[ SECRET POST #4979 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4979 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[Jurassic Park]


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[Jeon Somi]


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[Wynonna Earp]


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[The Untamed]


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[Brian Molko of Placebo + Jay Leno = Noel Fielding]


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[The Untamed]






















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Comments

Best/Worst Fic Titles

[(Anonymous)]

What have been the best or worst fuc titles you have ever written or seen?

What makes a title or series name bad or corny to you?

I personally can't stand it when there's clearly a sense of gravitas

Re: Best/Worst Fic Titles

[(Anonymous)]

The worst one I saw was just one word: the name of a character, and it was misspelled. (Think something like "Tommy" spelled "Tomy" when it was only spelled Tommy in the story.)

Best fic title? Can't really think of any brilliant ones off the bat. Most fic titles are good enough, but every now and then I run into one that makes me wonder why the author couldn't be bothered to try.

Re: Best/Worst Fic Titles

[(Anonymous)]

I'm very over:

5 times ... + 1 time ...
the one with the ...
[name of popular song]

and anything else I've seen too many times.

Re: Best/Worst Fic Titles

[11thmirror]

Some of my current favourites:
I killed a clown. AMA! [IT fic told entirely thought the medium of Reddit posts and comments]
Soldier's Heart [Downton Abbey fic, title is a period term for what we'd call PTSD]
the mist that cloaks the river, the clouds that hide the stars [Nirvana in Fire]

Personally I love the dramatic, poetic titles. To each their own.
I think I only hate titles that are misspelled, because it's like... You couldn't even try that much? It wasn't worth that much effort?

Re: Best/Worst Fic Titles

[(Anonymous)]

Ayrt

Lol I like that first title and premise!

The second title too, although at first I misread it as "Now that's what I call PTSD!" à la "Now that's what I call music" lol

If I'm into the story, and it is dramatic, I don't mind it too much, but I do roll my eyes, because quite often, at least with some authors, there's a sense of pretentiousness, like they're out here writing the manual to life or something. I don't mind someone taking their writing of a fix seriously, I think it's great your attention to detail etc. It's just certain titles (and A/N along with it) tend to make me think you drank your own Kool aid.)

Re: Best/Worst Fic Titles

[(Anonymous)]

Good: Always get a good laugh at titles with lighthearted pun usage.

Bad: When a fic title is an inverse variation of a media property's title. For example, a 'The Dark Crystal' fanfic being named 'The Light Crystal'.

Re: Best/Worst Fic Titles

[(Anonymous)]

There's a fic I'm reading where the first three words of the title - which is the only part that shows up in the tab thingy on my screen - are the same three words as the title of a song I really like, and the actual title is different and unrelated, and it trips me out every time I go to the tab

Re: Best/Worst Fic Titles

[(Anonymous)]

Two types of fic titles I find the worst:

1. Pretentious titles; or
2. So unrelated to the actual subject of the fic that I can never remember which fic it is from the title alone (when rereading on my kindle)


To me the best fic titles are snappy and appropriate - because then I can usually remember them lol

Re: Best/Worst Fic Titles

[(Anonymous)]

The worst thing I have found out about writing fics is how god-damn awful I am at thinking up titles. I usually try to pun it with a song title, but it's never anything good lol.

I think the only 'bad' fic titles are the ones that are a length of a paragraph like an old school FallOut Boy song title.

Re: Best/Worst Fic Titles

[kribban]

Block - a fic where constipation leads to a mental block about anal sex. I'm quite proud of it!

Worst: "Dean Winchester Fucks a Pregnant Woman" which is actually a very poignant fic with good characterization.