Those pesky fanfic acronyms, abbreviations, and random odd terms

[polgarawolf]

Hi, all! The owner/moderator of this lovely community asked me to post about some of the more often used fanfic acronyms/abbreviations. Of course, after I agreed, I discovered that the best fandom glossary I know of no longer seems to function (though it might come back online later, in which case I suggest that those who're interested check back

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[polgarawolf]

*Lol!* Actually, it's rather prosaic. Dear ol' Georgie is rather fond of wearing plaid and/or flannel shirts. Or at least he used to be, when he was making the OT. The nicknames started basically as descriptive little nomikers and they've stuck for quite some time. Even my mom refers to Mr. Lucas as the Flanneled One sometimes

[polgarawolf]

*Lol!* S'okay, I know what you mean! (And my spelling doesn't always have a good end-of-the-week-and-out-of-brain-cells excuse.)

No problem! There's lots and lots and lots of SW books. Probably about 100 novels alone, plus maybe, oh, 50ish or more young adult books, plus the kids books, plus all of the graphic novels and comics (of which there are probably close to a thousand individual comics). And then there's the games with their storylines, too. Trust me when I tell you that few fans keep up with it all. Most of us either stick mainly with certain characters we like or either pick books over comics or comics over games or some combo of all of those to follow and either ignore the rest or else cheat and read up on them on the SW Wiki instead.

[polgarawolf]

*Lol!* Yes, Obi-Wan's in quite a few of the prequel-era books (and I'll be quite happy if he ends up being in more!) and a lot of the prequel-era comics, too (though of course, if you're like me, you read those and fill in the actors mentally). There's no such thing as too much Obi-Wan. No such thing at all, ever!

That's my favorite SW place. I think I spend more or at least as much time just poking around on the Wookiepedia, reading and looking at the media files, than I do visiting any other site, even if you combined all the different lj communities.

[polgarawolf]

I probably spend as much time on the Wookiepedia as I do because I like to research and read about things I'm not familiar with in the EU (like the characters from the games and how their bios connect them to each other). I lose track of the time a lot because I follow links to articles with more links and then to more articles with more links and . . . well, you get the idea.

I tend to like the prequel-era books a lot more than I do the other stuff that's being written at the other end of the EU (post-NJO series stuff), so I spend a lot of time rereading those. It's kind of odd because even though I tend to like almost all of the prequel-era books, I'm constantly disappointed because Obi-Wan isn't actually in all of the novels. So I spend an inordinate amount of time trying to imagine what the other prequel novels would read like if Obi-Wan had been in them. I'm probably far too entertained by those kinds of what-ifs.

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[polgarawolf]

I've been a fan of the SW saga since I was a little girl & first saw the movie that was still called Star Wars and hadn't been renamed A New Hope yet. So I grew up reading a lot of the old SW Bantam books - A C Crispin's Han books, Barbara Hambley's books with Callista, the Thrawn books by Timothy Zahn, etc. - & spent a lot of time scribbling really embarrassing speculative stories about the people I really wanted to see some books about, namely Obi-Wan Kenobi & Anakin Skywalker. I was completely fascinated with the idea of those two & their friendship & the reason why Obi-Wan would blame himself so completely for Anakin's (well, death, at first, but then it turned out it was a figurative death since the Vader personality murdered Anakin in his rise to power as a Sith Lord) fall from the very beginning. I have to admit all the time when people ask about whether or not I read/tolerate slash that I was slashing people even before I was ever old enough to've known the term or what it meant). Reading about the other people from the films

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[polgarawolf]

I swear I bet the Flanneled One is somewhere laughing up his sleeve at all the people who see Anakin and Padme and think "O, true love!" and get swoony. For pity's sake, the whole darn prequel saga is pretty much about how nothing is what is seems, on the surface. You'd think more people would've caught on to that, not to mention Anakin's neediness and ego/insecurity issues (given, duh, he spent most of ten years as a SLAVE) plus the severely unhealthy (one might even say fucked up) power dynamic in that particular relationship, and twig to the fact that what Anakin and Padme share is not real love. It kills me that people don't get that, that they can actually watch the movies and get anything like a healthy relationship or a romantic love out of what Padme and Anakin have. It's like calling a drug addiction romantic, for pity's sake

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[polgarawolf]

*Sighs* Yes, my sympathy for Liam Neeson keeps undermining my disgust with Qui-Gon. And every time I come up with something to inflict on Qui-Gon that's that what he deserves, I get this mental flash of Obi-Wan giving me this heart-broken expression, and I end up going easy on the schmuck so Obi won't look like somebody just killed his kitten

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[polgarawolf]

Anakin never knew her well enough as a person to really know or love her. Neither one of them really spend enough time with the other to ever get past the stage of infatuation with the concept they have of each other. They have limerence, really, not love. I don't really know if Padme ever actually allows herself to be close enough to anyone (either in canon or EU) to've ever been what I would call truly in love. And the only person Anakin ever knew enough to truly love was Obi-Wan, IMHO. Those two are my SW OTP because, after all, we all know that Anakin loved Obi-Wan and that Obi-Wan loved Anakin. Obi-Wan tells Anakin so on Mustafar, there near the end, and Anakin tells Obi-Wan he loves him in AotC, when they're in pursuit of that shape-changing bounty hunter/assassin and Obi-Wan repeats that quip about having the feeling Anakin will be the death of him someday. Somebody made the decision to have Anakin articulate his love in familial terms rather than romantic terms, but we all know Lucas likes to pull in as big a demographic as