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[s-pyder]

🕷️Chris Samnee🕷️

[tomyo]

Photos of my vpets and related goods.

[ymmtknt]

#landmark #cityscape #street #rainyday #tama #tomyo #japan (三井アウトレットパーク多摩南大沢) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqU8oZIP1wk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[danieyells]

Let me tell you when he said this

I thought he meant it as in "next time you screw up how about we put your mouth to better use than talking back" and i just

Had to take a minute

(HE MEANT HER PHONE AND I WANTED TO CRY FROM UNFULFILLED HORNY OKAY.)

[aquasandyled]

Ohhh i just remembered back when tokyo ghoul re came out (2014?) i used to love sasaki haise way more than i ever liked ken kaneki and it was the same gotdamned dude lmfaooooo

I miss u sasaki haise my beloved 😔😔❤️

[tomyo]

Genuinely, the 2020 presidential election was one of the most stressful days I’ve ever experienced. I didn’t sleep for days and couldn’t go 2 minutes without checking the results. I live in a liberal state but the days leading up to the election brought out tons of trump flags on trucks and there was a group vigilantly waving MAGA flags for HOURS non stop outside the polling center because I went there and watched them and watched the appalling amount of people honking in support. Like a lot of people I had sent in my ballot already but there was an absolute panic about that because mail in boxes where being destroyed, set on fire, and stolen. During the red mirage I went hysterical and scared my mom from how unstable I was acting. Months later she told me I was right about it all and saw what was coming as we watched the insurrection live feed.

I say this one because I cannot express enough how relieved people felt by the news, within minutes of it being locked in that Trump lost my friends heard pots banging in the streets. I never was big in Supernatural but Destiel being canon was so joyous in part because it felt like the first time in months we could enjoy something again. On top of everything else, that summer had also been the George Floyd protests as well as a lot of people pushing back pretty hard on following social distancing.

Destiel is one of the few things I can remember from 2020 that didn’t deal with people’s livelihood and there was something wonderful about a classic tumblr fandom getting its goofy glory when we were the kind of space they saw as the problem. The rainbow haired SJWs they made fun of in 2016 got the most dry, unsalted ship win as Trump lost.

It feels like a lot of us intentionally blocked out how dark and traumatic that time was which I think is why it’s all the more important to remember to push even harder than last time because there’s the possibility Trumpers are going to be more aggressive this time and we don’t need even the possibility of him back in office.

People who try to analyze what happened on Tumblr on November 5th, 2020, often really overstate how much it was actually “about” Supernatural. As someone who has never been in the supernatural fandom ever but dID join in on the hysterical destielposting—it was really more about the stress of the pandemic and the 2020 presidential election.

The two biggest Youtubers I’ve seen try to dissect “what happened that November 5th” in video essays both weren’t American—- and I think that explains why they both tried to explain the hysteria primarily via analyzing the Supernatural fandom/the original show, rather than through the lens of the election. And while those videos are cool, valid, informational, and make lots of really well-considered interesting points— I can tell you that me and almost all my mutuals had literally no knowledge or interest in the fact that “oh supernatural had made nods at the ship in the past but the creators were adamant that I wouldn’t be canon” or etc etc etc etc. the first time I learned about any of that context was way later, watching videos where people claimed that fandom history context (that I did not know anything about) was the actual reason for the hysteria.

But the reality is that people latched on to the Destiel stuff because it was a piece of big useless inane zero-stakes fandom news in a time when we were desperately waiting for serious high stakes election news. We were latching onto a “positive “ piece of inane stupid fandom news in a time of great stress, with all the desperation of a drowning man who latches onto whatever piece of wood will keep him afloat.

The core of the hysteria was that Americans (who make up a huge chunk of tumblr’s userbase) were currently glued to their laptops watching the live presidential election vote counts come in. These vote counts were taking an extended amount of time due to the pandemic causing high numbers of mail-in ballots, resulting in a constant state of Election Day Stress for multiple days straight.

This was also during the height of the Pandemic. People had predicted Trump’s presidency would be bad; no one had predicted it would be this apocalyptically bad. No one had predicted pandemics and lockdowns and hospitals overflowing with bodybags. remember Trump spreading Covid lies and conspiracies?? There were so many Qanon conspiracies about democrats being Satanic child traffickers who had to be put to death, and coup threats were mounting from the right wing side. It seemed like this election was a choice between ‘centrist democrat’ and “apocalyptic right wing conspiracy theory authoritarianism,” in the midst of pandemic conditions that people feared would never ever improve— and it seemed like a close election.

Another major point was that Trump voters were more likely to be antimaskers/Covid deniers, while Biden voters were more likely to take the pandemic seriously— so Biden voters were more likely to send in mail-in ballots instead of risking the in-person voting crowds, which meant their ballots would take much longer to count. And so, in many state electoral vote counts, it would initially seem like Trump was very far in the lead— only for Biden to slooooowly build up an agonizingly small lead as the mail in ballots came in, and then defeat Trump at the very end.

So you’re just watching these news sites giving live election updates, refreshing the page every 2 minutes to see if you’re going to live under a spineless centrist democrat or a literal Qanon Dictatorship. And then you go on tumblr to distract yourself, and there’s more election posting, and more agonizing over the votes, and more stress and despair—-

And then it’s been days and we’re right at the crucial tipping point where it’s anyone’s game and the next few hours will determine whether Trump will win, so you need to keep your eye on the vote count, because the next hours will determine the future of the pandemic and your country and your plans for your entire life—

And then stupid Destiel becomes canon! And it becomes canon in the silliest way possible!

If Destiel had become canon at any other time, it would have been a big goofy tumblr celebration? But we wouldn’t have gotten the insane explosion of hysterical interaction.

