#then what the fuck am i doing /lh

[razzle-zazzle]

How do you come up with the titles for your fics? They're very creative!

This is a very funny question for me to receive, because the answer... varies. Prior to getting an AO3 account, I only really titled my fics if I had a good idea for a title; AO3 requires every piece to be titled, though, and a lot of them... did not come easily.

I have the easiest time with Whumptobers, as I just title those based on the prompt. Otherwise, I have to come up with the titles myself, and it's usually the first thing I think of that sounds good enough. I have two pieces titled "i don't even know" and "dormmates (idk what to call this)" respectively purely bc I couldn't think of a title for them, and then I have pieces where the title is some low-meaning jargon that vibed like "it's snow problem!" "tiny steps in the night" "eggs for one" and so on. So more often than not I'm scrambling to figure out some kind of title to satisfy AO3 and then leaving the piece untitled on tumblr bc it doesn't need one.

When it comes to naming AUs... yeah, that varies too. I had a lot of trouble coming up with a name for the Between AU because a lot of what I was coming up with (Bergen Branch, Bergen Brothers, etc) either felt misleading, incomplete, or didn't fit the tone quite right. So even though "Between AU" makes no reference to the fact that Branch gets to be Bergen royalty, it still works with Branch's character arcs in that AU as being caught between different worlds. Some of my AU titles end up being more literal or descriptive (Undead Acrobat, PN Rapids AU), and some get to be a little more poetic (Pearl & Seaglass, The River Runs Deep).

There is one series where I spent a lot of time figuring out titles; in fact, just a few weeks ago I had a category two brainrot event that witnessed me going through all the ice and ice-related Wikipedia articles + a thesaurus shifting some of the titles in If We're All for One World (the title of which is literally just a lyric from the show's theme song, lmao). And the names from that series don't all fit a cohesive theme! I just put them together based on the other pieces they could be themed with, and based on what served the story best! I do have a series where all the names follow a theme (Buried Beneath), but it's a loose theme of "earth-related" lmao.

tl;dr I pick names based on what works for the fic itself, but sometimes I just throw words together until I get something that sounds vaguely fitting, and sometimes the fic is part of a series where the titles have some kind of theme, but even then it tends to be loosey-goosey.

[queen0fm0nsterz]

i like to draw them tenderly once in a while but most of the time I think they’re hilarious 

[idyllic-affections]

good morning. neuvillette with a dragon!child!reader who, once everything blows over in fontaine, goes to find furina and gives her the biggest hug. they've known her for a very long time. and many times, perhaps she almost, almost cracked to them... but her resolve stood strong every time, and she would backtrack with a laugh and some dramatic flair.

while they can't understand how badly she must have suffered, because they aren't human and their mind is not so fragile, they can at least imagine it. and they can't help but think that maybe she doesn't want to be alone right now; she's been alone for five hundred years. if she wants to be left alone... that's fine, and they know she'll tell them that, but at the very least, as one of her best friends (perhaps her very best one), should they not go check on her?

idk i'm going to play her story quest today probably so i will return with more thoughts!

[lightbulb-warning]

i used to freehand comics all the time as a child and since the part i liked was the drawing part i would just draw panel after panel because i didn't want to stop drawing to think about icky icky words, plus the story TOTALLY still made perfect sense! to me! and noone else, but 'whoooo caaaaares omgggg its not like comics and sequantial art are a communicative meeediummmm lmaoooooo'. i spent my entire childhood telling myself stuff like "oh pfft I know this story by heart- ill SIMPLY remember the dialogue and write it later" ...and. I can't help but admire baby maiora's (call that a minora ba tm tsk) fucking audacity? hubris? confident wrongness? kid couldn't even remember to finish the comics in the first place? INCREDIBLE levels of unearned self assurance, wish that were me, genuinely- what an icon!!! anyway i think i have forever cursed myself

[small-spark-of-light]

day 24 was draw something lineless!! this was easy ngl

[buwheal]

We want to know how you're doing. What you're doing. If there's anything we can do to help with it. What kind of jokes you like. What kind of jokes you don't like. What your favorite kind of weather is. We want to know if you like fireworks. If you've ever played in the snow. We want to know what your hair tastes like. We want to pick your brain...

We want, we want, we want-- whatever. Simply put, we want your companionship. It gets lonely over here, and it's nice to have someone to talk to. Even if we don't fully understand why you haven't just tossed us out yet. We've gotten on your nerves enough.

Anon you were real close to having a really thoughtful good ask. until you started being creepy w it. Whats up with that guys. Can you calm yourselves for one ask LMFAO.

[hydn-jpg]

i just read all the current chapters of id2 and i. i need to lie down

[camzverse]

Nooo cam u dont want to analyze the psychology behind mikes actions in the bite of 83 even though scott didnt put anywhere near your amount of thought into it noo dont do that. freak

[anxiously-sidequesting]

Okay Girlies I need you all to answer this one question for me. I haven't played through Karamelle or Novus yet and I've only seen and heard snippets of Dasein so I don't know all that much ahout him. Reblog/tag why y'all want to fuck him- I mean marry him (or just something you really like about him)

[itskeej]

sprawled out on your bed

I've been waiting for you to come home babe

>;)

I SAW THIS IN THE CAR AND THEN I SHOWED BREADSTICK SIBLING AND THEN OUR JAWS COLLECTIVELY DROPPED but then i got made fun of (/lh /nsrs) for being gay so that's rude- /lh

um u m u m u m ,

[uncanny-tranny]

As a trans person on testosterone in the United States, I think we deserve to tear down the DEA with our teeth alongside so many other people <3

[anon-unofficial]

hey so. um. i was told that lmk didn't have any pain. and. haha. haha. haHa...what the f

[reinabeestudio]

How can he see himself in the mirror if he's a vampire. Let's discuss

[capricioussun]

I wanna try that evil art style challenge but I feel like I don't have a style??? Which. Isn't really possible but I can't even think of like...what the opposite of the traits I use would be ???

[torchickentacos]

look at me. lookatme. in the eyes. now. zelink and contestshipping are m/f and are not cishet. l o o k a t m e . it is imperative that we all understand this. vital. life or death. 👁️👁️ are you looking at them. are they imparting this knowledge into your soul.

[landfilloftrash]

shoutout to my girl eno’s nightmare bc. Hi! What and/or Who the fuck was that ! its gonna haunt her and i for awhile !