tagged by loml @cordiallyfuturedwight for the monthly breakdown. i might like you less now that you know me so well. tagging some crushes @aprylynn @thvinyl @monismochi @kimtaegis @banghwa @eoieopda @pauls-mccharmly @letmelovekoo @visionsofgideontheninth @kimchokejin if you feel so inclined 💜
//im gonna send in a bunch of these feel free to answer some later lol
❝ Because trust and cooperation have always been the hallmarks of our relationship. ❞ -@redandmedic
Party sat with their back to the wall, smoking a cigarette and relishing the feeling of the cool concrete bricks. They almost jumped when Isabel started talking, not seeing or hearing her walk up. Why is she at my house there is no reason for this, they thought disdainfully.
"Sit down before someone sees you from out those windows and kills your ass. Now what has always been the hallmarks of who's relationship?"
Last song I listened to: rat a tat by fall out boy ft. courtney love bc i am listening to the album save rock and roll
Currently watching: myself spiral i have been putting absolutely bonkers stuff on the tv over and over and over (the bonkers bit is that i’ll watch the same thing 8 times in a row 12 days in a row) including all the bert kreischer specials, middleditch & schwartz, the simpsons, and blues clues,, but mostly mostly what i’ve been actually watching is stuff on youtube, graysonsprojects, eat the menu, smosh pit try not to laugh compilations, and now just a zillion olympics videos on the nbc sports channel which are making me so emotional lmao
Currently reading: i just downloaded maybe 20 books on libby to keep me occupied when i want to read while i’m stuffing all my books in boxes to be tucked away for an indeterminate amount of time but anyway that’s a digression i am about to reread black ice by becca fitzpatrick
Currently obsessing over: moving, olympic camaraderie, words per usje, the series of packing playlists i made a year ago, don’t kiss ur friends by may-a, margot robbie forgetting what a barbie was in australia, crayola crayon bandaids, my pretty new water cup, chilly nights, these emojis 🥹🥴🫠, how hot i look in thongs, my birthday being shy of 2 weeks out, how unbelievably fresh this pack or graham crackers is, the word ridonkulous, the more frequent phone calls i’ve been having with family, some negative stuff i probably shouldn’t be, getting hugs in a matter of days, seeing my cat i miss so so so so much, having a brunch with my best friend i haven’t seen in FOREVER sometime soon, and something to close off hm……..oh! heartstopper & rwrb coming out soon
no pressure tag hellos: @translasso @wh0re-behavi0r @firemedicdiaz @heartbeatdiaz @loveyourownsmiilee
Winter, stepping into the night trolley,
quarter pint of scotch in pocket...No, not that one.
The childhood story—Grandmother reading among
her violets a poem about the elevated train
slithering its worm down London’s spine.
Not that one. I could tell you skeins
of train stories, as now through this dense
summer night, trees swarming green their canopy
over the street of warm lit windows, the train
slashes its path through the neighborhood, whirr
and pulse, the heart and fuse of distance filling
the room, hurtling through countless frames,
the scenes—now that curtainless room of young men
preening shirtless before their mirrors, now
the ward of iron hospital beds. I’ve seen them.
By the screen, the white cat swivels her ears
to follow the train until it’s lost in glass
smashing, the alley voices. Who’s walking tonight?
Who’s hungry? The story I keep returning to
is the one about walking hungry over
that St. Louis railroad bridge. Why that one?
Is it the bridge? Bridge linking one riverbank aflame
in smokestacks, the slaughterhouses, to
the bank where the city’s glittering Andromeda
spilled itself before them. Bridge
of flying hands and curses, iron bridge
and the passage of colliers, boxcars, the gondolas
freighting coal, dull sprockets,
sleek carriages of lingerie and crystal.
Distant, the sceptered city glints, a figment,
I could begin. Or once, there was a time,
the opening a fairy tale, simple, sinister.
II
January, its savage tempers & mirthless
North wind have iced the iron bridge’s spans.
Between flaming riverbanks, the two walk thin
as flame, a world refined to fierce purity—
lungs blued to filigree, bare ankle, damp sleeve
frosted beneath the other’s steadying hand.
Stepping tie to tie,
the river churned below
its suicide babble, the nitrous drowned
sopranos, sulfuric moans. Such a grand manner
of entry, fareless, in stealth,
the city’s lit gateway fuming like midnight’s
wild schemes. Should I ask the obvious questions?
Such as what was the engine driving the machine
of their travel? Oh, fear, that’s familiar. Folly,
leavened recklessly with hope. Lights multiply
against the sky, the city’s slow Andromeda,
a constellation the shape of what they seek,
the streets inside of Berlined façades, people
breakfasting in mid-air, walls torn down. The squatter’s
palace. The rat’s domain, each moment rinsed
in benzine, sharpened with amphetamine,
the hunger. Alluvial voices
hissing beneath them dogs of chaos,
escape from the burning city, no time, no time.
The river knows the story. The get-out-of-town-fast story.
A dizzy trip through the ripped underside of things—
that rough fugitive coinage, begged rides,
begged meals. Somebody fed us. Somebody said
get out of town. Those E. St. Louis backyards sooty
with frozen laundry trees. Should I say the Mississippi knows
the story of the room left behind, the bad deals?
