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[badendfriendstournament]

Bad End Friends Poll Bracket 2025

Art made by @axepng

All info on the presentention cards where made by @iluminaughter and @riggedtrashman

This poll was brought thanks to the support of the people from the Bad End Friends Discord server. If you want to discuss the poll, share art, or simply talk about cartoons and characters you like, you're more than welcome. The drawings shared on the server will be shared when announcing the winners. You can also use the Official Tier List of this year's poll to share who you want to win (or who you don't want to win). You can post it with the 2025 poll tag and tag this blog if you want it to be reblogged (same if you create art related to the poll, which is more than welcome).

What exactly are Bad End Friends?

"BEF" is a pretty old AU that used to collect (as its name says) Bad Ends from animated series, and all of these would be friends. Later on, other characters would be introduced, and it would depend a lot on who you ask about what is considered a Bad End Friend or not. For simplicity's sake, this poll tries to collect various characters from different media who had a tragic ending.

Is this poll based on "who would win in a fight"?

No, this is a popularity poll. Feel free to vote for the character you like the most. Each character this year comes with a small sheet with information, so if you don't know a character, feel free to look it up here or click on their name for more context.

How does the "lethality rating" system work?

It is based on how further characters went in the poll, those who didn't pass the first rounds have less stars than those who passed.

Propaganda like advertising on other social media or reblogging with drawings or more context about the character you're supporting is more than allowed. Just don't fight too much about it; it's just a popularity contest between fictional characters, not a life-or-death situation.

Now without further adu...

Lets go vote!

[hotvintagepoll]

Welcome to the HOT AND VINTAGE MOVIE STARS poll blog!

The Scrungly Little Guys (gender neutral) Contest is currently in its quarterfinals stage. The scrungle contest enshrines the weird, the off-putting, the comic, the character actor, and the strange cinema legend. If you need a reminder of what scrungle means, this picture of an opossum is the golden standard.

All polls—including ongoing polls, previous rounds, old tournaments, the various shadow brackets, the Dracula Daily polls, and fun mini polls—can be found in the #hotvintagepoll tag. I am working on a more complete tagging system so people just here for the polls can navigate the blog more easily, but that's still in the works.

FAQs:

“Define scrungly?” For the purposes of this tournament, a contestant must noticeably present in some way as at least one of these: odd, bizarre, off-putting, disheveled, creeping, feral, small, filthy, silly, funny, kooky, comical, exhausted, or just plain strange. This contest presents a wide array of scrungly appeal, so not every contestant will hit every single one of these (but should, ideally, be a few of them). Scrungles were chosen based on how convincing their submitted propaganda was. This contest is all about oddball character actors, creeping henchmen, comic relief sidekicks—the side characters who never get the credit they deserve in proper rundowns of famous old movie actors.

"How do I decide who to vote for with the scrungles?" Vote on whoever seems scrungliest to you. Do not vote for someone based on hotness alone. The video propaganda, included under the cut, is highly encouraged for showcasing scrungles. This contest is very silly and does not always follow the same rules as the hotness tournaments.

"Hey! Some of these guys sucked and they shouldn't be here!" Yes, some of these guys sucked. I agree with you. For reasons I've gone into before, I don't exclude anyone from the contest for moral reasons, even if I personally think they were garbage. I do this because I cannot responsibly research and vet every competitor's background and legacy, and I'm not comfortable being the moral barometer for everyone, even in cases where I think it's really obvious. You are welcome to vote against people for moral reasons, but as mod I don’t post or boost negative propaganda about anyone.

If I see repetitive, trolling, or bigoted remarks in the comments, I will block you from this bracket. If you want to point out a competitor’s problematic aspects in the replies, that’s fine, but if I see bad-faith trolling, you will be blocked. I will also block if you start harassing other people voting on the polls. If you really hate that someone is winning, please post positive propaganda for their opponent instead.

I welcome additional propaganda for the scrungly little guys in reblogs or asks. I boost the best propaganda I see and try to boost equally for everyone. I don't accept propaganda that’s post-1970 or from non-film appearances. When sending your propaganda, please don't send me too many pics or videos at once—I max out at about four per ask.

The views expressed in the propaganda are not my own. I don’t alter submissions beyond fixing obvious spelling mistakes. I do choose the poll pics, purposely trying to pick the silliest ones possible for this contest; if you think I could do even sillier, send me one I can use instead. If you think a contestant needs more propaganda, send me an ask with some and let me know if you'd like it added to the poll post if they make it to the next round.

“Who won the major hottie tournaments?” Eartha Kitt and Toshiro Mifune are the reigning hotness champions. Sidney Poitier & Diahann Carroll were named the hottest movie couple. They are all living it up by the pool, drinking daiquiris and soaking up the sun, as far from the shadow realm as possible.

“What's the shadow realm?” All hotties who fail to continue in a tournament are sent to the shadow realm, far below the veil of the earth, in gloom ever-lingering and not-hotness evermore.

“Was [this famous person] submitted to any of the tournaments?” Try a tag search for them (ie, #james cagney in the search bar). If you still haven’t found your person, they either did not fit the criteria of working in movies from 1910-1970, weren't convincingly scrungly in their submission, or were not submitted at all.

“My FAQ isn’t on here :(” send me an ask! I love hearing from you guys—just please check these basics first.

Thank you for being here! Enjoy the polls.

Tournament schedule post-hiatus:

Now finished: Hot Men Tournament, Hot Women Tournament, Dracula Daily casting polls, the Hot Coupes Mini Tournament

Starting September 26th: Scrungly Little Guys contest (gender neutral)

TBD: Ultimate Hottie Tournament (top brackets of the hot men & hot women competing together)

TBD: Horror Hotties (Frankensteins, Draculas, Brides, etc.)

TBD: Dandy Detectives (Marples, Sherlocks, Nancy Drews, etc.)

Fun mini polls that pit sets of characters from the same movie together, like the Philadelphia Story or Seven Brides for Seven Brothers ones (these can be found in the #minis tag)

[irradiatedsnakes]

hey! here's the rip of all of dialtown's text!

hiiiii it's finally here! i cleaned it up! every line of dialogue in the game ripped out (over 300k words, it's a chunky game!) and laid out in plain text for your easy reference. includes both the basegame and roger dlc!

