Mememity mememity meme...
May. 6th, 2004 11:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
out_thereDon't wanna work. *yawn* Just want to sit here and type as if I'm working. *yawns again*
Hence, the title meme (that I wanted to do yesterday, but had to do Assignment2).
As any and all of my betas will attest, I kinda suck at titles. Every beta request from me comes with the line "I don't have a title/I'm thinking of calling it X, so any and all suggestions would be appreciated". I have a strong suspicion that most of my titles are suggested by betas. But, still, I'll give this meme a shot.
Double the Trouble:
This comes directly from the last line of dialogue. "Dude, it's like, double the trouble!" Okay, it's a terribly bad joke. Terribly bad. But, let's admit it: the entire fic was just an excuse to slash Justin Timberlake/Justin Taylor (Popslash/QaFUS). It was a dare, and that joke was probably the best thing about it, cringeworthy as the joke may be. (And seeing them dance together. That was good too.)
The Gods Hate Kansas:
The best type of title. It came from the Pulp Fiction title challenge, so I got to pick the title first and then write the fic from that. Lots of fun that way.
Left to my own devices, I tend to come up with one word titles that basically explain the theme/idea behind the fic:
- Boredom is about Nigel and Bug dealing with their *boredom*.
- Colours is Lex mentally associating places and people with *colours*.
- Never is all about the reasons Clark and Lex *never* slept together
-Questions is Lois and Clark entertaining themselves by asking each other *questions*.
- Legends is a rift on Lex's "stuff of *legends*" line.
As you can see, my mind works in a boring and obvious fashion. Of course, by the time I got to WW, I had graduated to 2 or 3 word titles. Unfortunately, it's the same basic idea. Title comes from how I'd summarise the fic.
Not Quite... comes directly from the second line of the fic. Hearing the election results, the announcement of Seaborn, followed by numbers that were almost low enough to be embarrassing, was almost the worst moment of his life, but not quite.
The Right Word came directly from the last line of the fic. Covering Josh's arm with his own, he realized that sometimes, the right word was lying beside you, waiting to be found.
What They’d Do is all about Josh, Sam, Toby and CJ talking about what they'd do to win the election.
Like most fics, the title gets added on just before it's posted. That was what happened with Recording History, which I was about to post but couldn't think of a title. I thought for a while about the fic, that it was about how the Bartlet administration had been historically recorded, and ta-da, title!
Editing is a slightly smarter use of a theme, but as above, it was a title I only thought of just before posting. The fic starts with Will telling the interns to self-edit, before showing him their work; we have internal references to Will self-editing, to the questions he won't ask Sam; then, we have Sam self-editing, not telling Will about Toby's suggestions. It's a fic about the stuff we think, but don't let ourselves say. Self-editing is really is the theme of the fic, but it sounded dodgy, so 'Editing' it was.
There's the occasional lyric inspired fic. A Friend in Need came from the Placebo song of the same name, and it always comes into my mind when I think of that fic. The Graceland fics were the same - all titled from the songs quoted.
Likewise, Buildings and Bridges was named after the Ani DiFranco song of the same name. Although, when writing that fic I was listening to that song a lot, and it really was all about a section of lyrics:
“We are made to bleed,
To scab, and heal,
And bleed again.
And turn every scar into a joke.”
I still almost want to do a sequel to that fic for the next section of lyrics:
"We are made to fight
And fuck and talk,
And fight again.
And sit around and laugh until we choke."
Five Things That Weren’t Comforting:
I came up with the title for that at the same time that I came up with the initial idea. I think it's accurate. That, in each of the stories, there's a level of comfort that Sam didn't have. But with each of them, there's a part of the actions that wasn't actually a comfort (ie. like not finding out about his father's indescretions when he was older, like finding out about the MS earlier, like reassuring Josh to give up on politics... all of them have reasons why they would have been good, but weren't all good.). Of course, I always refer to it as the 'Sam Seaborn 5 Things fic' so it's not like the clever title stuck in my mind.
Inital Conditions. I was stuck for a title and was trolling through quotations, trying to find something. I was going to use "Sleepless nights", but![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
oxoniensis came up with the brilliant idea of "Initial Conditions", linking it up to the basic theme, that if the initial conditions are wrong (that if what you believe is true about the world actually isn't), you'll always be in error.
Kinky, Per Se was easy, because its just a little semi-sequel to Caroline Baker's Not Kinky, Per Se.
A Little Piano was written for Celli, since she asked for a fic using the line 'Why is there a piano on my cake?'. The title comes straight from the show dialogue, when Casey talks about being well rounded, and says that he can play 'a little piano'. I referenced the line in the fic, so it was an obvious choice.
