#character brackets

[sp-the-list-tournament]

Welcome to Round 2 of Tumblr’s Cutest Boy Tournament 2024!

Thank you to all who have participated thus far in the tournament. We’ve had some great propaganda and well-meant feuds over these characters, so I am pleased to see a round 2 where a community of dedicated voters has been cultivated, with good energy and no current issues or rule-breaking.

The same rules as before still apply, and I’ve not got a doubt that you all will adhere to them as wonderfully as you have in the previous round!

Dates for round 2 are under the read more.

Dates (DD/MM/YY):

26/10/24:

Craig Tucker vs. Stan Marsh (8:00 AM BST)

Tolkien Black vs. Scott Tenorman (4:00 PM BST)

27/10/24 (BST ends, GMT begins):

Kyle Broflovski vs. David Rodriguez (8:00 AM GMT)

Nathan vs. Kenny McCormick (4:00 PM GMT)

28/10/24:

Jimmy Valmer vs. Christophe DeLorne (8:00 AM GMT)

Tweek Tweak vs. Butters Stotch (4:00 PM GMT)

29/10/24:

Clyde Donovan vs. Pete Thelman (8:00 AM GMT)

Timmy Burch vs. Scott Malkinson (4:00 PM GMT)

Final polls may not be finished by the time round 3 is announced, and therefore results seen at the time of the post being made will be used. This may cause inaccuracies, but that comes with the deadline for the tournament being the 14th of November, the original episode’s 17th anniversary. Apologies for that again.

[teenwolf-polls]

Next series of polls will be a bracket set for favorite characters. Since the season characters polls were...uh...pretty predictable (Stiles won every. single. poll except 6b), hopefully this will give more variety for those participating!

I figured I'd share this before hand, so that if there's any blaring issues beforehand can be brought up.

If a character you love if not included, there was only had so much room for this first round, and we're hoping to have themed brackets in the future.

[awritersbro]

people who vote on tumblr character bracket polls will do everything except take half a second to see what the character bracket is about

[killerrobot-killingmatch]

20 questions poll ask game!!!. Feel free to rb on your poll blog! (Send an ask to the poll you rbd from!)

I tried to make as many as possible something people can ask before the poll starts if anyone else wants to use this.

Who was/is submitted the most?

Who was/is submitted the least?

Who surprise(s)d you?

Who did you find yourself supporting that you did AND didnt expect?

Who was/is the funniest submission to you?

Who was/is the most interesting submission to you?

What was/is the hardest part of running your poll?

What was/is the easiest part of running your poll?

What did you look forwards to the most or are you looking forwards to the most?

What made/makes you the most nervous?

What was the biggest surprise of running this poll?

When you started off, did you expect the amount of interaction you got?

When did you think the poll was going to end?/When do you think it'll end? (If answering post poll start: Where you right?)

How did you feel about the overall experience of running the poll?

How did you go about sorting the bracket(s)?/Do you know how you'll go about sorting the brackets? If so, can we know?

How satisfied do you feel after the voting of your first sort?

How would you do things differently with the knowledge you have now, if you could start this all over?

Do you plan to do more Brackets? If so, do you know what kinds?

Did/is your poll find(ing) the folks you hoped it would?

Was there/Has the been a point you considered dropping the poll?

[radioactivelight]

i like how many tumblr polls are statistics demonstrations

[ultimate-character-design]

The Ultimate Character Design Tournament

Please remember to vote for characters solely based on their design, rather than which character you are more familiar with or like more!

The winner of this tournament will be crowned the first Ultimate Character Design of All Time

Zagreus | Hades

Bunger | Bugsnax

[blushroom20]

Seeing people do character brackets on Tumblr polls kinda makes me want to do one with my favorite niche/unknown/unpopular characters

I don’t have enough of a following for that to be worth it though

[wlw-webcomic-bracket]

Zhusen introduction

Dainix introduction

Final bracket

[successionsmashorpass]

Round 5: FINAL

blog info/background

[fruitsofhell]

HE'S LOSING, DEPLOY THE GALACTA KNIGHT FANCAM

Round Three Section D

[ultimate-artificial]

FINAL ROUND

Propaganda from submitters below the cut; I will reblog any additions!

