#chapter title ask game

[zeldaelmo]

I admittedly have not had a chance to catch up on your bibliography as of tagging you to know that, but I'm glad to see there are chapter names to pick your brain on. Would be very curious about "8. ...and one that wasn't stolen at all." and the combo of "Sweet Secrets" to "Miserable Decisions" catches the eye. Curious how you landed on any or all of those.

Thank you, Amelia! Lol, bibliography is the right term, there's a lot to discover! No pressure from my side, though, the stories won't go anyway, so there's plenty of time if something catches your eye.

"...and one that wasn't stolen at all" is a reference to the fic title "Stolen Kisses ".

Stolen Kisses is an AoC story where Zelda and Link confess their feelings after the battle of Fort Hateno. The King nearly immediately finds out and forbids the relationship.

They keep seeing each other to steal kisses, but when the occasion of a masquerade ball arises, they disguise themselves in such a way that they're able to kiss directly in front of the King. So, that one kiss isn't stolen at all...

When I wrote the story, there was a fandom challenge by @zelink-prompts about a masquerade ball and I wrote this chapter ahead of time and published it as a one-shot. That worked surprisingly well and I'm positive it gathered some of the attention the finished fic received in the end. Stolen Kisses is my most popular long fic to this day.

So here's one of my favorite paragraphs from the chapter:

Back then, when the war laughed them in their faces with its ugly grimace, they had agreed to live for the moment. She wasn’t sure if he tried to save himself from heartbreak when he refused to speak about their future or if he simply believed they had none.

Live now, worry later—it was a motto that suited courage, not wisdom.

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"Sweet Secrets" and "Miserable Decisions" are from Inspiration, Illusions, and other Inconveniences. It's a modern AU where Link is Zelda's bodyguard. He's barely allowed to talk to her but that matters little anyway because she hates him and all what he stands for. Good thing he has his evenings where he spends his time as an artist! One night he makes fanart for a popular blog that published fanfiction of the heroes and princesses of old. Before he knows it, he's in a flirty online relationship with the blogger. There's just one thing: he can't shake the feeling that "Tetra" is someone from the castle...

Sweet Secrets is a chapter where Link chats with Tetra while he sits in his favorite secret spot. I coded the text messages so that they look like messenger posts because it's more fun to read them like this. There's a nice bit of flirty banter in this chapter but then, Tetra asks Link if he wants to meet up with her at the festivities for Hero's Day...

Which brings us to Miserable Decisions. Princess Zelda refused to pick an actor or other celebrity to play the part of the hero alongside her for the festivities (parade, show, and masquerade party), so the King decides Link is going to do it. That's not only a problem because he got into a fight with Princess Zelda and has yet to apologize but he also has promised Tetra to meet with her at the party...

She should be mad with her father, Link thought. He had fought tooth and nail that he didn't have to accompany her, but since her father left, her rage shifted unavoidably to him. She gave him a stare that made the icy beam of a Gleeok look like a refreshment.

Link broke eye contact, sighed, and said, “Be assured it wasn't my idea, Your Highness.”

He left the room with as much dignity he could gather which was admittedly not much. There was nothing to talk about to her. She didn't want him there, he didn't want to be there, and neither of them would get what they wanted.

I think Inspiration, Illusions, and other Inconveniences might actually qualify as Original Legend, but I haven't suggested it because the beginning is a bit BotW-ish with the "I loath my bodyguard" situation. Then again, it has the whole plotline with the writer/artist blog thing which is undoubtedly original...

Fics mentioned in this post:

[drsteggy]

The Desert Ruins for the chapter name game!

So when I was first trying to find other Zelda fans to screech with, I fell in with this group of gamer dudes and I guess they were okay but if you did not enjoy Zelda The Correct Way they were not so great, so I hung back a lot.

Anyway these guys were obsessed with the Arbiters Ground from Twilight Princess. Like to the point I felt it was going to be important to include that dungeon in my fic. I did start playing TP but I spent a lot of time falling in lava so I did not get to that dungeon when I had to write it.

I ended up watching a let’s Play for research and mostly pulled it off.

