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Mistakes Into Miracles refers to a series of drawings that mock outlandish slash-pairings which generally appear on DeviantArt. The drawings, which feature one of the characters in the OTP pregnant, are intended to be cringeworthy.

Origin

Outside of internet culture, "Mistakes Into Miracles" is a phrase associated with Christianity,^[1] where an unexpected circumstance brings about a joyous occasion, i.e. an unplanned pregnancy leading to a happy family. It began spreading as a caption to a series of cringeworthy artworks following a drawing dated November 22nd, 2008, of Sandy Cheeks and Spongebob Squarepants in which Sandy is pregnant captioned "Mistakes Into Miracles."

The picture appears to have been originally uploaded to DeviantArt by spongygirl92, who drew mostly Spongebob fanart on DeviantArt from 2008-2012.^[2] However, the original post has since been deleted. The earliest extant post appears on Fanpop^[3] with what was likely spongygirl92's caption: "spongebob is a daddy. here's sandy pregnant with spongebob being the daddy. i know it's a stupid thing for me to draw."

Spread

The picture became a notorious example of cringeworthy slash-pairing. On June 4th, 2010, it was included in a parody video of Sandy/Spongebob fanart telling the loose narrative of Spongebob getting Sandy pregnant. The video has over 233,000 views as of October 26th, 2016.

On April 12th, 2012, the picture was posted to the /r/WTF subreddit^[4] with an image of the September 11th, 2001 Terrorist Attacks photoshopped into the background. The post hs gained 950 points as of October 26th, 2016.

In the coming years, many other fictional characters were incorporated into "Mistakes Into Miracles" drawings, parodying the original. Many of these also took pictures from 9/11 to use as the background.

Various Examples

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