Everybody's already explained, so I'll just sit here and reminisce about the late 90s and very early 2000s. I was in...let's see, West Wing fandom? And Harry Potter fandom. And for a hot minute there, the anime language of lemon/lime/yaoi/chan/etc became sort of de rigueur even in non-anime fandoms, particularly on Fanfiction.net and some of the archives so that all my Harry/Snape fic got marked as yaoi chan or some such. And obvs, I was looking for "lemons." I remember searching having to search for a fannish glossary so that I could understand all the fancy words.
Man. I feel old now. That was the exciting time of the internet, where suddenly you could get fanfiction EVERYWHERE and not have to be signed up for a mailing list!!
See but I think fannish old is different from RL old. And I mostly compare myself to the kiddos on Tumblr who can barely remember the new millennium. I always think of my 19 year old students who were confused by an old article about mailing lists. "Is that like a newsletter?" one asked. *facepalm*
So I say it makes me feel old, but what I actually mean is "experienced" and "superior." Because I'm a little vain like that. :)
*blinks* Ok. Right. I mean, I wasn't into fandom before the internet, but I know that people were mailing zines around and that mailing lists were a huge boon to fandom.
Someone recently told me I wasn't old, and I'm not old, but things happened for me a lot longer ago than for a lot of Merlin fandom. I was madly flirting with a friend at the dance last week who is 30 (which is definitely not young) and I made some comment about , "oh if things had been different and I'd met you 17 years ago .... ewwwwww, you were 13 seventeen years ago. Let's not go there....
I know the term as well although it was never used in my part of the fandom. And I think it's not modern anymore to speak about "lemon" or "lime" today. Although the contrary "vanilla" is in use quite frequently I think.
I'm sure you will manage a bingo until the end of october:)
It's in German:( which isn't allowed. I first have to translate it for that...
Does "spelunking" mean "go out to bars and drink"?
Thanks for the ideas... some of them sound interesting. *goesandthinksaboutthem* You're a sweetheart that you took the time for some brainstorming.
Funny enough I never was active in HP fandom until this year. I wrote a secret santa fic and the one I podficced for the "Holding hands" prompt. Any particular pairings you write/wrote in it?
Booo on those people who made the rules. What is wrong with podfic in a foreign language?
LOL! No. But that could be an adventure, with Gwaine. Spelunking is cave exploration.
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I have written exactly one drabble (100 words) with Luna/Neville for a friend who has been active in HP fandom for years. That is my favorite pairing, however.
Everything needs to be in English so that they can controle/understand that the fills fill the requirements.
Cave exploration? - But I don't have a kink Bingo! ;P
There's an old german word "Spelunke" which people doesn't use anymore nowadays but which is another word for "pub" or "bar". That's why I thought it could be related.
Luna/Neville &hearts
I love me some Ron/Hermione. Boring because canon but these two are too cute. Neville I love as well.
Heee! Oh, yeah, I know what a lemon is! :D The very first fandom I ever committed fanfiction in was an anime fandom. In fact, it wasn't until recently that any of my fandoms weren't anime. XD *basks in all the citrus*
*pounces* Sorry I haven't been around much. Things kind of went uninspiringly crazy, then Hubby went out of town without me, and now the new semester has started. BUT! I was thinking about fairy tales the other day andwolvesandknottingandthentherewasapregnantMerlin -- but mostly fairy tales. No particular reason, just thought I should mention. XD
Thanks! We stood in line for 45 minutes and did not get close to the front for the water park. *sob* Many tears later, we are over it. I have to figure out if there is another waterpark we could try in the next couple days.
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Everybody's already explained, so I'll just sit here and reminisce about the late 90s and very early 2000s. I was in...let's see, West Wing fandom? And Harry Potter fandom. And for a hot minute there, the anime language of lemon/lime/yaoi/chan/etc became sort of de rigueur even in non-anime fandoms, particularly on Fanfiction.net and some of the archives so that all my Harry/Snape fic got marked as yaoi chan or some such. And obvs, I was looking for "lemons." I remember searching having to search for a fannish glossary so that I could understand all the fancy words.
Man. I feel old now. That was the exciting time of the internet, where suddenly you could get fanfiction EVERYWHERE and not have to be signed up for a mailing list!!
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Chan! Chan I'd heard. But not lemons:D
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So I say it makes me feel old, but what I actually mean is "experienced" and "superior." Because I'm a little vain like that. :)
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Someone recently told me I wasn't old, and I'm not old, but things happened for me a lot longer ago than for a lot of Merlin fandom. I was madly flirting with a friend at the dance last week who is 30 (which is definitely not young) and I made some comment about , "oh if things had been different and I'd met you 17 years ago .... ewwwwww, you were 13 seventeen years ago. Let's not go there....
This is why I feel old some times.
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I'm sure you will manage a bingo until the end of october:)
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If I do four fics and one vic, I should be able to manage by the end of Oct. Or one meta and three fics and a vid.
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I'm too lazy to teach myself how to vid. I've never done it before. So right now I stick to things I can and try to vary them as good as possible.
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I think maybe my brain is just not working lately.
I have no clue how to vid. Thus I'll be doing one stretchy thing and the rest will be writing so as to make the deadline.
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Does "spelunking" mean "go out to bars and drink"?
Thanks for the ideas... some of them sound interesting. *goesandthinksaboutthem* You're a sweetheart that you took the time for some brainstorming.
Funny enough I never was active in HP fandom until this year. I wrote a secret santa fic and the one I podficced for the "Holding hands" prompt. Any particular pairings you write/wrote in it?
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LOL! No. But that could be an adventure, with Gwaine. Spelunking is cave exploration.
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I have written exactly one drabble (100 words) with Luna/Neville for a friend who has been active in HP fandom for years. That is my favorite pairing, however.
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Cave exploration? - But I don't have a kink Bingo! ;P
There's an old german word "Spelunke" which people doesn't use anymore nowadays but which is another word for "pub" or "bar". That's why I thought it could be related.
Luna/Neville &hearts
I love me some Ron/Hermione. Boring because canon but these two are too cute. Neville I love as well.
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Why can't cave exploration just be good old fun?:D
Ha! I see where you got confused. That's funny:D
Ron/Hermione is very cute. Perfect for a fluff card!
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Thanks for the memories. So cute!
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So, anyway for fairy tales. Let me know if/when I should look in at your story again:D
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The mini golf this morning was great!
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