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Feel free to ignore the question if you think it would destroy The Magic or anything XD but the Marius Ships Matchup has me wondering, how do you pick matches within each round? is it luck of the dice?

No magic at all! I've actually been meaning to make a post about this because i've seen some people saying things like "mods how could you do this matchup to us" or "why would you put them against each other" etc and I don't think people realize that we the mods have not at any point Chosen what pairings go where!

The bracket is built in the same way something like a March Madness basketball bracket is built. Brackets like this basically take the list of all involved teams and, in the simplest of terms for our purposes, put them in order based on how many points they've accrued. In the LMSS this year, we gave ships "points" based on their placement in last year's showdown, based on steal points accrued in last year's showdown, and steal points earned during the Summer of Steal event. These essentially give us information on how popular those ships are in this tournament/in this fandom space right now at the start of the showdown.

The points each ship earned in this way determine where on the starting bracket each ship belongs - for example, Enjolras/Grantaire had the most points so it goes in the #1 slot top left, whereas Cosette/Montparnasse was the last place ship before our vote-in qualifying round, so those two are paired together. The first ship gets paired with the last, the second ship gets paired with the second last, and so on. As I said, no magic here, it's basically just a formula.

You can see the results of the initial bracket seeding below in the first round bracket:

From here, the two winning ships in each section then go up against each other, following the lines of the bracket that you can see above! So, again, we the mods are not deciding what ships go up against each other in each round, it's the bracket! No luck, no dice, no randomization. The bracket is set up based on each ships' earned popularity up to the start of the tournament, and then the bracket goes from there.

I hope that helped answer your question, I apologize if it was a little confusing! I'm happy to explain in more detail if you'd like - I (@glindalesbian) have run a bunch of these bracket tournaments for friends, so at this point I'm so dialed in on how to assemble them I kind of forget this is not information most people are operating with lol.

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I feel like all this still leaves the question of Why Would Enjolras Be Romantically Interested in Grantaire Of All People and that is DIFFICULT to answer

EXACTLY!!!!

And THE THING IS I feel like when we're just dealing with E/R I'm willing to cast aside any doubt because the answer is simply Narrative Symbolism. That's why my favourite iterations of E/R always encompass an OFPD moment/a similar instance of transformation somehow and it always makes me lose my mind.

HOWEVER in a world where Enjolras/Feuilly is a thing, it's as if Feuilly is already fulfilling that role in their narrative (e.g Grantaire post-OFPD) and then it becomes EXTRA difficult to conceive of a reason why Enjolras would be interested in Grantaire. I feel like I can see why E/F works and I will forever be obsessed with the sheer symbolic power of E/R... but atm they're mutually exclusive in my head and that's why I'm so determined to mash them together hahaha

#my thoughts so far are like... enjolras and grantaire have their ofpd moment. but no one else is aware of it #this makes the vibes between e/r go all over the place. weird emotionally charged tension et cetera #meanwhile enjolras and feuilly long term queerplatonic partners and feuilly just Doesn't Understand enjolras' sudden interest in grantaire #because he wasn't there for the moment that changed it all #but he supports enjolras no matter what so encourages him to pursue it whilst also trying to figure out grantaire's whole Thing #feuilly vetting his partner's new potential partner to see if he passes muster #feuilly and grantaire partners in law #which Eventually leads to the three of them coming to a well rounded and better understanding of each other #which possibly maybe potentially leads to some iteration of feuilly/grantaire as the final side of the triangle #or something #pilferingapples #ask

"#The dynamic between two paladins would be INSANE#and so fun" Hello , I saw your tags, tell me more about your Ideas about the TTRPG Amis -slash-Les Mis?:D

dear god im sorry i let your ask marinate its been a Time man anyway

(im a mathematician) so we gotta look at two cases: Les Amis play a ttrpg like dnd together, or we make ttrpg based on Les mis/and Les Amis

