a3! play charas are my personal barbie dolls

A fun little poll about various a3 play ships! THIS IS NOT INDICATIVE OF WHAT IS A "BETTER" SHIP. I just wanted a place for everyone to infodump about plays. Rules in pinned. One mod, 19, GMT+8, any pronouns.

[a3playshipbattleroyale]

FINAL RESULTS!

Congratulations to RAPHMICHE for winning the final round of the A3! PLAY SHIP BATTLE ROYALE! Woooooo~! WE LOVE TRAGIC GAY ANGELS IN THIS HOUSEHOLD!

And, of course, congratulations to INOAKI for getting second place! The sports gays are no joke!

That's all for now, thank you so much!

[nilikhangdiwa]

A3! Soundtracks: Ensemble Fanzine - Contributor Apps Open!

Hi, everyone! I'd just like to promote a fanzine that some people (including myself) are working on! The zine will feature works based on the various songs in the A3! soundtrack, and this iteration is a continuation of the previous Soundtracks Zine, spearheaded by some other lovely people!

Contributor applications are open from now until March 3, 2024 (GMT+8), so if you're interested in contributing, please send in an application! We're currently looking for page artists, merch artists, and writers!

You can access the application link here: https://forms.gle/hj6eXdFBWa9mf1DZ8

For specific details, please check out our carrd and our Application Guidelines! The carrd has all the necessary links and info as well, sooo. Yes! Thank you~

[a3playshipbattleroyale]

A3! PLAY SHIP BATTLE ROYALE FINALS: Raphael/Michael (Sympathy for the Angel) vs. Inoue Ryou/Akiyama Souta (First Crush Baseball)

Raphael/Michael

Inoue/Akiyama

Voting ended onJul 7, 2023

[a3playshipbattleroyale]

FINAL ROUND SOON !!

[a3playshipbattleroyale]

Semifinals, Match 1: Eight/Ritsu (SSR Family) vs. Raphael/Michael (Sympathy for the Angel)

Eight/Ritsu

Raphael/Michael

Voting ended onJun 25, 2023

The semifinal and final rounds will be held for one week! Good luck, gaymers!

[a3playshipbattleroyale]

Semifinals, Match 2: Inoue Ryou/Akiyama Souta (First Crush Baseball) vs. Kanashima/Yoiyama (Inner Palace) vs. Uriel (Sympathy for the Angel)/Lucifer (Stray Devil Blues)

Inoue/Akiyama

Kanashima/Yoiyama

Uriel/Lucifer

Voting ended onJun 25, 2023

[friends-to-lovers-tournament]

♡ FRIENDS TO LOVERS TOURNAMENT ♡

Are you a fan of the classic friends-to-lovers trope? Do you live for the moment of “Oh. Oh.” in fics? Do you scream at every instance of pining? If so, then this is the tournament for you! This tournament is brought to you by two mods, Mod Deli (she/her; 18+) and Mod Soba (she/they; 18+) , and we hope you enjoy your time here! ♡

Rules & Guidelines:

As the name implies, they have to be FRIENDS to lovers. The ship does NOT have to be canon; headcanons are perfectly fine

“How about enemies to friends to lovers?” That’s a fantastic trope which deserves a tournament of its own. As such, we won’t be allowing any enemies to friends to lovers ships (same with rivals to friends to lovers). However, strangers to friends to lovers are acceptable. If your ship has any unique variations of this ‘friends to lovers’ pipeline, please send an ask and we’ll use our best discretion to determine if your ship meets the criteria

Polycules are welcome!

Be respectful at ALL times, to us and to others. If we see any hate or ship bashing, we’ll block you on sight, no questions asked. TERFs, racists, sexists, ableists, and other breeds of bigots stay the fuck away. Our tournament, our rules.

No Harry Potter or Youtubers/Vtubers/other real-life public figures who are still alive. We’ll only consider real-life sources if they are funny enough

Please keep to an appropriate age difference between your blorbos. As a rule of thumb, no one under 18 with anyone over 18 (though if your blorbos are very close to 18 by +/- 1–2 years we would consider them)

You’re allowed to submit multiple ships from the same fandom; just start a new form if you want to submit a different ship. However, please only submit ONE ship each time

Propaganda and info-dumping is welcome and encouraged!

Shortlisting criteria: We’re looking for at least 3 submissions for a ship and/or very convincing propaganda, so show your passion for your lovebirds! That said, we’re also humans with our own blorbos so we may give ships from fandoms we’re in favourable consideration, but we’ll also try to be as fair as possible to everyone

Between the two of us we know a fair number of fandoms but we don’t know EVERY piece of media out there. We’ll do our best to do background checks, but things might still slip by us. As such, if you see any ship you think is problematic, please politely let us know and explain your reasoning in an ask (no DMs because this is a shared sideblog, but you can request for us to answer your ask privately as long as you turn off anon)

Friends to Lovers Tournament Form!!

