FemHawke

Daaawwww. 2nd playthrough of DA2 and my FemHawke Mage just had the 1st romance scene with Anders. So cute.

2011 March 15, Rexluna (@RexlunaCosplay), Twitter:

I also have one male Hawke and all the rest are FemHawkes.

2013 March 2, MsinVader47 (@Vader47), Twitter:

Pretty sure that Ciri is voiced by the same VA as FemHawke in DA2.... giving me all the Dragon Age feels.

2015 June 17, Kelly (@mindofgeekness), Twitter:

(fandom slang, video games) The female version of the Hawke player character from the video game Dragon Age II.


blorbo from my shows

en-noun

blorbo from my shows (plural blorbos from my shows)

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From a December 2021 post by Tumblr user thelustiestargonianmaid complaining about enthusiastic reblogs: "Bitches will be like 'prev tags omg' on my post and I check the preg^([sic – meaning prev]) tags and it's like ‘blorbo from my shows.'"

no one can make me feel bad for talking excessively about blorbo from my shows

2022 January 7, Turner (@shiraseceo), Twitter:

my fatal flaw is that i can’t live my life without depending on blorbos from my shows for serotonin

can’t talk right now, gotta meticulously curate a playlist for blorbo from my shows

2022 March 28, eerie indiana (@indybree), Twitter:

(fandom slang, endearing, neologism) A fictional character or celebrity of whom one is especially fond.


blorbo

i love it when fictional characters have their birthdays established it literally serves no purpose. there is no reason. nothing but joy of "oh today is my little blorbo's birthday" and saying birthday wishes into the void

2022 January 27, lesbians for edelgard (@C0REZI), Twitter:

Waiting for my blorbo to return to my screen like a WWII housewife waiting for her husband

2022 February 27, Sarah Z (@marysuewriter), Twitter:

love it when a hockey twitter blorbo gets traded and I find out that he's not nearly as good as I just assumed he was

2022 March 15, Beata (@CBeataE), Twitter:

Of course, all your blorbos are back for the big magical confrontation between those who crave power and those who defend against its abuses.

2023 October 31, Olivia Waite, “A Handful of Luscious, Soapy, Sexy Romance Novels”, in The New York Times:

blorbo from my shows
blorbo from my shows#English

(fandom slang, endearing, neologism) Ellipsis of blorbo from my shows.


sharktopus

sharktopus (plural sharktopuses or sharktopi)

sharktopuses (plural)
sharktopi (plural)

Blend of shark + octopus, from being a half-shark/half-cephalopod sea monster

(US, fiction) Synonym of lusca; a shark-headed creature with tentacles; a Bahamian folkloric sea monster recast in U.S. pop culture pulp fiction


fujobait

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From fujo (“a female fan of yaoi or slash fiction”) + bait.

compound

thoughts watching yuri on ice: this is the most incredible fujobait and i am biting down on this bait so fucking hard

2016 October 10, med 👽 AX J9 (@daikonhime), Twitter:

anime companies at their board meetings trying to decide which sport to base their fujobait anime series next [screenshot of the sport selection menu from Wii Sports Resort]

2021 March 26, Chara (@hunipyons), Twitter:

Friendly reminder that in 2019 the Chinese government commissioned a fujobait anime about Karl Marx

2022 January 27, Lindsey (@lindsey_batdorf), Twitter:

(Japanese fiction, fandom slang) An anime, manga, or other piece of media created to appeal to fujoshi.


fujoshit

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Real talk tho what's with fujoshits and "OOooOH I'm so kinky so sinful I've read and love all the DIRTY THINGS I'M SO HARDCORE" shut up rat

the part i dont get is people consume gay fanart content and as long as they see something they dont like they go AHA THE FUJOSHIT ARE DOING IT AGAIN like oh my god what

2020 May 4, instanttnoodle (@instanttnoodle), Twitter:

This just reminds me of when the fujoshits on here got uppity because mlms were saying “literally most bl content is made by straight girls for straight girls”

2022 July 5, hermes finalfantasy defense force (@cementbones), Twitter:

(fandom slang, vulgar, derogatory) A fujoshi.


overenchant

en-verb

overenchant (third-person singular simple present overenchants, present participle overenchanting, simple past and past participle overenchanted)

overenchants (present singular third-person)
overenchanting (participle present)
overenchanted (participle past)
overenchanted (past)

If you overenchant the armor, you can end up killing the person. Too much ice or fire enchantment and you freeze or cook yourself.

2019, Alexander Guinn, Eternal Knights of Eden II: Angels Fall, page 325:

(transitive, fantasy) To enchant excessively.


surprised Pikachu

en-noun

surprised Pikachu (plural surprised Pikachus)

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Some of Broncos Country is left fuming over a start so poor that it is the only team in franchise history that has been this inept, but the rest of us are wearing the surprised Pikachu face.

2019 October 2, James Burky, “Fangio not at fault for foul start to season”, in The Metropolitan, MSU Denver, page 8:

Then without saying so much as a goodbye to Laurie or Steve, who has just arrived at the scene with a surprised-Pikachu look on his face, Will marches toward the exit.

2020, Isla Chiu, Ringing in the Lunar New Year, unnumbered page:

"I don't choose my monsters based on how cute they are, you know."
"You don't?! Really?"
Duh. Why the surprised Pikachu face?

2022, Yuu Tanaka, translated by Yuko C. Shimomoto, A Late-Start Tamer’s Laid-Back Life: Volume 3, unnumbered page:

(Internet slang) Synonym of shocked Pikachu.


creative nonfiction

Coordinate term: autofiction

The idea of “emotional truth” often pops up during discussions of accuracy in the context of creative nonfiction. Maybe you can't get every detail right, goes the argument, but you can capture a larger meaning that's essentially truthful.

2011, Jack Hart, Storycraft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 224:

The danger, as genre-defying or creative nonfiction becomes a genre in its own right—with mix-and-match poised to become a matter of rote—is that no man’s land could become predictably congested.

2015 December 6, Geoff Dyer, “‘Based on a true story’: the fine line between fact and fiction”, in The Guardian:

He’d arrived at the perfect time: when authenticity was more about the truth behind feelings rather than facts, when the now-accepted genres “auto-fiction” and “creative nonfiction” were blooming, and when our ideas of subjectivity were being shaken by an explosion of “reality” television.

2018 December 4, Sian Cain, “There’s more to this bad fiction than bad sex – between the lines is privilege”, in The Guardian:

A genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives.


TTTE

Thomas the Tank Engine
w:Thomas & Friends (franchise)


Mouse Kingdom

My brother (the minor regional poet and CnW artiste) went to Orlando (in the Mouse Kingdom) for a minor regional poet's confab oncet and hooked up with a cowboy poet from Wyoming.

1994 July 26, Ted Samse, “ORLANDO [not the sound of Florida in my ears]”, in rec.arts.books (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

Don't know what the temperture is by Maryjo, but the weather in Sarasota, Fl. is supposed to be up in the low 80's today. It is usually warmer here than Lakecity.
It is supposed to be in the same in Orlando, at the Mouse Kingdom where my husband and I are heading in just a couple of hours.

1999 November 6, Catherine Hassard, “OT A Message From George Carlin”, in alt.support.crohns-colitis (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

Not only do they have Mikey's stuff at the Mouse Kingdom, they have it at the Bullseye Boutique.

2001 April 8, Charlie Perrin, “More Magazine--and what magazines do you read?”, in alt.fashion (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

I am from Central Florida in the United States. About 45 miles from the giant mouse kingdom of Orlando.

2004 December 28, Mary, “RE: New Member”, in alt.healing.reiki (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

I am not in fact a Tampan. My ISP is located in Tampa but I am from further east. I AM regrettably close to the Mouse Kingdom, I admit. Tampa and Orlando kinda suck all the oxygen out of the air here.

2008 April 22, Jim Vandewalker, “Clansdell and Jim V.”, in alt.religion.kibology (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

The coming August, before the start of school, I was planning on going with some friends to the Mouse Kingdom in Florida.

2022 July 17, Obvious-Wrongdoer-18, “AITA For Saying That I Don't Love My Niece To Her Face?”, in Reddit, AmItheAsshole, archived from the original on 2022-07-18:

"On the Disney side--remember these people own a movie studio, cable TVvhannels and ABC--there's plenty of people who are technicall astute. Bran Ferren, Alan Kay, Marvin Minsky, Seymour Papret, and Danny Hillis, geeks all, have found comfortable homes in the mouse kingdom."

1998 March 10, Tripp1901, “Disney Buying Apple Computers???”, in alt.disney.disneyland (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

There's a current fan-myth that Mulan was directly inspired by Mononoke, which is incredibly unlikely given Disney's film began production long before Ghibli's. (Unless the Mouse Kingdom ransacked Miyazaki's early treatments - which were a variant on the Beauty and the Beast story, with a young girl forced to marry a mononoke (monster)).

1998 July 16, andrew osmond, “summer is here”, in uk.media.animation.anime (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

Robin the mad photographer (not terribly impressed with the Mouse Kingdom, if you couldn't tell)

1999 June 24, Robin Colleen Moore, “Three More Bodies Found In Disney Pond”, in alt.showbiz.gossip (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

I have a pair of co-workers (husband and wife, but she kept her name... we didn't know they were husband and wife for a while) who are great Mouse Kingdom freaks. She in particular wears Mickey Mouse stuff to work all the time.

The mouse kingdom has invaded the big apple on Broadway where the Lion King has been playing to sold out audiences for years.

2002 January 25, JSTONE9352, “NYINC”, in rec.collecting.coins (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

Welcome from another Californian. We seem to be getting quite a group here. I'm kind of near the mouse kingdom, but not as close as Sandra. Guess we are spread out everywhere. : )

1997 September 19, Bev, “WHO IS FORTY OR MORE?”, in alt.penpals.forty-plus-yrs (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

I sold the trip to Track Worlds on the proximity to the Mouse Kingdom (Le Royaume de Souris to you, Brian). It's spring break so the rest of my family is available to travel. Note, if you refer to the Mouse Kingdom to a travel agent they know exactly what you are talking about. You might have to explain Le Royaume de Souris though.
So Thursday, while I'm grooving on the Men's Points race, they are making the pilgrimmage. This is a big deal since my kid is old enough now that a lot of her friends have been there, or to the alternate Royaume de Souris in Florida.

2005 March 26, Bob Schwartz, “True Story”, in rec.bicycles.racing (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

We were at Disneyland, so long ago there was still a submarine ride, and this loud talking hot woman with another group who looked just like Kelly Harmon and honestly might have been her
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/images/kelly-harmon-1.jpg
said, as I put my video camera up against the sub window, “I bet that creep is going to put his video camera right up against the sub window“
And my mouse kingdom accomplice asked what cutie pie had said and I told her and she says “I don’t believe it, she’s too pretty to be that mean“

2021 June 10, anim8rfsk, “"Loki" Starts Today”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

(humorous, uncommon) The Disneyland Resort.


age is just a number

Age is not an important attribute in a person.


BuWeaps

(fiction) Abbreviation of bureau of weapons. found in fictional military organizations


quadball

quadball (countable and uncountable, plural quadballs)

International Quadball Association
J. K. Rowling

From quad- (“four”) + ball or quad + ball. The sport sense was introduced in 2022 by the International Quadball Association, formerly the International Quidditch Association, with quad- chosen in reference to the number of balls and positions in the game. The IQA cited concerns over the trademarked status of Quidditch and a wish to distance itself from the "anti-trans positions" of J. K. Rowling.

“This is an important moment in our sport’s history,” said Chris Lau, chair of the IQA board of trustees, in a statement. “We are confident in this step and we look forward to all the new opportunities quadball will bring.”

