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[hackthis_archive]

It's come to my attention today that fandom is such a fantastic teaching tool, that it has single handedly decreased increased my IQ by at least 20 points. I mean there are all kinds of words that I've learned here that I'd never have learned anywhere else. Words like: 'craptastic' and 'woobie' and 'pron' and and 'dicksmack' and 'syphilitic whoremonger' are among my favorites, which then begs the question, what words has fandom taught you that you didn't know before?

Bat-shit insane?

Clex?

Asshat?

Tinhat? <-- Now there is a great word.

Slash? <-- That was my first fandom word. *sniff*

Tell me. And while you're at it, also tell me how to pronounce your user name, because I saw someone else doing this somewhere and I was learning all kinds of pronunciations that I never would've come up with. For example hackthis is pronounced Ari. Are-ree. No, really, it's pronounced 'hack- this', not 'hackth-is'.


ETA: yuletide LIVES! I am going to sign up just as soon as I figure out all the fandoms I'm willing to suffer an aneurysm for. Newbies here's a quick FAQ for you lot. Old heads, get to it.

If you punk out I have a .45 and a shovel. Seriously though, if you think you're not going to be able to do it, don't sign up and leave somebody else without, because that's just fucked up and wrong. The spirit of yuletide is not to sign up on a maybe, it's to sign up with a definite intention of following through and giving to someone else. If you're a really generous soul though and are willing to clean up someone else's fuck ups, yuletide always tends to need pinch hitters too.

Oh my god, the fandoms you lot come up with are priceless. *goes back to perusing list*

Comments

[slodwick.livejournal.com]

Squee, snark, fap, wank, adorkable.

Also, my username is "slod" (rhymes with "cod") "wick" (like in a candle).

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

What is a 'fap'? I do know adorkable = slodcakes!

[avid-slacker.livejournal.com]

Wincest, drabble, slash, flist.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Ah, slash. The first fandom word I ever learned!

[ethrosdemon.livejournal.com]

STFU, wtf, chan, lemon, yaoi.
I think most of mine are porn-related?

Also, my fl is jacked and is not displaying usernames, but I still knew it was you by your icon.

Aw!

God, I feel like utter shit. I am going to eat and maybe kill myself. See you in Slytherhell.

[slodwick.livejournal.com]

chan and yaoi!

OH FANDOM!

[aurora]

mrpeg, rps, wank (in the a non-sexual context :D), flame/shipper wars, (anonymous hate) memes, comment fic, ZOMG, omgwtf'insertsomethingfandomspecifichere', eg polarbear.

LJ was my first foray into fandom - I was such a n00b (ha, another one!) when I first got my journal: 'wait, they write x-rated fic about REAL PEOPLE!!?' =))

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

[supergrover24.livejournal.com]

Squick. pwn. felch (man, i can't believe i didn't know that one.)

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

It took me forever to get with pwn. Even now it just makes me think somebody doesn't know hot to spell whatever they're trying to say, which is really rich coming from *me*.

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

t00b and w00bie, which are wonderful words I use in nonfandom context. People get w00bie. Not so much t00b, because it's indefinable.

Also, did you know tinhat (orig. tin hat) has a nonfandom source? It's what a WWI soldier called his helmet. [/useless trivia]

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Also, did you know tinhat (orig. tin hat) has a nonfandom source? It's what a WWI soldier called his helmet. [/useless trivia]

Really?! You guys totally make me smarter every day!

Also, I never understand 'toob' since most netspeak escapes me on purpose. I just see it and think 'tool'.

[aphelant.livejournal.com]

Basically, I knew nothing, NOTHING, when I came to fandom. I HAVE LEARNED SO MUCH.

My name? Er. 'a' as in acorn, 'phel' as in full, 'ant' as in...british aunt as opposed to ant like an insect.

AHAHAHA THAT MAKES NO SENSE BUT IT IS TRUUUUUUE.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Like a phalanx? Oh, sorry, X-Man geekiness moment. Yes, dearest, like an elefaunt, I know. ;) Is that how Sam said it?

[epj.livejournal.com]

Oh, good Lord.

mpreg, pegboy, *cest (where * = Win, het, and probably something I'm forgetting), fen, squee, bnf (of course), slash, "son of a fuck-me bitch" (which is my all-time favorite curse), pinch-hit for values of writing, con.

My username is pronounced "Em-joe".

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

My username is pronounced "Em-joe".

See, now I'd never have thought that because of the 'p.' And this is why I ask!

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

Oops, I forgot. My username is pronounced like it sounds. Prim as in trim, rose as in close, burrows as in, um. Furrows. I'm trying to figure out how to steal obtain primrose, because want to drop the last part of mine

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Now now, the management can't condone knocking people off just because you want their username.

[rubymiene.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, definitely slash. Also squee, snark, squick, pwp, Malfoycest...

Ruby-my-en-knee

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

So, like Hermione, only not!

[dorrie6.livejournal.com]

Now, see, everyone has listed mine already.

Door-eee-six. Which is probably obvious.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Yes, but if you were Hispanic it would be Dor-ree seis. Just saying!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_regina/]

Slash! When I first wandered over to theoc_slash, I thought I was going to find people snarking on the episodes like at televisionwithoutpity. I can't even express how big my eyes got when the first cut I clicked on was one of lalejandra's fics.

Also, mpreg, noncon, chan, yaoi, femslash, pron, squee, twincest, and a few I wish I could wipe out of my brain (todger? come on).

My username is pronounced just like it looks. Its full form is regina_terra, and terra is pronounced "tara" like Tara Reid. I'm told some people insert a mental pause or glottal stop at the beginning of _regina, because of the underscore.

