#i haven't seen nicknaming to this degree in ANY other fandom

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"Zira" "Azi" "Az" SIGHHHHHH

is anybody else irritated at the widespread fandom nicknaming of Aziraphale and fucking nobody else? is that just me? because it really feels like a "oooh [wince-hisses through teeth], no, that's too long and weird. that's too hard. i'm gonna call you This instead" situation, and i do not care for it. it pissed me off when i was writing good omens fanfic thirteen years ago and it pisses me off now. you care enough about everyone else to get their names right, all the unusual demon and angel monikers, but oh no, Aziraphale, oh that's ten whole letters, that's way too long. oh you're not gonna bother to type all that, no, his name is just Zira now.

and like, he's not real, so this super duper does not matter and isn't deeply and incredibly shitty the way it is when it's directed at real people. but it still rubs me the wrong way every time i see it. that's not his name! why is his name not good enough for you to take the time to type out the way you do for everyone else! ugh.

#i dunno. i dunno. #i am hoping posting this gets it off my chest and helps me stop being quite as fucking annoyed about it #this isn't directed at any one person #this is widespread #i haven't seen nicknaming to this degree in ANY other fandom #which is why i can't just tell myself it's a friendly nickname because he's likeable and familiar or whatever #it's definitely a Me Problem but there's so many good posts i haven't reblogged #or have sighed while reblogging or just straight up have stopped reading because of this #i do realize that for a lot of folks #it's probably just that they've seen other people doing it and figured it's just part of the good omens fandom culture #i don't care :/ #NOBODY ELSE gets nicknamed like this