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Ever After — 1998 dir. Andy Tennant

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COLIN FIRTH as MR. DARCY

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1995)

dir. simon langton

#pride and prejudice #jane austen

mobius-m-mobius

#i miss this (insp)

#wake up dead man #films

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.

#fandom #history

girlnephew

eruhamster

scream-laughed so loud my cat jumped up from cuddling and my neighbor's dog started barking

eruhamster

ITS REAL ABAHSJSNSJJAHAHAHAHAHAHA

firelxdykatara

Desperately hoping that at least some of the 20k reblogs were by people who realize that this is in fact not real. The 'snippet' was faked by a fairly well-known troll on twitter. As for 'who forbade this', it is in fact frowned upon for physicians of any kind to date their patients. Not terribly high stakes, but still.

#*looks at notes*#… oh my god you guys are all dumb #can we have an ounce of critical thinking PLEASE

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kibumkim

#an absolutely terrible person and yet a godtier poster

afterblossom

King Arthur/Nimue AU

#otp: you're afraid #ch: rey #ch: kylo ren #fanart #au #beautiful!!!! <3 <3

didanagy

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1995)

dir. simon langton

#pride and prejudice #jane austen

perioddramasource

THE MUSKETEERS | 2x04

#the musketeers

dailyclassicart

Henri Guillaume Schlesinger - "The Five Senses: Hearing" (1865)

butchfairy

#humans yearn for memes #art

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campyvillain

HOLD ON THE BRITISH VERSION OF THE DOLLAR STORE IS CALLED POUNDLAND???

campyvillain

HELP

tgwdlmreprised

whumpster-fire

major missed opportunity not calling it “Poundtown”

notaplaceofhonour

pronounced “Pound-ton”, of course

#british cinema in the 70s was dominated by a franchise solely dedicated to innuendos #anyway i see this and i raise you: jiffy lube

laurens-german

I kneel before you not as a prince, but as a man in love. But I would feel like a king if you— Danielle de Barbarac, would be my wife.

EVER AFTER: A CINDERELLA STORY 1998, dir andy tennant

#ever after a cinderella story #films

rogerdeakinsdp

Academy Award Winners for Best Cinematography: 2026 — Autumn Durald Arkapaw, ASC Sinners (2025) Directed by Ryan Coogler Aspect Ratio: 2.76 : 1 · 1.90 : 1 · 1.78 : 1 (IMAX Blu-ray) · 1.43 : 1

"I always appreciate lighting that becomes its own character. Ryan is a bold filmmaker, so he’s not afraid to leave things unseen. That approach is always inspiring to me because I love working with darkness to create drama. Sinners was a perfect opportunity for that, because it blends genres—it’s a vampire story, a gangster story, and more, so we really got to play with darkness and shadow in a meaningful way." — Autumn Durald Arkapaw for Motion Picture Association, March 2026

#sinners #films

sashayed

(finance expert voice) atomize. atomize. atomize. atomize. people on this platform don't feel lonely enough yet. they still seem to feel there might be value in contact with strangers. we msut atomize them. focus on yourself queen. atomize. atomize

#tumblr did a stupid thing agaaaain

anakinskywalk

The FIRST ORDER reigns. Having decimated the peaceful Republic, Supreme Leader Snoke now deploys his merciless legions to seize military control of the galaxy. Only General Leia Organa’s band of RESISTANCE fighters stand against the rising tyranny, certain that Jedi Master Luke Skywalker will return and restore a spark of hope to the fight. But the Resistance has been exposed. As the First Order speeds toward the rebel base, the brave heroes mount a desperate escape… Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017)

#star wars #the last jedi

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