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fic update, comments, concatenation
The final version of "Knowing" (my little Batfic for the Defining Moment challenge) is done, if anyone cares. I updated the original draft here and posted it to Jae's Challenge page here, and (presumably) it'll eventually go up at the challenge's archive page that Jae recently set up. Thanks again to Val -- cos there's just not enough of saying that -- for looking it over for me.
Finally got round to replying to comments in my LJ I'd left unanswered too long, and was shocked at just how long I'd left some of them. Bad Jack, I am. Still working on dropping feedback in friends' LJs, but I'm caught up here, at least. (Except for Kitty who's no doubt put up another response or two while I've been typing this.)
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latxcvi and FayJay pandarus and Allison Skye have been talking about the way names get smooshed together in pairings (ie Clark + Lex = Clex), and how they don't like it. I can see both sides of this one, but frankly I'm just too amused by the smooshes to give them up. (Following thoughts mainly lifted from my comments in Al's LJ cos I'm lazy, and want to get back to writing fic.)
I'm a sucker for in-jokes, and apparently my sense of humour is stuck in five-year-old mode, too, because I do use the concatenated names mainly cos I find them funny. Clex, as has been pointed, does lend itself to all sorts of fun words like Clexactly and Clexciting and Clextasy. (And let's not forget Clex Mix!) I'm amused by the homonymous but very different Clana and Chlana. While I hate the idea of the pairing, I enjoy saying Lantha because it sounds like the only-slightly-less-monstrous Bantha (of Star Wars). To detour briefly into another fandom, isn't Spike/Buffy Spiffy?
And yes, I giggle at Clitney. (More like 13-year-old humour there, but who's counting?) To me, the fact that boys don't have clits just makes it funnier. I don't really like the idea of Lex/Hamilton, but it amuses me that if they got together -- since the good doctor's first name is Steven -- it would bring new meaning to Sex.
But I won't try too hard if there's not a funny new name to be made out of the two partners'. I mean, seriously, how would you combine "Jonathan" and "Lionel" and not have it look silly in an unfunny way? And in some cases, the names flow together too well and the fact that it's a pairing can be overlooked, as in Lionell.
Analysing why I do this has, ironically, inspired me to go back and smoosh names from old fandoms where AFAIK it was never done. Nobody can convince me that referring to the hallowed Original Slash Pairing as Kock is not titter-worthy.
Finally got round to replying to comments in my LJ I'd left unanswered too long, and was shocked at just how long I'd left some of them. Bad Jack, I am. Still working on dropping feedback in friends' LJs, but I'm caught up here, at least. (Except for Kitty who's no doubt put up another response or two while I've been typing this.)
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latxcvi and FayJay pandarus and Allison Skye have been talking about the way names get smooshed together in pairings (ie Clark + Lex = Clex), and how they don't like it. I can see both sides of this one, but frankly I'm just too amused by the smooshes to give them up. (Following thoughts mainly lifted from my comments in Al's LJ cos I'm lazy, and want to get back to writing fic.)I'm a sucker for in-jokes, and apparently my sense of humour is stuck in five-year-old mode, too, because I do use the concatenated names mainly cos I find them funny. Clex, as has been pointed, does lend itself to all sorts of fun words like Clexactly and Clexciting and Clextasy. (And let's not forget Clex Mix!) I'm amused by the homonymous but very different Clana and Chlana. While I hate the idea of the pairing, I enjoy saying Lantha because it sounds like the only-slightly-less-monstrous Bantha (of Star Wars). To detour briefly into another fandom, isn't Spike/Buffy Spiffy?
And yes, I giggle at Clitney. (More like 13-year-old humour there, but who's counting?) To me, the fact that boys don't have clits just makes it funnier. I don't really like the idea of Lex/Hamilton, but it amuses me that if they got together -- since the good doctor's first name is Steven -- it would bring new meaning to Sex.
But I won't try too hard if there's not a funny new name to be made out of the two partners'. I mean, seriously, how would you combine "Jonathan" and "Lionel" and not have it look silly in an unfunny way? And in some cases, the names flow together too well and the fact that it's a pairing can be overlooked, as in Lionell.
Analysing why I do this has, ironically, inspired me to go back and smoosh names from old fandoms where AFAIK it was never done. Nobody can convince me that referring to the hallowed Original Slash Pairing as Kock is not titter-worthy.
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