#like godspeed you can't know those stuff i totally get it

[icharchivist]

Cecil wasn't entirely a joke and uh... Dashcon? Like a running scam? I don't know that either (let me introduce you to someone who lived under a rock in the early 10s

To be fair with you, yeah, those were like, ten years ago, it's obscure knowledge from this website's weird culture ten years ago and it's difficult to really hold you up against that. It was just so. So surprising to me DLKFJDFKL

and oooh boy. Dashcon has been pretty infamous even outside of tumblr so i thought at least this would help situate it but man.

So it was in 2014 or something? a group started to express the idea of making a Tumblr Convention, which would be called Dashcon. This con was supposed to happen in a grand venue, with an hotel nearby, and was supposed to invite a lot of what made tumblr famous at the time. Teenagers from tumblr were encouraged to come to the convention, promised a lot of activities and being able to meet up with a lot of the stars we were talking about a lot.

This... dashcon was a complete catastrophe. Further down the line we learnt that into the organization group, most of them had given up all the management to the youngest of its members who got easily overwhelmed, which eventually led to everything at this con going incredibly wrong.

None of the people invited to the con showed up, wtnv especially after their fees were left unpaid. Only the tumblrian folks that came to it.

There was no activity. The venues were mostly empty. But hey, there was a ballpit!

... yeaaah so, huh, that wasn't so great. (someone peed in the ballpit too, we learnt. The people who went to dashcon liveblogged it and those of us who stayed at home saw the horror unfold for them, and the "guys be careful someone peed in the ballpit" was one of those horrors that is still circulating on this website today)

At some point during the first day of the convention, "the hotel" they were staying at asked them additional fees of 70k $ that had to be paid under an hour or else everyone would be kicked out. As i remind you, a lot of the people who came to Dashcon were teenagers. Not exactly people who had a lot of $$$ in hand.

Mind you, they needed this money raised for the next days of the conventions, where they were still promising a wtnv liveshow to happen, while at this point the wtnv cast were already no longer involved with the project.

But don't worry, it was promptly replaced as the day went on with conference about why Bullying Was Wrong and How To Deal With Cyberbullying, and all that jazz.

This con was a complete disaster and went down in history as "this is what happens when tumblr gets too high with their own importance" or something. I think that's pretty unfair imo, because it was clearly more made from people who tried to exploit all of this and basically destroyed any sense of community that were at the time.

Ofc it's not that simple but it was one of the big moment of this website with like, the Mishapocalypse from 2012 (do you know about it. Or am i just doing a One Thousand Nights thing of teasing you tumblr history each post at this point.)

I think if you want to look deeply into it, Sarah Z made a decent video kinda digging into the details of this mess while also keeping it far less scattered than i did.

This is one of the pillar of the history of this website and i still see people talking about it everytime there's a failed convention somewhere. Like when the Frye Festival happened (some type of music festival on an island mainly targetting rich people that was extremely mismanaged, empty, and had people left to their own device), i've seen a hundred of memes about how it was "Dashcon for instagram and rich people". You will regularly see a ballpit edited into the pictures of such events.

So yeah.... history. I guess.

[inchidentally]

I think the dichotomy people see is that Lando was in a cave in Vietnam with no internet access when the whole Hamilton Twitter conversation was going on. Max Fewtrell said that he was without internet access. The tour site says that while you are in the caves and surrounding area you will not have cell coverage or internet. That they only have satellite phones for emergencies. So if he was in the caves Tuesday through Friday (Martin said it was four days), and only got back to civilization on Saturday there was no way for it to be him interacting on Twitter. So during that time someone else was posting a silly reaction gif to the biggest news of the off-season. Not saying you aren’t correct and he’s taken back control now that he’s back, but just lends to some doubt.

Max had no intention for his offhand comment to be taken as some kind of military time and geographic coordinates of Lando's exact whereabouts at that second lasfjlsahf. and the "four days" Martin referred to is the total time in Vietnam, not inside the cave as you can see from him like. literally posting stuff from not in the cave. in no way is Lando or Martin going to let y'all fans know precisely where they are at any given time, nor is Max. there's good reason for that!

