Squee: The noise you make when something is so goodĀ 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 elseās comfort is not your own.
YKINMKATO: Also calledĀ ākink tomato.ā Abbreviation meaningĀ āyour kink is not my kink, and thatās okay.ā 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 peopleās comments
Flames: The comment equivalent of anon hate.
AMV:Ā āanimated music videoā orĀ āanime music video.ā Often, this is stylized to fit a specific fandom, such as aĀ āPMVā (pony music video) in my little pony. May also be referred to as a lyricstuck.
Filk: Combination of the wordsĀ āfilmā andĀ āfolk,ā this is a music genre, to whichĀ āfan songsā andĀ āfan parody coversā belong. If you donāt really understand what this means, take a quick listen to American Pie, then compare Weird Al YankovicāsĀ Saga Begins
BNF: Big name fan. You know that one personĀ who is just so fuckign popularĀ 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 everās senpai? Thatās what these people are called.
DL:DR;Ā Not unliked the teal deer (tl;dr, orĀ ātoo long, didnāt readā), DLDR meansĀ ādonāt like? Donāt read!ā Itās 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 donāt actively likeĀ something? Itās not worth your time. Skip it.
Gen: orĀ āgenficāĀ āgenartā etc. Fan works which contain no or very little romantic content. Often these are styled after the canon material, and may be calledĀ āepisodicā roĀ āslice of lifeā in addition.Ā
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.Ā
WAFF: Warm and fluffy feelings. A genre of fic that exists just to be therapeutically sweet. Nowadays, usually just calledĀ āfluffy.ā
Schmoop: Take WAFF and somehow make it even more syrupy. Youāll know it when you see it.
Whump: Imagine if you will, a hurt-comfort fic. The comfort might be considered WAFF. The hurt? Thatās the whump.
Wapanese: When white autors pepper their anime fanfic with random, tonally inappropriate japanese words.Ā
Anthropomorfic: Nowadays we just call theseĀ āhumanstuckā orĀ āhumanized AU.ā
Wank: Wildly disproportionate drama that crops up because someone wrote/drew/did something that someone else didnāt like. Seriously, I cannot begin to express the fiascos that have come about from all this. Justā¦ Just go look at this.
Ā Plot bunny: Story ideas that you probably wonāt ever actually deal with, but that multiply entirely out of control, creating huge worlds in your head that youāre 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,Ā 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 doesnāt require the character to die, but rather to be such a screaming harpy that they get rightfully removed from the main charactersā 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.
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