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thataltyoudontknow · 6 months

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i asked @oh-snapperss for a prompt, and this is what i wrote for them! [and, no theres no shipping]

tw ig?// bruises, anxiety stuff, claustrophobia

Well, shoot.

Iskall was stuck in a convenient hole in the ground in level four that Tango forgot to cover up, a simple mistake that ended up injuring him, blood went down his arm as Iskall observed the few purple patches on it. All he needed to do was get out of the hole he was in and patch himself up after the game, simple but easier said than done.

For once, he was grateful for the berries he'd gotten a clank for.

And then he remembered the fact that the Warden was loose, that just made things worse for him. Getting out of the hole seemed impossible because if he slipped once, the Warden would hear and attack him. And due to… certain circumstances, Iskall was claustrophobic and the situation he was in was another level of scary. He scrambled for his communicator with tears in his eyes that he refused to drop.

You whisper to Tango: tanfo i need oyu in somtheing

Tango whispers to you: you good iskall?

You whisper to Tango: just go to level fout pelase

Tango whispers to you: omw

Iskall closed his communicator as he heard the Warden come closer, footsteps louder than Bdubs shouting "shut up" when Ren was assigned king. He closed his eyes and started hyperventilating, when he heard the Warden's antennae clicking, he bit his already bruised arm to shut himself up.

The Warden was coming closer to Iskall's scent.

And closer…

And closer–

A loud noise like a metal pipe falling echoed through the hallway which brought the Warden's attention to the noise as it followed the sudden sound.

"Iskall?" Etho whispered loud enough to let Iskall hear him from below. "Are you there?"

"Mhm," Iskall hummed in response, trying not to cry. He looked up to see Etho's eyes peeking from the top, "I'm gonna get you out," he muttered as he observed Iskall's situation, glancing specifically at his arm. He could tell that Etho winced from the look on his eyes. "Don't worry, alright?" Iskall nodded in response, looking down to see his arm.

He did a number on his arm with his teeth alone.

"Just be quick, please," Iskall looked back up and croaked silently, trying not to sob. Etho left him after he said that. He curled up on the bottom and closed his eyes, trying to convince himself to not cry.

Breathe in. Breathe out.

"Breathe in. Breathe out."

Iskall sighed softly as the wind blew through his hair. "No stress, alright?" Cleo spoke as he hugged the other by his side, smiling at the calm expression. "You need to learn to control your anger," Cleo continued, placing their finger at Iskall's heart, gaining a chuckle from him. "Yeah," the other rolled his eyes, "therapy, too."

"Everyone here needs therapy, let's be honest."

"True."

Wind was the only thing that was heard, that and tree rustling. "Remember," Cleo broke the silence, "whenever you feel angry or scared,

"just breathe in and out."

It felt nice replaying that memory with the situation he was in. He opened his eyes to his current surroundings still stuck in a hole. "Psst," Etho stopped his train of thought, he looked up to see the Canadian holding an ender pearl, he dropped it for Iskall to immediately throw it outside the hole. It landed and Iskall was on the actual floor.

A few minutes later, he, Etho and Tango–who was the one who lead the Warden away from Iskall–left the dungeon. Xisuma, Grian, Cleo, and Mumbo were there waiting for him, but the first person to rush to Iskall was Grian. "What happened?" he asked worriedly, his bleeding arm took Grian's attention, "and what did you do to hurt yourself this badly?" Iskall averted making eye contact with him "I'll tell you later," he told Grian, taking the potion that Tango offered, "I just want to go home right now."

#taydstuff #iskall85 #hermitblr #tangotek #ethoslab #gift fiction #hermitcraft #decked out 2 #holy shit this took me 2 days??#what??????#zombie cleo #mumbo jumbo #xisuma #< background characters ig

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pookachuka · 8 days

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TRESPASSERS 2 POSTERS

#doctor who #jenny flint #the paternoster gang #madame vastra #vastrajenny #jenny x vastra #vastra x jenny #madame vastra and jenny #doctor who fanart #strax #trespassers 2 #algernon rackham #holy shit i bust my ass making these #i have never paid more attention to detail in my entire life #this took WHOLE DAYS #MY HANDS HATE ME FOR THIS #BUT THIS IS SOME OF MY BEST WORK TBH SO ITS WORTH IT #see if u can find the hidden jennys 😉

