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Unshelved continues to be made of awesome AND of fannishness!

The whole "Dewey gives Tamara a Jayne hat & hilarity ensues" story, so far:

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(Is it true that a group of Browncoats are now called "a closet"? Is anyone still keeping up w/ that fandom and knows? skripka, dirty_diana and ana_grrl, I'm looking at you.)

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It's raining, which I love, and I just escalated my PayPal dispute to a claim, which I do not love. PayPal emailed me a notice to acknowledge my claim, which says things like "you may be asked to provide a letter from an excerpt asserting the inferior quality of the product you received." WTF? Who do I ask for an expert opinion on faulty Chinese bootlegs?

you tolerate me, you really tolerate me

My Summer of Giles entry, A Choice of Several Deaths (fic, Giles/Ethan, NC-17), has been nominated for three Bodice Ripper awards!

I've never been nominated for any fanwork before! This is awesome!

Voting isn't open yet, but I will absolutely proclaim it to one and all when it is.

ETA: In my moment of flabbergast, I forgot to say thank you to whoever nominated me. Consider yourself thanked! I'm honoured.

Fannish Collective Nouns

I should be at a housewarming party, but my tummy is acting up. So. At home, seriously lacking ice-cream, and thinking about UnShelved's assertion that a group of Browncoats is called "a closet."

I'm skeptical, but I like the idea of fannish collective nouns. So I poked around, and have discovered the following:

Dr. Who fans are sometimes referred to as "a good of Whovians," although googlism also tells me that "rassilon is what you call a collected group of whovians who gather once a month for pizza." (What if they're gathering for sushi? Do you call them something else then?)

Your online reading (well, mine, anyway) is "a vanity of blogs."

The unofficial name for a group of editors is "a scrutiny."

There's a dearth here! Admittedly, I gave up googling after half an hour, so there are probably lots of fan-identified terms that I don't know about. However, since I don't know about them/can't find them, I am hereby suggesting the following coinage:

A Bender of Fen

A Trap of Flans

A Beam of Trekkies

A Determination of Whedonites

Why yes, I do think myself very clever. :-) But I also think you very clever, o my flist. So. What terms do you suggest? What exists that I didn't find? What are Stargate: Atlantis fans called? And are Buffy/Angel fans "an armful of bangels"?