Like a year later I did finally, successfully get to that dungeon in the game and the chill I felt standing on the steps, taking it in, was incredible. I still don’t think I really nailed the atmosphere but I am pleased with how my desert dungeon turned out.

[starlightmeissa]

25k in a week????? I am both jealous and impressed. Dare I hope it’s another SI fic?

it actually isn't! it's like. one of the most self indulgent things i think ive ever written.

it's just two missing nin travelling and going through slice of life adventures that sometimes intersect with canon characters. it starts a year after the kyuubi attack, so both the mcs are older than most of the cast by either a few years or a uhhh lot more years than they look.

ill give you some little snipits under the keep reading if you're interested. not sure when we'll start posting, and im pretty sure i wont be putting it on my patreon. sorry, it gets weird trying to figure out how to split money with a cowritten fic. how do i know who is reading the cowritten thing and who isn't? i dont want to steal from my friend over fanfic D:

OH! and the fic itself will be explicit. we just keep talking about sex too much.

[im-not-corrupted]

Oh I would adore to hear about bygone sin, I’m obsessed with that fic! (🤘five-and-dimes)

Of course!

Chapter five is actually mostly complete! I say mostly because I haven't begun edits yet, and I'm still incredibly unsure whether it's what I need it to be. But once I finish stuff for the Sandman fic exchange, I'll start edits.

”Dream,” he murmured, and he seemed—unsure. Nervous. “I know I asked already, but are you—are you sure you’re alright?” When Dream didn’t reply, he lowered his voice. It was but a whisper, now, shared only between the two of them. Perhaps, in another circumstance, Dream might’ve found it…somewhat intimate. Perhaps. ”It’s okay if you aren’t,” Hob assured him. “You’re allowed to not be okay.” He tensed again. That, there—that was anger, flashing bright red and ugly, but it was familiar. It was heated, melted away the remnants of fear that gripped him when that glass shattered like it did, and he glared up at Hob Gadling, who simply stared back, unafraid. Later, he’d wonder when that had happened. When Hob Gadling became unafraid of him. When they had grown familiar enough to warrant only a soft sigh, one that sounded almost disappointed. For now, though—for now, he allowed himself to ask through gritted teeth, “Why would I not be alright, Robert Gadling?” To not be is a weakness, Dream wanted to add. Do you think me weak? He thought of his hand, bleeding from a knife wound, and the tenderness with which Hob cared for him. He thought of the comfort offered and bestowed upon him as though it was so easy. It was not the suggestion of weakness that inspired anger, not really. It was the knowledge that, in the end, Hob Gadling was right. Dream was weak—he relied so heavily on these meetings that he attended only to repay a damned debt, he sought out Hob’s company not because his presence was owed to the other man but because, somehow, Hob had started to…to represent something.  Warmth. Friendship. Care, which was the most baffling out of all of them. Hob offered all these things easily, simply, as though Dream was deserving of such things. As though he thought him worthy of it. He was not. He was not, but he was too selfish to deny it for himself. Those warm welcomes, the way Hob continued to hold open the door to his apartment above The New Inn even though Dream still didn’t understand what led him to do so, the soft smiles tender touches be was offered—they meant too much, and he was terribly selfish. Too much so to consider letting this go.

[jtl-fics]

Could I please have some tbd? (p.s. does it have a full title or is that it?)

7/3/24 WIP Wednesday (OPEN) | TBD

Eventually a waitress came over and took their orders. They both end up with different varieties of burger and fries. They end up chatting about which fast food chain has the best fries. Andrew contemplates walking out of the diner entirely when the jackass has the audacity to say that Wendy’s has the best fries.

The situation is only recovered by Neil breaking his act and laughing. “They’re awful.” Neil confirms.

“Burger King is only barely better.” Andrew sits back down in the booth.

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[ennn]

WIP ASK GAME

Prompt: Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

tagged by @yesokayiknow (ty!)

uhh well you know it's Agatha All Along all the way and haha funny considering how I just took on 7 more WIPs >_>

This is a Gift (It Comes With a Price)

Harkness, M.D.