2022 July 20, Adela Suliman, “Quidditch is now quadball, distancing game from J.K. Rowling, league says”, in The Washington Post:

Major League Quidditch and US Quidditch will now be known as Major League Quadball and US Quadball respectively.

2022 July 20, “Quidditch changes name to quadball after JK Rowling’s trans statements”, in The Guardian:

Quidditch, the sport of boarding school wizards riding broomsticks in “Harry Potter,” will become “Quadball” to the humans who play the game in real life, its leading organizations said on Tuesday.

2022 July 20, Alex Traub, “Quidditch Becomes ‘Quadball,’ Leaving J.K. Rowling Behind”, in The New York Times:

Love Harry Potter? Then check out the quadball championship that combines elements of rugby, basketball and dodgeball. The MLQ Championship is the league’s signature event

2023 August 24, Susan Stapleton, “Plan your weekend: This weekend offers quadball, World Food, Music Fest and more”, in Des Moines Register, page D.1.:

(sports, uncountable, neologism) A co-ed contact ball sport created as a ground-based adaptation of Quidditch, featuring the same positions, balls, and goals as the fictional sport, but with the players clutching broomsticks and a human "snitch runner" carrying the snitch (an autonomous magical device in the Harry Potter novels).


Orc

(slang, fiction, derogatory) Alternative form of orc (monstrous warrior in fantasy; Russian soldier)


Kelvinverse

From Kelvin + -verse, referencing the attack on the USS Kelvin by time-travelling Romulans in the first film, the point of divergence that creates the alternate universe.

From H. G. Wells's radio play The War of the Worlds to the cinematic blockbuster Star Trek Kelvinverse movies, themes of invasion, conquest, and colonization are the bread and butter of science fiction.

2020, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games, page 30:

The show responded to fan pleas to return the series to the “Prime” timeline and explored a hitherto under-represented era of Star Trek history—roughly a decade before The Original Series, placing it roughly analogous to the same time zone the “Kelvinverse” films were exploring.

2021, A. J. Black, Star Trek, History and Us: Reflections of the Present and Past Throughout the Franchise, page 150:

In other words, the Kelvinverse versions of Kirk, Spock, Bones, Uhura, Sulu, Scotty, and so on, are not the same characters as their “Prime” counterparts (“whatever our lives might have been ... our destinies have changed”).

2022, William Proctor, “Star Trek (2009)”, in Leimar Garcia-Siino, Sabrina Mittermeier, Stefan Rabitsch, editors, The Routledge Handbook of Star Trek, unnumbered page:

(fandom slang) The fictional universe which serves as the setting for the reboot Star Trek film franchise launched in 2009 (an alternate timeline of the original Star Trek universe).


girlslash

For quotations using this term, see Citations:girlslash.

(fandom slang) Slash fiction that focuses on romantic and/or sexual relationships between female characters.


draconcopedes

From Medieval Latin dracontopedis, draconcopedis, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “serpent”) + πούς (poús, “foot, leg”).

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For old acquaintance-sake we have stopped some little time with the dragon, before passing on to the Draconcopedes. This is the serpent with a woman’s head that tempted Eve.

1855 September 22, “Supernatural Zoology”, in Household Words, volume 12, page 188:

In some European Garden of Eden tales, the woman and the serpent are hybridized into a creature referred to as a draconcopedes.

2009, Peter Metevelis, Japanese Mythology and the Primeval World: A Comparative Symbolic Approach, →ISBN, page 39:

In medieval European folklore the draconcopedes were a species of serpent said to have the body of a snake with the face and breasts of a woman […]

2016, Theresa Bane, “Draconcopedes”, in Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore, →ISBN, page 106:

(mediaeval folklore) A legendary being with a human head, and sometimes also human arms and a torso, and the rest of the body of a snake.


From 1, used to dial long-distance numbers and 555, the North American code for the provision of directory assistance.

Of telephone numbers dialed in North America, widely used for fictional numbers in television shows, films, and other media.


Stepford wife

From the 1972 novel The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin (adapted into a 1975 film of the same name), in which a woman moves to the fictional town of Stepford, Connecticut and discovers its eerily docile housewives are android replacements.

Parroting back her husband’s words, by the end of the play, Kate sounds either like a brainwashed member of a bizarre religious cult or a Stepford wife, a woman whose personality has been wiped out and replaced by one more acceptable to her husband.

1995, Regina Barreca, Perfect Husbands & Other Fairy Tales): Demystifying Marriage, Men, And Romance, page 214:

"You can't just sit there and tell me you want Lili to become a 'Stepford wife' at your beck and call. […]

2005, Mollie Molay, An Engagement of Convenience, page 210:

So that prompted me to ask the question: isn’t the ideal Muslim wife in actual fact a Stepford Wife?

2006, Na'ima B. Robert, From My Sisters' Lips: A Unique Celebration of Muslim Womanhood, page 272:

(derogatory) A woman who unquestioningly submits to and serves her male partner, and/or does not seem to have interests, wishes, or pursuits of her own.

Ira Levin
The Stepford Wives
The Stepford Wives (1975 film)


Africanfuturism

en-noun

Africanfuturism (usually uncountable, plural Africanfuturisms)

Coined by science fiction and fantasy author Nnedi Okorafor in 2019, from African + futurism.

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Africanfuturism is similar to “Afrofuturism” in the way that blacks on the continent and in the Black Diaspora are all connected by blood, spirit, history and future. The difference is that Africanfuturism is specifically and more directly rooted in African culture, history, mythology and point-of-view as it then branches into the Black Diaspora, and it does not privilege or center the West.

2019, Nnedi Okorafor, “Africanfuturism Defined”, in Nnedi's Wahala Zone Blog:

Thompson’s Africanfuturism is both queer and decolonial at the same time, necessitating an approach to embodiment that does not look like white, Western performative queerness

2021, Jenna N. Hanchey, “'The self is embodied': Reading queer and trans Africanfuturism in The Wormwood Trilogy”, in Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, volume 14, number 4, →DOI, page 321:

Later this year, the highly anticipated sequel to Black Panther (2018), Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, releases. This will likely mark another big surge in wider public excitement and shared fan art depicting elements of Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism.

2022, Alyssa Shotwell, “The Key Differences Between Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism (With Examples!)”, in The Mary Sue:

(Africa, science fiction, neologism) An Afrocentric subgenre of science fiction that foregrounds familial, spiritual and historical connections among Black people, paying particular attention to African culture, history and mythology, and African perspectives, rather than those of the African diaspora in the western world.


Africanjujuism

en-noun

Africanjujuism (usually uncountable, plural Africanjujuisms)

Coined by science fiction and fantasy author Nnedi Okorafor in 2018, from African + jujuism.

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Africanjujuism is a subcategory of fantasy that respectfully acknowledges the seamless blend of true existing African spiritualities and cosmologies with the imaginative.

Last but not least, the choice of Afrofuturism in this article rather than Africanfuturism and Africanjujuism is also a pragmatic one—there simply exist more scholarly analyses to draw upon.

2021, Aisha P. L. Kadiri, “Data and Afrofuturism: an emancipated subject?”, in Internet Policy Review, volume 10, number 4, →DOI, page 7:

Just like Africanfuturism, another term she coined for African science fiction, Africanjujuism comes out of a need to capture the uniqueness of what African writers are doing when they explore familiar genres like fantasy.

2021, Ainehi Edoro, “What is Africanjujuism?”, in Brittle Paper:

(fantasy) An Afrocentric subgenre of fantasy fiction that draws on African spiritualities and cosmologies.


planetship

If an interstellar flight belongs in the category of very slow flight, the corresponding starship is converted into a planetship for rapid flights within the solar system.

1959, NASA Technical Translation, page 156:

This was not a spaceship with its stern half broader than the bows and with high stabilizer ribs. Judging by the sharp bows and slim hull it must have been a planetship hut its contours differed in the thick ring at the stern and the long, distaff-shaped structure on top.

2005, Vera Velichko, The Best on the East, volume 3, page 107:

And to cap it all, there's a planetship full of important politicians in orbit around Mars unable to land while this crisis is with us.

2011, John Glasby, Mystery of the Crater, page 87:

The space vehicle came to be understood as an engineered techno-ecology that allowed for short-term excursions, but the actual goal was to build systems that would allow the expected “planetships” to travel into orbit, to the Moon, to Mars, and one day even further out, into the galaxy.

2021, Kärin Nickelsen, David P. D. Munns, Far Beyond the Moon:

(science fiction) A spacecraft for relatively short journeys in the vicinity of a planet.


enviro-suit

(science fiction) a garment covering the whole body which allows the wearer to maintain a separate atmosphere from the surroundings


Shenko

Finished my Shenko doodle but tumblr is barfing all over me. *kicks tumblr*

2011 July 8, Kia Purity (@kiapurity), Twitter:

I don't get some Shenko fans. It's like, yeah Kaidan is my space husbando but I ain't gonna flip shit if you don't like him lmao

2012 December 9, hannah (@floraofmoon), Twitter:

I have just read a 500k word Shenko fic that was far better than the game.

2020 February 5, Siân (@alphra_), Twitter:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Commander Shepard and Kaidan Alenko from the video game series Mass Effect.


Shiara

i'm having so many shiara feelings lately and i don't know why oh my god i love liara so much what a cutie

liara and f!shepard are the best. I love them. I love my Shep and Liara, i love seeing other people's f'sheps and Liara. Shiara is too pure

2016 November 17, Yeehaw Todd (@AfroPrincex), Twitter:

Daily reminder that I stan Shiara and that I live and die for them

2021 February 25, Atrast nal Tunsha, salroka (@Illusive_s0ul), Twitter:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Commander Shepard and Liara T'Soni from the video game series Mass Effect.


Surprisingly, ME3 proves to be a fantastic entry point into the series for new recruits.

2012 April, Adam Mathew, “Mass Effect 3”, in PlayStation Magazine, Australia, page 60:

In ME3, they have a deep friendship with hints of possibly more.

2013 June, Francesca Reyes, “Goodnight Shepard”, in Xbox 360 Magazine, page 48:

We know that a lot of you PlayStation fans won't have played the first Mass Effect game because of the fact that it didn't originally release on PS3, meaning that there are a whole contingent of Mass Effect players who only ever played ME2 and ME3.

2016, “Mass Effect”, in Play Magazine, number 266, UK, page 82:

(fandom slang) Initialism of Mass Effect 3.


[…] and it bores so rarely that ME2 lifts the benchmark for game writing set by the original.

2010 April, Jon Blyth, “Mass Effect 2”, in PC Zone, page 76:

Therein lies ME2's greatest hook: real emotional investment.

2011 March, Adam Mathew, “Mass Effect 2”, in PlayStation Magazine, Australia, page 70:

The true femmes fatales of the series are the Ardat-Yakshi, and one side quest in ME2 even requires the player to hunt down a serial killer Ardat-Yakshi named Morinth who tries to seduce Shepard and will kill him/her if he/she is unable to resist her.

2023, Sarah Stang, “Desirable and Undesirable Cyborg Bodies in the Mass Effect Video Game Trilogy”, in Julia A. Empey, Russell J. A. Kilbourn, editors, Feminist Posthumanism in Contemporary Science Fiction Film and Media: From Annihilation to High Life and Beyond, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 107:

(fandom slang) Initialism of Mass Effect 2.


(fandom slang) Initialism of Dragon Age 1.


(fandom slang) Initialism of Dragon Age II.


(fandom slang) Initialism of Dragon Age 3.


Dragon Age 4
w:Dragon Age: The Veilguard

(fandom slang) Initialism of Dragon Age 4.


