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i'm so confused rn, can you explain the goncharov thing?? i get off tumblr for five minutes

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Lmaoooo

Nah I getchu. So this post has been circulating for like a year:

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But yesterday, it had inspired someone to do this:

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Next thing I knew there were fake Letterboxed reviews.

Goncharov moodboards. Really good ones.

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Meta analysis. So many fake meta essays. Disturbingly good ones. And of course the memes. (Edit: HAVE I SAID THIS SHIT IS DISTURBING)

As you can see, the myth just started to grow, characters and ships and tropes being added one after the other, almost bizzarely without contradiction, until there was enough of shape to the whole thing for people to start posting fanfic about it on AO3. "No beta we die like ice-pick Joe" is already a tag.

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It was hilarious in the beginning, but the way it's developed within less than a day, kind of like it's being willed into existence, is freaking me out a bit. We're toying with powers beyond our comprehension. 😂😂😂

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Of course, there could be an ulterior motive as well.

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Edit: guys, please tag these posts "unreality" so people with disassociation issues can filter them out (not this one, this is an explainer). <3

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Edit 2: Aparently the boots in the original post are actually referring to a movie called Gomorrah that came out in 2008, directed by Mateo Garrone, based on the Scampia Feud. And other people had also been making posts about the fake movie for a while before the poster took off.

found by @thepotch

Edit 3: Explainer: why did those boots have this movie on them anyway?

Edit 4: Alt text added to all images courtesy of @valentineish ❤️

Edit 5: Turns out tumblr has done this kind of thing before. Nine years in this hell place and I had to have "Squiddles" and penis smp explained in the replies.

Edit 6: This post collects the Lore so far.

Edit 7: Lynda Carter (real one)/ earns more/ Tumblr cred.

Edit 8: Holy shit y'all we have the theme music. With sheet music. And it's on Spotify!

Edit 9: THERE IS A TRAILER WITH THE THEME MUSIC

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I made this post 18 hours after the movie poster went up. Closed edits 27 hours after first posting. So all of the above happened within 45 hours of the movie poster going up.

Edit 10: Google document live-compiling all the lore so far (Day 3)

Edit 11: Masterpost of Goncharov soundtracks (Day 3)

Edit 12: Entertainment news articles covering the Gonch-posting (real) (Contd from yday)

Edit 13: The music from the masterpost all compiled into a 31-minute original score with video edits on YouTube (edit: unfortunately taken down)

Edit 14: Staff's Goncharov art showcase for Tumblr Tuesday

As of closing on Day 3 there are 371 works in the AO3 tag.

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Updating with Day 3 shenanigans I missed yesterday:

Edit 15: Goncharov TV Tropes page

Edit 16: Ethics of Gonchposting

Important PSA 1 (how to reduce harm to Tumblr's neurodivergents)

Important PSA 2 (reality affirmation, anti-bullying)

Important PSA 3 (why you should stop trying to vandalise legit information sites)

Edit 17: Character lore from beezlebub whose poster they originated from

Edit 18: What we know about/ Director Matteo JWHJ0715 (#unreality)

Edit 19: Link to post with screenshotted and described NYT article (scroll down) and this golden exerpt from BuzzFeed: 💀

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End of Day 4 there are now 485 works in the Goncharov tag on AO3

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Didn't get to update this on Day 5, so these are the Day 5 doings:

More trailers!

Trailer 1 (My favourite)

Trailer 2

Trailer 3

Trailer 4

I also just found out about the Goncharov Game Jam.

It appears this opened a day after after the meme took off.

Goncharov was first entered into Wikipedia between Day 4 and 5 (attempts to vandalise it with fake info don't count, incidentally – please knock that shit off) under List of Internet Phenomena. This was then expanded into its own Wikipedia page at the end of Day 5 because, according to the talk history: "the topic now meets the notability threshold for its own artice due to significant coverage in The New York Times and other sources cited." We're on Wikipedia, people!

And then we made The Guardian half a day later. So while the meme is definitely dying down to embers by now, it still stays winning.

