wtf?

[moonlettuce]

Okay, so I just got used to being able to see the phrase 'sparky' for John/Elizabeth without rolling my eyes, (Dudes! What's wrong with saying 'John/Elizabeth'?), and now I've just seen 'Spanky' used for Teyla/Ronon.

*boggles*

What? Do you have to have cutesy matching names for your het ships? Is this some sort of brain disease sweeping through the het side of the fandom? Because I'm more than sure I've never seen any of the slashers who also ship Teyla/Ronon refer to it as anything other than Teyla/Ronon.

What's next after Sparky and Spanky? (And, yes, that does sound like a freaky kids tv show...) And how does it work? Does every ship follow the 'spa_ky' line? Because I can see a limited shelf-life in that.

And also, does this mean we're going to need a glossary of terms? I mean, I know McShep sounds like people should be asking if you want fries with that, but at least it's easy enough to work out who it refers to.

In non SGA news, I went up to Newcastle today to pick up the boots I'd dropped off at the cobblers on Thursday. It's been raining pretty heavily, so I looked like a drowned rat when I staggered into the shop... only to realise I'd left the ticket in my other bag and I couldn't prove they were my boots without it. *sigh* Guess who's going back up to Newcastle tomorrow.

Comments

[shetiger.livejournal.com]

I think "Sporky" is next. Not sure who it refers to, but I'm terribly fond of it. *eg*

[temaris.livejournal.com]

Darn. I was going to suggest that. I think it (should) refer to Cater/McKay, but I'm willing to take suggestions *g*

[alyse]

ooooh. I can see a future in this.

From henceforth Hermiod/Novak should be referred to as 'Hanky', because his name begins with an H and... well, we're keeping with the anky moniker and because she hiccups, which is kind of like sneezing except that you don't actually need a hanky...

But it's cute and stuff, so we should just go with it.

And that means, of course, that Lorne/Novak should be 'Lanky' because he's tall and she's kind of tall, even though compared with the rest of the incredibly tall cast of Atlantis, they're both midgets.

But, the cuteness!

And Ronon/Rodney should be referred to as Scooby because they're RoKay!

[viciouswishes.livejournal.com]

nostalgia_lj started it, pre-show. She said something about squishy names being boring and came up with Sparky. And since she's a Secret Master of Fandom, it stuck.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Sadly the cutesy pairing names are also quite common in HP fandom, with the slashers going for portmanteau (Snarry, Snupin etc) and the shippers going for bizarro ('HMS Pumpkin Pie', for example - iirc that's Harry/Hermione, but I could be wrong since the cutesyness burns my braincells away...).

[wesleysgirl.livejournal.com]

Hee! The Sparky thing confounded me when I first heard it. Someone explained the origin but I forgot the explanation about twelve seconds later. It's one thing to combine the names into one (like McShep or McDex) but it's something else to to make people blink in hopeless confusion, giving them no way of working out what the heck pairing is being talked about.

[xandutch.livejournal.com]

*guffaws* I think Beckett/Cadman should be 'Spalky'.

[temaris.livejournal.com]

And which pairing is 'skanky'?

[moonlettuce.livejournal.com]

Anything with Beckett...

[temaris.livejournal.com]

Oooh, you went there! I wasn't going to! *g*

[ceteramisto.livejournal.com]

There have been whole fandoms with nicknames for pairings. In those cases I even like them because I think of them as a sort of fandom in-joke. Also there are usually several places that have lists referring to each pairing. In one fandom that list was used for a neat fanfic challenge.

It's when only a few pairings in a fandom use nicknames that I'm not that fond of them. Especially when I have no clue what pairing the name refers.

The big question for me though with SGA pairing nicknames is which McKay pairing is "Snarky".

[rhade-rad.livejournal.com]

Is this another topic for Connotations? "Wtf!!! Cuteness in fandom."