#its like a poster for the goncharov that is in my head

[unseconds]

watched Goncharov on a call with some friends and... yeah i can see what people are talking about

#goncharov #this is like so self indulgent it barely makes sense as a fan poster #its like a poster for the goncharov that is in my head #unreality #also #while im here #can i just say that i love how while goncharov is positioned as a masculine protagonist of a mafia movie #hes a surprisingly passive character #hes so willing to be lead by the wrist to his fate #he only really makes one decision and while (spoilers) it does redeem him it also dooms him #its like he knows how his story ends #i almost felt complicit as a viewer? #good movie basically

[naryrising]

So you like imaginary fandoms...

With the recent success of Goncharov, I thought I'd make a post to mention some of the previous times this has happened in fandom, and a brief explanation and some links on how you can find works for them. I don't claim that this is a comprehensive list, it's just ones that came to me off the top of my head based on several decades of fandom involvement.

Ghost Soup Infidel Blue. Originates from the annual Yuletide exchange, specifically a post by liviapenn in 2007 that used it as a default fandom to help explain how to write 'dear author' letters. The relevant quote (meant to illustrate the kind of letter that would be too specific) was "'Bad: "I would like a Ghost Soup story where Luke makes out with Angela's clone and Angela gets mad and seduces Moira just to make Luke mad, and then Ryan and Luke duel to the death with their lightsabers and it ends up in an Angela/Angela's clone/Moira threesome. And Ryan feels really bad and flies off to Mars forever."" Consensus is that it is a sprawling space opera anime series, something like Gundam or Macross, with many sub-parts and spin-offs. Part of the dynamic of Ghost Soup 'fandom' is people arguing in the notes and comments about the continuity or quality of these various spinoffs (e.g. Purple is reputed to be bad, but some people will staunchly defend it just to be contrary.) Deliberate wank and badfic is part of the humour. You can read the Fanlore post about Ghost Soup here and find works for it and its related fandoms here

Winterblumensaat. Again, this comes out of Yuletide, specifically a nomination in 2021 for what was strongly suspected to be a nonexistent German book. The nominator's sister found it in a flea market! It very definitely was real! They couldn't provide any evidence or a photo of the book, but they promise it was definitely a real book! Despite being rejected from Yuletide nominations as not having any basis in reality, it has nevertheless had some fics written for it. The AO3 tag is merged into Original Work, so you can find them by searching in Original Work for Winterblumensaat (results here). It seems to be a moody, dark mid-century European novel, with characters named Florientina, Mailia, Schnail, and Markus. A related non-existent fandom with the same origin story is Nur die Sonne - Maria Moßer, but this has only attracted one work so far (a crossover with Winterblumensaat).

Cordelia (Movie Poster). In 2020 a movie poster for the movie Cordelia came out that inspired fandom in ways probably not intended by the movie's creators. While the actual movie Cordelia is a contemporary horror/thriller, the poster gave people the impression that it might be about Victorian femdom with pegging. Needless to say, they were disappointed by whatever was in the actual film, and made up fic based on what they thought the poster was about instead. Currently ALL works in the Cordelia (2020) tag on AO3 are actually about the poster and not the movie.

Invisible Ficathon. In 2014 an exchange called Invisible Ficathon ran, which was based around "stories that never were". Nominated "canons" had to be nonexistent fictional works referenced in another work. Examples given included "The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes - Joan Watson" (from Elementary), "The Itchy and Scratchy Show" (from The Simpsons), the books in Lucien's library in The Sandman that only exist in dreams, and so on. The collections on AO3 contain 71 works for nonexistent fandoms. Alas that this exchange only ran once, because it was a fun concept. I think with the renewed interest in Goncharov, it would be ripe for revival.

