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Mar. 18th, 2012 06:13 pmThings tragically cut from my article on Fandom Pairing Names (FPNs) (:D I have an acronym! I am a scholar!)
On February 14, 2012 the Faberry fan community motivated enough fanpower and effort to carry their couple to victory in the eonline TV’s Top Couple Tournament, regardless of the fact that Rachel Berry and Quinn Fabray have never shown signs of romantic interest in each other in the maintext of Glee. Although I can only conjecture, I doubt the name Quichel would have been able to motivate such enthusiasm and fervor.
And
Blending is also evocative of the inseparability of the base terms. The speaker employing the blend is not making a simple coordination; he is, in fact, referring to a concept, which is identified by the names of the two participating characters, but embodies something other than just the incorporation of the two characters. regardless of opinions about the individual characters, the pairing itself has its own set of associations and interpretations. An example of this that I recently encountered was using the pairing name descriptively. An author of a fanfiction story about characters from Glee stated in the description, “this is not a Brittana fic.” By this she meant that although some of the story would include Brittany and Santana as a couple, the point of the story was not so that they would end up together, nor was it considered the only viable pairing for either of the characters. Pairing names often carry with them a specific worldview including a set of values, hopes and valid storylines, which must not be violated in any way.
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Somehow the token [dordi] is evocative of insulting someone’s mental competence. It is understandable if others were preferred.
On February 14, 2012 the Faberry fan community motivated enough fanpower and effort to carry their couple to victory in the eonline TV’s Top Couple Tournament, regardless of the fact that Rachel Berry and Quinn Fabray have never shown signs of romantic interest in each other in the maintext of Glee. Although I can only conjecture, I doubt the name Quichel would have been able to motivate such enthusiasm and fervor.
And
Blending is also evocative of the inseparability of the base terms. The speaker employing the blend is not making a simple coordination; he is, in fact, referring to a concept, which is identified by the names of the two participating characters, but embodies something other than just the incorporation of the two characters. regardless of opinions about the individual characters, the pairing itself has its own set of associations and interpretations. An example of this that I recently encountered was using the pairing name descriptively. An author of a fanfiction story about characters from Glee stated in the description, “this is not a Brittana fic.” By this she meant that although some of the story would include Brittany and Santana as a couple, the point of the story was not so that they would end up together, nor was it considered the only viable pairing for either of the characters. Pairing names often carry with them a specific worldview including a set of values, hopes and valid storylines, which must not be violated in any way.
And
Somehow the token [dordi] is evocative of insulting someone’s mental competence. It is understandable if others were preferred.
