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[trashgremlen]

Changing my url from trashgremlendoesart (long, incomprehensible) to just trashgremlen (simple, elegant)

artfight link for those who want it

artfight borders and decals

[everydaywomble]

[haveyouever-polls]

Have you ever smoked a cigarette?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 4 days 23 hours

[would-you-obliterate-that-twink]

Cacofonix - Astérix

Do you want that twink obliterated?

Obliterate that twink!

Don't obliterate him

Not a twink

Fourth secret option / see results

Remaining time: 6 days 18 hours

[mewvore]

"we detected a mature post" yeah I'm in my 30s

[kosmogrl]

what doesn’t kill me leaves a pit in my stomach that never goes away

[problematic-character-tournament]

ROUND 2 — Match 15 of 138

Monster Eliot (The Magicians)

Problematic because: "He’s an ancient godlike being wearing Eliot’s body around for most of Season 4 while Eliot is trapped inside his own mind. He possesses Eliot after escaping Castle Blackspire, uses his face to get close to Quentin and the others, and drags them into his mission to recover his memories, rebuild his sister, and get revenge on the gods/Librarians who imprisoned them. He also doesn’t care much about keeping Eliot’s body safe at first, which is pretty awful when the “body” is, you know, someone the main cast loves. The backstory is sad, but the behaviour is still very bad. He and his sister were created by the Old Gods, considered too powerful, stripped of their bodies, and locked away - his sister was later sacrificed/split up by Librarians who used her power to become gods. So yes, he has a real reason to be angry. But his response is killing gods like Bacchus, Iris, and Enyalius, kidnapping Julia so his sister can use her body, letting Eliot’s loved ones think Eliot might be gone, and generally treating everyone around him like either a toy, a tool, or an obstacle." Propaganda: 1. "He’s lonely, confused, childish, powerful, and furious because his whole existence was decided for him by beings stronger than him. I get why he wants his sister back, I get why he wants answers, I even get why he’s attached to Quentin, in his weird little “new favourite person” way. Still shouldn’t possess people, obviously." 2. "the monster is such a good problem because he makes eliot’s absence feel horrible without actually removing hale appleman from the season. you’re watching eliot’s face, eliot’s body, eliot’s voice, but the wrong person is driving, and every time someone who loves eliot has to look at him and deal with that, it hurts. and the monster is kind of fascinating because he’s so emotionally underdeveloped for something that powerful. he wants company, attention, memories, his sister, revenge, all of it immediately, and he has the power to make refusal everyone else’s problem. he can be funny and oddly charming for about five seconds, then you remember eliot is trapped, bacchus is dead, julia is in danger, and Quentin is trying to reason with something that could kill him by getting bored."

vs. The Master (Doctor Who)

Problematic because: "the master is basically the doctor’s worst friend from school if that friend kept trying to conquer planets, steal bodies, start cults, weaponise alien tech, and make the doctor emotionally miserable for sport. they’re a renegade time lord, like the doctor, but instead of travelling around helping people, they usually turn up with some plan involving mind control, political takeover, mass death, or “i am in charge now because i said so.” the classic era already has plenty - in logopolis, the master kills nyssa’s father tremas by taking over his body, then messes with logopolis badly enough that the doctor is warned it could cause universal disaster. new who just makes the scale even worse. as harold saxon, the master becomes prime minister, murders the us president on tv, uses the toclafane to conquer earth, keeps the doctor aged and helpless, and turns martha’s family and jack into prisoners/slaves on the valiant for a whole year. then in the end of time, he turns almost the entire human race into copies of himself, because apparently normal tyranny wasn’t personal enough. and that’s before missy and dhawan!master. missy builds an “afterlife” that uploads the minds of dead people so they can be turned into cybermen, which is a genuinely horrible thing to do even by master standards. dhawan!master destroys gallifrey, turns dead time lords into cybermasters, and later tries to force the doctor to regenerate into him so he can use her identity as a weapon. so yes: murder, body theft, mass manipulation, political dictatorship, cyberman crimes, gallifrey crimes, earth crimes, doctor-specific emotional terrorism, and a level of clinginess that should probably require a restraining order across time and space." Propaganda: 1. "they are not just evil, they are ANNOYING about it. every plan has to involve theatre. every betrayal has to be personal. every time the doctor tries to move on, the master appears like “hello :) did you miss me :) i have ruined another government.” i love them because the relationship with the doctor is so messy. they hate each other, love each other, understand each other too well, keep trying to save or destroy each other depending on the day, and somehow make “we went to school together” sound like the most dangerous backstory in the universe." 2. "The Master is so funny as a recurring villain because no matter the incarnation, the basic energy is always: I am smarter than everyone, I should be in charge, the Doctor is obsessed with me specifically, and if any of that is untrue I will make it everyone’s problem. Delgado has evil charm, Ainley has panto menace, Roberts is doing whatever the TV movie was doing bless him, Simm is feral, Missy is flirting with redemption and murder in the same sentence, Dhawan looks like he’s one bad conversation away from biting through the furniture. They’ve done basically every kind of villain nonsense available: hypnosis, disguises, political coups, body theft, Cybermen, fake afterlives, dead Time Lord armies, forced regeneration, turning humanity into themself, refusing to die politely. But the reason they work is that it’s always personal with the Doctor. The Master doesn’t just want to win, they want the Doctor to watch, react, argue, understand, maybe join in, maybe stop them, preferably all at once. Absolute nightmare bestie."

