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Just a little something I'm playing around with this evening...

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It’s Tumblr’s 2024 Year in Review!

Hello, Tumblr. Welcome to your Year in Review. Grab a slice of hear-me-out cake and some tea or other beverage of choice, and settle in for another year’s worth of sweet, sweet data—brought to you by the folks behind your weekly Fandometrics lists.

How does it work, you ask? Well, each year, we collect and categorize data from every post you made, each search, all the tags you used, and each and every like and reblog—to see what you yelled about the most. Lists are grouped by topic using 365 days of data between October 21, 2023, and October 20, 2024. Rankings are based on volume of appearance—not sentiment, importantly—so you might see list entries you Do Not Like that Tumblr as a whole has been vocal about Not Liking this year. We don’t tend to include on-platform events, so while you all booped and BOOped each other to distraction, that won’t show up here. Those joys are simply unquantifiable.

But what can you expect to find? It’s been quite a year. Alongside supporting each other through and discussing world turbulences, you rallied around the things that bring you joy. You polled the heck out of pretty much everything and anything you could think of and created more fanart and fan fic than we could wave a moderately shaped wizard hat at. It's also been another huge year for fictional characters—arguably the best characters out there—so this Year in Review, you’ll find new and returned rankings of fictional characters from movies, video games, TV shows, and anime & manga. And finally, we've made the lists longer, which means you'll have more chance of seeing some of your more niche fandoms reflected in them this year.

That's all for now! And so, without further ado and absolutely no gilding of lilies, thank you for another Big Year on Tumblr, Tumblr. Please enjoy your Year in Review.

Top 24 of 2024 Ships TV Shows TV Shows Fictional Characters Movies Movies Fictional Characters Celebs Books Anime & Manga Anime & Manga Fictional Characters Video Games Video Games Fictional Characters Web Series Web Celebs Musical Acts The 'Blrs

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TV Shows

Gods, angels, demons, dragons, vampires, and a bunch of first responders in LA.

Gravity Falls +56

Hazbin Hotel

Good Omens -2

Doctor Who +11

Interview with the Vampire +12

House of the Dragon +13

9-1-1 +18

Bridgerton +37

Percy Jackson and the Olympians +31

Supernatural

The Owl House -9

Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles -7

Avatar: The Last Airbender +19

Danny Phantom +4

Stranger Things -12

Dead Boy Detectives

Hannibal +9

Our Flag Means Death -12

Fallout

House MD +43

The Bad Batch +23

Loki +13

Ninjago +24

The Eurovision Song Contest -8

Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir -18

Adventure Time -17

Agatha All Along

Star Trek: The Original Series +51

Steven Universe +12

Criminal Minds +37

Lego Monkie Kid +7

The Umbrella Academy

Merlin

Arcane +14

Heartstopper -15

The Last Of Us -32

Obi-Wan Kenobi +12

Star Wars: The Clone Wars +17

X-Men '97

The 2024 US Presidential Debate

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine +20

Smiling Friends

Game of Thrones +23

Young Royals -13

The 81st Golden Globe Awards +20

The Bear +30

Phineas and Ferb +44

The Acolyte

South Park -13

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

Outer Banks +19

Sonic Prime -19

The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish

Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake -43

The Boys

Yellowjackets -29

The Muppets +12

The Sandman -29

Succession -51

Gotham +29

The 96th Academy Awards +7

Blue Eye Samurai

The Terror

Voltron: Legendary Defender

The Untamed -7

Buffy the Vampire Slayer +22

Invader Zim +33

The Sanremo Music Festival +29

Shadow and Bone -56

Total Drama

Ninjago Dragons Rising

The Dragon Prince -33

The 2024 MTV Video Music Awards

The Mandalorian -60

Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

What We Do In The Shadows -53

Community +5

Teen Titans

Young Justice

The Walking Dead +16

The 76th Primetime Emmy Awards

Metalocalypse -43

Transformers: Prime

Star Wars Rebels -11

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia -25

Teen Wolf -49

Supergirl +7

The Witcher -67

Pit Babe

The 66th Annual Grammy Awards -3

Classic Doctor Who

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

Breaking Bad -43

Super Bowl LVIII

Amphibia -20

Abbott Elementary -50

The Simpsons -23

My Adventures With Superman -47

Twin Peaks

Over the Garden Wall

The number in italics indicates how many spots a title moved up or down from the previous year. Bolded titles weren’t on the list last year.

Love Hazbin Hotel? There's a Community (or 50) for that.

