#i will ascend

[nearlydark]

Well I was losing hope that I wouldn’t find one; they had the mini goblets, a plate, the cream & sugar set, the pie server, bell, and mini bowls but I was really looking for the bigger goblet. I did one more sweep and lo and behold on the back window…I found it!!!!

#imagine drinking a heavy red wine out of this #I will ascend #personal #Avon cape cod set

[thehollowslime]

[ID: A side-profile drawing of the Knight from Hollow knight standing in front of the void portal to the Pantheon of Hallownest. They stare into the awaiting darkness as clouds of shadows swirl around the ornate golden framework. End ID]

The resolve to keep fighting, and to lose. I’ll keep dying, over and over, chasing the light- because I cannot kill you. I’m sorry, Sibling.

Please wait for me.

#hollow knight #embrace the void #HAVING THOUGHTS. i write and i write but nothing comes close to how this ending makes me feel #i won’t kill my sibling. not again. there has to be another way. i’ll fight and claw and scream my way to light all my own if i don’t have #to fight you again. #i will not strike you down #i will not end our family #i will not repeat the past nor pay for the sins of the fallen #i will ascend #i will kill the light #AND I WILL NOT GO QUIETLY. #hk ghost #hk the knight

[xiaojuun]

SWAN AND RUBY MAIN VOCAL STAGE ???????

#I WILL ASCEND

[marim-bruh]

THURSDAY IS GONNA FUCKING SLAP MY TITS OFF

NEW EVERYTHING EVERYTHING SINGLE AND NEW AESOP ROCK SINGLE

AT THE SAME FUCKING TIME

BLESS THE FUCK UP

#i will Ascend #aesop rock #everything everything band #my posts

[astral-from-afar]

New info about s2 apparently on the 25th, I wonder what stuff Mappa is cooking

#Astra writes #If they focus on Riko #I will ascend

[madwheelerz]

If the Duffers do what I just thought of then they are sick and twisted with the funniest sense of humor I have ever seen

#byler #hint it's not byler related #but like if they go there #i will ascend #no i will not share anything until s5 is out and I potentially see it with my own eyes

[honeysunzz]

each day the byler tag on ao3 grows closer to surpassing the martians, and when that day comes, the world will finally heal

#byler #i will ascend

[daremna]

#chelsea wolfe #god i love her #7 months until i hear this live #i will ascend #Spotify

[cyber-corp]

🥳🏠

#413 #happy birthday to this piece of shit webcomic that has changed my life from the moment i started reading #homestuck #john egbert #rose lalonde #(ascend descend rise up abscond) #dave strider #jade harley #gecko boy

[chimkinbunnii]

I am seething with rage

It is currently four in the morning

I should be asleep instead of being angy at the world

#i have 0 hours of sleep #i will ascend #chimkin stfu

[hussyknee]

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

[lotus-pear]

soukoku as one of my dearest renaissance paintings

#instead of paying attention to the lectures in ap art history i just look at the paintings my teacher puts on the slides #and decide which ones fit my fictional pairings #i wish i remembered this one i think it was by bernini but i'm not 100% :(((((( #sighhh i'll go check again if anybody wants the og #i listened to luminary by joel sunny while painting this and the vibes were ethereal i felt like i was ascending #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #bsd #dazai osamu #osamu dazai #nakahara chuuya #chuuya nakahara #soukoku #skk #lotus draws

[dreamerdagn]

my tears of the kingdom experience so far

#catfishchat #totk #things really opened up for me when I realized that any time I was frustrated I could go somewhere else #edit: I do really wish I'd kept the essence of If It Sucks Hit Da Bricks #esp since my point wasn't about warping but the fact that you can leave almost any situation #you can warp you can jump you ascend you can hit da bricks #but I said warp and the pic is of him jumping so Hit Da Bricks didn't make sense #catfish post #loz

[foresttt-png]

So scary, so so scary

#hes just a lil guy #batstarion #astarion #ascended astarion #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 fanart #fanart #baldur's gate #Batstarion is so silly #i drew this mid lecture

[slushy-sash]

bro cooked so hard he split the sea in half

#when that music hit i was ascending bro #THAT OST HAD NO BUSINESS GOING SO HARD #BUT IM SO GLAD IT DID #it gave me so much cdrama vibes #i'd watch a cdrama about hsr #also im saving everything for IL danheng i hope i get to E6 him as a f2p #honkai star rail #hsr #dan heng #imbibitor lunae #my art

[lazylittledragon]

Hello I love your bg3 content and your Dorian is so lovely! Can we get like an alternative reality with Dorian and Ascended Astarion? What would your headcannon be for them? 🙇

something like this, probably

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #astarion #tavstarion #ascended astarion #tw blood #long post #i may have gotten carried away with this #the only good thing dorian got out of being vampire lord astarion's concubine was a lovely bedchamber and a dramatic robe #i think dorian's attitude to a lot of things is 'it can't be that bad' until it is very very very bad #'maybe he won't be that bad' until you've been locked in a palace for decades and there's nothing left for you to love anymore #i got nauseous writing this i HATE him #it was such a delicious prompt though and i can't say i never thought about it #also i didn't realise until after i wrote it that this was how interview with the vampire ends. nvm