The Fandom Lexicon: Appendix 1

Since early 2024, we’ve posted our main Fandom Lexicon a letter or three at a time, creating a resource with over 500 entries defining or explaining fandom terminology, common abbreviation, meme references at more. The main Lexicon is done – though we continue to add to the version on our website regularly! – and now we’re beginning to roll out some secondary resources!

The first appendix to the Fandom Lexicon focuses on abbreviations (and a handful of terms) used to refer to specific fandoms or used within specific fandoms. This list is primarily a resource for understanding the alphabet soup that is looking at people’s posts about fandoms – this one is tagged #mdzs, that one is tagged #dhmis, this other one is tagged #tma, and for people who aren’t familiar with fandom or aren’t in the fandom(s) being referred to, understanding these abbreviations can be heckin’ hard!

There are surely thousands of abbreviations used to refer to specific fandoms; any attempt at creating an exhaustive list would be futile. However, we’re giving it a go with this core list, which includes over 200 abbreviations common, uncommon, and rare, based on our Duck Prints Press contributors knowledge and fandom experiences.

Know some acronyms we missed? Notice a mistake? Let us know!

This list is far too long to put into a single blog post, so – embedded link! You can view the abbreviation appendix by visiting this link.