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"degeneration" <strong>of</strong> smarm into near-smut. It's called<br />

romantic friendship by Xena bards. And there's a<br />

rating scale, too. ;)<br />

SMT<br />

"Sadistic Mulder Torture" -- a cheerfully burgeoning<br />

subgenre which delights in inflicting horrible things,<br />

preferably physical AND psychological, upon X-Files<br />

everybody's favorite deadpan FBI agent. It even<br />

has its own dot<strong>com</strong>...<br />

"The first person in an argument to invoke any<br />

<strong>com</strong>parison to 'those popular girls <strong>who</strong> were mean<br />

Snacky's Law to me everyone in school,' loses." Inspired by general<br />

Godwin's Law, coined by DeadJournal's Snacky <strong>–</strong><br />

full explanation here.<br />

snark<br />

To snarl rudely; to be sarcastic, impatient, or<br />

downright bitchy for little good reason. Snarking is<br />

not cute or funny -- it's annoying. A person <strong>who</strong><br />

general<br />

snarks is being snarky.<br />

snarky Someone <strong>who</strong>'s snarking an awful lot. See snark. general<br />

A story based entirely around the lyrics <strong>of</strong> a song.<br />

Thanks to a flood <strong>of</strong> sappy, pointless songfics in<br />

other genres, these are generally regarded as a<br />

Very Bad Thing. As long as a story would not<br />

<strong>com</strong>pletely collapse without the song to provide<br />

songfic support, a story can be named after a song or even general<br />

include a few lyrics to set the mood and not be<br />

considered songfic. The worst consist little more<br />

than the song itself...and the very worst are ones<br />

that seek deep personal meaning in a hot pop-song<br />

<strong>of</strong> the moment.<br />

SOTA<br />

Sign Of The Apocalypse -- something indicating the<br />

MST3K<br />

world is <strong>com</strong>ing to an end. Something bad.<br />

Named for the paste used to fill cracks in a wall,<br />

this is a story that tries to "fill in the holes" in canon,<br />

supplying missing scenes/motivation and trying to<br />

make sense <strong>of</strong> TPTB's <strong>of</strong>ten dizzying leaps <strong>of</strong><br />

illogic. Also used as a verb.<br />

spackle<br />

This term seems to have been coined in 1999 by<br />

Greywolf the Wanderer, when he posted his zine<br />

Star Trek<br />

story "Dark Star" online with this summary: "I<br />

always loved The Enterprise Incident, but it's got<br />

plot holes ye could drive a logging truck thru.<br />

Consider this my best attempt to spackle the<br />

bastards."<br />

This is in reference to a certain Japanese character<br />

spatulate<br />

<strong>who</strong> uses cooking utensils in her martial arts. When<br />

anime/mang<br />

you "spatulate" someone, it means to flip them over<br />

a<br />

<strong>like</strong> a pancake -- using a spatula, <strong>of</strong> course. Don't<br />

ask.<br />

spoiler,<br />

spoilers<br />

A piece <strong>of</strong> information within a story or a message<br />

which can reveal (and thereby "spoil") an important<br />

plotpoint in a movie, show, issue, etc. that the<br />

reader has not yet seen/read. See spoiler warning.<br />

general<br />

spoiler A good poster or chatter always takes their general<br />

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