Blood Ties

The Recovery Job

Teacher Evaluation

Bone Deep

Death Becomes Her

Fade Into You

The Secret Garden

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(absolutely no pressure) tagging @isagrimorie / @grimorie-dos @paddingtonfan69 @thiswildernessismyhome @trickofthelights @thymejot @sapphoshands @alilbitgaywrites @momentary-ecstasy and the last slot goes to anyone who wants to do this - genuinely take me as tagging ya!

[writingnocturne]

Chapter Name Asks

Rules: Post a list of chapter names in as many fics as you'd like. WIP, completed stories, unwritten chapters, whatever, it doesn't matter! Tag people or just whoever sees the post and wants to play! Send an ask and the author will tell you about the chapter, how they arrived at the name, some behind the pages details, maybe even a snippet or all of the above. (If you want, you can even tag as many people as you have chapters, but that's completely optional.)

Thanks for the tag @amelias-hart! :) This is a fun one!

Blue = Released Chapter

Purple = Unreleased Chapter

《 》 = Snippet Available

Forget Me Not (ALttP/LA)

《 Prologue 》

《 Escapism 》

《 The Shore of Reality 》

《 Sleepers Wake 》

《 In Front of You 》

Dreams Will Fade

Forgive Me

Was it Real?

What We Saw

(Long post - please click Read More)!

The Mage's Lantern (OL)

《 Prologue + The Wizard 》

《 The Hero 》

《 The Dark One 》

《 The Lantern 》

《 The King 》

《 The Princess 》

《 The Flame: Part I 》

《 The Flame: Part II 》

The Road to Kakariko

The Lyre

The Cloaked Man

The Mountain Trail

Origins of Calamity (TOTK/BOTW)

《 Deciphering Echoes 》

The Key

The Gateway

Chime of the Spirits

To Those Who Come Next

Glory to Master Kohga!

Memory of the Ancients (BOTW/TOTK's Ancient Era)

In the Ruins of War

Forge

Puddle of Tears

The Oracle's Mask

Champion and Sage

The Broken Ground

First Upheaval

Rauru's Loss

Sonia's Legends

Calamity's Tomb

A Hero Transformed

The Dragon's Blessing

Sealing Power

Ouroboros

Wait for Me (TotK Imprisoning War)

In the Past

A Distant Relative

Lights of Blessing

Living Ruins

Homesick

The Eyes of Ganon

One-Hundred-Year Connection

The Queen of Time

A Glimpse into the Past and Future

Calamity on the Horizon

Gloom

Anachronism (TAoL)

《 Anachronism 》

Descent

The Princess's Heart (OL)

《 The Fate of the Stars 》

《 Accursed by Blessing 》

《 An Eternal Blossom 》

《 The Haunting Destiny 》

《 Last Dance 》

《 Final Hours 》

《 The Hero's Hope 》

The Return of Ganon (TLoZ/TAoL)

The Sleeping Beauty

Reunion: Part I

Reunion: Part II

Facade

A Forced Hand

The Return of Ganon

Stone Fate (OL)

《 First Duet 》

《 Threat of the Demon Lord 》

《 The Fate of New Haven 》

(The above aren't true to the intended Chapter counts and release orders, they're just the chapters I already have names for).

That's all the chapters I'd like to share for now! If you'd like to send an ask a general question about a chapter, please send it to @nocturne-side-blog! If you want to ask for a snippet, feel free to send the ask on this blog. :)

Tagging @linktheacehero, @cherrysalsa, @aheavenscorner, @mailrebel, @aegon-targaryen, and anyone else who would like to join in!

[too-many-rooks]

Inspired by @cartwrong doing the wip ask game,

(Prompt: Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.)

I wanted to join in, and man, thank god I did, there’s whole ass fics in this folder I’d totally forgotten about!

Slow Horses

Les Arbres River 2

River’s corruption arc

Wolf river

Alex Rider + Slow Horses

Alex’s work experience

Alex Rider

Things get real

Baby vampire alt

S3 au chapter 5

Orienteering HA

Yassen turning

Yassen bedroom visit

Tagging @countessrivers @celiadeacon @limnall @icebluecyanide and whoever else wants to!

