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After a very exciting popularity contest against Ben Sisko from Star Trek : Deep Space Nine,

Monkey D. Luffy from One Piece won the Captains' tournament !

#sorry for the late announcement #i've been dealing with a lot of stuff lately so thank you for your patience

specificpollsaboutbooks

The more, the merrier. I'm opening submissions for :

Epistolary Works

Plays

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specificpollsaboutbooks

Please don't submit books by JKR or NG

You can submit several books but only submit them once please

Submissions open for :

This is a niche classification but I do love a good fiction book with great footnotes by the author. Please don't summit book with commenta

*A standalone shouldn't have any prequel, sequel and (maybe not always but in our specific case) no book set in the same universe (example :

This one's for all the people who've read a secondary work of a major author and find out that everyone only read their Most Famous WorkTM -

Hi, @tournament-announcer ! If you wouldn't mind reblogging this... Thank you !

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Hello, 🌹♥️

I apologize for reaching out unexpectedly, but I am forced to contact you due to an urgent situation.

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My name is Hani, and I want to assure you that I wouldn’t want to bother you under normal circumstances. However, I am in desperate need right now. I have a beautiful family , and I am doing everything I can to save them from the horrors of the war in Gaza. I reached out to you because I believe you are a kind and compassionate person 🫶, and I hope that if you can share our story, you won’t hesitate to do so.

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I’m not experienced with Tumblr, and I only came here to try to reach good people like you who can help amplify my family’s voice , hoping we might find someone who can help save them. If you could reblog the pinned post on my account, I would be incredibly grateful.

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If you are willing to contribute even more, you could also share our story on any other platforms where you have access. With your help, we might be able to save them.

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If you have friends or know of large blogs on Tumblr, please don’t hesitate to ask them to reblog my post as well.

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Please, can you reblog my pinned post 📌 on my account📍? 😔😞🌹

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Again, I apologize for the inconvenience, and I sincerely hope that reaching out to you will lead to a positive outcome in my desperate attempt to save my family from the war. 🕊️

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Thank you from the bottom of my heart ♥️

Please help if you can

#palestine

do-you-ship-this-comic-ship

Okay time for a new silly comics poll idea:

This time, we are focusing on the ships people into comics like (please be normal please be normal). The dynamics between the characters are an important aspect to the fandom, and it might be fun to celebrate them.

If you are interesting in gushing over a ship, and maybe adding some propaganda to get more people invested, there is a link down below.

Rules: 1. Comics ships only, Marvel, DC and Indie comics are all allowed, no manga for the moment though 2. One ship per form (you can send

Both popular and unpopular ships are welcome. Please try to remain civil and block people who make you angry.

If you like a ship you ship it!

If you don't like a ship but also don't hate the ship you're neutral

Actively Not Liking something implies a level of hatred when you see it.

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screampotato

Suddenly struck with a need to explain to you how boat pronouns work (I work in the marine industry).

When you're talking about the design of the boat, you say "it".

When the boat is still being built, your say "it".

When the boat is nearing completion, you can say "it" or "she".

When the boat is floating in the water you probably say "she", unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say "it".

When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say "she". If you continue to say "it" at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.

If you are referring to a boat you don't really know anything about you may say "it" ("there's a big boat, it's coming this way"). But if you know its name, it's probably "she" ("there's the Waverley, she's on her way to Greenock").

If you are talking about boats in general, you say "it" ("when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over")

If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it's "she" ("she's a grand boat"). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily ("it's as ugly as sin", "she's a grotty old tub").

If she has a boy's name, she's still she. "Boy James", "King Edward", "Sir David Attenborough"? The pronoun is she.

If it's a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it's a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.

I hope this has cleared things up so that you may not be in danger of misgendering floating objects.

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namedafterflowerstournament

Hi !

