Alphabetical Fic Meme

[thisbluespirit]

New-to-me fic meme snagged from astrogirl:

Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for starting a fic title? One fic 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 fic count.

LIke astrogirl, I went for the first fic for each letter, saving only once or twice where I really didn't want to, because it's not as if it's a rule in this meme.

A - An Absolutely True And In No Way Fabricated Account of the Difficult, Dangerous and Entirely Improbable Invention of the Biscuit (Bleak Expectations, Sir Philip Bin)
B - Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me (Public Eye, Frank Marker/Helen Mortimer)
C - Cameo (Sapphire & Steel, Jasper, Tin, Jet)
D - Damned Giraffe (Discworld, Death, Death of Rats, A Giraffe)
E - Each A Glimpse And Gone Forever (Chalet School/Doctor Who, Seventh Doctor, Hilda Annersley, Ace McShane)
F - Fading Fast (Spooks, Ruth Evershed/Harry Pearce, Beth Bailey)
G - A Gallifreyan at Blandings (Blandings/Doctor Who, Tenth Doctor, Galahad Threepwood, Earl of Emsworth, Constance Keeble, Beach, the Empress of Blandings).
H - Half an Angel (Shadow of the Tower, Henry VII/Elizabeth of York)
I - I Do, I Do, I Do (The Month of Sundays Remix) (Doctor Who, Thirteenth Doctor/Most of her other selves, Yaz, Graham, Ryan).
J - Jo Grant, Assassin For Hire (Doctor Who. Jo Grant, the Brigadier, Third Doctor).
K - Keeping Secrets (Blake's 7, Dayna Mellanby/Del Tarrant)
L - Ladies in Waiting (The Hardest Part) (15th C RPF, Margaret Beaufort, Elizabeth of York).
M - Made For Each Other (Adam Adamant Lives! Adam Adamant & Georgina Jones).
N - Nature Is Red (Doctor Who, Tenth Doctor/Leela).
O - Of Elements and Existence (Sapphire & Steel/Discworld, Steel, Death, Sapphire, Ridcully, Silver, Nanny Ogg, Granny Weatherwax, Ponder Stibbons).
P - Painted Smiles (Blake's 7, Servalan).
Q - Quandrangle (Sapphire & Steel, Sapphire & Silver & Steel).
R - Random Factors (Good Omens/Doctor Who, Aziraphale, Vicki Pallister).
S - Salt of the Earth (Doctor Who, Mrs Martha Tyler, Jack Harkness, Twelfth Doctor).
T - Take the Second Path (OUaT, Regina Mills/Emma Swan, Rumplestiltskin, Cora Mills).
U - Unbreakable (OUaT, Regina Mills).
V - Valley of the Shadow (Dracula 1968, Jonathan Harker/Mina Harker).
W - Waiting For the Sky to Fall (Enemy at the Door, Philip Martel & Dieter Richter).
X -
Y - you asked me how i knew (my true love was true) (The Lady Vanishes, Iris Henderson/Gilbert Redman).
Z -



That was an interesting way to go through the fic, and a pretty representative mix of fandoms, really. Most surprising thing to me was that I only have one work beginning with K. And that's 24/26, as I don't have either an X or a Z, but those are hard letters to casually have in your titles. I clearly need to work on that, presumably in the SFF fandoms, heh.

Comments

[theseatheseatheopensea]

24/26 is super impressive! :D And X and Z are tough ones, but maybe they could be good for Elemental fic?

[persiflage_1]

Need a fic title with Zero at the start! Maybe S&S? Actually, maybe an S&S fic would work for X to - a Xerox machine gets possessed? 😜

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, S&S is definitely a plan - as everyone has pointed out, there are z or x named elements I could use for starters.

And ha, a possessed xerox machine is very S&S. I could send Xenon in to sort out the Xerox machine and call it Xenon and the Xerox. XD

[persiflage_1]

I'm here for this! 😜

[thisbluespirit]

Ha, yes, elements probably are the way to go! (Aren't they always? XD)

[sovay]

A - An Absolutely True And In No Way Fabricated Account of the Difficult, Dangerous and Entirely Improbable Invention of the Biscuit

That's just a very good title.

