Fandom, fandom, fandom... (With mushed ship names and other horrors)

[misscam]

*waves to newbies on flist* Hello. Feel free to poke about whenever you feel like here. I shan't bite, though my cat might.

Oi. The plagiarism in HP fandom goes on...

Good grief. And some of this only seems to be touching the surface of it. As if HP fandom needed more shit. But it does make me wonder - if a BNF sets a certain practice, do others follow? Because this does seem to have spread at least a little. Do the various fandoms need to start having revived birds-and-bees talks at certain ages? ("There comes a time in a bird's life when it may feel like stealing someone else's feathers...")

Drose????

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Kill the mushed ship names. Kill them with fire.

lotus79 if this catches on I am leaving the fandom dramatically and vociferously
misscam so am I. We can try and top each other with drama and woe in our leaving posts
lotus79 race you to f_w, heh
misscam I'll beat you. Bigger flist, more wank :P
lotus79 I will whine louder that you are a BNF and it isn't fair
misscam welcome to fandom, baby. It's as light on the fairness as it is logic

misscam I wonder if mushed ship names is wank bait for fandoms. I mean, look at CSI and HP... Ripe with it, and ripe with wank
lotus79 could be
lotus79 even more reason to fight it
misscam We need a commando team

imisscam it seems to become a trend once it first starts
misscam we could soon have Foudric
lotus79 *shudders*
misscam Fivgan
lotus79 over my rotting corpse
lotus79 T5gan looks much better
misscam that just looks like it has a Terminator in there
lotus79 hee
misscam TarDoc, the eternal OTP
misscam TwoJam, with many clever puns on flavours
lotus79 That looks far too much like toejam
misscam I guess it's a ship with much feet!porn

misscam see, now that dratted thing got me started. IT'S CONTAGIOUS. FLEE! FLEE!

Take a look at the horror of mushed ship names run free for yourself - a list of ship names from CSI fandom

Fandom seems a bit tense of late, anyhoo. Maybe we need some silliness. Or a relaxing chair. Speaking of Doctor Who fandom, I'm feeling the urge to co-write a DW fic, I am. Any of you lot be keen on such a thing at some point?

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[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

Drose.... *shudders* Sounds like the colloquial word for geode for me ^^

[misscam.livejournal.com]

There's a cheerful though - Drose, the geode ship!

*shudders too*

[th-esaurus.livejournal.com]

Mushed ship names are an endless source of amusement. Although 'Drose' makes me recoil in horror.

*shy* what sort of fic?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

They're so all over CSI fandom that mocking them is a bit like shooting fish in a barrel. Course, that never stops me.

Tenth Doctor, preferrably. Other than that, I'm just in the mood to try something a bit different and a co-writing tends to bring that since you're getting ideas from a brain other than your own as well, you know?

[ressie-noldo.livejournal.com]

Fourmana. Or Treinette.

Heaven forbid. *shudder*

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I'm sure Satan would be proud of the evil of mushed ship names, yes. He probably invents some.

[msgenevieve.livejournal.com]

Most ship names make me very cranky indeed and Drose, it seems, is no exception.

*weeps for the future*

[misscam.livejournal.com]

*offers tissue*

[sc-angel72.livejournal.com]

Oh god, it was too early in the morning for that. Drose is awful and the CSI names.... gah. And yeah, fandom is tense. Maybe it needs to get laid. Then, omg, the co-mingling of fandoms could generate MORE mushed names.

House and Pokemon could hook up and be HOP or House of Poke.
CSI could hook up with Dog the Bounty Hunter and be CUD or C. You Dog.
Desperate Housewives and Lost? Desperately Lost, baby. The big DeLo ship.

*snort* And this is exactly why I shouldn't post sleep deprived. Ah well, hopefully fandom won't euthanize me quite yet. Have a fic to finish first.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

House of Poke sounds like a porn horror movie, or some such. Hum.

You should get some snooze. I should write. But we're all naughty people and never do as we should, do we?

[teenwitch77.livejournal.com]

Oh God, the mushed ship names. Noooo! (those CSI ones... oh the horror. Who thinks of these stupid things?)

