#tie breaker round 1

[mysterycharacterflowers]

Tie Breaker Round; Firecracker plant VS Red Rose

First, let's talk about the Firecracker plant

Why it was was chosen: because she has fire powers. The firecracker plant is also described as having needle like leaves, and I think that fits her personality. Description: A sorcerer who infiltrates an organization of evil monster hunters to protect her family. Very athletic, but also a huge nerd. Takes down an ancient magical force that has been messing things up for everyone.

Check this character post here

Now, let's talk about the Red Rose

Meaning: Love and passion. Why this flower was chosen: It's related to the character! Description: A lost little girl trapped in a world of fabricated horrors. She's only a child, she doesn't understand everything that's happening. She's trying to be brave, but sometimes it's too much. At least she has someone to look after her a protect her, even if he has trouble protecting himself sometimes. And she even has a new friend...?

Check her post here

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See the results from round 1 here

Audio/MVs below:

[disneyparksattractionstournament]

Lightning Round Tie Breaker #1!

Decided to do lightning round tie breakers, sorry for everyone who wanted team ups!(lightning round got more votes, also, team ups that are completely dif rides stressed my autistic brain out xD) Tron vs GotG Cosmic Rewind got 50.2% vs 49.8%, so that is close enough to count as a tie for me! Will last one day!

Videos and propaganda under the cut!

Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind: WDW Epcot

Propaganda:

"Genuinely the best theme park ride I’ve ever been on. It’s insanely cool, not too short, and really smooth"

"I only got to ride it once (which I mean... I just really don't like that they don't even give the option of riding it a second time in one day, but whatever) but uh yeah! It was so good!!!! Would ride again (if they would actually let you!!!) out of 10"

Mod here, just got back from WDW and doing GotG cosmic rewind and YALL! ITS SUCH A GOOD AND UNIQUE COASTER! Its like a mix between Space Mountain, Rock N Rollercoaster, and new technology!!! I did not expect it to be that good!!!

Tron Lightcycle Power Run: WDW Magic Kingdom, Shanghai Disneyland 

[gleesongtournament]

Round 1 Tie Breaker

[indie-queer-movie-tournament]

I'm enjoying how more people are able to vote on more polls as the tournament progresses

[bestgrishaversequotes]

rematch of this poll since it ended with a tie!

longer quotes can be found in the linked post!

[vintagetvstars]

King of the Graveyard Slot Final - Round 3

Vote for which banished hottie should rule over them all!

No propaganda this round, you have 1 day to vote with your heart!

The winner will be crowned King of the Graveyard Slot and rule over all our fallen vintage men in their late night graveyard slot tv marathon.

In the event of any 50/50 ties in the remaining rounds they will have a chance to reenter the competition in the tie breaker.

[deathworlders-of-e24]

Thomas, Engineer

Part 3

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“You know I could have guessed it, but you guys are way better at this than me,” Thomas said, running a hand through his curly brown hair.

“That is only natural, as our programming and design allow for rapid reflex and dexterous manipulation of our extremities,” Sixer said.

Thomas had invited the Padrino back to his quarters for an impromptu fighting game tournament. Sixer and Mace both attended, as well as one of the Galley named Odis, another of the engineers, and of course Roomba was there, though he was having difficulty handling the controller since it was about as big as he was.

Odis and Roomba had already been knocked out, the Galley by elimination and Roomba by… technical knockout, so it was just Thomas and Sixer left. Mace had winner.

“I refuse to lose, especially not while I’m wearing my lucky shirt,” Thomas said. Odis snorted, but the Padrino spun their heads to face him.

“Human Thomas, please explain how the apparel you are wearing will enhance your performance in this competition,” Mace asked, his synthetic voice as unchanging as always.

“Does the apparel provide some sort of stimulant to your body that will change the outcome of this match?” Sixer accused.

“No, nothing like that, it’s just lucky,” Thomas said.

“Please explain,” Mace pressed.

“Gimme a sec, round three is starting, I got this,” Thomas assured himself.

The game was human designed, an indie title called Galactic Brawl! It was your typical fighting game, but it was making the rounds on Earth due to it using characters similar to GAIL member species locked in mortal combat. The humans had assured the intergalactic market that it wasn’t in anyway meant to be detrimental to universal relationships, but to expose humans to other species in a fun and interesting way that younger humans would enjoy. Plus it made the other species look ‘very cool’, which the GAIL members were assured was a good thing.

