#june of doom 2025

[juneofdoom]

Four months til DOOM 💣

[arwenindomiel]

Welcome to Tolkien South Asian Week running from June 16th to June 22th, 2025.

About:

We are back after two years! I started my Everyone in Middle-Earth is Brown series five years ago to imagine Tolkien characters as people like me. Tolkien South Asian Week (TSAW) stemmed from there and is a fandom-wide event to celebrate South Asian peoples, cultures and lives through Tolkien’s Legendarium.

Guidelines:

Reblog this post

Tag your entries with #tsaw25 and mention me @arwenindomiel;

Everyone is free to participate, you don’t have to be South Asian;

Creations of all kinds are welcome: edits, gifs, art, fic, meta etc;

you can post whenever you are ready, including after the event;

NSFW and incst are not allowed.

Prompts:

Here are the suggested prompts. You can interpret them however you like, combine them or even disregard them. 2021 and 2022 prompts for further inspiration.

Day 1 (16th): Ring bearers | Love | Courage is found in unlikely places Day 2 (17th): Kingdoms | (Im)mortality | Home is behind, the world is ahead Day 3 (18th): Home | The Ages | More fair than Mortal tongue can tell Day 4 (19th): Artefacts | Songs and Tales | No living man am I Day 5 (20th): the Fellowship | Lineages | The doom lies in yourself Day 6 (21th): A people | Oaths | The stories that matter Day 7 (22th): Free form | World building | Worthy of remembrance

Please reblog this post and happy creating!

[rebouks]

My 𝐓𝐨𝐩 24 𝐒𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐬 from 2024🎉

I ignored the brief and just did a fun round up of some fave screenies/posts from this year cos apparently i can't read and rules are LAME anyway!! weeee 🤸‍♀️🧡

January - Oscar scared the shit out of baby Levi and we finally found out where Triss had been hiding 🥹

February - Robin met his bestie Alex on a camping trip and had enough of Levi's bullshit upon returning to school ffkfgjfk

March - Kian got out of prison (ew) and decided to inconvenience his unsuspecting half-brother.. who didn't last long before telling him to shove it.

April - Oscar pissed Ivan off on a road trip of doom and Joey is still Joey..

OH.. and Triss is hot af (no literally.. he's at the beach but also 🥵) also also.. him n' Tilda finally bumped uglies and were very cute

May - Robin saved Levi from a soggy fate and spoke to him for the first time and the Finch's pretty much adopted him, whether he liked it at the time or not!

June - I clearly took a break I forgot about in June so.. random edits woo 🤸‍♀️

July - Oscar reminded us that addiction never truly goes away... (i think if i had to pick my fave post of the year this would be a top contender!)

August - The Finch family kidnapped Levi and went camping! 🤸‍♀️🌲 (MR CROWBAR WAS THERE TOO!)

September - School was shit and Levi betrayed Robin's trust :c

October - Things got tense and spooky in Robin's Until Dawn flavoured dream 😱 (probs the highlight of the year in an otherwise shite month for me tbh so yaaay for you guys for making it so fun! 🧡)

November - Alex moved to the Bay!!! in contrast we also spent a few miserable days with Levi and Wren was her savage self and called Penny Budget Barbie which.. was iconic tbh go ginger queen go! 🧡

December - Robin was sick of Levi's stupid "friends" picking on Alex and let loose his inner Oscar, speaking in front of Alex for the first time (rip Aster for missing it tbh like what a time to take a whizz) buuut.. Robin still broke first and decided to stop snubbing Levi cos he felt bad for him ;-;

tyyyy for the tag @zosa95 @hannahssimblr @sirianasims @simvanie @theplottdump 🤸‍♀️ i'm tagging everyone cos i think we should all look back on our work with a tear in our eye and a slap on the back, srsly go do it and blame me pls ty

what a year! i've spent most of this year feeling a bit overwhelmed and like i've not been getting anywhere/as far as i wanted to ffkfj but looking back i suppose it was pretty jam packed so maybe i should give myself a break (ahaaaajsdkj NEVER) anyway.. good times 🤸‍♀️ i've no idea what 2025 will have in store for me tbh but long live the Finch's i guess! 🧡

thank you to anyone who's been around with me this year, and those past! love you all 😘

[hawaiifiveohana]

2025 Challenges Coming Up

Inking it Out - on Dreamwidth: write 75k in 2025 - Sign Up ends Jan 2nd

Fanfic Reading Challenge - on Tumblr and Discord: read more fanfic in 2025 - Starts January 1st

Year of the OTP - on Tumblr: writing challenges for 2025 - Starts in January

Get Your Words Out - on Tumblr and Dreamwidth: writing challenge - Sign Ups end Jan 15th

Daily Writing Challenge - on Tumblr - Writing Prompts: Next Round is February 18th

Whumpuary - on Tumblr - Whump Prompts: -Starts in January

Febuwhump - on Tumblr - Whump Prompts: Starts in February

June of Doom - on Tumblr - Writing Prompts: Starts in June

2025 Book Bingo - On Tumblr - Read 25 books: Starts in Januarg

I Million Words - on Livejournal: Tracking your words/setting goals - Goals Sign Up is in January

Adding! Fluffbery - on Tumblr: February Fluff Challenge.

