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The election stretch was also the week Madeline Celeste was confirmed as canonically trans so this added to the lunacy (a much smaller amount, but significant nonetheless). I think more happened, but these two are definitely the ones I remember the most.
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
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Abled Person: Hey man, can you hold this wad of $2,000 and this one penny for me while I open my wallet?
Disabled Person: YOU COMPLETE AND UTTER FOOL!
The United States Government:
(Watch how many people don’t get this.)
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There has been a lot of research about autistics over the years, but this one really took the cake!
This is what happened when researchers attempted to compare the moral compass of autistic and non-autistic people…
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All of my Redneck Dio art I’ve done this past year!!
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I thought Ringabel’s English voice sounded like the “really big frog” guy (more for the tone of his voice than for the actual voice itself) so I couldn’t pass this up
(Credit to slumbermancer for the original post and zagreus for the recording this one is based on)
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mass... effect. mass effect. massy fect. massy fect
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One of my favorite things about Legion waking up is how they try to mimic Shepard. There is this one obvious move that almost seems natural:
Like ‘oh okay, you’re moving forward, i guess we are morving forward too. let’s meet in the middle’
But then there is this:
It’s so blink and you’ll miss it BUT IT IS CLEARLY mimicking because Legion has NO reason to move their hand like this. They see Shepard doing it so they go for it, and immediately withdraw when Shepard does the same.
IT IS THE CUTEST TO ME.
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I finished my son. These aren’t tears they’re just creative art juice 🙃
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“You brought fried fish with a side of calamari and crab. So what? This doesn’t affect my hold over the Bikini Bottom square, Spongebob,” the Plankton grinned ear-to-ear, a practiced smile defying everything the undersea society stood for.
“Fried fish?” Spongebob echoed, cracking a knuckle. “I think you mean sweet victory.”
#spongebob#plankton#sweet victory#been a while since i posted huh#i think im revolving between tumblr and twitter tbh#just going back and forth#i feel silly writi this as if theres an actual substantive audience reading. i have like two followers this is silly#so how was your day
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How do you make people fall in love with you
challenge them to a duel
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So. I wrote a Poem this time. wahoo???
It was *supposed* to be about wanting peace of mind but it? Ended up being something else
Anyway, here it is!
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I once had a friend name Josiah,
he loved the birds.
Everyday, we would go out to
The groves of pine and robins
To grow a hundred stones and songs and rings until the morning came.
One day, he looked at me, Josiah;
And he uttered some word
A word of calming, a word of respite,
Another day forgave to night.
Not a word more he spoke to me, no singing, no ringing, no Josiah
The night sky yawns selfishly.
And everyday, out unto the forest groves
To peckers and swallows and bluebirds
No Josiah; he still isn’t home.
I see a dove, and fire turns into fright, and I reach and I turn to the sky
The dove, he turns to me, and he screams —
A fool, fie, a Figaro,
A cat to undo my head;
Away with ye,
Go, let me be,
Coward of thread!
Still, I go and reach for him, I beg of him —
Let me pretend I can still see the end:
My friend, Josiah, taken into the sky
I have not any mercy left but to to forage the heaven
Please, let this fool, fie, a Figaro some peace of mind.
The dove, he still screams at me —
Until the day I die and the heavens descry all the kindness and love still left in me,
I refuse to let myself fainéaint to this small slothful child
A child such as you; a Figaro unto every whelp who dared walk the earth,
I refuse to give you the sky.
The dove scratches and I fall to the ground; Josiah, no, he is not around.
And the birds circle my face, and I am so tired,
I close my eyes.
It is not my time… but I am so tired, please give me more time.
#poem#birds and stuff???#freeform#birds are cool.#tw loss#tw implied character death#tw maybe(?) bad ending#interpretive’s prolly a better word#but you know
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*on a date*
babe….when im with you……shrimp heaven really *is* now……
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