#Third Place

[archeracy]

“Kids and teens have no third spaces these days!!!”

Before you go to Starbucks or other corporations who want to co-opt the term “third place” and make you become more consumerist, consider:

Are you making full, effective use of your public library?

This is especially true if you live in a big city. I know going to a store or mall is the most tempting third place. But go to the library. Find out what the library has available to you. I live in a major metropolitan area, and my local library offers books, e-books, and audiobooks to library card-holders, but also: sewing machines, 3D printers, recording studio space, individual study space, group study space, an auditorium hall, and conference rooms! Not to mention a website where you can use your library login to log in to ADDITIONAL websites that teach you valuable skills or crafts, or read research journals for free!

If you don’t live in a densely populated area and your local library has less of those things, you better go there and start asking about it. Because librarians WANT you to use their services. They WANT to stock up the library with loads of books and services, but they need the foot traffic and continued requesting to get the ball rolling.

You can also ask about donating things to the library! My library, despite its numerous riches, does not have a laminator. But I guarantee you if someone donated it, they would be eager to let people know they can use it. If you have a tool or machine you don’t use, find out if a library would make better use of it!

[she-karev]

FAVORITE ORIGINAL AVENGER (as voted by my followers) #3. Captain America/Steve Rogers 🇺🇸👱🏻‍♂️🛡️

[thecatfight2023]

impromptu third place poll!

The Cat (Coraline): "The Cat is one of the major supporting characters of the story. He demonstrates the ability to appear and disappear on a whim, often to hide from danger or to help Coraline from danger. For unexplained reasons, he is able to speak in the other world."

Cat (Stray): a cat that you get to play the game as! you get to explore the world as a silly little kitty cat!

Salem (Sabrina the Teenage Witch 1996): "Salem Saberhagen is a 500-year-old witch who was sentenced to spend 100 years as a cat by the Witches Council as punishment for attempting to take over the world.... Despite his megalomaniac desires for world domination, he is generally portrayed as having a good heart and being a loyal friend to Sabrina, giving her guidance and causing her trouble in nearly equal portions"

i (mod orange) decided on a whim last night to do a third place poll! i was just curious to see the results. also cat and salem have been separated for this since it would be a pain to make another poll if they had won as a team. so...

[viper-motorsports]

[characterswithgodsnamesbattle]

Third Place Match

Explanation about the names :

Jesus was a Jewish preacher and religious leader. For Christians, he is God the Son, the savior announced in the Bible.

Juno is Hera's Roman equivalent, a goddess of love and marriage

[gardening-guy]

does anyone else as a noise-sensitive autistic individual go batshit crazy and can't stand when people in cars blare the bass so loud that you can feel it deep deep deep in your every limb and nerve ending?

bc my neighborhood in the shittier part of the city suburbs has those types of drivers A LOT. they're constantly outside my house bc i live on the corner of this side street where everyone hangs out

and i don't want to ruin their fun bc i strongly believe that third places should exist more in our communities and this is clearly a third place for them but DAMN it really affects me

[typefacetournament]

THIRD PLACE

Propaganda under the cut.

Georgia: "It’s like the Times New Roman that wouldn’t call me a slur. Polite and professional, yet warm and inviting.", "them sexxxy sexxxy serifs. great kerning too"

Alegreya: "just look at her. she has it all. shes formal but not too formal, casual but not too casual, she means business but shes not ugly to look at. shes beautiful.", "she's so cute ❤️"

[sitting-on-me-bum]

“Love Follows”

by Third Place – 雷 波 / Lei Bo, China

2023 Nature Conservancy photo contest

[splatoonpolls]

SPLATOON OC TOURNEY THIRD PLACE

TAMI THE RUTHLESS AND VALIANT CREATURE FROM MUNI ERO KAIYO BY @wyrm-in-a-closet VS MADDY MEDUSA BY @anemonequeen VS PUMPKIN BY @judithan-xing

PROPAGANDA

TAMI

An inkling born to ordinary parents who worked at Gone Fission power plant. However, a salmonid big run happened in the area, and because Grizzco didn't yet exist, it had to be abandoned, and Tami's parents were killed. Tami herself, who was also there, was badly injured and lost her right arm, was found by some salmonids, but because she was a young inkling the salmonids didn't know what she was and so instead of killing her took her home. She then spent almost her entire life growing up with the salmonids, and became a very skilled fighter, but also starting a band with a couple other salmonids. They make music that's like horrible to listen to and will overestimate you. Once she was 14, she joined the war on salmonids on the side of the salmonids. Over time Grizzco expands and poses a larger and larger threat to the salmonids, so Tami decides that she's going to go try and put a stop to it, because she's the only one who could make it to inkling civilation without being killed, although that doesn't change the fact she didn't know the language, culture, or anything. After spending several nights on the streets of splatsville, Tami is found by Tide, an octoling who's been living there for some time. Tide takes Tami under their wing, despite them knowing nothing about each other. Over the next few months Tide teachers Tami inkling language, has Tami participate in battles (where she fuckin rocks at it bc she's been literally trained for war), all while Tami searches for more info on Grizzco, but unfortunately nobody knows shit about it. Finally she happens across Cuttlefish and eventually falls into Alterna, where she has no idea what's going on until eventually wow Mr. Grizz is there. She fucking kills him and then just kinda leaves without really joining the squidbeak splatoon she just wanted to kill Mr grizz. Anyways then she and Tide probably go back to salmonid or something I haven't really figure this out. Sorry for the text wall

