#first line of 2024

[fiendishfyre]

First lines of 2024

The glass of wine was bitter on Orion’s tongue, it suited his mood, after a family dinner where he was not but a puppet to be strung and pulled along by his father, Arcturus Black. His mother did not even bother to look at him as his father spoke of his newly appointed engagement. He knew she was struggling, she didn’t want this for him either but she supported it nonetheless. So she kept her glances on everyone but her only son. Her so-called joy of her life, her little hunter.

First paragraph more like it. hahahah. Part of a fest fic, main ship is Orion/Alphard. Thanks for the free tag @impishtubist (I saw an opening and took it.) Orion is having a moment. he's also an omega~ Tagging: @stopme @artemisia-black @roalinda @jmagnabo92 @greenmegsnoham @lovelymasks @strugglequill @lostwriter--xx3 @/anyone else feel free to tag yourself! (Be like me. XD)

[hgejfmw-hgejhsf]

First Line of 2024 and WIP Wednesday

Hey all! I am HELLA late this week, mostly because it was my first work day of the new year and I spent most of the late afternoon/evening packing away all of my outdoor Christmas decorations (way more inflatables than you might expect...or maybe the exact amount you would expect out of me haha). But here I am, better almost late than never!

I want to say thanks to the following lovelies for tagging me in both the first line of the year and/or WIP Wednesday: @firenati0n @getmehighonmagic @magicandarchery @kiwiana-writes @cricketnationrise @suseagull04 @inexplicablymine @cha-melodius @tintagel-or-cockleshells @ninzied @priincebutt @violetbaudelaire-quagmire @heybuddy-drabbles @anincompletelist

Trust that my reblogs ARE coming for y'all. I'm so feral for what y'all are already putting out in the universe for the new year, so I will be in your tags losing my mind soon enough.

For now, before I have to wander off to dreamland, here's the literal first line of 2024 I wrote, because I haven't yet had time to write anymore:

"I could show you."

Hahaha how's that for ambiguous?

And now for WIP Wednesday, featuring a very spontaneous WIP that I sat down and wrote in one sitting and am now just waiting for the right time for it to exist in the world (after a bit more editing plus some design work on my part):

To have and to hold. To love and to cherish. To stand on the cliff’s edge of forever and jump without fear. Because tomorrow isn’t promised to any of us, and love is too important not to yell at the top of your lungs, even while standing outside of a palace in the pouring rain.

I can almost promise you this is NOT the fic you might be thinking based on this snippet...but that's the beauty of writing, isn't it? It's all up for interpretation!

I'm not going to give out any tags tonight because I don't want to pressure anyone into making a post in the next...40-ish...minutes, so consider this an open tag if you're late like me! And I promise to be more on top of things on Sunday/next week!

[blueeyedgrlwrites]

First Line of 2024

Oh hey, look, it's a new year. Which means new lines have been written.

Tagged by the lovely and wonderful @firenati0n @getmehighonmagic and @bigassbowlingballhead.

Because I just can't seem to help myself, here's more from my single dad Alex fic "When You Didn't Have To" (also because the muses are FINALLY cooperating now). Also, adding in the last line written from 2023 because it all goes together.

Henry nods once but feels his shoulders drop as the tension settled there eases. He fiddles with the signet ring anyway. “I guess I was just anxious about catching up given how things were left between us, so I wasn’t sure if you’d change your mind about it.”

Yeah, we're gonna be hit with some feels relatively soon, friends.

No pressure/open tagging: @anincompletelist @eusuntgratie @hgejfmw-hgejhsf @happiness-of-the-pursuit @kiwiana-writes and you, if you're reading this (yes, you).

[winderlylandchime]

First Line of 2024

thank you for the tag @bigassbowlingballhead and @getmehighonmagic this got me writing… (this week just started and is already kicking my ass)

Brian stands in the doorway and watches with warm eyes Justin as he pats lotion on his arms and legs, the slight tremble in his right hand revealing the toll the night has taken on him. A faded, bleach stained blue terrycloth robe frames his body and Brian’s palms itch with desire to touch the pale, golden skin that has remained as soft as that first night.

no pressure tagging: @lostcol @eusuntgratie @bartbarthelme @sheisraging @kiranerysed and anyone else who needs a reason to write at least one line today

[mlobsters]

jared padalecki and jensen ackles spn chicago con 2024 - gold panel

you spin me right round, baby right round, like a record, baby

[bitchfitch]

Recommendation on this April fools:

Enter a death pact with a mutual and boop each other into jelly to get the Boop Breaker Badge by booping each other 1000 times. Forge a Bond Today. Fucking Kill Eachother.

