#also- mutual or not you can send stuff!

[ravens-words]

Thank you to each and every one of you for following my messy little blog and helping me reach another milestone. I appreciate you all more than words can describe, and I adore you all so very much.

Now, if you fancy a a lil' fun,

🥀| For every rose, I'll share a sentence of a WIP of your choosing [Tarlos, Hangster, Buddie]

🎵| Song Association- You send me a song, I'll tell you which character/ship it reminds me of.

✒| Give me a sentence + a ship, and I'll write the next five sentences. [Tarlos, Hangster, Buddie, Madney, GraceJudd, Bobnix]

🗣|FMK- Tropes Edition!

And finally,

🖤| Send me a link to your fics/edits and I'll share which is my favorite.

My lovely mutuals, the ones I talk to all the time or barely at all, THANK YOU, I truly adore each one of you 🖤

@tkstrrand @iwonderifyouwonderaboutme @djdangerlove @laelipoo @bluenet13 @fiancechimneyhan @gracespicybradshaw @alwaysablossom @morganaspendragonss @actuallysara @bluenet13 @lilythesilly @sapphire11 @chaotictarlos @lire-casander @doublel27 @tailoredshirt @a-l-ias @detectivecarlosreyes @makingmovies @isastrxnd @tkstrands @pragmatic-optimist

@breannacasey @221bsunsettowers @chicgeekgirl89 @noxsoulmate @first-kanaphan @moviegeek03 @lovecolibri @jddryder @bonheur-cafe @bekkachaos @rangergurlgleek1211 @thestarlitnight @canisayyesnow @infp-obsessing-over-everything @the-ace-with-spades

[macadam]

Gonna put myself out here for a hot minute to remind everyone that the runner of a poll or little event on tumblr is not responsible for the replies/posts of everyone else in the fandom, nor do they have the power to stop people from reacting in any which way in the notes of their post without turning off reblogs and shutting down the entire thing full stop. I think we can all agree on that? They are not a discord mod, or the fandom's babysitter. Tumblr is the Wild West and by god none of us are the sheriff.

That's all ok keep on keeping everyone

[andi-o-geyser]

I’m so sorry but I think that the funniest thing they did in Top Gun Maverick was the fact that to try to beat the “Top Gun is really fucking gay” allegations they paired Mav up with a different woman this time but in doing so accidentally validated an entirely new gay ship. It’s like. Hey. Lean in real close. Hey. Mav’s got a new girlfriend this time and they’re exes with a fraught past but over the course of the movie make up and get back together, isn’t that so romantic? And then five feet away from all that shit Rooster and Hangman are just straight up saying they have an history with each other and they hold an intense rivalry before they eventually get over their differences and become friends and all the while Rooster is telling Hangman he looks good for the fiftieth fucking time that day and they keep playing romantic songs to piss each other off. The most hilarious thing is that the writers constantly use Maverick’s romances from both movies and basically parallel the only straight relationships with Rooster and Hangman’s relationship, and it’s like? Is this intentional? Is there something you want to tell us?? Because those two have STRONG hostile ex boyfriend energy if i’ve ever seen it, and if the writers want to convince me they’re straight they have another thing coming. If parallels with the only romance on screen then why no canon ex boyfriends. If parallels with both couples from both movies then why no gay. Hmm. Riddle me that Tom Cruise 

[cocolacola]

hey are we still down with fulfilling that goofy bit from yesterday (hellsing powerpoint night) cute mutuals interact with suggestions plz

[far-hall-bridge]

i'm gonna make a sticker shop :3

[galmiahthepigeon]

Hiii king!! What's ur favorite salad? (with the intentions of learning a new salad recipe from an esteemed mutual)

Hiii hi hello heyy ok hear me out!!

This is something I literally made up on the spot mixing random stuff I found in my mom's fridge. It's quinoa, diced carrots and tomatoes, and sliced radish, with salt and olive oil. Idk if it is a favorite but I was surprised that liked it so much!

Also I sometimes get lunch at a self service buffet near my university and the vegetables there aren't super good quality so to make it more enjoyable I just throw some cold fusilli in there and make it a pasta salad. Genuinely upgrades it like magic. Lettuce tomato lentils broccoli and fusilli is my go to. %80 of cold vegetable salads can be improved by adding either avocado or cold pasta this is my wisdom. Add spring onions also

[noirapocalypto]

Tumblr doesn’t show me all of my mutuals stuff anymore but it does put stuff I filtered on my dash lmfao what the fuck

Like sure don’t let me see literally anything else someone shares, but here’s this thing that makes me upset instead.

[giselles-dumping-hat]

Can you guys tell that i just finished yttd and going on a brainrot rampage looking through posts in the main tag. Can you tell

[arklay]

because i’ve made some new mutuals recently i’ll post about it again: i track #userarklay and you are more than welcome to tag me in your gifs and creations!! i’d love to see them all and reblog them for you ​​♡

[coollyinterferes]

//thinking about

✨ t h e m ✨

[pathos-logical]

YOU LIKE SANDWRS SIDES WHYYYYYYYYYYY???

[Caps: You like sanders sides whyyy?]

Hey anon! Sorry to have disappointed you. I was a huge fan a few years ago and am fond enough of the series despite not having interacted with it for years that if I find already-described fanart for it I'll reblog. If you actually need an explanation, I found the characters engaging and the series funny. It's still one of my top tags after years because I got on tumblr because of it. Hope this helps.

