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I've seen people compare two situations: 1) Dean saving Sam against his wishes (debatable)* by allowing Gadreel to possess him, which results in people dying (namely Kevin dying); 2) Sam saving Dean against his wishes (debatable)* by using the Book of the Damned, removing the Mark of Cain and releasing the Darkness, which results in people dying.**

*I write that this is debatable because people often have arguments about this. This does not represent my opinion and does not mean that I intend to hurt anyone's feelings by doing so.

**These descriptions lack nuance. This was done intentionally to see how well people remember these nuances and to avoid rehashing seasons 9 and 10.

***Question for tags.

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List of all Robbie's episodes is under the cut.

7.06 Slash Fiction

7.12 Time After Time

7.20 The Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo

8.04 Bitten

8.11 LARP and the Real Girl

8.17 Goodbye Stranger

8.20 Pac-Man Fever

9.04 Slumber Party

9.11 First Born

9.18 Meta Fiction

10.05 Fan Fiction

10.11 There's No Place Like Home

10.18 Book of the Damned

10.20 Angel Heart

11.04 Baby

11.11 Into the Mystic

11.16 Safe House

11.20 Don't Call Me Shurley

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The minor spn characters rarely interact with each other, especially the women. It goes without saying how rare it is for spn women to have meaningful relationships (in the broad sense of the word) with other women. So.

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For the sake of the poll, imagine that the convention is being held at a location close to your home, you have enough money to go, and your health doesn't prevent you from going (just imagine that the only thing stopping you from going is your lack of interest in the convention).

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honestly you could put every woman from supernatural on this list but unfortunately there's only ten options so this was just off the top of my head so don't go saying “op where’s x character?” in the tags THERE'S SIMPLY NOT ENOUGH ROOM

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List of all Robbie's episodes is under the cut.

7.06 Slash Fiction

7.12 Time After Time

7.20 The Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo

8.04 Bitten

8.11 LARP and the Real Girl

8.17 Goodbye Stranger

8.20 Pac-Man Fever

9.04 Slumber Party

9.11 First Born

9.18 Meta Fiction

10.05 Fan Fiction

10.11 There's No Place Like Home

10.18 Book of the Damned

10.20 Angel Heart

11.04 Baby

11.11 Into the Mystic

11.16 Safe House

11.20 Don't Call Me Shurley

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I didn't accuse anyone of cheating. I noticed a pattern and came up with a few theories as to why this might be happening. Thank you for confirming one of them.

I actually talked about how in recent polls I've noticed that pro-Sam options get many votes early, and pro-Dean options get a surge in votes after someone popular in Dean fan circles reblogs it. I found this interesting because in the past, the destiel and/or anti-Sam options would get more votes much earlier than the pro-Sam options, and this could be explained very easily (you did a great job of explaining possible reasons for this).

As for posts that actually were anti-Sam at first and then suddenly turned pro-Sam in the following days (though I wouldn't say it was anti-Sam or pro-Sam, because so far I've noticed this phenomenon on two polls, one of which was "did Dean reciprocate Cas' love" and the other was "who is the main character of spn"), I wasn't exactly talking about slow rise in votes over a few days, but sudden surge of votes that seemed to come out of nowhere . I found this interesting and thought about looking into it more closely (by tracking the dynamics of votes and reblogs to make sure that there was a spike in votes at all and that I didn’t make it up). By doing this, I would confirm or refute the theory about my own inattention, and even then I would not claim that it was a fraud, because there was another theory (about people sharing links) and I could neither confirm nor refute either of them, because I wouldn't have enough data for this.

Don't really understand why a rush of votes around a reblog would more likely be cheating. Firstly, I'm not talking about just one reblog, I'm talking about a large number of them. Secondly, I'm familiar enough with tumblr spn fandom to recognize when a popular blogger reblogs my poll. I know they have a lot of followers as well as friends who are also popular bloggers with a lot of followers. If I see people from that group actively reblogging the poll from each other and discussing a given topic, I have no problem believing that votes came naturally.

As for polls not being a measure of anything, you yourself have described how you noticed interesting patterns in fandom polls and tried to find an explanation for them. This is basically what I do and what interests me. I don't know what else to say here, I've already said everything I wanted to say in a conversation with another person. I don't want to repeat myself.

And thank you for the advice about stress, but I can figure out what to do with my blog myself. In fact, I'd like to respond by advising this to some people who take my polls too seriously (I think I've been advising this for quite some time now, but I'm not sure anyone listened to me, so there's that). Although this is another topic on which I have a lot of (too many) things to say, but I don’t really want to.

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This poll has the same structure as the "let's make a cake", "let's build Cas's true form" polls.

Also, this poll is primarily intended for destiel shippers.

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Dean poll, Cas poll, spn women poll

*moments

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Decided to try make this one more difficult because apparently the last one was too easy

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TW: discussion of ephebophilia (sexual attraction to adolescent children). In general, the contents of this poll can be upsetting, so please be careful.

*There was also another episode (if I’m not mistaken, from season 15), but I don’t remember its number.

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TW: discussion of rape/sexual assault. In general, the contents of this poll can be upsetting, so please be careful.