#major bracket

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major bracket contestants

a whopping 64! see all the teams, the contestants, and the fandoms below. i likely won't be including who's in the teams in the polls due to character limits, but the fandoms will be there. if you want to suggest better team names, my askbox is open!

team greek mythology (greek mythology) consists of odysseus, io, and orpheus

team percy jackson (riordanverse) consists of percy jackson, nico di angelo, luke castellan, apollo/lester papadopoulos, and also the rest of the cast!

gabriel (ultrakill)

orel puppington (moral orel)

teams tma and apotheosis banded together to form: team be not afraid (the magnus archives and just roll with it: apotheosis) consists of jonathan sims, martin blackwood, peter sqloint, thanatos, rumi, and exandroth

quasimodo (the hunchback of notre dame)

volo (pokemon)

anders (dragon age)

team mechanisms (the mechanisms) consists of galahad and drumbot brian

team awakening (fire emblem: awakening) consists of robin and lucina

akito sohma (fruits basket)

jack kennedy (dayshift at freddy's)

kristen applebees (dimension 20: fantasy high)

team cookie run (cookie run: kingdom) consists of white lily cookie and pastry cookie

chosen one (animator-vs-animation 2-5)

the entire cast of midnight mass (midnight mass)

team charlie pc (jrwi: riptide and jrwi: fated) consists of gillion tidestrider and br'aad vengolor

matthias helvar (six of crows)

team genshin (genshin impact) consists of la signora, scaramouche, and kaeya

stanford pines, catra, and adora, banded together to form: team lets go lesbians (gravity falls and she-ra: princesses of power) consists of stanford pines, catra, and adora

zagreus (hades game)

team tgcf (heaven official's blessing/ti guan ci fu) consists of xie lian, qi rong, and he xuan. yikes

team real life (real life) consists of me, you, submitter, and submitter's dad

scp-096 (scp foundation)

team three houses (fire emblem: three houses) consists of all the characters especially byleth!

team free will (supernatural) consists of sam winchester, dean winchester, and castiel

seven brothers (obey me! one master to rule them all)

salem (RWBY)

beverly toegold (not another d&d podcast (NADDPOD))

raven (new teen titans)

team warrior cats (warriors) consists of hollyleaf, lionblaze, jayfeather, ivypool, dovewing, goosefeather, leafpool, shadowsight, and also the rest of the cats!

team steven universe (steven universe) consists of steven universe, pearl, and the corrupted gems

sister carpenter (the silt verses)

team botw (breath of the wild) consists of link and zelda

lloyd garmadon (ninjago)

all of the boiling isles especially hunter (the owl house)

jack harkness (doctor who/torchwood)

team we know the devil (we know the devil) consists of neptune, venus, and jupiter

the hollow knight (hollow knight)

hyness (kirby: star allies)

edward and alphonse elric (fullmetal alchemist)

casey jones jr (rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles)

the outsider (dishonored)

five pebbles (rain world)

town of hatchetfield (hatchetfield) consists of literally everyone!

the holy quintet (puella magi madoka magica) consists of homura akemi, madoka kamane, sayaka miki, kyouko sakura, and tomoe mami

yuna (final fantasy x)

arthur lester (malevolent)

aziraphale and crowley (good omens)

marble hornets cast (marble hornets) specifically jay, tim, alex, and brian

team critical (critical role) consists of kashaw “kash” vesh and vax’ildan

norman minecraft (ghost and pals)

team trigun and team traumageddon banded together to form: four gays in a trenchcoat (trigun and bungou stray dogs) consists of vash the stampede, nicholas wolfwood, chuuya nakahara, and atsushi nakajima but then they joined hands with yoo joonghyuk and kim dokja to form: six gays in a trenchcoat (trigun and bungou stray dogs and omniscient reader's viewpoint) consists of vash the stampede, nicholas wolfwood, chuuya nakahara, atsushi nakajima, yoo joonghyuk, and kim dokja

kfc dreemurrs (undertale and deltarune) consists of kris, frisk, and chara dreemurr

team princess (princess tutu) consists of ahiru and fakir

vector (yugioh)

nicolo di genova (the old guard)

team bible (the bible) consists of jesus christ himself and the devil aka satan aka lucifer!

niko (oneshot)

team mistborn (mistborn) consists of vin and sazed

MYSTERY CONTESTANT (mystery fandom) consists of many mystery people

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iron / heart

Part of LoL Esports Elemental Series.

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DUCK SHUFFLER X MAJOR PLAYER STATUS : FANON PROPAGANDA : N/A PACESETTER X FIRESTARTER STATUS : CANON PROPAGANDA : N/A

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ROUND 4: MATCH 1

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*like a town crier*

Tell everyone vote for John André!

