Generally, when looking at a title, do you prefer one that is kind of nebulous in meaning, or one that gives you a solid 'at a glance' understanding of what you're about to read?
I ask this because between what I've already published and what I'm currently working on, I realized I have a habit of giving things fairly strange titles. Here are some of the stand outs from my works in progress
"A Story in Which Our Man Becomes The Best of Them" (might not fit if there's a max character length but that's what the document is)
A series titled: "Swords Thrown from a Tower" with chapter titles
"I don't Exist"
"We Have Met The Enemy"
and
"Separation of Unity" (I kind of hate this one, it's subject to change)
However, if it's painfully obvious that people generally don't take a chance on something with a title that only has meaning after the story is read, or sometimes only a thematic relevance, I'll likely change the titles. I like the weird titles, but as a different bard once said, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet," or as this bard once said "When I burn CD's for this road trip, I'm going to leave the labels blank," and "titles are stupid."
There is a distinct lack of pastrami on rye with mustard, as well as chicken parm on this list. Right now, a pastrami on rye with mustard, ideally from a kosher deli would be perfect.
From that list, probably a gyro or banh mi.
I'd like to see Role Play as an additional story category. I understand that this will overlap with other genres, but I think it is enough of a stand-alone genre that it could have its own field.
Also, possibly being able to have a "primary" genre as well as alternate ones. Take, for instance, a story that is steampunk, but is also group sex, or lesbian medical. Being able to sub tag with alternate genres as opposed to keyword tagging could prove beneficial.
Finally, a standardization/glossary of tags. Obviously this wouldn't be mandatory usage, but if you are tagging a threesome w/ participants using F and M to signify male and female, a standard organizational breakdown so they don't use MMF FMM, MFM multiple times in tagging might be good.
These might have been suggested elsewhere...
Utopia, I don't know another series that had me as hooked start to finish.
Not necessarily for this site, but I've had to google things that mentioning would probably get me banned. Though, I did (for this site) have to look up the longest a penis could be before getting an erection could cause blood flow problems. That story ended up getting scrapped.
I've also spent a lot of time looking up sex laws. I had this idea where violating an absurd sex law ends up getting brought to trial, and on the stand the witness/perpetrator describes the acts, in detail. I got into a weird dive about it where I looked into any prosecutions on them, and if I could find transcripts of the trial if there were. That's still WIP so don't steal the idea.
I had a lot of trouble finding one that was 'equal opportunity' absurd, a lot target only one party.
I also researched new-age medicine and sex stuff, to see if what I intended to write as a mockery of new age medicine already existed. Ultimately, my best ideas weren't even close to how ridiculous some of that stuff is.
I've hitchhiked a few times. Nothing really interesting came of it.
I'll be apending some that aren't necessarily on the posted list, though the list was made in 2013 so... *blows raspberry*
Harry Potter
I've seen 1, 3 and 6, got dragged along and was not amused.
Fifty Shades
Until I hear back from the director substantiating my theory, not wasting my time.
Overwhelming majority of Disney, Pixar, and Dreamworks Animated features
I have a tiresome rant about these. Ask and I will provide.
Jesus Film, Ten Commandments,
I'm a satanist.
Schindler's List
I refuse to watch any Holocaust movie that is remotely uplifting.
Sound Of Music, Gone with the Wind, Ben-Hur
No desire to seek these out.
Wizard of Oz
I read the book, didn't particularly enjoy it.
Mama Mia
I loathe Abba's music.
E.T.
Saw the first bit, hated it and stopped watching. Though I did see the neutered re-release, so maybe that had something to do with it?
Hunger Games
Read the books, kind of liked them until I discovered Battle Royale
Twilight
I don't need to explain this one.
Parasite
The fucking library closed, so I couldn't borrow a copy. Once the plague lifts, I'm collecting my hold and watching that. Sorry, I get emotional about libraries, I really like them.
Jurassic Park, Jaws
Nothing against these, I just ended up watching Godzilla and King Kong instead. Never really thought to seek them out.
City of God
I have never heard of this movie prior to looking at this on IMDB.
Wow there were a lot that I hadn't seen.
I thought it was a myth, something nerds whispered about,a legendary hero that no one could definitively prove the existence of.
Then I found him, the Flaming Carrot, and it was glorious.
UT!
I'm working on a group sex piece, first person narrator with a twist, the narrator changes every time an orgasm occurs. With that in mind, which makes more sense,
1. transition from who just had the orgasm to the person who caused it
or
2. person who caused it to person who had the orgasm
I keep going back and forth and decided to throw the question to the ether hoping for resolution.
I just started Devs. Into it so far but I'm only 1 episode in.
I have no idea how this crossed my mind, but I've been wondering if you took a tabletop game, a la D&D, Pathfinder, Call of Cthulhu et cetera and decided to have a consensual sexual encounter, what would a nat 1 on a d20 roll look like? I mean, nat 20 would probably be like instantly causing your partner an orgasm.
I imagine it would involve stubbing your toe at the very least. I imagine that anything involving mouth-to-genitals (fellatio, cunnilingus) your mouth would to the crook of the elbow, and penetrative (penis or digits in orifice) would involve maybe going for the navel.
Side note, yes I am working on a story that involves this, and I'd ask before using what you thought would happen, and assume that no response is a no.