In other news... Oh my God, Doctor Who was on just now, and... I officially just adore this freaking show. And I pretty much just want to marry David Tennant. *pets*

Damn it, I did not want to be sucked into another fandom.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

People who think they're smart and cute things, obviously. Tastes will vary and all.

Yay! Told you, didn't I? :P It can be oh so addictive, and oh yes on the David Tennant bit.

Fandoms are cruel like that. Meanies.

[kittenblah.livejournal.com]

'Drose' sounds like a wonderful combination of 'dull' and 'prose', which takes the whole 'Drose fic' thing to a completely new level.

The fandom does feel a bit like it's going downhill faster than a bus on black ice right now, everyone should just ship Doctor/Handcuffs instead. Cause that's where the marmalade is at, baby.

But even the NewWho wank cant seem to compete with NewsWank, even the BBC is going loopy over airports.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Oh, compared to some of the fandoms I've been in, DW gas it relatively mild. Not that it makes it less annoying or anything.

The events of late does seem to have sparked a lot of (understandable) paranoia and media feeding frenzy. It'll die down. New stuff will replace it. How it always is.

[cedara]

*hides face at reading the ship names*

Snickers is something you eat, not some mushy ship name. Gah.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Oh, they even make ship banners involving the chocolate.

[juliejordan.livejournal.com]

I've caught up with the whole Cassie/Heidi/Ebony wank on bad_penny and I'm just lost for words that a lawyer (Heidi) and an English teacher (Ebony) would both blantantly plagiarize, then deny it and try to act like it's not a big deal.

It's always annoyed me that I don't get much recognition for my fics but at least I know that when I do get reviews, they are reviewing for something that is 100% mine and not something that's mostly a mish-mash of stolen words. I like knowing that when people praise me for my dialouge (someone the other day reviewed a LOST fic of mine and within their review, quoted a whole exchage that I'd written, saying how much they loved it), it really is of my own creation and not dozens of Black Adder quotes or whatever.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Does make one wonder what they were thinking in that circle, I have to say. Perhaps they got used to it being a norm between them and didn't think it wrong. Thus when called on it, they get very defensive.

Who knows...

How they feel about their reviews, I don't know, but even if it's not your own work that gets praise, it is you who get the attention, so maybe that's part of it.

[colorstoobright.livejournal.com]

Drose? DROSE?

Seriously. I WILL HELP YOU KILL THESE PEOPLE. THIS IS SO WRONG.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

You can be in the commando team and use a flamethrower.

Some names should never even be suggested.

[nicolamaddox.livejournal.com]

Gah, CSI ship names have to be some of the worst, (although GA has one called 'Bang' which is reasonably worrying).

And I thought YoBling was bad enough, but 'Sacklie'? 'Sodges'? 'SMACked'? Who comes up with them? And why do they feel the need to share them with the rest of us?

I have to say the threesome ones amused me ever so slightly, 'boys on the sidle' and 'the bugman and his butterflys'... I mean wtf?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Because pain should be inflicted on the innocentshared? Or they actually feel proud of them?

SMACked me think of drugs and bare bottoms, but maybe that's what the ship is about, for all I know.

There's a bit of a shipwar going on over which ship has a right to the "Butterfly" symbol, actually. Sigh.

So which GA ship is "Bang"?

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

I'm feeling the urge to co-write a DW fic, I am. Any of you lot be keen on such a thing at some point?

We really do need to finish that fic of ours. Or scrap it and write another, maybe.

Also, "Drose" and "Drosey" sound negative, to me. Like they are so boring they will put you to sleep. (*dreads "Drartha" with a due sense of exhaustion*)

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Hum, yes. Some parts of it might be salvageable, I think. You need to finish your WIPs first, though :P Write, write like the wind....!

Now, now. It could be Martor instead :P

[wingstar.livejournal.com]

Oh nooo... like DW fandom needs more wank! Some ship names do end up being kind of amusing (TwoJam XD), but Drose is just painful. =(

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Do fandoms ever need more wank? Well, maybe if they're all really bored in them.

Mushed ship names pain me by the very thinking behind them, really.

