Once Upon a Time glossary – fanspeak, acronyms…

[Daniel J. Lewis]

UPDATE: this has been rescheduled to June.

I’m really limited on what I can do with the current software running our forums. I’ll be switching it to a different system, which will integrate much better with the rest of our website.

Expect this change to start around the middle of June and it will result in forum downtime. I’m fairly confident this won’t mean forcing new accounts or losing old posts.

Making this change will allow me to do many new things in our forums:

• Tight integration with the rest of ONCEpodcast.com—if I change something on the site, it will show in the forums (it’s a manual process now)
• Easier capability for a forum chat box or “water cooler” for anyone to hang out and chat
• Smart features like automatic YouTube video embeds
• Mobile-friendly design and flexibility
• A whole lot easier to enhance the design
• Cleaner interface

I’ll wait mid-June to implement this, and it will mean the forums will be unusable while I make the transition.

The rest of the site (blog and podcast) will continue functioning normally during the transition.

[RumplesGirl]

Some new ones!

OUATinWL: Once Upon a time in Wonderland, the new series

I think sometimes people new to internet lingo don’t know this one

Ship (as a noun): the pairing of two individuals in a relationship (Snowing, Rumbelle, CaptainSwan, SwanFire)

Ship(as a verb): For example “I ship Rumbelle.” In other words, the ship (as a noun) you support.

These aren’t acronyms, but we use them quite a lot around here

Onciverse/Onceivere: The OUAT universe, the entire conceptual world of the show and the mythology in it.

Canon: a highly contentious term. In general you can interchange it with “established as law or as truth.” It means that OUAT has said “this is true to our show, it will not be changed on the show.” Snowing is canon: Snow and Charming are True Love and that’s not going to suddenly change. Often times it is thrown around before it is shown on the show (shipping wars, for example). Until A and E and show actually show it to us, it’s not canon.

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

[cssandiego]

Does SpoonQueen still exist?

[sacrlc]

While I’m reading, I’m finding CS a lot. It’s driving me crazy – what is “CS”?

Don't grow up. It's a trap.

[RumplesGirl]

CS = CaptainSwan (the paring of Hook and Emma)

SF = SwanFire (the pairing of Emma and Nealfire)

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

[obisgirl]

OUATinWL = Once Upon a Time in Wonderland

[karinca]

This is awesome! Thanks all! Keep updating!!

[obisgirl]

There should be a master post for all the short cut names since the thread is starting to get long.

[RumplesGirl]

@obisgirl wrote:

There should be a master post for all the short cut names since the thread is starting to get long.

I was thinking the saaaaaaaame thing. Maybe Daniel can do something about that.

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

[obisgirl]

myril started the thread. but I haven’t seen her post here in awhile.

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