#march madness 2023

[aimmyarrowshigh]

Ultimate OTP March Madness 2023

M/M Bracket 5B. Luke Skywalker/Han Solo

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[tevantarlos]

March Madness 2023 Fic Roundup

23 fandoms 26 pairings 31 fics

Wasn't the Same  ♡ Upstead ♡ Chicago PD Small and Cute ♡ Brettsey ♡ Chicago Fire Stay With You Forever ♡ Manstead ♡ Chicago Med The Real Me ♡ Shory ♡ Boy Meets World Taboo ♡ Moreid ♡ Criminal Minds Hold On to the Feeling ♡ Zibell ♡ FBI You're Where My Heart Is ♡ McRoll/McRollins ♡ Hawaii Five-0 (2010) An Unlikely Romance ♡ Brensen ♡ The Rookie: Feds Close Enough to Touch ♡ Supercorp ♡ Supergirl Ghosts ~ Joel & Ellie ~ The Last of Us Wrapped Up ♡ Supercorp ♡ Supergirl When It's Right ♡ Chenford ♡ The Rookie Empty Spaces ~ Jay & Hailey ~ Chicago PD Living Proof ♡ Burzek ♡ Chicago PD In His Arms ♡ Chexton ♡ Chicago Med The World Can Wait ♡ CoNic ♡ The Resident Time For You ♡ Kangs ♡ Riverdale Only Natural  ♡ Queliot ♡ The Magicians One Truth That Always Stays the Same ♡ Brettsey ♡ Chicago Fire Happily Ever After ♡ CoNic ♡ The Resident Before the End ♡ Ichabbie ♡ Sleepy Hollow (TV) Things That Don't Change ♡ Tillow ♡ Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV) Whatever You Need ♡ Palex ♡ Degrassi: the Next Generation No Need For Words ♡ Sante ♡ General Hospital One Good Reason ♡ Rollisi ♡ Law & Order: SVU A Good End to A Bad Week ♡ McSwarek ♡ Rookie Blue No More Drama ♡ Darco ♡ Degrassi: the Next Generation No Complaints ♡ Britin ♡ Queer as Folk - US Lucky Stars ♡ Hodgela ♡ Bones The Best Mornings ♡ Zibell ♡ FBI Counting the Days  ♡ Jemmy ♡ NCIS

[karokawwo]

guys we're getting an updated demo. isn't that crazy. at long last the demo update. I feel crazy. do you think we're getting it for touchstarved's announcement anniversary?? that's crazy..... like woah......... woagh

[holdoncallfailed]

tbh i think the reason why hockey rpf is so popular in spaces like tumblr is because it's one of the few major team sports where there aren't a lot of black people involved. maybe that's not an entirely fair assessment but i'm just spitballin here

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Congratulations to Caihong juji, your Dinosaur March Madness Champion for 2023!!!

(Art by @i-draws-dinosaurs (Caihong, Jakapil), @otussketching (Heracles), @alphynix (Kholumolumo). Graphics by @i-draws-dinosaurs)

Well it’s been a wild month-and-a-third of competition, but Dinosaur March Madness 2023: Rising Stars has come to an end! Congratulations to our four finalists: Big Parrot, Meme Reboot, Spikey Creatur, and Gay. After a final brutal slugfest Caihong emerged as the victor by a significant margin, winning all three separate matches. Shockingly, the Queer Neurodivergent Web Site felt rather fond of the shiny fluffy rainbow colours dinosaur!

Caihong joins the hallowed halls of DMM winners past, alongside Corvus, Maiasaura, Halszkaraptor, and Amargasaurus, making it the third maniraptoran to claim the top spot! The people love a bird, is what we’re learning.

A huge thank you to the members of the ADAD team who pulled this all together with planning, researching, writing, arting, the whole lot! @zygodactylus, @raptorcivilization, @i-draws-dinosaurs, @otussketching, @albertonykus, everyone who’s put their time and effort into this project is an absolute legend.

And thank you so much to everyone who voted, made posts and debated in the notes!! It was absolutely wonderful to see how much people got into it especially after having taken A Bit of a hiatus, the enthusiasm that all of you have really makes the contest what it is!

