Odds are, you probably know what these things are already. When I was a beginning otaku, though, I didn't know any terms or anything. (you would not believe the number of fans who write fanfiction and say that they've written their "own episode".)
Once you get to a certain level of fandom, you start to want more than just whatever's in the series. You start thinking about pairings and what-ifs, and come up with alternate plotlines and episodes/chapters. Or maybe you just want to draw a really cool scene from your favorite anime. Or there's a good song on the radio, and it would be the perfect theme for your favorite character!
Well, you're in luck, because there's thousands of otaku who think the way you do. Fanart, as the name implies, is art drawn by fans. Fanart can be found on a variety of websites, including The Otakue, but my personal favorite place to look for art is DeviantArt. There's even such a thing as fan-comics, called doujinshis. The great manga-ka group CLAMP got their start as doujinshi authors. (In Japan, fan comics can even have their own magazines) A long doujinshi is usually made by multiple people, but there are some who make 1-page comics. Many nice artists on Devart will even take requests.
Fanfiction, as the name also suggests, is fiction written by fans. Bsically, you write whatever you want about whatever you want. The best place is probably fanfiction.net. When I was a newbie otaku, I didn't know what any fanfiction terms meant, so I'll post them for anyone else who doesn't know. (some terms are also linked to wikipedia for a more exact definition.)
One-shot: This one is so obvious once you know, but when I started reading fanfiction, I had no idea what it meant. ^_^;; It just means that a story is only one chapter long.
Shonen-ai: "shonen" means boy, and "ai" means love. ...I think you can figure it out... Very popular with girls. (Not me, though.)
Shojo-ai: "shojo" means girl, "ai" means love...
Yaoi: Graphic shonen-ai (though some writers simply use "yaoi" instead of shonen-ai, so it winds up not being graphic. Go by the ratings for this one.)
Yuri: Graphic shojo-ai
Lemon: BEWARE OF LEMONS. They're supposed to be rated 18+, but sometimes the author forgets... (I read a fic rated T that had a lemon in it, and I flamed the author. First and only time I've flamed.)
Lime: Almost a lemon. Second or third base. Should be rated 18+ too, or at the very least, older teen 16+.
Het: short for "heterosexual". Straight couples.
Slash: Gay couples.
AU: Alternate Universe. (example: I read a Rurouni Kenshin fic where the characters were at a modern Japanese high school.)
Deathfic: This one's kinda obvious. Someone (usually important) dies.
Songfic: Basically, you take a song, and put a story to it. A common way of doing this is to post some lyrics, write the part of the fic that correspionds to thoose lyrics, and repeat. Songfics are not allowed on fanfiction.net, but if you put the lyrics in, then they can't say anything.
Drabble: Very short fanfiction. (As short as 100 words!)
Flame: Really really bad reivew in which the reviewer does nothing but senselessly yell at the author. (example: UR FIC SUCXX!!1!) Usually written by stupid people. (I will say one thing in my defense, my flame was at least spelled correctly.)
Concrit: Constructive criticism
EDIT: Found a page on wikipedia with a huge list of fanfic terms! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_fiction_terminology
AMVs
AMV stands for anime music videos. They have these for stuff that isn't anime, too, but to be honest, I don't know what they call those ones. ^_^; You take clips from your anime, and match them to a song. That's it. animemusicvideos.org, or just search youtube, dailymotion, veoh, etc.
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