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25th of August, 2023
- I've sent some cards! :) currently making them daily.
- if someone you know who signed up later on than you received their card first, please notify me! (I'm sorry and thank you)
Hello everyone, H & NH Bingo are back
Horrific Bingo here—the one which suddenly disappeared. After much thought, I'm coming back, even bearing the news I'm ashamed about. But, kinda want to be transparent here (not even sure being transparent is a good idea).
So, I've been nagged to make money by making cards by someone really important to me. I get that, didn't blame the person who said it. But, I didn't and don't make this event because I want money. In fact, I don't think I deserve to get paid just for this. That had been weighing my mind.
Second, I could no longer make cards with the same design as previous as I no longer could afford the premium version of the app. While I don't think the design was gorgeous or out of this world, however the premium membership did give me wider range when it came to designing. (I'm aware I was the one who made the choice to make the cards with premium membership, so it was no one fault but mine)
And I know that there's nothing wrong with saying that I am currently in a spot where I am not able to afford something. But, I didn't have enough courage saying that and I didn't (still don't) want to make this my "boohoo sucks to be me" story, these are just unfortunate circumstances.
I'm back and I still have the data of all the people who signed up and I hope they see this post.
If all the people who signed up are okay with the making of the cards even slower and will be okay with design becoming even worse, I will make the cards. That goes the same for anyone new who wants a card from Horrific & Non-horrific Bingo.
This event is still free and will be eternally free in the future.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk. I truly hope that everyone sees this post.
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People who try to analyze what happened on Tumblr on November 5th, 2020, often really overstate how much it was actually “about” Supernatural. As someone who has never been in the supernatural fandom ever but dID join in on the hysterical destielposting—it was really more about the stress of the pandemic and the 2020 presidential election.
The two biggest Youtubers I’ve seen try to dissect “what happened that November 5th” in video essays both weren’t American—- and I think that explains why they both tried to explain the hysteria primarily via analyzing the Supernatural fandom/the original show, rather than through the lens of the election. And while those videos are cool, valid, informational, and make lots of really well-considered interesting points— I can tell you that me and almost all my mutuals had literally no knowledge or interest in the fact that “oh supernatural had made nods at the ship in the past but the creators were adamant that I wouldn’t be canon” or etc etc etc etc. the first time I learned about any of that context was way later, watching videos where people claimed that fandom history context (that I did not know anything about) was the actual reason for the hysteria.
But the reality is that people latched on to the Destiel stuff because it was a piece of big useless inane zero-stakes fandom news in a time when we were desperately waiting for serious high stakes election news. We were latching onto a “positive “ piece of inane stupid fandom news in a time of great stress, with all the desperation of a drowning man who latches onto whatever piece of wood will keep him afloat.
The core of the hysteria was that Americans (who make up a huge chunk of tumblr’s userbase) were currently glued to their laptops watching the live presidential election vote counts come in. These vote counts were taking an extended amount of time due to the pandemic causing high numbers of mail-in ballots, resulting in a constant state of Election Day Stress for multiple days straight.
This was also during the height of the Pandemic. People had predicted Trump’s presidency would be bad; no one had predicted it would be this apocalyptically bad. No one had predicted pandemics and lockdowns and hospitals overflowing with bodybags. remember Trump spreading Covid lies and conspiracies?? There were so many Qanon conspiracies about democrats being Satanic child traffickers who had to be put to death, and coup threats were mounting from the right wing side. It seemed like this election was a choice between ‘centrist democrat’ and “apocalyptic right wing conspiracy theory authoritarianism,” in the midst of pandemic conditions that people feared would never ever improve— and it seemed like a close election.
Another major point was that Trump voters were more likely to be antimaskers/Covid deniers, while Biden voters were more likely to take the pandemic seriously— so Biden voters were more likely to send in mail-in ballots instead of risking the in-person voting crowds, which meant their ballots would take much longer to count. And so, in many state electoral vote counts, it would initially seem like Trump was very far in the lead— only for Biden to slooooowly build up an agonizingly small lead as the mail in ballots came in, and then defeat Trump at the very end.
