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#November 5th
its-your-mind · 5 months
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it’s been three whole entire years
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asticou · 5 months
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Happy holidays to all who celebrate etc etc
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secretmellowblog · 5 months
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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.
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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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joshisepic2222 · 1 year
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Genuinely 2022 has been an amazing year for tumblr memes
I mean we had so many good ones:
#girl ban
Lennon Asscrack
Horse Plinko
Blorbo from my shows
The variations upon blorbo(glup shitto, skrungly, poor little meow meow)
Eeby Deeby
It's me boy, the PS5 inside your brain
Live Slug reaction
Crabs
Eurovision Pussy
Tumblr Blaze Launch ft. Catholic evangelism and My immortal
Twitterpocalypse
Dracula Daily
Thank goodness he's straight actually
Pikaman
July(Shinso Abe's death, British gov collapse)
Gougar
September 8th(Queen dead, sansweep)
They unbanned tits- wait no they didn't
The Lettuce is Pm now
Twitterpocalyspe 2 he actually bought it this time
Tits are legal for real this time
2nd Anniversary of Nov 5th ft. Ryan Reynolds
And Now
Goncharov
In general something has definitely been in the water this year when we look back at the memes.
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sournmoon · 5 months
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Happy Destiel day!
[ID: Destiel confession meme. Castiel says, "I love you". Dean, covered in butterflies and sparkles, replies, in pink sparkly text, "Sparkle on! It's november 5th! Don't forget to be yourself!" End ID]
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Before we go into 3 AD ( After Destiel) anyone want to confess their love to me in Spanish?
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nicostiel · 1 year
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#HAPPY NOVEMBER 5TH
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etherealspacejelly · 5 months
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happy november 5th to all who celebrate!!!
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kipkiphoorayy · 5 months
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feeling the tumblr ecosystem shifting and changing in the days leading up to november 5th like a storm is coming and you’re outside watching the shelf cloud blow in, the leaves flipping and it starts to smells like rain
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emeraldcas · 5 months
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guardedbylibrarylions · 5 months
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Merry Destielmas!!
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horrorcas · 5 months
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let's not forget what got us here. misha's lack of toxic masculinity on a toxic hypermasculine set. aaand jensen's desire to fuck the new guy.
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hashtagloveloses · 5 months
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so you’re telling me the my hero academia manga chapter where bakugo calls himself the cute nickname only deku calls him leaked on an american election night only a few days after the destiel november 5th anniversary. you’re telling me all for one confirmed the theories that the second user who looks like bakugo reaching out to AFO’s brother was a direct bakudeku parallel. on an american election night. you’re telling me bakugo didn’t yell out his hero name that all might JUST said, but called himself KACCHAN BAKUGO as a rallying cry before jumping into a big double fight between him vs AFO and shigaraki vs deku. on an ELECTION NIGHT. you’re telling me it HAPPENED AGAIN?!
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charliewrites99 · 5 months
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Me describing characters from Supernatural without ever watching it, based on what I could put together from random tumblr posts
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Dean Winchester:
older brother
bi and the closet is glass
psycho-sexual relationship with his car
has a doctor kink
divorced married divorced married widowed by an angel
DADDY ISSUES
don't do this cas
was in hell at one point
shoulder hand print
red-blooded all american hunter manwhore
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Sam Winchester:
younger brother
flannel
straight representation (except Gabriel I guess)
Third wheel
dropped out of uni
was engaged to a blond woman (RIP)
a literal walking death sentence to anyone who kisses him
party city wig
was possesed???
the one with common sense???
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Castiel:
gay angel
world's saddest eyes
wet soggy orphan beagle
victim of the trench coat epidemic
powerful, but idk about where he lands on the scale
was brainwashed???
the daddy-est of issues (is his father god?)
YOU CHANGED ME DEAN
fish out of water
ditched heaven for the beauty of humanity (Dean's dick)
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Jack Supernatural:
destiel child
may or may not be a new god
something celestial
floppy sad boi hair
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Gabriel:
just here to have fun do drugs and flirt
trauma
Loki?
Sam's Man Crush Monday
had his lips sewn together at one point
is he dead-dead? or just dead to the writers?
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Daddy Winchester:
did not know what he looked like until I went to google the pictures
the worst person to ever exist despite having god and the devil on this show
left the sons the trauma factory that is the family hunting business which killed their mom
doesn't know what hugging looks like probably
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Various female-looking objects:
dead girlfriends
beards
that one redhead that called Dean a pussy for not knowing what fifth base is (she seems fun)
another redhead that played Poppy in The Magicians and almost killed Quentin (that I for some reason thought was from Doctor Who)
evil angel girlboss??
This was my contribution for this years November 5th celebration
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chappelroan · 5 months
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HAPPY 3 YEAR ANNIVERSARY TO DESTIEL BEING CANON!
🎉🎉🎉
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amber-angel · 5 months
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Happy almost 3rd anniversary to the worst, best, gayest, most homophobic, funniest thing to ever happen in the history of television
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