And with that, I am content.

Hysterical costumer | Keeping Élise de la Serre alive since 1794 | 📝 In a Family Way: tinyurl.com/y4kg3xly

[hussyknee]

i'm so confused rn, can you explain the goncharov thing?? i get off tumblr for five minutes

(This post will be kept pinned & periodically updated until 28 Nov)

Lmaoooo

Nah I getchu. So this post has been circulating for like a year:

Link to post.

But yesterday, it had inspired someone to do this:

Link to post.

Next thing I knew there were fake Letterboxed reviews.

Goncharov moodboards. Really good ones.

Link to post.

Meta analysis. So many fake meta essays. Disturbingly good ones. And of course the memes. (Edit: HAVE I SAID THIS SHIT IS DISTURBING)

As you can see, the myth just started to grow, characters and ships and tropes being added one after the other, almost bizzarely without contradiction, until there was enough of shape to the whole thing for people to start posting fanfic about it on AO3. "No beta we die like ice-pick Joe" is already a tag.

Link to post.

It was hilarious in the beginning, but the way it's developed within less than a day, kind of like it's being willed into existence, is freaking me out a bit. We're toying with powers beyond our comprehension. 😂😂😂

Link to post.

Of course, there could be an ulterior motive as well.

Link to post (tags mine).

Edit: guys, please tag these posts "unreality" so people with disassociation issues can filter them out (not this one, this is an explainer). <3

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Edit 2: Aparently the boots in the original post are actually referring to a movie called Gomorrah that came out in 2008, directed by Mateo Garrone, based on the Scampia Feud. And other people had also been making posts about the fake movie for a while before the poster took off.

found by @thepotch

Edit 3: Explainer: why did those boots have this movie on them anyway?

Edit 4: Alt text added to all images courtesy of @valentineish ❤️

Edit 5: Turns out tumblr has done this kind of thing before. Nine years in this hell place and I had to have "Squiddles" and penis smp explained in the replies.

Edit 6: This post collects the Lore so far.

Edit 7: Lynda Carter (real one)/ earns more/ Tumblr cred.

Edit 8: Holy shit y'all we have the theme music. With sheet music. And it's on Spotify!

Edit 9: THERE IS A TRAILER WITH THE THEME MUSIC

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I made this post 18 hours after the movie poster went up. Closed edits 27 hours after first posting. So all of the above happened within 45 hours of the movie poster going up.

Edit 10: Google document live-compiling all the lore so far (Day 3)

Edit 11: Masterpost of Goncharov soundtracks (Day 3)

Edit 12: Entertainment news articles covering the Gonch-posting (real) (Contd from yday)

Edit 13: The music from the masterpost all compiled into a 31-minute original score with video edits on YouTube (edit: unfortunately taken down)

Edit 14: Staff's Goncharov art showcase for Tumblr Tuesday

As of closing on Day 3 there are 371 works in the AO3 tag.

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Updating with Day 3 shenanigans I missed yesterday:

Edit 15: Goncharov TV Tropes page

Edit 16: Ethics of Gonchposting

Important PSA 1 (how to reduce harm to Tumblr's neurodivergents)

Important PSA 2 (reality affirmation, anti-bullying)

Important PSA 3 (why you should stop trying to vandalise legit information sites)

Edit 17: Character lore from beezlebub whose poster they originated from

Edit 18: What we know about/ Director Matteo JWHJ0715 (#unreality)

Edit 19: Link to post with screenshotted and described NYT article (scroll down) and this golden exerpt from BuzzFeed: 💀

(alt text included)

End of Day 4 there are now 485 works in the Goncharov tag on AO3

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Didn't get to update this on Day 5, so these are the Day 5 doings:

More trailers!

Trailer 1 (My favourite)

Trailer 2

Trailer 3

Trailer 4

I also just found out about the Goncharov Game Jam.

It appears this opened a day after after the meme took off? It also says: "The deadline has been pushed back one week, to December 4, 2022, due to the US Thanksgiving holiday and greater-than-expected interest."

Goncharov was first entered into Wikipedia between Day 4 and 5 (attempts to vandalise it with fake info don't count, incidentally – please knock that shit off) under List of Internet Phenomena. This was then expanded into its own Wikipedia page at the end of Day 5 because, according to the talk history: "the topic now meets the notability threshold for its own artice due to significant coverage in The New York Times and other sources cited." We're on Wikipedia, people!

