#tournament bracket propaganda

[scolop98]

VOTE JAKAPIL FOR DINOSAUR MARCH MADNESS

@a-dinosaur-a-day

No other contestant in the final four is such A Creature™️ the way that Jakapil is. Jakapil is simultaneously the ultimate being to exist from the perspective of a dinosaur-obsessed child and a fascinating, paradigm-shifting paleontological enigma. Literally the perfect dinosaur, what more could you want

Why vote for Jakapil?

the most likely scenario here is that this guy represents a hundred million year old ghost lineage of basal thyreophorans that we’ve never discovered before. The less likely scenarios are bipedal armored ceratopsian or a completely new kind of ornithsician, both of which have been genuinely considered by some paleontologists! Whatever the case, Jakapil represents a brand new, never-before seen lineage of dinosaurs unlike anything we’ve ever known before, and that’s SO COOL

Aesthetically, this is a bipedal armored dinosaur with tiny abelisaur-grade arms, estimated to be less than 5 ft long and 15 lb (or 1.5 m and 7 kg max). Literally perfect. I’m really bad at visualizing measurements but I’m pretty sure you could pick it up and hold it in your arms if you tried. Sure you could do that with Heracles or Caihong, but you don’t need a Time Machine to pick up parrots and shiny bird things - there’s nothing like Jakapil for you to hold and snuggle today

They’re so friggin weird. It’s got jaws like a ceratopsian or a heterodontosaur, a jaw bone that no other basal thyreophorans have, arm anatomy shockingly similar to abelisaurs, and THEY CAN CHEW. I know that chewing seems really normal to us humans but it’s so weird to see outside of mammals. Practically the only other dinosaurs that chew are ornithopods. Jakapil seems like it’s trying to be as many kinds of dinosaur as possible, which further supports my statement that it is the Ultimate Dinosaur

It’s armored and covered in spikes. ‘Nuff said

Also a friendly reminder that the only other known bipedal thyreophoran is Scutellosaurus, which was from Early Jurassic Europe. Jakapil is from late Cretaceous South America, so this guy just popped up across the world a hundred million years later with practically no trace of its ancestors. How did this happen? What the fuck were its ancestors doing in that time? Heracles may have given us neat answers to New Zealand-y questions, but Jakapil gave us questions we didn’t even know needed to be asked

I’ve said it once and I’ve said it again, South America’s fauna has been friggin' amazing since the Cretaceous and never stopped. Automatic points for being a South American dinosaur. This guy lived alongside Giganotosaurus and Buitreraptor!!

What about the other contestants, you may ask? Kholumolumo is only here for the meme. Outside of the funny name and it’s absurdly convoluted history to getting formally named, what do you actually know about it? How much does it contribute to our understanding of dinosaurs compared to the other contestants?

Caihong is basic. I’m sorry but I won’t back down from this (for another few months at least). I love dromaeosaurs as much as the next person, but literally all that Caihong has going for it is it’s ultra-inridescence. Any other Chinese dromaeosaur could provide the rest. Look past your instinctual love of shiny things and vote for something that breaks away from everything we thought we knew to become something truly unique!

As for Heracles... I actually have nothing bad to say about Heracles, I love New Zealand's fauna and giant flightless birds (especially on islands). But while I love Heracles for everything it stands for, I feel like Jakapil stands for so much more. Heracles is a wonderful addition to our knowledge of it's lineage and environment, but also... is it really that surprising to find a giant flightless bird in New Zealand that belongs to that a family endemic to New Zealand? Jakapil is just such a bizarre, fascinating, unexpected discovery from so many perspectives. It is truly the ultimate dinosaur, and we should honor it as such

As of the time of writing there's still four days left at the polls and Jakapil is a steady second place in all three of them. We still have time to win this for Jakapil and dethrone Caihong!

[scolop98]

Vote Ibirania!! Support the little guy!

