Rumors of my virtue have been greatly exaggerated.

Diana. 29. oof.

[sirfrogsworth]

I am reminded of when Anita Sarkeesian started doing her videos she would preface them with this quote...

"It's both possible, and even necessary, to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects."

Yet people still gave her so much shit for pointing out bothersome things in media. They thought she hated the things they loved. They couldn't wrap their head around the fact that she actually loved much of the media she was critiquing--just as many of them did.

But I always thought that was an important message. It's okay to enjoy things and have misgivings about aspects of those things. Because humans are imperfect and we make imperfect things.

Yet dweebs like Ben would lambast commentary about things being "problematic" and tell people to just enjoy the movie without any further thought.

But now conservatives are so hyper focused on things being "woke" that it has literally impeded their enjoyment. They are unable to set aside the things they don't like.

I see old boomers complaining on my home theater forums that there are no good movies or shows anymore. Meanwhile I feel overwhelmed because I have a list of over a hundred things I have yet to watch. I am drowning in amazing entertainment and literally cannot keep up.

If they keep going like this they aren't going to have any movies or tv shows or music or video games. They aren't going to have any place to eat. No beer to drink.

They are woke-ing themselves into a mundane existence.

[sirfrogsworth]

Well, I'm sold.

[nofuckinginthelibrary]

i've wanted so badly to get back into tumblr but it's oddly SO HARD on an old blog with so much history

i don't want to get rid of this blog in any way, but after discussing with some folks i'm planning to start a new blog on a different account to sort of start fresh.

idk, i'll say more when i figure it out lol

[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: 💀

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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.

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)

tw: unreality:

We did it you guys!

Clarification: Francesca Scorcese asked her Dad about the meme and Martin played along. Please reblog this PSA to help Tumblr people with psychosis. Thanks.

[nofuckinginthelibrary]

Currently taking bets on whether or not I'll finish the skirt I'm making in time to meet my Future* Mother In Law (🙃) next weekend

For what it's worth, I still have to gather the skirt into the waistband, figure out how I want to sew elastic into the waistband, make pockets, and sew buttons and buttonholes (which I may or may not be planning to do by hand with thread that has not yet arrived). So yeah, personally I'm betting against, but the odds are still undecided so...

*currently unknown if her disapproval could cancel this plan or not lolllllllllll 😬

[centuriespast]

Japan, late 19th-early 20th century, Festival kimono decorated with carp ascending a waterfall made in Akita Prefecture (detail), cloth: cotton; shibori (shape resist)

Minneapolis Institute of Art

[nofuckinginthelibrary]

Just watched Noctua lick Inigo's butthole right in front of me as if I wasn't even here and I'm tORN

Like wow I didn't know my cats were into that stuff right

But low key should I be worried like do cats get pink eye and e coli from butt stuff or are they fine idk

[marinememes]

I've been collecting these for a few weeks and I NEED MORE

[edgebug]

what if everyone referred to him solely as "princess diana's ex-husband"

[edgebug]

we take you now live to the shamefully expensive spectacle: the coronation of princess diana's ex-husband

[nofuckinginthelibrary]

Hark, yonder Good Cat

[unionizedwizard]

meowing at you meowing at you i remembered you exist so now i am, as you might have guessed already, meowing at you. and meowing at you meowing at you some more. meowing at you. and meowing at you again. for good measure. purring and meowing and purring as well. and meowing! meowing at you, specifically. did i mention that i am, currently, meowing at you? meowing at you. meowing at you. and also purring. at you. meowing at you meowing at you. meow

[honey-wine-and-time]

Too many people have an unhealthy relationship with math.

I'm serious.

If people didn't fucking talk shit about math and how ~scary and hard~ it is all the goddamn time like they do about NO other basic fucking skill on the damn planet, I'm pretty sure most people would have a higher background level of numeracy, because they wouldn't be so fucking terrified of it or so foolishly convinced that it's just so hard that is beyond them.

[digital-magus]

“But gets so complicated when you get past basics” bitch so does cooking but I don’t see you screaming about how scary it is to make a pb&j

[darksteel-relic]

Numbers are cool, interesting, and fun but the structure of a math class just siphons all the joy and wonder out of it all.

[headspace-hotel]

Hated math with a violent, seething passion for the first 2 decades of my life, then I saw a psychologist who was like "hey you have a learning disability"

[nofuckinginthelibrary]

I just want people to know all the doors they can unlock in their hobbies with a little bit of basic math. Anything you create by using other people's instructions becomes something you can adapt, hack, or create from your own brain with just a little less fear about numbers! Sewing patterns, quilt blocks, cross stitch, wood working, knitting, crochet, you name it!!!

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[radwolf76]

[podencos]

Has anyone else been in the strangest, most indecipherable headspace of their life lately

[brandneweyescd]

you're telling me people DONT like when their cat is talkative?? you don't like meow meow?? mrrp? mmrp?

[brandneweyescd]

you don't like meow meow ? 🐈 ? mrrp mrrp ?

[savioseal]

Three qualities of a great cat

[brandneweyescd]

talkative affectionate and large

[waterfall]

the song 💀

[clonidinecoochie]

[nofuckinginthelibrary]

The comments on YouTube are where it's at

[nofuckinginthelibrary]

I JUST TOOK A DNA TEST TURNS OUT I'M 100% -

depressed