aaaaaaaa!! i spend too long on this!!! @powerpolyculeshowdown

i would appreciate your time and consideration in voting for thanatos/megaera/zagreus!!! all images are from the game or the game wiki!!

edit: text did not save clearly in the images on second to last slide. they read:

Megaera, First of the Furies: You give Than and me too little credit, Zag. We've known each other longer than you've been alive.

Thanatos, Death Incarnate: I'd say we know quite a bit by now, all things considered. Isn't that right, Megaera?

this poll lore is killin me

anway, vote SCC

Nathan/Vlad/Ursula created by @thebibliosphere.

Description provided by @powerpolyculeshowdown.

Nathan/Vlad/Ursula: For most of the book it's about two of the characters' romance (Vlad and Nathan) and Ursula meets them closer to the end. Their relationship, I think, is supposed to be continued in the next book. They all kiss each other and it's clear from the book that they like each other, and are all open to polyamory.

Description provided by @powerpolyculeshowdown.

Zagreus and Megaera are exes, while Zagreus and Thanatos have very obvious romantic feelings for each other. As part of the story, you can romance both of them at the same time, and it is made clear that neither of them minds it. There's also a scene implying Meg and Than had something in the past.

Description provided by @leverage-ot3.

leverage ot3 description: three good robinhood-esque criminals that fuck over corporations and give back to the people that were hurt by them. ultra competent. hardison is a geeky hacker, eliot is a grumpy hitter, and parker is the best thief in the world (also canon autistic). eliot ended the og series saying that he would protect the other two till his dying day (directly after their parent figures got engaged. marriage proposal who?)

Do you have an oc that lives rent-free in your brain? Are they just the most blorbo ever? Is telling your friends about them not enough anymore? I have exactly the tournament for you!

Original Character Championship!!!

Submit your characters to take part! Roleplay characters, fanfic inserts, characters from your unwritten books - everyone counts! Since there was some confusion - that includes ocs made for fandoms!

RULES:

Only one character per person - sorry but let's make it fair for everyone!

I will decide the number of entries based on the number of submissions i get!

Everyone gets through the submission process into round 1

Please be polite! - don't insult other people's ocs or try to start drama over this!!

The submissions will close when I get enough but I Will post about it in advance (the current hopeful not-at-all-certain date is the 20th)

The championship will be heavily propaganda based - how else are people supposed to decide between two characters they don't even know about!

SUBMIT YOUR OCS HERE!

tagging for exposure please and thank you! @aroaceswagcompetition @powerpolyculeshowdown @qpr-competition @enemiestoloversbracket @sleepsmackdown @slime-showdown @worst-fictional-cook-showdown @holy-war-bracket

(really in my feels about the ot3 because of the @powerpolyculeshowdown so here's some propaganda)

parker and hardison allow eliot to be sillier. more ridiculous. outragous, even. eliot sings the stupid ditties hardison writes special for him, and he rolls his eyes at parkers pokes and prods and the occasional "accidental" face slap, and eliot can express himself for what actually bothers him no matter how nitpicky, versus having to calculate what he should say. (he still argues with hardison that throwing in on a brewpub was a stupid plan given its risk, no matter how many times hardison claims it was always a gift for him.) eliot laughs more. real laughs; you can tell because his smiles look more and more like grimaces: the way his ma perked her mouth which his dad always teased her about (though it was his favorite thing about her), rather than the wide toothy grins eliot learned because he knows, tactically, they are best for charming. parker and hardison let him not feel like he's a monster. or... parker tells him she always thought the big bad wolf had a bad rap, and hardison says some stupid shit about monsterfucking being the hip thing the kids are into these days, anyway.

hardison and eliot allow parker to feel deep. it's food that tastes like a hug and it's gadgets made just for her and it's loving and being loved and it's being one another's real families. she doessn't want to run away, anymore. or... she wants to run but with her friends beside her. or... running cons is all she's ever wanted to do, and all she did, for so long. parker is good at it. she loves it. she loves that hardison and eliot love it too. but... feeling deep is also being deep. she's no longer just her piles of money because she is no longer afraid of herself. her past. the memories that hurt. the habits she thought she needed to grow out of but always missed. these habits, like bleeping sounds that arent words and hands move move moving. hands that were once made to stay now can fly because hardison buys her fidgets and designs some just for her and keeps locks in lucille for when parker feels like infinity and needs the vibrations of ticktickticks to bring her back to herself. and eliot lets her braid and unbraid his hair; he won't let her blow dry it, not yet, but... he lets her pet his hair while it's still hot, now. it frizzes his hair a little, and parker feels her pulse rush throughout the day knowing she did that to him. eliot and hardison kiss her knuckles when they burn.

parker and eliot allow hardison to be mean. vindictive. he is nicer than he needs to be. wants to be... what he needs to be is nonthreatening, for the most part, in many places. he knows what it means to be him: tall and black and queer and gaining muscle and too smart for his own damn good and so very, very tenderhearted. hardison loves so damn deep, and he cares so damn much, but part of caring (the other side of a coin) is not giving a fuck. it's the boiling point of rage and betrayal. the i need to walk away from this fight because you are dead wrong and imma about to say something imma regret, so go fix yourself. the im not gonna forget, im not going to forgive, and im going to get my revenge. parker and eliot would not have questioned hardison's joy at securing the capture of the men that put him in that damn coffin; they hold space for him to be fully himself with all his ugly parts and his petty parts and the parts that do bring hardison shame if he thinks about it for too long. they know he's not perfect, and that? that feels like safety and love and forever to hardison.

