Third Place
Propaganda Under Cut
Every Supernatural Woman
Supernatural is so mean to women and committed to queerbaiting but it still gives Sam and Dean lovers to kill. The writers kill and villainize them and the fans get the few that remain
wincest and destiel shippers cannot handle the idea of their blorbos having a Woman THREATENING their SHIPS god FORBID
It literally used to be a running joke that if a female character got introduced you knew she was going to die soon because fans would react so negatively to her "stealing" one of the boys away from the big ship, whether it be destiel or wincest
Casca
She is part of a weird fucked up love triangle with two dudes. All three of them are honestly kind of terrible for each other but she gets shoved aside in favor of the two dudes in most fics and is not allowed to grow past the toxic relationships of her past. Also she’s a cis woman who dresses pretty masculinely (because she’s in a mercenary band) so she gets type casted as the mean lesbian friend, when she’s straight in canon
I've seen more than one Yaoi Shipper say that Casca should have died during this one big canon event as opposed to being assaulted by one of the people in the Yaoi Ship, which of course conveniently would remove her from the narrative and as an obstacle to said Yaoi Ship. Aside from that specifically, though, I think it's particularly cruel to imply that being killed is a better outcome than being a victim of SA, and is an example of the contempt fandom on the whole has for female characters who act traumatized - particularly when both male characters in the ship have similar trauma and its never implied they should have died rather than be assaulted.
She's an incredibly interesting character in her own right with really good dynamics and parallels to Griffith and Guts, and the way those three play off of each other is integral to the story, but most of what I've seen completely ignores her in favor of focusing on only Griffith and Guts
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Virtual Character Tourney - Bronze Battle
Propaganda below (May contain spoilers!)
Dr. Coomer propaganda:
Dr. Coomer is the EMBODIMENT of a old and broken AI. Silly man, just a very old guy who has a crisis over realizing that he's in a game because he went out of bounds. He runs into the same trap/enemy constantly because of one area at the beginning of the game, explodes anything with the word explosive on it, cannot stop greeting the player, recites the entirety of the 2012 Wikipedia article for chairs because was was sitting in one, and is basically a permanent tutorial npc. Someone fix this man's code please.
he is so sentient it hurts
he's a broken tutorial npc who becomes aware that he's trapped in a game and repeatedly tries to escape. he wanted to be a boxer instead of a scientist. he wants to live in super punch out for the super nintendo entertainment system but instead he's stuck in half life. you wouldn't leave him in half life, gordon? fucking half life? let him ou-- HELLO, GORDON!
Fey propaganda:
She's a numbers station who longs for freedom and loves to sing Katy Perry's hit "Roar".
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I just watched this video about the loss of third spaces and it reminded me of how kids don't play outside as much anymore the way my peers and I did, it had me thinking about how cafes and restaurants and other businesses that could exist as third spaces push you out as soon as they can because having you hanging out for 4 hours is not as profitable as many many people coming and going.
I think overall this is one of the things driving my loneliness, third spaces are scarce, and the ones that exist tend to be expensive, or loud, or expect you to already come with a friend. and the video is absolutely right, online spaces are not replacements; they fill a different niche entirely. but a lot of people try to fill that hole with social media, and of course it doesn't work, and it even sometimes does more damage.
and I am also thinking of how I've noticed lately that folks around my age and older, when we walk past eachother we greet eachother, we hold best intentions, we socialize even just a moment with small talk or a smile or a nod. even when we look different, or come from different walks of live, or even if we know eachother and don't like eachother. and how that's really it, that's the community, and just from an interaction like that you can see in others if they have a collective care or not. I'm having friendly small talk with people I never imagined making small talk with, and I realize despite all our differences, we have a collective care for our community, to some extent. and it's such a refresh from the individualist mindset where everyone minds their own business and strangers don't greet eachother in passing.
anyway, please watch the video, it was a good one
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CANON POLYCULE SHOWDOWN
this is a contest for canonically confirmed polycules or polycules that have a lot of hints to a possibility of them being canon, even if the authors might not have intended that way!
Beware of spoilers!! Some of these only become polycules later in the media they're from, and some of the descriptions describe a tragic fate for the polycule, so keep in mind there will be spoilers
rules can be found here
bracket can be found here
honorable mentions can be found here
links for all the match ups as they go live can be found in the MASTERPOST. it will be updated each round, but i will also tag every round to make them easier to find
help me w descriptions for the honorable mentions!
Round 2 part 2 finished.
Round 3 will go live on May 19th!
