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Okay this is just a little something I thought up, though it may possibly be in the wrong section. I thought if anyone has any abbrevations, terms, phrases or unusually spelled words that they relate to the Ace Lightning fandom they could post it here - like a nice little definitions collumn for newbies or anyone who knees to know a manning os some kind. Like a dictionary Feel free to add to the Fictionary.

E.g's. to start us off.

AL: Acronym. Ace Lightning, series and character abbreviation,

SGoD: Acronym for "Super Glove of Doom" Fanon term for the weapon Mark used in series two, probably can't be applied to canon.

Speshul: Delib. Misspelling. A term used to describe a character's unique abilities or powers which bear resembalance to Mary Suesque qulities.

IITS: Acronym for "it's in the script" - somewhat of an avoidant term used to describe moments in canon which seem confusing or errenous in some ways. While we tend to like to think of meta and subtexts to explain events in canon which were implausible or created holes in the plot, the more general reason for these holes is that, basically, the writers couldn't be bothered to fully explain the plotholes and would do so just by saying"it's in the script, that's just the way it is, so go with it."

Cool. I'll add to it, some of these being rather obvious:

Bitchiwitch, Sparklypoo, Tootsietramp, Qanon Reip: Four classifications of Harry Potter Mary-Sues (Pottersues), referring to the angsty/cruel/evol variety, the speshul/sparkly/bubbly variety, the 'just want to get laid' variety (ie. Kat, her purpose being to become Mark's Perfect Girlfriend), and those masquerading under a canon character's name (eg. Sparx is a lost princess with secret powers greater than Kilobyte and Ace's heart).

Evol: Deliberate misspelling of "evil", to reflect a Suethor's spelling.

femslash: romantic relationship between two female characters, eg. Sparx/LI.

KB: Kilobyte.

LI: Lady Illusion.

LF: Either Lord Fear or the fan LightningFlash. Should be obvious from context which one is referred to.

Mary-Sue: Annoying character seizing the spotlight of a story.

non-con: non-consensual sexual relationship.

slash: romantic relationship between two male characters, usually identified by a slash between the names, eg. Kilobyte/Ace.

Sueish: Adjective meaning irritatingly perfect, powered, or attention-stealing.

Suethor: Writer of Mary-Sues.

tentacleporn, tentaclepr0n: tentacles being used for sexual purposes, usually something joked (or sometimes taken seriously) about with Kilobyte.

ALF: Acronym for Ace Lightning Fan, used both in fanon and canonically.

RG: Abbreviation of the name Rotgut - more commonly used for the ALF who goes by the same name than the actual Canon character, (I think that one sort of came about so we could tell him APART from the canon character, even though context should usually make it obvious. His real name is Mark, so we couldn't use that as a back up alternative

H: Abbreviation meaning the fan Hyperpsychomaniac, who has quite a long name.

The Pit, Pit of Voles: Nickname for http://www.fanfiction.net, the home for most of our fanfics.

Acefic: Conjunction I guess. What we call Ace Lightning fan fic, both singular and plural.

OF: Abbreviation for Other Fandom. Normally used to avoid confusion if we pull a quote from another fandom, or in reference to AL anywhere else.

META: can be directly translated as "beyond": a definition for the messages, ideas and theories developed by fans that exist beneath the surface of the show - in other words, including the possible racial arguements, underlying themes and stereotypes, and the personal beliefs of the characters theories on how they might behave and how things COULD be, rather than what's proven as fact

Also defined as: "Something on an abstraction level higher than the current. To go meta means to take a step back and look at the bigger picture - which can be done indefinitely in an arbitrary number of ways."
and

"A prefix used in computer science meaning "relating to" or "based on." For example, a metadirectory would be a directory relating to, or about directories. More simply put, a directory of directories."

which I think also qualify.

Subtexts: The unspeaken thoughts and possible motives of a character. The deeper and usually unexpressed "real" meanings of spoken lines or actions - if the viewer can 'read between the lines'. I.e. Ace;s line to LI in series one "still wanna brag baout your ppower, playmate" can be read deeper into back stories and possible history between the characters. Subtexts are always fun to play with. This fandom alone includes Beastality, Tentaclepr0n and non-con.

Who: White Hot Oblivion, Dimension Two.

Canon: Events which transpired within the cnext of the Ace Ligtning show, from Ep one, series one, "The Game Begins" Canon events have been laid down by the shows writers and producers and were acted out in the actual episode.