I’ll go ahead and say that another anon already alerted me that this is all from a conspiracy theory to disprove any positive interaction every happening between Lando and Oscar and about proving car|ando being "real" in whatever way that means. I've already made it clear many times I don't do the whole 'rpf is real' thing and I absolutely have NO time for the way women and girlfriends are talked about in those spaces.

is it far more more likely that Lando and and his teammate were indeed tweeting each other in a lighthearted inconsequential way? yes. would it be extremely unprofessional for a PR person to fail to tweet anything for a month from Lando's acc if indeed they are running it for him? yes. and would it be extremely weird for a paid employee to suddenly take it upon themselves to reply to an untagged Oscar tweet in a very Lando way? yes. would it be unnecessary for the LN4 acc (Lando merch PR) to tweet at Oscar as well as someone else on Lando's team from his personal acc? yes. is it more likely that fans can't figure out where or when Lando was when he heard about the Ferrari news? yes.

are people making WAY too much out of this bc of some weird parasocial hope that Lando must react in a certain way to the Ferrari/Carlos news and if he doesn't then an entire conspiracy has to be put together to explain why? apparently!!

I already regret getting pulled into this babe so listen, maybe Lando pops up and says yeah I didn’t tweet that and I never talk to Oscar or he winks solely at car|ando fans on his next stream and states clearly that he was absolutely NOT online when those tweets were made. if that will make y'all happy then godspeed! but block my blog while you're at it ok ??

bc spending his much time and energy over ONE small silly twitter interaction has already exhausted me so idk how y'all do it every day !!

[erisenyo]

9, 13, 16, 25 🫡 godspeed

9. worst part of canon

The Great Divide lol? Jk, I generally like canon a lot, actually! I think it is such an amazing framework to play around in. But I do wish they had grounded the Southern and Northern Water Tribes in research/real-life cultural roots to the same degree as they did for the other nations. From what I've seen from circumpolar fans, it seems like it's more of a stereotypical and surface-level referencing vs the attention to detail given to the Fire and Earth and Air cultures. I wish canon had built that out more fully and deeply (or at least, built the North out if there was a theme being threaded around cultural loss due to the impacts of war).

13. worst blorboficiation

I feel like awkward turtleduck Zuko is the easy answer here...so I'm going to say Katara. I really like her, for her anger and her heart and her sense of justice and her sense of care and her dorkiness and hunger to learn. It feels like a lot of times she's boiled down to 'group mom' with no other layers, or to a girl boss/girl power fantasy that doesn't actually engage with her trauma and responses to it, or her ssensse of justice. She's a really great, complex, human character and I hate to see her filed down to just the one facet that lets her slot into the background of someone else's story.

(Which is maybe like the opposite of blorboification, to be put into the background lol? De-blorbified haha?)

16. you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)

I see a lot of headcanons/characterizations of Zuko as incredibly anxious, frequently to the point of paralysis and distress and needing rescue, and it's one of those things that feels totally divorced from his actual canon characterization to me. He is all action in canon. He throws himself at every problem face-first and he'll figure it out on the way. He has a big emotionally painful revelation that he was raised with lies and he goes to yell at his dad and point swords at him about it. He has an identity crisis so he does some vigilante stuff. A more experienced, older firebender gets in his face so he challenges him to a duel--three times.

He is not paralyzed by anxiety. He is a perpetual motion machine. He broods, he doesn't ruminate, and there is a difference.

25. common fandom complaint that you're sick of hearing

Oh man lol. Ignoring all the purity wank stuff (which. what a big thing to ignore.), how about when we complain about how other shippers are rude and mischaracterize us and come at the Zukkas, when we don't come for them. Which just goes to show how uniquely terrible and rude and awful and wicked and ignorant and mean those other shippers are, and how they don't know anything about canon either, and also their ship is stupid and racist and phobic and--

But don't worry, we don't come at other shippers.

