#round one

[wlwdcchampionship]

wlw DC championship - Round one!

[shinypokemonpolls]

Round One

[ID: Two images of shiny pokemon. On the left is 50% zygarde who is white and teal. On the left is zangoose who has blue markings with orange claws. End ID]

[purpleboytournament]

[fan-a-tink]

Sorry for the longer wait; real life has taken over and I was struggling to find the time to make these gifs. But here we are!! And we have 32 lovely gifs to look at and 16 difficult decisions to make :) For this tournament, we are determining the most iconic, most sassy, most brutally honest Edwin line ✨ I'm literally buzzing with excitement, I hope you like it! As always, the other choices are in the reblogs, and you have 24 hours to cast your votes :) Let's goooo!

[artpollsblog]

Wounded Angel 1903 oil on canvas by Hugo Simberg

Description: painting showing two boys carrying an angel on an improvised litter. The angel is dressed in white, with white wings with two red scratches visable on one. The angels hair is long and blond, and they have a bandage wrapped around their eyes. Both hands hold onto the litter, but they also hold some snowdrops in one hand. One boy is looking at the viewer with an unhappy expression. They are walking on a brown road beside brown fields with some white flowers scattered on them. There s a bush and a stream running into an lake in the background. In the far background the ground rises out of the lake and two chimneys are visable in a notch.

Propaganda: To quote wikipedia: "The procession passes through a recognisable landscape, that of Eläintarha, Helsinki, with Töölönlahti Bay in the background.[6]" First of all I love when a place is depicted in a way that it is very regonicable for people familar with it, this realness of space gives such personal context. But to quote further "In Hugo Simberg's time, the park was a popular spot for leisure-time activities among the working classes. At the time, many charity institutions were located in Eläintarha park; in The Wounded Angel, the healthy boys are carrying the injured girl towards the Blind Girls' School and the Home for Cripples [sic]." I think both the disability and the working class aspect are very interesting - like look at the boys clothes (the boots of one of them and the ill fitting suit of the other) I do not know what could hurt an angel, but two very ordinary children, are taking care of them, and that touches me.

Propaganda 2: The art is referenced in the music video for "Amaranth" by Nightwish, from 2007. Nightwish is a finnish band (link to the music video here: Warning for flashing lights and quick cuts!)

The wounded angel 1903 by Hugo Simberg. Oil on canvas. The art is 127 cm × 154 cm (50 in × 61 in). The art is at the Finnish National Gallery (link to the art here). This version was accessed though Wikipedia Commons (link here).

The Garden of Death 1896 by Hugo Simberg

Description: A mostly yellow painting shows three skeletons, clad in black robes, tending to a garden. The skeleton closest to the viewer is watering the plants; the skeleton in the middle of the painting hugs a flower to its chest; the last skeleton is turned away from the viewer.

Propaganda: I love this painting. It's one of my favourite art pieces ever, and I adore it for much the same reason I love the Deaths from Discworld and Sandman. The Garden of Death personifies death not as something scary, but as gentle, peaceful, nurturing.

Propaganda 2: what can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the reaper man? - Reaper Man, Discworld, by Terry Prattchet.

Propaganda 3: It look so incredible tender and warm, with the golden light that is most of the art (beside the white bones and black robes), I specially love the skeleton holding (hugging!) the blue flower. There is also a fresco version in the Tampere Cathedral, which is a less bright golden color and more muted with more contrast with the green grass in the background.

The Garden of Death 1896 by Hugo Simberg. Watercolor and gouache. The art is 16 cm × 17 cm (6.3 in × 6.7 in). The art is at the Finnish National Gallery (link to the art here). This version was accessed through Wikipedia Commons (link here).

[jessequinnfirstofhername]

The Rules:

Every twenty-four hours there will be another round. After every round, the character in last place will be eliminated.

If there are multiple characters tying for last place, there will be a special elimination round. In these rounds, every character in last place will be eliminated, even if all the characters have tied equally.

When there are only two characters remaining, they will face off against one another in a week-long poll to determine the victor.

If the character that you consider the hottest isn't listed here, hit the 'what about ___???' option and reply to this post with the overlooked character. The character with the highest 'write-in' votes will be added to the next round. Unless the 'what about ___???' option is the least voted for, in which case it will be eliminated.

