@EvilQueen wrote:
“One true pairing”
I don’t understand it too well myself yet, but I guess it’s an way of indicating how much a fan is emotionally committed when shipping certain couples?
Well, where there is one true love there should be one true pairing 😛
Rumours have it, that the first one true pairing was Spock/Kirk (something for fandom historians, from times when we were not as creative with ship names as today, uhm, with names for excisting or wished for relationships of characters of a series or movie) 😉
It means the one and only pairing a fan is interested in, the one pairing that is meant to be. Can lead sometimes to ship wars (no, not things swimming in water fighting each others, but supporters of different pairings in the same fandom having heated and long lasting arguments) and flame wars (flames are angry, offensive, hostile comments or messages).
Seems to me the term is used by some less strict by now, some have more than one one true pairing in one fandom (doesn’t make sense to me but terms change with time).
Concerning writing names out: As long as we don’t have some “Hadschi Halef Omar Ben Hadschi Abul Abbas Ibn Hadschi Dawud al Gossarah” living in Storybrooke I think it’s not too much to ask.
(any German should know that name. It’s one of Karl May’s fictional characters. More about that character here )
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