And now, I've been stuffing around for way too long, and need to get some work done.
Hence, the title meme (that I wanted to do yesterday, but had to do Assignment2).
As any and all of my betas will attest, I kinda suck at titles. Every beta request from me comes with the line "I don't have a title/I'm thinking of calling it X, so any and all suggestions would be appreciated". I have a strong suspicion that most of my titles are suggested by betas. But, still, I'll give this meme a shot.
Double the Trouble:
This comes directly from the last line of dialogue. "Dude, it's like, double the trouble!" Okay, it's a terribly bad joke. Terribly bad. But, let's admit it: the entire fic was just an excuse to slash Justin Timberlake/Justin Taylor (Popslash/QaFUS). It was a dare, and that joke was probably the best thing about it, cringeworthy as the joke may be. (And seeing them dance together. That was good too.)
The Gods Hate Kansas:
The best type of title. It came from the Pulp Fiction title challenge, so I got to pick the title first and then write the fic from that. Lots of fun that way.
Left to my own devices, I tend to come up with one word titles that basically explain the theme/idea behind the fic:
- Boredom is about Nigel and Bug dealing with their *boredom*.
- Colours is Lex mentally associating places and people with *colours*.
- Never is all about the reasons Clark and Lex *never* slept together
-Questions is Lois and Clark entertaining themselves by asking each other *questions*.
- Legends is a rift on Lex's "stuff of *legends*" line.
As you can see, my mind works in a boring and obvious fashion. Of course, by the time I got to WW, I had graduated to 2 or 3 word titles. Unfortunately, it's the same basic idea. Title comes from how I'd summarise the fic.
Not Quite... comes directly from the second line of the fic. Hearing the election results, the announcement of Seaborn, followed by numbers that were almost low enough to be embarrassing, was almost the worst moment of his life, but not quite.
The Right Word came directly from the last line of the fic. Covering Josh's arm with his own, he realized that sometimes, the right word was lying beside you, waiting to be found.
What They’d Do is all about Josh, Sam, Toby and CJ talking about what they'd do to win the election.
Like most fics, the title gets added on just before it's posted. That was what happened with Recording History, which I was about to post but couldn't think of a title. I thought for a while about the fic, that it was about how the Bartlet administration had been historically recorded, and ta-da, title!
Editing is a slightly smarter use of a theme, but as above, it was a title I only thought of just before posting. The fic starts with Will telling the interns to self-edit, before showing him their work; we have internal references to Will self-editing, to the questions he won't ask Sam; then, we have Sam self-editing, not telling Will about Toby's suggestions. It's a fic about the stuff we think, but don't let ourselves say. Self-editing is really is the theme of the fic, but it sounded dodgy, so 'Editing' it was.
There's the occasional lyric inspired fic. A Friend in Need came from the Placebo song of the same name, and it always comes into my mind when I think of that fic. The Graceland fics were the same - all titled from the songs quoted.
Likewise, Buildings and Bridges was named after the Ani DiFranco song of the same name. Although, when writing that fic I was listening to that song a lot, and it really was all about a section of lyrics:
“We are made to bleed,
To scab, and heal,
And bleed again.
And turn every scar into a joke.”
I still almost want to do a sequel to that fic for the next section of lyrics:
"We are made to fight
And fuck and talk,
And fight again.
And sit around and laugh until we choke."
Five Things That Weren’t Comforting:
I came up with the title for that at the same time that I came up with the initial idea. I think it's accurate. That, in each of the stories, there's a level of comfort that Sam didn't have. But with each of them, there's a part of the actions that wasn't actually a comfort (ie. like not finding out about his father's indescretions when he was older, like finding out about the MS earlier, like reassuring Josh to give up on politics... all of them have reasons why they would have been good, but weren't all good.). Of course, I always refer to it as the 'Sam Seaborn 5 Things fic' so it's not like the clever title stuck in my mind.
Inital Conditions. I was stuck for a title and was trolling through quotations, trying to find something. I was going to use "Sleepless nights", but
oxoniensis came up with the brilliant idea of "Initial Conditions", linking it up to the basic theme, that if the initial conditions are wrong (that if what you believe is true about the world actually isn't), you'll always be in error.Kinky, Per Se was easy, because its just a little semi-sequel to Caroline Baker's Not Kinky, Per Se.
A Little Piano was written for Celli, since she asked for a fic using the line 'Why is there a piano on my cake?'. The title comes straight from the show dialogue, when Casey talks about being well rounded, and says that he can play 'a little piano'. I referenced the line in the fic, so it was an obvious choice.
And now, I've been stuffing around for way too long, and need to get some work done.
