Anonymous asked: I just really hate the word "fandom". It's just a portmanteau of "fan" and "random". It sounds like some desperate attempt to be quirky and different. Plus, the word "fanbase" already exists.

madmaudlingoes:

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idk, i thought it was fan + kingdom, or fanatic + domain??

but yeah, it is a bit weird how we have ‘fandom’ when ‘fanbase’ already existed? but that’s language for you, always changing all the time

Actually, Anon, fandom is significantly older than fan base or fanbase; the OED gives the first known citation of fandom meaning “the community of fans of a thing” from 1903, while their first entry for fan base isn’t until the 1970s. If you compare the frequencies of the two terms in Google Ngram Viewer, you’ll see that fandom has historically been far more frequent, with fan base running a distant second (and the closed form fanbase an even more distant third).

The OED also rejects your portmanteau hypothesis, though I suppose sportswriters from the 1900s might’ve been trying to be quirky and different when they coined fandom from the productive derivational suffix -dom, which the OED also gives copies examples of throughout the 1800s (including BA-dom, old fogey-dom, blizzard-dom and theater-dom.

Respect the fandom, guys. It’s older than Steve Rogers. 

june-rambles:

silly sq textposts :)

19/?

mooncafex:

kropotkindersurprise:

January 1, 2025 - A stray dog in Petea receives applause for being the first to cross the newly visa-free border between Hungary and Romania, as Romania joins the Schengen area.

i come bearing great news: he was adopted!! his name is copăcel which is a romanian diminutive for tree so in english it would translate to “little tree”

fluorescentbrains:

me reading straight up pornography: hmm… this one just doesn’t have enough accurate character psychoanalysis to get me off

technoturian:

ALT

ALT

Inspired by this post.

robertreich:

Masked government agents are killing people in the streets, abducting people from their homes in the middle of the night, and arresting those who speak out. If this were happening in another country, what would you call it? [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

madlori:

faunlord:

The thing that really sucks but everyone is too scared to talk about is that fumbling to plug your phone charger in doesn’t even scratch your phone

i’m sorry but the phone charger bit will never be old to me

luminouspica:

kaity–did:

honeysbunchesofoats:

kaity–did:

shadowgremlin:

My wife’s idea of decompressing after the busy holiday was to rearrange every piece of furniture in our home is this an ADHD thing or just a her thing

I’m not complaining the way she’s done it is much better than it was it’s just like how is this your idea of a relaxing weekend

Listen I don’t get to decide when the drunk elf that is my executive actually does the functioning but when he does we have a SMALL WINDOW OF TIME before he finds the schnapps again and we’re done

yes this exactly

So to me, there are spoons (general energy cost) and carnival tickets (specific energy cost).

Spoons can be used pretty much anywhere.

Carnival tickets are only good for the carnival, and it’s only in town for a limited amount of time.

So like, if I get “kitchen cleaning” carnival tickets, I can’t use that to clean my bedroom, that’s not where the carnival is.

heymacy:

willyoucometomycottagethissummer?

don’t
go to
russia

come to my HOUSE
we’ll have so much FUN

🤫private🤫 👀know👀
it’s so no one will

we could have a week, or even 2️⃣

we’d be completely alone…
✨TOGETHER✨

shadowhunterandwizard:

Y’all I’m screaming