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Balance of Terror: The Enterprise must decide on its response when a Romulan ship makes a destructively hostile armed probe of Federation territory.

A Private Little War: Peaceful, primitive peoples get caught up in the struggle between superpowers, with Kirk unhappily trying to restore the balance of power disrupted by the Klingons.

Feel free to reblog in order to help this poll reach the most people! Remember to vote on the other polls in this round, listed here!

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WN Criminal Upper Bracket

Jun Wu from Heaven Official’s Blessing (TGCF)

Submission: This is MAJOR SPOILERS for Heaven Official's Blessing- but as for his crimes, just like. All his actions as Bai Wuxiang were so iconic. Jun Wu was so single mindedly focused, he manipulated so many people and brought so much death, destruction, and despair to ruin Xie Lian's life and to turn him into a Calamity like himself. It's the dedication to the bit for me, he wiped everything from his disastrous past and became emperor of heaven. Jun Wu had all of the heavenly court fooled and under his thumb for centuries and played the part of the caring mentor/father figure to Xie Lian all while gladly placing the cursed shackles on him.

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Shen Zechuan from Ballad of Sword and Wine: Qiang Jin Jiu

Submissions: Character of all time. He's done a lot of crimes, but I'll just mention that one time he put a guy in a cage, poured boiling water on him, and sliced off his skin piece by piece while he was still alive.

Additional Propaganda #1 from the Less Popular Danmei Character Tournament

Additional Propaganda #2 from the Less Popular Danmei Character Tournament

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[Please be kind and respectful in the notes. Anti-Propaganda is NOT allowed.]

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ULTIMATE TOLKIEN BLORBO ROUND TWO: SECOND CHANCE BRACKET

FILI vs. CELEBRIMBOR

See the ULTIMATE TOLKIEN BLORBO MASTERPOST for details and follow #ultimate tolkien blorbo to cast your vote for the blorbiest blorbo of all!

Celebrimbor by kapriss-art

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Gay wrongs tournament, round 1 of the minor bracket

Propaganda:

For Mick Rory and Leonard Snart:

The only supervillains on that show that understood the assignment. Thieves with a flare and loyal only to eachother. Eventually become anti heroes on legends of tomorrow but I liked them best as villains. The best part of both shows. Over the top and committed to the theme for the vibes. Puns and crime.

Fire and ice pairing! 

For Sergey and Oleg: (propaganda from the previous tournament here)

They're so married!!! The domesticity oh my god they live together and they sleep in the same bed and they're worried if the other isn't here when they wake up and they take care of each other when they're sick. Sorry, the latest issue was a lot. Anyway, the crime-doing part. They're both officially criminals and they're wanted in quite a few countries for various reasons: in Russia they killed A Lot of people in various bloody and/or arson-y ways (most famously rich corrupted people, which only antagonists can do) and blew up some stuff (which also killed a lot of innocent people) and kidnapped other innocent people just to get revenge on one guy who was just doing his job (the cop who got Sergey in prison while Oleg was out of the country) (and technically Oleg breaking Sergey out of prison is also a crime, on top of all his solo mercenary stuff). In Italy they also killed people and also broke countless laws (you can even count building safety laws in here for fun), in Mexico (honeymoon!) they had a run-in with the local mafia and that also ended bloodily, in a few other countries they were mostly just evading the law but you can't really do that without breaking other laws. They stole at least one helicopter (after killing the soldiers in it). And that's all *before* the current series. In that one they're coercing someone into becoming a vigilante (an already wanted by the law vigilante), and they're trying not to do so much public things, because they like being presumed dead and not being on the run. But that doesn't stop them from bloodily killing anyone who threatens them or Lera (the med student under the new Plague Doctor costume) or their plan, or defending themselves (by killing people) when the consequences of their past actions come around (does it even count as legitimate defense when you kill almost all the henchmen of the guy who wants to kill you because years ago his parent was an unfortunate victim of your beef with someone totally unrelated? Not sure). And yes *technically* they're killing other criminals, but also they are much worse criminals themselves (as said on- page by a secondary character who was trying to kill them because of, well, all the past terrorism / murder).

They're widely considered to be the worst people in a town full of criminals. A lot of people want to kill them, because of all the murders they did earlier. In all their appearances they're either the most married couple of a series that also has real married couples, or extremely efficient killers who don't have a qualm disposing of everybody else's henchmen.

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CALENTURE

cal·en·ture /ˈkalənˌCHər/ noun feverish delirium, in which sailors afflicted by it imagine the sea as a field of green grass in which they try to leap into and run across, supposedly caused by the heat in the tropics.

Something weird to start off March lmao. The result of me reading too deep into a joke and connecting it to something serious. Warframe 1999 spoilers inside!

This also came out surprisingly quickly. Not that I'm complaining.

