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Round 1 statistics!

Biggest sweep by percentage: Serirei vs DNF, at 89-11, with a gap of 4,064 votes

Biggest sweep by number of votes: Jonmartin vs Reylo, at 85.5-14.5, with a gap of 5,984 votes

Closest race by percentage: Johnlock vs Sterek, at 50.7-49.3, with a difference of 232 votes

Closest race by number of votes: Davekat vs Zolu, at 50.7-49.3, with a difference of 144 votes

Most voted for: Johnlock, with 8,298 votes

Most voted in: Johnlock vs Sterek, with 16,364 votes

Graphs for every race can be found at glittering.world, but here's a few for the most contested races this round:

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Norman Rockwell (American, 1894 - 1978), Wet Paint, 1930, oil on canvas.

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I love Rose Tyler.

But I am not keen on the way she gets flattened as a two dimensional character in much of the fandom.

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It *is* a problem that charismatic species are often focused on for conservation at the expense of less charismatic but important species, but threatened species that are the subject of a lot of public outreach and education are also typically strategically selected.

I suspect that monarch butterflies are an example of this. Milkweed is a highly valuable plant for pollinators and a host plant for like. 400+ insect species. Getting people to plant it to save monarchs is funny because you're essentially finessing people into saving a ton of other insects that they wouldn't ordinarily care about

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Hot take but I think that anyone who is trying to create a single "trans socialisation theory" is going to be wrong. If there is one thing that queer theorist should do is read some feminist books from people who aren't white and especially from people who aren't USAmerican or European. Because if they proved one thing is that sexism despite having the same root everywhere (men being seen as superior) does not express itself the same way for everyone. And transphobia being a type of sexism means that the same thing applies to it. If a woman from Germany and one from Ghana have been socialised differently despite both being women and both experiencing sexism. What makes you think that you can unify trans people's socialisation under one single theory? You can't

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For the last time: Mary Shelley and Lord Byron were friends. She didn't hate him. His death was a very painful loss to her. She didn't write Frankenstein because she was stuck in a house with him and he was an unbearable person. For God's sake, just read her journals and letters.

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The Amazing Devil makes me feel like there actually are bards with magic in our world and they live in these people specifically

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The 10th Doctor actively dying of radiation poisoning: I need to….schedule Jack Harkness…a gay sex appointment

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Yeah I think they need the agreement of the writers or something like that

okay not All all then

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is the witcher fandom even on here? or existing beyond polish dads? idk but worth a try

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I thought I was free of talking to anyone in the tram, it was full of people speaking language I didn't. And then, an English man asked if he could sit right beside me, and I answered to him in English. Big mistake, I activated his small talk mode x)

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how many pieces of jewellry do you wear?

(includes individual rings, necklaces, earrings, piercings, etc)

none

1

2-3

4-5

6-7

8-9

10+

i add more/remove more depending on where i am

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I feel like a big part of enjoying life is being able to get excited over the truly small things, like having a fruit you like, wearing your fave socks, the smell of rain or the way light comes through your window.

When my anxiety got very severe last year, the thing that made life worth it was those tiny little things, which became tremendously important when I wasn’t well enough to really do anything or go anywhere for a year. A brown egg, some cute stickers, a wildflower my neighbour brought me on the way home from a party, seeing the weather change every day, watching the birds from my window… It’s happiness in miniature, and deserves some attention.

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When I was younger and researching the autism diagnosis criteria and symptoms, I thought “oh I couldn’t POSSIBLY be autistic.” Because when I read “takes everything literally” I thought it literally meant EVERYTHING and I was like “I don’t take EVERYTHING literally, just most things!” And I just realized the other day that it didn’t actually mean EVERYTHING and that was an overstatement.

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When people get a little too gung-ho about-

wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?

ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.

That’s…wild. What was I talking about?