#class round 1

[plant-taxonomy-showdown]

Class Round 1: Eudicots vs Amborellales

75% of all flowering plant species vs 1 flowering plant species

Eudicots (“true dicots”): This is a ginormous class, containing almost all leafy trees, quite a lot of plants that humans get food from (including potatoes and all of the legumes), and the plants we get tea, coffee, and chocolate from. It also contains carnivorous plants, parasitic plants, and some very poisonous plants, as well as tobacco and cannabis.

Amborellales: like Ginkgophyta in the phylum round, this taxon contains only one species, Amborella trichopoda. It was the earliest to diverge from all other flowering plants, and remains on only one island in the Pacific Ocean. It has some characteristics that are different from other flowering plants, such as xylem with no vessel elements. It has whitish flowers and small red fruit.

[rpftourney]

Best RPF Ship - Round 1 Match 32

[gay-disabled-characters-showdown]

LGBTQ+ Disabled Characters Showdown Revival Round 1 Poll 7

The top two characters will continue onwards in the Revival Round. Check out the other polls in this round here.

[evignonita]

i want to do a cassandra goth "cosplay" with tradgoth makeup yuhmmkhjh i also wanted to do it with pascal but nah

[decaydance-smackdown]

Round 1b: Match 8

[youngersiblingstournament]

Round 1 Bracket 12

[diltonsstrangescience]

DANG. Absolutely cold-blooded.

[ql-of-all-time-bracket]

QL of All Time - Round 1: To Sir, With Love (2022) vs Love Class (2022-2023)

[yuripoll]

S3 ROUND 1

NOTE: […] Green Tea Bitch contains suggestive scenes and references to BDSM, as well as blackmail, homophobia, and one scene referencing attempted CSA. Soulmate has a few suggestive scenes and depicts chronic illness & hospitalisation, as well as neglect, homophobia, and drowning as visual metaphor.

[edwinisms]

see I can’t accept charles’ comic background and socioeconomic status as canon for the show because if I did that would mean the whole group would be a bunch of rich kids and that’s a horrifying concept

[wuxian-vs-wangji]

Yeah... I remember seeing the architectural design majors at my uni having this breakdown each semester...

[plant-taxonomy-showdown]

Class Round 1: Nymphaeales vs Ceratophyllales

Water Lilies vs Aquarium Plants

Nymphaeales: A basal clade of Magnoliophyta that contains the water lily family, and other aquatic plants with prominent flowers. Water lilies with larger flowers and more complex parts are pollinated by beetles -- they were initially believed to be plants that evolved earlier, but while Nymphaeales as a whole did diverge early, the ones with more flower parts did not diverge earlier than the ones with fewer flower parts. Water lilies were used as an indicator of water cleanliness in the Maya civilization, were a symbol of the Maya elite, and were likely used in a religious context to induce altered states of consciousness.

Ceratophyllales: Core Magnoliophytes that are very closely related to the eudicots. These aquatic plants are found all over the world, and are known as coontails or hornworts (though they are not related to the non-vascular hornworts from the phylum battle.) Ceratophyllum demersum is sold as an aquarium plant, and is considered invasive in Tasmania and New Zealand, where it has been known to interfere with hydroelectric power plants.

[inflammatory]

. The fucking. Terroar

[gay-disabled-characters-showdown]

LGBTQ+ Disabled Characters Showdown Round 1, Wave 1, Poll 4

A character being totally canon LGBTQ+ and disabled was not required to be in this competition. Please check qualifications and propaganda before asking why a character is included.

Check out the other polls in this wave here.

Princess Sapphia of Mytilene-High Class Homos

Qualifications:

She is canonically lesbian and an amputee. The basis of the story is that her and her gay friend August of Phthia are fake marrying to secretly date other people (him with one of his knights and her with one of his castle's maids). She had a relationship with Marla through half of the first season, and now she's starting a relationship with Odette. In the original comic (before becoming a WebToon original), the panels never showed most characters legs so some comments did jokes about her not having legs, so in one of the last episodes before "rebooting" it to WebToon, the author momozerii decided to make this canon by showing her changing her prosthetic leg. The "reboot" shows it from the first episode (literally kicking a door open) and had a flashback scene of her using crutches and a bandage on her amputation. I don't remember if that scene showed why she lost her leg.

Propaganda:

She's so funny and cute, and I love how momozerii added her prosthetic from the start in the WebToon original version. She's really compassionate and has really good character development through the first season. There's one scene between her and Odette at the start of the story where Sapphia said some really elitist shit to her, and after apologizing she learns what Odette had to pass through as someone who didn't have the wealth and status that Sapphia has as a princess, and she actually changes, defending Odette when her old suitor, Nicolosi, pulls the same elitist shit on her.

Anything Else?:

I recommend a lot this WebToon, it has such a good story, the art is beautiful and isn't too heavy on details like other WebToon originals, the characters are amazing and complex, and it's on hiatus right now (don't worry the season finale is not a big cliffhanger, just a small hook for the second season).

Submitted by @octonine

Schnn T’gai Spock-Star Trek

Qualifications:

He is canonically dyslexic, and commonly interpreted as autistic. I do not think I have to tell you why I think he qualifies as LGBTQ+.

Propaganda:

He started it all! Spirk was the birth of slash fiction and fandom itself. Autistic, dyslexic, gay-- what can't he do?

Anything else?:

THIS APPLIES ONLY TO THE ORIGINAL SERIES VERSION OF SPOCK. NOT THE SPOCK FROM THE JJ ABRAMS MOVIES OR THE NEW ITERATION OF SPOCK FROM STRANGE NEW WORLDS. Discovery Spock does count as TOS Spock in my mind, though. AOS & SNW Spock are some of the least gay characters I have ever seen, and it is quite sad.

Submitted by @convenient-plot-device

[shoujo-josei-anime-poll]

Favorite Shoujo / Josei Anime (Round 1)

[kitaava]

trigger warning. do not read if you dont want to read something triggering.