Advice/Help Terminology master list?

[Borge]

Is there one? There's so much short-hand and terms in the RP community, it'd be useful for both newbies and uh... "oldies" (....I'm 24.....) like me who've been away for a bit. Suddenly new ones have cropped up since I was last active!

Personally I've sussed out most of the new to me ones, but I'm still not sure what m// or f// denotes. I assumed it meant M/any and F/any, but people often list them with other pairings? like,
m//, f//, m/m, f/m, m/nb, f/nb
so?? what then?

 

[nerdy tangents]

So your best bet is just ask the person themselves. We don’t really have a site wide dictionary of terms.

So people just use their own definitions of stuff from what their familiar with.

 

[Syntra]

m// means male x male, f// means female x female. I've never seen it mean anything else.

 

[Onmyoji]

There is a glossary here , but unfortunately it doesn't include every single one.

 

[Borge]

There is a glossary here , but unfortunately it doesn't include every single one.

man, i really thought i'd combed through the relevant threads. thank you!!

 

[Crayons]

There's always a few surprising new terms on any site... what confused me were people saying FxM but not MxF. XD

 

[weldherwings]

it'd be useful for both newbies and uh... "oldies" (....I'm 24.....) like me who've been away for a bit.

me, who just turned 29 the other day: *sweats in old*

 

[Borge]

me, who just turned 29 the other day: *sweats in old*

there's a lot of sweet summer children on this site ;-; and plenty of folks who'd categorise me as a sweet summer child!! but i mostly meant it in jest, for folks who've RPd for years, regardless of age hahaha

 

[Borge]

what confused me were people saying FxM but not MxF

having thought about this, i wouldn't be surprised if it's referring roles they'd play! like they'll play male but never female, so MxF but not FxM? or it's just a typo haha

 

[Onmyoji]

Honestly, something it's not worth looking too much into it because folks can write whatever XD
It's usually related to which roles they play but not always.

 

[AnnJam]

male slash, female slash

m//, f//, m/m, f/m, m/nb, f/nb

m// f// indicated male or female "slash" harkens back to fanon using the term slash fiction; indicating the backslash in character / character! So m// is male/male (so on) as everyone explained, but there is a reason why people do use it and it's fanon terminology and fanfiction! XD


So same explanation for them all:

F = Female
M = Male
NB = Non-binary

so f/nb is female slash non-binary character pairing.

 

[Borge]

male slash, female slash

m// f// indicated male or female "slash" harkens back to fanon using the term slash fiction; indicating the backslash in character / character! So m// is male/male (so on) as everyone explained, but there is a reason why people do use it and it's fanon terminology and fanfiction! XD


So same explanation for them all:

F = Female
M = Male
NB = Non-binary

so f/nb is female slash non-binary character pairing.

oh for sure, i get that! well aware of slash xD i was more confused because people list m// along with m/m, and f// along with f/f, so i got the impression it was two different things? but i guess it's just the same doubled

edit: thank you, though!!

 

[Crayons]

oh for sure, i get that! well aware of slash xD i was more confused because people list m// along with m/m, and f// along with f/f, so i got the impression it was two different things? but i guess it's just the same doubled

edit: thank you, though!!

Maybe they want to cover all the bases in case people don't know what they mean. Or they don't know what they mean.

 

[lizzy11206]

I am happy you post this cause I am -coughs- 37 and didnt know some of the new terms either.