#shark tournament

[pollsforpondering]

[taxonomytournament]

Taxonomy Tournament: Cartilaginous Fish

Carcharhiniformes. This is the shark order with the most species, at 270. Members include the Hammerhead shark, tiger shark, catshark and bull shark

Orectolobiformes. This order is known as the carpet sharks. Members include nurse sharks, whale sharks, and Wobbegong sharks

[shitpostingkats]

Do you guys think Shark is still blacklisted from competitive play

[vgtrackbracket]

Video Game Track Bracket Round 4

Shark Bytes from Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion

vs.

Resurrections from Celeste

Propaganda under the cut. If you want your propaganda reblogged and added to future polls, please tag it as propaganda or otherwise indicate this!

Shark Bytes:

unparrelelled, perfectly captures the feeling of fighting your way out of the evil testing facility. marinas vocals are everything to me.

Resurrections:

it's really long (about 9-10 minutes) since it covers all the variations that play within its level but it's so good i recommend listening all the way through anyways. the overall transition from "peaceful and dreamlike, but not necessarily safe" to something more sinister throughout the runtime is really good. the final variation heavily uses repeating phrases (which even pan from left to right) which is SO COOL with the context that it plays while the level gimmick is being chased by "shadow mario" clones of yourself. also kinda off-topic but i started associating the piano chords that start at 1:20 with the despicable me song. and i can't stop hearing it, probably in part because the lyrics unironically fit badeline kinda well. "i'm having a bad, bad day / if you take it personal, that's okay / steamrolling whatever i see / oh, despicable me" i haven't seen a mashup of this anywhere but one of these days i might just make it myself if i have to

[best-movie-ever-tournament]

Shark Tale:

It’s got robert de niro as the don of the shark mafia.

I never actually finished this movie but it does totally have the shark mafia! It's like the regular mafia but with sharks so automatically cooler.

Goncharov:

No propaganda because it'd be unfair.

[insufferableprotagonistpoll]

Round 1

Propaganda why Oscar is insufferable:

"“I want to be famous!” Ok, what for? “Whatever means I don’t have to work.”"

"Selfish, shallow, vain, materialistic, reckless, irresponsible, etc. Doesn't even have an aesthetically pleasing design, he's horrible to look at (like every other character in the movie tbf) so bro has literally 0 redeeming qualities. That one shrimp with the ridiculous sob story should have been the protag instead"

"His entire personality revolves around being shallow and selfish, to the point he sees no issue with lying for his own material gain, in the process shamelessly screwing over his best friend/future girlfriend -- she gave him her grandmother's valuable precious pearl to pay off his debts and get out of trouble, because she cares about him, and instead he fucking gambled it all on a horse race on impulse because he overheard some rando saying the race was rigged and guaranteed to win (surprise, it wasn't). Never really faces appropriate consequences for any of his actions. Gets an undeserved happy ending to top it all off, when really he deserves to suffer a little and learn a lesson.

Also has one of the ugliest anthro-animal designs I've ever seen so he's insufferable to even LOOK at, jesus christ."

Propaganda why Brambleclaw is insufferable:

"(Limiting my critiques to the books he is a point-of-view in, but you should know there's so much more besides this lmao.) He and his brother Hawkfrost train in Cat Hell with the ghost of their dead supervillain father every night, and he knows it's wrong, but he lies to his love interest Squirrelflight and everyone else about it, even directly acknowledging multiple times that he can't let Squirrelflight find out because she wouldn't want to be close with him if she knew. Despite that, the narrative never calls out how wrong that is, and he never comes clean about it. In fact, he gaslights Squirrelflight in the most literal sense of the term: she correctly suspects Hawkfrost is evil based on his actions, and Brambleclaw, despite knowing Hawkfrost is indeed evil, accuses her of hating him just based on his parentage (you know, the same evil parent he spends every night secretly chumming it up with) making her out to be unreasonable even though he KNOWS she's right. Hawkfrost eventually semi-kills Squirrelflight's father, and Brambleclaw kills Hawkfrost in retaliation, but he STILL does not apologize for his own actions or admit his own involvement, let alone face consequences, EVER. The narrative actually REWARDS him with the exact same position of power he had been wanting for several books and colluding with Hawkfrost and Evil Dad to get. This is only made worse later on when Brambleclaw spends a whole book stewing over how Squirrelflight lied to him (about something objectively less bad, that their children were secretly adopted rather than biologically theirs, which she was still punished for severely) and flirting with another female character who was introduced exclusively for that book to make Squirrelflight jealous. Said character leaves forever at the end of the book and Brambleclaw gets back together with Squirrelflight and says he forgives her... still no mention of how he screwed her over far worse and never admitted to it, let alone apologized for it. Fuck this guy, if he were a human he'd probably make Facebook boomer memes about marriage being a ball-and-chain and women being crazy nags."

"Brambleclaw is $h!tty towards his girlfriend Squirrelflight because she believes that his half-brother, Hawkfrost, isn’t a good cat even though she’s right about that and Brambleclaw went against his character development of wanting to be nothing like his murderous father, Tigerstar, by training with him along with his half-brother in kitty cat hell."

