Where did I go wrong? I lost a friend...

Broken friendship showdown! Mods pronouns are he/they :)

[besties-breakup-poll]

Besties Breakup Poll - Congrats to our Champions!!

The Besties Breakup Poll is complete! It's been a long road and I can finally announce that our champions are:

✨ Shauna & Jackie from Yellowjackets! ✨

Congratulations to our winners and to the Yellowjackets fandom!

Also congrats to our runners up Grace & Simon of Infinity Train, this face-off was incredibly tight - and our largest pool of voters for the whole comp!

Thank you thank you thank you to everyone who voted on any of the polls, thank you for your wonderful propaganda contributions, and thank you all for just being so passionate and lovely this entire tournament! What a joy to be your poll runner 💖❤️💖

[characterfoilshowdown]

Hello everyone! Welcome to the character foils showdown. Character foils are an excellent narrative tool and go painfully unappreciated. So this is meant to give them some love! 

Character foils are two characters who parallel each other in the narrative. They contrast each other, highlighting their similarities and differences to strengthen the narrative. Are they two people who react very differently to the same situation? Are they a reflection of what the other could've been? Are they people who are extremely similar but were shaped by their different situations? Are they two incredibly different people with one or two key similarities that the narrative uses to parallel them? They can be executed many many different ways. And often, they add to the story very well. This is all about them. 

RULES:

1. I will not be accepting submissions from Harry Potter or South Park. 

2. Be civil with the other voters! Do not say "why would you vote for [x]", "[x] doesn't deserve to win", etc. Also, do not attack the media the contestant is from. Nobody wants to hear you talking about how that show sucks and is horribly written and anyone who likes it deserves nothing (Yes, I've seen that shit on other polls. I wish I was joking.) Seriously guys, be civil. This is a poll on the internet. 

3. You can submit more than one pair, but please don't submit the same pair more than once for the sake of my sanity /lh

4. This is gonna take a while because A. This is my first poll, and B. I am kinda busy, sorry. Please be patient!

5. Please do not tag adult and minor or familial foils as ships. No thank you.

6. Propaganda is encouraged,  but please be civil to others in your propaganda. Again, remember rule two! If I feel like you're being particularly toxic, I have the right to block you. 

7. NO REAL PEOPLE.

The link to the form is right here:

Character foils showdown

Welcome to the character foils showdown! Character foils are one of the most fascinating narrative tools and can be done very very well. A c

Y'all have two weeks to submit your foils!

Apologies for the ping, tagging other polls but: @besties-breakup-poll @hauntthenarrative @top-teacher-tourney @cartoon-character-competition @badass-queer-couples-battle @bestanimatedmovie

Would also like to say that this is my first time making a poll so might not be the Best at it, sorry in advance. Hope y'all enjoy!

[msbadatnamingthings]

[ID in alt]

So recently Grace and Simon made it into the finals of the @besties-breakup-poll , and I just wanted to say even tho they lost by a small margin...I'm still pretty happy about it. They were up against pretty hefty competition both from a thematic and popularity standpoint. And they still only lost by 2%! The poll has 2,808 votes, and they held their own with a bunch of people adding their thoughtful input as well. The fact that this season is nearly 2 years old and only has 10 episodes yet managed to still mean a lot to so many people kinda touched me.

So I made this drawing to commemorate this since I had no time to do so during the poll. Thank you to the poll runner for making this, congrats to the shaunajackie crowd for the win, and I'll see you infinity train friends around🫡

[besties-breakup-poll]

This is so sweet! Lovely art, op!

[besties-breakup-poll]

THE GRAND FINAL

Shauna & Jackie (Yellowjackets) VS Grace & Simon (Infinity Train)

Shauna & Jackie

Grace & Simon

Voting ended onAug 1, 2023

Who are the winners of our broken friendship showdown???

[besties-breakup-poll]

There's less than 24 hours to go! Who's it going to be?

[besties-breakup-poll]

THE GRAND FINAL

Shauna & Jackie (Yellowjackets) VS Grace & Simon (Infinity Train)

Shauna & Jackie

Grace & Simon

Voting ended onAug 1, 2023

Who are the winners of our broken friendship showdown???

[candyskiez]

vote grace and Simon for their tragedy season long break up!! for one of them being able to reassess their views while the other would sooner murder their best friend than self reflect. for the perfect cautionary tale, for that brutal finale, for the complicated feelings and the reality check and the fantastic writing. vote grace and simon yall.