This is based off of Warframe 1999/Hex spoilers, so I'll be putting all of those under a cut.

I hope you like it!

With the reveal of the next batch of Protoframes (Frost, Saryn, Nova, Temple), and that the Frost and Saryn are a (shaky) couple and the adoptive parents of Neci Rusalka, I saw some people do jokes about cold and toxin making viral and in-turn Neci being a viral-based Protoframe. Bouncing off of that, I saw some people do jokes about her possibly being Proto-Dagath, and one person did a joke about making a hole in her face. That talk about faces and losing them reminded me of one of Eleanor's KIM chats, where she talks about having tried to read Neci's mind and finding...

Not Neci.

Spoilers for the Hex quest: Neci's possessed by the Man In the Wall. Eleanor described trying to read possessed Neci's mind like:

"...as if my fingers touched her face and went right through. The mask just collapsed. What was underneath was like… There’s a word. ‘Calenture.’ It’s a kind of madness that used to affect sailors. They’d become convinced that the green sea all around them wasn’t water at all, but green grass.

They'd be compelled to jump from the ship down into the beautiful green meadows and go running across them. If a shipmate held them back, they’d fight. I jumped, expecting grass. Next second I was in over my head in the freezing dark."

And, after realizing that it's Wally directly:

"I've touched that thing with my mind. I thought I’d be probing Rusalka’s mind, but… the outer layers just caved in like wet, spongy plasterboard and then I was immersed in it. Floundering."

Going straight through her face, like a flimsy mask, the face ripped from her by another... Hmmm...

I also noticed that her had also slightly resembles Dagath's weird "hair"... if you squint... lmao.

So yeah, have this weirdness.

I made her body a silhouette with a hollowed-out face/head (a-la Dagath), the silhouette colored with the scene of a green, blooming field (specifically the one shown on the Pom-2 computers' desktops, the sky of which also resembled a Spiral in Duviri, which was made real by the Void) to go along with the "calenture" thing 83. The Man in the Wall is also known as "the Lidless Eye", so I put both a pained Neci's eye and very harsh, unnatural "Void" eyes that extend forever and both in front and behind her like a video game bug. The "Void" eyes were influenced, aesthetics-wise, by corru.observer (btw PLAY CORRU.OBSERVER [as long as you aren't photosensitive]), which also has major themes around eyes (i.e. imagery associated with the ever-capricious Obesk deity Velzie).

I hope you like it!

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Vote for André. Or else 😈

Peggy may have lost but at leadt we have André.

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major bracket masterpost

four groups will meet on the final stage to see who makes it to the finals… and lastly… who wins

matchups were randomized and placement in the major bracket was based on my own research (i.e. search the fandom name on tumblr and gauge popularity). i tried my best, but if yall have any issues let me know and i'll see what i can do

view them on the website HERE. below the cut is the list of all the matches. the links will be updated as polls go along

group a:

team greek mythology vs. team percy jackson

gabriel vs. chosen one

quasimodo vs. volo

anders vs. team mechanisms

team cookie run vs. orel

jack kennedy vs. kristen applebees

team tma vs. team apotheosis

team awakening vs. akito sohma

group b:

midnight mass vs. team charlie pc

beverly toegold vs. raven

zagreus vs. team tgcf

team real life vs. scp-096

matthias helvar vs. team genshin

seven brothers vs. salem

stanford pines vs. catra and adora

team three houses vs. team free will

group c:

team warrior cats vs. team steven universe

town of hatchetfield vs. holy quintet

jark harkness vs. team we know the devil

hollow knight vs. hyness

sister carpenter vs. team botw

outsider vs. five pebbles

lloyd garmadon vs. all the boiling isles especially hunter

edward and alphonse elric vs. casey jones jr

group d:

yuna vs. arthur lester

niko vs. team mistborn

team trigun vs. team traumageddon

kfc dreemurrs vs. team princess

aziraphale and crowley vs. marble hornet

nicolo di genova vs. team bible

team critical vs. norman minecraft

vector vs. yoo joonghyuk and kim dokja

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as much as the argument of 'aros can still date/aces can still have sex' is important to keep in mind because of technicalities and the people who those stamensts do apply to, something i always felt is it slowly starts sounding a lot like 'hey we're not like totally weird and unlike the rest, like some of us still do The Thing okay? we totally still can do The Thing! not so different after all!' and that always made me feel a bit icky. like as if you're trying to justify the identities even existing in the first place, as if you're bargaining

asexuality and aromanticism are both meaningful identities and deserving of recognition and respect, regardless of if they can still replicate or engage in expected societal frameworks of behaviour

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👏 Abigail 👏 Strong 👏 did 👏 not 👏kill 👏 John 👏 André 👏

(Arnold and André did, argue with the primary sources)

Vote for Abigail Strong she deserves it!