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snowysoong · 7 months

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if you buy this game your internet penis is gonna grow bigger

all the seperate headshots under the cut !!

this took sweat tears blood n piss to make i hope u guys liek it :)

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seventh-district · 21 days

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so uh. that 2.2 Special Program, huh

#hsr #honkai star rail #hsr 2.2 #hsr spoilers #hsr leaks #the body of this post reads as far less enthusiastic than i really am #i just don’t know how to casually return from my latest 2 week hiatus only to gush abt a game i’ve hardly blogged abt before #but i’m not making a whole ass sideblog for it like i did for Genshin. nah y’all r gonna bear witness to my fixation with this one #so anyways don’t mind me. vibrating into another dimension with anticipation for the next 11 days #it’s insane man. a year ago i Never ever woulda thought i’d be so invested in this game. and it took Months for the game to really grab me #but i’m v glad i kept coming back even when i was struggling to really get into it. like i just had this feeling that if i stuck around and #gave the game a chance to really like. come into its stride. i just always felt like there was Something there and i just hadn’t found it #and holy shit i finally found it in Penacony. the devs really truly outdid themselves with this region and these characters and this story #not to discount everything that’s happened prior. like i was genuinely Liking it all before now but i wasn’t Loving it y’know #but that may be more a ‘me having to fight tooth n’ nail to force myself to consume new media’ thing than it is a matter of the actual game #anyways i came here to talk abt the program! bc since i’m not filming my HSR stuff i’m gonna be insufferable abt it on Tumblr instead ! :)#and i’m probably not filming any more Genshin stuff. or anything else at all for that matter but let’s not talk abt that dead dream #pun not intended lmao. Anyways let’s return to the subject at hand while there’s still room left in these tags shall we #i’m so fucking glad they had Aventurine on this program man. especially since he’s leaked to only have 18 lines in 2.2… it was nice to see-#-him here at least 🥹 i’ll take what i can get. his unenthusiastic little bird noises at the beginning.. him being reluctant to come out..#the way one of the first things to come out of his mouth was ‘y’know DR RATIO once told me…’ like boy we get it ur in love with him 🙄 (/J!)#i love how they can’t go on these programs w/o talking abt each other it’s adorable. AND THE WAY HE WAS THE ONE TO EXPLAIN BOOTHILL’S KIT!?#they can’t just fuel my crackship like this… god and his whole ‘muddle-fudger.. son-of-a-nice-lady?’ thing had me wheezing #Aven mocking Boothill’s inability to curse was not on my special program bingo card but fuck i’m here for it #and Robin being all curious abt him was so cute.. ‘who /is/ he? … does he order milk at the bar?’ i’m crying she’s so sweet #also the trailer was fucking insane. which feels redundant as hell bc all of HoYo’s version trailers go hard but like. still. wow.#that millisecond long shot of Boothill surveying the skyline is so fucking good. also what the fuck is Jing Yuan doing here!!#not complaining at all tho. we’ve got JY & DH(IL?). Argenti(?). Boothill. Sunday. Aven. all my men r here and i am eating so fucking good #Seven.txt #viddy game stuff

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mwagneto · 2 months

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*breathing harder than if i'd run a marathon* finished wild blue yonder rewatch...dear god

#it took me like 5 days?? 😭#this was the second time i saw it first when it aired dear fucking GODDD #i finished it in 1 night then but it still took several hours #only 1 episode with 14 left ougfhfufhdudhfdjdjndjnx🥺#saddest creature in existence fr i cant protect him......#BUT top 3 best scenes of all time incoming (toymaker dance sequence)#also 15 soon holy shit... AND only 2 months til s14. still with no release date😐#doctor who #dw lb #wild blue yonder #14th doctor

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suffarustuffaru · 10 months

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i just. remembered again that i have a fembaru fic but also the premise is. Very Messed Up hah and also it was written before the canon genderbent au with its official genderbend names for everyone so its also outdated on top of that T^T i had like. Genderqueer subtext going on too. but i also wrote this fic like almost two years ago and havent touched it in forever so im unsure if i should go back to it…. o.o but i would love to finish it one day if only for my own satisfaction hah… i had a very detailed outline for ch 2 (its a twoshot) and several scenes written already anyway!! (and also i would probably update those names, make minor edits, etc etc hmm…)