Submit your friends-to-lovers ships HERE! A reminder of the submission guidelines: As the name implies, they have to be FRIENDS to lovers. T

Submissions will be closed on 30 June 2023, 6am PST or when we have enough submissions (we're looking at maybe 64 right now but that's subject to change)

Tagging other tournament blogs that inspired this one @obscuremilfoff @greenhairandpronouns-tournament @weirdass-shiptournament @a3playshipbattleroyale @pinkhairswagtourney @retirement-home-rumble

Reblogs are appreciated! ♡

[a3playshipbattleroyale]

Semifinals, Match 2: Inoue Ryou/Akiyama Souta (First Crush Baseball) vs. Kanashima/Yoiyama (Inner Palace) vs. Uriel (Sympathy for the Angel)/Lucifer (Stray Devil Blues)

Inoue/Akiyama

Kanashima/Yoiyama

Uriel/Lucifer

Voting ended onJun 25, 2023

[a3playshipbattleroyale]

Semifinals, Match 1: Eight/Ritsu (SSR Family) vs. Raphael/Michael (Sympathy for the Angel)

Eight/Ritsu

Raphael/Michael

Voting ended onJun 25, 2023

The semifinal and final rounds will be held for one week! Good luck, gaymers!

[a3playshipbattleroyale]

help. sorry didn't realize i reblogged that on this acc, my bad !!

[taichissu]

idk if anyone would like to hear about this but in the japanese fandom there's this quite popular headcanon that taichi might have mild asthma due to him wearing a face mask in both of his training outfits

wearing a face mask reduces the chance of getting asthma attacks and it's encouraged to wear one when you work out when you can breathe in many bad stuff from air

it is also popular for people in japan to wear masks as a fashionable accessory, but taichi doesn't seem to wear masks outside his training outfits and thus a lot of people in the japanese fandom like this headcanon

i haven't seen this hc in the english fandom nearly as much as in the japanese fandom though, i wonder why

[a3playshipbattleroyale]

TIEBREAKER!

Quarterfinals Tiebreaker: Kuto Reo/Seo Kota (Nocturnality) vs. Eight/Ritsu (SSR Family)

Reo/Kota

Eight/Ritsu

Voting ended onJun 17, 2023

(please have mercy on me)

[a3playshipbattleroyale]

Quarterfinals, Match 1: Kuto Reo/Seo Kota (Nocturnality) vs. Eight/Ritsu (SSR Family)

Reo/Kota

Eight/Ritsu

Voting ended onJun 14, 2023

[a3playshipbattleroyale]

[a3playshipbattleroyale]

Quarterfinals, Match 4: Daichi (Rad Red)/Colt (A Clockwork Heartbeat)/Watson (Scarlet Mirror)/Senri (Rad Red) vs. Kanashima/Yoiyama (Inner Palace)

Daichi/Colt/Watson/Senri

Kanashima/Yoiyama

Voting ended onJun 14, 2023

[dimmestmorn13]

by golly ive spent the whole day thinking about what to write but im gobsmacked by how head empty i am in this moment as mentioned by previous reblog propagandas, daicoltsonsen stems from a killing game rp with friends and uses modern versions of them in that iteration (i have an au of them i made on the spot but we're not talking about that until like the end of this, bc dim talks better in fic writing for some reason)

being the colt proponent, i figured i could put some of my on cents in the ring

fucking screaming bc tumblr deleted my first version. dawg im so upset why does ctrl+z delete most of the post. doing this based on memory now.

pre-facing this with me the being the colt proponent: i know colt most among the four and as such this may focus more on his part of the 'cule

here's a visual since previous reblog propagandas have mentioned that we do use modern iterations for them (i have a spontaneous au idea for them but that goes at the bottom. whichwas the reason i ended up accidentally deleting my initial contents. crying.)

colt is misleading. if i had to choose a singular word to use for colt, that would be it. he tends to come off as flirty by accident in public but he cant HANDLE pda in private (something about being genuine, about showing love still without an audience, that makes him choked up about it), he tends to use confusing phrases and mixing them up in the process, and before the relationship with daichi, tends to speak in half-truths. he's still figuring it out, he's still figuring it out. dia-san notes him as ??? in this propaganda post and that's because he's still working it out in the rp (though i inherently write him as lithromantic at least). same goes for his budding relationships with daichi and watson. a lot of the character development i hope i can wrestle into him is finding himself with the help being grounded by the polycule and not being afraid of intimate connections again, but eh. side characters, right?

i also have a drawing of him in a dress due to events in the rp helping his gender exploration, but i'll leave that for a next reblog if it comes down to it.

daichi and colt now have sweet and somewhat flirty banter after settling their quandaries with some good old communication. they're both still learning, but it's a start. communication is important afterall. i feel compelled to add that daichi is such a wet sopping cat for colt. i think he may just be a wet sopping cat in general. colt thinks it very charming. mmight be reading this inaccurately but daichi reads as performance anxiety to me, while colt is fake it til you make it, which. do with that what you will.

