#final showdown

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FINAL SHOWDOWN

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Live laugh ted thompson!!!

[mindibindi]

Let me tell you for why. This pairing never won. I know virtually nothing about the other pairing in this race but I know this: Mulder and Scully ALWAYS and ONLY EVER got within a hair's breadth of what they searched for, longed for and deeply deserved. Whether it was the truth about aliens and the paranormal, justice or accountability for the greater powers that controlled their lives, killed their families and impeded their quest, or just the simple and satisfying expression of their desire and devotion, Mulder and Scully only ever got THIS CLOSE. They never reached the truth. They never received true justice. And their love never achieved full and open consummation. They were and remain perpetual losers clinging to each other as they battle powerful and established titans. Here, they are pitted against a worthy adversary. It is right that these two pairings be in the finals together. And even in defeat, there would be something both consistent and poetic about Mulder and Scully once again coming this close to glorious closure and validation only to lose out. There would be irony in them losing to a human/alien pairing. And there is a now signature pathos in them being, to some, the scrappy underdog without a hope in hell and, to others, a strange and unknown quantity. Ultimately, MSR shippers know that, should these two face defeat, should validation elude them yet again, Mulder and Scully will still, as always, have each other, even if it is in some sweetly screwed up form. If you believe in truth, justice and love, AND you believe Mulder and Scully deserve to get theirs then VOTE here.

[danielladigitalbunny]

Played through Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown's Arcade mode in Yakuza 6.

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The Pure RNG Hetalia Showdown - Final Showdown

Pick a character, any character! You can pick your favourite, a contender, a darkhorse, an underdog, or just pick the most chaotic choice possible!

How did we get here? See the results of the other polls here!

What are the rules for these showdowns? See the FAQ post here!

Want to vote in future RNG tournaments? Follow my new sideblog @hetalia-rng-showdown and keep an eye out this month for updates!

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[mamuttuth]

He is so tired. He is so exhausted. Physically and emotionally. And panicking vestiges not helping like at all. Like imagine it, you’re trying to think what to do and the voices in your head shouting different choices. Idk how he still sane with so many people in his head. And he’s overthinking everything, EVERYTHING, and he don’t have time to do this right now.

He never in his short life run away from trouble and danger. And what 6th suggests? Run and hide. Without 4th Dancer Sense he’s not so good at dodging. His not like Katsuki who’s reflexes on high level like some wild predator. Yes they training and fighting together but Izuku only repeated moves that he saw from someone (in my opinion and observation). He parodied All Might punch’s, repeated Katsukis movements, kicking like Ida taught him. Use black whip like Asui and Sero. Yes, he combines his quirks now and that’s great! Honestly. But

I think Izuku is struggling now. He still hasn't figured out how to save everyone including Tomura/Tenko.

I just hope, he will not come to the conclusion of sacrificing himself for everyone else.

Like 6th suggested once in the Lady Nagant fight that Izuku relied on his quirks too much. I think he still thought of himself like not worthy like successor. It’s spiraling somewhere on background of his mind and he thinks that he failed again.

And I do believe that somehow Kurogiri/Shirakumo will play a role in convincing Tomura that destroying everything not an option. Maybe we will see Aizawa with his eraser quirk save the day again.

I’m not complaining, never, I’m not an expert, ever. It’s just some random thoughts about last chapter.

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Tomorrow (at 5 pm EST), the Final Showdown!

The Sunset Tree VS Tallahassee!

May the best (subjective) album win!

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@lifeofacityboy @dead-professor My Study. Now. You're fine, but I need your aid.

[loudmouthdreamwalker]

*gargling noise* -IF.

GIF.

OKAY TUMBLR. IT'S TIME TO SETTLE THIS ONCE AND FOR ALL.

Reblog this if you pronounce “.gif” as “GIF.”

NOT JIF,

GIF.

And here is the link for the opposite.

WE SHALL SEE WHICH ONE PREVAILS.

[almostlookedhuman]

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The Pure RNG Hetalia Showdown - Final Showdown Tiebreaker

I can't believe you're all making me create this poll while on vacation in the Norwegian fjords, on the tiny screen of the mobile Tumblr app no less, but here we are.

The Pure RNG Showdown's Final Showdown resulted in a tie, so we need a sudden death tiebreaker. Whoever wins this poll is the inaugural Pure RNG Champion!

