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anangrychocobo
Shitgobbling pissdrinker
Join date: 2009-06-13
 |  Subject: Re: Smushed Pairing Names Sun Apr 24, 2011 4:49 pm | |
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EileenK98
Recovering Fanbrat
Join date: 2009-06-10
Age: 43
Location: very, very close to Chris
| | Subject: Re: Smushed Pairing Names Sun Apr 24, 2011 7:44 pm | |
| | anangrychocobo wrote: | | Harrongeormionape |
I see at least five people in this. May I ask which fic spawned the orgy?
I know I'm gonna regret this. |
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Lapin
Knight of the Bleach
Join date: 2009-06-10
Age: 23
Location: Maryland
| | Subject: Re: Smushed Pairing Names Sun Apr 24, 2011 7:55 pm | |
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rae
Contributor
Join date: 2009-06-10
Location: computer chair
| | Subject: Re: Smushed Pairing Names Sun Apr 24, 2011 10:09 pm | |
| Yes, which means Chocobo just cursed this into existence.  You should be ashamed. |
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KJM
Shitgobbling pissdrinker
Join date: 2009-06-11
Age: 33
| | Subject: Re: Smushed Pairing Names Sun Apr 24, 2011 11:44 pm | |
| Is is wrong that "Gwack" sounds to me like another word for throwing up? |
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Lapin
Knight of the Bleach
Join date: 2009-06-10
Age: 23
Location: Maryland
| | Subject: Re: Smushed Pairing Names Mon Apr 25, 2011 12:02 am | |
| | KJM wrote: | | Is is wrong that "Gwack" sounds to me like another word for throwing up? |
It reminds me of the sound the birds make when both the geese and the ducks decide to be vocal. |
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Rabid Badger
And This is Why I Need Medication
Join date: 2009-06-11
| | Subject: Re: Smushed Pairing Names Mon Apr 25, 2011 1:55 am | |
| | KJM wrote: | | Is is wrong that "Gwack" sounds to me like another word for throwing up? |
No. I thought the same thing the first time I saw it used. Probably because my family's used a vaguely similar word (gack) for throwing up since I was a kid. |
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Bad Luck Charm
Sporkbender
Join date: 2009-06-18
Location: In your brain, haunting your thoughts
| | Subject: Re: Smushed Pairing Names Mon Apr 25, 2011 5:50 am | |
| I hate smushed pairing names. You can thank that advent of Bennifer(Ben Affleck/Jennifer Lopez at that time) for starting this annoying trend. The only place you won't seem to find it is in the Ghostbusters fandom. We just list them as Egon/Janine or E/J for short, as an example. |
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Rabid Badger
And This is Why I Need Medication
Join date: 2009-06-11
| | Subject: Re: Smushed Pairing Names Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:49 am | |
| I refuse to use them on principal. I figure if the reader can't function unless the pairing name is smushed together, I don't want them reading my story anyway. Thankfully, Dr. Who is pretty much free of smushed pairing names (except for the unfortunate Drose, which was initially used for Nine/Rose, until Nine regenerated into 10 and they realized you wouldn't be able to tell which Doctor Rose was with), and in Torchwood, they're mostly used for the het pairings. The fandom may have shortened it to Janto, but most authors still write Jack/Ianto in their summaries.
I do kind've wish the Dr. Who fandom had given the metacrisis clone an actual name (John Smith would've worked just fine). Most of the time he's referred to as 10th Doctor Duplicate or 10th Doctor Clone (despite the fact he's not really a clone). I've also seen him referred to as 10.5. Jeez, guys, way to point out to us that he's not the REAL Doctor, he's nothing but the result of the only human/Time Lord biological metacrisis ever known! He's basically a fucking miracle, and the best you can do is 10.5?
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KJM
Shitgobbling pissdrinker
Join date: 2009-06-11
Age: 33
| | Subject: Re: Smushed Pairing Names Mon Apr 25, 2011 11:38 am | |
| | Bad Luck Charm wrote: | | The only place you won't seem to find it is in the Ghostbusters fandom. We just list them as Egon/Janine or E/J for short, as an example. |
Let's fix that!
From now on, Egon/Janine shall be known as "Eganine" or "Jagon". |
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Trioculus
VileCorp's Muscly Woman-slave
Join date: 2009-06-11
Location: State of Utter Confusion
| | Subject: Re: Smushed Pairing Names Mon Apr 25, 2011 1:24 pm | |
| | Bad Luck Charm wrote: | | I hate smushed pairing names. You can thank that advent of Bennifer(Ben Affleck/Jennifer Lopez at that time) for starting this annoying trend. The only place you won't seem to find it is in the Ghostbusters fandom. We just list them as Egon/Janine or E/J for short, as an example. |
| KJM wrote: | Let's fix that!
From now on, Egon/Janine shall be known as "Eganine" or "Jagon". |
Great, BLC, curse it into existance. 
