#Presidents Fandom

[deadpresidents]

What do you make of some of the tumblr presidential fan accounts and their activities? Shitposting, fanart, bizarre headcanons, etc?

There are A LOT of those fan sites about the Presidents and the Presidency on Tumblr! I'm shocked at the sheer number of them that have been popping up over the past few years. I don't follow very many other Tumblrs, but they are frequently recommended to me on my dashboard and I often see my stuff being reblogged by them, so I do notice them and know what you are referencing. I usually don't follow them, but it's not because I'm some sort of history snob. I've just never followed all that many blogs here on Tumblr. Some of those Presidential fan sites on Tumblr can be weird and seem to have some goofy posts and reblogs that I just don't "get", but that's normally just due to the fact that I'm old and boring and socially incompetent. Even though I'm probably one of the OGs of Presidential history blogs on Tumblr because I started Dead Presidents in 2008 (!!!), my site has always been pretty normal, straightforward history for those 15+ years. For the first few years, I even tried to steer away from being too political because I worried it would interfere with the credibility of the history writing I was publishing on Tumblr. That all changed in 2015 when I couldn't stay on the sidelines as Trumpism started taking over. But my Tumblr has always been mostly conventional, and a lot of those Presidential fan sites are very much unconventional.

I think because of that the assumption would be that I'm annoyed or dismissive of the Presidential fan Tumblrs that you mentioned because of how unconventional they can be. However, that's not the case at all. I actually think it's really fucking cool that so many young people -- and most of those Presidential fandom Tumblrs belong to really young people -- are into history, especially Presidential history, so much that they've shaped their own little universe about it. There's some really creative stuff that I've seen when sites are recommended and pop up on my dashboard. I'm particularly impressed by the Presidential fan art that a lot of these kids are posting. They are having fun and they are finding unique ways to expand history literacy, which has always been one of my main goals for creating Dead Presidents in the first place, posting original writing, and answering questions over the years.

Again, some of the stuff goes completely over my head and I don't understand the memes because I'm old, but I still think it's really cool that people are finding their own path into the field of Presidential history -- a subject I've spent most of my life interested in and hopeful that I might be able to interest others in. And, despite what a lot of those fan sites might look like at first-glance or appear to be while quickly skimming through dashboard recommendations, a lot of these kids who are curating the sites genuinely know their shit! It's great and I'm excited by the idea that there are creators finding new ways to introduce these subjects and these endlessly fascinating stories to diverse new audiences.

At its core, history is always just a collection of connected stories about people, and with so many talented young folks finding and creating original ways of telling those stories I want to support and encourage those efforts. From what I can tell, there are a lot of these Presidential fan sites that follow me on Tumblr because I've been around forever and it's pretty easy to remember that I write about the Presidency because of my blog's name. This might make me sound even more ancient than I already am and nobody needs my validation to keep doing what they are already doing well and successfully, but I'm proud to see the work that those young people are doing to further their own interests in Presidential history and inspire history literacy through their own creativity. Those memes and fan art can animate and energize far different -- and newer -- audiences than my 3,000-word essays about Presidential history and that's so important. They are appealing to demographics that I can't reach as easily and in ways that I never would have thought of, and I'm always going to be an advocate for that (even if I never understand the memes!). And the most important part is that they are having fun exploring history and making history fun for new explorers.

[katnissandpeetamellark]

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[my-castles-crumbling]

"Do you have a plan?" "I have concepts of a plan!"

Me, halfway through writing a 100k word long fanfiction.

[rayrayxz]

Just saw this on tiktok, ERIC HARRIS FOR PRESIDENT 2024🇺🇲🇺🇲🔥🔥

[apushfandom]

i think these belong here

[morganaconda]

[vbecker10]

I guess this is how it started lol

Tony: You have had some awful and I mean awful ideas in the time I've known you, but this is by far the worst yet, Y/N

Y/N: I wasn't saying he should actually do it

Thor: Who should do what?

Loki: *rolling his eyes* Yes, I do so love to hear Y/N's terrible ideas

Y/N: First off, they aren't all bad, thank you. And secondly... okay, this one is pretty bad actually

*Loki raises an eyebrow and Thor folds his arms across his chest*

Peter: Y/N suggested that Loki run for president

Y/N: That's not exactly what I said-

Loki: Oh, I like that

Thor: No

Loki: What do I mean 'no'?

Tony: Absolutely not

Loki: President Loki... I quite like how that sounds actually

Y/N: Oh... this is bad

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[whatthefurb]

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his feet have cute lil poms

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[jahanmp4]

I love it when cc!Etoiles talks about the fact that QSMP fans are specialists at overanalyzing random stuff some creators do without thinking and how cool it is.

In q!Etoiles' case for example, he is doing little RP and then does stuff because he thinks it's cool (for example changing his skin to white eyes because it looked badass) but he finds it fascinating that people will create super extensive lore theories about something so minute as using a specific word without thinking about it. And that's the beauty of fandom, and he said multiple time that those fans also contribute to the complexity of the server while some of it is kind of extreme and to the point where they think they know better than the creators themselves

[ch3rry-wink]

Me coming back to the fandom to write the most questionable fanfic about young Snow

[agir1ukn0w]

y'all really think we don't know coriolanus snow, son of crassus xanthos snow, is a (future) dictator and mass murderer who is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people, the vast majority of whom are children, including finnick odair??? y'all really think we don't know that even as a youth he's already a controlling, narcissistic, scheming, calculating, traitorous son of a bitch?

you've severely underestimated our powers of media literacy, and also of knowing the difference between reality and fucking fiction.

[burntblueberrywaffles]

"Coriolanus had this bad thought early in the book so clearly he was evil all along!" y’all hate people with intrusive thoughts and mental illness so much and it shows.

YES president Snow is an irredeemable villain. NO he was not always "destined to be evil". The whole point is that he could’ve been good and yet he wasn’t.

[hellohellowelcome]

Feeling very optimistic about the final chapter because I am dying for Izuku to finally be able to unpack his feelings about everything he's experienced on his hero journey, and with regards to Katsuki (and All Might, respectfully everybody else get back). We've only gotten very small bits of introspection on his end, and with one chapter left, I hope that it's all given the space it deserves. Shipping aside, bkdk's relationship is core to the series and it would be extremely confusing for hori not to give them some semblance of proper closure or signal as to what their bond is going to evolve into after the events of the story.

(But on the other hand, slightly worried about the pacing based on the last few epilogue chapters...just pictured me sitting, reading, waiting for a bkdk handhold and the here comes cementoss and company for multiple pages 😭)

[braidsandarrows]

Panem Propaganda posters

[evanpeterswifeyyy]

Ready for my city council meeting w/ Councilman Kai Anderson 🔪🩸(men DNI)

The heels hurt so bad. I have like 5 sores and almost tripped. And I have to wear them again later. (Save me)

I love heels but OWIE!!!!!!!

Also ignore my phone case 😘

[urpersonalpublicgalaxy]

he doesn't know the code