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svilleficrecs. I love this one, because I am very fussy about my opening lines. (I should invent the 'closing lines' version of this, because I am even MORE fussy about closing lines.) I did some digging around in the filth that is my ficblog circa 2003/2004 (oh. god. so awful. I ignored most of it.) and even chased down a few things that haven't been put on mercurial_wit yet.
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Battlestar Galactica
Kara’s helmet is off before the roof of the cockpit has lifted and she’s climbing out three seconds after that. - Contrecoup
She keeps her card things in a box on the table, a box of red-brown wood inset with black glass. - Seven conversations in the life of a genius
Around the eightieth cycle Kara finds herself wishing it was possible to hit oneself through one’s helmet. - Human Limits
Anders decides it’s not a wistful hallucination when he finds himself in yet another pointless standoff with Colonial Fleet officers. - Amateur
For someone whose first proper flight ended in him dashing off to engage the enemy against orders, Brendan Constanza has turned out to be a good little soldier boy. - Infidelirium
“Is all in readiness?” - Benevolent Sibling
She’s very happy to discover that Zak has a brother, and leaps into this new kind of relationship with her normal thoughtless enthusiasm. - every flying machine has four basic controls
If Helo rolls his eyes any harder he’ll look epileptic. - Almost Rhymes With Orange
Counting time to a heartbeat that isn’t yours – thun-ka-thun-ka-thun – a muffled rattle in your empty spaces, in your bloody cavities, an alien beat. - Belomancer
There’s blue ink on his thumb from where his pen, sleek and new and with his name inscribed in gold, has leaked onto his fingers. - Our Pataphysical Divigation
She doesn’t like to think about the idea that ground living has dulled her edge, that without a uniform and a callsign she isn’t everything she once was, but there must be some truth to it; she doesn’t realise that something is wrong until it’s too late. - Tesselation
She sat beside him in the mess because there was no other space free. - Gold To Iron
"Five minutes," he says into her ear as he's walking past. - Deadly
If he fills every second with responsibility, with an allotted task, then he can pretend quite easily that the day is normal. - Dagian
Lee Adama is halfway between the starboard head and the CIC when he wakes up. - Those Journeymen Divine
She will raise her hands and smile at Lee Adama, and he will say, You’re dead. - Eleusis (and by my god have I jumped over a wall)
It is a new feeling to be ashamed of the echoes of her own feet, but death does strange things to the people it doesn’t rip apart. - Set Light To Me Some Surprising Day
A long long time ago Lee went to the temple and arranged thin wooden statues in front of him, and he was told clap your hands together. - A Sunny Day In Tartarus (The Nameless Things Remix)
Dogma
Bartleby, bemused; “Your eyes are so blue.” - Whatever They Have
Doctor Who
An exact amount of time ago: You’re running for your life. - Suture
due South
I know that everything’s screwed up as soon as I realise that Fraser can count all the way to three. - Number Systems
Firefly
“It’s –” - Nights of endless conversations (Firefly/Sandman) <-- wow, this one is a real underachiever, isn't it?
To: Andronicus J. Crowley, Bentley Aeronautics, Lavinia. – Crying Call (Firefly/Good Omens/Sandman)
Good Omens
A fire burns in a valley, somewhere and somewhen, coarse and fierce in the darkness. - Ars Gratia Artis
Grey's Anatomy
Addison hadn't been at Seattle Grace all that long, but she'd been there long enough to know that supply closet A on the second floor was far enough out of the way that the nurses hardly ever used it - it was quicker to detour to B. - Hiding Again
Harry Potter
It began innocently, as these things often do. - As We Were
This: is where the rain comes from. - Delta
House
"It's going to be negative," Cameron tells him. - five ways it could happen
“Why did you hire me?” she asks him, three hours into the first day. - Take To Witness All The Gods
Lost
Boone has long been aware that theirs is a situation of books and movies and any other media that care to broadcast the whole damn twisted message. - Girls On Film
Theresa Sanchez had never really thought much about the future. - Where all the veins meet (Lost/Cruel Intentions)
Milliways
It begins on a bridge, a sliver of a bridge across a river turbulent and gritty with rain. - Circles of Rust
The safety catch on a gun makes a distinctive sound, one that Crowley suspects could awaken him from the deepest sleep in an instant. – Snapshots
Despite a few vehement statements made during the second trimester, Adam and Alanna Young did eventually allow their children to be left in the care of the triplets’ paternal grandfather. - untitled Lucifer/Grace
A man in a suit that was impeccable even by the standards of the occasion stood at the very back of the Senate House, leaning against a wall. - A More Excellent Name
"So I've never met anyone else who spells our name the way you do," the boy said, sitting down in the seat next to Thom's as though he had every right to do so, and planting his feet on top of the seat in front. – Essential Singularity (Fade Out)
The best thing about an object that produces anything, anything, upon request and payment, is that nothing with a mouth to laugh and the propensity to remember can witness the transaction. - Voodoo Lady
