Thank heaven I'm a trekkie. I don't have to do portmanteau if I don't want to.
Thank heaven, or thank Kock? Or Spork. Or McKock? Or Kirkoy? Or Cheulu? (Pronounced Chew-loo)
Joyce: And what did you do tonight? Dawn: Irritated Giles. I'm beginning to get why Buffy likes it so much.
'Get It Done'
Fan Fiction II: Great story! Where's the sequel?
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P.M. Marc - Feb 11, 2012 6:54:49 pm PST #7612 of 10434
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
P.M. Marc - Feb 11, 2012 6:56:12 pm PST #7613 of 10434
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Sorry. It's just, well, I get bored and think up portmanteaus and sometimes, I can't stop.
I have a hate/love relationship with them. Hove, you might say. Not Late. Hate's always on top.
WindSparrow - Feb 12, 2012 2:55:29 am PST #7614 of 10434
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
I have a hate/love relationship with them. Hove, you might say. Not Late. Hate's always on top.
Not the way I write 'em.
The actual ship I've been writing lately (aside from the occasional RPF about the show's writers) has a portmanteau name that is particularly ugly aesthetically speaking, worse than spuffy. And it is more than a little 12-year-old-giggle inducing - worse than Kock, to my ear. When it was told to the actor who plays the male half of the pairing, he said, "Oh, that's just all kinds of wrong."
SailAweigh - Feb 12, 2012 4:20:17 am PST #7615 of 10434
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Thank heaven, or thank Kock? Or Spork. Or McKock? Or Kirkoy? Or Cheulu?
Maybe the older Trek fans didn't embrace portmanteaux, but most of the places I hang out have. You'll find all those Plei listed plus:
Spirk, McSpirk (threesome fun!), Spones, Chulu, Jones (my ship!), McChapel, McHura, Scokov, Pirk.
I blame 2010's Ship Wars. It was a hell of a lot of fun, but they embraced the smush whole-heartedly. When names didn't smush well, they came up with alternatives:
Team Ashayam (Spock/Uhura) Team Tartan (Scotty/anyone) Team Crackship - some of the most amazing random ships ever, but not smushable in any way, it even generated a zombie!Pike fic (but I don't remember who they shipped him with) that was absolutely hilarious.
§ ita § - Feb 12, 2012 4:59:25 am PST #7616 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think that Destiel is a despicable smush. We have Wincest, Team Free Will, and Team Free Love¹. Destiel? Why, lord, why?
¹: even Dobby!
Sophia Brooks - Feb 12, 2012 5:29:03 am PST #7617 of 10434
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I hate portmanteux a lot. But I hate the rassenfrassen Roswell ship names more.
P.M. Marc - Feb 12, 2012 9:49:13 am PST #7618 of 10434
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
DOBBY! Or Bean.
I should apply myself to Community. Jelton! Brannie! Brang! Trabed! Anabroy! Sheff! Abiers! Pieritta!
P.M. Marc - Feb 12, 2012 9:49:14 am PST #7619 of 10434
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Amy - Feb 13, 2012 11:03:16 am PST #7620 of 10434
Because books.
This interview with Lev Grossman might have been linked before, but I just saw it today so I wanted to share. It's from August, and talks specifically about fan fiction.
Juliebird - Feb 13, 2012 5:35:52 pm PST #7621 of 10434
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I am currently in awe of writers who can write a short story, who can take an idea and distill it to its sum parts.
I don't understand it, I don't get the why of it, how they choose to pick a certain point in time and are able to end it in a timely manner.
I am working on my own story, and despair of anyone wanting to stick through the enormity of it. I just can't comprehend a neat and tidy short story. That's got to be so much self control and foresight and self-editing.
My hat is off to you.