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fiction lag

The temporary change in personality that occurs after being deeply involved with a movie, book, game, or some other work of fiction.

Can also be expanded to nonfiction ("documentary lag" or some other variant), but is less common because those works are typically experienced through the frame of the reader/player/watcher's default personality.
CHRIS: Don't think. Don't hesitate. Just say it.

ASHLEY: Why are you talking like that?

CHRIS: What?

ASHLEY: You sound like a movie trailer. Is this because you just finished watching Fight Club?

CHRIS: Uhh... yeah I guess I'm a little fiction lagged.
by PaleBlueYacht March 6, 2011
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Peak Fiction

What Morbius is
Bro have you seen peak fiction

Of course and I loved when he said I gonna MORB
by yomomfat June 17, 2022
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fictionous

A fictitious word made up by people who don't know words like fictional and fictitious. The people making it up are probably fictional too.
There's no such word, so there's no valid example.
by Downstrike October 7, 2004
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science fiction

Science Fiction is an adventure, mystery, drama (heck, any genere) that has some basis in a scientific fact or wild theory (faster that light space travel is a great example). The level of research, or reality towards the science determines what kind of science fiction it is. For example, Star Wars uses a few facts (or crazy theories if you prefer), such as the idea of FTL travel through "hyperspace"; but since it's all pretty improbable, star wars type stuff is considered "space opera". Just unplug your analytical mind and watch the pretty lightsabers.

If the science is sound and well-researched, like some of Ben Bova's (one example, there are many other authors) writing, than it's considered "hard" science fiction and calls on a broad knowledge base of popular science. Knowing a little bit about the physics or chemistry (or history sometimes) helps you appreciate and enjoy this kind of science fiction.
Star Wars, Star Trek, Battlefield Earth (the book) = "light" science fiction, space opera

Robert Heinlein's future history (Methuselah's Children), Ben Bova's Jupiter, or Asteroid Wars, Frank Herbert's Dune (a little fantastical, but the ecological background is neat)
= "hard" sci-fi
by Possum King July 21, 2008
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peak fiction

“Do you know the manga Vagabond?”
“Yes, that’s peak fiction
by bobthegoated May 16, 2022
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pulp fiction

You say what one more time. Go ahead, say it!

Don't snort heroin up your nose
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pulp fiction

a movie that u haven't officially lived until you've seen it. what i love about it, is how it can go from being very calm to people gettin shot and shit.
what country are u from?

what?

what aint no country i ever heard of.. do they speak english in what?

what?

english mother fucker do u speak it!

~one of the best scenes
by bad ass mother fucker August 12, 2004
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