HOW THIS WORKS:

there's a couple versions of the 000 ALL THE TEXT IN THE GAME CLEAN file. this is the entire game in one file, for easy crtl+f'ing. it's also the cleanest version, without any code/font specification/color specification present. this file is included in both .txt and .docx versions. i don't recommend opening this file with google docs, the length makes it sad. it works just fine for me opening in MS word and notepad for searching up dialogue. this is what it looks like!

there is also the 000 RAW ALL THE TEXT IN THE GAME file. this is the un-cleaned-up version, as the text ripper spit it back out at me. it has no paragraph breaks. it looks like this.

lastly is all the rest of the files in the drive, ALL THE INDIVIDUAL MAP FILES. in these, dialogue is split up by each individual map (generally, every scene is its own map). these are ordered and named according to the ingame data. these also include code bits- font changes, text colors, pauses in speaking, text size, and so on. it looks like this!

enjoy! i hope you find it useful. (and tysm to dogman for permission to post this!)

HOW TO READ THESE:

so, there's a couple quirks with these. firstly, nested choices don't really display in a very comprehensible format: they're more just in order. so, for example, this exchange:

what i've highlighted here first are gingi's 3 dialogue options. you can see each option denoted by a -. so like:

Gingi: -"Option 1." -"Option 2." -"Option 3."

the corresponding start of peter's dialogue is highlighted in the same color. in cases like this, you mostly have to use context to figure out what's responding to what.

you'll also see repeated lines when someone uses a gendered term to refer to gingi- all versions of the line (for whether you're playing as a man/woman/neither) will be in a row, like so.

one kink i wasn't able to iron out is the narrator's dialogue in the all-the-text-in-the-game file. while the paragraph breaks in the individual map files make it clear (because the narrator's the only one with no name and font tags), the all-the-text file just has narrator's dialogue immediately follow whoever spoke previously, almost always gingi. use context clues, or check up on the individual map file

all-the-text:

individual map:

use context clues, or check up on the individual map file to be absolutely sure. if you want to know which map file you're at, scroll up til you get to something that looks like this:

so, you can see that this convo with madame mediocre happens in map 31, "randmug". this one!

you may also notice the blank space or \n[#] where gingi's pronouns would go. that's just a byproduct of the pronoun system. imagine whichever gingi-noun you wish

laaastly, a little guide to the individual map files' code bits, or at least the most common ones:

\fn changes font. usually present at the start of someone's dialogue

\. indicates a 1/4 second pause in dialogue

\c[#] changes the font color

\{ and \} text within these brackets is bigger

\m[Name] a shorthand macro used for a few characters to call their font and color.

\fi makes text italic. most of the text in the game is in italics, so a lot of dialogue starts with this.

i think that's all the notes i've got..let me know if i've missed anything egregious. have fun!

[thecircularsystem]

As per the syscourse bracket challenge for this round…

Note: I’m putting this under a cut because, in the past, individuals have told me this take was horrifically triggering for their paranoia. Please continue at your own risk.

TW: Various types of harassment; mentions of sui ideation, doxxing, death threats, SA, and CSA; fakeclaiming and trauma denial; false memories

TL;DR: If we accept that endogenic systems are sometimes traumagenic systems who don’t know/are in denial, then it only makes logical sense that sometimes traumagenic systems are actually endogenic systems who don’t know/are in denial.

Long version:

Eons ago (like. A few years ago 3? That sounds about right), I got sent a bait ask with this take: “I believe some traumagenic systems are actually endogenic.” This was soon after I’d been discussing how some endogenic systems are traumagenic and just don’t know it yet.

At first, when I saw the take, I naturally balked. I mean… isn’t that fakeclaiming someone’s trauma? Isn’t that ableism?

But… the thing is, I KNOW there are endogenic systems who have hidden trauma. And I KNOW I have given myself false memories of, yes, trauma that never happened to me. I distinctly remember abuse based on my plurality that never actually happened, even if I know exactly how it played out. I convinced myself it happened, and I’ve had to do distinct work to remind myself it was my imagination.

So… is it possible a system has convinced themselves that they were formed from trauma… even if they didn’t? It seems possible. Common? No, I highly doubt it. But possible.

And moreover, what about endogenic systems who discover their systemhood and are immediately told by everyone around them that the only way to be a system is to have DID, so they must have trauma they don’t remember… so these systems would deem themselves traumagenic, even if they weren’t, because they genuinely didn’t know?

Anyways. I posted this take.

It led to me leaving my old blog entirely, panicked and getting countless suibait, death threats, and SA related asks, because I was clearly the worst person ever, fakeclaiming traumagenic systems. I was told I didn’t actually have DID if I believed that, and that I deserved the CSA I experienced. It’s why I stopped using “Mod (Name)” as a tag and changed to abstract tag phrases instead, since people attributed the take to a single alter, making our dissociative barriers grow (isolate him away from us to make others love us again so we stay safe).

I’m scared to post this again, I won’t lie. But… I’m tired of being scared of syscourse, yknow? It’s stupid. It’s pointless.

What does it matter if someone is traumagenic or endogenic or neither or both? What does it matter if someone uses the “wrong” label? Does any of this matter???

At the end of the day, we all deserve the help we need.

[wlwdcchampionship]

introducing: the round two steal off!!

Has your favorite ship been eliminated in round one? Then listen up!

All eliminated ships from the round of 48 have hereby been entered into THE ROUND 2 STEAL-OFF to fight for a chance to reenter the bracket!

Specifics below the cut!

Here's how it works:

No polls for eliminated ships, you cannot actually vote for them again anywhere (yet). Because they've been eliminated.

However, you are still able to create fanworks for your ship(s) of choice and, providing they're tagged & sent to us appropriately, they will be eligible for Steal Points, accrued via the exact same system as for any ship still in the polls proper. Steals for the steal off will open at the same time as the round two polls on Weds April 16.

At the end of the running time for round 2, points will be counted.

