#AntiPropaganda

[mcyt-builds-contest]

Pandoras vault anti propaganda because I don't like it

i will cry if it wins. pls don't vote it :( so. lets start with its really easy to escape. Technoblade literally escaped using the most BASIC of enderpearl stasis chambers, it only took him so long because Philza got the time he was supposed to wait wrong

it caused ranboos death and I think that alone should make it lose like Ranboo was INNOCENT

despite the fact quackity canonically went in and out plenty of times to torture dream, tommy was able to be trapped in the prison cell. Like what? Make it consistent.

also it's like, it's OKAY i guess but there is nowhere near the amount of thought and care put into it as any other build on this bracket. It's just big. That's all its really got going for it.

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[collagetry]

"We can only cure the virtual-virtue woke monoculture with American fighting humor" Anti-propaganda propaganda-Collagetry lol #collage #collagetry #art #artistsofinstagram #poetryart #poetry #cutups #dailyart #propaganda #propagandart #antipropaganda #zombies #woke #wokezombies #humor https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnz63eTSCnQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[arcanavoid]

I get Propaganda is supposed to persuade people to vote for them so here's some anti-propaganda to help Lucios case under the cut :]

Everything said in the og post is (in one way or another) true.

Not sure about other graphic novels but Arcanas routes are each a separate story, so almost like alternate universes. So while yes Lucio is a BIG dick in the majority of routes, those… technically don’t count unless you're only playing that route? I hope that makes sense,,, it's not like he's this big dick who's tried to kill you 5 different times or anything, it's literally once a universe if he's trying to get you out of his body which Asra stole for you.

Anyway, yes! He's a man child, his own mother says so, and yes he was stupid enough to make deals with demons and then not hold up his end of the bargain, which is why he's carrying a plague around with him. He straight up was like oh no plague! Guess I'll run! And he even states in his own route that he didn’t realize the damage he has caused with the plague, granted that's because he was so far up his own ass he didn't care. Not to even mention he neglected duties as a count and a whole district flooded because of it. 

Now wait a second this is all sounding pretty pro-worst guy ever, why is this anti-propaganda? 

Because he actually does change and get better, granted only in his route, but that's because it's his route, it's not Nadia’s route, or Portia's route. No it's for him, for him to have a space to grow. So yeah he's the villain or at least a mild jerk in majority of routes but as i said earlier those are all alternate universes, so take it all how you will but don't ignore his own route where he proves he can change. Another, smaller disclaimer, all of the secondary main three routes were heavily rushed and poorly written, it’s very accepted among the fandom that they had the right ideas with the routes but with funding getting low and assets being more and more rushed for the sake of finishing the routes they came out less than uh… standard quality. 

That being said, im taking the ideas the devs had for his route to heart and not entirely what was actually in the route. His whole route is about him either learning to be independent and live with his mistakes or become entirely independent on MC [since every route has a good/bad ending]. Bad ending: he basically stays the same but becomes your bitch. Good ending though, he grows, he realizes the damage he's done and the hurt he's put others through and he finally gets his head out his own ass and starts trying to actively fix them. He doesn’t take back the role of count, he helps where he can when his friends ask him to. And while everyone is still iffy around him they’ve all recognized that he's at least trying. He apologizes to the majority of them, like Asra and their parents, as well as Nadia and julian. He doesn't even force Muriel to hear out his apology, I'd assume. The point is he was a bad guy, but he's actually a decent human being if given the chance to grow.

The game has been sold to some fanfic app called Dorian, so NyxHydra [the original company] does not exist anymore, so I wouldn't take anything Dorian says about the characters as canon. And even then NyxHydra never really got the chance to show Lucio or answer stuff about him after his Good ending was released because they literally sold the company after all the secondary routes were completed so anything they talk about with him is like… purely through the lens of other routes and you know what i said earlier, yada yada Aus yada yada grains of salt.