And then we made The Guardian half a day later. So while the meme is definitely dying down to embers by now, it still stays winning.

YouTube channels with episodes on the meme:

InformOverlord (4:30)

Lessons in Meme Culture (2:43)

End of Day of 5 there were 511 works on AO3, and End of Day 6 (today) there are 556.

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🚨BREAKING 🚨 from Martin Scorsese's daughter's TikTok (real actual):

We did it you guys!

[hussyknee]

i'm so confused rn, can you explain the goncharov thing?? i get off tumblr for five minutes

(This post will be kept pinned & periodically updated until 28 Nov)

Lmaoooo

Nah I getchu. So this post has been circulating for like a year:

Link to post.

But yesterday, it had inspired someone to do this:

Link to post.

Next thing I knew there were fake Letterboxed reviews.

Goncharov moodboards. Really good ones.

Link to post.

Meta analysis. So many fake meta essays. Disturbingly good ones. And of course the memes. (Edit: HAVE I SAID THIS SHIT IS DISTURBING)

As you can see, the myth just started to grow, characters and ships and tropes being added one after the other, almost bizzarely without contradiction, until there was enough of shape to the whole thing for people to start posting fanfic about it on AO3. "No beta we die like ice-pick Joe" is already a tag.

Link to post.

It was hilarious in the beginning, but the way it's developed within less than a day, kind of like it's being willed into existence, is freaking me out a bit. We're toying with powers beyond our comprehension. 😂😂😂

Link to post.

Of course, there could be an ulterior motive as well.

Link to post (tags mine).

Edit: guys, please tag these posts "unreality" so people with disassociation issues can filter them out (not this one, this is an explainer). <3

----------------------------------------------

Edit 2: Aparently the boots in the original post are actually referring to a movie called Gomorrah that came out in 2008, directed by Mateo Garrone, based on the Scampia Feud. And other people had also been making posts about the fake movie for a while before the poster took off.

found by @thepotch

Edit 3: Explainer: why did those boots have this movie on them anyway?

Edit 4: Alt text added to all images courtesy of @valentineish ❤️

Edit 5: Turns out tumblr has done this kind of thing before. Nine years in this hell place and I had to have "Squiddles" and penis smp explained in the replies.

Edit 6: This post collects the Lore so far.

Edit 7: Lynda Carter (real one)/ earns more/ Tumblr cred.

Edit 8: Holy shit y'all we have the theme music. With sheet music. And it's on Spotify!

Edit 9: THERE IS A TRAILER WITH THE THEME MUSIC

----------------------------------------------

I made this post 18 hours after the movie poster went up. Closed edits 27 hours after first posting. So all of the above happened within 45 hours of the movie poster going up.

Edit 10: Google document live-compiling all the lore so far (Day 3)

Edit 11: Masterpost of Goncharov soundtracks (Day 3)

Edit 12: Entertainment news articles covering the Gonch-posting (real) (Contd from yday)

Edit 13: The music from the masterpost all compiled into a 31-minute original score with video edits on YouTube (edit: unfortunately taken down)

Edit 14: Staff's Goncharov art showcase for Tumblr Tuesday

As of closing on Day 3 there are 371 works in the AO3 tag.

-----

Updating with Day 3 shenanigans I missed yesterday:

Edit 15: Goncharov TV Tropes page

Edit 16: Ethics of Gonchposting

Important PSA 1 (how to reduce harm to Tumblr's neurodivergents)

Important PSA 2 (reality affirmation, anti-bullying)

Important PSA 3 (why you should stop trying to vandalise legit information sites)

Edit 17: Character lore from beezlebub whose poster they originated from

Edit 18: What we know about/ Director Matteo JWHJ0715 (#unreality)

Edit 19: Link to post with screenshotted and described NYT article (scroll down) and this golden exerpt from BuzzFeed: 💀

(alt text included)

End of Day 4 there are now 485 works in the Goncharov tag on AO3

[insanitysilver]

I wish more fanartists would put their work on AO3. Just followed an artist who organizes their work by making a series for Fandom X, and within that, they have multi-chapter works for different ships & gen. Every new chapter is just their latest image for that subject.

It's been so delightful not to have to wade through social media algorithms and endless ads.

