Seriously?

[selenak]

Now I never liked smushed pairing names, from Spuffy onwards, and you'd think I'd have developed a thick skin by now, but they still manage to catch me my unpleasant surprise. This morning I spotted the horror that is "Cherik" for the first time.

....

I think Babylon 5 is probably the only one of my fandoms immune to the habit (so far, knock on wood). Not only were we spared "Lo'kar" or "Gondo", but even the big fandom ships like John/Delenn, Talia/Susan or Marcus/Ivanova were not given cutesy nicknames. Phew.

Comments

[lilacsigil]

Ha ha, yes, Cherik is almost on the level of "Spuffy"! But whenever I read it I just sing "Cherik the thought..." to myself, a la very young Madonna. It helps!

[selenak]

Alas, the name associates a different 80s tune for me, and Cherry Cherry Lady is playing in my head...

[lilacsigil]

I just looked that up on YouTube and oh wow, I feel terribly sorry for you now. Still, I'm sure someone will do a techno remix soon and you'll have a speeded-up version that will pass more quickly!

[ratcreature]

I share your horror. Cherik is not the worst I've seen (I still think that honor goes to Snermione and the extremely confusing threesome smooshes, but it's up there with Spirk, definitely.) I'm seeing this most on Tumblr. I assume in part is is used because tags with a / don't work properly there.

[andraste]

I look on it as a quick way to weed out stories I don't want to read! (Which, is kneejerk prejudice on my part, but it's not like I am short of Xavier/Magneto stories these days. I have yet to see anything labelled 'Cherik' that looked like something that I would want to read.)

I am afraid that if B5 where in its heyday, we would be subjected to Jelenn, Salia and ... Musan? Sarcus? Oh dear.

[selenak]

I fesr you are right. But you make a great point re M/X stories!