#poll the fandom and all. etc etc etc.

[buggachat]

Basically, what's your favorite non-cat-related Adrien lovesquare petname?

[ariadne-mouse]

For a simple example, something with a low size of environment, high animosity and ardor, and high length of time, could result in "enemies to lovers stuck in an elevator". I will interpret the final results however is funniest.

[aimfor-theheart]

**an example of this is how sukuna is referred to as the king of curses. or wolfwood is referred to as the punisher. i am asking about reader having one of those sort of titles/aliases rather than say, a common nickname like Baby or Dove or something.

[eloquentsisyphianturmoil]

Daily affirmations: you are not a failure if you get ‘whosthatsilmcharacter’ wrong.

[mleemwyvern]

this is now an anti-moon blog

[flashhwing]

the favorite female rpg romance poll. I know she won’t but if Isabela doesn’t win I’m gonna cry scream and throw up

[carmendeiact2whenplz]

Question- If you take a preexisting fictional character in a fandom but either add things to them or change them to the point where they are difficult to recognize, is that an oc?

Especially for fictional characters that have very little canon material to go off of- you can keep their name, their time period/fictional world, and some of their canon actions but add enough to make them a fully fledged character, leaving them unrecognizable to anyone but the most hardcore fans of said character

[chanrizard]

"omg they're having this debate fully uncensored???!?!" babe who the fuck cares dmdbdjebdjeb it's a stupid poll

[nomaishuttle]

well nvm gets scared. made a poll but now im scared bc its music based

[charcubed]

How is this poll so close??? This is about fandom HISTORY and our flag means death came out LAST YEAR

Like what the fuck

Have we all collectively forgotten that this is literally the CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (2014) WEBSITE

Have we all forgotten the fucking origins of many impactful fandom and cultural things such as “I think we deserve a soft epilogue my love”????

AO3 Top Relationships Bracket- Round 2 Side 1

This poll is a celebration of fandom history; we're aware that there are certain issues with many of the listed pairings and sources, but they are a part of that history. Please do not take this as an endorsement, and refrain from harassment.

[deconstructivesurgery]

recent post has made me think about the fact that i haven't given myself a proper laptop background yet. SO. multi-fandom battle for my display space GO

[phantomrose96]

I'm thinking about Tumblr Live again and ruminating on WHY it's such a huge flop and I think I've figured it out: They've completely refused to make it a tumblr feature...

By which I mean (begrudgingly goes to unsnooze Tumblr live) this:

^This is meant with zero insult or derision to the people above, but these are absolutely not Tumblr users.

Every single thumbnail I've ever seen for Tumblr live seems to say "This is for clout!" "This is for a thirst trap!" "This is for influencers!" "This is for Tiktok wannabe stars!" "This is for showing your pretty filtered face and reaping what people on Instagram and Tiktok are desperately chasing!"

I'm remembering that Reddit has (or had) livestreams you could tune into like this. I've tapped into some. Ones I remember offhand include:

a guy just wandering around downtown in his city silently showing people the streets and stuff

a guy streaming his attempt to beat the last level of Celeste

a guy streaming his dog he was petting

And that, that was Reddit. That was undoubtedly just regular Reddit users going "oh stream feature? yeah okay. here's my dog." "here's my video game." "here's my street corner in Prague."

And when I think of all the recent successful Tumblr features, they're all things that correctly tapped into actual Tumblr user interests. Blaze had people go "haha yeah here's my dog." "here's my advertisement for a horse lawyer (lawyer who is a horse)." They let us buy crabs because, fuck it, crabs. The blue checkmarks were funny. Polls turned into the fandom brackets people have desperately wanted to make for a decade+. I'd wager the merch that calls on old Tumblr memes is at least decently successful.

If Tumblr Live wanted the chance to be successful, it should have been angled toward Tumblr users. "Here, you can livestream your cat if you want." "You can livestream yourself working on some fanart and chatting." "You can livestream yourself going bird watching because birds are your hyperfixation and you can identify them all by their song to all your followers who want to tune in for bird facts."

But Tumblr Live has never tried to be that. It ONLY seems like it wants to be a Tiktok-clone, Instagram-clone, clout-chaser baited-hook trying to pull converts over from Tiktok/Insta/etc who are trying to grow their influencer brand, which Tumblr is lethally hostile to.

(And ALL of this is only touching on the concept behind what's happening here. I haven't even touched on the third-party streaming service and questionable data protection.)

Like fine, I guess I get it from a business model of trying to grow your userbase--since catering to your existing userbase doesn't pull in new meat. But this will not work. Because anyone, tumblr-native or not, trying to grow themselves as an influencer will NOT find success here. This place is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. Nothing valued is here. What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. We will not watch your Shein haul stream.