The entire core of it was the contrast between the inane meaningless stupidity of fandom news vs the actual stressful election news you wanted to hear! It really is best conveyed in that meme where Castiel says “I love you” and Dean indifferently responds with a piece of important election news.

It’s about the contrast between the low-stakes inanity of fandom and the massive life-destroying stakes of a terrifying election. There really was no reason it had be Supernatural specifically, except that Supernatural was a thing everyone knew basic things about from dashboard osmosis— it could’ve been any other equally huge silly fandom ship news about a ship everyone *knew of* but might not necessarily be invested in (ex. Stucky becoming canon, Johnlock becoming canon, Kirk/Spock becoming more canon somehow, etc etc etc.)

I think it’s true that people who weren’t paying agonizingly close attention to the American election news got swept up in it, and that non American Supernatural fans also were extremely excited for purely fandom reasons — but the entire reason it blew up to an unprecedented degree was because of that core of stressed out terrified Americans glued to their computers watching election results and suddenly receiving stupid fandom news instead, and deciding to just hysterically parodically hyper-celebrate this absurd useless zero-stakes news.

I think it was also all elevated by the fact that, as I said before, this happened at the crucial “tipping point” of the election where the next few hours would determine the winner. The fact that Biden began to slowly develop a lead in the hours after made it feel, hysterically, as if the hours after Destiel became canon was somehow the turning point where he began to win; so celebrating Destiel felt like celebrating that slow turn towards victory.

The tl,dr is that it’s so important to Remember the Fifth of November …..in preparation the inevitable hysteria that will happen in the presidential election on November 5th of next year. XD. Personally I’m rooting for Johnlock or Frodo/Sam to somehow become canon in the eleventh hour right before the democrats win

[transkeiichi]

didnt wanna be a dick in the tags of the post i just rbd cuz its just a sweet gifset but the "friendship" thing is just 😭😭 yeah friendship is when youre so deeply in love with your best friend that you decide to put her feelings above yours in everyway and derive happiness from seeing her with whoever shes in love with even if its not you....thats uh...just friendship!!!!!!!!!

[tokyo-daaaamn-ji-gang]

How would the tomyo revengers character react to the fanfiction we write sbout them?

Lmao a few different responses here but we have

[leech-eyez]

Rockruff (sunstone) and Eelektross (Tomyo) >:)

Sunstone belongs to @Sunny_Cing <3

[tomyo]

Things I would like but it's fucking AI art.

Retrofuturism

(adjective retrofuturistic or retrofuture) is a movement in the creative arts showing the influence of depictions of the future produced in an earlier era.

Afrofuturism…

is an intersection of imagination, technology, the future, and liberation. “I generally define Afrofuturism as a way of imagining possible futures through a black cultural lens,” says Ingrid LaFleur, an art curator and Afrofuturist.

[dotty-literati]

Tagged by @sweet-prince-marth!

"make yourself on this picrew + post the last song you listened to!"

The last song I listened to was "These Walls" by Dua Lipa.

I'm tagging @amandab821, @banterbears, @bzedan, @pbandjesse, @proppane, and @tomyo. Try this out if you like!

[tomyo]

Another Keitai collection update pic!

There’s 3 new phones bringing my fashion collaboration phones to a near complete (don’t ask me about qpot, I cry about missing a good deal on one of them recently). I’m really trying to take a step back on collecting them though the urge to buy some American phone releases burns in me. If I were to buy more, I’m looking towards orange phones in particular. Pantone alone was basically nostalgia bait for me but I found a lot of the brands who have orange phones had cool gimmicks with them too lmao. I also love the honeybee line of phones a bunch, funnily enough it’s actually their smartphones I find the most cool. I’ve been also looking at ones that characters from Lucky Star and K-on own but I’m not particularly bothered to own whole sets of those.

[stafdash]

any way heres the rough draft summery for a fic idea i had

it isn't like sakura hasn't seen weird stuff, she has. in fact she's positive the moment she became the cardcaptor she was doomed to chaos but, seeing a bear, rat, cat thing in front that was telling her that she was in a different universe, while she was standing next to her best friend her boyfriend, a detective and what seemed to be a home less man. she's starting to think that she hasn't even started to see weird yet. aka sakura, tomyo, syaoran and akino get sent to the my hero universe utter chaos ensues

[danieyells]

Sinostra student: What'd you like for lunch today, Boss?

Taiga: . . .you know those anomalies in the cafeteria. The ones that give you whatever food you order in like 30 seconds.

Sinostra student: oh, yeah, the food they make is really good! You want something from there?

Taiga: No. Just bring the thing here.

Sinostra student: We could just order you whatever you like and carry it here, it has a to-go function that keeps whatever you order at the right temperature--

Taiga: I don't want food from the anomaly. I want to eat the anomaly.

Sinostra student: . . .Boss I. . .I think that anomaly might be mechanical--

Taiga: I do not care. I want to eat the food-making anomaly in the cafeteria. I want to bite into it and know how it tastes. I want to feel it die in my mouth just like everything else half decent I eat. I want to know if it feels like breaking through plastic or exoskeleton or flesh on the outside. I want to know if it's got organs or wires on the inside, and then I will slurp whatever I find in there into my mouth and eat it. I want you to go to the cafeteria, pick up one of the anomalies, bring it back to Sinostra, and bring it to my room so I can eat it. And I am not going to tell you again.

Sinostra student: Yes, sir! Whatever you say, Boss, we'll take care of it!

[womanexile]

OMG THE NEW VAULT CODES, SHE LOST HIM, TOMYO, WEDNESDAY, NEW YORK CITY AND THIS HAIR CUT ONE?????

I know!!!

[coolkaius]

@tomyo made an awesome Streetpass sticker! I highly recommend checking out their art: https://linktr.ee/tomyo