[ao3commentoftheday]

If you've never posted fanart on AO3 before, you need to know that AO3 doesn't host images. That means you need to upload them somewhere else online and then embed them in your post. There's an FAQ that tells you how.

[lauramkaye]

YES YES YES PLEASE DO THIS.

I'm far too ADHD to be able to find art again on socials. Please put it on the Archive where I go to find all my other fanworks. Link your vids, too. Just. Please I BEG YOU.

[hoodiedeer]

@ new users remember to set your dash to chronological. I think old users will forget to tell you this because tumblr never randomly resets it like twitter does, so afaik literally everybody switched over to chrono as soon as they tried to introduce non-chrono, and then promptly forgot tumblr even has a non-chrono view. on tumblr we really dont do the “all mighty algorithm” thing.

[castaliaaa]

[k-dhd]

[noodles-07]

[elisedorian]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 45/? Fandom: Assassin's Creed Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con Relationships: Arno Dorian/Élise de la Serre Characters: Arno Dorian, Élise de la Serre, Original Characters, Frederick Weatherall, Marie Dorian, Original Child Character(s) Additional Tags: Assassin's Creed: Unity, Romantic Fluff, Family Fluff, Baby Fluff, Angst with a Happy Ending, Angst, Angst and Fluff and Smut, Smut, Explicit Sexual Content, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Rape/Non-con Elements, Violence, pregnancy fluff, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Major Character Injury, Goat Farm, Injury, Injury Recovery, Wedding Fluff, Wedding Night, Childbirth, Postpartum Depression, Childhood Trauma, Healing, Healing Sex, Light Bondage, Light Dom/sub, Domestic Fluff, Domestic Bliss, Domestic Violence, Fights, Suicide Attempt, Discussion of Abortion, Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Alcohol, Pregnancy, Pregnant Sex, Twins, Mother-Son Relationship, Motherhood, Father-Daughter Relationship, Father-Son Relationship, Fatherhood, Mother-Daughter Relationship, Family, Family Secrets, Family Issues, Assassins vs. Templars, Character Death, Minor Character Death Series: Part 3 of Arno x Élise Forever Summary:

An AU where Arno and Élise live happily ever after on a farm in the South of France, raising their children and their goats, hoping to leave their past behind. But the past never forgets, and is never far.

Contains Assassin's Creed: Unity game and book spoilers. And many, many of our headcanons.

Chapters containing explicit sexual content are marked with (E).

[halbravd]

it’s so frustrating (and heartbreaking) to see so many writers going on indefinite hiatus / deleting their blogs because they are not motivated to write anymore. worst of all: people would always be like ‘no why are you leaving we don’t want you to do so :(’ but they were nowhere to be seen in our notifications beforehand. the lack of support on this platform is a huge issue and it’s a shame that content consumers don’t get the hint when writers have been waving the red flag for months. please support creators by rebbloging their posts, interact with them by leaving a few tags, a comment or an ask! if you’re too shy then hit that anon button and you’re good to go. show them that their works matter and you enjoy their blog, because when the decision to leave is made, it’s already too late.

[spiders-hth-is-an-outlier]

Look, I’m going to be snotty for a minute.  I promise to feel bad about it later.

There’s been a spate of “but fanfiction isn’t real Writing, tho” on my dash today, which is whatever, very snoozy stuff, I do not care about it at all.  The only thing I thought was semi-interesting was that a few people tried in their tags to make some kind of objective case for this opinion, which never works.  The most common thing I saw was the same old-same old about how fanfiction is easier because you don’t have to make stuff up yourself – and it’s true, there’s a thin layer of work off the top that you get out of in fanfiction, where you don’t have to spell out character backstories (except in AUs, where you normally do have to) or the mechanics of building a fictional world (except when you do have to) or sometimes physically describe settings the reader can already picture (sometimes).  But as usual, I find it really funny that people think any of that is *the hard part,* because premise and setting and basic character work is typically the part that, like, even the worst writers are capable of managing.  Because that stuff is frankly super easy, and every writer I know has a thousand Ideas I Made Up that have never been written, because making things up is a whole different practice from *writing.*

But that is also whatever, because no one is moved by hearing writers ramble on about how hard they work.  What struck me as interesting, though, was that by this logic, people who write memoirs and narrative nonfiction are also not Real Writers.  They, like fanfic writers, are taking a whole pile of stuff that exists already, events and characters and ideas, then trying to figure out how to use it all in a way that expresses something or evokes a reaction or compels attention in whatever way.  I guess you could argue that what they do is easier than writing fiction, but – “easier” is pretty subjective, and I wouldn’t think even the most churlish literary snob would suggest that things like, I dunno, Palimpsest or In Cold Blood weren’t acts of writing executed by writers just because Vidal and Capote didn’t start from a cool white room and Make Everything Up.