My point in all of this is that Lucio at least tries to change in his route. The other guy [so sorry idk him i just read all the propaganda] seems like the creators said he changed and in reality he.. Didn’t….. So uh yeah! May the worst guy win 😎👍

ROUND 1, MATCH 64

Propaganda under the cut!

Lucio Morgasson

He's the villain in everyone else's route, and even in his own he's STILL kind of a dick. Like, everything bad he did before the game begins happens exactly the same, and it's only when he begins that he gets better (as in he regrets his actions and tries to fix it (it being a plague. He caused a plague because he wanted more power. (Spoilers: the plague killed the MC))). All the other romanceable characters still hate him tho so that's good. The one thing he's got going for him is that in one ending, he stepped down from being the count (idk about the other)

He literally caused a plague that kills thousands of people including THE PLAYER 😭 LIKE HE LITERALLY KILLS YOU DAWG

He is simply the worst. I'm pretty sure he purposefully infected his kingdom with the plague. He made a deal with the devil maybe. Gonna be real with you I haven't finished his storyline.

imagine a guy who is both incredibly pathetic and willing to screw over absolutely everyone for fun. lots of fun as a character, absolute dogwater as a partner

He has directly tortured or somehow harmed all the other romancable characters and every other route tries to kill the mc to take over their body, is also responsible for a plague that killed a large portion of his kingdom and *spoiler* killed the MC

I'll admit I haven't played his route but that's cause he's such a pathetic icky man that I don't think I actually can. And I pride myself in completing every route. I know people like their pathetic meow meows but I want to hit him with a brick

He acts as a manchild who needs someone to guide him through life and show him the difference between right and wrong when I'm pretty sure he's in his forties or fifties. He also abuses his power to do horrible things to people he's not in a romantic relationship with, which should tell you a lot about him.

He’s a selfish asshole who is the villain in every other route and he’s a punk ass bitch I wanna kick his ass so hard his skeleton disintegrates as he fucking deserves 

Dude, he SUCKS. He's the villain in every other route. He's a horrible husband, he forced Muriel to fight for his entertainment, he makes deals that he can't pay for. He threatens and pouts and is obsessed with people loving him. I've been with the Arcana since the very beginning and he wasn't meant to be a romance option, but the writers basically went with it because there was such a demand. So embarrassing to see Lucio fans being like Lucio did nothing wrong ever. Falling all over themselves to blame his mom or Nadia or Asra or anyone else for Lucio's selfishness and shitty behavior. It was peak uwu he's A BABY fan dementia that excuses all his shitty actions because nothing was his fault. The only sane Lucio fans are the ones that are like "he sucks so much <3 I can make him worse."

He's literally described by the devs as flaming trash. He is literally only nice in his route and the main antagonist (or at the very least a jerk) in every other route. he was a very bad husband to ex-wife. he is literally - and with 0 exaggeration- a plague upon the country he ruled. he's also a grown man who calls his fuck ups "oopsies" and honestly, i love him but that gives me the ick.

Cullen Rutherford

stupid racist cop creep whose fans cry about how hes "changed" and "you can't judge him he was addicted to magic drugs" nah he still chose to be a racist cop and abuse his power over innocent people and i hate him. the writers making him romanceable in da:i after how blatantly horrible he was in da:o and da:2 is baffling but i guess they had to appeal to the part of their audience who watch those "mafia boyfriend" videos on tiktok or whatever

He's creepy in origins, though still 100% willing to kill the female mage pc he's crushing on, as well as all the other mages trapped in the circle with him. He's the second-in-command in an even worse circle in 2, listening to and defending the increasingly obviously insane meredith until literally the end. He's one of the people still pushing for the circle system by inquisition, and yes he's going through withdrawals and working through the traumas of previous games. And to be brutally honest his was the first romance i took and while i don't remember much from it, its not worth all the girls going absolutely nuts over knockoff terrible alistair.

