#year in review 24

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hiiiii staff, hope you're doing well with the backend migration stuff!

this is kind of a stupid and probably low-priority question, but a few mutuals and i have been wondering: do the stats published on @fandom reflect the trends during one week, or since the last stats roundup on that blog? as in, if for one week they don't get published, do the trends from that week then count towards the next "Week in Review", or just for the "Year in Review" later on?

thank you for the work you do and for keeping tumblr so fun for us <3

Answer: Hey there, @snowiiiiie!

Thanks for the kind words, and this isn’t a stupid question at all!

The data that we use for @fandom’s Fandometrics is seven-day data, as in the previous seven days before the publication of Monday’s lists. It’s not cumulative from the previous roundup—so if we don’t publish one week, the following week won’t have two weeks' worth of data. Unfortunately, the tool we use parses just one week’s worth of data. This is also why, if we skip a week, we don’t do rank changes (whether a tag moved up or down) on the Fandometrics lists.

What is cumulative, though, is Year in Review! Year in Review takes into account an entire year’s worth of data (from late October of the previous year to late October of the current year). So while it’s not January to December, it is a full 365 days worth of trends. We can’t wait to share Year in Review with you and the rest of Tumblr come December—it’s gonna be a good one!

Thanks for the question! Keep 'em coming, folks.

[fandom]

Top 24 of 2024

Well, well, well, look what we have here. If it isn’t 52 weeks’ worth of data drawn from the exemplary original posts you’ve been producing day in, day out, combined with the likes, reblogs, and search data—all of it weighed, ranked, and presented here for your viewing pleasure. In news that will come as a shock to no one at all, 2024 was the year of Artists on Tumblr. But quite right, too, as just a cursory scroll through the fanart, illustrations, digital pieces, paintings, textiles, and more will attest. It’s a goldmine. But this ain’t just any goldmine, this is your goldmine, and we’ve got abundant gratitude for the wonderful work you’ve shared this last year. 

Dungeon Meshi won hearts and minds with its cozy feel, its cookery, its cast of eclectic, likable characters, and a delightfully off-center vibe. Farcille made for the sapphic love story we didn’t know we needed—and the inspiration for endless, exquisite fanart. There was much appreciation for season one, and excitement abounds for season two. But there were endings as well as beginnings, sadly, as the much-loved Jujutsu Kaisen brought six years of sublime storytelling to a close with Chapter 271. Good faced Evil, a nephew faced an uncle, and some really liked it, and others really did not. Discourse ensued, as discourse is wont to do. 

Television! And lots of it! 2024 was the year in which animation ruled supreme with an embarrassment of riches to plunder. Gravity Falls and The Book of Bill became your fall fixations and simply refused to stop trending for seemingly an age (a Good Thing). Bill Cipher and Stanford Pines both made the Top 24 in their own right as you shipped them to high hell, with Billford coming top of Ships for 2024. Speaking of Hell, Hazbin Hotel was the new kid on the block. And, after a five-year wait, the new kid charmed—it was filthier, funnier, raunchier, and more heartfelt than you could have hoped for. 

When it comes to hope, the times continue to be challenging, and the news can threaten to overwhelm. 2024 was no different. But you all painted the dash every color of the rainbow, stood loud and proud, and supported your ever-growing community online and offline in the struggle for LGBTQIA+ rights. While folks continue to voice their distress and concern for the ongoing crisis in Palestine, they also fight the good fight with activism and fundraising efforts across the dash. These may be dark days, but you all work tirelessly for the greater good as only you know how.

Looking after oneself is vital in these trying times, and you’ve all done just that in your own inimitable fashion. Cats still rule Tumblr as bears still poop in woods, and everyone has taken essential time to peruse the dashboard’s plethora of cat GIFs, cat art, boopin’ cats, cats of yore, and so on. You’re keeping things similarly wholesome with some more Tumblr mainstays: cottagecore, and its sister aesthetic, naturecore, imagine a simpler, greener, and quieter time. A time where the breeze billows softly through the long grass and gently turns the blades of the windmill; a time where we, too, might poop in woods.

