What does wip stand for in fanfiction

AU - see Alternate Universe Author Note - a note left by the author, usually explaining something in the fic or giving a reason why the fic is delayed backstory - a prequel story that takes place before the pilot, either on Earth or on the alien's home planet with the orig aliens before they died badfic - just what it sounds like, a fic that intentionally or unintentionally is just plain bad BDSM - bondage, discipline, sadomasochism, stuff that may ick you Before it all began fics - fics that are set on Earth in the lifetime of the Roswell main characters, but before Liz's shooting Beta or beta reader - when the writer of a story has it proof-read by someone else before posting the one who does this is a Beta-reader; a proof-read story is Beta'd No matter how good a writer you are, there is nothing as great as having a second pair of eyes to read for your mistakes and help you with your writing.

These people can help you in a variety of ways, critiquing on plot, grammar, continuity, canon, and even help you to work out your ideas. Usually used to ask a fanfic author for an update on the story. Supposedly it is an acronym for 'bring up my post'. CC - see for Conventional Couple canon - the text of the show as seen on TV, and what we know about the characters and situations unseen - also see fanon category - the type of story AU, CC, UC, xover, etc , the main couple or couples in the fic, and any special info the reader needs to understand POV, tag, futurefic, etc Cement - the term that Future Max first uses to mean making love.

The dreamers adopted it and used it on the Max and Liz cherishing threads. For example: Write an AU Roswell fic where the characters are all mermaids - challenge fic - a story based on someone else's challenge idea child-fic - a story focusing on the characters when they were children Classification - can include the type of story including genre and couple ship. Disclaimers are required on most fanfic sites when posting a fanfic. At its core, fanfiction is, in fact, copyright infringement.

There are very few, if any, cases where authors have been prosecuted I think they're all just lore, honestly, but a short disclaimer stating that the characters and fandom are not of your creation but the property of the producers and writers and all them folk, is a good thing to have posted with your story. If they really wanted to prosecute, they still could, but it's extremely unlikely. Distribution - In your posting headers, this indicates who may automatically archive your fic without emailing you.

If you would like others to ask, tell them here. DOT - Death of Tess, short stories about Tess dying written by Tess haters Draft - A story that isn't completely finished and hasn't been edited or beta'd yet. Feedback Slut - A writer who does everything humanly possible to get feedback, up to an including holding a story hostage, saying they won't posts more parts unless they get a certain amount of feedback. This is generally frowned upon and holding stories hostage is banned on most sites.

FF - see "futurefic" not to be confused with lower case ff ff - see "femslash" not to be confused with upper case FF femslash - romantic or erotic story about two female characters feedback - comments and reviews left on fanfic by readers, usually positive -fic - can be used at the end of a name to show the story is mainly about a certain character or time - example Max-fic, Zan-fic, Kyle-fic. Also can be used to describe the type of fic - for example futurefic, pastlife fic, songfic, angstyfic, fluff-fic, etc Fic Tag - Like the Round Robin, fanfic written by a number of writers each picking up the story where the last leaves off.

Flaming is banned on most boards fluff - see foof foof - harmless, happy, humorous stories esp. CC ones , love and bonding between characters adjective is foofy forward - aka preface, prologue - a brief part or chapter that takes place before the first chapter, usually used as a sort of teaser for the story fwd - short for forward futurefic - or future fiction is a fanfic that takes place in the future gen - short for general, usually denotes a non-adult rating Genre - The story type, it can range from the couple classification to the general tone of the story.

Stories that take place on Earth, set before the Pilot are usually called prequels or backstories. Headcanon noun : An individual or shared concept, thought, or belief about a character, event or storyline. Can be anything from motivation for an action to what happened after a fade-to-black. Slash noun : A genre of fanfiction in which the featured romantic ship is two men, who are often canonically straight. Femslash noun : A genre of fanfiction in which the featured romantic ship is two women, who are often canonically straight.

So you want to try fanfiction. These are the key terms that you will probably encounter no matter which site you frequent, or what kind of fanwork you decide you like. For instance, before she became a major best-seller, The Shadowhunters author Cassandra Clare was considered to be the most famous fanfiction author in the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter fandoms.

Het fanfic is "het fic. Many fans believe slash is a subversive response to heteronormative canons, which rarely allow for the possibility that main characters can be queer. But a growing number of fans maintain that the tendency of slashers to fixate on mostly white male characters makes slash a deeply problematic and regressive genre.

Slash is a huge part of modern fandom culture. As of Tumblr's last statistical analysis on the subject, it's pretty clear that the vast majority of pairings being shipped in fandom tend to be slash pairings. However, the major het ships in fandom, like Arrow 's Olicity, seem to have more shippers in other locations on the internet — not just Tumblr, which is generally considered to be the contemporary hub of fandom online.

Femslashers generally want to be considered separately from "slash" in discussions of fandom because their ships are often quite different. Femslash has historically accounted for the smallest portion of fandom, but recently femslash pairings have surged in popularity thanks to major canonical queer ships like Korrasami for the TV show The Legend of Korra and Clexa for the TV show The , and non-canonical but still popular ones like Swanqueen within the fandom for the TV show Once Upon a Time.

