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⌈ Secret Post #3589 ⌋

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Inspired by #1

[(Anonymous)]

What's the worst or most confusing ship-name system or portmanteau you've ever come across?

What's the best, if any? Are there any good systems besides name/name?

Re: Inspired by #1

[kaijinscendre]

CSI always had fantastic ones. GSR for Grissom/Sara Romance was the best.

I also like Avengers ones. They are not used as much but I thought it was great to use a the same word to be used in any combo. So FrostIron, Thunderfrost, IronShield, etc.

I hated Yu-Gi-Oh ship names. There were too many. Just...wayyy too many.

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[(Anonymous)]

I've always liked Thunderfrost for Thorki, it sounds so ~pretty

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[(Anonymous)]

YGO ship names were stupid and many of them were just plain weird.

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[meredith44]

I love the Avengers ones. They are interesting, but they are still easy to figure out.

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[(Anonymous)]

This is old, but I always thought it was weird that Harry/Hermione was "Pumpkin Pie." For years I actually thought it was Harry/Ginny or Ron/Hermione! (Because Ginny and Ron are ginger.)

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[(Anonymous)]

Reservoir Dogs ship names on tumblr have gotten comically bad recently. I accepted people calling Orange/White "Creamsicle" even if it was too cutesy for me, but a while back I saw someone calling Eddie/Vic "Toothpick Bitchslap", and that was when I knew that I as officially in a different generation of that fandom

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[(Anonymous)]

the gundam wing fandom also used numbers. ex: 3x4 was trowa/quatre...I think. I know quatre was four because of his name and I know the other characters were also assigned numbers based on their names but I could never freakin' keep them straight.

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[(Anonymous)]

One of my favorites is that the VAs refer to Hiccup/Astrid as Asscup. (The fandom prefers Hicstrid) Sheith for Shiro/Keith

Portmanteau:
Pros - often unique and easy to search.
Cons - Often look and sound stupid.
Fights over the proper spelling.

Pairing Nicknames (Stormpilot, Stark Spangled Banner)-
Pros - More appealing
Cons - More confusing
May conflict with other fandoms if you pick something common like ___ Husbands

Name/Name -
Pros - Easy to understand. Matter of fact and not cutesy or dumb looking.
Cons - Risk of / messing up search or formatting or just whatever problems programming has with it.
Fights over NameA/NameB vs. NameB/NameA

Re: Inspired by #1

[nanslice]

I always liked Gundam Wing's shipping conventions. Most of the characters have names based on numbers in various languages so the fandom just use those. For example, Heero was 1 and Duo was 2, so their ship was 1x2 (or 2x1, because GW definitely followed the "top goes first" rule).

Re: Inspired by #1

[dancingmouse]

The most confusing ones to me are ones that are heavily based off of Fandom in-jokes. Like they call a couple Raisin Bran because of a random Fanfic that called them that, or Sock Monkey because of a strange IM chat a few BNFs had one night. I mean, they're funny if you're in on the joke, but not everyone is, and it can get confusing to casual or newer fans.

The best ones to me are ones that either mix the two names together, or have a nickname that even casual fans can get, like Puppies/Puppylove for Sirius and Remus, or Snarry.

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[morieris]

I think this is Gossip Girl, but apparently Chuck + Blair = Chair.

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[ketita]

Oh man, the Yugioh shipping system was something else. Puzzleshipping, Puppyshipping, Hikarishipping... idek, I see lists nowadays that are hundreds of ships long and I can't even tell if any of them were just made up or if all of them were in use.

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[(Anonymous)]

The pokemon fandom uses ____shipping (similar to the YGO fandom) and I pretty much always forget which name goes with which pairing. I know namelessshipping is the game version of red/green and that originalshipping is the manga version of the same pairing, but I have to double check the wikia for pretty much every other pairing.

