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exemplifies similar sentiments with two different-sized eyes. A lot of common
turns of phrases particular to this chat are used: everyone shags everyone, if
only metaphorically in the OOCs; Harry induced knickers-stealing in a
taunting episode with Draco, which was picked up by every player in the
game and is referred to in this excerpt; the mentioned “FIREBOLT” is not just
a simple broom brand (from canon) here, but an in-joke reference to Ron’s
penis. When Harry “*dies*”, he dies of laughter. However, these gamespecific
practices and terms are not necessarily created within the game itself
(but one of the players may use it, and others may take it up), nor is its use
restricted to the game only. 10 Quite contrarily, these terms and practices travel
rapidly. When Yuri was still very new to this game, I remember being
astonished as “*dies*” and “*shags*” would be inserted more and more
frequently into our Instant Messenger conversations, and it took a bit of time
to comprehend the meaning of “*dies*.” The first time I watched Yuri
roleplaying, I finally understood where these terms had come from, yet was
still unsettled as I noticed that I had begun to pick up this habit and was using
it occasionally as well. This observation reinforced once again my own notion
of the speed of cross-boundary transformations fandoms experience, in that
several terms used in one fandom alone may become part of general fandom,
as they are passed on.
10 Surrounding asterisks signify an action or emotion within, which is usually written in 3 rd
person singular. This is a practice which originated in RPGs, but is now commonly used in
any Instant Messenger conversation, not necessarily between fans only. Instead of asterisks,
other signs or symbols may be used: Ka used to denote actions with a surrounding “::”; some
others might use “” at the end.
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