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A fandom account of a queer geek with ADHD, 40+.

Multifandom, currently mostly focused on BG3. Sometimes NSFW.
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Fandom Vocabulary: Headcanon
Headcanon fanlore.org/wiki/Headcanon Headcanon (HC) is the enriched interpretation of canonical knowledge that exists inside a fan’s head. It can focus on characters, relationships, backstories, worldbuilding etc. HCs are personal, and it’s possible to have several HCs that contradict each other. Everyone is entitled to their own HCs. HCs can be canon-compliant extensions of the story. They can also contradict canon by modifying or rewriting it, leaving things out or adding them. HCs can be derived from canonical facts or they can be pulled out of a hat. HCs don’t have to make sense. Because HCs are a subjective figments of imagination, they aren’t ”right” or ”wrong”. Arguing about them is pointless and not as fun as sharing and cultivating them together.
November 16, 2024 at 10:30 AM
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Fandom Vocabulary: Fanon
Fanon fanlore.org/wiki/Fanon Fanon (fan canon) is something that fans are widely accepting to be ”true”, even when it has little or no basis in canon. For example: A collective interpretation/theory of a small canonical thing that grew much larger in the minds of the fans. Something that emerged from one fanfic and got repeated by other writers so often that it became ”common knowledge”. A convincing headcanon that gets very popular among fans. Characters can have fanon characterisations: Minor characters get more extended and fleshed out. Popular characters get more idealised and perfect. Unpopular characters get their flaws exaggerated and their strengths downplayed. They might be given completely invented bad characteristics. Fanon can become canon: Fans might correctly deduce what’s going to happen in the story. The creators might pick up something that’s fanon and make it canon.
November 16, 2024 at 10:30 AM
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Fandom Vocabulary: Canon
Canon fanlore.org/wiki/Canon The word ”canon” originates from theology, meaning ”the foundational texts of a religion.” In fandom, canon refers to things that have been confirmed to be ”the truth” by the official sources. Canon is always based on an official source, but not all official sources are necessarily considered to be canon. The fandom can decide that some of the official sources aren’t authoritative enough to be acknowledged as a source of canon. The sources that are accepted as canon vary from fandom to fandom—and sometimes even within a fandom. As long as new source material is being created, the fandom has an open canon. When there are no expectations of getting any new source material anymore, the fandom has a closed canon.
November 16, 2024 at 10:30 AM
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Fandom Vocabulary: Pro-shipper (with addendum)
Pro-shipper fanlore.org/wiki/Anti-anti ”Pro” is a prefix, not short for ”problematic”. Pro-shipping was the common mindset in the fandom before the anti-shippers started arguing against it. Pro-shippers separate fiction from reality. They believe that fictional content alone does not affect what real people do in the real world. Pro-shippers believe that people can’t be judged based on their taste in fiction or the fictional things they create. Pro-shippers believe that fictional content should not be censored, not even when it includes taboo subject matters. Pro-shippers are against harassing people over fictional things. Addendum: “Pro” is a prefix, and it means “supporting”. The belief that fictional content alone does not affect what real people do in the real world means that a work of fiction alone does not cause people to act against their own will. The belief that people can't be judged based on their taste in fiction or the fictional things they create means that creating or consuming a piece of fiction is not concrete evidence for anything. If you are convinced that fictional sex scenes between adults and minors are illegal, and people who create or consume that content are pedophiles, please explain why fictional descriptions of murder and violence are not treated the same way.
November 16, 2024 at 10:30 AM
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Fandom Vocabulary: Pro-shipper
Pro-shipper fanlore.org/wiki/Anti-anti ”Pro” is a prefix, not short for ”problematic”. Pro-shipping was the common mindset in the fandom before the anti-shippers started arguing against it. Pro-shippers separate fiction from reality. They believe that fictional content alone does not affect what real people do in the real world. Pro-shippers believe that people can’t be judged based on their taste in fiction or the fictional things they create. Pro-shippers believe that fictional content should not be censored, not even when it includes taboo subject matters. Pro-shippers are against harassing people over fictional things.
November 16, 2024 at 10:30 AM
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Fandom Vocabulary: FanPol
FanPol fanlore.org/wiki/Fanpol FanPol, or Fandom Police, refers to people who think they have the right to control other people’s fandom activities based on things they personally dislike or find weird. FanPol believe that transgressive fiction and works with taboo subject matters can cause actual harm to real people and should therefore be censored. FanPol judge people based on what sort of fictional works they like or create, believing that people’s taste in fiction aligns with their real life behaviour. FanPol see harassment and bullying as useful tools when it serves their agenda to get rid of content they don’t approve. FanPol behaviour is typical to anti-shippers (fanlore.org/wiki/Anti-shipper).
