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Welcome to Tumblr’s Year in Review (2023′s version)
Hello, Tumblr, and welcome to your Year in Review. Inevitable as the passage of time, our Year in Review returns again this year, as we rank all the things you’ve yelled about by how much you’ve yelled about them on Tumblr in 2023.
Each year, the folks behind your weekly Fandometrics measure and categorize all the tags you used, every search, every post you made, and each and every like and reblog—to see which subjects you talked about the most. Like every year, we’re looking at volume here, not sentiment. So you might see list entries you Do Not Like that Tumblr has been vocal about Not Liking this year.
And what a year it’s been! A lot of fun happened. We all lived through Goncharov, orcas trashing mega-yachts, Barbenheimer, and mole interest, while our Artists on Tumblr continued to brighten our days and our dashes with original and fanart, and the Writers’ and SAG-AFTRA strikes were hotly debated. You showed up in full support of those folks who create the stuff you love again this year. Never change, Tumblr <3
Our lists group subjects by topic and are built from 365 days of data between October 21, 2022, and October 20, 2023. This means that Goncharov—that film we have all absolutely seen and finally remembered we love—is included in this year’s data. On the other hand, we don’t tend to include post types, so we’ve had to make ourselves exclude #polls from these lists. That hurt a little bit because, in many ways, this year belonged to polls. Bug race. Horse race. Vanilla Extract. So much nonsense of the very best kind.
We’re bringing you a somewhat streamlined selection of lists this year. A boutique experience, if you will. A new Musical Acts list replaces the previously separate Music Groups, Kpop, and Solo Acts lists, while a consolidated Video Games list includes all your favorite console and mobile games in one handy dandy list. This is so you can really dive in deep and sit with only the most memorable moments, personalities, properties, and shared jokes of the year (and because we love a battle royale as much as the next guy, and kind of wanted to see who might come out on top). The results don’t disappoint.
And so, with all that in mind and absolutely no further ado, let’s dive deep into the annals of Tumblr dot com in the year 2023. This is your Year in Review.
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Morpheus’s known lovers
SPOILERS FOR PLOT POINTS OF THE SANDMAN COMICS!
Killala of the Glow: Before Earth sustained life Morpheus was lovers with an alien woman named Killala. Killala was one of the founding members of what would become The Green Lantern Corp. She had the power to manipulate and shape green light into tactile forms, which her people called The Glow.
Morpheus asks her to accompany him to a sort of convention where The Endless and several stars (in anthropomorphic form) gather for a meeting. Morpheus neglected to tell Killala that he is the living embodiment of dreams. She thought he was just an alien with the power to manipulate dreams.
When she learns his true power and identity she is frightened. And thanks to Desire’s machinations she falls in love with the star / sun of her own world. At this very same meeting we see Glory of the First Circle (probably an aspect of The Presence AKA God) talking about the creation of Faerie. Despair is also talking to Rao (The sun / God of the planet Krypton) as Rao is reluctant to sustain life. Despair tells him how “beautiful” it would be if the unstable planet eventually died and one survivor was left to grieve. She did not know it yet but she accidentally set into motion the creation of Superman, DC’s ultimate symbol of Hope. Destruction always had a theory that each Endless was really a thing and its opposite. Death is also present at births and her sigil is the Egyptian symbol of life.
When Morpheus sees Killala in the arms of her new would-be lover he is very hurt. He goes to confront Desire who taunts him that by saying that by now they have done a lot more than just kiss and that he (the star) now probably knows every crevasse of her body. This causes the first falling out with Morpheus and Desire as ironically, at the start of this story, Morpheus was very happy and praised Desire for bringing him love.
Source: The Sandman: Endless Nights.
