Which fanfic titles are most common?

[snowgall]

In a recent tumblr post, eidheann_writes mentioned that duplicate titles of fanfics are quite common, so when reccing a fic you really need to give the author's name and not just the title. (Actually, there are many reasons why you should always credit the author of a work when you rec it, but that's not the point of this post

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[vaysh]

A quick search at the Pit reveals that "The Ties That Bind" is immensely popular not only in H/D fandom.

[eidheann_writes]

This bit is part of the reasoning behind my post. Doing tumblr search for fic title leads to dozens (or hundreds/thousands) across fandom. Really impractical to search or track.

[snowgall]

Interesting. But I bet "The Wand Chooses the Wizard" is fairly unique to HP :)

It would be cool to see which titles are widely popular across fandoms and which ones are only popular within certain ones, but I don't have the data to do this myself :)

[snowgall]

I was too quick with my first reply - I didn't look carefully enough at the link you posted!

HOLY COW. 778 "Ties That Bind" titles on ff.net alone. Maybe that's one title that should be retired? :)

[vaysh]

Only the first 10 pages are fics with the exact same title, the other x pages are variations on the idioms. But yes, definitely time to retire that one.