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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:

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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.

Pretty sure that’s precisely where “squick” comes from.

Also, this is missing some stuff:

angst: a story meant to evoke intense feelings of sadness, anguish and upsetness in the reader (think “tearjerker” for a similar non-fandom term)

wangst: a story that is intended to be angst, but comes across as laughable because the situations are too over the top or the characters are overreacting in unrelatable ways.

darkfic: a fanfiction dealing with very heavy topics (noncon, death, torture), generally in a more serious manner than the average fanfiction, without trying to gliss on the nitty gritty details.

noncon: stories dealing with the theme of nonconsensual sex (not necessarily porn or even heavily nsfw in nature)

dubcon: stories where consent is dubious, or partially inpaired, but not as clear-cut as with noncon. Unfortunately some people use it to mean pretty much “softcore/gentle noncon”, so it can have unfortunate implications…

PWP: Porn Without Plot, or Plot?What Plot?. Exactly what it sounds like.

fanon: a character trait or other detail that isn’t exactly canon, but is so widely adopted in fandom that it’s almost considered as such ( “Remus Lupin loves chocolate” for example).

prompt: in the context of fandom, is when someone gives you an idea to write about (can be a quote, an image, a concept, etc). Like “prompt: Character A has to share a bed with Character B for one night”.

OOC: Out Of Character, or Out Of Canon. When something in a story clashes with the canon or a character acts in a way that does not fit with what is shown of them in canon.

ACI: Alternate Character Interpretation. When a character acts/is portrayed in a way that is not canon-conform/never mentioned in canon but also not contradicted by canon (for example interpreting a character as bisexual when he has never shown interest in men in canon, but also has not been openly confirmed as straight). I think this is nowadays called “headcanon”?

IC: In Character. Opposite of OOC, when a story is written in a way to be as canon-compliant as possible.

Mary Sue: an overly perfect and over the top ridiculous female character, often a self-insert. Gary Stu is the male equivalent (think Eragon for example). Used to be applied to fringe cases, but has been used more loosely and subsequently came under criticism, as sometimes accusations of “sueism” could have a mysoginistic undertone.

And also: there used to be (not sure if still is) a phenomena of putting [descriptive]![character name] for alternate or very specific versions of a character. For example “black!Hermione”, “bisexual!Sirius”, “human!Shere Khan”. To add more than one you’d do it in sequence, like “vampire!redhead!Van Helsing”.

The Hetalia fandom also created 2p! for a version of a character that is the complete opposite of its canon counterpart (for example, 2p!Feliciano would be a corageous warmongering sadist)