Fic title alphabet meme

[lucymonster]

I am currently back in bed again with a virus that just WILL NOT QUIT, so here's a meme yoinked from fiachairecht that is pretty much all I have brainpower for.

I have 238 works currently posted on my main AO3 account and obviously a lot of alphabetical overlap, so I've chosen which titles to link with the ulterior motive of making myself look like a diverse writer and not like someone who's spent the past decade writing enormous volumes of Reylo and very little else. (That said, there are some fics on my account that based on title alone I truly could not tell you what fandom they're even for. No memory! Not even a vague sense of deja vu!)

Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for [starting] a fic title? One fic per line, 'A' and 'The' do not count for 'a' and 't'. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count.

A — After the World Ends (Star Wars Sequels, Poe/Finn/Rey/Ben)
B — beauty is power; a smile is its sword (Chronicles of Narnia movies, Susan/Caspian)
C — Chateau d'Yquem (Marriage Story, Charlie/Nicole)
D — Desert Flower (The Hurricane Wars, Talasyn/Alaric)
E — Every Item Has a Soul (MCU/Tidying Up with Marie Kondo RPF, Bucky & KonMari)
F — Friends Don't Know the Way You Taste (Descendents, Evie/Mal)
G — got no heroes 'cause our heroes are dead (The Rise of Kylo Ren, Ren Prime/Kylo)
H — have to live before you die young (Star Wars Sequels/Solo, Qi'ra/Kylo
I — It's Not Rocket Science (Bleach, Ichigo/Rukia & Renji
J — Jacen Syndulla and the Bendu's Word (Star Wars Sequels/Rebels, Hogwarts AU)
K — Kalikori (Star Wars Rebels, Hera/Kanan & Jacen)
L — Limited-Edition Space Invader Barbie(TM) from Mattel (Captain Marvel, Maria Rambeau/Minn-Erva)
M — Mind the Gap (Venom, Eddie/Symbiote)
N — Need a Teacher (Star Wars Sequels, Finnreylo & Poe)
O — Outgunned and Outclassed (Bleach, Byakuya/Renji/Shutara Senjumaru)
P — Playing the Long Game (Star Wars Sequels, Kylo & Baby Yoda)
Q —
R — Rose Tico's Charity Home for Wayward First Order Scum (SW Sequels, Phasma/Rose & Reylo & Finnpoe)
S — shall I compare thee (The Love Hypothesis, Adam/Olive)
T — time will be the judge of what you deserve (Star Wars Sequels, Finnlo)
U — Unless Acted Upon (Star Wars Sequels, Reylo)
V — Victory Day (Star Wars Sequels, Hux/Leia)
W — Welcome Home (The Love Hypothesis, Adam/Olive)
X — XXX (Bleach, Byakuya/Renji)
Y — Yeah, Nah (Star Wars Sequels, Australian AU)
Z —

Only two letters - Q and Z - unaccounted for! I'm kind of tempted to write two ficlets specifically to fill in those last gaps in the alphabet. I've fallen behind on my fandom_empire bingo card recently, so maybe I can tie the new vanity project in with a couple of fills for that.

Here's the textbox for anyone else who'd like to play:

<b>Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for [starting] a fic title? One fic per line, 'A' and 'The' do not count for 'a' and 't'. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count.</b> A — B — C — D — E — F — G — H — I — J — K — L — M — N — O — P — Q — R — S — T — U — V — W — X — Y — Z —

Comments

[dr_zook]

so I've chosen which titles to link with the ulterior motive of making myself look like a diverse writer - that sounds like something I'd do as well xD

(That said, there are some fics on my account that based on title alone I truly could not tell you what fandom they're even for. No memory! Not even a vague sense of deja vu!) - Oh man, I'm so glad I'm not the only one!! Sometimes when there are some rogue kudos popping up in my inbox I'm like, "... Uh-huh, right. That was--? Nope. Damn, I have to click on that link myself!!" 🤣

Thank you for the handy textbox! I may do this list myself. :) I'm also cheering you on to fill the Q and Z, haha.

[osprey_archer]

It's so weird how some fics I've written live in my memory forever and others get completely memory-holed. Someone leaves a comment and I'm have no memory of writing the fic at all.

I think it might be your duty to write those Q and Z ficlets, tbh. Q might be easier - Quiet, Quite, Quibble...

[lucymonster]

The textbox was also yoinked from fiachairecht! I have to admit that its pre-existence factored into my decision to do the meme in the first place - without it, I may well have decided the hassle of typing out the whole alphabet was too much, lol.

And yeah, my daily kudos emails are always fun - there are a handful of popular fics that show up most days, but then every so often there’ll be an absolute wildcard that I don’t necessarily recognise even AFTER clicking on the link. Really? I wrote that?? When and how???

[lucymonster]

I’ll be honest, there are some fics on my account that a plagiarist could safely steal and then rec straight back to me and I’d probably never even catch on. ‘What a rare delight!’ I’d think as I read. ‘This person has very similar headcanons to me!’ And then there are other fics that I could recite to you from memory, with added commentary on exactly what I ate and wore the day I wrote them. Memory is so weird.

[snickfic]

I just paged through all of mine, and I have everything but X! I innocently posted my first Q fic earlier this year. :') This is what comes of having posted so much fic to AO3 lol.

[lucymonster]

Hah, congratulations! Yeah, at a certain point, sheer probability does the work for us. I'm still kind of surprised that I never once started a title with 'Quiet' or 'Zero'. They're such obvious title words.