#goncharov #fictional fandoms #ghost soup infidel blue #winterblumensaat #cordelia movie poster #invisible ficathon

[flammenkobold]

I posted 6,184 times in 2022

109 posts created (2%)

6,075 posts reblogged (98%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@kd-heart

@robiinbuckley

@screechfoxes

@odins-sonofmischief

@targaryensource

I tagged 6,177 of my posts in 2022

#house of the dragon - 530 posts

#moon knight - 310 posts

#stranger things - 301 posts

#doctor who - 285 posts

#rqg - 273 posts

#rq gaming - 272 posts

#rusty quill gaming - 271 posts

#loki series - 259 posts

#the master - 215 posts

#the locked tomb - 198 posts

Longest Tag: 94 characters

#ep7 of hotd might as well have been an audiobook for all you could see happening half the time

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

not me thinking about "You're more important than a thing!" and then Grizzop protecting Sasha with his life because she was so important to him

98 notes - Posted June 21, 2022

#4

watching some due south and fraser/rayk videos on youtube and crying over how beautiful the show and this ship in particular was and just remembering some things in no particular order:

“Do you find me attractive?” "Very much so, yes.”

the underwater “breathing” thing

zero personal space

the smiles at the end of mountie on the bounty

I will beat you to death with this empty gun

zero personal space the extended edition with extra grabbing

betting on air

LoooOOOuuuu Scagnetti

being in synch

the entirety of Asylum

Love at First Sight discussion with Meaningful Camera Shot(TM)

punching each other

who left the empty butterdish in the fridge

THEY LITERALLY RIDE OFF INTO THE SUNSET TOGETHER

98 notes - Posted January 10, 2022

#3

Zolf “Archive of Our Own” Smith

137 notes - Posted January 13, 2022

#2

Me at everyone who loudly didn’t like the movie: It just wasn’t the movie you wanted and that’s okay, now sit down and drink some hot chocolate it’ll be fine. Me though? I am getting the champagne because this movie had everything I wanted: Keanu Reeves with a rubber ducky on his head, a character that has blue hair and pronouns, Neil Patrick Harris playing a total slime ball, a love story that literally changed the world, Carrie-Anne Moss looking hot, Trinity being badass and a cat.

213 notes - Posted January 8, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

things i have seen made for goncharov so far:

- several university papers - fake DVD cover - several movie posters - several gifsets - fake video reviews - so much fanart - so much fanfic that the ao3 tag has now more fic than the avatar blue people movie - a flash exchange i have to remember to sign up to - a google doc with people writing out the movie - there is a discord server were i’ve seen the link but have not joined bc i am a scaredy cat and new discords scary - pages long meta - shit posts - shit posts by famous people - posts warning people about the dangers of fandom past so that no one gets the idea to start a fundraiser to make this a real thing - almost forgot (thanks for reminding me in the tags): A soundtrack - several playlists - we managed to get a new york times article i think?

anyway i am so damn amazed at this fandom about a made up movie on tumblr. its so exciting and makes me so happy at all the creativity and shared chaos and people just having fun with a story

1,020 notes - Posted November 24, 2022

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[victoriahyphen]

I posted 35 times in 2022

That's 35 more posts than 2021!

10 posts created (29%)

25 posts reblogged (71%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@darkacademiagay

@gallusrostromegalus

@lavender-evening-fog-podcast

@daily-pretty-animals

@strange-aether

I tagged 21 of my posts in 2022

Only 40% of my posts had no tags

#goncharov - 14 posts

#unreality - 2 posts

#audio drama - 2 posts

#podcast - 2 posts

#advent calendar - 2 posts

#endometriosis - 1 post

#welcome to night vale - 1 post

#this was me - 1 post

#it's the user name in quotation marks that does it for me. - 1 post

#craft beer - 1 post

Longest Tag: 76 characters

#stop asking auters what they think of big budget existing ips challenge 2023

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

I kind of want to make a Goncharov Audiodrama

Like, the “fiction” part is the host going through the investigative journalistic process to interview a bunch of people about the movie, its meaning, its impact, etc. and the interviewees are just tumblr posters committed to the bit, riffing on posts they’ve done.

3 notes - Posted November 27, 2022

#4

The hottest movie of 2022 doesn’t actually exist

7 notes - Posted November 27, 2022

#3

Tallulah Bankhead after her hysterectomy, endometriosis after mine

-Image Via Be Kind Rewind

7 notes - Posted January 18, 2022

#2

Back to work tomorrow!

Image description: A girl with a tuba stands with the bell of the tuba covering another girl’s head. The girl with a tuba is labeled “me”, the tuba is labeled “Goncharov” and the other girl is labeled “my coworkers asking about my week off”

8 notes - Posted November 27, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Goncharov is really a Night Valeian premise when you think about it

There is this movie that does not exist, but we are all going to talk about it as if it exists, and collectively agree on the plot

10 notes - Posted November 29, 2022

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