Adding Ockisses - on Tumblr: February

Adding Femslash February - on Tumblr: February

These are the ones that I am aware of - please comment/reblog if you know of other challenges to add to the list!

[reasonsforhope]

Is it true some parts will be under water in 2025? I'm kinda of worried cause someone told me about it bc it was on the news

Eh, not really. Like, technically, but that's a very dramatic way to put it.

What that person told you about was probably this prediction, which says that some roads on some of the Florida Keys might be underwater by 2025.

Does that suck? Yes. But it's also pretty limited in scope.

(And by the way, that's probably not "underwater all the time." There will probably be a number of years of "the roads will be underwater at high tide specifically." I can't currently find a source on this, but that's how tides work, and the Florida Keys article does specifically mention them as a main problem.)

The areas in danger first are pretty universally small, very low islands. Actually, a dozen or so small islands have already gone underwater in the Pacific Ocean, but very importantly, none of those islands were inhabited.

They were mostly small reef islands (that is, the entire island is exposed coral reef detritus) and other uninhabited shoals. Mostly, they were so small scientists had to check old satellite images to even figure out that they disappeared. Literally, we're talking about chunks of land that are just 100 square meters/300 square feet. Again, not great, but still very limited in scope.

As this Live Science article thankfully explains, it's pretty unlikely that any countries at all will disappear before 2100.

Also, just because land is below sea level doesn't mean it will be underwater, and there are very real steps we can take to defend a lot of endangered cities/islands.

For example:

Much of the Netherlands is already below sea level, but the country isn't disappearing, because the Dutch have put a lot of work into building and maintaining coastal defenses.

Multiple surveys (including the one that found the missing islands in Micronesia) also found that not all low-lying islands are vulnerable to erosion and flooding. This is because many islands are protected by mangrove forests, lagoons, or both

Mangrove reforestation in particular is genuinely a super effective anti-flooding strategy that is being deployed pretty widely, and is expected to increase a lot in the coming years. Mangroves are effective at not only preventing short-term flooding, but also mitigating sea-level increases (in part by preventing erosion)

Some islands, esp Pacific Islands, have actually grown during the past couple decades, not shrunk. It really depends on what the island is made up of. Not all land is automatically doomed

You can read more about how sinking countries are fighting back here, and the lessons we can learn from them:

-via Time, June 13, 2019

And finally, and this is good news for reasons I'll explain in a second:

Some of the largest and wealthiest cities in the world are at the top of the danger list. (Note: the predictions at that link are based on some fairly severe warming predictions. They do NOT necessarily reflect what's going to happen or when.)

The cities that are going to be in danger the soonest (still away btw) include New York, London, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Dubai. Lots of very rich people in those cities! Who would really like to not have to move (any of their ten different homes lol)

So, flooding aside, we're going to (by necessity) get a lot better at figuring out the quickest, cheapest, most scalable, and most effective types of coastal defenses real fast.

Are rich countries going to be way more able to get strong coastal defense systems up quickly? Yes. Does that suck? Sure fucking does!! But these solutions don't all require a lot of money or tech to implement, even at a large scale, especially when it's local communities driving the effort.

And, importantly, when rich countries pour a ton of money into figuring this out, that will hugely expand our understanding of what techniques work best, why, and how best to deploy them in different situations. Unlike physical structures, that's valuable knowledge that can be shared very, very widely.

And any technology that comes out of this is going to work like solar panels and other green energy: as more people use it, it will get cheaper and cheaper. Probably really quickly.

So, all told, no one's going to be swallowed up in the next few years. We have time to work on this and a lot of people are already doing so.

Mostly, experts predict that the first wave of large-scale issues will be happening around 2050.

Three decades doesn't sound like enough time, in the face of something like this. But you know what? Responses to climate change are speeding up exponentially, and different types of responses are multiplying and magnifying each other.

We went from inventing flight to landing on the moon in just 66 years.

I wouldn't count us out of the climate change fight yet.

(...I wouldn't count on retiring to Florida either, though)

[fetznerdeathrecords]

Astral Fortress - Seven Seraphs

Atmospheric Black Metal from, Inman, South Carolina, U.S.

Astral Fortress was formed on June 22, 2023 by 18 year old virtuoso Richard DeBerry. Named after the 2022 Darkthrone release, Astral Fortress originally formed as an instrumental project with heavy influence from Black Metal giants Emperor and Burzum, focusing on heavy use of synths and atmospheric elements, but soon took a more depressive sound that is more influenced by DSBM and Doom Metal bands like Xasthur and Bell Witch. Overtime, Astral Fortress released numerous albums within a span of only a year, experimenting with different genres and styles. From black metal to dark ambient, Astral Fortress is an atmospheric powerhouse! This album implements a lot of gothic elements, creating a cold and melancholic atmosphere similar to bands such as NONE and ColdWorld. Lots of cool riffs, leads, and synths!! Astral Fortress takes a whole new approach towards atmospheric black metal with this release, going above and beyond Astral Fortress' early work.

