why was the bracket called maligned yuri and not doomed yuri
I think it was largely misinterpreted, but it wasn't intended to be a doomed yuri bracket. it was supposed to be for pairings treated poorly or underappreciated (i.e., maligned) by fandoms, but a lot of the pairings submitted were very popular yuri that had bad things happen to them in canon - including the winners, farcille! - making it seem more like a doomed yuri bracket.
an actual doomed yuri bracket, of pairings who can never be together in canon for whatever reason (notably, this doesn't even apply to farcille) might be something to consider once I'm done my master's degree.
So basically I got mad that @top-fictional-psychotic-woman was an "evil fictional woman bracket", but instead of annoying the mod, I went "huh, mentally ill characters sounds like a good first tournament".
So welcome to the Actually Insane Blorbo Bracket!!!
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The rules of the tournament goes as follows:
The character must be mentally ill in some way, be it personality disorder, psychotic disorder, depression, anxiety, really bad trauma, etc.
Headcanons and word-of-author are 100% allowed (rarely characters admit being mentally ill on screen so...)
The character can be villainous, but I would prefer if they weren't.
If the character is a villain, you have to explain why they're mentally ill besides "they're a villain" or "they look crazy". Example: Most versions of Joker wouldn't be allowed since he isn't mentally ill in them as far as I know, but the 2019 movie version would because his mental illness isn't his violence and murders, is his hallucinations that he's dating that neighbor that takes the elevator with him.
You can submit multiple characters as a group if they're already a group in the source. Example: the Literature Club from Doki Doki Literature Club or Doctor Palomero's patients from the Spanish movie Toc Toc (watch Toc Toc, it's such a funny movie).
There's no restrictions on what fandom the character is from. You can submit characters from MCYT, Attack On Titan, hell even Adam Sandler movies if you want to, despite how much I don't like those movies.
No real people please, unless it's a fictionalized version of that person. Example: real life Van Gogh wouldn't be allowed, but Van Gogh from that Doctor Who episode would.
Feel free to send propaganda as asks or reblogs (though send it in the post instead of the tags), but I will only reblog propaganda uplifting a character, not bad mouthing other characters. If you're consistently negative about any character in the bracket, you will be blocked.
Please don't bring up discourse like "that character is actually really problematic". Do you know how short this bracket would be if there was only clean, advertiser-friendly depictions of mental illness here?
Feel free to ask me anything about the bracket if you're on doubt, I will try to answer as many as I can.
Here's the form:
Open until July 31
Rules:
- Character must be mentally ill, be it a disorder, depression or really bad trauma
- Preferably not a villain, b
Submissions will be open until 31 of July.
Thank you for reading, hope you have an awesome day!!
a note on the future of yuribracket dot tumblr dot com
Now that the maligned yuri bracket is complete, I will be taking a long pause from running tournaments. I did have other ideas for brackets (notably this anon’s buildayuri bracket idea), but I really stopped having any fun running the blog in the latter rounds of the maligned yuri bracket. it’s not out of the question that I’ll be back to run other tournaments in the future if it keeps being a thing, but for now, I definitely need a break!
on another note, I finally started reading dungeon meshi this morning, and I’m enjoying it so far! I don’t know yet if farcille will be my kind of yuri, but I will keep my mind open. That is my promise to them as the winners of this beautiful game.
Marcille and Falin may be the winners of the Maligned Yuri Bracket...
...but are they the most maligned yuri?
I would like to give a special shoutout to Saki Hyuuga/Michiru Kiryuu who, with 8 votes in the preliminaries, received the least votes out of any pairing!
These are the faces of maligned yuri. Precure girlies, we've done it again.
How is Mako Mankanshoku/Ryuko Matoi (Kill la Kill) maligned?
"maligned due to their source material, a lot of people dont care for or outright loathe klk...but their relationship is possibly the most wholesome component of the whole show...theyre literally canon. ive been fighting in the trenches for them since 2014 when ppl were saying 'oh but in japan a date between two girls just means hanging out as friends!!!1!' WHEN THEY LITERALLY KISS and oh my god the SUBTEXT of some of their scenes??? anyway. it hurts so much seeing them lose or get left out of polls..."
"#the rampant denial and homophobia that happened when they became canon was batshit insane. they literally kissed each other on the mouth"
"#I HAVE SPENT TOO LONG ROTATING THEIR CANONCITIY AND THE PENIS RIDICULOUS RYUMAKO DENIERS TO NOT BE LOUD ABOUT THIS"
How is Marcille Donato/Falin Touden (Dungeon Meshi) maligned?