But as I was thinking all that, yet another iteration crossed my dash, that straight up said “fanfiction is easy the way that writing an essay about something someone else wrote is easy” and, y’all, my goddamn life ended.  I truly did not expect the More Literary Than Thou crowd to come up with this hottest of hot takes – that essays about fiction are too easy to qualify as genuine acts of writing.  This probably comes as a surprise to – where the fuck to even begin?  TS Eliot, Umberto Eco, Toni Morrison, Ted Hughes, Leo Tolstoy, Susan Sontag – I mean Jesus fucking GOD.  Look, friends, it’s not news to me that my English lit degree was a waste of time and money, but I really didn’t think I’d ever hear anyone mount a serious argument that the reason for it was that I wasn’t reading Real Writing all those years.

But this is how ridiculous you end up sounding when you commit to this idea that there’s something inherently flawed or different or lesser about writing fanfiction – you have to flounder around so hard to figure out what, specifically, that might be that you apparently end up accidentally defending the position that neither Between the World and Me nor Against Interpretation were written by people who were really writing at the time.

[coolman229]

The funny thing is that if you look at a lot of media it’s basically fanfiction. What about TV shows that get new writers? They’re writing for something that they didn’t create. And book writers who pick up a series from an author who stopped or died are doing fanfiction. Ghost writers? Don’t even get me started on comic book writers who are writing their own stories for characters who have been around for decades and aren’t close to the original writers.

The only difference between these people and fanfiction writers is being paid, which you’d think would also show in the quality of writing but often their writing makes a lot of fanfiction look like professional work by comparison. You can get truly awful stuff that people are paid to write in an official capacity. And you can get truly amazing work done for free by fanfiction writers. It doesn’t matter if it’s fanfiction it matters if it’s written well.

[elisedorian]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 44/? Fandom: Assassin's Creed Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con Relationships: Arno Dorian/Élise de la Serre Characters: Arno Dorian, Élise de la Serre, Original Characters, Frederick Weatherall, Marie Dorian, Original Child Character(s) Additional Tags: Assassin's Creed: Unity, Romantic Fluff, Family Fluff, Baby Fluff, Angst with a Happy Ending, Angst, Angst and Fluff and Smut, Smut, Explicit Sexual Content, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Rape/Non-con Elements, Violence, pregnancy fluff, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Major Character Injury, Goat Farm, Injury, Injury Recovery, Wedding Fluff, Wedding Night, Childbirth, Postpartum Depression, Childhood Trauma, Healing, Healing Sex, Light Bondage, Light Dom/sub, Domestic Fluff, Domestic Bliss, Domestic Violence, Fights, Suicide Attempt, Discussion of Abortion, Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Alcohol, Pregnancy, Pregnant Sex, Twins, Mother-Son Relationship, Motherhood, Father-Daughter Relationship, Father-Son Relationship, Fatherhood, Mother-Daughter Relationship, Family, Family Secrets, Family Issues, Assassins vs. Templars, Character Death, Minor Character Death Series: Part 3 of Arno x Élise Forever Summary:

An AU where Arno and Élise live happily ever after on a farm in the South of France, raising their children and their goats, hoping to leave their past behind. But the past never forgets, and is never far.

Contains Assassin's Creed: Unity game and book spoilers. And many, many of our headcanons.

Chapters containing explicit sexual content are marked with (E).

