Top 23 of 2023
Have you been aching to get your hot little hands on 52 weeks of data around original posts, likes, reblogs, and searches, all weighted and ranked and tied up into categories with a nice little bow on top? Well, today’s your day! It should come as no surprise that Artists on Tumblr reign supreme: from stunning traditional art, jaw-dropping digital art, fanart, sculptures, textile art—you name it, basically—this year’s list shows that Tumblr truly is the home for art and artists. Thank you, Artists on Tumblr, for enriching our dashboards day after day.
Rounding out the top three, we have two iconic shows: Good Omens is live-action, and The Owl House is animated, but both have a heck of a love story at their core. The second season of Good Omens blessed us with not one but two ineffably exquisite ships, while the final season of The Owl House broke and then healed fans’ hearts in equal measure. Thanks, @danaterrace! Actually, come to think of it, the Good Omens finale kinda did the same in reverse. Thanks to you, too, @neil-gaiman! We can’t wait for season 3.
Speaking of heartbreak and healing, Our Flag Means Death’s second season offered both in droves. The entire cast gave stellar performances, and fans couldn’t have been happier to see the kinds of representation the show displayed. Last year’s #1 topic, Stranger Things, may have dropped a bit, but trust us, you wouldn’t know it from the amount of meta, fanart, and fics in the tag. And did you hear about the live-action adaptations of both The Last of Us and One Piece? They were a preeeetty big deal this year, too. Check ‘em out if you haven’t yet (lol, of course you have). And we’d be remiss not to mention the hugely dedicated fans, fanartists, and fic writers devoting their time to all things Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Y’all deserve a little pizza, as a treat.
2023 was also a year for blockbuster movies, which of course hasn’t escaped anybody’s notice here on Tumblr. Barbie smashed box offices worldwide and left us reeling with every re-watch. How can one describe Greta Gerwig’s pink-filled opus? It certainly is one of the movies of all time. Meanwhile, with its incredible animation and soundtrack, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse introduced us to a whole new multiverse of Spider-People, opening the portal to a veritable flood of incredible OCs. And then, of course, we got a fresh perspective on an old classic when cinephiles introduced Martin Scorscese’s cinematic masterpiece, Goncharov (1973), to a new generation of film aficionados who resoundingly agree that it is, in fact, the greatest mafia movie ever made. We’re so glad this underrated film finally got the acclaim it has long deserved.
In the realms of gaming and tech, the long-anticipated Baldur’s Gate 3 has basically become everyone’s new favorite D&D/dating sim combination. Of course, the Pokémon franchise, games, shows, and Hatsune Miku collabs remain perennial favorites. Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter, sorry, we mean of course X, made waves across the internet. Similarly, the Reddit blackout drove Redditors to new venues, and Tumblr users welcomed the folks from r/196 with open arms—we’re huge fans of your memes, y’all, and you fit right in. Welcome, we’re glad you enjoy the chaos. Here’s a fun fact: if we included post metadata in Year in Review rankings, #polls, introduced in January of 2023, would have been the #5 topic on Tumblr this year. Phenomenal.
And, oh right. Taylor Swift had kind of a big year, what with the albums, the epic global tour, and the movie and stuff. Fantastic work, @taylorswift, the Swifties on Tumblr thank you for everything.
This is Tumblr’s Year in Review.
Artists on Tumblr
Good Omens
The Owl House
Barbie
Pokémon
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Critical Role
Goncharov
Taylor Swift
Genshin Impact
Stranger Things
The Last of Us
Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Elon Musk
196
Star Wars
Our Flag Means Death
Crowley | Good Omens
LGBTQ
Cottagecore
Baldur's Gate 3
One Piece
Aziraphale | Good Omens
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What color does your love feel like?
Aicken's color is bright sunny yellow! 🌻☀
Sweet tasting popsicles, summer dresses and shielding your eyes from the sun. Your love is the excitement of something brewing, something growing. It's the almost childish bubbling giggles of something new, but with the potential to stay. It's wide smiles, blinding sunny light and warm bodies that gravitate to one another. It's the the softness, the willingness, the slight holding of breaths in a crucial "what if" moment. It's the impatience too. The bouncing on tiptoes to see further than your eyes can reach, the holding out for a future that never seems to come even though you're ready, you're so so so ready. It's the constant feeling of warm sand beneath your feet, holding out for the crashing waves. And still you wait, dry and impatient and with burnt soles of feet. Your love is sour candy, enjoying it as your nose scrunches up from the aftertaste of it. It's hands that grab and take hold, that reach and ask them to stay and hope and beg and wait. It's bubbling excitement sure, but it's also demanding, focused, driven. It's love like a plan, with a path and route and a clear destination. And you bonce on your tiptoes, and burning, waiting for the soothing water, the crashing waves, you hold onto the melting popsicle, you wait and wait and wait. It's tiring almost as much as it's lazer focused ambition, deeply rooted desire and the unrelenting hope that it will work, that it will come. And it does, I promise it does. The waves crash, the beach floods and the pain passes, the water cool and soothing and you can let yourself fall in, sinking, sinking. And it's good, it's perfect, what you were hoping and more, holding and embracing you and welcoming you into the stillness you always knew you were reaching for.
