#please vote Antigone

[grimalkinsquill]

Copy pasting my own propaganda from Discord:

It's not the point of Doofenshmirtz's character to literally be tragic; he is comedically tragic in the same way One-Punch Man is comedically strong. They're only tragic (Doofenshmirtz) and strong (OPM) when it's funny for them to be. Every time Doofenshmirtz brings up a new faucet of his "tragic villain backstory", it's a punchline. Every time OPM beats somebody, it's a punchline (well, until the show and manga jump the shark). They're comedy characters at their core. You can analyze them with a serious, non-comedy lens, but it's not their natural habitat or intention to be thus

Phinease and Ferb is a fun show to have on in the background, because by design, it is very easy to identify every character and what they're doing, because the creator very intelligently sat down and made everyone extremely unique and dynamic, both in visual design and in voice design. He wanted every character to be able to be drawn, so every character is subtly based off of a basic shape to be drawn by children (some being letters as well, to help with writing development). The voice direction was handled similarly, with every character actually having a voice actor that is extremely distinct and easy to follow, especially for kids (which is why Doofenshmirtz is so beloved; his VA is friendly and extremely distinct)

But like. At the end of the day, Doofenshmirtz is part of an animated sitcom running B-plot that got elevated to main cast member, one who has a consistent punchline that is a subversion of modern "tragic villain backstory" tropes that makes a running tapestry that results in something that, if I did recount it to you, barely makes consistent sense (ala: he was raised by ocelots, so the secret agency that Perry the Platypus works for says Doofenshmirtz is legally an ocelot and cannot be punished by human law)

The ocelot thing is just one thread in that tapestry of comedic punchlines, it's just the one I remember most staunchly because...well, it's *funny*

Like: when I promote Antigone for this, this isn't me raising my nose and going "Ugh, ancient literature is better than children's media", it's understanding the assignment and looking at both sides and going *"I see the argument for both, but Antigone is sincerely a tragedy character to her core, with every line and action, while Doofenshmirtz is a comedy character who is designed to subvert tragic sexy villain backstory tropes at every turn, including being fake divorced to his wife just for benefits while also being legally an ocelot and thus unable to be punished by human law, despite literally being human"*

Both have depth, it's just one is freshwater and the other is saltwater and this is a freshwater fish tournament, so I am voting for and promoting the freshwater fish 😂

MOST TRAGIC TOURNAMENT: FINAL ROUND! [ROUND 8]

ANTIGONE

VS

DR. HEINZ DOOFENSHMIRTZ

WINNER WILL BE DECLARED TUMBLR’S MOST TRAGIC CHARACTER!

[spiritunwilling]

ANTIGONE FANS GRAB YOUR FUNERAL SHROUDS

[sexiestpodcastcharacter]

Sexiest Podcast Character — Scripted Bracket — Round 3

Propaganda

Peter Nureyev (The Penumbra Podcast: Juno Steel):

His character is the reason the term "Homme Fatale" became a thing

Homme fatale, living by the mantra of be gay, do crime. V secretive and just the right amount of flirty. Also I love him

He’s a slutty master thief who slept with a detective he went on 1 date(murder case) with and then fell ass over tea kettle in love. Literally can’t think of anything sexier

Antigone Funn (Wooden Overcoats):

An extremely agoraphobic mortician of a local funeral home who has every disease. Nervous wreck. Makes noises when stressed. An artist at heart (her embalming fluid is imbued with the fragrance of cinnamon).

she's the goth gf of your dreams. she's an undertaker, a romance novelist, a hot air balloon pilot, and she has interiority for days

It's antigone or unfollow me

please, everyone, antigone deserves this. she ghost-wrote a wildly successful erotic novel and then faked the death of the fake author. she didn’t leave her house for 17 years except to go see horny french films every thursday. she accidentally ended up in a love triangle with a hot domme lesbian circus ringmaster and her own employee. she broke up with a doctor after one date because he didn’t respect her career (and also his parrot hated her). she experienced years of carnal yearning for her professional rival only to finally realize she was actually okay on her own. she drinks embalming fluid. she thinks of funerals as an art form. she was diagnosed with depression as an infant. she wanted to be a clown when she grew up. her hero is a historical female scientist who has a statue with her tits out. she’s been attacked by owls. a bunch of children thought she was a forest witch. the rest of the village thought she was dead. she has committed multiple counts of breaking and entering. she designed artisanal chocolates that put you in a temporary coma. she can’t eat her own chocolates because she’s allergic to everything. she attracts shadows like a magnet. she’s a woman in STEM. if you have any love in your heart for goth weirdgirls you’ll do the right thing. ANTIGONE SWEEP

GUYS PLEASE

PLEASE VOTE FOR ANTIGONE!!!!!

CMON DON’T LET MY GIRL “CANNONICALLY WANTED BY EVERYONE ON THIS ISLAND” LOSE!!!