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now give it a kiss

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me laughing over here with my apple music 2024 replay

everyone waiting for spotify wrapped, trying to guess when it'll come out, i've seen some guesses at the weird genres they'll have this year...

what if they just don't do it this year. that would be so funny imo

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Galactic Discourse #5 interior art

Signe Landon 1987

poetry by Judy Darnell

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reblogging because i was about to follow you to keep up with your progress, op, only to realize i already follow you.

i await you, op.

It is funny to me that a week or two ago, I was thinking about making a really moving/hopeful fanvid for Kirk and Spock set to Born to Run (if not Thunder Road or Badlands because they deserve it and if there are any songs I ought to obsessively listen to, it's those), and what am I doing now? Instead of finishing anything else (edits, meta, etc.)? Going back through an old chat with a friend and pulling out an idea that has been rattling around in my brain since August: a fanvid set to Protect Me From What I Want as a meditation on how Kirk and Spock deny themselves love throughout TOS, using quotes from Charlie X ("There are a million things in this universe you can have and a million things you can't have. It's no fun facing that, but that's the way things are."), The Naked Time ("Love. You're better off without it and I'm better off without mine."), Amok Time ("He does not know. I will do what I must, T'Pau, but not with him! His blood does not burn. He is my friend!" / "After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting."), and potentially Metamorphosis ("You can't join. You can't love." I have a lot of feelings about that speech and what it means for Kirk to be the one to say it, despite struggling to put it into words. Maybe some day I will dive into that episode like I've been meaning to.)

I've thought about making the parallel post and actually getting into the details of how this issue lurks in the background between them (and how they reject it when the other is in danger, showing what they truly desire, even in a high-stakes, life-or-death scenario when what they decide is coming from impulse and snap-decision), but the more I collect the images, the more the idea of crafting a video makes better sense, despite all the work that it will take (processing audio clips twice over, collecting the right clips, trying to match the song lyrics and not include a single bit of humor to it because that will destroy it, etc.).

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THIS IS SO CUTE!! Hi everyone, i am laura and i will 100% be bringing the mashed potatoes. this year my family massacred the classic mashed potato dish and i will be salty for the next 363 days until this is rectified. the correct way to eat mashed potatoes is with the skin on and with soft pieces of potato. anything smoother is puréed and wrong.

i am so thankful for all of my moots and the lovely people i interact with in this space. i have been a fan of merlin since like 2013, literally mere months after the show ended, and i always felt like i missed out on the community UNTIL NOW. i get to see how active the merlin community remains and other communities too! Hannibal, star trek, etc. It’s wonderful, esp. after a hard year.

let’s see, two extremely lovely people have already tagged me and thanksgiving remains my favorite holiday so now i will tag as many people as i possibly can before real life calls me back

@thisisjustmefangirling @imnotacreepijustlikeyou @is-arthur-back-yet @achillesuwu @strawlessandbraless @lxvenderjewel @lemonlinelights @emrysofealdor

Happy Mootsgiving, everyone!

So, technically, I know Thanksgiving is an American holiday… history… yadda yadda. However, this is not Thanksgiving.

This is Mootsgiving, and what I say goes ‘cause this is my holiday. Anyway! Mootsgiving is all the basic ideas of Thankgiving but better because I’m great like that.

I just wanted to show everyone how grateful I am, since gratefulness is a key principle of Thanksgiving.

I want all my moots from different countries to be able to have the picture-perfect movie-esque Thanksgiving of being surrounded by friends and family with all the care and love and gratefulness that can be poured into a single human. And, as the ever-dramatic Runar, what better way to do that than to organize a huge event?

So! Rules!

State what food you brought

State one thing you’re thankful for

My name is Runar, I brought the eggnog, and I’m grateful for each and every one of you 💗🫶

Really sappy and really long paragraph/speech under the cut!!

Soooo… to start off my big long speech… *clinks my fancy wine glass that’s filled with a mysterious substance* (It’s eggnog)

When I first started this blog, it was off a whim. I wanted to do something, something that involved putting my work out there, as I was just starting out. I wanted to mean something. In any sort of way, I wanted to leave a sort of mark. Not just any mark, though, no. I wanted to add a bit of joy, a spark of life that comes from creativity, and adding words and love into the space we occupy on this floating rock in space.

I wanted to write because it made me happy, and I wanted there to be a possibility of someone who was who got joy from reading to maybe stumble upon it, and get joy from me. Get joy from something I was able to provide for them.

I was also incredibly lonely. I had no friends, I had nothing, pretty much. I didn’t talk much. I was reclusive. I was okay, but I was empty. I didn’t have a purpose. And while I wasn’t expecting much, nothing at all really, I was overjoyed at the prospect that maybe just one person would stumble upon something I wrote and for a moment of their day, maybe they got peace from it.