The Steal-Off ship with the most Steal Points will be entered into a 24 hour Sudden Death Poll with the least popular winning ship from the actual round 2 polls (least popular here meaning "ship that won its respective poll by the narrowest margin").

The winner of the Sudden Death Poll will be the ship that progresses to the next round.

There will be no poll stealing mechanic on the Sudden Death Poll, just pure classic votes and propaganda all the way down.

Now I know a fair number of you are thinking: 'this is a blatant ruse to get stephcass back in the running'. However! Given that the entire structure of this bracket has been taken straight from @/lesmisshippingshowdown, a round two steal-off into a sudden death poll was always part of the plan.

The following ships are eligible for the steal-off:

Starfire/Barbara Gordon

Dinah Lance/Queen Mera

Scandal Savage/Liana Kerzner

Diana Prince/Harley Quinn

Alexis Kaye/Harper Row

Tora Olafsdotter/Beatriz da Costa

Maggie Sawyer/Toby Raynes

Tara Markov/Rose Wilson

Cassandra Cain/Stephanie Brown

Jenny Sparks/Shen Li-men

Annisa Pierce/Grace Choi

Maya Sucard/Kathy Branden

Zatanna/Diana Prince

Cissie King-Jones/Greta Hayes

Starfire/Raven

Diana Prince/Queen Mera

Anita Fite/Cissie King-Jones

Rose Wilson/Cassandra Cain

Poison Ivy/Selina Kyle

Helena Bertinelli/Artemis

Selina Kyle/Eiko Hasigawa

Soranik Natu/Princess Iolande

Paige Stetler/Omen

Cassandra Cain/Brenda

[abby118]

Tagging/searches

Reuploading this entire thing, updated.

• I see people complaining about Tumblr's search systems not working, and that's fair if you don't know the rules (I don't know all of them either), but one little tip I can give you is that, sometimes, simply looking up a tag on your blog shows you fewer posts than if you were to click on said tag directly in your blog's posts and browse it that way. That's how you get all of the results.

• When tagging, make sure the most important tags for general searches are the first three and for blog searches the first five. If you create a problematic tag (don't ask me what that means, that's tumblr's decision), more often than not, it does hide the entire post from your searches, meaning it won't come up even when you search it using one of its other tags (or the post's words).

• If you reblog something and tag it appropriately, it still won't show up in the general searches because those only show original posts. Tagging them is for your blog only. That said, tag your original posts so they get in the tag.

• When I can't find something, the method that never fails is to go through archives. If it's a text post, then that's fairly easy - you click on the text post filter and search a word from your post (not a tag! you can't do that with the in-built browser search, only the archive search). Remember, the result is only for the posts you see on your screen so you need to scroll -> refresh the search -> scroll etc. It won't always highlight the word for you, or better said, you won't always see it, and in that case, it means it is there but not in the post's preview (the preview is small; it can't fit everything in it).

Photos are more difficult to find but it is possible if you use the right tags to organise them. As in, don't just tag under the general tag, create subtags.

• If you want to create a tag for yourself only, add an underscore before your tag. It works exactly like a normal tag except for the fact that it's hidden for everyone but you. You won't see it when you look at a post but it will be there when you click on it and enter the editing mode or when you edit in your mass post editor.

• Featured tags: These are tags you can set for your blog. If you don't set them, tumblr will pick them for you based on what you post the most. They show up in your archive's tags and in your blog's search (though you won't see all of them in your blog's search if you have too many). If you can't find a tag there, add it to your featured.

• Capital letters make no difference (Abc = abc = ABC). They're a matter of personal preference. However, spaces matter (abc def is not the same as abcdef ..... think of fan art and fanart for example).

• If you want to find anything on tumblr, use: words you remember from a post site:tumblr.com (you can add /post directly after that for more accuracy because some posts get indexed differently and it wouldn't catch those without that addition)

• url.tumblr.com/day/insert year/insert month/insert day

• If you want to search by using two tags at once, use: https://[blogURL].tumblr.com/search/%23[tag1]%2C%20%23[tag2] (just remove the brackets)

A post that's worth a read

What are tags actually for

[iconic-albums-tournament]

WELCOME TO THE ICONIC ALBUMS TOURNAMENT!

This event is a single elimination, bracket-style tournament with 256 competitors! The polls are uploaded in batches of 16 per day, every half an hour from 2 to 10 pm EST, beginning on June 28th. Each poll will be reblogged once the day after it was uploaded, between the hours of 6 am to 2 pm EST.

What makes an album iconic? It's up to interpretation! Factors like critical acclaim, awards won, sales, effect on the artists career, and influence on other artists/the music industry as a whole - hell, even the commercial impact of the album art are all valid considerations. If it comes down to it, which one you just plain like better is also a 100% valid factor.

Feel free to send propaganda, either on a reblog, comment, or ask. Propaganda sent in during round 1 will be added below a cut on round 2 polls!

Currently, the only trigger tags are #tw artist death and #tw overdose mention, since those are sadly relevant for many album descriptions. If you'd like something added to the taglist, feel free to request it.

A list of important disclaimers/basic rules can be found here.

Now that that's out of the way, you can find the current list of matchups under the cut (or wait until the polls release, if you're into that):

Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Deconstruction vs. Tame Impala - Currents

Mary J. Blige - My Life vs. Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill

Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city vs. American Football - American Football

Run-D.M.C. - Raising Hell vs. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III

Queen Latifah - Black Reign vs. Jay-Z - The Blueprint

MF DOOM - Mm…Food vs. Arcade Fire - Funeral

Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday vs. Sly and the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On

Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) vs. Lil' Kim - Hard Core

Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP vs. Queen - A Night at the Opera

Tyler, The Creator - Scum Fuck Flower Boy vs. The Grateful Dead - American Beauty

Nas - Illmatic vs. N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton

David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars vs. Van Halen - Van Halen

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico vs. No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom

Dr. Dre - The Chronic vs. J. Cole - 2014 Forest Hills Drive

Slick Rick - The Great Adventures of Slick Rick vs. Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

J Dilla - Donuts vs. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced

Donna Summer - Bad Girls vs. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes

ABBA - Arrival vs. blink-182 - Enema of the State

Babatunde Olatunji - Drums of Passion vs. Morton Subotnick - Silver Apples of the Moon

Three Days Grace - One-X vs. Charlie xcx - BRAT

Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express vs. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine vs. Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues

John Lennon and Yoko Ono - Double Fantasy vs. Bad Bunny - Un Verano Sin Ti

Bob Marley and the Wailers - Exodus vs. Counting Crows - August and Everything After

Enya - Watermark vs. Coldplay - A Rush a Blood to the Head

Britney Spears - In the Zone vs. Justice - †

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath vs. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade

Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports vs. Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster

Blondie - Parallel Lines vs. Madonna - Like a Virgin

Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair vs. Nirvana - Nevermind

System of a Down - Toxicity vs. Paramore - Riot!