I have seen your showdowns, your competitions, your tournaments. Now it is my turn. SUBMIT YOUR FAVORITE SOUPS FOR THE ULTIMATE SOUP SHOWDOWN!!!!

You Have One Week :) And Then I Shall Create The Bracket :)

https://forms.gle/GjS9S3P1EpE1DR9t6

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Polyam Ship Showdown Winner!

It's OVER!

First, I have to thank everyone who has voted in this poll and the previous polls. This has been a fun journey to find the best polyamorous ship.

Without further ado, the results!

In third place, we have Velma Dinkley/Daphne Blake/Fred Jones/Norville "Shaggy" Rogers from Scooby-Doo.

In second place, we have Ninth Doctor/Rose Tyler/Jack Harkness from Doctor Who.

That means in first place...

we have Parker/Alec Hardison/Eliot Spencer from Leverage!

I just want to say thank you to everyone for following, reblogging, and of course, voting. It's been a fun journey, and I hope everyone else had just as fun seeing what lead us here.

For now, it is time for me to say farewell.

If you haven't already then go ahead and check out @powerpolyculeshowdown which is still in progress! And finally, if anyone wants to follow me on my main, you can check my blog out at @lewvithur. (You can definitely tell what ship I was rooting for in all this, haha.)

Welcome to the ultimate tragic couples showdown! This is a competition with the goal of determining the best tragic couple in fiction. Hosted by @perilouspelicans

RULES FOR SUBMISSION:

• Must end in tragedy, or at the very least, ambiguity

• No real people

• No mcyt

• Couples do not have to be canon

• Any amount of people is fine! Poly couples are more than welcome

• No MCU, but comic or non MCU depictions of marvel characters are fine

• Yoohankim from ORV and Jonmartin from TMA will automatically be included. Orpheus/Eurydice will also be automatically included, but please feel free to submit specific depictions of them

Bracket will likely be 32 people, unless otherwise stated

Submit here:

Inspired by the lovely blogs such as @powerpolyculeshowdown, @it-its-swag, @baldguy-fight, @catgendershowdown, @autismswagsummit, @disability-swag-summit, @aroaceswagcompetition, @qpr-competition, @nonbiney-swag-competition, @i-need-to-fuck-that-old-man, @fictional-malewife-tournament, @creaturething-bracket, @ultimate-yellow-bracket, @lesboyswagcompetition, @purpleandyellowshowdown and @redandbluebracket! :)

@foundfamilyarena, @aro-culture-competition, @magnificent-mlm-matchup, @mad-scientist-showdown, @stachebracket, @ultimate-poll-tournament, @bestfictionaldivorce, @powerpolyculeshowdown, @qpr-competition, @aroaceswagcompetition, @themiiofalltime, @crysongz, @capitalist-bastard-showdown (ty for reblogging my pinned post btw, sending non-romantic kisses)

Hiii!

Hey, have you ever seen characters who break up, and it is just the messiest, worst thing ever? Well I hope so! Becuase thats what we are going to be looking at here!

Basically this is a tournament for characters that has the most messiest or bad break ups

im using the term break up loosely here, and this doesn't just apply to romantic relationships, friendship break ups, queer platonic break ups, if you have a enemies break up that would work too, ect. anything that can kinda count as a break up

its ok if the characters reunite later on as long as:

A. The characters were apart for a significant amount of time

or

B. The separation had a big impact on one or more of the characters involved

So in terms of submitting, I dont understand how google forms work so

Submit though the askbox or Dms if you would like

while submitting tell me:

The characters

The Media they are from

and this is option but is highly encouraged if you have the time, please tell me about their break up so i have some context (This will help me make the bracket later on)

Rules : No real people (fictionalized version of real people will be looked at at a case by case bias), and no harry potter, and no South park.

There is more media im not really comfortable with but i cant remember off the top of my head, I will sort those if they come though

also remember this is all for fun so please dont take it too seriously :)

some other tournaments for inspiration and Just some tournaments that I think are cool/am excited for and I think other people should look at at them : @powerpolyculeshowdown @underrated-adversaries @loveatfirstsightbracket @purplegirltournament @school-of-all-time @hauntthenarrative @overworkedblorbobattle

MUSICAL TUMBLRMAN BATTLE

hey there, it's me, marina @annabelle--cane. you've seen these brackets before, you know the drill, it's time to watch these bastards kill each other.

rules/guidelines:

I'm using "tumblrman"/"the jokner of musicals" because a lot of the characters iconic to this genre are minors and it wouldn't be appropriate for an adult (<- me) to call them sexymen, but it also wouldn't feel right to just leave them out. I think these terms carry most of the same energy while leaving out sexual connotations.

personally, I will be voting and selecting based on levels of iconicness and how hard a choke hold these characters had on me and my peers, not based on which characters I actually think are best or that I like the most. I know this guideline is completely unenforceable and people will just black out and vote for their blorbos, but if this gets a good turn out, maybe I'll do a "favorite/best/most musical character" tournament afterwards.

there are a few characters who are already guaranteed spots (jd, beetlejuice, the squip, etc.), but still feel free to submit any obvious choices, especially if you've got compelling propaganda.

there are a few characters I don't feel comfortable including, but I don't think people are likely to submit them and I think posting a list would invite discourse, so I'll just say that I leave it ultimately up to my discretion whether or not to dismiss certain nominations.

since I will be selecting characters based on how iconic I think they were/are, nominees will likely skew male, but submissions are also open to female and nonbinary characters. the jonkler of musicals can be any gender.

similarly, I'm going to prioritize characters from stage musicals, but you may also submit characters from movie, TV, podcast, song cycle, or other medium musicals. if you're unsure, just go ahead and submit them and I'll figure it out.

this is a CRINGE POSITIVE space. ribbing on your past self or 2017 musical fandom culture as a whole is all fine and good, but try to keep in the spirit of friendly competition and stay away from being outright mean. if what you're saying is indistinguishable from a homophobe talking about their high school gsa, I will block you and delete your comments.

@ this blog or use the tag "tjom bracket" in your commentary about this tournament and I might rb your post here

I'm aiming for 32 characters in the first round, but I'm willing to be flexible.

inspiration from: @bestmusicalworldcup @bracketsoffear @problemgirlbracket @character-of-all-time @blorbopoll2 @powerpolyculeshowdown @ultimate-tragic-couples-showdown

OKAY. SUBMIT YOUR MUSICAL JOKSTNERS. FORM OPEN UNTIL 12:00 AM MONDAY EST.

Nathan/Vlad/Ursula created by @thebibliosphere.

Description provided by @wanderingandfound.

Trevor: the born and bred monster slayer, whose noble family was all killed by a village mob when he was a child, and he is the lone survivor of that massacre. Alucard: the half-vampire son of Dracula who lived a very happy life until the church killed his human mom and his vampire dad went mad from grief. And Sypha: the magician from a travelling people known as Speakers who have a prophecy that basically says the three of them are to team up to kill Dracula.

Description provided by @powerpolyculeshowdown.

Nathan/Vlad/Ursula: For most of the book it's about two of the characters' romance (Vlad and Nathan) and Ursula meets them closer to the end. Their relationship, I think, is supposed to be continued in the next book. They all kiss each other and it's clear from the book that they like each other, and are all open to polyamory.

THE MOST COMPETITION COMPETITION SHOWDOWN TOURNAMENT!!!!!

(3/1/23)

@meangirlsshowdown VS @hellsite-hungergames @fight-vanilla-extract VS @gotalittletoosilly @noncanongayestbitchestournament VS @qpr-competition @alloacefolkscompetition VS @system-bracket @divorcewars VS @themostpatheticlittleguy @longestanimebracket VS @isthatyouhatsunemiku @epicdivorcemantournament VS @sanriocharacterstournament @mushroom-showdown VS @best-fictional-cat @autismswagsummit VS @angerissuescompeticion

(3/3/23)

@traum-o-rama VS @space-battle-royal @worstcharacterpoll VS @animalcrossingboxingmatch @aroaceswagcompetition VS @the-malewife-ever @eggcrackerbracket VS @transfemswagbracket @powerpolyculeshowdown VS @sopping-wet-beasts-competition @musicotd VS @mad-scientist-showdown @theshipwars VS @l33t-hax0r-tournament @bible-hunger-games VS @asexual-swag-competition @minecraftmobtournament VS @boomerbracket @pathetic-babygirl-showdown VS @stachebracket (edited 3/2/23 to omit people who haven't confirmed :( if you wanna be added dm me!)

(3/5/23)

@mcytblrsexymen VS @flagwars @nicejewishcharactershowdown VS @best-toh-charater-tournament @tragicsibsshowdown VS @battle-of-the-watchers @sapphicmilfcontest VS @chuunibyou-showdown @i-need-to-fuck-that-old-man VS @clash-of-the-wizards @cottagecorelesbianbattle VS @magnificent-mlm-matchup @tanakhsexyman VS @ultimatetumblurinatraumatisedkid @catgirlgames VS @physicallydisabledswagtournament @best-appliance-tournament VS @ocd-swag-tournament @fashiondisastertournament VS @most-stylish-competition

@besttship

SORRY IF YOU WANTED SOMEONE AND THEY DIDN'T GET IN. go check @ultimate-poll-tournament for some different picks

See, when we danced with them, it convinced them we're cool.  Now they're on our side?

 Yes.

 Hey!! You!! Welcome to the good side!

@powerpolyculeshowdown ended but friendships stay.