case 1: oh my god dont get me started (well you did, so here we go) we all know how dramatic ttrpgs can get, so maybe a modern au where the barricade is ttrpg and everyone is playing various characters, except for marius who is new and very obviously playing himself. which is why he like that. anyway!! this can also give rise to the two paladins dynamic i was yapping about, so lemme yap some more. The tension would be unparalleled. Courf and Enj arguing about who serves whos god better and being the same kind of divine but different would be bonkers. Grantaire would try to roll so many times to seduce Enjs character and fail and Enjolras is oblivious so its Courf who confronts him about it and is like 'yo. whats up with all that' and R is just like 'wouldnt you like to know, weatherboy' etc the other half of the table (Combeferre, Joly, Lesgle, Jehan, Feuilly) (Bahorel is more partial to the above mentioned drama) is on about something more sciency and shit (except for the occasional glances and giggling about the rest) which all begs the question, who dms? and the answer is simple. Gavroche. he would be a very, very good dm i feel like. kid's got crazy ass ideas they're perfect (also dm candidates are: Valjean) this au is generally very on point to the book i feel like because of how most characters are symbolic and extraordinary but also its just fun

case 2: again, right after i got the ask i started ruminating on this. came up with stats even! so regular dnd 5e has 5: strength, dex, int, wis, and charisma. Les Mis ttrpg: decided to merge strength and dex into one, but maybe we split em up, dunno. Charisma we obviously keep, and add two more stats: religion and revolution. religion works kinda like wisdom/int, bc les mis is heavily influenced by religion and its fairly self explanatory revolution is a scale of 0-20, with 10 being 'i dont give a shit', 20 is Enjolras and 0 is Javert. other than that, mechanically i have no idea lol but it should be also very fun

thanks for coming to my TED talk lmao hope this wasnt too long

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Far would like to wish you all a miserable Barricade Day 2022. ;) I had a bunch of half-baked ideas for this year, but then @pilferingapples went and reblogged this post by @swutol-sang-scopes that translated one of the songs from the Argot chapter (thank you!) -- and then of course this was what my brain latched on to and insisted it would make excellent text for a comic. [Pilferingapples, I hold you responsible. Yet again!] Regarding the last panel: if it seems suspiciously familiar, it’s because I’ve always wanted to redraw the last panel from my Orestes Fasting, Pylades Drunk comic from Way Back When... just with even more drama than it already had. I just really like this perspective ok, and it seemed like a fitting end to this comic. I am not sorry about the context of “meat” in Page 3. (Actually, I’m cheerfully unrepentant about any of this. I don’t know how you could possibly expect differently). Also, because I know that at least one person is going to comment on this (you know who you are): I know I said this comic wasn’t about Bahorel, but that didn’t mean he wasn’t going to die in it either. BECAUSE. -- Is anyone still even keeping score of Bahorel vs Combeferre? ;) [I will also take any and every opportunity to give as many of Feuilly’s Six cameo appearances in my comics as I can manage.]

The goose video is wonderful! Would you ever consider sharing your knowledge of Goose Neck Language? It sounds intriguing!

I'm only a brand new student of Goose Neck Language! So I only know a few words - or at least I THINK I know them. But here's what I think:

Head Flick: "Come, children!"

Because lo and behold, the children come (and offend the local ducks) :

Again: (and partner gets up right away)

And now here come the children:

And here's a child trying it out!

So that's the one I'm most sure about. But here are a couple further hypotheses....

First, directing the children to cross the road. Onward!

And finally, my favorite. This one is still mysterious, but based on context (goose 1 was tentatively squeezing past me and goose 2 was bypassing secondary goose drama), I think this one means "I'm just passing through and I don't want no drama"

And those are my studies so far! But like I said, I'm still a goose neck novice! So if you are a goose expert (or a goose), I welcome further education!

#replies #goose #geese #canada goose #canada geese #gif #pilferingapples

@pilferingapples it is more egregious because all these articles written by Global North academics are talking about decolonising the field of bioethics, they're talking about importance of listening to and recognising research in healthcare from Global South and yet, how do you expect this to happen in the unequal system that persists in academia?? I can easily find articles about bioethics from US, UK, EU, Australia etc. There is dearth of information from Global South and the ones that are published are behind a paywall. The least, the extreme bare minimum these journals can do is make it open access, waive the fees. But, no! All their arguments are for their research papers. No one actually wants to do what they are so eager to publish. And that kinda sucks, imo.