#round 1 d

[musicaltheatregirlsandsongs]

Musical Theatre Song Contest: Round One D

Submitter’s propaganda under the cut

One Day More

Those final notes where the whole cast is singing in unison get me every time I swear

Literally iconic. The most musical theatre song. Incorporates nearly every main character in the show with a solo, all at the same time. Lots of stage choreography and marching, which I can tell you is a huge pain to organize for some reason. Also, Les mis is a prominent story, not just with the song structure but with the themes. And there's a revolution and flag waving! Just well done.

It's unique in the way that the full cast sings completely different parts yet are all still unified in the way that it ties all of the different storylines together.

[its-to-the-death]

Battle of the Gingers Bracket D Round 1

Red Fraggle (Fraggle Rock) vs Chuuya Nakahara (Bungou Stray Dogs)

[badass-queer-couples-battle]

Propaganda:

For Bingqiu: "One is a housewife and the other is a trophy wife. They both want to be each other's wife so bad (even though Shen Qingqiu would never admit it)"

"Where do I even start... Housewife x trophy wife. Every gender havers. Shen Qingqiu can't decide if he himself is wife or mommy, but is convinced his husband is a delicate lovesick maiden. Luo Binghe has self-assigned himself all of the wifely duties of an ancient Chinese wife years before Shen Qingqiu has become remotely aware of his crush. Also later in the novel he acts like a jealous girlfriend. And specifically girlfriend, like it was an important part of his arc that he stopped acting like a jealous boyfriend and started acting like a jealous girlfriend instead. This has won him his man."

"They're insane, fucking unhinged"

For Vashwood: "themes... *coughs blood* motifs... *dies*"

"Doomed romance, is there anything more yuri than that?"

"the trigun fandom has been calling a specific few chapters of the manga "hospital yuri", i think because while they were in that hospital vash and wolfwood had massive lesbians energy XD"

"So Much gender, Vash is somehow both cis and a trans man and a trans woman all at the same time. they both keep sacrificing themselves for the other which is inherently yuri. they're fighting against the narrative imposed on them by people who want to see them fail, that's yuri too. they even had many heart-to-heart discussions about life and death and defending oneself and the necessity of violence and protecting other people and forgiving oneself or the other. yuri."

[onepiece-polls]

One Piece Crack Ship War - Round 1 Side C

'Pepsi shipping' art by @orange-artist

Propaganda under the cut.

Foxy Grandpa: After submitting my previous ship, I thought of the ship name, thought, "Oh that's cursed", and therefore had to inflict the curse unto others. God please let this get eliminated round 1. The world is a cruel and unfeeling place if it allows this to exist as a thought in human minds for longer than the bare minimum amount of time.

Pepsi shipping: Daddy issues + fun hair colors + she'd sing and he'd play guitar + Sanji would cry.

[dumbass-duo-showdown]

DUMBASS DUO SHOWDOWN ROUND 1 BATTLE 1

Money D. Luffy & Roronoa Zoro aka Zolu (one piece) vs GoodtimeswithScar & Grian aka Desert duo (hermitcraft)

BOTH OF THEM HAVE SO MUCH PROPAGANDA, SO THEY GOT THEIR OWN POST INSTEAD

Zoro & Luffy's propaganda

Desertduo propaganda

[best-ducktales-episode]

ROUND #1

[qprsmackdown]

Gillion, Chip, and Jay (JRWI Riptide) vs Tommy, Tubbo, and Ranboo (DSMP)

Propaganda beneath the cut!

Gillion, Chip, and Jay propaganda: They're three gay ass pirates who; despite coming from very different backgrounds, found eachother and formed the riptide pirates! All three of them are co-captains on their crew and they're trying to destroy the government HI HI HI I ALREaDY SUBMITTED FISH AND CHIPS AND IN THIS AREA I tALKED ABOUT HOW I WISHED JAY WAS ALLOWED AND THEN I SAW YOU ANSWER THAT ASK THAT SAID YOU CAN HAVE MORE THAN 2 PEOPLE SO IM SUBMITTING THE ALBATRIO INSTEAD THANK YOU LOVE YOU Gillion is canonically asexual and shipped with both Jay and Chip respectively. I just think they are all very queer and platonically in love is all. I love polyamory. Put those guys in a relationship.

