Zaniida's FicsBy Title Wording
This page still under construction!!
Thought I'd make a page for when you're going "I think it was three words long and started with a vowel..." -- that is, when you can sorta maybe recall the style of the title but can't seem to find the fic you're after in any other way. So here's my fics, as sorted by how many words are in the title and then what sort of pattern they make.
Might also be interesting for those who find my style of titling itself to be interesting; I certainly do.
One title shifts as time goes by. This is Unseen Things; that phrase will always be part of the title.
Unseen Things?
It's a group project POI/SCP fusion piece, reimagining the POI cast and story as taking place in a world where the supernatural is commonplace but certain groups go to great lengths to keep the general public from learning about it.
The titles so far have included:
- We Take Care of the Unseen Things
- They Take Care of the Unseen Things
- Unseen Things
- Take Care of the Unseen Things
Can you find them all? was a tag phrase meant to be used in every connected fic, suggesting that there were more to find.
Okay, all you authors in this series
You caught me.
P.S. See Footnote for info on my Blanket Policy!
Special Categories
Before we get to the rest of the titles, let's pull a couple obvious sets.
The Fives
My Five Moments of (Nonsexual) Intimacy fic form started with Five Moments of Intimacy: A Demonstration of Form, which later got a follow-up for another fandom in Pepper's Five Moments of Intimacy: A Demonstration of Form.
Five...
- ...Moments Lost
- WtNV: StrexCorp strips away five aspects of Kevin's ability to relate to others
- ...Wistful Memories
- Recess: Menlo recalls how he and TJ used to be best friends
- ...Moments of Interest (POI Main Cast)
- POI: A sequence for each teammate, playing them off one fellow teammate
- ...Memories of Intimacy
- POI: The early-series cast recalls moments of connecting with family
- ...Moments of Friendship
- Recettear: Recette connects with five of the adventurers
- ...Friendships in the Valley
- SDV: Five people who offered friendship during the Farmer's first week
- ...Intimacies Lost Over Time
- MCU: How Loki grew apart from Frigga, despite being so close to her as a child
- ...Moments of Friendship Is Magic
- MLP:FIM: Twilight Sparkle spends a day with each of her new friends
Special mention to Crimson Five Alpha, in case that title got mentally lumped in with the Fives.
There's also Five Moments in the Park, which needs a major revamp, but every time I think about trying to mess with it, my mind shies away in cringe. Maybe someday.
Rarepair Speed Dating
The second Fic Form I coined is Rarepair Speed Dating, a chance to mix and match characters and see what comes of it. Despite the title, it doesn't have to be romantic -- this could be a Friendship pairing, a Siblings pairing, a Villain-vs.-Hero kinda thing, or even just two characters who happend to bump into each other while shopping and randomly chat over the produce aisle.
- Bucky Barnes
- Doctor Strange, Hogun the Grim, Pietro Maximoff, and two to come
- POI Edition
- Logan Pierce, Michael Cole, and more to come
- Rayek (Crack Edition)
- Rayek discusses possible lovemates other than Winnowill, and realizes a disturbing connection
Monthly Prompts
Two of the July Prompts go here, too: July Goes Nuts (my first, 2017) and July Goes Meta (2024).
The Monthly Prompts series from 2018 all follows this pattern, with some variations:
- January Promptly Arrives (retitled: Bound to Fall)
- February Soon Appears
- March Comes Barreling In
- April Flounces By
- May Hesitates to Join
- June Unexpectedly Arises
- July Goes Nuts
- August Zooms In
- September Lets Go (The Plot Bunny Purge)
- October Feels Odd
- November Shuffles the Deck
- December Acts Selflessly
This also led to my July Creativity Prompts, which have since been truncated a bit. Used to include:
- 2018: July Goes Nuts
- 2019: Push Outside Your Comfort Zone!
- I made bead art of Jotun Loki, and used The Sims 3 to make most of the cast of Person of Interest
- 2020: Corona Creativity!
- My nephews and I filmed some scenes and script readings, from Marvel and Harry Potter (and POI, though I didn't wind up uploading those)
- 2021: Go Forth and Make New Art!
- 2022: The Kitten Year
- Kittens kinda derailed everything that year
- 2023: July Gets Puzzled
- 2024: July Goes Meta
Single-Word Titles
Any fics with titles of one word, one word plus an article (a, the), or one word plus a parenthetical. A relatively small collection, so it's sorted by number of letters.
Twerpsitting (and some Sims)We do have a mixed title here: Popsicles / Freezer Burn (fits here since one of the titles is a single word).
Sorted by Length
- Waif (WIP)
- Rapefic
- Bound (WIP)
- Xellos comes to ask Zelgadis for help
- Crawl
- Loki Whump
- Cygnet (WIP)
- Clint Wingfic
- Flight
- Post-Series Finch
- Lashes
- Loki Whump
- Bespoke
- Lovecraftian Horror
- Cuckoos
- Clint recaptures Loki
- Bargains (WIP)
- Elias requests a different payment
- Carvings
- Mordecai Whump
- Costumes
- Marconi and Zoe - genderqueer
- Enchanté (WIP)
- Percy Whump; Dead Dove: Do Not Eat
- Passages
- Vampire Mordecai Heller
- Couplings
- Experimental 2PP
- Festering (Hiatus)
- Loki hates
- Reforming (WIP)
- Getting a hint of the Grandmaster's true nature
- Adjustments (WIP)
- Nathan adjusts to becoming a living chalk drawing
- Ambivalence
- Post-Retirement, mixed feelings
- Displacement
- Crack Scenario: Stuck in the past
- Incompatible
- Monologue: Finch the anti-Rinch still Ships them??
