[ SECRET POST #3149 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3149 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It wouldn't stop me reading the fic but I definitely have certain expectations about people who use them and what the fic is going to be like. Those expectations aren't very flattering.

For me, I intend never to use them for my own fic. They seem to have some usefulness for tumblr but they bug me.

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, snob. You can stick to your complicated ways and miss out on a lot of great fics.

This attitude might have been understandable when ship portmanteaus were in it's infancy but now it is pretty commonplace amongst all major fandoms. People use it because it's easy for people to find, tag it, and filter for those who don't want to see it. It also implies the fic is actually about that ship and not just a fic that happens to have those two characters in it.

Honestly this just seems like stubborn resistance against something that makes searching stuff a hell of a lot easier. For the life of me I cannot understand the problem people seem to have with it other than thinking it's immature? We have technology advancements to make things easier and texting shorthand is commonplace because almost everyone has a phone. It's so much easier to search for stuff using as little text characters as possible on phones than to type everything out.

I have searched for ship stuff using 'and' or 'x' between character names and I get so much unrelated results and ships that I wasn't searching for, but ship portmanteaus give me exactly what I am looking for.

I mean if you already have that niche where you can type both names out and find everything you need, then good for you. But enough with the condescending attitude for people who choose to use ship portmanteaus. Especially since I know a lot of people (in my fandom at least) are frequently reading fics and browsing on their mobile phones.

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, are you reading a lot into what I said. Did you read what I wrote?

Because I said it wouldn't stop me from reading a fic, so I'm not missing out on anything.
And I also said that I acknowledge that they are useful on tumblr, meaning all the points you said about searching/tagging.

Regarding the rest, my opinions are based on experience. There are some people who use portmanteaus and write great fics. They exceed my expectations. But that is very rare. Most of the time I get exactly what I expect to get, which is subpar. So I have correspondingly managed my expectations.

And I'm not going to apologize or explain the fact that they bug me. They just do. Calm down.