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I'm behind on Fandom 50 so here's a quick Georgette Heyer related snippet that tickled me when I read the book the other week.

While Heyer is best known for her regency romance novels, she also wrote several detective novels. This one is "Death In The Stocks".
Here, Violet, engaged to Kenneth, is again trying to persuade the family including Tony (Antonia) to behave "properly" - as they were not fond of the distant relation who's been murdered, they don't much care. In fact Violet is seen as a bit of do-gooder.
Kenneth is not impressed and retorts "'After this short speech, they all cheered,'" mocking her self-righteousness.

This seems to me to be an early version of the "and everybody clapped" meme a phase usually posted online as a response to someone's bragging post of their brave public social justice moment, which is assumed to have never actually happened. Often on Tumblr seen as "andthewholebusclapped".

The more things change, etc?



Death In the Stocks - Goodreads

note: I wrote this, and thought I'd posted it, on 14 March; maybe Dreamwidth's outages ate it! Let's try again.

Meme snagged from corvidology; rules: List the first line of your last 10 (posted) fics and see if there’s a pattern!

I think it's mostly scene setting, focusing on a particular character. There are 4 dialogue openings, again mostly trying to set the scene in terms of place and/or tone.
Most of these are only the first of 2-4 lines of an opening paragraph.

I haven't posted anything since 22 December because the Small Fandom Big Bang has taken up all of my creativity. I'm still editing it. From earliest, 17 October, to the 22 December ficlets, my ten lines are

Every Day Should Be Hugging Day, Ghost Whisperer
Oh, those are lovely,” Delia said as Melinda held up the earrings, pearl studs with gold chains dangling from them.

At Your Side; Jungle Cruise
MacGregor stumbled across the lawn, as blinded by the rain as the tears which threatened to fall.

New Friends Magnum P.I. (2018)
Magnum had faced far worse things than a storm, even a tropical storm like the one currently bearing down on Hawai'i.

Liberty High Side Story 13 Reasons Why
Clay's pen tapped against his desk as he listened to the song.

Blink of An Eye (Like Magic) Deception (TV 2018)
Cam was not happy to be awoken by a furious knocking at the door, nor by the uninvited entrance of the police to his hotel suite.

Perchance to Dream From (TV 2022)
It was all over.

One Touch of Your Hand The Borgias (Showtime TV)
"Must you go?" Lucrezia asked.

Merry Christmas, Ems Revenge (TV)
Nolan stared dubiously at the hot drink that had been placed in front of him.

Giving Feels Good Revenge (TV)
"Why are we doing this again?" Nolan asked, switching the bags to his other hand to ease the cramp in his fingers.

Deck the halls with boughs of holly (Even Geralt should be jolly) The Witcher (TV)
"Deck the halls with boughs of holly," Jaskier sang loudly, the pompom of his Santa hat bobbing about.


I hope some of you reading this will consider giving the meme a whirl :) (I've seen a few since, because again, it's been over a week now!)

Meme I saw at the journals of chase_acow and singedsun
Rules: list the first lines of your last 10 published stories. See if there are any patterns yourself, or have other people say what they notice.


1 Prince Constantine sat on the throne, his expression sullen, his posture slovenly in a way that irritated his father. Once Upon A Dream

2 Nolan let his hand slide down beneath the covers. Always a Nolan and Emily

3 "Bridget!" Albert staggered onwards, the sun blazing above him. In Need of Rescue

4 The admiral strode onto the deck where the men were fighting with swords and fists, and smoke from the earlier cannon fire and muskets still filled the air. A Historical Tale

5 "No," Lucrezia said. At Her Mercy

6 "I'm home! And please, pour me a drink," Billy said, throwing his coat across a chair before he slammed the door. Immoral and Impure

7 "Dr Ogden. May I have a word?" What The Future May Bring

8 "Having traffic with thy self alone," Kit mused. Traffic With Thy Self Alone


9 "Must be Thursday," Bobo said with a sigh, poring over the textbook.title

10 There were many, many, ways to die in the West, some more wild than others. Emptyin' the Saloon



Might be slightly odd bunch because several of these are things I wrote for Merry Month of Masturbation and they're usually much shorter than other fics. I'm not sure I usually begin with dialogue but maybe I do more often than I think. There's one original work in there (4), a trope bingo fill, and a H/C bingo fill.
I discovered 2 comments I hadn't answered on the Will fic but otherwise no new comments. *sigh* These memes always show me how few comments things get these days.

posted at tumblr but I'll add it here too.

1. Your 3 fanfics with the most comments in 2017:
The actual highest is the compilation of DvD ficlets http://archiveofourown.org/works/5944009

The single fic with most comments Bad Case of Loving You, Black Sails, modern medical drama au (Silver/Flint/Miranda) – probably because it’s multichaptered and some readers kindly commented on more than one chapter http://archiveofourown.org/works/10634835

Gift Box, Midnight Texas http://archiveofourown.org/works/11958810 - just 15 comments and many of those are my replies to comments. Commenting has become rarer over the past year or so.

