#great lines in fanfiction

[aerielz]

great lines in fanfiction | dec 2022

"Cynicism is scar tissue." / on the run

"Jesus-fucking-Christ-on-a-low-fat-cracker." / mile low club

"Dignity was the first thing to go when you were running at full pelt only to stand still." / 5 times kent davison needed to be punished

"Shame has no hold over the shameless. Embarrassment is, to a degree, self-inflicted." / cliche storm

"Power means not having to beg, bargain, or bully." / cliche storm

‘Madam Vice President,’ he said. ‘I wasn’t expecting you.’

‘I was expecting some respect,’ she said. ‘Neither of us got what we wanted.’ / use/abuse

Mr Splett was teaching a class about Jackson Pollock. Ben stared around the room: there was paint on the walls, on the floor, on the ceiling, on the desks, bags, books, and, yes, on the students. There was even a streak of red paint down Splett’s face. Splett had been splatted. / hot for teacher

‘The past is another country,’ Kent said. ‘They do things differently there.’ / laughing at locksmiths

Shout-out to @kethni for literally being the whole list this month.

[tiger-grace]

SOMEONE LET HER OUT OF HONG KONG. SHE IS NEVER NOT IN HONG KONG. LET MY GIRL COME HOME 😭

[autumnalmess]

A reminder not to feel like you MUST post something special for barricade day (I sure as fuck am not, not during my exams 😱)

It does NOT make you a bad fan!!!!

VICTOR HUGO DOES NOT HATE YOU!!!

YOU'RE FINE!!!

Anyone who does post art or fics or anything is fucking awesome and we love you (I give you a kiss on the forehead)

But you still rock even if you don't.

Hugs and kisses, happy pride

[goodomensao3tagoftheday]

[djevelbl]

Let's go I'm finally reading this (my drawing pen is charging at THE MOST inconvenient time lol)

[seventh-district]

again and again i find myself lamenting that audio roleplay isn't taken more seriously by some people. like yeah, they often have a romantic element, and by nature they usually directly involve/address the listener- and i totally get that those things aren't to everyone's taste. no art or entertainment is universally appealing, and that's okay! but.. it still makes me a lil sad that the "cringe" reputation of asmr/audio rp precedes it. there's a whole lot of talent and creativity being poured into these audios by so many people that i feel goes unrecognized and/or disrespected simply due to the medium that the stories are being told through.

[quoththemaiden]

I love the way my eyes crinkle at the corners. I'm going to have such beautiful crow's feet when I'm older.

[indigosunsetao3]

Been a sick day on the couch today. Didn't do a single chore, I ordered my groceries for delivery because I am not leaving the house, and I had french fries and chicken nuggets for dinner.

But. I did write a 7k worded chapter and 4.2k of them were tension and smut. So, I would still call it a productive day.

Buckle in for chapter 15 of Keeping Lines Blurry😘 This is your only hint.

[jjs-other-other-blog]

3 major milestones of supernatural, the 200th episode, the 300th episode and the grand finale. What do they have in common? Glad you asked! Well, you see, the people behind spn hated Castiel and Misha with a passion, but they also couldn't get rid of them bc fans loved them too much. So they simply excluded fanfavourite main character Castiel (as well as his son, another fanfavourite main character) from all 3 of these huge celebrations. Because the show was always at its best when it was just about the brothers, amirite?

[ananke-xiii]

Castiel: vessel, body, woman, (best) friend.

This title comes from a previous post of mine where I talked about Yockey’s episodes in s12 and how they all deal with the theme of interconnection between motherhood/fatherhood and human vessels vs demons, angels and other humans. Ultimately, the post was about Kelly Kline, the final “doll”, the real one, true vessel used to pour angelic grace in, give birth to a Nephilim and be discarded once her “job” is done.

However, since I’ve been thinking about the mothers of gods and monsters and how they all, in some way or another, end up being associated with Castiel, I’ve found an interesting discovery about “Lily Sunder Has Some Regrets” (the linked post about mothers and this one seem to be disconnected now but it will all make sense with later posts, I promise).

