Alphabetical Fic Meme
Oct. 25th, 2025 05:09 pmI can never resist a fic-related meme, so of course I had to do this one I've seen going around lately:
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.
For each letter, I've just picked the one that comes first alphabetically. I will note that this leaves a couple of my stories out of consideration entirely because they start with non-letter characters. But never mind those, let's se what the alphabet gives us.
A - After the World (Good Omens (TV)/Disco Elysium, Aziraphale, Crowley, Harry du Bois (sort of))
B - Back from Outer Space (Gravity Falls, Bill Cipher/Ford Pines)
C - Captive Audience (The Good Place, Vicky, Janet)
D - The Dad Joke (Undertale, Sans/Toriel, Frisk)
E - Earthly Pleasures (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale/Crowley)
F - Fail Until You're Good Enough at It That It Starts to Look Like Hope (Disco Elysium, Harry du Bois/Kim Kitsuragi)
G - Galactic Peace Never Solved Anything (Farscape, John Crichton)
H - Hair Today, Gun Tomorrow (Blake's 7, Jenna Stannis, Jarriere, Jarvik)
I - I Could Give All to Time Except (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale)
J - Just a Few Bonecalls (Undertale, Sans/Toriel, Papyrus)
K - Keep One Place, Just for Us (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale, Crowley)
L - The Last Stop on the Tour (Doctor Who/Once Upon a Time, Clara Oswald, Emma Swan)
M - Maybe This Time (Doctor Who, Twelfth Doctor/Missy)
N - The Natural Attraction of Opposites (physics anthropomorfic, electron/positron)
O - The Observer Effect (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale/Crowley, Gabriel, Beelzebub)
P - The Pale, the Sea, and the Shore (Disco Elysium/Our Flag Means Death, Lena, Edward "Blackbeard" Teach)
Q - A Question of Interior Design (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale/Crowley)
R - A Re-Examination of the Origins of the Doctor Myth (Doctor Who, OCs)
S - Save the Date (Doctor Who, Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, multiple Doctors)
T - That Thing They Say About the Road to Hell (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale, hints of Aziraphale/Crowley)
U - Uncommanded and Unforbidden (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale/Crowley)
V - Vaster Than Empires (Doctor Who/Farscape, Zotoh Zhaan/Jabe)
W - Waning (The A Capella Version) (Farscape, Stark)
X -
Y - You (Gravity Falls, Stan Pines, Ford Pines)
Z - The Zombie Master, or PGP of the Living Dead (Blake's 7, Kerr Avon, Roj Blake, Vila Restal, Del Tarrant, Dayna Mellanby, Soolin)
That's 25 letters represented out of 363 fics. You'd think by now I'd have written something starting with X, but no.
And, man, that's an interesting list of fics. I suppose it does actually represent my fic-writing range pretty well? Certainly there's a good mix of fandoms (with that period where I spewed forth insane numbers of Good Omens fics accurately represented). And quite a time span, too, with a couple of things I wrote just this year, and a few I wrote decades ago in what feels like an entirely different world, when I was an entirely different person and fandom was, you guessed it, entirely different. Or at least very different, anyway.
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.
For each letter, I've just picked the one that comes first alphabetically. I will note that this leaves a couple of my stories out of consideration entirely because they start with non-letter characters. But never mind those, let's se what the alphabet gives us.
A - After the World (Good Omens (TV)/Disco Elysium, Aziraphale, Crowley, Harry du Bois (sort of))
B - Back from Outer Space (Gravity Falls, Bill Cipher/Ford Pines)
C - Captive Audience (The Good Place, Vicky, Janet)
D - The Dad Joke (Undertale, Sans/Toriel, Frisk)
E - Earthly Pleasures (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale/Crowley)
F - Fail Until You're Good Enough at It That It Starts to Look Like Hope (Disco Elysium, Harry du Bois/Kim Kitsuragi)
G - Galactic Peace Never Solved Anything (Farscape, John Crichton)
H - Hair Today, Gun Tomorrow (Blake's 7, Jenna Stannis, Jarriere, Jarvik)
I - I Could Give All to Time Except (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale)
J - Just a Few Bonecalls (Undertale, Sans/Toriel, Papyrus)
K - Keep One Place, Just for Us (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale, Crowley)
L - The Last Stop on the Tour (Doctor Who/Once Upon a Time, Clara Oswald, Emma Swan)
M - Maybe This Time (Doctor Who, Twelfth Doctor/Missy)
N - The Natural Attraction of Opposites (physics anthropomorfic, electron/positron)
O - The Observer Effect (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale/Crowley, Gabriel, Beelzebub)
P - The Pale, the Sea, and the Shore (Disco Elysium/Our Flag Means Death, Lena, Edward "Blackbeard" Teach)
Q - A Question of Interior Design (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale/Crowley)
R - A Re-Examination of the Origins of the Doctor Myth (Doctor Who, OCs)
S - Save the Date (Doctor Who, Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, multiple Doctors)
T - That Thing They Say About the Road to Hell (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale, hints of Aziraphale/Crowley)
U - Uncommanded and Unforbidden (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale/Crowley)
V - Vaster Than Empires (Doctor Who/Farscape, Zotoh Zhaan/Jabe)
W - Waning (The A Capella Version) (Farscape, Stark)
X -
Y - You (Gravity Falls, Stan Pines, Ford Pines)
Z - The Zombie Master, or PGP of the Living Dead (Blake's 7, Kerr Avon, Roj Blake, Vila Restal, Del Tarrant, Dayna Mellanby, Soolin)
That's 25 letters represented out of 363 fics. You'd think by now I'd have written something starting with X, but no.
And, man, that's an interesting list of fics. I suppose it does actually represent my fic-writing range pretty well? Certainly there's a good mix of fandoms (with that period where I spewed forth insane numbers of Good Omens fics accurately represented). And quite a time span, too, with a couple of things I wrote just this year, and a few I wrote decades ago in what feels like an entirely different world, when I was an entirely different person and fandom was, you guessed it, entirely different. Or at least very different, anyway.