Maybe they felt a little less lonely. I would have been at peace with just knowing the possibility of it was out there. And then… it did. And I got more than I bargained for, even, I got a friend. My first friend.

From there, everything… clicked. Slowly, but ever so surely, things were falling into place. I was gaining something that had not even crossed my mind. A family.

So, my silly dream born from a whim became friends, connections, and family, it became life-altering. It had ups, it had downs, it had in-betweens. It was beautiful and messy and happy and sad and fucked up and so wonderfully… human?

Yeah, this is online, this is a silly mootsgiving idea I thought up three hours ago because I wanted people to know I love them.

But to someone who had nothing, this is everything. You are everything.

Even if we’ve only talked one time, you have a special place in my heart. The character growth has been… one hell of a ride. I’ve gone through many eras, and made new friends in each and every one of them. So, with the end of the year closing soon, I suppose in a way this is not just a silly mootsgiving.

My bigger end goal, really, was to make sure as we get to the end of this ear, you know how genuinely important this whole year has been to me. How important you have been. I got an anon ask,

What does it feel like to be wanted?

It was beautiful poetry. I replied, said I wouldn’t know what it feels like to be wanted. But really? I think maybe I do. I think it feels like having enough people that you love to organize and invite everyone to a huge event online, to write out this heartfelt paragraph and trust that at least one person will care enough to read it.

My beginning goal has changed so much, and not at all. My biggest purpose in life has been, and I think will always be, to add something into this world.

Creativity, joy, happiness, compassion, I want to ensure that no matter what, as long as you know me, you know you have one person on this earth who loves and cares about you with as much feeling that can physically be felt by one person without exploding into a bunch of tiny little runar pieces.

But moreso, I think maybe my goal has changed from wanting to put stories out there, to putting myself out there. I don’t want to write stories that are just fiction, just crafted ideas meshed together to create a blob of fiction.

I want to write pieces of myself into everything, which i think might genuinely be impossible to not do. I want my heart to pour out of my fingers into the things i type out for you, and i want to not only feel things, but to maybe make you feel something too. Something warm and fuzzy, something good, as good as you deserve.

Aaaaannnd…. to end this….

I love you guys, thanks for being here <3

@marauding-almond @percyweasleyapologist @yesiamprocrastinating @dieatthealtar-deactivated @caramel-covered-apples @thatoneslytherinnerd @thatoneslytherinnerd2

@hedgehog-troops@circe-butbetter @stars-on-my-bedroom-ceiling @l1ve-l4ugh-lov3craft @aidens-ocean-galaxy@rainystarsx@liggy-not-potter @goformoony@i-still-got-love-for-you @definitionoffuckup@mairon-goth-minion

@weewooooweew @residentdisaster @matty-os-blog @starkissed-mars @printershorts @the1970sdeadgaywizard-regulus @lesbian-disaster-tm @star-dust-shark @enbysiriusblack @sadnappo @kawaiibarty @hershey-not-the-chocolate-maybe

@jamespotterbbg @scrumblewonk @seekmemystar @rins-batcave @utterqueerdisasterthesimp @gasolinehornet @asters-tempo @here-am-i-sitting-in-a-tin-can @permetutotheworld @theprongspotter @sotiredimbored @yourlocalbadgerscales @raeprise @burgundykicks @whydousernamesevenexist @jaydove-writes @the-stars-drowning @inara-tries-to-survive @saturnsconstellation @royallygray

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lol i feel so weird and out of pocket for admitting this but “foot powder” because i recently learned a lot of body related powders are corn starch based or should be in the case of my fellow ladies!! corn starch, no talcum powder especially for certain areas. okay let’s see

@achillesuwu @thisisjustmefangirling @imnotacreepijustlikeyou @lxvenderjewel

last google search, go

um. Tag four people.

what do they make sewer tunnels out of

@ncc1701ohno @affixjoy @the-magpieprince @twinkboimler

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Ygraine and the sword make beautiful babies i guess🤷🏽‍♀️

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you have the best, most informative posts that explain weird things ive noticed. 🥹

Your daily reminder to use « Merlin/Arthur Pendragon » despite the fact that it seems to have less fic, it currently look like it has « 7049 », and not « Merlin/Arthur Pendragon (Merlin) » (33619) when searching for fic because Merlin/Arthur Pendragon include « Merlin/Arthur Pendragon (Merlin) » but « Merlin/Arthur Pendragon (Merlin) » exclude older fic that used « Merlin/Arthur Pendragon »

Example :

Here is the number of fic if you filter using Merlin/Arthur Pendragon (Merlin) aka 33,619 fic

And here is the number of fic you get if you filter by using Merlin/Arthur Pendragon aka 38,899 fic

It also happen for tag such as bottom arthur pendragon, you get more fic if you filter by using bottom arthur instead.