Sade - Diamond Life vs. Porter Robinson - Worlds

Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis vs. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

Thelonius Monk - Brilliant Corners vs. Björk - Vespertine

Tina Turner - Private Dancer vs. Janet Jackson - Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814

Florence and the Machine - Lungs vs. Lana Del Ray - Born To Die

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds vs. Boyz II Men - II

Amy Winehouse - Back to Black vs. Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR

Fiona Apple - When the Pawn... vs. Glass Animals - How to Be a Human Being

D'Angelo - Voodoo vs. Frank Ocean - channel ORANGE

Halsey - Badlands vs. Mitski - Be the Cowboy

Lorde - Pure Heroine vs. Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?

Harry Belafonte - Calypso vs. Katy Perry - Teenage Dream

Willie Colón and Rubén Blades - Siembra vs. Celtic Woman - Celtic Woman

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue vs. Otis Redding - Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Junior Wells - Hoodoo Man Blues vs. Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Robert Johnson - The Complete Recordings vs. Sublime - Sublime

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme vs. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life

The Mothers of Invention - We're Only in It for the Money vs. Cap'n Jazz - Shmap'n Shmazz

Weezer - Weezer vs. The Beatles - Abbey Road

Jeff Buckley - Grace vs. Dave Matthews Band - Crash

Pearl Jam - Ten vs. U2 - The Joshua Tree

Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory vs. Ramones - Ramones

The Smiths - The Smiths vs. The Pixies - Doolittle

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californiacation vs. Death Cab for Cutie - Plans

Alice in Chains - Dirt vs. Dio - Holy Diver

Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet vs. AC/DC - Back in Black

MGMT - Oracular Spectacular vs. The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.

Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority vs. Carole King - Tapestry

Audioslave - Audioslave vs. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon

Arctic Monkeys - AM vs. Panic! at the Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out

Sleep - Dopesmoker vs. Patti Smith - Horses

Tool - Lateralus vs. Santana - Supernatural

Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy vs. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run

Vince Guaraldi - A Charlie Brown Christmas vs. Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out

The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee vs. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

The Weeknd - House of Balloons vs. Nick Drake - Pink Moon

Israel Kamakawiwoʻole - Facing Future vs. Mississippi John Hurt - Today!

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Will the Circle be Unbroken vs. Van Morrison - Moondance

Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago vs. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes

B.B. King - Live at the Regal vs. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

Frank Sinatra - In the Wee Small Hours vs. Joni Mitchell - Blue

The Band - The Band vs. Hozier - Hozier

Shania Twain - Come On Over vs. Alicia Keys - Songs in A Minor

Curtis Mayfield - Super Fly vs. Earth, Wind & Fire - All 'n All

The Chicks - Wide Open Space vs. Carrie Underwood - Some Hearts

Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs vs. Jim Croce - You Don't Mess Around with Jim

Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters vs. FKA Twigs - LP1

Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison vs. Etta James - At Last!

TLC - CrazySexyCool vs. Ms. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Roger Payne - Songs of the Humpback Whale vs. Drake - Take Care

Carly Rae Jepson - E•MO•TION vs. BTS - Love Yourself: Tear

The Police - Synchronicity vs. Jamiroquai - Travelling Without Moving

50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin' vs. Ariana Grande - thank u, next

Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliot - Supa Dupa Fly vs. Nelly Furtado - Loose

Wendy Carlos - Switched-On Bach vs. Talking Heads - Remain in Light

Madvillain - Madvillainy vs. Burial - Untrue

Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer vs. Chappell Roan - The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess

Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road vs. Norah Jones - Come Away with Me

Prince - Purple Rain vs. Lil Nas X - Montero

Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols vs. Death Grips - Exmilitary

Daft Punk - Discovery vs. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

Grace Jones - Nightclubbing vs. Beyoncé - Lemonade

Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon: The End of Day vs. Adele - 21

Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back vs. The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die

De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising vs. Pete Rock & CL Smooth - Mecca and the Soul Brother

Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds vs. Bee Gees et. al. - Saturday Night Fever

The Clash - London Calling vs. The White Stripes - Elephant

Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy vs. Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book

Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger vs. Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman

2Pac - All Eyez on Me vs Travis Scott - Astroworld

A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory vs. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma

Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited vs. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Radiohead - OK Computer vs. Marina and the Diamonds - Electra Heart

Depeche Mode - Violater vs. SOPHIE - OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES

Eric B. & Rakim - Paid in Full vs. Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy

Yusuf / Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman vs. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Déjà Vu

Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle vs. Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal

Michael Jackson - Thriller vs. Rihanna - Anti

Nelly - Country Grammar vs Steely Dan - Aja

Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water vs. Neil Young - Harvest

Lupe Fiasco - Lupe Fiasco's Food and Liquor vs. The Spice Girls - Spice

100 gecs - 1000 gecs vs. Beck - Mellow Gold

Lemon Demon - Spirit Phone vs. Taylor Swift - 1989

T. Rex - Electric Warrior vs. Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell

Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape vs. Fall Out Boy - Infinity on High

Eagles - Hotel California vs. Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust

Deftones - White Pony vs. The Strokes - Is This It

The Killers - Hot Fuss vs. Vampires Weekend - Vampire Weekend

R.E.M. - Murmur vs. Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill

Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral vs. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations

Slipknot - Slipknot vs. Evanescence - Fallen

Paul Simon - Graceland vs. Billy Joel - The Stranger

Hole - Live Through This vs. Green Day - American Idiot

Metallica - Master of Puppets vs. Led Zeppelin - Untitled

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain vs. Childish Gambino - "Awaken, My Love!"