[mylittleredgirl]

thinking about the poll about canon vs non-canon ships that didn't define terms, and the current fandom focus on things "going canon," so i made up a scale.

this is NOT a question about whether canon matters to what you ship (or matters at all), just how to define the phrase "canon ship."

many ships start low on the scale and slow burn their way up, so vote for the point when you would have called them "canon." i agonized over the order (especially #4-6) for a day and a half, but i went with the order in which i think joe random with a nielsen ratings box and no tumblr account would notice/call something a romantic relationship.

[theminecraftbee]

being in true sexyman nostalgia mode today (on account of. IT'S BEEN ONE YEAR BABY.) i think one of the most fascinating things about it is that we will never manage to do that again. like, not in a "we couldn't organize it better" way; there were better ways to do the spreadsheet, we would just turn off comments on posts and anon asks from day one so that we wouldn't then get people accusing us of censorship while we tried and failed to control the tide of things that ended up in the comments and inbox, we'd definitely have a WAY higher non-hermit contingent, both thanks to qsmp and thanks to the sexyman blog and medusa now having MUCH wider reach to other corners of the fandom and the original spread not all rooting at me, etc.

but the reason we couldn't do it again is that i don't know if we could ever replicate the exact circumstances that lead to it blowing up quite to the extent it blew up.

it was while tumblr polls and doing tumblr poll brackets on tumblr itself was still new-ish, and people were still excited about them. the idea of a mcytblr bracket was basically brand new; i won't claim we did it FIRST (because i have no idea if we did and doubt we did), but certainly we did it big first. so there's that; we can never again invent in real time "shit people are sending us threats about fraud lets legalize fraud because its funny, we can't stop it, and that neutralizes that drama as a thing anyone will take seriously", and then in turn accidentally invent a fandom culture of. um. wide-spread voter fraud.

(i don't know if we should apologize for, uh, causing the specific way mcytblr voter frauds. i still think it was better than the alternative at least, especially after seeing how so many other polls crashed and burned after us. there were MANY things we could have done better but i have seen SO MANY ways we could have done things worse since then so i think we came out looking pretty okay.)

but also: february 2023 was a very different time in mcytblr. we were in a hermitcraft dead period, where most of the hermits were either on vacation or playing tcg (which was fun, but didn't end up generating that much fandom activity by that time in february). the former dsmp crew was very much doing Nothing (and in that awkward space when the entire fandom knew dsmp 2 was never happening, but also people were still claiming it would happen, so it was just... busy waiting). qsmp didn't exist yet. there was no ongoing life series and wouldn't be for some time. i think even the dominioners and lifestealers were in a fairly dead zone. there was very little new for people to be excited about, mcyt content-wise.

enter: our poll. our poll which cleo then thinks its funny to call out on twitter. our poll, which was not only new mcyt content for the fandom to interact with (thanks to the fact we KEPT GETTING CC INTERACTIONS???), but participatory.

for about two weeks, we were the mcyt event de jour.

and like. the thing is. now we're in february 2024. mcyt is BOOMING. a new hermitcraft season JUST STARTED. we came off of vault hunters before that. meanwhile, qsmp just restarted and is, if i'm understanding correctly, booming. they just added a new guy! the two current juggernauts of the fandom are in FULL SWING. i honestly think we'd be somewhat overtaken by the fact things are actually happening in fandom. there's stuff to do that ISN'T go insane about a poll.

and it's not new, and we've seen it all before now, and frankly, it's hard to cause a mass hysteria event TWICE. lightning in a bottle, as they say.

i think part of the reason we all just REMEMBER mcytblr sexyman so much is that we could never, ever recreate it, so it remains crystalized in a single moment in time, impossible to replicate, forever memorable.

anyway: HAPPY ONE YEAR TO THE JOE HILLS SWEEP BABY,

[bisexualbaker]

You know what...

I am genuinely curious now! This is not a judgement thing (again, I am very much a "read and write what you like, fictional people can't be hurt in reality" person), I really do just want to know what's more popular.

Pick whichever one you prefer to read/watch/etc; consuming only, not creating. I may do a sibling poll that includes both creating and consuming after this one closes. If what you like depends on your mood, you can pick either the one that you gravitate to more often, or the one you feel more strongly about. If your preference is for really hardcore stuff that's consensual, vote Comfort.

My impression is that Hurt is somewhat more popular in fandom, because a lot of people really, really love how pretty their blorbos are when all beat up and crying and helpless, but that Comfort has more fans than you'd expect. But it could also be an Ideal Peach Ripeness situation, where Comfort is more popular, but fans of Hurt are just waaaay more rabid/vocal about it. Which is why I'm curious about it, to be honest!

Reblog for sample size etc etc.

Edit: For further clarification, all instances are assumed to have both hurt and comfort. Vote for your preference of which one has more screen time in hurt/comfort stories.