Fannish Content OMG

[commodorified]

1) I recall a couple of years back there were some efforts to find a good replacement for "pimping" a fandom, that never really went anywhere because nothing really good turned up.

Now that All The Feels is a thing, may I suggest referring to the process of enticing someone into your fandom be referred to as Putting Out Feelers?

Being enticed could be referred to as Copping A Feel: "Eh, I wasn't really into Avengers and then Cat did that great picspam and I think I accidentally Copped a Feel".

2) I submit for the convenience of the Internetz two acronyms:

CSCT: Can Spell Can't Type. Useful for that little Reason For Edit box.

RTYI/RTMI: Relevant To Your/My Interests. A common and useful phrase which takes a while to type, especially on a smartphone keypad.

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[recessional]

Noting that while I like "putting out feelers" (although really, I think "promoting" works fine), I am made uneasy by "copping a feel", almost as much so as with "pimping". I think in both cases it may be because it's sexualizing something that I don't really want to be, and integrating touch in there as well. (I'll spare you the long boring reasons that may contribute to my discomfort with sexualizing non-sexual [for me] things, as I don't think they really add much to the conversation.)

Those acronyms are super useful, tho. Especially RTYI/RTMI.