The players were 1 win a piece, so this would be the tie breaker. Naturally the players had chosen their own race for the game, something Odis and Thomas thought was quite funny, although the characters were caricatures of the real thing. Very buffed up, with bigger action hero muscles and such.

Buttons were mashed, triggers were pulled, combos were pulled off, and Sixer had him on the ropes. But then Thomas got the BRAWL POWER meter all the way up and executed his ultimate move flawlessly, and came out with the win.

“Yes! I told you, lucky shirt!” Thomas cheered, Odis laughed so hard he fell over, and the Padrino sat there looking as dumbfounded as they could without actual faces.

“Please explain,” they said in unison.

“The shirt?” Thomas pulled the hem of the shirt down so they all could see its glory, a ratty old gray Tee with the sleeves cut off. It had smudged names all over both the front and back. “I got it at this punk concert right before I went into the academy, got all the band members to sign it for me after the show! Good show, too, they came into the crowd while they were still playing, and…”

“Easy, humy, just tell us why the shirt is lucky,” Odis said, tossing back some chips.

“Right, yeah. So I wore this shirt for every test, quiz, and exam I ever got during my training, aced all of them with flying colors. Scored me both a guy’s and a girl’s number on the same day, that was cool, and I was wearing it when I applied for my post on the Noah,” Thomas explained. “Bad things do not happen when I’m wearing the lucky shirt.”

“Yeah, they’re not gonna get that,” Odis said smirking.

“Human Thomas, explain this luck phenomenon,” Sixer requested.

“See?” Odis said. “The humans have this thing, they call it ‘being superstitious’, it’s something the humies believe controls the universe.”

“Explain,” requested Mace.

“Okay, so there’s, like, good luck, where good things will happen if you have it, or bad luck, where bad things happen,” Thomas said, trying to explain. “Think of it this way. It’s like little random acts turn out in your favor if you have good luck, like finding money on the ground or it’s pizza day in the cafeteria.”

“And bad luck breaks your mom’s back or something, right?” asked Odis, laughing.

“Yeah, if you step on a crack in the road or something,” Thomas said. “Or breaking a mirror gets your seven years bad luck.”

“You humies believe the most ridiculous things,” Odis said.

“There are acts that can accumulate negative impacts to your existence?” Mace asked.

“Totally man, tons of them. Like last week, I was having lunch in the mess hall, spilled salt everywhere!”

“And this entails what?” Sixer asked.

“Well it’s supposed to invite enmity and future problems, but I threw some over my left shoulder, so it was fine.”

“You humans are so gullible,” Odis said. “This is why we came to earth so often to mess with you.”

“Tell that to the shirt man,” Thomas said.

“So the garment has… accumulated ‘good luck’, therefore you remain in a sustained field of positive chaos,” Sixer said.

“I guess, yeah,” Thomas said. He’d never heard it described that way before, it was probably the most scientifically accurate portrayal of ‘luck’ he’d ever heard.

“You two are not gonna make sense of this, it’s an illogical belief from a less evolved lifeform,” Odis said. “Next thing you know, the kid is going to tell you he doesn’t walk under ladders or let black cats cross his path.”

“First off, I love all cats,” Thomas said indignantly, “secondly, how do you know so much about earth superstitions?”

“Earth movies. You think you can keep the Galley in the dark? We’ve been sneaking onto Earth for generations.”

“Riiight,” Thomas said.

“Beep.”

[Reminder: engineering staff are to head to the WARP core at 1900 hours for new maintenance procedures]

“Oh, man, is it that time already? We better head out,” Thomas said, zipping up his jumpsuit over his lucky shirt. “Thanks Roomba, I totally forgot the time.”

“Beep.”

[Acknowledgments: you’re welcome]

“Smarter every day, good for you buddy. Alright, come on guys, let’s get to the core before Chief Nivan sticks us on plumbing duty,” Thomas clapped his hands together, ushering everyone out of the room.

“Human Thomas, if we may make a request, may we continue to observe you? This ‘lucky shirt’ phenomenon may lead to some observational data previously unknown to us,” Sixer said.

“Sure guys, whatever you need.”

“You’re not gonna get any data,” Odis chided. “The kid is just going to confuse you both.”

“Regardless, we will continue to observe,” Mace said.

The group made their way to the lifts, Odis still grumbling about how stupid the idea of a lucky shirt was, lucky anything really, the whole time. Thomas tried to explain, saying there were tons of lucky objects on Earth, like the rabbit’s foot.