I think it's only escaped, thus far, because it's a smaller, older fandom, and currently dominated by male prop nerds. If they ever make that third movie, though, and the squeeing fanbrats descend on it, watch out. |
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Lady Anne
NO NOT THE BEEEEES
Join date: 2009-06-12
Age: 35
Location: The land of the fruits and nuts
| | Subject: Re: Smushed Pairing Names Mon Apr 25, 2011 3:03 pm | |
| I've seen a few smushed names in the Titanic fandom, even though the names of most of the characters are five letters or less. The worst of these? Cack (from someone who wrote Cal/Jack slashfic). Cack is the sound my cat makes when he barfs up a hairball. |
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Rabid Badger
And This is Why I Need Medication
Join date: 2009-06-11
| | Subject: Re: Smushed Pairing Names Tue Apr 26, 2011 2:40 am | |
| | Lady Anne wrote: | | I've seen a few smushed names in the Titanic fandom, even though the names of most of the characters are five letters or less. The worst of these? Cack (from someone who wrote Cal/Jack slashfic). Cack is the sound my cat makes when he barfs up a hairball. |
New rule for fandom names-Any smushed pairing ending in 'ack' is only going to make you look stupid (see Gwack for further reference). |
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Root Admin
Administrator
Join date: 2009-06-03
Age: 23
Location: You can't piss on hospitality.
| | Subject: Re: Smushed Pairing Names Tue Apr 26, 2011 4:27 am | |
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Bad Luck Charm
Sporkbender
Join date: 2009-06-18
Location: In your brain, haunting your thoughts
| | Subject: Re: Smushed Pairing Names Tue Apr 26, 2011 6:09 am | |
| | Trioculus wrote: | | Bad Luck Charm wrote: | | I hate smushed pairing names. You can thank that advent of Bennifer(Ben Affleck/Jennifer Lopez at that time) for starting this annoying trend. The only place you won't seem to find it is in the Ghostbusters fandom. We just list them as Egon/Janine or E/J for short, as an example. |
| KJM wrote: | Let's fix that!
From now on, Egon/Janine shall be known as "Eganine" or "Jagon". |
Great, BLC, curse it into existance.
I think it's only escaped, thus far, because it's a smaller, older fandom, and currently dominated by male prop nerds. If they ever make that third movie, though, and the squeeing fanbrats descend on it, watch out. |
It was KJM dude!  |
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Trioculus
VileCorp's Muscly Woman-slave
Join date: 2009-06-11
Location: State of Utter Confusion
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anangrychocobo
Shitgobbling pissdrinker
Join date: 2009-06-13
| | Subject: Re: Smushed Pairing Names Tue Apr 26, 2011 4:48 pm | |
| | rae wrote: | | Yes, which means Chocobo just cursed this into existence. You should be ashamed. |
It probably already existed! Don't blame me for HP fandom being so bloody huge that almost anything you can imagine and several things you can't have already been written! |
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Drabbler
Armbiter of Good Fanfiction
Join date: 2009-06-11
Age: 122
| | Subject: Re: Smushed Pairing Names Tue Apr 26, 2011 8:18 pm | |
| Chocobo just wants to distract us from all his Harragog fics. |
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anangrychocobo
Shitgobbling pissdrinker
Join date: 2009-06-13
| | Subject: Re: Smushed Pairing Names Tue Apr 26, 2011 8:34 pm | |
| I'll have you know I've moved on to writing Fluffbeakfirenzagog nowadays |
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Bad Luck Charm
Sporkbender
Join date: 2009-06-18
Location: In your brain, haunting your thoughts
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The Scientist
VileCorp's Muscly Woman-slave
Join date: 2010-10-05
Location: Leggin' it out of Fedic, oh Discordia!
| | Subject: Re: Smushed Pairing Names Wed Apr 27, 2011 2:25 pm | |
| | Cactus Wren wrote: |
ObOP: I've been given to understand that smushed pairing names started in the Buffy fandom, when it was generally realized that "Spuffy", repugnant as it is, was preferable to "B/S". |
I'd have preferred "Bike". Sounds catchier, somehow.
Oh, and who would say "Spirk" when they can have "Spork"? 
Also, I believe that the Draco/Harry shippers called the ship "Drarry". I believe I read that on Fiction Alley, aeons ago. |
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Lurv
VileCorp's Muscly Woman-slave
Join date: 2009-06-11
Age: 22
| | Subject: Re: Smushed Pairing Names Wed Apr 27, 2011 3:29 pm | |
| As stupid as they are, at least they're usually more easy to figure out than whatevershipping-names.
And one advantage of smushed ship names might be that it makes it easier to search for the pairing. I'm not sure how well it works, however.
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Rabid Badger
And This is Why I Need Medication
Join date: 2009-06-11
| | Subject: Re: Smushed Pairing Names Thu Apr 28, 2011 2:51 am | |
| | Lurv wrote: | As stupid as they are, at least they're usually more easy to figure out than whatevershipping-names.
And one advantage of smushed ship names might be that it makes it easier to search for the pairing. I'm not sure how well it works, however.
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It sort of depends on the fandom. Torchwood, for instance, was relatively easy because there were only five actual team members-Jack, Ianto, Owen, Toshiko and Gwen. Even if you threw in Gwen's boyfriend (later husband) Rhys; her former partner in the Police Department Andy, and Captain Swanson (the head of the Cardiff Police), you were still fairly limited to the number of possible pairings. And honestly, the only smushed name that really caught on was Janto.
Compare that to Dr. Who, where you've got 11 different Doctors, four different Masters, and, quite literally, hundreds of companions over the years. Plus secondary characters that played major roles and all the Eighth Doctor audio adventures and books(which are considered canon, but which most Americans have never heard or read), and you're looking at literally THOUSANDS of potential pairings. I'm pretty sure that this (and the fact that Who fandom and fanfic dates back to the early 1960s) meant that, even if you could come up with a suitable smushed name for EVERY SINGLE PAIRING, it would require an appendix roughly the size of the Encyclopedia Brittanica to cover all the possible permutations.
Honestly, writing Five/Turlough, or Three/Jo, or Nine/Jack is just easier for everyone. |
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Drabbler
Armbiter of Good Fanfiction
Join date: 2009-06-11
Age: 122
| | Subject: Re: Smushed Pairing Names Thu Apr 28, 2011 4:52 am | |
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