#dragon flag wars

[flagwars]

Dragon Flag Wars: Finals

[ijulixnazxz]

[sunsetagain]

my 2022

imma prepare for the final battle of my comic in the last month this year, so nothing new to fill in this chart. wrapping it up now.

[twinkpoll]

OFFICIAL TOURNAMENT BRACKET REVEAL

IT'S HERE FOLKS!

WHAT YOU'VE BEEN WAITING APPROXIMATELY A WEEK FOR!

WE HAVE MATCH-UPS!

OFFICIAL POLLS (PRELIMINARY ROUND) START TOMORROW (MONDAY 3RD OF APRIL) AT 12PM GMT! POLLS WILL LAST FOR FOUR DAYS!

Preliminary Rounds under the cut!

POLL #1: Viktor (Arcane) vs Sauron (Tolkien)

(Art by @cy-lindric)

POLL #2: Kurt Hummel (Glee) vs Obi-Wan Kenobi (Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace)

POLL #3: Tim Drake (DC Comics) vs Stiles Stilinski (Teen Wolf)

POLL #4: Taako (The Adventure Zone) vs Jaskier (The Witcher)

POLL #5: Wylan van Eyck vs Guillermo de la Cruz

(Art by @marty-mc)

POLL #6: Cloud Strife (Final Fantasy) vs Tamaki Suoh (Ouran High School Host Club)

POLL #7: Nagito Komaeda (Danganronpa) vs Billy Kaplan (Marvel)

POLL #8: Lucius Spriggs (Our Flag Means Death) vs Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III (How to Train Your Dragon)

Rep your lads, send your propaganda, gird your loins and do the fork in the garbage disposal because IT'S TIME! THE COUNTDOWN BEGINS NOW!

[iviienn]

It's done! #SixFanarts 

[mystically-michaela]

IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

[guildwars2]

Snargle Goldclaw--exposed?! 😳

Connor Fallon, Senior Game Designer on Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons, has the inside scoop on Tyria’s most daring romance novelist. Get all the juicy details about Snargle’s secret origins in this shocking exposé!

[winglesshopeful]

finished the war eternal questline, and the fake-out Aurene death had me punching the air when the commander and what's her dick the crystal sylvari pulled out that last crystal from her "body"

[disabled-characters-showdown]

Disabled Characters Showdown

Notes:

1.) Characters are listed below the cut because there’s a ridiculous amount of them.

2.) This is going to be a 128 person showdown. Because of this there are going to be a few adjustments from how we normally do our polls. First- not all characters will have character descriptions, because we have neither the time or inclination to do so. There still will be character images along with image descriptions, but that’s about it. Second- because of how many polls this is, the first round will be released in waves of 16 polls per day over the span of 4 days. The other rounds will not be impacted. Third- the first wave of polls will be dropping on the 28th.

3.) If you want to submit propaganda about any of these characters feel free to because otherwise you will get things like this: “Haven’t the faintest clue who this is, so you get no context.” You can also submit character images because most of them will be horrible due to us just pulling most of them from the fandom page.

4.) If you have any issues about any characters feel free to shoot us an ask. That being said, this poll isn’t really about who is the best representation. See more details here. If you are wondering why a character is on the list feel free to ask and we’ll tell you but we’re not gonna put on reasoning for all of the characters.

5.) We tried our best with some of the names, but also are not familiar with some of the characters on this list so if there’s any issues there please let us know.

Marvel:

Clint Barton

Maya Lopez

Makkari

Matt Murdock

Professor X

Nick Fury

Bucky Barnes

Madame Web

Stick

James ‘Rhodey’ Rhodes

Daniel Sousa

Nebula

Jeri Hogarth

Jessica Jones

Phil Coulson

DC:

Barbara Gordon

Joseph ‘Joey’ Wilson/ Jericho

Destiny of the Endless

Freddy Freeman

Roy Harper- Young Justice

Animes/K-Dramas:

Jin Bu-yeon- Alchemy of Souls

Edward Elric- Fullmetal Alchemist

Might Guy- Naruto

Hatori Sohma- Fruits Basket

Vash the Stampede- Trigun

Yang Xiao Long- RWBY

Neopolitian- RWBY

Nunnally vi Britannia- Code Geass

Jean-Pierre Polnareff- JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure

Ali Abdul- Squid Game

Naruto Uzumaki- Naruto

Sasuke Uchiha- Naturo

Yuuri Katsuki- Yuri!!! On Ice

Star Wars/Trek/Aliens:

Geordi La Forge- Star Trek: The Next Generation

Luke Skywalker- Star Wars

Anakin Skywalker- Star Wars

Kanan Jarrus- Star Wars

Shiro- Voltron: Legendary Defender

Keyla Detmer- Star Trek: Discovery

Alex Manes- Roswell, New Mexico

Commander Wolffe- Star Wars

Chirrut Îmwe- Star Wars

River Tam- Firefly

Saw Gerrera- Star Wars

Wrecker- Star Wars

Visas Marr- Star Wars Legends

Darth Traya/Kreia- Star Wars Legends

Fennec Shand- Star Wars

Tahl- Star Wars Legends

Darth Maul- Star Wars

Echo- Star Wars

Breha Organa- Star Wars

Non-Animated TV Shows:

Connie- The Walking Dead

Eileen Leahy- Supernatural

Joel Miller- The Last of Us

Christopher Diaz- 9-1-1

Aaron- The Walking Dead

Ben Scott- Yellowjackets

Fei- The Umbrella Academy

Ian Gallagher- Shameless

Sara Eriksson- Young Royals

Mateo Chavez- 9-1-1 Lone Star

Lucius Spriggs- Our Flag Means Death

John Silver- Black Sails

Prince Wilhelm- Young Royals

Theo Dimas- Only Murders in the Building

Books:

