Oil study to kick off 2026!
Aragorn's Hands.
#slutty lil hands on hips pose
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.
Anonymous
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.
the types of leverage episodes
- wow, check out this fucked up thing that's legal in the us
- a character needs an arc, so this is about them and their stuggles (and also this fucked up thing that's legal in the us)
i was supposed to be cool and mysterious like sherlock holmes but instead I can't stop yapping about anything and everything that interests me in the slightest. like sherlock holmes
"Within you will be everything I am. All the knowledge I possess..."
I love their married energy lol
Maya Hawke as Robin Buckley
Stranger things, S05E01
It's crazy how John Crichton / Aeryn Sun is like the slowest slow burn ship ever despite the fact that they literally get together in the first season