1. Dying Man's Wish 02:46 2. Seven Seraphs 08:38 3. I Bathe in the Waters of Salvation 06:50 4. Upon the Crimson Throne 06:13 5. The Kingdom of Calamity 03:37 6. The Palace of Frost 14:43

Release date: January 11th, 2025

@astral_fortress_official

[doodleswithangie]

doodleswithangie’s 2024 summary of art

As is tradition, I picked 12 pieces of mine from this year that I think came out really well, or that I'm really proud of making, or remind me of good memories! I drew a lot less this year, but my highlights were all the different events I got to put my all into and renewing my love for old fandoms! My goals for next year are to work on time management, post more doodles/sketches, and to just draw more!

Looking forward to making more art in 2025! ✨

[Image Description: Previews of twelve pieces of art made by this artist in 2024. The second, third, and fourth images show a selected piece of art made during that month. All images are captioned “doodles with angie’s 2024 Summary of Art”. Alt text provided and copied below the cut. End ID]

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January: Fanart of Luca, Alberto, and Giulia from "Luca."

February: Fanart of Dan Howell from his stage show "We're All Doomed."

March: Animatic of Aziraphale and Crowley from "Good Omens" for @gospexchange.

April: Fanart of Ed from "Our Flag Means Death" for "A to Z of Edward Teach: An OFMD Zine for LGPTQA+ Charities."

May: Fanart of the Bad Kids from Dimension 20's "Fantasy High."

June: Fanart of Dan and Phil for @phandomgives.

July: Poster redraw of Hitchcock's Notorious with "Good Omens" characters for @do-it-with-style-events.

August: Painting redraw of Homer's "Eagle Head, Manchester, Massachusetts (High Tide)" with Dimension 20's "Neverafter" characters for @d20zinejam.

September: Comic of Stan and Ford from "Gravity Falls."

October: Comic of Aziraphale and Crowley from "Good Omens" for @fairytalegobang.

November: Comic of Stan and Ford from "Gravity Falls."

December: Fanart of characters from "Gravity Falls."

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[bilightningwhumper]

Alright, I'm having a *time* trying to figure this out. Just going to go ahead and make a poll now because I have a habit of needing to juggle a lot of story bits at once (as ya'll can probably tell by now, lol).

Basically, I'm already planning on doing completionist Feveuary 2025 (and possibly June of Doom, not sure yet). Gonna split it right down the middle and do half for Minna, half for Kyrie. Including the alt prompts. But I'm having trouble on how to do it, so hey, why not, another poll because surely not everyone is sick of them yet?

[Edit: To clarify, I do have a plan for all these options, I'm just very bad at choosing which route to take, lol]

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Peter Montgomery at RWW:

The Trump campaign’s desperate and dishonest attempts to distance itself from the MAGA movement’s wildly unpopular Project 2025 policy agenda are failing miserably. The Heritage Foundation, a central hub of the right-wing political infrastructure which moved aggressively into the MAGA camp under the leadership of its current president Kevin Roberts, launched Project 2025 in 2022. Right Wing Watch took notice, reporting on the project’s confident assertion that it was preparing the MAGA movement to “take the reins of government” after the 2024 election. As RWW noted, by that point the right-wing movement had achieved its long-sought goal of taking dominant control of the Supreme Court. Project 2025 is a game plan to do the same for the executive branch.

Heritage gathered dozens of former Trump administration officials and other MAGA movement leaders to produce a more than 900-page policy agenda detailing their plans. They created a blueprint to give the next conservative president virtually dictatorial powers to bend federal agencies to his will, turning them into weapons against his personal enemies and political opponents and an enforcement arm for the Christian nationalist worldview, while at the same time sabotaging agencies’ ability to carry out their mission to protect American workers, communities and the environment. Project 2025 began recruiting and training tens of thousands of ideological warriors to prepare them to fill the jobs of the federal government employees they plan to purge.

But the Heritage Foundation’s arrogance may have gotten the better of them. It turns out that most Americans do not want to gut environmental protections, public education, and civil rights enforcement. Most Americans don’t want federal power being used to intrude into families’ most intimate decisions—or to enforce the idea that there’s only one legitimate form of family. Public opposition to Project 2025 grew as more media outlets and policy experts dug into the policy agenda this year, and explained who would be hurt if these policies were implemented. Public awareness soared after John Oliver dedicated the June 16 episode of Last Week Tonight to exposing Project 2025, and again when actress Taraji P. Henson used her platform as host of the June 30 BET Awards to sound the alarm, telling people, “The Project 2025 plan is not a game. Look it up.”

[...] Trump’s attempts to distance himself from Project 2025 were ultimately doomed by his choice of MAGA hardliner J.D. Vance as his running mate. Vance has praised Project 2025’s authoritarian, anti-equality, anti-freedom policy agenda. Right Wing Watch reported during the RNC that Vance wrote the introduction to Roberts’ new book, “Dawn’s Early Light: Burning Down Washington to Save America.” As Right Wing Watch noted at the time, “Roberts’ book title is reminiscent of a joke told among Federalist Society operatives describing their long game to repeal the New Deal and reverse a century of precedent and progress: ‘Rome Wasn’t Burned in a Day.’”