MEA

Mass Effect: Andromeda
w:Mass Effect: Andromeda

(fandom slang) Initialism of Mass Effect: Andromeda.


(fandom slang) Initialism of Mass Effect 4.


transstellar

transstellar navigation

(chiefly science fiction) Across or between the stars.


the bad place

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reality warping

(science fiction): The psychic ability to manipulate, control, distort or alter reality


Tolkienism

en-noun

Tolkienism (countable and uncountable, plural Tolkienisms)

constructed language
constructed language

Something characteristic of J. R. R. Tolkien, such as a word from his constructed languages, or a style of high fantasy literature.


Amedot

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Amethyst and Peridot from the Steven Universe series.


Connverse

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Connie Maheswaran and Steven Universe from the Steven Universe series.


Lapidot

See also: Lapidoth
Romanization of Hebrew לַפִּידוֹת (Lapīḏōṯ, literally “torches”), a pluralization of לפיד (lapíd, “torch”).

der

Ma'ale Yosef Regional Council
w:Ma'ale Yosef Regional Council

A moshav in Ma'ale Yosef Regional Council council area, Northern District, Israel.


Lapidot

Blend of lapis (from lapis lazuli) and peridot.

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Lapis Lazuli and Peridot from the Steven Universe series.


Larsadie

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Lars Barriga and Sadie Miller from the Steven Universe series.


Pearlmethyst

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Pearl and Amethyst from the Steven Universe series.


Pearlnet

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Pearl and Garnet from the Steven Universe series.


Pearlrose

Blend of pearl and rose (from rose quartz).

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Pearl and Rose Quartz from the Steven Universe series.


Perinel

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Peridot and Spinel from the Steven Universe series.


Periven

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Peridot and Steven Universe from the Steven Universe series.


Rupphire

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Ruby and Sapphire from the Steven Universe series.


Stevinel

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Steven Universe and Spinel from the Steven Universe series.


Stevonnie

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Steven Universe and Connie Maheswaran from the Steven Universe series, who combine to create the character Stevonnie.


Harlivy

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Dr. Harleen Quinzel ("Harley Quinn") and Dr. Pamela Isley ("Poison Ivy") from DC Comics.


Kitivy

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Charles Brown ("Kite Man") and Dr. Pamela Isley ("Poison Ivy") from the Harley Quinn TV series.


Captain Ersatz

en-noun

Captain Ersatz (plural Captain Ersatzes)

From Captain + ersatz (“cheap imitation”). Coined by TV Tropes in 2007.

> And Astro City isn't mainly about the superhero powers and fights,
No, it's mainly about the Captain Ersatz's and Kurt pretending to be a real novelist. Except, you know, his main characters are all superheroes and supervillains, so however much he apes Raymond Chandler his resolutions usually involve someone punching someone else in the face or smashing their hero-defeater machine.

2010 February 7, plausible prose man, “Doctor Doom - should he be retconned like Ultimate Nick Fury?”, in rec.arts.comics.dc.universe (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-15:

> Thanos?
He and his opposite-brand Captain Ersatz Darkseid (actually, I think it's the other way around -- Darkseid first) certainly both get to play in the "Omnicidal Maniac" area, but they didn't quite grab me as much as some of the others I listed.

2014 September 23, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor), “Just For Fun: My Top Ten Villains”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-15:

he admits that as most of his creations are captain ersatz versions of rejected pitches to other companies.

2017 January 3, jeffpiatt, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-15:

DC to Marvel: Captain Marvel. He's redundant at DC, and none of Marvel's Captain Ersatzes have been half as good. And, he could finally use his proper name.

2020 August 31, TheOtherMaven, “If DC and marvel could swap two characters to be in each others universe permanently which two would you swap?”, in Reddit, DCcomics, archived from the original on 2022-08-15:

Adaptability...I made a 'WIR' of that game in rpg.net, and one thing I did was making two Captain Ersatzes of Toph Bei Fong and Rick Sanchez. So yeah, there's adaptability.

2022 March 21, DrGeraldRavenpie, “What's a system with over-the-top collateral damage?”, in Reddit, rpg, archived from the original on 2022-08-15:

(fandom slang) A fictional character created as a knock-off of another character whose copyright is owned by a separate entity.


Cloudcuckoolander

From cloudcuckooland + -er. Coined by TV Tropes in 2007.

...Actually, the Rev will come back in a while as the Knife Master. He's gone into the woods to train, he's secretly developing his ultimate technique of playing drums with knives and riding stallion ducks.
He also occasionally screams "WHY" at random BMWs around the street to ensure his sanity as the band's resident Cloudcuckoolander.

2016 December 29, MasalaOcelot, “To everyone who's sad about The Rev...”, in Reddit, avengedsevenfold, archived from the original on 2022-08-17:

I've always been intrigued by Rin and Hanako from Katawa Shoujo, mostly because Rin is strange and a Cloudcuckoolander, and Hanako because she is a Shrinking Violet, very shy and afraid of others. Lilly is special because she's a bit of a Yamato Nadeshiko - polite, feminine, gentle, kind and a motherly figure, and I'd also like to pursue a heroine with the same characteristics.

2017 October 11, Hikkikomorishoujo, “English-translated visual novels with characters like Rin, Hanako and Lilly from Katawa Shoujo?”, in Reddit, vnsuggest, archived from the original on 2022-08-17:

I’m talking about quirky and weird characters; the kind that make it oddly endearing. Characters like Sticks the Badger from Sonic Boom, Psymon Stark from SSX Tricky, Buck from Ice Age, Julien from Madagascar, Kel from Kenan & Kel, Brick from the Middle, Ed from Ed Edd n Eddy, Ron from Kim Possible, Pinky from Pinky and Brain, and Ace Ventura, just to give a few examples I am familiar with.
I love Cloudcuckoolanders but I am always bewildered at how easily they seem to be written. I always thought they weren’t easy characters to write unless the writer is one themselves. Some tips in this area would be most helpful, as this is probably one of my favorite type of characters and I want to do it justice. I guess the main issue is what is considered odd to people? I have Asperger’s so, I guess in a way, I already am a cuckoolander myself which sort of helps a little but at the same time, not so much.

2018 January 28, RoseOfTheNight4444, “Anyone know how to properly write a Cloudcuckoolander character?”, in Reddit, writing, archived from the original on 2022-08-17:

> I was completely unable to understand the Black Knight scene, because
> I had been fortunate enough not to ever encounter anyone remotely
> like "Black Knight" Oxyaena before I saw that film at the age of ca. 23.
You mean yourself? I`m not a "Black Knight", I`m more like the
Cloudcuckoolander's (meaning "you") Minder.

2018 October 12, Oxyaena, “The conundrum of hominin phylogeny”, in talk.origins (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-17:

I mean, fanfics featuring a suicidally stupid Cloudcuckoolander main character that goes around and terrorizes local populace for shit and giggles. Preferably also featuring Cerebus Syndrome trope, without OP powers and not focused on romance (or at least being a slowburn).

2021 May 19, BloodyStrawberry, “Any fanfics like FREAKIN GENSOKYO?”, in Reddit, FanFiction, archived from the original on 2022-08-17:

is pam a cloudcuckoolander

2021 July 9, Bugmag_2, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-17:

Now for the third member of the group, the Cloudcuckoolander Sugaya and her Bemular.
#ultraman #ultraseries #megamonsterbattle #GrandMonsterWars

2022 February 8, ZoanoT, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-17:

East of Eden- Entity!Taylor has a POV that is highly skewed from a human worldview. So skewed, in fact, that her Echidna clone is indistinguishable from her.
Delirium- Taylor is a Malkavian.
Right-Minded- Taylor is a Cloudcuckoolander due to a brain injury.

2022 March 9, AacornSoup, “Fairy queen esque mental damage”, in Reddit, WormFanfic, archived from the original on 2022-08-17:

An inhabitant of cloudcuckooland, an idealist, optimist, or similarly unrealistic person, particularly (fandom slang) a fictional character with an eccentric and absent-minded personality.


Buffyhead

Though bitca was only used once onscreen, it's a staple in the vocabulary of Buffyheads online.

2007, Mark Peters, Yada, Yada, Do'h!, Oak Park: Marion Street Press, →ISBN, page 53:

It's all very Fox — disappointingly so, most likely, for die-hard fans of Whedon's brainy, self-conscious writing, who probably wouldn't mind more talk about relationships and episodes that don't stand alone. But try to be patient, sweet fanatical Buffyheads, for the same spirited banter and thoughtful philosophical discussions are there for the savoring.

2009 February 12, Heather Havrilesky, “Trapped in the Dollhouse”, in Salon, archived from the original on 2012-09-26:

A fan of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series.


elseworld

From else + world. From being a world that is elsewhere from the regular world. Genericization of the trademark ElseWorlds, created by DC Comics.

parallel dimension
parallel dimension#English

alternate universe
alternate universe#English

(fiction) A fictional setting that is a modification of the common multi-author shared-world setting used in standard stories. A parallel dimension alternate universe setting.


Bat-Signal

From Bat- + signal: the extended (general) sense comes from the Bat-Signal, a searchlight-based distress signal in the DC Universe, used by Gotham City police to summon the superhero Batman.

The power of that promise is part of why Trump's election win was like a Bat-Signal for hatemongers of all kinds.

2017, Naomi Klein, No Is Not Enough: Resisting the New Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need:

"Have you met my mom? She's like a Bat-Signal for jerks. I'm never falling in love, Kellan. Ever. It's so stupid."

I honked the horn and flickered the lights as a bat signal for my mom to save me.

2022, Anjelah Johnson-Reyes, Who Do I Think I Am?: Stories of Chola Wishes and Caviar Dreams:

(idiomatic, informal) A thing which serves to attract or summon something.

Bat-Signal
Batman
DC Universe
Gotham City


Battinson

Blend of Batman + Pattinson, referencing actor Robert Pattinson.

Enter Pattinson, the former "Twilight" heartthrob, who has done plenty of movies since, which hasn't prevented another flurry of hand-wringing over whether “Battinson” was really a good fit.

2019 June 16, Brian Lowry, “Batman movies' casting has a long history of bringing out fans' batty side”, in Gwinnett Daily Post, page A13:

[…] and a look at the Battinson bod has has also hit the net.

2020 January 30, “The Batman Confirms Cast: Robert Pattinson, Colin Farrell, More”, in Pakistan Today, page 13:

We get a quick shot of Battinson taking down a thug using 1 hand, the Batmobile exhaust firing up and a vertical grapple upwards.

2020 September, Emmanuel Naicker, “The Biggest Highlights of DC Fandome”, in Alpha Magazine, page 9:

(fandom slang) A nickname for the version of Batman portrayed by Robert Pattinson in the standalone film The Batman (2022).


Harry Potter glasses

From the style of glasses worn by the character Harry Potter in the eponymous novel series and films.

Tears trapped behind the lenses of her Harry Potter glasses magnified the fear in her eyes.

"When are you handing out your books?" asked the man with the Harry Potter glasses.

2007, Maddy Hunter, Norway to Hide, page 7:

Sweat trickled down his forehead, steaming up his round Harry Potter glasses.

2014, Julie Garwood, Fast Track, page 290:

(plural only) A pair of spectacles (glasses) with round lenses.


Harry Potter spectacles

Harry Potter spectacles pl (plural only)

His lower lip trembled as he blinked up at her from behind his round, Harry Potter spectacles.

2003, Jill Mansell, Staying at Daisy's, page 101:

There an assistant D.A., a thirtyish young man sporting Harry Potter spectacles and prematurely thinning hair, […]

2006, Erica Spindler, Copycat, pages 146–147:

The door to one of the cubicles opened to reveal an elderly woman with curly grey hair and Harry Potter spectacles.

