~~joining the lemmings.

well. you know how it goes. everybody's doing it, and so am i. flambeau's meme about my favorite 10 opening lines from a fanfic.
    or alternately, i guess, the opening lines from 10 of my most favorite fanfics. now, i prefer the former, because i have a -lot- of favorites (just the hp fandom, forget others)-- because i rarely remember/note down stories that are good but don't touch me. so if i remember it, it's either Really Really Bad or it's a favorite. so.

i decided to discard the beloved stories (ie, IP-- yes, IP, i have to hand it to that fic-- i adored it while reading, and origins, and luw, and `the losing side') the opening lines of which are... well. *coughs* you know how it is. not something i want to remember them by ><;;
    but, i also didn't want to include stories which have -killer- opening lines that grabbed me that i loved, but which aren't really my all-time favorites, and are just "really enjoyable fics".

so, with those disclaimers, and somewhat flippantly, i give you...

( my list. )

and thus the cookie crumbled ^^

and i actually did have an entry, but um...later.