WIP First Line Tag Game

WIP First Line Tag Game

I was tagged for this one by @wintherlywords (that post is here), and this session I remembered where I started! Thank you for the tag!

Rules: Post the first line(s) you put down on your WIP during your writing session.

He left abruptly without saying anything else.

Tagging: @squarebracket-trickster, @sunset-a-story, @anyablackwood

WIP Meme Tag Game

I was tagged for this one by @thatndginger (Go look at those memes. They're professional.)

Rules: make some memes for your WIP

I'm going to do my best to be funny without spoilers, but I make no promises that these memes are not inside jokes that require context to understand.

I tried to include Jack and/or Cameron in these too, but all the good ones were way too much of a spoiler.

So, did I do this right? Decent memes?

I'll tag invite: @anyablackwood, @wintherlywords, @winterandwords, and an open tag in case someone who has already done this meme wants to do it again.

OC Reddit AITA Tag Game!

Thanks for the tags, @willtheweaver (here), @wyked-ao3 (here) and @the-golden-comet (here)!

So let's go with Deimos Soll from Supernova Initiative!

Deimos Soll

AITA for setting up my siblings and their crew for capture bu our worst enemy in exchange for safety against the warlord hunting me down?

Hi. So, I have been struggling with this for a while, and honestly wasn't sure if I should technically post this but since I've got few people I can vent this to, so I might as well give this a shot.

So, for context, I (26 M), did NOT want to betray my adoptive siblings. It was always us against the world growing up and we have always been all each other has had - well, at least until we had The Big Argument a few years ago and went our separate ways.

It all started to go downhill after that day, now that I'm thinking about it. After I left Jack and Cassie behind to pursue a solo career as a sniper, I ended up joining a Khosmonian war faction - I was very much an idealistic youth who knew little of the world of warfare at the time, but I believed that, by joining the Junction's greatest enemy in the civil war, I would have a chance to fight back against the government that destroyed my life in the past.

I was mistaken. Very much so.

It turns out that, for all the propaganda, the government in the Khosmonian galaxies - and especially the military branch I had joined - was just as corrupt as the Junction. I was quickly disillusioned and planned to desert that cause and go back to my siblings to make amends.

And I didn't even get that chance. I had packed my things and was ready to leave, but the warlord that commanded the faction I had misguidedly tied myself to - a monstrous woman named Eldora Thalax - wasn't about to let me go so easily. Apparently I was her finest sniper, and she didn't want to lose that asset.

Before I knew it, she had her soldiers capture me and bring me to her - she made me a final offer, saying she might forgive my 'treason' if I continued to work for her. I said no, and told her I was going to leave once and for all. She... didn't like that.

Eldora decided that, if I wasn't going to comply willingly, she'd make me do so by force - and so the nightmare began. I was locked in a freezing cell, and every day I was brutally tortured and experimented on - it didn't take long for me to realize what she was doing. Her plan was to break my mind and brainwash me into a living weapon.

I spent 3 years trapped in that living hell, barely holding onto my identity and sanity, until finally - on one extremely lucky day - I managed to escape and steal a spaceship to take me back to my galaxy. But Eldora wasn't going to stop hunting me down: 1. she didn't want to let others think she would simply let a prisoner get away from her, and wanted to make me an example, 2. she still planned to recapture me and brainwash me into her obedient soldier. Even as I went back to the galaxy I hailed from, I spent countless days trying desperately to avoid the assassins and agents she'd sent after me, barely getting a moment to even think.

I was at the end of my rope when I made the decision to seek the Junction's government for help - they'd always been my worst enemies, people I despised more than anything and who had destroyed my life and that of countless others over and over again. But I couldn't take it anymore, living on the run with the ever-looming danger of being caught again. Which I knew would happen sooner or later if I was on my own. I turned myself in and made a deal with one of the most influential Junction politicians, the Director, to get protection against Eldora.

They asked for something in return - and their price was that I helped them set up my siblings and their crew (since Jack, Cassie and the others had been the Junction's Public Enemy Number 1 for years now and Jack was the most wanted intergalactic thief of his generation) for capture. I didn't want to do it, but given that I had no choice, I accepted it.

