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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[hllangel]

Given that the House PTB are using Foreteen, I think we're all doomed.

[karaokegal]

Well hopefully that was a one-time thing, but it was also low moment. In jokes are one thing, but that was way over the line. Almost a 4th wall break.

[kimberweeme]

Re: smushnames. (Aside from the fact that making that a compound word makes me cringe.) I usually think they are stupid. The two exceptions are Pinto (which just amuses me) and McShep (for McKay/Sheppard on SGA). I honestly don't mind those two. The others? Dumb.

(The stupidest pairing name, in my opinion, is Sparky for Sheppard/Weir on SGA. WHERE DID THAT EVEN COME FROM? Stupid fangirls.)

[karaokegal]

The problem is there's no way to say, "only the good smushnames" because someone will be labouring under the delusion that theirs is good, either because they honestly think it is or because they think an attack on the smushname is an attack on the ship.

[vanillafluffy]

Well, that's one good thing about SPN--no smushing. If it's in character, it's good old traditional Sam/Dean, and if it's RPS, it's J2.

Carry on.

[karaokegal]

Score one for SPN. (Far be it from me to deny credit where it's due.)

[vanillafluffy]

Oh, and your cut-text, "Blame it on the Benedryl"? Now has me humming an OLD Kris Kristofferson song, "Blame it on the Stones!"

(Of course, we also have Wincest, which is a bit twee, but the idea behind it is wrong enough that after a while you hardly notice the name for it....)

[karaokegal]

For some reason Wincest (or Petrellicest or Weasleycest or whatever) doesn't bother me as a usage. It seems an appropriate use of the portmanteau form, and is helpfully descriptive, where as the smushnames are just stupid and generally ugly.

[samstjames]

Okay, apart from the fact, that I find all these names hilarious as well and think their use should be forbidden... What is racefail supposed to mean?

[karaokegal]

If you really want to know....
http://www.fanhistory.com/wiki/Race_wank#The_Cultural_Appropriation_Discussion_of_Doom

[samstjames]

OMG and they are serious about that? Honestly? Wow. Fandom sure is... weird sometimes.

[karaokegal]

(In my best Jeremy Irons)

You have NO idea!

[secondsilk]

I hate smushnames, too.

There's been cosplay as long as I've been in fandom, I always took it as a combination of costume and roleplay - the idea being that you have to playing the characters as well as being dressed as them, and in a formalised game/setting.

I've only see "fail" as a description of actions that are straightforwardly discriminatory.
I hadn't heard it before the Racefail in January of this year. I think it's a use that comes from "fail!" in contrast to "win!" as a comment on posts. It used to have an adjectival!exclamation mark, I think. it was much shorter than Cultural Appropriation Debate of Doom. The most recent one is Gatefail, which I have been following.

[karaokegal]

Gatefail? Do tell. Especially amusing giving my contention that "fail" has become the "gate" of fandom.

I think cosplay might be more acceptable if it were limited to the role-playing setting but I think at this point there's been definition leak, and most of the time it's used for anyone being in costume at a fannish event, whether they're active roleplaying or not.

[secondsilk]

There's a great scene in the West Wing where Josh gets to say "that's not a 'gate, no way that's a 'gate yet." I don't think fandom is quite at that level of suffix happiness, but we are close

[karaokegal]

I saw the Meta post about the Stargate thing. I didn't realize it had a name yet. :)