The only thing more important than looking after oneself is treating oneself, and what better way to do that than gaming? Baldur’s Gate 3 made a most impressive leap from #21 last year to #7 in 2024, as the need for sexy monsters and beautiful beasties becomes ever more imperative with each passing year. Pokémon may have dropped a little from five to 11, but these games and shows still hold a dear place in your hearts—as demonstrated by your bountiful and beautiful fanart.

Here are the 24 most-mentioned things on Tumblr in 2024.

Artists on Tumblr

Palestine

Dungeon Meshi

Gravity Falls

Hazbin Hotel

Baldur's Gate 3

Cats of Tumblr

Jujutsu Kaisen

The Batman Universe

Pokémon

One Piece

Good Omens

Marcille Donato | Dungeon Meshi

Laios Touden | Dungeon Meshi

Cottagecore

Hermitcraft

LGBTQIA+

Bill Cipher | Gravity Falls

Naturecore

Doctor Who

Percy Jackson

Falin Touden | Dungeon Meshi

Stanford Pines | Gravity Falls

Jason Todd | the DC universe

Feeling inspired? Want to create a dedicated place to discuss the things you love with the other people who love them? Create a Community here on Tumblr to do just that.

[threestarsinline]

The fact that Jason Todd has made it to the top 24 of 2024 on Tumblr is so iconic

[yearinreview2024]

Calling all data nerds! Tumblr's 2024 Year in Review is here.

Aching to know what came out on top in 52 weeks of post, search, like, and reblog data on Tumblr? Well, today’s your lucky day.

Find a hammer, smash the "see more" link below, and have your mind blown by the intersection of math and pop culture.

[seospicybin]

SEOSPICY WRAPPED '24

IN 2024, SEOSPICY...

POSTED 45 FICS WITH A TOTAL WORDCOUNT ± 602,100 WORDS AND RECEIVED ±29,464 NOTES.

TOP 3 MEMBERS:

1. HYUNJIN (11 fics)

2. BANGCHAN (10 fics)

3. SEUNGMIN (8 fics)

TOP 10 FICS:

1. THE FUCKBOY NEXT DOOR: PART I. Bangchan x reader. (3,350 notes)

2. BAD IDEA, RIGHT? Bangchan x reader. (2,667 notes)

3. THE BABYSITTER: PART I. Felix x reader x Hyunjin. (2,002 notes)

4. TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE: ROUND 1. Lee Know x reader. (1,514 notes)

5. THE FUCKBOY NEXT DOOR: PART II. Bangchan x reader. (1,499 notes)

6. THE BABYSITTER: PART II. Felix x reader x Hyunjin. (1,118 notes)

7. THE FUCKBOY NEXT DOOR: PART III. Bangchan x reader. (1,028 notes)

8. TOO HOT TO HANDLE: PART I. Hyunjin x reader. (935 notes)

9. I DARE YOU. Felix x reader. (876 notes)

10. TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE: ROUND 2. Lee Know x reader. (827 notes)

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

TEST DRIVE #1. Changbin x reader. (635 notes)

I PUT A SPELL ON YOU. Hyunjin x reader. (604 notes)

TILL DEATH DO US PART. Lee Know x reader. (543 notes)

TOP 5 SERIES:

1. THE FUCKBOY NEXT DOOR. Bangchan x reader. (6,475 notes / 4 chapters)

2. THE BABYSITTER. Felix x reader x Hyunjin. (3,120 notes / 2 chapters)

3. TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE. Lee Know x reader. (2,341 notes / 2 chapters)

4. TOO HOT TO HANDLE. Hyunjin x reader. (2,311 notes / 4 chapters)

5. I PUT A SPELL ON YOU. Hyunjin x reader. (972 notes / 2 chapters)

Thank you to each one of you for reading, commenting, reblogging and sharing them. Ultimately, for giving my fic a chance and took time to read it. Here's to you and me and to another delulu-filled year *in the best way* HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! 🥂 🎉

