#they are so extr

[bestanimal]

Round 1 Final Stats:

The top phyla have been ranked thusly, listed here from highest ranking to lowest:

🪲 Arthropoda ~ 2,002

🐠 Chordata ~ 1,780

🐌 Mollusca ~ 1,687

🪸 Cnidaria ~ 1,307

🫓 Platyhelminthes ~ 1,217

🔫 Onychophora ~ 1,180

🔬 Tardigrada ~ 1,101

🌈 Ctenophora ~ 1,013

⭐️ Echinodermata ~ 947

🪱 Annelida ~ 681

🧽 Porifera ~ 535

👥 Bryozoa ~ 331

⚪️ Placozoa ~ 328

⛱ Brachiopoda ~ 303

⚙️ Rotifera ~ 298

🍆 Priapulida ~ 216

🧲 Phoronida ~ 178

🌍 Nematoda ~ 169

🐉 Kinorhyncha ~ 169

🌰 Hemichordata ~ 169

🎉 Loricifera ~ 147

🎗 Nemertea ~ 138

❄️ Micrognathozoa ~ 124

🧪 Xenacoelomorpha ~ 123

🍴 Entoprocta ~ 111

👛 Cycliophora ~ 110

🦷 Gnathostomulida ~ 100

🏹 Chaetognatha ~ 83

🧶 Gastrotricha ~ 82

🐙🔍 Dicyemida ~ 19

🦪🔍 Orthonectida ~ 12

🐴✂️ Nematomorpha ~ -37

The top 3 phyla are Arthropoda, Chordata, and Mollusca!

This means Arthropoda, Chordata, and Mollusca will be moving on to Round 2, and broken up by Class (or some other phylogenetic equivalent).

But that’s not all!

After Round 2, we will have an extra Round 2.5, featuring every other phylum that received over 1,000 points! This will give some of the more highly ranked phyla a second chance to move on, and make Round 3 a little more interesting.

Round 2.5 will include Cnidaria, Platyhelminthes, Tardigrada, and Ctenophora.

(Unfortunately, I can’t include Onychophora as it only contains 2 families without class or order ranking, so I will have to preemptively move them forward to Round 4 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

To give myself enough time to queue up polls, Round 2 will begin November 1st.

See you then!

Extra Awards:

Phylum Porifera

~ had the highest percentage of likes at 50.8%

Phylum Placozoa

~ had the highest amount of neutral votes at 295

Phylum Xenacoelomorpha

~ had 0 hates

Phylum Platyhelminthes

~ had the most votes at 620

~ had the highest amount of loves at 245

~ had the highest amount of likes at 204

Phylum Gastrotricha

~ had the lowest amount of favorites at 2

~ had the lowest percentage of favorites at 0.7%

Phylum Mollusca

~ had 0 dislikes

~ had the third most reblogs at 86

Phylum Entoprocta

~ had 0 hates

Phylum Phoronida

~ had 0 hates

Phylum Orthonectida

~ had the lowest amount of likes at 20

~ had the least notes at 17

~ had the least reblogs at 6

Phylum Dicyemida

~ had the least votes at 158

~ had the lowest amount of loves at 4

~ had the lowest percentage of loves at 2.5%

~ had the highest percentage of neutral votes at 67.9%

Phylum Micrognathozoa

~ was our first single species to be ranked

~ had 0 hates

Phylum Rotifera

~ had 0 hates

Phylum Nematomorpha

~ had the highest amount of dislikes at 74

~ had the highest percentage of dislikes at 30.1%

~ had the highest percentage of hates at 11.4%

~ was the only phylum with a negative ranking

Phylum Onychophora

~ had the most notes at 310

~ had the most reblogs at 115 (though a lot of them happened after the poll closed)

Phylum Arthropoda

~ was the only phylum to get over 2,000 points

~ had the second most reblogs at 101

~ had 0 hates

Phylum Echinodermata

~ had the highest percentage of loves at 52.8%

~ was the only phylum to not receive any dislikes or hates

Phylum Chordata

~ had the highest amount of favorites at 334

~ had the highest percentage of favorites at 71.5%

~ had the lowest percentage of likes at 4.9%

~ had the lowest percentage of neutral votes at 0.6%

~ had the highest amount of hates at 37

[summersschmidt]

ALSO, OUR CATBOI POSTED BLACK CAT!!! HE'S ALSO ONE TO TAKE PICS OF AND POST RANDOM CATS 😻

[catherine-sketches]

Thinking about Charles Xavier, who is simultaneously aware of everyone but at the same time not because if he was himself to the fullest people find him upsetting and rude and nosy

Thinking about his unshakable sense of morality, right and wrong and justice that he formed at the age of 9 and has kept ever since, with modifications along the years but those core values remain

