I didn't have the problem "can't open typy box to write 'stake everything'" two major problems ago

Poll #21467 this is a writing procrastination tactic. sort of.

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What should be the title of the fic series beginning "thirsty in the desert"?

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if I forfeit my soul
3 (25.0%)

the end that justifies the means
5 (41.7%)

a fool's paradise
1 (8.3%)

dry like pirate bones
3 (25.0%)

[another line from Natasha Bedingfield's "Pirate Bones" to be quoted in comments]
0 (0.0%)

Ticky

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Ticky?
3 (33.3%)

Ticky...
1 (11.1%)

Ticky.
2 (22.2%)

Ticky!
3 (33.3%)

Tick-a-BOOM
7 (77.8%)

As a reminder, we're discussing this:

thirsty in the desert with a bagful of gold (5317 words) by AlexSeanchai
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Marinette Dupain-Cheng & Tikki, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir & Plagg, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir & Chloé Bourgeois
Characters: Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Tikki (Miraculous Ladybug), Plagg (Miraculous Ladybug), Chloé Bourgeois
Additional Tags: Episode: s03 Climatika 2 | Stormy Weather 2, sitting these two clowns down to talk about their feelings, Discussion of Extinction, Adrien grows a spine
Summary:

"Hey Hawkmoth, Take A Bath Before We're All Extinct (or, Stormy Weather Would Not Have Stopped)"
—μcat, Schrödinger’s Miraculous: physics in the City of Heroes (may work differently when observed)

It was Mme. Mendeleiev's fault, really. She liked bringing current events into her lesson plans, and μcat the superhero-science blogger had done a lot of research and a lot of math in the four days after the second go-round with Stormy Weather. Marinette, looking at all the equations and cited sources and clear, concise prose salted with wordplay, wondered if μcat had slept at all in those four days. If she focused on how long it must have taken them to read each article, run each set of numbers, write each paragraph, then she had no attention to spare for the words "extinction event", and needn't think about what it meant here and now. What it implied. What it must have taken to make it not.

(Adrien whisked Aurore out of the classroom the moment he saw the essay title. He then casually leaned on the door frame, blocking Chloé from following. Marinette should have thought of those herself.)

Marinette lasted two more days before she cracked.

Part three will be titled "stake everything I am on a dream (and it's counterfeit)"; there are two or three more parts currently without titles. Music, lyrics.