[besties-breakup-poll]

For the sake of honesty I am a Grace and Simon truther. However, in the spirit of fairness I did consume some Shauna and Jackie propaganda to see what they’ve got going for them. And I agree, the cannibalism is an edge for an iconic bestie break up. But from what I’ve seen, the nexus of their break is pretty normal. One of them slept with the other’s boyfriend. The nexus and the end of the Grace and Simon breakup are both infinitely more wild.

Grace and Simon’s break up starts because they started a hate group when they were ten (and that’s what it is, the denizen’s of the train are in universe second class citizens that they kill, and call a slur they invented) and Grace after having a self reflection journey decides maybe the whole cult thing wasn’t a good idea. Simon responds to this with violating her mind and trapping her in an endless loop of her worst memories to die.

It ends with a (fairly graphic for a kid’s show) depiction of Simon being ripped molecule from molecule and disintegrating into dust while Grace holds his ashes and sobs. Cannibalism is cool and all, but Grace and Simon have an insane reason to bestie break up and an insane conclusion to that break up. Vote Grace and Simon.

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[besties-breakup-poll]

THE GRAND FINAL

Shauna & Jackie (Yellowjackets) VS Grace & Simon (Infinity Train)

Shauna & Jackie

Grace & Simon

Voting ended onAug 1, 2023

Who are the winners of our broken friendship showdown???

[queer-lemons]

yeah okay i never do poll propaganda but here we go, real facts about the ShaunaJackie Thing™

Shauna got pregnant with Jackie's boyfriend's baby while he and Shauna were still together.

This put Shauna and Jackie on the outs until Jackie decided to sleep outside in the late autumn wilderness and died in the nighttime snowfall

Shauna proceeded to clothe, makeup, talk to, and play sleepover games with Jackie's frozen corpse.

Shauna then eats Jackie's ear.

Shauna then tells the rest of the girls to eat Jackie's body (bc that's what Jackie wants) and digs into the flesh of her baby-daddy-mommy-in-law-ex-best-friend to save herself and her baby from death (the baby would die anyway despite having second hand consumed the flesh of Jackie, the baby's dad's girlfriend and mom's best friend.

i literally don't know what else to say i don't know those other guys but do they have a reverse baby trapping and cannibalism and some shady necrophilia

i think not

vote jackie shauna on this poll i randomly found

[besties-breakup-poll]

THE GRAND FINAL

Shauna & Jackie (Yellowjackets) VS Grace & Simon (Infinity Train)

Shauna & Jackie

Grace & Simon

Voting ended onAug 1, 2023

Who are the winners of our broken friendship showdown???

[jacksope-lives]

Eight years of friendship. Utter codependency. A shared first kiss. A one sided crush. Two deaths. Three counts of attempted murder by one of the parties. A new slur. A cult disbanded. No matter how iconic you think your bestie break up was, NOTHING beats Grimon.

[besties-breakup-poll]

THE GRAND FINAL

Shauna & Jackie (Yellowjackets) VS Grace & Simon (Infinity Train)

Shauna & Jackie

Grace & Simon

Voting ended onAug 1, 2023

Who are the winners of our broken friendship showdown???

[webjay]

shauna directly caused jackie's death and talked to her corpse for 2 months before eating her. PLEASE vote for my girls

[besties-breakup-poll]

THE GRAND FINAL

Shauna & Jackie (Yellowjackets) VS Grace & Simon (Infinity Train)

Shauna & Jackie

Grace & Simon

Voting ended onAug 1, 2023

Who are the winners of our broken friendship showdown???

[msbadatnamingthings]

I know there's already so much propaganda about Grace and Simon starting a cult together and their friendship falling apart over one of them going through a moral crisis, but I wanna emphasize that the impetus for this moral crisis:

Were these 2 sweetie pies.

If the crisis on whether or not to hurt these 2 cuties was enough to cause a friend breakup that lead into attempted murder, eventual death, and child cult dissolution, then I think that is gonna be the winner for most nuclear friend breakup

[besties-breakup-poll]

THE GRAND FINAL

Shauna & Jackie (Yellowjackets) VS Grace & Simon (Infinity Train)

Shauna & Jackie

Grace & Simon

Voting ended onAug 1, 2023

Who are the winners of our broken friendship showdown???

