When I was a baby slasher, I was taught that an OTP, one true pairing, was the one pairing a person would consider in a fandom (like M/K fans saying M/Sk fans were deluded or vice versa, sigh), or at all (Jim/Blair and that's it, no one else looks even remotely slashy). At least, that's how I interpreted what I was told. These days I see OTP used
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Heh.
"Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds." ~Emerson
That's always my response to peopel who call me on my dualities.
*g*
Personally, "smarm" and "schmoop" and even "mook" (which means something completely different to *me*, being a fan of police procedurals and hardboiled detective novels) bother me more than "fic" or "ficlet" or even, as I've seen someone else complain, "fics," though I draw the line at "ficcie" and "piccie" myself, maybe because I abhor being called "Viccie" or "Vicki" *g*.
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Just nitpicking, since it's the subject today ;) It's actually "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." Not all consistency is bad - just when we can no longer thing outside of the norm.
Stephanie
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"But it helps you keep your stories straight." ~Vyola
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Speaking of usage, when I first read the above, my first thought was, "She reads or writes slash between babies? Er, um . . ." I gathered the meaning from the context, and then remembered some of other similar usages of "baby-". But it was rather funny to continue reading an LJ entry about neologisms and how different people react to different ones after that.
I don't mind "fic" myself. I am a little less happy with "fics". One writes a piece of fic(tion) or several pieces of fic(tion). Not really seeing where the "s" is coming from. "Ficcie" strikes me as a good warning sign for the style of fiction likely to follow, so to me it's useful. My favorite use of "fic" is in a sentence such as, "I've committed fic recently."
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I have a hard time using fic as a countable noun, too. Not to mention as a verb. Ficcing. No. I'll stick to writing.
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(Then again, I don't understand that attitude in general. Yeah, sometimes I like one character more in a pairing, especially at the outset, and sometimes the pairing I like is "my favorite character plus the guy he seems to want most" or something along those lines. If I don't end up liking the other guy on his own merits sooner or later, I usually won't follow that pairing extensively, and more often, I do end up liking the other guy.)
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So true. And I'm always reminded that the opposite can hold equally true--that is, I think people may be less tolerant of certain characters & storylines after exposure via marathon because they won't have had time to accept certain developments the way they would after thinking about them for a week in between each new revelation. I think this also ties in to the canon argument, and the kind of bias you get sometimes with people who have seen only the Methos episodes of Highlander, for example, or only the--oh, I'm not even gonna touch due South, but yeah, I think context is absolutely crucial to the OTP phenomenon in all sorts of ways.
Also, torch? My gut response--for whatever that's worth--to a statement like, I've no ( ... )
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Oh, now you made me think it's cute! Almost. Sort of. The pigtails are probably cuter.
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