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

[brownbetty]

Given that CFan's no longer actively maintained nor has a webmaster, I don't think it would be a bad idea to import a whole bunch, citing the origin, of course.

[cesperanza]

This. Think of it as part of the documentation of what CFan was, rather than about the terms in themselves, if you see what I mean. It's a snapshot of CFan's fannish culture at a certain moment in time!