limp-wristed autistic

Avery, they or ze pronouns. Early 30s. TME genderqueer trans-effeminate sapphic. Autistic! White. Currently able-bodied. I have a biiiig queer crush on my wife @hyperfix8edcryptid AND I have an utterly adorable butch boyfriend so I just keep winning 🌈 I post personal stuff and reblog queer & disability stuff, stories and memes, cute art, some basic fandom content, stuff like that. Message if you need anything tagged — or just to chat!

[thingsfandomshavetaughtme]

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

[madmaudlingoes]

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. 

[wordsandrobots]

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.

[yeoldenews]

As someone who reads a lot of old newspapers - I have to correct the OED as “fandom” was in wide use by the 1890s.

The Minneapolis Journal published a sports column called “Matters in Fandom” in 1892.

Use for non-sports fans dates back to at least the 1910s for film fans…

And the 1940s for science fiction fans…

The “he” in question here being Fritz Lang, director of Metropolis.

[transastronautistic]

ID: snippets of old newspapers.

First image: MATTERS IN FANDOM

Cranks Looking For Silver Linings in the Base Ball Clouds

A GRIST OF HORSE GOSSIP

The Tennis Folk Waking Up to Activity

-Moth Wins In the Wrestling-

The Peds-

Sport Miscellany.

Second image: all caps reading Mary Pickford still idolized in film fandom

Third image: HE IS A TALENTED ARTIST, KNOWS ARCHITECTURE, collaborates in writing most of his pictures, is an idol of the little known Science Fiction Fandom, which delves into the occult and weird, and has a cautious sense of humor. If Lang makes with a joke, it's funny. If an aide tries one, it had better be. He's a tireless worker, and impatient with imperfection.

[darkspaceboytoy]

Horror director: What if there was a woman I *didn’t* want to have sex with. Wouldn’t that be the scariest fucking thing

[felldeer]

(store)

[critter-of-habit]

They're just silly

[genderfluid-druid]

[ID: A comic of Grace and Rocky walking. Rocky pushes on Grace's legs, asking, "Why Grace not move faster, question?"

Grace begins to tilt over backward, saying, "Oh no! Gravity is increasing on me!"

Rocky looks alarmed. "Is not! Gravity not change!"

"It is too, same as yesterday," says Grace, grinning, and now almost falling over as Rocky tries to push him upright.

"No no no," says Rocky. The two of them collapse in a heap on top of each other.

"Gravity levels are normal," chimes in the ship.

"Thank you, Mary," says Grace. End ID]

[berlynn-wohl]

a marriage of humankind's two greatest design achievements: the illuminated manuscript and the cool S

[fial-inka]

The street architect

[wheelie-sick]

sometimes people experiencing psychosis and/or mania will come up to you on the street and talk in confusing or upsetting ways. your job is to either have a regular human-to-human conversation with that person or politely leave. your job is not to call 911. do not call 911. you might kill that person if you call 911.

[flavabagel]

Maystelid 2026 Day 19 - Chomp

[itsjunetime]

clowngirl getting an orchiectomy and the surgeon just keeps removing ball after ball after ball after ball after

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

clown nurse standing by solemnly adding each successive ball to the ones she's already juggling

[sup-its-cat]

WHY HAVE I SEEN NO ONE TALK ABOUT HOW THE GRACE SCULPTURE LOOKS LIKE THE LITTLE DUDE FROM THIS MEME

THAT WAS LITERALLY MY FIRST THOUGHT UPON SEEING IT IN THE MOVIE

[notes-and-violets]

I had to xD

[greenlabcoat]

transition timeline but about halfway through im inexplicably a cackling green witch for a few months before continuing as normal

[flavabagel]

Maystelid 2026 Day 4 - Dig

Burrowing through to see you

[painless-innit-colourful]

I have seen a criminally-low amount of appreciation for the best character in phm: Carl. he's a straight-talkin' security guy with a sense of humour. he's Grace's scientist-minder and biggest enabler. Mr 'we don't have a budget... but hey the sun is dying money'll be worthless if this fails anyway so have at it'. he's bowling with tape and tinfoil in a home depot. he's rocking the sunglasses. he's buying 40 packs of skittles and handing them out to everybody in the building. he's with the government. all of them. he's the layman to Grace's scientist who can provide the outside perspective he needs to solve the astrophage conundrum. he's "Carl, are you sitting?" / "No, I'm standing like a grown man." / "We're fathers." / "Now I'm sitting." he is one of the characters of all time

[the-enchanted-little-star]

[esereblog]

[ID: a drawing of a stick with a few leaves on it against a black background. On the stick are “berries” except every berry is a planet from the solar system starting at the top with Mercury down to Neptune. EID]

[jetix]

Sara Hagale, 2023-09-06

[mousidy]

The last few months I've blocked a number of tme moots because they've fallen down the terf rabbit hole, usually with the starting point of male socialisation and it's just been depressing to see.

the weaponization and warping of the concept of gendered socialization may be the strongest tool in the terf toolkit right now because it bypasses the bioessentialism many people have learned to smell, but it takes all those same beliefs about "males" and "females" that are typically rooted in bioessentialism and plugs them superficially into a social framework instead

there's an observable grain of truth that helps it pass a sniff test for the untrained, because gendered socialization is a real phenomenon with a lot of history in feminist theory, so you can look progressive even while pushing a simplified and exaggerated version of the theory that papers over other areas of feminist theory, even to the extent that it makes feminism as a whole seem hopeless

what we need to do, imo, is:

- educate on other areas of feminist theory to show the actual sources of male privilege under patriarchy, and why it is not granted to trans women

- expand people's understandings of how socialization works so they can understand both its complexities as they impact the lives of trans people, racialized people, and people outside the west, as well as the limitations of the forces of socialization. we are not eternally stuck in the traits patriarchy attempts to force us into, that's half the point of feminism in the first place!

- try to instill some actual principles in people, such as "hey maybe we should judge people based on their actual actions rather than what we assume their actions will be based on what we assume their upbringing was like"

[zinesbycee]

(nods sagely) (nods basily) (nods rosemarily) (nods saltly) (nods star anisely)