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Vonnie K - Aug 02, 2005 7:40:25 am PDT #666 of 10434

Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

It's spilled over to the mainstream rags, what with Bennifer I and Bennifer II and Brangelina, etc. I suspect there is no help for it now.

I didn't mind it too much when it was just Clex and Spuffy (although I personally think Clex sounds like some bathroom cleaning product and Spuffy like a brand of fabric softner), but then it became just rampant. Most of the smooshed names also sound 1) ridiculous and 2) fugly, so it mystifies me as to why people insist using them. I guess they think the names are cute. t makes a gagging noise

Bah. Never mind me. I'm not rational about the whole thing.

Fay - Aug 02, 2005 10:23:51 am PDT #667 of 10434

"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

Kock.

Spork.

....still making me laugh.

Michele T. - Aug 02, 2005 11:34:16 am PDT #668 of 10434

with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi

Spuffy started out as a way to make fun of the pairing, as I recall.

Now we have "Brangelina." Make it stop!

Gris - Aug 02, 2005 12:24:19 pm PDT #669 of 10434

Hey. New board.

Just so long as we don't get JudAnythingThatMoves I'm okay.

Vonnie K - Aug 02, 2005 12:51:03 pm PDT #670 of 10434

Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

Nah, I get the thing where a few certain portmanteaus can be funny. Overexposure to some truly revolting examples (the whole "LoVe" thing for Veronica/Logan from VM for example just makes me throw up in my mouth) kind of robbed me of all sense of humor though. Now, I'm all, portmanteaus must die! t /Hellish Sigh.

JZ - Aug 02, 2005 2:01:30 pm PDT #671 of 10434

See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

I just don't know... if the simple "A/B" descriptor is doomed and it's a choice between portmanteaus and freaksome abominations like The HMS Pumpkin Pie, portmanteaus seem like the (very, very slightly) lesser of two evils.

erikaj - Aug 02, 2005 3:26:44 pm PDT #672 of 10434

Always Anti-fascist!

Homicide doesn't really have those. Just MunchenKay, and FrankenTim, and I forget the Kellerman/Lewis one.

askye - Aug 03, 2005 3:21:13 pm PDT #673 of 10434

Thrive to spite them

Can anyone pin point where/when smushed names started?

Dana - Aug 03, 2005 4:07:18 pm PDT #674 of 10434

I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

First time I honestly remember seeing it was Clex. Wasn't used in Sentinel (Blim? Oy.), wasn't used in Highlander (Muncan? Oy.), and I don't think I saw it in Buffy fandom until Spuffy. Wasn't used in X-Files either -- X-Files had a whole categorization system that was based on Gossamer, wasn't it, Suela?

Consuela - Aug 03, 2005 6:36:14 pm PDT #675 of 10434

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

X-Files had a whole categorization system that was based on Gossamer, wasn't it, Suela?

Yup. M/S (Mulder-Scully sex), MSR (Mulder-Scully romance), Sc/Sk, M/K, etc. Plus categories for types of stories: V for vignette, S for story/drama, C for crossover, X for casefile, T for adventure, R for romance...

Although, and this just occurred to me, there was a rash of so-called "Skipper fic", and I can't recall whether it referred to Scully/Krycek or Scully/Skinner. t dashes off to Google Ah, it was Scully/Krycek. Not quite a smushed name, but close.

Ah, the Gossamer days, when it took them months to update. I think they still don't have auto-archiving.

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