| BFF | Best Friends Forever |
| "But that's the fork I knew." | From "Pretty
Woman." Used when someone throws you
a curve after you've bothered to learn something. |
Congratusorry
(tm Will) | Said after hearing mixed blessings.
"My new job sucks but I was so poor..." "Congratusorry!" |
| Convo | Conversation |
Deus ex Maniac
(A Devlinism) | Adapted from Deus ex
Machina (literally, god out of the machine, a plot contrivance that saves the
day out of nowhere, see Medea.) Used to describe
when writers get lazy and make their villain even crazier, or act
out-of-character crazy in order to keep the plot from petering out
naturally. Red Eye, when Cillian
Murphy's hit man suddenly became like the Terminator in his quest to kill the
lead, was such a deus ex maniac. |
| Dogme | Danish word for 'dogma.' Refers to a collective film
movement begun in 1995 by director Lars Von Triers and others wanting to get
back to the basics of story and eschew elaborate production techniques. Carries on in the tradition of the French New
Wave. |
| Earworm | A song that gets terminally stuck in your head. Can sometimes be cured by being overpowered
by another sticky song, like Beethoven's Fifth. Though, depending on your musical tastes, that might make it worse. Beyonce's "All the Single
Ladies" is a sticky earworm. |
Fandering
(A Devlinism) | Pandering to fans. Often done with a TV show has a big internet
following and the writers begin to change the flow of the story in order to please the fans. Spuffy, the Spike/Buffy pairing of Spike and Buffy on
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, turned into a big pile of fandering. |
| FWIW | For What It's Worth |
| Girl Crush | Straight women crushing on other women. Common girl crushes: Susan Sarandon, Janeane
Garofalo, Angelina Jolie, Lucy Lawless. |
| HITG | Hey It's That Guy (Gal), referring to a commonly-seen
actor or actress--you know his face though you might not know his name. Sometimes shortened to 'That Guy.'
Callum Keith Rennie, Lorena Gale, Michael
Winnicott. Frequently found to be
Canadian. |
| "I'm shocked, shocked, to find that gambling is
going on in here!" | From
Casablanca. Used to mean, one is not
surprised at all. |
| JMS | A term I use when writing, Justify My Scene.
If I can't find what's at stake in the scene
for the main character driving that scene, then I have to find something to
JMS. Frequently get Madonna's Justify
My Love stuck in my head, which is okay with me. |
| Man Crush | Straight men crushing on other men.
Jon Stewart has such a man crush on George
Clooney. |
| Mary Sue, Gary Stu | From fan fiction.
A Mary Sue is a character created by neophyte
writers who is too good to be true. She's smart and sweet and can do anything.
Frequently sings and has flowing locks of
golden or red hair. A stand-in for the
writer. |
| Moonlighting Curse | From the much-revered 80s show
"Moonlighting." Refers to the
show resolving the UST between the leads, Maddie and David, and once they did,
the show careened into the nearest ditch and never recovered. Though it has become fashionable to poo-poo
the MC, I find it's still true most, if not all, of the time. (Does not refer to minor characters getting
together, only the leads in a show where the sexual tension constitutes a big
part of what makes it fun. Does not
refer to the characters getting together once and then pretending it didn't
happen and going on as before.) |
| OTOH | On The Other Hand |
| "Otto, is this something a smart person would do?" |
From "A Fish Called Wanda," fairly self-explanatory. |
| Passporting | When a writer skips over an unimportant detail
rather than show it. (Origins: Buffy
forums online. If Buffy were to jump on
a plane for Paris, the writer needn't show her getting her passport in order
for the viewer to assume she's done so off camera.) |
| RL | Real Life, where it's best not to spend too much time. |
| Slashy | Homo-erotic subtext, as in, The updated Sherlock
Holmes on the BBC is slashy. (Origins: Star Trek fan fiction imagining Kirk
and Spock as romantic partners, written as Kirk/Spock, Kirk-slash-Spock.) |
| Shippy vibes | From 'ship, shortened from relationship.
Was it just me, or did anyone else get
shippy vibes between River and Jayne on Firefly? Their shippy name would have been Rayne, or
Jiver, or Jayer or Rivne...etc. |
| Spoilery, spoiler alert | To give away too much. |
| (tm [somebody]) | Giving credit to an originator. |
| TMI | Too Much Information |
| UST | Unresolved Sexual Tension |
| Vancouverville | Term for the huge number of movies and TV shows shot in Vancouver.
The Vancouverville stable of actors make up a great many HITGs. |
| [/(proper noun)] | Means to end imitating or quoting
someone. Whoa. [/Keanu voice]. |