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Hi, I’m still too much of a sissy to talk to people directly all the time,so you might not know who I am, but I want you to know I appreciate you :)
I read your comments and tags on some of my drawings and I just- they make me feel better ❤️ especially when I don’t like one of my drawings as much ,you seem to notice all the little details and stuff that I put time into, so I want you to know that is very cool of you ☺️ u are kind and your comments make my day :D
This is super sweet and such a lovely thing to say, thank you so much!!!
I’m absolutely delighted you like my little tag-comments!! I don’t really draw much myself so I usually have no idea how to actually express my thoughts past “prettyyy” and blatant tag-rambling so I’m so happy you like them!
and I totally get the “not always wanting to talk to people directly” thing, so if that’s a qualifier for sissy status at least we’re in good company together! 😊😊😊
asfhkjksdfjkhsajkdhjk Thank you and I love you this was such a wonderful note to get and it’s just going to live in my brain now forevermore 🥰
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an insight into a relationship w the dreamies.
౨ৎ boyfriend texts !!
cold gf showing affection.
dreamies reaction to insta pic.
“what are we?”
“do you still like me?”
dreaming about another member.
picking you up from work.
dreamies spoiling you.
telling dreamies drama.
“sex can fix that.”
“i want a baby”
“my ex just texted me..”
showering together.
seeing the barbie movie without you.
using dreamies card by accident.
dreamies asking you if they can go out.
begging you to come back into bed.
౨ৎ cute and fluffy texts !!
short and sweet messages.
first “i love yous.”
international kissing day.
anonymous complimenting you.
texts after first date.
long distance relationship.
dreamies with baby fever.
catching dreamies staring at you.
“when do i look the prettiest to you?”
cute bday messages.
shyly asking you on a date.
acts of service / cute moments.
౨ৎ angsty texts !!
ignoring dreamies after a fight.
arguing with dreamies.
thinking dreamies are losing feelings.
first texts after breaking up.
asking bff dreamies for date advice.
give bff dreamies a chance.
“you could’ve been nicer to me.”
complaining about you to friends.
౨ৎ nsfw + jealously texts !!
dirty texts i.
dirty texts ii.
dirty texts iii.
“ass or tits?”
sending dirty meme.
distracting dreamies w a dirty pic.
jealous + possessive dreamies.
jealous + whiny dreamies.
being possessive over dreamies.
faking an orgasm.
wet dream abt bff dreamies.
dreamies + ur short skirt.
drunk texting dreamies.
dressing up for the grocery store.
jealous fwb dreamies.
౨ৎ funny + prank texts !!
loading screen prank.
sending dirty meme.
calling dreamies by their name.
“she’s busy rn.”
happy anniversary to the first time we fucked.
“he just left lol come over.”
“i saw you cheating on me.”
“last night was amazing.. oops wrong person.”
flower bouquet prank.
can’t hangout this month prank.
miss being single prank.
“she’s sleeping.. tired her out ig.”
sending unhinged memes.
autocorrecting love to hate prank.
telling dreamies to unfollow someone.
“why are some of my panties missing?”
sending drake memes.
“you forgot :(“ prank.
not saying i love you back
“you could’ve been nicer to me”
failing at waxing
“you’d make the perfect ex husband”
“if we break up i’m getting back w my ex.”
dreamies pranking you.
you’re not mature enough
“happy anniversary to the first time we fucked.”
“i told you not to leave any marks on me.”
“gimme head or something pls.”
dreamies dreaming abt another girlfriend.
౨ৎ idol boyfriend texts !!
boyfriend texts. (inspired by “worldwide by big time rush)
boyfriend texts ii. (jealous over idol! gf mc partner)
exposing your relationship.
sending dreamies nct memes.
“what other dream member would i date?”
surprising members on tour.
members stopping in ur hometown during tour.
reacting to jaemin abs.
being jealous over idol! reader mc
supporting dreamies / going to concert
wearing another members clothes
౨ৎ miscellaneous messages !!
dreamies x gf! with braces.
dreamies x gf! athlete.
dreamies x gf! producer.
sexy halloween costumes w/o dreamies
cringey couple costumes
bff dreamies suggesting couple costumes
going to haunted house together
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