occasionally might make text posts about what's on my mind; don't really care if they get replies or not but if they're public then feel free to respond to them
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.
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.
So, seeing as the OED does not provide free access to its sources, I looked this up. According to various webpages, included this one, ‘fandom’ was used in 1903 by the Cincinnati Enquirer to refer to baseball fans.
Thus not only do we have an early example of a word that combines ‘fanatic’ with ’-dom’ as in ‘kingdom’, we also have a useful reminder that when it comes to excessively liking things to the point of it being its own subculture, people who are into sports have the rest of us beat by several orders of magnitude.
niche trope I enjoy: person recounting a story of something terrible they did and the way they describe it makes it sound like an active decision where they were completely in control and knew what they were doing and enjoyed it, but if you look at the bare bones facts, it’s like. are you sure about that? are you sure you didn’t just panic and lash out and do something irreparable? are you sure that’s what you wanted and you aren’t just retroactively assigning yourself agency to cope? but you as the audience can’t really know the answer to that, because the storyteller is the only one who was there and this is how they’re choosing to preserve it, and that matters for how they want to be perceived going forward… but you do still wonder.
People in the Omegaverse are probably writing Betaverse fanfiction where there is no A/B/O dynamics and everyone just falls in love with eachother’s personality instead of pheromones and hormones controlling their desires.
People on omegaverse!tumblr complaining about fic writers reproducing normative alpha/omega social dynamics in non-A/B/O ships.
[Poster 1] Why bother to invent an entire alternative biology if you’re just going to be like, “That one’s the omega in the relationship uwu <3” come on you guys.
[Poster 2] Omegas have the right to explore their sexuality in a setting that’s removed from their IRL oppression! It’s just horny fic, leave them alone.
[Poster 1)] “Omegas have the right to explore their sexuality” so omega sexuality is inherently submissive, is that what you’re saying OP? “Of course omegas like fic with omega-coded characters performing omega-coded roles, it’s just natural for them” fuck oooooofffff.
[Poster 3] Also mean bossy omegas are hot
[Poster 1] THERE IS NO OMEGA THERE IS NO ALPHA THATS THE POINT WHY ARE YOU PEOPLE EVEN HERE??
[Poster 4 deactivated] We should be writing omega characters with depth and agency, not finding more ways to erase omegas. It’s just misomegy, that’s all it is. Some of y'all just think slick is gross and it shows.
[Poster 5] As an omega who finds all sex pretty gross IRL, I just want to escape to a world where I could have a meaningful, intimate relationship with someone who likes me for who I am, not how I fucking smell. And honestly I think NOT turning into a miserable, mindless puddle of slime every time my hormones spike is a pretty reasonable fantasy to have.
[Poster 4 deactivated] @[poster 5] You should work on that internalized misomegy, sweetie.
[Poster 5] @[poster 4 deactivated] Call me sweetie again. Do it. I will come into your house and put a dead fish in every one of your shoes.
[Poster 6] Some days I forget that [poster 4 deactivated] was arrested for embezzling almost a hundred thousand dollars from an animal rights organization. Like that was a thing that happened.
TO ANYONE WHO USES DISCORD- FOUR AI SCRAPING BOTS HAVE BEEN SECRETLY ADDED TO YOUR SERVERS WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT
Saw this going around and tested it myself, and I can confirm that this is unfortunately legit. Four hidden bots have been placed in any existing or newly created Discord server that are harvesting data, images, and most concerningly, one seems to be a face swap bot.
Due to them being invisible, banning them from your servers isn’t possible without their ID’s, which I’ve typed out for easy access.
Banning is done with the /ban command with each string pasted in one at a time. Four ban commands in total.
Image proof below and further information. This was in my PERSONAL server that has existed for +5 years. Discord is harvesting your shit without your consent, fight back.
Hey so in case you’re like me and wondered: Can you ban members without them being in the server?
The answer is yes, you absolutely can! It’ll look like this - the numbers you paste will be what’s “banned”
However my sibling tried this in her servers and found that One of them was NOT a string of numbers, like so:
And for clarity it isn’t a difference in user or device, this is what she got elsewhere:
So if you ban these numbers and the message shows the actual username? Pretty sure that means they were in there.
Very unpleasant way to check the veracity of this post but hopefully this is a helpful tip for anyone who was concerned - my sib would have No Reason to add these in herself and didn’t have any clue it was in there.
Personally, I’d say even if you are still worried about misinfo/fearmongering/etc from this post, think of it this way - worst case scenario is you’re banning a bot you’ll never use or need. Not a person, a bot. There’s no real damage done playing it safe and running the ban commands through, aside from maybe losing some time doing so.
Best of luck everyone.
Wishing I’d seen this more quickly - Had to take these things out of a lot of creative spaces just now. I’m not convinced that the username only shows up if they were in there, but I do think it’s better safe than sorry, especially when peoples’ art is involved.
My boyfriend, again blending together fanfiction tropes: So what if when you finally find your soulmate, that’s when you discover if you’re alpha or omega, right?
Me, hands shaking as I frantically search for pen & paper: KEEP TALKING
Me: Seems hellish
Boyfriend: So does being an ant person
Me: Again, baby, they’re not ants
Boyfriend: YES THEY ARE. They communicate via pheromones— LIKE ANTS.
Me: So back to the soulmate thing….
Boyfriend: You could trick them into following orders and thinking they’re dead by spraying them with a spritz bottle. I think they need a queen.
Me: So back to the soulmate thing…. Seems hellish!
Boyfriend: Not really. If being around the other person is what triggers the changes, if you want to go back to normal… all you need to do is leave.
Me, writing: (You found your soulmate. It’s changing you in scary ways. All you need to do is leave… how difficult would it be to leave? What pressures exist to stay?)
“no one’s ever mad at me unless they tell me so” is the best assumption i’ve ever made
sorry for tagwatching but you still have to act like they aren’t mad at you imo! bc it’s the mad person’s duty to make it known if they want anything changed. it is never anyone’s duty to be a mind reader.
If I am mad at someone and am remaining Quiet about it, it is because I Do Not Wantthem to know that I’m mad.
Please respect my boundaries and assume that I am Not mad.
If you’re worried that I am mad, consider the possibility that I am mad for reasons I know are stupid and do not want to make it your problem.
Ohhh that last addition opens my eyes in a big way, thank you.
the maquis part one is the second instance of dukat meeting someone by positioning himself in a dark room and waiting for them to come in. he comes in sisko’s quarters after sneaking to the station through the cargo bay, like a creep. his and odo’s first meeting also is like this when he sits his ass down in the dark room (next to a corpse on the floor) and has his goons lead odo to him. he is so LAME. imagine him in a dark completely dark room readjusting his position. hmm little to the left. hmm little like… yesss let me lean a little. alright. wow i am being so cool right now
ALT