saitaina | Fanfiction Terms

Originally published at Memoirs of a Nobody. You can comment here or there.

A list of fanfiction related terms originally compiled by catkind with additions from me (please note it was started by HP fans but everyone’s welcome to add on!):

fic - story
oneshot - short fic
ficlet - even shorter fic
drabble -
this one probably fits on one screen
cookies - drabbles by any other name -
also virtual rewards for reviewers
rec - recommendation, only I don’t know
how to spell it
review - please feed the author
concrit - constructive
criticism - please feed the author codliver oil
to spork - to mock
mercilessly
to ficbitch- to tear apart a fanfiction/author with a butcher knife
canon - the hard stuff
OC - original character - sex may be
specified OFC or OMC
MS/GS - Mary Sue/Gary Stu - OC who I don’t like
IC -
in character - uses JKR’s adjectives for JKR’s characters
OOC - out of
character - uses other adjectives for JKR’s characters
WIP - work in progress
- watch out for flying adjectives
beta - person responsible for catching
flying adjectives
AU - alternative universe - but not very
angst -
humourless fic
slash - m/m or f/f romance/sex
het - m/f romance/sex
gen
- the point of this isn’t the sex
PWP - plot what plot - the point of this is
the sex
fluff - this doesn’t have a point
PG-13 - this doesn’t have
sex
UST - unresolved sexual tension - this doesn’t have sex but you’ll wish
it did
R - this has sex or Death Eaters or possibly both
NC-17 - there
will be much graphic, unrealistic sex
squick - too much or the wrong sort of
sex for me
OTP - one true pairing - only these two characters can have
~~sex~~ undying love
squee - make inarticulate happy
noises
fangirl - female with a tendency to squee
w00t! - I would say
squee, only I’m a technogeek not a fangirl
teh hawt !!!11! - either I am a
fangirl or I am mocking the fangirls
OMG - oh my god - I am a posh
fangirl
teh pr0n - pornography rendered less offensive by bad spelling
BNF
- ~~British Nuclear Fuels~~ big name fan - person who I am jealous
of
FQF - Fuh-Q-Fest - not sure exactly but might have something to do with
writing pr0n
adjective!Harry - hybrid version with extra grafted adjective
behaviours
ESE - ever so evil - strangely never applied to Lord Voldemort;
possible HPfGU secret handshake
87 - random large number; possible Sugarquill
secret handshake
PP - Schroedinger’s Character - a mysterious quantum
waveform that will turn into Pansy Parkinson, Peter Pettigrew, Piers Polkiss or
one of the Patil twins when you open the box
LOL - laughs out loud - ha
ha
ROTFL - rolls on the floor laughing - hopefully not literally
ha ha - I
don’t actually find this funny, I’m just being sarcastic
snark - sarcasm as
an edged weapon
hee - a kind of evil giggle
- smiley - aren’t I clever
I learned internet speak
- new, sophisticated, timesaving smiley - no
you’re not clever at all, you’re at least five years out of date
<3 -
heart - I love you/Draco/the Pope (delete as appropriate)
FF.N: Also known as “The 29th Level of Hell” or “The Site That Must Not Be
Named”-Fanfiction.net, a place for fanfiction of all types.
The Bad
Place: Often refering to chan or underage characters (below 16yrs in the HP
world).