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Writing Patterns

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

Tagged by @chromatic-lamina forever ago, thank you! <3 I'm picking 14, including 10 One Piece fics because I'm curious.

L'aube des intranquilles (La Bonne Auberge - French D&D Actual Play)

Septima est morte. (Septima is dead.)

Ours lives like sand in the gears of the world (OP, Law & Robin)

The Eternal Pose looked small in his hand, held firmly between slender fingers.

Night in the kitchen (OP, Ace & Thatch & Izou)

The Whitebeard pirates' kitchens prided themselves on being open round the clock.

Bartend, Bicker, Burden (Hazbin Hotel, Angel & Husk)

Dusk.

Port of call (OP, Shakky/Rayleigh)

The morning sun filters through the high canopy as exotic birds Rayleigh cannot see start singing.

Midi (The Old Guard, Immortal husbands)

The summer high noon sun is at its most unforgiving in this part of Provence.

O that this too too sullied flesh would melt (The Witcher, Eskel/Gaetan/Letho)

"Hey, Cat."

Vanilla & Tobacco (OP, Izou & Thatch)

Izou wakes to an itching scalp and the vicious need for a third shampoo.

Chrysalis (OP, Robin post Water Seven)

The feel of grass under her bare feet was unsettling.

Family Day (OP, WBP)

The sun had just set and the galley was full of hungry brothers stuffing their faces.

Snitches & itches (OP, Law & Cora Hospital AU)

The rumble of a curtain pulled and his lips couldn’t hold the irritated huff at the sight of a familiar figure, busy applying pressure on their forearm.

Louder Than Words (Just Go) (OP, Ace & Buggy)

“I’m sorry you what?” Thatch was sure he misheard Ace.

Feeling Human (OP, WBP & Ace)

"To Roger's death!"

Healing (OP, WBP & Marco & Doctor!OC)

Being a Whitebeard pirate never meant you didn't have to fight.

Patterns: Situational (time of day, place, major event or intel) and sensuous openings. My love for in medias res is exposed as well as the ever-present inclusion of the five senses (to feel as I write and to make the reader feel). Short, extremely short sometimes even ahah. Definitely the work of a Whitebeard Pirates fan.

Tagging @the-obsessive-writer @greyaged @hergan416 and whoever sees this and wants to play!

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Name 4 songs that you consider YOURS. Songs that no one else understands like you. Songs that they can try to pry from your cold dead hands.

Tagged by @greyaged ages ago, thank you!

The Sailor's Bonnet by The Gloaming

Watch by Billie Eilish

4.000 ÎLES by FAUVE (bonus Vieux Frères & Blizzard & Cock Music Smart Music)

Pause by Eddy de Pretto ft Yseult (bonus Parfaitement & heureux :))) & Crash <3)

I feel bad not putting either Hozier or Syberia OST somewhere in there ahah but I couldn't pick only one track! Explaining a bit behind the cut.

Tagging @chromatic-lamina @the-obsessive-writer and whoever sees this and wants to play!

The Sailor's Bonnet is heavily linked to me writing One Piece and just loving Irish music. They're a great band. They haven't played in years but their concert in Paris is a memory I'll forever cherish even tho the metro broke down and made me miss the beginning (Ah, Paris !).

I'm connected to Watch on a more personal level I relate to the anger, the fire raging within and the need to let it out and revel both in the destruction and the exploration of your newfound freedom.

FAUVE is a French band I listened to as a teen/young adult and I fell in love with their prose, their voices and the way they wrote about inadequacy, pain, hope and support... Their songs are the embodiment of hurt/comfort to me if that makes sense.

The first guitar notes of Blizzard are seared in my brain and a beloved friend used to play them to me so it made it extra special. The sometimes dissonant choir in 4000 îles gives me chills every time. They're chanting "emmène-moi" (take me back) and gosh yeah that precise feeling.

Same for Cock Music Smart Music, the refrain is a weird mantra I've been singsonging for years now : La parole comme vaccin contre la mort (Speech like a vaccine against death) La parole comme rempart contre l’ennui (Speech like a shield against boredom) Parler, parler, parler encore (Talking, talking, talking still) Parler pour affronter la nuit (Talking to battle/brave the night)

Although the closest people to me know I'm not that much of a talker but hey, written words/stories are a speech of sorts!

Not attending a FAUVE concert before they disbanded is also one of my life's biggest regrets. I could've gone to one, my first year of uni, but the prospect of going alone was too scary. It took me years to build the confidence and to allow myself to claim the right to go wherever I pleased.

Eddy de Pretto is my fave French queer singer. Love his voice, his music and his prose once again. Pause is a balm on my soul. Parfaitement is a reminder that there's not one perfect way to live your life and be happy and that it's okay. The musicality of the words is some parts of heureux is crazy to me, even when they're quite crude. And once again I relate a lot. It's about being sad when you have no reason to be, about distraction and hope too.

Crash <3 is about rage and revenge. The a cappella intro always gets me. And once again the words are beautiful.

Nos larmes qui scintillent saillantes tel un glaive (Ours tears sparkling sticking-out like a knife/gladiator sword)

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Last Line Challenge

Rules: Post the last sentence you wrote (fanfic / original / anything) and tag as many people as there are words in the sentence.

Tagged by @greyaged, thank you ! My last written line is from a fanfic for a French Dungeons & Dragons Actual Play called "La Bonne Auberge" (The Good Inn).

It's called "L'aube des intranquilles" (Dawn of the restless) on AO3 and it's a small exploration of a grumpy & sunshine friendship between two beloved characters. And of course, because it's me, there's angst. And it ends with some quiet comfort:

« Je nous ferais du thé. » "I'll make us some tea."

Tagging @chromatic-lamina, @the-obsessive-writer, @hergan416 (no pressure) and whoever sees this and wants to play.