The Niche fandom tournament ☆

Tournaments featuring ONLY niche fandoms/ characters! Mod goes by any pronouns, preferably they/them Pfp: Sanah (Fragaria Memories)

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Welcome to the Niche Fandom bracket!

This is a tournament, designed to make smaller franchises/ characters have a chance in winning a competition without having to be overshadowed by more popular franchises/characters!

Current tournament: N/A

Previous tournaments:

Niche Fandom bracket 1 - Winner, Blaseball

Rules:

Be kind and respectful to everyone underneath comments and reblogs, thxx

No fandoms that are controversial, please! (By this, I don't mean the franchise itself. I mean it as the creator or the fandom being known for being problematic.)

You can submit as many times as you want, but do not spam the responses with one single fandom.

Propaganda is not needed but encouraged!

Only use official art or your own art for images. If you have to use fanart, make sure you have permission to do so.

Only fandoms are allowed. I think that's already pretty clear :3

Mod goes by Hibiscus, and all pronouns, although I prefer they/them the most.

The character in the pfp is Sanah from fragaria memories, in case if anyone is wondering ;)

Also mod is chronically online so dont be surprised if things get done too fast

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well, that was fun! hopefully ill have smth for s2. and thanks for my paragraphs of random stuff lol :D

I'm actually so glad that this tournament ended on a good note, it was fun hosting it as well!!

As for s2.. Look out for it soon? Perhaps? Life is getting busy so Idk tho

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Ultimate Niche fandom bracket: Finals

Blaseball vs Pulp Musicals

Blaseball

Pulp Musicals

Voting ended onJan 31

Blaseball:

Blaseball my bleloved gone from us too soon. A baseball sim where people got to vote on modifications to teams and game rules at the end of every week. This was fun in and of itself, but the real game was finding the loopholes in every rule that allowed for players to be brought back to life, infinite peanuts, and putting your entire pitching lineup on strike by sealing them all inside giant peanut shells. Fantastic story told over a number of social media platforms and largely driven by fans. Hello to the tumblr blesties that keep the memory of blaseball alive!

Additional propaganda by anon

Pulp Musicals:

Pulp Musicals my best friend Pulp Musicals. An audio-only musical following the adventures of its core four characters with a sci-fi inspiration for each connected episode, whether you're following the fictional Stratford siblings as they write the Great Moon Hoax, the group participating in fictionalized John Herschel's project to build a brick satellite (inspired by Edward Everett Hale's "The Brick Moon"), fictionalized Margaret Cavendish's multi-episode pursuit of something she knows she's missing or any of the other stories in this wonderful series. Also the songs HIT. More Than This is the one song consistently available on Youtube and it's a very good taste of the music

Reminder: More propaganda can be added via askes and reblogs

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And with that, Blaseball has won!! Congrats :D

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Are we gonna win? Probably not. However—propaganda for Pulp!

We have absolutely gorgeous vocals and acting work from everyone in this show—I often think about certain line deliveries. Everyone came to it with their A+ game, and this story is all the better for it.

We have canonical queer rep! Science, horror, myth, and magic! Lunar Buffalo! A story that talks about the value of dreaming and imagination, a story that stresses just how important it is to be able to move on. To keep on going, no matter what is behind you! Pulp is a story about the beauty of the night sky above, and how it can inspire people to dream. It is a story about human connection, and what can sprout up because of it.

And on a more personal note, this fandom is how I met many wonderful friends of mine. I have grown as a writer because of it, and I like to think I’ve grown as a person while in it. I will always, always love it for that.

Vote Pulp!

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propaganda for pulp!!

Great Astronomical Discoveries?? REAL ARTICLES. AND I was reading them and the songs MATCH TO A TEE (although they did change bison to buffalo but that's fine cuz rhyming and also how different are the two anywayssss also that's like. One singular thing. They have lines that are just PARAPHRASING LINES FROM THE REAL ARTICLES THATS INSANE YALL)

You mentioned the brick satellite being based on a different story. However. There was also a story written known as "The Blazing World" (it has a longer name, but it's pretty much always referred to as "The Blazing World," as far as I know) that's written by MARGARET CAVENDISH!

And of course, there's Dakkar. Who has a (flying) ship called the Nautilus. And, he goes by another name as a captain: Captain Nemo. Captain Nemo (also known as Prince Dakkar!) is a character in two of Jules Verne's novels, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas and The Mysterious Island, which the episode "Searcher in the Shadows" is (loosely) based on. There's even a song in this episode that Dakkar sings called "Destiny Strange and Sublime," which is a reference to a line in the first of the two aforementioned novels.