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Alainora:
Thousands of years ago some Lovecraftian old Gods invaded The Dreaming. Morpheus was captured and chained up in his own dungeon. He tried to scratch his siblings sigils into the wall to call to them for help. One by one they refused as they were much prouder and meaner back then. He was reluctant to call on Desire so he tried Delight first only to find out she is in the middle of “changing.” (Becoming Delirium). Morpheus reluctantly calls to Desire who sends him a lover. This is a being of light that Morpheus calls Alianora (She had no name). Alianora rescues Morpheus from the dungeon and helps him fight the invading entities. She gets a scar on her cheek from the battle. From the bones of these entities (Lovecraftian style Old Ones) Morpheus made his helm and the gates of horn and ivory. In the new Sandman TV show you can see the Alianora story from The Sandman: Overture carved into the gates. For a while Morpheus and Alianora were happy but eventually Morpheus started to neglect her because he was distracted with his work. She decided to leave him but her previous life was long over. She could not return to where she came from. So Morpheus gave her a skerry (a fairly large island) in The Dreaming that would later be called “The Land.” And he gave her a dreamstone made of rose quartz, enabling her the power to govern the island as her own. Like her own mini-Dreaming within The Dreaming. This dreamstone is what Barbie calls The Porpentine. In The Sandman A Game of You the Rose quartz Dreamstone is finally destroyed and Morpheus re-absorbs all of The Land and its characters back into himself. He meets up with Alainora’s ghost and he tells her that long after she left The Land became the creative domain of many young women. This indicates that The Land was also Oz, Alice’s Wonderland, perhaps even The Labyrinth from Jim Henson’s The Labyrinth, etc. She bows to him and then leaves in peace. Alianora’s ghost again appears during The Sandman The Wake to speak at Morpheus’s Wake.
Source: The Sandman: A Game of you, The Sandman: Overture, and The Sandman: The Wake. _____________________________
Nada:
It’s not a very good story. That is to say, it’s not a kind story. The show didn’t establish very well that Morpheus’s form changes based on if a person has a different cultural view on their Dream deity. In Nada’s culture Morpheus was Kai'ckul. It has roughly the same meaning as Morpheus. Nada was the Queen of an ancient African people 10,000 years ago and she had never seen a white man so that is the form he took for her. The Endless have no true forms. They just take human-like form for us mortals. Nada had seen Kai'ckul (Morpheus) looking up at her one night and “fell in love with him.” She went on a quest to find him like out of a fairy tale. She even runs into Cain killing Abel, who also appear as black men to her. And she eventually made her way to Morpheus. All seems Happily Ever After until she realizes he’s an Endless and her people believe it is forbidden for a mortal to be with an Endless. She flees from him and (This part’s gross) uses a rock to de-virgin herself, thinking it would ruin his attraction to her. When he finds her he tells her that her physical body does not matter to him. He heals her and they end up making love. At first they are very happy but then disaster strikes. A meteorite apparently hits her kingdom, destroying it. She believes this is punishment because a mortal is not supposed to love an Endless. Weirdly though we never see anything like this happen to any of Morpheus’s other lovers (He’s had six lovers that we know of).So she tries to flee him, deciding they cannot be together. He doesn’t take no for an answer. He wants her as his queen. She throws herself off a cliff but dying does not stop him. He’s hurt and angry that she would kill herself rather than be with him and he tells her ghost that he will ask her three times to be his queen and if she refuses the third time he could condemn her soul to eternal torment. She begs him not to do that, because she believes she has to say no. That’s the back story. This is perhaps the worst thing Morpheus has ever done. In The Sandman Season of Mists Death makes him realize he was in the wrong and he goes on a quest to rescue Nada and apologize to her. I think the show is delaying on revealing the details of this story so the audience doesn’t hate him out right. Until his “Time Out bubble” Morpheus used to be something of an asshole. The majority of The Sandman is watching him grow and become more and more human, compassionate, and setting right the wrongs of his past. Nada’s story is the issue called “Tales in the Sand.” Morpheus making amends is in The Sandman: Season of Mists. I hope the show still lets her accept his apology. Modern audiences might not go for her forgiving him after what he did but her forgiving him is necessary because it teaches him to accept being forgiven. And leads to him apologizing for other wrong-doings. In the audio drama her story is in The Sandman: Act 1. In the trade paperbacks it is The Sandman: Volume 1, Preludes and Nocturnes. It used to be in Volume 2 back in the early 90s but has been in Volume 1 for over twenty years now. Later when Morpheus learns he was wrong he goes to try to rescue Nada but Lucifer is shutting down Hell and leaves Morpheus the key to Hell just to mess with him. Morpheus ultimately gives the key to two angels, Duma and Ramiel. Azazel had Nada and Morpheus rescues her and Choronzon (despite previously challenging him) from Azazel. Morpheus apologizes to Nada for how he treated her (after a well deserved slap from her) and he helps her to reincarnate into a Chinese baby boy.
Source: The Sandman: Tales in the Sand, The Sandman: Season of Mists, The Sandman: The Wake.