The Doors - The Doors vs. Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History

The Who - Tommy vs. Gorillaz - Demon Days

[lesmisshippingshowdown]

Poll Stealing: The Reason for the Season

Hi guys, just another quick update/reminder before we hit the semi finals.

We are all absolutely blown away by the enthusiasm and dedication you guys have shown since we introduced the poll stealing dynamic. In every round we have seen some absolutely stunning fanworks created with love, care, and creativity, and we cannot thank and congratulate you all enough for getting on board with the idea.

With that said, I just wanted to go into "vicar at Christmas" mode for a second and remind you guys of why we introduced poll stealing.

Especially in the early rounds, there were an awful lot of rarepairs, or pairings that haven't seen a huge surge of fanworks for a while, in the bracket. I'd be searching for artwork to use in steal polls and discover the most recent fanworks in a given tag were posted in like, 2016! So first of all, introducing poll stealing felt like a fun way to encourage a new outpouring of love for ships that, despite being popular enough to make the bracket based on AO3 stats, weren't really seeing that love reflected on Tumblr in the year 2025. (Turnchetta nation, you are a prime example of getting right into the spirit of this one!)

Secondly, I think we can all look ourselves in the eye and say that Les Mis is a fandom where a lot of ships have gained considerable popularity through fanon default, pair the spares, background shipping, whatever you want to call it. Many, if not most, if not all of these ships are compelling in their own right thanks to Hugo's ability to craft such brilliant characters no matter their canonical significance, but they don't always get to stand in their own spotlight in fanworks. So with poll stealing, we wanted to switch that up and give you the opportunity to say "yeah, I'm not just voting for [ship] because I'm fond of their background appearances in my favourite [bigger ship] fics, I love them because [xyz], and to prove that here's 5000 words of fanfic where I explore their dynamic in detail!"

All this to say, the real reason why we introduced poll stealing is not for the statistics or the drama or the gamesmanship - it's because we wanted to see heartfelt, real world applications of the love you feel for ships that don't always get to see that love in day to day fandom activity, and reward that genuine love (and contribution to the wider fandom ecosystem) by giving you a leg up in the polls.

Basically, to be a little bit less hippy dippy about the whole thing, and with the caveat that we are NOT calling out any specific ships or creators here and are moreso remarking on a general trend we've seen over the past couple of rounds, please think about the reasons why you're creating steal works and try to ensure each one is crafted with love rather than as a means to get As Many Points As Possible By Any Means Necessary. We don't want to get to the point of disqualifying works we feel are egregiously low effort or which appear to have been deliberately crafted to exploit loopholes in the scoring system, but we are a little concerned that, with the current steal deadline modus operandi of posting as many works as possible 5 mins before the deadline, it might end up getting to that stage, and that's honestly just completely antithetical to the spirit of what we're attempting to do here.

So basically I'll restate my points in a nice way and a mean way:

Niceys TL;DR: let's remember why we're all here making steal works - to show our love for our favourite Les Mis ships by spending time and effort and care creating fanworks that we'd feel proud to post in their own right & pass down to future generations, or something like that.

Meanies TL;DR: look i know we're going to get gamesmanship and vote rigging when we literally introduced a "here's how you can rig votes" system but please don't take the piss with it okay?

[skulandcrossbones]

I could very much use an example of how to do the [media] edit thing, and when to use it.

Plz

Absolutely! In fact, here's a full, comprehensive explanation of tags, tagging, and the usefulness of the [media]edit tags!

WHAT EVEN ARE TAGS?

Much like how hashtags on twitter will take you to all the posts about #thatthingeveryoneistalkingabout, Tumblr also uses (hash)tags to catalogue posts. When you make a post, you can hit the add tags button to add relevant tags about the post topic. Then you can click on those tags and find other people talking about the same thing.

Go forth and find others who love the thing you love! That's how you build ✨a fandom ✨

WHY TAG?

Well, tags have two primary functions on tumblr:

To organise YOUR blog.

To make a post searchable.

For 1, you can use whatever tags you want to catalogue your own blog. For example, all of my gifs are tagged with "#originals" because that's what I started using in 2012 and I'm too lazy to change it now. Someone else might use #* or #mine, and that gives them a way to find (and direct others to) their own gifs on their blog.

For 2, making a post searchable allows other people to see your gifset/art/funny meme/text post/ramblings and reblog it to their blog as a way to say "I liked this thing! look at this thing!". We can help people see our posts by tagging whatever our post is about with the relevant tags. So if I gif a star wars movie, or you draw some lovely star wars fanart, or someone writes a post about a theory they have, we can all tag our posts with "#star wars" and boom, now anyone searching for "#star wars" can see our posts and reblog them to their blog.

OKAY, SO WHY [MEDIA]EDIT?

Well, as you can imagine, the general topic tag is often a very busy and scary place. Tumblr catalogues EVERY post that uses a tag, but it also catalogues every post that even mentions that topic in the body of the post. So EVERY post that mentions "star wars" is gonna show up when you type "star wars" into the search bar. (Sorry anyone searching for star wars right now 😅) If you're just looking for a nice gifset to reblog, this can get very annoying very quickly.

Solution? [media]edit! All the way back in the early 2010s, some genius who has been lost to time proposed a new tagging system for gif- and editmakers. Instead of only tagging "#star wars" or "#supernatural", they suggested that we tack "edit" on to the show title so people could search specifically for edits! And it worked and for a long long time gifmakers have been using these tags to make their posts more easily searchable.

HOW TO USE [MEDIA]EDIT TAGS?

If you're uploading a gifset or an edit (this is an example of an edit that ISN'T a gifset), you should include the edit tag in the first 30 tags you use. That's because Tumblr only catalogues the first 30 tags, and everything after that is disregarded.