“You mutilate another lifeform for its appendage just to positively charge your own chaos?” Mace asked, surprised.

“That seems counterproductive to what you have described as Karma,” Sixer said.

“Yeah, that wasn’t great, admittedly. Ancient Earthlings weren’t great at critical thinking yet. These days we have synthetic feet, so that doesn’t happen anymore, I don’t think. I got one on my keys, see?” Thomas pulled a key ring out of his pocket and showed off the foot.

“Double luck today,” he said, smiling.

“Fascinating,” the Padrino said in unison.

“Weird,” said Odis.

“Beep.”

[Request: game pad, please?]

Thomas stuffed his keys back in place and pulled the pad out, giving it to the tiny droid on his bag. Roomba had recently started a new game, having earned the highest score possible on PAC-MAN a few cycles previously. Now he’d moved on to Galaga, another port Thomas had made.

“Beep.”

[Information available]

“Hmm?” Thomas looked at Roomba in his bag.

“Beep.”

[Statement: this new game is stimulating]

“Oh my god you’re so freaking cute Roomba,”Thomas gushed. The little droid was getting smarter by the day thanks to the cognitive upgrade the Padrino had given him. He was ‘talking’ in more complex sentences and could ask for more stuff as he wanted it, Thomas was overjoyed!

They stepped off the lift onto the Core deck, where the fuel was stored, as well as where the WARP core was kept. The thing always looked like a captured star to Thomas, suspended in the air by antigravity struts, a shining ball of orange and red fire behind the dozen or so walls of safety fields keeping the room from being vaporized. Chief engineer Nivan was already waiting for them, pouring over a data pad with another maintenance officer. The room itself was vast, lit by the core, at least the size of the cargo bay on the other side of the ship. Rows of control consoles lined the walls, as well as data screens and input terminals.

Thomas dropped his bag by the door and put Roomba on his shoulder where the little robot looped himself around the cord the human had sown into his jumpsuit for the little guy. Roomba muted the game pad but continued playing.

“Hey chief,” Thomas called out. “We’re here for that briefing on the new core terminal procedures like you asked.”

“Yes, thank you Human Thomas,” Nivan said, two of his four spindly arms waving in acknowledgment. Chief Nivan was a Zilont, whose species had no actual set amount of limbs. Some had 2 arms and legs like humans, some had up to 8 of each. Nivan himself had 4 arms, 3 legs, and his torso moved and bent around like rubber, since he had no spine. The species moved via a series of gas bladders, reminding Thomas of this uncomfortable movie he’d seen where a clown made a person out of balloon tubes. But Chief Nivan was an upstanding guy in his opinion, never pushed work onto his subordinates and tried to be as helpful around the engineering deck as possible. Thomas thought he was a cool boss to work for.

“Lets get started”, Nivan said.

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Chief Nivan got them working, showing them how the new terminals worked, and how to input commands into the core controls in case of emergencies. The Padrino picked it up while he was explaining it, but Odis and Thomas needed a demonstration. Thomas watched as Nivan’s odd balloon-esque tentacle limbs punched in commands, taking note of each key he hit.

“Got it?” Nivan asked. Thomas sometimes had a hard time gauging his emotions, what with the beak and all, but he thought the Zilont looked a little tired.

“I think so, yeah. You okay Chief?” Thomas asked. “Need me to grab you some salt water or something?”

“No, thank you Human Thomas. We’re getting run ragged down here. Odds and ends keep disappearing, tools and spare parts, and just yesterday somebody claimed they had their locker ransacked.”

“Seriously?”

“Yes, and the maintenance crew is already out of sorts. This is just adding fuel to the-”

The entire room shook violently.

Chief Nivan was cut off by a series of small electrical explosions from the wall of terminals behind him, throwing him a ways away. Thomas threw his arms up to shield his face, making sure to cover Roomba as well. The floor beneath their feet rocked, the entire ship seemingly to jerk several meters to the side. The lights blew out, raining sparks down around the crews working in the core room. Over a fourth of the crew in there were thrown to the side or into a wall at the sudden shift. The walls groaned and creaked at the rapid change, and Thomas saw something that stopped his blood cold. The safety fields holding back the core’s fire were flickering off one by one.

“EVERYONE OUT RIGHT NOW!!!” Thomas yelled, rushing to Nivan. He grabbed two of his four arms and started hauling him towards the door.

“Twins! What the hell happened?!” He questioned, looking to the two Padrino.

