This is for all of you who have ever wondered about some of the terms that people use, mostly bloggers on Tumblr. I'm here to help explain. Let's begin.
OTP
OTP is an acronym standing for "One True Pairing". This is a pairing so perfect in your mind that they are the only one that could ever be.
Ship
When you "ship" something, you are shipping two people together in a relationship. Most like to combine the names of the people they are shipping, like for Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase there is "Percabeth". People also ship "bromances" (see paragraph 4 for details), like John Watson and Sherlock Holmes (Johnlock).
Bromance
Brother + Romance = Bromance
Basically it is two male friends who you love so much as friends, like they are not complete without the other for friendship.
Feels
It is what it looks like. Feels are what you have when you feel so deeply for characters, but it is like the strongest emotion a fangirl can have. There is also "overload of feels". If someone says that they have an overload of feels, it may be time to call up your local mental institution.
I can't
The feels (see paragraph 5) are apparently so much for you that you just can NOT take it anymore. You are emotionally overloaded and have decided to disconnect yourself until you can calm down.
I'm so done
This phrase can have a few different meanings. It may mean that the other fans in the fandom are being irritating or not showing the rest of the fandom in a good light, or you're just plain annoyed about something. It can also mean that you are just done with whatever is occurring. Maybe the season finale just broke your heart and you're so done with how it makes you feel but, alas, it is too late. You are hooked.
Fandom
Pretty simple. Fan kingdom = fandom. It is a group of human beings (normally) that are all fans of the same thing. A fandom includes the fans who have been there from the start and those who have just joined.
Fangirl/Fanboy
Does this really need to be explained?
Dying
Okay, well, duh, we're not actually dying. But the feels have become too much to the point of where we're practically dead on the floor. Fangirls tend to die 50 to 100 times a day. It is a serious issue.
Superwholock
Supernatural, Doctor Who, and Sherlock all wrapped up together. Superwholock rules Tumblr.
ashsahatlkabteha *many alternative spellings
This is when it looks like they just threw their cat onto the keyboard and let nature take its course. This person can not express all of the feelings inside of them in words so they do so in gibberish. It is quite effective to release some of the pent up emotion, I can tell you.
GIF
This isn't so much a definition as a pronunciation guide. It is a huge debate as to whether GIF is pronounced "jif" like the peanut butter or "gif" like how you sound when you say gift really fast. It has been confirmed that it is correct EITHER. WAY.
Fanfiction (fanfic for short)
A written work that is based off of a book/movie/tv show written by a fan of the thing.
Canon
This word pops up around fanfictions. Canon is what was actually in the book/movie/tv show, not what was created by the author of the fanfiction.
DON'T TOUCH ME I'M IN A FRAGILE STATE RIGHT NOW!
See "ashsahatlkabteha", "I can't", and "dying" for definition. Although they are dead serious when they say not to touch them. If you try to touch them they will go after you with Glamdring and carve your heart out and feed it to the Minotaur.
You think I'm kidding?
Fine. Go touch that girl who just watched Reichenbach Fall.
Don't say I didn't warn you.
I didn't sign up for this!
I have used this one before. The person in question thought that they were just casually watching a show or reading a book and suddenly, the author/writer/whatever turns the whole thing upside down and you're now so emotionally invested and cry yourself to sleep every night. You didn't sign up for this emotional rollercoaster, but now you can't leave.
O.O
So there you go. Those are some rough definitions of the words fandom members use on the internet, mostly on Tumblr. I don't have a tumblr account, but I do search things occasionally and was a bit confused about the lingo, so I did some research on urban dictionary and here we are.
Please comment as to what I should do next because I have no earthly idea.
Cheers and have a wonderful week.
Nutsy
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Is Chivalry DEAD???
Us female bookworms love to wail about how chivalry doesn't seem to exist anymore, that those common acts of courtesy and kindness seem to have been forgotten. We love comparing normal men to the likes of Mr. Darcy and James Carstairs and Aragorn and moan about how there are no men like them anymore.
News flash: CHIVALRY. ISN'T. DEAD.
It can't be. I refuse to believe that something so awesome has completely and entirely faded from this world.
But, my dear fellow bookworms, let us get off our high horse of dirtied tissues and Austen novels and start working to bring chivalry and courtesy back.
First thing we've got to start doing is being worthy of chivalry. No one's going to want to respect and be courteous to someone who can't even remember that their boobs belong in their shirt and that makeup is a choice, not a necessity. You have to be chivalrous and courteous yourself if you want others to do be chivalrous and courteous to you. It's the Golden Rule. We learned all this when we were littlies.
