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

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.

tinhat?

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!

knock y'self out. it's a good word, yes? of course yes!

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!

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

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?

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*

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

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.

"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.

Green. Queen. Fairly straightforward. ;)

My favourite fandom word is squee.

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.

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

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.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I can't even imagine was kind of shock that was, but obviously you survived or you wouldn't be here today.

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.

Yeah, there were a couple fandoms I'd really wanted to crack at, but I wasn't sure I'd be able to turn out a really good effort, or there were too many contigencies and that didn't seem fair, so I went for fewer fandoms, but I really think I could do a quality job in them, which makes me happy :)

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.

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

Oh.

I quite like that word myself.

Pornery. It feels good to say. A bit dirty a bit amusing. Oh, yes. Hmmm. *thinks about possible pron*

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.

Whenever I see tinhat these days I think of that foil scene in Signs. I used to think of the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz.

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

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

Yes, ma'am.

Felching is second only to bukkake for horror.

Squee is an excellent word. Yis. <-- and that's another new word too.

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

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

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