MADDY

oc posts

my splat3 sona! shes a funny anemone girl she's the heiress to the throne of a not-so-distant region called Choralia, populated by mostly sea anemones. She's in hiding though, since she doesnt want the responsibility of being queen and she's strictly anti monarchy she has a purple clown fish named perseus who's constantly acting like she still wants to be the heiress moved to the splatlands from reef city, the capitol of choralia she constantly has her headphones blasting loud music as a form of stimulation. she enjoys the vibration she runs a music store in splatsville called Medusa's Temple, but it's barely open cause she's out playing turf war and napping

PUMPKIN

He's a pro-rank turf war player who had to drop out after his mom's death - resulting in a steep decline in performance and attendance. Eventually he tried to get back into the swing of things by trying to steal equipment from Spyke. Doesn't work, he gets caught and is instead recruited to become Spyke's errand boy and bodyguard. Please vote for my squid son!! Him and Spyke are gay and in the most toxic bodyguard/overlord relationship ever seen in Inkopolis. Local pro-league sniper has had the worst fuckin life imaginable, he is but a pathetic little meow meow of a squid (but will kill you for realsies)

[victimsofyaoipoll]

Third Place

Propaganda Under Cut

Every Supernatural Woman

Supernatural is so mean to women and committed to queerbaiting but it still gives Sam and Dean lovers to kill. The writers kill and villainize them and the fans get the few that remain

wincest and destiel shippers cannot handle the idea of their blorbos having a Woman THREATENING their SHIPS god FORBID

It literally used to be a running joke that if a female character got introduced you knew she was going to die soon because fans would react so negatively to her "stealing" one of the boys away from the big ship, whether it be destiel or wincest

Casca

She is part of a weird fucked up love triangle with two dudes. All three of them are honestly kind of terrible for each other but she gets shoved aside in favor of the two dudes in most fics and is not allowed to grow past the toxic relationships of her past. Also she’s a cis woman who dresses pretty masculinely (because she’s in a mercenary band) so she gets type casted as the mean lesbian friend, when she’s straight in canon

I've seen more than one Yaoi Shipper say that Casca should have died during this one big canon event as opposed to being assaulted by one of the people in the Yaoi Ship, which of course conveniently would remove her from the narrative and as an obstacle to said Yaoi Ship. Aside from that specifically, though, I think it's particularly cruel to imply that being killed is a better outcome than being a victim of SA, and is an example of the contempt fandom on the whole has for female characters who act traumatized - particularly when both male characters in the ship have similar trauma and its never implied they should have died rather than be assaulted.

She's an incredibly interesting character in her own right with really good dynamics and parallels to Griffith and Guts, and the way those three play off of each other is integral to the story, but most of what I've seen completely ignores her in favor of focusing on only Griffith and Guts

[mattapparentlystumbltourneys]

Giraffe Girumble - Battle for the Bronze!

Propaganda below:

Kirin/ The Giraffe Propaganda:

Voiced by Kenjiro Tsuda, he oversees the lesbian drama student tournament arc that makes up the plot of the anime.

Probably one of the Giraffes in fiction Ever

Wakarimasu...

I'm a Giraffe guy Propaganda:

They did say they were a giraffe, soooooooo

From the vine in which a skiier in a giraffe suit skis past the camera and shouts "I'm a giraffe!" Clearly a giraffe

Imagine if you will, a ski trip to Colorado with friends. You stop to take a photo to remember the occasion. Your friend tells you say to Colorado and before you can speak, a man in a giraffe onesie on skis zips by yelling three words. “I’m a giraffe!” And disappears without a trace. I’m Rod Serling, and welcome to the Twilight Zone.

[greenearthsociety]

call to action: i vote we petition to bring back maximalist designed walkable cities!!! give me beautiful artworks for mundane objects and make everything walkable and pretty!!! plant fruit bearing trees to feed those that cant afford food!! give us public gardens and third places!!!!

[she-karev]

FAVORITE X-MEN '97 MEMBER (as voted by my followers) #3. Rogue/Anna Marie Darkholme 💪🦨🧤

[yen-sids-tournament]

Team Possible v Black Widow - 3rd Place

Team Possible

Members: Kim Possible, Ron Stoppable, Wade Load, Rufus Powers: Spy Training, Cooking, Animal Speaking, Hacking, Mechanics Story: Kim Possible et al.

Black Widow

Name: Natasha Romanoff Power: Elite Assassin Training and Moral Reform Story: Iron Man 2/The Avengers et al.

[duct-taped-shoes]

I feel so lucky having a consistent 3rd place at my local skatepark. A lot of friends that don’t skate simply don’t have a 3rd place outside of work and home, and because of that don’t have anyway to just go out and meet new people that have similar interests. 3rd places are pretty essential for healthy social lives and with 3rd places becoming more rare and cost restrictive, skate parks continue to come in clutch and help foster a sense of community and just a fun place to chill outside of work and home.

[are-they-queerplatonic]

So, I promised that I'd change my pfp to whoever had the highest % QPR in the last month, so drumrolllllll

In third place is

Arthur Lester and John Doe with 55%

In second place is

Donna Noble and the 14th Doctor with 56%

Honorable mention to Sara, Wanderlust, Brezziana, Mihaly, and Jack for having 31.9% in favor of them as a QPR when 34.5% didn't know who they were

And in first place....

issssssssss

Jessie and James with 65.5%!!!!