I'd like to try something after the final and before the "messy" bracket with mushrooms (I know they're not plants but they were allowed at some point before I realized I had already a monster of a tournament without including them) and rejected submissions (usually because of far stretched explanations but not only)

Well, waiting for this one, I thought I may try to do the one with my own submissions that weren't in the bracket

However I have doubts about the (non existent, for some) popularity of some characters in there (sources are mainly indie or DC comics and books but not only)

- TERFs and other nuisances can go to hell

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sleepyshrooms

making a new post bc the old one was getting notes with no donos i spent my entire paycheck on prescriptions and i've been unable to afford anything to eat . i've also been dealing with severe fibro flareups that caused me to miss a few days last week so i already know my next check is going to be short . if anyone could throw a few bucks my way so i can get some food , i would appreciate it very much . i'll leave my commission info and links below . thanks for reading

p-yp-l c-sh-pp commission info

sleepyshrooms

please spread this around or send a few dollars if you can , the last several weeks have been hellish and i just want to be able to eat . everything in my fridge is going bad and i absolutely cannot afford a trip to the grocery store without some kind of help . i haven't been able to keep an actual , solid meal down in weeks because i've been running on a few hundred calories per day . i don't want to live like this anymore . even just a dollar from a few people would make so much of a difference

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namedafterflowerstournament

Botanic Tournament : Main Bracket !

Round 8

2 will be eliminated. Vote for your favorite

Rosa the Sea Otter (Real Life, Monterey Bay Aquarium)

Rue (The Hunger Games)

Poppy the dog (Real Life Pet)

Nepeta Lejion (Homestuck)

Toph Beifong (Avatar : The Last Airbender)

Bayleef (Pokémon)

Strawberry Shortcake

Tenjou Utena (Revolutionary Girl Utena)

Himemiya Anthy (Revolutionary Girl Utena)

Mabel Pines (Gravity Falls)

Show results

Voting ended onMar 24, 2024

With the participation of the lovely @lunathewafflelord's sweet female dog Lemon "Poppy" Poppyseed Muffin

Nepeta is the genus of catnip

Toph means lotus

Utena means calyx, "the ring of small green leaves (called sepals) that protect a flower before it opens"

Anthy means flower

(Roses, rue, poppy, catnip, lotus, bay leaves, strawberries, calyx of a flower, pine)

"But op this isn't a flower name" : read this

No antipropaganda on my polls please

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onepiece-polls

One Piece Crack Ship War - Submission post!

Welcome to the One Piece Ship War - crack edition!

What is a crack ship?

A crack ship is a (in this case romantic/sexual) ship that has little to no basis in canon.

When will my ship qualify for this tournament?

They will automatically qualify (after having been submitted) when:

The characters involved have NO canon interaction*, and are not part of the same crew (no matter how popular the ship is).

The characters involved have 1 short canon interaction and less than 10 fics for them on AO3 (as a side pairing counts too)

They might qualify if:**

They have no canon interaction but are part of the same crew or organisation.

They have 1 short canon interaction but more than 10 fics on AO3

They have 1 long canon interactions or 2/3 short ones and less than 10 fics on AO3

They have multiple canon interactions but NO fics on AO3

It's an incredibly funny ship (but you gotta convince me it's crack!)

These ships will not qualify on principal:

ANY ship between Strawhats (honorary Strawhats don't count if they haven't met a certain Strawhat - examples: BrookNami does not qualify, SanjiVivi does not qualify, but BrookVivi would qualify)

The top 25 ships (or something, be sensible) on AO3.

*canon interactions include fillers, cover stories, specials, and movies (though I haven't seen the last 2 yet and I don't remember much of the other ones, so these might slip through, but I'm counting on you to honor this rule). Also, I won't know nor check interactions in the manga (that haven't been animated yet), so something might slip through there as well. Just honor the rules, please.

**Any ships in the 'might qualify' category will be judged on crackyness by me first, and when I'm in doubt, I will put them up for a vote - so expect a few polls for this.

Rules!

All characters must be from One Piece (no OCs).

Must be a crack ship according to above guidelines.

Ships that were in the previous shipping war tournament are allowed in this one too, as long as they follow the previous rule.

No moral limitations. These are fictional characters, not real people. Go wild. (But be prepared for 'problematic' ships to be voted out in round 1 or 2.) I will not start discourse/moral discussions about any ships! (messages about morally questionable ship are likely to be ignored and deleted)

Poly ships are allowed! I will cap them at 5 characters, however, and at least 1 character should follow the interaction rules stated above. (examples: JinbeRobinBrook or KidLawLu are not allowed. RobinNamiKiller would be allowed, on grounds of Killer having no interactions with the other 2 (I think? 😂)) Again, be sensible here.

All characters involved have to be humanoid. No concepts, objects, or full animals (fishmen/merfolk, minks, and Chopper are allowed).

You can submit multiple ships, but use a new form for each ship.

