#lol mood that's basically all of thor's verse tags if I bother to have him acknowledge he's in another universe

[bxtonpxss]

He did not in fact have a single clue what he was doing. The warning about the bullfango serves to confuse him even more because he didn't know what the heck that even was. Thor settles back on his haunches, leans his head down and lifts his back left foot to scratch at his left ear.

"Well I don't really know what I'm doing, cause I've never been here before. I was just wandering around near my home, I'm not sure how I got here." This entire area was completely new and unfamiliar to the rodent, he was positive he'd been meandering about close to his burrow when suddenly his surroundings had changed. Once he's done clawing at his ear the mouse straightens back up.

"I'm not part of some melynx tribe or anything like that. I told you already I'm a Pokèmon." He closes his eyes and hums a bit, trying to find the right words. "Ah, I don't really know how to explain it,"

He folds his arms with a thoughtful expression. This would be a bit difficult for him to explain due to his limited knowledge about trainers. "But where I come from Humans and Pokèmon live together. Some Pokèmon get captured by humans,” he pauses for a moment, a frown replaces his thoughtful look and his gaze is a little far off. He can't help but think of his oldest sister who’d been taken from him suddenly back when he was a Pichu. After a few moments Thor huffs through his nose and shakes his head, continuing his explanation.

“They either go willingly, unwillingly, or the humans will use their other Pokèmon partners to battle a wild Pokèmon, then capture us when we're weakened.”

"Humans that fight together with Pokèmon are called Pokèmon trainers. I don't have a trainer, cause I'm wild and I have no interest in ever being captured but I have to be careful, because I’m the final evolved form of Pichu and Raichu aren’t really seen as commonly in the wild like my previous stages Pichu and Pikachu. My home is the Viridian Forest."

"A LITTLE BIT OF BOTH." Either answer would suffice in her mind. "I was wondering if you've lived on this island or if you traveled here. I know I've heard some melynx tribes like to be pretty secretive with their whereabouts . . . but you don't look like one."

He had to have come from somewhere, right? Especially considering the fact that he spoke. Was he mainlander, or from further away? Mari gets the sense that it was the latter, based on what she's already heard.

"In any case, I won't bother you if you know what you're doing. Just be careful—the wild bullfango around here aren't friendly to newcomers."

[crisisoninfintefandoms]

FANFIC FIRST LINES MEME

Oh boy, I was tagged by @cosmictuesdays, and I suck at linking usernames with writing and knowing who hasn’t or hasn’t done a meme yet, so if you see this on your dash and you haven’t done this yet CONSIDER YOURSELF TAGGED!!

OPENING LINES: List the first lines of your last 8 stories (if you  have  less than 8, just list them all!). See if there are any patterns.   Choose  your favorite opening line. Then tag 10 authors! or whatever!

I wasn’t sure whether to count a “series” of fic as all one thing, or a bunch of separate things, but ultimately decided with the former cause I think it gives a little more variety in the fics, and also makes the first lines actual absolute first lines, as opposed to anything picking up form where something else left off, if that makes sense, idk.

(on another note, I haven’t written or posted anything in a long as while, and it’s been a hot minute since I’ve even looked at my old stuff either, so this is gonna be interesting since I can’t really remember anything about anything lmao)

1: from Torment of Tantalus, Hannibal, Hannigram, rated E for Explicit

“Hannibal hadn’t touched him since they’d dragged themselves out of the ocean and into Chiyoh’s boat.”

2: from The Kiss, Hannibal, Hannigram, rated T for Teen

““You once claimed to have changed me.””

3: from Dormire et Excitare/”The Infinitives Series”,  Hannibal, Hannigram, rated E for Explicit

“Lately, Will had started thinking about sex with Hannibal.”

4: from You Are My Heart (Else I Would Cut You Out), hooboy I’d practically forgotten about this one Hannibal, Hannigram, rated E for Explicit like really no srsly read the warning on this one before reading

“There was no music but the clinking of cutlery.”

5: from Hands and Feet/“The Hands and Feet Verse”, Thor (movies), Loki/Thor, rated M for mature and E for Explicit this is another heavy warning one

““Get my belt and bring it here.””

6: from I'll Show You Mine, You Show Me Yours, Once Upon A Time, Archie Hopper/Mr Gold, rated E for Explicit

““I’m not…quite sure I understand what you’re proposing,” Gold said, brow creasing.”

7: from Camping, Star Trek TOS, Kirk/Spock, rated E for Explicit this one is actually probably one of my oldest fics from back in the day that I later uploaded to AO3, but I’m going in by order of posting there so here it is

““Camping?””

8: from Pushing Your Luck, Stargate Universe, Rush/Young, rated E for Explicit

“It didn’t start with dreams.”

AAAND the other part of this is supposed to be looking for patterns which, hoo boy, asking me to look at my own work without tearing it apart is a near Herculean task, but I’ll do my best. 

One thing I notice is there’s a bit of a tendency to jump right into things--a good number of them just start with dialogue, others are very quick mood/scene setters, and even the more “reflexive” or past oriented ones are kinda, idk, “this is what’s happening/this is what the character is thinking about RIGHT NOW (and what the story is gonna be about)” kinda deals. A lot of them feel actually kinda weird or abrupt to me, especially taken out of context? And, being generous, I think it’s cause I tend to put something very abrupt or that might not make much sense at first right up top, and then later in the next few paragraphs or pages back track a bit and give a bit more context. But I don’t really like to set up that context FIRST cause, idk, without that first bit it feels boring to me? Or maybe I’m just impatient, lol.  

Actually, now that I really think about it, while some of these might not show this on their own out of context, looking at them all together, and knowing what comes after, I’m realizing that nearly all of these are straight up Stating the Problem. Hannibal won’t touch Will and Will is bothered by this. Hannibal and Will have to come to terms with the profundity of how they have affected each other and what that means. Will is plagued by thoughts of Sexy Lecter and Sex With Sexy Lecter and has Complicated Feelings about this. Will and Hannibal aren’t talking at dinner because Reasons. Thor and Loki’s dad is an abusive asshole. Archie is trying to do a thing and Gold is Confused and maybe a little concerned frightened. Jim wants to go camping, and Spock doesn’t because Reasons. Rush is...well Rush is having a whole bunch of issues and upsetting dreams are just the start of that whole mess. Basically, the problem is stated, or at least strongly alluded to, then initially the problem is elaborated and/or expanded upon, and then the rest of the fic is resolving and/or making the problem worse. Basically. (And that makes it sound kinda fancy but let’s be real, a lot of the time the “problem” is “a person has complicated feelings and hangups about sex they wanna have” and “resolving the problem” is “they get over it and just fuck”, so let’s not have any pretentions here lol)   

Anyway, that’s my best stab at it, I’d of course love to hear what anyone else might have to say about it, but for now, there we are! Whatever that’s worth to ya’!