2010, Jill Barry, The House Sitter, page 200:

Harry Potter glasses
Harry Potter glasses#English

(plural only) Synonym of Harry Potter glasses.


cupsona

Just wanted to share again that my cupsona is a beerstein Hahaha I could go for a drink right now #cuphead

2017 October 16, Louie Ramos (@battz_lu), Twitter:

i dont play cuphead but at this point im p convinced my cupsona would jjust be an ikea glass

2017 October 18, ßilly ßadass🌸 (@peerifool_), Twitter:

Had to do it, had to make a cupsona... Well, more like just an oc but still!!

2019 April 19, Amberlea (@Amberlea_draws), Twitter:

(fandom slang) A Cuphead alter ego or self-insert character created by a fan, typically having some form of beverage container for a head.


trollsona

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-trollsona.wav

ok i finished drawing my ~trollsona~ NO YOU CAN'T SEE HIM

2010 December 5, magnai cbt enthusiast (@Leic1s), Twitter:

my friends and i are just havin a good time enjoying homestuck/hiveswap so we made some trollsonas for funsies lmao.

2018 September 20, Kim Quach (@kimquatz), Twitter:

what if.... we made a massive png with of all of homestuck twitter's trollsonas

2018 September 28, zich homestuck² (@sburbd), Twitter:

(Homestuck fandom slang) A troll alter ego or self-insert character created by a fan.


bloodswap

Compound of blood + swap, after the pattern of genderswap.

My favorite bloodswap castes for karkat are fuchsia and indigo.

2013 April 8, avery (@leirant), Twitter:

u know how homestuck had bloodswaps. what if fe:a class swaps

2014 September 1, sorey @ raccoon city (@justicecaballin), Twitter:

someone once tried to explain me how bloodswaps are racist

2014 December 18, KURI (@kuekuekuri), Twitter:

(Homestuck fandom slang) An instance of changing a troll character's blood colour caste from canon.


Vriscourse

I can't fucking believe i'm seeing vriscourse on my tumblr dash in 2016

2016 September 25, Sam (@Sacalow_), Twitter:

Not to talk about homestuck again in 2017 but vriska and the vriscourse surrounding her was quite honestly legendary

2017 December 15, @oldmanbesties, Twitter:

I mean, Rose Quartz discourse MAYBE neared Vriska in ferocity, but PALES in comparison to the sheer belligerent endurance of Vriscourse.

2019 August 10, hareofhrair (@hareofhrair), Twitter:

(Homestuck fandom slang) Discourse involving the fictional character Vriska Serket of Homestuck.


Gigapause

I wonder how tumblr is doing now that the Gigapause has ended

2014 October 16, josh, yeah (@joshyaaa), Twitter:

Ive said this many times but it was so funny that after the gigapause people accused homestucks characters of being 'ooc' because people spent a year reading fanfiction

2020 January 26, Ava (@IikeClockwork), Twitter:

Homestuck's Gigapause was the BEST thing to ever happen to Gravity Falls.

2021 April 10, Orlando the Uniobou (@muteOrator), Twitter:

(Homestuck fandom slang) The first extended hiatus of Homestuck, beginning on October 16, 2013 and lasting exactly one year.


Omegapause

All that's left to do is cry and wait for the Omegapause to end

2015 October 2, Sam Christie (@Pumpkin__Pete), Twitter:

I wish I would have joined the Homestuck fandom earlier, like at least in 2012. Because since the Omegapause is on, its been pretty dead.

Truuuu, I think when I read it it was only a few panels after the end of the Omegapause. Reading Homestuck as a finished work almost seems like a myth.

2019 August 27, Dunkaccino (@DakarAdana(, Twitter:

(Homestuck fandom slang) The second extended hiatus of Homestuck, lasting from July 28, 2015 to March 28, 2016.


Homestucker

These four Homestuckers are not the only fan crowd, however. In the Boise area alone, there are “Homestuck meets” where fans come together to discuss the comic. There is also a group for Idaho fans titled “Idahostuck.”

2012 December 12, Savannah Harrelson, “Horned Homestuckers”, in The Borah Senator, Borah High School, Boise, ID, page 14:

lotta homestuckers not listening in lectures, I see...

2013 October 16, anonymous author, “Three Lines Free”, in The Gateway, University of Alberta, page 9:

Sally immediately finds her fellow Homestuckers and, with palpable relief, disappears.

2020, Sandra Tsing Loh, The Mad Woman and the Roomba: My Year of Domestic Mayhem, unnumbered page:

(fandom slang) A fan of the multimedia fiction work Homestuck.


Johnkat

Totally shipping johnkat. Just for the record.

2011 December 9, gimnim (@lordbisleepykimalingual), Twitter:

having mysterious inexplicable resurgence of johnkat feelings oops

2012 March 28, Undead Anime Trash Princess (@caporushes), Twitter:

just saw Johnkat referred to as a 'crack pairing' ...... i genuinely think people don't know what that term originally refers to at this point

2019 November 16, zen (@archeradicator), Twitter:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters John Egbert and Karkat Vantas from the Homestuck series.


Johndave

I SHIP EVERYTHING because I am an equal opportunity sort of gal. I secretly ship JohnDave a lot too.

2011 January 8, M. Elizabeth Em. (@weareallpuppets), Twitter:

johndave shippers are the most devoted/gung ho shippers i have ever seen..........

2012 February 26, emily hu (@emilyyyhu), Twitter:

i’ll forever hold johndave close to my heart fhdhdhdd

2019 September 7, fuglying (@fnyacking), Twitter:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters John Egbert and Dave Strider from the Homestuck series.


Stridercest

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Stridercest.wav

I'm writing Stridercest fic holla if you wanna read it when i am done

2012 June 24, que snacky, snacky (@badsnacks), Twitter:

I think one of the grossest Homestuck ships is Stridercest because of the fucked-up power dynamic.

2013 June 7, godless neutrois (@the_stars_abide), Twitter:

Are we going to ignore the fact that almost everyone in Homestuck shipped Stridercest?

2015 March 26, HealthcareBoywife (@das_uberchicken), Twitter:

(fandom slang) The incestuous ship of brothers Dave Strider and Dirk Strider from the Homestuck series.


trollcard

trollcards for my trollsona :v:

2018 July 20, CozyCryptid (@cozycryptidart), Twitter:

I need to redo my troll's horns in the trollcard!

2019 January 14, Astra Nova Seldarine 🎟 Endwalked (@Zeeval_Zonai), Twitter:

the artist of this trollcard is my cool friend!!

2020 July 5, keylime (@keylimeseemfine), Twitter:

(Homestuck fandom slang) A graphic featuring a portrait and biography of a fantroll.


tentabulge

Blend of tentacle + bulge (“visible outline of male genitalia through clothing”).

blend

all i needed to know on my birthday was that my friends approved of karkat putting his tentabulge into john, and my night was suddenly okay.

2011 September 27, anarchy rainbow (@vessalius), Twitter:

everyone agrees that getting penetrated by a tentabulge would feel fantastic. even non homestucks.

2013 May 6, kay, nicole (@MonomasDom), Twitter:

okay no genitals allowed on tumblr dot com but what about tentabulges

(Homestuck fandom slang, vulgar) The tentacle-like genitalia of a troll, featured in Homestuck fanworks but not in canon.


moirail

Coined by American author and webcomic artist Andrew Hussie in his multimedia fiction work Homestuck. Reportedly constructed from the Ancient Greek μοῖρᾰ (moîră, “lot, destiny”), with potential influence from the term guardrail. In the series, moirallegience is one of four "quadrants" within the complex romance system of the alien troll species, described by Hussie as being similar to the "concept of a soul mate, but in a more platonic sense," for the purpose of pacifying a partner who is dangerous.

uder

Look what my moirail got me for Christmas!

2012 December 24, Adelaide Robinson (@dordwaltz), Twitter:

my moirail is coming over to watch lotr tomorrow she has no idea what shes getting into omg

2012 December 24, m. d. geronimo (@jakestrider), Twitter:

moving into the house with my moirail and friends tomorrow ❤ sleepytime

2013 September 22, Lucien (@tunefulCandour), Twitter:

(Homestuck fandom slang) A platonic soulmate or life partner, especially one who exerts a calming influence.

kismesis

an antagonistic soulmate, from Homestuck

bromance

an intense platonic relationship between men


mermouse

[A smirking Officer Pupp to a swimming Ignatz Mouse:] Well, well. A little "mermouse", how cute.

1934 May 12, George Herriman, Krazy Kat, Saturday, comic strip, →ISBN, page 134:

Tom and Jerry in: The Cat and the Mermouse.

1949, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, animated cartoon "The Cat and the Mermouse"


merbrother

there’d be a time to say my brother is survived by our merbrother

2009, Macgregor Card, “The Merman’s Gift”, in Duties of an English Foreign Secretary, Fence Books, →ISBN, page 63:

The merbrothers were suddenly impatient to leave.

2012, Robin Pritchard, A History of Mermaids, →ISBN, page 198:

Then she saw that Petronella’s merbrothers Jolly, Julian, Joseph, John, Jerry, Jimmy, and Jupiter were pushing the boat towards the river bank to the place where it sloped gently.

2012, Diana Cooper, Tara and Her Talking Kitten Meet a Mermaid, Findhorn Press, →ISBN, pages 47–48:

Adam would rather see him spend more time among his merbrothers and women.

2015, Fabion Harris, chapter 4, in Pure: A Mermaid Story, Lulu, →ISBN, page 13:

Little merbrothers can be so ANNOYING!

2017, Peter Raymundo, Third Grade Mermaid, Scholastic Press, →ISBN:


merparent

After a while the distressed merparents came in search of their lost child.

1984, Penelope Hughes, “Home Life of a Triton”, in Richard Hughes: Author, Father, Alan Sutton, →ISBN, part one (1939–1945), page 7:

He wiped milk from his eyebrows and wondered if merparents spanked their children.

2007, Suzanne Selfors, “The Goldfish Sacrifice”, in To Catch a Mermaid, New York, N.Y., Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, published 2009, →ISBN, page 48:

A steady stream of merparents and merstudents floated in.

2015, Debbie Dadey, “A Promise”, in A Tale of Two Sisters (Mermaid Tales), Aladdin, →ISBN, pages 70–71:

“Pops, he’s a fine young man and smart, too. Besides, he has merparents.” “A human with merparents? That’s impossible! I suppose you’ll tell me next he’s planning to grow a tail.”

2015, Howard T. Parsons, chapter 26, in Urban Mermaid (Tails from Colony Island; book one), Renton, Wash.: Moonlight Garden, →ISBN, page 303:


Davekat

ship dynamics EXCEPT ITS LITERALLY JUST DAVEKAT (or what i know from fanfics ive read because im not done homestuck yet <3)
also includes:
- constant lighthearted teasing and banter
- cuddling
- helping each other overcome emotional boundaries
- i love them so much

2019 April 17, mspa_reading, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-28:

Davekat is canon, and that's really all there is to say on the matter. <3
#homestuck #davekat

2019 May 9, Blimpcatt, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-28:

in honor of #homestuck day, i'm here to confess something: i used to be a davekat shipper except i mostly liked it as them hate dating instead of normal dating and i guess most of the fandom disagreed with me on that point. anyway, here's some fanart from 2013-2014

2020 April 13, prettypinkpansy, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-28:

davekat and romcom movie posters ? wat an outlandish idea.... o_o

2020 September 12, vomitcore, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-28:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Dave Strider and Karkat Vantas from the Homestuck series.