Do not hate on other ships, just support your own.

You are allowed and encouraged to submit fanart! As a lot of these ship won't have official art with all characters in it, it will come down to fanart for the most of it ((bad) edits are also very much allowed). However, it needs to be your own or you need permission from the artist before submitting it! However, if you haven't gotten permission yet when submitting, you can always send me a link to the fanart later. Without picture submitted, there might be a chance your ship will have to compete without a picture.

Keep the main images SFW and spoiler free. Propaganda can contain nsfw stuff and manga spoilers, as long as it's announced up front (eg: [Spoilers ahead]/[nsfw ahead])

Submit only through the google form below. Submisions through asks or reblogs will not be accepted.

Read the rules? Go ahead and sumit those ships! (<you can click on that)

Oh yeah, and in case you're wondering... All submitted ships that pass the crack ship bar will make it into the tournament! No limitation on how many contestants there will be or how many submissions a ship needs. I want this to be an opportunity for all to discover new fun and silly ships!

Closing date will be announced at a later time.

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tales-from-the-abbey

Jane Austen non canon ships' polls

- Het Pride and Prejudice

- WLW Pride and Prejudice

- MLM Pride and Prejudice

- Het Emma

- WLW Emma

- Het All minus P&P and Emma

- WLW All minus P&P and Emma

- MLM All minus P&P

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southwest-pottery-bracket

Hello and welcome to the US Southwest/Mexican Northwest Pottery Bracket!

Or, the "Greater Southwest," if you're writing from a USAmerican perspective, which I am.

The Greater Southwest was and is a vibrant, multicultural place, with a long history of settlement, movement, interaction, art, philosophy, and cultural exchange. And it's the home of some of the most striking and beautiful pottery in the world. No, I'm not biased.

The Greater Southwest has great, workable, colorful clays, and a hot dry environment that makes artifacts preserve well over the centuries. So there are a LOT of examples of pottery, from its initial use in this region 3000-some years ago to the modern art form made today.

A Gila Polychrome bowl, southeastern Arizona, 1300-1450.

I'm @specialagentartemis and I'm an archaeology PhD student studying Southwestern pottery. This is my excuse to ramble about my topic of study and interest, and share a little bit about it with the world. And make it fun. I'll present the pottery... and YOU vote on it! Based on how pretty it is, or how interesting, or if it was made by your tribe, or whatever other criteria you like. This isn't voting on the objective best pottery, just tumblr's favorite.

A Nine Mile Polychrome bowl, southeastern Arizona, 1375-1450.

In the spreadsheet I'm working with for my research assistanceship doing ceramic data analysis, there are 1,352 different pottery types listed. That is So Many. I will not be having you vote on every single one. I've pulled out 18 wares and types that I think exemplify Southwestern ceramic history across various times, places, styles, and cultures, from the AD 800s to the present day.

A Wingate Black-on-red bowl, western New Mexico, 1030-1175.

If you have questions, comments, propaganda for your favorite pottery, or a nomination for a pottery type to include, feel free to drop an ask!

I will not knowingly post any photos of pottery from burials.

(and, as traditional, I'll tag some fellow bracket pollsters who may be interested: @goldenapplebracket @gayest-classiclit @namedafterflowerstournament)

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captainsvscaptains

After a very exciting popularity contest against Ben Sisko from Star Trek : Deep Space Nine,

Luffy won the Captains' tournament !

captainsvscaptains

Battle of the Captains

Grand Finale

Benjamin "Ben" Lafayette Sisko (Star Trek : Deep Space Nine) VS Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece)

Sisko

Luffy

Show results

Voting ended onJan 24, 2024

No antipropaganda on my polls please - talk about the character you want to defend, not their adversary

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findinglaughtale

This is the last one.

Please vote Luffy! He’s not even 20 and well on his way to liberating the world from an oppressive government built. Once he decides someone/something/some cause is worth his support, he is 100% behind it.

This includes each member of his crew who he found a little broken but still good and all are living life not just existing.

He is never afraid of making the hard decisions. He is always willing to stand between his crew and the person hurting them. He 100% trusts that everyone will do their job because he knows exactly what they’re capable of (even if they don’t themselves right away)

Luffy might be the host of the god of liberation and capable of changing the physicaly characteristics of the world but the most dangerous thing about him is that he inspires people.

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