#mymostimaginaryfriend

[jamesvaldez]

I love that you, taraknowless, la ermitana and mymostimaginary friend regularly provide us with qots gifs to treat our dash during this indefinite hiatus. *Bows down*

Aww, you’re most welcome!❤︎ I think it’s fair to say that the hiatus that shouldn’t be a hiatus damnit is slowly not so slowly killing us, so I love it too that, although small, the fandom is still somewhat alive :) And, those people are MVPs❤︎ @taraknowless @la-ermitana @mymostimaginaryfriend

[ladytharen]

tagged by @mymostimaginaryfriend​ to post my lock screen, the last song I listened to, and the last photo I saved :D I remain as on-brand as ever, I suppose?

tagging @jammeke​, @jadelotusflower​, @fragileanimal​, @queenofattolia​, and @anghraine​ if you’d like to!

[ladytharen]

I was tagged by @mymostimaginaryfriend​, @dollsome-does-tumblr​, and @anghraine​ to do this meme so I’m finally doing it. thank you all! :)

The Game: List the first lines of your last 20 stories (if you have less than 20, just list them all!). See if there are any patterns. Choose your favourite opening line. Then tag some authors!  

I went with my 20 most recent finished and posted fics over on AO3, so no 3 sentence collections and whatnot.

1. It rains for the first two weeks on Hejda, one of the small planets the Rebellion is scouting for a new base after fleeing Yavin IV.

and in the woods, she called out a warning (rogue one, gen)

2.  Sometimes, it feels like Diana’s first year at Queen’s flies past her faster than anything she’s known before; a thousand new experiences to absorb, adventures to pursue, dreams to build, and all on her own except for the two people whom she loves most in this world

the choice of a boundless future, with her heart (awae, diana/winifred)

3. After Michael shows her the reboot with her and Chidi – it doesn’t stick the way he’d intended.

where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay (the good place, eleanor/tahani)

4. Cassian woke with a painful jolt, his recently healed back protesting the sharp angle of the couch he’d fallen asleep on.

caught by the tide of your same scars (rogue one, jyn/cassian)

5. Jyn has long known there are things you question to their bones – and others, not.

an intimacy of knowledge, unsought but found (rogue one, jyn/cassian)

6. For a week after she first tells Gilbert about the Take Notice board, she can’t quite look him in the eye – not since the disastrous attempt to ask him a question led to her staring at him inexplicably and making him run away.

I raced the moon to fall for you (awae, anne/gilbert)

7. “Do you think they could be louder?” she asks, passing between Logan and the kitchen counter.

sweet echoes across time, across memory (vmars, veronica/logan)

8. Her life has always been built upon ghosts, counting like them sheep as she falls asleep.

a thousand teeth, and yours among them I know (vmars, veronica/logan)

9. In Neptune, the sun rises late, weak rays skirting the edges of the water.

when my time comes around (vmars, veronica/logan)

10. For all the pleasures of courtship, Elizabeth could not yet count this evening among them.

where to start, a journey of the heart (pride and prejudice, f!darcy/lizzy)

11. She is eight years old, watching her family farm burn as Saw holds her hand very (very) tightly in his.

a duty uprooting, a garden to grow anew (rogue one, jyn/cassian)

12. She still wasn’t used to waking up like this.

if all my words are gone (to waste away in the unknown) (rogue one, jyn/cassian)

13. “Holy forking shirtballs, we’re in the Good Place.”

a thousand sunsets in her arms (the good place, eleanor/tahani)

14. She felt his approach before he spoke; knew him by the rhythm of his steps and the particular edge of cautious haste that defined his movements.

the marks on your heart left in between (rogue one, jyn/cassian)

15. Gilbert knows. For all of Bash’s teasing, he knows.

a path where hopes and dreams lead (awae, anne/gilbert)

16. The Force, her mother tells her, binds all living things together.

my soul still trembling (rogue one, jyn/cassian)

17. She’d been jumpy when she found him, rightfully so. 

in fair verona, where we lay our scene (rogue one, jyn/cassian)

18. She tries. She actually tries for like, a solid six months.

in another life, maybe (the good place, eleanor/tahani)

19. She dreams. She dreams from a jail cell, not unlike her mother’s, and sends a wish out into the universe.

on behalf of the entire suit of the broken hearts (psych, alice/doreen)

20. She doesn’t make it to the market that day.

call and response (the americans, nina/oleg)

NOTE:

for #15, #18, and #19 I went with the first two sentences as the opening sentences were two words a piece. I think they fit together (flow together) like an opening sentence would.

PATTERNS:

this period covers some of my frenetic rogue one production, as well as a period of writer’s block where I was trying to jump-start my inspiration. I’ve only finished one piece in the last year (#1), although I have WIPs that I refuse to just let go. for all that there is variation in style here, I think the main pattern is I try to tell the reader the most important piece of information at the start, and use the rest of the story to expand on that from the start. sometimes that’s the setting; sometimes that’s an internal thought; sometimes it’s a deliberate false start.

I do also seem to use brevity to flow into a longer opening sentence; some of the shorter opening sentences here open into a longer sentence right afterwards.

FAVORITE:

“She felt his approach before he spoke; knew him by the rhythm of his steps and the particular edge of cautious haste that defined his movements.”

I admit it! I do love this piece of imagery and think it captures jyn and cassian’s dynamic in a single shot.

I have no idea who has done this and who has not at this point, so consider yourself tagged if you want to do it!

[letthewaternotcomplain]

10 albums 10 days. Day 4 I found Radiator Hospital by accident right after this album (My Most Imaginary Friend) was recorded. I was searching for some old Cookie Bumstead and the Lonesome Space Cadets songs and ended up finding a new version posted on CLLCT (a bandcamp type page) then I realized it was the same guy singing it and this was his new band. Radiator Hospital is very important for me and is sometimes all I'll listen to for days at a time. One time they did a show at Vertigo and @breachthelevee couldn't get in so I made a bootleg recording and put it on soundcloud for him. It sounds terrible but I still listen to it sometimes. #10days10albums #musicchallenge #radiatorhospital #mymostimaginaryfriend