Fanfic terms

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retice

Ah, well, I'm pretty sure the dictionary-thread used to be here too, but I can't find it either, so here are the terms I can think of off the top of my head that you'll see used a lot in fanfiction or just in posts in general:

Yaoi: Sexual relations between two male characters.
Yuri: Sexual relations between two female characters.
BL: Boy-love.
Shounen-ai: Boy-love again in Japanese. You'll usually see this label for stuff that does not contain sex.
Shouta: Yaoi in which very very young boys are involved.
Slash: Romantic relations between two characters who were not originally meant to be this way in canon.
Canon: Everything the original creater intended.
Fanon: Fan-created ships, etc.
Lemon: Graphic sex in the fanfic.
Lime: Sex implied in the fanfic.
FTW: For the win. Usually used to express enthusiasm over something.
OTP: One True Pairing. Your favorite pairing that you feel will never change.

Anything in particular you're confused about that I haven't mentioned?

awesome  

[protecterofelements]

X a y u m u n a r u m i X

retice

Ah, well, I'm pretty sure the dictionary-thread used to be here too, but I can't find it either, so here are the terms I can think of off the top of my head that you'll see used a lot in fanfiction or just in posts in general:

Yaoi: Sexual relations between two male characters.
Yuri: Sexual relations between two female characters.
BL: Boy-love.
Shounen-ai: Boy-love again in Japanese. You'll usually see this label for stuff that does not contain sex.
Shouta: Yaoi in which very very young boys are involved.
Slash: Romantic relations between two characters who were not originally meant to be this way in canon.
Canon: Everything the original creater intended.
Fanon: Fan-created ships, etc.
Lemon: Graphic sex in the fanfic.
Lime: Sex implied in the fanfic.
FTW: For the win. Usually used to express enthusiasm over something.
OTP: One True Pairing. Your favorite pairing that you feel will never change.

Anything in particular you're confused about that I haven't mentioned?

awesome

its like a dictionary of fanfic terms  

[AtlantisChildren]

kina blaze

i'm never gonna remember all this stuff sweatdrop xp

Just copy it down and use it as a reference sheet then. If you read fanfic a lot then you'll learn them all eventually without even trying. //o^ That's pretty much how I learned them, minus the copying a list down.  

[Ichinilla]

What does WIP mean?  

[retice]

Ichinilla

What does WIP mean?

Work in Progress =) It means the story is not completed yet.  

[protecterofelements]

ahhhh i wondered what WIP meant thank you 3nodding