SUBMISSIONS OPEN - selfcest wins 💖

"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance." ―Oscar Wilde

[self-love-tournament]

Update + Sample Poll

I'm Alive ✨✨✨✨✨✨Turns out visiting 3 countries in 10 days really takes it outta you lol

Currently finalizing submissions and putting a bracket together. All the submissions were a delight to read. Thank you all for sharing your thoughts!

Sample Poll below the cut:

If you see something off, please submit an ask. I want to be responsive to y'all's concerns :)

Self-Love Tournament, Round [Test]:

Anonymous (Anon, Nonny) from Tumblr vs You (me, us, Nobody special) From Your Imagination

Who has the better selfcest?

Anonymous (anon-cest)

You (self-love)

Voting ended onOct 22, 2023

This poll is a celebration of fan imagination and fan communities. There may be issues with these ships. Please do not take their inclusion as an endorsement. The only submissions I've consciously excluded have been those that objectify real people in a way they could be affected by.

(pretend there's a read more break here)

Round [Test] Propaganda/Fun Facts:

[A]

[B]

[silly-name-tourney]

hello!!!

do YOU have a blorbo with an an outrageously goofy name? submit them here so they can beat other people with equally silly names to the... very beat up. we don't want any actual deaths lmao.

silly goofy name tournament!!!

rules: - no problematic fandoms eg. harry potter, attack on titan, the likes - don't spam pretty please - make sure they're fictional please

rules (which are on the form also):

- no problematic fandoms eg. harry potter, attack on titan, the likes

- don't spam pretty please

- make sure they're fictional please! i don't want to bash on real people

now to tag some people!!!

@tournament-announcer @theultimatechristournament @most-annoying-sponsorship @russian-blorbo-rumble @self-love-tournament @badass-queer-couples-battle

[self-love-tournament]

While I'm tallying things up, go check out this tournament! It looks incredible :)

[self-love-tournament]

Update + Sample Poll

I'm Alive ✨✨✨✨✨✨Turns out visiting 3 countries in 10 days really takes it outta you lol

Currently finalizing submissions and putting a bracket together. All the submissions were a delight to read. Thank you all for sharing your thoughts!

Sample Poll below the cut:

If you see something off, please submit an ask. I want to be responsive to y'all's concerns :)

Self-Love Tournament, Round [Test]:

Anonymous (Anon, Nonny) from Tumblr vs You (me, us, Nobody special) From Your Imagination

Who has the better selfcest?

Anonymous (anon-cest)

You (self-love)

Voting ended onOct 22, 2023

This poll is a celebration of fan imagination and fan communities. There may be issues with these ships. Please do not take their inclusion as an endorsement. The only submissions I've consciously excluded have been those that objectify real people in a way they could be affected by.

(pretend there's a read more break here)

Round [Test] Propaganda/Fun Facts:

[A]

[B]

[self-love-tournament]

Update + Sample Poll

I'm Alive ✨✨✨✨✨✨Turns out visiting 3 countries in 10 days really takes it outta you lol

Currently finalizing submissions and putting a bracket together. All the submissions were a delight to read. Thank you all for sharing your thoughts!

Sample Poll below the cut:

If you see something off, please submit an ask. I want to be responsive to y'all's concerns :)

Self-Love Tournament, Round [Test]:

Anonymous (Anon, Nonny) from Tumblr vs You (me, us, Nobody special) From Your Imagination

Who has the better selfcest?

Anonymous (anon-cest)

You (self-love)

Voting ended onOct 22, 2023

This poll is a celebration of fan imagination and fan communities. There may be issues with these ships. Please do not take their inclusion as an endorsement. The only submissions I've consciously excluded have been those that objectify real people in a way they could be affected by.

(pretend there's a read more break here)

Round [Test] Propaganda/Fun Facts:

[A]

[B]

[self-love-tournament]

heads up for any newcomers!

this tournament is on pause while I'm on vacation, but I'm so very delighted to get back into it when I'm home 💖

I'll likely run a round of preliminaries so that all eligible submissions get their shot

+ submissions are still open btw!

[ao3topshipsbracket]

as round 2 heats up, reminder that there is a line between being annoying (honorable, joyous, part of fandom's legacy) and just being an asshole. mobilize your followers, write propaganda meta in defense of your ship, bribe people to vote how you want with drabbles or doodles, make twelve accounts and vote on all of them— but don't send anon hate.

[self-love-tournament]

Hi Fam! Heads up, I'm going abroad from Sept 28th to October 8th. I'd like your help on how we wanna do our timeline!

I'll try to scrounge up a little free time while aboard, maybe on flights, but I doubt polls will start until I'm home again.

I also know that submissions have slowed down quite a bit as the days have gone on. We could definitely get something going with the list I have so far, and I can always go fishing around to augment it, but that'll be a little extra work.

With all that in mind,

What sounds like a good strategy here?

Close submissions before you leave, so you can work on the bracket ASAP

Close submissions while you're abroad. More submissions & spread out engagement

Have fun on your trip & wait til ur back! Hype is nice but I don't feel urgency

Good with whatever lol 👌🏻

Voting ended onSep 26, 2023

[self-love-tournament]

first - please feel free to drop constructive crit in my ask box. I've never run a theme blog before, and I want the experience to be nice for yall

second - I promise to cut back on the goofy non-poll selfcest-adjacent things. totally forgot that it can be distracting when you just signed up for the competition

thank you all! happy to be on this journey with you!!