The basic formula for an edit tag is [title/topic]edit, but a lot of the time the title gets shortened. #[supernatural]edit is pretty long, so it was shortened to #[spn]edit. #[doctorwho]edit became #[dw]edit. #[teenwolf]edit became #[tw]edit (I'm using brackets here to minimise clogging the tags, but when using them you don't include the [ ]).

There's no hard and fast rule about which tag to use, and generally speaking if I'm giffing something new and I'm not sure which tag to use, I'll go look and just use what everyone else seems to be using. Sometimes there are abbreviation overlaps with other shows, sometimes there's weird title formatting (like romeo + juliet 1996 where people sometimes use [raj]edit or [r+j]edit or [romeoandjuliet]edit or all 3 because no one can decide and it's easier to just cover all your bases) and sometimes a show or movie won't have a tag at all and you get to PICK ONE which is very exciting and scary.

In more recent years some general edit tags have gained popularity like [film]edit, [movie]edit, [netflix]edit, etc. These are fine to use, but make sure you're including the title of the show/movie as well so people can still filter the specific content they want to see gifs of. (You can do this by searching "[film]edit, [film name]", for example).

Here are my tags from my most recent gifset, colour coded to show you what are [media]edit tags, general edit tags, and general topic tags.

the [MEDIA]edit tags allows that SPECIFIC media to be searched for (in this case, gifs of fast and furious). there are seemingly 2 commonly used tags for this movie franchise, so i used both.

the GENERAL edit tag allows users to search for NONSPECIFIC edits of a GENERAL topic. [women]edit for example will show you all tagged edits of women from ANY media*.

the general TOPIC tag is the CATCH-ALL tag for any kind of post made about that topic, not just edits, i.e. ALL posts that tag and mention michelle rodriguez.

*userladiesblr and junkfooddaily are tags for source blogs that track those tags to find and reblog content specific to their blog content (women + schlocky action/horror/sci fi movies). i've included them in the general edit tag category for convenience.

TL;DR SUMMARY

Use [media]edit tags when you're posting original gifs or edits of something that you want people to be able to find.

There are no hard rules but the edit tag format is [title]edit, wherein [title] may be the full name or an abbreviation (and it's best to check what other people are using so your post isn't lost to the ether!)

Edit tags are for gifsets and non-gif edits ONLY. Fanfic and text posts do not belong in the edit tag.

I hope this helps!

[caprisunssystem]

BEHOLD, THE EIGHTH WONDER OF THE NATURAL WORLD,

hey. were the capricorn system. you may know us from @the-capricorn-system. we decided we wanted to restart, and move all our system blogs into one place.

our collective name is caprisun, and we collectively use they/them, it&/its&, and !/!s pronouns. in any order, mix it up a little. we are bodily a minor, although most of us are adults in headspace.

we dont currently have a concrete list of frequent fronters, because we recently changed how we front. we have around 100+ headmates, so dont ask if someone specific is in front, because the answer is generally no.

we are somewhere on the schizo spectrum, are autistic, and a narcissist, plus other disorders. we are sometimes not a very good person, nor are we often safe to be around.

we do not use tone tags, nor do we want them used for us. if you have to clarify tone/intent, put it in brackets after the text, as so: "this is random text. (tone typed out in full with no abbreviations)".

assume good intent from us. we very rarely do things because we mean bad.

we regularly forget words and how to spell them. be nice.

no dni, they dont work anyway. follow us if you want, we will likely block you if we dont like you.

important posts we want to be looked at \/

(theres none yet)

COME ONE AND COME ALL, SEE THE TWO HEADED GIRL!

[thegreatestblackrockinventor]

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And now for, I guess, OOC stuff!! HELLO!! I'm THE REAL Subspace, From PHIGHTING! of course!! We may kind of go back and forth between acting like pre-rewrite Subspace to his current writing. BUT SUBSPACE NONETHELESS!!

This is partially a Personal and a RP blog, FEAR NOT of confusion, however!! As I WILL be tagging OOC blogs with a respective #✦ ooc tag at the bottom!!

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☆ For this blog entirely, I ask;

NO NSFW OR SEXUAL THINNGS

☆ I would also not like to receive romantic interactions or shipping either as romantic interactions make me uncomfortable!!

☆ Please don't roleplay with my OOC blogposts!! I will understand if it's a mistake, but I ask of this not to be done intentionally!!

★ I MAY NOT RESPOND TO SOME ASKS!!

They may either make me too uncomfortable or I may not know how to respond, hopfully I don't get any asks that truly test my conversational knowledge as. THE GENIUS IS ONLY FOR. TECHNLOGOY AND ROBOTS AND. MY BLACKROCKIAN WORK!! /silly /j

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💥 You may call me Subspace T. Mine, or Subspace, or Subspace Tripmine, Sub, Subby, Shitstain if you really want... I'm pretty much fine with every referral of Subspace!! other than just TRIPMINE

☆ We're a System with AUDHD

HOPFULLY this blog won't go inactive but, as of currently, the only one running this blog is me, Subspace T. Mine, IF this blog ever gets more who agree to run this I will add them here as a list!!

My sign off, just in case, will be -🩷💥

-🩷💥 = Subspace T. Mine!! {He/any OOC, He/him IC}

☆ I'm Aroace Spec, Specifically Aromantic [Potentially Cupioromantic] and Apothisexual/Sex Repulsed!! I'm also Genderfluid!!

^ If more of our system agrees to run this, this will be updated into a list

☆ I really like crystals!! PHIGHTING!!! Subspace T. Mine, clearly!! Praying mantises!! Explosives!! Object Shows!! CCCC!! Blinkies!! Pink!! The cold!! Rambling!! Technology!! And more I'm probably forgetting!!

☆ This may be updated with more info I remember in the future, but for now this is all I have!! ENJOY!! HEHEHAHAHAA!!

