#it's the thing that brought me to tumblr and i've been feeling so nostalgic for it recently so someone should do this for me lol

[leslieseveride]

someone watch sailor moon with me? 🥺🫶

[darkpoet-academia]

After seeing Deadpool and Wolverine trend in Tumblr for yet another week in a row, I've come to the conclusion that if Marvel actually tried, if it actually started to make their movies with love, dedication and respect for the fans, they would surely get the same feedback and hype from audiences that the old MCU movies used to get.

There was a time when every Marvel project felt like a gift, like a love letter to the devoted audience that had been keeping up with that messy yet beautiful universe since its creation. Some people came from the comics, others began to gain interest in the MCU after watching the first movies. Nevertheless, it had a loyal and adoring audience that was valued and respected by the folks at Marvel Studios. The old MCU shows and movies (and yes I'm including some of the Phase 4 projects) had so much soul, so much life. They all touched hard subjects, had tough and flawed characters. Even after Endgame, shows like WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier included harsh topics such as grief and racism. They didn't only lean in the nostalgic feelings of the audience, they had individual characters with well-rounded arcs and believable flaws. I remember when I watched an MCU movie or show and it brought out something in me; it made me reflect, care for the characters, even in some ocassions relate to them. The new movies don't have that anymore. They are soulless, empty. And that's why they aren't working anymore. Not because of the bad CGI or the cringy dialogue, although those things are still important. However, they are not the main cause of Marvel's downfall; the only reason it's their new lack of contact with their audience, the lack of humanity in their movies, the rise of a new era of empty and irrelevant movies.

By the way, english is not my first language so feel free to point out any grammatical errors or mistakes that you find in this post!

[lexapro-princess]

Rant: I still remember when this show was airing. I was 13 and having a hard time but I enjoyed this so much it made me forget about the pain for a second. I can't believe every single one of these actors and actresses are now in their 30s while i'm in my early 20s. I feel like everything happened too fast. I grew up too fast, they grew up too fast. I remember Ari's Dangerous Woman album, Lana's Honeymoon, Taylor's 1989, and everything makes me so nostalgic. I was in high school and even though I was depressed, life was still good, it was still sweet. Now everything seems to be falling apart, the idea that I can't go back to being that 13 year old girl who was innocent and young makes me suffer. I feel like my life is over. No one is gonna hold me anymore and tell me that everything will get better, no one will justify my pain just because i'm an adult now and not a kid. No one will look at my scars and be worried, they'll just say i'm doing it to get people's attention. I have to work, live by myself and worry about everything in a world that seems to be on fire, when I was 13 the world seemed full of possibilities. I miss having fun with friends, I miss being a teenager. If you are a teenager, please enjoy every second of it because it won't come back. I'm sorry for being blunt but I can only wish somebody else told me to enjoy my teenage years instead of just complaining all the time. Life seems so unreal now, people are so divided, everything is war and stupid content like tiktok. The magic the 2010s YouTube or 2014 Tumblr or Vine brought is incomparable, I don't see that happening now. I even asked ChatGPT if anyone in science is working in time travel because I'm that desperate and stupid. (I know it's impossible) So anyway, my advice is please seek professional help if you're struggling and enjoy your teenage years. I miss them incredibly and I can't get them back. Tumblr is like therapy to me, I know I can post something and somewhere, someone will understand. If you need somebody to talk to, please know that I'm here. My DMs are open. And if you're in your 20s like me and miss being a teenager, don't forget to work on yourself. I wish somebody told me things will get better, that I'll eventually stop missing my teenage years, but I wouldn't believe them. Since the pandemic that I've been detached from reality, and I miss the 2010s so much. I don't see anything good out of this decade. Things seem so much worse and to make matters worse, I'm an adult now and no one is gonna save me. I'm here if any of you needs to talk, we should support each other. I wish I could get in a time machine and be 13 again, watch Scream Queens and believe someone when they tell me it'll get better. Sorry for this rant but I can't talk about this with my friends, they wouldn't understand. And if you made It this far, thanks for reading.

