Dialectical Memetasm
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sangerin:
What do you call...
1) A story concept: plot bunny
2) The shortest kind of story you can write: drabble
3) The longest kind of story you can write (short of an actual book): heh. Why don't actual books count? Longfic.
4) Someone who creates fanfiction: Writer, fanfic writer.
6) Things readers say to writers about their work: fb, reviews
7) A story with explicit sexual content: PWP, smut
8) BONUS: Add one question like the seven above, then answer it...
Story that tugs on heart strings: Angstfic, or weepyfic.
Name/define three interesting/unique words or terms common within your favorite fandom(s).
McCoy Toys - ADAs who work with McCoy
Lennie-ism - one of Lennie's trademark pithy comments
Chunk chunk - sound heard between scenes on L&O, sometimes used by parody writers to denote scene changes
Gakked fromkaylarudbek:
Age: 32
Where did you grow up: Santiago, Chile; Casablanca, Morocco; Ottawa, Canada.
What do you call...
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks?
Creek?
2. What's the thing you push around the grocery store/supermarket?
Shopping cart.
3. A metal container to carry a meal in?
Lunch box.
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in?
Frying pan.
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people?
Sofa.
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof?
Eaves.
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening?
Porch.
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages?
Soft drink.
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup?
Pancake.
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself?
Sub.
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach?
Trunks.
12. Shoes worn for sports?
Running shoes. I made myself practice saying that after I was teased by other kids for calling them "sneakers" (I'd learned English at an American ex-pat school in Casablanca before moving to Canada).
13. Putting a room in order?
Tidying.
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark?
Firefly.
15. The little insect arthropod that curls up into a ball?
"Yuck. What is that thing?"
16. The children's playground equipment where one kid sits on one side and goes up while the other sits on the other side and goes down?
Teeter-totter.
17. How do you eat your pizza?
Crust first, then soft side. I'm weird though. Most people eat it soft part first, crust last, if at all.
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Yard sale or garage sale.
19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
Basement.
Added questions:
What do you call the strip of grassy land between the sidewalk and the street?
I call it the strip of grassy land between the sidewalk and the street.
What do you call a device that provides you with drinking water?
Drinking fountain.
What do you call a rubber torus-shaped thing used to hold things together?
Rubber band?
sangerin: What do you call...
1) A story concept: plot bunny
2) The shortest kind of story you can write: drabble
3) The longest kind of story you can write (short of an actual book): heh. Why don't actual books count? Longfic.
4) Someone who creates fanfiction: Writer, fanfic writer.
6) Things readers say to writers about their work: fb, reviews
7) A story with explicit sexual content: PWP, smut
8) BONUS: Add one question like the seven above, then answer it...
Story that tugs on heart strings: Angstfic, or weepyfic.
Name/define three interesting/unique words or terms common within your favorite fandom(s).
McCoy Toys - ADAs who work with McCoy
Lennie-ism - one of Lennie's trademark pithy comments
Chunk chunk - sound heard between scenes on L&O, sometimes used by parody writers to denote scene changes
Gakked from
kaylarudbek: Age: 32
Where did you grow up: Santiago, Chile; Casablanca, Morocco; Ottawa, Canada.
What do you call...
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks?
Creek?
2. What's the thing you push around the grocery store/supermarket?
Shopping cart.
3. A metal container to carry a meal in?
Lunch box.
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in?
Frying pan.
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people?
Sofa.
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof?
Eaves.
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening?
Porch.
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages?
Soft drink.
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup?
Pancake.
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself?
Sub.
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach?
Trunks.
12. Shoes worn for sports?
Running shoes. I made myself practice saying that after I was teased by other kids for calling them "sneakers" (I'd learned English at an American ex-pat school in Casablanca before moving to Canada).
13. Putting a room in order?
Tidying.
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark?
Firefly.
15. The little insect arthropod that curls up into a ball?
"Yuck. What is that thing?"
16. The children's playground equipment where one kid sits on one side and goes up while the other sits on the other side and goes down?
Teeter-totter.
17. How do you eat your pizza?
Crust first, then soft side. I'm weird though. Most people eat it soft part first, crust last, if at all.
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Yard sale or garage sale.
19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
Basement.
Added questions:
What do you call the strip of grassy land between the sidewalk and the street?
I call it the strip of grassy land between the sidewalk and the street.
What do you call a device that provides you with drinking water?
Drinking fountain.
What do you call a rubber torus-shaped thing used to hold things together?
Rubber band?
