Those pesky fanfic acronyms, abbreviations, and random odd terms

[polgarawolf]

Hi, all! The owner/moderator of this lovely community asked me to post about some of the more often used fanfic acronyms/abbreviations. Of course, after I agreed, I discovered that the best fandom glossary I know of no longer seems to function (though it might come back online later, in which case I suggest that those who're interested check back

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[spartan_117]

*blinks* Bloody hell that's an impressive list you've made *hugs you*

[polgarawolf]

Well, I couldn't get the page I wanted to work. I know it had better and more definitions on it, but it just won't open. *Sighs* So I rummaged around and copied and pasted some stuff and filled in everything else I could think of off the top of my head. I know that's not anywhere near complete. I know very little about the terms they use in fandoms that are anime and manga based. But then, you don't come across so many of those terms unless you're actually visiting a lj or a site that revolves more around those fandoms, so that should be alright. Just be glad Ewan was never in any Star Trek stuff. *Lol!* You'd have a list again that length just in terms used by Trekkers, where bits and pieces of Vulcan and Klingon and whatnot have been made to mean certain things fandom and some of the 'ships have special little names.

[spartan_117]

WOW.....just......WOW Thankyou honey *huggles you*

I think it's safe to keep it to Ewan related fics at this point. Otherwise I think we'll be buried under a pile of meanings that don't relate to what we write as Ewan fans not to mention prolly just confusing us. And Star Trek alone would have us buried a mile deep in definitions

[polgarawolf]

*Grins* No problem! I actually had some fun with a few of these.

That's good, because I'm not that well-versed in the fanspeak of too many fandoms!

If you ever find me using something I don't have here anywhere, tell me, and I'll come back and add it to the list, okay?

[polgarawolf]

*Lol!* Actually, it's rather prosaic. Dear ol' Georgie is rather fond of wearing plaid and/or flannel shirts. Or at least he used to be, when he was making the OT. The nicknames started basically as descriptive little nomikers and they've stuck for quite some time. Even my mom refers to Mr. Lucas as the Flanneled One sometimes

[polgarawolf]

*Lol!* S'okay, I know what you mean! (And my spelling doesn't always have a good end-of-the-week-and-out-of-brain-cells excuse.)

No problem! There's lots and lots and lots of SW books. Probably about 100 novels alone, plus maybe, oh, 50ish or more young adult books, plus the kids books, plus all of the graphic novels and comics (of which there are probably close to a thousand individual comics). And then there's the games with their storylines, too. Trust me when I tell you that few fans keep up with it all. Most of us either stick mainly with certain characters we like or either pick books over comics or comics over games or some combo of all of those to follow and either ignore the rest or else cheat and read up on them on the SW Wiki instead.

Re: My little tirade on Jude Watson

[polgarawolf]

Ah. Oh, sorry if I'm spoiling anything, then! I don't think I said anything too spoilerish, since you've been reading up on the storylines on the SW Wiki, but if I did, then sorry! Almost all of the storyline with Siri is in the Jude Watson books - first in the Jedi Apprentice series (where Obi's Qui's Padawan) and then Jedi Quest (where Anakin's Obi's Padawan). They're young adult books by Jude Watson, except for the first, which is by a fellow named Dave Wolverton (who wrote The Courtship of Princess Leia, if that tells you anything), and while about half or so of them generally have an okay idea at the heart of them, she repeats the same freakin' storylines, with minor variations, in every darned generation from Dooku down to Anakin, and not only are her characters all caricatures of themselves, basically, she insists on writing Qui-Gon as if he were a long-suffering saint and Obi-Wan as semi-competent at best and Anakin as if he were destined to be evil from birth and was practicing to don the black suit from the moment he got

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[polgarawolf]

Finding out about stuff on the SW Wiki is what made me finally break down and read some of the Jude Watson books. The other stuff I've mostly kept up with, aside from the some of the comics (though most of the comics I've read have been through one or another of my cousins. I don't actually own any of them, aside from the scans I've gotten from proud_snapist (you've seen one of my posts on my lj about how she puts up links to sendspace downloads with SW EU stuff, right? If not, go visit and ask for things you'd like to read that you don't have access to, and I'm sure she'd be happy to repost things!). The books are just easier to keep track of, for me. Of course, I've stopped reading the post-NJO stuff, because they storylines and the writing's gotten so crappy, but I know everything that's happened in the books up through the thred book of that awful Legacy of the Force series, whether I want to know it all or not! *lol!*