824 fic for bottom Arthur (with the Merlin fandom filter) vs 717 fic with the bottom Arthur Pendragon (Merlin)

Btw it isn’t the case for Merlin since bottom Merlin is a « Tags with the same meaning » of Bottom Merlin (Merlin)

Also I just noticed but this mean that there is actually MORE (tagged) bottom Arthur fic lmao

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i would 100% do a reboot of the original series with the exact same amount of questionable moments as the original, but then reveal in the last episode that they were actually accidentally married on a planet during their second visit somewhere and they both knew but thought the other didn’t and then that they’re happy living like that as thyla so they don’t get married until they’re both old. then when they’re old, spock is an ambassador, and kirk is still exploring the galaxy with him but on their own private ship with their own money.

I actually do wish Spirk was canon, but I want it to be entirely off-screen and just mentioned by other characters as a matter of fact. Like 'hey, did you know Starfleet only ever made one exception to their fraternization policy, and that was to allow Spock to serve under Kirk when they got married?' Or maybe there's a planet that's populated by Vulcan-Terran hybrids and everyone knows that it was founded by those two because the conditions were good for both species. No, Kirk wasn't the youngest captain in Starfleet, the record was actually beaten by his daughter Saavik two decades later. People say she struggled to live up to her parents' fame, poor thing. A hundred years later Kirk and Spock's messages to each other are published in two tomes. The High Council deems them so inappropriate that they're banned on Vulcan, et cetera.

Any depiction of Spirk on screen would be inherently disappointing because it's straight up impossible to live up to sixty years of fan-made content. The only way to make it good is to incorporate it into the lore and arouse even MORE speculation and fan-made content.

Feel free to disagree, though...if you could make Spirk canon, how would you do it?

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oooh op, thank you for adding this perspective!! i also posted something similar in regards to my annoyance that something like this had taken so long, especially when the canon has had so many revivals recently.

if i remember correctly, there was a proposed scene with a recording of old!kirk written by jj abrams for the aos movies that never actually happened (i read somewhere that this is because william shatner didn’t want to do a small cameo, not sure how true that is). and unification, while great, reminded me of the lack of a true onscreen reunion between kirk and spock while both actors were still living to reprise the role. i’m glad shatner, paramount, and leonard nimoy’s family okayed this, but it occurred decades after fans had already run with their interpretation of the canon material and seen it be rejected or at least overlooked by the canon itself.

it was also through posts on here that i learned there are supposedly shatner sanctioned novels that rewrote the canon of kirk’s death, and while that’s nice, the canon i lived with for years and that i presume is most well known by all is kirk’s entrapment in the nexus and his tragically ironic death years later with not one of his dearest friends around him. and spock having died in an alternate universe without anyone either.

because of this, i think it’s important to keep unification separate from those older works, and i hope people listen. validation from the canon source material is great, but it shouldnt be necessary to conflate it with fan created works that long predated it. if anything, unification should be tagged/commented with all the spirk works people created decades ago. it was because of them that unification resonates so loudly, and arguably why it finally happened.

Gonna be real honest and rude about it here, but if we're going to start tagging K/S fanworks that existed prior to November 18, 2024 with "Unification" then we're doing a great disservice to the very fans who created those works and we're bending what fandom means to align with offerings from a corporation.

The fans who still chose to draw or write about Kirk and Spock being together despite Generations and the TNG episode that separated them did so out of their own visions of K/S's future that rejected what was officially being offered to them. They took one look at the new canon and transformed it to something else, without waiting for Paramount or Roddenberry to offer that image of unification to them.

I understand the desire to draw connections, track parallels and repetitions, and use later story-lines to re-contextualize what came before (I do it a lot in my trekposting! I'm a big fan of doing those things!). But to do this to fanworks crosses a line and it is so disheartening to see. This entire fandom came about because fans of the show saw Kirk and Spock as having a relationship that went beyond their official roles on the ship and their duty to Starfleet, that went beyond just friendship, and they dared to name it love and depict it in any way they pleased, regardless of what the general public thought, regardless of public pressure and removal at cons, regardless of anti-obscenity laws (which would impact fanworks depending on the state or country and the local enforcement of those laws), regardless of fanclub leader campaigns to blacklist slash fanzine editors and their supporters.

To take their work and reconnect it to something they had already dared to envision long before it was offered through the official canon is to ignore what fandom is.