#just thinking about this wip again………… mmmm….. not super confident in my older ao3 fics but the premise for this one was like. i think i #ended up brainstorming it with a friend or two and then i was like wait holy shit howd this play out. and then i took about two weeks to #write ch1? :o #and then i like. REALLY got into revolutionary girl utena after finishing ch1 so like that def bled into um. the themes.#just. thimking…….. bc ive had so many ideas to explore like. themes regarding gender and misogyny and Choice and destiny and queerness and #all sorts of things….. bc rezero Touches on them and is even Detailed on them sometimes and id Love to go in depth. but im also a bit #nervous to bc 1. writing fic is….. so much work sometimes fr and i am but a lazy writer and 2. the slight anxiety of what if i get flamed #o.o wild to think about…..#like. i have ideas for emilia fics that are. definitely darker maybe a bit controversial but i will go off the walls with writing for the #sake of answering the questions of. can this be done. and is it possible to narratively critique canon and fandom treatment of emilia. that #sort of thing.#not that im the best writer ever akdbdnd but i do like darker fiction sometimes. and i also like being meta about things in fiction. and i #also like writing to get out a tiny bit of salt. etc etc.#i tried to write these kinds of thinngs with my atm sole emilia centric fic that i wrote. uhhh more than a year ago? and i would love to try #again one day bc ive def improved and changed as a writer since then. u know what i mean?? :o #just like. rezero and queerness is very interesting to me.#suffaru post #saving this on the blog bc i talked Too Much about my writing process here HAH #my writing process being: HOW FAR CAN I TAKE THIS IDEA AND HOW OFF THE WALLS CAN IT GET????#in reality tho im really just a massive nerd whos gone down a massive rabbit hole of writing anime fanfic. 😭😭😭😭😭🙏🙏#if you actually read all these tags big thank you HAH

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lexosaurus · 1 year

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Ok I never do these tag games but I'm like eh what the heck I wanna ramble!

Previous thread was super long so I'm making this its own post.

Tagged by @going-getting-got-ghost (obsessed with ur username btw)

Currently reading: In between books! Just finished rereading Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir because I needed something lighter and fun (after reading Jennette McCurdy’s autobiography which can I just say GOD DAMN). About to start reading (tonight!) A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Naas because one of my good friends recommended it!

Favorite Color(s): Purple and black

Last Song: According to Spotify it was Îles by Jordan Critz from my “Orchestral S Tier” playlist

Last Movie: John Wick (the first one) with my bf. Called it “the male gaze on screen” and he laughed.

Sweet/Spicy/Savory: SWEET

Currently Working On: Finishing up writing Chapter 21 of Everything Was White! Excited to post it!

Tag 9 blogs! @reallydumbdannyphantomaus @kinglazrus @wastefulreverie @qlinq-qhost @underforeversgrace @astatia-ghast @bibliophilea @ectopusses @duchi-nesten

#lexospeaks #plz enjoy me rambling #also Hail Mary is SUCH A GOOD BOOK OH MY GODDD #every so often i google it to see if there were any announcements about the upcoming movie #literally so excited i could vomit #also Jennette's book was...holy fuckkkkk #i dont usually read autobiographies or books by celebs #but jesussss chrissttttt #i got on the waitlist like the day it came out (last August) and i was on the waitlist till about 2 weeks ago #decimated that shit in 2 days #took 4 days of emotional processing after before i could read anything else #if you've read A Court of Thorns and Roses lemme know how you liked it!

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arandomroach · 2 years

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I've finished it

it's a day late but that's okay it doesn't matter lmao, enjoy my mildly inconsistent art style and the scrunklies.

some of the costumes are not 100% correct but that's okay I think and I might've gotten lazy with Lil Lion so tehe.

Black Sheep AU by: @apompkwrites (their writing is really good read it)

#this was a lot of fun #I speedran this #and it took 2 days but that's okay #my art #roaches art #happy halloween but it's a day late #Black Sheep AU #now to scream at genshin to let me whale on Nahida's banner #because for some reason it won't let me the fuck in #HOLY SHIT IT LET ME IN

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rahabs · 2 months

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Seeing myself in photos truly makes me want to die.