Stargate: Atlantis
In retrospect, it’s just one of those incredibly unfortunate coincidences that the day John tells Ford he’s been sleeping with Rodney – just dropping it into conversation, you know, somewhere between discussing the latest mission and updating their perpetual game of my ideal weapon would be – is the same day they all walk in on Teyla making out with one of the other Athosian girls. - McShep for Tai
"This is a stupid idea," said John. - scribbling for Lizzen
You will remember the way Rodney’s eyes widen in awe and the way it feels to set your feet against the floor and give commands. - No More To Leave It
Stealth
After a while she begins to catalogue places by the drinks they order. - Cocktails
Ben has always hated formal functions, and doesn't expect that this one will be any exception. - Mach 3
"Are we actually sitting here, or did that blonde thing put something hallucinogenic in my drink last night?" Ben murmured in her ear. - commentfic for Pen (Stealth/The West Wing)
The Tempest
Thread hangs from branch to branch like scarlet cobwebs. - Genesis
Torchwood
The faint outline of the TARDIS is still in the air when Jack starts running through reactions in his head, trying each one on for size and then discarding it. Jokes I May Have Misremembered
One two and engine grease; one two three is the dance of Suzie Costello, in which three is the beat and two is her hand in Jack’s hand and one could be the partridge in the fucking pear tree for all he knows. - Paramagnetic
Ugly Betty
When she tells her parents that she wants to be a model, her mother goes into the next room to wash the dishes – noisily – and her father tells her flatly that she can forget about that monthly allowance if she’s just going to be silly about her career, Amanda, your career. - My Friday Smile
V for Vendetta
Of the eight hundred and forty-two songs she will allow herself only one per day. - the lights burn blue
The Wasteland
“Do you have a comment on today’s meetings?” - Kenneth's futurefic
X/1999
“What did you say?” - Liquidating the Assets
Which means: meme stolen from
svilleficrecs. I love this one, because I am very fussy about my opening lines. (I should invent the 'closing lines' version of this, because I am even MORE fussy about closing lines.) I did some digging around in the filth that is my ficblog circa 2003/2004 (oh. god. so awful. I ignored most of it.) and even chased down a few things that haven't been put on mercurial_wit yet. ~
Battlestar Galactica
Kara’s helmet is off before the roof of the cockpit has lifted and she’s climbing out three seconds after that. - Contrecoup
She keeps her card things in a box on the table, a box of red-brown wood inset with black glass. - Seven conversations in the life of a genius
Around the eightieth cycle Kara finds herself wishing it was possible to hit oneself through one’s helmet. - Human Limits
Anders decides it’s not a wistful hallucination when he finds himself in yet another pointless standoff with Colonial Fleet officers. - Amateur
For someone whose first proper flight ended in him dashing off to engage the enemy against orders, Brendan Constanza has turned out to be a good little soldier boy. - Infidelirium
“Is all in readiness?” - Benevolent Sibling
She’s very happy to discover that Zak has a brother, and leaps into this new kind of relationship with her normal thoughtless enthusiasm. - every flying machine has four basic controls
If Helo rolls his eyes any harder he’ll look epileptic. - Almost Rhymes With Orange
Counting time to a heartbeat that isn’t yours – thun-ka-thun-ka-thun – a muffled rattle in your empty spaces, in your bloody cavities, an alien beat. - Belomancer
There’s blue ink on his thumb from where his pen, sleek and new and with his name inscribed in gold, has leaked onto his fingers. - Our Pataphysical Divigation
She doesn’t like to think about the idea that ground living has dulled her edge, that without a uniform and a callsign she isn’t everything she once was, but there must be some truth to it; she doesn’t realise that something is wrong until it’s too late. - Tesselation
She sat beside him in the mess because there was no other space free. - Gold To Iron
"Five minutes," he says into her ear as he's walking past. - Deadly
If he fills every second with responsibility, with an allotted task, then he can pretend quite easily that the day is normal. - Dagian
Lee Adama is halfway between the starboard head and the CIC when he wakes up. - Those Journeymen Divine
She will raise her hands and smile at Lee Adama, and he will say, You’re dead. - Eleusis (and by my god have I jumped over a wall)
It is a new feeling to be ashamed of the echoes of her own feet, but death does strange things to the people it doesn’t rip apart. - Set Light To Me Some Surprising Day
A long long time ago Lee went to the temple and arranged thin wooden statues in front of him, and he was told clap your hands together. - A Sunny Day In Tartarus (The Nameless Things Remix)
Dogma
Bartleby, bemused; “Your eyes are so blue.” - Whatever They Have
Doctor Who
An exact amount of time ago: You’re running for your life. - Suture
due South
I know that everything’s screwed up as soon as I realise that Fraser can count all the way to three. - Number Systems
Firefly
“It’s –” - Nights of endless conversations (Firefly/Sandman) <-- wow, this one is a real underachiever, isn't it?
