Almost a meme, if you squint

[pensnest]

What are your best titles? Not your best stories, because the best stories don't necessarily have the best titles; the titles you are most pleased with, from your oeuvre.

Ten best, without any context other than the fandom they come from!

Mine are, I think:

Popslash
in porco, veritas
Show You the Shape of My What?
The Christmas Tree Conspiracy
The Little Dustbuster That Could
Con-Stir-Nation
Midnight Rodeo
The Pussycat and the Porcupine

Harry Potter
Neville Longbottom and the Boke of Fecretf

Star Trek:TNG
The Things that Juliana didn't say
The Educated Pig


Pick one, and tell me what you think the story is about!

Comments

Boke of Fecretf

[oldtoadwoman]

I don't know what the book is about, but I'm picturing Neville finding a very old book from the days of creative spelling and those weird Ss that look like Fs.

Re: Boke of Fecretf

[pensnest]

Quite right! The book contains potion recipes, one of which is for ye increafe of....

Re: Boke of Fecretf

[oldtoadwoman]

Should my mind be in the gutter? (My mind is 100% in the gutter.)

Re: Boke of Fecretf

[pensnest]

Oh, yef.

Re: Boke of Fecretf

[oldtoadwoman]

Penif Enlargement Fpell? Increafed Ftamina Fpell?

Re: Boke of Fecretf

[pensnest]

Penif Enlargement Potion, indeed. But Neville is not very good at Potions. ;-)

Re: Boke of Fecretf

[oldtoadwoman]

😃

[shipperslist]

Ohh this seems like fun! I’m gonna snatch this for future use.

[pensnest]

Excellent. I hope it gets about - I like to see the kind of titles other people produce.

[brandywine28]

You excel at titles and I do not. Therefore, it is more fun to parse through yours than to dredge up mine.

I'm gonna guess that Midnight Rodeo is a non-AU in which JC releases a country-techno album and starts wearing chaps and going shirtless underneath fringed vests and finally Lance sits him down and says, "JC, I love and support you, but as a lifelong fan of country music I'm begging you to stop."

:)

[pensnest]

That sounds like fun... but no, my story is entirely canon-compliant one of those 'you can't actually prove it didn't happen' stories involving Trickyfish at dead of night, and giant space bulls.

[brandywine28]

I love that you wrote about the space bulls!

[pensnest]

It was a response to something on the fic_requests comm. Which was the source of forty-fifty of my stories!

[pensnest]

Did I say it sounds like fun? I meant, terrifying!

[brandywine28]

!!!

Sequel idea, sequel idea! A year later, JC releases an all-electronica album of showtune covers and now it's Joey's turn to feel both irritated and aroused! We can call it -- uhh. Midnight...Liza? Midnight Jazz Hands?

And JC's lil' outfits will take a distinctly Fosse-esque turn, with the bowler hats and the sequined Sally Bowles shorts. And lo, it will be good.

[pensnest]

JC in a Sally Bowles outfit is definitely something to be imagined.

I wonder if he is still writing songs these days?

[corvidology]

The Educated Pig is my favourite. :D

[pensnest]

I'm rather charmed by it as a title myself. :-)

[turlough]

I don't think in porco, veritas is about Lance hiding truth serum in the Christmas ham but I somehow feel like it should be :-)

[pensnest]

Hmmmmmm, it's more the birthday ham, I guess. Do the words 'magical slash fairy godpiglet' mean nothing to you?

[frausorge]

"The Things that Juliana didn't say" is a very evocative and intriguing title. It sounds like maybe repressed longing, or perhaps suppressed rage?

[pensnest]

Interesting - I hadn't thought of it like that, but I see it! It's actually a fairly literal title: the story is about Data's 'childhood', and there are lots of things his 'mother' did not tell him. But I like your interpretation!