Spuffy started out as a way to make fun of the pairing, as I recall.
Now we have "Brangelina." Make it stop!
You're wrong about River. River's not on the ship. They didn't want her here, but she couldn't make herself leave. So she melted... Melted away. They didn't know she could do that, but she did.
River ,'Objects In Space'
Fan Fiction II: Great story! Where's the sequel?
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
Michele T. - Aug 02, 2005 11:34:16 am PDT #668 of 10453
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
Gris - Aug 02, 2005 12:24:19 pm PDT #669 of 10453
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 10453
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 10453
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 10453
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
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 10453
Thrive to spite them
Can anyone pin point where/when smushed names started?
Dana - Aug 03, 2005 4:07:18 pm PDT #674 of 10453
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
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 10453
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.
Calli - Aug 04, 2005 3:52:28 am PDT #676 of 10453
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Ah, the Gossamer days,
My first slash site, I believe. *sniff* It seems like it only yesterday that I clicked on a M/K link thinking, "Eh, slash. Krycek taking on Mulder with knives doesn't seem too OOC." And then I read the story. "You mean he . . . and Mulder . . . and they . . . ooooooooooh. Say, is there more of this?"
There was. And some of it was FG.
Connie Neil - Aug 04, 2005 4:31:46 am PDT #677 of 10453
brillig
Gossamer, where I first began being sucked in. I was very much a Scully/Skinner girl.