| 3S |
Third season |
| all season |
A fan who enjoys both classic and 3S content |
| alternative beginning |
A story which invents a new way for Catherine and Vincent to meet (and which ordinarily avoids Catherine's run-in with the thugs who were really looking for Carol) |
| alternative universe |
A story which takes Vincent, and often Catherine, and plunks them down somewhere (and/or somewhen) else to make a new Once upon a time but NOT in the city of New York |
| BBRC |
Beauty and the Beast Reading Chamber; see web sites |
| CABB |
Classic Alliance of Beauty and the Beast; see web sites |
| canon |
The story as it was depicted in the episodes |
| classic |
Stories that take place in the first 2 seasons; a fan who prefers that segment of BATB |
| con |
short for convention; there's an annual BATB con in the US, but they take place in other countries too sometimes; you may also hear the terms minicon or microcon to refer to smaller, less formal gatherings of BATB fans. |
| continuing
classic |
Stories that continue beyond the first 2 seasons as if 3S never happened |
| crossover |
A story which has Vincent and Catherine meeting characters from another show |
| fanon |
Fan canon; an idea so often written in fanfic that it almost seems like canon |
| first time stories |
A story detailing Vincent and Catherine's first romantic encounter |
| Mary Sue |
A story where a primary character represents the author. (These are often looked down upon in B&B fandom, incidentally.) |
| OLAH |
Of Love and Hope, the BATB cd of music and poetry |
| OP |
obsessive pathetic; term coined by Cathy Moran to describe some of the slightly unusual behaviors of B&B fans (for example, collecting all manner of lions, watching/collecting all of Ron Perlman's movies, even the awful ones, or purchasing 3 copies of each DVD set and yet still being unable to throw away your old VHS episodes taped from TV more than 20 years ago |
| SND |
She's Not Dead; a story which explains away the events in Though Lovers Be Lost and 3S or which works with those events to explain how Catherine is still alive |
| TPTB |
The Powers That Be; may refer to the producers of B&B, the execs at CBS, or now those at Paramount who released the DVDs |
| TST |
The Steam Tunnels, a web site with adult BATB stories and art |
| zine |
short for fanzine (pronounced zeen, like the end of magazine); a printed edition of fan-written stories (also called fan fiction, fanfic or just fic) and fan-created art |
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