[enbydemirainbowbigfoot]

chapter titles- send an ask and I'll tell you abt 'em

Because We’re One Of A Kind

Gods And Monsters And Everyone Between

At The End Of The Day I Choose You

A World Mysterious

Man-Made Problems

Awoke To A Ruckus

Nights Like This

No Such Thing As A Bad Idea

Noble Thing To Do

On The Verge Of Greatness

Ordinary Is Not What We Go For

Qualifications To Kick Ass

Ready For Whatever

Rescue’s On The Way

Shouting From The Rooftops

Sometimes We Choose Violence

There’s A Legacy That We Honor

The World Is Calling And I’m Listening

Together, We’re Unstoppable

Under The Cover Of Darkness

Watch What Happens Now

We’re Here To Stay

Well, Count Me In

Worth The Trouble

[megthemariner]

wip ask meme

thanks for the tag, @virshiral :)

Rules: post the names of all files in your WIP folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell us about it.

I don’t actually have a WIP folder lol but here’s the names of some fics/fic chapters that are WIPs! yeah 99% are song lyrics what of it

Adrift

And so we dance, dear

Not that I wouldn’t say it first

While pretending I’m not drowning

V gets sick (bonus entry from my notes app!)

tagging @handsignals @vivispec @tevivinter & sorry if you’ve already done this!!

[zeldaelmo]

Rules: Post a list of chapter names in as many fics as you'd like. WIP, completed stories, unwritten chapters, whatever, it doesn't matter! Tag people or just whoever sees the post and wants to play! Send an ask and the author will tell you about the chapter, how they arrived at the name, some behind the pages details, maybe even a snippet or all of the above. (If you want, you can even tag as many people as you have chapters, but that's completely optional.)

@amelias-zelda-calamity-quintet tagged me ages ago in this game and my first reaction was snorting out my tea. Not because of lovely Amelia's tag but because my friend @wouldyoustilllovemeifiwasawyrm just jokingly called me out on not naming my chapters for long fics. Something along the lines "It's called chapter 17, do you have a problem with that?" 🤣

But, but, but! I do name my chapters occasionally, mostly when I remember to do it from the start of the writing process. Much easier to come up with one than 24 at once 😅

So here you go:

From Stolen Kisses

And from Inspiration, Illusions, and other Inconveniences

I think you have to click the image to see all the titles.

Ask away! I'll also share my favorite paragraph from the respective chapter.

Uh tags... @louwhose and @kazraza, maybe?

[drsteggy]

Sparring and Hers. I was going to ask about Ballad of the Goddess and then remembered I’d asked about that one already and I think it’s the other NSFW for Uneasy Lies Chosen of Farore 😅

Yeah when I put this up I was very WELP any speculation about how Song of the Hero/Ballad of the Goddess relate is probably resolved. Both of those chapters ended up as split out side stories from the original Farore and they have dumb names (The Night Before Ordon and After the Boss Battle) I struggled with what to call them for a while and then decided I would name them after important Skyward Sword songs.

So back in like 2022, I think, when I was still allowed to participate in ZeLink week, sparring was one of the prompts and I had already decided to do all the prompts based on things I could expand on from Farore. I also figured everyone and their dog would do some verbal or physical thing between Link and Zelda and that sounded boring to me, so I tried to think of a way to flip it on its ear and decided that the way to do this was to have Zelda spar with herself and her emotions…and that’s the stand alone thing that got folded into Farore as Zelda’s cut scene.

The next chapter does include Link struggling with himself and all his bad choices to date and he spars with Impa both literally and figuratively. That was sort of hand waved in the original fic, and got expanded on in a 5 chapter thing called The Constant which focuses on the Link and Impa relationship. It’s extended scenes that deepen and explore that relationship and four of them got folded into the rewrite. Anyway,I chose not to name the chapters in that fic, but Sparring made sense so I swiped that title and renamed the one where Zelda is fantasizing about things she could do with her hero.