Just by vibes alone: Ibirania is a tiny, armored sauropod. That's adorable! It's name means "Little Tree Wanderer." That's also adorable! It’s the perfect size to ride on! You’ve always wanted to ride a dinosaur, don’t lie. And it had a blood disease, which is both really cool and also kinda sad. Sure, Australotitan was disrespected after death, but it couldn't have felt that pain at the time. Ibirania could : (

The least we can do for the guy is vote it to the next round. How can you not want to support the tiny, armored, sick little wanderer?

Round Two: Ibirania vs Australotitan

Ibirania parva

Artwork by @i-draws-dinosaurs, written by @i-draws-dinosaurs

Name meaning: Little wanderer of Ibirá (a municipality of São Paulo, Brazil)

Time: ~85 to 72 million years ago (Santonian to Campanian stages of the Late Cretaceous)

Location: São José do Rio Preto Formation, Brazil

Enormous sauropods keep making the news as the next giant behemoth, stacking up a roster of incredibly huge animals that push the limits of how big a land animal can get. But every now and then, a sauropod comes along that is just a certified Little Guy, and that is Ibirania! Described in 2022 as a new genus of saltasaurine, Ibirania is remarkably little even within this modest-sized clade. It clocks in at under 6 metres long and only a couple heads taller than the average human, which also makes it an extremely temptingly rideable size. Like that’s just a less messed up horse with some slightly more uncomfortable armour plates! Another unique feature of Ibirania is the evidence for acute osteomyelitis in the leg of one specimen, an example of one of the many diseases that could and did affect dinosaurs throughout their probably pretty difficult lives. Not only that, but there are preserved blood parasites inside the leg bone that would have caused the infection, a definite first in dinosaur paleontology! Kinda sucks for the dinosaur, but also fascinating stuff!

Australotitan cooperensis

Artwork by Vlad Konstantinov, written by @i-draws-dinosaurs

Name meaning: Southern titan from Cooper Creek

Time: ~95 million years ago (Cenomanian to Turonian stages of the Late Cretaceous)

Location: Winton Formation, Australia

Nicknamed “Cooper” by its discoverers in 2005, Australotitan was big news on the Australian dinosaur scene for years before its discovery because it was clear this dinosaur was Huge. It took 5 years of preparation and 10 years of study and reconstruction before Cooper was finally published in 2021, and secured its official title as the largest Australian dinosaur known to science! While exact weight measurements for titanosaurs are extremely difficult, it fits into the same size class as other newly-famous giants like Dreadnoughtus and Patagotitan. The bones themselves show signs of being trampled over by a convoy of smaller sauropods that left a 100 metre fossil trackway over the site. Honestly, the disrespect to an icon like Cooper!

[ultimategenshintournament]

Ultimate Ship Tournament: Finals

Propaganda below cut

Kavetham (submitted 5 times):

Cranky old mom (Kaveh) x laid back dead inside dad (Alhaitham)

the possibilities with this ship are ENDLESS - you can wring some delicious angst from it, as well as some top tier fluff and comedy! their personalities bounce off of each other really well, it's such a fun ship <3

They are roommates your honor

roommates to lovers and also they fight a lot (bet they'd fuck a lot too ayooooo)

Beiguang (submitted 4 times):

You can just tell someone on the writing team ships it. Every time one pops up, there's a good chance the other will at least get mentioned. "I compensate her in other ways", going on a trip together, straight up flirting. "Chess".

WIVES - They play chess together in the jade palace - Ningguang dressed up to impress Beidou for lantern rite - The sexual tension???

Canonically they're married, jk. Propaganda, just that one lantern scene. Them literally being the dragon and the phoenix, which is a symbol of marriage. The way that Beidou is the only one that doesn't lose chess on purpose to Ningguang, Ningguang calling Beidou to petty work for no reason. Ningguang ignoring Beidou's fines. Literally all their scenes together, like it's not even hinting atp.