Homestuck

From the title of the webcomic Homestuck (2009–2016). Equivalent to home + stuck.

there better be homestucks or hetalians at this school i mean there was davesprite x jade on some fuckin lockers

2013 September 3, araneatwerket, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-29:

#JohnEgbert #Homestuck #doodle #gigapause
I love John Egbert and I cannot lie
You other Homestucks can't deny

2015 January 27, Cookieluv246, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-29:

Homestucks rejoice! Fan World will be hosting Promstuck once more on Saturday night!

2017 June 1, FanWorldNiagara, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-29:

any homestucks at area 51 found karkat yet

2019 September 20, Homestuck_Info, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-29:

A'ight SoCal Homestucks - if you're at Anime LA tomorrow, stop by Registration from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm and LISTEN FOR THE SOUND OF MY VOICE! If you can find me, I'll give you a high five cause I couldn't make ribbons in time. 😅

2020 January 10, BROADWAY_KARKAT, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-29:

(fandom slang) A fan of the Homestuck franchise.


Humanstuck

i drew up a humanstuck!Cirava Hermod
ofc my first tweet is homestuck

2018 December 30, kath_draws, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-29:

Let's celebrate this awful, awful day with my first Vriska piece, a humanstuck headcanon spitefully inspired by what was at the time, the most popular humanstuck headcanon for Vriska, a blonde bitchy cheerleader.
As an indirect response, mine ended up being a tabletop turbonerd

2019 August 7, ExponentialMass, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-29:

hello and welcome to my cool humanstuck au. pls look at them

2020 May 24, kitnapz, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-29:

(Homestuck fandom slang) A type of alternate universe fanwork featuring human redesigns of nonhuman Homestuck characters.


fancomic

For my upcoming fancomic(I promise it this time), I need artists. I STINK at drawing, and I need some VERY good ones. So if your talented, IM me(Danehog), or e-mail me(dan...@aol.com). If you're talented and have the time, PLLLEEEEASE do this, as I appreciate it.

1999 May 23, Danehog, “Fancomic Help!”, in alt.fan.sonic-hedgehog (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-31:

2003 November 29, silvercat, “Thunderkitties, the only weekly Thundercats fancomic”, in alt.fan.thundercats (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-31:

2006 January 21, Why Am I here?, “Simpsons Fancomic (links to pages)”, in alt.tv.simpsons (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-31:

(fandom slang) An unofficial comic based on an existing media property, created by fans and typically without the copyright owner's permission.


Hayffie

Effie/Haymitch or 'Hayffie' has been comically acknowledged by the actress Elizabeth Banks, who plays Effie, […]

2014, Nicola Balkind, Fan Phenomena: The Hunger Games, page 142:

Near the end of the movie, it finally happens. As they're saying goodbye, Effie and Haymitch plant a big wet one on each other. Then, all of Panem probably rejoices. Hayffie (Haymitch + Effie) appears to be a thing.

2015 December 21, Bill Bradley, “Elizabeth Banks Drops A 'Hunger Games' Bombshell About Effie And Haymitch”, in HuffPost:

With a romantic relationship between these two characters not explored within the stories, there are many fan fiction writers who choose to create one, thus creating Hayffie fan fiction.

2016, Misty Nichole Horning, "Responding to the Storyworld of The Hunger Games through a Fan Fiction Fandom", thesis submitted to the University of New Mexico, page 105

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Haymitch Abernathy and Effie Trinket from The Hunger Games series.


conreligion

From con- (“constructed”) + religion; compare conlang, conworld.

An imaginary religion, especially one associated with a conworld or conlang.


consociety

From con- (“constructed”) + society; compare conlang, conworld.

An imaginary society, especially one associated with a conworld or conlang.


fanventure

Blend of fan + adventure, in reference to MS Paint Adventures, the website that hosted Homestuck until 2018.

If you're going to do an actual fan'''venture, as in, based on the MSPA source material, then I think the best advice is to still first and foremost make it good based on it's^([sic]) own merits. Whether it's the story, the characters, the writer/reader interaction, the humor; if you take away the MSPA elements and it can still be enjoyable then you've done well.

2014 February 6, tandarkan, “Hi. What are some things and tips that can help with making a fanventure?”, in Reddit, homestuck, archived from the original on 2022-09-03:

At any rate: Sburb fanventures. You've probably read a handful, and if you're a dedicated fan like me, you probably also tried writing one. And if you're a super-attentive theorist-grade fan, you probably picked up on one common detail that they have: (other than being based on Homestuck/the concept of Sburb, obviously)
None of them has been completed, ever.

2016 April 26, ASBusinessMagnet, “On Sburb fanventures and why they are invariably doomed to failure”, in Reddit, homestuck, archived from the original on 2022-09-03:

hackbent was my first fanventure its so GOOD
https://mspfa.com/?s=2810&p=1
an engaging story, a plot twist i still loose my mind over, and a lovable cast of characters that make me emotional i love them....
i rec this one to everyone for a good reason!! go read it

2018 October 7, captorvating, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-09-03:

"sucked into homestuck" is a fanventure about a girl that gets zapped into hs canon and fucks. shit. up. specifically she RETCONS MURDERSTUCK and STOPS ANYONE FROM DYING. yes, everyone is in love with her. yes, she punches vriska and calls her a bitch. yes, it is fucking amazing

2019 August 22, imarriedacherub, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-09-03:

KITTYQUEST is a fanventure about KITTY HARLEY-LEIDER, who has a star-studded family and a lot of time on her hands.
This story is driven by reader commands and is not epilogue-compliant (but you probably knew that already!)
Read it here on MSPFA: https://mspfa.com/?s=32792

2020 May 14, KITTYQUESTmspfa, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-09-03:

(fandom slang) A webcomic in the style of Homestuck, usually taking place in the same universe and featuring many of the same gimmicks, such as sprite art, reader-submitted commands, and lengthy animations.


Black Speech

Generally speaking, the articulation in Black Speech is quite violent. Diphthongs are practically absent and due to the relatively small number of sonorants, the transitions between particular sounds are sharp and abrupt.

2007, Joanna Podhorodecka, “Is lámatyáve a linguistic heresy? Iconicity in J.R.R. Tolkien’s invented languages”, in Elżbieta Tabakowska et al., editors, Insistent Images, →ISBN, page 109:

Many later scholars have agreed with Tolkien on his general declarations about his languages (for example, that the Elvish languages are ‘beautiful’, while the Black Speech is cacophonous or that the languages originated Tolkien’s mythology) and skipped the whole issue of the role of the langauges in his fiction by treating them as a fanciful accessory unworthy of independent study.

2009, Dimitra Fimi, Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits, →ISBN, page 75:

Accepting Alexander Nemirovski’s theory that Tolkien’s Black Speech was based on the long-extinct Hurrian language, the group felt this was an appropriate starting point.

2021, Yens Wahlgren, The Universal Translator: Everything You Need to Know About 139 Languages That Don’t Really Exist, →ISBN, page 278:

A constructed language designed by J. R. R. Tolkien, intended to be associated with evil.


woobify

en-verb

woobify (third-person singular simple present woobifies, present participle woobifying, simple past and past participle woobified)

woobifies (present singular third-person)
woobifying (participle present)
woobified (participle past)
woobified (past)

(For some reason, Lucius and Tom are less prone to being woobified, perhaps because there is almost nothing potentially sympathetic about them for fans to grab on to, and the pleasure of villainy thus overrides the woobification impulse.)

2007, Catherine Tosenberger, "Potterotics: Harry Potter Fanfiction On The Internet", dissertation submitted to the University of Florida, page 100

As a hero of Teen Wolf, Derek is not woobified in the traditional sense of the word, but some fans do feel that his flaws are downplayed in fic. Generally speaking, woobifying occurs in connection with villains, such as Kylo Ren in Star Wars or Lex Luthor in Smallville.

2020, Katharine Elizabeth McCain, "Today Your Barista Is: Genre Characteristics in The Coffee Shop Alternate Universe", dissertation submitted to Ohio State University, page 167

The use of a Disney theme song again "woobifies" our principal characters, and, like Miller, homonormativizes their relationship: […]

2022, Bruce M. King, Lynn Kozak, “#Patrochilles: Find the Phallus”, in K. R. Moore, editor, The Routledge Companion to the Reception of Ancient Greek and Roman Gender and Sexuality, unnumbered page:


pornhwa

Blend of porno + manhwa. Piecewise doublet of pornhua.

(pornography, manhwa) A pornographic manhwa (Korean comic).


Patrochilles

Mainly because I want to cry and see Patrochilles in all their glory!

2018, Nkiya Machona, quoted in Curiositales, September 2018, page 82

Perhaps even more problematically for the Patrochilles naysayers, is that this ambiguity throughout Homer's original epic is really not that ambiguous.

2021, Amelia Koen, "An Olive Pit, A Lyre, A Fig", Honi Soit (University of Sydney), Week 8, Semester 2 (2021), page 19

The Twitter account Incorrect Patrochilles Quotes has over 20,000 followers and is entirely devoted to The Song of Achilles.

2021, Sarah Leidich, "From Muse To Material: The Defiance Of Homeric Identity Through Creative Adaptation", Meliora, Volume 1, Issue 1 (link)

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Patroclus and Achilles from the novel The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller.


WAFFy

en-adj

WAFFy (comparative WAFFier, superlative WAFFiest)

WAFFier (comparative)
WAFFiest (superlative)

Part 1 was all the wonderfully WAFFy scenes of them getting ready to be married.

1996 February 13, BeBe 4 LC, “Possibilities, Possibilities”, in alt.tv.lois-n-clark (Usenet):

SUMMARY: Not much to say. After an emotional day, Scully and Mulder bond platonically over beer and pizza. Lots of WAFFy moments.

1996 April 22, Eric Johns, “Someone To Lean On 1/2”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

Now if you are unfortunate enough to read on, immediately read some WAFFy fiction or something by Helm to wash out the bitter taste.

1999 December 28, Bastion, “[DARK][Songfic] This Is Not Hell (R)”, in alt.fan.sailor-moon (Usenet):

(fandom slang) Evoking, related to, or characteristic of warm and fuzzy feelings (WAFF).


MSTer

From MST (“to mock a work by inserting commentary”) + -er.

suffix

If the MSTer never gets a responce^([sic]) then they shouldn't do it. It' s a matter of politness.^([sic])

1995 February 5, leahw...@delphi.com, “Re: MSTied fanfic (long)”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

Those guys were funny and a lot more decent than many MSTers I've read.

2006 December 31, Elizabeth Helena, “Re: NEW TNG All Wet [PG-13] (Marrissa Stories)”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet):

Most MSTers confine their "riffing" to original fan fiction rather than scripts from corporate-owned entertainment properties, which renders such twice-removed MSTing somewhat toothless: the cannibalizing parody of a patische.

2011, Michael Dean, “Frame work, resistance and co-optation: How Mystery Science Theater 3000 positions us both in and against hegemonic culture”, in In the Peanut Gallery with Mystery Science Theater 3000: Essays on Film, Fandom, Technology, and the Culture of Riffing, →ISBN, page 126:

(fandom slang) A person who parodies a fanfic by inserting satirical commentary.


MSTable

en-adj

MSTable (comparative more MSTable, superlative most MSTable)

more MSTable (comparative)
most MSTable (superlative)

From MST (“to mock a work by inserting commentary”) + -able.

suffix

I just saw a very MSTable and hilariously confusing Indiana Jones rip-off called, "Alan Quartermain and the city of Gold."

2001 June 24, Biffbaxter5891, “Re: Hypothetical Season 11”, in alt.tv.mst3k (Usenet):

That would be a bad choice, then. I have to say, I've skimmed a few HP fanfic archives looking for MSTable material, and I haven't yet found anything that was pathetic enough in the right ways.

