This is how it works. Whoever started this meme left five "clues," which were passed onto me via multiple flisters (I don't care if it's DW, they're still flisters). I've responded, below the cut, with the five fics that meet the criteria of the clues. You can do so too, should you wish, and/or leave a clue for me. The clues can be anything from "Your favorite fic" to "Fic in which the most characters died" to "A fic that includes both a threesome and a wrench."

1. Your fic with the closest word count to 1,662 words.
2. Your fic in the rarest fandom you write in.
3. The longest fic you've ever written.
4. The fic that's title starts with the last letter of your user name.
5. Fic written for your favorite prompt you've ever gotten.3

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And, for fun, the "alternate clues" mentioned in the meme.

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Comment with the name of a female character and I'll tell you why I love her. In return, you can do the same in your journal. As always, "character" includes both RPF and FPF characters.

(Two hours until "Epitaph Two"!)

Here's the poll, inspired by the "She's-not-straight-they-just-love-each-other" Giles/Kennedy fic I may or may not be working on (when I should be working on one of my five fest fics, but that's another story):

And here's a meme, gacked from my flist:

If I had a warning label, what would it say?

Gakked from wisdomeagle, here ("I'm sure all of fandom has heard of this by now. Post the first lines from some of/20 of/50 of/all of your fic. Your flist writes drabbles for you.") and here ("So. Here they are. Sixty-odd first lines of fanfic. [. . .] Do as you like with these: put them in drabbles, put them in ficlets, put them in novels. Change the names, leave the names, edit them, what have you. Post the drabbles here, there, everywhere. Guess where they came from. Marvel at their inanity. Ignore them. Up to you.").

So under the cut we have almost 150 first lines, in alphabetical order.

( 148 first lines )

Take any fic I have ever written, link me to it, and ask "What if you had changed this moment?" I'll either explain, or maybe even write the "what if?"

My Fiction Index

1. Anyone who looks at this entry [and who wants to] has to post this meme and their current wallpaper at their LiveJournal.
2. Explain in five sentences why you're using that wallpaper!
3. Don't change your wallpaper before doing this! The point is to see what you had on!



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What five sentences wouldn't be superfluous?

Gakked from anonymous_sibyl: Name your 15 absolutely favorite couples (het/slash/canon/fanon) and ask people to see what trends they notice about your couples. Try to pick different fandoms.

Now, this list of 15 is incredibly dependent on my mood at the moment and is shaped by certain agendas I might not hold at a different moment (trying not to make the list too obscure, trying to make it obscure enough, etc.) as well as what I happened to think of this morning while brainstorming. A different day would have yielded a different list. It's less a list of my 15 favorite pairings of all time (although certainly at least a couple of pairings on this list would make it onto that one) than it is an intuitively-put-together representative sampling of what right now I feel to be my 'shipping zeitgeist, without trying to too deliberately weight the list to ensure certain results.  (I mean, I could come up with 15 'cest pairings I ship, easily. But I didn't. I mean, Cuckoocest isn't even on this list.) And it's not representative of what I actually read or write, either--note just how much of this list is het rather than femslash.

1. Mal Reynolds/Kaylee Frye, Firefly/Serenity
2. Spike/Drusilla, Buffy/Angel
3. Tess Doerner/Kevin Burkhoff, The 4400
4. Annie James/Hallie Parker, The Parent Trap
5. John Connor/Cameron Philips, The Sarah Connor Chronicles
6. Peter Wiggins/Valentine Wiggin, Ender's Game
7. Cindy Mackenzie/Madison Sinclair, Veronica Mars
8. Kitty Pryde/Emma Frost, Astonishing X-Men
9. Sooraya Qadir/Laura Kinney, New X-Men
10. Joss Whedon/Summer Glau, RPF
11. Lapus Lazuli Long/Lorelei Lee Long, RAH's World-as-Myth
12. Kara Zor-El/Barbara Gordon, DC Comics
13. Kitty Pryde/Peter Parker, Ultimate X-Men
14. John Connor/Savannah Weaver, The Sarah Connor Chronicles
15. Seven of Nine/the EMH, Star Trek: Voyager

So, what trends do you notice about my couples?

If it's bold, I read it. If it's also got a line through it, I wish I hadn't.

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Hmm. I don't regret reading any of them.

There's six pairings that Ari wasn't able to (or at least hasn't yet) guess in last week's meme. They're from two book fandoms, a comics fandom, a TV fandom, a theatre fandom, and a movie fandom, although I can think of at least one pairing which arguably fits into more than one of those categories. New parts of clues are underlined; the parts of the old clues I took out to still make 15 words are in strikethrough. Two are 0T3's/rival OTP's (e.g., Wesley/Fred/Lilah).

3. Sentences flow together and genome shared, as do selves in bodies stripped bare to red-headed clones travel  through infinite times, possibilities. Hook shop? Got myth?> [Robert A. Heinlein's World-as-Myth -- Lapus Lazuli Long/Lorelai Lee Long -- guessed by wisdomeagle]

5. Complements, conqueror and nurturer Talk about smart kids: all the world, save one brother, falls at their feet, via computer. [Ender's Game -- Peter/Valentine -- guessed by seriousfic]

10. A madwoman, irresistible; and her caretaker, now awake: the future which manipulates them underestimates their love. [The 4400 -- Tess/Kevin -- guessed by wisdomeagle]

12. New canon (boo! invented in his mind) wrecks old OTP, gives new one. No need for Ursine ingestion? No thanks, though. [X-Men Movieverse -- Bobby/Rogue/Kitty -- guessed by wisdomeagle]

13. Cooler than Tryst with cat no rival for red-haired true love beauty--'til David's star arrives in school Queens? [Ultimate Marvel -- Peter/MJ/Kitty -- guessed by wisdomeagle]

14. Age Epoch too young for chaos theory, girl pupil too young to dance waltz; her absence breeds madness.

[Arcadia -- Thomasina/Septimus -- guessed (with major clue-giving from me) by wisdomeagle]