#technically a poll

[sexiestpodcastcharacter]

Mod misuses this blog to find þeir next podcast #>1

On a scale from "not a horror podcast" to "Mod won't be able to complete an episode", how scary is "The Silt Verses"?

0: Welcome to Night Vale - not a horror podcast

3: Hello From The Hallowoods - show dwells on the comfort of horror

5: SAYER - solid middle ground between sci-fi and horror

7: The Magnus Archives - the horror usually has a soothing rhythm to it

8: Alice Isn't Dead - scariest podcast I have actively enjoyed

9: TPP 1.03: Shaken - this episode is half an hour long and I couldn't make it

10: The Silt Verses is scarier than all of the above combined.

Grenadine

Voting ended onJan 21

Bonus question: Which is scarier, I Am In Eskew or The Silt Verses?

For context, I am a fantasy/sci-fi fan who flinches during first aid training and will scream in a theater and thinks all bodies are body horror, but what really does me in is tension. So while I'll gladly read and watch and listen to creature- and cosmic-horror, I am much worse with comedies and I don't think I've ever finished a single thriller.

Also this poll is numbered >1 because what was the AI bracket except a way for me to find more AIs?

[sillylotrpolls]

Are there any songs you associate with some aspect of Lord of the Rings or any other of Tolkien's works?

Yes, and I will list them in the notes

Yes, but I don't feel like sharing today

No

Voting ended onAug 1, 2023

I adore fanmixes and playlists, and used to greedily download them during LiveJournal's heyday. Nowadays, yes, there's Spotify, but if you recall the glory days of LJ's Fanmixes community then you know it's not the same.

I still have some LotR ones saved, primarily focused on Hobbits as my main ship back then was Frodo/Sam. These days, I'd love some excellent Gimleaf recs... (hint, hint)

"Yuletide in the Shire" is an especial favorite of mine, even if I did think for years they were singing about "Christmas pies" and not Christmas pipes. (Clearly I just hit play and didn't bother to look at the clearly labled tracks.)

[best-shapes]

Follow-Up Poll: Are using these shapes at all inherently biasing the results?

Yes, so don't use them.

Yes, but use them anyways.

No, go ahead and use them.

No, but don't use them anyways.

Voting ended onNov 26, 2023

Follow-up to this poll about if the tumblr pyramid is an acceptable representation of the regular tetrahedron.

Sphere, pyramid, cube, and octahedron from tumblr. Dodecahedron and icosahedron made by @etirabys. Rhombicuboctahedron, rhombicosidodecahedron, and great rhombicosidodecahedron made by @anonymous-leemur.

The other shapes will be represented with the green semi-transparent images made by Wikipedia user Cyp using POV-Ray, at least for Round 1. Except for the sphere, as I cannot find that one.

[most-datable-datable-bracket]

Thinking more along the lines of this bad boy

https://www.tumblr.com/gb-patch/721303735227285504/cove-can-get-nice-and-cozy-in-your-shared-hotel?source=share

Left or Right?

Left

Right

Voting ended onAug 27, 2023

[bestsiblingstournament]

PROBLEM

So I've gotten some submissions for Will and Eleven from Stranger Things, even though they're not related by blood they have a lot of sibling energy. I was totally fine with that and was going to add them.

BUT.

Now I've also got a submission for Jonathan and Will. Who are, in fact, blood-related canon siblings. I totally forgot about them though, and it seems Will and El are more populair. So... who do I add?

Will, Jonathan, Eleven..

Will and El! They have so much sibling energy!

Will and Jonathan! They're actual brothers, hello!

Jonathan, Will and El! Combine them!

i don't know them/ i don't care/ just show me results

Voting ended onApr 5, 2023

[sexiestpodcastcharacter]

Change the 2026 Brackets to Bracket?

So, submissions are pretty low even though the form has been up for almost a year, which means the 2026 Sexiest Podcast Character tournament will have 64 characters (for context: 2023 had 160 and 2024 had 96) which means I could fit them in one spreadsheet instead of splitting them up. Additionally, we're only 75% of the way full for the Unscripted Bracket but there's a handful of scripted characters that were submitted for the 2024 tournament after I was done running preliminaries that I feel bad about neglecting. So I could mix them all together like I've done for the mini-brackets.

How would you feel if scripted and unscripted characters were in the same bracket?

Amazing! A podcast is a podcast!

Cautious. Sometimes the different formats are hard to compare.

Neutral.

Hesitant. Prefer the separation.

Nope! Would take the fun out of the tournament!

Infinitely Other Nuance That I *Will* Expound Upon.

Voting ended onMay 22

No Flavorful Ingredient Option this time, that's what "Neutral." is for.

[sexiestpodcastcharacter]

Podcast Specific Qualifying Poll #IDK

I have received conflicting information, so I must ask for clarification. We all know binaries suck, but this whole tournament is based on the number 2.

Is Episode One scripted or unscripted?

Scripted

Unscripted

It Depends: Option A*

It Depends: Option B**

Soy Sauce

Voting ended onMay 16

*Option A:

Scripted: Dr. Yinz

Unscripted: Opulence, Weed Hashman, The Green M&M

**Option B: It depends but not like that ↑.

For context: Stellar Firma and Hello from the Magic Tavern have historically been in the unscripted bracket. And in 2024 the voters (you) determined Midst was unscripted.

[sexiestpodcastcharacter]

Hey so like, in 2023 people were upset that nearly a third of the Unscripted Bracket were Friends at the Table characters, so I tightened up my per-podcast limits from four per world and unlimited per podcast, to two per world and four per podcast for 2024. But I don't want to put in seven characters myself. So would everyone be okay if I loosened up the restrictions?

Podcast Limits?

Keep the limits as-is.

Loosen up the limits.

No limits.

Tonic Water

Voting ended onMay 11