It's 9:45 PM over here and I don't like to update any of my stories after 9:00, but today, I was like, "eh...screw it!" Aaand here I am!

Thank you for all the awesome support so far - I'm so glad some of you guys are taking pleasure in reading Ahsoka's (my) not-so-funny humor. XD (My friends and family always did say I wasn't the funny one...)

Anyways, just like yesterday, there's some parts in this rant that's a bit...um...T-rated, and you'll see why. :/ I'm sorry - I know I have a few readers who are a lot younger than I am, and I really am trying to respect that. But then again, I suppose the temporary T-rated information will keep you younger readers from reading any more disturbing themes, so...*winces* Ah, well.

Enjoy!


Rant Four. FanFiction Terminology (Part Two!)

"Yes, there are way too many terms in the FanFiction world, and there are actually so many that I had to make a part two." Ahsoka said, slapping her hands to her face. "So sit down, 'cause I'm going to continue with this rant – and you'll need to actually watch FanFiction Terminology (Part One…?) to understand more of this stuff."

Ahsoka leaned against the wall. "Let's get started, shall we? I'm going to move right into one of the most popular kinds of stories in FanFiction – SYOT, which means Submit Your Own Tribute. Yes, tribute – this kind of stuff originated from the Hunger Games fan fictions archive, in which writers are too lazy to come up with twenty-four Original Characters and therefore have other writers come up with an Original Character in the review box." Ahsoka puffed out a breath. "And basically, the Hunger Games begins with twenty-four of those Original Characters and a humongous story is created where slowly, each and every Original Character except one (usually) survives."

She threw up her hands, giving the camera a wide, overenthusiastic smile. "Sounds great, right?" She laughed, waving her hands in the air. "On a more serious note, though – if you like SYOT stories, that's totally fine, though I personally always thought that if there were too many Original Characters running around, readers would be confused. But then again, that's my opinion."

"Over time, many more fandoms used SYOT – naturally, it wasn't for the Hunger Games…I still have no idea what use it is, then, but hey, again, if you think it's fun and cool, go for it!" Ahsoka grinned, flashing a thumbs-up.

"Headcanons – These are really fun to play around with, because like the common practice of shipping, they can be anything, though at one point, it's going to have to make some sense." Ahsoka said. "Basically, a headcanon is something you believe or would like to believe that happened to a character in a certain show/book/game/movie/whatever-your-fandom-is."

"For example – in the Wholock fandom, which consists of a crossover between Sherlock and Doctor Who, people would like to believe that the reason why Sherlock Holmes has so little appreciation in the solar system was because the Doctor showed it to him and never came back, even though he promised Sherlock that he would be a companion." Ahsoka's smile slowly faded off her face and she curled into a small ball, making loud, wailing sounds. "That's not fair!" She screamed.

After a few seconds of sniveling, Anakin glanced around nervously and poked Ahsoka on the arm. "Snips, the video…?" He whispered, confused, pointing at the camera in his hand. Ahsoka lifted her head from her arms, tears rolling down her cheeks. "Oh, right." She said, wiping her hands across her face and she stood up with a brave smile.

"Oh, the magnificent joys of being in a fandom…" Ahsoka said, shaking her head. "But don't worry, my friend – if you have experienced anything like what I have experienced just a few seconds ago, you are a completely normal fangirl. Keep in mind that I didn't say you were a completely normal person, because let's be honest – fangirls aren't normal. In a good way, though!" Ahsoka laughed, flashing another thumbs-up to the camera again.

"Now, moving on to the subgenres of FanFiction, which you'll be seeing in a lot of summary boxes – every once in a while, you're going to be reading stuff like, 'dark!fic' or 'movieverse' or 'death!fic' and et cetera." Ahsoka continued. "And though these subgenres are fairly easy to figure out, I'm going to rant and talk about them just because I can."

