#yaoi tournament

[most-influential-yaoi-poll]

[bestoldmanyaoi]

Old Man Yaoi Semifinals

[toxic-yaoi-tournament]

Toxic Yaoi Tournament Round 2: Hannigram (Hannibal) vs. Loustat (Interview With The Vampire series)

[tenthsfreezeout]

not now sweetie, mommy’s checking the results of the old man yaoi poll every hour hoping that bruce/clarence will be winning

[toxichomestucktournament]

Toxic Homestuck Tournament Finals

Reminder this is for the ship you prefer, not the more toxic ship. They're all toxic, man. If you don't think one ship is toxic, don't vote for it.

[gayelderstourney]

FINAL

Propaganda:

Statler/Waldorf:

is there anything gayer than being a hater with another gay old man. Those two queers have done so much for the lgbt community

Waldorf has a wife, but it's literally just Statler in drag. In the wiki it says "Astoria often wonders why her husband keeps coming to this 'irritating, mindless, incessant nonsense' while he could stay home with her. The only answer from Waldorf was 'no comment.'" And I like to think it's because he gets to go on dates with his boyfriend. Every show they're always heckling the Muppets but end up sitting back in their balcony seat every show, meaning they must have to enjoy it enough to come back. They're, like the kids say, a little tsundere. -"The internet is a completely different culture isn't it." -"You said it. Everything here is immediately followed by sarcastic comments and nasty responses." -"Yup, we're finally where we belong." -"Do-ho-ho-ho-hoh!"

They hate everything together

Eda Clawthorne/Raine Whispers:

they were high school sweethearts but ended up going on completely different paths in life; they met again many years later and rekindled their relationship. they led a rebellion against the corrupt government together. eda turns into a harpy and raine’s reaction is pure awe. they’re canonically two of the strongest witches on the boiling isles. also their adopted son is the son of god!

[oldmanyaoipoll]

hello old man yaoi enjoyers time to vote on your favorite old man yaoi ships

submit them in this form - be sure to include full names of the characters/people & fandom/media they are from!

** ships can be from any media, including rpf

**submissions end by september 10th**

[jejushipbracket]

Is your ship JeJu? Let us know!

Sometimes you think about unhinged love. And then you realize that perhaps whoever wrote Judas and Jesus (from the bible)'s interactions was perhaps the world's most famous fujoshi and/or fudanshi. This is what that is. Not afilliated to JeJu Hater Polls who I Will Not Name.

RULES:

For a ship to be JeJu, it must fit at least one of the following criteria:

Person A betrays Person B to the point it leaves a lasting impact. Either to the person, narrative or real life.

Person B outshines Person A to the point some hatred or ill will is left behind. Maybe leads to point 1.

Person A and Person B know each other but one (or both parties) know that their relationship will not end well.

Person A and Person B are doomed to hurt one another not only in a toxic way but also in a biblical way (for example, prophecies, foreshadowing, etcetera)

Person B is literally a god and Person A is a mortal who knows that they are powerless next to B (simillar to 2).

Person A and Person B are quite literally JeJu/JeJu parallels.

If you make a really convincing point not on here on why a pair is JeJu I might add it too.

Pairings must only be queer in nature (mlm or wlw or NB/F-M-NB). Straight pairings are NOT allowed!!!!!!!

No real life people and/or avatars of real life people (VTubers, Youtubers, Band Personas a-la Daft Punk, MCYT). For the sake of this argument, the bible counts as fiction due to it's improbable nature and also because I say so. I will not argue about this.

As an addendum, arguably historic stories (mythos, old folk tales, etcetera.) are allowed as long as you can convince me about it. The RPF rule is mostly about currently alive people, people who have living relatives, and whatnot. I'll let you history majors fight it out, sure. Also don't be weird about it.

Ha//rry P////tt/er and H/zbin H/t/////el/ are not allowed in the victinities due to discourse. I will also not argue about this.

No incest or pedophilia.

Depending on submissions that's how we're going to decide the bracket size. Do be ready for any changes in the ruling depending on how it all goes! Poll is projected to end on NOVEMBER 30TH. For fun.

Amen.

