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china_shop
Of the 20 most recent titles of your AO3 works:
1. How many are you happy with?
18.
2. How many are... not great?
I'm a bit grumpy about both Prophesied and Maze. I didn't have a cute name to give them, although I guess they're in the vein of your typical Stargate episode title, and I wrote them to have the feel of a Stargate episode, so...maybe it works?
3. How many did you scramble for at the last minute?
Most of them? I usually come up with a title once I'm finished writing the story. Sometimes the title matches the story, sometimes it...doesn't.
Probably the ones I got really stuck with were Prophesied and Maze. Truthfully, this is probably why I don't like them so much.
I also definitely scrounged for the inconvenience of an apology (I had to read it through several times to get an idea), the proper order of things (I went with the Confucian thought of right and proper placement), Flight And Fight (like, what do you call the AU in which Bucky survives and Steve falls from the train?), and The Check And The Balance Unpaid (Maria gets political with Ares, God of War). But all of those also feel like my kind of fic title, so they work in my head.
4. How many did you know before you started writing/creating, or near the beginning?
Five Things (To Prove Drift Compatibility) and You Shoot Me Down, But I'm A Bomb had their titles before I even knew the details of the plot which was "Maria and Pepper discover they're Drift Compatible and fight in the new Jaeger Titanium Stiletto".
Duncker's Candle grew out of an older fic with the same general theme: seeing something ordinary (Maria) in a new context (as someone who knew/worked with Peggy) - but also in terms of the broader plan I had for this iteration of the story which I wrote post-Endgame. (If you want the plot, I'll put it in a comment below.)
Never Count The Cost is a Pacific Rim 'Indentured Slavery Is Legal' AU, which riffed off someone else's similar 'Slavery is legal' AU and it was beautifully written but also brutal and depressing. The longer series of stories I had mapped out for this universe were harsh but (I like to think) not quite so depressing.
I'm pretty sure I referenced the poem the wisdom to know the difference in my thoughts about Endgame (or maybe just a comment about "accepting what cannot be changed") before I lit upon the idea of Maria surviving The Snapture and making a difference to the way Endgame played out.
Since Five Warlord Princes And An Argument was a snapshot, and Five Men Who Never Wanted Maria Hill was a copout, I just wanted to write these scenarios, and so they were published with the working title I had with them.
5. How many are quotes from songs or poems?
Three:
the wisdom to know the difference (Endgame rewrite)
You Shoot Me Down, But I'm A Bomb (Last installment in the Maria and Pepper Jaeger AU)
That's What Friends Are For (Maria & Pepper Jaeger AU)
6. How many are other quotes?
Just Slower is Sam Wilson's quote for himself in reference to Steve ("I do what he does; just slower."), although Sam only appears at the end of this story. There was going to be a Part II in which the fate of the infinity stones was explored - along with all the 'second string' characters - but I...never got around to it.
7. Which best reflects the plot of the story/content of the fanwork?
Five Warlord Princes And An Argument is exactly what it says on the tin.
8. Which best reflects the theme of the story/fanwork?
I think the one I like for poetic justice and significance is No Rest For The Righteous, which is a misquote of the old adage no rest for the wicked. Because the righteous truly don't get to rest, they don't get to walk away from the fight - not if they're truly righteous in the heart. And yeah, I really hated that aspect of Endgame.
9. Which best reflects the character voice of the story/POV of the fanwork?
Probably The Definition Of Reasonable which simultaneously manages to convey that, yes, everything that Shuri proposes is reasonable...from her point of view, it's just way out of Bucky's experience and comprehension.
10. Which is your favourite?
the wisdom to know the difference has poetry and significance in the context of the broader quote and the story itself:
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AO3 Title Meme by
china_shopOf the 20 most recent titles of your AO3 works:
1. How many are you happy with?
18.
2. How many are... not great?
I'm a bit grumpy about both Prophesied and Maze. I didn't have a cute name to give them, although I guess they're in the vein of your typical Stargate episode title, and I wrote them to have the feel of a Stargate episode, so...maybe it works?
3. How many did you scramble for at the last minute?
Most of them? I usually come up with a title once I'm finished writing the story. Sometimes the title matches the story, sometimes it...doesn't.
Probably the ones I got really stuck with were Prophesied and Maze. Truthfully, this is probably why I don't like them so much.
I also definitely scrounged for the inconvenience of an apology (I had to read it through several times to get an idea), the proper order of things (I went with the Confucian thought of right and proper placement), Flight And Fight (like, what do you call the AU in which Bucky survives and Steve falls from the train?), and The Check And The Balance Unpaid (Maria gets political with Ares, God of War). But all of those also feel like my kind of fic title, so they work in my head.
4. How many did you know before you started writing/creating, or near the beginning?
Five Things (To Prove Drift Compatibility) and You Shoot Me Down, But I'm A Bomb had their titles before I even knew the details of the plot which was "Maria and Pepper discover they're Drift Compatible and fight in the new Jaeger Titanium Stiletto".
Duncker's Candle grew out of an older fic with the same general theme: seeing something ordinary (Maria) in a new context (as someone who knew/worked with Peggy) - but also in terms of the broader plan I had for this iteration of the story which I wrote post-Endgame. (If you want the plot, I'll put it in a comment below.)
Never Count The Cost is a Pacific Rim 'Indentured Slavery Is Legal' AU, which riffed off someone else's similar 'Slavery is legal' AU and it was beautifully written but also brutal and depressing. The longer series of stories I had mapped out for this universe were harsh but (I like to think) not quite so depressing.
I'm pretty sure I referenced the poem the wisdom to know the difference in my thoughts about Endgame (or maybe just a comment about "accepting what cannot be changed") before I lit upon the idea of Maria surviving The Snapture and making a difference to the way Endgame played out.
Since Five Warlord Princes And An Argument was a snapshot, and Five Men Who Never Wanted Maria Hill was a copout, I just wanted to write these scenarios, and so they were published with the working title I had with them.
5. How many are quotes from songs or poems?
Three:
the wisdom to know the difference (Endgame rewrite)
You Shoot Me Down, But I'm A Bomb (Last installment in the Maria and Pepper Jaeger AU)
That's What Friends Are For (Maria & Pepper Jaeger AU)
6. How many are other quotes?
Just Slower is Sam Wilson's quote for himself in reference to Steve ("I do what he does; just slower."), although Sam only appears at the end of this story. There was going to be a Part II in which the fate of the infinity stones was explored - along with all the 'second string' characters - but I...never got around to it.
7. Which best reflects the plot of the story/content of the fanwork?
Five Warlord Princes And An Argument is exactly what it says on the tin.
8. Which best reflects the theme of the story/fanwork?
I think the one I like for poetic justice and significance is No Rest For The Righteous, which is a misquote of the old adage no rest for the wicked. Because the righteous truly don't get to rest, they don't get to walk away from the fight - not if they're truly righteous in the heart. And yeah, I really hated that aspect of Endgame.
9. Which best reflects the character voice of the story/POV of the fanwork?
Probably The Definition Of Reasonable which simultaneously manages to convey that, yes, everything that Shuri proposes is reasonable...from her point of view, it's just way out of Bucky's experience and comprehension.
10. Which is your favourite?
the wisdom to know the difference has poetry and significance in the context of the broader quote and the story itself:
the serenity to accept what cannot be changedI really wish I'd been able to finish this. I got kind of stuck on the next part, all the back and forth between the various Avengers and Avengers-adjacent people. *sigh*
the courage to change what can
and the wisdom to know the difference