#pollrunner musings

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Primarily knowing Jonathan Bailey as the English voice of G'raha Tia gets funnier and funnier the more successful he becomes.

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I think if I do the closet key bracket next-next I'm not going to run any of my own closet keys because I literally could not bear to see them lose and they absolutely would lose

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in a new time zone now 👍 if my reblogging of propaganda and posting of polls seems weirder that's probably why

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I for one am very excited for the vacation expansion. I'm sure we'll get to just chill out with our friends and nothing will go wrong.

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I swear I reblogged this here on purpose

AITA for this disagreement with some of my friends/colleagues?

So I(40s F) used to work in local level government. I quit to pursue other career opportunities because of burnout, but they asked me to stay on in an official-unofficial advisory capacity, and I'm still pretty close with the current office holders, particularly the current occupant of my former office (A, 30s X). Their boyfriend (H, 30s M), who also works there, isn't fond of me but more or less tolerates me when they're around, which is okay enough. Both their job and my current one necessitate a lot of travel, so it's not often an issue.

Things run pretty smoothly, overall, and I do think the entire city council has the people's best interests at heart. However, recently a natural disaster devastated our area and caused a lot of disagreement over how best to deal with it, and frankly the proposal that was eventually put forward was an awful one that would return a privileged few (about 25% of the population, after estimating numbers) to a semblance of normalcy while neglecting the other 75%. Neither A nor I are willing to back the group's play on this one, for what I feel are obvious reasons. A has gone completely no contact with all of us and I don't even know where they are right now, which aside from worrying me a lot, also hurt my position in the discussion since I officially hold no office anymore.

So I took pretty decisive action to stop them, and now three of our original council (H, plus other members E and L) are extremely pissed off at me and are trying to rally the rest to oppose me, while making some extremely shortsighted and harmful moves in the process that will hurt a lot of people. They don't seem to care, however. It's like they consider the majority lesser human beings and only care about that privileged 25%. I don't think I did everything right, but I did my best. We have to let go of the past and make the best of what we have now, for everyone's sake. No more shall man have wings to bear him to paradise. Henceforth, he shall walk.

AITA for sundering reality into fourteen reflections to stop my coworkers? Or should they have accepted that their paradise is gone, and ceded the reflections to their new fragmented, imperfect inhabitants?

What are these acronyms?

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Fordola and Lyse should be at the club.

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Reblogged that Laika post to the wrong blog, but I'm gonna leave it up in honor of the goodest dog

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The thing about getting a degree in library science when you also play Critically Acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV is that you catch yourself repeatedly talking to the mammets in the library in Sharlayan desperately trying to figure out how their classification system works.

Please Square put this in a book somewhere I need to know

Edited to add that I need to know how Ishgard does it too. You can't tell me those isolationist snobs haven't developed their own system. Probably named it after some saint or another.

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Take heart, my friend. We're almost there

God 4am EST canNOT get here fast enough

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Glad to see people are enjoying the job trainer polls so far.

To address a couple of comments I've seen: don't worry, the pre-level 30 class trainers will get their time in the sun

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Comments on the Fordola poll make me feel like I should just say

1) all the propaganda is coming from submissions on the original forms (with one exception that'll show up later; no I'm not telling you which one)

2) I am aware of the War Crimes

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Would you believe that I didn't realize I was doing the Fandaniel Punch or Hug right after the Hermes one until just now

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So... I'm in a tournament.

Hellooo everybody!!. Here are the 64 tournament blogs chosen.

Below the cut of course

@ao3topshipsbracket

@autismswagsummit

@best-kirby-character-tournament

@best-tournament-blog-bracket

@bestfictionaldinosaur

@besttropeveershowdown

@bl-bracket

@champsinthemaking

@companion-showdown

@controversial-blorbo-bracket

@dysfunctional-family-fight

@fandom-march-madness

@fictional-gods-tournament

@fictional-twink-bracket

@foodfightbrackets

@freaky-fellers-tourney

@fuck-you-upmusicbracket

@gay-disabled-characters-showdown

@gimmick-blog-bracket

@girllbossmalewifeduos

@goverment-agency-bracket

@guess-that-ship

@haveyouseenthisseries-poll

@historical-fashion-polls

@horriblehistories-shabbyshowdown

@hot-take-tournament

@its-to-the-death

@mcytblingsbracket

@misrepresentedmorallygrey

@most-tragic-character-tournament

@mosthuggableffxiv

@mythologyolympics

@npd-characters-tournament

@ourpokemonteamtournament

@outfitpolls

@pennysperfectpolls

@pokemonbattletournament

@pokemonunderdogtournament

@pokepollsters

@pollsonmorenichetopics

@princesspoll

@quote-tournament

@sea-creature-tournaments

@sexiestpodcastcharacter

@sexyman-de-lempire-tournament

@ship-colour-scheme-showdown

@strangest-blorbo-tourney

@surprise-its-polls

@tbcu-polls

@the-owl-house-blorbo-brawl

@theultimatejackoff

@tourneys-by-me

@ultimate-character-design

@ultimatepokemontournament

@underratedmhapoll

@undertale-ost-tournament

@variouspolltournaments

@vgtrackbracket

@weeb-polls-with-pip

@who-do-i-know-this-man

@who-do-i-know-this-man-s4

@worst-fictional-places-to-work

@yall-hate-kids-tourney

@yen-sids-tournament

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So... anyone else learn that they've been pronouncing Igeyorhm wrong this whole time?

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My Seto propaganda: think of your beloved pet. Now imagine you haven't been able to see your beloved pet for a hundred years, and in that time, your pet grew. They grew, and grew, and heard the terrible things people said about you, and even gained the ability to speak to finally tell you "I love you as much as you love me" - but you're no longer there. You never will be. And all they can think is, "if only I was able to speak sooner. I could have stood by your side to the end. I could have told you that I cared about you when it mattered." And even a hundred years later, to them, you are still their beloved partner in crime.

NOW LOOK ME IN THE EYES AND TELL ME SETO DOESN'T DESERVE A HUG.

Thank you for making me sad about my parents' last dog.

RIP Fritz, you were a sweetie

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Saw some stuff happening on another poll tournament blog and it just made me think about how happy I am that things never really got super weird or controversial or discourse-y during the punchability or huggability tournaments (well, okay, maybe a little with the tie stuff in huggability). Thanks for being cool, y'all.