If one person starts the chain of courtesy, then maybe the next person will continue it, and then the next person will go farther and farther until suddenly, chivalry is not seen as "dead" anymore.
It isn't just the menfolk who need to step up their daily acts, they're just the ones who get the worst reputation about not doing those daily acts. Girls, we need to be courteous as well.
I'm not saying that a girl should start opening the door for the guy on dates, but we definitely need to do something to bring it back. Help the woman with five kids who's struggling to get the groceries into her car. Hold open the door for the next person behind you. Allow those who need to get there faster than you to go ahead.
This ties in closely with my previous post. It takes bravery and strength to be courteous. Men pride themselves about their muscles and how many hours they spent at the gym working on their abs, and although I've got absolutely nothing against that, I would find it more attractive if a guy were to be courteous. Not even to me. If I saw a guy doing nice things for people, it would immediately endear me to them.
Come on! You wanted chivalry to come back, darling, and I just told you how to bring it back. We need to put this into action. It would make me so proud if people just started looking outside of their own little bubble world and realize that there is a world out there that needs them to get their head in the game. Little acts like this can make a person's day, maybe even their week. A simple smile can go a long way.
The implications of being courteous includes being humbled. You are humbling yourself to realize that you are not the only person in this universe who needs to get somewhere today and you can help them out.
It's HARD. I know. I used to think that chivalry was for the men. But just yesterday I tried being courteous and kind at the store and half of the time I had an opportunity to help, I didn't because I was scared of what they might think.
You're offering to help them. Unless they're a proud stuck up prick, they're not going to refuse free help. And if they do, so what? It's not like they are going to be all, "You asked me if I needed help. DIE YOU FOOL!" NO! Your brain has made what could happen worse than what it is. The worst they can say is no, and you tried, and that's what really counts.
CHIVALRY. IS. NOT. DEAD.
IT'S SLEEPING.
GRAB THE POTS AND PANS AND LET'S WAKE IT UP.
News flash: CHIVALRY. ISN'T. DEAD.
It can't be. I refuse to believe that something so awesome has completely and entirely faded from this world.
But, my dear fellow bookworms, let us get off our high horse of dirtied tissues and Austen novels and start working to bring chivalry and courtesy back.
First thing we've got to start doing is being worthy of chivalry. No one's going to want to respect and be courteous to someone who can't even remember that their boobs belong in their shirt and that makeup is a choice, not a necessity. You have to be chivalrous and courteous yourself if you want others to do be chivalrous and courteous to you. It's the Golden Rule. We learned all this when we were littlies.
If one person starts the chain of courtesy, then maybe the next person will continue it, and then the next person will go farther and farther until suddenly, chivalry is not seen as "dead" anymore.
It isn't just the menfolk who need to step up their daily acts, they're just the ones who get the worst reputation about not doing those daily acts. Girls, we need to be courteous as well.
I'm not saying that a girl should start opening the door for the guy on dates, but we definitely need to do something to bring it back. Help the woman with five kids who's struggling to get the groceries into her car. Hold open the door for the next person behind you. Allow those who need to get there faster than you to go ahead.
This ties in closely with my previous post. It takes bravery and strength to be courteous. Men pride themselves about their muscles and how many hours they spent at the gym working on their abs, and although I've got absolutely nothing against that, I would find it more attractive if a guy were to be courteous. Not even to me. If I saw a guy doing nice things for people, it would immediately endear me to them.
Come on! You wanted chivalry to come back, darling, and I just told you how to bring it back. We need to put this into action. It would make me so proud if people just started looking outside of their own little bubble world and realize that there is a world out there that needs them to get their head in the game. Little acts like this can make a person's day, maybe even their week. A simple smile can go a long way.
The implications of being courteous includes being humbled. You are humbling yourself to realize that you are not the only person in this universe who needs to get somewhere today and you can help them out.
It's HARD. I know. I used to think that chivalry was for the men. But just yesterday I tried being courteous and kind at the store and half of the time I had an opportunity to help, I didn't because I was scared of what they might think.
You're offering to help them. Unless they're a proud stuck up prick, they're not going to refuse free help. And if they do, so what? It's not like they are going to be all, "You asked me if I needed help. DIE YOU FOOL!" NO! Your brain has made what could happen worse than what it is. The worst they can say is no, and you tried, and that's what really counts.
CHIVALRY. IS. NOT. DEAD.
IT'S SLEEPING.
GRAB THE POTS AND PANS AND LET'S WAKE IT UP.
Friday, May 3, 2013
Adventure is out there!