This poll is only 24 hours long instead of the usual week! Do not dawdle, vote as soon as you see it, and spread the word so that your followers can vote too!

Pick a character, any character. It can be a favourite, a contender, a dark horse, an underdog or just pick the most chaotic choice possible!

How did we get here? See the tournament summary post here!

What are the rules? Read the FAQ here!

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[rourhksapocolypse]

An ugly scowl on my face, I struggle to my feet. I look with sightless, shrapnel-destroyed eyes at the woman - the Inquisitor - that had once been a friend and fellow member of the Company. Behind me, civilians (Imperial, Rebel, Company, it truly made no difference) cowered, but I could feel their souls, their fear, their tiny glimmers of hopes and dreams for the future. 'I made this,' I think to myself in that moment. 'I dimmed those hopes. And I've rekindled them, just a little, simply by being here.'

But that was - while of galactic importance - irrelevant.

The sneering outlines of the woman I'd dubbed Jason, that Vader and The Emperor had dubbed Thirteenth Sister, smiled viciously. "Do you really think you can stand up to me? You don't even have a lightsaber."

'Bitch, we didn't even have lightsabers during the Clone Wars, yet we still held largely even with the Order.' I gave a rusty, pained laugh. "All that matters is getting these people out of this hellhole." I grin nastily, given the sentience of this semi-biological cave was so Darkside, so hungry for pain and souls, it might as well be even as I made my point. "Even you."

I told the Dagger's engines to start us moving, and Jason took that as an invitation to Force Dash up to me. If she'd been hoping to strike me down quick, she was in for dissappointment.

Pouring energy around my hands, I took the atmospheric, anti-demon armors I'd been taught long ago all the way up to near Ray-Shield levels around my hands and parried, pushing her back blow by blow. Wax On like in Karate Kid to push her Saber to her left, allowing a speedy strike to her sternum, Wax Off to push it to my left and a strike to her stomach. Ah, she'd grown used to the armor, created by the Company or by the Empire, and her own speed being far superior as she delved into the Dark Side. She'd never known the advanced lessons or Jedi lessons I'd experienced to created for myself, never known what it was to be truly challenged it seems.

She paused for a moment, and I didn't chase, simply resetting my stance and prepared for the likely sub-par insults. Instead, she combined Imperial Arrogance with sheer confusion and curiosity.

"Why do you even fight? You were Imperial not even three days ago, fighting by my side only a month ago, and yet you stand, naked and defenseless but for your 'force' and merely delaying me, allowing my troops to come ever closer to them."

It startled another rusty laugh. "Three days ago? You must not've heard. I fought The Emperor and won! Though he still breathes, I fought him then as I do now: Only skill and the Force, in order to save a life." Then I pressed on, ignoring her broadcasted shock. "And I never forgot what was important! I joined the military to keep his eyes away from the Company - from the better part of fifteen thousand potential Jedi, potential Inquisitors! To keep them from the brunt of the war when they didn't even know it was coming! You joined them like some demented version of Anakin Skywalker hunger for power and all!" I snarled then, animalistic. "You wanted power, control, the ability to do whatever you wanted. And they gave it to you at the cost of loyalty and sanity. I gave them just another cog in the machine and a ticking time bomb that learned where best to explode - because I knew from the beginning, from the very moment I was born, that Sidious, Emperor Palpatine, would encourage cruelty and senseless destruction and the creation of a Sith Empire, the likes of which you represent in your own final form. And I knew we couldn't stop him from succeeding."

She dashed, trying to cover her confusion with rage and an assault and I blasted her away from the kiddies that didn't understand, yet. As she rolled, trying to use her meager combat training to regain her footing, I rolled on.

"Plan after plan came to me. Destroy Palpatine. Assassinate his character. Seek out and destroy Plaguis. Tell the Kaminoans the truth about the chips and their scientifically upsetting flimsy story of being aggression inhibitors and the truth of Order 66. Spread the truth about Sidious. Assassinate leading members of the CIS. Hide. Become a mechanic, become a rebel, form and lead the Rebellion to Restore the Republic, Kidnap Anakin, kidnap the Twins and train them to be War Jedi. Plan after plan, I dreamed of the consequences.

"I dreamed of a galaxy burnt to a crisp. Of the First Order and Last Order appearing decades early. Of becoming exactly like you: A replacement for Vader.

"And then, one night, I came up with a terrible plan I discarded pretty much immediately. Join the Empire.