He's basically a cop who thinks being born a certain way can revoke personhood and by Inquisition still thinks mages are monsters to be controlled, not people. He gets a fairy tale cutesy romance that focuses on his personal struggles with addiction while showing absolutely no regard to the atrocities he committed and still thinks were justified. He can be romanced BY A MAGE and his actions and beliefs are just glossed over. He believes mages are 'not people like you (Hawke) and me', but if the Warden was a female mage he canonically had a crush on her and would deliberately hang around her despite the fact that he was her *jailer*. If that Warden romanced Leliana, there is war table dialogue in which he pesters Leliana for news of his 'former' crush despite her repeated statement that she doesn't want to talk to him about her. All this shitty behavior and lack of introspection gets swept under the rug by the game, not even giving the PC the chance to really challenge his beliefs. Like damn even Fenris could apologize when he lashed out due to past trauma with mages, and if anyone has a reason to hate mages it's Fenris. If you want an ex Templar hottie Alistair is RIGHT THERE. Tbh I know Cullen is a popular romance and I'm not here to tell anyone what they can or can't do or like in a video game, I'm just saying I think he is deeply undateable

Spends the first two games as an antagonist, fervently devoted to the cause of subjugating mages, then a bunch of "character development" happens off screen and the games treat him like he's completely reformed. However he's actions make it clear he still sees mages as dangerous and lesser. Not to mention if you romance him with an elf he doesn't pay your culture more than lip service respect like most of the devout characters 

He was a total villain in the first two games who was violently prejudiced against mages and uses one single bad experience as an excuse for it (a bad experience that is pretty much exactly what he in his job subjected graduating apprentices to, mind you, but this is never brought up). Now he says he's changed, but his words and actions say otherwise. He still distrusts mages, sympathises with the rebel Templars trying to kill them, and he never owns up to the terrible stuff he did and helped others do in the past two games. He totally knew what Meredith was doing and says he doesn't, and he still tries to defend her intentions. And you have no option to call him out on it. If you romance him as a mage, he angsts about how he might have seen you as subhuman in the past but NOW you're one of the good ones, and when you ask him if he'll kill you if you get possessed, he dodges the question. And the PC is written as being almost sad that she's a mage? Like 'can you love me despite what I am??' Also if Leliana romanced a female mage PC in the first game who is still alive, he asks her creepy questions about their relationship. Fitting considering his original purpose was to be creepy to the female mage Warden. 

I hate him and want to cause chaos. Plus his VA is an asshole.

cop

[captainsvscaptains]

If you're new here, it might be the first time you hear me talk about anti-propaganda. Others... well, I can be quite stubborn. Some might considering my investment in this fight ridiculous. Well, it's your right, block the "not polls" tag if you must, but I think this particular piece everyone should read

You can not always tell, because bias may have made you assume a brown character is merely tanned, or there wasn't official art, but some (I know the proportion is low but people can only submit characters that exist, and popular media's providers still find ways to make their casts whiter than snow / are not willing to promote products with BIPOC main protag(s), which mostly leave us all with indie creators to rely on) characters in the polls are Black or Brown.

Reading "Kill him with violence" about a brown guy, be it a fictional person from an imaginary world, feels very, very wrong, especially when they're against a white character. Possibly the person saying that didn't realize how it'd sound to strangers / didn't notice the character wasn't white (the alternative is quite concerning).

This is also why I've been insisting about not using propaganda. You wouldn't believe how many times someone knows nothing about a media they criticize.

Many times, you don't know the history and ethnicity of a character, or even what kind of media they're from, when you vote against them. Or their gender, for instance. So many people called Jihye a guy when two seconds in the comments' section would have helped you determine her gender (when they just didn't go straight for racism and decided that she must be an anime character. I've seen people literally call her a generic anime boy). Just use "they/them" when you're not certain of a character's pronoun.

