picture appeared in Time without insult and in Newsweek with praise. I read Harlequin Ballads enthusiastically. I was a student at the University of Wisconsin and thought about nothing but literature day and night. Humboldt revealed to me new ways of doing things. I was ecstatic. I envied his luck, his talent, and his fame, and I went east in May to have a look at him—perhaps to get next to him. The Grey hound bus, taking the Scranton route, made the trip in about fifty hours. That didn’t matter. The bus windows were open. I had never seen real mountains before. Trees were budding. It was like Beethoven’s Pastorale. I felt showered by the green, within. Manhattan was fine, too. I took a room for three bucks a week and found a job selling Fuller Brushes door to door. And I was wildly excited about everything. Having written Humboldt a long fan letter, I was invited to Greenwich Village to discuss literature and ideas. He lived on Bedford Street, near Chumley’s. First he gave me black coffee, and then poured gin in the same cup. “Well, you’re a nice-looking enough fellow, Charlie,” he said to me. “Aren’t you a bit sly, maybe? I think you’re headed for early baldness. And such large emotional handsome eyes. But you certainly do love literature and that’s the main thing. You have sensibility,” he said. He was a pioneer in the use of this word. Sensibility later made it big. Humboldt was very kind. He introduced me to people in the Village and got me books to review. I always loved him.

First paragraph of Saul Bellow’s Humboldt’s Gift

#first paragraphs #humboldt's gift #saul bellow #yes

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To Alexey Suvorin, 20 May 1890, Tomsk. At long last greetings from Siberian Man, dear Alexey Sergeyevich! I have been missing both you and our correspondence terribly. I shall nevertheless start from the beginning. They told me in Tyumen that there would be no steamer to Tomsk until 18 May. I had to take horses. For the first three days every joint and tendon in my body ached, but then I got used to it and had no more pain. But as a result of the lack of sleep, the constant fussing with the baggage, the bouncing up and down and the hunger, I suffered a hemorrhage that rather spoilt my mood, which was not in any case particularly sunny.

Anton Chekhov, ‘A Journey to the End of the Russian Empire’ (1890) translated by Rosamund Bartlett, Anthony Phillips, Luba Terpak and Michael Terpak.

#anton chekhov #first paragraphs #first paragraph #a journey to the end of the russian empire #1890 #letters

The Cosmos is all that is or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us - there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.

Carl Sagan, ‘Cosmos’ (1981)

#first paragraph #first paragraphs #carl sagan #cosmos #literature #science literature

This edition of 'Stupid White Men' is being published for the English speaking world outside North America, the continent where the vast majority of the pathetically stupid, embarrassingly white, and disgustingly rich men live. This book was initially written for Americans and Canadians (well, really, just Americans; Canadians are pretty smart and hip to the evils of America - they just bought this book to be nice to me because they know I like them).

Michael Moore, ‘Stupid White Men: And other sorry excuses for the state of the nation!’ (2002)

#first paragraphs #first paragraph #stupid white men #michael moore #included the second paragraph because it's so good #literature #political writing

Latest Fanfics - Opening Lines

Rules: Post the first line paragraph of the last ten fics (or fic chapters, your choice) you’ve posted!

Thank you for the tag, @teine-mallaichte and @bronzieinthedas!

I changed it to paragraph because I have such short sentences sometimes.

I'm tagging: @potatowitch, @contreparry, @realace, @chaosride, @mordinette, @only-slightly-terrified, @sulky-valkyrie, @anderstrevelyan, @storybookhawke, @vonuberwald

Here it goes, the ten latest fics or chapters and their first paragraphs, covering July 2024 - June 2025:

DA Ficlet 82 - seeing | Dragon Age | Isabela x Merrill x Hawke | Words: 548 (complete) Isabela noticed it at first. Not Anders, not Hawke. Isabela.

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#tag game #first paragraphs #dragon age fanfiction

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From the First to the Last Paragraph

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#first paragraphs #writing well

"No one came.

#on dating a demon #on dating a demon chapter 37 #first paragraphs

Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle

#first paragraphs #going to love this book

First paragraph of Saul Bellow’s Humboldt’s Gift

#first paragraphs #humboldt's gift #saul bellow #yes

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Anton Chekhov, ‘A Journey to the End of the Russian Empire’ (1890) translated by Rosamund Bartlett, Anthony Phillips, Luba Terpak and Michael Terpak.

#anton chekhov #first paragraphs #first paragraph #a journey to the end of the russian empire #1890 #letters

Carl Sagan, ‘Cosmos’ (1981)

#first paragraph #first paragraphs #carl sagan #cosmos #literature #science literature

Michael Moore, ‘Stupid White Men: And other sorry excuses for the state of the nation!’ (2002)

#first paragraphs #first paragraph #stupid white men #michael moore #included the second paragraph because it's so good #literature #political writing

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