Benchtrio propaganda: My friend wrote a fanfiction detailing their platonic relationship from childhood friends to spouses. It is over 1 million words long. Pls he needs this

my good friend sunny wrote over 1million words of fanfiction about them that was so good it permanently altered my brain chemistry. also i think the feat of over 1mil words is worth the win (:

Ranboo and Tubbo are canonically married, semi-canonically platonically so. Tubbo and Tommy have known each other for years, and have an understanding of each other that no one else does. Tommy and Ranboo went through a very awkward and begrudging beginning of their friendship, but Ranboo would go on to make Tommy's grave when he died.

I want to start off by stressing that these 3 are characters and are not at all connected to the real world creators that portrayed them aside from having the same name.

c!Ranboo and c!Tubbo were canonically married, with the nature of their marriage being largely ambiguous and up for interpretation! They live together in a mansion with their adopted child, Michael, a tiny baby piglin! c!Tommy was never an official part of their marriage, but the three spent so much time together(before the series' writing took a very unfortunate turn due to behind the scenes stuff) that they might as well have been a qpr polycule! It is confirmed that c!Ranboo(an 8'5 foot tall enderman hybrid) can only look 2 people directly in the eyes with it being STRONGLY implied those 2 people were c!Tommy and c!Tubbo! Their relationship didn't get as much time as it needed due to the series's unfortunate downturn near the end, but while it was there, it was a very comforting, very tender relationship between 3 traumatized young queer teens who were their for one another through their journeys in healing from their various traumas. Also one time c!Tommy and c!Ranboo got high together in a tiny smoke box they made(they also met when Ranboo hit him on the head with a giant flower. An allium, to be specific!).

[paladin-tourney]

Round 1, Side A - Cassandra Pentaghast (Dragon Age: Inquisition) vs. Kaladin Stormblessed (The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson)

Propaganda:

Cassandra Pentaghast (Dragon Age: Inquisition)

Cassandra is the Right Hand of the Divine, essentially the sword arm of the fantasy pope. She's also a member of the Seekers of Truth, whose job is to root out corruption within the church... Currently with less than excellent results and methods. When she finds out about the corruption within her own order, she purges the whole thing because she still believes in its ideals of truth, honor, and justice. She also kicks off the events of the game by leading an investigation into the Divine's death and can possibly become the Divine at the end! By and by she's an incredible warrior with a good heart who lives by her creed to the best of her ability, even when (especially when) it hurts to do it. She's not perfect, but she's willing to learn from her mistakes. Also, she's really into trashy romance and is really embarrassed when anyone finds out. I love her so much.

Kaladin Stormblessed (The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson)

No propaganda submitted.

[sylebs]

GET OUT OF MY FUCKIN FAAAAACE JFBDKJDBDKD

[silverskye13]

Had a terrible dream that my DnD character almost died for real forever in our DnD session last night.

....... Wait.

[musicaltheatregirlsandsongs]

Musical Theatre Song Contest: Round One D

Submitter’s propaganda under the cut

Gethsemane (I Only Want To Say)

Genuinely moving piece of theater, making a religious argument, but also humanizing this figure of Jesus Christ in such a way as to force the audience to really consider their relationship with religion. Or maybe that's just me idk

musically this song has everything—killer high rock vocals, banger instrumentation, emotional lyrics. it’s about jesus crying and cursing at god, being pathetic and angry and sad. extremely cathartic for ex-religious folk

Feast or Famine

it’s actually such a banger and we all know ensemble songs are great <3 it’s easily the best song in the show and this is not just me speaking it is genuinely like the fan favorite !!

"You never should settle for the lifetime that is handed to you", "He's my little boyfriend"

It's an anti-capitalist show and this is an anti-capitalist song, it's quite early on in the show so doesn't explicitly state that the attitude they're depicting is bad (that comes later on) but perfectly directs the audience into thinking it themselves. Especially the extra in the trench coat's glorious cry of "Chaos Reigns". This song is the best critism if consumerism in America ever and it was written by the people who made Me and My Dick.

[its-to-the-death]

Battle of the Gingers Bracket D Round 1

Annie Warbucks (Annie 1982) vs Gren (The Dragon Prince)

[lonelypoe]

“My god”

I love these doomed lesbians so much 🥹❤️

[latine-showdown]

[best-ducktales-episode]

ROUND #1

[i-lived-bitch-beatdown]