I clearly need to work on that, presumably in the SFF fandoms, heh.

I did in fact think instantly of Sapphire and Steel. Also the first Z that comes to my mind is apparently "Zenith." No idea.

[thisbluespirit]

That's just a very good title.

Thank you!

I did in fact think instantly of Sapphire and Steel. Also the first Z that comes to my mind is apparently "Zenith." No idea.

Everyone's plumping for the elements for that, and I'm sure they're right! :-)

[kerk_hiraeth]

Time to write a story about... Zee other axe, maybe?

:-)

kerk

[thisbluespirit]

LOL, or Zombies, Zinnias, X-Rays, X-Rated, X-Files... XD

[senmut]

That is a good mix. I'm trying to do mine and AO3 timed me out (the dreaded "Retry Later" page) at H.

[thisbluespirit]

Thank you! And, oh dear, yeah, Sunday night traffic at the AO3!

[astrogirl]

OK, that first title is immensely fun. :)

And clearly for Z you just need to do what I did (in, like... 1998?) and write something with zombies in it.

Also, I definitely have to read "A Gallifreyan at Blandings!" Not sure if I missed that before, or if I skipped it because I hadn't read the Blandings books yet or what, but clearly I need to rectify that. After I've done the stupid household tasks I gotta do, sigh.

[thisbluespirit]

OK, that first title is immensely fun. :)

XD Thank you! Bleak Expectations is very ridiculous and I had to keep in tone with fandom.

And clearly for Z you just need to do what I did (in, like... 1998?) and write something with zombies in it.

I have several zombie fics, it's just that they're all called end of the world something or other and frequently involve biscuits more than they do zombies. But everyone else has pointed out that there are plenty of elements that could be useful, so there's that!

Also, I definitely have to read "A Gallifreyan at Blandings!" Not sure if I missed that before, or if I skipped it because I hadn't read the Blandings books yet or what, but clearly I need to rectify that.

For some reason, I feel like you have, but idk why I think that? Maybe not, but then again it was originaled posted on Teaspoon and I think it did get recced on Calufrax. I'm still quite pleased with that one, though it's pretty old - pre-relapse certainly. I spent two weeks ingesting Blandings books and outlining the plot and then wrote 10k on the weekend while my brain was still flooded with Wodehouse!

[astrogirl]

Now I'm imagining zombie eating biscuits. It's oddly charming. :)

Maybe not, but then again it was originaled posted on Teaspoon and I think it did get recced on Calufrax.

Ah, if it's that old, likely I did in fact read it and then just forgot about it.

Honestly, now that I think about it, there really ought to be more Doctor Who/Wodehouse crossovers.

[thisbluespirit]

Now I'm imagining zombie eating biscuits. It's oddly charming. :)

We shall defeat them with an unhealthy diet and tooth decay!! Let them try to eat brains then!

Honestly, now that I think about it, there really ought to be more Doctor Who/Wodehouse crossovers.

There should! Although Wodehouse is a hard voice to get, hence me having a strict Wodehouse-only reading diet until I splurged out a reasonable approximation back in the day.

[romanajo123]

So much fic…

But I am curious about the Giraffe 🦒, and the Ten/ Leela, and the one with Cora?

[thisbluespirit]

Thanks! And the link is there, if you want to see what they are. <3

[liadt]

Very impressive! Well done!

[thisbluespirit]

Thank you! <3

[ragnarok_08]

Great answers to the meme!

I took care of that one too *^^*

[thisbluespirit]

Thank you!

[osprey_archer]

I predict a small but definite uptick in Fics with Titles Starting with X or Z over the next few weeks, as those seem to be the letters that have tripped the most memers up! Probably a few Qs as well.

[thisbluespirit]

Ha, yes! XD