#ianda

[shaymiens]

at this point if you ever see me rbing ianthony art it's not even that i ship it. it's me celebrating the fact that there's ianthony art being made in the year of our lord 2024 and i no longer have to get in a weird doom spiral looking at it <3

[shaymiens]

i know i've made slight teasing jabs at the ianthony shippers for their delusions but to their point anthony is literally in love with ian so

[shaymiens]

💛Smoshblr December Asks Final Day💙

We‘ve done it! We’ve finally reached the end of this lil ask game and also the end of 2023! 🥳 Thank you so much for joining in on this, I truly appreciate it so much 🫶! I wish you a wonderful start into the new year and that all your hopes and dreams for 2024 will come true! ✨💞

But, since the year isn’t quite over yet, I thought this might be a nice time to reminisce a little bit. Therefore, the final question of the Smoshblr December Asks Game:

What are your favourite smosh-related memories of 2023? 💖

(no specific amount required for this one; and you can ofc also include older smosh memories, if you want to 🤗)

oh smosh in 2023... <3

vibing in the fandom has been nice and smoshblr continues to be one of the kindest, loveliest fandoms online, so there are a lot of moments within that sphere plus A LOT of friends and old mutuals who i adore :> in that same vein...

ian and anthony reuniting and buying back smosh was so so surreal and special to witness. i'm weirdly so proud of ianda for being able to work through things, for themselves, because addressing really tough friendship stuff and making it PUBLIC is hard!! and i'm so happy they finally get to enjoy the fruits of the labor in this new era, together.

the reunion was so cathartic for me and it was so special to have longtime mutuals come out of the woodwork to celebrate this shared love we have for an online friendship. it's just that butterflies-in-stomach, human feeling of knowing how deep that love ran: we grew up with smosh, we cared about these guys. we sought spaces online to express our love. and even when things changed and our interests began to differ, after everything, the love was still there. we still care. smosh still matters to us. i get to see old friends in a new light, maybe similar to how ian and anthony saw each other in this new era! just so, so special <33

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happy 2024 folks of smoshblr, old and new! thank you for the light you bring to these smoshy online spaces <33

[shaymiens]

[shaymiens]

the thing about ian and anthony is that if they had never reunited and bought back smosh together, they still would have been happy enough. they would have remained successful and they would have settled into their strides with their careers and they would have found themselves in rich, vibrant, fulfilling, yet separate communities.

but i think there would always be that one tiny missing puzzle piece—that nagging wonder of what could've been, and just wondering what the other is up to right now—that minor social incapability of reaching out and chatting like the old days, because it just isn't the same anymore... i think that would always sort of be there for them, and i truly believe that in most timelines, they would have forced themselves to live with that and not let it stain their general outlooks on life.

i think the fact that we're living in a reality where they were both able to cut through all the obstacles, real and imagined, that previously blocked them from just being able to talk things out is really special. i find it heartwarming to know that they don't have live with the "what if"s anymore. we get to see them not just be happy enough, but really, truly happy.

[shaymiens]

I just logged back into tumblr for the first time in a little while and the first posts I saw were from you about Smosh, and it genuinely made me feel so happy and nostalgic for when I was a kid/teenager watching their videos daily. It really made me smile, so thank you 😊

aw this is a bit of a late reply but thank you for the message!! <3 same here, it really has been sweet seeing the excitement for smosh and witnessing the wider community build itself back up again. i've said it so many times already but seeing ian and anthony together, happy and creating again has been magical and surreal and v nostalgic indeed~

[shaymiens]

new wired autocomplete interview with ian and anthony !

[shaymiens]

11.5k words of ian and anthony angst... we're talking friend breakups amidst car accidents, people going missing, near-death experiences, tearful telenovela climaxes, multiverse type shit. and that's in my google drive alone. i have really old pieces in my journals that are like classics in my repertoire but only to me because almost all of this has never seen the light of day. they are all sad and angry and bittersweet and accepting.

so when i say the ianda reunion is surreal to me, it is SURREAL