Teeny weeny rant

[emmagrant01]

I'm sorry, but if you are labeling your fic as "Spirk", I ain't reading it. That's just... no. I can't go there. :-P

Comments

[thalia]

I suppose it's better than "Kock"....

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

No, I like Kock better. ;-)

[lauramcewan.livejournal.com]

oh god! *dies*

[stormwynd.livejournal.com]

My thought exactly!

[longtimegone]

Spirk is ridiculous but Spork and Kock crack me up to NO END. :))

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

OMG, Spork! I've seen that one too. That one should be used exclusively for K/S crackfic. :-D

[lauramcewan.livejournal.com]

SPORK! LMAO LMAO

[hazelhawthorne.livejournal.com]

Would you prefer Kock?

*giggles like a twelve year old*

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Why yes, thank you! ;-)

Just plain old K/S works for me. Apparently I'm too old for portmanteaus!

How are you and your LO doing? *smooches belly*

[lauramcewan.livejournal.com]

*snortgiggle*

bahahahaahahaahaaaa!!!!

SPIRK!

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

You just can't take it seriously at all, you know? As soon as I see "Spirk", I can't help but think it's going to be bad. :-P

[deadcat-vagrant.livejournal.com]

*is with Laura, giggling insanely*

[ninasis.livejournal.com]

What is so wrong with keeping K/S, as it's been labeled for decades?! Why must everything have some cutesty, stupid mashup name?

Ugh!

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I'm just too old for portmanteaus. I prefer my slash labeled the old-fashioned way -- with an actual SLASH.

[sorion.livejournal.com]

The ST slashers invented the slash for a reason... XD

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Abso-fuckin-lutely!

[capra-maritimus.livejournal.com]

*sporfle*

I suppose 'Pinto' (Pine/Quinto) is out as well? ;)

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Pinto? That just begs for some sort of crackfic!

[dramedy.livejournal.com]

Somehow this icon feels appropriate.

Mashup names can be hilarious, but I think K/S works fine for me :>

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I love that icon! The only portmanteau that has ever worked for me is Snarry. I'm not sure why, but it just sounded right. I guess I liked Snupin too. But Drarry? No. Absolutely not. :-P

[ashkitty.livejournal.com]

I have never and will never see the appeal of stupid smush names. :p

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I think I'm too old to get the appeal at this point. Plus, it's too mainstream for me. Once "Brangelina" became the thing, I was so over portmanteaus for fandom. :-P

[vichan.livejournal.com]

OH, GOD. *sporfles*

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I know, right?

[tarotemp.livejournal.com]

This very same subject came up in an IM chat the other day and I just had to post it to my LJ.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

LOL! Sushi should be an actual ship name for some femmeslash pairing. ;-)

[moony]

OBVIOUSLY it should be Spork.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

To serve as a warning for badfic involving lavender-eyed blue-skinned MarySues who help get Kirk and Spock together, right? :-D

[helens78]

I could live with Kock and Spork if I absolutely had to, but Spirk? AHAHAHA.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Somewhere, there must be a pairing called Spunk. There just HAS to be. :-P

[an-narctica.livejournal.com]

Sulu/Chekov= Chtulhu!

[aethel]

Kock or nothing!

[daybreaq.livejournal.com]

I concur. ;)
I don't have any particular aversion to portmanteaus (though I must admit I really didn't know the actual term until you used it in your comments here) though some of them seem a bit to cutesy sometimes. All of the possible combinations of the names Kirk and Spock DO come out pretty hilarious. You'd think these characters were just DESTINED to be slashed the way those names smush together so well ... oh ... yeah ... RIGHT, OF COURSE! :D

Still, as admittedly well as this pairing could fit a portmanteau, it just strikes me as WRONG to represent this pairing with any newfangled portmanteau. After all this is Kirk SLASH Spock! General fandom wisdom (hee!) is that the term slash came from this very pairing. It's just not right to represent this pairing without an actual slash symbol. Respect the HISTORY here people!

Seriously, how completely awesome is it that this slash pairing is the newest, shiniest toy everyone wants to play with and pretty much the oldest (widely distributed anyway) one at the same time? It's a seeming paradox completely worthy of Trek.

I'm such a geek!
Love your icon btw!