A postmortem and a meme
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darkrosaleenLittle Black Dress Exchange just had reveals, and I made out well! I received two nice little fics, one for my favorite pairing in the fandom and one for a surprise rarepair (which is the ideal spread for this particular exchange, IMO).
Late Night Entertainment by Tish - The Terror, Cornelius Hickey/Solomon Tozer, E
Seduction of the Innocent by Aurae - Star Wars Original Trilogy, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Luke Skywalker, T
I only wrote one fic for this exchange, for a character I added to my offers last minute. I multiship most of my favorite characters, but I have a few classic bicycles I want to shamelessly whore out to everybody, and Peter Quill is one of them.
Sorry Boy, I've Been Hit by Purple Rain - Guardians of the Galaxy, Peter Quill/Yondu Udonta, E
Little Black Dress is the last exchange I'm doing for a while (I signed up for Iddy Iddy Bang Bang, but that's a low-pressure commitment and I was planning to write that fic anyway). I've been in an exchange rut since last year, trying a bunch of new shiny exchanges and then stressing out and finishing my assignment at the last possible second with no time or energy for treats. I ended up happy with most of them, but that's due to much more post-bus-pass editing than I usually do. My quarantine personality is "start ten million incredibly complex projects so I stay constantly busy but never finish anything," which I'm sure doesn't help.
Finally, a fic title meme I stole fromisis (and then hoarded for a month so I could include my LBD assignment)
My twenty most recent fic titles on AO3:
Sorry Boy, I've Been Hit By Purple Rain
Nighthawks
You're Twisting My Melon, Man
Fun Size
Ch-Ch-Cherry Bomb
Pizza Can Wait
Mischief Night
From the Sea
The Devil's Tongue
Miles to Go Before I Sleep (the MBTA remix)
Morals & Practicals (the King James I remix)
An Excess of Mutton
Paroxysm
Sweat, Tears, or the Sea
the best of you, honey, belongs to me
The Empress
Pushing Buttons
Remember me as you pass by
The Virginia Reel
From Seafoam
1. How many are you happy with?
I'd say I really like 15, which isn't too bad.
2. How many are ... not great?
My least favorite is Pizza Can Wait, an original F/m mommy kink PWP. I couldn't think of a mommy kink-related title that didn't sound dumb, so I waffled and settled on a random domestic-sounding quote from the fic. I remember stressing over this deadline and just wanting the fic off my plate. Some of the other titles are vague or uninspired, but they all hit the general vibe of the fic.
3. How many did you scramble for at the last minute?
The most last minute is Nighthawks, which had a different title when I uploaded it. Once I remembered that the painting Nighthawks exists, and that it had exactly the same moody mid-century nocturnal outcasts vibe as the fic, I changed it. The Devil's Tongue and An Excess of Mutton were first published as anon snippets without titles, so I came up with something when I uploaded to AO3.
4. How many did you know before you started writing/creating, or near the beginning?
Sorry Boy, I've Been Hit By Purple Rain changed the fic itself. I had the idea for Yondu being jealous of all the aliens banging slutty Peter, but I had something more comedic in mind until "Ventura Highway" came on my Spotify seventies mix. As soon as I heard the title lyric, I had flashes of something more wistful and nostalgic. When I looked up the lyrics and found an interview by the songwriter talking about the song as a relationship between a young idealistic guy who wants to escape his small town and an older guy who's more settled, it was too perfect to use anything else. The specific lyric is less important than the whole vibe of the song, but I like the mystical, psychedelic vibe it implies.
5. How many are quotes from songs or poems?
5 songs, 1 poem. I'm surprised--I feel like I use song lyric titles all the time, but that's only 25%. Interesting to note that aside from one Hozier lyric, the most recent song lyric is from 1990, and the rest are all from the seventies or older.
6. How many are other quotes?
Remember me when you pass by is a line from a common epitaph on Puritan New England gravestones, which I suppose is technically a poem? I know I came up with Sweat, Tears, or the Sea after googling "salt quotes," but I don't remember if it came from something or if I just mashed some ideas and themes together.
7. Which best reflects the plot of the story/content of the fanwork?
Fun Size (smol candy maker and her tol crush), Mischief Night (crossdressing and violence on traditional Irish Halloween), From the Sea (dead character comes back as a selkie), and The Devil's Tongue (100 words of demon cunnilingus) are all pretty straightforward about the contents of the fics.
8. Which best reflects the theme of the story?
From Seafoam is Blade Runner smut where a human woman wonders what sexual instincts and programming a replicant has, since he wasn't born from a mother and can't have oedipal impulses. Sweat, Tears, or the Sea is crack-played-seriously from the POV of salt, so a pretentious metaphorical title is amusingly appropriate. The Empress is more on the nose thematically--a character receives the Empress card in a tarot reading to forecast the arrival of a spiritual, feminine person.
9. Which best reflects the character voice of the story/POV of the fanwork?
Ch-Ch-Cherry Bomb would've still had campy eighties punk vibes with the working title Cherry Bomb, but the stuttering takes it over the top and draws a more direct parallel with the Runaways' song. The Virginia Reel calls to mind upbeat Irish folk music and the Irish diaspora culture the Lynch family belong to. You're Twisting My Melon, Man is a drug/sex double entendre from another drugged out nineties rock band from Manchester with behavioral issues.