“Ships systems registered a local star released a wave of energetic ions creating a solar storm. Detecting multiple failed systems, including-”

“THE CORE YEAH I KNOW!” Thomas cut him off. “We have to get the hell outta here now! Is anyone else in here?”

“Multiple life signs detected. In approximately 3 minutes the last containment field will fail and the core will vaporize everything in this room.”

Thomas set Nivan down outside the safety doors.

“Okay, Mace, you call them out! Sixer, Odis, and I will go get them. MOVE!” Thomas ordered while he rushed up and over one of the hanging walkways. Odis didn’t have time to argue with him, Mace was in the doorway and Sixer was already on the move as well.

“SQUAL!” Odis yelled before getting in gear. Thomas didn’t need a translator for that one. Odis was Galley, and they were generally self centered. Not today.

Thomas must’ve moved 6 crew out of the core room in those first 2 minutes. He saw a third Padrino in the door now, a new unit he hadn’t met yet, talking to Mace and trying to contain the core. Thomas didn’t stop. Whether they bought more time or not, he wasn’t about to leave this room while anyone was still in it, not while time was still on the clock.

Finally the three minutes were almost up. The safety field was down to its last wall. Only a thin blue screen of light stood between them and obliteration. Thomas grabbed the last crewman on his side, a Zilgrat about half his size and started running back towards the door. From what Mace had said, it was just the space ferret and that should be it. Thomas looked over at the others.

Odis’s foot was caught in the railing.

The crewman he’d been sent to get had been thrown down to Sixer who was rushing him outside.

“There are only seconds left, Human Thomas! We must seal the door immediately.”

Thomas looked from the door to Odis.

He ran to the door.

Dropped the Zilgrat at the robot’s feet.

And sprinted towards the Galley.

His lungs hurt. His muscles ached. It was getting hot in the room, each layer missing from the security wall allowing more heat to escape containment.

Thomas jumped up the stairs to Odis.

“Sorry man!” He said as he grabbed the little gray alien’s leg and yanked. The foot dislodged with a sick crunch and Odis howled, high pitched and clutched at his leg.

Thomas had been counting. No time left. The Galley man didn’t weigh much.

Damn.

He really wanted to keep playing games with these guys.

Thomas took Roomba from his shoulder and shoved the little droid into the Galley’s chest before hurling them both over the railing towards the safety of the blast doors. He actually threw them so far and so hard they struck Mace and forced the whole bunch out into the hall.

“SHUT THE DOORS NOW!” Thomas ordered. The Padrino unit he hadn’t met yet, and now probably wouldn’t, hit the release, and the doors slammed shut as the last field lost power.

Thomas threw himself behind a console as vaporized plasma filled the room. The temperature must’ve leapt by several hundred degrees…

For about 3 seconds.

Then the safety fields sprung back to life, holding back the fire. Thomas sucked in oxygen as the ship’s automatic air filters kicked in, sucking the heat out of the room. Emergency coolers clicked on, rapidly suppressing the temperature fluctuations. His skin hurt, and he caught a vague whiff of burning hair.

The console he’d hid behind seemed to shield him from the sheer worst of it, but Thomas would be very glad to get to Med Bay in the next few minutes. Everything burned. Finally shock and lack of clean oxygen let him pass out.

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Thomas awoke to the sound of Odis and the Padrino… were they yelling?

“I’m telling you,” Odis was saying to someone in a nurse uniform, “if you cut that shirt off him, I will personally teach you how the Galley get even…”

Shirt? What shirt?

Ohhhh.

Thomas started laughing softly, on his bed in the med bay, covered in burn gel.

“I told you guys…” he said hoarsely, “it’s a lucky shirt.”

“Kid!” Odis was standing next to him, leg in a cast. “Kid what the hell were you thinking? Why didn’t you just leave??!”

“Human Thomas, we are please you have not expired,” Sixer said.

“Agreed,” Mace said.

“Thanks guys,” Thomas coughed. “Sorry about the leg, dude, there wasn’t time…”

“My leg? Kid you just got cooked and you’re worried about my leg?” Odis looked at him in disbelief. “You humies are so freaking weird, you should’ve just left me there.”

“Nah… I had that. It’s my lucky day, remember?”

Roomba was sitting on the side table next to his bed. He was holding the game pad, but it wasn’t on.

“Beep.”

[Information Request]

“What’s up buddy? You okay? Sorry I threw you,” Thomas said.

“Beep.”

[Is your unit going to be repaired?]