[slayter-kinney]

i've been trying to formulate how i feel about wad and this era of phandom since i finally got the chance to watch wad all the way through with my girlfriend last night and after sobbing violently following the smash mouth credits i think i have some semblance of a train of thought. long ramble incoming after the read more hehe

for context, i've been watching dnp for about 10 years, which for some of you is an extremely long time and for others is piddly. regardless, a decade of my life has been spent in varying amounts watching dan and phil and interacting with the phandom. and part of what i was trying to express to my gf after watching the show was that it really is a sense of pride to see the sad clown poster child for being, well, sad, to open up about his mental health struggles, to coming out, to making we're all doomed. i think this is a very similar reaction to the pride a lot of us feel for dan.

for me too, though, it's been the phandom (hi guys lol). I was really active in the phandom from like 2014ish-2017 (at which point i still watched videos as they were posted but i also just wasn't on tumblr as much and i had ~college~ to focus on), but that time was very formative teenage years for me during which i was going through similar mental health struggles, struggling with sexuality, regular ol' teenage demons, etc. and this sort of phandom revival has been making me feel this ridiculous nostalgia for those teenage years (even tho i was fighting for my life the whole time lol). i can sooo distinctly remember where i was when certain videos were uploaded, the feeling of being curled up in my bed at midnight in the summer with my iphone 5c catching up on the previous years' videos, making subpar edits on my phannie instagram while i was on a plane for my family's summer vacation.

having both the boys and the phandom (more) active again gives me that nostalgic feeling but with the feeling that everything feels So Much Better Now. i get the same excitement and rush watching new videos, sharing around edits and gifs, being insane with you all, but with the knowledge that i am older and i am better now. in a lot of personal ways i'm literally living the life i so desperately wanted when i was a teen and now i get to live it but with the same things that brought me joy when i was a sad 15 year old. despite the nostalgia, i dont think i would choose to go back to that time, but getting to look back on it now, and watch videos where dan and phil are unapologetically gay and happy and soulmate-y, see dan living his theatre kid dreams and is so so proud of his work, and to have this community of you all where we're all old(er) and queer and so proud of our dads (sorry). it's indescribable despite my best efforts to describe it. and yes i know i don't actually talk to a lot of you that's cause im awkward and bad at replying but if you've made it this far this is your open invite to start a convo with me in dms/ask box. anyways. i love you all. i love our boys. im grateful to be here with all of you.

[who-knows73]

I've been feeling very nostalgic lately and have been watching 1990-2000s movies at the same time that I've been seeing people make connections between Steddie and those same movies. So far I've seen Tumblr posts comparing them to 10 things I hate about you, pretty woman, and there was another one but I can't remember what it was at the moment. Please give me more, god, the idea of a Steddie 10 things I hate about you au has been eating at me for like a week, it's all I can think about. Obviously Eddie, the weirdo and the supposed mass murderer of Hawkins who people are scared of would be Patrick (bonus points if you add that the time Patrick was taking care of his grandpa, Eddie was instead going through the legal process of getting adopted and ended up in the system for a while). And Steve, the dethroned king of Hawkins high, known for getting into fights and hides his heart so it doesn't get broken again would fit nicely as Kat if you made it a punk Steve au as well so it fit better with her character. Bianca could be El and Hopper would obviously be a perfect fit for Walter. Dustin would be Michal and Max would be Cameron, you could make Mike Joey but you would have to forget the part where he used to date Kat and make that aspect of it be Nancy instead. I've thought long and hard about which characters should be which and that's my personal Favourite way of doing it but of course the other characters could be swapped. Like Nancy could be Joey and Robin would be Cameron, or you could make Joey one of Steve's ex-girlfriend's who was only brought up like once or whatever. I just adore this au. I've been thinking about writing something longer for it if it continues to take over my brain like a fucking parasite but I digress.

[alicehattera03]

Every time I'm feeling especially nostalgic about the good old wmmap days (simpler times...) I obsessively scroll through yours and other ancient wmmap tumblr accounts and remember how fun it all was (and then proceed to regret not keeping up with fandom friends when all the bad things In the fandom happened)

But like it's so fun and so crazy how long you've been in this fandom, like?????? You are the wise one, bringing about many hours of entertainment. Thank you for your service <333 (no really, thank you)

The way I teared up reading this, anon... 🥹

We do the exact same thing, because whenever I feel like I need inspiration or I need to remember some good memories, I go through the wmmap accounts that were the BIG names back then and I go, "Wow, has it already been almost 4 years since I've been here??"

Posted my first wmmap fic back in October of 2019 so it's almost the 4 year anniversary now lmao, and I regret not getting more in touch with my fandom friends after wmmap finished too. (Although I DO tell them to DM me we should really talk more often than we do!) I regret not being more...not being more everything really.