"In FanFiction, there's such thing as crossovers, which is basically a story with at least two fandoms combined. For some reason, though, FanFiction doesn't allow you to combine more than two fandoms together, which is, by the way, rather unfair. I mean, what if you want to do a super crossover? The SuperWhoLock crossover is practically fanon!" Ahsoka said, clasping her hands together. "I'm not even kidding – FanFiction should allow writers to make a big crossover story, but eh. I didn't make the rules."

"What was I talking about again?" Ahsoka blinked and threw her hands up in the air. "Oh, right – there's also something known as dark fics in the FanFiction world and I'm going to give it to you right now – those things can range from either really, really depressing to really, really scary within two seconds. I'm not even kidding! It's just torture, angst, all that stuff." She added, wide-eyed. "Once, I read a story in which the protagonist went from a pathetic ball of sadness to a kriffin' serial killer!"

Ahsoka shook her head violently. "Not funny, my friend!" She sighed and continued, "Basically, most dark fics can be rather creepy and it can contain some pretty mature, twisted themes. I would suggest that if you're younger than fourteen years old, avoid that stuff. Or not – you can read all the dark, twisted stuff you want, but…again, losing your innocence to FanFiction isn't quite the way to go. That's your older siblings' jobs. Or your Health teacher's job."

"Just kidding! For any of the Health teachers who might possibly be reading this, I am so sorry – but you know as well as any other student that some lessons should not be allowed to teach with two different genders in the same room." Ahsoka said pointedly. She threw her hands up in the air. "And now, let the SexEd comments begin. But seriously, you know what I mean!"

"Movieverse is pretty easy to understand – let me just break it down for you guys. Let's say you're a mainstream-loving person who doesn't read any books, but instead watches the movie interpretations of that book. You – the FanFiction writer – will probably end up writing about it one point or another." Ahsoka shrugged. "And I'm going to give it straight to you – when you're writing a The Hobbit fan fiction, you're not going to want to write about a short, home-loving hobbit – you're going to want to write about cute, sassy, adorable Martin Freeman, who plays as Bilbo Baggin. No, no, no, don't give me that look of denial – we all know that when you're thinking of The Hobbit, you're either thinking of Martin Freeman or Benedict Cumberbatch or someone else in the movie who is undeniably attractive."

At Anakin's raised eyebrow, Ahsoka rolled her eyes. "But you know what? It's totally cool to write movieverse stories – that's fine! Have fun with it! Experiment! Do whatever! And you know what, some people who actually read The Hobbit might even prefer the movie, anyways." She said enthusiastically, clapping her hands.

"Next up – death fics. Now, this is not to be mixed up with a dark fic, which usually contains sad, depressing things such as death. But death fics are just stories where a character – a major one, most of the time – dies. Forget about the canon – yes, we all know that Leonard McCoy doesn't die in Star Trek : Into Darkness, but you know what? If you want to kill him off in a death fic, then do it! You're allowed to!" Ahsoka said, lifting her hands. "You can kill literally anyone, though major characters are always the ones getting killed."

She paused and then frowned. "Actually, now that I think of it, a lot of FanFiction writers like to write about death – does that mean you guys are all a group of psychopaths…?" She shrugged. "Well, I suppose you're technically already a psychopath if you're a fangirl or a fanboy…"

Ahsoka slapped her hands together. "Anyways – there's also stuff like crack fics, which was inspired by…you guessed it, the drug. Now, there's a difference between a crack fic and a humor fic, though there can be some humor found in a crack fic." She sighed. "A crack fic is when the writer is going completely insane – as in, writing things as though he or she was on either some serious sugar high, or just really was high at the time. Or drunk." Ahsoka shrugged. "Either way, you can assume that the writer wasn't in the right-state-of-mind whilst writing the story. Most of the time, crack fics are just heavy, heavy parodies or exaggerations and though it always gets a good laugh, there are times when the exaggerations can get…out of hand. Very quickly."