[astrxealis]

happy happy birthday !! have a very neat and chill one :^)

KAY!! thank you so much omg, i am definitely having a Neat and Chill one 🥺💗✨

[halorocks1214]

me deleting the tumblr bookmark on my computer and the app on my homescreen the night before bcuz i wanted to force myself into a break since i wasn’t feel great about Other Things getting back online One Time to check my notifs before i go to bed

[secretmellowblog]

People who try to analyze what happened on Tumblr on November 5th, 2020, often really overstate how much it was actually “about” Supernatural. As someone who has never been in the supernatural fandom ever but dID join in on the hysterical destielposting—it was really more about the stress of the pandemic and the 2020 presidential election.

The two biggest Youtubers I’ve seen try to dissect “what happened that November 5th” in video essays both weren’t American—- and I think that explains why they both tried to explain the hysteria primarily via analyzing the Supernatural fandom/the original show, rather than through the lens of the election. And while those videos are cool, valid, informational, and make lots of really well-considered interesting points— I can tell you that me and almost all my mutuals had literally no knowledge or interest in the fact that “oh supernatural had made nods at the ship in the past but the creators were adamant that I wouldn’t be canon” or etc etc etc etc. the first time I learned about any of that context was way later, watching videos where people claimed that fandom history context (that I did not know anything about) was the actual reason for the hysteria.

But the reality is that people latched on to the Destiel stuff because it was a piece of big useless inane zero-stakes fandom news in a time when we were desperately waiting for serious high stakes election news. We were latching onto a “positive “ piece of inane stupid fandom news in a time of great stress, with all the desperation of a drowning man who latches onto whatever piece of wood will keep him afloat.

The core of the hysteria was that Americans (who make up a huge chunk of tumblr’s userbase) were currently glued to their laptops watching the live presidential election vote counts come in. These vote counts were taking an extended amount of time due to the pandemic causing high numbers of mail-in ballots, resulting in a constant state of Election Day Stress for multiple days straight.

This was also during the height of the Pandemic. People had predicted Trump’s presidency would be bad; no one had predicted it would be this apocalyptically bad. No one had predicted pandemics and lockdowns and hospitals overflowing with bodybags. remember Trump spreading Covid lies and conspiracies?? There were so many Qanon conspiracies about democrats being Satanic child traffickers who had to be put to death, and coup threats were mounting from the right wing side. It seemed like this election was a choice between ‘centrist democrat’ and “apocalyptic right wing conspiracy theory authoritarianism,” in the midst of pandemic conditions that people feared would never ever improve— and it seemed like a close election.

Another major point was that Trump voters were more likely to be antimaskers/Covid deniers, while Biden voters were more likely to take the pandemic seriously— so Biden voters were more likely to send in mail-in ballots instead of risking the in-person voting crowds, which meant their ballots would take much longer to count. And so, in many state electoral vote counts, it would initially seem like Trump was very far in the lead— only for Biden to slooooowly build up an agonizingly small lead as the mail in ballots came in, and then defeat Trump at the very end.

So you’re just watching these news sites giving live election updates, refreshing the page every 2 minutes to see if you’re going to live under a spineless centrist democrat or a literal Qanon Dictatorship. And then you go on tumblr to distract yourself, and there’s more election posting, and more agonizing over the votes, and more stress and despair—-

And then it’s been days and we’re right at the crucial tipping point where it’s anyone’s game and the next few hours will determine whether Trump will win, so you need to keep your eye on the vote count, because the next hours will determine the future of the pandemic and your country and your plans for your entire life—

And then stupid Destiel becomes canon! And it becomes canon in the silliest way possible!

If Destiel had become canon at any other time, it would have been a big goofy tumblr celebration? But we wouldn’t have gotten the insane explosion of hysterical interaction.

The entire core of it was the contrast between the inane meaningless stupidity of fandom news vs the actual stressful election news you wanted to hear! It really is best conveyed in that meme where Castiel says “I love you” and Dean indifferently responds with a piece of important election news.

It’s about the contrast between the low-stakes inanity of fandom and the massive life-destroying stakes of a terrifying election. There really was no reason it had be Supernatural specifically, except that Supernatural was a thing everyone knew basic things about from dashboard osmosis— it could’ve been any other equally huge silly fandom ship news about a ship everyone *knew of* but might not necessarily be invested in (ex. Stucky becoming canon, Johnlock becoming canon, Kirk/Spock becoming more canon somehow, etc etc etc.)

I think it’s true that people who weren’t paying agonizingly close attention to the American election news got swept up in it, and that non American Supernatural fans also were extremely excited for purely fandom reasons — but the entire reason it blew up to an unprecedented degree was because of that core of stressed out terrified Americans glued to their computers watching election results and suddenly receiving stupid fandom news instead, and deciding to just hysterically parodically hyper-celebrate this absurd useless zero-stakes news.

I think it was also all elevated by the fact that, as I said before, this happened at the crucial “tipping point” of the election where the next few hours would determine the winner. The fact that Biden began to slowly develop a lead in the hours after made it feel, hysterically, as if the hours after Destiel became canon was somehow the turning point where he began to win; so celebrating Destiel felt like celebrating that slow turn towards victory.

The tl,dr is that it’s so important to Remember the Fifth of November …..in preparation the inevitable hysteria that will happen in the presidential election on November 5th of next year. XD. Personally I’m rooting for Johnlock or Frodo/Sam to somehow become canon in the eleventh hour right before the democrats win

[raeygina-george]

hmmmmmmmm... i kinda wanna do some art requests.................

[thecryptidbard]

I stg I have the tech skills of a stereotyped caricature of an 87-year-old who has never encountered a touchscreen, every goddamn day I open this app and accidentally press buttons I have never seen before and will never be able to find again which invariable do baffling and completely unwanted things.