nautilics | Reading

Taken from dw user bluedreaming

Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for starting a fanwork title? One fanwork per line, ‘A’ and 'The’ do not count for 'a’ and ’t’. Post your score out of 26 at the end, ~~along with your total fanwork count.~~

How fun! This game came at an opportune time because I had watched a video about the history of the NATO phonetic alphabet and was spending my days memorising it and thinking about alphabets. Here's some hwa trivia, during long waits or attendances, I play the alphabet game in my head where I choose a category and go down the alphabet naming answers by letter, and I've had to do that a few times recently too. So, alphabets are in my head already.

fanwork by letter: 15/26

and the end of the world would be so lonely
break my heart for what breaks yours
conflict of interest
d
e
fanboy's guide to flaming fanfiction
g
h
it's the eye of the tiger
j
kingmaker
love like a hurricane
my will across the sky in stars
n
ours for the moment / once again, love (I couldn't choose!)
perihelion
q
recessional
sidereal (with respect to the distant stars)
then fall
u
v
weight of heaven
x
yours is a negative kingdom
z

(If it's interesting, "T" and "L" had the greatest number of entries at 3 each. Mutuals, what are your trends and habits?)

WIPs...?

(Some drafts which I can prioritise to feel completionist)

d
e
gambler to the game [idolverse yuri-chicken-baiting]
half-life of angels [a thematic sequel to weight of heaven that is not a true sequel because it's completely different events and a non-canon AU BUT it is from seungcheol's perspective]
j
The nearest thing to life [the title to the murakami/han kang inspired 97z fic in my drafts since 2019]
q
upon a painted ocean [abandoned haikyuu big bang wip set in 1965 Hong Kong, but I've been reusing the title for another wip because I love the idea of a painted ship on a painted ocean]
v
x
z

fic title ideas

(This whole game has me feeling competitive (against no one but myself), so I thought up some titles because when 17hols season comes again, I have a list ready for deployment)

deuteronomy
evening star
guilty of this conscience
how can I love the heartbreak / half sick of shadows [lady of shallot themed]
juvenile in love
non est factum
queries and customer service answers
until the ending of the world [for a time travel AU]
villanelle [I love the connotation that this is the poetic form for obsession)
xanadu waking [hmm x is easier in chinese, perhaps a 4-character idiom like 型灭迹绝 (to restore what has been destroyed)]
zelda, once more