Since then, the Trump camp has been flailing. At the end of July, Project 2025 director Paul Dans, championed as hero by MAGA leaders like Steve Bannon, was apparently forced to step down under pressure from the Trump campaign, which wanted some beneficial headlines suggesting that Project 2025 was shutting down. In reality, the policy agenda is in place, along with the secret 180-day game plan for pushing it forward, and Heritage continues to recruit potential foot soldiers. Roberts and his publisher toned down his book’s subtitle, removing the unlit match from the cover and changing “Burning Down Washington” to “Taking Back Washington.” Then they announced that the book’s release—which was scheduled for September—would be delayed until after the election. Unfortunately for Trump and Vance, some journalists got review copies of the book and have reported on Roberts’ ideology and Vance’s violent rhetoric.

Roberts’ book and Vance’s enthusiastic endorsement of it are good examples of a phenomenon I identified in an article on Project 2025 for Political Research Associate’s Public Eye magazine earlier this year. I noted that Project 2025 reflects “a movement-level, ideological shift away from a libertarian mistrust of government power and toward an authoritarian view of government power being used ruthlessly—whether as a righteous force wielded to advance a ‘biblical worldview’ or turned against an ‘administrative state’ supposedly captured by a radical Marxist left.”

Peter Montgomery wrote in Right Wing Watch on Donald Trump’s dishonest bid to “divorce” himself from Project 2025 got blown up.

[juneofdoom]

June of Doom 2025 💣

By popular vote, here be the 2025 June of Doom prompt list for your doomsday planning!

Please feel free to participate with original or fan works of any kind (writing, photos, gifs, mood boards, videos, songs, whatever creative medium your heart desires!). You can do one or all of the prompts on any given day, and if none are to your liking, check out the alternate prompts!

Rules/ FAQ!

Tag your stuff with appropriate warnings, plzkthnx.

AI-created content is highly discouraged and frowned upon. I have no way of "checking", but I respect the time and effort people put into their crafts and encourage everyone to do the same. This isn't a contest for best written or prettiest art — it's a challenge, so challenge yourself.

You can combine this challenge with other challenges!

You can start/ finish this challenge whenever the heck you want!

You can mix and match prompts from different days!

I'll post reminders and such the closer we get!

[Text List]

[AO3 Collection will be up late May 2025]

And don't forget to tag @juneofdoom so I can reblog your awesome here! Have fun!

Previous Dooms: 2023 || 2024

[chainofclovers]

Fic ask meme: I want to know all of them, but am intensely curious about 3, 4, 16, 18, 19 ✨🫡

Howdy! Thanks for the ask, friend! :D

3. What was your happiest writing experience?

It was finishing up "stay open" (Ted/Rebecca/Nate) right at the start of the year for my Sexy Christmas due date of January 4. I had been working on the fic off and on since June 2023. It was a gift for @boglady and I'd been, annoyingly, telling her I was writing something for her while (SUCCESSFULLY) keeping the relationship and premise a secret. I was beside myself with excitement for not having to keep the secret anymore. My darling beta @itsagutthing was keeping me sane, but not sane enough that I didn't blast the Bach violin chaconne Nate records for Ted in the fic while I was going through the Taco Bell drive-thru in real life. My wife was out of town. I kept odd hours. Despite the six+ month lead time, I added thousands of words to the fic in the final couple days. IT WAS THE BEST! I genuinely was having the time of my life writing that thing and it's easily the fic I'm most proud of writing at any point in my life and one of the most fun times I've had participating in a fandom event.

4. What was your most frustrating writing experience?

Keeping with fic, I ended up pretty happy with the angsty post-canon sort-of-ish-Ted/Beard/Rebecca fic, "rice," that I wrote for a comment-a-thon prize. But I had a lot of stops and starts including a lot of difficulty with a whole different plot idea that ended up being bad. It turns out that setting out to specifically write angst (or, I imagine, any specific tone) feels like a lot of pressure! I spent far less time writing the actual fic that ended up existing than I spent gnashing my teeth while writing doomed words.

16. What do you want to change about your writing in 2025? What do you want to stay the same?

Already answered!

18. Say something kind about your own writing this year.

I had fun and did what I wanted! I did things like spend 7 months thinking about a Ted/Rebecca/Nate poly arrangement that likely wouldn't be up a lot of people's alley, or write a modern art museum AU in one quick evening. Life is stressful and hard and writing should be a blast whenever possible.

19. If you’re an epigraph person, which was your most meaningful epigraph?

Probably the epigraph for my Secret Santa fic, "and you're with me" (Ted/Rebecca). Ever since I heard "Jade Green" by Kacey Musgraves I had T/R thoughts. It's such a beautiful song, and I ended up having a jade bracelet pop up a few times in the story as a focal point for Rebecca as her relationship with Ted evolves and grows over the years.

I can't help it, I get anxious, and every time we part I say a little prayer to drive away the dark And I'm with you and you're with me Like the bracelet that you gave me

Year-end fic ask meme.

[cosmiccannibalcamille]

YOUR 2024 Mars in Leo Horoscope

What: Mars in Leo

When: Nov. 3, 2024 - Jan. 6, 2025; April 18 - June 16, 2025

Who’s Impacted: EVERYONE, but esp. Fixed Signs & Fire Signs

Takeaway: a feisty, fabulous, me-first strut for the planet of action; it’s time for your passion, courage, and confidence to roar loudly and with pride.  

