#but yeah!!

[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

#November 5th #november 5 2020 #the fifth of november #just a random ramble #November 5th 2020 is such an important day to me #it really is a holiday #but it does confuse me when I see people analyzing it primarily as a supernatural thing #instead of a ‘hysteria over an election reaches a breaking point when inane zero stakes fandom news comes out and we all latch onto it’thing #but yeah!! #this is my personal essay out of love for the holiday

[triona-tribblescore]

he just has a stummy ache guys dw uvu /ns <3

First/ Prev / Next

#SORRY ABOUT THE BAD PACING!!! #I just dont want this au to drag on #i wanna actually finish this lmao #so it may seem super fast paced #BUT YEAH!! #hmm next update might be a mikey solo one/ flashback? OO #splinter content incoming?? #then raph :DD #so happy to draw my big rock boy #<3 #tribbleart #rottmnt #rottmnt au #rottmnt comic #guardian au #rottmnt leo #rottmnt mikey #rottmnt fanart #rise of the tmnt

[marxistluffy]

Happy April! I am a Fool for One Character

#i've been off socmed so long i forgot i had a tumblr #but yeah!! #i've been experimenting with some genderbending lately #and wanted to share what was rolling around my brain #there will be more to come (eventually) #one piece #one piece fanart #usopp #usopp birthday #my art #genderbend

[achingly-shy]

THE QUARTER QUELL ALLIANCE (insp.) — requested by @panemgif

#the hunger games #catching fire #thgedit #geo.gif #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #finnick odair #johanna mason #mags flanagan #beetee latier #wiress #userars #user.bell #userjake #okay so let's ignore how the quality of the last three character gifs is trash lmfao #and also i literally couldn't get a good shot of mags in the arena that would have enough frames to gif without it just being a boomerang #so that's why hers is slightly different #and it's also grainy bc it's from when she volunteered for annie (oh no i may cry) and it was on the tv screen #but yeah!! #hopefully this meets your request! #ik you said scenes with the alliance #but i was scrolling through my inspo tag #and i came across the post i took inspiration for this from (coincidentally it was a finnick set) #and i instantly had an idea #which is insane bc i haven't had a lot of inspo lately

[koytix]

I missed 4/13 (on Tumblr) so uhhh here is my favourite troll

#kurloz #kurloz makara #homestuck #koyart #this is actually me just drawing over my university work on another layer #but yeah!! #I don't know why it's this motherfucker of all people is the one I loved most #but still #at the end of the day its still him yada yada #anyway happy homestuck or whatever

[twigs-sprigs]

(not so) secret santa gift i made for @shadesofvermillionvoid !!!!

its every kai from all of the aus we've made! you might see some familiar (and not so familiar) faces!!

(its.. not actually *every* kai. theres like one or two that i left out because we didnt talk about them as much.. BUT ALAS)

#ninjago #digital art #art #drawing #twigs art #lego ninjago #fanart #kai smith #kai jiang #ninjago kai #ninjago fanart #i wont tag this with all the aus #just cause i dont wanna flood their tags HAHSNMD #but yeah!!

[palossssssand]

Commissions open!

Hi! Opening about 3 slots for commissions, everything listed is On The Menu. Please see my pinned post for all the good info. Shoot me a DM or email [email protected] if interested. Thank you!

#al speaks #commissions #I will hand it to twitter. I like that qrts show up before the original post. it makes it feel like more of an addition #in terms of comm posts anyways #but yeah!!

[gloombeaches]

transparents from the other two icon posts i made. also free to use if you want to make ur own icons!

#cleos looks a little weird quality wise but her pic was different compared to the others and idk why??? #but yeah!! #here you go! have fun with them!! #im going back to rotating the images of these dolls in my mind #monster high #frankie stein #lagoona blue #draculaura #clawdeen wolf #cleo de nile #transparents

[scottie-draws-sometimes]

Statement begins…

A while ago, I caught up on the From The Archives/Hermit Archives story by @/sixteenth-days and WOW I loved it. So here are some drawings I did of Grian and Pearlo after I finished!