CHECK OUT SEOSPICY WRAPPED '23

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[nocturnalazure]

24 Screenshots from 2024

I was tagged by @eljeebee, thank you! I owe it to you to rack my brains to find 24 shots that are worth it! I don't have enough this year to make a separate post for both story shots and photo shoots. The last pic is a bonus from the newest update, yet to be posted after Christmas. ;)

Mmh... lots of Laurie and Anh this year, no? I wonder why? :D Thankfully I made up to the Laurik fans in photo shoots!

(also, I seem to have a thing for staring contests...)

Tagging @danjaley, @solori, @anamoon63, @gittessimsadventuresog, @tia-amorosa and @obscurus-noctem

...and merry Christmas to everyone!

[t-hirstreview]

[tia-amorosa]

24 Screenshots from 2024

thanks for tagging, @nocturnalazure 🙂

Hmm… It's difficult to pick ONLY 24 screenshots that I particularly liked from this year (and the year isn't quite over yet). And I wasn't sure if I should just take story pictures or also others that I liked. But I stuck with the story pictures.

(maybe the next Generation?)

A small picture gallery with the title: Despair, Dreams, Hopes (I know I already had something similar as an episode title, but this sums it up pretty well at the moment) I won't be tagging anyone else except @greenplumbboblover ⭐ because most of the others I wanted to tag have already been mentioned in other posts, so I'll save you from potentially having to post the same pictures a second or third time, LOL 😅 greetings

[corpsentry]

there’s something so epic about hetero chinese period dramas and i think one part of it is that there is absolutely nowhere in the narrative i could exist.

lately i’ve been on a western media detox— i’ve cleaned english language music out of my playlists and have never been able to stomach western dramas anyway, so that part is easy— which might seem funny, because if i’m in singapore and i hate it and i won’t touch american music then what’s left? the answer is the false binarism of chinese period dramas, at least for me. the badly written ones are misogynistic and stupid and the better ones are less of those things, but regardless the world that emerges is clean-cut and easy to parse. there’s someone to root for and someone to hate. there’s a girl and a boy. there’s the comedy and the drama, the sheer thick drama, the music that signals to you precisely how to feel before the scene even starts going

try to jam a fifth culture transnational transgender they/them with 2 mental illness and 1 autoimmune disease into this world and it simply doesn’t work. and that’s kinda epic lolzers! it’s like watching high fantasy, or super hardcore sci-if. it both represents a simulacrum of the real world and is so far from the reality you know that you understand it as a hypothetical universe, one that disincludes you on principle. i exclude myself from the story and in doing so fangfei from moyuyunjian’s steely gaze becomes all the more important. i give so many shits and laugh and yell and spectate. but i am safe from the eyes of its inhabitants. if i entered the story it would break. so i sit outside of it, clapping by myself

in other news, we gave up on mysterious lotus casebook 16 episodes in. there are many character archetypes in these shows that i can no longer stand; the salacious sexy seductive supervillain lady is not necessarily one of them but the way they did miss ‘this man didn’t even Look at me when all men fall at my knees so i hated him’ ‘no one is allowed to steal buttchin from me’ jiao was way up there. surely a woman can have multiple personality traits and yet you would think from this drama that that is not at all true. and the strange harem that grew around li lianhua despite his absolute loser attitude— like i get it, he’s the gintoki of this show, that’s hot, but the way the women who were into him were written made me want to Eat Horse. it bothered me that di feisheng and lianhua’s homo as fuck dynamic was so intriguing and them + fang duobing was a winning trio but all the women in the show were written like complete fucking ass, and one of the big antagonists being a woman, the stakes throughout were not only lost to me but also Pissed Me Off. also, that case about the corpse flowers dragged on forever and all my pocky wilted