[gayest-classiclit]

Classic Literature Sexyperson Tournament; Round 1

propaganda:

Mercutio:

has an article

watch the baz lurhman movie. that's the propaganda.

He is absolutely full of Gender and chaos and frightening narrative awareness for a guy who seems to think (hope?) he’s in a comedy until the minute he dies. I love a guy who can prophesy the deaths of his friends while consistently being comic relief.

i mean come on.

I feel like Mercutio fits exactly into the sexy person category. He’s a prince, he’s a fighter, he may ambiguously be in love with his besties, hes a silly guy, he dies tragically.

Carmilla:

Um. Vampire. Seductress. Sapphic

[tarre-was-right]

So it's Satine vs Jaster, huh. I'm not sure I have another one of these in me TT

Yep. Here's to a finale that feels very painful to me, personally, in light of recent events.

Time to send in your propaganda for Satine Kryze vs Jaster Mereel for the Optimal Leader Of Mandalore!

I'm tentatively planning to have the poll go live Nov. 18th, but will delay if people would prefer that.

[scolop98]

ONE HOUR LEFT TO VOTE FOR SEA SPIDERS, THE ONLY ANIMAL IN THIS TOURNAMENT BRACKET THAT OUTSOUCES MULTIPLE MAJOR BODILY FUNCTIONS TO ITS LEGS, TRULY THE MOST LEG THAT ANY ANIMAL HAS EVER BEEN, AND OBJECTIVELY A MUCH WEIRDER ANIMAL THAN JERBOAS.

VOTE NOW FOR THE MOST ELDRITCH CREATURE IN THE TOURNAMENT BRACKET, OR I WILL NEVER FORGIVE JERBOAS

Round 1 Match 8

Jerboa weirdness: "bro has stilts for legs. a dang bird-mouse. sneefing and snorfing"

Sea Spider weirdness: "At first glance they kinda look like spiders but their anatomy is so freakish and different it's just insane (some have even postulated they may not even be arthropods in the first place). Their intestine branches off and runs through each one of their legs. They're so thin they don't need a dedicated respiratory system and can breath through simple diffusion (through their legs, mostly. They're like 90% leg.). Some species are so small each of their muscles consists of one single cell while other species can have leg spans of about 50 cm."

[plant-taxonomy-showdown]

Class Final Round!! Eudicots vs Monocots!

Grass (slang) vs Grass (literal)

Eudicots (“true dicots”): This is a ginormous class, containing almost all leafy trees, quite a lot of plants that humans get food from (including potatoes and all of the legumes), and the plants we get tea, coffee, and chocolate from. It also contains carnivorous plants, parasitic plants, and some very poisonous plants, as well as tobacco and cannabis.

Monocots: The second largest taxon in Magnoliophyta, with 70,000 species. Narrow leaves with parallel veins are a good sign you’re looking at a monocot, as are plants that grow from bulbs, like onions, garlic, and tulips. Do you need to touch grass? Monocot. Do you want to bake a cake? Wheat, sugar cane, and the orchids that produce vanilla extract are all monocots.

[animalshowdown]

Phylum Round 1.5

Xenacoelomorpha: Small, flat, worm-like animals that live in marine and brackish sediments, and sometimes around hydrothermal vents. They can be free-living, symbiotic, or parasitic. A unique feature is that their stomachs lack nerve cells, unlike many other animals. Their evolutionary relationship to the rest of Animalia has been highly debated, and very little is known about their lifestyles.

Micrognathozoa: Presumably the smallest phylum, this group consists of a single species, Limnognathia maerski. In addition to being the smallest phylum, it may also be the smallest animal, with an average length of 100 micrometers. Despite this, it has complex jaws with 15 independently moving parts. Since this phylum has not been well-studied, all individuals that have been collected so far have been female.

[ourpokemonteamtournament]

Ex Golbat

Normal Shiny

Ex Stonjourner

Normal Shiny

Ex Gogoat

Normal Shiny

Ex Mega Charizard X

Normal Shiny

Tournament PSA: Normal Golbat was eleminated in a past round.