"Bro falin literally dies in the first chapter and you discover their relationship through backstory reveal his is this not maligned"
"#falin got eaten by a lizard and her bestie does magic crimes to try and save her#succeeds in turning falin into the giant lizard thus forcing marcille to hunt her and kill her again"
are you tired of how many character tournaments just become a popularity contest?
how regardless of seeding, even high contenders can almost arbitrarily be knocked out early on, leaving you with nothing to root for?
if you're feeling that, and if you like any webcomics, you should participate in the webcomic character tournament!
the primary goals of this tournament are:
to celebrate the medium of webcomics as a whole
to find new webcomics to read, and to recommend your own favorites
to highlight indie creators and help them build a wider audience
to have fun rooting for and celebrating your favorite characters!
in order to accomplish these goals, instead of a single elimination bracket, i will be using a mcmahon system inspired tournament structure!
this means that no character will be eliminated, and you can participate in polls rooting for your favorite character throughout all the rounds. characters will also be roughly matched up based on a system that determines how well known their work is, so most rounds should be relatively evenly matched, allowing people to fight for their favorites on their own merits
more details about how the mcmahon tournament will work can be found under the cut!
submit as many characters as you would like to here! the deadline is tentatively next saturday, june 3rd, at 4pm EDT
tagging some other tournaments i like whose participants i think might be interested :) @wlw-webcomic-bracket @obscurewebcomictournament @gaywebcomicsshowdown @autisticgirliesbracket @yuribracket @secretthirdthingtournament @nonyanderepoll @funkylittlebaldcharapoll @divorced-tournament
no submission is specifically banned, but try to keep in mind the spirit of this tournament when deciding what to submit.
under the cut after my more detailed description of the tournament structure, i also ramble in a lot more detail about my philosophy regarding submission eligibility, but it's not necessary to read all that before submitting characters
mcmahon tournament details:
matchups will be decided based off of a survey sent out after submissions are over gauging participants' familiarity with all of the competing characters' source materials. each character will be assigned points based off of how known their source material is, and each character will go up against a character with a similar popularity score for the first round
characters will be awarded points based off of if they lose, win, or tie their match and have that added to their total score, and then they will again be paired against a character with a similar updated score
depending on how many characters are participating, this process can continue either until there is a definitive ranking of all characters, or until just a few top winners are clear
i haven't entirely decided on specifics such as whether points will be awarded by a simple 0 for a loss, 0.5 for a tie, 1 for a win or by percentage of the vote, and if initial popularity points will be counted in the final ranking, or if i will try to rank winners from within their initial popularity categories, but i hope that won't matter too much, because in my opinion the main fun of this isn't the final results, it's for people to have fun in the individual rounds seeing their favorite character's points go up!
submission guidelines:
if you are submitting characters from extremely popular webcomics, try to limit yourself to just characters that are among your top favorites of all time, and maybe try to submit stuff from lesser known works as well
similar goes for webcomics that are more widely known for adaptations into other media forms (one punch man, tower of god, heartstopper, etc.)
i'm not specifically banning any comic for having bigoted content or its creator being a bad person, there's a wide scale of stuff i could decide to include in that definition or not. in the goal of celebrating favorite characters, obviously a lot of people love characters despite flaws in the work they're from, but also keep in mind the goals of recommending works to other people, and helping uplift and promote creators you like, and try to find a reasonable balance from there
what counts as a webcomic:
physically published works that you can find pirated or scanlated online probably don't count
comics whose publication is centered around physical releases, who also have simultaneous online releases by their publishers (comics on manga plus or comixology, newspaper strips with online sites, etc.) probably don't count
comics published through traditional publishers that are exclusively online (such as shōnen jump+ comics) still probably don't count
comics published online through companies that exclusively publish online (such as lezhin) are still discouraged
stuff like line webtoon or tapas official comics are more acceptable, as there are a lot of free comics from independent creators around them and many of these comics started out that way themselves, so they exist within a culture of webcomics more so than the aforementioned comic categories
stuff that is paywalled beyond just having an early release system is discouraged
comics that are no longer online but accessible through archives are fine though, especially in the wake of sites like smackjeeves being deleted there's a lot of stuff in webcomic history that can only be found that way now!
webtoon style comics absolutely count as webcomics, they're an exciting way of fully making use of webcomics' digital format! simultaneously however, i feel like with the rise of mobile webtoon apps, there are many people who read webtoon style comics but who dont further engage with webcomics, so i'd definitely encourage submitting a variety of styles of webcomic!
none of these rules are set! feel free to submit whatever you want, i just list them so you can try to find a balance between the different goals of this tournament when submitting stuff.
anyone can submit as many characters as you want, but just maybe if you find that a lot of your submission ideas are from comics in some of the more discouraged categories, limit yourself in how many you submit from those categories and only submit characters if they're absolute favorites of yours you want the opportunity to celebrate, and maybe try to also submit a character from something that isn't in a discouraged category too!
theres no penalty for not going with this, but i think because choosing characters by number of nominees doesn't really align with my intentions for this, depending on how easy it is to sort submissions i might just go off of vibes, so you might just be less likely to have a character make it to the tournament if their comic is in more heavily discouraged categories is all
How is Mako Mankanshoku/Ryuko Matoi (Kill la Kill) maligned?