I’ll quote myself from my initial post in order to explain my theory:

Cas: Benjamin is always very careful. Long ago, he found a powerfully devout vessel in Madrid, and her faith, it… she gave him everything – her trust and her body. Dean: Wait. So Benjamin’s a woman. Cas: Benjamin is an angel. His vessel is a woman. But it – it’s – it’s more than that. She’s not just his vessel. Sam: She’s… She’s his friend. Cas: Yeah. Benjamin would never put her in unnecessary danger. So Lily killed Benjamin, the angel AND the “powerfully devout from Madrid” who’s first described as a vessel, a body, then as a woman, then again as “more than that/not just a vessel” and ultimately as a friend (with a romantic undertone to the word). So we GOTTA ask: when is a human being just a body? And when a vessel? Are there “vessels” and “not just [some angel’s]vessel”?

I’ve always interpreted this dialogue as an interesting lesson on “Angels and Gender Politics”, and it is, but maybe there’s something less intellectual and more mundane about it. Maybe it's just the same-old SPN parallels technique. But more fun.

“Vessel, body, woman, friend” is how the powerfully devout woman in Madrid is described. But in this episode, “vessel, body, woman, friend” is also Castiel. Castiel is the powerfully devout woman in Madrid and Dean’s… her Benjamin. There’s a complete reversal of roles here where Cas is paralleld to a human and Dean’s his angel which I find very interesting.

The comparison between Dean and Benjamin starts even before the Castiel-woman-in-Madrid one:

CAS: It was, um... Look, Benjamin wouldn't call for help lightly. And he wouldn't put himself in harm's way if he could help it. DEAN: Wow, this Benjamin seems like he's pretty cool, you know. Like he wouldn't make any half-cocked, knee-jerk choices. CAS: Yeah, you know what I like about him? Is that he's sarcastic, but he's thoughtful and appreciative, too. DEAN: Now what is that supposed to mean?

What Dean is saying here is that Benjamin is not Cas because Benjamin sounds like a cool type who wouldn’t make reckless decisions (while Cas is not this type of person). But what Cas is saying is that Benjamin’s like Dean because they’re both sarcastic but Benjamin is better than Dean because he’s also thoughtful and appreciative (while Dean’s not).

Let’s see if I’m right about this.

Vessel.

The moment Cas meets Ishim and Mirabel he just has to open his mouth and say it: “Kept your vessels all this time. I'm impressed”. Ishim and Mirabel say that they were not careless with their vessels like Cas was. Which, of course, means that they’ve known Cas in is “old him”, his old vessel.

Body.

Whether they like it or not (and Ishim doesn’t like it because he thinks humans are apes, monkeys and primates which, to be fair with Ishim, is not technically not true however he does throw shade at us) angels on earth are incarnated beings, meaning that to live on Earth they need to take… a body. Specifically, a human body (no cat angels for us). Human bodies, however, are, from an angel’s pov, weak. Ishim might have been careful with his vessel but this doesn’t mean he can’t get hurt. Lily doesn’t manage to kill him in the alley but she hurts him a great deal because his wound is deep and healing it will be painful. Bodies suck, huh? But maybe also… not so much after all.

Woman.

The big reveal of this episode is that Cas’ old vessel was a woman. We don’t know anything else but the fact that she was a woman. We don’t even know if Sam and Dean know about it because we see the backstory through a flashback while obviously they don’t. They must have wondered because they know for sure that Castiel took Jimmy Novak as his vessel after resurrecting Dean. Whatever the case may be, though, what we know is that that was the first time Castiel possessed a person to visit Earth.

Friend.

Friendship is one of the episode’s themes. It’s not the central one but they do bring up friendship a lot. Benjamin and the devout woman were "friends". Benjamin and Castiel were friends. The angels in Ishim’s garrison were friends. Sam and Dean are friends with Castiel. Dean and Castiel are best friends. Since Benjamin and the devout woman were established as “friends”, meaning that they were a little more than that, then where does it leave us? Well, frankly the usual: Cas and Dean are more than friends. Woah, what a surprise, I absolutely did not see that one coming.

