#mixed bracket

[misrepresentedmorallygrey]

PROPAGANDA

John

This fella is Fascinating. just trust me on this he deserves to be here

He tried so hard to do the right thing, he feels bad and says things would be better if he was never born. He thinks he should've just stayed acting like a monster and continued to act threatening.

(LONG PROPAGANDA INCOMING)

John. Milgram. Here's a short description of the fortunes and misfortunes of the guy. It gets worse before it gets better (probably).

While MILGRAM is a prison that judges a bunch of sympathetic killers, it doesn't consider him to be one – it didn't even exactly know he existed until too little too late, when it got its grabby hands on the brain of prisoner 009, who claimed to not know anything about any murder he'd have committed. Then, footage from his brain was extracted, as MILGRAM does, into a music video, and… that was MeMe. Ninth prisoner, Kayano Mikoto, was revealed to have DID, and what obviously who do you think actually Killed Someone?

Enter John. Well. Mikoto is half deeply unaware half subconsciously scared of his existence, so the MV painted him in a rather. Deeply disturbing way, bathing in bloody baths and all that (not a blood bath though! easy mistake). Adding to that him showing up in the first Voice Drama for five seconds to punch the "protagonist" and yell for a bit, and the result wasn't. Assuring. The fandom proceeded to treat him like a cardboard cutout and variously dunk on MILGRAM for having a cliché "evil" character w/ DID despite the overall well handling of complex characters.

Two years time skip: second season ending. We get to prisoner 009 again. The protagonist Finally gets to chat with John: and voila, he's admitting to the crime, he's apparently "killed a bunch of people because they annoyed him", which means, as he's saying, Mikoto has nothing to do with the crime at all! And he, as per the judging system, should be forgiven, right! Well, he's so full of shit. The music video immediately reveals how protective he feels of Mikoto (and well, he definitely doesn't rebuke That one), that the events of murder were somehow tied in to Mikoto's job at a black company, his continuous overworking and him being mentally on the brink of breaking; that any committed violence was For The Sake of Mikoto and that John feels deeply horrible for messing up his life in any way. By making himself into the image of a "monster" he's trying to make Mikoto look good in comparison and be forgiven and all. He also mentioned if Mikoto is voted innocent he's gonna try to go dormant since he's The Issue, right, and the audience/protagonist hates him, Right, and Mikoto Also Hates him, Right?

I'm underselling the sheer devotion of this guy tbh.

Yeah, the fandom results were kinda mixed on that one. Lots of people immediately started to love him dearly and kinda forgot any people were maimed or killed with baseball bats; lots also got sold on him "messing up Mikoto's life" and actually voted Mikoto innocent Specifically because of John's promise to eventually "disappear". There's more of the babygirlifying kind in the English side of the fandom that I've seen, to be fair. And that's around where we are!

Dazai Osamu

He did bad things in the Mafia. He's trying to get better. He abused people but he also saved other people. Fans portraying him as an unforgivable abuser are WRONG. He perpetuated an abused cycle on Akutagawa thinking he was right to do that, because of trauma, before he could leave. But he left. He's still treating Akutagawa wrong because he's trying to be a better person but doesn't realize that it will not erase what he did and that he can't just ignore the past. Fans portraying him as a pure angel who didn't know what he was doing because he was sad are WRONG TOO. He abused Akutagawa. He was traumatized but it doesn't give him the right to traumatize innocent people. He's trying to be a better person but he can't keep ignoring Akutagawa. He needs to apologize. And even that won't erase what he did. Dazai is a complex character in a complex situation. He left the abuse cycle and tries to be a good person but did unforgivable things while he was still in this cycle and refuses to aknowledge them. He's not a monster but he's not innocent either.

Dazai used to be a mafia executive until his best friend (a former assassin who remained in the mafia but refused to kill) died. As the friend was dying he told him "I know you don't care about whether you're a good or bad person, so if it doesn't matter to you, be on the side that saves people." Despite that, I've seen countless people insisting that Dazai is a good person/trying his best to be a good person when he really only changed sides by joining a detective agency, while still continuing to do the same things he did while in the mafia (including but not limited to: harassing his coworkers for fun, manipulating people, killing people instead of just trying to incapacitate them, and even torturing an innocent man in one of the side stories). That being said, he's not evil either. Even when he does cruel things, it's not for the sake of being cruel (even when he harasses his coworkers he still has limits), it's just a means to an end. I think most of the confusion comes from a scene where he's talking to a young girl, another former mafia member, who asks if he thinks people can change and he assures her they can, but what the anime left out was that he was thinking about his former assassin friend during that discussion, not himself. The entire series is themed around gray morality, to the point where it's even reflected in the main protagonist and antagonist's designs (mainly white with a bit of black, and mainly black with a bit of white), so I feel like insisting that he's a good person now completely misses the point of the story.

[bl-bracket]

Introducing the next BL Bracket: Most Whipped in a BL!!!!

