This meme has been going around Dreamwidth lately, and who am I to resist a meme!

Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for [starting] a fic title? One fic per line, 'A' and 'The' do not count for 'a' and 't'. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count.

A — Angels with Dirty Faces (Winter Soldier, pre-war Steve & Bucky)
B — Birds of a Feather (Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries + Inspector Alleyn Mysteries crossover, Harriet & Troy, 3100 words)
C — Chicken Soup (Agent Carter, Peggy Carter & Daniel Souza & Jack Thompson, 1200 words)
D — Dreams in Damask (Code Name Verity, Maddie remembering Julie, 1100 words)
E — Everything Is Awful: The Film Critiques of James Buchanan Barnes (Winter Soldier, post-WS Bucky gives the darkest possible reading to every film he sees, 4400 words)
F — A Final Parting (Anne of the Windy Poplars, unrequired Katherine/Anne, 740 words)
G — Give Me Your Hand (Winter Soldier. The series is Steve/Bucky eventually but this fic is one of their nadirs. 5600 words)
H — How to Be a Better Dictator (technically Hunger Games fic but actually historical/literary musings on how to succeed at dictatorship, 7200)
I — In Case of Emergency, Break Glass (Winter Soldier, Hydra-wins AU where they keep Steve in a glass case in the Smithsonian, 500 words. So scarring that someone wrote a fix-it fic. Very proud of this fact.)
J — Just Deserts (And Both Were Young, 1000. I wrote this for Yuledite and I’m afraid to reread it because I suspect it’s awful.)
K — Kissing Lessons (Anne’s House of Dreams, Anne/Leslie, 1300 words)
L — Look for Me by Moonlight (The Wounded Name, Aymar/Laurent, 1800 words)
M — Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary (Winter Soldier/Agents of SHIELD, Bucky/Skye-ish, 9000 words)
N — Nymphs and Bacchantes (Villette, Lucy/Ginevra, 1700 words)
O — Out of the Cold (Winter Soldier, pre-slash Steve/Bucky, 700 words)
P — Perfection Salad (American Girl: Molly McIntyre + Poirot crossover, Poirot visits the McIntyre family, 600 words)
Q — Questions (Vikings, Athelstan/Ragnar Lothbrok/Lagertha, 1700)
R — Reunion (The Changeling - Zilpha Keatley Snyder, Martha & Ivy, 2500 words)
S — Shackled (Agent Carter, Dottie Underwood, 700 words)
T — Tea for Two (Black Widow trailer, Yelena/Natasha, 1600 words. Really jossed by the movie itself)
U — The Unlikely Traitor (The Lost Prince - Frances Hodgson Burnett, Marco Loristan and the Rat and political drama, forever chasing the high of writing this serial, 14,600)
V — Virgin Martyrs (Vikings, Athelstan/Ragnar Lothbrok, 1300 words)
W — A Worthy Foe (Iron Man II, Natasha Romanov & Pepper Potts, 700 words)
X —
Y — Yalta (Hetalia, Russia & England & America, 1800 words)
Z —

Like so many other people, it was X and Z that tripped me up.

Maybe we should have an X and Z fic challenge. Rules: the fic must have a title at least vaguely related to its content that starts with X or Z. Anyone have any prompts you’d like me to try? (I’d also go for a J, just to relieve my shame of “Just Deserts.”)

Some title suggestions:

X Marks the Spot
X-Ray Vision
Xylophone Blues

Zero Tolerance
Zero Gravity
Zeno’s Paradox

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