Tournament PSA: Normal Stonjourner won its round and is still in the tournament.

Tournament PSA: Normal Gogoat won its round and is still in the tournament.

Reminder: Only the overall poll winner will be put back in the tournament. All others will be permanently elminationed.

If you vote please reblog to help us get as wide a net as possible. Propaganda is highly encouraged. Round 84 Masterlist

[mostbelovedaewwrestlertournament]

Most Beloved AEW Wrestler Tournament 2

[mlmshipbracket]

I feel like the asterix/obelix propaganda doesn't do them justice. They kiss constantly, they have cute nicknames for each other, they bicker like an old married couple, they miss 3ach other when they're away. They're also the only two male characters in their village who live together, all the other houses in their village with 2 people in it are for a husband and wife. Their dog, idefix/dogmatix is often referenced as their child, and they refer to themselves as his dads. They are much more than best friends, though not conformed canonically to be lovers, what they have is something very very special.

Thank you for your Asterix/Obelix propaganda! I'll be sure it is tagged properly for others to find.

[scolop98]

VOTE MEXICAN WORM LIZARD FOR THE @weirdanimal-tournament

In what will likely be a trend of me shunning comparatively well-known species for my obscure favorites (and my anti-fish bias), the Mexican mole lizard is so much weirder than it looks. It may be winning its poll, but that margin is too close for comfort so I felt the need to infodump.

The Mexican Mole Lizard is a species of of amphisbaena, named after the two-headed serpent of legend (which is awesome) and long thought to be not-lizards, a separate order of reptile on par with lizards and snakes (some evidence suggests that they are technically a type of lizard, but in the same way that snakes are lizards. I argue that like snakes, they don’t have lizard vibes and that this is irrelevant for the purposes of this tournament)

All amphisbaenas are limbless EXCEPT for this guy and the two other members of this genus. Are they the most basal/primitive amphisbaenas, who split off from the rest and never hopped onto the no-leg fad? Nope, they’re nested smack in the middle of the amphisbaena family tree. I don’t know if they actually re-evolved limbs from nothing, but that’s certainly what it seems like. If so, that would be insane - how do you just re-evolve your goddamn limbs?!?

In addition, Mexican Mole Lizards, like other large amphisbaenas, are predators that usually eat worms and insects but will also go after lizards and rodents, attacking above-ground prey from below like a sci-fi monster. Other species of amphisbaena which regularly feed on small vertebrates have been known to rip chunks of flesh out of their prey. Look at the terrifying, huge-ass teeth hiding inside these adorable little faces

Vote Mexican Mole Lizard for the Weird Animal Tournament! It is truly A Creature™️ and deserves to be celebrate as such on this platform. How could you say no to this face?

[pastara-cell]

MAKE THAT MAN FROLIC IN THE GRASS!!!!! /nf

HE SHALL FROLIC UPON THE HIGHEST MOUNTAINS AND SIT WITH THE SUN

[autistic-hc-bracket]

Jonathan sims is literally the reason I got diagnosed with autism. this isn’t a joke.

Dude acts just like me to a degree it was genuinely a bit uncanny. I didn’t really get why people said he was autistic and was asking a friend about it. They were like “yeah makes sense I think u got it too”.

