Purely psychosomatic

2004 bootleg: the broadway 2004 blootleg. the queercateer subtitled version is on youtube and shows up as one of the first videos on youtube if you search for assassins

arthur bremer: shot at george wallace, didnt kill him. he was put there to represent all the other attempted assassins who werent put in the musical

historical inaccuracies: a lot of things are wrong in the music. one that comes to mind is that booth didnt shoot himself in the barn. he was shot by boston corbett

czolgosz mispronunciation: shole-gosh is, according to sondheim, not the actual way of saying it. to my knowledge, the "real" way of saying it is unknown. sondheim said he met a fan who was related to him, who corrected him. he never said the actual pronunciation in that interview, however. 1901 sources all gave their own ways of saying it. kinda still debated how you DO say it 😭

ao3: theres assassins fanfic on there

boothwald: john wilkes booth x lee harvey oswald. the most common ship on ao3/ffnet (and tumblr)

@/incorrectassassinsquotes: popular but now inactive fandom tumblr blog from 2018 with multiple owners. was like the only fandom content before 2022

1990 bootleg: bootleg of the oobc version. someones head blocks the screen tho. also on youtube

assassins based on another musical: ok i think it was a play, but this is whats on wikipedia

composer demos: audio of the original demos on youtube are here. only four songs are played (ballad of guiteau, everybodys got the right, gun song, ballad of booth), but its kinda hard to hear the lyrics. they arent well known

2021 bootleg: only a few from the revival exist (covid + assassins isnt that well know). theres at least one version, but it was nft until late 2022. theres none uploaded on youtube like the 90 and 04 one, you have to trade bootlegs through email/reddit/etc

assassins workshop demo: FULL audio musical demo with a different cast than used in 1990. some songs are different, another national anthem is VERY different where each assassin says their motives while byck monologues before (likely) shooting a gun. again, you have to use bootleg trading sites to get it. i have a copy of it, which i can dm to people who arent strangers.

assassin ocs: 2022 thing. originally was a joke post about "cooper st john" that i cant find. eventually everyone had an assassin oc. one of the later mentioned discords was centered around the ocs. attached is cooper fanart (stereotypical alt kid who shot trump in 2020)

sexual fanart: mainly 2022 im talking about, but it existed before. just the assassins drawn lewdly 😭 most was ironic? idk. attached is an example but there WAS more, just deleted

@\maybe-one-of-its-beams was popular blogger in early 2021 until late 2022. most "consensus" worldbuilding was kinda by him 😭 (by that i mean the "carnival/fair purgatory" belief). was the biggest blog in the 2022 fandom, even people who werent really "in" the fandom knew him at the time

gangara: joke ship made by @/johnadamsnotquincy of charles guiteau and guiseppe zangara. was ironically a "popular" ship in 2022, but wasnt serious (unlike boothwald, which was unironically shipped even before tumblr existed)

mlp crossover art/pmvs: theres a good amount of mlp x assassins content. including a youtube thing and some art on deviantart

john hinckley smut fic: GENUINELY caused drama in 2022 fandom. someone posted a hinckley smut fic in 2022 and it was mentioned in the note that they were on the tumblr side of the fandom (keep in mind theres no other fandom. there wasnt a twitter or tiktok fandom), so everyone was arguing over who posted it. even now, the author never revealed themself 💔 luckily it was deleted a few days later. the reason it was treated unlike the boothwald smut fics from years earlier, was that hinckley was/is ALIVE and the fandom already was against writing porn of real people

ptsilenthill: summer of 2022 there was a post by ptsilenthill that pretty much showed the fandom to the general tumblr population. had THOUSANDS of reblogs before it was nuked off the site (links to the post go nowhere, i think it was because of ptsilenthill being banned instead of the post contents itself). some users were sent hate, and ptsilenthill and beams (the one refered to as 'daddy') got into an argument where ptsilenthill sent cropped porn? for some reason? beams being a minor was one of the main arguments (other person being an adult), and ptsilenthill was in his early 20s 😭 this is known as the "daddy post" and also was a reason the 2022 discord was made

john wilkes booth eating disorder headcanon: a guy in 2019 headcanoned him as anorexic 😭 i think the musical version, but still. this wasnt a big thing, just one or two guys, but its still very funny and shows how weird the fandom was

tumblr roleplay blogs: ALL of them are gone now, but in 2022 there were roleplay blogs of all the assassins, balladeer, and proprietor. literally so much happened. there was an oswald blog that the owner decided to give up on, so I created a lee harvey oswald blog 😭 this was more towards the end though. there was also oc blogs, but oc rp blogs arent crazy

nazi pony: someone had a nazi assassin oc that they mainly kept behind closed doors. so there isnt many tumblr posts about him (op blog is deleted now), but there WERE discord roleplays. KEEP IN MIND I WAS 14 OKAY. OP WAS OLDER THAN ME ☹️ anyways they made him in ponytown 😭

czolgang/assheads: two discord servers. one from 2018, the other from 2022