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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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just think how wicked you must have been in a past life!
Tittering
OK, I've actually laughed my tits right off. They're sitting there on the carpet looking sheepish, and now I'm all flat chested, and it's YOUR fault.
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You and Fay are each wonderful in your own ways and I don't normally confuse you, honest.
well, that wasn't what I meant when I said tittering
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And yes, I get a 14-year-old-boy thrill out of Clitney! Har har! It's a dirty word! But what's the party line on Chloe/Clark/Lex? I've been calling it Chlarx, but that sounds like a Star Trek character...
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I've heard it called Chlexark. I kinda like it. Another goofy yet regal pairing.
And Nell/Lionel should be "Nellonel" -- the most evil candy bar ever!
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Malarkey? Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! That is too funny. If the three of them together didn't squick me so bad (Lazarus Long I ain't), I'd write something just for the humour value.
Your suggestion for Bantha is (say it with me) monstrous.
I do know Spuffy is the generally accepted smoosh, but to me they're just Spiffy. Course I'm still boggling at the fact that I'm watching a show (and Buffy no less) primarily to follow a het pairing. I think my slash goggles may need to be adjusted.
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Chlarx, but that sounds like a Star Trek character...
You slay me with funny, Hope.
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