Gen or genfic: Short for "general," genfic is what you get when your story isn't primarily concerned with romance. You can also be a "gen shipper," which paradoxically means you don't ship anyone in particular. Because of the issues involved in speculating on someone's real sexual identity, RPS can sometimes can get a bit thorny , to put it mildly. Fan archives There are countless fanfiction archives in existence, like the massive wealth of fic at sites like AsianFanfics , innumerable tiny forums for individual fandoms, and blog sites like LiveJournal, Tumblr, and Dreamwidth.

Currently, there are three especially predominant archives: FF. Because fanfiction. But plenty of longtime fans continue to enjoy its thriving community, and it remains one of the most stable fic archives on the internet. Wattpad : Wattpad is an online self-publishing platform that has become hugely popular with fans, on a massive scale that dwarfs all other fanfiction archives on the internet.

Like Movellas, Quotev, and other similar corporate publishing platforms that allow fanfiction, Wattpad's fanfiction demographics skew younger, with a focus on celebrity fandoms.

The One Direction fanfiction turned young-adult publishing phenomenon After started out as a Wattpad juggernaut that has already been read million times online. The process of building the AO3 led to the creation of the fandom-run nonprofit Organization for Transformative Works the OTW , which advocates for the legal rights, preservation, and awareness of fanworks.

Because the AO3 was built primarily by slashers, it's known for being a mostly slash-oriented website. The different types of fanfiction Canon fic, or in-universe fic: Fic that builds off the existing canonical storyline. AU: Short for "alternative universe," AU places canonical characters into a different setting, universe, or timeline, or otherwise alters something significant about the existing canonical storyline. Popular subgenres of AU include the "historical AU," when characters are sent back in time to a specific historical era; the "coffee shop AU," in which characters are taken out of their existing storyline and placed in the context of meeting randomly in a coffee shop usually one half of your OTP is a barista, and the other half is an annoyed, harried, caffeine-addicted patron ; the high school or college AU, in which your characters are aged older or younger and sent to high school or college as the case may be; and the "Hogwarts AU," in which all the characters of another universe are sent to Hogwarts.

Crossover fic: A cousin to the AU, this kind of fic combines two or more sources. Think Archie vs. PWP: Short for "Plot? What plot? WIP: Short for "work in progress.

Mary Sue or Gary Stu: This is an original self-insert character or the fic he or she appears in. Mary Sues are heavily mocked both inside and outside fandoms because they're usually characterized by unrealistic amounts of perfection — prettiest looks, highest grades, strongest athletic ability, etc.

And the tendency to make a character a "Sue" isn't just limited to fanfiction; you can find unbelievably perfect self-inserts at the center of everything from Jean M. Genderbending : Genderbent fic is fic that changes the gender of one or more of the canonical characters. Racebending and f ancasting: Fancasting is the practice of casting a totally new or theorized actor or cast of characters in a role; for example, before Eddie Redmayne was cast as Newt Scamander in the upcoming Harry Potter spinoff film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them , many Harry Potter fans fancast a wide range of actors in the part, from Benedict Cumberbatch to Dev Patel to Nathan Stewart-Jarrett.

The cousin term, "racebending," actually has two very different meanings depending on context. The word comes from the fan protests surrounding the notorious film adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender in and ; the project infamously whitewashed the cast, despite the source material's clear emphasis on diversity, drawing massive backlash from the Avatar fandom.

Today, the site Racebending , which originated with the Avatar protests, is a media watch site whose mission is to raise awareness of Hollywood whitewashing. Meanwhile, the term has also come to mean changing the ethnicity of presumed white characters to envision them as examples of diverse representation in a positive way.

This positive trend, sometimes referred to as "chromatic casting," now proliferates in fandom culture. Part 4: Issues in fandom The fourth wall: This is an extremely complicated and controversial idea that there is, or at least ought to be, an invisible "fourth wall" that exists between fans and creators, and to a different extent between fandom and the outside world — a wall that simultaneously protects fans against outside scrutiny and judgment and protects creators from knowing what fans are talking about and allowing fandom activity to influence them.

With the increased mainstreaming of fandom, and the advent of social media, fan-creator interaction is more common than ever, but many fans remain freaked out by it and can often be heard commenting that they "want the fourth wall back. The idea of queerbaiting has evolved mainly among slash and femslash fans to mean an in-progress canonical storyline which exploits queer fans or fans of a specific queer ship by teasing them for ratings without any intention of actually making characters canonically queer.

Queerbaiting usually starts when creators insert slashy subtext into their show. Queerbaiting can also involve marketing teams or creatives building on or openly embracing homoerotic subtext outside the show. Historically, this kind of practice has been a boon to queer fans, a way for creators to tacitly embrace queer audiences while dealing with the reality of the celluloid closet.

But modern fans are increasingly unwilling to settle for subtext, and if the show itself doesn't follow through on any of the homoerotic hints, accusations of queerbaiting are quick to follow.

Where things get really tricky is when fans accuse narratives that already do have meaningfully queer characters and queer relationships of exploiting them and their expectations.