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I know discourse is the word of choice in fandom nowadays but I kind of wish we would have stuck with “fandom wank” because it carries the implication that the anger involved culminated into effectively nothing and that the act was wholeheartedly masturbatory in nature rather than for any greater cause.
I saw this post about an hour after I saw a post that said, essentially, “There should be a word for that thing where [exactly describes ‘squeeing’].”
I feel like the time has come to produce something like this:
Squee: The noise you make when something is so good that all you can really do is squeak or squeal. A high pitched sound of delight, often accomanied by hugging yourself or others.
Squick: A fic/art/concept/topic that is repellent to you, so you reject association with it and instead retreat to your personal comfortable spaces- all the while remembering that someone else’s comfort is not your own.
YKINMKATO: Also called “kink tomato.” Abbreviation meaning “your kink is not my kink, and that’s okay.” Used to explain why you are rejecting art or fic brought to you by someone else. A solid mantra to recall instead of sending flames in people’s comments
Flames: The comment equivalent of anon hate.
AMV: “animated music video” or “anime music video.” Often, this is stylized to fit a specific fandom, such as a “PMV” (pony music video) in my little pony. May also be referred to as a lyricstuck.
Filk: Combination of the words “film” and “folk,” this is a music genre, to which “fan songs” and “fan parody covers” belong. If you don’t really understand what this means, take a quick listen to American Pie, then compare Weird Al Yankovic’s Saga Begins
BNF: Big name fan. You know that one person who is just so fuckign popular in your fandom? Their art is always on your dash, everyone knows their fics? Being spoken to directly by them is basically being noticed by everyone ever’s senpai? That’s what these people are called.
DL:DR; Not unliked the teal deer (tl;dr, or “too long, didn’t read”), DLDR means “don’t like? Don’t read!” It’s a reminder that you are under no obligation, ever, to expose yourself to uncomfortable (or, squicky), or potentially harmful (or, triggering), material. Not ever. If you don’t actively like something? It’s not worth your time. Skip it.
Gen: or “genfic” “genart” etc. Fan works which contain no or very little romantic content. Often these are styled after the canon material, and may be called “episodic” ro “slice of life” in addition.
Lemon: Work containing strong pornographic elements
Lime, or Citrus: Work containing mild or implicit pornographic elements
Sockpuppeting: The surprisingly common scenario of someone making a bunch of fake accounts/sideblogs to send themselves reviews or hate, to try to increase views or drama surrounding a work. The accounts they make are called Sockpuppets.
WAFF: Warm and fluffy feelings. A genre of fic that exists just to be therapeutically sweet. Nowadays, usually just called “fluffy.”
Schmoop: Take WAFF and somehow make it even more syrupy. You’ll know it when you see it.
Whump: Imagine if you will, a hurt-comfort fic. The comfort might be considered WAFF. The hurt? That’s the whump.
Wapanese: When white autors pepper their anime fanfic with random, tonally inappropriate japanese words.
Anthropomorfic: Nowadays we just call these “humanstuck” or “humanized AU.”
Wank: Wildly disproportionate drama that crops up because someone wrote/drew/did something that someone else didn’t like. Seriously, I cannot begin to express the fiascos that have come about from all this. Just… Just go look at this.
Plot bunny: Story ideas that you probably won’t ever actually deal with, but that multiply entirely out of control, creating huge worlds in your head that you’re probably not going to write. But hey! You might! And until then they make great sideblogs/askblogs/tumblr posts.
Casefic: Fanfics that try to create an episode-like feel for procedural and crime dramas, moster of the week shows, etc.
Jossed: When popular fan theories and fanon are addressed in the canon of a series, and whoops, turns out we were all very, very wrong.
Kripked: When popular fan theories and fanon are addressed in the canon of a show and, hot damn, we fucking called it.
Secret Masters: The people who run the websites/ communities/etc that we all do our fanning on. Less relevant now that we have things like tumblr, but when everyone had to run their own archival and social sites for each fandom, it was more important to pay our respects to the strange and powerful beings that brought us all together and gave us our fannish homes. Think the staff of AO3, for example.
Bashing: When a writer purposefully writes a specific character as a horrible, horrible person so that they can throw them out of the storyline, usually to allow their OTP to get together without trouble. Distinct from fridging in that it doesn’t require the character to die, but rather to be such a screaming harpy that they get rightfully removed from the main characters’ lives for being an abusive hell beast. Generally, a type of character hate. Be wary of people who bash women, queer people, and POC with consistency: they are not safe to be around.
‘Squick’ also has an alternate horrible meaning for Harry Potter fans who were in fandom a while back. Dear god.