“Yeah buddy, I’ll be okay. Just got a little too hot in there for a second.”

“Beep.”

[Statement: Unit Thomas is required to be repaired, or ability to complete task {hang out together} will be incomplete]

“Yeah, I love you too buddy,” Thomas said.

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A quick 2 cycle stint in a regen-pod got Thomas back on his feet and the worst of his burns treated, though he was significantly more tan than he was before. He’d had a short meeting with the captain and first officer, both of whom said something to the effect of ‘what is it with you humans, throwing yourselves into danger?’

He was on his way to the Padrino now, they’d taken Roomba and his main translator for repairs, and to see if they could finally retrace that weird signal he’d heard the other cycle. Since he was told by both the doctors and Odis to focus or rest and recovery, he’d agreed to them babysitting. The spare device in his ear was itchy. He’d be happy to have his back.

When the lift opened, there was Odis the Galley. His cast had been replaced with a prosthetic boot. Thomas stepped in. The doors closed and Odis cleared his throat.

“Listen kid,” the little gray alien started, “that was a real decent thing you did back there the other cycle.”

Thomas looked down at him and shrugged.

“I’m not gonna say it wasn’t a big deal,” Thomas said, “I definitely thought I was gonna die in there. It just didn’t need to be all of us, is all.”

Thomas rummaged around in his pocket and pulled out his keys. He slid the rabbits foot off the ring and held it out to the Galley.

“Here. I think we both need some luck on this ship right now. Have it.”

Odis looked from him to the foot.

“…you sure kid? Didn’t that thing save your life?” Odis said, his usual smirk coming back a little.

“Nah, the shirt saved my life. Plus I feel like I owe you a foot, yeah?”

Odis laughed, shoulders shaking. He took the rabbits foot and stuck it in his pocket.

“Lucky severed animal feet huh? You humies are such deathworlders it’s not even funny.”

“Then why are you laughing, close encounters?”

The lift erupted in laughing fits from the both of them as they made their way down to engineering.

On the engineering deck, the Padrino, along with the small unit known as Roomba, watched the pair leave the lift.

“The human should have expired in the core room,” said Sixer.

“Agreed,” said Mace.

“But he did not,” said Sixer.

“A good thing, yes,” said Mace.

“Beep.”

[Statement: agreed, this is a good thing. New observations can be made now. And new games can be played still]

“Agreed,” said the Padrino in unison.

[archivistsandlibrarians]

CONGRATULATIONS IVY ALEXANDRIA

The bracket is as follows:

Round 1

Left

Jonathan Sims from The Magnus Archives vs. Palamedus Sextus from The Locked Tomb

Ayda Aguefort from Dimension 20 vs. Olivia Caliban from A Series of Unfortunate Events

Gertrude Robinson from The Magnus Archives vs. Aziraphale from Good Omens

The Librarian from Discworld vs. Jenkins from The Librarians

Wan Shi Tong from Avatar: The Last Airbender vs. Swampy/Sherman from Phineas and Ferb

Lisa Minci from Genshin Impact vs. Amity Blight from The Owl House

Jurgen Leitner from The Magnus Archives vs. The Librarians from Welcome to NightVale

Kaisa from Hilda vs. Beauregard Lionett from Critical Role

Right

Ivy Alexandria from The Mechanisms vs. Jocasta Nu from Star Wars

Mrs. Phelps from Matilda vs. George and Lance from She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Rupert Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer vs. Ianto Jones from Torchwood

Flynn Carsen from The Librarians vs. The Archivist from @elsewhereuniversity

Barbara Gordon from DC Comics vs. Noè Archiviste from Vanitas no Carte

Gordon Porlock from Red Valley vs. Train @trainwreckisawreck from Tumblr

Lucienne from The Sandman vs. The LITs (Cassandra, Ezekiel, and Jacob) from The Librarians

Evelyn Carnahan O’ Connell from The Mummy vs. Abigail Pent from The Lost Tomb Trilogy

Round 2

Left

Jonathan Sims from The Magnus Archives vs. Ayda Aguefort from Dimension 20

Aziraphale from Good Omens vs. The Librarian from Discworld

Wan Shi Tong from Avatar: The Last Airbender vs. Amity Blight from The Owl House

The Librarians from Welcome To NightVale vs. Beauregard Lionett from Critical Role

Right

Ivy Alexandria from The Mechanisms vs. George and Lance from She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Rupert Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer vs. The Archivist from @elsewhereuniversity

Barbara Gordon from DC Comics vs. Train @trainwreckisawreck from Tumblr

The LITs (Cassandra, Ezekiel, and Jacob) from The Librarians vs. Evelyn Carnahan O'Connell from The Mummy

Round 3

Left

Ayda Aguefort from Dimension 20 vs. Aziraphale from Good Omens

Wan Shi Tong from Avatar: The Last Airbender vs. Beauregard Lionett from Critical Role

Right

Ivy Alexandria from The Mechanisms vs. Rupert Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Barbara Gordon from DC Comics vs. Evelyn Carnahan O'Connell from The Mummy

Tie Breaker

What do we do with the tie?