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[otakugal15]

ALL of the Pokemon fandom names. There were a few that made sense, like RocketShipping, GakiShipping (if you knew the japanese name for the twerps),PokeShipping, PalletShipping, PearlShipping sorta made sense...ish (that's Ash/Dawn), but the rest just...never made sense. Especially since they would literally pull ships out of their asses and just...pick a random name.

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[vethica]

I love namesmushes, honestly. The stupider the better. My favorites are Snotacon and Clotiris, with an honorable mention going to Katpee.

Descriptive pairing names (like the abovementioned Pumpkin Pie) I find make no sense half the time, and the other half they're genius. I want to give a medal to whoever came up with calling Tony/Steve/Bruce "Stark Spangled Banner".

_____shipping names are just silly.

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[ginainthekingsroad]

Most of my friends are now married couples. It's gotten to the point where we now use couple names/portmanteaus a lot simply because it's shorter to type and most of the time they come to gatherings as one unit. One of them, a couple named Sarah and Norton, is now Saton (aka SATAN), and this pleases me.

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[(Anonymous)]

Worst system is just sticking the name together. Alice/Bob means one loves the other more, Alice + Bob has them all lovey dovey, Alice x Bob has X rated thing happening between them, AliceBob is the characters sewn together Human Centipede style and Albob is... a freaky DBZ fusion of the two?

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[ariakas]

Otasune is terrible, because

a) 99.999% of the time people write Snake/Otacon so it's kind of confusing

b) It's based on the Japanese transliteration of "snake" which is even more confusing when you're first wandering into the fandom

S/S, S/K, etc., from X/1999 are also terrible because there are multiple characters with names that start with both S and K. I mean you probably mean Subaru/Kamui, right, but what if you're writing Seishirou/Kotori?

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[ibbity]

In the heyday of the hetalia fandom, some people referred to Estonia/Latvia as Livonia, which I always found lulzy

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[philstar22]

I love the Tolkien ones. Angbang. Silverfisting (some in the fandom want to change it to Silvergifting, but I like fisting better), Russingon.

The ones that I think are the worst are the ones that just smush the names. Those just seem lazy to me.

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[(Anonymous)]

The best shipping portmanteau of all time is Caskett. They solve murder mysteries! How could it be better?

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[nightscale]

I very rarely like name-smushes but some of them eventually grow on me(Malec, RicStar). There are some nicknames I really like though like AtomicHawk for Ray/Kendra, I think that's fun.

Ultimately I'd prefer it if tumblr's tagging system would allow for the / between names so I can just tag character/character as I've always done but if I'm making fanwork I'll just use the name-smush since it's easier(reblogged posts I tend to go with characterxcharacter instead).

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[(Anonymous)]

Tbh I still prefer simply Name/Name or even NameName but my latest ship doesn't seem to have a cutesy nickname and I've come to realize searching tumblr for just their names can get annoying because you get all kind of crap that has nothing to do with your ship.

I dislike portmanteaus that make up an existing word because, again it makes searching for your ship harder.

As for specific names I hated, I always disliked the name for Fury/Coulson which was 'Shield Daddies'. Ugh. I get it they're older, and they're in SHIELD and Coulson can act a bit paternal to his people sometimes, but Fury? And it just sounded weird. But Shield Husbands was already taken and no one wanted to come up with anything new or sth? Even though in the comics those characters were fairly young and not that high up in SHIELD so the name didn't even make sense.

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[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I have already said a couple of times in this thread, the times when ship-names annoy me is when I cannot work out who they are about.

Name/Name systems, no matter what the symbol in the middle and whether topping priority applies, are totally clear, but can I say a bit boring?

I like portmanteaus can be amusing if they end up adding up into something that sounds funny - like Vethica said, ones like Snotacon and Clotiris, plus can I mention Supin, who sounds like Snoopy's chocolate addict British cousin? They're fun, sometimes.

The descriptive ones, as I have said, can get very obscure if they reference things that are more linked to fanfic and fandom incidents rather than just referencing canon details.