(#canonround2 or #pollycule if you want to search for the polls)
tags:
#canonpolyculeshowdown - for relevant updates and the polls
#pollycule - (yes double L) specifically for the showdown polls, to make it easier to find. doesn't include the prelims cause I only thought to add this after, sorry
#canonpropaganda - for, well, propaganda. ill post asks, reblog posts and maybe reblog reblogs
#honorablemention - for the ships that did not make it in (i will still make a post introducing all of them)
#tournamnt poll - the generally agreed on tag for blacklisting purposes. let me know if i forget to use it! i cant edit polls but it will remind me for the following round
#canonroundN - N being the number of the round we're in. so, for example: canonround0, canonround1, canonround2, etc. from the quarterfinals onwards, they'll also include the specific tag (#quarterfinals, etc). Check the post's tags for that ome if you want to look at all polls from that round!
list may be updated as needed.
if you submitted something that did not get in, nor was it posted as an honorable mention, and you wish to know why, feel free to send an ask.
LIST OF CONTESTANTS:
Nathan/Vlad/Ursula (Hunger Pangs)
Rilla/Arum/Damien (Penumbra Podcast)
Nathan/Gabriel/Annalise (The Bastard Son and the Devil Himself)
Ben/Ryn/Maddie (Siren Freeform)
Arthur/Guinevere/Lancelot (High Noon Over Camelot)
Quanxi/Pingsti/Cosmo/Long/Tsugihagi (Chainsaw Man)
Wu Zetian/Li Shimin/Gao Yizhi (Iron Widow)
Caleb/Astrid/Eadwulf (Critical Role)
Sadie/Walt/Anubis (The Kane Chronicles)
Rajan/Wolfgang/Kala (Sense8)
Princess Glisselda/Seraphina/Lucien (Seraphina)
Tess/Jacomo/Margarethe (Tess of the Road)
Logan/Jean Grey/Scott/Emma (X-Men)
Uzui/Hinatsuru/Makio/Suma (Demon Slayer)
Megaera/Thanatos/Zagreus (Hades)
Dianda/Simon/Patrick (October Daye)
Haruka/Michiru/Setsuna (Sailor Moon)
Asmodeus Alice/Clara Valac/Iruma Suzuki (Mairimashita, Iruma-kun!)
Aizo/Yujiro/Hiyori (HoneyWorks)
Kyle/Rogelio/Lonnie (She Ra)
Dashawn/Steve/Jose/Cupe R III/Otto/Arturo/Gregory/Quackers McQuack (Bojack Horseman)
Fluorite (Steven Universe)
Miss Piggy/Kermit/Gonzo (Muppets)
Sherlock/Watson/Mary (Sherlock Holmes movies)
Ichika Hoshino/Saki Tenma/Shiho Hinomori/Honami Mochizuki (Project SEKAI)
Tree Trunks/Mr. Pig/Alien Husband (Adventure Time)
Daniel/Sam/Jack/Teal’c (Stargate SG-1)
Mukai Naoya/Saki Saki/Nagisa Minase (Kanojo mo Kanojo/Girlfriend Girlfriend)
Eddie/Venom/Anne/Dan (Venom)
Peter Quill/Aradia/Mors (Guardians of the Galaxy)
George/Gilda/Thomas (Design for Living)
Leif/Thorn/Kale (Leif and Thorn)
Kieran/Ray/Gemma (Trigonometry)
Eugene/Rapunzel/Cassandra (Tangled the Series)
Jack/August/Rina (The Wicker King)
La’gann/Coral/Rodunn (Young Justice)
Syenite/Innon/Alabaster (Broken Earth)
Enrique/Hypnos/Sofia (The Gilded Wolves)
Max/Jack/Anne (Black Sails)
Pyrrha/Commander Wake/Gideon the First (The Locked Tomb)
Neptune/Venus/Jupiter (We Know the Devil)
Quincey/Jack/Arthur/Lucy (Dracula)
Amber/Reese/David (Adaptation)
Will/Tessa/Jem (The Infernal Devices)
Kieran/Cristina/Mark (The Dark Artifices)
Winter/Moon/Qibli (Wings of Fire)
Camille/Nyra/Dendro (Muted)
Sasha/Anne/Marcy (Amphibia)
Neal/Peter/Elizabeth (White Collar)
Turtle Heart/Melena/Frex (Wicked)
Emiya/Saber/Rin (Fate Stay/Night)
Sofiane/Victor/Luisa (Mortel)
Taylor/Theo/Josey (3)
Jack/Emma/Izzy (You Me Her)
Keiko/Miles/Kira (Star Trek)
Jade/Dave/Karkat (Homestuck Epilogues)
Anzu/Kazuki/Junta (Romantic Killers)
Shikimori/Izumi/Ai (Shikimori is Not Just Cute)
Camina/Michio Pa/Josep/Serge/Berthold/Oksana (The Expanse)
Breq/Mercy of Kalr/Seivarden/Ekalu (Imperial Radch)
Roguish Semiotician/Infamous Mathematician/Player Character (Fallen London)
Alphonse/Seth/Listener (Bittersweet)
Storm/Helen/Mira (Love and Luck Podcast)
Nicky/Joe/Andy/Booker/Niles (The Old Guard)
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