The scene that confirms that my theory is correct is when Ishim dares Dean to finalize the sigil and blast every angel in the room. You see, “Benjamin would never put her in unnecessary danger”. Neither does Dean with Cas.

The scene also pretty much sums up the whole episode as far as the theme of “vessel, body, woman, friend” is concerned. Cas has healed Ishim who’s now fully recovered and brimming health from every pore. Cas, on the other hand? Not so much.

ISHIM: I used to envy you, Castiel. You believe that? ISHIM: You survived Hell. You were chosen by God. But now look at you. You're just sad and pathetically weak. ISHIM: So now... I'm gonna help you. I'm gonna cure you of your human weakness same way I cured my own– ISHIM: – by cutting it out. DEAN: Don't move. ISHIM: Do it. You blast me away, you'll blast away every angel in the room. I'll survive. Castiel, on the other hand, he's hurt. He might live or he might just end up a bloody smear on the wall. Roll the dice.

Castiel’s “bodiness” is exposed in this scene, but there is a… ahem… “positive” side? Unlike the poor guy that Ishim is wearing as his meatsuit (ugh), Cas doesn’t have to worry about his vessel’s safety but his own. He is his own vessel now (well, he kinda still stole the looks from Jimmy Novak, nevertheless his vessel has become his body. An angel with his own body, crazy, I know. Maybe this is really why Ishim is jealous of him). Which, to be honest, is still concerning because Cas is reckless as fuck. Thank God Dean is not.

Dean doesn’t roll the dice, he doesn’t endanger his powerfully devout friend, he doesn’t bet on the odds of having to scoop up Cas’ remains from the wall.

So cool, right? Do you think that Cas has learnt the value of life, the value of his own life and will be less reckless with it? Of course not!

By the end of the episode Cas still says (re Billie’s murder)that he doesn’t regret his actions even if they cost him his life. He also says, after all he’s been through with Lily Sunder, that he doesn’t know if he’s capable of killing an innocent baby or not.

SAM: But, Cas, at the end of the day, it's a mom and her kid. I mean, do you – do you think you'll be able to... CAS: There was a time when I wouldn't have hesitated. But now, I don't know.

I don’t know if the show ever answers this question. He does bring Kelly to the “sandbox” but then Dagon shows up and then Joshua gets killed and then Kelly takes his hand and then Jack shows him “the future”… And then, and then, and then. Stuff happened, life happened, you know? I mean, it’s complicated but this is what makes it more interesting!

[aerielz]

great lines in fanfiction | nov 2022

"And, like most aspects of her political career, she had forgotten to consider the consequences." / flexible response

"Don’t underestimate pride, Catherine, when the world takes away every other fucking thing that you have, pride will keep you from laying down and dying." / no accounting for taste

‘You’re a politician,’ Kent said, ‘and you’re divorcing me. Trusting you isn’t an option that a sane person would contemplate.’ / a marriage of inconvenience

“A suicide mission without the actual suicide is just,” he pauses, “existential foreplay.” / gallows humor

‘If anyone gets bitch rights it’s me,’ Selina said. ‘I am a cold fucking bitch, so I know one when I see one. Like my mom.’

‘And yet, you mourn her,’ Kent said. ‘As I mourned my father. As all us children do: disappointed in our parents, scrabbling for approval, and blaming ourselves when we don’t get it.’ / homecoming

[lajulie24]

First and Last Lines

rules: go to your last 5 fics and share the first and last line with no context :)

I borrowed this one from @walkawaytall who took it from @gloriousclio - thank you, this looks fun!

1. Another time

First: This briefing felt like it had been going on for hours, but Leia was doing her level best to at least appear to be paying attention.

Last: And there would definitely need to be another time.

2. The doorway to a thousand churches

First: Han felt Chewie’s soft fur against his forehead as the Wookiee patted him, Han’s body steadied with a firm arm holding him upright and clasped to Chewie’s chest.

Last: “I’m here,” she said. “I’m not going anywhere without you.”

