Fannish Collective Nouns

[merrily]

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"?

Comments

[valiant.livejournal.com]

A Bender of Fen

LAKJGSODGIADOGJDGJDGDSG OH MY GOD, THAT IS HILARIOUS.

[merrilily.livejournal.com]

Thanks! *tries to be modest, fails* I thought I was pretty awesome for thinking that up.

[beadattitude.livejournal.com]

I love the last two, and um, don't get the first two. Also, "an armful of bangles," is teh awesome.

Uh, all I've come up with for buffyverse 'ships is "a springer of spangels" (Spike/Angel)

a mystery of Atlantians?
a 'jumper of Atlantians?

a deceit of Genii
a misconception of Asurians

Gonna have to keep working on that.

[merrilily.livejournal.com]

Nathan Fillion once said how much he loves his fans, except he added an extra 'l' in there and so it came out "I love my flans." Since Fillionaires think everything that passes through his lips is awesome, they then christened themselves flans. In one of the Serenity outtakes, he barks "TRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP". So. A collective noun that's made up of two silly in-jokes.

'Fen,' apparently, is the plural of fans. And since one can cause a fender bender, and since fandom is often like going on a bender, it seemed appropriate. :-)

"A Deceit of Genii" is awesome!