Drabble: A fic that is EXACTLY 100 words. Often used as a creative exercise in telling a story in a very small constraint.
Ficlet: Fic that clocks in somewhere between 100 to 2.5K words.
Crossover: A piece of media in which two or more source materials are treated as the same universe. Characters from Fandom A can meet characters from Fandom B. (The Doctor Goes To Hogwarts And Meet Harry Potter!)
Fusion: A fusion takes the characters of one source material and *surplants* them into another universe entirely. Characters from Fandom A cannot meet characters from Fandom B. (Dave Strider is part of an Inception team!)
TPTB: The Powers That Be. Almost always redundantly referred to as “the TPTB.” A collective term for showrunners, actors, producers, writers, et al, anyone who is part of the team that creates the source material.
YMMV: Your Mileage May Vary. A shorthand way of saying “this is how I see it/have experienced it though I realize others might have a different perspective.”
Tinhatting: Often used in RPF fandoms, the situation where some fans are convinced two celebrities are in a relationship but its being kept a secret.
I hadn’t realized many of these words had gone out of use. We need to teach the next generation…
I know discourse is the word of choice in fandom nowadays but I kind of wish we would have stuck with “fandom wank” because it carries the implication that the anger involved culminated into effectively nothing and that the act was wholeheartedly masturbatory in nature rather than for any greater cause.
I saw this post about an hour after I saw a post that said, essentially, “There should be a word for that thing where [exactly describes ‘squeeing’].”
I feel like the time has come to produce something like this:
Squee: The noise you make when something is so good that all you can really do is squeak or squeal. A high pitched sound of delight, often accomanied by hugging yourself or others.
Squick: A fic/art/concept/topic that is repellent to you, so you reject association with it and instead retreat to your personal comfortable spaces- all the while remembering that someone else’s comfort is not your own.
YKINMKATO: Also called “kink tomato.” Abbreviation meaning “your kink is not my kink, and that’s okay.” Used to explain why you are rejecting art or fic brought to you by someone else. A solid mantra to recall instead of sending flames in people’s comments
Flames: The comment equivalent of anon hate.
AMV: “animated music video” or “anime music video.” Often, this is stylized to fit a specific fandom, such as a “PMV” (pony music video) in my little pony. May also be referred to as a lyricstuck.
Filk: Combination of the words “film” and “folk,” this is a music genre, to which “fan songs” and “fan parody covers” belong. If you don’t really understand what this means, take a quick listen to American Pie, then compare Weird Al Yankovic’s Saga Begins
BNF: Big name fan. You know that one person who is just so fuckign popular in your fandom? Their art is always on your dash, everyone knows their fics? Being spoken to directly by them is basically being noticed by everyone ever’s senpai? That’s what these people are called.
DL:DR; Not unliked the teal deer (tl;dr, or “too long, didn’t read”), DLDR means “don’t like? Don’t read!” It’s a reminder that you are under no obligation, ever, to expose yourself to uncomfortable (or, squicky), or potentially harmful (or, triggering), material. Not ever. If you don’t actively like something? It’s not worth your time. Skip it.
Gen: or “genfic” “genart” etc. Fan works which contain no or very little romantic content. Often these are styled after the canon material, and may be called “episodic” ro “slice of life” in addition.
Lemon: Work containing strong pornographic elements
Lime, or Citrus: Work containing mild or implicit pornographic elements
Sockpuppeting: The surprisingly common scenario of someone making a bunch of fake accounts/sideblogs to send themselves reviews or hate, to try to increase views or drama surrounding a work. The accounts they make are called Sockpuppets.
WAFF: Warm and fluffy feelings. A genre of fic that exists just to be therapeutically sweet. Nowadays, usually just called “fluffy.”
Schmoop: Take WAFF and somehow make it even more syrupy. You’ll know it when you see it.
Whump: Imagine if you will, a hurt-comfort fic. The comfort might be considered WAFF. The hurt? That’s the whump.
Wapanese: When white autors pepper their anime fanfic with random, tonally inappropriate japanese words.
Anthropomorfic: Nowadays we just call these “humanstuck” or “humanized AU.”
Wank: Wildly disproportionate drama that crops up because someone wrote/drew/did something that someone else didn’t like. Seriously, I cannot begin to express the fiascos that have come about from all this. Just… Just go look at this.
Plot bunny: Story ideas that you probably won’t ever actually deal with, but that multiply entirely out of control, creating huge worlds in your head that you’re probably not going to write. But hey! You might! And until then they make great sideblogs/askblogs/tumblr posts.
Casefic: Fanfics that try to create an episode-like feel for procedural and crime dramas, moster of the week shows, etc.
