I posted two X-Men: Dark Phoenix ficlets over the weekend. One was ‘broken promise’ a Scott POV prompt fill responding to the events of the movie, and the other was ‘The Most Dangerous Player on the Tour’, a tennis AU take on the events of the movie. Jean being the player in question. This is what happens when I go to see X-Men Dark Phoenix on the closing weekend of the French Open. I’ve started many tennis AUs in my time, but never posted any before. I suspect no actual newspaper would publish anything like that, but it was fun translating characters and their mutations into the world of tennis.

I saw that people were doing a first lines meme just as I was about to post the above – dilemma! What do you do? I swept through my first lines of the last 10 fics on AO3. Some I liked more than others. I was chuffed that they were all from 2019.

Fine. I’ll do the last lines meme.

( As posted on AO3 )

From all the AO3-related memes I’ve seen floating around, I chose this one.

Via musesfool: The "If your fic were an album, what would the track list be?" meme.

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This is inspired by the 'What were you into 10 years ago?' meme/question. Ten years ago, I wasn't on Dreamwidth yet, but I posted the following at Livejournal.

Candlelight, Sky High, G. Layla/Warren (established relationship). 300 words. Written (self-indulgently) for 2009’s Epiphany wishkiss ficathon. Summary: Layla helps Warren close up at The Paper Lantern. First posted: 18 January 2009.

( Candlelight: shallowness )

As seen repeatedly on the reading page (last week)

List the first sentence (or two because a couple of those first sentences are quite short) of each of the last ten fics you posted.

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FWIW, I would have posted this this morning, but my computer/browser/a certain website would not co-operate. It would still be ridiculously late, though.

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So, that was a crammed week for me, it turns out. I posted a ficlet last Sunday: Codename: SNAPDRAGON, which features Susan Cooper/Rick Ford from Spy. I didn’t expect to write in that fandom, yet Susan’s journey pinged me hard, Ford is gloriously ridiculous and the prompt hooked me. It is probably the tamest fic written for the film, ever. I first drafted it in May, a few days after the prompt appeared, and then kept waiting for a Sunday, which is the comment-fic day for posting fills for previously unfilled prompts, when it was convenient to post.

A week and a half or more after I saw it on the f’list, the AO3 writing meme.

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I posted 10 fics to Archive of Our Own this year, all longer than drabbles. I had a flurry of writing X word ficlets and Three Sentence fics. That’s one more than last year! Most were ficlets, with two passing the thousand-word mark, both of which were gen. Things happened in my life this year that had a big bearing on my writing.

There was a huge flurry in April, partly because of Easter and partly because of what was going on in The Mentalist’s final season – I wrote more The Mentalist fic than any other fandom, and I’ve never written fic in the fandom before. A minority of these fics, less than I thought, were based on prompts.

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I currently have 107 works archived at AO3. Pick a number from 1 (the most recent) to 107 (the first thing I posted there), and I'll tell you three things I currently like or think about it.

There are still several fics I need to post on Dreamwidth and archive there.

I'm in no mood to watch Revenge tonight, so I give you this adapted and melded meme.

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