"Only, it doesn't fail."

There's shock and horror all around me. Well, tough. They're about to see what I lived through, and why I did it. Assuming they haven't worked it out yet, anyway.

"I hide us all, even from myself. As little as possible is remarkable to the outside world, we're just damn good at whatever trade we ply. We participate in the Clone Wars, but draw no attention to ourselves if possible. Plans to assassinate Jedi fall apart, certain battles change because we are here, there, and in a rare moment everywhere. We have the technology and skills because the very ship we lived on saw what I knew and started training people, advising theft and weapon-making and war-training and spycraft of all sorts, and by the time the war ends, we're rather adept at it. And then, we come to a pivot point. We could've become Great, Notable.

"instead I crash the ship, refinements to that one plan that doesn't fail - the first and only that never failed, since I stopped looking after that - leading to us hiding when we did not understand our enemy, preventing overconfidence even as our cultural being was shattered as I ruin our home and disappear. I knew what would happen - the rumors, the hatred, the grief - and i did it anyway, because that was better than giving the Emperor enough Force-Sensitive troops to conquer the known galaxy in half the time, quarter of the time, it took him without us. And then I join the enemy, in accordance with the Plan, never revealing that I'd know the Empire was going to be a thing, something unpreventable, since I was five years old. I would heap hatred and scorn on myself from half the galaxy, in order to prevent every planet from snowing ash instead of a few dozen.

"I never revealed to anyone, barring three people, what my true alliegances were until I fought Sidious. I acted the part of the Imperial Officer until my bones cracked and my fingers bled, my only surprise at the mass murders that they took so long to begin. I led with dignity and honor even when it risked my life and sanity, because there was no other acceptable way to lead. I bleed, and likely die today, to deny Sidious everything."

"And what do you get from it?" Jason shouted as she finally reached her feet. "Praise? Adulation?"

"Scorn and the fact my family is safe, alive, and sane!" I shout back, body still ready to block any blow - a belief shown to be fact and she jumped towards me like she's suddenly Link from the Legend of Zelda, blade held high to crash down upon me as she landed, and I pull off a stupid anime move: The Blade Catch.

Using the Force can be a trying thing. Using the Force to hold in place a wispy blade of angry air I can't even see is worse.

But between my hands is an expression of how little power she truly has over me, how little understanding of the Force she truly has. Her blade doesn't move past my slightly spread hands, barely two centimeters away from face or either hand. Neither does her body, given how completely she'd committed to the move.

Then I redirect the energy from containing the blade to blasting her back, and I pull from seeming nothingness the overly shining, overly expensive hilt that once belonged to Sidious, thumbing the controls by instinct alone to show what I knew to be a red blade. I almost didn't care about Jason, though I did appreciate her shock with mild amusement.

"Don't have eyes to see? I've got the Force. Don't have a blade? The Company teaches neat tricks. A spell on the galaxy to push a perfectly natural belief that the Sith were extinct? I already knew the truth. And you? Destruction and death, those are easy. All that matters now, is keeping you, a barely-capable angry stick-swinger, away from these children that never knew the horrors they could've lived through."

I Lift my left hand, spread the fingers, and concentrate everything I have on one word and what it meant for the cave walls that wanted to crush us.

"SUFFER!!"

If you're reading this...

go write three sentences on your current writing project.

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Propaganda

Eartha Kitt (Anna Lucasta, St. Louis Blues)—My friend and I have a saying: NOBODY is Eartha Kitt. A thousand have tried, and they've all come up empty and will continue to do so. Everyone knows her for something: from "Santa Baby" to Yzma in Emperor's New Groove to Catwoman to making Lady Bird Johnson cry for the Vietnam War. She was a master of comedy and sex, an extremely vocal activist, and she aged like fine wine... I honestly don't know what I can say about her that hasn't already been said, so I'll stick to linking all my propaganda. Like what else do you want from me. She was iconic at everything she ever did. Literally name another. How can anyone even think of her and not want to absolutely drown?

Hedy Lamarr (Samson and Delilah, Ziegfeld Girl)—Look. I'm sure someone has already submitted Hedy Lamarr because she was spectacularly beautiful, and a very strong lady too: she fled both an abusive marriage AND nazi persecution at a very young age and rebuilt a life for herself pursuing her love for acting all on her own!! Her career as an actress was stellar; while she began acting outside of Hollywood (her very first movie, Ecstasy, won a prize at the Venice Film Festival), she conquered American hearts very quickly with her first movie in the US, Algiers, and then just kept getting better and better. If all this isn't enough, she was also an inventor: her invention of the frequency-hopping spread spectrum radio transmission technique forms the base of bluetooth and has a lot of applications in all kinds of communication technologies. I think that deserves a prize, don't you?