Links and quotes for further reading under the cut.

Kathy Resch on publishing T'hy'la:

Two local Trek fen were publishing a zine called The Other Side of Paradise, and one of their issues was X-rated (het). I asked their advice, called their printer for a quote, and then took the finished zine in to be printed. The print shop was a wonderfully funky little hole-in-the-wall place in Oakland. They had a “mascot” named Phred, a brindle-colored Great Dane who had the run of the place. Their primary business was to publish limited run books and study materials for the University of California at Berkeley. They were set up strictly for book publication—no business cards or wedding invitations. They had the specialized machinery necessary to do that sort of work. It was, I admit, a bit difficult to go in there for the first time. I was a bit…embarrassed. But the people who owned the print shop were as cool as they could be…. Back then, it took about two weeks for a printer to print a zine. An odd thing happened during the two weeks T’hy’la 1 was being printed. I got several phone calls and letters from people asking me if I knew what was being said about that Horrible Nasty Zine that was being published. (People think the internet is fast, but the telephoning abilities of fans in early fandom cannot be underestimated.) Person A, a Big Name Fan who ran a fan club for Unnamed Trek Actor, was pitching a fit about this Horrible Nasty Zine and was asking fan club members to basically swear a “loyalty oath” that under no circumstances would they ever have anything to do with said Horrible Nasty Zine or K/S at all. (Almost all my tribbers were members of said fan club.) I finally filled in the details of this mystery when I went to pick up the finished copies of T’hy’la 1. Person A was doing a club zine, and had gone to various Bay Area printers for quotes. When she got to my printer, he told her — with a great amount of glee — “We’re doing one of those right now!” He brought out the back cover for her perusal. Not the front cover, with its nice tame drawing of K&S side by side. No, the back cover, with K&S in a liplock. Person A nearly had an attack, and then began spluttering all sorts of threats and imprecations. I take it the end of Western civilization was involved. My printer, being the ex-flower-child and complete iconoclast that he was, got a huge amount of entertainment out of this. (He didn’t get her business. But he got all of mine in the future.) Person A was determined to root out this evil. All that happened was that my tribbers who were members of her club went ahead and swore her loyalty oath, then made sure I was using their correct pseudonyms. I never heard directly from her, and since I wasn’t a member of the fan club in question, she couldn’t expel me. My printer really enjoyed printing my zines. By the time I’d done my 3rd or 4th issue, he told me the women in the bindery always looked forward to my zines. They’d post prints of the artwork on the bindery walls to keep them entertained while they worked.

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in another life, i would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you

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the campyness of hannibal in the face of the show’s themes or murder and cannibalism should be studied because they pulled it off so well.

yes, your honor, we did just witness a disembowelment, but DID YOU SEE THE WAY HANNIBAL LAID OUT THE CORPSE FOR WILL????

I adore, adore, adore that Hannibal's a shitty patient. He goes to Bedelia and acts like a little brat. Keeps stepping on their boundaries and smiles to himself when she maintains authority in response. He behaves the same way in daily life, behind people's backs--manipulating them, murdering and feeding people his victims, making puns and smiling to himself when they can't catch it. I think, because therapy is a space for dissecting and discussion of oneself, Hannibal lays a bit more on the plate than he usually would, and is more openly mischievous. When he's shed his skin in season 3, he's more obviously playful and flirty. And after he's captured, he's just savage in his humor (re: telling Chilton he made him eat dessert with blood, eating Chilton's lip, "Tell him I hope he isn't very ugly"--now that I think about it, he's just bullying Chilton), and flirts with Will like he's a romcom protag and not a convict who just barely missed the death sentence.

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it’s the hannibal memes. they keep us together. also hannibal the show and hannigram the pairing are already pretty toxic on their own. i feel like that’s enough for us, ya know?

It’s crazy that the Hannibal fandom, a show about cannibals, is the least toxic fandom

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i’m dyingggg because as a star trek and merlin fan myself, i can say that you described this so well and used the perfect comparisons. saavik as freya kills me. also the escalation from a handshake to a french kiss is gold. like i somehow forgot that vulcan’s being touch telepaths means that handholding IS a kiss. like thank you for that reminder OP. brb i’m gonna go scream into the night

To explain in Merthur term what is currently happening in the spirk fandom : it’s a if 40 years form now Arthur’s actor paid for a 8 minute film where he come back from the dead (have a unspoken conversation with Freya where she basically tells him to hurry and go), as Arthur walks there is Merlin’s voice in the background saying « I’m happy to be your servant till the day I die » , Arthur find Merlin in an old armchair, French kiss him then they look together at the sunset.