#hehe too scared to actually tag the creator just in case #but yeah!! #I’ve had these for a bit #I really fell in love with the vibe of the fanfiction and all the stories #very cool!!!!! #it actually made me want to listen to(?) the actual podcast (the magnus archives?) #which I still might do #from the archives #the hermit archives #Grian #pearlescentmoon

[retellingthehobbit]

I just finished chapter 15 of my comic adaptation of The Hobbit! It is the first of our “finale” chapters, and is 20 pages long, so it’s twice as long as the chapters I usually draw, and the art has grown more detailed and elaborate. It is very exciting and I am excited to post it! Tho It did indeed take time

Chapter 14 will arrive on August 13th, and the double-sized Chapter 15 will arrive on September 13th!

Chapter 16 will tentatively arrive on November 13th, but is such a Big One I don’t think I can promise that 😂

In the meantime I may continue posting out of context drawings on this blog, but I don’t want to ‘spoil’ everything before it comes out! :D

Also this is what I mean when I say that, if I published at a “normal webcomic pace—one page per week—no one would ever ask me if I was on hiatus XD…if I split the 30 pages of these next chapters into a weekly posting schedule, I would post 1 page a week consistently for 6 months. Instead I am posting two large batch updates over the course of 2 months, which would amount to about 4 a week, because I am a very silly stubborn person.*

(*the real reason I like the large batch updates is because I enjoy updates that feel like a completed chunk of story, and when I read webcomics I think it’s easier to leave comments on ones that publish that way. It’s hard to find something to say about every single solitary page of a comic, but it’s easier to find things to say about an entire chapter, and when you know updates arent super frequent it’s easier to motivate yourself to say something. I personally am willing to accept “”less engagement””” overall if people who are invested are more likely to leave nice comments every chapter haha 😂. )

But yeah! Get hype

#sorry if this half incoherent I have a cold 😂 #but yeah!! #chapter 15 is very exciting #the hobbit #retelling the hobbit #not chapters #announcements

[hydn-jpg]

just follow my lead

ik the anatomy is kinda off but at this point i'm just glad i managed to finish this drawing bc it's been sitting in my wips for a while haha. but yeah!! this was one of my fav moments in crimes so i just had to draw it!! can't wait to see these fools again in book two!! (☆▽☆)

timelapse below the cut bc i feel like sharing + rambly artist commentary(?):

idk if it's obvious from the timelapse but the bg and other dancers were last-minute additions lol. initially it was supposed to be just trystan and noel (which is why i did the lineart right after sketching them) and a simple painted bg but just as i was about to colour it kinda struck me as a bit,, bland? so i quickly sketched out the bg they used in the scene (as close as i could anyway, i wasn't about to make it that detailed when i'm gonna gaussian blur it after anyway lmao)

the dancers were the same, i made them faceless and bland so they don't stand out too much (e.g. me changing the blond guy's suit from cream to grey) i did put a little more effort into the dress of the redhead in the far back bc she's supposed to be olivia nevrakis,, i wanted to add her in since she was a pretty integral part of the chapter without making her too pronounced hsdjlkk i drew the red flower and lace details on her dress and everything, it's a shame all of that isn't really visible in the final product but again— gaussian blur'd (also very tiny). in hindsight maybe i should've drawn her closer to the screen or smth but this is about trystan and noel so!!! whatever lol

there are a lot of things i'd change if i ever redraw this (or maybe just the bg) but that's a problem for future me to decide to do or not do (×_×)

#sorry if the ~artist commentary~ made no sense i am not eloquent and have too many thoughts #but yeah!! #i am super excited for crimes 2 !!!!!!!! #literally vibrating at a speed that could shatter glass in anticipation #i hope i could do a lot of fanart for it !!!! #brain pls be nice to me ok #playchoices #choices cop #choices crimes of passion #crimes of passion #choices fanart #trystan thorne #the loml #mc: noel rose #my art #hydn.jpg #hydn.mp4

[triona-tribblescore]

Asking some artists/writers that I follow:

What is the most recent thing you've written or drawn? Do you like to share sneak peeks of your work, or do you prefer to post finished pieces only?

