i didn't lose it, babe -- there wasn't much to find!
our 17th most played song was 2econd 2ight 2eer (that was fun, goodbye.) by Will Wood!
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WOW this was an interesting one! will admit to being stumped at first in terms of what we were going to do for the visuals right up until we saw which song you'd rolled for it.
anom's got a very simple skin, so this one's all about the vibes of the pose! we were going for "gleeful frolicking" since it's so incredibly unbothered by everything ever for the most part.
i do want to hear about tabi, like, in general, but i do not have the power or skill or pvpciv knowledge to protect you from Every Yaoi Liker On The Site so use your best judgment. but i do want to know more about tabi and to hear your takes on her which are obviously correct.
ok since two other peopel also asked ill post one of my incomprehensible rants. under a cut. this post is an evil swirling black void of evilness so dont click it if its evilness will harm you
so tabi is the secondary protagonist turned antagonist of evbos parkour civilization series . For those two dont know. and his love interest. there are two main fanon characterizations of tabi i see one of which is the irredeemable demon bitch from hell (though some people frame this "positively" with fandom typical slay girlboss talk)
tabi is canonically without question the person evbo cares about most in the entire world . this is indisputable and obvious. even after she betrays him you never get the sense that anyone else even comes close. he is talking about her and thinking about her CONSTANTLY, with no disdain or grudge at all. he loves her !! and tabi loves him too even if its harder to see because shes much more closed off and not the pov character
tabi could have killed him. she should have killed him. he showed up in front of her annoying and lost like a yapping dog and she rebuffs his affection constantly but she Loves Him you literally cannot argue that she doesnt love him. tabi is a soldier. shes on a mission. she kills without hesitation and without care except for when its evbo. evbo gives her a clear shot and says "prove that i mean nothing to you" and she CANT!! all she had to do was kill him with the eternal sword and he wouldnt respawn but she Couldnt. when clown implies to her that evbo might be dead and asks her how she woudl feel about it she completely dodges the question. idr exactly what she says, something like "i would say you did what had to be done" but very very notably and particularly doesnt answer the question of how she would feel. because she doesnt let people see how she feels. shes closed off because she has to be but her feelings are Very Much There. i think because people disliked the girlfriend jokes so much - which, like, fair - a lot of them decided that tabi must dislike evbo for making them but thats just. not true. and even if she did return evbos feelings that isnt something she would allow herself to indulge in. she cant jeprodize her job. evbo is in love with her pretty much immediately and while i definitely Dont think tabi felt the same at first, even if tabis feelings did change her outward behavior towards him wouldnt change proportionately. she made the mistake of being a slightly unsympathetic and stoic female character so now a bunch of people hate her for hurting their sunshine boy or whatever. whatever
but the second mischaracterizarion i see a lot. and this is where im gonna get controversial abt it. is people that DO acknowledge tabi cares about evbo but have to. fuckin. make her his Mean But Cool Girlboss Lesbian Older Sister 💪😎. to reconcile with that fact. so they do not have to exert Too much brainpower thinking about a female character or god forbid a m/f relationship
it just kind of drives me crazy i know we are coming off of the sausage fest that was parkour civ and everyone is yaoibrained I GET IT nothing wrong with yaoi brain and the girlfriend jokes are cringey i get it I Get It. but. and this is my most controversial take in the world are you ready for it . pvpciv tavbo is just what people wish parkciv seavbo was. do you like seavbo but u wish they had spent more time on screen together ? bonded more? That exists. Its tavbo. their dynamics hit a lot of the same beats. but evbo more openly cares about tabi and is ACTUALLY INTO HER and theyre friends and trust each other. + pvpciv tabi and parkciv seawatt are very similarly driven characters. theyre warriors who are fighting for their home. tabi in the same way has to weigh up completing her lifes long goal vs her caring for evbo. and she betrays him but then spares his life . she likes him but she also isnt going to throw away something shes worked for since she was born. yyou people wanted enemies to friends to enemies to lovers and you got it but tabi is a woman and having to think about women is the enemy of all fandom spaces so no one GAF. in fact they wil go out of their way to Invent New Reasons why shipping them would be Weird🤨 like . everyone who says pvpciv evbo is actually a child. BE FUCKING FOR REAL !!!
and then of course seawatt shows up for one pvpciv ep and everyones like omg guys seavbo real again 🥺🥺🥺🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 bc they had like a single conversation . i like seavbo dont get me wrong im not trying to argue that seawatt didnt care about evbo to some degree. Happy for you seavbo warriors i love that you got that W. its just that. like. gestures like an insane person. You see the double standard right. am i crazy. chat am i crazy be real.
How do the nominations work? Is there any value to me nominating characters that I am reasonably confident I am the only one nominating, or is it just the top 64 (perhaps 128? could i tempt you to make it 256?) most nominated candidates who make it to the poll? To put it another way, does my special skrunkly obscure literally-a-tumblr-sexyman who probably has like ten votes max have a chance at all, or should I be campaigning for more people to nominate it?
Probably if you have less than ten nominations you're not going to make it into the poll. We're over 1000 nominations now, with up to ten nominations on each, and the high numbers are very high. Grian's been nominated 215 times. So if you really want your blorbo to make it into the poll, convincing friends to nominate is probably the way to go. However, we are going to be releasing the spreadsheet of all the votes eventually, so every vote will be visible, if not in the poll.