I always use quotes. Titles are hard enough to come up with.
Giles: Helping out with the dishes makes me feel useful. Dawn: Wanna clean out the garage with us
Saturday? You could feel indispensable.
'Dirty Girls'
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Dana - Oct 04, 2014 8:19:34 am PDT #9150 of 10434
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
P.M. Marc - Oct 04, 2014 12:10:54 pm PDT #9151 of 10434
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Yeah, quotes are pretty much what I pull out.
Titles still wind up defaulting to song lyrics, for which I APOLOGIZE.
Which reminds me, I shouldn't be judging people for titling things with Fall Out Boy lyrics, yet I do. Because I'm a huge hypocrite who both uses lyrics as title defaults AND knows where the semi-obscure lyrics came from. SO.
Thirty lashings with a wet noodle to me, I guess.
Cass - Oct 04, 2014 1:57:20 pm PDT #9152 of 10434
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Which reminds me, I shouldn't be judging people for titling things with Fall Out Boy lyrics, yet I do. Because I'm a huge hypocrite who both uses lyrics as title defaults AND knows where the semi-obscure lyrics came from. SO.
Those have me more likely to click because I've likely incurred a pleasant ear worm and I find it funny. Especially when I'm curious how the fandoms intersected.
Atropa - Oct 04, 2014 1:58:10 pm PDT #9153 of 10434
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I shouldn't be judging people for titling things with Fall Out Boy lyrics, yet I do. Because I'm a huge hypocrite who both uses lyrics as title defaults AND knows where the semi-obscure lyrics came from
EXACTLY.
Also, considering I know what fandom you're reading in right now, the idea of someone using FOB lyrics for titles is comedy gold.
P.M. Marc - Oct 04, 2014 4:30:55 pm PDT #9154 of 10434
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Oh my fucking god, so many FOB lyrics. And a few good FOB vids. Like War Paint (Winter Soldier vid to The Phoenix).
Amy - Oct 04, 2014 5:09:58 pm PDT #9155 of 10434
Because books.
I've used FOB lyrics on a bunch of Dean/Castiel stories, which amuses me because Dean would barf.
Connie Neil - Oct 04, 2014 5:12:14 pm PDT #9156 of 10434
brillig
I wouldn't recognize FOB lyrics if they gnawed on my knee.
Juliebird - Oct 04, 2014 5:26:03 pm PDT #9157 of 10434
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I've only noticed all of the Florence + the Machine song title/lyrics for fic titles as a standout go-to source (at least as of a year or so ago). I do get occasionally earwormed by a fic title, and it's especially annoying if it causes me to avoid a fic I otherwise wouldn't have because of bad associations with a certain song.
§ ita § - Oct 05, 2014 9:40:57 am PDT #9158 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Those have me more likely to click because I've likely incurred a pleasant ear worm and I find it funny. Especially when I'm curious how the fandoms intersected.
Whereas I've never heard a FOB song, much less paid attention to titles or lyrics. Not only is there no resonance for me, I'm fairly likely to be confused. I get it when it's a canon-likely choice, but FOB might as well be Iggy Azalea as Tuvan throat singers to me.
P.M. Marc - Oct 05, 2014 10:37:07 am PDT #9159 of 10434
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I wonder if I've bookmarked any so I can point to examples, if just because Jilli would laugh and laugh and laugh. (We don't have a lot of MCU overlap in our reading, tragically, so I'm not sure she'd have seen them already.)
And... nope. Haven't.
Have a lot of private bookmarks that had me go, "Oh, god. Right. That one. Yeah."