*awesome at coming up with fail titles*

[esmenet]

I'm suffering from a terrible, terrible temptation. It's truly awful; I can't believe I'm even thinking of considering to entertain such an idea. But I can't help it. *sadface*

You see, this Harry Potter fic I'm kind-of-sort-of working on is the equivalent of the (last part of the) Utena movie, in its basic plot (a bunch of people want to get away to the outside world, some of them turn into vehicles so they all can, everybody escapes and is happy). So I was thinking hmmm, wouldn't it be fun to come up with a title that referenced the movie?

And then, later today, something made me think of Evangelion, and that one spin-off manga I really liked (but never finished). You know the one: Neon Genesis Evangelion: Gakuen Datenroku, aka NGE Academy: Record of Heaven's Descent, that second half also sometimes translated as Apocalypse. Since the Utena movie's title is Adolescence Apocalypse . . . hmm.

So now I desperately want to call this here Harry Potter fic Record of Hogwarts Dissent -- since, you know, it's about a bunch of students at Hogwarts and their disbelief in and resistance against the dominant social paradigm.* Even though I know the literal definition of 'apocalypse' is something like 'unveiling' or 'revelation', and the thing I'd be referencing is not actually the thing I want to allude to. That is to say, I would technically be referencing it, but by way of alluding to something else that is mostly unrelated and therefore pointless.


Naturally, I would be VERY GRATEFUL if anyone would help me come up with a better title. *nudge nudge*


*I can totally use big words like all you smart people! See?

Comments

[annotated_em]

I dunno, I kind of think you need to throw the word "hegemony" in there, perhaps. Hm, or perhaps counter-hegemonic mobilization? I dunno, that's the first place my brain goes.

Although to be perfectly honest, Record of Hogwarts Dissent works just fine for me. And. *pokes you* What do you mean "like all you smart people"? Are you perchance putting yourself down? *pokes you again*

[terajk]

I like Record of Hogwarts Dissent, myself. Although I've only seen one episode of NGE and everything I know about Revolutionary Girl Utena I learned from reading a Wikipedia article on it, like, five seconds before I read this post. (Yes, really. It's an omen, I tell you).

[tropicsbear]

Whenever I write, I find that titles are almost always one of the hardest things to come up with.