This is all for fun. Don't take it too seriously ;)

It's time to get thirsty, everyone! Happy voting!

[best-train-conductor-competition]

Everyone said not to separate them

[pattern-of-the-year]

First Angel of Light by Lavender and Lace

Propaganda: My mother loves these patterns. This one is my favorite, and it always makes me think of her

Bless Your Heart by Studio Ansitru

Propaganda: None Submitted (but you can leave some in the notes!)

[yuri-game-tournament]

Yuri VN Tournament Round One

Kindred Spirits on the Roof vs HEATWAVE

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

Kindred Spirits on the Roof

Description/Propaganda:

A classic yuri VN from 2012. A quiet, antisocial girl named Yuna gets roped into helping two lesbian ghosts play matchmaker for other sapphic girls in the school, creating their own Yuritopia! This VN is technically an eroge: the ghost girls don't know how to "do it," as they say, and want to watch other girls so they can learn how to consummate their own relationship. But despite the lewd-sounding premise, the game spends hours developing each of the many couples, from first meeting all the way to their intimate moments together, taking you on many heartwarming journeys. After seeing the ups and downs of their relationship, the intimate moments near the end of the game feel like a well-earned payoff for both the reader and the girls.

If you like yuri in a school setting, you'll be in yuritopia here. There are several couples apart from the main ghost girls that each would feel at home in their own slice of life manga. There's an established couple who plan to live together after graduation and are navigating family and societal expectations, a senpai/kouhai relationship where the kouhai is the one pursuing her senior, a group of three girls who navigate their friendship changing once two of the girls become a couple, and much more. Plus, it's really nice to see Yuna open up, confront past social rejection, and find friendship and love herself! If you want a long cozy game with a down to earth and warm feeling, Kindred Spirits on the Roof is for you.

Additional Info/Content Warnings: One of the couples is a teacher/student relationship. The teacher is drawn to look much younger than her student, but there is still an age gap. There's also some realistic homophobia and internalized homophobia that may hit close to home.

HEATWAVE

Description/Propaganda: Catgirl Suffers in Capitalist Hellscape : for those with a the taste for the more mature and erotic themes, aka Real Toxic Yuri™, HEATWAVE shows the story of Angel, a critter so ruined by society she has been stripped of her humanity to the point where she is an it. when a stone cold butch writes up some papers to literally own Angel as a pet, the two go onto traverse through the non euclidean hellhole that is a "HEATWAVE", and during their travel it is hard to tell if its the sweltering permanent sun or all that sexual tension between these two that burns hotter

Additional Info/Content Warnings: ADULTS ONLY, Flashing Lights, Age Gap, Ryona, Self Harm, Piss, Religious Abuse, Dehumanization, Dubcon/Noncon

[wlwdcchampionship]

wlw DC championship - Round one!

[thebabycup]

WHO DESERVES TO ESCAPE THE UNDERWORLD?

[rowinablx]

[shinypokemonpolls]

Shiny Starter Tournament

Round One

Normal [left] - Shiny [right]

[fan-a-tink]

Friends, this has been a long time coming, but here it is: the cinematography gif tournament! It is twice as big as all the other ones we've had before - with 64 instead of 32 gifs in the starting line up - and I could not be more excited! ✨ We've had a week to just look at all the stunning shots episode per episode, and now it's time to make some choices to find out which one is the best one of them all...! Let's freaking go!!!

Housekeeping: I will put the other choices in the reblogs as always. Please bear with me while I upload all the gifs, and there might have to be a link to the 2nd half of the tournament, if the post becomes too big for tumblr to process...

[queer-dw-tourney]

CANONICALLY QUEER DOCTOR WHO CHARACTERS TOURNAMENT: ROUND ONE GROUP TWO POLL TWO.

Gwen Cooper is bisexual. She makes out with a girl in episode two, and expresses interest in her female hairdresser.

Fitz Kreiner is also bisexual. He is said to be in love with the Eighth Doctor.

[scissor-tournament]

Knight Scissors. 19th century, sold by Alcuvilla Jerome.

Leg Scissors. German, 1900s. Sold by Elegant Arts Antiques.