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The Skeleton War 2014

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we should bring back the supernatural fandom somehow having an extremely specific gif for literally every occasion though

i know you guys are still out there. i know you still have your .gif folders. don't pretend you're not.

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welcome to yet another culture-is blog, but this time it's for things that you only see on Tumblr!

please start all your asks with "tumblr culture is" or something more specific like "2012 tumblr culture is"

the basic DNI criteria (MAPs/noMAPs, TERFS/SWERFS, bigots, exclusionists, etc.) and also no anti-endogenic systems/sysmeds

this blog was inspired by basically all other culture-is blogs such as @genderqueer-culture-is @lgbtqcultureis @boyflux-culture-is @fictive-culture-is @plural-culture-is @aro-culture-is @ace-culture-is @pan-demi-culture @gray-culture-is @genderfluid-culture-is @transmasc-culture-is @mspec-culture-is @queercutlureis @disabled-culture-is (btw I'd really appreciate a boost, but of course you don't have to)

and yeah, have fun!

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yall will really take any spn screencap with a word that begins with F and be like "happy friday"

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I was flipping through the Arthurian legend section in a mythology book at the store today and I just

BBC knew what was up

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I want to take a dollar bill and write “are you Misha Collins” on it and maybe one day it’ll end up in his hands and he’d be the one mind fucked for once

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Team Free Will gif headers for your mobile theme (requested by anonymous)

four headers, 640x360 px 

with and without bottom border (you must have your background set to white for the headers with the torn paper border to blend seamlessly)

please like and reblog if using or saving

please do not re-edit or repost or claim as your own

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we should bring back the supernatural fandom somehow having an extremely specific gif for literally every occasion though

i know you guys are still out there. i know you still have your .gif folders. don't pretend you're not.

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happy new year!

Happy New Year! May this year be fresh and lovely, and may we all love the little things in life with no shame at all.

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[ID: Two digital drawings of Kokichi Oma and Tsumugi Shirogane from Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony. The first drawing is of Kokichi holding a Monokuma, who is struggling in his arms, while smiling widely. The second drawing is of Tsumugi, who is holding a much happier Monokuma, sporting a wicked grin. /end ID]

“masterminds”

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The Mishapocalypse Moodboard

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i hate heritageposts it makes me feel bad for enjoying the old days of tumblr

This was a bit of a surprise to see in my inbox, but I can understand where you're coming from. heritageposts seems to focus on how "cringy" old tumblr was, even if it's unintentional (I don't know if it's on purpose or not). Some people just like things about old tumblr, and just because a trend isn't a current trend doesn't mean it needs to be made fun of. I've seen a handful of old posts get mocked because apparently being in one of the main fandoms of old tumblr is bad?? Let people enjoy things jfc. And they say cringe culture is dead, smh...

Note: do not start discourse on this post! I've been on this site too long to not know y'all will jump on any opinion you don't agree with and rip it to shreds for being "morally wrong."

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It kind of baffles me that a lot of people never got to experience the Mishapocalypse. Not like it was something that was good, more like, it was something you’d only see on this website in like…10 years.

Imagine you wake up on April Fool’s day. You log into tumblr. Immediately your dash is encompassed with Misha’s face. Everyone’s icon has been changed to that same, staring, blank face. You check your followers. Every single one of them has that face. You try going into your normal tags. Even those are filled with Misha’s face. Nowhere is safe. Misha is everywhere. You go to Twitter to complain about it. Misha’s face is there too.

Within hours of the event starting, there’s already a wiki entry and an urban dictionary entry for it. Gifs that you may have recognized of being popular at that time have Misha’s face photoshopped over them. Repeating patterns of Misha’s face. Misha illusions. Misha’s face OVER MISHA’S FACE. 

Eventually, even Misha is like, “Yeah, this is fucking weird. What the fuck are you guys doing.” But it doesn’t stop. People hit post limit. They can’t post anymore. Suddenly, you notice that your dash is starting to thin out, slowly, one by one. There’s a hypothetical tumbleweed bouncing across your dash by 10pm that night. 