Considering committing voter fraud for Antigone. My girl 😔

Vote Antigone because do you understand how narratively satisfying it would be if she won??? Season one? She could barely go outside her mortuary. Season four? Modeling for a sexy calendar. THE CHARACTER GROWTH!!!!!!! Nothing more sexy than that.

COME ON Y'ALL VOTE ANTIGONE. VOTE FOR MY HORNY GOTH QUEEN!!!!!

VOTE ANTIGONE OR DIE

IF YALL DONT VOTE ANTIGONE UR BLOCKED. This isn’t even a joke.

[greatest-greek-games]

In case you didn't want the long rambling post-mortem on how she killed him, have this collage of all the notes on the poll instead.

Creon: By all means, Creon is a decent enough king. Heracles's (first) father-in-law, caretaker of Thebes in the absence of its rightful king as long as it took, and graciously gave the throne to Oedipus when the time came. On the other hand. On the other hand. After Oedipus fucked around and found out, and his sons did much the same, Creon is the one who refused to give Polynices a proper burial, choosing the law of man over the law of the gods and fucking over his entire family in the process -- wife dead, son dead, absolutely ruined. Should you feel bad for him? Maybe. Maybe not. That's up to you.

Antigone: The dutiful daughter of Oedipus, Antigone is fiercely loyal and full of honest duty to her father. Voted number one weird girl by her submitters, Antigone's fate is tragic, but she meets it with a proud countenance and justice in her heart. She will not be swayed by the law of man -- she follows the law of the gods, and she's not fucking afraid of anyone.

[the-ninja-legacy-whip]

In which the Marvell Siblings also attempt propaganda (they're not very good at it)

Miranda: ....(psst, Jesse, they're still here! Start the pitch!)

Jesse: O-Oh, what?! I though you were gonna do it—

Miranda: UGH, I have to do everything. *clears throat*

Miranda: Hey, you, random person on the internet!! Do you like polls?! Do you like making numbers go up?! Do you like clicking buttons?! Do you like having a say in things you don't even have a real opinion on?! Then have we got a poll for you!

Jesse: We're up against a real titan of a story/series (and it's like, suuuper well-written and dearly beloved. Very well deserved recognition!) and...we probably don't have the manpower to beat them, honestly ;w;

Miranda: But what kind of a competition would it be if we didn't at least try to put up a fight?! That's why we put our goal at getting to 40%- the perfect amount to keep up the heat, buuuut won't be totally embarrassing when if we get annihilated.

Jesse: We've crawled all the way up from a 69/22 split, and with the final days closing in and us being so close, we're attempting for another push forward! Who knows, we miiiight stand a chance...?

Miranda: Hence why I'm starting this hashtag: #CLOSETHEGAP!! Tell your friends!! Tell your friends' friends!! Tell a beloved mutual! Tell a complete stranger! Tell that guy that just joined yesterday! Tell the dude's that's been here for longer than you've been alive! Tell your children's children's children! Tell an alien! Or a shark! Or your pet! Get your grandma in on this!!!!

Jesse: (Please don't actually use that hashtag though. It's never gonna catch on anyway.)

Miranda: (Not with that attitude, hmph.) CLOSE THE GAP! CLOSE THE GAP! CLOSE THE GAP!

Jesse: I'm not chanting that.

Miranda: Anywaaaay, dear person of the interwebs, if you wanna be a statistic, or help out a friend, or wanna do something hilariously on brand for ninjago tumblr, or contribute to chaos, or have nothing better to do, or gain some fandom redemption from losing that tragic antigone poll or whatever–

Jesse: -or maybe you just happen to actually enjoy the story we're representing, which is greatly appreciated—

Miranda & Jesse: THEN CLOSE THE GAP, AND CAST YOUR VOTE TODAY!!

Miranda: (I toldja it would catch on >:3)

Jesse: ...(Ugh shut up)

Jesse: Just remember, keep it wholesome, keep it clean, and be a good sport regardless of outcome!

Miranda: And definitely don't be an asshole!!!

Jesse: Mira.

Miranda: What? I'm just setting the boundaries! It's just a poll; it's not that serious -_-)/

[collectoroflovelythings]

Tagged by @dapper-nahrwhale thanks sm

rules: put ur five fav character into a poll and let people vote and tag five people to do the same

I hate doing this cause I will judge your answers and get bitchy no matter who wins

Tagging: @audiodramatist @petrosapian (please open tumblr pretty please) @butchmechanism @rabbitmotifs @geekeryisafoot

[weekend-whip]

Ayo where’s this poll I’m hearing so much about

If you mean this one, it's a redo for Antigone vs Lloyd for Most Tragic Character due to some drama/suspected cheating/bad sportsmanship, and thus is an unrebloggable, unrepliable poll that is only able to be spread via word of mouth. It's only lasting 24 hours, so people are running at the speed of light to get their vote in! (Buuut I think we're losing ahaha. We had a nice start tho)

Orrrrrr maybe you mean this poll where Legacyverse (a story/series I just so happen to be the author of) is up against a story/series from DC for "Best Fanfiction" (of the moment). Right now we're not even aiming to win, just aiming to close the gap and get to 40%, so that way when if we lose it's not by an entire landslide djhgfdfghd. But it's been a very wholesome competition so far that I'm honored to have been apart of, and I'm pleased by all the support!!

