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Fandom denotes a sub culture of fans characterized by a communally devoted and empathetic interest in a specific piece of media or human interest and participation in "fannish" activities such as the creation of fanart, fanfiction, and cosplay. Dictionary.com traces the first use of the word back to 1903, when originally it referred to a collective of sports enthusiasts.[1]

Welcome to Hell Fandom[]

Interest in Welcome to Hell mainly concentrates on the Tumblr social networking platform, the host of its official production blog, which boasts 2,636 followers as of October 2013.[2] Created May 7, 2013, Facebook's official Welcome to Hell page enjoys 5,416 "Likes" as of 31 December, 2015 and the occasional update, but unlike the Tumblr blog is less interactive.[3] Fans utilize fan blogs (such as play-by-post role-play blogs and general interest collections, like fyeahwelcometohell) and Tumblr's dynamic tagging system to share fannish activities ("fanac") such as fanfiction, cosplay photography, fanart, online text-based roleplay, fan videos ("fanvids", also "vidding"), crafts, headcanons, tutorials, fan games, and meta discussion. Archive of Our Own hosts a collection of Welcome to Hell fic, the first posted by Stariceling on 1 July, 2013. As of 31 December, 2015, 169 fics are archived there,[4] in contrast to the estimated number of 300 found on Tumblr, as archived by fyeahwelcometohell.

Fans of Welcome to Hell are often referred to as Spookyholes.

Memes[]

Memes are humorous images, videos, pieces of text, etc., that are copied (often with slight variations) and spread rapidly by internet users. Memes are very common amongst the Welcome to Hell fandom.

Mephposting[]

Mephposting is a meme within the Welcome to Hell fandom that involves taking an already notable meme or meme format, and putting Mephistopheles's Face on the image. Sometimes, but not always, the meme text will also be altered to reference part of Welome to Hell canon.

"Ash is Canon Real"[]

"Ash is Canon Real" is a prevelant meme on the w2h: Spookyhole Patrol Discord Server. Catherine Ashleigh "Ash" Combs is a collaborative fan character who gained massive popularity within the first day that she existed, and it became very common amongst her fans to claim that she was cannonically Jonathan's Sister. Saying things along the lines of "Ash is Canon Real" qualify as this meme, and it is not uncommon to happen upon one of these statements.

Shipping[]

Sockathan prom

Sockathan prom art by Erica Wester.

Shipping is the act of supporting or wishing for the development of a romantic or sexual relationship between two or more characters. It is a major component of fandom, especially Tumblr-style fandom. Singularly ship, collectively ships. Shipnames consist of contractions, phrases, and names connected with a forward-slash ('/'), the latter of which results in another word for shipping, "slash". Slash generally connotes homosexual and/or sexually explicit material. (See Shipping on Fanlore.)

Sockathan[]

Sockathan is a contraction of Sock Sowachowski and Jonathan Combs's first names, and denotes a fan's interest in their potential romantic or sexual relationship. It might also be referred to as "Jock", another contraction, or any version of "Sock/Jonathan". It is widely accepted fanon, and even entertained by Welcome to Hell's creator in good fun, but remains out of canon. A good portion of fanac revolves around this ship, nearly half of the fic archived on AO3 tagged as "sockathan" or a synonym[4] and thirty-three out of fifty-one archived fics on the Tumblr masterlist are marked as "sockathan".[5]

Lilathan, Jonlil[]

Lilathan, or occasionally Jonlil or variations of "Jonathan/Lil", is the shipname for Jonathan Combs and Magill Nancy (Lil). It is implied to lie vaguely within canon, but since Lil's character has yet to appear in the source material their relationship currently lies completely within Word of God.[6]

Proveles[]

Proveles is a combination of Mephistopheles and Providence's names, and could also be represented as "Providence/Mephistopheles". As with the case of Lilathan, since Providence is not yet released her relationship with Mephistopheles is Word of God.[7]

Tompheles[]

Tompheles (sometimes Mephistompheles or even Mom) is a portmanteau of Tom and Mephistopheles's names. It is a popular but seemingly underrepresented ship within the fandom, mostly played as a joke. Given that Tom has only a cameo appearance in the Comic, and no other representation at present, it is unknown if this ship could have any canon grounding whatsoever.

Zackathan[]

Zackathan is the ship name for Jonathan and Zack Melto. The basis of this ship is on the headcanon of colorist Hannah Melto that Zack has a secret crush on Jonathan.

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