     My initial plan for this horoscope was to post it as a sort of rah-rah victory cry after the election, because Mars in Leo feels oh-so victorious to me—it’s a feisty, fiery transit full of pride, passion, and so much confidence. In truth, there are large numbers of people who do in fact feel victorious and proud today (some might also be feeling confident, if not smug). I am not one of those people. I wanted, hoped and voted for a different outcome for this election. I wanted the victory, pride and passion to be for / about the first woman president, the trust in women, the promise of tomorrow, and a new way forward. That didn’t happen. I went to bed shook and shell shocked, and sooo not confident.      

     It snowed roughly six inches last night, so I woke to a gray, cloudless sky. No sunshine, no warmth, and no light other than the glaring white of the snow. Doom scrolling sucked me in early this morning; countless minutes I spent on my phone and computer, reading about election results and various news stories about the fate and future of America. I hopped from one platform to the next, hoping to find a nugget of wisdom, truth or reassurance, hoping to read a post—read another person’s words telling me it was all going to be OK. I couldn’t find what I was looking for, which made me feel heavier, made the day and world outside seem even darker. 

     To escape the doomscroll, I went outside. I shoveled the sidewalks and our driveway, grunting in frustration as I scooped heap after heap of heavy white fluff. Hands cold, nose running, and body aching slightly, I kept on shoveling. Why? I needed to clear a path. That was my aim, that was my goal: to clear away the snow, to keep going until the path was clear.

     I found relief in this, to be fully in my body and fully away from the news feeds, away from the chatter, away from my own spiraling thoughts of an uncertain future. In this state—cold with spirits dashed, focusing body and mind on the removal of the snow, I felt momentarily freed and momentarily aware. This is what Mars in Leo is really about, I thought, it’s a transit for doing something with the anger, grief, frustration and fear, releasing the heat in a constructive way… 

     Because the truth is—even if your chosen candidate won last night—we won’t always feel victorious; we won’t always feel like the winner. Any time we have a goal that feels impossible or insurmountable we run the risk of losing; it is humbling and infuriating to lose. But each time you lose, you gain another opportunity to win. As someone who has their natal Mars in Leo, I understand this transit’s deeper message, its inner yearning and tougher lessons. One of those lessons is dealing with loss. Losing can feel like a personal attack, an insult to our ego and pride; humility is not something Leo loves to suffer through. But stewing in feelings of insult and fury don’t do us any good.  

     That said, Mars in Leo can help us channel our fuming funerial feelings—the anger / grief / frustration, the loss—into a new goal, a new purpose, a new way forward. To win, we have to first feel the bite of loss; we have to feel those stings to our pride and our purpose, we have to be humbled, and we have to honor our anger by listening to what, exactly, we are angry about. And then we have to do something about all of that. Humbled, but no less determined, we have to use our feelings of pain and frustration, our sadness, disappointment, and anger as fuel towards the next achievement. Not from a place of revenge, but from a place of purpose. Purpose to do better, purpose to clear a path and to do some good.

     Mars in Leo wants to act, wants to propel a goal or movement forward. But it also encourages us to have faith—faith in ourselves and faith in tomorrow, to roar with confidence and to give confidence to those who need it. Leo is ruled by the Sun, and the Sun is a shining beacon of promise. We wake up everyday knowing the sun will shine. Again. Again. We wake up knowing we will feel the warmth of the Sun again. So that’s what I hope you take away from Mars in Leo. Mars in Leo is resolute. It is strategic, focused, and forceful. It teaches us the strength of our power, our courage, and our resolve; it also underscores the importance of leading proudly, boldly and with so much light. As I was writing this, Vice President Kamala Harris gave her concession speech, and she talked about this light, saying: “The light of America’s promise will always burn bright, as long as we never give up and as long as we keep fighting.” So, that is what we all must do: never give up and keep fighting. Proudly, boldly, and with a clear purpose for good.

Get the FULL Mars in Leo forecast on my astrology newsletter:

[greyling-writes]

Whump Writing Challenges Masterlist (2024)

Format:

Title of Challenge [ With link to 2024 prompts list ] - @/the blog name

February

Febuwhump - @febuwhump

March

March of Pain - @marchofpain

Trope-a-Thon - @amonthofwhump

June

June of Doom (2025!) - @juneofdoom

July

Whumperless Whump - @whumperless-whump-event

Whumpmas in July - @whumpmasinjuly

August

Augusnippets - @augusnippets

AugustofWhump - @augustofwhump

September

Whumptember - @whumptember

Sicktember - @sicktember

Alphabet of Whump - @alphabetofwhump

October

Whumptober - @whumptober

Angstober - @angstober

Flufftober - @flufftober

Full-Year / Anytime

@year-of-whump-tropes

Bad Things Happen Bingo - @badthingshappenbingo

[r3d-m3dic]

hi call me Lukas, Charlie, Kili, or Larry

Fictionkin of too many characters. Most notably Peter Maximoff, Bad Cop, GL!Slimecicle, Swansea, and Larry Trainor

It/Blue/Spirit/Slime/Silver/Arrow/Mountain pronouns

kin blog: @swanseafromhitgamemouthwashing

Do not bring politics on to this blog please. I will occasionally break this rule, or mass reblog stuff for people's safety. As of Monday January 21th 2025 I will be reblogging shit and posting some stuff of my fucking own. This shit is fucking insane.