I Just Think, women deserve better in these damn stories. make them slutty as hell, sure, but make them other things too and i mean this in the most generous sense. slutty and proud. slutty and weird. slutty and oblivious. literally anything at all so they don’t come out cardboard flat from all angles. this is why i have a personal vendetta against the ditzy clueless female protagonist as well because if everything stems from the fact that she doesn’t know shit it’s like please someone Please tell her shit i’m on my hands and knees begging. give her more to chew on she’s dying of boredom over there

this is why i liked the so called antagonist of blossoms in adversity best (spoilers ahead). he was cruel as hell to huazhi and gu yanxi’s only parental figure. he was paranoid and selfish and lonely and craved a son’s love from the one person he couldn’t hold onto. in the end he is pushed further and further by huazhi, who won’t give in, to isolate yanxi from the people he loves and to lash out at those people as a way of punishing yanxi. and when he dies it’s because of his own distrust, his own negligent parenting, his absent cruelty from decades of insomnia and lack of faith in his people. but he cries for yanxi, and there’s something so human about that. to think of evil not as a first principle but rather an adjective for a verb that is set in motion by other events. to be honest, i haven’t seen such thoughtful writing in any chinese period drama before or after that and i strongly suspect i will never see such writing again in this genre but man, it was so fucking good (spoilers end).

in the meantime, i’ve dragged my mother to moyuyunjian/the double for the return casting of liu xiening and wang xingyue who are Eating so hard. they’ve got wang xingyue done up with the sluttiest makeup and liu xiening is breaking my heart with her pout and her Sassy Mean constitution and this is a revenge story, yes, but it’s a double revenge story. it’s a grief story. and fangfei is carrying more on her shoulders than lingbuyi imo, and doing so with much more grace too. her step mom’s a dick but she’s a smart, 5d chess playing dick who wears hot shades of green so i’m personally interested enough to keep watching (something lotus casebook DID NOT accomplish with their epic female antagonist…. mein gotte). and the princess too. unhinged as hell but god, so charismatic. and beautiful, with scary big eyes and the sweetest head tilt. fun fun fun! that’s fun character writing right there. the comedy might be too straightforward for my tastes but everything else is kind of hot and sexy And after the coming of age ceremony when jiangli appeared amidst the flowers i felt my throat close up even though we saw her for all of one (1) episode). i was like yes. they got me alright. i Care now

really that’s all that matters isn’t it. we want stories about people we care for. we want to give a shit. why else would we listen to the stories of other people. we are looking for us and the people we love in them

oh also moyuyunjian soundtrack goes hard as hell i love a little three step waltz. here’s a pic from the ‘gym’ for ur time. guten night

[aethismantis]

I'm glad to introduce you to my work progress this year..

WOW WHAT A YEAR IT'S BEEN

Thank you for following me!!! Hope next year we would go even further and all your help and support would raise me even higher!!!<333

I still remind you that I have a commission page. Same goes for my digital and traditional artwork///

I'm always glad for your support and hope we'll progress together!!!

As art community. As people who love RPG and gaming

Gosh I love this community.

[midnightechoes]

2024 REFLECTIONS

I’ll be honest, I spent a good ten minutes trying to figure out a peppy opening for this post. As you can tell, I couldn’t think of one. In many ways, 2024 was a rough year for us all. I’m not going to focus on the precarious state of the world here, even though I would be lying if I didn’t say that it didn’t play a part in how my year went. Instead, I’m going to try to focus on my personal journey through the year. I’ll be reflecting on my year, and what I hope to bring into 2025.

2024 was a year of endings for me. Well, that’s the charitable outlook. You could also say it was the year of things falling apart for me.

Perhaps the biggest was my daily doodle streak. On December 1st 2014, I committed to drawing something every day during that month. And I did it. I was so happy with myself, I decided to try to keep that streak going. I went into 2015 with the ambitious goal of doing a daily doodle every day of the year. And I did that too.