This is the final poll of the Hot & Vintage Movie Women Tournament. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

THIS POLL LASTS FOR 24 HOURS.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut.]

Eartha Kitt:

"A hot vintage woman who was not just known for her voice, beauty, poise, and presence, but also her unapologetic ways of speaking about how she was mistreated in the show business as a girl who grew up on cotton fields in South Carolina in the 1930s through the 1940s coming to Broadway first and then Hollywood."

"Have you watched her sing?? Have you seen her face?? Have you heard her talk?? How could you not fall instantly in love. She makes me incoherent with how hot she is."

"She can ACT she can SING she can speak FOUR LANGUAGES she is a GODDESS!!! Although she is (rightfully) remembered for her singing, TV appearances (Catwoman my beloved), and later film roles, her early appearances in film are no less impressive or noteworthy!! She’s an amazing actress with so much charisma in every role. She was also blacklisted from Hollywood for 10 years for criticizing the Johnson administration/Vietnam War, so. Iconic. Also Orson Welles apparently called her “the most exciting woman in the world.”

"She had such a stunning, remarkable appearance, like she could tear you to shreds with just a glance- but the most undeniable part of her hotness was her voice, and it makes sense that it's what most people nowadays know her for. Nothing encapsulates the sheer magnetism of her singing better than this clip of her and Nat King Cole in St. Louis Blues, she pops in at 2:49. Also I know it's post-1970 but her song that was cut from Emperor's New Groove is likely to make you feel Feelings."

"Even with as racist as Hollywood was in the 1950s and 60s, Eartha Kitt STILL managed to have a thriving career. She also once had a threesome with Paul Newman and James Dean, and called out LBJ over the Vietnam War so hard that it made First Lady Johnson cry. Eartha Kitt was talented, sexy, and a total badass activist."

Hedy Lamarr:

"The only person you can find both on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and in the Inventor's Hall of Fame--her radio-frequency-hopping technology forms the basis for cordless phones, wi-fi, and a dozen other aspects of modern life. She was also passionate in her efforts to aid the Allies in WWII (unsurprising for a Jewish-Austrian Emigree to America), and her name served as the backbone for one of the best running jokes in what is possibly Mel Brooks' best movie. Look, Louis B. Mayer apparently believed he could plausibly promote her as "The world's most beautiful woman". Is an entire website full of people going to be less audacious than one Louis B. Mayer? I didn't think so!"

"Described as "Hedy has the most incredible personal sophistication. She knows the peculiarly European art of being womanly; she knows what men want in a beautiful woman, what attracts them, and she forces herself to be these things. She has magnetism with warmth, something that neither Dietrich nor Garbo has managed to achieve" by Howard Sharpe, she managed to escape her controlling husband (and Nazi Germany) by a) Disguising as her maid and fleeing to Paris or b) Convincing the husband to let her wear all of her jewelry to a dinner, only to disappear afterwards. Also she was particularly clever and helped develop Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum (I can't really explain it but anyway...)"

"Her depiction of Delilah and Samson and Delilah just lives rent free in my head. The woman was gorgeous."

"One of the most beautiful women ever in film, spoken by many critics and fans. Beautiful shapely figure, deeper seductive voice, and often played femme fatale roles. She was also brilliant and an inventor. Mainly self-taught, she invested her spare time, including on set between takes, in designing and drafting inventions, which included an improved traffic stoplight and a tablet that would dissolve in water to create a flavored carbonated drink, and much more."

"Gorgeous and brilliant pioneer of modern technology and the middle part."

[mamuttuth]

I do believe that Izuku gonna end up totally quirkless or perhaps with Black Whip and/or OFA after the final war.

Nana Shimura would sacrifice herself to break Tomuras 4th wall.

Bruce went through after his leader.

En, well, he’s whiner (sorry not sorry). But he’s panicking much in last chapters.

Banjo would fighting till the end with claws and teeth. And Yoichi would help him with all his might.

Izuku might become quirkless, but that’s okay, totally fine, he would be a hero no matter what.

Mecha Deku 2.0