Continuing our trend of rematch brackets, we will now be doing a rematch bracket for Most Whipped!!!

Is your favorite character absolute gone for their lover? Are they willing to do absolutely anything for their lover no matter what? Well, this is their time to shine!!!

Rules for entry are in the pinned post and also in the form.

Lan Wangji from The Untamed cannot be submitted as he won the first season of Most Whipped.

Submit them here!!!!

Submissions Close: 22nd of Novemeber @9 PM (GMT)

@tournament-announcer

[whos-hotter-jjba]

Hottest JJBA Outfit Bracket - Round 3 Match 7

[ratiosilence]

<--- guess who made a swap au! with my own heavily altered designs

actual info under the cut

i do have a basic plot idea in mind but idk how interested anyone would be if i actually worked on it HEBASDH

[horseshoemybeloved]

are you clapping and cheering and celebrating the peterick sweep along with rest of us

Kinda iffy mixed feelings on rpf don’t super support real person fiction but I will give you guys this

[nasuverse-most-breedable-tourney]

our Four Heavenly Kings of Head have been chosen!

Loser's Bracket will now begin (whenever I get that set up). They will be 1-day polls leading up to a 7-day poll quarterfinal match against these 4 champions. If your fav has been knocked out these past few weeks, it's not too late for them to win it all!

Bracket A (Astolfo's bracket) vs. Bracket B (Scathach's bracket)

Bracket C (Medb's bracket) vs. Bracket D (Kama's bracket)

[lwieserce]

Off topic but another thing that pissess me off while i watch american cooking videos is them using all these ingridients that clearly arent local and namedropping them so casually, even calling some of it kitchen staples😭😭😭😭😭

[mixedkid-matchup]

FINALS

[wickerfemme]

if you got the energy, I would LOVE to hear about an off the cuff scifi OC (or an old one, if you just wanna talk about that too!!!)

Haha, my own medicine!

So Concourse Faregate is a public defender on one of the Martian Oribitals – the massive manned satellites which serve to sustain an artificial greenhouse effect on the Martian surface, but also act as offplanet habitats and port facilities for interplanetary shipping. Beautiful mane of dark curly hair; wide-cut suits that read as a little old-fashioned; fluent in Esperanto, and a great believer in the Martian revolutionary project as you'd expect from a youngish Martian who speaks Esperanto – but less of a baseball fan than you might expect from the same; smokes too much. The Orbitals are part of the Martian legal and court system, but working as a defence lawyer up there requires a working knowledge of Earthish and even Jovian law that Concourse wishes she didn't have to have. There are only so many appointments available for a junior lawyer in the civil service, though, and frankly no shortage in orbit, so here she is.

[snepfeathers]

one thing to remember about me is that I am an avid ":)" enjoyer. the humble parentheses smiley face is a staple in my lexicon and I think it's a little sad that it got so associated with sarcasm/passive aggressiveness... I promise whenever you see me use :) it is a genuine little smile ok?

[nerves-nebula]

Please direct all ur friends & followers to vote for me in the @mixed-race-matchups I NEED to FIGHT MARKIPLIER and I’m the only other real person there !!! I’m basically an endangered species and voting for me is nature conservation!!

[misrepresentedmorallygrey]

PROPAGANDA

Yukio Okumura (LONG PROPAGANDA)

(Does contain spoilers and suicide mentions) Ok so the main issue I see people having with him is because he has threatened his brother and has shot him before. (His brother, Rin, is also the fan favorite so you can probably imagine people's feelings towards those scenes.) A lot of times Yukio also comes off as mean because he's a pretty closed off person and people don't like that either.

