Talk:Bitter Old Fanfic Queen

I'd seen this as "Bitter Old Fandom Queen" though its clearly the subordinate term; will make a redirect. --Speranza 23:27, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Granted, I've only been around for two years, but I've never seen Fanfic Queen. Also, Fandom Queen seems more encompassing. Is Fanfic Queen really the more dominant term? (I'm curious about others' experience, and it would be good to note in the article if the acronym's meaning has drifted.) --ainsley 23:46, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

I've seen both "Bitter Old Fandom Queen" and "Bitter Old Fandom Hag," never "Fanfic," and never or rarely as an acronym. --Ari 23:50, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

The use of "Fanfic" was coined back in the late 90s on a newsgroup (where fanfic was the biggest currency), as I mentioned, in XF. I know I've seen "BOFQ" acronymized in icons on LJ, and used to use it that way myself in the early 00s. Groups preserves some of this, but quite a bit of the rest was on private lists which I'll have to track down.--Vee 00:21, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

On Google, "Bitter old fandom queen" gets 9 hits. "Bitter old fanfic queen" gets 22, and "Bitter old fic queen" gets 29. -- Liviapenn 01:35, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

And that's low, based on my memory of how often the term was kicked around. Unfortunately, that was about the time when people on ATXC discovered how to delete their posts from Google/Deja, and use x-no-archive to prevent their posts from being archived so the history becomes far more incomplete. I added a link to the essay which kind of formalized the term.--Deirdre 15:05, 26 October 2008 (UTC)