#TotallyNotAShamelessPlug

[catboy-pentheus]

IT'S 9 AM THERE GOES ANTIGONE TO BE BURIED ALIVE

[youraveragedirtclod]

I feel like being apart of the whole Lloyd/Antigone thing is actually my peak. Being apart of Tumblr history is all I have. ANYWAYS EVERYONE PLEASE GO VOTE IN THE FINAL POLL!! LLOYD NEEDS TO WIN!!

[skybluesocks]

VOTE LLOYD PLEASE! The lego ninjago writers LOVE making this poor boy suffer. Like, just in season one he was just abandoned by his mother at a school specifically for evil children where he was bullied so bad he ran away, he has no one to look up to but his evil dad but he sucks so bad at being evil he's generally laughed at for it, it a literal child who ends up releasing a race of snake people he accidentally found who manipulate him, he joins the ninja but then gets kidnapped by the snake people and held prisoner, forced to do various dangerous tasks for them, almost dies in lava, becomes the green ninja with a massive, destiny on his shoulders he doesn't know how to live up to, his dad is back and they bond a little but his dad is still evil and leaves him again. Thats ONE season. Out of FIFTEEN! Vote Lloyd. Only so much tragedy can be contained in one play, and only so much tragedy can be contained in one 15 season show, but those are not equal amounts I assure you.

PROPAGANDA UNDER THE CUT: [SPOILERS AND POSSIBLE TRIGGERS AHEAD]

ANTIGONE:

LLOYD GARMADON:

[greatest-greek-games]

After several false starts and doubles, I've finally created the final bracket! If you see any doubles or mistakes on this, please tell me -- I think I've included all the enemies and submitted characters, but I'm still just the one person.

Voting will begin as soon as I can source good images and summaries for all the characters -- expect it to be within the week, hopefully sooner.

Full bracket under the cut in plaintext in case you can't read my handwriting.

Starting from the top left.

Electra versus Chiron.

Menelaus versus Phineus.

Paris versus Sinope.

Helen versus Alciabades.

Clytemnestra versus Cassandra

Hegelochus versus the Vultures That Eat Prometheus's Liver.

Agamemnon versus Homer.

Iphigenia versus Hippolytus.

Achilles versus Socrates.

Danaë versus Eurydice.

Ariadne versus Minos.

Asterion (The Minotaur) versus Theseus.

Aeneas versus Orpheus.

Heracles versus Hecuba.

Jason versus Medea.

Atalanta versus Aeolus.

Starting from the top right.

Antigone versus Creon.

Orestes versus Andromache.

Psyche versus Cadmus.

Diogenes versus Oedipus.

Icarus versus Daedalus.

Narcissus versus Hyacinth.

Perseus versus Medusa.

Bellerophon versus Hippolyta.

Dolon versus Odysseus.

Asclepius versus Philoctetes.

Penthesilea versus Autolycus.

Penelope versus Arachne.

Neoptolemus (Pyrrhus) versus Ascanius (Iulus).

Hector versus Diomedes.

Sisyphus versus Telemachus.

Eurylochus versus Patroclus.

[classicslesbianopinions]

ANCIENT WOMAN THUNDERDOME 2023: Official Bracket!!

[image description: a bracket titled Ancient Woman Thunderdome 2023. it lists 32 matchups between 64 women. all matchups are listed below. end image description.]

we have our final matches! clytemnestra, medea, antigone, and penelope are our most suggested, with honorable mentions to electra, circe, helen, and atalanta. i've seeded according to how many times each one was suggested, with more popular candidates going against less popular in the first round. HOWEVER, this is not a popularity contest! this is WHO WOULD WIN IN A FIGHT. please vote accordingly, with consideration of physical strength, mental acuity, and magical ability.

the first round matches are as follows (note: where people suggested a group, ie. maenads, sirens, i'm acting as if one representative from that group is in the fight):

Clytemnestra vs. Niobe Electra vs. Iphis Chrysothemis vs. Cassiopeia Iphigenia vs. Semele Procne vs. Creusa Callisto vs. Europa Daphne vs. Lysistrata Philomela vs. Andromeda

Penelope vs. Antiope Atalanta vs. Stheno Dido vs. Lavinia Penthesilea vs. Nausicaä Camilla vs. Anna Briseis vs. Lesbia Agave vs. Chryseis Phaedra vs. Charybdis