#I hate it. I put so much work into losing weight and keeping healthy and then?#I reacted SO badly to the forced vaccines and gained 50 pounds in 2 months despite exercising daily and eating under 1600 cals/day #And no matter what I do I haven’t been able to like. Shed the weight again #Seeing myself in photos other people took truly just has me going ‘holy FUCK’#And then I spiral.#I don’t know why but it messed up my hormones badly. I didn’t get a period for over six months #(INSANELY unusual for me as I have been regular like clockwork my entire life no matter my weight)#And then even once I started getting them again it took another two years for them to stabilise/get back to being like clockwork.#During that time no matter what or how much I exercise it’s just been a steady weight gain #Until I saw myself in a photo someone else took and yeah holy shit want to die I’m so fucking ugly it’s not even funny #text #chey.txt

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imwritesometimes · 3 months

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the last time I was this sick was over a decade ago and my grandma took me to the urgent care and nearly went Lucille Bluth on the dr

#when the dr was like she has the flu go home rest lots of fluids #my grandma was like she has the FLU? GO HOME? LOOK AT HER! IF I HAVE TO BRING HER BACK HERE I'LL FIND YOU!#she almost slapped my mom cause she didn't wanna take me to urgent care #it was a wild fckn day #I had the super flu from hell ×100000 and it took 2 weeks to recover and my grandma was like #ready to kill that dr if I didn't get better #I now once again have the super flu from hell ×10000 and I wish my grandma were here lol she was the best when I was sick #I really hope I'm better this weekend man this has been awful #going from someone who does 10.5 miles on a stationary bike 4-5 times a week #to not being able to get out of bed for more than 10 minutes has been... rough.#and santino is LOSING HIS MIND cause he feels neglected cause I'm not up playing with him and shit like normal #so he is being AWFUL 👿#god I just wanna get better holy shit #erin explains it all

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juniemoe · 7 months

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anyways.......... finally read wayhaven book 3 and i'm going kms now

#im very tired rn but i'm screaming inside #holy shit #obviously did ava's route first (bc who do you think i am???) and i'm so messed up inside now #i truly didn't think we'd get to have a kiss with A in this book #and the way it ended with her saying like bye this is all i can give you!!!!!!!!! god i'm fucked up #it was devastating #!!!!!#im doing nate next!!!!#i just need to play through book 2 first again #the book was INSANELY long too it literally took me the whole day to read with minimal breaks #im so excited to N's route i feel like it's going to be juicy #with all the shit that happens to detective in this book considering their overprotective nature #anyway bye gotta read through book 2 now brb #💬 chatter #🎮 vilna plays games #do i need to tag spoilers #it's been like six months #twc spoilers

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moo-savr · 1 year

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"OH I'M AFRAID TO BRUISE YOU,OH !!"

#i can't help but listen to jack stauber's - Pad Thai and thinking about duck whilst doing so /hj #also HOLY SHIT M00'S FIRST PAINTING STYLE????? UHHH HELP SHIT TOOK ME 2 DAYS #also also hey look an axe!!! holy shit is that a casa tidmouth reference????!!!!#my shit #ttte #ttte fanart #ttte duck #ttte montague

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love-fireflysong · 1 year

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Mark the day babes. As of twenty minutes ago I am once again caught up with where I was originally in crash 4 before my hard drive bit it. Took me a long 80 days (and I don’t even think I played it for like a good third of them!) but I did it, and considering it took me over FOUR months originally to get to this point I will consider it a win holy shit.

#good this morning was such a good day for gaming accomplishments holy shit #finally caught up before the new year like i wanted #plus I got that superliminal plat by speedrunning the game in under 35 minutes #and it only took me three tries!#...okay yes my final time was like 34:29:44 but I will take it sjdhakjshdasd #i had been joking to myself earlier that i was eating the breakfast of champion with my 2 day old fried chicken and macaroni salad #but clearly it actually was sasldjalsdjasd #god i feel good #tomorrow i once again enter uncharted territory and finish the 7(8?9?) levels i still have yet to experience #but for now i am celebrating with a victory cup of green tea #and maybe this high will give me a good boost and let me write more than a single fucking sentence of my fic before i go to bed #we can only hope

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acorviart · 5 months

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everyone should attempt an artisan craft at some point in their life because it would cut down the number of comments questioning why handmade goods like ceramics or textile craft or woodworking are so expensive

and this is an unrealistic expectation, but I think the attempt should include seeing through to the end at least one "finished" item, no matter how clumsy or lumpy your first attempts might be. like to me, there's a huge difference in perspective between attempting to learn how to crochet or throw a pot for a few days, acknowledging that it's harder than it looks and giving up, versus committing to finishing that scarf or clay pot you started and working on it for weeks while you painstakingly learn from your mistakes and grow attached to your project while also simultaneously hating it.