If you're anything like me (and if so, I love you to death) then you have read books like The Hobbit, A Wrinkle in Time, Harry Potter, Narnia, and so on, you have wished at some point that you could have an adventure of your own.
Don't try denying it. You have wished that, even if it meant that bad stuff happened, you could go on an adventure.
It's okay. Sometimes life feels a little too repetitive and you want to run off into the blue and be late for dinner.
Actually, now that I've said it, you are now thinking about how awesome it would be to go traveling with the Doctor, or detecting with Sherlock (although I doubt you could do much with Sherlock other than run and open your mouth with surprise whenever he does something clever, which is always).
Adventure is out there, although it might not be in the form that you expect.
You may not have thirteen dwarves knocking on your door or a handsome man in a blue box appear in your sitting room, but if you study God's Word enough you'll realize just how adventurous you're going to have to get.
The definition of adventure, at least in my dictionary, is "taking risks that lead to the unknown".
So the simple act of asking a person about their faith is an adventure.
And that takes quite a lot of bravery to do.
It takes bravery to invite someone to church.
It takes bravery to give a server money to pay for the next person's meal.
It takes bravery to go say hi to the person no one likes.
For introverts like me, it takes bravery just to say hello to someone I don't know!
Bravery is something closely tied with every adventure, fictional (wait, The Hobbit is fictional??? MY CHILDHOOD IS RUINED!) or not.
Another thing closely tied with adventures is strength. Both mental and physical, but quite often the hero of the story will have a point in the book where he or she will think about the comforts of home and want to turn back, or be all alone with friends gone and think of a way to get out of the difficult situation.
It takes strength to tell the truth.
It takes strength to apologize.
It takes strength to admit that you were wrong.
Bravery and strength are necessities for every hero.
For us, our strength comes from God. Our sinful nature wants to lash out and be the knife in the dark, but God can help us be brave and strong. It is the Tookish side of Bilbo, that rises up and wants to have adventures. We like to live in the comforts of home, curled up around a good book and wishing for adventures.
Jump out of your comfort zone and go have the adventures you think you can't have, because you can have them.
But now that you know how to have them, do you really want to have an adventure?
You might think that it's all about goblins and trolls and riddles in the dark, but really, it's all about those everyday acts of stepping out of what's comfortable for us.
The Baggins in me wants to just sit down with a cup of tea and watch another episode of Doctor Who.
But the Took inside me, well...
Don't try denying it. You have wished that, even if it meant that bad stuff happened, you could go on an adventure.
It's okay. Sometimes life feels a little too repetitive and you want to run off into the blue and be late for dinner.
Actually, now that I've said it, you are now thinking about how awesome it would be to go traveling with the Doctor, or detecting with Sherlock (although I doubt you could do much with Sherlock other than run and open your mouth with surprise whenever he does something clever, which is always).
Adventure is out there, although it might not be in the form that you expect.
You may not have thirteen dwarves knocking on your door or a handsome man in a blue box appear in your sitting room, but if you study God's Word enough you'll realize just how adventurous you're going to have to get.
The definition of adventure, at least in my dictionary, is "taking risks that lead to the unknown".
So the simple act of asking a person about their faith is an adventure.
And that takes quite a lot of bravery to do.
It takes bravery to invite someone to church.
It takes bravery to give a server money to pay for the next person's meal.
It takes bravery to go say hi to the person no one likes.
For introverts like me, it takes bravery just to say hello to someone I don't know!
Bravery is something closely tied with every adventure, fictional (wait, The Hobbit is fictional??? MY CHILDHOOD IS RUINED!) or not.
Another thing closely tied with adventures is strength. Both mental and physical, but quite often the hero of the story will have a point in the book where he or she will think about the comforts of home and want to turn back, or be all alone with friends gone and think of a way to get out of the difficult situation.
It takes strength to tell the truth.
It takes strength to apologize.
It takes strength to admit that you were wrong.
Bravery and strength are necessities for every hero.
For us, our strength comes from God. Our sinful nature wants to lash out and be the knife in the dark, but God can help us be brave and strong. It is the Tookish side of Bilbo, that rises up and wants to have adventures. We like to live in the comforts of home, curled up around a good book and wishing for adventures.
Jump out of your comfort zone and go have the adventures you think you can't have, because you can have them.
But now that you know how to have them, do you really want to have an adventure?
You might think that it's all about goblins and trolls and riddles in the dark, but really, it's all about those everyday acts of stepping out of what's comfortable for us.
The Baggins in me wants to just sit down with a cup of tea and watch another episode of Doctor Who.
But the Took inside me, well...
***Special thanks to A Hobbit Devotional by Edd Strauss for inspiration.
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