So thank you so much for letting me know that I was one of the ones bringing you hours of entertainment through my account, and that I meant something in the fandom because truly, thank YOU for reading, and for scrolling, and for liking my stuff.

This fandom changed a lot for me, brought many good memories and some bad, but not all of it was bad- and it has given me so much- and now, we're almost at the end of this wild, wild ride.

I will always love wmmap, so you can bet everything that you have, that if ever you are nostalgic for wmmap, you can come back and find me struggling to post that last chapter I said was the last one months ago and posting random thoughts for these characters I found love in so much. Thank you again, and cheers to Wmmap and everyone who liked our stuff for it. 🥂

[thegeekyartist]

Ask Game

I was tagged by @andiforyou in this "Get to Know Me" Tag Game! Thank you! 💗💗 You are a constant treasure on my timeline/notes/inbox 💖

Fave Ships: Nandermo for sure, MSR (Mulder/Scully), and if I'm feeling nostalgic Chuck/Sarah from Chuck. High school Brooke loved them so much.

First Ship: Oh god, probably Danny/Sam from Danny Phantom. I was invested. I still remember coming across a leaked screenshot of their kiss from the finale like months before the premiere and I stared at it for days.

Some things never change.

Last Song: still feel. by half-alive

Currently Reading: The Vampire Lestat, which I've been stuck on for a little while. I actually really enjoy it but I've been too busy to give it the focus I want. Looking forward to diving back in once I'm done with BBBO!

Last Movie: Hanukah on Rye, a Hallmark holiday movie. It was Jewish She Loves Me and I ate that shit UP (bonus points for all the incredible food shots that totally didn't need to be in there but made me hungry all the same)

Currently Watching: To no one's surprise I'm in the middle of rewatching wwdits. Also finally started Mythic Quest, and I've been keeping up with Abbott Elementary which is just excellent.

Consuming: My mom dropped off some of our family's traditional new year's food, so I was just munching on some bread she brought for the kielbasa. She also brought kinnifly, which is a German drop noodle that is delicious but a pain in the ass to make so I was gonna just skip it this year if she hadn't brought me some 🥹

Currently Working On: Chapter 6 of BBBO. It's almost done, this is just a quick Tumblr break (which are frequent and necessary lmao)

I love doing these, so as always if you want to join in please do! Tagging a few more friends I always enjoy hearing from/seeing on my dash and in my notes.

@fraddit @stonesandswords @prideandprejudicks @phantasymist @mihacollin @killerchickadee @mulderscully

[lemongingerart]

Artillunis DTIYS contest entry

Finally! I finished my entry for #artillunis600DTIYS, AND on time 😅 I absolutely love Elise's art and content so much, I honestly was already planning on drawing Lune. I've been feeling nostalgic about my very first OC as well lately, who lives in the same era, so this DTIYS was just perfect! Drawing wise I still don't feel like it’s how I want it, but I just keep staring at it, and no tweak is satisfying, so I decided not to dwell too much on it. I tried some different stuff and get quicker in lineart, but it took longer instead 🥲 anyway, it was another fun journey! Swipe for details and timelapse! So here's the official re-introduction of my already 24 year old OC Laeïda Ylena 💁‍♀️ (stars, I'm old 😂)! Yes, she was kind of my Jedisona, but I changed her story a few times and made bad things happen to her so we're not that related any more 😆 She was born in 47 BBY and knighted in 27 BBY.

Laeïda has always been the quiet, exemplary and kind Padawan. She wasn't a prodigy, but she felt at home in the Jedi Temple. She was knighted and shortly after sent away on a mission together with a fellow knight. Things went south, things happen that change both of their lives and leave her delusional (oh, and pregnant). She eventually ends up on Corellia, trying to rebuild her life and getting as far away from the Jedi as possible. Especially with the war breaking out. That's when she felt a ripple in the force, a cry for help from a fellow light side force user. Should she help out? Would she take the risk to expose herself and endanger her daughter? She cautiously scans the shady supply lane, and spots a young woman sitting in the corner, her arm burned from a grazing blaster shot. The long braid revealed her Padawan status, reminding Laeïda too much about what she went through. She also heard stories about Padawans becoming generals in the clone wars, and remembered the reason she left the Jedi. She just couldn't let her suffer out there in the cold, and ran to the Padawan. The girl was still dazed from the shot, so she helped her stand and brought her to safety in the nearest abandoned building.