YouTube channels with episodes on the meme:

InformOverlord (4:30)

Lessons in Meme Culture (2:43)

End of Day of 5 there were 511 works on AO3, and End of Day 6 (today) there are 556.

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🚨BREAKING 🚨 from Martin Scorsese's daughter's TikTok (real actual)

tw: unreality:

We did it you guys!

Clarification: Francesca Scorcese asked her Dad about the meme and Martin played along. Please reblog this PSA to help Tumblr people with psychosis. Thanks.

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“Who will love you now, Dumbledore?”

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022) dir. David Yates

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(912): No, Newt, handcuffs and friendship bracelets are not ‘basically’ the same thing.

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Just...gonna try something here.

I love the Fantastic Beasts series. Secrets Of Dumbledore was so amazing and I want Fantastic Beasts 4 to happen so we can have the last half of this story, as intended.

Reblog or like this post if you want WB to green light Fantastic Beasts 4.

Preferably reblog, so others can see this and show support too. But let's see if these notes can reflect a fandom who wants to see the ending of the story they love given a chance! Reblog and like!

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I literally cry for their smiles every morning

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Gellert Grindelwald 💜

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Albus: *is bowed to by the Qilin*

Gellert: Oh, God. My husband is officially a Disney Princess

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gellert and albus ruling the world would have been hot tho

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btw i have my own theory for why Albus locked Gellert up in Nurmengard in what was obviously pretty Not Fun conditions for so long, regardless of my own ideas about when/how they might have seen each other over the years.

Harry remembered what Dumbledore had said about Voldemort moving beyond “usual evil.” “Isn’t there any way of putting yourself back together?” Ron asked. “Yes,” said Hermione with a hollow smile, “but it would be excruciatingly painful.”

“Why? How do you do it?” asked Harry.

“Remorse,” said Hermione. “You’ve got to really feel what you’ve done.”

and then -

At last he said, “Grindelwald tried to stop Voldemort going after the wand. He lied, you know, pretended he had never had it.”

Dumbledore nodded, looking down at his lap, tears still glittering on the crooked nose. “They say he showed remorse in later years, alone in his cell at Nurmengard. I hope that is true. I would like to think that he did feel the horror and shame of what he had done. Perhaps that lie to Voldemort was his attempt to make amends … to prevent Voldemort from taking the Hallow …” 

“…or maybe from breaking into your tomb?” suggested Harry, and Dumbledore dabbed his eyes.

Whether he admitted it to himself or not, whether he ever told Gellert about it or not, I think Albus was genuinely hoping that whatever comes after death, wherever they went, whatever they became, they would be able to go together. And I think he saw the only chance of that as Gellert being able to truly show real remorse for what he’d done. No, he never made Horcruxes, but I still think Albus was deeply concerned about the evil he’d done and what it would do to his soul.

And I wonder how long Albus decided to wait at King’s Cross, not taking his own train (or grasping a phoenix tail, which is how I think he would have seen it), just waiting in the blank white space, waiting to see if Gellert is going to show up to this one last date and they can finally go off together like they always wanted to.

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Newt's wand core is unicorn hair and no one can change my mind.

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: I thought we can come out to the end like this.

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Aurelius Dumbledore | Credence Barebone 🖤

Hi! I'm back from hiatus c:

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Excuse me from back… Bye….

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newt scamander being captivated by tina goldstein throughout three films 😭❤️

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grindeldore, the summer of 1899

ft. Taylor Swift's Cruel Summer

lyrics that fit grindeldore.

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[Obligatory mention that, yes - this is part of my fic.] Gellert writes a love letter to Albus. It ends like this.

It is endless, Albus, the fondness I feel for you. I'm not sure I could possibly list it all - all of the reasons why I have always felt so deeply for you.

Last, for now - those small freckles on the tip of your nose.

They're the only ones that remain after all this time, but I'm so thankful they did. I do miss them, the constellations that chased across your skin - the way I would carefully map them out with my lips. I feel it was luck, that allowed me to keep the ones I love most.

It's like you carry the stars wherever you go.

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