#this is probably a

[galacticlamps]

ten first lines

Rules: Share the first line of ten of your most recent fanfics and then tag ten people. Don't have ten? Not to worry, just share what you have.

tagged by the lovely @the--highlanders (whose fics I am reminded I suuuuper need to catch up on)

1. Paths, Present & Future

Jamie stared up at the mountain before him. 

2. Small Hours in a Wide Universe

The Doctor groped around above his head until his fingers met the lip of the control panel, and pulling on it, he levered himself up to his feet.

3. Your Life Begins By Leaving (and our love is shown in the letting go)

Jamie had left him by the sea, when he went to speak to Victoria.

4. Recruitment

There were very few times when the Doctor forgot why he’d run away from Gallifrey in the first place, and this was definitely not one of them.

5. Wedding Colors

The room was white.

6. I Love You (For Sentimental Reasons)

The Doctor knelt on the ground in front of the door, fighting with the length of wire he was trying to use to pick the lock.

7. Under Alien Stars

Jamie sat on the flat stone ledge and shivered, pressing his knees together and pulling the heavy blanket tighter around his shoulders.

8. Visitation Rights

“I was told,” Zoe persisted, ducking under the rope that divided the queues and continuing to address the man at the desk through his neighbor’s window now, “that this hospital was a model of efficiency and organization – ‘A shining beacon for the modern era on Selarsus.’”

9. Itemized

 . . . Item: 15.6 carvos of ter-lan cable; Item: 12 standard ob. cases of Bernalium . . . The Doctor stood on a flat outcrop of rock a little way down the slope from where the Tardis had landed, nodding along with the foreman beside him but only half-listening as he pointed out different areas of the work site below them.

10. So Merrily We’ll Sing

“Jamie?” The Doctor had only pressed his fingers lightly against the door to their room, but the Tardis allowed it to swing inward at his touch.

Hmm, maybe I don’t think about opening lines as much as I ought to, but the one from Recruitment at least is a pretty good one, even all on its own! (and look at me catfishing everyone with some pretty short opening lines for a couple of these lol)

tagging @seismologically-silly  @terryfphanatics and whoever else writes things? I’m blanking a bit ngl, but don’t let my distractedness be an obstacle for you

[blabberoo]

Idk what au im cooking.. but Im cooking..

[dorykinny]

Rip stanley you would have loved Avon

[liquidstar]

i always think abt my cousin in greece who's like obsessed with american culture, bc ill say that im going to a barbecue and she'll be like "wow.... a real life american barbecue... will there be red cups?" you bet your ass there'll be red cups. take my hand. have a hot dog. all your dreams can come true here at the real life american barbecue

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

the curse of summer is buying and eating an inadvisable amount of fruit in single sittings.

[inkskinned]

please i love you i'm begging you bring back suspension of disbelief bring back trusting the audience like. i cannot handle any more dialogue that sounds like a legal document. "hello, i am here to talk to you about the incident from a few minutes ago, because i feel you might be unwell, and i am invested in your personal wellbeing." "thank you, i am unwell because the incident was hurtful to me due to my childhood, which was bad." I CANT!!!!

do you know how many people are mad that authors use "growled" as a word for "said"? it's just poetics! they do not literally mean "growled," it's just a common replacement for "said with force but in a low tone." it's normal! do you hear me!! help me i love you please let me out of here!!!

[girldraki]

[hellishqueer]

we ask that the defense not say "me when i lie" while the witness testifies

[hamletthedane]

Thinking about him (the soldier in Poynter’s Faithful Until Death painting watching an apocalypse unfold around him with horror in his eyes as he tries to keep himself standing beneath a doorway, based on an actual 19th century archeological find of a man in full soldier’s garb under a doorway at Pompeii)

[heph]

Yall ever think about how Ford had to relearn how to be a normal human being after 30 years of isolation

[cosmos-kitty]

Maybe the real treasure was the boops we made along the way

[axepng]

[wolfythewitch]

How does this keep happening to me

[miraclemaya]

this is problematic of me (joke) but i really enjoy the splashing of french into english speech or writing. just adds a pizzazz

[introvert-slushie]

Currently thinking about how much Ford tries to hide his hands a lot when he can…behind his back with this stance. Due to how often he’s been bullied for it.

And also, how Mabel is one of the ones who Ford feels happy about showing his hands to because she thought they were cool looking upon first shaking his hand, instead of him being judged for his six fingers.

[ID: Gravity Falls screenshots. The first three are of Ford with his hands crossed behind his back. The last two are of him shaking hands with Mabel, and letting her paint a turkey on his hand. He's smiling in both. End ID.]