Fanon: The theories and ideas laid down by the fans of the show rather than the producers and writers. More accurately it is events which are assumed, often as truth, by the fans of the show, but which have not actually been clearly proven or stated in the show. For example, The idea that Random Virus was an intelligent character invovled with technology, possibly an engineer before his program damage, and possibly also the fanon idea (cerated by Sarah Frost) that Lady Illusion would have the first name "Elspeth", are not actually proven in the show. But the dieas have circulated so much they have become widely accepted as a form of truth and have become Fanon.

RW: Acronym- Real World: The world otuside of fandom which distracts us from the entertainment of fanfics, fandoms and RP on a constant basis.

RP: Acronym- Role Play: Situation in which fans take on the roles of series characters, or their own OC's in a fantasy adventure situation. As defined in a google search: "participants adopt characters, or parts, that have personalities, motivations, and backgrounds different from their own. Role-playing is like being in an improvisational drama or free-form theatre, in which the participants are the actors who are playing parts" The Ace lightning RP community is located here.

PB: Acronym- Plot Bunny/Bunnies: a name given to those niggly little ideas from which stories and fanfics are born. Plot bunnies are those single, niggling ideas for stories - single themees, ideas or "what if's" thast get stuck in your mind and refuse to go away. The term probably originates from a quote by a writer, John Adams: "Ideas are like rabbits - You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and the next thing you know, you've got a dozen."

RL: Real Life, other acronym referring to the thing that keeps us away from the pleasures of fandom. Almost never used to refer to the 'real world' that exists in storyverse (ie. the human world).

PG: Abbreviation for Pigface.

AVL: Abbreviation of Anvil.

Googly: Abbreviation of Googler.

DR: Abbreviation of Dirty Rat.

Rat: Another abbreviation of Dirty Rat.

SH: Abbreviation of Staff Head.

You've got the right idea, RG, but I think, for words to be included in the fictionary, they actually have to be words that we already have in circulation. In other words the Fictionary is a place to put words, terms or abbreviations which we DO use at present, which someone who didn't know our fandom might get confused by, not a place to suggest terms which we MIGHT use at some point in the future. I've never seen any of us use the abbreviations you mentioned before, and we don't normally bother to abbreviate the simple names like Googler and Anvil either. Nice try though.

Here is a new one that I came up with.

Scarab: My word for awesome. I know what you're thinking: What has a beetle got to do with awesome?

That's very sweet of you Rotgut don't think my name belongs in an Ace Lightning Fictionary though.

EO: Acronym for Evil Overlord. The EOs of our fandom are Lord Fear and Kilobyte. LI is sometimes referred to as Evil Overlord's Office Ornament.

See also: The Evil Overlord lists.

HEs: Human Emotions.

DRFN: Acronym - "Do Right and fear Not" - the basic code of the Lightning knight. We have theorised the existence of a much larger and longer version of the code in existence and "Do Right and Fear Not" is just the general ruling. There is a great deal of questioning as to how logical this code is, since only the stupid and the insane people of this world have the incapacity to feel fear. And if the code says "fear not" then it might be sensible to assume Ace has already broken it in his experiences of fear.

It could also be taken to mean "don't allow your fears to get the better of you" rather than feel no fear at all.

There is also the idea abounding that Fear chose his name in deliberate derivation of the code, or the code was based on a pun of his name.

TT - Abbreviation for Thunder Tower, where the Lightning Knight's live. In TV series, it's the Conestoga Hills Observatory, in game verse, Ace's original HQ. Thunder Tower's generally have to have a high supply of electricity, wherever they are.

Upgrades: used in videogames to temporarily or permanently increase the abilities or power capacity of a videogame character. Often used for characters in the Ace Lightning series, particuarly in the second series.

Canon upgrades include:

Flame: An upgrade which gives the Knight’s temporary invulnerability and a shield protecting them against attacks. Utilised by the Lightning Knights.

Flame Rings: An upgrade gained when Ace enters a new levels of the game – gives him the ability to shoot rings of fire energy from his wrist cannons. Utilised by Ace.

Lady Illusions Crystal Ball Upgrade: Lady Illusion recieved a powerup from Kilobyte which incresed the power of her crystal ball explosions, turning them to a fiery orange.