Transgender, Galaxian, Xenogender (Specifics + Pronouns), omnisexual, grayasexual, demisexual, pseudosexual encephaloromantic and ambiamorous. :D

These all have links to definitions if your curious!!

I'm a Kemetic Pagan :3

I take art requests and userbox requests.

I don't do commissions.

Autism, ADHD, OCD, and potentially depression.

I get hyperfixations! They will change.

hyperfixations, in order from my earliest memory of hyperfixating, under the cut

Jurassic Park (Summer 2022)

Ghostbusters (Halloween time, 2022)

TF2 (Beginning of 2023 to halfway through summer)

Night at the Museum (Ending of summer 2023)

The Stanley Parable (Some point during NATM hyperfixation)

MHA (End of summer, into fall 2023)

Spiderverse (Fall 2023)

COD (End-ish of fall 2023 to end of November? Or October.)

LOTR and The Hobbit (December-February 2024. December 9th-Jan 9th)

SCP (March-May)

Pacific drive (Some point during SCP hyperfixation. It has ended.)

One Piece (April)

Generation Loss: The Social Experiments (May. Came back on June 16, ended. Also October 11-November 6th.)

Slimecicle Cinematic Universe (May)

That's not my neighbor (June)

Stray (June)

Minecraft Story Mode (June-August 3rd)

Deadpool (August 3rd-August 11th)

Xmen (August 9th-October 12th)

Mouthwashing (November 5th-December 5th)

Doom Patrol (January 9th-now)

I also like Godzilla, The Beekeeper, Wobbledogs, raft, phasmophobia, and many other things I can't remember.

Favorite Characters

Jurassic Park: Ian Malcom and Lowery Cruthers

Ghostbusters: Egon Spengler

Tf2: Medic

NATM: Jedediah and Octavius

Stanley Parable: Narrator

MHA: Denki

Spiderverse: Spider-Noir, Hobie Brown, and Pavitr

COD: Graves

LOTR: Boromir, Faramir, Aragorn, Elrond, Galadriel.

Hobbit: Kili, Fili, Bofur.

SCP: Dr. Alto Clef

Pacific Drive: Tobias

One Piece: Zoro

Genloss: Episode 1 slimecicle

SCU: God Bizly

That's not my neighbor: Francis Mosses and Angus Ciprianni

Stray: Jacob. Yes, the bartender.

Minecraft Story Mode: Aiden and Lukas

Deadpool: Colossus and Deadpool

Xmen: Nightcrawler, Gambit, and Quicksilver

Mouthwashing: Daisuke and Swansea

Doom Patrol: Larry Trainor

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I haven't finished Pacific Drive, but it already got spoiled

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Watched the entirety of NATM

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Seen all of Stray

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Watched all 3 Deadpool movies

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[Crowd Booing]: The Decline of Hulkamania

I think everyone has seen the footage of Hulk Hogan's appearance on the 1/6/2025 episode of Raw. It was a big enough happening that major news outlets covered it, and I've noticed people trying to understand how this happened. For example, they'll note that Hogan supports Donald Trump, and that's certainly a good way to piss people off, but the Undertaker and Triple H have similar political leanings, so why aren't they booed?

Commentators more familiar with Hogan's recent history will point out the sex tape fiasco, and all the racist stuff he said on the sex tape. But I think he managed to make a few appearances on WWE programming after all of that happened, and he got a warmer reception from the crowd than he deserved. So what changed?

For a lot of wrestling fans, this is all really obvious. Hogan has been a controversial figure long before the sex tape came to light, and maybe 2025 is the year where his bullshit has finally overtaken whatever goodwill he had built up with the public. I think his last big moment of acclaim was when he had that match with the Rock at WrestleMania XVIII, and the Toronto crowd practically forced him to turn babyface. That was in 2002. Everything since then has been a nostalgia run. For a lot of fans, the only version of Hulk Hogan they know is this aging has-been who comes out to do all his catchphrases and tear off his shirt to reveal another shirt. Each time, it gets less and less impressive, and maybe the 2025 audience no longer has any patience for him.

For the sake of argument, let's pretend the sex tape never happened, and no one knows Hogan's a racist. Let's pretend he stayed out of politics, and avoided any other controversies. Even this sanitized version of Hulk Hogan would probably still be irritating to the live crowd, because he's a 71-year-old man doing a beer commercial. He's not there to promote the card, or talk up any of the wrestlers. He just babbles about himself, and how his tag team partners are kind of like Netflix or something. It's stupid and boring and everyone just wants to move on to the next segment. It's not even original, because Ric Flair was plugging his stupid energy drink on AEW last year.

The thing is, fans have been turning on Hulk Hogan for a very, very long time. I watch a lot of Cultaholic videos, and whenever Hogan comes up in one of their top ten lists, they'll talk up his star power and his blunders in the same breath. Younger wrestling fans have probably heard about WrestleMania III and the heel turn at Bash at the Beach '96, but they've also heard about WrestleMania IX and the Fingerpoke of Doom. Oh, and that pesky sex tape. And the Kamala Harris joke. And now this disastrous Netflix appearance.

It's a lot to keep track of, so I thought it might be useful to put together a little timeline of Hogan's fall from grace. Nothing definitive, I just wanted to organize the moments that I could think of. More below the cut.

