Tagged by: @mindatworkk and @heartbash
Look at the most recent 20 (or however many!) fanwork titles on your AO3 account and answer the questions below.
I only have 6 because I am a seedling. I considered going back to my Criminal Minds fanfiction.net account for this, but I... did not.
and they were roommates (omg they were roommates!)
where all the biggest questions meet
love is not as scary as it appears; what’s unsettling is this feeling
the landing light
but if you really hold me tight
let the sun inside
1. How many are you happy with?
I... have an odd relationship with titles. I think and they were roommates (omg they were roommates!) is funny and I’m glad I didn’t try and think of a more me-typical title for it. I’m probably roughly equally happy with the others.
2. How many are you not happy with?
I don’t really mind any of them. I’m lucky to exist in a fandom where everyone is used to and at least reluctantly resigned to putting up with lyric titles because I don’t really know how else to do it.
3. How many did you scramble for at the last minute?
Almost all of them. I am not good at titles.
4. How many did you know before you started writing/creating, or near the beginning?
Because I wrote it roughly one chapter a day in a month and then edited and published it roughly one chapter a day the next month, but if you really hold me tight really needed all the stuff that might tie my brain up to be out of the way before I started. So it was titled before I started writing, but it was the only one, and it was a roughly equal amount of torture, just at a different stage in the process.
5. How many are quotes from songs or poems?
where all the biggest questions meet is from Magnificent (She Says) by elbow, which also inspired part of the beach scene.
love is not as scary as it appears; what’s unsettling is this feeling is from Rebecca’s Face Your Fears Reprise and Nathaniel’s cut Settle For Me Reprise, because they were the inspiration for the fic.
the landing light is from K2 by elbow, which is about being far away and thinking with some longing and also some worry about what it would be like to go home.
but if you really hold me tight is from Let It Snow, because I needed a non-religious festive lyric preferably sung by Frank Sinatra, and this kind of felt like it fit them both having a nice romantic holiday and also navigating their not-ideal family situations together.
let the sun inside is from Ribcage by elbow, because the full lyric has been lodged inside me somewhere since I was a teenager repressing stuff until it hurt so much I couldn’t repress it anymore then being totally unable to control how it finally came out, a la Nathaniel and feelings: I wanted to explode, to pull my ribs apart & let the sun inside.
6. How many are other quotes?
I guess and they were roommates (omg they were roommates!) is kind of a tumblr / ao3 quote. More of a meme really.
7. Which best reflects the plot of the story/content of the fanwork?
and they were roommates (omg they were roommates!) is pretty self explanatory I guess.
8. Which best reflects the theme of the story?
love is not as scary as it appears; what’s unsettling is this feeling is only as descriptive as the others but the songs the lines are taken from are about a million times more likely to be familiar to the reader before they click than any of the others, so that one.
9. Which best reflects the character voice of the story/POV of the framework?
I have no idea honestly. Maybe but if you really hold me tight. But I’m not sure why I think that.
10. Which is your favourite title?
Roommates. Can you tell? I would’ve chickened out of it if I hadn’t been talked into keeping it and it would probably have an obscure lyric title like the others.
I would tag but I’m chicken and also I think everyone has been tagged at this point?
