How do you choose a thread title?

I either pick a saying, a song title or be really boring and just use a description of the thread (like "the brother and the sister"). I've seen some masterlist sites with a bunch of titles, but I don't use those often. I also sometimes accidentally use the title of another thread I've seen pass by because the title will get stuck in my head and I forget where I've seen it.

 

Song names are sometimes great for thread titles! Or using quest names from MMOs - sometimes there's some catchy ones there. There's a huge database of Wildstar quests (gosh I miss that game!) and some of them are so perfect for thread titles that I would've never been able to come up with on my own.

 

Usually I have music that I associate with a specific character, and I often find thread titles from their song titles/lyrics. Sometimes it's easy, sometimes I overthink it waaay too much.

 

song lyrics usually

 

definitely a song or a lyric i'm listening to at the time, but i'll sometimes just pick a random thing out of thin air and hope for the best!

 

Also team song lyrics. Sometimes I'll use a quote from the character or media for canons and fandom. Either that or just something short and sweet to describe the thread.

 

Something random.
I've gone with...

Ukulele Trout
Pineapple Squid
Gestalt Theory
Emoji
CYMK

And more
Some will be longer, but I can't remember those off the top of my head

Sometimes if I can't even think of random things, I'll ask my RP partner for ideas

 

I'm pretty sure 99% my thread titles are terrible puns that are only vaguely related to the content of the thread. It's been a very effective way of getting my RP partners to go "no that's ok I'll start the thread!"

 

I bounce around between song titles, lyrics, and quotes. Kinda depends on the character in question.

 

I'm also guilty of choosing song titles.

 

I also tend to gravitate toward using song lyrics as thread titles, though sometimes I'll branch out into pulling from quotes/sayings or the line of a poem

 

At this point, I've kind of given up on titles. I use song lyrics that sound like they could be relevant lol

 

I just to use the trope or try to think of something

 

9 times out of 10: song title from playlist I'm writing to / whatever song I'm listening to

1 times out of 10: a meme-y / punny title that matches the thread vibe

 

I use song titles or a random lyric from a song. Usually the song that gave me muse while writing or the song dedicated to that character or ship.

 

I've been obsessed lately with giving my threads titles based on quotes from my favorite musicals. Starkid lately!!

 

I tend to use my playlist, a good book of poetry.

 

a starkid fan! i've been totally obsessed with NPMD lately, but i'm yet to get to some of their other works.

speaking on topic: i'm team lyrics as well :) i also love my animal or plant metaphors or flower language, especially the latter, or something on topic in latin. like an RP about dimension hopping named "people are strange", as a reference to the doors, or "fireweed & dandelions" as a reference to feeling both a passionate and a tender love towards a person, or "ad peregrinum", latin for "onto traveling", about a bard pursuing a traveling ex-priest-turned-grim-monster-hunter.
and, of course, i have my fair share of puns: like naming a thread where one of the characters is a sassy android "metal goose solid".

 

It kind of depends on the crowd / situation for me, as some lean one way or the other — if everyone else is being abstract, I'll match. Likewise for if everyone has a simply recap of the events type title.

If it seems to be a good mix of the types– or sometimes even if it isn't – I tend to combine them in one. On the one hand, I love a good catchy lyric or line that captures the feeling or mood of things ...but I also want to communicate what's happening. So why not both?

 

Sometimes I do something just plain funny, we keep a solid sense of humor going around our site. But mostly I consult song lyrics and pinterest quotes.