PUPPIES!!1 *____*

[reenka]

Man, I was browsing R/S writers' journals (which... btw, don't contain a lot of R/S these days :O!!) and I found this, which is a screencap with the titles of a bunch of R/S fics... brilliant titles, gorgeous titles, titles that I'd nearly chew my finger off to come up with myself, and....

Okay, this just started me thinking about title-naming, obviously. I've never been one of those people who thought it was -hard-, 'cause I just come up with some quote from the story or try to sum it up in a cute/punny way or something, but I never do the longish 4-7 word titles that impress me so much *___* I was looking, and my titles never go over 4 words, and are usually 2 or 3 at most! Which may make them snappy, but also boring :( Ahhh, titling is an art all in itself.
    I mean, seriously. 'Five Ways to Open Your Arms' or 'Go Forth to Meet the Stranger' or 'Fear in a Handful of Dust' or 'Map of Your Head' or just 'Quixotic'... ahh :(( *envy!*

...This is really the sort of thing that makes me want to write. There should be a challenge/prompt-fest just to steal people's titles and remix them :P I COVETTTTT, PRECIOUSSSSS :((

However, all this R/S-hunting also makes me meepy 'cause the peeps are not as prolific as H/D by a long-shot, and most of it's small angsty little vignettes or so-fluffy-it's-somewhat-bland MWPP stuff :( :( WHO SHOULD I BE READING? :( I mean, I don't mind angst, I just wish it were longer, IC MWPP-era angst with some fluff in it :( And also smut. (And I'd also love cute fluffy smutty stuff that isn't too fluffy... and by 'too fluffy' I mean: 'raises any serious issues whatsoever'.) IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK? :(

EDIT - Man. If I ever forget how hot Draco is, I just have to look at this. o_0 SERIOUSLY. *____* Though kasche's latest R/S makes me even happier. ♥. *____* Alsoooo... calyxess' H/D fanart makes me happy :> Cute & sorta old-school, yeay :D
    PS: GO ON AND TELL IF ME IF THIS ISN'T A MUCH BETTER PANSY THAN THE MOVIE!CANON VERSION!!1 :O! (...even if that's not actually Pansy fanart... heh)

Comments

[loftily.livejournal.com]

The best title I ever came up with was this last spring, with "Speed is Velocity with No Direction." People in workshop said I should change it, but I was like, No! It's my title! Anyway.

That's true, too. Instead of stealing titles from band song titles, I like taking lyrics. Like, I like the fic called "Armed With Every Precious Failure" - it was on pornish_pixies awhile back - from the Weakerthans' song "Aside." But then, there are some perfectly good titles that are only a couple words, so, I don't know! I'm such a sucker for titles, though. Srsly. Even in bookstores, if I see something, I'm like, ooh, I have to look at this. Titles and book covers. I guess that means I'm judgmental from the start.

Poems are way easier! But somehow mine mostly end up being one word anyway, or some rambling sentence that doesn't actually make sense.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Ahaha, I really don't know what you're supposed to look at -but- titles & book-covers! I mean, the blurbs come later -plus- they're not even written by the writer & half the time are overdone and sound stupid. So you basically have to read a page or 10 if you're really gonna figure it out, what to buy on a 'deeper intellectual level'. God, anyone who can type that without quotes is NOT a person I ever want to talk to, btw -.-;;

I love coming up with insane poem titles & then writing a poem. For instance, I just thought, 'the fragility of pecans'. Or perhaps, 'the fragility of certain pecans' :D :D :D