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If you are attending ConDFW and plan on playing Pictionary, don't look under the cut or you're a DIRTY ROTTEN CHEATER. If you're not going to play, you can look.
I'm compiling word lists and need heeeelp!
1) Anyone here who's read the Culture novels by Ian M Banks - can you tell me which of the Culture ship names is most well known? (clarification: in general fandom, rather than within the book)
Context: I'm creating a list of spaceship names to go into a game of Science Fiction Pictionary and want to throw a Culture ringer in there, without it turning out to be a really obscure one. :)
2) I also have two lists: Old Time Fandom and Newfangled Fandom. I need terms that go into each one. For example:
Old Time Fandom: Oobleck, Tully
Newfangled Fandom: Fanfic, Shipper
I'm compiling word lists and need heeeelp!
1) Anyone here who's read the Culture novels by Ian M Banks - can you tell me which of the Culture ship names is most well known? (clarification: in general fandom, rather than within the book)
Context: I'm creating a list of spaceship names to go into a game of Science Fiction Pictionary and want to throw a Culture ringer in there, without it turning out to be a really obscure one. :)
2) I also have two lists: Old Time Fandom and Newfangled Fandom. I need terms that go into each one. For example:
Old Time Fandom: Oobleck, Tully
Newfangled Fandom: Fanfic, Shipper
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If anything the names I really remember are the ones that were actually characters in their own right as opposed to names that got tossed off, so either Grey Area or Sleeper Service from Excession?
...yeah, I'm not in Banks fandom but I've read the books a lot. (I was naming my fantasy baseball teams after Culture ships for the last few years; it confused the hell out of the rest of the league.)
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(The reason we will probably never do Old-school vs New-school as the theme for Cosplay Human Chess at the anime convention my roommate runs is that all of the kids these days think that anything that came out before 2005 is old-school. Possibly they could be convinced of 2000. The Eva/Utena line in the 90s? Forget it!)
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Ummm...best description: if someone in it says "fandom" and means "everyone involved fan activities, no matter what particular thing they're a fan of," it's probably Old School. If they say "fandom" and are referring to the activit surrounding one show/book/movie/franchise, it's Newfangled Fandom.
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Old Time fandom: sercon (Serious and Constructive, usually with irony), gafiate (to Get Away From It All), fiawol (Fandom Is A Way Of Live, contrast to Fandom Is Just A Goddamn Hobby), Slash (same as now), perzine (personal fanzine, kind of a personal journal in the form of articles and magazine), clubzine, crudzine (pejorative), APA.
Newfangled fandom: Team <foo>, playlists, canon!fic, <version>!<character name> (and the whole ! nomenclature, really, including S!B, B!S, and all the secret-related stuff), <foo> secrets, tl;dr, weeaboo.
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Oldschool: GoH (anime cons/fans, in my experience, don't seem to talk in acronyms nearly as much as the old school), filk, BEM, fen, mundane, skiffy, Japanimation, chopsocky, Great Bird of the Galaxy, TANSTAAFL, grok, slans, SCAdian, tape trading, gratuitous silent h (fhan, bheer, etc.), SubGenii, Discordianism, egoboo, huckster, illo
Newschool: namesmush/portmanteau pairing names, cosplay (oldschool called it costuming/masquerade), lemon (as a fic rating), RP (online improvizational roleplaying of preexisting fandom characters as opposed to oldschool tabletop formal RPGs), gamer (when referring to console/PC games rather than tabletop RPGs or wargames), sub/dub wars, scanlations, fansubs, vidding, AMVs, fanmixes, soulbonding, fanservice
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or Just Read The Instructions (the other one that was really familiar was Bora Horza Gobuchul, but that's highly unsuitable for Pictionary).