Revival Round

Ayda/Sherman/Jenkins/The Librarian/Ianto/The Archivist/Lucien(ne)

Semifinals

Take 2: Ayda Aguefort from Dimension 20 vs. Aziraphale from Good Omens

Ivy Alexandria from The Mechanisms vs. Barbara Gordon from DC Comics

Finals

Ivy Alexandria from The Mechanisms vs. Ayda Aguefort from Dimension 20

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Submissions might be closed, but please send me asks about your favorite librarians and archivists! I want to hear about all of them!

Good luck!

Art used for Jonathan Sims by @gayformlessblob <3

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Questions About Beta Readers

Anonymous asked: I want to have beta/sensitivity readers look my story over when it's finished, but I have questions:

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Question #1 - How many beta readers do people usually get? I want to make sure I have a decent sample size of people to look the story over and make sure it makes sense, check for plot holes, etc.

It really depends. Most people do between 2 and 5. Some people go as high as 7 or 8. It also depends on whether you do one round of betas or two.

Question #2 - I was thinking of outlining exactly what I do and do not want before I send it to them. For example, "I want to know what you thought of the plot and whether or not it was easy to follow." Would that kind of thing be okay?

Yep! That's fine and it's actually standard protocol to send along specific questions or guidelines as far as what you're looking for.

Question #3 - Do beta readers also look at scripts, or just novels? My story isn't going to be in a "normal" novel format since it's the script for a comic. Would they still review something in that format, or do I have to find a specific type of beta reader?

You will need to find beta readers specifically for a comic script, but there are lots of people who will do that.

Question #4 - How many sensitivity readers do I need, and how do I know which one I should listen to if they give me conflicting opinions? I'm just worried one will go, "That's problematic and awful, remove it" and the second will go, "That's totally fine, leave it in". Would I need a third one as a tie-breaker?

Sensitivity readers have specific areas of expertise. While some may have multiple areas of expertise, no sensitivity readers specialize in all things. So, the number of sensitivity readers you need depends on how many things you need vetted, and how many it takes to cover it all. For example, let's say you have a Chinese-American character who is bipolar. And let's say their love interest is transmasc and uses a wheelchair. If you are not yourself Chinese-American, bipolar, transmasc, or someone who uses a wheelchair, then you would need sensitivity readers to cover all of those areas. In other words, as many as four, but potentially fewer if you find some who do happen to cover more than one necessary area of expertise.

While there may be some overlap in areas of expertise (like, two sensitivity readers who both specialize in wheelchair use on top of whatever specialty you specifically hired them for), it's pretty unlikely you'll run into conflicting opinions as long as you hire qualified sensitivity readers. In other words, people who have a business where they provide sensitivity reading as a service. This is important because part of their expertise is knowing the nuances of their specialty areas, and being able to separate personal preference from broader guidelines. This cuts down on conflicting opinions, too, when you have experts who overlap.

On the off-chance that you did have two experts with overlapping specialties who gave you conflicting opinions, I think you can ask questions (using the conflicting opinion as a prompt) to get a better understanding of why the person has that position. If you do that with both experts, this may give you enough data to decide which one has the opinion that's more likely to be widely shared. You may also be able to do research on your own to further understand the conflicting opinions.

I hope that helps!

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[dedalvs]

Episode 3 of Conlang Conflict is this Saturday at 12:00 p.m. Pacific! This is the final regular season dust up between Team Conlangery and Team LangTime Studio. This will determine who goes to the championship. Currently, the standings look like this:

Team LangTime Studio: 1-0

Team Let's Have a Bouba: 1-1

Team Conlangery: 0-1

Now, if Team Conlangery wins and we have a three-way tie, the first tie breaker is game points. Here is the points standing at the moment:

Team Let's Have a Bouba: 411

Team LangTime Studio: 332

Team Conlangery: 109

If Team Conlangery wins, then Team LangTime Studio needs at least 80 points to guarantee a spot in the final. Team Conlangery has a tougher row to hoe. They'll have to get 303 points to be ahead of Team Let's Have a Bouba or beat Team LangTimeStudio by at least 224 points. Beyond that, we go to the final round tie breaker, where Team LangTimeStudio has an edge over Team Let's Have a Bouba by getting the top answer to all 5 questions to 4 for Team Let's Have a Bouba.