So you’re just watching these news sites giving live election updates, refreshing the page every 2 minutes to see if you’re going to live under a spineless centrist democrat or a literal Qanon Dictatorship. And then you go on tumblr to distract yourself, and there’s more election posting, and more agonizing over the votes, and more stress and despair—-
And then it’s been days and we’re right at the crucial tipping point where it’s anyone’s game and the next few hours will determine whether Trump will win, so you need to keep your eye on the vote count, because the next hours will determine the future of the pandemic and your country and your plans for your entire life—
And then stupid Destiel becomes canon! And it becomes canon in the silliest way possible!
If Destiel had become canon at any other time, it would have been a big goofy tumblr celebration? But we wouldn’t have gotten the insane explosion of hysterical interaction.
The entire core of it was the contrast between the inane meaningless stupidity of fandom news vs the actual stressful election news you wanted to hear! It really is best conveyed in that meme where Castiel says “I love you” and Dean indifferently responds with a piece of important election news.
It’s about the contrast between the low-stakes inanity of fandom and the massive life-destroying stakes of a terrifying election. There really was no reason it had be Supernatural specifically, except that Supernatural was a thing everyone knew basic things about from dashboard osmosis— it could’ve been any other equally huge silly fandom ship news about a ship everyone *knew of* but might not necessarily be invested in (ex. Stucky becoming canon, Johnlock becoming canon, Kirk/Spock becoming more canon somehow, etc etc etc.)
I think it’s true that people who weren’t paying agonizingly close attention to the American election news got swept up in it, and that non American Supernatural fans also were extremely excited for purely fandom reasons — but the entire reason it blew up to an unprecedented degree was because of that core of stressed out terrified Americans glued to their computers watching election results and suddenly receiving stupid fandom news instead, and deciding to just hysterically parodically hyper-celebrate this absurd useless zero-stakes news.
I think it was also all elevated by the fact that, as I said before, this happened at the crucial “tipping point” of the election where the next few hours would determine the winner. The fact that Biden began to slowly develop a lead in the hours after made it feel, hysterically, as if the hours after Destiel became canon was somehow the turning point where he began to win; so celebrating Destiel felt like celebrating that slow turn towards victory.
The tl,dr is that it’s so important to Remember the Fifth of November …..in preparation the inevitable hysteria that will happen in the presidential election on November 5th of next year. XD. Personally I’m rooting for Johnlock or Frodo/Sam to somehow become canon in the eleventh hour right before the democrats win
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Oddly Anomalous Bingo is a part of Horrific Bingo event but at the same time a stand alone.
In Oddly Anomalous Bingo we explore several rare literature genres such as:
1. Bizarro Fiction
2. Feghoot
3. Cli-fi
4. Fake memoir
5. Cashier memoir
6. Bangsian
7. Ergodic
And...
8. Bitpunk!
The rarity of these literature genres deserve to be explored more. However, the bingo squares will be just me choosing three words as themes from the genres you've chosen. The "words" would depend on the genre.
For an example if you chose "Feghoot", you'll receive—one of them—a pun as it involves that.
However!
There will be prompts for the usual trope in case you're not interested with the genres BUT I will give only weird shit for the theme.
There's no strict rules on how closely you have to fit with the themes, it's after all an literary exploration.
(and this is kind of an experimental kinda thing too)
In short: let's explore less known literary genres and make it weird.
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Note:
The challenge doesn't have a deadline nor a schedule you need to follow. You just need to sign up, fill out the form and you can create anything anytime you want. The purposes are to inspire you to create something and maybe in some way making you have fun.
You are allowed to merge this with your Horrific or Non-horrific Bingo cards if you've received them.
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one of my favorite things in dunmeshi is how chilchuck turns out to be the guy in the party with the least to hide despite how much he goes out of his way to act all secretive. like the more we learn about everyone else it seems like they’ve all got like trauma or crimes or even just oddities that they don’t share explicitly not bc they’re hiding anything, but just because it’s never come up, or it’s too much of a hassle to explain, or it just didn’t occur to them. meanwhile, Normal Man Chilchuck is finding new gray hairs every morning because his friends want to know how old he is and his darkest secret is that his wife left him for being… too secretive. like up against a monster-phile, a dark mage, a circus attraction and Schrödinger’s cannibal, him making such a big deal out of having three adult kids is kinda epic
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