So I kept going. A month streak turned into a whole year streak, which turned into two years, which turned into a little over nine years. Yeah. I drew a daily doodle every day from December 1st 2014 to December 17th 2023. 3,305 days. It is still one of the things that I am most proud of. Sure, some of the doodles were glorified stick figures, or just part of a larger picture that I was working on, but the point is I still drew. Something. Anything. for 3,305 days in a row. I tried to restart it a few times in 2024, but the longest I got was around 60 days.

The streak came to an end over the holiday season because I caught the flu. A bad case of it.

That flu is also the reason I broke my writing streak of over two years. Not as long as my doodle streak, I was over 700 days into writing a little bit every day.

My daily streak of Japanese lessons (on Duolingo and later Busuu) survived the flu, but would also end in the Summer. It also lasted a little over two years, from April 2022 to July 2024.

On a personal level, my diet also fell apart in 2024. I did way too much of “eating my feelings”, and I’ve paid for it.

I told myself that I was okay with the daily doodle streak ending, that it had done what it needed to (get me drawing again), but in hindsight, I miss it. Hell, I think I need it. Since my daily doodle streak ended I’ve struggled to get into a drawing rhythm this year. It almost feels like a chapter has ended for me. One that began with my daily doodles, and kicked into full gear with the arrival of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.

Between SPOP, and then CW’s Supergirl, and then RWBY and Mobile Suit Gundam: the Witch From Mercury, I had entered into this wonderful period of creativity, creating fanart, writing fanfics, just making so much stuff.

But I only drew a handful of pictures in 2024, and only did two tiny fanfics. I stopped posting much here, or on my other social media. All that just kind of stuttered to a stop, even though there were a bunch of ideas of things I wanted to draw and write.

I’m hoping to work on getting that spark of productivity back in 2025. I plan to restart my daily doodle streak on January 1st. Likewise I hope to get better about writing again, as well as start doing Japanese lessons again.

It’s sounded all like doom and gloom so far, but there was one very bright spot in 2024. A comic idea called Void Domain Midnight. It’s a concept involving a few of my favorite OCs that I’ve had around for decades now in previous incarnations, along with a bunch of new characters. It stars my OC Youmi, who’s been the character that’s been in my head for what feels like my entire life at this point.

I’ve been searching for the right story for her for years. I thought I had found it back in 2005 with a couple of friends, but that fizzled out in 2008. And then I spent the next six years trying to rework her story until I had to admit to myself that it just wasn’t working late in 2014.

So she went onto the shelf, and stayed there. I was beginning to think that she’d always just be a case of something I wish I had been able to do, but, in the summer of 2023, a convergence of things came about that got me thinking about Youmi for the first time in years. And, after playing around with stuff for a few months, I think I’ve finally found the story I want to tell with her.

A lot of 2024 has been spent working on and planning her comic, Void Domain Midnight. World building, characters designs, story outlines. I have done quite a bit of work on VDM, and my hope is to begin making VDM in full this winter so that I can actually start releasing stuff this year.

I guess it was wrong to say that my productivity spark was entirely gone. I’ve just been putting it into VDM. But still, even with VDM, I’ve been less motivated to get things done lately than I was in the past. I’m hoping to start building that back up.

Because… I’ve never lost my spark of creativity. That want to make things, that thing inside you that goes “oh I have this cool idea for a fic,” or “wouldn’t this picture look amazing?” That’s still there. I just need to get back to a place where I’m acting on those feelings again.

I think I can do it. Slowly but surely. I need to be patient with myself (admittedly not always something I’m great with), but I think I can get back to making the stuff I love.

So that’s the attitude I choose to bring into 2025. One of optimism. One of hope. Not just for my art, but for everything. I choose to keep working for a better future for myself and for the world. Yeah, my mental health will put obstacles there sometimes, but I know I can work through them, because I have in the past.