- Speculations
- Anton tries to figure things out
- Transference (WIP)
- (Crossover) Sailor Moon/Ronin Warriors
- Squidilarities
- John brings Harold a stuffed octopus
One Plus
- The Toll (WIP)
- John Reese full of self-loathing and low impulse control
- The Fight
- Fluffy drabble
- The Imposter (Hiatus)
- Creepyfest: Harold captured by the Proteus identity thief
- For (until All)
- April Fools: The Machine destroys the world
- Worries (an old snippet of a tale)
- CATS: random bit about Mist, RTT, and Cassie
- Nippitaty (or, the Angel's Share) (WIP)
- Vampire Elias asks for a different deal
- Manipulations (this title may change!) (Hiatus)
- NaNoWriMo: POI cast in the plot of Saints Row IV, more or less
Sorted by Letters
Two-Word Titles
Any fics with titles of two words, plus those with an article or parenthetical.
My retrospectives go here, given that they're all titled "Retrospective: [Element]". So far, we've had Water, Air, and Fire.
We've also got two parentheticals: Unbearably Fluffy (An Apology in Advance) and , along with a mixed title: Popsicles / Freezer Burn (one of the titles is two words, so it counts).
Adjectives!
There's one entry in Adverb Adjective: Thoroughly Obliged. And one in Adjective Locative: Stuck Inside.
But the lion's share for the two-word category goes to: Adjective Nouns.
Adjective Noun
Let's sort them by overall length, then by the shortest word within that length.
- Frayed Hems
- Icy Diplomacy
- Cleaning Mode
- Fuzzy Anatomy
- Three Minutes
- Elemental Fury
- Final Thoughts
- Fluff Drabbles
- Furtive Accent
- Shared Spirits
- Acceptable Loss
- Lingering Grief
- Exotic Travails
- Unmarked Graves
- Amorous Fancies
- Borrowed Accents
- Shadowy Warnings
- Frigid Aggression
- Strange Bedfellas
- Magical Attraction
- Muffled Loneliness
- Audacious Flimflam
- Best-Case Scenario
- Fledgling Avengers
- Foolish Assumptions
- Neglected Furniture
- Reclining Butterfly
- Unforeseen Friendship
Not Adjectives
Two-Word Phrase
- Pit Stop
- Strip Search
- Also has an Abridged version.
- Loco Parentis
- Breaking Point
Possessives
Verb Noun
- Taking It
- Going Under
- Buying Time
- Raising Funds
- Growing Memories
- Sifting Causality
- Preserving Memories
- Figuring Anonymities
Noun Verb
Equivocal Titles
Equivocation is when the same words can mean multiple things. I do love using it!
If at least one word could be read as multiple forms of speech, it goes here:
Articles
Three-Word Titles
Any fics with titles of three words, plus those with an article or parenthetical.
We've got a couple parentheticals and a mixed title:
- September Lets Go (The Plot Bunny Purge)
- Obedience Is Bliss (Don't Fight It)
- October Feels Odd (aka Post-Surgery Pronoia)
- Restoring the Balance / A Life Debt, Thrice Owed
This and That
It appears I enjoy adding words together this way.
- Ice and Clay
- Joanna and Carlee
- Tremble and Serve
- Choices and Chance
- Storms and Shadows
- Socks and Snowmaids
- Instincts and Decisions
X the Y
Leaving the BirdhouseX in/on/vs. Y
Has a Verb!
Pain Is Inevitable has a copula, which is verb-like, at least.
- Web of Trust
- Numb Too Long
- So Newly Gone
- Big Green Hugs
- FMI Short Shorts
- Game Night Newbies
- Crimson Five Alpha
- Final Moments Alone
- Some Random Neighbor
- First Christmas Alone
- Moments Like Stardust
- Little Wartime Intimacies
- Improved Response Training
And the parenthetical: POI Episode Guide (Season 1).
With Articles
Four-Word Titles
Any fics with titles of four words, plus those with an article or parenthetical.
Also there's A Fugitive in Stardew Valley, a video Let's Play series with transcripts here.
Four Words
With Articles
Five-Word Titles
Any fics with titles of five words, plus those with an article or parenthetical.
By Longest Title
Monthly Birthday Prompts for 2019; My Quirky Neighbor's Daddy-Daughter Moments
Didn't Sign Up for This (but I'll see it through to the end)
- To Be There in Time
- Let the Ship Wars Begin
- With Me in the Darkness
- Dust and Ashes and Dreams
- Hard Truths Need Not Stay
- Thought you could use one
- Touched by the Wolf Chief
- Waking in a Wooden Kimono
- Somehow I Miss Box Socials
- Long Odds and Risky Options
- Look, John, Just Play Along
- Shadow of the Angel's Share
- "Finding Nemo Meets John Wick"
- Drinks Shared in the Darkness
- Harold Would Have Thanked Him
- Far from the Typical Intimacies
- They wouldn't believe me anyway
- These Hands Have Seldom Comforted
Starts with an Article:
By Longest Word
Restoring the Balance / A Life Debt, Thrice Owed
- Five Letters:
- To Be There in Time
- Let the Ship Wars Begin
- Look, John, Just Play Along
- Six Letters:
- Dust and Ashes and Dreams
- Hard Truths Need Not Stay
- Waking in a Wooden Kimono
- Shadow of the Angel's Share
- Seven Letters:
- Thought you could use one
- Touched by the Wolf Chief
- Somehow I Miss Box Socials
- Long Odds and Risky Options
- "Finding Nemo Meets John Wick"
- Harold Would Have Thanked Him
- They wouldn't believe me anyway
- Eight Letters:
- With Me in the Darkness
- Drinks Shared in the Darkness
- Nine Letters:
- These Hands Have Seldom Comforted
- Ten Letters:
- Far from the Typical Intimacies
Lengthy Titles
Any fics with titles of more than five words (not counting an article or parenthetical).