[catilinas]

i love you foils i love you gothic doubles i love you clones i love you alter egos i love you twins and false identities and shadow selves and reflections and ghosts and eidola and puppets and masks and

[catilinas]

and how could i forget. doppelgängers <3

[self-love-tournament]

excellent. and then they find peace or clarity or aggravation or unearth internal tension or see how their life has been shaped differently by their environment

and then they fuck

[self-love-tournament]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS, TAKE TWO

Hi all! If you follow these tags, you may be interested in the selfcest tournament! Please share the post below to help get the word out! We'd love to have a bit more submissions before we begin the tournament:)

Be it alternate universes or freak transporter accidents, a witch's curse or timeline shenanigans, one thing that's fascinated scifi and gee

thank you to ao3's comprehensive tagging system and filtering for letting me know all the ship names seen here. altho tbh I could have guessed most of them lol

[self-love-tournament]

TIL Dirk Strider ≠ Dave Strider

sorry, Dirk submitter. 90% of my Homestuck knowledge comes from a study I did for a class

[self-love-tournament]

DELIGHTED to share that right now, the only entry with two submissions is Candace Flynn of Phineas and Ferb

[self-love-tournament]

all of these submissions are INCREDIBLE btw. loving the variety of media and bits of niche episodes

may release some teaser snippets in the future

[self-love-tournament]

sorry about sootbur

don't be sorry. we're all freaks here 💖

Not gonna shame you for what you like, but heads up, I haven't yet decided if I'll keep it in the bracket. I know other polls have banned Minecraft RP altogether, but I haven't seen much reasoning for it outside of the general RPF-adjacent squiggliness.

I did notice that you specified c!Wilbur, which (I believe) means it's explicitly not RPF. That's definitely a point in its favor, but I know it can get fuzzy when it comes to Minecraft RP.

Anyway, I don't want to dismiss something out of hand, especially when the ship has 200+ fics on AO3 lol

Does anyone have any thoughts about this? Or background knowledge that might be helpful? feel free to submit via anon

[self-love-tournament]

okay, based on this resource detailing Wilbur Soot's boundaries and MCYT boundaries in general, I think I'll have to exclude this entry from the tournament

Although he allows SFW shipping, I think this tournament is very in the spirit of freaky/often NSFW stuff, and I don't want us to get too close to things that make him uncomfortable

Thank you for your submission! I hope you go about your fandom activities respectfully regarding his boundaries

[self-love-tournament]

sorry about sootbur

don't be sorry. we're all freaks here 💖

Not gonna shame you for what you like, but heads up, I haven't yet decided if I'll keep it in the bracket. I know other polls have banned Minecraft RP altogether, but I haven't seen much reasoning for it outside of the general RPF-adjacent squiggliness.

I did notice that you specified c!Wilbur, which (I believe) means it's explicitly not RPF. That's definitely a point in its favor, but I know it can get fuzzy when it comes to Minecraft RP.

Anyway, I don't want to dismiss something out of hand, especially when the ship has 200+ fics on AO3 lol

Does anyone have any thoughts about this? Or background knowledge that might be helpful? feel free to submit via anon

[self-love-tournament]

Call for Submissions: The Self-Love Tournament 🎉👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

Be it alternate universes or freak transporter accidents, a witch's curse or timeline shenanigans, one thing that's fascinated scifi and geek fan culture for ages, especially on this hellsite, has been the prospect of meeting yourself.

And also.

What if you then did the dirty.

To honor this glorious tradition, I'm assembling a tournament that pairs the sexiest of tumblrmen with themselves, and then pits them against each other. We'll determine, once and for all, the selfcest champion.

Automatically included are some of the greats (and my personal favorites). Feel free to include them in submissions so I can curate lists of aliases/start collecting propaganda

The Onceler (from The Lorax movie)

Loki (from Marvel/the Loki tv show)

Ice King (from Adventure Time/Fionna and Cake)

Kira Nerys (from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)

Dave Strider (from Homestuck)

The Doctor (from Doctor Who)

Sans (from Undertale)

England (from Hetalia)

Submissions

I'll try to prioritize characters with more submissions or more impassioned propaganda, so keep that in mind when submitting

Self-Love Tournament Submissions

“This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear

+ Ground Rules:

I reserve the right to exclude any characters or fandoms from the bracket (to be fair, the most hated usually get voted off quickly anyway)

Feel free to vote on whatever criteria you see fit! I try to prioritize iconic ✨ examples, ones that have had large impacts on Tumblr history, and any personal blorbos 💖

I did say whatever criteria, but I do feel like I should address hate-voting. I'm not going to forbid it, but I ask that you consider if you really do hate the character/fandom that much. For example, Oncelercest isn't my cup of tea by any means, but man.... you gotta hand it to him.....

I love passionate (and even sometimes violent) propaganda, but do NOT bully anyone.

From my end, I really appreciated how @controversial-blorbo-bracket ran their tournament, so I'll try to follow their lead: be open and transparent, give people who are writing propaganda the benefit of the doubt where possible, and try to take passionate takes in stride.

Please feel free to spread this submission list! Tagging some of my inspirations: @ao3topshipsbracket @who-do-i-know-this-man @stop-spreading-this-poll @masked-character-competition @bestadaptationtournament @ultimate-anime-tournament @unlikely-adversaries-bracket @top-fictional-unhinged-women @mosthomoeroticenemies @bestfictionaldivorce @controversial-blorbo-bracket @tournament-winners-tournament @the-most-character-i-ever-saw :)

[xweetok]

people are oncesting simon petrikov and the winter king