#the 5th of november

[casdeans-pie]

------Happiness isn't in the having, it's in just being. It's in just saying it.

------5th of November 2020

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This is what happens when you're a barista suffering with Destiel brainworms and its November the 5th. You use your powers for shipping purposes.

This latte tasted of tears.

#my contribution to the fandom #I was making this instead of closing down the coffee shop last night - making good choices obviously #destiel #deancas #destiel confession #spn #supernatural #destiel coffee #latte art #my latte art #castiel #dean winchester #spn coffee art #really proud of this one !! #castiels handprint #spn 15x18 #destiel day #coffee art #the 5th of november #misha collins #remember remember the fifth of november

[haruosaki]

#remember remember #v day #bonfire night #guy fawkes #guy fawkes day #v for vendetta #poem #poetry #quote #the fifth of november #the 5th of november #november #fall #autumn #remember remember the fifth of november #v

[bigassbowlingballhead]

I love how half this website is all

And the other half is all

#then there’s some people who are both #the 5th of november #v for vendetta #spn #destiel

[snowmasscourier]

Today I woke up to Shaun playing V’s initial monologue from “V for Vendetta” for Lovey, who seemed more interested in reaching for his glasses.

Atta girl.

#roleplay account #becs is bored #feel free to interact #assassins creed #adventures of the murder family #you know this day is a holiday for Shaun #the 5th of november #remember remember the fifth of november

[majestativa]

Evey Hammond: [reads] Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici.

V: [translates] By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

Evey Hammond: Personal motto?

V: From "Faust".

Evey Hammond: That's about trying to cheat the devil, isn't it?

V: It is. — V for Vendetta (2005), dir. by James McTeigue

#V for Vendetta #The 5th of November #Faust #Essence

[deni-sova]

You know what, if dean had said 'I love you' back, Putin would have happily retired, and now we all would not have been in this mess

#spn #supernatural #destiel #the 5th of november #deancas #castiel #dean winchester #putin #nov 5th #nov 5th 2020

[zigreth]

oh my god. i was trying to log into this account with a new device just now but. i... accidentally.. logged into my old account... my supernatural account.. on the 5th of november of all days...

#spn #supernatural #the 5th of november

[insanesonofabitch]

I feel like watching spn in 2022 and starting it at season 11 then going straight to spnblr right after finishing it receiving psychic damage after psychic damage about how much shit was and is going on about destiel has had irreparable permanent negative effects to my brain.

#the deleted scenes #the changed scripts #the gay bars #the gag reels #the parallels #all the insane shit from s1—s10 I missed out on on my first watch #season 8 in particular #the replaced “I love you” #the song choices #the spell #the set design #the lamp #the metaphors #the deliberate pan colors and bi lighting #the denial #the gaslighting #the homophobia #the CW #the 5th of november #the rogue–not–so–rogue translator #the truth #my god. #supernatural #spn #destiel #deancas #casdean #dean winchester #castiel #dean x castiel

[thestitchywitchy]

Well I guess I'm 31 now 🫠

#birthday post #is this even considered a birthday post #lol #remember remember #the 5th of november

[riverwithoutbanks]

Me jamming a finger through my cranium and bringing it to my mouth to taste it like a gourmet: Hm, yes, this is excellent brain rot.

#2020 an excellent year #aged finely #the 5th of november #nov 5 #destiel #spn

[casdeans-pie]

------"Goodbye, Dean."

------November 5th 2020

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When you're supposed to be closing the coffee shop but you need to do something for nov 5th. I don't know what I've had said if anyone had seen me make this latte. How to explain the insanity......

It tasted of tears

#still really proud of how it came out ! #destiel #destiel day #destiel confession #spn 15x18 #the 5th of november #latte art #destiel coffee #my latte art #spn #supernatural

[has-razer-found-aya-yet]

November 5, 2022:

Remember, remember,

Still no.

#the 5th of november #razaya #razer x aya #razer #aya #gltas #green lantern the animated series

[its-your-mind]

it’s been three whole entire years

#november 5th #november 5 2020 #destiel confession #destiel #supernatural #sorry mutuals I’ve decided to be insufferable today don’t worry it will be done at midnight #destiel news

[asticou]

Happy holidays to all who celebrate etc etc

#nov 5th #november 5th #spn #supernatural #destiel #my art

[secretmellowblog]

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

#November 5th #november 5 2020 #the fifth of november #just a random ramble #November 5th 2020 is such an important day to me #it really is a holiday #but it does confuse me when I see people analyzing it primarily as a supernatural thing #instead of a ‘hysteria over an election reaches a breaking point when inane zero stakes fandom news comes out and we all latch onto it’thing #but yeah!! #this is my personal essay out of love for the holiday

[unhinged-jackles]

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#I wish this was a joke #supernatural #spn #castiel #dean winchester #misha collins #jensen ackles #destiel #donald trump #joe biden #nov 5th #november 5 #20k