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[web-novel-polls]

Web Novel Monster Tournament Submissions

Last Checked: September 20th, 2024 - Please check the original post for updates

Submissions Close: TBD

Rules

One monster per response (unless submitting a group to compete together). Submit as many unique responses as you want

Must be from a web novel or an adaptation from a web novel. 

Must be a monster. A creature, if you will. No humans or humanoid characters (Ex: Luo Binghe from Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System wouldn’t count). This tournament is solely devoted to my mental illness regarding creatures & beasts

Does not have to be a specific monster. It can be, but it can also just be a group/species of monsters (Ex: The Ichthyosaur species and Queen Mirabad from ORV would both count) 

Listed monsters do not have priority nor are they automatically included

Idrc if you want to be horny in the propaganda, but if the monster obviously doesn’t pass the Harkness Test, it may not be used/posted

Tournament Tag: #WN monster tournament

No propaganda

Black Moon Rhinoceros Python from The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System / SVSSS

He Xuan's bone dragons from Heaven Official’s Blessing / TGCF

Jade cistanche enchanced cave apes from Thousand Autumns

Xin Mo from The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System (SVSSS) -- requires a preliminary poll to determine acceptance

Ghost-head Spiders from The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System / SVSSS

Submission: spider body with a human head that sounds like a crying baby. fucked up right?

He Xuan's Skeletal Fish from Heaven Official’s Blessing / TGCF

Submission: Fun funky skeletal fish that can kill or save people. Somehow need feeding despite being skeletons but it just adds to their charm. 

Xuanwu of Slaughter from Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation / MDZS

Species: Yao... Looks like a giant snake-turtle hybrid.

Submission: Has eaten thousands of people and kept their bodies inside its very unsanitary shell. Killed by two seventeen-year-olds. 

Wiki Link

Rejected

Nimona from Nimona

Reasoning: Not from a web novel, humanoid

[throwupgirl]

AUTISM RULES.

[kendyroy]

“They gave me runway in this film. There’s one monologue in there. I can’t tell you the details of it. I say more words in that monologue than I said in an entire movie once as Wolverine. But there are sides of the character that I’ve been scratching at for 24 years […] There is stuff in this movie where I was like, ‘This is the thing I’ve been trying to get out’ and I feel so excited about it.”

— Hugh Jackman talking about Logan in Deadpool & Wolverine (x)

[samwwise]

crowley shifting into protective husband mode

[magentasnail]

I'm absolutely obsessed with the book of bill, best thing i've ever read and it no joke gave me actual nightmares !! 100/10

[pigswithwings]

above all else a trans woman is a person. above all else a trans women is a woman who goes to the same grocery store as you and buys fruits in the same grocery cart as you and goes home and eats her dinner the same as you. above all else a trans woman is a woman who dresses like you do and talks the same way you do. above all else a trans woman is a woman who wants to be cared about the same way you want to be cared about and a trans woman is a woman who makes friends the same way you make friends. above all else you should care about trans women because they are people. treat her as such.

[ariazou]

"Who are you to tell me how to hold it!?"

Persian Izutsumi strikes again and I'm dragging Senshi down with her 😼

I really love the head pieces on the women in Persian miniatures of the iconic Qajar era (if someone knows what theyre called please let me know 😭) And I definitely want to keep exploring the different looks on Izutsumi

[stevenrogered]

Ke Huy Quan wins the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for Everything Everywhere All at Once 

[chloesimaginationthings]

Man this scene in FNAF 2 movie is gonna be wild-

[sparklingthedas]

Astarion lectures of disappointment >>>

[laughingcatwrites]

As a reminder that good exists out there, a coworker recently confessed to me that he found out his child is questioning their identity (kid's gender redacted for this post). The kid is keeping it from him, so he can't say anything to them or show that he knows, but he's doing his best to get mentally prepared and educated so that he'll be ready whenever his kid does feel comfortable enough come to him.

For context, this guy is a big, bulky middle aged dude who loves sports and typical outdoor "manly" activities. As his coworker and friend, I know he's a kind and sweet teddy bear of a person, but his kid probably views him as a stern, authoritarian figure, the way most teenagers view their parents. His family lives in a conservative area, so I'm sure between that, their dad's looks and interests, and the fact that their dad is a Figure of Authority, the kid is worried that they won't be accepted.

But you know what? When he found out about his kid, the first thing he did was reach out to his closest queer friend and ask for resources for parents of questioning children. His biggest fears are that his kid will be bullied or discriminated against and won't feel comfortable enough to be themself. His second action was to find himself a mentor in another parent who went the same situation (kid coming out in a conservative town). The other person is preparing him for some of the struggles his kid may face and the fights he may need to take on as a parent to make sure his kid is safe and treated well.

Something I want to emphasize for people focused on language as the primary method of allyship is that when we spoke, he used some outdated terms and thoughts about gender and sexuality. That does not make him bad. These were the terms and thinking used about questioning teenagers when he was growing up and he never needed to learn more current ones. But now that he does have that need, he's throwing himself in head first because that's his kid and he's darn well going to make sure that his kid feels welcomed and has a safe place to be themselves even if they never come out to him.

[hinamie]

I'll rip in hands and teeth and take a bite

[heartnosekid]

african peach moth (egybolis vaillantina) | source

[lenaellsi]

guard snake

[illusioncanthurtme--art]

Physically? I am sitting in my bedroom. Mentally? Spiritually? I AM DEAD ON THE FLOOR!!!!! THESE TWO HAVE KILLED ME!!!!

(Another drawing! This was originally attempt #1 at drawing stan, and then fiddleford just showed up. Kinda feels like them five minutes after the above acting like nothing happened though, so it works sdjkgkjfshj)