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

Adjustments
Ambivalence
Bargains
Bespoke
Bound
Carvings
Costumes
Couplings
Crawl
Cuckoos
Cygnet
Displacement
Enchanté
Festering
Flight
Incompatible
Lashes
Passages
Reforming
Speculations
Squidilarities
Transference
Waif

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).