#voting is open!

[jilyawards]

Voting Round 1 is now open until Midnight UTC on December 2nd. Use this form to vote. We recommend keeping the Nominations Gallery open while voting if you want to follow links to works.

Please remember:

You can only submit this form ONCE. You don't have to vote in every category but please be sure you don't want to vote before skipping.

You must send us a DM or non-anon ask to confirm your vote. If you do not confirm your vote by the end of the voting period your vote will be discarded. This is done to ensure people only vote once.

In this round you can select up to 10 nominees per category.

Categories with 10 or fewer nominees have automatically progressed to Round 2.

Any artist who did not respond to our messages to approve showing their artwork has had their nomination removed, as it wouldn't be fair to show some and not others. All NSFW art has a cropped thumbnail.

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Happy voting! Don't forget to leave comments & kudos.

[rumbelleshowdown]

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Like the lovely gif says, voting is now open. The fandom has till noon on Sunday, July 28th, Eastern time, to cast their votes.

For this final round, I need ONE name from each of you. The author with the most votes will win the Showdown.

Please make time to read the three final fics and submit your vote. After moderating the Showdown for the past few years, I've definitely seen a pattern. Interest tends to drop off as the Showdown progresses and fewer people vote in the final round. The three authors in the final have worked very hard to reach this point, and deserve your votes.

READ AND VOTE!

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[sapphicscholar]

Hacks Week 2023 Theme Voting Begins!

I’ve listed all the theme suggestions that came in during the week of collection, condensing as needed and grouping similar themes together. You can vote for as many of the options as you would like to see and/or create content for, but please do remember that we’d like to make this week as open and accessible to a wide variety of fan creators as possible! The voting will stay open for a full week, then the top 7 total vote count themes will be assigned to days for the weeklong event beginning Halloween week!

You can find the ballot here.

Please note that you will need to be logged in to keep things 1 vote/person, but the form will *not* record your email address, and voting will remain anonymous.

[bixels]

I watched Starship Troopers tonight.

[splickedylit]

@ USAmericans that are following me, if you (like me) get anxious you'll somehow have issues with a mail-in or drop-off ballot: I forgot that in a lot of places (here's a site to check!) early in-person voting is an option, so I figured maybe you did too!

Lines are MUCH shorter than election day,

which means it's quick and you have more time to look things up at the voting booth if necessary,

and you have a LOT more ability to find a time that works for you than if you just vote on Nov. 5th (which I would be have been almost completely unable to go out and vote on).

Early voting y'all it kicks ass. A quick google of "early voting (my city/county" immediately brought up the exact address, days and hours of where it was available. Will definitely patronize the fine folks at my local polling center again in four years assuming that. Things go well. And we still have a democracy in four years. OTL

[humbuns]

manifesting dj tsumugi for deep into you

[1-800-local-slut]

This is not a safe space for Trump voters btw, if you voted for Trump you voted against my rights. You voted against the rights of your sister, your mother, your daughter, your aunt, your nieces, your nephews, you even voted against your own rights. You have voted with the KKK, and you are literally not welcome here.

[shepherds-of-haven]

Just a bit of fun! Theoretically, the Shepherds' Corner is a place for the Shepherds to rank each other according to questions like "Who's the most generous?" or "Who's the biggest neat freak?" You usually get my opinions for those questions, but what about theirs? 😆

Would you like to see more of the Corner? If there's enough interest, maybe it'll become a once-a-week (or so) feature! Let me know in the comments or tags! 🌟

[itsaspectrumcomic]

If you're eligible to vote in the UK, please remember to vote tomorrow! Your opinion matters ❤️

[pleaktale]

OVERPOWER 24' HOBIE BROWN

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[zackstriker]

TO ANY USA PHANNIES who are NOT planning on voting in this election (and are eligible to vote)— if you go out and vote anyways I will write you a personalized oneshot dnp fanfic with any tropes or themes you want entirely for FREE.

I’ve published a fanfic on a03 called Angelfish (it’s my pinned blog post) if you want to see a sample of what my writing is like, if that helps sway you. Hope to see you at the polls!!

[rumbelleshowdown]

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For those of you who eagerly read all the fics as soon as they were posted today, and would prefer to vote now while they're all fresh in your mind, VOTING IS OPEN!

Instructions: on a computer (not mobile device), go to rumbelleshowdown.tumblr.com and look at the top of the blog. Click on VOTING: ROUND ONE. You'll copy and paste the ballot into the submit box, delete the name from each bracket that you are NOT voting for, and submit.

A word of caution: you cannot change your ballot once you submit it. So if you need more time to think about which authors you want to advance to the next round, you don't have to vote today. The ballot will close at 11:59 pm, Eastern time, on Sunday May 12th.

Groups G, H, and J will not be on the ballot, as the single author from each of those brackets will get an automatic pass to Round Two.

Lastly -- after advancing one author from each bracket, we will have nine authors for Round Two. Odd numbers don't work well for the Showdown. In the past, I advanced the eliminated fic with the highest number of votes, to give us the even number we need. I'd like to try something different this year.

