#problematic faves bracket

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Submissions will end for this bracket on Friday 21st July at approximately 8pm EST.

Just as a little teaser though, some of you have submitted really funny explanations or rationales behind your problematic faves.

I can't decide which one is my favourite though. Possibly the person who entered Guillermo De La Cruz from What We Do In The Shadows with these final thoughts?

go off king go fucking crazy commit as many crimes as you want babe

Or perhaps the person who felt this was the most important thing to add about Dr Frank-N-Furter from The Rocky Horror Show.

Murderer, Cannibal, hostile to the idea of peer review

Or... well, I've never read Homestuck but even I understand this.

It is Vriska

Please continue to add your submissions here! And seriously, please reblog for attention, because otherwise I will be forced to add my own esoteric suggestions and no one will recognise half the characters.

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The Bracket

I am by no means an expert in seeding brackets and there are definitely some characters here that I haven't heard of so if there are errors in canon or bad match-ups I apologise!

If you are disappointed by someone not being mentioned, that is probably because either a) no one submitted them or, b) someone submitted them but I was not convinced by the argument for them being canon. I did cull a few corner cases to make a neater bracket.

I will be posting the first round of votes soon, and I fully encourage propaganda!

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A very special shout-out to the person who listed one of my personal favourite minor characters from The Magnus Archives and for the question “Explanation of how this character is canonically LGBT+:”, the first line was “Just is.”

I mean you’re not wrong but thank you.

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So far what I have learned from this bracket is that I don’t know as many queer characters from media as I thought I did, as I am getting a lot of entrants that I have simply never heard of.

Also the debate over what “canon” means is ongoing as I have seen some entrants that based on the evidence provided and/or my knowledge of the media in question, I do not think count as canon.

Please continue to submit entrants into the bracket as the more you submit the larger the bracket will be!

And honestly — I gave my definition of canon in the pinned post, but what’s yours? What is an appropriate line to draw between canon and something that is up for interpretation?

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The big problem with my definition of canon is that sometimes people submit things and I have never heard of the character so I have to take your word for it in your explanation of their canon gayness. Of course, I could also research them, but then sometimes I find redditors saying they aren’t gay, and I don’t know if that’s because them being gay is your headcanon or if redditors just can’t read.

Anyway submissions are open. I do not have a closing date yet but please share this around if you want to see it succeed.