TBH I'm not satisfied with Apollo because it's so hard to know what to call it

[cimorene]

These are really the last ones from my compulsive spell of lettering my favorite Tumblr-characteristic memes a few days ago (I stayed up late two nights in a row and they ultimately occupied 7 A4 sketchbook pages).

In sharing them with my parents, who are familiar with almost no memes, I learned (because of providing the context from knowyourmeme each time lol) that "they crave that mineral" originated with sixpencee on Tumblr (you may remember them from the later Tumblr child slavery debate); the early 20th c. poem which "icebox plums" refers to is by American poet William Carlos Williams and is called "This is Just to Say"; Spiders Georg, Old as Balls, Children's Hospital/Color Theory, Moon Moon, Hold My Flower, and "Harold, they're lesbians" originated on Tumblr; Miette originated on Twitter (tweet by Patricia Lockwood, 2019); Throwing Breadsticks in My Purse is a Tumblr meme but the originating post was stolen from Twitter; and Cow Poetry/I Lik the Bred comes from well-known Reddit poet Sam Garland/Poem for your sprog. Of course, Plinko Horse is so recent that everybody probably remembers that it originated with a computer modeling demonstration and became a meme via YouTube. Smooth Sharks originated with cartoonist Branson Reese on Twitter.

Comments

[anatsuno]

I have no idea what Moon Moon is from/about, but I love the first iteration displayed here, as well as the second Miette and the Ea Nasir. I love them a lot. You're so good :D

[cimorene]

Thanks! Moon Moon is a rather charming incompetent werewolf meme based on a werewolf name generator post (rather poorly designed, so both halves of the list included the option 'moon'). There were some fun visual memes and text additions when it originally went around a few years ago.

Ea-Nasir is in what I think of as jazz lettering style that I practiced a lot making this It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got That Swing design. It's inspired by midcentury jazz album art.

[which_chick]

I'm so sorry! I automatically assumed that you'd know that Icebox Plums was the W-C-W poem that starts off This Is Just To Say which is why I started my comment about the delightful lettering shapes in Icebox Plums with "This is just to say". It was for fun thematic riffing. I had no idea you'd missed it. *sigh*

[cimorene]

Oh, no, I did know that was the title. I'd already looked up the memes then.

[krait]

I feel certain that "old as balls" must predate Tumblr (probably by decades if not millennia), given the general predilections of English speakers for substituting rude words in expressions! But I could be wrong.

[cimorene]

Yes, it's Old as Balls the meme - with Legolas - that I'm talking about!