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I know discourse is the word of choice in fandom nowadays but I kind of wish we would have stuck with “fandom wank” because it carries the implication that the anger involved culminated into effectively nothing and that the act was wholeheartedly masturbatory in nature rather than for any greater cause.

I saw this post about an hour after I saw a post that said, essentially, “There should be a word for that thing where [exactly describes ‘squeeing’].”

I feel like the time has come to produce something like this:

citrus 

@vergess

Squee: The noise you make when something is so good that all you can really do is squeak or squeal. A high pitched sound of delight, often accomanied by hugging yourself or others.

Squick: A fic/art/concept/topic that is repellent to you, so you reject association with it and instead retreat to your personal comfortable spaces- all the while remembering that someone else’s comfort is not your own.

YKINMKATO: Also called “kink tomato.” Abbreviation meaning “your kink is not my kink, and that’s okay.” Used to explain why you are rejecting art or fic brought to you by someone else. A solid mantra to recall instead of sending flames in people’s comments

Flames: The comment equivalent of anon hate.

AMV: “animated music video” or “anime music video.” Often, this is stylized to fit a specific fandom, such as a “PMV” (pony music video) in my little pony. May also be referred to as a lyricstuck.

Filk: Combination of the words “film” and “folk,” this is a music genre, to which “fan songs” and “fan parody covers” belong. If you don’t really understand what this means, take a quick listen to American Pie, then compare Weird Al Yankovic’s Saga Begins

BNF: Big name fan. You know that one person who is just so fuckign popular in your fandom? Their art is always on your dash, everyone knows their fics? Being spoken to directly by them is basically being noticed by everyone ever’s senpai? That’s what these people are called.

DL:DR; Not unliked the teal deer (tl;dr, or “too long, didn’t read”), DLDR means “don’t like? Don’t read!” It’s a reminder that you are under no obligation, ever, to expose yourself to uncomfortable (or, squicky), or potentially harmful (or, triggering), material. Not ever. If you don’t actively like something? It’s not worth your time. Skip it.

Gen: or “genfic” “genart” etc. Fan works which contain no or very little romantic content. Often these are styled after the canon material, and may be called “episodic” ro “slice of life” in addition. 

Lemon: Work containing strong pornographic elements

Lime, or Citrus: Work containing mild or implicit pornographic elements

Sockpuppeting: The surprisingly common scenario of someone making a bunch of fake accounts/sideblogs to send themselves reviews or hate, to try to increase views or drama surrounding a work. The accounts they make are called Sockpuppets. 

WAFF: Warm and fluffy feelings. A genre of fic that exists just to be therapeutically sweet. Nowadays, usually just called “fluffy.”

Schmoop: Take WAFF and somehow make it even more syrupy. You’ll know it when you see it.

Whump: Imagine if you will, a hurt-comfort fic. The comfort might be considered WAFF. The hurt? That’s the whump.

Wapanese: When white autors pepper their anime fanfic with random, tonally inappropriate japanese words. 

Anthropomorfic: Nowadays we just call these “humanstuck” or “humanized AU.”

Wank: Wildly disproportionate drama that crops up because someone wrote/drew/did something that someone else didn’t like. Seriously, I cannot begin to express the fiascos that have come about from all this. Just… Just go look at this.

 Plot bunny: Story ideas that you probably won’t ever actually deal with, but that multiply entirely out of control, creating huge worlds in your head that you’re probably not going to write. But hey! You might! And until then they make great sideblogs/askblogs/tumblr posts.

Casefic: Fanfics that try to create an episode-like feel for procedural and crime dramas, moster of the week shows, etc.

Jossed: When popular fan theories and fanon are addressed in the canon of a series, and whoops, turns out we were all very, very wrong.

Kripked: When popular fan theories and fanon are addressed in the canon of a show and, hot damn, we fucking called it.

Secret Masters: The people who run the websites/ communities/etc that we all do our fanning on. Less relevant now that we have things like tumblr, but when everyone had to run their own archival and social sites for each fandom, it was more important to pay our respects to the strange and powerful beings that brought us all together and gave us our fannish homes. Think the staff of AO3, for example.

Bashing: When a writer purposefully writes a specific character as a horrible, horrible person so that they can throw them out of the storyline, usually to allow their OTP to get together without trouble. Distinct from fridging in that it doesn’t require the character to die, but rather to be such a screaming harpy that they get rightfully removed from the main characters’ lives for being an abusive hell beast. Generally, a type of character hate. Be wary of people who bash women, queer people, and POC with consistency: they are not safe to be around.

‘Squick’ also has an alternate horrible meaning for Harry Potter fans who were in fandom a while back. Dear god.

Drabble: A fic that is EXACTLY 100 words. Often used as a creative exercise in telling a story in a very small constraint.

Ficlet: Fic that clocks in somewhere between 100 to 2.5K words.

Crossover: A piece of media in which two or more source materials are treated as the same universe. Characters from Fandom A can meet characters from Fandom B. (The Doctor Goes To Hogwarts And Meet Harry Potter!)

Fusion: A fusion takes the characters of one source material and *surplants* them into another universe entirely. Characters from Fandom A cannot meet characters from Fandom B. (Dave Strider is part of an Inception team!)

TPTB: The Powers That Be. Almost always redundantly referred to as “the TPTB.” A collective term for showrunners, actors, producers, writers, et al, anyone who is part of the team that creates the source material.

YMMV: Your Mileage May Vary. A shorthand way of saying “this is how I see it/have experienced it though I realize others might have a different perspective.”

