Love the drag, dahling, but your purse is on fire.

[karaokegal]

So yes, after three days of congestion and coughing, I totally sound like Tallulah Bankhead, and my oh-so-ladylike swigging of Nyquil right out of the bottle last night pretty much sealed the deal. However, as bad as I sound, I actually think I've turned a corner. Mind you, this is after I managed to pass it on to my husband, my co-worker and god

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[aeron_lanart]

I hadn't realised that they were smushing names for Trek reboot stuff. To my fannish little soul that is SACRILEGE. Silly little children trying to reinvent the wheel. *stomps back off to her happy non-smushing corner of fandom*

I just ignore the cosplay thing - it sounds wrong when used to describe a bunch of 40+s in costume anyway.

Hope you feel better soon.

[karaokegal]

So help me god, I have actually seen "Spirk" used non-ironically. (So much love for your icon!)

"Cosplay" is obviously something that came along since I gafiated in the mid 80's, and I just see no point to it. (Except not wanting to say "I was in costume."

Thanks, hon. I really do feel like I'm almost there.

[hllangel]

I more often see "Spork" (which makes me laugh, given other fandom uses of sporks, namely figuratively stabbing out the eyes/other body parts of Sues).

[strawberrytatoo]

Ship names almost always annoy me, the House ones especially. (Hameron? Hilson? ARG!) Also, seeing the name 'Spork' used in the Star Trek fandom makes me see red. For some reason, I don't hate Pinto. I have no idea why not...but as it becomes more widespread I will probably come to hate it as well as all the others.

Feel better sweetie, and no pressure on getting the fic back to me. :)

[karaokegal]

I might be willing to embrace Pinto, but as a matter of principle, I can't. Slippery slope and all that. Domino effect. Etc.

I really am feeling better. *sniffle, sniffle*

Your fic is printed out and waiting to come home with me.

[aeron_lanart]

Spork? SPORK? That's even worse than Spirk. OMFG.

Mind you, it could lead to some interesting utensil use...

Jeez, when I remember all the guidelines about getting character codes right for if you wanted to post Trek fic on usenet my blood almost boils when I see people can't be arsed making the effort to give characters their *proper* names.

[karaokegal]

The only proper use for a spork is taking the eye out of a corpse so you can use it to open an office door (or something) by using their biometric eye print. Who says Alias wasn't educational?

[sarahetc]

Whether it's being used in admiration or mockery. I hate them all.

Preach it, sister. Seeing "Snermione" actually literally makes me want to commit physical violence.

And you're so right: fail is the gate. If this isn't failfail, at least let it be failgate.

[karaokegal]

Thanks. I honestly don't see how anyone who actually likes a pairing could embrace the smushname, unless it's one of the few that sounds good. I love some of my House/Cuddy shipping friends, but really? Huddy? Really?

And it's not just me on the "failfail?" YAY!

[sarahetc]

It's not just you. It's the go-to word for mindless sheep disguised as fangirls who are frightened that, should they express an opinion that is not 100% party line, their ego-boo will dry up and they'll waste away in the Pit. "FAIL" should be reserved for over-the-top, beyond-the-fail, all-caps situations of crazy. Stop escalating the superlatives.

[hllangel]

Snuna is my personal vendetta. A) I just don't see the pairing at ALL, and B) the smushname is AWFUL.

[chewy_101]

I don't mind smushnames, although there is plenty else to annoy me about fandom- Including a great deal of those relationships, themselves. More to fandom than a continuous formation of insane couples. I know that makes me the shipping grinch, but bah!

Anyway, my actual point of posting was to ask what a pinto was?

And to say I'm glad you're feeling better!

[karaokegal]

The relationships may or may not suck on their own merits, but a hideous shipname sure doesn't help. There was no way I was ever going to like Jack/Ianto, but the ubiquitous use of "Janto" was an on-going irritant that helped fuel the hatred.

Pinto is the smushname for the RPS pairing of Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto, which apparently the two of them actually use. *eye roll*

And thanks. Still sniffly, but I just have a feeling the worst is over.

[thecolourclear]

racefail, cnnfail, genderfail ... I dunno. It's a phase. I like it. It neatly sums up a position/action in two words. But I do agree that over-use makes it trite and takes away the impact that the first race!fail had.

H/C has three interpretation?

House/Cameron
House/Cuddy
House/Chase? Chouse is the lamest mash ever. So is Foreteen. And Huddy. This all started with Brangelina, didn't it? Goddamn Brad Pitt.

[karaokegal]

Actually, I think it started with soap opera fandom, especially GH with Journey for Jason/Courtney and Liason for Liz/Jason. When TPTB tried to float Sonny/Emily, the fans immediately dubbed it Soily. Then it spread to Days of our Lives and stuff like Bope for Bo/Hope, Jope for John/Hope and Shayla for Shane/Kayla.

House/Chase indeed. One of my guiltiest pleasures, but still no excuse for a smushname.

[thecolourclear]

What's the House/Cameron smash called? Hameron? Because that's lamer than anything mentioned above.

[karaokegal]

I saw a lot of Ham being used in the derisive sense back in the first two seasons when it looked like they might actually go there. I don't know if the shippers actually adopted that or Hameron, but either and all are appalling. Come on people, it's not that difficult. H/Cuddy, H/Chase, H/Cameron, H/W, H/F etc etc. Hell, H/NJ (for the weird night janitor who wears his pants backwards.)