More details under the break!

Tumblr doesn't want to add videofiles together with images and it makes me mad. I will make a separate post for the timelapse!

[mydivinepunishment]

NEVER TWICE

I'm not the review writing type. After watching a show I just go to Tumblr to reblog posts that have moments from the show that touched my heart, made me laugh and then I move onto the next show. But I think 'Never Twice' tag deserves to fill so much more than it already is.

Never twice, I came upon the show freshly after completing 'Its Okay to not be Okay' after being impressed by Kwak Do Yeons amazing acting in the show. It was either this or completing 'Vincenzo' which I forget why I had put on hold. Something about the Kdrama poster of 'Never Twice' and it's description felt so nostalgic to me, i decided to watch it.

Before I say anything more, I think the formal description deserves its place here:-

An old stately inn stands in the heart of Seoul. It may be old, discolored, and weathered, but Nakwon Inn exudes old-world charms. As the typical cold uneventful winter comes to an end at the inn, guests start to arrive one by one as if each had promised to be present. Strangely and coincidentally, each one of them repeats Never Twice as they enter. The truth is, they all have a fateful reason to be there. What could have brought these individuals together? And what do they all have in common considering their long-term stay, assigned room numbers, gender, age, and hometown? The real reason for coming to Nakwon Inn unfolds.

Despite having smart phones in the show and being set in recent years it still does not fail to give 90s sitcom vibes the familiarity of which I felt was very comforting to me. The plot follows stories of lots of different people but the pacing was very well done and nothing felt rushed, all loose ends were tied in the end and the ending gave a neat little bow of completion of which you see pictures of, above.

Recently I've been going through a bad time and the comfort of watching the show felt like being sick in bed being nursed with warm soup. Its not a grand show where amazing things happen, it's a slice of life where you end up caring for each of the characters and their flaws. No one is perfect and at the start of the show all of them are at the lowest of their lives but they get to meet in Nakwon Inn and in their misery they work together to raise each other up. It's a show that makes you hopeful, gives you the message of keep holding on, tell you good things happen and the bad guys will never win, But it also makes the bad guys human. No one is truly evil at the core.

It's a simple show, nothing fancy, a very stereotypical plot where the good win and the bad suffer but sometimes you don't need something too complex. Sometimes all you want is to be feel comforted. And when you need comfort I hope you will turn your eye to this show.

I wish I was more eloquent in voicing how much this show has warmed me from inside. Because I want this show to get the recognition it deserves, it's so amazing in its simplicity, and like I will be back to Nakwon Inn whenever I need to feel comforted I hope you who is reading this will also consider joining me here. I hope it will become as much as a home to you like it was to me.

[septembersghost]

I know the Supernatural fandom is incredibly divided and becoming more so by the day. But please take comfort in the fact that you bring many different fans together. Brothers fans and destiel fans both love YOU, and you’re a bridge between those two circles. Thank you for being excellent and lovely.

this is the most beautiful message to have come back to today, anon, you have no idea how heartwarming this is to me. fandom being divided does tear at my emotions sometimes because it has been my home and held such a special place in my life from the beginning, and watching certain aspects of the show itself crumble, as well as that divisiveness, makes me a bit melancholy, or - do you know what saudade is? I told this to a couple of dear friends back in November, but I'm not sure I ever wrote about it publicly. it's a Portuguese word that I enfolded into my vocabulary long ago and I associate it most strongly with art/music/fiction that I love and carry tucked into my spiritual pocket.

a deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for something or someone that one cares for and/or loves. Moreover, it often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might never be had again. It is the recollection of feelings, experiences, places, or events that once brought excitement, pleasure, and well-being, which now trigger the senses and make one experience the pain of separation from those joyous sensations.

Saudade describes both happy and sad at the same time, which is most closely translated to the English saying ‘bitter sweet’. "Memory of something with a desire for it." (x)

it's similar conceptually to hiraeth (deep longing for something, especially one's home), and I may be slightly altering them for my use here, but as soon as I learned about saudade, I thought - oh, this is how I feel about the things that inspire passion and longing and a feeling of nostalgia for home/comfort in me, even if that home is intangible or one I've never known. that's the feeling I associate with stories, with songs. it encompasses spn and the layers of love and grief wrapped around it in a poignant way for me.

