#fandom flashback week

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IT BEGINS.

i have 130 posts queued! (that's 20 per day.)

prepare to rewitness the glorious journey that was mvm

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Fandom Flashback Week 2: Electric Boogaloo

hey remember when i reblogged all those pyromania posts i had in the depths of my likes in an attempt to rekindle, if you will, the joy felt by the tf2 fandom in june 2012?

well now i'm doing that again! i'm queuein up posts from the mann vs machine update and the hype surrounding it

i'll be tagging these posts with #tf2 and #fandom flashback week (and keeping the original tags) for easy retrieval/blocking!

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Ok, queue's empty

This marks the end of Fandom Flashback Week: Pyromania!

I hate internet drama. I hate logging in to see fandom wars, people complaining about fandom wars, people hating on themselves, people hating on other people... Tumblr was supposed to be my escape from drama, damn it, so why can't we all just set aside our differences and be happy and bond over things we like while we're here?

..Sometimes, during a good update, we do. At least for a little while. That's why updates, new episodes, and stuff like that are so important to fandoms; everyone is hyped at the same time, and it becomes obvious that, even if we disagree on little things like ships and headcanons and what may or may not be minorly offensive to someone somewhere, we're all here because we have something in common: a love for a certain game. Or TV show. Or movie, or book series, or... whatever the fandom likes, I don't know.

But we forget this as quickly as we remember it. So that's what Fandom Flashback Week hopes to be. A reminder.

There are more old fandom hype posts in my Likes that are aging like fine wine, and when the nostalgia content is high enough, I'll do another one of these!

Now to catch up on all the things I missed while I was inactive last weekend. Mmrr...

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Last Fandom Flashback Week announcement, I promise

The queue will post 21 times a day for seven days. It begins with speculation surrounding the subtle changes to the TF2 website and ends with rainbows and candy and balloonicorns. You won't want to miss any of it! Track #fandom flashback week if you don't follow me or if you don't keep up with your dash 24/7.

Edit: Actually wait. Tracking tags doesn't work for reblogs and that's basically all this is.

Just, uh, keep this bookmarked: http://astromot.tumblr.com/tagged/fandom-flashback-week

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Fandom Flashback Week: Pyromania

TLDR: I've queued up a bunch of posts from the Pyromania update and the hype surrounding it, so prepare for a blast from the past.

That, or you can block #tf2 and/or #fandom flashback week .

Looking back: Pyromania

I played TF2 for a while before I discovered there was a fandom, like, with artists and writers and shippers and roleplayers and crazy fangirls and stuff. When I did, I knew: I had found my people. So I followed a bunch of tf2 blogs and it's been probably my "main" fandom ever since.

I was still in my shy rabidzorua phase in June 2012, so I never reblogged anything. But if you scroll back a few thousand pages into my likes, you can find that exact point when I saw the fandom go completely bonkers for the first time.

The days leading up to the release of Meet the Pyro were utterly glorious, but stressful for me. I was traveling, so I had to keep up with my dash through my phone, and my 3G gets reset at the end of the month and it was near the end of the month so I was running low on data. I didn't care, though. I kept that countdown page open at all times and refreshed my dash constantly as Valve toyed with us. We were a dog, and Valve was holding a strip of bacon juuuust in front of us.

I got home with minutes to spare.

And it was worth the wait. Sooooo worth the wait. I was giddy and literally shaking for the rest of the day.

Fasten your seat belts, class! It's time to re-experience Pyromania!