Who should advance?

Monster Eliot

The Master

Remaining time: 4 hours 25 minutes

(Disclaimer: All text above was sent in by submitters and not written by OP.)

[problematic-character-tournament]

ROUND 2 — Match 27 of 138

Darth Maul (Star Wars)

Problematic because: "He tries to kill the good guys and helps an evil dictator." Propaganda: "He has style in spades. He shows up looking fly and gets straight to trying to stab people with a lightsaber. No mincing words from him."

vs. Cytherea Loveday (The Locked Tomb)

Problematic because: "Killed Dulcinea Septimus and her cavalier, Protiselaus, and posed as Dulcinea while puppeting Protiselaus around using necromancy. Because she's a Lyctor, basically a super powerful immortal necromancer, she's over 10,000 years old and was flirting with Gideon, who's only 18 in the first book so HUGE age gap lmao. Then proceeded to kill other people at Canaan House where she met Gideon. At the end, disabled Ianthe Tridentarius by ripping her arm off. Was responsible for Gideon committing suicide because to become Lyctor, a necromancer has to kill and eat their cavalier, so Gideon threw herself onto a fence so Harrowhark, her necromancer, could become a Lyctor and powerful enough to defeat Cytherea. Cytherea also killed and ate her own cavalier long ago." Propaganda: "It just think it's so funny that in between murders she was flirting with Gideon just for fun. It didn't even go anywhere it was just because she felt like it."

Who should advance?

Darth Maul

Cytherea Loveday

Remaining time: 1 day 22 hours

(Disclaimer: All text above was sent in by submitters and not written by OP.)

[zdr-77]

Just had an urge to draw Odo in a flapperish outfit. I have no explanation, no excuse. I just like 1920's fashion and Odo has a fun silhouette okey

[what-even-is-thiss]

Those shockingly high “illiteracy” statistics that go around aren’t saying that like 22% of Canadians or 21% of Americans or whatever literally can’t read.

That’s the number of people at level 1 literacy or below. Level 1 literacy is like grade school level. Able to read labels and straightforward instructions and whatnot.

Which is like. Still higher than the ideal for sure, but it’s not like a fifth of adults literally can’t read. They’re just kinda bad at it.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Those rates are also at like 18% in the UK and around 14% in Australia which is better for sure but it’s also not like this is a problem unique to North America.

[what-even-is-thiss]

[what-even-is-thiss]

Yeah those tests usually test English reading proficiency and there’s a lot of folks in this country both citizens and noncitizens who speak English as their second language or don’t speak it at all. There’s regions of this country that are almost entirely Spanish speaking so even native born citizens who went to American schools might not be able to read in English.

[vhen-harel]

[tincar87]

They were not kidding, they ACTUALLY put Captain James Tits Kirk in a shock collar and a harness holy

[elljayvee]

the thing about star trek is that we're almost never kidding, especially about the things that sound objectively insane, like a man in fetish gear on prime-time 60s tv

[unswerving-dysfunctional-loyalty]

[frontmansdog]

there’s a t-shirt that says “I survived a bad day and all I got was the rest of my life” and yeah I still think about it

[ishimarukiyotaka]

hot take comments like "I hope I get cyclosporiasis I want to lose 10 lbs" are not only obvious fatphobia but also part of mass illness normalization that has been an ongoing effort since 2020 to minimize the dangers of disease and infections

They want to act like high levels of sickness whether it be airborne or foodborne are normal and not the responsibility of agencies like public health or food safety regulation so they can get away with dismantling them.