I don't know, in my ten years on Tumblr in various places, and the LJ circles before that, that I was ever a part of any particular side (partially because I was always shy and kept more to myself and my tight circle of friends, so I never established a "following" in fandom) because I loved Dean (and that is very much encompassing and by no means limited to only him, of course, but you know why I mention him specifically), and welcomed anyone else who did too. that's such an essential facet of my being at this point, that love. your referring to me as a bridge is really touching symbolically in my mind (crossings and reunions) because Dean is that, the bridge across chasms, the lantern light, in many ways. the fact of him and his existence is the invisible string, and has been the reason I've met extraordinary people. my reach is not too expansive and sometimes I wish I could bring more of us together in a positive sense, but it's a privilege to be thought of as that at all by your kindness.

thank you so much for this, I treasure it and it does bring me comfort, and I love you too and am honored to return that in even the most flickering of ways if I can. 💕💕💕

[tomyo]

The 10 year change of JK and Anime style

My latest watch in my quarantine marathon has been KyouSougigi, a 2011 anime that's bombastic and quirky. The world was so hyperactive, I thought it was a gainax (the trigger part) project.

But as the main character Koto had pulled out her weapon decorated with two big plush mascot straps, I was suddenly catapulted into a hyperstate of nostalgia. I never thought a phone strap would be nostalgic.

I'd like to pause a minute just to show off my beloved phone that I used at that time:

Granted, I didn't use these accessories yet. I desperately wanted anime phone straps since 2005 but bizarrely I didn't get one until 2011 when my pucho included a small dragonfruit character who didn't make it very long. However, in 2012, I was a new city living college student with no limitations and I. Went. Ham. Fake food, squishy bread, and stuffed plush, I had it all. My phone was now properly twice it's weight in charms. I was living to the then dream of every JK Gal wannabe.

The world changes so unexpectedly in only 7 or 8 years.

Life does, that's not a boomer complaint. But the 180 in Japanase High Schoolers is something I don't think an 18 year old me would have considered. The image I had grown alongside was that of was short skirts, bleached hair, tons of accessories, bright colors, cardigans, long statement nails and as previously talked about, excessively decorated (flip) phones. Excessive is a good word for it. Even though the looming influence of smartphones phased away the strap loop, bags were still prime keychain holders and decoden phone cases where a trending style. Things did change with tech changes but this had been a general look for nearly 15 years. And yet, here we are now.

First of all I'd like to point out there's very few High School centric anime out right now. Especially not many in the last 3 years (albeit I refreshed myself by skimming Crunchyroll). This isn't so much that anime doesn't use high school age protagonists going into high school, but that school has little in effect of the story. The only notable example of HS anime in 2020 have been Fruits Basket, A Certain Scientific Railgun, Kaguya-Sama, and Eikouken, the first two happen to also be visually cemented in previous eras. So let's look at the other two as well as BNHA since it technically is also a school anime. Character design isn't uniform but it's pretty subdued. In all three of these, nearly every character wears their uniform to dress code standard. Out of the whole BHN cast, Bakugo is the only one to wear his uniform differently, aside from that I'd only consider Denki and Kirashina to have flashy hair. Now this isn't to say that characters don't personalize themselves but rarely is it in focal ways. Style seems to has been delagated to exclusively footwear, backpacks, and sometimes headwear. Again, no one really does a flashy design for hair. There isn't a lot of curling or dyed hair (even if it's colorful, it may still be their natural hair color) and styling is kept to simple ponytails. Every so often a character my wear an alternative pair of shoes or tights instead of knee highs but the only really expression is their backpacks. In some ways that's funny because it was previously one of the uniform elements. The school standard duffle seems to have been replaced by stylish bags, something that could be overlooked depending on how often they're worn (not that often).

If I had to describe how high school life is portrayed now, it's mature. Minimalism is, well, a big thing. When I see JK life, it tends to have a clean look, class president like almost, the appeal seems to be a contrast in the white of the blouse against a dark blue or black. Shows don't seem to want to break a jewelish natural pallette. Also track, track seems really big right now in high school stories, don't ask me why. I think another part of this is that the shoujo norm of light hearted stories focused on fashion and boyfriends seems to now be more about bittersweet dramas. The full blown pastel romantic comedy has a lot of niche focus, wotakei for example. Where naming all the 'I'm a high school girl with one major quirk and this is my wild romance with my boyfriend with wacky hijinks and extreme reactions' shows would be hard to do during the era I was in high school, it's hard to think of many now.

