lotrips-specific vocab

[lobelia321]

Pursuant of thamiris's recent musings on fandom-specific vocabulary, I started thinking about the lexicon specific to lotrips.

Here are some words and terms I can think of whose meanings are insiderishly lotrippian and whose usage would be opaque to anybody outside the fandom (and possibly to many people inside the fandom as well...).

- beagle

- the tin hats

- secret gay message (as pertaining to Domlijah's shirts)

- orlandish (er, coined by me, hence included, *gg*)

- crampand

- liek omg wtf 111 @-@ (do other fandoms spoof this as well?)

Any others? I know there are more!!! Gimme gimme.

Comments

[airgiodslv.livejournal.com]

Er...wow, I'm out of the loop. Or just a complete newbie. I have no idea what the majority of those mean. Do we get translations?

I feel so un-lotrippy now. *sigh*

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

OK, heh.

- beagle: Sometime last year, this word appeared among others in a bad!fic wherein Billy and somebody (I forget who) sat down to have some 'beagles with cream cheese' for breakfast.

It spawned the thread from hell here:http://www.livejournal.com/users/demelzagirl/64777.html

So it refers to appalling-and-absolutely-awful!fic.

- Tin hats: people who believe that Dom and Lijah are a couple in real life and who believe this with a fervour bordering on insanity. They hang out mostly in a place called Datalounge, I believe, but I know them mostly through second-hand rants about them. *g*

I have no idea of the etymology of tin hat; I've asked people where it comes from (perhaps wearing a tin hat to prevent alien rays from frying your brain??).

The tin hats also believe that Dom and Lijah are made to pretend not to be a couple by their evil public relations officer. So they resort to exchanging secret gay messages by wearing colour-coded shirts.

- orlandish: The ability to have an orgasm about once every five minutes. Inspired by this fic by azewewish.

- crampand: see comment below

- omg wtf lol liek 111: the type of text message left by teenie fangirls who cannot spell on their mobiles to each other when attending premieres and such like; used by the people I know to denote fannish hysteria in spoofish format

Eeek, does anyone else think these words mean something different???

[acari.livejournal.com]

- beagle: Sometime last year, this word appeared among others in a bad!fic wherein Billy and somebody (I forget who) sat down to have some 'beagles with cream cheese' for breakfast.

Not quite. 'T was Craig who was all starved for cream cheese beagles. Have fics and eval threads saved for when I need a laugh. And don't forget the "soft stuff".

- Tin hats: people who believe that Dom and Lijah are a couple in real life and who believe this with a fervour bordering on insanity. They hang out mostly in a place called Datalounge, I believe, but I know them mostly through second-hand rants about them. *g*

Tinhats. *g* They've been tossed from Datalounge, they have their own message board now. Datalounge Refugees. http://pub99.ezboard.com/bdlrefugees

on tinhat terms: http://www.journalfen.com/talkread.bml?journal=dl_anon&itemid=67770


Gods, I have no life to speak of. I shouldn't know this without any research.

I'm sure there're more terms, but I can't think of one right now.

Maybe D'or? That one's truely obscure if you don't know what it stands for. Name of pairings in general are mind bogglings sometimes.

Anyway. Save the Beagle! *pets ancient icon*

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Wow. You know your stuff.

And you *saved the beagle fic*???

Am truly in awe now.

Don't ever delete it! We need it for the historical record!

Yes, pairings names are a science unto themselves. That would make another fun post! I used to hate all the cutesy abbreviations but now I'm rather fond of them. Except Karggo.

[bunnysquee.livejournal.com]

i pretended to be cool and whatnot and went along with it, but now i must ask - what is crampand?

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

Well, crampand is a bit mean and arcane. And possibly not even lotrippy but just plain insiderish. It's a word I found in the full-volume Oxford Dictionary in t'reference library one afternoon and it means 'of or pertaining to curls'. So I told thejennabides who immediately used it in a curly!Orli-fic. So it sort of refers to Orli's curls or to boys' curls in general but you are right: it is probably not lotrippy and I just put it there because I ran out of words.

[childeproof.livejournal.com]

You know, I remember seeing the Beagle Thread when I was reading, but not involved in lj fandom and wondering what the hell you were all on. (Something I still wonder from time to time ;) ) I was entirely pouting because I Didn't Get It. Now I have had a Damascene moment and the scales are fallen from my eyes and I feel all liek omg wtf etc etc.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I wish I still had the link to that fic. It was outstandingly bogglingly bad. The beagle just tip of iceberg! Heh, glad to be able to clear up longstanding mysteries. Not for nothing am I co-creatrix of Wainthropp fandom.