GlaDOS (Portal) -murderous ai -please don't ask me about the veracity of the cake -GLaDOS isn't just a computer she is the entirety of Aperture, she was created to contain the mind of a separate lady but seems to have her own personality, and her creators hate her and she killed them. I love her. I will forgive all her crimes. Yeah she's a bully but she's also severely hurt she can kill all she wants. (reblog link)

Data (Star Trek) -Data is a sentient synthetic life form designed in the likeness of Doctor Noonien Soong, his creator. In his growth as an individual, Data was later augmented with an emotion chip to help him better understand human behavior and increase his own humanity. -reblog link for images (1) -reblog link for images (2)

[bloobydabloob]

Holy shit I love your Dirk interpretations, it's so true and I could talk about this shit forever. I feel like another part of his character that people seem to forget (along with Roxy for some reason) is that he's from the future in solitude in an apocalyptic wasteland. I just see that part of his character always removed which is disappointing because I feel like that's a pretty big part, especially regarding his themes around technology, his brother's theme of Time, his own isolation, and how he plays in the vastness of the universe and spacetime.

Art I drew related to the subject because I like to respond to asks with art.

But absolutely. I certainly understand where the lack of discussion over his isolation + upbringing comes from, considering a majority of the fanbase that I have seen builds their ideas based on their own version of postcanon. I’m not entirely sure how that would be fixed, but certainly even in the somewhat recent past I would see a lot more content regarding his upbringing both literally and symbolically. I don’t have much to add regarding the things you’ve mentioned, because they just are what they are. Dirk being confined to a singular room left to him by a father figure he never met, in a future where the only other person left on the planet is someone he cannot pursue a relationship of because of himself, with purely 3 robots to keep him companion, one being an exact replica of his own brain who is *also* trapped inside a pair of glasses, is about as literal as it gets to me.

The contrast to me involving the flooded, organic world in comparison to the little speckle of Dirk’s apartment packed with the dude and his technics is not only a representation of his isolation and entrapment within himself, but also of his lack of control. I think his obsession with & themes of control are a direct product in the case of Dirk specifically *of* this kind of upbringing. His themes of technology are also related to his themes around control. So much of his character is actually revolved around this to me like so much. Dirk is so deeply disconnected from humanity in every way and so much of his character + symbolism is based around that.

It doesn’t even have to be about the symbolism or anything though. It’s just pretty *interesting* in the literal sense that he lives in the middle of the ocean in the future. There’s not only a lot to theorise on to do with his young life there, but on how it might affect him in the way he acts for the rest of his life. The latter part is probably what I see mentioned the most by people talking about Dirk regarding this, I’m surprised I don’t see more discussion on the former too though. I really ought to actually talk more about Homestuck stuff on here. I will do it myself.

Roxy & Dirk’s relationship is largely ignored though because there is a narrative a certain demographic spreads that Dirk resented and blamed Roxy for her interest in him, and thus too many people believe that their relationship was or would continue to be an abusive one. Realistically, I believe it’s important to acknowledge that the way Roxy treated Dirk regarding his homosexuality wasn’t right while still acknowledging the obvious amount of respect and admiration Dirk had for Roxy. I mean we have a huge piece of dialogue from their post trickster mode conversations on the quest beds from Dirk purely stating how he feels about Roxy that people completely ignore somehow. I think this usually happens to characters that are women though. I know everyone says it, but it is true. Jane gets the exact same treatment of boiling her down to solely her negative aspects. The things I see completely mischaracterising both of them are horrific.

I mean how much more explicit can it get that their relationship is obviously very important to Dirk? But I digress. I think the best or I should say “most interesting” interpretations of their relationship usually come from DirkRoxy shippers actually.

I would be interested to hear about Dirk’s relation to his brother’s theme of time though. I don’t have any thoughts on this and I don’t recall ever hearing anyone talk about it before. If you or anyone else would be willing to enlighten me I’d be thrilled.

[fictionallawyersmackdown]

Final Poll. May the jury decide.

[ultimategenshintournament]

We have a winner!

In a surprise victory, Beiguang has swept ahead and defeated fan favorite Kavetham! Congrats to everyone who voted for the Lesbians!

[best-star-trek-character]

Mega Bracket Quarter-Finals

[ultimate-character-design]

The 2nd Character Design Tournament

Please remember to vote for characters solely based on their design, rather than which character you are more familiar with or like more!

Maia Arson Crimew (Nyancrimew) | Internet Personality

“I'm submitting specifically their persona (technically their profile picture) because it's adorable and iconic. i love associating cats with crimes”

Striker | Helluva Boss