"But hey, again, crack fics are fun to read! It's nice to know that you're not the only insane person out there in the world, you know?" Ahsoka asked cheerfully and then she blinked. She pressed her lips together and shook her head. "Funny – those words sounded better in my head…ah, forget what I said, then." She beamed.

"Songfics!" Ahsoka burst that word into a long, melodious tune, though, after receiving a questioning look from Anakin, quickly closed her mouth. She crossed her arms and said, "These fics are actually kind of illegal on FanFiction – yes, I know there's a lot of people who write them, but that doesn't mean it's necessarily allowed."

"However, I'll give a definition, anyways, just for the heck of it – song fics are stories when a writer inserts song lyrics from a particular song that they like. Who knows why they put it there – maybe they were thinking of a pairing, a scenario, whatever. Either way, unless you somehow make a parody of the lyrics, you're gonna get caught at one point and boom, game over. You won't be allowed to write stories for twenty-four (or more) hours on FanFiction." Ahsoka sighed, shaking her head. She lifted her hands. "But again, I didn't make the rules!"

"Squicks!" Ahsoka went on and then shuddered. "Now, squicks aren't usually talked about in certain fandoms, but they are out there, whether you like it or not. These stories usually fall underneath the dark fic category, but it can be considered to be a category all by itself."

She groaned and facepalmed. "Now, how can I put this lightly? Squicks are stories with very…unsettling or sometimes disgusting and not-so-innocent ideas. Multiplied by a hundred."

"Most of the time, squicks have themes like underage sex, and I mean really underage – as in, two twelve year olds having sex." Ahsoka grimaced. "I mean, come on, people – I'm pretty sure most of you guys didn't even really know the proper details of sexat twelve years old and if you did, you either had a very, very naughty, older person in your life, or you accidentally learned about it while reading FanFiction."

She sighed. "Other themes include incest – and for those of you who don't know what that means, it's sharing a sexual relationship with someone who is too closely related to you. No, I don't mean second-removed cousin, (whatever that is,) but I'm talking about brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers…" Ahsoka's voice trailed off and she covered her mouth, feeling sick. She shook her head violently and went on, "See what I mean? Most people in the fandom just don't like those kinds of themes because again, the themes are unsettling and disgusting."

Ahsoka held up her hands. "Now, I know that not all people of fandoms think incest is bad – some people might like it, and I'm not going to hate on incest shippers, but this is a fact – incest isn't always well-liked because of its…squick-y feel."

Ahsoka sighed and clapped her hands together. "Moving on to the last subgenre – whump." She smiled. "Oh, my Force, there's literally whump everywhere in every single fandom. It's impossible to try and escape it."

"Whump is included in any fic about a character being emotionally or physically or mentally tortured and therefore is very, very hurt. Sometimes, it's included in dark fics, but it also goes into hurt/comfort stories, because usually, after a character goes through a whumping stage, there's another character who comforts him/her. And so, friendship fluff begins to blossom." Ahsoka got a dreamy, far-off look on her face and the expression lingered there for a few minutes before she went on, "But sometimes, whump can be down-right sad. I'm not kidding – some writers like to write whump as a signal that the character will later on go into some stage where they're permanently damaged and…"

Ahsoka's voice trailed off and she shook her head sadly. "There are too many writers who like torturing their characters…" She said and crossed her arms, plastering on an over-enthusiastic smile. "But I suppose that's why people like us enjoy it!"

"Aaand that's a wrap! That's the end of the FanFiction Terminology part! Tomorrow, I'm going to be exploring the AU section of FanFiction – hold onto your seats!" Ahsoka grinned and with a wave, yelled, "Bye!"


A/N - As always, this wasn't meant to offend anyone. I know I missed a few genres in the FanFiction site, but I think most of those are self-explanatory. (Hurt/Comfort, Humor, Family, Friendship...) But if you think I should include it, anyways, I'll see if I can write one up. As of now, I'm thinking of simply going on with the AU topic, an OC rant, and...a few more interesting concepts. XD

Review, please! Give constructive criticism but no flames!