1989: No Holds Barred. The movie premiers on June 12 and makes about five million dollars on its opening weekend. Maybe this is a cheap shot, since No Holds Barred is such a joke, but I think it says something that the biggest star in pro wrestling at the time starred in a movie about himself as a pro wrestler, and it bombed.

1990: WrestleMania VI. Hulk Hogan loses to the Ultimate Warrior in the main event. Not a big deal in itself, but this is widely understood as the moment when WWF started looking ahead to a future without Hogan.

1991: WrestleMania VII. Hulk Hogan defeats Sgt. Slaughter to win his third WWF Championship. The Ultimate Warrior title reign was apparently deemed a failed experiment, but WM7 didn't benefit from putting Hogan back on top. The show was originally booked for the Los Angeles Memorial Colosseum, but had to be moved to the Memorial Sports Arena instead, due to a bomb threat low ticket sales.

1991: Survivor Series. Hogan loses his WWF title to the Undertaker. Notably, there were a lot of pro-Undertaker signs in the live crowd on that show, even though the Undertaker was a heel. I didn't hate Hogan in 1991, but I do know that I was rooting for 'Taker that month.

1992: WrestleMania VIII. Hogan wrestles what was billed as a retirement match against Sid Justice. The finish is botched when Papa Shango misses his cue to interfere.

1993: WrestleMania IX.Hogan comes out of "retirement" to team up with Brutus Beefcake against tag team champions Money Inc. Hogan and Beefcake lose by disqualification, but then Hogan comes out after the main event of the show and wins the WWF title from newly crowned champion Yokozuna.

1993: King of the Ring. After winning the WWF title, Hogan practically vanishes from WWF television, finally returning in May to lose the title back to Yokozuna before leaving the promotion.

1994: Thunder in Paradise. Hulk Hogan stars in his own TV series as "Hurricane" Spencer, a former Navy SEAL working as a mercenary with a high-tech boat. It isn't very good.

1994-1995: WCW. While Hogan signing with the rival promotion was probably a smart business decision in the short term, his already stale superhero act was rejected by many fans who saw him as a betrayal of WCW's style of pro wrestling. Questionable booking decisions include Hogan winning the WCW title from Ric Flair in his debut match, Hogan's bizarre feud with the Dungeon of Doom, and the the hiring of many of Hogan's friends from his WWF years.

1995: Pastamania.

1995: Hulk Hogan and the Wrestling Boot Band release Hulk Rules, their first and only album. Of the ten tracks, one song is his WCW entrance theme, and six songs have the word "Hulk" in the title. The tenth track, "Hulkster in Heaven" is a song about Hogan mourning a deceased fan, and promising to see him again in the afterlife.

Hogan would later claim that "Hulkster in Heaven" was a tribute to a Make-A-Wish kid who died of cancer during a wrestling show at Wembly Stadium in 1992. Hogan would also claim that the song was written to raise funds for the family of James Bulger, a British toddler who was brutally murdered by children in 1993. Both versions of the story are absurd fabrications.

1996-1998: nWo. Hulk Hogan betrays WCW to join forces with Outsiders Scott Hall and Kein Nash. The New World Order breathes new life into Hogan's career by finally allowing him to play the villain. However, fans soon grow weary of the long, repetitive storyline, which eventually culminates in the nWo splitting into two warring factions. Throughout this period, WWF and ECW relentlessly mock Hulk Hogan as an egomaniac long past his prime, and their audiences cheer with approval.

1999: January 4 WCW Nitro. Fingerpoke of Doom. Hulk Hogan challenges Kevin Nash for the WCW title in what could have been the culmination of the nWo Civil War. Instead, Nash allows Hogan to pin him, revealing that they are actually on the same side. The nWo is reorganized around several key members known as "nWo-Elite", although this version of the stable would quietly dissolve by mid-year.

1999: August 9 WCW Nitro. After weeks of teasing a face turn, Hogan finally returns to his classic red and yellow ring gear. Bobby Heenan and Tony Schiovane are astonished. The live crowd in Boise, Idaho seem less enthusiastic.

2000: March 6 WCW Nitro. "The main priority in the Yapapi Indian strap match is to have flexibility of the wrist that you strap to your opponent with, brother, because in the Yapapi Indian strap match, when you're in the four corners of the battlezone, the main priority is--is to get the body in the proper position for the strapation, dudes."

2000: March 27 WCW Nitro. "That's the Wall Brother!"

2000: Bash at the Beach. Hogan "defeats" WCW World Champion Jeff Jarrett when Jarrett unexpectedly lays down in the middle of the ring and calls for Hogan to pin him. Hogan complies, then cuts a promo on WCW head writer Vince Russo, accusing him of ruining the company with bad creative decisions like this.

After he leaves, Vince Russo addresses the audience with his own promo, reversing the decision and announcing a new title match with Jeff Jarrett defending against Booker T. Concerning Hogan, Russo claims that this would be his final appearance in WCW, adding: "And Hogan, you big bald son of a bitch, kiss my ass!"

The full truth behind the segment remains unclear, although Hogan later sued Russo and Turner/Time Warner for defamation of character, which suggests that he had not agreed to at least part of the incident.