That’s all for now, we hope y’all had a fun time and got to learn about some sick new dinosaurs! And coming up next year, of course, we’re leaving the dinosaurs behind... on our long-awaited trip... into the Permian

[dfilms]

Once Upon A Studio, 2023

[march-musical-madness]

Round 1 Group 1

[yvesdot]

MARCH MADNESS STREAM 2024!

Friday, March 22nd, 2024 @ 2:00 PM PST on Twitch

Once again, I will be pitting the 16 best books I read for the first time in 2023 against each other, live, with a bonus honorable mentions afterparty. See the bracket ahead of time here! Goodreads list of all picks here; feel free to vote (but not add). Come by and sway my opinions!

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[simcardiac-arrested]

in honor of the most normal day of my life

[magicaloctopus333]

I was inspired by @mad-scientist-showdown 's bracket!

First time drawing Donatello- what do you think?

[nixa-spark]

Art Fight revenge I did for @the-angel-of-filth !! featuring his Doc Ock, Odyssia Octavius, and my character Charmer! two women of wildly different aesthetics, but very good friends regardless!

[aimmyarrowshigh]

Ultimate OTP March Madness 2023

M/M Bracket 1B. Chandler Bing/Joey Tribbiani

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[tevantarlos]

Ongoing Writing Events

Avalance Week 2023: February 26th - March 4th, 2023. Bughead Week 2023: March 2nd - March 8th, 2023. Clexa Week 2023: February 27th - March 5th, 2023. March Madness 2023: March 1st - March 31st, 2023. Tillow Week 2023: February 27th - March 5th, 2023.

[moonmoonthecrabking]

peeta (parodying effie's failed music career):✨BEJBa✨ IT'S KINDA KREJZA-

katniss: i will kill you in your sleep.

[sanyu-thewitch05]

Not Andrew Tate possibly having lung cancer!

Let’s see if he gets snatched off this earth like Kevin Samuels was.

[justinssportscorner]

Alex Abad-Santos at Vox:

On Sunday, April 2, Louisiana State University defeated the University of Iowa and won the NCAA women’s college basketball national championship — an accomplishment that should be one of the biggest women’s sports stories of the year. But all anyone can talk about is what happened in the last few seconds.

In those waning moments, LSU star power forward Angel Reese pointed at her ring finger and waved her own hand in front her face, in the direction of Caitlin Clark, the best player on Iowa’s team. To those familiar with hand gestures in basketball, this was Reese’s way of telling Clark that her team won — that LSU would be getting that championship ring — and that Reese herself was unguardable. To those specifically familiar with Clark and women’s college basketball this season, the hand wave is a call back to Clark’s own dismissal of her previous opponents.

Like any good feud, the more backstory you know, the juicier it gets. As a supporter of women’s rights, this was also the rare moment when you could simultaneously support women’s wrongs.

But some didn’t see Reese’s action as deliciously scandalous, and her actions didn’t happen in a bubble. Her taunt ignited criticisms from haters about her lack of “class” and how Reese, who is Black, should have conducted herself in the face of imminent victory. Her detractors would’ve liked to see her win quietly and politely, without the theatrics. However, this outpouring of concern about how women athletes should behave when they win wasn’t nearly as much of an issue when Clark, who is white, was steamrolling, trash talking, and mocking the competition. Curious!

The tournament was the Caitlin Clark show until Angel Reese and LSU showed up

Historically, the women’s NCAA basketball tournament has been eclipsed by the men’s tournament in terms of coverage, enthusiasm, and, famously, funding and facilities. But this year’s chapter of March Madness included a perfect storm of storylines and events that gave the women’s tournament a spark: a men’s tournament littered with upsets of “power five” schools, an undefeated women’s team in the form of the University of South Carolina, an upstart Louisiana State University team led by eccentric coach Kim Mulkey, and the superstardom of Clark, an electric guard from the University of Iowa.

Clark, a junior, averaged 27.8 points per game, 7.1 rebounds per game, and 8.6 assists per game while shooting at a 47.3 percent clip through the 2022-2023 season. If you don’t follow basketball, those are extremely good numbers. The bigger the numbers in those categories, the better. Further, Clark did all this while leading her team to a top-10 ranking and a 2-seed in the NCAA tournament — her performance and statistics won her the AP Player of the Year honors prior to the national championship.