I'm a BIG fan of references (they give me life), so l naturally adore that this musical has so many. Not to mention the actors have GORGEOUS voices?? And such fun dynamics?? They're so fun to analyze. I mean, I have a nine-reason list (with evidence!!) for why my favourite character is autistic (and for my other favourite being ADHD).

ALSO I spent a good hour yesterday finding musical motifs and trying to analyze them. And there's so many more I didn't find (partially cuz I have a bad memory and am not great at separating voices from background music BUT also cuz they're so in-depth)

Also!! Historical sci-fi!!! As a podcast musical!! That's INSANE! | listened to it and IMMEDIATELY fell in love.

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Ultimate Niche fandom bracket: Finals

Blaseball vs Pulp Musicals

Blaseball

Pulp Musicals

Voting ended onJan 31

Blaseball:

Blaseball my bleloved gone from us too soon. A baseball sim where people got to vote on modifications to teams and game rules at the end of every week. This was fun in and of itself, but the real game was finding the loopholes in every rule that allowed for players to be brought back to life, infinite peanuts, and putting your entire pitching lineup on strike by sealing them all inside giant peanut shells. Fantastic story told over a number of social media platforms and largely driven by fans. Hello to the tumblr blesties that keep the memory of blaseball alive!

Additional propaganda by anon

Pulp Musicals:

Pulp Musicals my best friend Pulp Musicals. An audio-only musical following the adventures of its core four characters with a sci-fi inspiration for each connected episode, whether you're following the fictional Stratford siblings as they write the Great Moon Hoax, the group participating in fictionalized John Herschel's project to build a brick satellite (inspired by Edward Everett Hale's "The Brick Moon"), fictionalized Margaret Cavendish's multi-episode pursuit of something she knows she's missing or any of the other stories in this wonderful series. Also the songs HIT. More Than This is the one song consistently available on Youtube and it's a very good taste of the music

Reminder: More propaganda can be added via askes and reblogs

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Finals!

Blaseball vs Pulp Musicals, who will win?

Tune in at 24th January, at 4pm GMT to place your votes!

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Ultimate Niche fandom bracket: Semi-finals 2

Parahumans Series vs Pulp Musicals

Parahumans Series

Pulp Musicals

Voting ended onJan 17

Propaganda:

Parahumans Series:

Worm and Ward are a pair of webserials which began publishing in 2011 and completed in 2020. The fandom, particularly for Worm, is relatively small and scattered across platforms but pretty active! Fan culture encourages a lot of discourse over how trauma is handled, character interpretation, and creative sandbox use.

Pulp Musicals:

Pulp Musicals my best friend Pulp Musicals. An audio-only musical following the adventures of its core four characters with a sci-fi inspiration for each connected episode, whether you're following the fictional Stratford siblings as they write the Great Moon Hoax, the group participating in fictionalized John Herschel's project to build a brick satellite (inspired by Edward Everett Hale's "The Brick Moon"), fictionalized Margaret Cavendish's multi-episode pursuit of something she knows she's missing or any of the other stories in this wonderful series. Also the songs HIT. More Than This is the one song consistently available on Youtube and it's a very good taste of the music

Reminder: More propaganda can be added via askes and reblogs

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Ultimate Niche fandom bracket: Semi-finals 1

Blaseball vs The Silt Verses

Blaseball

The Silt Verses

Voting ended onJan 17

Propaganda:

Blaseball:

Blaseball my bleloved gone from us too soon. A baseball sim where people got to vote on modifications to teams and game rules at the end of every week. This was fun in and of itself, but the real game was finding the loopholes in every rule that allowed for players to be brought back to life, infinite peanuts, and putting your entire pitching lineup on strike by sealing them all inside giant peanut shells. Fantastic story told over a number of social media platforms and largely driven by fans. Hello to the tumblr blesties that keep the memory of blaseball alive!

Additional propaganda by anon

The Silt Verses:

it’s peak carpenter shrue and paige u will always be famous

Literally best podcast ever made

Reminder: More propaganda can be added via askes and reblogs

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Ok now this is the actual Semi-finals!

The last round was meant to be quarter finals but I got very confused, oops..

Polls will start posting at 11th January, at 4pm GMT!

Matchups:

Blaseball vs The Silt Verses

Parahumans Series vs Pulp Musicals

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Wait last round was quarter finals not semi finals. Oh my god how did I get that wrong.