[besties-breakup-poll]

Besties Breakup Bracket - GRAND FINAL BABEYYYYYY

✨ We made it!! ✨

The grand final of our humble little tournament is right around the corner, folks. What a ride!

Our finalists are:

Shauna & Jackie (Yellowjackets) VS Grace & Simon (Infinity Train)

Poll is going up real soon - let's do this!!

[besties-breakup-poll]

I'm so stupid excited for the finals of this poll, it's like the superbowl for people who've been in toxic friendships, anyways thank you for the work of hosting it!

Aahhh you're so welcome! It's an honor to be your poll runner 🫡

Honestly tho it's a blast watching the polls unfold, everyone's so passionate and i love that

[besties-breakup-poll]

SEMIFINALS - Match 2

Grace & Simon (Infinity Train) VS Chell & Wheatley (Portal 2)

Grace & Simon

Chell & Wheatley

Voting ended onJul 22, 2023

[helielune]

VOTE GRACE AND SIMON for their decade-long bestieship, and their months-long breakup. vote grace and simon for basically raising each other from childhood in a neutral chaotic hellhole and starting an anti-authoritarian cult together. vote grace and simon for having such a co-dependence that their breakup resulted in an intentional murder of a third party, four attempted murders against each other (1. trapping the other in their memories with no way to escape 2. ordering their previously-shared cult to murder them 3. getting a supernatural cockroach to suck out their life force 4. kicking them off The Titular moving train), and one of their actual deaths. also the invention of a new slur specifically for the perceived betrayer of the relationship. they are literally THE bestie breakup.

[musicaltheatregirlsandsongs]

Musical Theatre Song Contest: Round Two A

Prologue (Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812) vs Seize the Day (Newsies)

Prologue

Seize the Day

Voting ended onJul 20, 2023

Submitter’s propaganda under the cut

Prologue

Such a good introduction song!! "There’s a war going on out there somewhere, and Andrei isn’t here"

I am always so gay for Grace McLean

[drift-compatible-poll]

Is your favorite duo/trio totally in sync?

Let's put that to the test, shall we? From the mod who brought you @divine-swag-summit , welcome to...

The Drift Compatible Poll!!!!!

A tournament for duos and trios that are so in sync, they could pilot a Jaeger together! Not familiar with Pacific Rim or the concept of drifting/being drift compatible? Here's some handy dandy excerpts straight from the Pacific Rim Wiki:

"The process of Drifting is a type of Mind Meld that requires the pilots to share their memories, instinct and emotions with each other. Drifting allows them to act as one consciousness and control the very movement of the Jaeger itself, with one pilot controlling the "right hemisphere" and the other the "left hemisphere"." "Whether two pilots are "Drift Compatible" with one another depends largely on their personal connection and their ability to work in sync with each other." "Trust is also an implicit part in creating a strong bond between potential partners and familiarity with a partner makes fostering trust easier, as it is usually more difficult between strangers."

So basically, a duo or trio that is drift compatible must: 1) Have a strong personal connection 2) Be very in sync with each other 3) Trust each other

Got it? Use this form to submit your duos and trios! But wait! Don't forget to read the:

SUBMISSION RULES

1. Only submit duos and trios please! As far as I know, at most tree people can pilot a Jaeger together, so I won't accept quartets or anything bigger than that! Sorry!

2. Relationships can be romantic or platonic, they just have to be close enough to pilot a Jaeger together!

3. No Pacific Rim characters! This tournament is for duos/trios that aren't from Pacific Rim!

4. No Harry Potter characters or Dream SMP characters! We don’t associate with Dream or J.K. Rowling here.

5. You may submit multiple duos/trios if you want, but please don't submit a duo/trio multiple times! It skews the submission results which is very unfair for the rest of the potential competitors.

6. While an explanation is not required, I encourage you to write one up because I'll be using some in the descriptions for the polls!

This tournament was inspired by: @childhoodfriendstoloversshowdown @17-million-years-of-pining-poll @besties-breakup-poll @friends-to-lovers-tournament

Other tournaments you should check out: @insanepoll @greenhairandpronouns-tournament @namedafterflowerstournament @queer-coded-tourney

[besties-breakup-poll]

SEMIFINALS - Match 2

Grace & Simon (Infinity Train) VS Chell & Wheatley (Portal 2)

Grace & Simon

Chell & Wheatley

Voting ended onJul 22, 2023