[monsterhighfemboy]

I feel like Deuce x Jackson is not an unpopular ship. I feel like Deuce is hot and cool, and Jackson is easy to project onto.

Manny x Holt is less popular my only evidence that it IS shipped in the Fandom is this Pinterest post with a dead link. No idea who made this if someone could tell me that would be great.

[yellowocaballero]

so! saw you mentioned jjk, so if you wanna talk about it, whats your thoughts been on it so far?

Was waiting to answer this until I finished S2, which I just did.

It's incredible. It's an amazing work of art. Some of the best fighting animation I've ever seen in an anime, some of the best fight scenes period, non-stop gripping and thrilling and incredibly exciting. Gorgeous, cool as fuck, a lot of fun. Binged it and was extremely unwilling to do anything other than watch it. Real 'wander out of my room, rant to my roommates about how good it is, ignore their confused looks and wander back in my room to continue binging' energy.

Beyond that, my thoughts are a bit complex and difficult to put into words. It's great at a lot of things besides action - it has great characters, humor, world-building, everything. I would like to see more of the other things it's good at, and I think that would elevate the fight scenes a lot. I won't go into a tangent about what makes "a good action movie", but basically in good action work the action scenes need to have a lot of weight. S2 was basically 15 episodes of the climax of an incredible action movie, and a lot of the fight scenes would have been stronger if there was greater buildup or a more coherent escalation (Mahito loses every fight, which makes it hard to take his very lengthy subsequent fights seriously)(Gojo himself is a mystifying choice)(My only coherent thought for two episodes straight was 'Mahito just fucking die already'). My personal belief about arcs in serialized works is that they should work as full stories in isolation and have a coherent beginning, middle, climax, and end; one that still slots into the greater narrative of the serialized work and meaningfully develops the characters, world, and overarching plotline. S2 was, again, 15 episodes of climactic fight scene. But the climactic fight scenes were so fucking good.

It's a lot of things that I normally like in theory and are extremely bored of in practice. JJK really lived up to the theory of "what if a shonen action anime was only action and it was so so so so so good". If you do want an example of mangakas who do work that's 95% action that's skimpy on characters/plot/etc but still feel like an extremely complete experience, I recommend Nightow's Blood Blockade Battlefront.

Lots of criticism on a show I fucking loved, but you are talking to someone for whom "they punched so good and then the explosions were so pretty and I pumped the air and was satiated by the violence" is a 5/5 glowing four thumbs up review. The characters themselves were so endearing and fascinating and charismatic, which is an understated but important aspect of an action work. They don't have to be deep or complex, but you do have to get me invested in them and make them fun to watch. It also has incredible and well-utilized women, which esp in male oriented work I do genuinely consider a barometer of quality - not 'badass women automatically makes something good', but 'a creator who can write every character well is good at creating characters and if you can't create all your characters well or feel uncomfortable with portraying half the population then you aren't good at creating characters'.

Geto/Gojo will never be KakaObi and you are all lying to yourselves.

[most-influential-yaoi-poll]

[bestoldmanyaoi]

Old Man Yaoi Semifinals

[toxicsludgeyaoi]

Toxic Sludge Yaoi Tournament: Erisol (Homestuck) Vs Paperhat (Villainous)

(Vote for whichever ship you like more.)

Propaganda under the cut. Note: spoilers for these medias may be below.

Erisol propaganda

"They spend every interaction calling each other slurs and/or trying to kill each other until one succeeds. Then they end up (through magic basically) as one person who's whole personality is that he fucking hates himself and wants to die because he just can't stand existing. They've literally never said a kind word to each other in canon. They canonical hate each other to death but in canon that's a romantic thing."

Paperhat propaganda

"Evil nerd scientist employee x cruel eldritch horror boss"

[toxic-yaoi-tournament]

Toxic Yaoi Tournament Round 1: Guillermo de la Cruz/Nandor The Relentless (What We Do In The Shadows) vs. Louis de Pointe du Lac/Lestat de Lioncourt (Interview With The Vampire series)

[smellygaston]

im so sorry i missed pride month, gastonlings!

to make up for it im reading some yaoi!

[ireallyamabear]

insanity is running the same kind of old man fucking each other tournament over and over again on tumblr.com and expecting different results (spirk not winning)