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
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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