At the bottom of the ballot, I will ask you to vote for ONE additional author (from those you eliminated) to advance to Round Two. If everyone does their part in the voting, and a clear favorite emerges from the ballots, I will advance the eliminated author chosen by the fandom. If this idea bombs, I'll go back to my previous method.

I hope I explained that adequately. If I didn't, please don't hesitate to ask questions.

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[k-wame]

OMAR SY & ALEXANDER SKARSGÅRD 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards 🎭 ⋮ 02.24.2024

[eugenedebs1920]

You know!? It ticks me off this perception that Donald Trump, J.D. (Jerkin Dicks)Vance, even Musk, is somehow manly. I mean, Trump and Ol Jerkin D wear more makeup than my wife! You can’t say that’s all just for television. Musk looks like if Smeagal had only kept the ring for 250 years as opposed to 500. His Prrreeeccciooouussss. None of those guys project masculinity. It’s the varsity cricket team and their weird gangly friend.

Does anyone remember when Trump tried to act like he knew how to use a shovel 🤣🤣🤣 That sh*t cracked me up!! Like ‘MFer, where have you seen someone attempt to shovel like that!?’

Then J. Dick Vance projects uncertainty in his sexual identity. It cool if your gay, but don’t fight being gay so much that you are viscous to women and marginalize those who’ve figured out who they are and are not overcompensating for it. it’s coo Jerkin D! We’ll still hate you either way.

I’m pretty sure Musk is a supervillain. But like if Dollar General had a comic book action figure series.. He’d be the main villain in that. Corneal Creepy McBillions, somethin like that.

These guys definitely got picked on in grade school and vowed to get revenge by making everyone else miserable. Thanks bullies! 😑

Speaking of. If you haven’t constantly put people down, talk sh*t on people, (I realize the irony as I’m sh*t talking these f*cks but, physically I don’t think any of them could take me, but power wise, what they could have done to me!! They’d ruin my world..) pinpoint and pick on a vulnerable individual or group, pretty much, if you get hard by making people laugh at or join in on teasing or bullying someone, that itself reeks of insecurity. It shows the flaws in yourself, you’re hiding by putting those flaws onto others before someone sees them in you. Trump is the master of that! If he accuses someone of something, he’s definitely guilty of it.

It doesn’t make you any less of a man to be kind. It’s isn’t a feminine to treat women with respect. It doesn’t make you macho to be a prick. Being racist and ostracizing immigrants doesn’t protrude masculine traits.

You know what women find sexy. Confidence. Knowing who you are, what your values are, compassion, knowing the difference between proper and improper, and sticking to those principles regardless what others would say or entice you to do. Being a good person, because that the good thing to do, proud of oneself, but knowing there’s always room to grow and learn.

I certainly don’t see what’s would constitute being attractive when you are borderline in a cult, infatuate with a 80 year old politician who bankrupted casinos, been accused by 23 women and adjudicated for sexual assault, shameless grifter, hateful, cruel, racist, bully f*ck. It’s just, sorry to say it, weird.

I have a heart and care for people, I build houses for a living. I believe in equality and the rights for EVERYONE, I can rebuild an engine. I think women are people (who knew!?) and should be in control of their own destiny, I am pro 2nd amendment and love to go shooting.

I’ve been in bar brawls, climbed mountains, go hunting, chop wood, ride atv’s, snowboard, go 4wheelin, camping, have a big beard, drink beer, and I think everyone is entitled to dignity, despite their sexual preference, race, religion, gender, what their hair looks like, whatever. Why? Because it’s basic human respect.

The last 2 times America actually won a war it was Democratic (BIG D 😉) administrations. The only 2 presidential administrations to not add to the deficit in the last, nearly 60 years, were both big D Democratic administrations. Democrats passed the Civil Rights Act, all the racist Dixiecrats jumped ship and became Republican. Democrats nominated and elected the first African American president. We have TWICE nominated a woman at the top of the ticket.

While Republicans are whining about having to wear a mask LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE DID, Democrats passed legislation to address the problem of unemployment, of vaccinations, of shipping logistics, while they were at it passed a HUGE infrastructure package, invested billions in green energy (our future) and ensured national security by manufacturing the technology materials needed to be the best in the world. Simultaneously creating a ton of well paying, respectable middle class jobs.

The right is too busy talking about Jewish space lasers, and checking out Hunter Biden’s junk, and keeping weed illegal, and worrying about bathrooms and sh*t.

How is that manly at all?! Acting like a bunch of whiny immature kids! They even whine when they win!! It’s stupid! It’s a waste of time, money and energy. Just grow up and do the job you’re elected to do!

So yea… I would say the right isn’t the vision of manhood they pretend they are. It’s overgrown children, spoiled to the core, acting out because they want it their way 😤

What shows manliness is doing your job, and doing it to the best of your ability. Being a kindhearted person and willing to help someone in need. Being true to yourself, and in turn others. Being knowledgeable yet willing to learn. Being brave, but admitting when you’re scared.

[doomdoomofdoom]

When I said "Vote Blue now so you can vote Third Party in the Future. Because if you don't vote Blue now, you may not be able to vote in the future at all", I wasn't exaggerating.