Adam Parrish- The Raven Cycle

Hearthstone- Magnus Chase

Dezi- The Sunbearer Trials

Katniss Everdeen- The Hunger Games

Ambrosius Goldenloin- Nimona

Lord Blackheart- Nimona

Genya Safin- Grishaverse

Peeta Mellark- The Hunger Games

Kaz Brekker- Grishaverse

Oscar Silva- Renegades

Erik- The Tea Dragon Society

Linh Cinder- The Lunar Chronicles

Wu Zetian- Iron Widow

Wylan Van Eck- Grishaverse

Nova Huang- Mooncakes

Percy Newton- The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue

Jack Wolcott- Wayward Children

Ty Blackthorn- City of Heavenly Fire

Scarlet Benoit- The Lunar Chronicles

Carswell Thorne- The Lunar Chronicles

Adrik Zhabin- Grishaverse

Maedhros- The Silmarillion

Beren- The Silmarillion

Frodo Baggins- Lord of the Rings

Ettiene- The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Kate Rose- Cosmoknights

Alex Claremont-Diaz- Red, White & Royal Blue

Jack Zimmerman- Check Please!

Charlie Spring- Heartstopper

Movies:

Reagan Abbot- A Quiet Place

Jia Andrews- Godzilla vs. Kong

Carl- Up

Hiccup- How To Train Your Dragon

Toothless- How To Train Your Dragon

Gobber- How To Train Your Dragon

Hermann Gottlieb- Pacific Rim

Massimo Marcovaldo- Luca

Imperator Furiosa- Mad Max: Fury Road

Drago Bludvist- How To Train Your Dragon

Animated TV Shows:

Amaya- The Dragon Prince

Toph Beifong- Avatar: The Last Airbender

Teo- Avatar: The Last Airbender

Eda Clawthorne- The Owl House

Entrapta- She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Finn Mertens- Adventure Time

Jewelstar- She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Tallstar- She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Villads- The Dragon Prince

Marcy Wu- Amphibia

Mr. Poolcheck- Gravity Falls

Principal Bump- The Owl House

Captain ‘Grime’ Grimothy- Amphibia

Ida, Bev, and Florabel- Kipo: Age of the Wonderbeasts

Ming-Hua- Avatar: Legend of Korra

Sol Regem- The Dragon Prince

Combustion Man- Avatar: The Last Airbender

Other Stuff:

Janice Palmer- Welcome to Nightvale

Nessarose Thropp- Wicked

Kotallo- Horizon Forbidden West

Norma- Dead End Paranormal Park

[imidori-ya]

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros is literal hot garbage and I will die on this hill.

[flagwars]

Dragon Flag Wars: Round 4, Bracket 1

[deacons-wig]

Vote for the silliest laugh-to-keep-from-crying guy, the one who will do the most embarrassing thing for the biggest laugh, the one who uses humor as a defense mechanism to keep from making real connections. The one who would have a career in stand up observational comedy and end up depressed and self destructive the more successful they got. The one who people with Wrong Opinions see only as “haha funny little guy” and ignore their complex, wet rag, sad-sack interiority you know is there beneath the puns, the wry comebacks, the fingerguns and the winking.

Only you truly understand them.

(Based on @handwrittenhello's stunning analysis of the SLMM sub species of PLMMs. Disclaimer: these are my favorite stories and characters and are not representative of the full spectrum of SLMMs in the wild.)

[darth-shado]

Ah yes my favourite characters:

-single father

-middle aged man who accidentally adopted a child

-autistic, who is also queer (bonus points if they are trans)

[yesiplaygamez]

Favourite female characters in video games part 2

[hiddenromania]

The Dacian Draco

Among the Dacians, the draco was undoubtedly seen by the army as a special protective symbol, while it also played an important role in the religious life of the people. The draco shows a religious syncretism between the wolf and the dragon as well as the serpent. It was supposed to encourage the Dacians and to scare their enemies.

The hollow dragon's head was mounted on a pole with a fabric tube affixed at the rear. In use, the draco was held up into the wind, or above the head of a horseman, where it filled with air and gave the impression it was alive while making a shrill sound as the wind passed through its strips of material.

Dacians marched into the battle accompanied by the howl of wolf-headed trumpets and following their sinister multicolored dragon-head standard. As intended, they made a terrifying audiovisual spectacle.

The draco first appears on Trajan's Column in Rome, a monument that depicts the Dacian wars of 101–102 AD and 105–106 AD. German historian Conrad Cichorius notes that, even though Dacians carry the draco, it was called the Scythian draco in Arrian's Tactica written around 136 AD. According to Ellis Minns, the dragon standards of the Arrian were those of the Dacians.

Some scholars such as Osborne (1985) and Ashmore (1961) consider that the draco was adopted by the Romans from the Dacians following their conquest. It became the standard of the cohort in the same way that the aquila or Imperial eagle was the standard of the Roman legion. The adopted standard in the Roman cavalry was borne by a draconarius. Later, the draco became an imperial ensign.

[ao3-anonymous]

Fastest Growing Fandoms on AO3 This Week (06/27/2022)

Every week I pull data on how many fics are in each fandom and compare to the previous week, then calculate the percentage increase to determine fastest growing fandoms.  Since this naturally skews towards smaller fandoms, I have included the same data filtered to Over 1k, 5k, & 10k fics.

Overall:

Over 1,000 Fics:

Over 5,000 Fics:

Over 10,000 Fics:

Source: AO3 Fandom Dashboard