The perils of shipper portmanteaux
Jan. 28th, 2009 08:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eliyesSo, I just poked a fanfic that was introed as "McShep" and then also specified to be "John/Rodney".
The Department of Redundancy Department called --
McShep is McKay/Sheppard, and thus the John/Rodney was unnecessary repetition -- EXCEPT that you could conceivable have pre-marriage Jeannie McKay and John. Or you might need to specify if this were a gender-swap AU where in your McShep is, like, Joan and Meredith.
At this point in my ponderings, my brain jumped fandoms, and then I was thinking Special Agent McGee and Director Shepard --
THESE THINGS ARE DANGEROUS.
Oh well. At least "McShep" doesn't sound like a venereal disease, unlike, for example, "Squinoa".
The Department of Redundancy Department called --
McShep is McKay/Sheppard, and thus the John/Rodney was unnecessary repetition -- EXCEPT that you could conceivable have pre-marriage Jeannie McKay and John. Or you might need to specify if this were a gender-swap AU where in your McShep is, like, Joan and Meredith.
At this point in my ponderings, my brain jumped fandoms, and then I was thinking Special Agent McGee and Director Shepard --
THESE THINGS ARE DANGEROUS.
Oh well. At least "McShep" doesn't sound like a venereal disease, unlike, for example, "Squinoa".