i think its hilarious that canon playverse watson and colt are both at least european. this isnt really building up to anything, i just thought it was funny. colt has a specific interest and has worked with the doctor where watson is currently helping at in the rp which definitely sparks a conversation and connection tween the two of them. the leg problems connection i hadn't really known about until nic-san's reblog mentioning it, which i find neat. they're both jovial lads and their conversations tend to be... sunny? in a sense

senri and colt haven't met in rp, but they sure have in ponytown and let me tell you it was the funniest shit. colt barges in saying he has no qualms in multiple partner arrangements so long as everyone in it was happy. senri having known daichi the longest has colt's immediate interest, they both fluster daichi and sometimes the turns table on them, which, rip.

thoughts all over the place but i love how everyone has their own passions in this polycule. colt loves daichi's passionnate music, loves watson's care being utilized into the medical field, and would love senri's keen interest of architecture. colt's passions lie in invention. as well as something keeping him on the island in the rp, but i can't really say.

O(-( x2 combo

lil snippet? for the aforementioned au:

There is a boy on Daichi's computer. There is a boy on Daichi's computer, and Senri is sure that, like many things in his life, it's definitely Daichi's fault that he's been roped into this.

yippeeee

[a3playshipbattleroyale]

Quarterfinals, Match 4: Daichi (Rad Red)/Colt (A Clockwork Heartbeat)/Watson (Scarlet Mirror)/Senri (Rad Red) vs. Kanashima/Yoiyama (Inner Palace)

Daichi/Colt/Watson/Senri

Kanashima/Yoiyama

Voting ended onJun 14, 2023

[phosarc]

HEY YOU 🫵 YES YOU! HERE IS SOME KANAYOI PROPAGANDA SO YOU CAN CONSIDER VOTING FOR THE LESBIANS!

To preface and provide some basic info, Yoiyama and Kanashima are from Inner Palace, a story about trying to find a Sengoku-era shogun who only cares about work a wife, and thus bringing in two beauties from two different families in the region. They are Murasakinomiya, from the Imperial Court, and Yuuhime, from the Military family. Along with them, they bring their servants, Yoiyama and Hatsuno from the Imperial Court, and Kanashima and Kuroyama from the Military Family.

NOW ! Preface is over, we get into KanaYoi specifically. Due to their opposing family statuses and attempts to support their ladies, Kanashima and Yoiyama clash quite often. But who doesn't love a good enemies to lovers story (biased)? Without spoiling anything for those who may want to read, the main conflict is eventually resolved, but nothing is concluded of the servant ladies. And so, just like many of the other ships here, what better way to bring more fanon depth to their characters than to bring them together !!

To quickly list out some of my personal hcs and relationship reasons:

- Kanashima and Yoiyama are both implied (based on card status and dialogue) to be Yuuhime and Murasakinomiya's head servants. This closeness in role makes them understand each other and their positions well, and they come to sympathize with each other, building a bond over the stress of a courtship battle.

- Because of their status in the court, it is hard for them to openly express adoration for each other, so they instead funnel it into a feud, trying to bury their feelings but failing to do so in the end.

- It's noted in the story that the military ladies aren't quite as pretty (by the shoguns standards not mine i think theyre gorgeous) but have exceptional fighting prowess, while the court ladies are outstandingly beautiful, but aren't knowledgeable in the art of fighting or war. Femme beauty x sword femme... do you see my vision... Kanashima teaches Yoiyama to fight so she can protect herself, Yoiyama helps Kanashima dress and act appropriately for the palace. Also she does her makeup like this no arguments.

I could go on but I'm unfortunately busy... But!! (TV salesman voice) If you vote KanaYoi RIGHT NOW you can get MORE lesbian propaganda!!! Please vote them I love them.

[a3playshipbattleroyale]

Quarterfinals, Match 4: Daichi (Rad Red)/Colt (A Clockwork Heartbeat)/Watson (Scarlet Mirror)/Senri (Rad Red) vs. Kanashima/Yoiyama (Inner Palace)

Daichi/Colt/Watson/Senri

Kanashima/Yoiyama

Voting ended onJun 14, 2023

[diiambee]

for a more indepth analysis see here

( for reference )

Daichi - trans ftm ; he/him

Colt - ??? ; he/him

Watson - genderfluid ; any pronouns

Senri - trans mtf ; she/he

happy pride please vote for daicoltsonsen !! diversity! your poly can fit the the yaoi yuri reg couple meme format

[a3playshipbattleroyale]

Quarterfinals, Match 5: Mercutio/Tybalt (Romeo and Julius) vs. Uriel (Sympathy for the Angel)/Lucifer (Stray Devil Blues)

Mercutio/Tybalt

Uriel/Lucifer

Voting ended onJun 14, 2023