[solielle.livejournal.com]

Drose is too close to the word dross. Besides, all you save is a / and a R, so why? Besides, it doesn't specify which Doctor. That means I will be filled with false hope when people label fics with it, thinking that someone had finally written Three/Rose, only to find that no! It's Nine/Rose again! Woe! Or something.

I still think Harry Potter wins, what with their complex pairing coding system. I know it's provided me hours of entertainment.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Three/Rose? That'd be... Interesting.

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

I mean, the FUCK? It's not as if "Doc" is unambiguous.

Go away, people who think Who began in 2005. Or, better still, start mainlining DVDs.

[piaffe.livejournal.com]

Drose? Good lord, I hope that doesn't catch on.

Some of those CSI names are just plain silly. I pity new fans who have to get their heads around all those names when searching for fics. What's wrong with writing their full names, hmmm?

[piaffe.livejournal.com]

and this Harry Potter plagarism stuff is very very spooky. It almost makes me glad that I only occasionally dip my toes in that particular fandom pool.

I actually used to enjoy reading Cassandra Claire's fics because of the funny one-liners. Now I'm left wondering how many of those were actually hers. *incredulous*

[darksylvia.livejournal.com]

I saw that too.

...

And it made me throw up in my mouth a little.

[evilstorm.livejournal.com]

TarDoc actually works. Sorta.

And oy vey HP fandom. There IS a shitlist, and people ARE making their way down it. *awe*

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Slowly but surely, it seems. One a week.

[saturnianali8r.livejournal.com]

I like GSR and Geeklove name. However Drose, Grillows, YoBling, Cuff'Em and some of the other ones on that list were creepy.

Also, what about the even more crazy S.S. Hogwarts ships. Egs- S.S. Snitch and Bitch (Draco/Pansy), Drillers and Fillers (Hermione's parents), Ship to End All Ship Wars (Ron/Hermione/Harry/Ginny/Draco). I shudder at three quarters of these.
http://forums.fictionalley.org/park/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4591

[misscam.livejournal.com]

GSR is okay - it's basically an acronym, and I can live with that.

Ah yes, HP fandom. Also with the batshit - I remember Snarry well enough.

[furius.livejournal.com]

Drose?

Is this a not-so-subtle insinuation of Rose's potential chav origins?

Dross into gold, sow's ear into silk-purse..it still sounds awful.

CSI names, on the other hand, is a source of infinite amusment: Snickers!

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I think it's meant to show how cute they are mushed into one or some such. In which case, kill it even harder.

Oh, Snickers have been around for ages. They even make banners with the chocolate.

[vaskalcorp.livejournal.com]

Fire won't work. It's got to be silver and a sprig of parsley.

[mthespinner.livejournal.com]

Drose?! Drose?!?!!


Stop the individual who dreamed that up-before they reproduce!

[misscam.livejournal.com]

We don't know where the source is yet, alas.

[boz4pm.livejournal.com]

*boggles at the plagiarism* I just can't... Seriously, my brain refuses to accept that these people thought this was a perfectly acceptable thing to do.

As for 'Drose'...? *HEAD BLOODY DESK* NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Where can I sign up to join your commando unit? *loads elephant gun and looks grim*

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Right here. You're in.

People are very good at deluding themselves, as life shows.

[lyricalviolet.livejournal.com]

Ship names make my head hurt. Really, they do. They should be outlawed, along with asparagus and George W. Bush.

Also, if you still need a writing partner, I'd be interested, though keep in mind I'm in New York City and don't know what kind of timeline/time frame you're looking it. I'd love to give it a go, though :)

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Oh, I have work etc myself, so it could be spread over some time, put it that way. There's no particular rush. Just something I'd be keen on trying at some point.

[oh-medicate-me.livejournal.com]

RuGgEd Wonders??

That list makes me wonder just how much time and effort went into making these and if maybe the people who coined them did it as a joke.

And how can there be no awful smushed name for Nick/Grissom? I can come up with far too many in twenty seconds and I'm not even trying.

Stokom.
StickGil.
Stiom.
Nissom.
Grisk.
Gristokes.

...

Ugh.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

StickGil makes me think of stickmen porn.

Some of them are undoubtedly intended jokey than others, really, but they still get used in all seriousness.