Like a scene playing out in a glass globe
I might hold in my palm, I can watch them:
oh look at those fools, the cold carving
them up to some version of bewildered miracle.
III
Deep freeze humming the rails, the entrance
into the unknown city, the bus station pulsing
fluorescent waves across ranks of pay TVs,
a quarter a view for those laying over, for those
mired in dim rooms, too long alone with themselves.
You know how it is. The fact of death starts pearling
large in the mind, darkening its banks of offices,
ballrooms where you might touch some face
you recognize, those staircases that spiral, collapse
amidst the body’s mysteries, its harsh betrayals.
Or love’s betrayals. Through static, the P.A. spits
destinations, frayed galaxies of names—Columbus,
Joplin, St. Joe, Points West, Kansas City...
How does one thing part from another? Redrawing tendrils
& roots, a lopped amputation that leaves this one
raving in the street, the other cold, cold...
alone in the room after such intensity, the way
it would be, me leaving E. so crassly after
the crazy journey. I think now I’ve become
a character in this, must slip on the coat,
these salt-wet shoes, sip the raw whiskey
and in the drunken radiance the TVs spill
over sleepers’ faces hear the late-night tapdancers,
the anthems & jets. Then the station signal’s
high bat-cry peeling away to the automated
voice, Chicago, Detroit, Points North...
After the parting, one from the other, there’s
the long reclamation, flood plain, phantom
limb. From one form to another: transit.
IV
Oh, the anarchy of owning nothing
but a constellation the shape of what they seek.
The get-out-of-town-fast story. No bus fare,
and where to go
in this steaming plenty, the lit kitchens
& parlors glimpsed from the street washed
citron by lamplight. Is it the stolen car
again in this version, or the abandoned movie palace?
I can put them in the theater and show them
making love, warm with each other
& the begged bottle of scotch & they can sleep
in moldering velvets. Stripped bare,
sapphired in blue air, she’d be a woman served
to the city’s glittering Andromeda.
Like the Russian cellist broke in Berlin,
the ‘20s, who’d sleep in the opera house, who
one delirious night played, naked, his instrument
into the shadows, the banked silent seats
& rat galleries. And forgot the cold.
That would be pretty wouldn’t it?
But the theater’s barricaded, and so,
it must be, as it always is, the stolen car.
Beyond the city it will spirit them
into the blizzard, the etherous drifts, until
the engine stops & the road erases, trackless.
And then she’ll know ice needling the blood
to scarlet foliage. But, how to show the calm
when she thinks, so this is what it’s like to die,
a twisting bolt of black cloth dragged back
through stations, the bare dusty rooms, chalk dust
& sachet, the river’s voices
deep nitrous green. How calm. Pocking snow
on the windshield, heavy and damp as the voices
of crows in her grandmother’s trees,
a cry she mimicked at the back of her throat,
harsh and wild. White crows
now blessing her eyes. How calm.
V
When the authorities lifted them away
from there, they entered a world of steam,
that fallen roadside constellation chromed
with coffee urns, galaxies of white plates.
Crossing the bridge back, again, the blood’s
fierce arterial surge like arias, like
alarming camellias scarlet with snow
still frosting the ground. Heavy and warm,
cups of coffee steamed in our hands, the good
bitter coffee. But always, we were aware,
hear still, the pulse and singing:
I am the stranger coiled on the landing, singing
this is the bridge of the flying hands,
the mansion of the body. I am the one
who scratched at your door, the one who begged
rough coinage. This is the blessing
& this is a hymnal of wings. Hear the heart’s
greedy alluvial choir, a cascading train
whirring the tracks: called back,
called back from the river.
VI
Chirring in her throat the white cat stretches
on the sill, all ruffled ivory, present-tense,
muscular pure. Can one possess a clear vision
of oneself in the world? Dominion over
all that bewildering wrack? This raised hand
against the evening’s towering cream and smoke
conjures a flurry of ghost hands, a crowd
glimpsed blurred from the hurtling train. Clouds
billow & unknot a sudden shower releasing
that lavish wet asphalt perfume, the fragrance
of countless showers over scores of cities, each one
intensely now, now, this sweet wrenched only.
From the turbulent river, moments swim unbidden
to the surface, others never rise at all, the lost
drowned arias, sunken avenues of camphored rooms,
the walls with their watery initials. Phantom
destinations, the P.A.’s St. Joe, Kansas City,
Denver, points beyond the laden plains surging
beneath waves of snow, blue perilous mountains,
locales in the mind.
The cat leaps, again a train, striking this time
a smooth oiled chord, as if there might be
singing on the other side of the tracks.
Some Jordan. That otherness, those secret times,
the bridges beneath the surface of a life.
Pull on the rough coat and salt-wet shoes.
Let the liquor burn your throat. Did I do that?
Could that have been me? Those figures crossing
the bridge, setting out, always setting out.
Voices I must keep listening for in these sharpening
leaves, among the stacks and flames,
the smoking pillars. Someone fed them.
Someone said get out of town.
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: 💀
(alt text included)
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! ❤️