#reish

Rules: share the first lines of ten of your most recent fanfics and tag ten people. If you have written less than ten, don’t be shy and share anyway.

@xenobotanist tagged me! I'm gonna do things I'm working on or haven't been seen. So it's like 'first lines of chunks of things in progress.' Things I've already put out there doesn't sound super thrilling for anyone to look at, haha I'm afraid 'recent' is like, 'things I did to keep sane during 2020' and everything else is 'I worked on this yesterday' or 'now it's been too long and it feels awkward to do anything with it'. Friendly tagger, I hope you were not hoping to see anything revolutionary in this collection!

No one died when Johnny sang. Crucially, this included Johnny. (I'm Still Here [Remix] - JtHM Two lines, technically, but they are the actual first lines of the whole thing since none of it is published yet!)

It's possible Mollari doesn't recognize the signs, even after all this. (Sleep - Babylon 5 I never shared this.)

An entire room full of dead pharaohs.  (Chapter 3 of Strange Shapes - YuGiOh)

They’d arrived at the doors to the conference hall a little overdressed in G’Kar’s opinion, but no number of years on Centauri Prime would reset his barometer for ‘too much.’ (Paperwork - Babylon 5 Also never shared this one. Londo and G'Kar were pandemic panic subjects, I guess.)

Julian stands in front of his television holding two DVDs while Garak attempts to find the one rumored comfortable spot on Julian's secondhand sofa. (Unnamed near-end part of Deep Dish Nine called "The Peanut Butter One" by those who know of it - Deep Dish Nine DS9 AU It's been a decade I should just let it go, this is hilariously non-recent.)

In her defense, she didn’t always know what she was doing. (Original opening line for reISH - JtHM, which might live by itself as something called Meanwhile.)

“Are you sure this is wise?  Going out like this with just one guard?” (A final part of Portraits - Babylon 5 which a random forum of people embarrassed and hurt me too much for me to put up!)

It could probably have gone better. (JtHM fic of the same name which is not SWAN-verse. Was written for an event that went awry and just kind of chills on my harddrive now.)

“Will you get out of my fucking house?!” (Chapter 3 of Blood and Cherry Syrup aka 'Vampire Edgar' - JtHM which was never posted along with two or three more chapters worth for Various Reasons.)

"What are you doing here?!" (Unnamed scraps of ideas of Ai/Yusaku from YuGiOh VRAINS. This is the first line in the document that isn't a scrawled note.)

Sure do! It's been having a difficult time getting started for a long time, but there's a pretty good chunk of it now. I've been spending a lot of time away from it and so going back might make it fresher and easier. I'm looking forward to the fresh eyes on it. It's important to me to get it right and do well by the characters, so it has been harder work on than reSWAN, where the characters just became themselves. I have to reconsider every story beat in the original ISH because they either no longer fit or are bad, especially for a version of me 15 years later and characters with so much more development. This one has legitimately six different openings I've tried so far, at least, and I think five documents dedicated to constructing it. It's a mess and I admittedly have not worked on it this calendar year or anything, but I still have every intention of getting through it.

I love my glitter and garbage children, I really do .

"We wouldn't have had that problem with that motel trying to fucking eat us if Jimmy had just installed NordVPN."

"If he what?"

"NordVPN! They offer the fastest speeds in over 100 countries! Not only do they encrypt your data but you can unlock streaming services from other countries!"

"Wh- who are you talking to?"

"The first one thousand victims to use our code HOMICIDE will get 50% off a two-year subscription plan!"

Actually made progress????

I had a lot of work to do regarding merging all the non dead pieces of this thing and still do but the beginning that is still alive grew! And several parts were sewn together! Brackets for later were replaced with actual relevant sentences!

Feel like I put a carrot stump in water

I have to do some retreading to make sure mental states aren't ricocheting off the walls more than expected or in the wrong directions, but whooo, I love the feeling of digging and getting somewhere versus just having the walls collapse back in on me 👍

This is maybe not as interesting to look at as when I'm having trouble and talking about what I'm doing to restructure the thing but generic good news is nice sometimes haha