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Happy new year :>

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not sure if this could add to elsword's propaganda as the poll is going on, but this was also a video game that i played a lot when i was younger, especially in my early teens :,) and i still play the game to this day, just not as often as i did back then ^_^

elsword is what has introduced me to socializing with online people, and while it may have not been the best place to start making online friends at a young age, it still meant a lot to me. one of my favorite characters of all time comes from elsword, chung seiker!! i had the biggest crush on him when i started to play elsword so frequently,,,, i still do to this day tbh LMAO hes so pretty,,

i think a lot of this speaks from nostalgia, as one of my earliest memories of playing elsword was when ara haan was debuting as a new character, and my sister and i were waiting for all her paths to release to decide which one to pick :,D but i believe elsword still has a lot of charm with their characters, paths, npc, and region designs! elsword has always been one of my art inspirations, as i used to redraw chung's official portraits so frequently back then in hopes i'd get it accurate from memory one day,,

i believe this fandom entirely peaked around in the 2010s, based on what ive observed on here and youtube, and while i miss when it was more active, im glad i have some memories and can look back at those times on the internet ^_^ i wish these past fans could see the 4th paths of each main character, the bunch of new characters in the story, and official AU designs elsword has!! <3

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Ultimate Niche fandom bracket: Semi-finals round 3

Parahumans Series vs Castle

Parahumans Series

Castle

Voting ended onJan 4

Propaganda:

Parahumans Series:

Worm and Ward are a pair of webserials which began publishing in 2011 and completed in 2020. The fandom, particularly for Worm, is relatively small and scattered across platforms but pretty active! Fan culture encourages a lot of discourse over how trauma is handled, character interpretation, and creative sandbox use.

Castle:

Nathan Fillian. Stana Katic. Solving murders. While also delivering the funniest one liners and portraying the best father-daughter relationship ever. The best example of the cop-with-a-noncop-partner-solving-murders genre

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Ultimate Niche fandom bracket: Semi-finals round 2

Blaseball vs Elsword

Blaseball

Elsword

Voting ended onJan 3

Propaganda:

Blaseball:

Blaseball my bleloved gone from us too soon. A baseball sim where people got to vote on modifications to teams and game rules at the end of every week. This was fun in and of itself, but the real game was finding the loopholes in every rule that allowed for players to be brought back to life, infinite peanuts, and putting your entire pitching lineup on strike by sealing them all inside giant peanut shells. Fantastic story told over a number of social media platforms and largely driven by fans. Hello to the tumblr blesties that keep the memory of blaseball alive!

Additional propaganda by anon

Elsworld:

Dead 2007 MMORPG I played all the time when I was, like, twelve. I'm sure nostalgia and the fact that I was a preteen has probably softened the flaws of this game in my perception, but it has a charming art style and from what I remember had a pretty interesting cast and story. It was one of only a few 3D games I could get to run on the shitty family laptop. I'm also pretty sure Rena (the elf with green hair) was little me's first lesbian fictional crush, which surely counts for something? There is sort of a fandom on Tumblr but it's very small.

Reminder: More propaganda can be added via askes and reblogs

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Ultimate Niche fandom bracket: Semi-finals round 4

Blasphemous vs Pulp Musicals

Blasphemous

Pulp Musicals

Voting ended onJan 3

Propaganda:

Blasphemous:

Gritty 13th century horror game about a monk so mad and guilty about being excommunicated that he’s going to throw hands with the pope and also god. Rich story and art, fun gameplay and memorable characters. Nobody really fandomizes it because every character talks like they’re from a particularly gory version of the Bible and the main character never speaks, so despite being a well reputed game, the fandom is somewhat obscure.

Pulp Musicals:

Pulp Musicals my best friend Pulp Musicals. An audio-only musical following the adventures of its core four characters with a sci-fi inspiration for each connected episode, whether you're following the fictional Stratford siblings as they write the Great Moon Hoax, the group participating in fictionalized John Herschel's project to build a brick satellite (inspired by Edward Everett Hale's "The Brick Moon"), fictionalized Margaret Cavendish's multi-episode pursuit of something she knows she's missing or any of the other stories in this wonderful series. Also the songs HIT. More Than This is the one song consistently available on Youtube and it's a very good taste of the music

Reminder: More propaganda can be added via askes and reblogs

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Ultimate Niche fandom bracket: Semi-finals round 1

Root, The Board Game and TTRPG vs The Silt Verses

Root, The Board Game and TTRPG

The Silt Verses

Voting ended onJan 3

Propaganda:

Root, The Board Game and ttrpg:

cute woodland critters wage war and do espionage and realpolitik and sabotage and so on. please play root with me

extra propaganda by @/ratzmatazz

The Silt Verses:

it’s peak carpenter shrue and paige u will always be famous

Literally best podcast ever made

Reminder: More propaganda can be added via askes and reblogs