once you finish the latter, your perspective changes from "why does this crocheted blanket cost $200" to "holy shit I can't believe they're charging $200 for this crocheted blanket instead of $2000" because you may have known crocheting is hard, you may have easily agreed with the idea that "handmade goods take time and effort" even before attempting a craft, but now you know firsthand the absolute time sink it takes to make things. like yeah dude, that one item took you 2 months to make and probably wasn't even an ultra complex item if it was the first thing you made, now imagine attaching an hourly wage to that time to calculate the cost (and this is ignoring every nuance of the artistic element and master crafters being able to work faster/charge higher because of their years and years of experience)

anyway this rant has been motivated by a comment I saw on someone else's ceramic post asking why a mug was $60 and they understand it's handmade but $60 just seems overpriced, and bro do you know how long ceramics take to make. that mug probably took at minimum 3 weeks between how long it takes to throw the mug, dry partially, trim the mug, dry fully, bisque fire, wait a day for the kiln to cool, sand and paint and glaze, glaze fire, wait a day for the kiln to cool, take product photography of the mug, write description and list the mug online for sale, im not even including the skill needed to complete all these steps without the mug literally exploding or collapsing while also making it an appealing piece of art, aaaaaaaaaaaaa

#$60 is overpriced my ass #if I priced my ceramics by the exact number of hours they took literally no one would buy anything #holding up a plate like oh yeah I started this in uhhhhhhhhhhh august and it finished in december #wrote this intending it to be a rant and delete post but im sending it out into the world

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hussyknee · 1 year

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

(Edits closed as of 28 Nov.)

Lmaoooo

Nah I getchu. So this post has been circulating for like two years:

Link to post.

But yesterday, it had inspired someone to do this:

Link to post.

Next thing I knew there were fake Letterboxed reviews.

Goncharov moodboards. Really good ones.

Link to post.

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.

Link to post.

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. 😂😂😂

Link to post.

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

Link to post (tags mine).

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.

Final edit: Day 8. Media reactions to Scorcese's TikTok (everyone from Forbes to Vulture). That one Tumblr user who said they'd do a screenplay if their post got notes has promised to shoot a single scene, but please don't be dicks just because you reblogged it; leave them alone until they get around to it themselves. As of end of Day 8 there are 609 works in the AO3 tag. I love all you lunatics. Peace! ❤️

#goncharov 1973 #reasons i can never leave this hellsite #we've ascended from pirating criterion movies to straight up manifesting them into existence #get on our level twits #knee of huss #goncharov #tumblr lore #tumblr memes #tumblr culture

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deadsetobsessions · 4 months

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Alley Drunk! Danny AU- Part 1

[Pt.2] [Pt.3] [Pt.4]

To not turn into a giant raging asshole hell bent on murdering people and destroying the world after everyone he loved died, Danny had ran from Amity with his chosen vice.

A bottle. That’s right. Even after Jazz’s talks about alcoholism as a poor coping mechanism as a form of self harm, he still chose alcohol. Or maybe that’s why he picked it, because it reminded him of her, right before the booze took the sting of grief off of her memory. He was never really all that good at listening to Jazz.

And now she’s gone, so it’s moot point. Danny really hated Nasty Burger.

Danny made it all the way to Gotham, bottle constantly glued to his hand. It’s better than Vlad’s creep-o-self looming over him all of the time. He bummed out on the streets, fitting into crime alley like a native. Danny learned to pickpocket. Not much, just enough for a bottle when his ran out. He stayed human. At first he tried to convince himself that it was because he didn’t want to be perceived as a meta in a city where Batman notoriously disliked metas. Then, as he sunk deeper, he admitted to himself in a shameful curl of a whisper that it was really because alcohol affected his human side much easier.

Ghosts need an ungodly amount of alcohol to even get slightly buzzed. Danny’s human side? Only one full bottle the shittiest tequila he could find could even hope to be more than buzzed. It sucked.

He’s spent two years being an alcoholic that didn’t actually get that drunk. Technically, underage drinking was a crime. But then again, so was being a vigilante ghost. So, whatever. He does what he can to dull the grief. Mostly, he slept on covered and hidden nooks on top of Crime Alley’s roofs. Gotham city had taken pity on him and cleared her smog clouds when he was awake at night. Stargazing helped, at least. It gave him a little hope. It gave him a little wish to change and better and live like he wants. But then the night ends and when the day comes, Jazz isn’t there. Sam isn’t there. Tucker isn’t there. His mom and dad are not there.

