fics by Erin Ptah

Copy and paste the first line of the first fic you posted each month in 2012.

(The last one is definitely the most hilarious out of context.)

January (Fireworks and Waterfalls)
Unearthly, grapefruit-sized dandelion puffs glitter like fireworks in the darkness.

February (Consulting Pundit)
"They've heard of me?"

March (Into The Empty Sky)
Stephen doesn't care for the staff at this place.

April (Little Red State Riding Hood)
The Wolf was having a nice relaxing day.

May (The Marble Monuments of Oz)
Dorothy shuts herself in her room and cries for days.

June (Ten Doctors, Ten AUs)
Having dispatched with the bandits, delivered a load of sugar and salt and more vegetables than anyone in town had ever seen, and healed Ma Cottle's fever, the two swatted their horses and rode away at a gallop before anyone could try to push some coin on them as thanks.

July (Homecoming Queens)
"I don't mean to presume," said a round-faced brunette in a green-and-white paisley sundress, who somehow managed to come across as matronly despite being about half Jon's age, "but have you heard the good news?"

August (Messiah)
The girl who would have sealed the fate of the world hangs suspended in a dark room, bare feet floating well above the metal-and-chaos panels.

September (One More Shot...)
The sun is getting low in the sky, but there's more than enough light in the kitchen for Mami to fix a cup of tea.

October (And Dried Up All The Rain)
It was raining when Stephen's publicist called.

November (All My Roads Lead To You, chapter 2)
"Yes, it's for sure."

December (Persephone's Waltz, chapter 3)
On the second page of her notebook, Madoka started a set of columns, labeled "Do Shower" and "Do Not Shower."

Fandoms
6 - Fake news, including crossovers (1 The Sentinel, 1 Sherlock, 1 fairytale)
3 - Madoka Magica
1 - Oz books
1 - Doctor Who
1 - Sailor Moon

Tense
6 - past tense
5 - present tense
1 - dialogue-only

Chaptered?
8 - one-shot standalone
2 - multichapter story
1 - series of ficlets
1 - one-shot sequel

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In other news, a fic meme:

Pick a trope from this list and provide a fandom/pairing and I'll tell you something about the story I'd write for that combination (i.e. write a snippet from the story or write not!fic or tell you the title and summary for the story I would write)

1. genderswap
2. bodyswap
3. drunk!fic
4. huddling for warmth
5. pretending to be married
6. secretly a virgin
7. amnesia
8. cross-dressing
9. forced to share a bed
10. truth or dare
11. historical AU
12. accidental-baby-acquisition
13. apocalypse fic
14. telepathy
15. High School / College AU

Via melannen:

Let's play the Hypothetical Crossover game! Name any two (or more) fandoms you know I'm familiar with, and I will tell you how I would, hypothetically, cross them over!

Anything from this journal tag list or my dA gallery is fair game ^_^

Post an excerpt from as many random works-in-progress as you can find lying around. Who knows? Maybe inspiration will burst forth and do something, um, inspiration-y.

This is everything that's reached the stage of "more than a few sentences long" and that hasn't been posted before (e.g. commentfics that are being saved for possible expansion). Mostly fake news, with an appearance by Read or Die at the end.


( The desk was, according to Stephen, a top-secret outpost using the most advanced technology in all the United Planets for clandestine observation of the human species. None of this had been enough to stop Starbucks from installing two stores. )

I have been promising way too many things to people lately, so I probably should not be doing this...but eisen posted the meme, and I had to hear her meta about Witch Hunter Robin, so now I'm locked in. Whoops.

The first ten people to comment in this post get to request that I write a drabble of any pairing/character of their choosing. In return, they have to post this in their journal, regardless of their ability level. Some other equivalent gift, like icons or mini-fanmixes or quickie meta, would make sense for people who don't write fic themselves. (Or if the writing doesn't come...)

You may get drabbles, or you may get chibis/sketches, depending on What I Feel Like. Or I can do meta-on-demand, if there's a question you're dying to hear me pontificate on.

Just to mix things up, I'll throw in one limit: you can ask for any fandom except fake news. (Some suggestions: Hellsing; Doctor Who; Sailor Moon; Good Omens; Jeeves & Wooster; Red Dwarf; Madeline; Read Or Die; Waldo/Carmen Sandiego; anything Dr. Seuss. But anything I've written/drawn/fangirled is fair game.)

1. erie_potter - ficlet, the Master at Aziraphale's bookshop
2. bliumchik
3. aybara_max - ficlet, Neil Gaiman meets Morpheus
4. holly_cullen - art, Chuck and Geoffrey
5. bigkwell
6. sarcasticsra - art, Crowley, Aziraphale, Alan Shore
7. Anonymous - art, Leon, D, Pip, Deadpool
8. aybara_max again - The Boy in Silver Shoes
9. kribban
10. w_thit

I love a good fake-fic meme.

Give me the title of a story I’ve never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got submitted to magazines, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I’d been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know.

Snagged from tehlobster:

Post the first lines from each of your 25 most recent fanfic pieces and try to find a pattern.

( Under the cut... )

(What say the rest of you? Any thoughts? Observations? Blatantly obvious patterns that you can't believe I haven't spotted, already?)

Shipping meme!

Fandom: anything I've ever liked. Take your pick and run with it.