Subject: SF Fandom
Terms used among fans, esp. terms used to discuss fan-related activities.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| filksing n. (1968) | a session or event of filk singing |
| filk singer n. (1979) | one who sings filk songs |
| filksinging n. (1965) | the singing of filk songs |
| filk song n. (1953) | a song in the filk style |
| fillo n. (1959) | a small illustration used to fill space, esp. in a fanzine |
| fugghead n. (1949) | a stupid, obnoxious, or incompetent person |
| fuggheaded adj. (1949) | stupid; obnoxious; incompetent |
| fuggheadedness n. (1949) | the quality of being stupid, obnoxious, or incompetent |
| gafia n. 1 (1940) | participation in fandom |
| gafia n. 2 (1950) | the state of having quit fandom (cf. earlier gafia n. 1); cf. gafiation n. |
| gafiate n. (1956) | a person who has quit fandom; one who has gafiated |
| gafiate v. (1959) | to cease involvement with science fiction fandom |
| gafiation n. (1959) | the state of having quit fandom; cf. gafia n. 2 |
| gamer n. (1973) | a participant in a war-game or role-playing game; a player or creator of such games |
| Hugo n. (1953) | any of several awards presented annually at the World Science Fiction Convention for excellence in science fiction or fantasy writing, art, publishing, etc. |
| illo n. (1945) | an illustration |
| ish n. (1937) | an issue or edition in a series; spec. an issue of a magazine, esp. (in early use) a fanzine |
| kipple n. (1960) | useless or unwanted (household) objects; junk; rubbish |
| K/S n. (1978) | a subgenre of science fiction, originally published in fanzines and now esp. online, in which the Star Trek characters Kirk and Spock are portrayed as having a homosexual relationship; (later) any similar fiction in which a pair of (established) male characters is so portrayed |
| letterhack n. (1942) | a fan who frequently writes letters to magazine or fanzine letter columns |
| loc n. (1961) | a letter written to a magazine, esp. a fanzine |
| loc v. (1962) | to write a loc (to) |
| lox n. (1965) | plural of loc |
| Mary Sue n. (1976) | a writer who inserts an idealized version of themselves in their own fan fiction n.; such a story or character |
| mundane n. 1 (1946) | a non-imaginative story |
| mundane n. 2 (1963) | a person who is not a science-fiction fan; an outsider |
| mundane adj. 1 (1945) | belonging or relating to the world which lies outside the sphere of interest of a particular group of enthusiasts (used esp. among science fiction fans, originally of mainstream fiction) |
| neo n. (1956) | = neofan n. |
| neofan n. (1944) | a newly recruited or newly active fan |
| neopro n. (1967) | a new professional writer |
| ob- prefix (1993) | denoting 'obligatory or expected reference to' a topic |
| Peter Parker principle n. (No cites) | see Spider-Man principle n. |
| prodom n. (1941) | the world of professional writing, in contrast to fan writing or activities |
| promag n. (1937) | a professional magazine; prozine n. |
| prozine n. (1942) | a professional magazine, as opposed to an amateur fanzine; = promag n. |
| RealSoonNow adv. (1959) | in the near future; quickly; very soon |
| relaxacon n. (1956) | a science fiction convention with few or no fixed program events or organized activities |
| relaxicon n. (No cites) | see relaxacon n. |
| retcon n. (1989) | in a fictional work or series: a piece of new (and typically revelatory) information which imposes a different interpretation on previously described events, often employed to facilitate a dramatic plot shift or account for an inconsistency; (also) use of this as a narrative device |
| retcon v. (1989) | to revise retrospectively (an aspect of a fictional work or series), typically by means of a revelation which imposes a different interpretation on previously described events; cf. retcon n. |
| RSN adv. (1959) | = RealSoonNow adv. |
| science fictioneer n. (1936) | a writer or aficionado of science fiction |
| semiprozine n. (1947) | a magazine that is between the levels of fanzine and prozine in some category such as circulation, quality of printing, etc.; a well-produced or widely circulated fanzine |
| sensawunda n. (1961) | = sense of wonder n. |
| sercon n. (1958) | a sercon fan; a sercon item, sercon activities |
| sercon adj. (1955) | of fans or fan activities: (obsessively) concerned with matters of criticism or scholarship, rather than fandom itself; cf. faan n. |
| ship n. 2 (1996) | a romantic pairing of two characters who appear in a work of (serial) fiction, esp. one which is discussed, portrayed, or advocated by fans rather than depicted in the original work; (also) fans who support a particular pairing, considered collectively |
| ship v. (1998) | transitive to discuss, portray, or advocate a romantic pairing of (two characters who appear in a work of (serial) fiction), esp. when such a pairing is not depicted in the original work; also intransitive |
| shipper n. (1996) | a person who discusses, portrays, or advocates a romantic pairing of two characters who appear in a work of (serial) fiction, esp. when such a pairing is not depicted in the original work |
| skiffy n. (1978) | = sci-fi n. |