3. Fumbling Towards Ecstasy

First: Leia’s eyes blinked open, and it took her a beat to remember precisely where she was.

Last: “I love you,” she said, and kissed him.

4. If we survived the great war

First: Luke took a sip of his kaffe and made a face.

Last: “Yeah,” he said, watching her mirror his own smile as they pulled apart. “Yeah, I think we do.”

5. One Half Won’t Do

First: Carlist Rieekan’s head was still reeling. What the hell happened? When did I lose control?

Last (so far, this is a WIP): “Yeah,” Han said. “Yeah, that’ll do nicely.”

Tagging: Please consider yourself tagged if you write fics and would like to do this one! And if you do, tag me so I can see?

[thedarkestgreys]

2022 was by far the most prolific year of writing fanfic I’ve had in the decade I’ve been doing this. 252k words published in fact, and 212k of that was Fexi fic. I owe a big thank you to all of you who’ve read and reblogged and commented on my fic this year, who’ve encouraged me and held my hand during moments of self doubt. I’m eternally grateful. 🖤

🪦 The Fexi Hades/Persephone Verse 💐

‘till our wide eyes burn blind

or: fez steals lexi // rated m // 938 words // on-going

one taste and you’ll be mine

or: lexi wants to stay with fez // rated m // 3.2k words // complete

🎡 One Shots 🎃

my heart’s gone double time

or: the s1 carnival au // rated m // 5.1k words // complete

the stray lines that unwind you

or: the sleepover au // rated m // 6.7k words // complete

to love you with the sweetest of devotion

or: the baby au // rated m // 2.6k words // complete

It’s The Great Pumpkin, Fezco O’Neill

or: the halloween au // rated m // 3.7k words // complete

🌌 Multi-Chapter 🏜

don’t you dream impossible things?

or: the stardust au // rated e // 15.5k words // 1/3 on-going

all of you, all of me (intertwined)

or: the desert fexi au // rated e // 15k words // 6/6 complete

💊 The Supercut Verse 📚

your violent overnight rush

or: the post s2e8 au // rated e // 141.8k words // 21/42 on-going

(after the storm) something was born on the fourth of july

or: the yvor au // rated e // 17.8k words // 3/3 complete

[29625]

I was working out listening to Purple Disco Machine’s (one of the best House artists imo) Devil in Me and stumbled upon these lyrics

My momma told me, you would break my heart

You better run boy, you better run far

Had my daddy told me, you’re the girl I need

But all you do is bring me down to my knees

And I thought of a very lighthearted Slimav w/ Goose x Carole. Just replace momma with Goose and daddy with Carole… I think Goose would be super protective of his bro and be like nooooo why’d you choose Ron out of all men!!!!!! But somehow I think Carole and Slider would get along so well!

[jennycalendar]

is the nonbinary fic with buffy going to have them transitioning to express it in some way? asking as a partly-transitioning nb person. or is it just going to have cis-girl-presenting buffy….. :/

a little confused as to why this question has been addressed to me (not the author of the fic in question) but would like to also just mention that i am nb and present as a cis girl, and so i personally found this question a little hurtful and difficult. i can’t speak for the fic, as, again, i’m not the one writing it, and i am not really sure how to answer this ask without my own complicated gender feelings/the nuances of my own identity coming into play. i will say though that i understand the frustration of not having your own experience represented, as well as the difficulty of only having a Certain Type of experience represented, but i personally inhabit the experience that you express as Not Great Representation, so.

[tamaharu]

ive inherited a copy of lolita from my parents (i.e. i stole it from the library in our basement and started treating it like its mine) with the 1989 vintage international cover and i think its actually not that bad. better than the 50th anniversary one with the lips anyway imo (which is the cover for the library ebook vers ive checked out).

like i think any cover that incorporates the "only convincing love story of our generation" quote anywhere kind of sucks on principle, and the fact that it features a photo of a girl at all really goes against nabakovs instructions, but compared to other covers that break those two rules, the haziness of the photo creates a really evocative atmosphere i feel matches the book more or less.