Internet culture is kind of like weird secular paganism sometimes. (No shade on paganism as a specific religion. That’s not what I am, I’m not really anything, but it seems cool. I’m using the term’s general meaning.) Tumblr is my corner of internet, for better or worse, so I’m going to be talking about the holidays celebrated there, but for all I know Twitter and other platforms have their own traditions. Our traditions are memes that we will always remember and/or reblog (I’m thinking “no its becky,” “handmaiden and feudal lord,” “Harold they’re lesbians,” “I like your shoelaces,” “spiders Georg“) and pictures or phrases we all understand without them needing to be explained (“then perish,” “do you love the color of the sky,” “tumbeasts,” “Mishapocalypse,” “you tried,” “elf practice“) and the topic of this post, our designated holidays.
We celebrate these holidays mostly by reblogging relevant images, videos, and textposts, but I feel like every personal blog I follow on tumblr will commemorate at least some of these days every year. It’s basically required. You just do it. You reblog things on days that they aired or mentioned or and then you just sit there and feel like you’re celebrating together. I mention this because today is one of our Great Holidays, as will be discussed in a second.
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