Soon after, Jack, Cassie, and the crew were captured during one of their heists - something the Junction only managed to do due to the information I gave them.

They tasked the crew to do a dangerous heist on a hostile planetary system, making them work for our worst enemy in order to avoid the firing squad, and the Junction made me join them on the heist as well, probably out of sadism to see me struggle to keep the truth of what I had done hidden. At the time, no one in the crew knew I had been the one to blame for their capture.

The worst part is that, by saving myself from harm, I ended up subjecting my brother to the same - if not worse - struggles I had endured, as the Director made him his favorite test subject, torturing and experimenting on him for fun in the guise of seeking scientific progress.

I hate myself with every fiber of my being for what I did, and I would do anything to go back and change the decision I made in the past. If I had known what the price of my betrayal would be, I would never have done it. I would have preferred to spend the rest of my days working with Eldora than to let my brother go through what the Director did and does to him.

In fact, I never should've left them - abandoned them - in the past, after our argument in the first place.

I have kept my betrayal a secret from them ever since we had to start working together again, and it's eating me up inside. I know that if I tell them the truth, it would be the final crack to Jack's spirit - and Cassie... well Cassie would probably try and kill me for it.

And she'd be right.

Tagging (gently): @sleepy-night-child, @kaylinalexanderbooks, @smol-feralgremlin, @oh-no-another-idea, @littleladymab,

@winterandwords, @eccaiia, @sarahlizziewrites, @illarian-rambling

@agirlandherquill, @anoelleart, @ray-writes-n-shit

@writernopal, @anyablackwood, @unstablewifiaccess, @forthesanityofstorytellers

@i-can-even-burn-salad, @cakeinthevoid @thecomfywriter

@thepeculiarbird, @clairelsonao3, @memento-morri-writes, @starlit-hopes-and-dreams

@differentnighttale, @leahnardo-da-veggie

WIP Acrostic Tag

Thanks for the tag, @mysticstarlightduck!

Rules: Share a sentence/snippet that starts with a letter in the given word!

My word: ADORE

A

Any curiosity she had for the lore behind this world and kingdom were almost immediately stamped out once she realized Google didn’t exist here, and she’d have to dig through a bunch of dusty books to get the uncondensed, long-winded propaganda-laden version of it herself.

D

Despite the layers of my gown, it was surprisingly easy to move in. I gripped the sides of the window and planted one heel on the sill.  “Your Highness?” The man called on the other side. 

O

Or worse; they'd be shape-shifting hot men with barely enough scales in their human forms to even pass as a cheap Halloween costume. She shuddered. Please don't be hot men.

R

Ruthless, powerful, conniving. Worse than a villain. Ultimately, though, no matter how hard she tried to convince everyone otherwise, she was human like the rest of us.

E

"Every time you talk, it's like you want me to beat the shit out of you."

Your word: DESIGN

Gently Tagging: @tailsbeth-writes, @nailamoonsi, @theunboundwriter, and anyone else who wants in!

Meme Tag

Super late, but thanks for the tag, @amaiguri!!! Went with some random ones that struck my fancy.

Gently Tagging: @mysticstarlightduck. @agirlandherquill, @tailsbeth-writes, and anyone else who wants in!

Character Voice Tag

Very belated thanks for the tag, @kaylinalexanderbooks! I have a habit of collecting a million of these before doing them all in one go, so I'm pretty sure most people have already forgotten about this one, lol. Regardless, here it is!

My Prompt: “I don't think that's a bird or a plane.”

Luna: "Huh. Y'know what? I don't- I don't think that's a bird OR a plane..." Iris: "That's... not a bird. Not a plane, either..." Claire: "No, no, it's... fuck. Actually, what IS that?...Shit. I've no idea what the hell that is." Felix: "Um... I don't think that's a bird. A plane?? What's a plane? Do they move like that?" Meg: "Nah, that's not it... is that a harpy? That'd be a damn big harpy. A small dragon...? Shit, man. I dunno." Aven: "I've no earthly idea what that is, but that ain't a bird OR a plane."

Short but sweet! Thanks again!

Your Prompt: "You know what? Fuck you."

Gently tagging: @mysticstarlightduck, @writernopal, @oddcryptidwrites, and anyone else who wants in!