Fandom Glossary Continued

[aliannesecunda]

“/”: Used as shorthand to link two (or more) characters in a romantic relationship.  The standard example is, of course, Kirk/Spock, but it can be used for any combination of characters: Harry/Ginny, Ben/Kate/Sawyer, Sweeney Todd/knives and so on. Also see: Slash.

Pairing: A romantic relationship between two characters.  Many authors will

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[trialia]

I can't actually read any of this that isn't a link from my friends page. Do you need to define the font colour? :(

[aliannesecunda]

I think I tried something? Ferlith can see it on his, so any further advice would be helpful if you still can't see it. I don't know much about coding...

[spiderine]

"OTP" = "One True Pairing". A person's favorite pairing, which they cling to above all others. May refer to a favorite pairing in a single fandom, or encompass all the fandoms which a fan is involved in.

Re: "/" -- Kirk/Spock was the *original* "slash" pairing in fandom which gave its name to "slash fiction". Fanlore (http://fanlore.org/wiki/Main_Page) has the history of the term.

In fact, Fanlore's Glossary section has most if not all of the terms you're defining here and may be of great help so you're not reinventing the wheel.

[aliannesecunda]

Thanks! We def need to include OTP. And in re: K/S - since this glossary is mainly targeted at our class, we felt we didn't need to include that since we actually spent a good two classes on ST and the origin of slash (as usual, our prof. was amused as Ferlith and I contributed the more fannish tidbits). But you're right, we should definitely mention that.

We actually realized that Fanlore should have it's own entry! We decided against going through Fanlore because that's almost /too/ many entries for our purposes :) Thank you!

[rosefyre]

Addition to OTP: OT3 - one true threesome or trio.

(Here from Radio Free Monday, hope you don't mind more comments!)

[elisi]

This is *brilliant*!

And I actually have a suggestion - under 'Types of Fanfic' would it be helpful to include FitB (Fill-in-the-Blank)?

Oh, and maybe fannnish slang? I mean things like OTP, FML, WTF?, OTT and so on, but I don't know how detailed you want this to be, so maybe they're not necessary unless you actually participate in fandom...

Anyway, this is marvellous! ::puts in memories::

[aliannesecunda]

Heh. Thanks! I don't actually know FitB - what is it?

OTP for sure - I'm not sure if we need FML and WTF because those are so mainstream. What do you think about OTT?

[elisi]

FitB = Fill in the Blank.

You've sort of addressed it under Fix-it (but sometimes the fic is intended to depict something that “did” happen during/without major changes to the canon, simply taking place offscreen.), but a FitB is a story that quite literally fills in a blank. It can be a fix it type thing, but it can also be a story set in the past to explain a casual remark by some character or other (like, f.ex., Jack's affair with the twin acrobats that he mentions), but generally it's just something that takes place offscreen, without any changes to canon).

Dunno about OTT - this is why I brought it up. I only really hang out around fandom, so I don't know how widespread various acronyms are.

Re: Fitb

[pghbekka]

In several of my fandoms, the term used for fitb is gapfiller. Not sure which has more common usage.

[catalania]

"We Can’t Think Of What This Is Called: Characters discovering that there is fanfiction being written about them and commenting on it. This may or may not be self-aware fic; some fandoms, such as Supernatural, actually have this occur in canon.2

I've seen this referred to as Mystery Science Theatre, or MSTing, fic - that term was quite common in HP fandom back in the day, not sure if it still is. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=MSTing&defid=3261317. I believe the name comes from a tv show where something similar happens? But this might refer specifically to the characters watching/reading their own canon and commenting on it.

[aliannesecunda]

Ahh, gotcha. Thanks, that's helpful!

[aliannesecunda]

Thank you!