Clinking

The practice of web-browsing for information or pleasure by clicking a link on one page and then again on the page that opens, usually drifting from topic to topic as takes the reader's interest. While the term clinking is used commonly to refer to all web browsing, it is used more frequently in regards to browsing Wikipedia.

Also known less commonly as 'Playing six degrees of separation'.

An amalgamation of the words clicking and link.

"I was clinking my way through Wikipedia last night. I looked up 'Unions' for school then clinked my way through metal workers, train track making and ended up on this page about a guy who actually survived a steel rod into his brain."

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Clinked

The practice of web browsing for information or pleasure by clicking a link on one page and then again on the page that opens, usually drifting from topic to topic as takes the reader's interest. While the term clinking is used commonly to refer to all web browsing, it is used more frequently in regards to browsing Wikipedia.

Also known less commonly as 'Playing six degrees of separation'.

An amalgamation of the words click and link.

She clinked from a site about paintings to a site about colour schemes then to a site about makeup.

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AMTDI

An abbreviation of the words 'Aliens Made Them Do It'. Used in FanFic it is a term used to describe a story in which aliens somehow encourage or force the pairing of the story to have sex.

It is also used to lessen, justify or explain a NonCon or Dubious Consent warning.

It is used primarily in Science Fiction related FanFic such as SGA and StarTrek Fandoms. It is often a parody or Cliche fic.

1) This story is an AMTDI, McShep, where aliens give them aphrodisiacs.

2) This story is an AMTDI NonCon where aliens force Rodney and Teyla to have sex together.

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Fandoms

Plural Term of the word Fandom, refering to a community or group of fans of a television show, movie, book or other media. Most commonly used to describe fan produced media groups, such as fanfiction or fanvids.

Fans usually use the term in relation to belonging to a fan group, as an territorial identifier from one community to the next, ie: "I've come across the term whumping in the SGA fandom, but we don't use that term often in the Buffy fandom."

I wrote this fic for the Buffy Fandom: This is a Smallville Fandom Vid: The buffy and HP fandoms are more popular then others.

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Jossed

A term initially from Buffy The Vampire Slayer Fanfiction, the term 'Jossed' is now used in many fandoms as a description of when a fanfiction writer's explanation of a certain event or exploration of a characters' motivations which previously is ambiguous, is then explained by the actual fandom, and contradicts the fanfiction writers story.

The term is derived from the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Joss Whedon. The term is most prevalent in the science fiction genre.

It is used most commonly when authors are led to believe that a certain event may happen later in a Television series or book and write a story with that event in it, then the official author goes in a different direction, making their story 'AU', Alternate Universe.

This story about Buffy living in Los Angeles got Jossed when Buffy returned to Sunnydale. Now it's AU.

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