terms used in fanfiction

Terms commonly used:

-Slash: Male/Male or Female/Female. So, gay action happens. Female/Female is sometimes called FemSlash.

-Yaoi: the term Yaoi is mostly used in Anime or Manga only. Its two (or more) guys in a sexual relationship. Gay porn, basically.

-Yuri: same thing as Yaoi, but with females

-Het: Male/Female. Boring stuff.

-Ship/Shipping: Basically a pairing you want to be together, or are together and you approve.

ex: I ship Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson
translate: I want Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson to be in a relationship. 

-Canon: official or established relations.

ex. Bella and Edward are canon

-OTP: One True Pairing; basically the pairing that ruins your life, you care about them more than yourself and you feel like their relationship is more important than your own if you had a relationship but you don't because you spend too much time focused on their relationship.

ex. Larry Stylinson is my otp.

AU: Another/Alternative Universe;

ex. One Direction are normal friends that go to college;

-One Shot: one chaptered fic, can have from 100-100,000+ words

-Drabble: like a one shot but shorter

-WIP: work in progress; its not complete, the writer is still working on it

-Fic Rec: A list an author or read has of fanfictions they like.

-Trigger Warning; TW, if the chapter/story contains something that can trig thoughts, panic attack ect,

ex. Self harm, suicide, abuse

-Non-Con: someone get raped

-Dub-con: not raped, but they didn't want it

-OC: Original Character; character made up by the author, doesn't exist in the original world. (OFC is original female char. OMC is original male char.)

ex. Harry/OFC would be Harry in a relationship with a character I created

-POV: point of view; who's point of view the stories in. 3rd, 2nd, 1st, and the person.

ex. Twilight is in Bella POV and in 1st person

-Fluff: cute light hearted romance, no drama, or sadness

-Angst: a depressing feel to the story, someone dies, or someone sad, or depressed

-Songfic: a story based on a song

-smut: porn really. fucking. SEX

-co-write: written with two author

-prompt: a prompt is an idea for a story or one shot. If someone takes prompts, you can give them the idea and they'll write it.


I basically only read slash angst. smut or fluff sometimes. never het.