Jossed: When popular fan theories and fanon are addressed in the canon of a series, and whoops, turns out we were all very, very wrong.
Kripked: When popular fan theories and fanon are addressed in the canon of a show and, hot damn, we fucking called it.
Secret Masters: The people who run the websites/ communities/etc that we all do our fanning on. Less relevant now that we have things like tumblr, but when everyone had to run their own archival and social sites for each fandom, it was more important to pay our respects to the strange and powerful beings that brought us all together and gave us our fannish homes. Think the staff of AO3, for example.
Bashing: When a writer purposefully writes a specific character as a horrible, horrible person so that they can throw them out of the storyline, usually to allow their OTP to get together without trouble. Distinct from fridging in that it doesn’t require the character to die, but rather to be such a screaming harpy that they get rightfully removed from the main characters’ lives for being an abusive hell beast. Generally, a type of character hate. Be wary of people who bash women, queer people, and POC with consistency: they are not safe to be around.
‘Squick’ also has an alternate horrible meaning for Harry Potter fans who were in fandom a while back. Dear god.
Drabble: A fic that is EXACTLY 100 words. Often used as a creative exercise in telling a story in a very small constraint.
Ficlet: Fic that clocks in somewhere between 100 to 2.5K words.
Crossover: A piece of media in which two or more source materials are treated as the same universe. Characters from Fandom A can meet characters from Fandom B. (The Doctor Goes To Hogwarts And Meet Harry Potter!)
Fusion: A fusion takes the characters of one source material and *surplants* them into another universe entirely. Characters from Fandom A cannot meet characters from Fandom B. (Dave Strider is part of an Inception team!)
TPTB: The Powers That Be. Almost always redundantly referred to as “the TPTB.” A collective term for showrunners, actors, producers, writers, et al, anyone who is part of the team that creates the source material.
YMMV: Your Mileage May Vary. A shorthand way of saying “this is how I see it/have experienced it though I realize others might have a different perspective.”
Tinhatting: Often used in RPF fandoms, the situation where some fans are convinced two celebrities are in a relationship but its being kept a secret.
I hadn’t realized many of these words had gone out of use. We need to teach the next generation…
– that attention turns into a reboot deal being made with Hulu
Hulu:
– Doesn’t hire a single writer from the original series inspite of the fans wanting this
– Ignores their concerns with their writing picks, i.e. some writer from Family Guy being the show runner
Some filthy casuals: “YALL ARE SUCH BABIES JUST GIVE IT A CHANCE"
Fans: “We specifically worked toward this for years side by side with the show creators. This reboot wouldn’t exist without us demanding it and now we’re big babies because we’re being ignored? Because the show Creator is being shat on??”
Oh, and my personal favorite: “IT’S NOT FOR YOU! IT’S A KID’S SHOW”
Actually it is. It always was? The A! writers always wrote in jokes for their fans, and their fans have always been majority adult.
This poll makes me sad. I feel like all those people more open to giving it a shot don’t understand the slap in the face Hulu just gave everyone.
Alright y’all listen up
Before anyone goes around complaining about us complaining, please understand why we are complaining.
This is not about Animaniacs
Yes, we all, whether you plan to give the reboot a chance or not, want this reboot to be great, so that’s definitely a factor, but this is not about Animaniacs.
This is about its original crew being treated like garbage.
Put yourself in Tom Ruegger’s, and the entire crew for that matter, shoes for a moment. keeping in mind that when you help bring a character to life, whether by fleshing out a basic concept, writing them, drawing them, playing them in a part or voicing them, or whatever, they are basically your child. They are people, not real people but still people, that you created, you shaped, and naturally, you love them and don’t ever want anything bad to happen to them. Keep that in mind while you put yourself in their position.
You and your team built these characters, this world, this show, from the ground up. You made the show what it is. You poured your heart and soul into this show, you all did all the work.
But you don’t own it. Your employer owns it. Nevermind that your employer probably didn’t do any creative work, nevermind that without you, the show would not even exist. And because you don’t own your own work, your employer can do whatever they’d like with it, whether you approve or not. And not only can they do that, they do do that.
Putting this into the perspective of the characters being like the creators’ children, that’s like if you had a kid, raised them, loved them, made them who they are, and then your boss comes along and says “You know, your kid hasn’t been in the spotlight for a while. I’m going to shove them back into it so I can make some money! You want to be part of this? No no no, you can’t be involved in your child’s future at all. You don’t like that I’m doing this? Too bad, I own your kid.”
Artists, that’s like if you created some art and posted it to tumblr, and it became so popular that tumblr said “hey, we’re going to take your art, do whatever we want to it, and use it for ads. You don’t like that? Well, you posted the art on our website, so we own the art that you created.”