2003 April 5, Petrea Mitchell, “Re: Fan fics?”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

This is my first foray into what could be considered one of the bedrocks of MSTable material - the Sailor Moon lemon.

2003 April 19, Freezer, “[MSTing] Bishoujo Senshi Sour Lemon - Part 1”, in alt.fan.sailor-moon (Usenet):

(fandom slang) That lends itself to being MST.


MSTability

From MST (“to mock a work by inserting commentary”) + -ability.

Well, MSTability-wise, it should be pretty good. The plot makes less sense every time I think about it...

1993 December 12, Petrea Mitchell, “Re: Flash Gordon!”, in alt.tv.mst3k (Usenet):

Of course, that doesn't save these films from MSTability.

1994 August 21, Brian K!z!K MacDonald, “_TV_Stinkers_this_week_(8/21-8/27)”, in alt.tv.mst3k (Usenet):

I'd also add to that list _The Rebel Set_. It's actually a pretty decent little heist movie. I think it's^([sic]) MSTability lies mainly with the presence of Edward Platt, providing endless "Get Smart" references.

1995 March 17, shnook...@netins.net, “Re: BEST Movies MSTed (Low Fat Cheese)”, in alt.tv.mst3k (Usenet):

(fandom slang) The state or quality of being MSTable.


FoLC

Acronym of fan of Lois & Clark, seemingly chosen as a homophone of folk.

First of all I am a loyal FOLC and will be until it is canceled.

1996 March 12, Cheryl Moore, “Tonight's Episode (3/10)”, in alt.tv.lois-n-clark (Usenet):

Hey, if every FOLC out there does the same maybe interest in the show will return.

1997 March 10, moulds clinton, “Re: Lois and Clarks mumbles? No. Fumbles.”, in alt.tv.lois-n-clark (Usenet):

This is just a new way to get to know some more FoLCs!

1998 October 27, Mandy Crustner, “New Lois and Clark Mailing List”, in alt.tv.lois-n-clark (Usenet):

(fandom slang) A fan of the television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.


spacequake

(science fiction) A tremor in space or spacetime.


DCEU

DC Extended Universe
w:DC Extended Universe

(fandom slang) Initialism of DC Extended Universe (“a shared universe centered on DC Comics-based superhero films, introduced with the 2013 film Man of Steel”).


fandom bicycle

From town bicycle, the jocular idea being that, like a hypothetical bicycle shared by an entire fandom, "everyone gets a ride" with the character.

LOL Hermione is SO the fandom bicycle more so than Harry I think.

2010 September 14, Menacherie (@Menacherie), Twitter:

I am multiship TRASH. especially in Dragon Age, I'm happy with my faves kissing really any of my other faves. Especially Anders. man is the fandom bicycle and that is delightful, he deserves many smooches.

2021 September 7, Tirs For Fears (@potatowitch666), Twitter:

When I say Will Graham is my fandom bicycle I mean I’d pair him up with anybody. Stanitz….Zeller….Freddie….that policeman that was questioning him when he was sleepwalking…

2022 August 7, Hannigramwich (Darling Idiot) (@hannigramwich), Twitter:

(fandom slang) A character who is shipped with many other characters.


hateship

From hate + ship (“a fictional romantic relationship between two characters”).

compound

also hateships gave us some real great classics like Drarry and Han/Leia so fight me

2016 December 22, Elliott (@elliohill), Twitter:

I remember back in the day when I though Draco/Harry was dumb bc they definitely hate eachother and now all my favorites are hateships lol

2017 August 8, v a p o r w a v e p a i s s a (@MildKat), Twitter:

Call me vanilla but I really don't get hateships or the enemies to lovers trope.

2019 April 8, E'dmund Tia (@catboy_on_main), Twitter:

(fandom slang) A ship involving characters with an adversarial relationship.


Draco in Leather Pants

en-noun

Draco in Leather Pants (plural Dracos in Leather Pants)

Coined in reference to a scene in which Draco wears tight leather pants in the Draco Trilogy (2000-2006) fan fiction series by Cassandra Clare.

To describe the Draco Trilogy is to locate this particular fan fiction as “het” with “harry/ draco” undertones and is the origin of the “Draco in Leather Pants” trope.

2013, Antero Garcia, Critical Foundations in Young Adult Literature: Challenging Genres, page 127:

One of the most common ones is the notion of Draco as an elegant young man with long silky hair, the ideal aristocrat, with only a streak of mischief, which is often represented as “Draco in leather pants”.

2014, Lucie Cupalová, "Slash Factor: Characteristics and Varieties of Slash Fan Fiction", thesis submitted to Charles University, page 28

Nonetheless, fanon from such fandoms as Harry Potter becomes well known, such as Ginny’s full name being Virginia, Draco embodying the “Draco in leather pants” trope, Dumbledore and Grindelwald being romantically involved, etc.

2016, Alexander Garner, "The Erotics of Fanfiction: Queering Fans, Works, and Communities in Modern Internet Fandom", thesis submitted to Bowling Green State University, page 80

(fandom slang) Any fanon interpretation of the character Draco Malfoy that portrays him as a romantic "bad boy" or otherwise downplays his unfavorable qualities.

baby girl

male morally-ambiguous character romanticized by fans

poor little meow meow

endearingly pathetic villain or morally-ambiguous character

woobie

morally-ambiguous character subjected to pain for pathos


Barbie shipper

Presumably from the likening of shipping characters to playing with Barbie dolls.

Normally, I don't respond to your kind of bullshit or the other mindless Barbie shipper/Duchovbot bullshit I've had to endure, but I couldn't let this pass.

2001 July 10, Lizabeth V. Karaganis, “Re: Where to go in the 9th season?”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

CC's gamble to have 'Mulder the Absent Center' may have appeased a few barbie shipper types but it also drove off a lot of the fanbase as well.

2002 January 22, Medie, “Re: RP & last seacon”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

There was a big deal about SCULLY'S CHASTITY = DEVOTION TO MULDER during the heyday of the Shipper versus Noromo wars. That "Barbie Shippers" faction of XF fandom is currently cloistering itself somewhere in really dreadful, schmoopy fanfic where no other character threatens the purity of their "deep, abiding luv".

2005 June 25, campylobacter, “Re: Never Again question”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

(X-Files fandom slang, derogatory, dated) One who ships Fox Mulder and Dana Scully from the The X-Files.


bolt thrower

(science fiction) A mechanical crossbow used by Alliance Special Forces infiltration units in Star Wars.


Harry Potter

The franchise of books, films, video games and other products featuring the wizard character Harry Potter; the Wizarding World.


sunbloom

From sun + bloom. Compare Saterland Frisian Sunnebloume, West Frisian sinneblom, Dutch zonnebloem, German Low German Sünnbloom, Sünnblööm, German Sonnenblume.

(rare, poetic, fantasy, by extension) Any bloom or flower which resembles the sun or emerges in the sun.


lions and tigers and bears, oh my

lions and tigers and bears, oh my (uncountable)

It's [playing sports] about divots, brush-burns, rally caps, the Miracle On Ice, and Lions, and Tigers and Bears (Oh my!).

2011, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tales of Golf and Sport:

We've talked about ghosters and exters and love bombers and kittenfishers and lions and tigers and bears ... oh my!

2021, Mandy Hale, Don't Believe the Swipe: Finding Love without Losing Yourself:

Although things weren't solved and we were far from done with this whole Horde thing, and lions and tigers and bears, oh my; I felt good. I knew things would be hard and dangerous in the days to come and I had no idea what to expect, […]

(colloquial) More things of the same kind; et cetera.


Chiamay

From Italian Chiamay in reference to the town and—via Portuguese Chimay—the imaginary lake, from Thai เชียงใหม่ (Chiiang Mai, “Chiang Mai, New Town”).


Schneiderverse

(fandom slang) The fictional universe that serves as the simultaneous setting of several television series created by Dan Schneider.


Star Warsesque

en-adj

Star Warsesque (comparative more Star Warsesque, superlative most Star Warsesque)

more Star Warsesque (comparative)
most Star Warsesque (superlative)

Moments of ID4 were so like SW, it was unreal. From the mothership, similar to the Death Star docking bay 327 (not to reveal anything), to the air battles similar to the battle of Hoth, Endor, and Yavin. ID4 is the supreme Star Warsesque film since ROTJ nearly 15 years ago.

1996 July 7, Mikefjedi2, “STAR WARS NEWSLETTER Vol.1 #3”, in rec.arts.sf.starwars.misc (Usenet), retrieved 2022-09-16:

No, you can't add stars to a movie that, to be honestdoesn't have nearly as much appeal as does star wars. You need to put money into its quality so that it can BECOME a Star-Warsesque seller. ESPECIALLY since-lets be honest-more people like sci-fi then fantasy.

1998 December 8, PlayBumSp1, “Dragonlance Movie”, in alt.fan.dragonlance (Usenet), retrieved 2022-09-16:

Gertu Wrikir, sounds pretty Star Warsesque to me.

1999 June 15, Xen7, “How to get your 'Star Wars name'”, in alt.fan.starwars (Usenet), retrieved 2022-09-16:


psychometrize

en-verb

psychometrize (third-person singular simple present psychometrizes, present participle psychometrizing, simple past and past participle psychometrized)

psychometrizes (present singular third-person)
psychometrizing (participle present)
psychometrized (participle past)
psychometrized (past)

(parapsychology) To discover information about an object's past, or past owners, merely by handling it.


I volunteer as tribute

From a scene in the novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, in which the protagonist, Katniss Everdeen, shouts this when offering to take her sister's place as a "tribute" (competitor) in the titular battle royale.

She grinned. "Fun. Does that mean another trip to England for research? I volunteer as tribute."

2018, Shéa MacLeod, The Death in the Drink, unnumbered page:

"I need to get laid," Ava said as I filled an ice frosted glass with beer for a customer. "I just need sex, you know? Sex is good. Sex is great."
"I volunteer as tribute!" Jesse called from where he was sitting at the end of the bar.

2019, Amber Kuhlman, If I Fall, unnumbered page:

“Well, if you ever need a guinea pig to try your songs out on, I volunteer as tribute.”

2021, Liwen Y. Ho, To the Only Boy I've Loved Before, unnumbered page:

(humorous) Used to indicate that one is enthusiastic or willing to do something; implies (often ironically) that the thing is unpleasant or undesirable.

Katniss Everdeen
Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games


may the odds be ever in your favor

From the novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, in which it is the catchphrase of the character Effie Trinket, used to wish prospective competitors in the titular battle royale good luck.

Scheduling a meeting with ten people is a form of calendar Tetris. May the odds be ever in your favor.

2018, Neil Soni, The Startup Gold Mine: How to Tap the Hidden Innovation Agendas of Large Companies to Fund and Grow Your Business, page 39:

With Geminis you just never know! All in all, I love being a Gemini, as we are a fun bunch. As for the ability for our moods to change in the snap of a finger, may the odds be ever in your favor!

2019, Mary, quoted in Kristy Robinett, Born Under a Good Sign: Make the Most of Your Astrological Sign, unnumbered page

My first baby loved baths from the start, and my youngest sounded like he was being waterboarded the entire time. May the odds be ever in your favor, and if your child is not the next Michael Phelps, try taking a bath with them.

2020, Melissa Guida-Richards, Bedtime, the Ultimate Battle: A Parent's Sleep Guide for Infants and Toddlers, unnumbered page:

(humorous) Used to wish someone luck in an adverse or uncertain situation.

Effie Trinket
Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games


dwarrowdam

Coined by online Tolkien fans in the early 2010s, from dwarrow, an alternate word for the fantasy race of dwarves in Tolkien's legendarium, and dam (“female parent, mother”).