10. Which is your favourite title?
Tie between Mischief Night, Ch-Ch-Cherry Bomb, and The Virginia Reel. Honorable mention to You're Twisting My Melon, Man and Sorry Boy, I've Been Hit By Purple Rain.
Late Night Entertainment by Tish - The Terror, Cornelius Hickey/Solomon Tozer, E
Seduction of the Innocent by Aurae - Star Wars Original Trilogy, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Luke Skywalker, T
I only wrote one fic for this exchange, for a character I added to my offers last minute. I multiship most of my favorite characters, but I have a few classic bicycles I want to shamelessly whore out to everybody, and Peter Quill is one of them.
Sorry Boy, I've Been Hit by Purple Rain - Guardians of the Galaxy, Peter Quill/Yondu Udonta, E
Little Black Dress is the last exchange I'm doing for a while (I signed up for Iddy Iddy Bang Bang, but that's a low-pressure commitment and I was planning to write that fic anyway). I've been in an exchange rut since last year, trying a bunch of new shiny exchanges and then stressing out and finishing my assignment at the last possible second with no time or energy for treats. I ended up happy with most of them, but that's due to much more post-bus-pass editing than I usually do. My quarantine personality is "start ten million incredibly complex projects so I stay constantly busy but never finish anything," which I'm sure doesn't help.
Finally, a fic title meme I stole from
isis (and then hoarded for a month so I could include my LBD assignment)My twenty most recent fic titles on AO3:
Sorry Boy, I've Been Hit By Purple Rain
Nighthawks
You're Twisting My Melon, Man
Fun Size
Ch-Ch-Cherry Bomb
Pizza Can Wait
Mischief Night
From the Sea
The Devil's Tongue
Miles to Go Before I Sleep (the MBTA remix)
Morals & Practicals (the King James I remix)
An Excess of Mutton
Paroxysm
Sweat, Tears, or the Sea
the best of you, honey, belongs to me
The Empress
Pushing Buttons
Remember me as you pass by
The Virginia Reel
From Seafoam
1. How many are you happy with?
I'd say I really like 15, which isn't too bad.
2. How many are ... not great?
My least favorite is Pizza Can Wait, an original F/m mommy kink PWP. I couldn't think of a mommy kink-related title that didn't sound dumb, so I waffled and settled on a random domestic-sounding quote from the fic. I remember stressing over this deadline and just wanting the fic off my plate. Some of the other titles are vague or uninspired, but they all hit the general vibe of the fic.
3. How many did you scramble for at the last minute?
The most last minute is Nighthawks, which had a different title when I uploaded it. Once I remembered that the painting Nighthawks exists, and that it had exactly the same moody mid-century nocturnal outcasts vibe as the fic, I changed it. The Devil's Tongue and An Excess of Mutton were first published as anon snippets without titles, so I came up with something when I uploaded to AO3.
4. How many did you know before you started writing/creating, or near the beginning?
Sorry Boy, I've Been Hit By Purple Rain changed the fic itself. I had the idea for Yondu being jealous of all the aliens banging slutty Peter, but I had something more comedic in mind until "Ventura Highway" came on my Spotify seventies mix. As soon as I heard the title lyric, I had flashes of something more wistful and nostalgic. When I looked up the lyrics and found an interview by the songwriter talking about the song as a relationship between a young idealistic guy who wants to escape his small town and an older guy who's more settled, it was too perfect to use anything else. The specific lyric is less important than the whole vibe of the song, but I like the mystical, psychedelic vibe it implies.
5. How many are quotes from songs or poems?
5 songs, 1 poem. I'm surprised--I feel like I use song lyric titles all the time, but that's only 25%. Interesting to note that aside from one Hozier lyric, the most recent song lyric is from 1990, and the rest are all from the seventies or older.
6. How many are other quotes?
Remember me when you pass by is a line from a common epitaph on Puritan New England gravestones, which I suppose is technically a poem? I know I came up with Sweat, Tears, or the Sea after googling "salt quotes," but I don't remember if it came from something or if I just mashed some ideas and themes together.
7. Which best reflects the plot of the story/content of the fanwork?
Fun Size (smol candy maker and her tol crush), Mischief Night (crossdressing and violence on traditional Irish Halloween), From the Sea (dead character comes back as a selkie), and The Devil's Tongue (100 words of demon cunnilingus) are all pretty straightforward about the contents of the fics.
8. Which best reflects the theme of the story?
From Seafoam is Blade Runner smut where a human woman wonders what sexual instincts and programming a replicant has, since he wasn't born from a mother and can't have oedipal impulses. Sweat, Tears, or the Sea is crack-played-seriously from the POV of salt, so a pretentious metaphorical title is amusingly appropriate. The Empress is more on the nose thematically--a character receives the Empress card in a tarot reading to forecast the arrival of a spiritual, feminine person.
9. Which best reflects the character voice of the story/POV of the fanwork?
Ch-Ch-Cherry Bomb would've still had campy eighties punk vibes with the working title Cherry Bomb, but the stuttering takes it over the top and draws a more direct parallel with the Runaways' song. The Virginia Reel calls to mind upbeat Irish folk music and the Irish diaspora culture the Lynch family belong to. You're Twisting My Melon, Man is a drug/sex double entendre from another drugged out nineties rock band from Manchester with behavioral issues.
10. Which is your favourite title?
Tie between Mischief Night, Ch-Ch-Cherry Bomb, and The Virginia Reel. Honorable mention to You're Twisting My Melon, Man and Sorry Boy, I've Been Hit By Purple Rain.
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