Meme time!

[krait]

Ganked from othercat (do we still say 'ganked' nowadays?)

Tell me about stories you think I should write. If you could sit me down for a day or whatever and say, "Ok, I want you to write this story for me," what would that story be?

This meme contains no guarantee that I will write anything beyond "LOL!" (ha; you lot know I am never that brief), but who knows - I might just get inspired!

Comments

[blnchflr]

We did stop using "ganked" (and "gacked", same meaning), didn't we? Interesting.

Sorry, no suggestions for writing. Unless you wanted to write meta on how you think fandom has changed :)

[krait]

Actually? Meta on how fannish terms change would be really nifty to read!

When I first joined fandom, no one used "ship" as a verb, and I didn't even see it often as a noun (and it usually had an apostrophe: 'ship). Now it seems that practically no one says "pairing" anymore; I wonder if it will die out, vanishing from fannish vocabulary except as a lingering initial in "OTP" (and spinoffs such us "BroTP", etc.) or whether it will find a niche somewhere in an emerging fandom.

Likewise, I've noticed a sharp decline in the once-popular plural 'fen'; it seems to belong to an older generation of fandom, and is dying out. Soon it will be an archeological curiosity embedded in ancient strata of messageboards and mailing lists; a footnote in the Livejournal-clone expansion and exodus via Journalfen.

What new terms shall rise? That awaits to be seen! :D

[blnchflr]

Yes, it would, and you should post this as a separate entry to that end :)

When I joined fandom, people had dropped the 'ship apostrophe, but pairing was still very much used.

ETA: I don't even see OTP used all that much - partly possibly because we are't as OTP-ish as we used to? Partly, I feel, because we don't post as much meta and off-the-cuff meta as we used to :(

I love "fen", I think it's a great term, and still use it, but agree it has fallen into great decline.