Anyone else remember a time we didn't come up with ridiculous abbrevations?

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There's an actual discussion going down in one of my comms right now that's discussing the best way to combine the names of two characters to show that they're a pairing. Please, someone, put me out of my misery. What the hell ever happened to just writing it out? Does anyone remember how to do that? It's not that hard. Look:

Jim/Blair
Josh/Sam
Jed/Leo
Bug/Nigel
Faser/RayK

And look! It works with longer names too:

Malcom/Trip
Ferris/Cameron
Monty/Eddie
Huang/Stabler
Dinozzo/McGee

Why the flying fuck must everyone have a nickname? The whole point of calling it slash in the first place was because the slash was used to show the pairing. Remember? We are none of us Dr. Seuss, so I do not understand this burning need to make up words like him.

And I'm tired of needing a goddamned decoder ring to figure out what the hell I'm reading.

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I don't know if you were the one who ranted about it years ago on your LJ, or if it was someone else, but "McShep" actually means "the son of Shep", not what the people who use the term think it means.

That wasn't me, but EW.

Initials I would be totally cool with, and that's actually how people did it back in the day [god, I feel like an old lady], but then there was hollering about initials getting confusing, and people switched over to full names. Apparently now it's all about being confusing but "creative" at the same time. Stabbity, I say.