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Meme gacked from switchknife.
Pick five, or ten, or more, of your fic titles. List them in your journal and explain how you came up with each one. Post this prompt as well, so that the meme spreads.
"They've All Gone Beat-Crazy!"
A line from the Joe Jackson song "Beat Crazy". Pretty self-explanatory.
"Kids today - they're all the same
All call themselves some crazy name
All those drugs, they can't be sane
All that noise affects their brains
And it's such a crime
How they waste their time
They can't get nowwhere
They've all gone Beat Crazy."
"Postlapsaria"
Postlapsaria is a Catholic term for everything after Eve and Applegate. It's a Saetia song, really, I just liked the way it sounded and put it into my Big List of Random Emo Titles. Looked it up to see what it meant, and it actually kinda fits the story. If you squint.
"A Far Cry From the Nod and Wink"
'Nother song lyric, this time from Elvis' "Man Out of Time". You'll notice that I used the title itself in the fic. I am so lame. My god. *obsesses over Elvis* *hugs vinyl copy of Imperial Bedroom to her chest*
"So this is where he came to hide
When he ran from you
In a private detective's overcoat
And dirty dead man's shoes
The pretty things of Knightsbridge
Lying for a minister of state
Are a far cry from the nod and wink
Here at traitor's gate"
I have a feeling that the line "real life becomes a rumour" will become a title one day.
"Exegesis"
The dictionary definition of exegesis is "a critical explanation of the text." I ignorantly took it from the Exegesis of the Soul (from the Nag Hammadi), which is about the female soul being raped and defiled and prostituted and then being saved from sin by her father and brother. Father being God and brother being Everyman. In the fic, though, Chester is both the savior and raper, defiling Mike every night then 'saving' him with the drug. And all.
Then I looked up the word and realized it wouldn't make any sense, but I wanted to keep it as the title, so I threw the definitions in there. Worked out pretty well, I think.
Have I ever mentioned how much I love the Nag Hammadi? It's a collection of Gnostic codices, pre-orthodoxy. Visceral, poetic, violent, and sexual - very politically incorrect, but all the more powerful for it.
"History Fell in the Heart Broke Open"
The title of a Hot Cross song, back from when they were still good. Not as good as the bands they formed from, but I digress.
"The dimensions of disaster keep this ark afloat with letters posted at the price of pride...And they fail us. Yet flow with the missed chance of one last taste of affection. You have nothing on these miserable jokes of intimate pasts and the rose coloured lense of truth."
Pick five, or ten, or more, of your fic titles. List them in your journal and explain how you came up with each one. Post this prompt as well, so that the meme spreads.
"They've All Gone Beat-Crazy!"
A line from the Joe Jackson song "Beat Crazy". Pretty self-explanatory.
"Kids today - they're all the same
All call themselves some crazy name
All those drugs, they can't be sane
All that noise affects their brains
And it's such a crime
How they waste their time
They can't get nowwhere
They've all gone Beat Crazy."
"Postlapsaria"
Postlapsaria is a Catholic term for everything after Eve and Applegate. It's a Saetia song, really, I just liked the way it sounded and put it into my Big List of Random Emo Titles. Looked it up to see what it meant, and it actually kinda fits the story. If you squint.
"A Far Cry From the Nod and Wink"
'Nother song lyric, this time from Elvis' "Man Out of Time". You'll notice that I used the title itself in the fic. I am so lame. My god. *obsesses over Elvis* *hugs vinyl copy of Imperial Bedroom to her chest*
"So this is where he came to hide
When he ran from you
In a private detective's overcoat
And dirty dead man's shoes
The pretty things of Knightsbridge
Lying for a minister of state
Are a far cry from the nod and wink
Here at traitor's gate"
I have a feeling that the line "real life becomes a rumour" will become a title one day.
"Exegesis"
The dictionary definition of exegesis is "a critical explanation of the text." I ignorantly took it from the Exegesis of the Soul (from the Nag Hammadi), which is about the female soul being raped and defiled and prostituted and then being saved from sin by her father and brother. Father being God and brother being Everyman. In the fic, though, Chester is both the savior and raper, defiling Mike every night then 'saving' him with the drug. And all.
Then I looked up the word and realized it wouldn't make any sense, but I wanted to keep it as the title, so I threw the definitions in there. Worked out pretty well, I think.
Have I ever mentioned how much I love the Nag Hammadi? It's a collection of Gnostic codices, pre-orthodoxy. Visceral, poetic, violent, and sexual - very politically incorrect, but all the more powerful for it.
"History Fell in the Heart Broke Open"
The title of a Hot Cross song, back from when they were still good. Not as good as the bands they formed from, but I digress.
"The dimensions of disaster keep this ark afloat with letters posted at the price of pride...And they fail us. Yet flow with the missed chance of one last taste of affection. You have nothing on these miserable jokes of intimate pasts and the rose coloured lense of truth."