Thinking about how the overstimulation of a thousand voices in his head drove him to self medicate to the point of nearly addiction

Thinking about how he has difficulty reading people when his power is not in use, ending up saying the worst things without meaning to upset no one

Thinking about how everyone should be “mutant and proud” except Charles over there that is too passing to be a mutant but too weird to be a human and simultaneously his mutation, the way his brain is fucking wired, is too inconvenient for everyone around him mutant and human alike to accept

Charles Xavier they would never make me hate you. You and your autism telepathy

[hypokeimena]

my most unpopular grouchy christmas opinion is that krampusposting is more cringe and irritating than sincere christmas love by like a factor of 50

[bunnnaraa]

" A daughter's sacrifice for a daughter's freedom " please as if marrying a rich Duke who loves you and fought for you for months is a sacrifice, if anything it's theo sacrifice

[ask-steven-stevenson]

GIGGLING.

IM SO SORRU SYEVEN I JUST WANTED TO TORMENT ZEKE SOME MORE..

I love torturing him he doesn’t deserve it but oh well ❤️

-Key/Zekemod

[DW! He’s less pissy :3! I mean, he still is. I jisy.. don’t recommend a random anon going up to him. BUT STILL

also thats so fair… i love bullying Steven.. thats why i think its silly when anons human bean him

[gotmyass2marz]

GUYSI JUST REALIZED ITS GUMMIBAR ALBUM DAY happy holidays from me and my pronouns

[skrunksthatwunk]

finished dante's campaign of dmc2!! it was bad!!! <3 and i can't tell if it's anticlimactic or a surprising show of mercy that it only took around 4 hours

[moxymaxing]

fighting for my life out here trying to maintain a positive existence. peace and love on planet earth

[hcguesstheauthormessageboard]

I rolled a random number generator. Ending 5: ˙uᴉɐƃɐ xoq sᴉɥʇ uǝdo oʇ ʇou ʞǝǝs 'ɐɹopuɐԀ ƃuno⅄ ʇuǝdǝɹ (god I hope this upside down text for the title is actually legible-- in case it's not it reads 'repent Young Pandora, seek not to open this box again' ) -♤

GREEK MYTHOLOGY REFERENCE

[winterrose42]

I sm meant for a psperwork and objevt organizing desk job. Archivist gemersl thing study n organizer. Typinh out data and keepinh records. It is a fuvking crime this is noy a job i can find within my ares or reslly a viable one to really fo snywhere i would thrive. Plesse universe give this to me i hste calling people

[makingshortstorieslong]

hey hey thee thee (1)

I liketh (2) not thy girlfriend!

(no way, no way!)

Methinks thou need'st a new one

(hey, hey, thee, thee!)

I could be thy girlfriend!

(hey, hey, thee, thee!)

I know thou dost like me!

(no way, no way!)

Thou know'st 'tis no secret

(hey, hey, thee, thee!)

I would be thy girlfriend!

(1) yeah it should be thou but c'mon thee sounds better here

(2) honestly idk if this should be like or if liketh is acceptable but I refuse to look anything up at this moment

[aropride]

I STILL HAVE TO DO MYPSYCH FINAL...

[bunycube]

OMG I am such a madarame hater but you draw him so blorbo so I gotta rb 😭 what do you see in him!!

MWAHAHAHA thank you for rbing despite hating him! n thamk u for liknig my art heeheheheh

abt what i see in him. ok i think i kinda ansered an ask b4 abt what i think of him but i lvoe talking abt him so ill jsut talk sgain HOPE THATS OK BSBDJ IDK IF THIS WAS A RHETORICAL QUESTION but i rly do love him. its rly funny bcs im liek Well yeah hes kind of a manipulative asshole who kidnapped towa n chained him to a wall HOWEVER.....

sjfhshhs anyway all that aside, he was jsut more chill tham i expected (expected some mink/shiki stuff going in) hes hilarious and silly (blows up a building for the bit. shows up in the true route for two secodns jsut to beat up fujieda n disappears forever. beat up100 ppl on his own once). and i think i just liked how he doesnt have any greed/ulterior motives n hes jsut an honest person with no hidden desires he jsut is what he saysss and i love that he can live in the present n move forward w confidence itbwas cool to me :^) and i rly do enjoy his dynamic w towa atleast during the second half of his route+post good end stuff ^_^ I JSUTNTHINK HES NEAT i feel like he does genuinley care abt towa n hes v straightforward i jsut luv him. sighs

[dirt-goth]

Made the best drop biscuits for dinner tonight i loooooove you savory herbs and butter

[ending-star]

Shout out to yesterday for being the first time I've ever done the six fingers mistake!! I have been wondering for a long time when it will happen and now it finally has