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Calliope:
Calliope is one of the Greek muses who inspire creativity. Morpheus loved her enough to marry her and they had a son, Orpheus.
Orpheus is the musician who went down into The Underworld to rescue his wife from the afterlife. Hades said he could take her but only if he did not look back at her until after he was back in the land of the living. Orpheus got nervous and worried that he was tricked so when he neared the exit of The Underworld he looked back and his wife was pulled back from him for his lack of faith in Hades’ word and distrust.
Later Orpheus was ripped apart by worshipers of Dionysus. Immortal and just a severed head, Morpheus sent some priests to look after Orpheus. Morpheus would not directly contact his son because after Orpheus’s wife died he had lashed out his father for not helping bring her back and Morpheus (being an asshole at the time) pride was wounded. Morpheus would not reconcile with his son until The Sandman: Brief lives where he would help euthanize Orpheus who has wanted to die for several thousand years now.
Morpheus and Calliope’s falling out was over how he treated Orpheus during the entire saga of Orpheus trying to get his wife back. Thousands of years later, much like Morpheus, Calliope was captured by mortals. Morpheus, fresh from his own captivity, actually came to her rescue and tormented her captor with a curse of obsessive creativity until he let her go. The man was so obsessive in his writing that he ruined his own hands. Once the man freed Calliope Morpheus removed all of the man’s creativity, leaving him ruined.
Source: The Sandman: Calliope, The Sandman: Song of Orpheus, The Sandman: The Wake.
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Titania:
Titania is the queen of the faeries and married to Auberon (Oberon). Apparently she and Morpheus had an affair.
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Thessaly:
Thessaly is a two-thousand-year-old (or so) ancient Greek witch. She looks like a roughly college age young woman but is actually quite ancient. She was one of the famous Thessalian witches.
Thessaly accompanied Barbie and her friends on the adventure that lead to the destruction of the rose quartz dreamstone. Thessaly is kind of cold hearted and may represent who Morpheus was before his captivity. She’s powerful and selfish. She even dumps Morpheus and tells him that he cares too much about people. Morpheus was so upset about this relationship that he caused it to rain for weeks in The Dreaming when she left him. But he was being over dramatic and having a bit of a tantrum.
Later Thessaly betrays him to The Kindly Ones for some of her own sins to be overlooked and to extend her already very long life.
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Lucifer:
Maybe?!??!?
He knew him when he was still an angel.
Lucifer is the now-former ruler of Hell
__________________________ Bast: Crushed on Morpheus but they were never lovers. She is an Egyptian Cat Goddess.
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Nuala: Crushed on Morpheus but they were never lovers. Nuala is a faery who was given to Morpheus as a present. Though Morpheus is opposed to slavery he had no choice but to accept the “gift” lest he offend the fae court. Eventually he paid her with a boon.
This photo (which I saw in 1988) was the original inspiration for Despair, and I have been looking for it for years.
I remembered the book it was in was called Modern Primitives, but couldn't find that it was a book of photos by Chris Wrobelewski, and the existence of the Modern Primitives books by RE/Search just confused me whenever I'd do a web hunt.
Someone just posted it to Bluesky and I got so happy. I'd started to wonder if I'd imagined it.
I know nothing about the subject of the photograph, who they were, how old they were, their gender. I just remember seeing the image and not being able to get it out of my head, and deciding that was what Despair looked like. Mike Dringenberg then took the photo (did I send him the book or a photocopy?) and used it to make the first images of Despair in The Doll's House.
Hi Neil!
I don't want to sound like a killjoy, but I'm concerned about David Tennant's family being involved in the second season of Good Omens (or Michael Sheen's partner Anna Lundberg in a future season three). I absolutely have nothing against them, I loved Staged just like everyone else, but this is exactly the matter for me: casting them in the series would automatically make me think about Staged or something else while I'm watching GO, and it would distract me from the plot and the magic of it. It would feel somehow like a family reunion, no matter how talented they are as actors (not to mention that there would be nepotism accusations, above all against David. I hope this won't affect the popularity rating, since season three is still hypothetical). I'm not the only one who thinks this might be an issue, from what I read on blogs here on Tumblr (and on the Internet in general) but I feel like there's a sort of tension, like people are scared to say it out loud, because some fans get the wrong idea and accuse them of hating Georgia or Anna or Ty (and that's why I'm asking this anonymously, I don't want to start a fight). I hope you get what I'm saying, it only felt fair to me to let you know whatever concerns some fans might have, and maybe even give you a perspective you weren't considering? Of course you have the last word on this, and if you think this is not a big deal, I trust your judgement.