Although what people love to ignore is the reasons as to *why* he acts this way. (Granted, harming your brother is not an ok thing to do and it doesn't excuse that but it explains why he did what he did.) For starters, Rin was the one who inherited Satan's demonic power, not Yukio, meaning that Rin could potentially become dangerous even though his powers were locked away until he was about 15. Because of this, the boys' adoptive father, Shiro, put the responsibility of protecting Rin onto Yukio from the age of 7. So while Yukio was training to become an exorcist at a very young age, Rin got to live without knowing anything about demons or exorcists. This did cause some envy from Yukio, who felt the crushing pressure of having to do everything for his brother while Rin had no idea. Later on, Rin's power awakens at 15 (the present time in the story) and after a series of events, Shiro ends up dying due to becoming possessed by Satan. With their legal guardian dead, Yukio is now the one who has to take care of Rin because if his demonic power gets discovered, Rin will be executed by the Vatican. So yeah. In the span of ONE DAY Yukio now has even more pressure put on him and he didn't even get to say goodbye to Shiro, let alone grieve for him because he had to be the calm and collected one in the situation. (Yukio is also 15 btw!!) Now, both boys are going to enroll in True Cross Academy, a school that also has a secret exorcist program. At this time, Rin has no knowledge that Yukio knows what's going on. It's only until he's at the exorcist cram school that Rin finds out that his teacher is Yukio. This leads to a confrontation between the brothers as Rin feels rightfully betrayed that everyone knew except him. This is also where Yukio reveals some of his concerns, leading to people not liking him. Essentially, Yukio says that Rin could be a danger to others because he can't control his powers yet and that Yukio will kill him if it's necessary (this is also where he threatens his brother with a gun). Eventually the conflict does get resolved and they go back to normal for the most part. So not only does Yukio have to keep his brother from getting into trouble (which he does. several times. Rin does eventually get discovered.) but he also has to be an exorcist AND a teacher. Yukio constantly has to act like an adult throughout the series, and HE'S ONLY 15!! He has so much pressure put on him by everyone and if he makes a mistake, either him or Rin could die. As the series continues, you can see Yukio's mental health rapidly worsening due to his self-hatred leading him to several suicide attempts (which he doesn't die because Satan is now residing in his body). Yukio also feels that Shiro never really cared about him and only kept him to be raised as a weapon. All this and the fact that he's being manipulated by another antagonist character leads him to join sides with the Illuminati (the evil organization). By doing this, he will be able to take down the Illuminati from the inside and hopes that he and Satan will die along with it. The entire time up to this point Rin does not realize just how bad Yukio's mental health has been (which to be fair, Yukio is pretty closed off and has lied to his brother several times). Yukio then tries to force Rin to kill him, and ultimately fails because Rin cares too much. Overall, Yukio had so many responsibilities and felt as though he had to take everything on alone. It's honestly very tiring seeing people villainize everything bad he's ever done while completely ignoring how much he actually cares for his brother + all his mental health issues. This is only a summary of the things he's gone through so there's definitely some other details that show the escalation of his depression that weren't included here. But yeah. Justice for Yukio. He does not deserved to be treated like Satan (pun intended).

Apple White

everyone shut up about her being evil and selfish she is a teenage girl who has been raised HER WHOLE LIFE with this ideology, she can’t unlearn her entire belief system overnight especially when it’s so deeply tied to her identity as a person. also she literally does let go of it eventually, because she’s not a static character, she has an arc. apple is my favorite because she’s complex, not in spite of it. on the flipside there’s the people who act like she didn’t do anything wrong. i’ve seen people call raven the selfish one? this show was made for 5 years olds. how do you have less media comprehension that a 5 year old. and also, you’re loving apple the wrong ways!! she makes mistakes. she fucks up so much, and it’s awesome. i get overcompensating because the haters are so loud or whatever, but saying she’s perfect is erasing what makes her interesting. this propaganda is not very good because I’m guessing a lot of propaganda looks identical (edelgard and vriska have similar issues in fandom spaces) so here is my final pitch. vote for apple because she’s a lesbian (her canon soulmate was a girl). vote for apple because she’s a protagonist in a kids cartoon who was a lesbian way back in jan 2016. vote for apple because mattel let the face of their new franchise be a girl who likes girls (still feels surreal) #gayrights #applesweep

[bl-bracket]

Greenest Flag - Loser's Bracket Round 7: Lan Sizhui (The Untamed) vs Ida (Kieta Hatsukoi) vs Yoryak (Wandee Goodday)

[Submitted Reasons Under Cut]

Lan Sizhui: "Smartest, politest, most competent baby boy. Without spoiling, one could say that the whole plot is about keeping him alive to bless everyone else with his presence. He couldn't treat you wrong if he tried."

Ida: "I wish I had better propaganda but literally everything about him is a green flag idek what to say"

Yoryak: "My most beloved himbo, he always went along with Dee's shenanigans and didn't make him give up the scholarship (also he delivered such a satisfying punch to Ter it was delicious to watch)"

"Yoryak Phadetseuk is a green flag. He ensures he gets vaccinated to protect his boyfriend. He brings him flowers on the daily. He is protective and loyal to the people he cares about. Plus he even puts on a silly costume for a story time for sick children in the hospital. When he decides to woo someone he really puts in the effort!"

[ponysongbracket]

Brony Song Tournament

Please listen to both songs before voting

Magic

For the New Lunar Republic (Hymn to the Moon Vocal mix)

[dykehayleywilliams]

the funniest thing about the semifinal poll that’s big weekend 2013 v. paramore is a band is that both of those are my own personal nominations. another classic example of playing myself 🤡

[sadkois]

ITS TIME TO VOTE FOR THE NISHIKI BRACKET NOMINEES AKA VOTE FOR WHICH OPTIONS SHOULD MAKE IT TO THE BRACKET

i put together all the nishikis i could think of in this carrd. there's two options to vote at the end of it:

1. vote which ones you think should move to the bracket! there's no limit, so yes u could vote for all if you like all the options! 2. add new options if you think i missed anything! you can vote for other people's ideas too!

i'll be setting up the blog for the next couple days :) i'll let you all know when it's done. anyways vote for nominees here!