#prelim season

[notesbyash]

10.10.24

As anxiety grows so too do notes on the wall. I feel as though they will grow to consume me, as though the fear will consume me. Wash over and through and leave someone else in my stead.

Is it strange to say that I’m curious to see what of me remains?

🎶 Dance of Death - Andrew Bird

[fictional-gods-tournament]

Prelims

Fandom: Friends at the Table

Character's info under the cut

Rigour (wiki)

Domains: Extraction, exploitation, capitalism

Samol (wiki1, wiki2)

Domains: Nature, the world, physicality itself

Propaganda:

what if the world was a grumpy old man who looked like a black david bowie and his best friend was the angriest hobbit you've ever seen

Adelaide Tristé (wiki)

Domains: death / the afterlife

Propaganda:

The god of death was originally her father Tristero, but when her brother Angelo was killed, the throne passed to him, and then when she was killed (by the same woman) she took control. Eventually she creates a permanent afterlife for the dead to pass on to and enters a poly relationship with the woman who killed her. She's a bitch and I love her

Samot (wiki1, wiki2)

Domains: wolves, knowledge, books, wine, leisure

Propaganda:

He was originally a being of pure entropy who became a god after he stole another god's name. Also, he is so so so divorced

Samothes (wiki1, wiki2)

Domains: invention, the sun, tools, the forge

Propaganda:

The only god whose incarnations are distinguished by Doritos flavor. He and his husband got so divorced that it started a war that culminated in his son killing him with a cursed sword and taking his place

[characterswithcolorsnamesfight]

Prelim Poll 13

Propaganda here

*Whitman. It's corrected in the tags

[fjordfolk]

rlly torn abt whether to actually pursue that major CC for troj for a championship (very few shows that give them, most very far away, very high entry numbers, mostly allround judges which tends to not be Troj's audience) or just idk. retire her for now, bring her back out in 4yrs time as a veteran if she ages well

[mirastudiesphysics]

2024-12-06

Day 6 of whatever I'm doing. Old photos from a walk from a few months back. My advisor apparently responds very fast to anything besides email, so now I have a week for the prelim that works for three professors. Next it's time to get a random fourth professor and pray I can find a time that works. I drafted that email and scheduled it for monday morning (so it appears at the top of the inbox after the weekend).

Also made a little progress on running some new data. It's stored in a different way so I have to relearn how to format it.

On top of that I read a class paper for a friend and gave feedback. It was a cool topic so it honestly was a nice break from my usual stuff.

My goal for the rest of the weekend is to make slides for an informal talk on monday. The only attendees really are the professors on my committee and their students, so my (not so) secret plan is to do a rough version of what I might do for the actual prelim so I can get some kind of feedback. I also don't think they know what I do for research, so this will also act as a primer :)

[bestestspirit]

(2 winners)

[captainsvscaptains]

Prelims

Poll B

[redandyellowbracket]

I've got a ton of pokemon submissions so... anyone up for a prelim? Top three go up against the three human pair submissions I got

[lifeofafangirl1]

My first ever set of exams start tomorrow…

[sobbing-quietly]

Today everyone in marching band is getting pulled out of class before fourth period which isn’t really a problem sense everyone basically has a study hall class tomorrow that they make up work.

The funny thing is that my fourth period is German which means three things

1) it’s already a smaller class

2) almost half the class does marching band

3) if the only people missing are from marching band I can practically hear my my teacher “ Oh! Meine Guta! (Which basically means oh my gosh)

Really there’s it like 17-18 people in class and seven of us are in marching band but what’s even weirder is how people have or had played an instrument it’s like all but three which is insane

[fazcinatingblog]

Fazzyyyyyy

[thestarmaker]

YAYYY BLACK DRAGON

[devildomwriter]

Nightbringer Chapter 58 Takeaways

• Simeon is still human and human genes have to ability to go to angel or demon.

• A special potion is needed to help transform Simeon back to fully human and erase the demon DNA rooted in him still.

• The special trip Solomon went on in the beginning of the season was to collect the ingredients needed for this potion.

• Leviathan’s prelim experiment for the SF is going to be helping Simeon eliminate the genes that could turn him into a demon again

• Leviathan remembers a moment from the altered past with MC when they return to the caves where they found Cerberus.

• Mammon’s heroism in protecting his brothers before lucifer arrived is finally acknowledged

• Raphael very casually mentions MC becoming an angel after their death. Raphael is also trying to partake in the Devildom Biology SF

• Simeon is willing to risk death to become an angel again and return to the Celestial Realm. Lucifer is extremely worried about him.

[wasted-women]

Going into this poll, I did not realize that in Netflix's Castelvania adaptation Lisa was resurrected before the end of the final season. So, I will not allow the version of Lisa from Netflix's Castelvania to be in the tournament because she came back to life.

However, considering that Lisa has won the poll, I will allow the original video game version into the tournament.

LISA TEPES (VIDEO GAME) HAS WON AND SO WILL BE COUNTED IN THE TOURNAMENT

PRELIMINARY ROUND, MATCH 6!

Cause of death: Burnt at the stake by the Church for practicing "witchcraft".

Propaganda:

[None Submitted]

[bestestspirit]

(2 winners)

[bl-bracket]

Congrats to Kurosawa for winning Greenest Flag in a BL Season 2!!!

And so our second rematch bracket has come to a close! This was the most characters I've had submitted to a bracket before (and probably the most submissions as well lol) which lead to a massive prelim round that was incredibly competitive (in case anyone was wondering, a character needed to have at least 37% more "yes" votes than "no" votes in order to make it in) (compared to poorest little meow meow which was -15%, least rizz which was 3.1%, msot unhinged was 15.8%, and #1 himbo was 6.1%) (so yes MUCH higher bar to pass through prelims this time)

Anyways, I want to give a special congratulations to Kurosawa from Cherry Magic for winning this season against such difficult competition! He actually came in second place in the first season, so it was fitting for him to win this time!

Though of course, his competition in the final round this time (and winner of the loser bracket) was a very special character to him....

That's right! Himself! Karan from Cherry Magic Thailand took the second place crown. In case you're not aware, Karan is the equivalent character to Kurosawa in the Thai adaptation of Cherry Magic, meaning that the only person that Karan lost to was a different version of himself! Truly cementing this character as one of the greenest flags out there!

Thank you to everyone who participated and bared with me as I struggled to maintain a posting schedule! We will be having our Ultimate Green Flag Battle with our winners from both seasons going on now, as well as the poll for the next bracket topic! Hope to see y'all then!