Antigone vs. one of Hephaestus' "golden fembots" Helen vs. Deianeira Ariadne vs. Eurydice (from Antigone) Hecuba vs. Iambe Andromache vs. Echo Eurydice (Orpheus' love) vs. Psyche Ismene vs. Tiresias Jocasta vs. Scylla

Medea vs. a siren Circe vs. Cressida Cassandra vs. Leda Medusa vs. a maenad Hippolyta vs. Galatea Arachne vs. Pasiphae Pandora vs. Danae Io vs. Calypso

i'm hoping to start the matches next week. the first round will be four polls a day for eight days; polls will last for one day until we get to round four with eight competitors/four matchups (at which point the polls will last a week).

[sexiestpodcastcharacter]

Podcast Sexybracket Voting: Round 6

Time for the finals!

Carlos the Scientist (Welcome to Night Vale) vs Cecil Palmer (Welcome to Night Vale)

Battle for third place: Antigone Funn (Wooden Overcoats) vs Lup (The Adventure Zone)

How should I vote?

In this bracket, don't worry about who's most popular on Tumblr or who meets a narrow definition of "sexyman"/"sexywoman"—just vote for whoever you, personally, think is sexiest.

What is this?

The sexiestpodcastcharacter mod is attempting an act of necromancy in order to satisfy þeir curiosity about how fictionpodsexyperson's bracket would have turned out had it finished. If anyone knows the identity of the fictionpodsexyperson's pollrunner, please do not bother them about this.* Like most acts of necromancy, this was done without their permission or respect to their clear wishes to rest in peace.

Curious about what came before?

So am I. Alas, a deactivated blog is a deactivated blog. I have the preliminaries and the Round 4 polls archived on my personal blog. I can tell you that all ties were satisfied with a coin-flip, but I do not remember which polls were tied.

The Round 5 masterpost is here.

*If by chance fictionpodsexyperson's pollrunner is reading this themselves, and they have a copy of their poll's submissions or any other data from their poll, I would love to have a copy and can be reached via gmail under wanderingandfound.

[p2ii]

Istg one day I will write a full paper on Lloyd garmadon y'all don't understand how important he is just cause hes a lego. he is everything actually

anyway please vote lloyd on this random poll (no pressure)

[angeldrawsstuffs]

(Prefacing with I am saying this all as a Ninjago fan who saw this from the Ninjago fandom’s side of things, and I don’t know what exactly happened on the Greek Tragedy side of things. If someone who does know what happened on that side can provide insight, please reblog! /gen)

Well, you see, long before time had a name… (/ref)

Basically when there was a shit ton of character tournaments going around Tumblr (this was when polls were new), there was a “Most Tragic Character” tournament, Lloyd Garmadon (Ninjago) and Antigone (Greek Tragedy) were the final two characters and both fandoms were getting intense trying to both argue their side and also trying to rally their fandoms to vote.

As is with any friendly competition when fandoms are rallied, things turned sour.

I can’t remember who dealt the first blow, but the first specific instance of unsportsmanlike behavior I can remember (if there was something before this that triggered it someone please reblog and let me know) when members of the Greek fandom began accusing the Ninjago fandom of misogyny because of the claim Lloyd, a male character, suffered more than Antigone, a female character, in his story (to my knowledge this was a claim largely perpetuated by those who hadn’t seen the show in a WHILE), and the Ninjago fandom then started accusing the Greek fandom of reaching and just using “misogyny” as a cop-out for not having any actual arguments. This, of course, just devolved into members of both sides making needlessly mean spirited arguments and insults at each other just for the hell of it.

Not long after, Antigone had a BIG jump in votes, leading to accusations of botting on their end. The Greek fandom said it was just because the poll was reblogged by a big account on their side, but the poll runner, not wanting to chance it that someone rigged the vote, made a new poll and eventually Antigone won.

Keep in mind it was a vocal minority on both sides who were making the needless and mean spirited digs at members of the other side in both fandoms. The majority of both sides, even the ones who were riled up in the heat of the moment (I myself fell into this category), weren’t the ones being petty and dickish. Both sides were at fault, but it was the vocal minority making it worse.

Eventually, peace was found and Lloyd and Antigone were both crowned winners after the dust settled (the runner made a new, for funsies poll after the official one specifically instructing people to vote Lloyd so both could take the crown).

Also people started shipping Lloyd with Antigone.

Hey lego ninjago fans, just a question nobody's in trouble, but what is "the antigone incident?"

[corgicon]

ATTENTION LOYAL FOLLOWERS;

please go to most-tragic-character-tournament and vote for my boy la lloyd garmadon in the rematch against antigone because it would be so so extremely funny if he won

GO FORTH MY PSIONIC WARRIORS