[taeminie]

Fandy Fan as Xia Yu Hao History 2: 越界 Crossing the Line (2021)

[royalarchivist]

Etoiles: Richas, I went in the Nether earlier and the admins kicked me just when I was in front of the Bastion. Were they insulting me in the admin chat?

Richarlyson:

Pomme: they are used to it you know

Etoiles: Yeah, that's actually true.

[batcavescolony]

just saw someone say Rick Riordan making a TV show is just as bad as anything JKR has done. BFFR you're comparing Rick Riordan trying to make his world more inclusive, changing some parts because of money/time constraints, or just making changes cus he thinks they're needed, to JKR being a terrible person!

[19871997]

a third yapper has hit the toronto maple leafs !! ↳ tor @ mtl 9th march 2024

[echotunes]

here's one of my favourite pac + ramón clips btw <333

Pac: Okay, let's go. Tres, dois, um... (singing "Nana Neném" while Ramón repeatedly crouches on his bed in time to the song) Nana neném que a cuca vem pegar / Papai foi na roça, mamãe no cafezal / Bicho-papão sai de cima do telhado / Deixa o nenenzinho (getting off-rhythm) dormir sossegado Nana neném (laughing) que a cuca vem pegar / Papai foi na roça, mamãe no cafezal / Bicho-papão sai de cima do telhado / Deixa o nenenzinho dormir sossegado [They both jump up and down] Yaaay! (laughs)

[fairylando]

i really do admire how lando tries to not give a fuck (that 'whatever' really saddened me so much) but he actually does, and a lot.

guy doesn't even want anything absurd, he just wants the support of his team for the last fucking 4 races but no... let's just get humiliated for one point on international tv💀.

they're really stretching him thin — and i mean it in a emotional and mental wellbeing way. he is obviously inherently selfless and quite literally does not hold self-esteem, but in the last year we've seen him trying to be more sure of himself and trying to be selfish for once. the moment he does that though, he gets accused of being the spawn of satan. and then the team does everything in the world to make it harder for him.

so i really do admire him, because i literally would PERSONALLY leave the sport after this one season.

he's so much stronger than i am.

[braceletofteeth]

FIRST AS A TATTOO ARTIST? DUNK AS A CAR MECHANIC? KHAO AND JOONG AS ASSASSIN BROTHERS???? WE WON WE SO FUCKING WON

[ivoreene]

select your character! sound on ;p

song links and stills under the cut!

Songs:

Heavenz-P - Even if it's your happiness

nyanyannya - Fräulein＝Biblioteca

Karasuyasabou - Genius Rock

daraku - GEDO

ryo - world is mine

wotaku - literacy

Font: https://www.dafont.com/medinah.font

everything else was my own! i did reference the logo though, but i drew it myself

stills and a little group thing!------------------------------------------

tried posting and tumblr refused to post it so i had to rewrite and relink everything TToTT

[brainrotcharacters]

the next thing they'll be involved with, Logan will be drinking and gets told by a non-Wade "I'm here to save you from Deadpool" or some funny shit like that. Toss in a mention about incursions or Wade's 'higher purpose' having no place for Logan. Watch Logan laugh.

[shizunitis]

Luo Binghe: Original Drafts Edition! Who and why?

“[…] in fact, in his original outline, Bing-gē hadn’t even had a romance plotline; he had been doomed to fade away, alone and unaging forever.” — The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System, Vol. 4 (Mo Xiang Tong Xiu)

The drafts version of Binghe! Not Bing-gē, nor Bing-mei, but a secret, third thing! (I’m partial to Bing-xióng (兄) myself, just for thematic cohesion. Bing-mei remains as he is: Shizun’s special glass-heart maiden.)

So! Who is this elusive, mythical Binghe we never got the chance to meet? What is he? How do I get to pick this one’s brains?

Why is he haunting me! What does he want! So much to think about.

