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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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[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.

[raucousraven.livejournal.com]

Yes, those dirty penguins would have been my wordless response, had you gone ahead and asked for an explanation. If I ever need to be simultaneously crying with laughter and cringing in terror, I go back and read that section of eljay. It's not often such brilliance comes my way ...for which my traumatised synapses are properly grateful.

And now, to faff about, prodigiously.