Tinhatting: Often used in RPF fandoms, the situation where some fans are convinced two celebrities are in a relationship but its being kept a secret.

@blackkatmagic this is giving me flashbacks

PWP: “Porn without plot”; roughly synonymous with lemon.

Smut: General term for sensual and/or sexy scenes, fics, etc. A “smut fic” can mean anything from a lime to a lemon.

Smexy: Roughly a combination of sexy and yummy. Highly desirable.

OC: “Original character”; a character of the author’s own creation inserted into a canon. Not synonymous with self insert.

Self insert: an OC intended to represent a (sometimes idealized) version of the author. Not synonymous with Mary Sue/Gary Stu/Marty Stu, but often conflated.

OOC: “Out of character”; in fic this means poor characterization of a canon character. In RP this means a comment made by the mun.

IC: “In character”; the antonym of OOC, used in RP.

Mun: The person behind a character (the muse) in an RP.

Muse: The character someone (the mun) plays in an RP.

A/N: “Author’s note”; most often used at the beginning or end of a shorter fic or a chapter of a longer fic; somewhat of a fic equivalent of OOC in RP; sometimes inserted in the middle of the writing as a sort of metatextual commentary.

Meta: Short for metatextual, which means “beyond the text.” Often refers to fourth wall-breaking behavior (characters acknowledging they’re in a piece of fiction), but can include such things as outside strategizing (in a game) or commentary on the work.

OTP: “One true pairing”; this is the ship you would die for.

NoTP: Opposite of OTP, this is worst possible ship you can think of for a material or a character.

OT3: “One true threesome”; same as an OTP, but with one more character (variations such as OT4, OT5, and so on are fairly uncommon but used).

Slash: Male/male fic. Mostly used for Western works, derived from K/S (Kirk-slash-Spock), the grandaddy of all slash fiction. Has nothing to do with the musician.

Yaoi: Male/male fic, often used specifically with manga, anime, and Japanese video games. Sometimes interchangable with shounen-ai, but sometimes used to describe explicit male/male fic.

Shounen-ai: “Boys’ love”; similar to yaoi but often used to refer specifically to less explicit works.

Femslash: General term for female/female fics (equivalent to slash, though the use of slash for female/female pairings is not unheard of).

Yuri: The female/female equivalent of yaoi.

Shoujo-ai: “Girls’ love”: the female/female equivalent of shounen-ai.

F/F, M/M, M/F, etc: Shorthand for the genders in a specific relationship in a romantic and/or sexy work. Sometimes varied with capitalization or order to imply a top/bottom or dom/sub dynamic.

Kinkfic: A fic specifically focused on catering to a kink.

Noncon: “Nonconsensual”; here there be rape.

Dubcon: “Dubiously consensual”; here there be scenes that border on rape.

AU: “Alternate universe”; can mean anything from having the characters as mundane college students to straight up putting Naruto characters in the Harry Potter setting. This can also mean an alternate ending or continuity from canon.

Fixfic: Overlaps with AU. A fan work created to fix what the creator perceives as something wrong in the source.

Fluff: Sweet, romantic, cute fic. Can also mean a fic that’s cute but has no bearing on the plot.

WAFF: “Warm and fuzzy feelings”; the feeling you get from well-written fluff.

Hurt/comfort: Kind of like fluff, but with one character comforting the other.

RPF: “Real person fanfic”; what it says on the tin. Things like YouTuber fic, band fic, actor fic, etc. fall under this umbrella. Crossover RPF can mean people from different groups, such as members of different bands or actors from different shows.

RPS: “Real person slash”; the slash-specific equivalent to RPS.

Mpreg: “Male pregnancy”; (typically cis) men getting pregnant.

A/B/O: “Alpha/beta/omega”; an AU where there are biological and well-defined social classes somewhat based on outdated ideas of how wolf packs are structured. Very complex.

Vignette: Can be a synonym for either drabble or ficlet, on its own can mean either a single short self-contained scene or a fic around 500 words long.

Detail!Character: Used to mean a specific variation of a character, sometimes in an AU context, such as trickster!Dave or fem!John.

Genderbend: aka “cisswap” or “rule 63.” A type of AU where the characters’ genders are “switched” in accordance to the gender binary.

Rule 34: If it exists, there is porn of it. (Sometimes followed by rules 35 “if there is no porn of it, it shall be made” and 36 “it’s someone’s fetish”; occasionally also with rule 63 “for a given male character, a female version exists; for a given female character, a male version exists.”)

Watsonian vs. Doylist: The perspective of within the fictional universe vs. outside the fictional universe (from the perspective of the fictional author John Watson or the real author Arthur Conan-Doyle).

Canon: The main meat of the source, such as the original book, movie, show, etc. This means the default, vanilla version of things happening exactly as in the source. Can also refer to just the source, or the continuity of a particular AU.

Word of God: What the creator/s have said about the canon. Considered either a form of lesser canon or as canon outright. Can get very complex if multiple creators say conflicting things. (Example: Dumbledore being gay; never mentioned in the books, but confirmed by the author.) Some fandoms have specific names for WoG (such as the tiers of canon in the NGE fandom).

‘Verse, (thing)verse: The overarching world (universe) surrounding a piece or pieces of fiction. For example, the Harry Potter books share a ‘verse with Fantastic Beasts. Sometimes portmanteau’d with the name of the source (Buffyverse for what started with BtVS and including Angel, Potterverse, etc).

Original Flavor: A fanwork that sounds/looks like it came from the original canon; an author or artist whose style closely mimics the original.

I….feel old. Do the youngins not know these?