#2012 was 12 YEARS AGO

[malware-bytez]

I've officially had my first "Oh wait, I'm one of those grown ups" moment today with Pastraspec...

They were talking about growing up with minecraft videos and I was like "??? Grown ups didn't grow up with minecraft videos, kids like me did." Nah bro, *grown ups* like you did. Fuckkkk bro. I'm too young to vote and pay taxes and shit.

[thebreakfastgenie]

There are people who will be old enough to vote this year who don't remember a presidential election without Donald Trump as one of the candidates.

[lesmisscraper]

Tumblr now got the Cat Boop o Meter but almost 12 years ago, Les Mis already had one.

[atlantis-area]

SHINee - Sherlock (2012) 12th anniversary

[theaestheticmerchant]

i think i've figured it out. the actual reason whedon's avengers writing, especially with the hulk and black widow, felt so weird and out of place. maybe this has been said or meta'd before but it's literally just because he was still writing them like they were buffy and angel characters, just with a new paint job and new faces, the entire time.

especially with bruce and natasha. and i mean, it worked when it was his gothic horror ocs, but less so when it's established marvel characters — but replace bruce/the hulk with angel, especially season 3-era angel after he comes back from acathla's realm and he's basically a feral beast who's scared of everything but also scares everybody too because of what he's done for a good few episodes, and natasha with buffy, especially any era buffy where she's more likely to suffer from some great and terrible burden (like, hm, i don't know, thinking she's a monster because she can't have kids due to military genetic experiments?) and spend her time monologuing her great shakespearean tragedy. the whole beauty and the beast-style "girl calms down giant monster who's scared and traumatized even though she is too" dynamic suddenly seems a lot more logical when you think of it that way and see them in that light, even if it doesn't make any more sense for bruce and natasha specifically here.

the tropes fit perfectly when you just switch out the marvel aesthetic for a buffyverse one. and of course, it works in the buffyverse because he can do whatever he wants with his ocs, but it felt so weird in marvel because he wasn't writing a marvel story. he was still writing shakespearean gothic young adult tragedy, but it had real superheroes in it this time instead of vampires and monster hunters.

even the villain makes more sense. take loki out and slot him in as, instead, a buffyverse big bad, especially a vampiric one. instead of his staff, it's a magical artifact, and instead of being from the nine realms, he's from a demon dimension — the chitauri portal at the end being a means to open a rip to a hell-world and let demons and the apocalypse through, like what acathla would've done, like what the judge tried to do, or the end of angel as a whole.

it's literally just one giant buffyverse episode he wrote using marvel characters while he was still in buffyverse mode. even the "mewling quim" line makes more sense — 100% that's something a big bad in his original verse would say while being weird and intimidating and scary and so of course it feels off and not quite right as a marvel story because it literally never was an actual marvel story in the first place

[pendragonsclotpole]

i’ve been seeing a lot of the danny phantom and dc crossovers lately, as well as checked out the tag on ao3. it’s grown exponentially over the last few years, which blows my mind, mostly because it’s a trope near and dear to my heart for the last seven to eight years. i first read a dp and dc crossover on the ffn website in 2015-2016. for context, the fic was originally published on ffn in 2012. i’m pretty sure it was one of the last fics i read on that site. the title has stayed with me for YEARS, even across multiple iphones, reappearing in my safari bookmarks, and following me on my ffn to ao3 transition. i’m queuing it for a reread, but just remembering it makes me wonder how many tropes of the current dp x dc crossovers it’s kicked off. For anyone curious, the fic is Zeus’ Dice. it was last updated on both ffn (where it has over 1k follows and favorites) and ao3 (where it was cross posted in 2016) in 2020. it has 9 chapters and it has yet to be finished. i have not reread it in years, but will do so soon to see how it is.

[synthaphone]

My legs, my arms, my heart

Why can’t you see the signs?

We tear apart

(but all of it’s implied)

Whenever I talk to you

[madmutts]

How do ya feel about the fact 2012 mikey also having a blog on here? Have yall ever talked or no, would it like, cause a dimensional rift?

-S

Who?? Idk who that is

[treklock-lotr-chick]

What do you mean TMNT 2012 was twelve years ago???

[volcanicsleep]

we watched all* turtle media! here's our ranking list!

*we would watch shows from the beginning until we lost interest, then we'd jump ahead in the series and repeat until we had a good overall impression of the show (we mostly cared about characterization and relationship dynamics).

the rankings are not indicative of objective or subjective quality. it's just based on how much we enjoyed them

the rise movie

rottmnt

tmnt (1990) + tmnt II: secret of the ooze [watch together. its a complete experience]

TMNT (2007)

tmnt (1987)

turtles forever

tmnt (2003)

tmnt batman movie

first bay movie

tmnt flash forward

tmnt III [nigh unwatchable]

tmnt (2012) [had to drop it after 4th episode for mental health safety]

honorable mention: turtle odyssey

[regicidal-defenestration]

I love making QR codes for my ACNL designs like this game is 12 years old and by god am I making sure there's still an active player base

[edwardos]

[dravidious]

Just found out Smash 4 came out 10 years ago. wtf

[tyunningcore]

if it’s 2012 in chapter 40 of midnight burger ( romney for america) why is the song ‘we are young’ by the band fun. not mentioned Even Once. ?

fake 2012ers all of u.

[glitterbombedshadow]

ARGSBEA I love the onceler fandom so much guys, literally the most wholesome, welcoming and creative community ever

[d-lanx]

12 years ago, a cat watched cm punk vs colt cabana and was very intrigued (he has good taste)

one of the weird parts of looking thru old tumblr blogs is finding stuff like this and remembering things are old. Look at this. The old youtube UI, the low quality video that was probably filmed on an old ipod. based on the post it came from, it was filmed back in 2012. it's weird when u remember time passed. that cat's probably dead now