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[virovirokun-has-adhd]

Hollow Shell of a Man

"Oh if only there were words to describe how disappointed I am in you"

[ABOUT]

Names ::

-> Fizziepop! [or just Fizz for short ehehe]

-> Viro

& more

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he / xem / h3 / vi / ren / it / zomb / static / mach / they

transmasc , genderfluid , catboy , luniboy , demiboy , cybrgender

lesboy , demirose , a-spec , qplatonic , aesthetic attraction , ambiamorous , robosexual

[#flags 4 me tag] \\ [gender & tertiary attraction] \\ [pronouns.page]

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ADHDer + minor sensory issues

-! @mayday-mayd4y is fr my closest oomf !-

"Strong believer of being queer being about defying societal norms about gender and sexuality and not about depending on feeling love at all"

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[LINKS]

Discord Servers Masterlist

Tags <- (outdated)

FIXATIONS , DNI & MORE UNDER THE CUT

[FIXATIONS]

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Transformers

Regretevator

ULTRAKILL

Electric Dreams

Gravity Falls

Pressure

Lone Echo

Mogai/Liom Community

RotTMNT

Ponytown

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[STANCES]

shipcourse stance :: peacefic /+ neutralship -> more detail

syscourse stance :: pro endo , willo & tulpa

queercourse stance :: check my flags 4 me tag but mainly radinclus + anti radqueer

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[DNI]

MOUTHWASHING FANS.

anti any of my fixations

queerphobic / exclusionary towards any of my identities

-- (including polyamory , ace/aro , mspec identities , mspec lesbians & gays , lesboy && xenogenders)

radfems.

ableist

darkship / pedos / tcest

disrespectful to others' beliefs

zionist / neo nazi / racist

dsmp stans / apologists / "kinnies" (cc&c!) [genuine system kinnies are fine] / ect. *

anti system / plural & anti endogenic/non-traumagenic system

anti kink

-- (this isnt just u thinking some kinks are gross this is genuine lowkey kink-shaming with no respect or regard for the kink haver's feelings)

nsfw/porn blogs

-- (unless i follow you first ig)

-- (i'm kinda sticky on these grounds, but im ok with valveplug)

*(for clarification idc if you still watch old dsmp creators' content (other than dream ofc bash that pedo's skull in) idc, i still watch Ranboo & stuff so as long as you're not trying to apologise for their wrongdoings / saying they've done nothing wrong, you can interact. Additionally if you support Dream or Wilbur for their wrongdoings stay the fuck off my blog and do not fucking interact. We support Shelby/Shubble here whole heartedly)

[OTHER]

I occasionally use Cybertronian terms or slang in my everyday speech, whether its referencing a body part

- (helm=head, processor=brain, servo=hand, optics=eyes)

- or to replace swearing (frag=fuck, scrap=shit/crap)

- or just talking about Primus in the place of Jesus/God or whatever

I oftentimes struggle with tone in text so tonetags are immensely helpful :D

I meow a lot, I sometimes refer to "cat brain" when my brain stops working like a human's brain should and I forget things

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[HOUSEKEEPING]

=just some general rules i have=

Don't DM/PM me out of the blue. (duhh)

Don't send hatemail or things you know/think might trigger me.

Don't do the above to any of my moots/friends/partners either, if you do this you will be blocked as soon as I find out what you've done.

Stay in your lane, don't interfere with conversations / rb threads that's just common sense.

If I didn't reference you directly then I am very most likely not talking about you.

I only roleplay with people I'm closest to. (usually my partners)

Be kind obviously

[SIDEBLOGS]

@kingalice-not-so-villain-au - Sona AU with my good friend @bananabiskit (i dont really use it anymore

@fizziedraws - art blog

@zombiechu - new yapping blog !!!!! with my friends !!!!!!

Old Pinned Post =]

[OTHER SOCIALS]'

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[wifegideonnav]

I'm new to Tumblr. How do Tumblr users usually engage with each other?

well first of all welcome haha. the main ways to engage with people are:

liking and reblogging. platforms like instagram and tiktok run on likes and an algorithm, but on tumblr, people almost exclusively use their dashboard and turn off suggested content, so they’re only seeing what people actually reblog onto their dash. that’s why people on this site are so adamant about reblogs, because likes basically do nothing. i saw someone say once that anything you would like on a different social media, you should reblog on here, and i totally agree. and don’t worry about how old a post is, or about reblogging something you’ve previously reblogged. there are posts from 2014 that i regularly see on my dash a decade later, so literally don’t feel awkward, it’s 100% normal to engage with old posts.

tags. there are three main ways tags are used: labeling original content so people find it in searches, internal organization systems when reblogging or posting (for instance, many people have a tag for their original posts, and will tag reblogs by fandom or character or whatever - important note that reblogs do not show up in search results), and to make sotto voce comments on a post. it’s normal for people to make jokes, add their own commentary, ramble about something semi relevant, or say something to op in the tags on posts they reblog.

reblog additions. every time you reblog, you have the chance to add something to the post, which unlike tags will be retained when someone reblogs from you. a good rule of thumb is to comment instead of tagging when it’s something you actually want other people to engage with, as opposed to tags where you’re just kind of expressing yourself lol. don’t be surprised however if you see people’s tags getting screenshotted and added to a reblog. if this happens because the screenshotter likes what the tag writer said, it’s jokingly referred to as “passing peer review.” (and of course people screenshot tags to criticize or mock them as well.) essentially, tags are like being at a big group dinner and saying something to the person next to you as an aside, and then sometimes that person goes “hey everyone listen to this”

post comments. there’s also an option on every post (unless op has turned it off) for people to comment on the post itself, not on a specific reblog. mostly this is useful for talking to people on personal posts or posts with reblogs turned off. on a bigger post, just reblog it and put your thoughts in an addition or tag.

asks. seems like you figured this one out! lmao. asks are used for a wide variety of things, but essentially it can either be a prompt for someone to make a post or a way of having an interaction/conversation with someone without dming them.

dms. these work like dms everywhere else, except the functionality is limited and it kinda sucks.

