jedibuttercup

I finished all of my entries for

remixthedrabble Round 7, and sent them off over the last couple days. It was my first time ever actually writing any remixes, and I'm not at all sure that I was following the rules properly with at least one of them, and the others had altogether more sex than I'm usually comfortable with writing, but... *sigh* I wrote what the stories suggested to me, and we'll see what reaction's like next week when the posts go up, I suppose! One only learns by doing. I just hope the people I wrote for don't dislike what I did with their creations.

In other news: several months too late, I've come up with an answer to that bizarrely strident Star Trek fan who insisted all over STXI fandom that labelling Kirk/McCoy fic as "K/Mc" rather than "K/M" was perpetuating racism, and wondered why people didn't default to "K/M" to begin with.

I saw a lot of people start dropping the "c" then, or spell the last names out fully when they hadn't before; and some start using cutesy names like "Jones" (Jim/Bones) rather than referring to their last names at all. Other fen, like me, just shrugged and kept writing or tagging as they had before. But I didn't see anyone (maybe I missed it?) mention the thing that just occurred to me today:

Because [Name]/m and [Name]/f are ways of referring to "other male" and "other female" in pairings; and writers want to distinguish McCoy from any implication of "random male". *facepalm*
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