I tell this to my therapist in a haha why would they say this way and they’re like “…yeah I wasn’t going to bring this up yet but you need to get tested for autism”

spoiler alert: I have autism also

the will graham vs jonathan sims poll

[ultimategenshintournament]

Ultimate Besties Tournament: Finals

Propaganda below cut

Ragbros (submitted 2 times):

From a storytelling perspective, in a game where the premise is reuniting with your lost sibling, these two are excellent foils as siblings who are technically separated but always within reach of each other. I bet that drives the traveler batty, that these two could technically reconcile at any time but Don’t. If you guys aren’t using your free ‘reconcile with your sibling’ card, then give it to them. And one’s even got connections to Khaenri’ah and the Abyss Order! Are these two good siblings to each other? Well. No not really. But the way they were best friends when they were kids and are now bitterly awkward after Diluc’s fratricide attempt (I know he was in a terrible headspace but cmon man. Should’ve at least apologized afterwards.) yet still hang out even in the beginning of the game (see: hanging out in Venti’s story quest and family vacation in GAA 1) is very entertaining. The mask is off now, Diluc. Do you still care about your brother? Kaeya’s internal conflict is very tasty too, still considering Diluc family even if he doesn’t really count himself a Ragnvindr anymore (if he ever did…), and it’s a wonderful narrative metaphor for his conflict of whether he considers himself a Mondstadter despite loving his second home. Kaeya’s a character with a lot of depth from his origins alone, but his personal relationships with the other Mondstadt characters really elevate that and his internal struggles, and none are as important as the family that welcomed him into Mond in the first place. With the exception of the travelers (and Paimon!), I think this is the most important platonic relationship in the game.

Ragbros angst and love makes the world go ‘round

Redemption Arc (submitted 4 times):

My dickhead son and his plant based alternative mom

She saw that he had good in him despite being a villain; knocked him down to his absolute lowest and then helped him pick up the pieces; The level of unspoken communication between them is so sweet. Ex. Nahida sends Wanderer to various events under the guise of "making sure nothing goes wrong" but actually she's getting him participating in things to get him out of his shell; Conversely I think observing him helps Nahida understand the world/relationships between humans; They're just so cute I love the soft spot Wanderer has for his adoptive mother.; headcanon that he rants about her "annoying" him but 100% would turn around and beat someone up for talking smack about her

Two people who just escaped The Horrors choosing each other as family……… yes please

[fairytale-poll]

ROUND 1B! MATCH 3 OUT OF 8

Propaganda Under the Cut:

Ylfa:

She just went through so much and so much growth and i love her very much.

She becomes a big bad wolf

She met Death and Death wanted her to live.

Great depiction of a teenager by Emily Axford. A lot of scenes get really emotional with her being a symbol of the cycle of life and death and eventually she will always become the Big Bad Wolf.

she faced off with Death and he told her to live. this Death, who was much older than the Death she was supposed to meet, stared off with Yilfa for days until she succumbed to hunger and ate him alive. other iterations of death apologized to her for the story she was forced to suffer through, for the punishment she had to endure over an unrealistic and unabidable rule she was destined to break. her corrupted story turned her into the big bad wolf, into death itself. she sacrificed the beloved memory of her grandma, her namesake, so that her friends would be able to save their world. even though she gained it back in the end, she was willing to live the rest of her life as the wolf, a harbinger of death, and when she was reminded that she was just a child, that it wasn’t her responsibility to guide the dead, she cried, and separated from the wolf. she was able to grow up normal and happy after suffering from the looming presence of death. i’m gonna make me friend also submit yilfa bc they’re smarter than me and can make better propaganda

my mutual really likes her

Her narrative arc about growing up and life and death is so beautiful and her being a werewolf is so cool. Emily Axford gets girlhood like nobody else.

she is the bravest little girl in the world she met death and death wanted her to live she split his skull and ate the innards of death himself she is just a little girl!!!!!!!

PRIMO Red Riding Hood adaptation. Ate the wolf who ate her gramma. Is a werewolf and a metaphor for puberty. Loves her friends. Can break her bones to reshape her body into various animal forms.

