Merriam-Webster’s isn’t just any ordinary dictionary.  They’re a cool dictionary.  And they’ve recently added ‘stan’ to their official list of words and I stan them for it. According to Merriam-Webster, ‘stan’ is defined as the following: stan noun \ ˈstan \ plural stans slang, often disparaging : an extremely or excessively enthusiastic and devoted fan […]

San Diego Comic-Con is this week (can you believe it?) and one of the panels we’re most excited about here at The Geekiary is From the Bridge, a documentary about the history and evolution of fandom. From director Spencer F. Lee, From the Bridge is hosted by George Takei and features interviews from such iconic names as […]

I was really excited about Britta Lundin’s Ship It, a YA novel heavily focused on fandom and convention culture featuring an LGBTQ+ romance. Unfortunately, I was incredibly disappointed with the characters and the way fandom – particularly shippers – were presented. It is a good starting off point for a much-needed discussion about entitlement in fandom, […]

If you’ve been on Twitter recently, you must have seen #BlackHogwarts trending yesterday. The trend’s filled with brilliant use of GIFs and jokes to give everyone an idea of how Hogwarts could’ve looked like with better black representation. I’m all for Black Hogwarts becoming a movie! Read our before commenting. Please do not copy our content […]

Even though Teen Wolf aired its finale last month, that’s not going to stop the Sterek fandom from continuing to show their passionate love for their ship. Get ready for Sterek Week that’ll run from October 25 – 31, 2017! Read our before commenting. Please do not copy our content in whole to other websites. […]

Fandom in and of itself is a hobby, but many times the media we consume and fans we interact with inspire new hobbies that suddenly become very important to us. Read our before commenting. Please do not copy our content in whole to other websites. Linkbacks are encouraged.

When disaster struck after Hurricane Harvey, many celebrities and fandom spaces took it upon themselves to help others in any way that they could. Most have chosen to use their power to raise funds for aid groups, but others have used social media to create a new and unique approach to help facilitate rescue efforts. […]

Fandom, the time has come to talk of many things, about ships and shippers and anti-shippers. While shippers do their fair share of bad behavior, there’s bad behavior from anti-shippers too. For some reason this seems to get less discussion, combined with a lingering, difficult-to-budge perception that shippers are to blame. That shipping is to […]

There’s been a lot of talk about fandom, and a lot of people have explained it way better than I ever could so I’m not going get into that. There’s just one assumption that bugs me every single time I hear it and that is the idea that fandom – specifically online fandom – is […]

In the oft-barren wasteland that is the femslash fandom, one show rises like an oasis above the sand: Steven Universe. There are so many ways to ship ladies with ladies in this show that there was a recent episode in which a character makes a shipping chart, an incredible meta joke about their own characters […]