Not straight ladies on booktok proudly sharing information about what kind of smut they’re into that you could not torture out of the average AO3 user. Like pop off girlboss but my AO3 history is between me and Satan alone.
I’m not even judging, I’m just in awe of people being THIS horny on main with their real face on display. 😳
I know I'm bisexual but like straight women who call themselves radfems reeeeally dislike analysis of straight culture. Why are women for example attracted to men twice or three times their size? Why can I not say that it's weird for a man to be romantically interested in someone who is comparatively childsized, whom he can also easily murder probably just by accident?
Or why should I not call out women who let their men back after cheating? Because you like your Nigel we are not allowed to analyze how common that is? How encouraged it is in society to let men cheat and come back because "men are men"?
Those people: Stop making everything gay! Let us just for once have piece of media focused on male friendship.
Me, an intellectual: There has been media focused on male friendship since the epic of Gilgamesh. Now give me a man and woman of the same ethnicity that can stay just friends for a whole movie.
Clowns crying 'this is straight erasure!' and 'stop making everything gay!' everytime you are vocal about LGBT shipping are ridiculous. These people acting as if straight people doesn't automatically ship their own toddler with other opposite sex toddler all the time and talking about 'How cute they look together! They might marry in the future' and literally everytime there's a boy and a girl who breathe the same air in any media and art the straight will demand them to marry or fuck
( not saying all straight cis people like this, you guys knows what and who am I talking about )
Edit: Because there are idiots who think that i was talking about 'SexuaLizing ChilDren' what I meant by a boy and girl is everytime there's straight coded/ looking people in any media or even just a man and women exist in the same space the heteronormative people will demand them to be couple. Like every shitty action movie and they shoved straight relationship into it because that is what straight expected
none of the heterosexual jokes are funny. "my wife is my ball and chain 🙃" if you don't like her why are you with her. "men don't ever listen 🙃" not listening is a very common human thing not restricted to men. "lol ur doing the dishes are u in ur wife's pants 🙃" cleaning is a basic human life skill. "my husband can only cook beans on toast 🙃" hey I've just identified a very simple thing that you could do together to help you bond. i just don't get it. straight ppl hate each other so much don't you get tired. aren't you tired
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! ❤️
Really tired of the people who say having kids made them "better". I especially see it with men. Like no you should've been better before the kid. Most men dont get better and honestly I'm skeptical if you have. You risked bringing a human being into this world to deal with your shit behavior. Be better before you decide to have a baby. The world would be better if you did 💩.
Straight men be like: no need for self-improvement--knocking up a woman will fix me.
you know that tiktok trend where girlfriends read their boyfriend’s gamertag for the first time? how can you not know that for years? some of them are even married!! (unless they keep it private on purpose of course but then the tiktoks would be fucked)
maybe i just don’t get it because i’m some sort of lesbian but that feels like a thing you notice when you care about his hobbies