In a similar way, I feel the atmosphere of animation has evolved. Let me start by saying anime is gorgeous now. Backgrounds are paintings, sakuga is everywhere and it's been so long since wispy hair detail meant garrish lines. That being said, my one boomer comment is maybe that it's too good. The statement that "Anime looks amazing but also seems to always be in the same style." could be applied to both ends of the 2010s. Kyoto animation had been the studio, popularizing school girls doing cute things, their style of moe character design, and a style of referential that had to be seen (this also was something brought to further focus by makoto shinkai). Anime almost seemed to suddenly elevate with more carefully drawn backgrounds and honed use of lighting effects. After effects in the digital of anime used to go absolutely unused or where extremely forefront. You can really feel the differences in series like Toradora, Gurren Laggan, Anohana. They were just so polished. Unfortunately, we kept trying to polish. Every major series sans shonen has gone deep into polish but it's removed a lot of the edges in the process. Fruits Basket had a distinctive style that was kept through to it's first anime but is completely gone in the remake for something that's more generic.

I'm applying some tunnel vision to this but anime has veered more mature and graceful. Like the inverse of the JK girl from the flashy gal look to the mature and uniform, anime has flipped from bombastic and expressive to gorgeous but retrained. It wasn't just the plush straps that was so nostalgic in Kyousougiga (remember when this was the whole point?) But the cartoonish designs and secure personality of the characters. It's hard to fully put my finger fully on what it is but that loud personality doesn't seem to be around much anymore. The spectrum seems stuck to very distinct flavours of Deep Introspection or Comedic Dumbassery in terms of personality. The majority of the former can almost be stressful, the character is almost always troubled by the state of their situation. The early 2010s almost felt unburdened in their burdens. For instance, Koto is trapped in a magical world, all she wants is to get home and the world is kinda hostile to her. Even still, she is smiling, goofing, and even has a friendly relationship with her foes. It's a 'This sucks!' not as much as 'This isn't good..'. Studio Trigger, the part of Gainax that popularized that rouge-ish goofy cast has been somewhat of the only one to keep that up. Even then they lost that energy a little bit with Kiznaiver and Darling in the Franxx. Of course, this is also all processed through my experience now as an adult who has a lot more concerns. The taste of nostalgia is so sweet, I can almost feel youth flow back into me at the sight of a feature phone. Even as I try to finish this long detour from my anime watch, the urge to recapture that feeling of being 17 is a powerful drug. Its a mixture of a lot of senses, the feeling of wearing my mock school uniform and using a big purse like a school duffle, learning pixiv, becoming a little more stylish but still keeping an eye on Japanese fashion, becoming a little more independent and active in my interests, and the untroubled comfort of my desires. It's funny that 17, a defining year in my life, happens to be the same year this came out. All in that year, I took piano classes, learned how to use a DSLR camera, started to cosplay, and began to learn Japanese. It was the year I stopped being an outcast without trying to be someone, the year I saw my first concert, the year I learned about Boba and BB cream, the year I was really infatuated with this guy but probably also my female friend, the year I became to determined to get dual citizenship (goodbye to that chance), the year I started on tumblr, it was just a year that I knew who I wanted to be. I've actually come near around to that feeling again recently so I won't let the nostalgia haunt me too much. But man, I'm really for late 00s fashion to come back. I want the cute accessories back, the cheesy photos you'd take and share for fun, and for thrown together looks.

[checcellate-truffels]

OK THIS IS GONNA REAL LONG

I was getting ready for school one morning in February 2011 where i saw one bbb series teaser on TV3 and i was like 'Bo-boi..wtf?'

Lol I had a bad impression of the title at first so i didn't watch it when the first episode aired. A week after it aired during that one week school holiday, I watched the repeated episode(episode 1) with my dad and we both found the scene tok aba n bbb mistaken hug funny, so i thought the show was ok though I'm not really into it.