To: Andronicus J. Crowley, Bentley Aeronautics, Lavinia. – Crying Call (Firefly/Good Omens/Sandman)
Good Omens
A fire burns in a valley, somewhere and somewhen, coarse and fierce in the darkness. - Ars Gratia Artis
Grey's Anatomy
Addison hadn't been at Seattle Grace all that long, but she'd been there long enough to know that supply closet A on the second floor was far enough out of the way that the nurses hardly ever used it - it was quicker to detour to B. - Hiding Again
Harry Potter
It began innocently, as these things often do. - As We Were
This: is where the rain comes from. - Delta
House
"It's going to be negative," Cameron tells him. - five ways it could happen
“Why did you hire me?” she asks him, three hours into the first day. - Take To Witness All The Gods
Lost
Boone has long been aware that theirs is a situation of books and movies and any other media that care to broadcast the whole damn twisted message. - Girls On Film
Theresa Sanchez had never really thought much about the future. - Where all the veins meet (Lost/Cruel Intentions)
Milliways
It begins on a bridge, a sliver of a bridge across a river turbulent and gritty with rain. - Circles of Rust
The safety catch on a gun makes a distinctive sound, one that Crowley suspects could awaken him from the deepest sleep in an instant. – Snapshots
Despite a few vehement statements made during the second trimester, Adam and Alanna Young did eventually allow their children to be left in the care of the triplets’ paternal grandfather. - untitled Lucifer/Grace
A man in a suit that was impeccable even by the standards of the occasion stood at the very back of the Senate House, leaning against a wall. - A More Excellent Name
"So I've never met anyone else who spells our name the way you do," the boy said, sitting down in the seat next to Thom's as though he had every right to do so, and planting his feet on top of the seat in front. – Essential Singularity (Fade Out)
The best thing about an object that produces anything, anything, upon request and payment, is that nothing with a mouth to laugh and the propensity to remember can witness the transaction. - Voodoo Lady
Stargate: Atlantis
In retrospect, it’s just one of those incredibly unfortunate coincidences that the day John tells Ford he’s been sleeping with Rodney – just dropping it into conversation, you know, somewhere between discussing the latest mission and updating their perpetual game of my ideal weapon would be – is the same day they all walk in on Teyla making out with one of the other Athosian girls. - McShep for Tai
"This is a stupid idea," said John. - scribbling for Lizzen
You will remember the way Rodney’s eyes widen in awe and the way it feels to set your feet against the floor and give commands. - No More To Leave It
Stealth
After a while she begins to catalogue places by the drinks they order. - Cocktails
Ben has always hated formal functions, and doesn't expect that this one will be any exception. - Mach 3
"Are we actually sitting here, or did that blonde thing put something hallucinogenic in my drink last night?" Ben murmured in her ear. - commentfic for Pen (Stealth/The West Wing)
The Tempest
Thread hangs from branch to branch like scarlet cobwebs. - Genesis
Torchwood
The faint outline of the TARDIS is still in the air when Jack starts running through reactions in his head, trying each one on for size and then discarding it. Jokes I May Have Misremembered
One two and engine grease; one two three is the dance of Suzie Costello, in which three is the beat and two is her hand in Jack’s hand and one could be the partridge in the fucking pear tree for all he knows. - Paramagnetic
Ugly Betty
When she tells her parents that she wants to be a model, her mother goes into the next room to wash the dishes – noisily – and her father tells her flatly that she can forget about that monthly allowance if she’s just going to be silly about her career, Amanda, your career. - My Friday Smile
V for Vendetta
Of the eight hundred and forty-two songs she will allow herself only one per day. - the lights burn blue
The Wasteland
“Do you have a comment on today’s meetings?” - Kenneth's futurefic
X/1999
“What did you say?” - Liquidating the Assets
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Seriously...Those Journeymen and Benevolent Sibling are two of my all times faves, so this is a great thing for us readers...
*g*
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