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. 

If I ever have sex instead of saying I’m gonna cum I’m gonna say “I feel like something intriguing is about to happen”

*This poll was submitted to us and we simply posted it so people could vote and discuss their opinions on the matter. If you’d like for us to ask the internet a question for you, feel free to drop the poll of your choice in our inbox and we’ll post them anonymously (for more info, please check our pinned post).

my pet theory is that there is a fairly significant percentage of people with brains primed for analysis of one kind or another but who lack the necessary framework to do so in a productive and meaningful way. maybe they grew up in an area with little educational opportunities or struggled in the conventional modern school system. no shame in any of that since no one is born with an innate understanding of ontology and epistemology but it does mean that a lot of people are the equivalent of an understimulated border collie in a studio apartment, brainpower-wise. and sometimes you see someone neck deep in meaningless internet discourse and it’s like please pick up a philosophy textbook you will love it i promise

he was cooking here

that is a BEAUTIFUL picture of bessie

"At least trans men can get pregnant if they want to!"

Okay, but you know that the majority of us don't want to have that ability in the first place, right?

You know that for most of us, being pregnant would be a dysphoric hell brought to life, right?

You know that we have to partially detransition the entire time we're pregnant, right?

You know that transmisics use that fact against us and get us pregnant against our will to forcibly detransition us, right?

It's like telling a trans woman "Oh, at least you don't ever have to worry about pregnancy scares for yourself!"

Like sure, a few are grateful for it. But that's not the majority, and the reminder in and of itself can be incredibly dysphoric.

I bring sort of a 'peasants of the past were not as debased,uneducated and dirty as a lot of pesudo-medieval fiction makes them out to be but this new wave of attempting to sweep the very real indentured servitude, corporal ownership, poverty and lack of basic human rights under the rug isn't achieving what you think it's achieving' vibe to the party that people don't really like

i promise the map of salamander diversity is not what you expect

Appalachia numero uno salamander capital of the world baby <3 there are like 70 something species in North Carolina alone

Basically its cause they evolved here!

The U.S. states of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama also have the most biodiverse freshwater ecosystems in the world.

The Appalachian Mountains are notable for having the world's greatest diversity of tree species in a temperate forest, with over 100 species of tree that make up the forest. They're also a global hotspot of lichen biodiversity.

Fun fact, dozens of genera of plants only have 2 species in them, one found in Appalachia and one found in SE Asia. These are called vicariad species pairs. Eastern Asia and Appalachia has very similar climates, that's why all the major Appalachian invasive species, such as Kudzu, are from eastern Asia

The SE United States has some of the nation's most biodiverse ecosystems but they are also some of the least protected.

academic dishonesty is not something you can spin as moral lol i do not want to share a career field let alone a social sphere with a bunch of chatgpt using ass bitches

"you're just scared your diploma is going to devalue" i'm afraid you dumb bitches are going to become my colleagues and drag social services to hell

I'm afraid they'll become scientists and data that lives depend on will turn out to be wrong - and people will die.

I'm afraid they'll become engineers and sign off on bridge designs that collapse - and people will die.

I'm afraid they'll become medical professionals who don't know what they're doing - and people will die.

The assumption that academic dishonesty is okay is rooted in the idea that what you're learning to do doesn't matter.

"The assumption that academic dishonesty is okay is rooted in the idea that what you're learning to do doesn't matter."

a lot of my autism masking is just making myself more palatable for other people and my therapist said "does spock make himself 'more palatable' for others?" and had me promise to keep unmasking like:

I think my favorite thing about General Martok is that — aside from that one time he had his mojo stolen by the Jem'Hadar and Worf had to do a little mutiny to give him his courage back — you spend the whole show seeing one side of him that is this tough as nails fearless warrior, what you think is a typical example of masculinity.

Then his wife shows up and you find out that he is very submissive to her, and he loves it. He loves to be dominated by his wife!

I love it because he absolutely does not tolerate that from anyone else. Its a very good example of how "sub/dom", "top/bottom", are only about sex and romantic relationships. Which is something people — especially queer people — always forget. Way too many of yall act like these are personality types that apply to every aspect of life.

Me when the obviously doomed character doesn't get a happy ending

Imagining Bashir keeping the wire and any attached brain tissue in a jar on a shelf next to Kukalaka and just casually being like "that's Kukalaka, my beloved childhood teddy bear, and uh, that's part of Garak's brain in a jar," to anyone who visits his quarters.

Just seems like something he'd do, you know?