I started liking the show when i watched episode 6 on the day it premiered. I was taken to an emotional impact after watching the heart warming ending. *hehe since then, Hali is my favourite elemental not because like most people see him cool and all, but the emotional impact and the chills that happens on his first appearance*

Then i stopped for a while until i saw a promo on fb about Gempa's appearance. I didn't even know the first season is ending back then, and since then I got truly hyped about the show. Funny events happen when I watched the episode premiere that makes the show become strongly nostalgic to me (i dragged my older cousin to watch together, but the tv suddenly shuts down literally after Gempa appeared, so i ran to open another tv but same happens because of the channel's technical issues😂)

So i started catching up on all the stuffs that i miss..searching the fandom wiki page, even sleepless nights watching posted episodes on YouTube. I started to draw more bbb stuffs in my old notebooks that i kept for years(but most of them were lost)

BBB is a nostalgic value to me, though i started watching the show as a growing teenager. Another thing is because of the staffs and voice actors themselves being part of the nostalgic value that they brought since Upin&Ipin.

The strikethroughs are not really part of the question but proceed reading i u want

But the best part is the fandom itself. I do notice most of the known dedicated bbb fans. I love reading IzzuZiq's commentaries through the years on youtube n fb. I observed amazing fan-artist hired into Monsta like Ryocutema. I've been in bbb fandom in Fanfiction since 2014 and read all amazing writings from Misorai, Fanlady, both writings and fan arts from Widzilla. It's just then i wasn't ready to try show up a bit, but keep supporting and watching the show until today.

I do like it here in tumblr, especially. It just feels warm,humble, and more mature thoughts were spread here compared to other platform.

can i ask

is there’s a thing that makes you all like to watch Boboiboy/Boboiboy Galaxy? and since when?

[sheerioswifties]

Hehe, that's awesome! Omg I'm realizing now that I've had so much to say about Divide that I've not shared on here yet. But so, without further adieu, here's my #DivideDay story:

So I had also preordered the special album set, like, the second it was available. I anxiously awaited March 3rd, keeping up on all the Ed news leading up to it. I wasn't on Tumblr or any social media yet, but thankfully there were things like the Ed Sheeran EU Twitter I could check for updates all the time. So we'd stay up late into the night to hear the release of SOY and COTH and Ed's first live radio interview back, etc. I'd been going through being in and out of the hospital as usual so we were trying to really focus on all this stuff to get me pumped and excited etc, planning to go all out on the 3rd when it arrived. I tracked the package as it made its way towards me, noticing it stopped for a little bit in Illinois in the Chicago area so I was texting(annoying) my friends like "it's right by you right now!!!!!" 😂

Then, March 3rd came, and we waited....and looked at the tracking and....okay long story short? The shipping company screwed up. My Divide album wasn't going to/didn't make it to me on the 3rd! Not just that but it ran into a weekend where I didn't actually get the album for another five days. I can't even tell you the frustration....but hey, it became a whole thing, a story. When in finally did come, I was back in the hospital so my husband went and got it gift wrapped all pretty and brought it to me there.

In the mean time, of course, on March 3rd the second we could we bought the whole album on streaming so that we could play and replay the whole thing over and over just like pretty much everyone else did, hehe. My husband listened to it while he was driving around doing errands and things and came back with his own reviews/remarks on it that I thought were pretty good; like how the album really makes you feel like you're being taken on a trip around the world with Ed, taking in all these different cultures and feelings... like, Barcelona just blasting with the sun out and everything made you feel, well, exactly how the song describes. Then you're in Africa bopping to Bibia Be Ye Ye and you just can't NOT get the biggest smile on your face and move to the beat while tapping your hands on the steering wheel; Galway Girl and Nancy Mulligan make you want to get up and dance a jig while ordering an authentic cold Irish stout; Dive gives you that almost jazz, laid-back but sexy feeling of, well I can't think of the best way to put any of this into words but yeah...Perfect sounded like this epic sweeping classic romance, illiciting feelings of a big ballroom and formal dancing, almost going back in time. COTH gave out so many nostalgic feels while SOY felt like dancing barefoot and close in the sand at a nighttime party in the Caribbean. What Do I Know? feels like an anthem for our generation, the new "Where Is The Love?" but with such a simple and fun/friendly vibe, it joins people together with its own beat...Happier felt like the climatic moment in a romantic movie where there is a sad tragedy leaving you wondering how things will turn out and feeling that feeling....Save Myself is so deep and reflective while striking that perfect balance of sad but hopeful...

Okay I'm rambling now, hopefully this all makes sense. I'll probably come back and edit this later when I'm not so exhausted, I just wanted to get something out finally as its been a year now!

So, there you have it. Congrats Ed, Happy Anniversary Divide! 💙

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Happy Anniversary, Divide! 💙