Danny always went back to the bottle, in the end. Not that it did much.

Which was why, when he saw three looming figures over a tiny child, Danny’s saving people thing flared with a vengeance and his surprised ectoplasm burned what little buzz he had achieved by downing most of the bottle away, leaving him stone cold sober and pissed.

Danny sighed, dumping the rest of the nasty tasting liquid out. There’s no point drinking that little.

He approached the trio, who were beating up an actual child. Ancients, he hated Crime Alley sometimes.

“Give me your shit, you little punk!” Asshole 1 decided to say like a typical mugger, raising his leg to kick the curled up kid below. Danny doesn’t let him land the kick, smashing the bottle on the asshole’s head before any of them clocked his presence. He pivots, pushing a bit of that extra strength he normally keeps on a tight leash into his hands, and punched the other two in a quick fashion, knocking them out.

With that taken care of, Danny turned back to the kid who was still curled up. Danny sighed again, the trembles in small shoulders plucking on his heartstrings.

“You okay, kid?”

The kid uncurls, and Danny stared. Holy shit, is he looking into a mirror? Blue eyes, black hair, and tanned skin. Holy shit, he’s even got similar jaws to Danny.

“Huh.”

The kid flinched.

“Y-y’er the drunk,” the kid flinched again, eyes darting to the broken bottle still clenched in Danny’s hand. “I- I ain’t got money, honest. Please-”

Danny blinked down at the kid, brain connecting the dots after so long without actual interaction. He’s panicking and staring at the bottle in Danny’s hand like it’ll kill him. Danny raised the bottle and the kid closed his mouth with a click, terror worming its way into the kid’s eyes.

“I wasn’t going to mug you myself, kid.”

“But- y’er the- the Alley drunk.”

Danny blinked. Did he get a reputation without knowing again? Goddammit.

“I guess. Am I famous or somethin’?”

“Nobody- nobody fucks wit’ ya.”

“I also don’t hurt kids.”

“…”

The kid stared at him dubiously and with a sinking feeling, Danny realized that maybe the kid already had some terrible experiences with a heavy drunken hand. He promptly chucks the bottle further into the alley.

“I drink, yes. But I’m also not the kind of scum that would lay hands on a kid, let alone anyone that didn’t provoke it first.”

“Oh.” The kid uncurled more, looking at Danny warily, more at ease now that the bottle has left the chat.

“Yeah. I’m Danny. Stone cold sober, right now.”

“…”

Danny waited.

“Peters.”

“Okay. Peters, do you wanna take their shit?” Danny pointed a thumb at the knocked out would-be-muggers behind him.

“Y… yeah, sure. What’s my cut?”

“All of it.”

Peters stared.

Danny shrugged and started looting.

"Y'er so fuckin' weird."

----

See, the thing is, Danny hadn't anticipated saving Peters- "'s actually Jason"- would result in having a duckling following him around. The kid, Jason, glared at everyone who even looked at them wrong. But that's not the problem, because Danny could take anyone who took issue with Jason's looks, it's more like there's a child following him around now and Danny doesn't want to be the reason Jason turns into an alcoholic. It's- well, it made him cut down on the drinking. He even got jobs- legitimate jobs that sucks out his his poor ectoplasmic soul.

Why? Because Jason's apparently homeless. While that's something Danny's okay with for himself, he can't ever condone that for an actual child. Jason's walking around in threadbare clothes and thin soled shoes in the middle of Fall, for Ancient's sake.

Danny grumbles as he piled a bunch of clothes into the shopping bag as he checked out. Gotham's Walmart is a different kind of hell, but Danny feels right at home.

Sure, the work might suck out his soul and he might hate being sober, but Jason's face every time he comes home to an actual place to live, warm clothes, and food was worth everything.

#danny phantom #dc x dp #DCxDP #dpxdc #jason todd #batman #crime alley #Danny: im gonna be an alcoholic #also Danny: a child needs help and I don’t drink anymore #Danny phantom’s saving people thing #drunk danny #alcoholic danny #but not for long #danny adopts jason todd #jason todd follows his big brother into being a vigilante #kind of #he becomes robin #but gets rescued by his long suffering brother every once and a while #alley drunk! Danny AU

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