Hey idk if you still make T7S ship names, but I was hoping you could help me make one for Jackie x Laurie?
I love Lab Partners for Buddy x Eric (It helps to differentiate from my other Beric ship), Dyde for Donna x Hyde, and Kelfez for Kelso x Fez (sorry, I just can't call them Sex and Candy).
Hi!
Some ideas: Lovers and Fighters, Hot Rollers, Girl Talk
Blog followers, feel free to suggest others. They need to be related to Jackie and Laurie specifically to work. I used "Van Stock" (2x06) and "Cat Fight Club" (2x25) for the three above.
Note 1: Most of the original T7S fandom ship names were created long before I joined the fandom. Once I became a moderator of the T7S message board at Fan Forum, where the names were created, we changed a few (for a variety of reasons). Sex and Candy for Fez/Kelso is a holdover we never changed. It's inspired by the song of the same name by Marcy Playground (a song that got a lot of radio play in the late '90s when T7S began airing).
Note 2: I hate blends for ship names, partly because they sound silly to me, partly because they take no imagination, and partly because people used to create ship names with thought and effort and by consensus. The below isn't directed at the Anon but the use of blends as ship names
Let's take Dyde for Donna and Hyde as a prime example. It sounds like died. Which is exactly what Hyde's hope for a romantic relationship with Donna did: died. People from the T7S fandom pre-2010 and a little afterward would've found it hilarious because they hated the Donna/Hyde ship.
Beric makes me think of a bear.
Jelso makes me think of jealous or JELL-O.
Deric is the name Derek.
Jyde -- wtf is a Jyde? 😄
Burkhyde takes absolutely no imagination. Might as well just write Jackie x Hyde.
And so on.
But Zenmasters, Goons, Lab Partners all tie directly into the characters' relationship. They're instantly recognizable for fans of the show who've watched the show passionately enough take part in the fandom. Blends are lazy and don't always clearly indicate who the two characters in a ship are. Beric, for instance, could be Brooke/Eric. Generic. Non-informative.
Felso is the blend for Fez x Kelso people tend to use. It's Kelso with the first letter of Fez replacing K. I don't like Sex and Candy either, but at least it captures the characters' obsessions -- Fez is obsessed with candy while Kelso is obsessed with sex. (Although Fez becomes obsessed with sex, too, later in, but not the way Kelso is characterized.)