Listen: I love my trash sons, both the racoon and wet dog variations, but I am curious about this handsome demon lord who did not bed thousands, and did not steal his shizun to lovingly coax him into a loving and respectful marriage. Alas, Airplane-bro, as is custom, has left me hanging.

The solitary quote above has been floating around my brainspace for months. Intermittently, I would look up at the sky and sigh a big sad dog sigh, and think of this lonely demon-man emperor who seems to be both perfectly representative of No-Shizunitis Suffering Binghe, and on the exact opposite end of the line. I have spent many a night trying to rearrange the blocks of both SVSSS and PIDW like a sad toddler with no plan but plenty of amorphous longing.

Thus, Bing-xiong. My beloved new toy.

We know he is left alone and unaging. This means that:

He does not marry even once. (Sorry, Other Bing Variants. This one came broken.)

He is not defeated, killed, or left to suffer his not-father’s fate of sulking under a mountain.

From 1) we can assume two more things! Xin Mo either gets fixed/doesn’t influence this Binghe the same way, or: Xin Mo is completely written off à la Airplane Retconning, making Binghe potentially even more individually powerful than his younger counterparts.

(Or he just. Takes people’s cultivation ad-infinitum. Interesting thought, but too straight-forward for my tastes. Airplane’s thoughts? Unknowable.)

From 2) we can also assume Binghe cannot die, is under the influence of the Protagonist Halo unto infinity, and will only be put out of his misery once the heat death of the universe deems it a worthwhile endeavour. Either that or the story ends, but. It tickles a miserable part of my brain pink to think Binghe will not be let off even then.

Anyway. Bing-xiong, of course, has the same source material to work off of. Up until the Abyss, and including it, the plotline should be if not the same, adjacent enough to be indistinguishable.

However. This means:

Bing-xiong never got coerced into sex by Qin Wanyue, thus not starting him on the path of sex-dependency/addiction, avoiding Bing-gē’s fate by virtue of the Butterfly Effect. (Read this post because it explains Bing-ge's whole thing better than a lot of things I've seen.)

Again, Xin Mo implications.

Alternate Universe Shenanigans make an appearance. (Shen Jiu’s fever and death was actually meant to happen, Bing-ge just got very, very unlucky and his Universe’s Yue Qingyuan very, very lucky. For a few years. Either that or there is a Shen Yuan for every Binghe! Again: sorry, Bing-ge. You need to find your own. Middle child issues…)

Once the drafts/original outline got lost, all bets are off and now the characters become real people, without narrative influence. This also has the very fucked up implication that Bing-ge is actually a result of exclusively external forces and would have never gone down that path if not forced onto it by Airplane’s unwitting hands. I do and do not love this version. Very Mo Ran-esque, if looked at from afar and squinting.

Other options I’m either too not-high to think, or too high to put together. (Cold medicine is insane?)

I am fascinated by this… Schrödinger’s Binghe. A jaded, lonely emperor left in the ashes of his world, gazing upon his own history and finding fucking nothing and no one. Metaphorically and, like, practically, if I’m understanding Airplane’s musings correctly. Isolated, cursed by his own blood in a completely new and fucked up way!

I need Airplane to speak with me for like, half an hour. This is paramount to my mental health, I’m losing my braincells by the hour.

What happened to this impervious, cocky, badass demon bastard lord to become so alone? How did it happen? Why did it not happen to the other two, or at least Bing-ge, who has had every horrible and shitty thing possible and impossible piled onto his head? What the fuck is up with Xin Mo? Why isn’t it eating away at Big Bro Luo? Or, worse: why is it eating away at him in such a way that instead of turning into a violent yet charismatic, horror-creature of a man, it turns him into the existential terror-fate I’ve contemplated and abhorred since I was seven?

Tianlang-jun as the final boss. Discovering Huan Hua Palace Master’s crimes, deceit and… stuff. Perhaps even uncovering Shen Jiu’s backstory.

Ooh! Worse! Or better? What if he finds out everything, after having followed Bing-gē’s path, and simply… gives up? A grown up Bing-ge, minus the marriage and surrogate-lover part(s).

(More unlikely than other options, but still there, I guess.)

Fucking insane of MXTX to do this to me, personally and specifically.

I can only speculate forever, I guess! Left… alone and pondering forever.

So. Not a Bing-ge, and not a Bing-mei. A Bing-xiong, if you will.