[elisedorian]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 43/? Fandom: Assassin’s Creed Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con Relationships: Arno Dorian/Élise de la Serre Characters: Arno Dorian, Élise de la Serre, Original Characters, Frederick Weatherall, Marie Dorian, Original Child Character(s) Additional Tags: Assassin’s Creed: Unity, Romantic Fluff, Family Fluff, Baby Fluff, Angst with a Happy Ending, Angst, Angst and Fluff and Smut, Smut, Explicit Sexual Content, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Rape/Non-con Elements, Violence, pregnancy fluff, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Major Character Injury, Goat Farm, Injury, Injury Recovery, Wedding Fluff, Wedding Night, Childbirth, Postpartum Depression, Childhood Trauma, Healing, Healing Sex, Light Bondage, Light Dom/sub, Domestic Fluff, Domestic Bliss, Domestic Violence, Fights, Suicide Attempt, Discussion of Abortion, Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Alcohol, Pregnancy, Pregnant Sex, Twins, Mother-Son Relationship, Motherhood, Father-Daughter Relationship, Father-Son Relationship, Fatherhood, Mother-Daughter Relationship, Family, Family Secrets, Family Issues, Assassins vs. Templars, Character Death, Minor Character Death Series: Part 3 of Arno x Élise Forever Summary:

An AU where Arno and Élise live happily ever after on a farm in the South of France, raising their children and their goats, hoping to leave their past behind. But the past never forgets, and is never far.

Contains Assassin’s Creed: Unity game and book spoilers. And many, many of our headcanons.

Chapters containing explicit sexual content are marked with (E).

Hello there! Yes, that’s me posting a new chapter without waiting for half a year… :-) After a break of two years, I was able to spend a well-deserved vacation in Sisteron, which was wonderful as always.

With the previous arc coming to an end I can finally move on to the next arc I’ve been planning for quite a while now… I hope you will stick around as it will be full of adventures!

[elisedorian]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 43/? Fandom: Assassin's Creed Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con Relationships: Arno Dorian/Élise de la Serre Characters: Arno Dorian, Élise de la Serre, Original Characters, Frederick Weatherall, Marie Dorian, Original Child Character(s) Additional Tags: Assassin's Creed: Unity, Romantic Fluff, Family Fluff, Baby Fluff, Angst with a Happy Ending, Angst, Angst and Fluff and Smut, Smut, Explicit Sexual Content, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Rape/Non-con Elements, Violence, pregnancy fluff, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Major Character Injury, Goat Farm, Injury, Injury Recovery, Wedding Fluff, Wedding Night, Childbirth, Postpartum Depression, Childhood Trauma, Healing, Healing Sex, Light Bondage, Light Dom/sub, Domestic Fluff, Domestic Bliss, Domestic Violence, Fights, Suicide Attempt, Discussion of Abortion, Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Alcohol, Pregnancy, Pregnant Sex, Twins, Mother-Son Relationship, Motherhood, Father-Daughter Relationship, Father-Son Relationship, Fatherhood, Mother-Daughter Relationship, Family, Family Secrets, Family Issues, Assassins vs. Templars, Character Death, Minor Character Death Series: Part 3 of Arno x Élise Forever Summary:

An AU where Arno and Élise live happily ever after on a farm in the South of France, raising their children and their goats, hoping to leave their past behind. But the past never forgets, and is never far.

Contains Assassin's Creed: Unity game and book spoilers. And many, many of our headcanons.

Chapters containing explicit sexual content are marked with (E).

Hello there! Yes, that's me posting a new chapter without waiting for half a year... :-) After a break of two years, I was able to spend a well-deserved vacation in Sisteron, which was wonderful as always.

With the previous arc coming to an end I can finally move on to the next arc I've been planning for quite a while now... I hope you will stick around as it will be full of adventures!

[elisedorian]

The year is 1815. Napoleon is marching back towards Paris, returning from his first exile. He is approaching Sisteron, the bridge is guarded.

Can we stop him, if we unite once again? 🤔

#elisedelaserre #alternateuniverse #historicallyinspired #elisethegrandmaster

[elisedorian]

It looks like someone is about to take a leap of faith... 🤔😉 Sneak peek at today's shoot. Finally got to wear my Élise 1815 cosplay 🙌🏻 #elisedelaserre #elisedelaserrecosplay #assassinscreedunity #AssassinsCreed #historicallyinspired #inafamilyway #alternateuniverse #elisethegrandmaster https://www.instagram.com/p/CU2CweIA0vD/?utm_medium=tumblr

[pens-swords-stuff]

[caraverie]

❝All that we do, all that we are, begins and ends with ourselves❞

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ARNO, handsome revolutionary baguette! 🎉🥖

(I'm so damn proud of this btw)