Kiaran stands at the heart of the room, speaking to a dwarrowdam with fiery red hair.

2014 May 1, LineofDurin (@Tiorvi), Twitter:

Goodnight dwarrows and dwarrowdams. As well as all others. I am retiring to my chambers for the eve. Court shall be held tomorrow.

2014 December 16, King Thrór (@Actual_Thror), Twitter:

Samila smiled and he sensed that this dwarrowdam was tougher than flint and able to go whatever lengths necessary to save her people.

2017, Anne Olga Vea, A Dragonslayer's Tale, page 472:

(chiefly Tolkien fandom slang, fantasy) A female of the dwarf race.

Dwarves (Middle-earth)
Tolkien's legendarium


Nuzlocke

John Locke (Lost)
List of generation III Pokémon#Nuzleaf
Lost (2004 TV series)

Blend of Nuzleaf + Locke. From the title of Nuzlocke Comics, which features a Pokémon, Nuzleaf, drawn to resemble John Locke from Lost as a recurring character.

Here are the rules for a Nuzlocke:
• If a Pokemon faints, it’s dead. You need to release it, store it in a box for the rest of the run, or transfer it to another game. You can’t use it until you’ve successfully become the Pokemon League Champion and completed the Nuzlocke.
• You can only catch the first Pokemon you encounter in each location. This includes caves, towns, routes, and so on - if the area has an official title, it counts as an independent location where you can capture one single Pokemon, provided it’s the first one you come across. If you make it faint or it flees, you can’t catch a new one - no second chances. This doesn’t apply to static encounters, although using Legendary Pokemon is frowned upon. You can catch Shiny Pokemon regardless of the rules, although the consensus on whether or not they’re allowed to be used is widely disputed.

2021 January 8, Cian Maher, “The Nuzlocke Challenge Is The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Classic Pokemon”, in The Gamer, archived from the original on 2022-09-19:

(Pokémon) A self-imposed challenge where the player can only catch the first wild Pokémon encountered in each area, and any caught Pokémon that faints cannot be used again.


title role

The part of a movie, play, or television show, from which the work's title is taken.


fear gortha

From Irish [Term?] (literally “man of hunger/famine”).

bor

(Irish mythology) A phantom of hunger, resembling an emaciated man.


Bondophile

Named after fictional spy James Bond, Bond + -o- + -phile

The scholarly seriousness has amused some Bondophiles.

2007 January 19, Elaine Sciolino, “The French Know Where 007 Acquired His Savoir-Faire”, in New York Times:

And at that point, no-one, not even the most devoted Bondophile, would have predicted eighteen more successful films to come, and that Ian's creation would become the most famous secret agent in the world and the most profitable serial figure in the history of cinema.

2011, John Pearson, The Life of Ian Fleming, A&C Black, →ISBN:


lekku

Either of the two appendages that protrude from the head of a Twi'lek (a race of creatures in Star Wars)


knife ear

Whatever people thought or said about the elves, whatever slurs and indignities they hurled at the “knife ears,” they still had to acknowledge that they owed their nations survival and the existence of their lineages to his selfless slaying of the Archdemon Andoral.

2019, Liane Merciel, Dragon Age: Last Flight Deluxe Edition, page 152:

The cafeteria fell into silence and everyone turned their faces towards the elf. “Damn knife ears,” someone mumbled. The twins looked at the man with glasses and pointy ears.

(fantasy, slang, derogatory) Alternative spelling of knife-ear.


Donald Ducking it

From the cartoon character Donald Duck, who is almost always depicted with no clothing below the shirt.

Wear clothes on the bottom half of your body. During the lockdown, many people got caught out when they rose from their computer only to be discovered “Donald Ducking” it.

2021, Nancy Bishop, Auditioning for Film and Television: A Post #MeToo Guide:

'Hope your neighbours don't catch me Donald Ducking it,' I call, returning to the bedroom still knickerless, holding the bottle and the glasses.

He is wearing eighties-style dark sunglasses and completely Donald Ducking it in a Hawaiian shirt with the sleeves cut off.

(slang) Wearing no clothes below the waist.


Ronniecoln

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Ronnie Anne Santiago and Lincoln Loud from the animated television series The Loud House.


Tolkienish

en-adj

Tolkienish (comparative more Tolkienish, superlative most Tolkienish)

more Tolkienish (comparative)
most Tolkienish (superlative)

Most campaigns that I have played in have tended to utilise a sort of Tolkienish semi-medieval background, sometimes not very well developed.

1985 June, Roger Musson, “Stirge Corner”, in Imagine: Adventure Game Magazine, page 51:

Early on, the trail passes a tiny cedar lake with Tolkienish overtones. A hobbit-size table and chairs have been carved out of wooden stumps.

1989, Jack Christie, Day Trips from Vancouver, page 55:

The novel also reflects a Tolkienish nostalgia for an earlier England dominated by the rural squirarchy that Eliot absorbed so completely.

2011, Leon Surette, Dreams of a Totalitarian Utopia: Literary Modernism and Politics, page 301:

Of, related to, or characteristic of J. R. R. Tolkien or his writings.


Bond-like

Bond-like (comparative more Bond-like, superlative most Bond-like)

more Bond-like (comparative)
most Bond-like (superlative)

With a host of Bond-like gadgets, the Army's latest peacekeeping machine protects without taking lives.


hopepunk

From hope + -punk. Coined by Alexandra Rowland in 2017 as opposite to grimdark.

Hopepunk holds particular resonance to the youth of today because it touches upon how their lives "are precariously close to dystopic visions but who need to tell and hear stories of triumph in adversity, not defeat by cruelty", he added.

2019 June 9, Izzy Lyons, “BBC jumps on 'hopepunk' trend with new positive podcast for millennials who don't want 'dark' dramas”, in The Telegraph:

Doctor Who has always been hopepunk in spirit – it’s essentially a series about a non-violent crimefighter, after all – but its most recent series was its most hopepunk yet.

2019 June 10, Stuart Heritage, “In need of relentless optimism? The 10 best ‘hopepunk’ shows to binge now”, in The Guardian:

From Afrofuturism to hopepunk, many continue to draw on Butler's vision of a future where Blackness and Black people not only persist, but help bring worlds into being.

2020, Jennifer Sieck, "Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum: Octavia E. Butler's Typewriter as Time Machine", The Washington Informer, 17 September 2020 - 23 September 2020, page 38

A genre of speculative fiction with an emphasis on optimism, compassion, or non-violence.


Grishaverse

From Grisha + -verse. Grisha is the name of a prominent group of magic-users within the universe, named for the in-universe character "Sankt Grigori of the Wood", so ultimately from the given name Grisha (“diminutive of Grigori”).

(fandom slang) A fictional shared universe of fantasy novels, short story collections, and a television adaptation created by American author Leigh Bardugo.


ichthyocentaur

From Ancient Greek ἰχθυοκένταυρος (ikhthuokéntauros).

der

ἰχθυοκένταυρος

(Greek mythology) A centaurian sea being with the upper body of a human, the lower anterior half and forelegs of a horse, and the tailed half of a fish.


Tolkieny

en-adj

Tolkieny (comparative more Tolkieny, superlative most Tolkieny)

more Tolkieny (comparative)
most Tolkieny (superlative)

Pauline Baynes' illustrations have always seemed to me more suited to the atmosphere of "Hans Christian Andersen” tales, but this time she has come up with a very appealing cover design with a far more "Tolkieny” feel about it .

1968, Gandalf's Garden, numbers 1-4, page 31:

If this sounds a bit Tolkieny, why not? So is Wagner’s Ring cycle.

2016 February 6, Ismene Brown, “Unforgettable fire”, in The Spectator, page 50:

Those little leggies of yours make the trek to Orchid Avenue downright Tolkieny.

2021, Bryan CP Steele, Shadowrun: Tourist Trapped, unnumbered page:

(informal) Of, related to, or characteristic of J. R. R. Tolkien or his writings.


Generation K

Coined by British economist and author Noreena Hertz in 2015. The K stands for Katniss Everdeen, a character in the young-adult novel The Hunger Games (2008).

coin

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Generation K.

A demographic cohort identified in 2015, consisting of 13- to 20-year-olds who are relatively anxious, intent on being unique, and concerned about inequality.


rivermaiden

(mythology, fantasy) A nymph or female spirit associated with a river.


Bayformers

Blend of Bay + transformers, after American director Michael Bay.

Join us for a complete history of the epic TF franchise: from 80s to Bayformers.

2011, Gen Con Indy 2011 program book, "Anime Panels & Events", page 138

For a generation of mecha Anime fans, brought up on Mobile Suit Gundam and Neon Genesis Evangelion, this film succeeds far beyond the league of Bayformers in presenting brilliant, powerful mecha action.

2013, Vincent Chiang, "The Most Colossal Movie of the Year", Woroni (Australian National University), 23 July 2003, page 21

Unlike the ‘Bayformers’ there is a very small cast of Decepticons (the bad guys) who are extremely well done because they are actually threatening and show they are the bad guys through what they believe in.

2019, Thomas Mann, review of Bumblebee, Peacock (Leicester Grammar School, Leicester, UK), February 2019, page 7

(fandom slang) The live-action Transformers film franchise, launched in 2007 with an eponymous film, and directed exclusively by Michael Bay until 2018.


cromulence

Results from a numerical simulation of a compression test are also presented in Figure 6 and serve as an initial indicator of the cromulence of the proposed model.

2015, Cesar Ovalles, Carl Rechsteiner Jr, Analytical Methods in Petroleum Upstream Applications, page 1571:

The material circumstances may raise questions as to the cromulence of this perspective, but the UK's elite appear, for the moment, to be as firmly committed to a Great Power role as they ever were under the Coalition.

2021, Timothy Oliver, The Cameron–Clegg Coalition and Britain's Role in the World, page 199:

(humorous, uncommon) Acceptability, correctness.


power level

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-power level.wav

The figurative senses are a reference to the Japanese franchise Dragon Ball, where many characters have "power levels" indicating how powerful they are.

The black and gold paint job is a subtle but still stylish way to hide your power level.

2018 April 3, Sam Rutherford, “MSI's GS65 Stealth Is a Gaming Laptop Made for Adults”, in Gizmodo:

(Internet slang) An interest or specialized knowledge in a subject seen as uncool, especially related to video games and otaku culture.


Buttfuck

Musician my ass. You're a beat up tube salesman from Buttfuck, CO.

2007 March 23, Ken Wilson, “Clapton in Seattle”, in alt.guitar (Usenet), retrieved 2022-11-05:

(humorous, vulgar, derogatory) A small rural town of little importance.


slave of the lamp

en-noun

slave of the lamp (plural slaves of the lamp)

In the eyes of Gorgias "the word" was a despot who could do anything, but like a slave of the lamp it would be at the service of those who took his courses.

1971, W. K. C. Guthrie, The Sophists, page 25:

(fiction) A genie who is imprisoned in a lamp, as in the tale of Aladdin.


Borduria

Hergé
King Ottokar's Sceptre
Le Temps
Outlook (Indian magazine)

From French Bordurie, from bordure (“border”). Coined by Hergé in 1939 for King Ottokar's Sceptre.

Graustark, Ruritania, Borduria, Syldavia and a score of imaginary kingdoms, usurped by tyrants and sundered by fights for the throne, leap into mind: plots, treachery, imprisoned heirs and palace factions abound and, along with them, fiendish monocled swordsmen, queens in lonely towers, toppling ranges, deep forests, plains full of half-wild horses, wandering tribes of Gypsies who steal children out of castles and dye them...

