Fandom Scarves

Fandom Scarves are small vertical digital banners that feature a symbol of a group/faction/organization/etc from various canons. They started appearing around 2012 on Tumblr where they were added to fans' blogs to express their alignment to said group. The popularity of Fandom scarves seems to have declined around mid-2017.Baycitybomber says: My memory is shaky wrt when they started disappearing so 2017 is more of a safe estimate. Feel free to correct the year. Added as of 09:24, 14 April 2019
The trend was presumably inspired by Harry Potter house scarves and may have been started by baelor,In addition to the masterlist and the tutorial, there are posts like this (archive) and this (archive)crediting baelor with making the templates everyone uses and starting the trend. who maintained a masterlist and whose tutorial for adding scarves to a tumblr blog was widely linked.
There were also horizontal scarves inspired by the vertical scarves, suitable for being placed in any text box, such as in one's tumblr description, which was probably easier for many fans than figuring out the somewhat complex custom HTML required for the vertical flags.Example of horizontal scarves (archive).
The scarves are usually displayed on blogs either "hanging" from the top of the screen or from a sidebar box or other element and had to be added and positioned via HTML and CSS. Some fans used the scarves simply to display their fandoms and other interests in a graphic manner instead of a text list, while others used the banners as functional design elements by turning the hanging banner images into links.For example: "if you’re usually on mobile and you happen to see the 'The scarves above are links to certain tags!' line in my blog’s description and you’re like '??? What scarves???', it’s referring to the scarves on the desktop version of the blog." - mademoiseli, December 19th, 2015. This had a general impact on tumblr theme layouts even after the fandom scarves fell out of fashion, having flags/banners at the top or side of one's blog became a popular way to display links, updates, extra information, etc.This 2014 tutorial (archive) shows how to code flags onto a tumblr blog. Here's an
example of blog using the verticle flags in 2019 — you'll have to close the toolbar at the top to see them.
==Fan Comments==
== Examples ==
===Gallery===
File:Fandom scarves.png|AtLA, Dragon Age, and ASoIaF fandom scarves by baelorhttp://baelor.tumblr.com/scarves and sexy-beam-shuppatsuhttp://sexy-beam-shuppatsu.tumblr.com/post/22577647324/i-made-some-fandom-scarves-a-lot-of-the-symbols
File:Fandomscarvesexample.png|Cirque du Freak, AtLA, MLP, Homestuck, and Gravity Falls scarves below a sidebar box in 2013.https://web.archive.org/web/20130126040916/http://capriciouscanine.tumblr.com/tagged/fandom-scarves
File:Fandomscarvesexample2.png|Game of Thrones "banner" scarves by ancientbardhttp://ancientbard.tumblr.com/post/23894222766/scarves-and-banners
File:Fandomscarvesexample3.png|Various scarves including Welcome to Night Vale, Doctor Who, and Marvel scarves "hanging" from the top left of a blog.fandomentanglement. (archive)
File:Tumblr Fandom Scarf Template Example.png|Example image of scarves for Orphan Black, Hannibal, Fringe, Once Upon a Time, GoT, Harry Potter and Orphan Black again which accompanies sdbinwiiexe's template
File:Davejadefandomscarf.png|A Dave Strider/Jade Harley ship banner by somaybeidontcarehttp://somaybeidontcare.tumblr.com/post/88328301216/yeah-i-guess-so-u-vu-but-only-right-now-bc-the-lil
===Masterlists and Multifandom===
* A collection of various fandom scarves Includes: AtLA, Legend of Korra, Hunger Games, Game of Thrones, Dragon Age, NHL, Red vs Blue, Homestuck, Lost, and others.
* scarvesinspace and attack-on-fandom's scarf masterlist Includes:Adventure Time, Attack on Titan, Death Note,Ouran High School Host Club, and others.
* twilight-blossom's Fandom Scarves Includes: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Mass Effect, Sailor Moon, Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Voltron: Legendary Defender, xxxHOLiC, and others.
* celticcherokee's horizontal flags, Includes: Disney, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Star Trek, Firefly, Game of Thrones, The Hunger Games, Avatar the Last Airbender, Monster High, Inception, other fandoms, and various non-fandom things such as astrological symbols.
* ancientbard's masterpost Includes: a blank template for "banner" scarves, The Elder Scrolls, Assassin's Creed, Game of Thrones, Tolkien, other fandoms, and nonfannish things like Icelandic magical symbols.
* phoenix-acid's masterpost Includes: Dexter, Les Mis, Merlin, Orphan Black, Ghibli, The Walking Dead, and others.
* Homestuck scarves masterpost
===Individual Posts===
* Hogwarts House Fandom Scarves by princelybunny, 2016. (archive)
* DC Comics scarves by equive, 2017. (archive)
* Hamilton by spades-king, 2016. (archive)
* Homestuck scarves by crabsickles, 2015. (archive)
* Archive of Our Own scarf by princelyymerman, 2015. (archive)
* Gravity Falls by felicitywild, 2014. (archive)
* Danny Phantom and Detentionaire by kikaiz, 2014
* Doctor Who Tom Baker scarf by boycottpunk, 2013
===Other===
* fandom scarves tag on tumblr
== Further Reading & Resources ==
* Fandom Scarves Guide by baelor (archive)
* tutorial on how to make three-dimensional fandom scarves by thestars-themoon (archive)
* How to make your own fandom scarf video tutorial by scarvesforyourfandom.tumblr.com
== References ==
Category:Glossary
Category:2012