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

I've heard several different pronunciations of Tara. On the show most people seemed to go with a sort of teh-ra sound, but I pronounce it tah-ra.

You know. Just fyi.

[oxoniensis.livejournal.com]

Wecon is one I learned the other day. Took me a while to work it out, and then I felt stupid when I did!

ox-oh-nee-en-sis

And I am so excited about Yuletide - I feel sorry for everyone who isn't taking part, because it's like a big writing party. I have 24 potential fandoms picked out so far... And others I'm trying to decide if I'm brave enough to offer, because I want to be sure I can write something good for it, not something passable. Gifts should be good ones.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

IMO, yuletide is the biggest and best party of the year. But I am biased because I am an old head :) *is excited*

[mahaliem.livejournal.com]

I learn new fandom words all the time, but I don't remember my first, though it was probably fanfic.

ma - hay - lee (pause) em (This should be said in a Southern accent with the 'hay' part drawn out until it shrieks in pain.)

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

ma - hay - lee (pause) em (This should be said in a Southern accent with the 'hay' part drawn out until it shrieks in pain.)

You are so cute! Just saying.

[142978.livejournal.com]

'Wibble' is the only term I can think of that nobody else has said.

Wait, no, I lied. 'Bzuh' is another one.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

a) Your icon is *amazing*.
b) Wibble. Excellent word. I completely forgot it, and it's so nice to say, too. Wibble.

[etben.livejournal.com]

all of the above, and also the word that I am trying to bring into wider use: pornery: an adjective describing that state of squinty-eyed long-day fuck-a-bunch-of-you mean-ass cussedness for which the only remedy is porn.

[raucousraven.livejournal.com]

If'n you don't mind, I'm so stealing that for the next time eljay asks me about my feelings.

[raucousraven.livejournal.com]

Well, MPreg and bukkake properly horrified me once I figured out what they were. (Thanks, HP. No really.) But I think the Britpickers made my day when they introduced me to the expressions "really corking" and "to faff [about]," because how can I not love the dorky British slang?

Please do not ask me to explain bukkake please do not ask me to explain bukkake please do not ask me to explain bukkake. We would both be too traumatized to leave the house. Ever.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

estrella30 taught me bukkake. Penguin bukkake at that. The word not the action! Filthy minds the lot of you. Anyway, yes I try not to think about it. Ever. Except that you started it.

'Faff about' is one of my favorite phrases. Really.

[msloserrific.livejournal.com]

tinhat?

[msloserrific.livejournal.com]

and -

pornoriffic

slash/yaoi/yuri (i was an anime fan!)

'shipper

of course, you can't leave out the infamous combine-two-character's-names-to-make-a-cutesey-couple-nickname!

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

I think the words I've learned in fandom have all been mentioned. Oh, I know! That Brits use "got" instead of "gotten". thank you, HP fandom.

My username is pronounced muses fool. um. yeah.

I still haven't figured out what to ask for for yuletide! wah!

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

That Brits use "got" instead of "gotten". thank you, HP fandom.


See, and people say HP fandom doesn't do anything properly :)

[ladyvyola.livejournal.com]

Vyola: vee-OH-la or VI-oh-la, as your own accent and fondness for Shakespeare prompts you, though I personally use the first.

fic, slash, 'ship, *cest, woobie, Joss, retcon, wank, GIP, yis

newbie, n00b, flame, floves, OTP, OT3,

bukkake, snowball, felch (and many more that I've repressed, I'm sure)

tinhat, pr0n, squick, squee, bulletproof kink

*flail*, OMGWTF***, !!!1eleventyone!!11, aljdsalfsjl, "my *** cannot be textually rendered", "hot like a hot thing"

the construction "description!character-name" -- emo!Dean, action!Rodney, etc

teh, seXXors, roXXors, pwn

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Viola, like in Twelfth Night. Yes, that is you.

What is a snowball? Wait, do I want to know?

[antheia.livejournal.com]

I know there are a few, I just can't think of them. Slash, yaoi, twincest, stfu, homg, SGA. *koff*

an-thee-ah, like althea. but with an "n" where the "l" would be.


maybe i should have had less wine and more sleep?

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

SGA, huh.

Are you reading/watching that now?

[sockich.livejournal.com]

Oh, fandom words. Let's see...slash, fandom, mpreg, Clex, Snarry, squee, woobie, wank, snark, flist, Wincest/twincest/Batcest/whatever-cest, yaoi, chan, squick, tinhat, bukkake, etc. etc.

You're right, fandom is a fantastic teaching tool. ;)

As for my user name, it's pronounced [sock-itch]. *g*

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Like I have an itch in my sock! :D

[popcorn-orgasms.livejournal.com]

wank...i like that word.
ass cherry...because I would never have heard it otherwise

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

*blinks*

Ass cherry. Yes, not really a word one uses every day, is it?

[stepps.livejournal.com]

Hee, all the sex talk I know I learnt from fandom. BDSM, voyerism, fellatio etc.

Also, fucktards. Great word. And noob. That was probably my first fandom word.

Stepps is pronounced steps. No-brainer.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

You'd never heard fellatio before? Really? Also, fucktards is one of the greatest words ever.

[lyra-sena.livejournal.com]

"Lyra Sena" is pronounced: Cue-tee-pie.


The first word I remember learning in fandom that actually horrified me was felching. It still horrifies me.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

"Lyra Sena" is pronounced: Cue-tee-pie.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

Yes, ma'am.

Felching is second only to bukkake for horror.