Girls who like Boys who like Boys – Ethnography of ... - Yuuyami.com

mainstream
maintext
manga
Mary Sue
MCS
ME
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years. Some lists tolerate lurkers; others strongly
discourage or even ban them to assure that all
members "pull their weight" by participating.
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M
The one-and-only original unaltered canon version
of a character.
Any canon romantic or sexual relationship between
characters which occurs as the writer intended and
without need for interpretation. The opposite of
subtext.
Japanese comic books. Manga (pronounced
"MAWN-guh," with a hard "G" as in "gum") makes
up forty percent of all publications in Japan and is
aimed specifically at men and women as well as at
teens. See anime for the animated side of the
industry.
The generic name for any new character (usually
female) who's a ego-stroke for the writer: she's
beautiful, has amazing skills/powers, gets into a
love affair with an existing character, or (usually) all
of the above. Mary Sues often convince characters
to hook up romantically, especially in slash. Good
writers can write good Mary Sues, but this is not the
norm. See fangirl and avatar for other variations, or
go here for a full explanation.
Middle Chapter Syndrome -- a disorder which
causes writers (mainly of trilogies and longer epics)
to write a substandard work in order to get the
characters from one heavily plotted section to the
next.
Abbreviation for Mutant Enemy, production
company responsible for Buffy The Vampire Slayer,
Angel, and Firefly.
A fan whose main focus of fascination is popular
media, ie. a particular TV show or movie. A slightly
demeaning term used primarily by snobby oldtimers
who still think that fandom should be restricted to
arguing the mechanics of so-called classic sci-fi
and cranking out mimeo'd zines, if you ask me.
Subreality
Xena
anime/mang
a
Star Trek
Xena
Buffy/Angel
old fandom
megacrossov A crossover involving characters from several anime/mang
er
different works -- at least four or five.
a
A word of "warning" politely added to the subject
line of a post or e-mail to indicate that the message comics,
meta or META
contained therein is ABOUT fanfic or the people others
who write it, but isn't actually a piece of fanfic itself.
A self-referential story which "breaks the fourth
wall" by acknowledging that the characters are not
metafic,
metafiction
real -- and, often, that they know it. Can be enjoyed Subreality,
in non-fanfic work like "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" others
and John Byrne's "She-Hulk" -- often used to
humorous effect in fanfic by forcing the writer to
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