You can't fic your own verse, if it's published without an AU label. This is my position and I'm sticking to it.
I know I'm a bad poet, but I'm a good man. All I ask is that... is that you try to see me—
William ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Fan Fiction II: Great story! Where's the sequel?
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DebetEsse - Jan 03, 2009 4:50:34 am PST #5605 of 10436
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 03, 2009 4:54:52 am PST #5606 of 10436
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Snucius sounds like it involves the Snuffleuphagus.
Barb - Jan 03, 2009 5:08:42 am PST #5607 of 10436
“Not dead yet!”
Snucius sounds like it involves the Snuffleuphagus.
Oh dear... the mental images are not pretty. Not pretty at all.
Vonnie K - Jan 03, 2009 8:29:57 am PST #5608 of 10436
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Hahahaha. I think I might have to give up the Holy War against Portmanteaux, because there are just so many times you could bash your head against a brick wall before getting brain-damaged.
I've read my share of Snape/Hermione but have never come across that particular atrocity. They're usually abbreviated with SS/HG. I guess it could have been worse. Uhm, Snaper? Or Grape. Oh, dear.
Barb - Jan 03, 2009 8:31:46 am PST #5609 of 10436
“Not dead yet!”
Could've been Apemione.
Fay - Jan 03, 2009 6:49:12 pm PST #5610 of 10436
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
My impression was that in HP they tended to disdain portmanteaux in favour of cutesy nicknames - HMS Pumpkin Pie for Harry/Hermione, for example. Which I confess I found equally infuriating.
Laga - Jan 05, 2009 10:01:57 am PST #5611 of 10436
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
HMS Pumpkin Pie for Harry/Hermione
what does that mean?
Fay - Jan 05, 2009 1:23:14 pm PST #5612 of 10436
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Maybe I made up the HMS bit? Not sure. But evidently I expressed myself badly. What I mean is, they do not say 'Harry/Hermione', or indeed 'Harmione' or 'Herry', but rather they refer to the pairing as 'Pumpkin Pie'.
(There are others who refer to it as Harmony, though, apparently. Which makes a bit more sense.)
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Nope, evidently I didn't make up the HMS bit.
Other HP 'ship names include Orange Crush to refer to Harry/Ginny, Leather and Libraries to refer to Draco/Hermione and various other random phrases.
erikaj - Jan 05, 2009 1:27:26 pm PST #5613 of 10436
Always Anti-fascist!
I think HMS might be right, cause it's a 'ship, get it? Yuk, yuk.
Fay - Jan 05, 2009 1:31:09 pm PST #5614 of 10436
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Oh, no, I understood the oh-so-amusing jest - I just wasn't sure whether it was something I'd just made up. Particularly since Pumpkin Pie is such a very unBritish foodstuff, and is generally regarded with incredulity bordering on horror by Brits who haven't actually tasted it - so I'd pretty much assumed it was made up by American fanbrats. Who wouldn't neccesarily go with HMS.
...but, no, apparently I didn't make it up. I'm still boggling over some of the other mad-as-fuck names that a quick Google has led me to. They include Guns and Handcuffs, Wotcher Wolvie and The Government Stole My Toad.
...there is, I grant, a certain charm to this. It's less inelegant than portmanteax. (Other than Clex. And Kock. I have high hopes that the Star Trek movie is going to bring 'Kock' or at least 'Spork' into actual usage.)
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