1977, Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time of Gifts, 1st edition, New York Review Books, →ISBN, archived from the original on 2022-11-13:

The play will be set in Borduria, the fictional state originally created in Hergé's Tintin that resembles a 1970s eastern European state.

2014 June 19, Hannah Ellis-Petersen, “Decaying east London tower block to house 12-hour Macbeth production”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 2022-05-19:

He made up two fictional countries, Borduria and Syldavia, and the struggles between the two were actually a satire on the expansionist policies of Nazi Germany.

2017 May 22, Utkarsh Srivastava, “A Tintin Mystery: Why Hergé's comics continue to fascinate, 88 years after their debut”, in Firstpost, archived from the original on 2022-01-29:

Hardly any of the cars in the Tintin comics are exotic, while a few of them — like the stretch black limousine driven in a convoy in Tapiocapolis in the final, complete adventure Tintin and the Picaros and the open-topped roadster used to rescue Professor Calculus from the prison fortress of Bakhine in Borduria — are an imaginary combination of real cars.

2022 September 3, Srinivas Krishnan, “The automotive adventures of Tintin”, in Mumbai Mirror, archived from the original on 2022-11-10:

Borduria and Syldavia, both fictional Balkan countries appearing in the Adventures of Tintin graphic novel, also merit a mention as places used to highlight the stereotypes about the southeastern parts of the continent.

2022 November 4, Aleksandar Brezar, “What is Listenbourg? Why is it going viral on Twitter? Why did the meme become so big in Europe?”, in Euronews, archived from the original on 2022-11-07:

The reporter’s future adventures took him far and wide - even to outer space - and to a handful of fictionalised countries including Balkan states Borduria and Syldavia and the South American countries of San Theodoros, São Rico and Nuevo Rico.

2017 7, The Newsroom, “When Tintin the intrepid fictional reporter came to Scotland”, in The Scotsman (Journal), archived from the original on 2022-11-10:

But the name of Grand Fenwick doesn't occur in any history book, or show up in any atlas, unless it also maps Ruritania, Syldavia, Borduria, Oz or even Shangri-La.

2016 September 18, Vikas Datta, “The small nation which beat the superpowers, global capitalism”, in The News Minute, archived from the original on 2022-11-13:

(fiction) An imaginary country located in the Balkans and enemy of Syldavia, in the comic book series The Adventures of Tintin.


Syldavia

From French Syldavie. Blend of Transylvanie + Moldavie. Coined by Hergé in 1939 for King Ottokar's Sceptre.

Tintin and his loyal hound Snowy find themselves trying to thwart a plot by spies to overthrow the king of Syldavia, a fictional Balkan land.

2020 June 25, Lifestyle Desk, “Tintin cover that mocked Hitler’s Germany to go under hammer”, in The Indian Express, archived from the original on 2020-06-26:

(fiction) An imaginary country located in the Balkans and enemy of Borduria, in the comic book series The Adventures of Tintin.


red wedding

The first sense derives from red as an adjective meaning "associated with or supportive of communism." The second sense derives from The Red Wedding scene in A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin.

As the church sought to make these events significant with its ceremonies, so did the Communists with their “Red weddings,” “Red funerals” and “Red christenings.”

1942 October, Albert Rhys Williams, “Religion in the USSR”, in Soviet Russia Today, page 15:

They celebrated “red weddings” at factories, bride and groom standing before a piece of machinery and pledging their loyalty first to the communist state, then to each other.

1994, Woodford McClellan, Russia: The Soviet Period and After, page 77:

Soon "Red weddings" replaced church weddings for dedicated Communists.

1998, Ronald Grigor Suny, The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States, page 186:

(dated, communism) A wedding ceremony in the Soviet Union in which the couple pledged loyalty to the state or communism in addition to reciting marriage vows.


flying car

(aircraft, science fiction, vehicles) A vehicle which can function both as a road vehicle and as an aircraft.


werebat

(fantasy, mythology) A shapeshifter who can change between bat and human form.


sandgun

If someone deliberately set off the sandgun, I think I'm very possibly what they were aiming for.

Trance was raising his sandgun when the blastwave hit.

2020, Marc Miller, Agent of the Imperium:

The sandgun did burst out, sending the biting cold sand flying in all directions. However, it did not explode from the muzzle of the gun, but from the middle of the spear shaft!

2020, Da Ba, Beauty's Special Magical Doctor:

(science fiction) A weapon that shoots sand or a sandlike substance.


multiattack

The purple worm has a multiattack consisting of a bite and a sting.


roider

From roid (“anabolic steroids”) + -er.
From roid (“asteroid”) + -er.

(science fiction) A person who mines asteroids for a living.


farmer's daughter

farmer's daughter (plural farmers' daughters)

The Midwest farmer's daughters really make you feel alright / And the Northern girls with the way they kiss / They keep their boyfriends warm at night

1965, “California Girls”, in Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!), performed by the Beach Boys:

This does not mean that her radical reformulation of the whore persona is entirely absent in this text – it is, for instance, in The Genuine History that Salisbury monopolizes the Prince of Wales and his two aristocratic friends by frankly declaring herself a whore (quote above), while her two colleagues are dismissed because they resort to conventional representations of female ruin, such as milliners and farmer's daughters, which deny or obscure their status as prostitutes.

2015 October 6, Lena Olsson, “5 ‘A first-rate whore’: Prostitution and empowerment in the early eighteenth century”, in Ann Lewis, Markman Ellis, editors, Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:

(fiction) A stock character or stereotype of a desirable but naïve young woman who is the daughter of a farmer.


Dickney

Now The Black Hole (which is one movie I do want) isn't being released by Disney on DVD but is being released by Anchor Bay. So I don't know which is worse...I'd rather see Dickney release it than Artifact Bay.

1998 December 27, ´ceith, “Disney Fucked up Armageddon”, in alt.video.dvd (Usenet), retrieved 2022-11-27:


archpaladin

/ɑɹt͡ʃˈpælədɪn/

From arch- + paladin. Originally from the Dungeons & Dragons franchise, in which the fictional deity, Heironeous, is known as The Archpaladin, and the AdventureQuest game.

Foremost in her mind has always been to serve the Archpaladin [Heironeous] and improve the lives of others with His teachings.

2004 August, Rick LaRue, “Greyhawk’s Knights of Holy Shielding: Valor Is Our Blood!”, in Dungeon, number 113, page 94:

Heironeous, The Invincible, The Archpaladin, is the champion of rightful combat and chivalrous deeds.

2007 April, Sean K Reynolds, “Heironeous”, in Dragon, volume XXXI, number 11, issue 354, page 19:

Mostly whiteshirts, from initiate Healers to patrolmen to Electors and ArchPaladins in full battle gear.

2010, Tim Akers, The Horns of Ruin, Amherst, N.Y.: Pyr, →ISBN, page 266:

It's best if you can find a friend or some players to help you out with each quests for Archpaladin.

2019 August 1, SyedXD123, the_beast69, “What Class?”, in reddit.com:

History was wrought romanticised tales of grand crusades lead by heroic Archpaladins of old, spreading God's word to the dark and corrupt corners of the kingdom through their might and zeal.

2021, C. R. Butterworth, The Exile, Liberation (Book 1), C. R. Butterworth:

Things like using Archpaladin to mitigate true damage, or recommending Health Vamp on farming classes that don't benefit from it.

2022 February 18, xiaomole, “Combatting Misinformation”, in reddit.com:

(very rare, science fiction, fantasy, video games) A supreme paladin.


starfall

starfall (countable and uncountable, plural starfalls)

Coordinate term: planetfall

That was just a guess. Man had leaped into space with a new drive, had made starfalls on Procyon, 61 Cygni, Sirius, Altair, all within the fifteen light-year range of the first generation of engines.

1970, John Rackham, Danger from Vega, D. Dodson, →ISBN, pages 35–36:

(science fiction) The act of landing on a star.


superuniverse

(science fiction) A universe containing other universes.


flux capacitor

First seen in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension in 1984 and in the 1985 American science fiction film Back to the Future, directed by Robert Zemeckis, in which a DMC DeLorean vehicle is retrofitted with a flux capacitor to create a time travel device.

Tucked into the corner of the Rinky Dink Flea Market in Marietta is a time machine that transports its visitors to an era before digital music. It doesn’t need a flux capacitor to work, just a plug to power the vintage stereos and turntables that produce the sounds of the thousands of vinyl records sold there.

2019 January 12, Chad Plauche-Adkins, “Playing the classics: Flea market music collection includes thousands of records”, in The Marietta Times:

Is this a glitch? Is the system experiencing an outage? It is a temptation that is best resisted, the urge to talk about this Chelsea team as a piece of fine-point engineering, to style Thomas Tuchel as a pure systems man, poring over his data charts, banging his dials, reconfiguring the flux capacitor with a bent hairpin.

2021 December 4, Barney Ronay, “Thomas Tuchel must gear up for a new phase to reboot glitching Chelsea”, in The Guardian:

(science fiction) A fictional instrument required to operate a time machine, consisting of a rectangular-shaped compartment with three flashing Geissler-style tubes arranged in a "Y" configuration.


cognitohazard

Blend of cognition + hazard. Probable origin is from the SCP Foundation website.

The symbol on that piece of paper is a cognitohazard which puts everyone who reads it in a week-long coma.

SUMBITCH. I started listening to http://nyan.cat/ again and now I can't turn it off. #memetic #cognitohazard #scp

2011 April 28, @triggurgoat, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-01-03:

CAUTION! High-grade Cognitohazard in effect!

2011 July 29, @LexLevinholt, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-01-03:

The one about Qpple hardware being a cognitohazard?
(I made that up, BTW. :D )

2013 February 27, neurotrashboy, “Place name of the week”, in alt.running.out.of.newsgroup.names (Usenet), retrieved 2022-12-09:

SCP-2359’s primary anomalous property is a cognitohazard that propagates to anyone who makes visual, auditory or informational contact with it. The infection impresses a false identity and memories of SCP-2359 onto the mind of the affected subject.

2016 January 29, StringentCurry, “SCP-2359”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2022-12-11:

Numerous people have reported, or, more accurately, been discovered, as having been subjected to the proscribed work The King in Yellow. […] For one thing, we’re not even sure there’s anything useful in the King play. It’s a complete cognitohazard.

2017, Zachary Adam, Sanity Line (Arcane Revolution Series), CreateSpace, →ISBN:

The last week was devoted to an equally theoretical threat—weaponized cognitohazards. Brown notes. Things that you could be hurt, or possibly killed, by just seeing or hearing them… and what would happen if they got on the Internet. How would people protect themselves?

2018, Paul Briggs, Altered Seasons: Monsoonrise, Secant Publishing, →ISBN:

“Says here you’re on the front lines, not search and rescue. Do you have the cognitohazard equipment?”

2020, Azalea Ellis, Gods of Ash and Amber (Seeds of Chaos), Seladore Publishing, →ISBN:

TL;DR: “Infohazard” means any kind of information that could be harmful in some fashion. Let’s use “cognitohazard” to describe information that could specifically harm the person who knows it.

[2020 February 2, eukaryote, “A point of clarification on infohazard terminology”, in LessWrong, archived from the original on 2022-12-11:

Curses! Foiled again by the cognitohazard of Harry Styles’ painted nails!!!!!!

2022 August 26, Ryan Broderick, Garbage Day, retrieved 2023-10-16:

Awawawa is a cognitohazard that spreads specifically among submissive trans people

2022 December 6, @circleoflust, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-01-03:

(neurology, chiefly science fiction) An image, pattern, sound, or any other kind of sensory signal that directly causes harmful or undesired physiological or physical effects to one who senses or perceives it.