Titles

Lord Raa

Exporter of Juice Tins
#1
Basically, I was wondering what are the best and worst titles for fics that you've seen.

Post links and summaries as appropiate. Fandoms too, just so we know what to expect. :p

I dread to think which pile some of my works would be in....
 

mswolfe17

Well-Known Member
#2
One of my favorite titles:

Top Ten Bazillion Reasons Why Setting Out to Injure, Maim, or Kill Ranma Saotome is a very bad idea.
or something like that, I don't remember.

Worst:

"A Girl and her pig"

Figure the pairing in that one out, or I'll sick a stampede of man-eating plants on you.

Yeah, I hated it too.
 

lokinishizaki

Well-Known Member
#3
You have to ask? You must not frequent the Naruto section. Let's see the first five titles today.

There's 1. Journey To Konoha: Oh No She Didn't! by Miss Smarticle (God how I wish she hadn't)

2. high school romance by darktulip (Tell me another one.)

3. NeijxTenten ficlets by Neji's fangirl (By a proud member of the fangirl horde.)

4. Foolish by Princess Lightina (This one actually isn't that bad.)

And of course: 5. Kiss of the Scorpin by Rememberance of Something (If you can't even keep your title and penname free of typos...)

Oh wait! There's also: 9. A Girl With Flowers in her Hair by allthegoodpennamesaretaken (no comment) and 20. Vampirates by XxKitsunedxX (apparently a mix of vampires and pirates.)


Good titles are few and far in between. They're generally the marks of good fanfics. Foxhound, House of leaves, Asinine Rationalizations, Point of Origin and Tempered in Water.
 

tungsten

Well-Known Member
#4
I can't quite remember and have no intention of going to look, but I feel positive that at some point I have come across some variants of 'NaruSasu Yaoi' as a title.

With a title like that, all it has going for itself is honesty.

Also some pet peeves. Titles done all in caps. Titles allong the lines of 'couldn't think of a title' or 'needs a new title'. Titles which end up being a cool sounding word that ends up having nothing to do with the actual story.

Titles which start 'Naruto:...' and then go on to be about a team of OC's

EDIT: Not referring to specific stories here, just things you find browsing FF.net
 

foesjoe

Well-Known Member
#7
It's along the lines of:

Choose your nickname (no special characters allowed) and you go and take "special character" for a nickname. Can't help it, I find it funny.

On topic:

Ranma's Husband?
Life in Nerima only ever gets more chaoticà will this be RanmaÆs breaking point? In which everyone in RanmaÆs life proves just how inexplicably stupid they can beà sort of. Other stuff also happens. Pairings include: DualGenderedRanmaOMC and AkaneMousse

The Fuck?!
 

PCHeintz72

The Sentient Fanfic Search Engine mk II
#8
foesjoe said:
It's along the lines of:

Choose your nickname (no special characters allowed) and you go and take "special character" for a nickname. Can't help it, I find it funny.

On topic:

Ranma's Husband?
Life in Nerima only ever gets more chaoticà will this be RanmaÆs breaking point? In which everyone in RanmaÆs life proves just how inexplicably stupid they can beà sort of. Other stuff also happens. Pairings include: DualGenderedRanmaOMC and AkaneMousse

The Fuck?!
I actually read the first few chapters of that when it first came out. Passed on reading more.
 

foesjoe

Well-Known Member
#9
You are very brave
 

PCHeintz72

The Sentient Fanfic Search Engine mk II
#10
foesjoe said:
You are very brave
I gave up I think around 6 or 7 (not too long after the intro of the individual in question), the way it was coming across to me was just too confusing.
 
#11
Isn't this a city in Australia?

Well, it's a title, too, now...:wacko:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a fandom which I have not entered in ff.net for quite a while now.

For those of you with a particularly morbid fascination, or a taste for pain, here follows the summary:

PostChosenAU. Adelaide is 17 and pregnant.. She thinks her life can't get any worse.. But what she doesn't know, is she just became a Slayer. Bad Summary!
Re: Last sentence... well, no shit, Sherlock.
 

PCHeintz72

The Sentient Fanfic Search Engine mk II
#12
Caught this one on the FanFiction.NET Just In feed earlier, though I do not think you can actually see the story, if it is even there anymore. It is Ai Yori Aoshi.

Feed: FanFiction.Net -- Main Page
Title: blahá Author: FanFiction.Net
Fiction Rated: T
Category: Ai Yori Aoshi
Language: English
Genres: General
Chapters: 1
Words: 451
Updated: 5-27-07
Published: 5-27-07
Status: In-Progress
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i have no clueá
For those unfamiliar with FanFiction.NET feed format, the Title is 'blah' and the description is 'i have no clue'.
 
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