CFAN's Fandom Glossary

[anenko]

I've been hit by a wave of nostalgia recently, and have been tossing up stubs on Fanlore for a lot of my old haunts--especially for the X-Men comics fandom (I couldn't believe that no one had already tackled CFAN!)

On my search for screencaps, I rediscovered CFAN's fandom glossary. I was thinking about moving over the information there to Fanlore, but wondered how useful people would actually find it. A lot of the terms are obsolete (so far as I know). I don't see "egoboo," "sillyfic," "feedback fic" or "archive fic" used these days.

Beyond that, I don't feel completely right copying CFAN's content (even rephrased and cited).

Opinions?

Comments

[kass]

Oh, man, I remember "egoboo"! I think it would be cool to have glossary entries for some of this lingo -- even if it's not in common usage anymore, it used to be, and that's part of what Fanlore is here to chronicle, imo.

[anenko]

Picking out which terms to save is a bit overwhelming, though. I remember a lot of the comic terms, but the Trek/Dr Who/RP stuff I have no idea about.