Well! :D

the more recent thing Ive drawn is a "Pretty Woman" crossover with huskerdust but ima post that tomorrow <3

as for WIP's, I do like sharing them but its usually on my Instagram story or twitter, I like to keep tumblr for more finished things :D

Heres an example of one I posted yesterday (gonna post the full pic in a bit~)

#I alllllwaayyysss like my lineart WAY more than the finished peice #and I like it more on a white bg too #but the stuff just doesnt get interactions that way TwT #but yeah!! #super fun questions ty for the ask :D #asks #tribbletalks #tribbleart #angel dust

[ilydottie]

Z’s Writing Event <3

Hi all! You guys mainly voted yes for the writing event so here it is! For this event anyone even non-followers can join, but please limit each entry to one with only one character requested.

About the event:

So, the reason I wanted to do this event is because I feel my skills are in need of improvement for several reasons. You are welcome to request anyone (except for the kids in genshin) for me to write for. My goal here is to write something as close to canon as possible with the themes and tropes of your choosing, and with whatever character you request.

Fandoms Allowed: I did previously have this only genshin centered, but I’d love to branch out more so yeah. Fandoms included are now JJK, MHA, Genshin, and Tokyorev!

An example of a request for the event could be as follows: Hi Z! Could I request Alhaitham, with hurt no comfort, and some friends to enemies, too? Thank you!

So, yeah with that if you have any questions feel free to inbox or dm me if that’s more comfortable for you, and just have fun!

Please read the rules underneath the read more

The rules:

• Must have an age indicator in ur bio (20+, in my 20’s, (insert age), etc.)

• You don’t need to be following me to join

• Please read my request rules before entering! If it goes against one of my boundaries/rules I will ignore it.

• Please limit each entry to one per person.

• This is less of a rule and more a suggestion: Please try to send me a character/trope I haven’t written before/or I have not written much of. Don’t go easy on me! Hehe <3

• Have Fun!!

#z.events #okay to reblog #uhm yeah i’m bad at making these posts <3 #but yeah!! #technically the poll isnt done but #majority is yes so im going for it

[clownery-and-fuckery]

GUYS. I want to write but I don't know WHAT to write please good lord help

More info under the cut

Modern!AU: this would be continuing from Last Conversations/some small oneshots!!! Requested or otherwise >;0

PheeTech collections: that's just a collection of PheeTech aus I've written/writing rn

Kid!Tech: made with @ soldfor3000credits, this au is ADORABLE and features some soft ass dad!Fives and Hunter and Fives have a fistfight I think it's awesome 10000/10

Dust up wips: I have so many wips. One of them is a zombie like virus, one of of oc content, some is simple grieving :(

Entirely unrelated stuff is... yk, self explanatory >:D but for requests and stuff I'm open to a lot of stuff!!!! Just don't expect stuff like x reader/NSFW things to be particularly fantastic, haha- ;"D

If none of those options appeals just click [unrelated] and tell me what you wanna see :D!!!!!! Okay thanks byeeeeee <3

#im so indecisive #i will be posting everything eventually #but yeah!! #sw the bad batch #tbb tech #tbb crosshair #phee genoa #tbb wrecker #tbb hunter #tbb echo

[kenzie-ann27]

"He is survived by his wife Marcia and his children, Connor, Kendall, Siobhan and Roman Roy."

Roman youngest child confirmed?

#posting this on its own since i don't have enough followers to really get a response #but yeah!! #that lack of oxford comma also making me think shiv and roman really are twins #roman roy #kendall roy #shiv roy #connor roy #succession #succession spoilers

[pondhue]

just for funzies, what do you headcannon rick's horoscope sign as being? i feel like he's a sagittarius or possibly a scorpio personally 👀

ohh this is such a fun question

i headcanon rick having a scorpio (or even aquarius) sun, leo rising and a sagittarius moon maybe?

(also i know u didnt ask but i also see morty having a good chunk of pisces and/or cancer placements 🤪)

#like no way he DOESNT have some scorpio and leo placements honestly #i'm a novice in astrology stuff and i merely think it's neat #but yeah!! #loved this ask #pondasks