Racism isn't always the big, obvious thing often portrayed in media. Yes some people will use the n word and make fake, hurtful and offending comparisons. But racism is much more insidious than that most of the times and here this is what it is about : microaggressions

As a white person -which is also my case- , you will certainly commit some, even if you'll do your best to fix it when you've given it some thought. Apology when you have to and learn to do better. Racism is not always intentional, and you should be aware of that. Just thinking "I'm not racist" doesn't make you not racist. That'd be wishful thinking. European and US cultures are full of racist things most white people wouldn't be naturally aware of since we don't suffer from it. Racism appears in our structural systems and we have to address that.

Anyway, I'm running out of time but take a moment to think about why someone (possibly but not necessarily a teen) would feel the need to threatens a non white character of violent death (even if we can agree characters don't get hurt and hopefully that person would never have acted this way irl), as if death wasn't enough

Don't threaten characters. Or people. It's really not necessary and could easily be interpreted as systemic racism in some cases.

Also remember than China and Japan are not the sole Asian countries and that many art forms exist in such a vast and populated continent

[muxas-world]

please tell me someone corrected that man under his tweet show some respect to CELIN!!!! matt oxley when I fucking get you 🔪🔪

Yup the cele girlys (me include) let he know now he has arease his antcele twest

[retired-for-now]

Sending some anti-propaganda, do not vote for ink he would want the aus to beat him hes a fanboy hes meant to be on the sidelines not part of the battle, if ur an ink fan dont vote for him, let him watch his blorbos fight

Hes just like me fr fr

[best-romanov-monarch]

*puts on academic glasses and switches setting to the normal, non-roleplay blog*

Basically, there was this whole dispute after Maria Theresa inherited the Habsburg lands (because they ran out of men) around whether she should really be the heir, which caused a war like immediately after she took the throne - and Frederick II. of Prussia (also known as "the Great") used it as an opportunity to steal Silesia (now region in Poland and Czech Republic). Maria Theresa won the throne, but she didn't manage to take the Silesia back, which was a sore spot for her (Silesia had a big industrial capacity or something to that effect, I don't remember). She couldn't start a rematch right away, so she waited, instituting a programme of reforms to strenghten Austria. In the meantime, the alliance of thronestealers, which included Prussia, Russia and France, fell apart. So Maria Theresa jumped at the opportunity and, as Prussia turned to the previous Austrian ally Great Britain, joined forced with empress Elizabeth of Russia (who is in the running against Catherine the Great here btw, so if you want to appreciate her contributions, you know where to go) and madame de Pompadour, influential mistress and later best friend of Louis XV. of France, to craft an alliance between Austria and its previous enemies Russia and France. The resulting war was long and bloody, but it looked like Austria and its allies might prevail, and the situation looked very bleak for Frederick... Untill Elizabeth died and her successor Peter III., the Prussian fanboy that he was, just. Ditched the alliance altogether. The whole thing ended in a draw, borders didn't change at all, and everyone in Russia and outside of it was so pissed at Peter that he was deposed by his own wife.

@best-hohenzollern-ruler it's us, Liebling.

[barbiebattle]

Elina can't win, she's a fairy, the bestest fairy, don't do this to her, I know this is just a poll, and it's for fun, but I think I'll be actually sad for her if she wins

Hey, I've voted against her every round. I can't help what you guys do

[betweenlands]

o7 Everdusk was truly an incredible build and a worthy opponent. Thank you for supporting Pandora’s Vault now, let’s win this for huge rectangular builds!

borx go brrrrr

[mcyt-builds-contest]

Propaganda AGAINST the Citadel here!

Um, ACTUALLY, the Frost Citadel is Decked Out 2, not Decked Out. However, the Frost Citadel has been competing under the mantle of Decked Out. This is unfair to the competition, and as such, the Frost Citadel should be disqualified.

This is definitely very serious propaganda.

WHAAAAAAA

The frost citadel is just two kids in a trenchcoat?

that's so evil, you should definitly vote for scarland instead then!

[leaderscalling]

Again and again and again and again.. #AntiPropaganda lol

Update over IDINScriminate. Compliment aan Tumblr!