"maligned due to their source material, a lot of people dont care for or outright loathe klk...but their relationship is possibly the most wholesome component of the whole show...theyre literally canon. ive been fighting in the trenches for them since 2014 when ppl were saying 'oh but in japan a date between two girls just means hanging out as friends!!!1!' WHEN THEY LITERALLY KISS and oh my god the SUBTEXT of some of their scenes??? anyway. it hurts so much seeing them lose or get left out of polls..."
"#the rampant denial and homophobia that happened when they became canon was batshit insane. they literally kissed each other on the mouth"
"#I HAVE SPENT TOO LONG ROTATING THEIR CANONCITIY AND THE PENIS RIDICULOUS RYUMAKO DENIERS TO NOT BE LOUD ABOUT THIS"
How is Marcille Donato/Falin Touden (Dungeon Meshi) maligned?
"Bro falin literally dies in the first chapter and you discover their relationship through backstory reveal his is this not maligned"
"#falin got eaten by a lizard and her bestie does magic crimes to try and save her#succeeds in turning falin into the giant lizard thus forcing marcille to hunt her and kill her again"
How is Mako Mankanshoku/Ryuko Matoi (Kill la Kill) maligned?
"maligned due to their source material, a lot of people dont care for or outright loathe klk...but their relationship is possibly the most wholesome component of the whole show...theyre literally canon. ive been fighting in the trenches for them since 2014 when ppl were saying 'oh but in japan a date between two girls just means hanging out as friends!!!1!' WHEN THEY LITERALLY KISS and oh my god the SUBTEXT of some of their scenes??? anyway. it hurts so much seeing them lose or get left out of polls..."
"#the rampant denial and homophobia that happened when they became canon was batshit insane. they literally kissed each other on the mouth"
"#I HAVE SPENT TOO LONG ROTATING THEIR CANONCITIY AND THE PENIS RIDICULOUS RYUMAKO DENIERS TO NOT BE LOUD ABOUT THIS"
How is Marcille Donato/Falin Touden (Dungeon Meshi) maligned?
"Bro falin literally dies in the first chapter and you discover their relationship through backstory reveal his is this not maligned"
"#falin got eaten by a lizard and her bestie does magic crimes to try and save her#succeeds in turning falin into the giant lizard thus forcing marcille to hunt her and kill her again"
How is Mako Mankanshoku/Ryuko Matoi (Kill la Kill) maligned?
"maligned due to their source material, a lot of people dont care for or outright loathe klk...but their relationship is possibly the most wholesome component of the whole show...theyre literally canon. ive been fighting in the trenches for them since 2014 when ppl were saying 'oh but in japan a date between two girls just means hanging out as friends!!!1!' WHEN THEY LITERALLY KISS and oh my god the SUBTEXT of some of their scenes??? anyway. it hurts so much seeing them lose or get left out of polls..."
"#the rampant denial and homophobia that happened when they became canon was batshit insane. they literally kissed each other on the mouth"
"#I HAVE SPENT TOO LONG ROTATING THEIR CANONCITIY AND THE PENIS RIDICULOUS RYUMAKO DENIERS TO NOT BE LOUD ABOUT THIS"
How is Marcille Donato/Falin Touden (Dungeon Meshi) maligned?
"Bro falin literally dies in the first chapter and you discover their relationship through backstory reveal his is this not maligned"
"#falin got eaten by a lizard and her bestie does magic crimes to try and save her#succeeds in turning falin into the giant lizard thus forcing marcille to hunt her and kill her again"
How is Mako Mankanshoku/Ryuko Matoi (Kill la Kill) maligned?
"maligned due to their source material, a lot of people dont care for or outright loathe klk...but their relationship is possibly the most wholesome component of the whole show...theyre literally canon. ive been fighting in the trenches for them since 2014 when ppl were saying 'oh but in japan a date between two girls just means hanging out as friends!!!1!' WHEN THEY LITERALLY KISS and oh my god the SUBTEXT of some of their scenes??? anyway. it hurts so much seeing them lose or get left out of polls..."
"#the rampant denial and homophobia that happened when they became canon was batshit insane. they literally kissed each other on the mouth"
"#I HAVE SPENT TOO LONG ROTATING THEIR CANONCITIY AND THE PENIS RIDICULOUS RYUMAKO DENIERS TO NOT BE LOUD ABOUT THIS"
How is Marcille Donato/Falin Touden (Dungeon Meshi) maligned?
"Bro falin literally dies in the first chapter and you discover their relationship through backstory reveal his is this not maligned"
"#falin got eaten by a lizard and her bestie does magic crimes to try and save her#succeeds in turning falin into the giant lizard thus forcing marcille to hunt her and kill her again"
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