2005: Summerslam. Hulk Hogan defeats Shawn Michaels. Although this was promoted as a dream match, it is mostly remembered as a contest between two notorious backstage politickers. The program was originally supposed to involve three matches, which Hogan vetoed in order to avoid losing in the second match. In the single match that took place, Shawn Michaels sold all of Hogan's offense to an absurd degree, perhaps in retaliation.

2006: Bubba the Love Sponge records Hulk Hogan having sex with his wife Heather Clem. While all three parties agreed to the sex, Hogan would later claim that he did not give consent to being filmed.

2006: Summerslam. Hulk Hogan defeats Randy Orton. This was Hogan's final match in WWE.

2007: Nick Bollea, Hogan's son, crashes a Toyota Supra into a palm tree. The car is destroyed and Nick's passenger, John Graziano, sustains serious injuries, including brain damage.

2008: Nick Bollea, is sentenced to jail for several months for his role in the Toyota Supra crash. Hogan calls Nick while he is serving his sentence and makes several controversial comments, including his fear that he and Nick might be reincarnated as "blizz-ack gizz-uys".

2009-2013: Hulk Hogan in TNA. I don't know much about this, but I think it's safe to say it sucked. Hogan's final match ever, a six-man tag match in January 2012, took place during this TNA run.

2012: Gawker publishes an excerpt of the Hulk Hogan sex tape.

2013-2016: Bollea v. Gawker. Hogan sues Gawker for publishing the sex tape and is awarded $115 million in damages.

2014: WrestleMania XXX: Hogan hosts the event, and accidentally refers to the Superdome as "the Silverdome".

2015: The National Enquirer and Radar Online report an anti-Black rant Hogan made during the sex tape. In the audio, Hogan expresses disgust with the idea of his daughter dating a Black man, and repeatedly uses the N-word. WWE cuts ties with Hogan and removes all references to him from their website. Later, other offensive comments by Hogan are brought to light, including racist remarks in the 2008 phone call to Nick Bollea.

2018: WWE reinstates Hulk Hogan to their Hall of Fame, and appears on the Crown Jewel show in Saudi Arabia as the event's host.

2019-2024: Hogan appears on WWE television numerous times, including a second induction into the Hall of Fame as part of the nWo.

2024: Republican National Convention. Hogan endorses Donald Trump in the upcoming U.S. Presidential Election.

2024: During an appearance in Medina Ohio to promote Real American Beer, Hogan asks the crowd if they want him to bodyslam Kamala Harris. He then questions her racial identity, asking if she is really an Indian. He then holds up his hand and says "How." like a racist charicature of a Native American Indian, then admits that he'll get "heat for that one, brother."

2025:

I may be laying it on too thick, but the point I'm trying to make here is that Vince Russo was doing shoot promos on Hulk Hogan's selfishness in the middle of a pay-per-view 25 years ago. Fans have been getting bored of this guy way back in 1991. The Iron Sheik shoot interviews went viral in 2007.

His segment on the January 6 Raw show was mostly him talking about how he used to team with Andre the Giant and Randy Savage. And when you really get down to it, those are the latest "pure" memories from Hogan's public life. He main evented against Andre in 1987, and then against Savage in 1989, and the next 36 years has been this desperate struggle to stay relevant.

In the 90's he could tack into the wind and play the graceful loser against the Ultimate Warrior, "retire" against Sid Justice, and then make fans beg him to turn heel before he finally did it in '96. But he kind of sucked as a villain because he never lost convincingly. There was no blowoff to the nWo. Sting beat him in indecisive fashion in 1997, and then the story just kept going for two more years until Hogan got sidelined with a knee injury and started wearing the red and yellow again in '99. Then he left WCW for good and everything since then has been a nostalgia act.

And the problem is that eventually you run out of nostalgia. What made Hogan a superstar in the 80's was the way he'd dominate his opponents with his He-Man doll physique. Then he got older and leaner and started relying more on catchphrases and rambling promos. Now he's just some old man hoping you remember 1987 and not 2015, at least long enough to buy his stupid beer.

Why the fuck is he selling beer in the first place? You can buy that anywhere.

[darkmaga-returns]

The Truth of 2025

By Thomas Buckley The Point

January 1, 2025

Farcical falsehoods have underpinned the Biden administration from the beginning, but it all came crashing down in a TV studio in an Atlanta in late June of this year.

The wings melted – Icarus hit the water

The entire point of the existence of everyone around Joe had been to deny, defray, obfuscate, while simultaneously promising him personally that everything was all right.

The staff was Daedalus to his Icarus, building him wings of wax that they knew would be kept airborne by the press…until they weren’t and he plummeted to earth.

For it to remain in power, the Biden administration, since even before his 2021 inauguration, has required that the nation engage in a mass suspension of disbelief.

As the viewer of a sci-fi movie must, in order for the movie to make sense, simply accept that things like warp drive and transporters exist, that suspension of disbelief gives the viewer the ability to follow the plot, to care about the characters – as long as the events and tech in the movie make internal sense, the movie can be watched, tolerated, or even enjoyed.

But relying on the nation to keep up that suspension of disbelief forever was, obviously, doomed from the start. The administration spun more and more lies to keep up the pretense, developing into the political equivalent – both literally and figuratively – of “Battlefield Earth.”