Tune in Saturday to see what happens!

[mysterycharacterflowers]

Tie Breaker Round; A bouquet of purple hyacinths, a oleander, a few rhododendron, some belladonna and a hollyhock VS Plastic/fake strawberry flowers

First let's talk about the bouquet of purple hyacinths, a oleander, a few rhododendron, some belladonna and a hollyhock

Meaning and why these flowers were chosen: Oleander - Traditionally symbolising "romance, desire, and destiny" as well as "endless love and charm;" juxtaposing these meanings as well as their beautiful look with their highly toxic nature is a multi-layer and highly accurate symbol for them. Having a (toxic) destiny laid out before them and being taught to use all the charm and power in their arsenal? Looking very innocent and pretty but having the ability to be so very dangerous? Add in purple hyacinths for "sorrow;" a few rhododendron for "danger & beware;" some belladonna for "silence" and a hollyhock for "ambition" and you have the perfect bouquet. Description: Charismatic, determined, sceptical, calculating, and vindictive. This gal is not someone you want to be friends with, or is she? Raised to be manipulative and do whatever is needed to get her own way. Told her whole life that she was destined to be a villain and take control, who is she when she's her own person?

Check her post here

Now, let's talk about the plastic/fake strawberry flowers

Why this flower was chosen: Because he is very germaphobic and also phobic of the things that are in flowers and thus hates nature because it’s dirty (his friends even said that he would be would be a plastic flower if he were one) and strawberry because that’s the smell of the shampoo his wife used and that he can still smell on the pillow she slept on that he keeps (in a plastic case) and hugs when he’s sad Description: He’s a detective. His wife was murdered and for three years after that he didn’t leave the house because his phobias that he had before got exponentially worse. He slowly did start coming out of his house and getting better trying to figure out why his wife was murdered while solving other crimes. He has 312 phobias [...] He has impeccable memory, doesn’t like people and will 100% put his phobias and needs over manners. He can clean his house in his sleep, literally. At the end of the day he is a very nice friend but annoys the crap outa his friends and often [...] doesn’t realise they consider him a friend [...] He also says “Unless I’m wrong, which you know, I’m not”. He always has his assistant carry wipes around and wipes his hands every time he shakes someone’s hand. He is very tight (as in with money) [...] and and its hilarious when he hasn’t paid his assistant because he doesn’t have money (while still buying copious amounts of cleaning supplies) and because he’s so non confrontational he doesn’t want to ask for a raise even tho it’s a totally legit ask (which is also hilarious in and of itself) he ends up just avoiding the subject in any way possible. He once was forced to decorate for Christmas (which he doesn’t do since his wife died) and he used not a fake tree but a paper cut out of a tree. He doesn’t at all know what would insult someone and rarely knows how to make someone feel better (often failing miserably but occasionally actually helping and being super wholesome). He hates/is scared of nakedness (and doesn’t even “look” when he wees) and there was a whole thing where he had to investigate a nudist [...](he was in the end more accepting of it but still freaked out) He also wears the same clothes every day and buys shirts checked by a specific checker in a factory that he actually sent a fan letter to [...]. Anyway he is very relatable for just introverted people or awkward people in general [...]. Apart from just mostly normal people, he is relatable for the people who share his mental conditions like my dad who is a germaphobe and even tho people still don’t understand germaphobia really, he knows that he gets it and he relates to him a lot. And he has a lot of other things like anxiety, and little things like not being able to deal with change and other stuff that just make him super relatable to neurodevergent people like me. When people first look at people with mental problems they say they are weak that so little sets them off but in reality, they are dealing with so so much that you can’t see and you don’t need to deal with and they- and he is (are) so incredibly strong. I love him so much and I would say more but I don’t want to reveal who he is.

Check his post here for the full description

[simdertalia]

🎟🎠 ACNH Carnival Set - Part 1 🎠🎟

40 items | Sims 4, Base game compatible

Use the scale up & down feature on your keyboard to make the items larger or smaller to your liking. If you have a non-US keyboard, it may be different keys depending on which alphabet it uses.