"He's rude and whiny, his first book as a protagonist has him trying to train the she-cat that would become his wife in fighting and he just doesn't have a single nice thing to say about her. He's the narratives specialest little boy and from what ive seen almost everyone in the WC fandom hates that guy."

"basically the authors forgot everything that was previously established about him except for "his father was the previous bad guy", so he goes from "i will never be like my father" to "maybe the racist fascist dictator who abandoned half his kids wasn't so bad after all". and then there's his relationship with Squirrelflight, which i'm sure other submitters have gone in detail about..."

[fan-coty-tourney]

ROUND 1 — TOURNEY B — LEFT SIDE — BRACKET 17

tourney B time!! who cheered

Character Tags!!

#Clotted Cream COTY

#Sorbet Shark COTY

[sillyliltournamentblog]

STAR'S BLORBO BRACKET: ROUND 2

MILES "TAILS" PROWER (sonic the hedgehog) (if he doesn't win i will be very upset and disappointed) VS SORBET SHARK COOKIE (cookie run) (past blorbo)

VOTERS: please be aware that sorbet shark cookie uses they/them pronouns! NO HE/HIM OR SHE/HER, PLEASE!

my propaganda

tails: my most recent blorbo. i'm getting very attached. he's autistic (source: i said so) and he just like me fr!!! i love foxes too so there's that (please vote for him)

sorbet shark: they can't speak english, only "oOo0oOoooo00O" and that's great

[best-shark-tournament]

Hello, I decided to start the best shark tournament!!!

So it’s going to be like every other tournament, putting two sharks against each other and seeing which one people like better. I’m not sure how many sharks we’ll have in one tournament, I think we’ll have different rounds and stuff, but yeah!

Types of sharks will be submitted. By types of sharks I mean like different shark species and stuff (whale shark, hammerhead shark, great white shark, etc) and submitting will be through this google form I made.

(mod uses he/they/it)

[dc-tournaments]

[fairytale-poll]

ROUND 2B, MATCH 4 OUT OF 4!

Propaganda Under the Cut:

Sorbet Shark Cookie:

They're a shark merperson who wanted to walk on land and join the pirates so much they made a deal with a dark mermaid to get legs and not scare them anymore. But despite being a pirate they still help others even if it would put them in danger. Also they're very cute, can only speak in bubbles when on land and can freely transform between seaform and landform.

A shark cookie who wishes to live on land with the rest of cookiekind. He gains the ability to do so, but can only speak in bubbling noises. He naturally decides to become a pirate. He can also turn back into a shark man by jumping into the water. As for if this counts…he literally sings “Part of your World” as part of his story. When CRK had a Disney crossover with certain characters interacting, guess which cookie Ariel interacted with?

Nene:

She and her troupe did their own interpretation of the Little Mermaid as a play. I would say props to them for referencing the original story where she turns into foam (although they did change it to be more happy) rather than the Disney version. Also, the entire image of the Little Mermaid is basically infused with her. Ever since she saw a play of the story, she wanted to pursue acting so the story itself is important to her. Not her directly being the Little Mermaid, but its basically became her signature style (aka just anything to do with the sea)

When she was little she saw a Little Mermaid play and it inspired her to become an actress. One of her plays is a rendition of The Little Mermaid where she is the protagonist. Though not actually a mermaid, she's depicted as one in the trained card "Celebrate With Fireworks" and The Little Mermaid is a reccuring motif for her. Little actress who loves The Little Mermaid <3

[pollsforpondering]

[taxonomytournament]

Taxonomy Tournament: Cartilaginous Fish Finale!

Myliobatiformes. This order of batoids includes stingrays and manta rays.

Orectolobiformes. This order is known as the carpet sharks. Members include nurse sharks, whale sharks, and Wobbegong sharks

[its-to-the-death]

Battle of the Gingers Wave 1 Preliminary Round #38

Whoever gets the most votes moves onto the next wave

Pictures below the cut

Anthorcha (Gryphoon) More pictures here and here. For the second two, you can click "Leer maestra" to see a preview of the book.

[vgtrackbracket]

Video Game Track Bracket Round 3

Shark Bytes from Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion

vs.

Battle! (Cassiopeia) from Pokémon Scarlet/Violet

Propaganda under the cut. If you want your propaganda reblogged and added to future polls, please tag it as propaganda or otherwise indicate this!

Note: The propaganda contains spoilers for Pokémon Scarlet/Violet.

Shark Bytes:

unparrelelled, perfectly captures the feeling of fighting your way out of the evil testing facility. marinas vocals are everything to me.

Battle! (Cassiopeia):

LOVE MY TRANS SAPPHIC FURRY british HACKER PENNY‼️‼️

[best-movie-ever-tournament]

Goodfellas:

No propaganda submitted.

Shark Tale:

It’s got robert de niro as the don of the shark mafia.

I never actually finished this movie but it does totally have the shark mafia! It's like the regular mafia but with sharks so automatically cooler.