#holding a machete

[amaranthsynthesis]

Writing patterns, tagged by @plethomacademia AND @chronurgy, lol, tagging whoever hasn't done it and wanted to (which is no one because I am. late.) and I might fudge it with some WIPs because I don't have ten things finished yet woops

Rules: list the first line(s) of your last 10 posted fics and see if there's a pattern!

you see my ghost and you'll never forget it || E The Dark Urge/Enver Gortash

The Steel Watchers move across the end of the hall, neatly separating Ballard and his companions before any of them can notice, let alone react.

2. Third Time Pays For All || E The Dark Urge/Enver Gortash

Ballard follows Gortash when he ducks out of the drawing room with a waved hand and self-effacing, breathless demur.

3. A Fine Night || E The Dark Urge/Enver Gortash

The Tilted Magpie is warm and brightly lit, cheerful yellow-gold lamps hung everywhere to ward off the blanket of night.

4. An Ill Considered Bargain || E The Dark Urge/Enver Gortash

Ballard has been complacent, quiet and observant as Gortash winds the ropes up his leg.

5. One for a Death, Two for a Pair || E The Dark Urge/ Enver Gortash

Enver Flymm sees the bird fall from the sky.

Aaaand cheating, none of the below are finished haha--these might change but in all honesty it would only be if I added something in before the first line. I self-edit so severely as I write that sentences mostly don't get put down until I'm convinced they're right, and final adjustments before posting are spelling errors/splitting paragraphs.

6. A Fine Night ch 2 WIP || E The Dark Urge/Enver Gortash

The fire radiates heat and light, casting formidable shadows that plunge the room into a heavy darkness.

7. the black hand of bane or what the fuck ever WIP || E The Dark Urge/Enver Gortash

“When you die,” Ballard asks suddenly, voice quiet still, thoughtful enough that it does not shatter the peace of the fire-warmed and paper-plastered room, “Bane will take your soul, correct?”

8. a sacrament to be taken kneeling WIP || E The Dark Urge/Enver Gortash

They are still in bed when mid morning turns to noon.

9. noises in the night WIP || E pre-relationship Astarion/The Dark Urge

The days are long and bloody--even as their little ragtag group of would-be heroes expands, so too does the danger lurking in the trees and rocks around them.

10. all the breathless dead WIP || M or E? The Dark Urge & Orin the Red

For all that the small imp had said Ballard would not be bothered by the suffocating red mist that blanketed him the moments of that slaughter, the urge niggled at the periphery of his consciousness for the next several years anyway.

I think the biggest pattern here is how you can see where I have white-knuckle pried myself away from over-complicated multi-clause opening statements (mostly, anyway)--I like my sentences long and chewy, as is. Pretty much immediately proven by the second line of most of these, which is hilarious to me. Other than that there seems to be a decent mix of action/description, though I do notice that where I open with action instead of description it's a good indicator that that piece is going to be shorter and punchier.

[puppyeared]

renaissance dogys

characters belong to @canisalbus

[canisalbus]

✦ Tipsy ✦

[laurearte]

Leorio qui se tape le jogging de l’examen de Hunter en costar est à mes yeux le summum de l’humour et c’est une énergie qui ne devrait jamais être omise de toute considération de son personnage

[scorchedmazes]

my brain for the last week:

MINALLY. MINALLY. MINALLY. MINALLY. MINALLY. MINALLY. MINALLY. MINALLY. MINALLY. MINALLY. MINALLY. MINALLY. MINALLY. MINALLY. MINALLY. MINALLY.

obsessed with them currently.

[heywoodvirgin]

HE FINALLY GOT TO USE THE MACHETE !!! 

[baphomuttt]

phighting art remwuests….,,.,,????,?,??.?

einther /nf…….

OVERSEER PHIGHTING OCS RAAHHH 💥💥

couldnt get to the second one due to spending 13 years on this one sorr

[bonesandthebees]

so I might be writing a qsmp au one shot thing

[galaxysodapopdraws]

I am very normal about Chuck and Nigel if you couldn’t tell.

[subtlesolitude-tailoredtaste]

I have been drowning in quicksand for 4 1/2 years.

Happy Birthday to me. If I ever amass a fortune it would go to proper funding and fight for legislation for safe humane abortions and safe humane assisted suicide.

Until then, I will shut the fuck up and smile at the table. Just like home just like family just like culture.

Shoutout to the Uber rides where the drivers waxed poetic about how hope is a harmful meaningless lie and useless and I should stop it “no offense” and I quoooooote.

Shoutout to the 47 year old for the sobering conversation, I hope it scares me enough to get up get out and get something by any means necessary fuck family. Thanks man.

Thanks mom for these past 4 years you broke my heart while I was trying not to break yours. It’s not your fault none of it, you’re not a victim you’re a survivor. I pray God grants her a thriving life.

🏳️🏳️🏳️

so many chances ya know. so much trauma most before age 10 lollll fear and self loathing. “What a waste, I’m sorry.” On a slab of rock buried if these customs cont to exist.

whatever happens happens, it is what it is.

attitude gratitude regardless. 🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈

[bcdluckstumblcd]

idc about your muse's zodiac sign! would they or would they not be able to kill Jin if he got bitten in a zombie apocalypse????

[pekodayz]

i might make them into an ososan oc ………..uhhhh older ara ara ..mf …ok wtf .(GAGGGING IM SO SORRY THATS THE ONLY WAY I CAN EXPLAIN THEM RNNNN)

[canisalbus]

✦ 3 PM ✦

[breitzbachbea]

Francesco joked in the past that Dolcetto was a heartless bastard and when their expedition travels began, Dolcetto often said in rage they should cut Francesco's head open to see if there's even a brain in it. Only as their travels went on, the more and more serious line of thought arose that he should cut open Francesco for a change and see if there's even a heart between those lungs.

[mickstart]

Reznov and Dimitri in the world at war campaign are LITERALLY

[mistyycowoa]

THEY'RE UNLOVED??????