Emotions Upgrade: I'm not certain if this counts as a seperate upgrade, it may just be a part of Lady Illusions Crystal Ball upgrade. This upgrade, given by Kilobyte (and probably not regulation) allows LI to scramble Knights' codes and was the cause of Ace developing human emotions. What the upgrade actually appears to do is scramble the code which controls a characters emotional levels, exposing them to the real world.

Amulet: (Holding the COMPLETED Amulet of Zoar is believed to give an incredible power boost which COULD be counted as an upgrade.)

Non canon/fanon upgraded (mostly contrived in Role-Play) include:

Pulse: A power up which increases the natural energy and electricity created by physical contact under high emotion to dangerous levels. Probably only available to Lightning Knights. A Pulse upgrade is currently utilised by Sparx.

Smoke: An upgrade which gives the ability to turn invisible and pass through objects in the form of as a coloured smoke which materialises every time the upgrade is utilised. Currently utilised (unknown to other character, By Lord Fear, though it was originally intended for use by the Knights.)

Actually, I think the Smoke was originally intended for LI, then modified for Sparx.

My mistake

Is why you have me.

Yes and how am I supposed to remember ever tiny little detail of that albeit incredible roleplay?

The Sixth Dimension: Home of Ace Lightning and the Lightning Knights. The world was created inside of Mark’s copy of the videogame. Fanon theory suggests that it is possibly a real world and fics that are set in the sixth dimension are known as “Gameverse” fics.

Current fanon created worlds within the 6th Dimension that exist in Fanfic/RP

Slough of Despicable Darkness
Magery Square
Electrum City
Electri City
Canary Warp
Mirror Labyrinths
The Good Ol’ West

Canon areas located in the game/TV show inc.

The Haunted House
Googler's Circus

SoJ: Abbreviation for Sparx’s weapon, the Sword of Jacob which fires electric energy (one fanonical theory suggests that the energy of the sword is drawn straight from Sparx’s body.)

NB: Has the Same Abbreviation as SoJ = Sheild of Justice, however, we have no other abbreviation for the sheild.

A couple more, not all strictly Ace-related:

BTW: By The Way

IMO: In My Opinion

IIRC: If I Recall Correctly

6D: Sixth Dimension

Shipping: Short for "relationshipping", generally referring to a romantic relationship between two (or more) canon characters. To 'ship a particular pairing may mean one or more of the following:

1. To be interested in reading about it (ex. interested in reading LI/Fear as darkfic)
2. To believe it is/should be/will be canon (ex. Harry Potter 'shipping wars between Ron/Hermione and Harry/Hermione over which was more canon)
3. To believe the characters look good together (ex. a significant subsection of slash is often put down to this)
4. To believe the characters are good for each other in personality (ex. thinking Ace/LI are great as a functional couple)

Ship: Singular verb form of 'shipping, or else short for "relationship" (ex. "My 'ship of choice is Ace/Sparx").

OTP: One True Pairing, usually used ironically (ex. "My OTPs are Ace/LI, Sparx/LI and Sam/Heather."). The meaning is similar to 'shipping.

OT3: One True Threesome (ex. "Random/Ace/LI is my OT3.")

Adding onto Scarab's Sixth Dimension one, some other locations in the fanon and canon versions:

Fanon Locations
*Glacier Mountains - Snoflake's home and kingdom.
*Generic City - Metropolis where Ace, Sparx and Random originate from.
*Machine Wasteland - Wasteland on outskirts of Generic City, home to outcasts.
*Datastream (My version) - Dimension where everything old is dumped.

Canon Locations
*House of Illusion
*Cowboy Crossroads
*Climbcrag Castle
*Random's junkyard - mentioned by Mark in Download Disaster, anyone remember name?

Gameverse: Codename for fictions taking place in the Sixth Dimension or during in a game-based universe.

Snot Blast: Upgrade recieved by Pigface in Season 2, allows him to fire blasts of snot and drain a character of their energy.

Energy Bleed: Upgrade recieved by Googler in Season 2, allows him to wound a Lightning Knight and make them "bleed" energy until they return to the game.

Orange Blast: Upgrade recieved by Lord Fear in Season 2 finale. Fires a powerful orange blast from Staff Head. Powerful enough to destroy a character.

MP: Nickname for Master Programmer.

D2: Nickname for Dimension Two, home of WHO.

Good *nods* but... have we ever actually used those last two? I can't recall.

"Catastrophe Junkyard", I think.