Anyone who tried to blacklist the Mishapocalypse suddenly found that their dashboard was sent into the shadow realm. Nothing is there. They tried to unfollow people who were participating in it. They had no blog content at the end of the day. 

The next day, we all wake up and continue on with our lives like nothing ever happened. It was like a fever dream. What the fucked happened. Where did our lives go for that day. 

That was the Mishapocalypse. 

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so glad we’re bringing back 2012 tumblr, i missed logging on and within five minutes seeing +99 on the homepage and feeling like each refresh was a bat to the fucking skull

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SEEKING: ORIGINAL SUPERWHOLOCK FANS

Now seems like a good time for this.

So! Let’s get this out of the way first: I’m not here to belittle you, make fun of you, call you cringey, or whatever other shitty bullying behavior is the cool du jour. We don’t roll like that in my house.

No, reality is quite different.

Hi, my name is Nina and I run a hands-on museum at anime and pop culture conventions that details the history of fandom, and if you’re an original Superwholock fan, I want to interview you.

(I also want your gifsets, fanart, fanfiction, prominent crossover theories, etc.—the paraphernalia that make up a fandom.)

Here’s the thing: Superwholock, along with Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons (which was somewhat concurrent), is the first fan-created crossover megafandom. This is a HUGE DEAL for a fandom curator, because....almost all of you are still alive!! You’re all primary sources!! YOU WERE THERE!! Speaking as someone who’s normally tracking down 80-year-old Trekkies and diary entries from the original Sherlock Holmes fans 140 years ago, do you have any idea, any at all, how EXCITING that is??? When it hit me that I could cut my work on a Superwholock exhibit in half by doing firsthand interviews instead of having to track down old message boards and Fanlore articles, I literally jumped off my bed and yelled. It’s less work AND it’s a better, more accurate exhibit.

Your experiences in Superwholock are part of fandom history. An important part, in fact. And I have the chance to interview and talk to you FIRST HAND. (That’s every curator’s dream. Ask any curator in the world “if you could have an hour to talk to [long-dead person in their field], would you?” and you’ll get an “are you fucking KIDDING me? Where’s the time machine???”)

Questions I’ll ask you will be things like what drew you to the fandom, how it started out, how you (and others) reacted to major development in the parent fandoms, and what your part of the community was like. You can reply in written form, by doing a video, drawing a comic, whatever you like as long as it’s in an archivable format (meaning I can save it to show people your exact words later; don’t let the phrase “anime and pop-culture convention” fool you, I do my best to follow museum archival best practices and won’t show anything without a provenance). This means I’ll also need either your first name and last initial, or a username you’re comfortable appending to your words. If you’re under 18, I’ll also need a parent’s permission if you want to appear on video. And although I didn’t have a chance to do a full filming of the museum before COVID (I was supposed to show at Phoenix Fan Fusion this year and that was going to be the filmed version....sigh), I can provide you with hard copy from conventions that have shown the museum. And my driver’s license, if you’re a minor and your parents are nervous.

I’d like to add here that while some of the museum’s exhibits are, uh....QUESTIONABLE by modern standards of taste, I have never had to kick anyone out for being disrespectful to older works. (I have had a few people giggle over the typewritten zines because the copy quality is so bad, but that’s of the “wow, dinosaur technology” variety of giggle. You’d understand if you saw them.) You will not be put in a position to have to defend yourself from bullying or fallout. A lot of people look at older works and are actually heartened to see just how long the history of fandom is.

If this is a project that would interest you, please EMAIL ME at fandommuseum@gmail.com. And spread the word to other fans you might know!

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yeah they're all from the same person, me. i don't have anything better to do than crying in a rando's askbox about how i miss 2012 or something

I have better things I could do, but I won't, because I don't want to. I came to Tumblr for 2012 tumblr; I'm getting 2012 tumblr

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You ever thought we wouldn't have a gif for this?

Hey spn fandom.... Y.... Yo....you got a gif for this?