While she was breathtaking all year, Clark shined in the tournament — women’s college basketball’s biggest stage — making history as the leading point scorer, recording a triple-double, and hanging up 40-point outings on team after team. In the Final Four game against undefeated and reigning champion South Carolina, Clark’s 41 points and eight assists helped propel her underdog Hawkeyes to victory.

At the same time, Clark’s confidence could verge on cockiness. Against Louisville, a team known for being physical and playing hounding defense, Clark lit the Cardinals up for 40 points and gestured “you can’t see me.” In the aforementioned game against South Carolina, she waved off a player at the three-point line, signaling that they weren’t a threat. When she hits a “logo” three — nailing a basket from inside Michigan’s giant mid-court M, for example — she knows that’s going into the game’s highlight reel.

This set the stage for Sunday’s national championship game: In the biggest game of the year on the biggest stage of the year, the best player in women’s college basketball — who knows she’s the best player in women’s college basketball — was a game away from what would be the perfect end to her fantastic year. Iowa had just beaten South Carolina which was, on paper, a better team than LSU.

But while the transitive properties of wins and losses can give you a picture of how a game may play out, it’s what happens on the court that matters.

As the game unfolded, LSU played the best basketball of their year. Reese, LSU’s star forward, was gobbling up rebounds left and right, turning misses into points. LSU’s bench also played stellar, hitting three after three. Coupled with some shoddy officiating (an unfortunate constant in women’s college basketball) and a more egregious lack of defense, Clark and Iowa were blown out 102-85.

In the closing seconds, Reese followed Clark around and pointed at her ring finger. Championship games, like weddings and senior years in high school, are punctuated by rings. Reese’s pointing was to indicate that she was getting one of these rings and Clark had zero. Reese also mimicked Clark’s “can’t see me” gesture against Louisville, giving the superstar guard a taste of her own taunting.

After a season of Clark’s goading, the firestorm reaction to Reese’s gestures has eclipsed the game and LSU’s win itself.

[...]

But the argument of “if this situation were completely different, things would be different” sort of falls apart when you consider that Reese’s detractors were quiet when Clark was doing the taunting. When Clark was gesturing that an entire team of Louisville Cardinals couldn’t guard her, no one was calling her a “classless piece of shit.” Actually, she was praised — ESPN ran an entire segment on Clark calling her “the queen of the clap backs” complete with crown emoji.

Olbermann and Portnoy’s reactions to Reese, and the reactions to their reactions — basketball hall of famer Shaquille O’Neal tweeted Olbermann to “shut your dumb ass up leave angel reese alone” — reflect a bigger pattern of the impossible double standard that Black athletes are held to and how sports media reinforces that standard over and over.

This isn’t a new phenomenon. Reese is just the latest frustrating example.

From Angel Reese to Serena Williams to Simone Biles to multiple instances in the NFL and NBA, Black athletes have not only had to win on the court but do so in a manner that audiences — but in particular grown (white) men like Olbermann and Portnoy — determine respectable. They can’t be too confident or they’ll be seen as arrogant. They can’t be too passionate or they’ll be deemed angry. They can’t talk about their mental health without having their character called into question. Yet, when athletes like Clark or Larry Bird or Novak Djokovic or Tom Brady flash the same behavior, it’s a revered part of their legacy or a passionate commitment to the game.

Female athletes like Reese and Clark are also battling an added, implicit layer of sexism. Some — grown men especially — believe there’s no room for trash talk in women’s sports because women are perceived to be better, gentler, and above the fray. Meanwhile, trash talking and vitriol are seen as an established part of men’s sports and its most compelling rivalries. This stripe of benevolent sexism undercuts competitors like Clark and Reese who are conducting themselves with more dignity and toughness than how they’re being talked about.

Why was Iowa's Caitlin Clark praised for taunting, while LSU's Angel Reese was trashed for doing essentially the same thing Clark was doing? I got a two-word answer for it: white privilege.

  The fact that Clark is a White woman and Reese is a Black woman played to those perceptions.