[sawed-on-shotgun]

unfortunate truth of reality is that oftentimes 15 year olds will say/do/believe some stupid bullshit because they are 15 but telling them that they believe that because they are 15 is probably the most counterproductive thing in the entire universe

[sawed-on-shotgun]

i remember being 15 and wanting literally nothing more than to be taken seriously and listened to and every thought and feeling i had was dismissed because i was a hormonal teenager. i was well aware at that point that a lot of the things i felt were probably because i was a kid, but that didnt make any of it less real, and being dismissed because of my age 1. did not help 2. did not make me feel better 3. made me angry at and untrustworthy of adults because they refused to listen to me. teenagers are people. kids are people. one of the only major things separating them from adults are experience and wisdom. they have like. you know. interiority

[sawed-on-shotgun]

like in YOUR mind you may think youre being helpful by going 'well you're a kid, its not really a big deal, youre okay, youll get over it' but that does not register as "helpful affirmation that everything will turn out fine and the only reason im upset is because of something out of my control so its better to just try and come to terms with it" it registers as 'adult dismissing my real tangible problems and sadness and anger because of my age and inadvertently calling me stupid'

[free-my-girl-tourney]

Fandom Misogyny Victim Tournament

Round Three, Bracket 8

Thirteenth Doctor (Doctor Who) vs. Lwaxana Troi (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

Thirteenth Doctor

Lwaxana Troi

Remaining time: 5 days 19 hours

Propaganda below the cut:

Thirteen:

Despite being a great incarnation of the character, somehow she is uniquely bad. Despite having many of the same traits as the 'male' Doctors, somehow it is worse when she does it. She's constantly held up to greater scrutiny and one cannot help but see that misogyny plays a huge role here

Dared to be an incarnation of The Doctor who was played by a woman and all the needs and geeks were as normal about that as you'd expect

‘Jodie Whittaker (actor) killed the show’ ‘the Thirteenth Doctor sucks and is bad and new who sucks after her!!’ Etc holy moly. So much bashing of the show because of her and not because the writers just sucked for a while (which honestly is the case for most of the show)

She's literally the exact same character the Doctor has always been- hypocritical self righteous bullshit and all. But for sooooommmmeeee reason it's charming and compelling and adds great depth to the character when it's David Tennant but it's shallow and poorly written and inconsistent when it's Jodie Whittaker

She won the poll for Doctor most likely to bite someone even though Eleven bit someone onscreen. She's great

This may have already been said but BBC literally had to apologise for 13 not knowing how to comfort Graham at the end of Can You Hear Me. Which is completely insane because when a male doctor gaslights his female companion that’s allowed but she’s not allowed to be even just awkward?

Despite being the main character of the show this version of the Doctor experiences probably the most hate for no fault of her own. I have seen so many people criticize her for the same things they praise the other versions of the Doctor for. And while some of her actions are questionable, that is who the Doctor has always been- they are never in the moral right 100% of the time. But also, she's fun! She eats dirt and ignores personal space, and so much more- she's just as brilliant as any other version of the Doctor and yet she experiences so much hate! And that just comes down to the poor writing choices that were made with her stuff, but even then she was such an interesting and compelling character! She has a canon love interest who's a woman and so many people get pressed about that but don't care at all when they're a man who has female love interests! She's messy and runs from her past, she finds out the entire life she has lived is based of a lie! A lie that was quite literally built on the exploitation of her as a child!!! Thirteen is such a compelling character who makes complicated choices based off what options she has been presented with and they aren't always good choices- but once again, I point you towards every previous incarnation who have all at some point made bad decisions that made things worse for everyone. Thirteen is an incredibly nuanced character, and I wish more people could recognize that.

Lwaxana Troi

Every man I know who’s into Star Trek thinks she’s the most annoying character ever. They’ll say that there’s oodles of evidence to support this (as they always do) and just point to writers being misogynistic when they’re imagining older women. I typed ‘Lwaxana Troi analysis’ into YouTube and 2/3 of the first results were yeah she’s awful with the other being like Maybe she isn’t that bad ?🔍

She’s a hoot! This is an older woman who loves her body and isn’t ashamed by having a sexual nature (tng is 1980’s so that’s still something for the time). She’s strong willed and will keep true to herself even when that means she’s going to have to be alone.