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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*

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Re: I! Am! So! Cute!

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

And what's really worrisome is that if I think about it, it makes sense. Wayyyyyy too much sense. Also, EW!

[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".

[avid-slacker.livejournal.com]

I think it might have been mine too. I love that it's so innocuous sounding, but slash almost always leads to pron.

Oh, that reminds me of another fandom word; pwned. For the longest time I thought it was some kinky form of porn.

[ethrosdemon.livejournal.com]

Brad and I broke up. As you well know. *eyebrow lift*

Part of my charm is allowing others to think they are in control of their own destinies. It keep the children calm.

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

It's not really netspeak per se. The HP fandom made it up. Fandom legend says epicyclical first said it, but it may be only a myth, since this site (http://www.lumosdissendium.org/dictionary.html) says it was made up by kissaki.

God, I am such a dork.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

What? I can't hear you over all the orphaned babies screaming.

[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

[rubymiene.livejournal.com]

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

Ruby-my-en-knee

[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?

[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!

[aphelant.livejournal.com]

Sam who? WHAT IS GOING ON.

But, yes, instead of elephant, it is aphelant. Something from high school, but it has stuck, and anywhere you see it, it is me! IT IS MY ALTER-EGO OF DOOOOOM!

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Sam from Lord of the Rings! Tsk tsk.

[aphelant.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, I was like, 'Sam from Stargate? From Supernatural? Who?!' but now it makes sense. Er, slightly.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

*pets*

There there, don't trouble yourself. I had caffeine today, it always makes me a bit difficult to follow.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

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

[epj.livejournal.com]

ARGH! Some day I'm going to remember that my LJ nickname is *not* the same as my old Diaryland nickname. Since my username is epj, it's pronounced just like it looks. Now, if it were "aemjohe", as it used to be, *then* it would be pronounced "em-joe".

My only excuse is that there was a Halloween party at work today and the noise of 50 celebrating kids melted my brain.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

It happens to all of us. No worries :)

[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.

[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.

[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.)

[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.

[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.