November 16, 2024 at 10:30 AM
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Fandom Vocabulary: Squick
Squick fanlore.org/wiki/Squick Squick is basically the opposite of kink. It’s used for describing a deep-seated, visceral turn-off. Squick is a neutral word that describes your personal emotional reaction to something without judging the thing itself or the people who like it. Squick is not the same as a trigger. It’s just something you are not interested in reading/seeing, because it makes you feel things you’d rather not feel. Squick is both a noun and a verb. ”That’s my squick, so I don’t read anything portraying it.” ”This fic had some of my squicks in it, so I noped out.” ”No, I don’t want to watch that, it squicks me.” ”This fic squicked me out so bad!”
November 16, 2024 at 10:30 AM
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This is how it looks like on Mastodon when encountered on a feed.
A screenshot of the post on Mastodon, showing only the text that was written on the content warning field, followed by a link that says ”Content warning”, and you can open the full post by clicking it.
November 15, 2024 at 10:59 PM
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If you see this, post a vampire
Astarion from Baldur’s Gate 3
November 13, 2024 at 6:25 PM
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Fandom PSAs: Be Kind (or Don’t Be An Asshole)
Be Kind or Don’t Be An Asshole Focus on the things you like instead of the things you hate. Create and unite instead of destroying and dividing. Don’t harass real people over fictional things. Stop stirring up petty drama just to get some attention on social media. Stop trying to ”win”. Fandom is not a competition. Remember that your own experiences aren’t universally shared. Your perception of things can differ from someone else’s, but that doesn’t mean either of you is necessarily wrong.
November 13, 2024 at 6:03 PM
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Fandom PSAs: Your Kink Is Not My Kink (or YKINMK / YKINMKATO)
Your Kink Is Not My Kink or YKINMK / YKINMKATO The longer version is ”Your Kink Is Not My Kink And That’s Okay”. People have different tastes. Not everything is for everybody. Even if you don’t like a specific kink, other people are still allowed to use it in their creations. You are entitled to dislike kinky content and think that it’s ”weird”. Don’t kink shame or judge people based on their kinks. This goes both ways: your kink is not someone else’s kink, so don’t push it onto those who are not into it.
November 13, 2024 at 6:03 PM
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Fandom PSAs: Ship And Let Ship (with addendum)
Ship And Let Ship or SALS You are allowed to ship whatever you want. Everyone else is also allowed to ship whatever they want. You are entitled to dislike or even hate a ship. If you want to do this online, in public, don’t use the ship tags for hate posts. If you see someone posting about a ship they like and you don’t, there is no need for you to start arguing with them in their replies / comments / QRTs / reblogs. Don’t throw your hate in their face. Do not harass fan creators or fans for shipping something you disapprove. All of this also applies to liking / disliking an individual character. Addendum: ”I agree with this, except when…” No, then you are NOT agreeing with this. Let me make this VERY clear. There are NO exceptions. None. You don’t EVER harass real people over pixels. If you disagree with this, kindly block and move on.
November 13, 2024 at 6:03 PM
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Fandom PSAs: Ship And Let Ship (or SALS)
Ship And Let Ship or SALS You are allowed to ship whatever you want. Everyone else is also allowed to ship whatever they want. You are entitled to dislike or even hate a ship. If you want to do this online, in public, don’t use the ship tags for hate posts. If you see someone posting about a ship they like and you don’t, there is no need for you to start arguing with them in their replies / comments / QRTs / reblogs. Don’t throw your hate in their face. Do not harass fan creators or fans for shipping something you disapprove. All of this also applies to liking / disliking an individual character.
November 13, 2024 at 6:03 PM
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Fandom PSAs: Don’t Like, Don’t Read (with addendum)
Don't Like, Don't Read or DL; DR You are responsible for curating your own online experience. If something upsets you, makes you angry or queasy or triggers you, stop reading/looking at it. Avoid things that might make you feel that way. Learn to use the Sort and Filter function on AO3, especially the Exclude tools. On social media, block and mute accounts / tags / words when necessary. If you hated something, you don’t need to tell that to the creator or start pointing fingers at them publicly. The Back button is free. Use it. Addendum: Yes, for this to work, creators need to tag their works accordingly, so that people know what sort of content they are about to engage with and can nope out if necessary. I will probably make another PSA about the importance of proper tagging later.
November 13, 2024 at 6:03 PM
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Fandom PSAs: Don’t Like, Don’t Read (or DL;DR)
Don't Like, Don't Read or DL; DR You are responsible for curating your own online experience. If something upsets you, makes you angry or queasy or triggers you, stop reading/looking at it. Avoid things that might make you feel that way. Learn to use the Sort and Filter function on AO3, especially the Exclude tools. On social media, block and mute accounts / tags / words when necessary. If you hated something, you don’t need to tell that to the creator or start pointing fingers at them publicly. The Back button is free. Use it.
November 13, 2024 at 6:03 PM