#not a bracket

[putitinbrackets]

Yes you have to pick one — Duo Edition

pick one

Frodo

Sam

Voting ended onMay 7, 2025

[tssshipbrackets]

looking at the round 3 poll since some of the round 2 polls have closed and I am NOT looking forward to activating the full forces of intruloceit nation AGAIN.

[guardian-battle-bracket]

The Drifter from Destiny the Game is too busy Committing Tax Fraud to vote in the Guardian Battle Bracket!

[streetcattournament]

Since I currently have 3 cats locked into the semi-final, which would you like to see happen?

Semi-Final Format

1v1v1

2 1v1s, a vote for a cat from the quarters to come back

Voting ended onOct 11, 2024

1v1v1 would see 3 cats going up against each other in 1 bracket.

2 1v1s means there would be 2 brackets. I'd hold a vote for one of the eliminated cats from the quarter-finals to return.

[kirby-sexyman]

Hello again everbody.

For the next week (and maybe a little after, probably not we'll see) I will be putting up polls again, discussing primarily this time headcanons and fandom participation! This is purely out of curiosity and for fun, so please be respectful toward others.

Please enjoy the polling! :)

[not-popular-shiny-pkmn-bracket]

I AM NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS FOR POKEMON! [<- there's a link in there!]

The form will go on for a week, and if i need more, i'll let it continue another week and i will shut it down to start seeding brackets.

feel free to reblog this to allow more people to see it!

[the-sweets-stakes]

Romance Tropes Tournament aka The Sweets-Stakes!

Based on a bracket I saw a friend run, I wondered how a Tumblr Tournament for Romance Tropes would work - thus was born the idea of the Sweets-Stakes!

Now next, I would like you to nominate your favorite trope by filling out this tiny three-question Google form (name of trope, why you think it's the greatest, and optionally a link to a description of the trope) - looking forward to seeing how many we'll assemble, and which tropes will be submitted ten-fold because everyone loves them (this will have no influence on proceedings! only your votes in the sweets-stakes (eventual Tumblr brackets) will!)

And since Trope Favorites differ for me depending on whether I write or read them, that will be a distinction here, as well as what kind of romance we're talking about: straight or queer, and I also do wonder whether some tropes are seen differently in romances that focus on trans protagonists, so they will get their own sweets-stakes too.

(more info under the cut, since this is already getting long!)

By which I don't mean that those tropes are (or should be) exclusive to those categories; it's rather that, for example, the trope of Friends To Lovers hits different if person A, who knows themselves to be queer, doesn't even know if their friend B, of the same gender, is even interested in them that way, or if A would, by revealing their feelings, risk not just destroying their friendship but also running into homophobia as well. And even within the realm of queer romance, I think there'll be differences between stories with two male protagonists and stories with two female protagonists, as well as between stories with trans protagonists.

Basically, I posit the hypothesis that different tropes will hit differently in different communities, and I'm interested to see if the sweets-stakes will reflect that!

Which 😅 brings us to a total of eight sweets-stakes to run:

M/F romance tropes for readers

M/F romance tropes for writers

F/F romance tropes for readers

F/F romance tropes for writers

M/M romance tropes for readers

M/M romance tropes for writers

trans-focused romance tropes for readers

trans-focused romance tropes for writers

(which also allows, at the very end, to run the ultimate sweets-stakes between the winners of all of these, and fine The Only One Bed Trope of Tropes!)

Oh, and we'll go with the following definition of trope:

a recurring element or a frequently used plot device in a work of literature. It can be a theme, person, place, thing, or situation. For example:

Theme: Friends to Lovers

Person: The Bookworm

Place: Close-Knit Community

Thing: Grandma's Engagement Ring

Situation: Snowed In

(I'm not gonna distinguish between them in the brackets; if Grandma's Engagement Ring comes up against The Bookworm, so be it. This is already granular enough, no need to subdivide further!)