I wish you a fantastic day! (And sorry for my English, I'm not native, I tried my best!)
Yeah. So, I find that a little creepy, not very creepy, but definitely a bit.
I thought we were lucky to get Peter Davison in Good Omens 2. (He didn't audition. We offered him the part, as I've been a fan of his since 1978, and All Creatures Great and Small. He crushes it, and is heartbreaking, funny, and still somehow the moral compass of the episode he's in.) Ty Tennant auditioned, along with a number of other actors, and got the part because he did it best. (I didn't know who his family was when we cast him. I just liked the audition tape.)
If you're hunting down family connections, David's mother-in-law, Ty's grandmother, Sandra Dickinson, is in the Audible Sandman, too, as one of the Three Witches/Fates/Eumenides etc. And she was cast in it two years before David Tennant (although probably around the same time Michael Sheen was asked to be Lucifer). (I've been a fan of Sandra's since she was Trillian in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in 1981.)
Anyway, I'm sorry you're worried about Peter and Ty's performances, although I promise you have nothing to worry about, and I'm sorry that you worry that our possibly casting Georgia and Anna in a hypothetical and not-yet actually a real thing Season 3 might make people think of Staged and make them not able to enjoy Good Omens any longer. (Had I known people were this easily shaken I wouldn't have appeared in Staged either, in case my name at the front of Good Omens shattered the fragile illusion and revealed to people that the David Tennant and Michael Sheen who play Crowley and Aziraphale are actors.)
Starting in 2017 I was the recipient of mind-mangling quantities of Tumblr abuse for casting David Tennant and Michael Sheen as Aziraphale and Crowley, which was, many people made very clear to me, the worst casting in the whole entire utter history of casting, and something that Good Omens would never recover from, because for a start neither of them looked like the versions in people's heads, and I'd also miscast them badly because everyone knew that if you had to cast Sheen and Tennant, Michael had to play Crowley and David had to put on some weight and play Aziraphale. (It wasn't until May 2019 that people stopped grumbling.) So people worrying I'm going to cast Anna and Georgia in a season that hasn't even been commissioned in parts that haven't been written just makes me smile.
I hope this helps.
Hello Mr Gaiman,
You probably get this question all the time. But do you know when the GO2 trailer is set to come out?
I don't, no. I'm expecting that at some point fairly soon Amazon will brief us on their plans for how they plan to release the show.
For everyone excited about Good Omens S2 and particularly Muriel:
If you haven't yet LISTEN TO CABIN PRESSURE! As of right now Muriel is striking me as somewhat of a female version of the Cabin Pressure character Arthur Shappey, who is a) one of the great fictional characters of all time and b) not only played by but also of course written by the phenomenal John Finnemore, who ALSO co-wrote Muriel! And indeed, that scene from NYCC is incredibly Shappean, or should I say Finnemorean. Cabin Pressure incidentally also has some incredible plotting (including mystery plots like the Birling Day episodes), hilarious jokes, brilliant character development and possibly the number one ending of all time. Also perfect found family vibes!
Basically, once again I am SO glad that JF was brought onboard for the comedy side of Good Omens 2 and the “kind of quiet and gentle and romantic” vibe that Gaiman mentions in this is so up his street it's not funny. (Also the specific JF anecdote Gaiman brought up in the NYCC panel was quite frankly very reassuring to me.) I am incredibly excited for this!
(Also listen to the rest of JF's stuff- his Double Acts has 1.75 half-hour rom coms, Hot Desk and Penguin Diplomacy, which may stop just short of the CLEARLY inevitable ending but otherwise has impeccable vibes, some of which are actually very Good Omens-esque. And Souvenir Programme is genius, with S9 a totally different kind of genius that I personally found incredibly impactful, as fellow listeners can tell from the fact that I subsequently named my Tumblr and AO3 accounts after quotes from it.)
Hi Neil ❤️
Can money buy happiness?
Not really. Lack of money can make you very miserable, especially lack of money for food and a place to live, and the money needed in order to work (to pay for childcare or for transport, for example). But once you're safe and set with that stuff, increased money doesn't buy you increased happiness. (Terry Pratchett used to say that you never get rich, you just get poor on a different level. And even from where I was standing back then, Terry was rich.)