2. Your 3 fanfics with the most kudos in 2017:
Nothing to Fix, Midnight Texas (asexual!Manfred) http://archiveofourown.org/works/11933589

Blood and Stone, Wynonna Earp (Wynonna/Doc) http://archiveofourown.org/works/11043687

What Comes Next, Wynonna Earp (background Wynonna/Doc) http://archiveofourown.org/works/10854936

I’m again sad I had to drop the Wynonna Earp show.

3. Your 3 fanfics with the most Bookmarks in 2017:
Nothing to Fix, Midnight Texas (asexual!Manfred) http://archiveofourown.org/works/11933589

Blood and Stone, Wynonna Earp http://archiveofourown.org/works/11043687

Malus Malum, Midnight Texas (gen, Manfred whump) http://archiveofourown.org/works/11878500

4. Your first fanfic in 2017
How I Feel about You Now, Da Vinci’s Demons (eventual Leario) http://archiveofourown.org/works/9540839

5. Your last fanfic in 2017
Christmas Fluff, Da Vinci’s Demons, modern au (Zoario) http://archiveofourown.org/works/13141329

6. Favorite Opening line from a fic in 2017
I’ll do two
“One time he pressed a knife against my throat,” Max said, holding Silver’s gaze and daring him to speak, to falsely deny it. (http://archiveofourown.org/works/10397529)

The world lay in ruins. (http://archiveofourown.org/works/11178813)

7. Favorite ending line from a fic in 2017
tie between

“Oh for fuck’s sake,” Leo said and drained the rest of his beer. (http://archiveofourown.org/works/9895118)

Against all odds, his unconventional countess loved him just as much as he loved her. (http://archiveofourown.org/works/11828151)

8. Your favourite character to write for in 2017
I’ve written a lot of Riario (Da Vinci’s Demons). Silver (Black Sails), and Manfred (Midnight Texas) and female characters Oliva (Midnight Texas), Max (Black Sails).

9. Your favourite pairing to write for in 2017
I’ve written a lot of Silver&/Max (Black Sails) and Riario/Zo (Da Vinci’s Demons). I like writing nonsexual intimacy and demi!Silver/queer!Max/asexual!Billy’s queerplatonic relationship in The Odd Trio series (http://archiveofourown.org/series/728655) is something I enjoy exploring.

10. Your proudest fic from 2017:
Bad Case of Loving You was a labour of love (http://archiveofourown.org/works/10634835)

I’m also very fond of Are You Gonna Be My Guy because I’d not written the pairing so indepth before and it has a lot of dealing with asexual spectrum Riario as he comes to terms with that (http://archiveofourown.org/works/11311164)

11. Your Longest Fanfic in 2017:
Bad Case of Loving You (http://archiveofourown.org/works/10634835)

12. Any goals for 2018?
Write down more of my ideas because I think I’ll remember and then I don’t.

If you want to fill it in, go ahead :)

This is from a tumblr called brave and interesting questions, sometimes used to encourage personal essays on college application forms or for freewriting your thoughts or finding inspiration for fiction.
And this is a screencap of my answer - shows some of the rawness I was experiencing but maybe that just makes it more real and without self-censorship.
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I saw this fanfic meme filled by Black Sails writer manjusaka here and I'm now a Black Sails writer who hasn't done the meme so as per that post I considered myself tagged!
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Meme found on Tumblr, by @kenway via @zephfair, amended slightly because that's how I roll.

"Give a quick overview of your fic posting/experience of the doing the meme if you want, and your overall AO3 wordcount.
The Questions:
1. Fanfics with the most comments:
2. Fanfics with the most kudos:
3. Your Oldest Fanfic:
4. Your Latest Fanfic:
5. Your Proudest Fanfic:
6. Your Longest Fanfic:
7. Fanfics with the most Bookmarks:
8. Your top 3 crossover fanfics:
9. Your favourite character to write in fanfic:
10. Tag some fanfic writers: (optional)"

Crossposted to Tumblr
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I did meet my NaNo wordcount today but I wanted to do something else for today, so have a meme and I'll talk more NaNo tomorrow. Found on Tumblr & I'll post there tomorrow but I'll need to add the gifs in manually and I don't have the energy tonight.
Meme: Choose 5 OTP’s without looking at the questions in the Read More. Answer the questions. (optionally) tag five people.
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Snagged from bleodswean, original entry and comments here.

The Questions, in a textbox for easy copying to your own journal if you want to.
1. Do you use a computer? Or pen and paper? 2. If you use a computer, do you utilize software? And if so, tell us about it! 3. What references do you use and how do you apply this to your active writing? 4. Describe your writing "space" or post a photo. 5. Do you use character sheets? If so, can you share your sheet? 6. Do you use photographs or artwork to visualize your characters or settings? 7. Do you use music to inspire your writing? Do you need to write in silence? 8. When do you edit? How long do you find you need to leave a work before you can return to it fresh? 9. Do you share your work with others? At what stage is this most beneficial? Is there a stage at which it is detrimental? 10. Is there a certain time of day/week that works better for your creative energy?
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Give me a character and I will answer some/all of the following:
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