Always suggested: bb.objects ON, it makes placing items much easier. For further placement tweaking, check out the TOOL mod.

Set contains: -Cash Register (2 items, deco & functional) | 11 swatches | 1216 poly -Cotton Candy Cart | 3 swatches | 2390 poly -Crystal Ball 1 | 1 swatch | 818 poly -Crystal Ball 2 | 4 swatches | 1041 & 1184 poly -Deco Flag | 5 swatches | 1202 poly -Drinking Fountain | 4 swatches | 1196 poly -Stall 1 | 25 swatches | 920 poly -Stall 2 | 5 swatches | 2296 poly -Flapper Gate | 8 swatches | 698 poly -Flower Bed | 16 swatches | 2366 poly -Flower Bed (empty) | 4 swatches | 74 poly -Fortune Teller Book Table | 4 swatches | 1046 poly -Fortune Teller Cloth | 10 swatches | 22 poly -Fortune Teller Rug | 3 swatches | 237 poly -Fortune Teller Table | 1 swatch | 768 poly -Fortune Teller Tools | 2 swatches | 1322 poly -Fortune Teller Trailer | 1 swatch | 5028 poly -Fortune Teller Vases | 2 swatches | 1348 poly -Game Podium | 7 swatches | 1100 poly -Game Wheel Spin | 5 swatches | 1060 poly -Magic Set | 2 swatches | 856 poly -Merry Go Round | 5 swatches | 10600 poly -Peacock Float | 1 swatch | 7202 poly -Phone Booth | 8 swatches | 1201 poly -Radio (2 items, deco & functional) | 7 swatches | 1174 poly -Slot Game | 7 swatches | 1084 poly -Stamp Stand | 6 swatches | 770 poly -Street Organ (functional music player) | 4 swatches | 1215 poly -Toy Bear (4 items: small, medium, large, and XL) | many swatches each | Polys for bears: X-Large: 3962 | Large: 3776 | Medium: 1200 | Small: 1200 -Toy Panda (small, medium, and large) | 3 swatches each | 1148 poly each -Tree Bed | 16 swatches | 4451 poly -Wishing Well | 8 swatches | 2361 poly

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[disneyparksattractionstournament]

Lightning Round Tie Breaker #2!

Maelstrom vs Remy's Ratatouille Adventure got a pure tie of 50/50! Will last one day!

Videos and propaganda under the cut!

Remy's Ratatouille Adventure: Paris Walt Disney Studios Park, WDW Epcot 

Propaganda:

"you can go rat mode and scurry around like a creature thats like my biggest dream"

"🐀🐁"

Maelstrom: WDW Epcot

[numptypylon]

TDP CryCounter stats

Rayla, 17

Callum and Claudia, 10

Viren, 9

Ezran and Terry, 5

Janai, 4

Harrow and Gren, 3

I’ve been doing CryCounters for most characters on my most recent rewatch of tdp plus first watch of S6, I’ll post my full crystats, but I need to check a few things because I got distracted on watching, and then also do some statistics calculations on the crydata.

Rayla is the biggest crier by far, no surprise there, she’s always been very emotionally sensitive and have consistently had a lot to cry about. Claudia and Callum are in a shared 2nd place, although I’d give the tie breaker to Claudia because Callum cried three times while reading Harrow’s letter and I found it debatable whether those should count as separate. Biggest surprise is VIREN rounding off the top 3, only 1 cry behind Claudia and Callum.

Soren and Amaya are most stoic main characters, while Harrow and Gren are weepiest supporting characters.

Terry could have been a contender if he’d had the episode count the others do, but alas he’s in the middle of the field with Ezran and Janai. Ezran’s feelings are more rarely the focus than the other main characters, his plotlines are more ‘plotty’ and political, so his midling crycount make some sense, still was surprisingly low, considering he is shown to be very sensitive/empathetic, has a lot of screentime, lost his dad during the show (like EVERY other main character, granted 😂) and is a child.

[vintagetvstars]

King of the Graveyard Slot Final - Round 2

Vote for which banished hottie should rule over them all!

No propaganda this round, you have 1 day to vote with your heart!

The winner will be crowned King of the Graveyard Slot and rule over all our fallen vintage men in their late night graveyard slot tv marathon.

In the event of any 50/50 ties in the remaining rounds they will have a chance to reenter the competition in the tie breaker.