You can't spend your way to happiness. There are problems that money can definitely help with, but now, having earned more money than I ever imagined I would, it's always a wake up call how many of the real problems of life can't be fixed with money, and how nice it is to run into the occasional problem that can -- being able to pay for tickets to get your friends to another friend's funeral, would be a problem you can fix by having the money. On the other hand, a loved one with a terminal illness or a broken heart is something that levels the playing field.
So occasionally and sometimes but mostly no.
fun facts:
1.the lady in red(p1~p2) isn’t #BenedictCumberbatch’s older sister and she’s Tracie Bennett, a famous British actress!
2.it’s obvious Mark Gatiss isn’t B’s big brother in real life tho i hope he is lol coz MG treats B just like B’s his real younger bro
Hi. I read the book. That's not what happens. You are pre-judging based on what you fear this might be. Spoiler alert: there's absolutely no redemption, and yes, Phil is a tragic character but being tragic doesn't make him *good* or redeemable. He is a man from 1925 Montana, with all the prejudices, all the posturing, ALL of it. And a part of you feels sorry for him, but really you wouldn't want him near you. That's not redemption. And really you'll want to see what the revenge is... Though you should know that it's not satisfying in a baddie-got-caught kind of way. It's just revenge. And that's kinda the point.
I get your point about entertainment and fair enough, but I would also argue that entertainment can't be empty, that's why people hate Melissa McCarthy's films, it's just passing the time. It's all about the story and there are stories meant to show you a different world, to take you out from your existence and into something else; other stories hold up a mirror to humanity and ask you to look at it, these are not always stories of cruelty but some are.
What you'll get with this book is a very small story about a very small world inhabited by two brothers who despite sharing everything in their lives are profoundly different and profoundly alone. One of them goes out and looks for something else, the other one can't. My favourite thing is that it's not the fact that he can't go out and look for someone that makes him cruel, it's his brain, it's his upbringing, he decides to model himself after these men, he chooses in every interaction whether he's going to be kind or not. It's not all "tragic fate made me like this", nope, he chooses to be that, Phil has agency and it's horrible to watch. You want a portrait of how castrating toxic masculinity is? You'll find it here. And I suppose that's why Campion wanted to tell this story. Not to redeem "homophobic white men".
Really, I would invite you to wait until you've experienced a story to decide whether it's worthy of being told. The most you'll get from reviews is comments on the cinematography or the characterisation or whatever. And if you're waiting to hear if this story is "problematic", let me save you some time: it ABSOLUTELY will be categorised as such. And they'll be wrong.
An excellent, thoughtful response to my posts about The Power of the Dog, and I thank you for it.
It still doesn't sound like something I personally would watch, but I'm glad to hear from someone who read the book and can judge it on its own merits.
SHERLOCK I & II - Fun Facts and Trivia
SHERLOCK I & II - Fun Facts and Trivia
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[TV-Series] Prodigal Son – Tội Ác Di Truyền (2019)
[TV-Series] Prodigal Son – Tội Ác Di Truyền (2019)
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“The Surgeon” is not a psychopath. He’s a predatory sociopath.
Trước giờ crime series chưa bao giờ là thế mạnh của Fox, nghĩ đến Fox mình chỉ nghĩ đến The Simpsons và các chương trình truyền hình thực tế nổi tiếng. Thế nên lần đầu tiên nhìn ảnh teaser của Prodigal Son mình đã nghĩ nó nằm dưới mái nhà NBC hay CBS, dù Prodigal Son không phải crime series đầu tiên hay duy nhất của Fox…
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[TV-Series] Broadchurch - Thị Trấn Ven Biển (2013-2017)
[TV-Series] Broadchurch – Thị Trấn Ven Biển (2013-2017)
Trong khoảng thời gian khi xảy ra “Cuộc khủng hoảng tên lửa Cuba”, Sir Anthony Hopkins (khi đó đang ở London) đã gọi điện về nhà cho ba mẹ. Cha ông cho rằng có thể sẽ có ném bom vào trung tâm London và nói với con trai mình: “Nhưng con sẽ ổn thôi, vì quả bom sẽ rơi xuống đầu con, nên con sẽ không biết gì đâu. Còn ở Wales, chúng ta mới là người phải chịu đựng những mảnh rơi vung vãi còn xót lại.”
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