Does that seem fair to you? Because it sounds to me like the original crew’s labor is being taken advantage of to make a quick buck.
And think of this: If they can treat the crew so terribly without a care in the world, what makes you think they will treat the show any differently?
And I can’t speak for everyone else, but what really infuriates me about this is thatthis happens all the time And it shouldn’t.
For years I’ve wanted to create cartoons just as great as this one. But then something like this happens and it makes me not want to create cartoons. Because I don’t want something that I’ve worked a lifetime for, put my heart and soul into, to be taken away from me at any time, let alone be redone in a way that disgraces the whole thing, and all the work I put into it.
We are not doing this for Animaniacs. We’re doing this for everyone who made Animaniacs what it is.
Now I don’t think a reboot created by the original crew could ever be terrible, but let me say this: I, personally, would rather have an awful reboot made by the original crew than a great reboot made by anyone else.
This isn’t fair to them. And shit like this needs to end because as I’ve said, it happens all the time
– that attention turns into a reboot deal being made with Hulu
Hulu:
– Doesn’t hire a single writer from the original series inspite of the fans wanting this
– Ignores their concerns with their writing picks, i.e. some writer from Family Guy being the show runner
Some filthy casuals: “YALL ARE SUCH BABIES JUST GIVE IT A CHANCE"
Fans: “We specifically worked toward this for years side by side with the show creators. This reboot wouldn’t exist without us demanding it and now we’re big babies because we’re being ignored? Because the show Creator is being shat on??”
Oh, and my personal favorite: “IT’S NOT FOR YOU! IT’S A KID’S SHOW”
Actually it is. It always was? The A! writers always wrote in jokes for their fans, and their fans have always been majority adult.
This poll makes me sad. I feel like all those people more open to giving it a shot don’t understand the slap in the face Hulu just gave everyone.
Alright y’all listen up
Before anyone goes around complaining about us complaining, please understand why we are complaining.
This is not about Animaniacs
Yes, we all, whether you plan to give the reboot a chance or not, want this reboot to be great, so that’s definitely a factor, but this is not about Animaniacs.
This is about its original crew being treated like garbage.
Put yourself in Tom Ruegger’s, and the entire crew for that matter, shoes for a moment. keeping in mind that when you help bring a character to life, whether by fleshing out a basic concept, writing them, drawing them, playing them in a part or voicing them, or whatever, they are basically your child. They are people, not real people but still people, that you created, you shaped, and naturally, you love them and don’t ever want anything bad to happen to them. Keep that in mind while you put yourself in their position.
You and your team built these characters, this world, this show, from the ground up. You made the show what it is. You poured your heart and soul into this show, you all did all the work.
But you don’t own it. Your employer owns it. Nevermind that your employer probably didn’t do any creative work, nevermind that without you, the show would not even exist. And because you don’t own your own work, your employer can do whatever they’d like with it, whether you approve or not. And not only can they do that, they do do that.
Putting this into the perspective of the characters being like the creators’ children, that’s like if you had a kid, raised them, loved them, made them who they are, and then your boss comes along and says “You know, your kid hasn’t been in the spotlight for a while. I’m going to shove them back into it so I can make some money! You want to be part of this? No no no, you can’t be involved in your child’s future at all. You don’t like that I’m doing this? Too bad, I own your kid.”
Artists, that’s like if you created some art and posted it to tumblr, and it became so popular that tumblr said “hey, we’re going to take your art, do whatever we want to it, and use it for ads. You don’t like that? Well, you posted the art on our website, so we own the art that you created.”
Does that seem fair to you? Because it sounds to me like the original crew’s labor is being taken advantage of to make a quick buck.
And think of this: If they can treat the crew so terribly without a care in the world, what makes you think they will treat the show any differently?
And I can’t speak for everyone else, but what really infuriates me about this is thatthis happens all the time And it shouldn’t.
For years I’ve wanted to create cartoons just as great as this one. But then something like this happens and it makes me not want to create cartoons. Because I don’t want something that I’ve worked a lifetime for, put my heart and soul into, to be taken away from me at any time, let alone be redone in a way that disgraces the whole thing, and all the work I put into it.
We are not doing this for Animaniacs. We’re doing this for everyone who made Animaniacs what it is.
Now I don’t think a reboot created by the original crew could ever be terrible, but let me say this: I, personally, would rather have an awful reboot made by the original crew than a great reboot made by anyone else.
This isn’t fair to them. And shit like this needs to end because as I’ve said, it happens all the time
Yakko: “Remember, licking doorknobs is illegal on other planets.”
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