Not only did she have to lose her grandmother, but she also nearly dies of starvation and exhaustion until The Big Bad Wolf, aka Death, convinced her to live, by her killing him and eating his flesh, therefore making her Death

Ylfa has a snazzy orange top hat given to her by a very attractive fairy. Three Blind Mice is her favorite story. She brought her grandma lollipopcorn and threw the broth in the river halfway there. She first developed a crush on Pinocchio when she saw him use his nose as a stripper pole and didn't kiss him until they were twenty-one and having an awkward conversation about her grandma's death and Toy Island. She fought a baron with a spoon. She wants a bra. She jumped into The Terrible Dogfish’s stomach to save her friend. She has pinkeye and grandma hobbies. She fought off a shit ton of homicidal tables at once. She is pals with Little Miss Muffet. She killed her family. She sacrificed the memory of her grandmother to become Death. She was basically adopted by Mother Goose (who is a cool old gay dude). She Wildshapes by horribly contorting her body into animalistic forms. She is a Barbarian who acts as a support character. She is the bravest little girl in the whole world.

Behold, 3 minutes of the weirdest and best little girl! [Link]

Her weirdgirl swag is off the charts :) [Link]

Ylfa Propaganda: [Link]

Little Red Riding Hooded Mercenary:

come on just look at her shes so fucking cool

SHES SOOOOOOOO FUCKING COOOOLL ok so like. Lobotomy Corporation takes place in an SCP type facility where a bunch of abnormalities are living. She is one of them. She is a mostly undying humanoid creature that lives for the sole sake of hunting down the Big And Will Be Bad Wolf. She lives in your facility and will BREAK OUT of her containment if she feels that the wolf is near (or if too many people are dying). You can also hire her to assist you in taking down other abnormalities, and she's actually super good at it. And her outfit is just so sooo sick? She's so cool. Please play Lobotomy Corporation it goes on sale for like $7 every Steam Sale

She's red riding hood if red riding hood had a gun. Also she kisses women

Monster based on human subconscious aka an Abnormality based on the story of Little Red Riding Hood (duh). In this story, she was mauled by the wolf (Big And Might Be Bad Wolf) who is based on all fairy tale wolf villains. Little Red then got to work plotting her revenge and making Bloodborne-esque gear for herself and the two Abnos are locked in eternal combat of hatred for one another

She's literally the coolest, just look at her. For people who might not be so familiar with her: She's one of the abnormalities that remain locked in the Lobotomy Corporation. Her past is somewhat unclear, but she has some horrid scars on her face due to the Big Bad Wolf and she swore vengeance upon him because of that incident. This lead her to become a mercenary and she looks 1000% scarier and more badass than the wolf lol. Also, asides from the fact that she may kill half of your team if she escapes containment, she is quite chill and will even help you take care of your problems if you pay her.

little red riding hood but consumed by vengeance to the point of becoming an anomalous creature hellbent on completing her eternal battle with the wolf. intense desire for revenge. baller as fuck design. will help you kill other escaping abnormalities but you gotta pay her to do it. gets pissed off every time someone escapes containment except for that one annoying bird for absolutely no discernible reason. if you let her kill the wolf she gives you bonuses but if someone else kills the wolf she goes fucking bananas. truly an inspired feral creature of a woman.

Go girl!!! We love your unrestrained violence!

She is literally the absolute coolest!!! I mean, just look at her design! Everything about it screams fucking cool! Not to mention that her story has themes of vengeance, rage, and grief!!! And Lobotomy corporation is just the fucking best and soooooo underrated.

She's starting to fall behind so GO ON AND VOTE MERC WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR! (and buy Lobotomy Corp on steam it's not even that expensive!)

Vote for Riding Hooded Mercenary she's an Abnormality serving as a hired merc that means shes a hunter of her own kind and she WILL chase them to the ends of earth lest she dies herself or knows that damn Wolf is nearby. The cursor for sending hits on something is a wanted poster. She's WAW-classed too, a step below the most dangerous category for her ilk. she shares the class with things such as insane-ass magical girls, an eyeless flower horse turns people into wisteria gardens, fucked up and evil Little Prince, a bird judge that hangs its victims, the now-animate poisoned apple that killed Snow White, and of course the Wolf itself.