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Well gang, that's it!

303 votes later, the ultimate winner of the rarepair tournament is Tak/Tenn with 56.4%!

Congratulations to the girlies and thank you so much to everyone who participated!

I might do another fast tournament using all the other pairs that were nominated but didn't make it into this round, and maybe for giggles, I can put whoever wins that up against Tak/Tenn, but that'll be way in the future. I might need a lil bit of a break from putting polls together, but I'd love to do more in the future.

Thanks again y'all, this has been so much fun. Big round of applause for the tater tots!

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NAME A WOMAN Drawn for @irkendogma bc their takes are pure liquid lava

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Round 5: The Finals!

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Round 4, our semifinals, is now over! The winners!

Poll 1 - Tak/Tak’s Ship at 50.3%

Poll 2 - Tak/Tenn at 75.1%

The winners will move on to round 5, which will be the final round! The poll will come out momentarily, here is the updated bracket:

I know it was an intense fight between Takcest and Bitterstrasser there at the end, but I hope there's no hard feelings! The poll is for fun and voter fraud is allowed mostly because how would I stop anyone but just know that all ships are rad and awesome regardless of who wins this silly tournament in the end

now gimme a moment to get the final poll up, and after that, maybe we can talk about additional tournaments!

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Why my app says it remains 1 hour but my desktop says 2 hours? wich one is true?

heck I'm late getting back to you but as of this very moment I'm sending this reply we're at 46 minutes

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I just love how yuri quickly beated against everything PEOPLE KNOW WHAT THEY WANT!!!

people love their toxic yuri and Invader Zim yuri is arguably the most toxic of all, by the simple fact of it being Invader Zim characters

..Bitterstrasser is the exception, it’s actually achingly adorable but they’re two old grumpy women so everyone around them is creeped out. But fuck em, let those women do their thang

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i wouldn't count it as poll propaganda because it's a direct transcription of 3:35 am discord groupchat word vomit but in regards to plans for another takcest fic

was thinking on how to do the shift from the fic-described personality upload of a near 1:1 of tak's actual personality vs the initial idea concept of takship as "more perfect", because i DO still want to go for the latter but with the fic ending up establishing that tak has a level of pained reluctance to destroy/crush down a mirror of herself, however unsightly it appears from an outside perspective, it kind of throws a wrench in the logistics of it but in the process of wondering how the personality upload would work anyway i reached a tentative conclusion of like takship, while initially in sullen denial even after having comprehensive, objective documentation of how she was created and what she is added to her databases, gradually latches onto tak for taking care of her when, unlike in the body she feels like she had once, she's incapable of moving or truly looking after herself on her own at the same time tak is latching onto takship for similar "experiencing regular social contact with someone who's not constantly trying to put her down" reasons, and in doing so she's letting her guard down bit by bit, letting the more vulnerable, wounded parts of herself show - takship, seeing this, becomes more and more aware of exactly the abysmal mental and psychological state she was copied from because tak can grow and change, like any living thing, but takship's self is set in code - it's a slow, painful realization that if she clings onto her perceived identity, she'll be hurting and viciously upset forever. the only tak she can be is the tak who's still desperately grieving what she was supposed to achieve and so eventually takship manages to ask for her code to be changed after all - make moving her hull-appendages come more naturally. make it feel okay that she can't stand on two legs and use two arms at the same time. make her exist in a way that she can stand, if she's going to exist this way forever

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A reminder to vote for the Takcest in the @iz-rarepair-tournament!!! Please let the Tak love triangle battle happen cause this would be so so funny!!!

A little comic for an idea @irkendogma left under this post

I hope you don't mind me making this :33

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Propaganda time!

Please vote for Takcest at the @iz-rarepair-tournament! You can vote here

Let's make Tenn/Tak/Tak's ship love triangle battle happen in the next round! >:3

Ooohhh the girls are fighting! There's a rumble about that under the cut :3

Listen, if we're thinking from the perspective of Tak's ship having feelings - simulated, maybe, but still real to her - if we're thinking from that perspective, then I have a lot of thoughts. I think a lot about how she felt coming to her senses in Membrane family's garage for the first time, no Tak in sight. Did Dib wake her? Was she alone? What exactly was happening in that electronic brain of hers?

And if we're talking about AUs, if we're talking, say, about Tak coming back for her - or one of the Membrane kids using her to fly to space and finding Tak - how exactly would that reunion go? We know she has Tak's personality. So the real question is how would she feel about Tak after spending so much time away from her. Not knowing where she is. Possibly, if that crash she had affected her memory, not knowing where and how did she go. What exactly could the thought process be in the brain of a ship that doesn't know if it's abandoned by its owner? The owner who's personality she carries. The owner that made her, possibly built her from scraps, gave her the ability to Have any thought process at all. What does it feel like to her? Being so far away. What does she do with that? Does she get sad? Does she get angry to not get sad? Does she convince herself she's been abandoned, scrapped like a useless piece of metal to force herself to hate. Hate the one that made her, the one that Was her, to cope with the haunting thought of her being dead. Lost in space forever. Does she force herself to hate Tak - to hate her so much the thought of her dead might stop, even for a second stop making her glitch out from feeling the things She Made Her Able To Feel in the first place. And, if she does, what happens then? When she meets Tak again, what happens then? When she sees her alive. What does she do?

POPULAR PAIRING MENTION INCOMING

Also, for those of you who don't know, the robot on the picture is my AU version of Tak's ship - she was constructed by Gaz out of boredom. The content that exists of the AU is only TaGr for now but I'm planning on them becoming a fun little crazy trouple. So it's about time I made something for her and Tak. The Ship's nickname in the AU is Core Tak (or Core) btw, and you can find stuff about her by searching the nickname in the tags :3

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That is so big brain, I love it

I swear if the final battle is a love triangle between Tak, Tak's Ship, and Tenn I'll laugh so hard

If the final poll ends in a tie somehow they get to be an OT3

that would be so funny. And yess, I approve of that OT3

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I swear if the final battle is a love triangle between Tak, Tak's Ship, and Tenn I'll laugh so hard

If the final poll ends in a tie somehow they get to be an OT3

that would be so funny. And yess, I approve of that OT3

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Round 4 Poll 2

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Round 4 Poll 1

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Round 4 Poll 2

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Round 4 Poll 1

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Round 3 is over! The winners!

Poll 1 - Tak/Tak’s Ship at 51.4%

Poll 2 - Ms. Bitters/Countess von Verminstrasser at 76.2%

Poll 3 - Tak/Tenn at 54.6%

Poll 4 - Lard Nar/Prisoner 777 at 55%

The winners will move onto round 4! Here is the updated bracket:

Polls will be released shortly! <3