(For the choose violence ask game!)

[aurorialwolf]

Me when I had some stims reading through these augh I love these little guys,, I'm gonna say what my reactions were in order :3c

I literally said AW that's so cute when I read that his fav colour is navy blue.. idk why it's cute but like omg he has a favourite colour :D

I said 'wait WHAT' when I read that roma is 171.. bro is OLD

We definitely all saw the dct-n criminal charges coming.. or not but I'm definitely not surprised pffft

Soliar and Nadia my second favourite duo (it's clear who my first fav is)

ALSO YAYAYYAYAYAYYAYAY THE LITTLE GUYS ARE TRANS I love trans characters,, I love all genderqueer characters,, collects them

I'm somehow not surprised Raitor had a twilight phase..

Awww evel liking bunnies and puppies :(( it's so cute

OMG Nadia working at a bakery that's cute :3c

I read the bit about Soliar going to McKinley and went 'WHAT' idk why that's surprising but omg we love a little educated pal

AWWW poor dct-n :(( it's okay, you have a great personality (maybe)

Of course Roma got dct-n into smoking 😒

Aww evel is autism :3333 love them

I want to dunk on Roma at any chance I get for some reason but I don't know how to diss him for not being in a clan cuz tbh that's valid

Omg he's a little guy with little vision !! godspeed having to wear contacts,, wewjkhdkgs eyeball stuff waugh

For some reason Soliar not liking those things makes a lot of sense.. Aria should go bother them again and bring the cat she's currently adopting PFFT

also AWWWW they were annoying each other and now they just call each other nicknames that's so cute... they should kiss

VOICECLAIMS WOOOOO saw that Raitor was voiceclaimed as podcast Watson and giggled a little /pos I was actually going to ask you what Raitor's voice sounds like so this is convenient

OH MY GOD DETROIT BECOME HUMAN I LOVE DETROIT BECOME HUMAN i got the good ending for the android evel is voiceclaimed as and was so happy

I've never played portal but the voice sounds cool :3 I for some reason can't pinpoint quite what the accent is hrmmm

Oh of COURSE Roma sounds so posh 😒

omg Nadia's voiceclaim fits her SO well, like all the others fit as well but hers is just somehow like. on point

omg I've been meaning to watch Lackadaisy.. I love this voice

..Aria totally does a british accent sometimes to mimic Raitor btw

—> random facts about my redacted ocs !

(in no particular order)

dct-n distrusts vampires.

raitor’s favourite colour is navy blue.

evel’s name and appearance fluctuates through out Blanked Tapes — but her name will alway start with an ‘E’.

roma is 171yrs old. peepaw

dct-n, despite being an investigator, has multiple criminal charges.

soliar & nadia both have a mutual crush on eachother in both prime universe and imperium. (WHO SAW THAT COMING)

raitor is FTM!

nadia is MTF!

raitor had a twilight phase.

evel loves bunnies and puppies.

evel always appears oddly ‘sickly’. they’re always somewhat pale.

nadia used to work at a bakery before going to CloseKnit.

soliar used to attend McKinley’s.

dct-n’s horns are actually smaller and shorter than an average serenity daemon’s horns. they’re very embarrassed over this.

roma is the one who got dct-n into smoking.

evel doesn’t know what social cues are, despite attempting to blend in.

roma doesn’t appear to be part of any clans.

raitor wears contacts. he needed glasses in middle school, but that was really embarrassing for him so he wears contacts.

soliar doesn’t like bright lights, the water, or cats.

evel was originally going to be mute, but i thought them just being quiet was a better approach.

soliar picked up on calling nadia ‘nadi’ because nadia kept calling him ‘sol’ and wouldn’t stop — causing sol to call her a nickname back ; attempting to annoy her. this eventually just turned into them unironically calling eachother nicknames.

AND! voiceclaims! finally!

tag(s): @aurorialwolf

i’d tag the other roleplayers but i’m awkward and nervous so i’m not going to