#round one

[billboard-hotties-tourney]

REMINDER: Vote for the ALBUM COVER that is HOTTER, not the hotter artist or the better cover/album

Propaganda for La Moglie Giapponese: none

Propaganda for Excitable Boy: "There is something about that side-eye look paired with those pouty, slightly parted lips that makes me want to smash my face against his."

[dyannawynnedayne]

Top Flop Fail King: Round 1.3

BRACKET LINK

Gwayne: art from The Housebook of the Lords of Hallwill

His Flops and Fails:

-Brought the Tyrells, who would eventually betray his house to the Targaryens, into his household and raised them up.

"They gave us seven gods, we gave them dirt and daughters[...]"

-AWOIAF, The Reach (just kind of a weird thing to say)

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Jonos: art from an Oxford Bible, ca. 1265

His Flops and Fails:

-Got his uprising put down by Aenys

-King of the Eyrie, still got thrown out the Moon Door, yikes

-Kinslayer

[fan-a-tink]

Why hello there :) In the mood for another tournament? I'm procrastinating a lot today, so I finished this way earlier than I thought. Over the next few tournaments, we're throwing all the characters, scenic shots, creatures and iconic lines back in the mix and we're going to determine the best gif/moment for each episode - starting today, with the gorgeous pilot episode! Ready, set, go :)

[artpollsblog]

Round 1 - Set 183

Left: Orange girl 1879 by Aukusti Uotila Description: painting of a young girl leaning on a table with a basket with oranges and a green cloth in front of her.

Orange girl 1879 by Aukusti Uotila. Oil on canvas. Accessed through Wikipedia Commons (link here).

Right: Hartwall Jaffa advertisment 1950s by Erik Bruun

This art is in copyright, you can access it through the artist website here.

Description: advertising poster showing an orange floating over a goblet with orange juice, the orange peel is half pulled off the orange and the slices are almost completly seperated giving the whole orange the look of a blooming flower, large drops of orange juice fall down, text on the goblet reads: Jaffa. the background is dark blue.

Propaganda: There is this cute motion graphic animation by Doma Harkai, for the Jaffa ad series by Bruun. Link to it on his website here.

Hartwall Jaffa advertisment 1950s by Erik Bruun. Poster print of painted design.

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Winners for Round One: Roots & Relics

Mycorrhizal fungus

Saimaa ringed seal

Coelacanth

Platypus

Pelican

Alligator Gar

Starry Sturgeon

Frilled Shark

Another great round! A minor upset in the fourth match, with the platypus outsting the asian forest tortoise, and the contest between the alligator gar and the cyanobacteria came down to a 1% margin! Very exciting stuff-- and it's only going to get even more competitive in the next round!

[juiceagainandagainandagain]

feeling themost normal ive felt in like 8 years vs i dont want to draw anymore hmmmmm

[shinypokemonpolls]

Regional Forms Tournament

Round One

[yuri-game-tournament]

Yuri VN Tournament Round One

Malcatras' Maiden vs Lilycle Rainbow Stage!!!

Info and propaganda under the cut! Not guaranteed to be spoiler-free

Malcatras' Maiden

Description/Propaganda: uhh super power battle maid.. the girls are so stupid becuase they are too gay.. puppy girl barfs in her childhood flashabck becauyse she needs mommy so bad.. yea gothic horror! or psychosexual thriller...? yes, this is malmaid

Additional Info/Content Warnings: Malcatras' Maiden is a game for adult audiences only. This work contains intense themes of toxic relationships, manipulation, child abuse, regular abuse, dubiously consensual sexual acts, incestuous themes and explicit bloody acts of heavy violence, including death and murder.

Lilycle Rainbow Stage!!!

Description/Propaganda: Super cute yuri VN with like 8 different couples (I don't remember how many there are but there are A Lot). The art style is gorgeous, there are so many beautiful character designs, and I really like some of the couples (esp Ibuki and Alice... Ibuki is my fav girl of all time, I love cute genki maids!!!)

Additional Info/Content Warnings:

This VN has some problematic content, including a romantic couple who are twins and a romance between a teacher and a student (the age gap is not suuuuper huge but still...) Since it has a lot of different couples, however, the majority of the couples are non-problematic and the romance is all genuinely cute and sweet.

[ciels-best-fit]

Round One - ♠️ - 16/16

Propaganda

Ghost Halloween - Boo! (i like this halloween outfit because ciel looks like a normal kid trick-or-treating).

Knighting Ceremony - I love the details in the outfit

[robthewonderful]

Miracles Happen At Round 1 | Rob Vs. The Claw

[rowinablx]

[billboard-hotties-tourney]

REMINDER: Vote for the ALBUM COVER that is HOTTER, not the hotter artist or the better cover/album

Propaganda for Cool Struttin': none

Propaganda for Wish You Were Here: none

[dyannawynnedayne]

Top Flop Fail King: Round 1.3

BRACKET LINK

Gaemon: art by addamvelaryon

His Flops and Fails:

uhh

-Went from pretender king to whipping boy :(

-When the guy you're forced to be friends with starts ignoring you

-Didn't make it into the double digits :(

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Torrhen: art from Histories and Lore

His Flops and Fails:

-Last Stark King

-Had an inn named after him, but like after his big L

-Lost arguments with Rhaenys about his daughters marriage

[lokius-kinkmeme]

Pinned Post

Prompt Post: Round One | Rules on Dreamwidth | FAQs on DW | FAQs for Tumblr | Collection on AO3 | Follow on X or Bluesky

All right, we are tentatively open for business here. Please visit the comm over on Dreamwidth for full rules and FAQs. Happy prompting!

KC Mod Edit: To clarify for anyone who is too young to know what a kinkmeme is - in that old-school lawless land, the only rule is the more prompts the better. Go nuts with our blessing.

[artpollsblog]

Round One - Set 174

Left: Helsinki South Harbour, 1925 by Hugo Backmansson

Description: painting of a busy harbor, with many sail and steam boats, stalls that sell stuff, many people, a few horse carriages and one cable car

Propaganda: i love the Colors and how busy it is!

Propaganda 2: It remainds me of an Illustration for a board game I loved to play with my Baby when he was younger

Propaganda 3: I find this transitional periods of history super interesting, here we have this large steam boats and a cable car but also horse drawn Coaches and sail boats

Helsinki South Harbour, 1925 by Hugo Backmansson. Oil on canvas. The art is 60 × 81 cm. The art is at the Finnish National Gallery (link to the art work here). The art was photographed by Joel Rosenberg.

Right: Storms or Degervik crown office at Kirkkonummi by Werner Holmberg

Description: painting of a landscape, in the middle of the art a few people are in a small both, in the background are buildings, at the side of the art are trees. The sky is blue and yellow with clouds gathering, the clouds are partly white and partly grey.

Propaganda: I am a big fan of the colors in this, despite the name Storms, the colors are mostly soft, clouds are getting darker but they are not yet filling the sky black and dark grey, there is a certain tension in it, with the people in the small boat being pretty out in the open and possible in danger if they are not quick enough, but despite it the feeling I feel seeing it is a postive one, maybe it is how it is a painting, how it is a safe little thrill like a roller coaster or a horror movie.

Storms or Degervik crown office at Kirkkonummi by Werner Holmberg. Oil on canvas. The art is 39 × 55,5 cm. The art is in the Finnish National Gallery (link to the art here). The art was photographed by Kirsi Halkola.

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Winners for Round One: The Only Ones

Addax

Spotted-necked Otter

Maned wolf

Chacoan Peccary

Marsh Mongoose

Puma

Indri

Saiga

No major upsets this round, but that may change in Round 2!