The other fic is Breath of the Wild and it explicitly retells Link and Zelda first time together. The first chapter is his POV and the second is hers. His is all set up and foreplay and ramp up. Her goes into her bedroom. It is a prequel to my one shot Reunion. That one is set after BOTW and is still TOTK compatible. I’ve got a whole series of head cannons about the ZeLink in BOTW and TOTK that are very slowly getting parsed out.

Like almost everything I’ve written either locks into Farore or into the same version of BOTW that runs in my head

Thanks for the ask, that was a good one!

[sparklingchim]

If you were to describe the second chapter of game on in one word/ sentence what would it be ?

SMOOCHES 😙😙🤭🤭

[haste-waste]

Tell us what's on the Title Page of By the Book 😁

Title Page is the first chapter of By the Book. It takes place in the "Renewal universe," actually! In Title Page, Zelda discovers Link reading a little pink book that he hastily shoves under himself when she spots him. Here's a snippet!

He gives her a dark look (caught!) that has her smiling apologetically for a moment. Then, it's all movement: she lunges toward his chair and shimmies to try and get the book. She does it fast enough that he doesn’t get much of a chance to fight. "Aha!" She wrenches it out from underneath him. He is very, very red. Curious, she investigates the panels, searching for the title. The book is pink, emblazoned with a title with white text. Vai and You: It Takes Two! Raising an eyebrow, she flips through the pages. He groans and stuffs a pillow over his face, a very uncharacteristic gesture for him. As she expects, it's an informational novel: understanding anatomy, menstrual cycles, common ailments, and how to please a partner with her particular anatomy. The sections were the same as the matching companion novel she had hidden within her desk, a gift from Ashai the Teacher.

Basically, the series is all about these two dorks figuring things out. It's my first time writing adult content so don't expect anything from it for a while

[fan-girls-r-us]

Fanfiction Chapter Title Word Game

Thanks for the tag @mistresslrigtar , I’m excited to participate!!!

Copying/pasting the rules from your post 😂: Post a list of chapter names in as many fics as you'd like. WIP, completed stories, unwritten chapters, whatever, it doesn't matter! Tag people or just whoever sees the post and wants to play! Send an ask and the author will tell you about the chapter, how they arrived at the name, some behind the pages details, maybe even a snippet or all of the above. (If you want, you can even tag as many people as you have chapters, but that's completely optional.)

So I typically write one shots, and I don’t have any LoZ long fics in progress right now at all. So, um… sorry Missy, this is going to be entirely comprised of my favorite chapter names for my Three Houses WiPs 😂😂😂

With that, let’s dive in.

Once Upon an Ethereal Moon

Chapter Six: Where There is Love, There is Pain

Chapter Eight: Cherished Memories and Stolen Time

Chapter Nine: Resurgam

Chapter Eleven: Dies Irae

Amended Vows and Broken Boughs

Can you tell I was reading a lot of Shakespeare whilst writing this?

Chapter One: Be All My Sins Remembered

Chapter Two: Hoisted with Their Own Petard

Chapter Four: In Delay, There Lies No Plenty

Chapter Eight: Lilies That Fester Smell Far Worse Than Weeds

Chapter Eleven: … With Vilest Worms to Dwell

To Explore that Shore Above

Chapter Two: Tempestuous Winds and Unfavorable Seas

Chapter Four: A Rose without a Thorn, a Siren without a Song

Alright, so I’m going to tag @hyylia , @daemosdaen , @summonerluna , and @orangekoalaracer

[wetcatspellcaster]

18. Do you title your fics before, during, or after the writing process? How do you come up with titles?

usually the title comes within the first five or so chapters! :) I try to work out the major theme or vibe and find a title that matches that.

I have dipped into song lyrics more than once now, I think if there's a way to link it directly to a lyric of a particularly evocative song that I already associate with the story then I'm happy that things fit so neatly together.

otherwise, I try to find a snappy phrase that people may have heard ('bleeding heart', 'eye of the storm') and then just never think about it again lmao. I don't think I'm very good at coming up with titles to things :')

31. Do you start with the characters or the plot when you're writing?

answered here!

(sorry @cursedhaglette, copied over from other blog to avoid revealing my badly hidden double life x)