Describe someone else’s fic badly.

[WildBoots]

Nebby’s most recent post inviting us to create ridiculously long light novel alt. titles for our fics reminded me of something that came up in the Discord earlier this month: describe someone else’s fic bAdLy. I like this game because it’s weirdly good advertising for each other’s fics.

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🌟Examples from the chat:🌟

@Negrek described @Keleri ’s Gods and Demons: “Local girl's quest to make friends has a body count.”

@Dragonfree described @Umbramatic ’s Greenhorn Prometheus: “Local scientist is determined not to follow in his asshole father's footsteps, proceeds to do so anyway.”

(There were more if anyone wants to dig through and find ‘em.)

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You can do one someone else has already written a description for, but let’s try to spread the love around. ❤ And you can’t do your own.

If you need even more silliness, there’s also Melodrama!! Anime episode chapter titles?!

 

[WildBoots]

The Suicune’s Choice by @Pen : “Sweetest boy’s attempt to do a Good Thing results in nearly killing someone and taking all his sh*t.”

 

[DawningWinds]

Broken Things by @Persephone : Three teenagers fail to get along as they're forced to travel together by a company that probably lumped them together randomly. Also features a snow fox who thinks she's better than everyone and refuses to have more than one other team member.

 

[canisaries]

Hands of Creation by @Namohysip : Charmander goes to great lengths to prove he's a big boy, including trying weed. The universe is quick to punish him.

 

[SparklingEspeon]

The Marriage of Mew by Mimiga: Several pokemon try to fix amnesia while being chased by a monster.

 

[NebulaDreams]

@Tanuki ’s Song of Two Worlds: Rock explodes, most people die, and the ones that don’t are turned into furries.

@windskull ’s Places We Call Home: Making an omelette almost gets someone executed.

@qva ’s Wandersword: Look at my horse, my horse is amazing.

 

[DawningWinds]

Run Boy Run by @NonAnalogue : The world is getting vaporized town by town and according to a legend, it's his destiny to wipe out humans. Except he didn't do it.

 

[Persephone]

From chat

CatDog’s Indie Film Studio Makes a High School RomCom

An Italian Single Father just wants to breed cats and rescue wild dogs and birbs, but a suicidal genetic abomination keeps getting in the way.

 

[kyeugh]

Little God by Negrek: nobody puts kitty in a corner, until they do.

The Legendarian Chronicles by Chibi Pika: help, my spiky pikachu has depression! oh no, it's spreading!

Seiren by canisaries: a kid introduces his boomer dad to BTS, sparking a righteous crusade to end twitter users posting kpop gifs beneath political posts once and for all

Morphic by Dragonfree: what debatably begins as a vague abortion allegory culminates in a little furry girl accidentally lighting her own throat on fire. hm.

The Curious and the Shiny by NebulaDreams: depressed simba and his butch dog friend get an under-the-table job in order to cope with their abuse at the hands of some scary guys who named themselves after hair product

handfuls of dust by kintsugi: many thoughts. robobrain too small. overflowing. help (feat. thirsty sord)

 

[NebulaDreams]

@canisaries ‘s Seiren: I will now proceed to pleasure myself with this fish.

@Virgil134 ’s Casting Off: ♪In the navy, yes you can sail the seven seas♪

@Persephone ’s Broken Things: Three no good terrible kids and one shining beacon of light in the form of an Alolan Vulpix.

 

[DawningWinds]

Heroes After All by @Umbramatic : Are you sure we're talking about a famous Aura Guardian and not just a random kid with the same name that also has Aura Powers?

 

[Starlight Aurate]

Salvage by Negrek: an abominable humanoid shape-shifting thing goes on a quest to find it's mommy and ends up getting Mewtwo and an ex-Team Rocket grunt to tag along

Seiren by canisaries: A psychopath becomes BFF with a popstar and they go on adventures together

 

[Umbramatic]

Morphic and the Shiny by @Dragonfree : Reddit atheist befriends human bug

Curious And The Shiny by @NebulaDreams : dog and cat uncover deep shit

Seiren by @canisaries : you're a squid now, you're a cultist now, you're a squi-

Little God by @Negrek : girl plays with cat, everyone disliked that

Hands Of Creation by @Namohysip : Let's see how many times we can break this Charmander's heart!

Wandersword by @qva : one of those boy and dog stories but with knights and shit and also a duck

I will potentially be back for more

 

[Namohysip]

@Sike Saner's The Origin Of Storms: In a world where Pokemon drive cars... heartbreak meets murder as two lost lovers frighten countless passerby innocents.

 

[DawningWinds]

@Raggy 's Two Goodbyes and Three Hellos: Arceus but spelled wrong.

 

[WildBoots]

Handfuls of Dust by @kintsugi - After a girl is murdered by a sad lady, she and her best imaginary friend pilot a tin can together.

The Legendarian Chronicles by @Chibi Pika - Some stuff blows up. Also Team Rocket is there and they have guns.

 

[DawningWinds]

@OldschoolJohto 's Postcards: Worldbuilding in the form of a fic.

 

[WildBoots]

@OldschoolJohto 's Postcards: Worldbuilding in the form of a fic.

Where's the lie?

 

[DawningWinds]

Where's the lie?

You did say badly in the title.

Started as a world-building junk drawer and gathered a momentum of its own.

Oh.

 

[WildBoots]

You did say badly in the title.

Oh.

Oh no no you’re fine haha. Was not a criticism. :)