I saw a TikTok that made me think about naming convention of ships. It was about someone talking about some fight about the ship name of Olrugio and Qifrey from witch hat atelier.
I'm kinda old school in fandom space. Like, I was in fandom space before 2015, got a bit out of anything fandom related for a bit, safe for reading some superbat and sterek fanfic here and there, and now I'm back creating in a fandom space again.
But like, I was from the time of citrus scale (smut/fluff who?) and I was first introduced to shipping by fujoshi/fudanshi culture, shipping name had a different rule. That was the placement of names.
The first name is the top and the second was the bottom (or seme and uke) but then when I get to more western fandoms (around my sterek and superbat introduction) the ship name was just to sound good (everlark, former Peenis I'm looking at you) so I was very confused at first (Stiles doesn't top Derek at alllll)
And that when we no thinking about simbolic ship name like Devil's minions from An Interview with a vampire or all the shopping from R.U.B.Y (remember that??)
Now I'm here, Hollanov fan, thinking in my heart about the name Rozander cause that's was how I was raised.