I woke up at 3 am and got on tumblr. WHAT AH...WHAT IS GOING?
oh wow. i don’t know if i can explain (nor if i’m the right person to). but i’m going to try my best!
so basically, for context, back in 2012-2013, there was a super popular fandom (sort of THE Tumblr fandom) called the superwholock fandom which was a combination of supernatural, doctor who, and sherlock. the fandoms here mainly focused on the (non-canon queerbaiting) m/m ships between unattractive crusty white boys and eventually, as years wore on, these fandoms became less popular. but at its peak, the ship Destiel was SUUUPERRRR popular and it brought about a renaissance of a/b/o fic (i think), along with a lot of other stuff.
so, fast-forward to 2020, we’re in the middle of this super stressful election that has lasted for three days now, waiting for Georgia, Nevada, and Pennsylvania to get their votes in and go blue, there’s been the Rayban sunglasses thing for weeks, coronavirus cases in the US are spiking, Breonna Taylor’s bf is getting sued, and a whole bunch of other stuff is going on that I can’t remember because there is too much. So because of this, we’re all slowly getting crazier and crazier, and suddenly, the Supernatural writers decide, 10 fucking years later, to make Destiel canon by having Castiel confess to Dean that he loves him right before having Castiel die and get sent to some sort of hell??? I’m not sure; I don’t watch the show. But whatever it was, that’s obviously homophobic!!! yuck!!!
so 2012!fandom folks are losing their shit while younger fandom is hella confused (I one of them) and someone decides to make it into a meme with Putin resigning because Destiel was canon in such a terrible way, and this ends up being how the MAJORITY of tumblr and twitter finds out about Putin stepping down (btw this is actually true of a sort, you can read more on it here). so this becomes a meme too, and with everything on top of another, it just is insanity.
that’s the story! hope it helps lol













