no_takebacks | DPP: Fandom Lexicon

Greetings and salutations, 'shipper nation! This is Amy, known on your internets as

ninjamonkey73, and I'm driving the DPP bus this week. Sit back and enjoy the ride...

After yesterday's psychology discussion, today's is complete crack. There are a lot of insider terms we all throw around here in the fandom. Words of obvious and not-so-obvious origin that might be confusing to the n00bs (newbies - I was one a few months ago), so let's talk about the terms and definitions of what makes a fandom unique.

There are a few categories I can think of that these sorts of things might fall under. Show related, fanfiction related (can include non-BSG-specific terms), internet-speak, etc.

Show related
My all-time favorite term I learned when I joined the fandom has to be Leegasm. To illustrate:

Fanfiction related
I didn't know what RPF was until I came to the K/L 'shipper nation. Real Person Fiction? Wha? There are these things on the mainstream internet? Fascinating... :) I know that isn't specific to us, but I learned it here.

What things has being active in the fandom here on LJ forced you to look up? Or just confused you? We abbreviate episode titles (KLGI, EoJ, etc), the 'ship itself (K/L), we call each other "bb" and put actions like hugs in "*"s. We talk in code - the secret language of brain twins.