Meme: Twenty-Five First Lines

Here's a meme I sniggled from cornerofmadness several days ago and am just now getting 'round to working on:

Pick the first line from your last twenty-five fanfics and see if you can find a pattern.

Well, let's see -- twenty-five 'fics takes me back about a year or so ...

( The data ... )

The first thing I notice is that I write a lot of drabbles and drabble sequences (marked D and DS, respectively). I'm not the world's most disciplined writer, so it's less difficult for me to conceive and produce a short piece before I run out of steam than it is to commit to a lengthy one. Drabble sequences occupy a useful middle ground -- each "bit" is short enough to be unintimidating, but the whole can add up to a short story pretty quickly. Heh. It's also clear that in my oeuvre, especially of late, the shorter the 'fic, the longer its opening sentence is likely to be and vice versa (cf. "The Conqueror" and "Golden in the Mercy of His Means"). The one serious stylistic quirk that strikes me, however, is that I'm far more likely to begin with character than setting -- which makes sense, since I still sweat blood over descriptive passages while my characters are inclined to witter on and on (and on and on and on and on ...). Possibly I need to challenge myself by writing a more atmosphere-and-setting-heavy piece one of these days. (Ugh. The very thought appalls.)

Anyone else?