I’m going to make fanart of stuff I love in 2025.

I’m going to write the fanfics that I want to in 2025. I may even get back to working on Jackets in 2025.

I’m going to make Void Domain Midnight in 2025. I might even make a few other smaller comics this year.

This is the stuff I want to do. This is what I want to spend my time on. I’m going to do everything I can to make it a reality.

Happy New Year everyone.

[kfvarela]

Mi top 24 de 2024. 🥳

My top 24 of 2024. 🥳

1. Arian sentada en la mesa. / Arian sitting at the table.

2. Haruto y Aiko jugando. / Haruto and Aiko playing.

3. Minka salió a trotar al parque. / Minka went jogging to the park.

4. Nightmare city: Infección zombi / Nightmare city: Zombie Infection

5. Consuelo y su bebé Cindy / Consuelo and her baby Cindy

6. Los novios Red y Bob / The bride and groom Red and Bob

7. Kendl y Cesar / Kendl and Cesar

8. Tamika y Lena charlando / Tamika and Lena chatting

9. Carl, Kendl y Sweet / Carl, Kendl and Sweet

10. Americus y Xavier / Americus and Xavier

11. Draco revisando el correo/ Draco checking mail

12. Nikki

13. Danna y Sam ligando / Danna and Sam flirting

14. Amanda y Michael / Amanda and Michael

15. Dave leyendo un libro / Dave reading a book

16. Laury y Connor ven television / Laury and Connor watch TV

17. Amigos / Friends

18. Tiago hablando por celular. / Tiago talking on his cell phone.

19. Minka y Donald cocinando / Minka and Donald cooking

20. Ryder

21. Esperanza y Razor / Esperanza and Razor

22. Regina y Zack pasando el portal / Regina and Zack passing through the portal

23. La fiesta / The party

24. Alekai

Extra:

El villano de la historia / The villain of the story

[mceproductions]

[heresiae]

what I can't understand about some reviewers on Google, is why, why aren't you more specific about your bad experiences?

are you afraid that they will come and tell you "but we told you!" and force you what? to feel ashamed that you didn't have a good time? you had a bad experience, you are entitled to write about it (you actually have to do it. and no, they didn't tell me, they just told me in an email that I could park my car in the discotheque parking lot, without specifying shit and they told me the day I arrived "we have a discotheque in front of us" which doesn't mean much if you don't also add that it's a frigging open air discotheque; they're not common so say it).

if someone had wrote something more about the discotheque in front for my first camping on the seaside that wasn't just "the discotheque on the front..." (yes, that's the review, with full stars) but like, I don't know, "the discotheque in front is the open air type and the music is so loud you can't sleep at night" I wouldn't have even considered that camping site, but the pictures on the website were nice, full of olive trees and I though "I guess I'll just hear the thump thump in the nights" (there were also a couple of good reviews that I can't understand, for the life o me, how could they have a good time, because ok, the bathrooms are very clean but also very very old and impractical).

nope. not only those tent plots no longer exists anymore, but it's impossible to sleep for the noise. there isn't a nice hill covered by olive trees anymore, it's a residence with dozens of little houses and you can pitch a tent in the spaces they weren't able to build on (and the tenants act like they're in their regular houses with no regards for other people necessity of not hearing all their discussions).

all of this to say that I just spent half an hour to rate very specifically both camping sites in that town (I ran away the next morning; in a haste) because I don't want anyone else to ever think that the first one not only is a good camping site, but it's a camping site.

I only wish I had taken photos of the first one because my description is pretty dreadful, but a picture would have tell it even better.

[curiosityjams]

my future when it comes to still being Active on social media is teebeedee, but my main resolution for 2024 is like...be comfortable w/ being completely offline even if it's just for a day or a week.

[cliveguy]

just did my switch year in review. i think maybe i need to cut down on my gaming time. in 2024.