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The Stargate: SG-1 fandom was the one that chose the word so you’d have to ask somebody there 🤷♀️ I have seen “whump!” used as an onomatopoeia for painful impacts in classic comics, so maybe they got it from that?
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☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️ yup that’s pretty much it! People like Daniel getting hurt so much that the term “Danny Whumping” was coined and became so popular that the word whump is what it is now. I think other fandoms around that time (like the late 1990s) used it too but Danny Whumping was veeery popular.
oh my god? the x files-fandom was the fandom that invented the word ‘shipping’? JESUS CHRIST I LOVE Y’ALL
Yes, back in the early days, there were two camps of fans: “Relationshippers” (people all about the MSR) and the “NoRomos” (people all about the platonic partnership.) Relationshippers was eventually shortened to “shippers.”
The X-Files popularity just happened to parallel the birth of the internet. Philes took it by storm with the creation of fan forums, chat groups, and hundreds of websites devoted to the show, characters, and the actors. :)
The X-Files fandom also coined the term UST (Unresolved Sexual Tension) as a fanfic descriptor. :D Fandom history is pretty neat.
fruck man
Man X-Files was my intro to fandom and fic and it shaped me so much
You know this post?
It’s true! But the corollary is, “And if not Star Trek, probably X-Files.”
oh my god? the x files-fandom was the fandom that invented the word ‘shipping’? JESUS CHRIST I LOVE Y’ALL
Yes, back in the early days, there were two camps of fans: “Relationshippers” (people all about the MSR) and the “NoRomos” (people all about the platonic partnership.) Relationshippers was eventually shortened to “shippers.”
The X-Files popularity just happened to parallel the birth of the internet. Philes took it by storm with the creation of fan forums, chat groups, and hundreds of websites devoted to the show, characters, and the actors. :)
The X-Files fandom also coined the term UST (Unresolved Sexual Tension) as a fanfic descriptor. :D Fandom history is pretty neat.
fruck man
Man X-Files was my intro to fandom and fic and it shaped me so much
You know this post?
It’s true! But the corollary is, “And if not Star Trek, probably X-Files.”
I drew this after reading an article by a self-described ‘fandom grandma’ – (I’m not linking to it because of Tumblr’s stupid rule about hiding posts with links in the tags.) But you can check out her blog and the article @spockslash. I wish I could share this with her but this will have to be my way of saying thank you.
for the uninformed i would like to point out the many layers of this tweet:
the op, whose name is currently “captain a.c.a.b.”, is jeffrey cranor, writer of popular podcast “welcome to night vale”
the quote retweet is cecil baldwin, voice of said podcast, “welcome to night vale”
the tweet is liked by noelle stevenson, showrunner/creator of popular netflix show “she ra and the princesses of power”
the joke itself is comparing the tulsa trump rally to tumblr dashcon, which is a circa-2014 tumblr joke
which implies that all three of these internet pseudo celebs found the dashcon joke funny enough to like/retweet/quote-retweet im reeling
WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE WAS SCHEDULED TO PERFORM AT DASHCON YALL THEY PULLED OUT BUT THEY WERE THERE
They weren’t just there, they are indirectly the reason “an extra hour in the ball pit” became a meme.
See, there was supposed to be a WTNV live show at Dashcon, and admittance to it cost an additional $15 on top of the Dashcon ticket price. When the Night Vale crew got there, they were informed that the organizers did not have the money to pay them, so Cecil refused to perform.
Naturally then, the people who had paid for the show started demanding refunds of their $15. But the organizers claimed they didn’t have the money to offer refunds either, and instead offered to let those ticket holders spend an extra hour in the ball pit as a form of reimbursement. There were several posts going around about this, and the famous photo above was taken to illustrate how pathetic of an offer this was. And that’s how the Dashcon ball pit went down in infamy.
there’s another layer to this: noelle stevenson was an invited special guest at dashcon too. she had to moderate her own panel, and even worse - the con organizers didn’t pay for a hotel room for her, so she had to crash on the pull out couch in… the night vale team’s room.
so all of these people were in one room, at dashcon, getting screwed over by dashcon. this is a digital recreation of that hotel room 6 years later.