Hallo mensen,

Hier een kort vervolg op IDIN en de discriminerende werking daarvan. Het is een enorme stroom aan informatie aan het worden, kastje, muur, kastje, muur, het lijkt wel Kafka.

Straks wat leuke screenshots :>>... Maar vandaag gebeurde er iets bijzonders. ... Ik kreeg ik mail van Tumblr! Over een "copyright infringement". Zoiets is mij nog niet eerder gebeurd..

In de mail van Tumblr staat info over de aangever. Klaarblijkelijk vindt een bobo bij IDIN mijn blogje interessant genoeg om bij een bureau in de Verenigde Staten aangifte te doen? Mooi, dan heb ik al wat bereikt.

Daarna kreeg ik een mail van... IDIN. Met als strekking "zoek zelf maar uit welke bank je wel een IDIN verstrekt op een Leefgeldrekening.

Dat ga ik niet doen. Volgens mij is het onmogelijk om een IDIN met een leefgeldrekening te krijgen, want die staat op de naam vd Curator.

Wat IDIN als identificatiemethode volkomen DISKWALIFICEERT, meer daarover later.

Screenshots mail Tumblr:

SCREENSHOTS VOLLEDIGE CORRESPONDENTIE IDIN...

Complimenten voor het team v @tumblr. Goed gereageerd, het is een aanklacht, geen copyright infingement.

Dank daarvoor!

[toxicsludgeyaoi]

Love Edeleth but it has nothing to do in this tournament, Fire Emblem Three Houses has much better contender for toxic yuri like Rhea x Edelgard

I haven't played Fire Emblem and the submitter didn't submit any propaganda (just sent a simple "no") so I figured it'd be best to leave it to the public

I don't want to disqualify it when I know nothing about the ship, so I'll just see how preliminaries go? Idk lol

[namedafterflowerstournament]

Botanic Tournament : Main Bracket !

Final

Toph means lotus

No antipropaganda on my polls please

(Lotus and roses)

[captainsvscaptains]

Battle of the Captains

Grand Finale

No antipropaganda on my polls please - talk about the character you want to defend, not their adversary

[kingarthurtournament]

True enough, he qualifies but would he want the job?

Round 4 Side A Poll 1

Sonic

"Sonic gets sucked into Camelot and wields the talking sword Caliburn. He kills King Arthur, who is revealed to be a fake created by Merlin. In the final battle, Caliburn transforms into Excalibur; afterward, Caliburn explains that the fact that Sonic is his wielder means Sonic is the true King Arthur."

"As a known supporter of trans rights, openly ACAB and constantly making people aware of bisexuality, I think Sonic would be exactly the king that England needs right now"

Larry the cat

"He has been the shining light in UK politics for the last 10 years. I say that is a sign that he is, indeed, the once and future king returned to England in its time of need."

"He has been at downing street longer than every 2022 Prime Minister and the current King put together so why not?"

[characterswithcolorsnamesfight]

Same rules as usual with me :

- Discrimination in any form is a big no and gets you blocked. Same from threats of death/suicide

- Don't spoil anyone's fun. NO ANTIPROPAGANDA, please ! Try making propaganda for your faves instead and let other characters be. Don't threaten to harm/kill other characters, please. Just forget about them

- If you're not happy with someone's propaganda, just submit yours.

This isn't a competition to know who can be the nastiest to others.

Submissions are now closed

Polls

- You don't have to pick the character who'd win a fight. Just pick your favorite

For tags to filter/follow :

I tag the propaganda blocks with the original submitted propaganda ''general prelim"

I tag the polls with "tournament polls"

Most of the tournament related stuff is at "colornames battle", including polls

I tag the asks I answer with "asks and answers"

I tag other polls/tournaments with "not polls" and "other tournaments"

"Not polls" is the tag i usually use for organizational stuff you may not be interested with

Only absolute ties are accepted as ties. A tie means you get a three way poll next round

I used "les petites annonces" (the classifieds) for anything of interest not directly related to tournament running calling for public attention

I reblog all the polls once about a day before they end with the tag "one day left"