games. there are also many varieties of games that people play with each other, ranging from ask games (things like “rec me some music” or a post with prompts and people send you some from that list), tag games (typically there are questions you answer then you tag other people to fill them out for themselves) handwriting tags, follow chains, giveaways, name/url playlists, and more. with the addition of polls, brackets have gotten popular too (eg the tumblr sexyman bracket). there also used to be a lot of in-character ask blogs, where a user would set up a blog and roleplay as a specific character that people could send questions to (there still are some but way fewer and way less popular than there used to be)

to be honest i feel like i have to put “discourse” and “drama” on this list too. people on this site loveeee having the most insane arguments of all time and then everyone else memes the hell out of it. google “sonic for real justice” for an example lmao. (of course there’s also very unfunny political and fandom discourse that goes on as well. i would advise you to avoid discourse blogs as a general rule regardless of whether you agree with their position or not)

tagging people. you can also @ people in posts you think they’d like or if you feel like they have relevant input. typically this is something you would do either to people you’ve spoken to before, or a big blog with an established persona and rapport with their followers (eg if you follow a blog about snakes and you see a random post with snake info that seems wrong but you’re not sure, so you tag them to ask for their expertise).

and this isn’t a specific “mode” of communication but it’s also a thing to “interpret” (for lack of a better word) other people’s posts. for instance, people drawing a photo from the original post (i cant find it but there was a post going around recently where op posted an aesthetic photo of an egg cooking and then several people painted it), or people trying/recreating something a post was about (example). it was also a thing for a minute there where people would rewrite funny exchanges as shakespearean dialogue

those are all the ways i can think of, although im sure i’ve missed some (if other people think of any pls add on!). good luck, and i hope you’re able to meet some cool people!

[gynaephora]

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[NOTE: Most words in square brackets are meant to eventually be a link. These posts do not exist right now. Wait a bit!]

Hellohellohello! I'm Ursa, though you can call me just about anything nameswise and chances are I'll respond to it. I use it/its pronouns [almost] exclusively, and I'm over 18, both in body and mind.

Minors can interact, as this isn't an NSFW blog and I don't reblog much of anything explicit, but mind the tags and please block the tag "#mdni". I'll have to start blocking if I see likes on those posts from minors! Which I don't want to do!

I'm a fictive of Loop, and while my own identity has changed quite a bit since forming, the exaggerated version of source seperation some like to promote that you shouldn't identify with your source in the slightest is not something I'm interested in. A part of me is still Loop. [Please respect that.]

💥- - Before You Follow - -💥

I don't take these sections too seriously - DNIs don't work the way people like to think they do - but for those it matters to, the system I'm from is very firmly pro endogenic systems, and that won't be changing. Syscourse asks will be deleted, annoying people will be blocked, we literally don't care.

💥- - Miscellaneous - -💥

1 - While this is technically just meant to be my sideblog, I do have a tendency to blur with a few other members. If you see the tag "guest stars" on a post, someone else is around! Overall, though, this will mostly just be me. Go head to @cordysys if you want to talk to more of us!

2 - I'm really [strange] about conversations, in general. Picture a cat you just got, and it doesn't quite know how to cat - that's me! That being said, as long as you're not acting overly familiar when we haven't even spoken to you before, you're probably fine. For those who like having slightly more to work with boundaries-wise, the word "strange" is a link that goes more in detail.

💥- - Cool People - -💥

A list of folks you should go check out! pspspspsps

mutuals, no particular order:

@celestinecerasus | @luxdraconia | @ace-of-loop | @eldragon-x | @change-maiden

[fallloverfic]

Hey! I'm new to the ENNEAD fandom and have been on a fic binge for the past few days. I've noticed the tag "AU 19" on a lot of your fics. Would you mind explaining what that is?

Welcome to the fandom! I hope you enjoy any fanfics you try!

The number system refers to the age rating between the two different versions of ENNEAD: the 19+/Complete/Mature version and the 16+/Older Teen version, which contains censored and sometimes new and more safe for work scenes. 19+ tends to be used on the original Korean listings (it's why there's typically a little 19 on the covers when you buy episodes on places like mcomics or Ridibooks):

("Complete" is how the 19+ version is referred to in Korean: 엔네아드 (ENNEAD) [완전판] (the brackets say "Complete Edition"); it's complete in that it hasn't been modified for younger audiences like the 16+ version has)

Tappytoon doesn't use an age rating for the 19+/Complete Edition, sticking to "Mature" for its translation of that version. Seven Seas also calls it Mature, which is designated for age 18+, likely because Seven Seas is a U.S. company and Korean ages start newborns at age 1, not 0, so a 19-year-old Korean would be 18 in other countries (like the U.S.). The English translation of ENNEAD didn't begin until March 10, 2020, which was shortly before season 1 concluded in Korean (by that point, ENNEAD had been ongoing for at least around 3 years). It took a long time for the English translation to catch up, and by that point, both the post-season 1 AUs were out. There was fandom outside Korea prior to the release of the official English translation (e.g., in Japan, which got a translation of the 19+/Mature release starting February 28, 2020), and I imagine most people differentiated it based on the 19+ and non-19+ ratings.

"AU 19 ENNEAD" is one of the fan-designed tags to designate fanfics related to the alternate universe short story extra for the 19+/Mature version of ENNEAD season 1 about Horus becoming king and keeping Seth prisoner. The AU is non-canon and based on an earlier draft of ENNEAD that Mojito scrapped before creating the current version of the story, and is available as episodes 74-75 of season 1 on the 19+/Complete/Mature version.

It was also included in an extra booklet in the Taiwanese box set of season 1, and with luck it'll be included in some form in volume 6 of the English physical release via Seven Seas, perhaps like it was included along with Tiny AU in volume 6 of the Panini German release.

The 19+/Mature AU is sometimes referred to as AU 19, to differentiate it from Tiny AU, a fan name for the AU attached to the 16+/Older Teen version of ENNEAD season 1, where Seth is sentenced to become tiny (which is available as episode 74 of the 16+ English translation).

The 19+/Mature AU is also sometimes called R19 AU (e.g., Rated 19, again for the age of the story version), Gaiden 19 in Japan, or as I prefer, Dark King Horus AU, because it's more specific in the same way "Tiny AU" is and doesn't require knowledge of the rating system.

I only have the tags for AU 19 ENNEAD/Dark King Horus AU on two fanfics, my one-shot for ENNEAD Week 2022, which is set within the 19+/Mature AU universe, after what's shown in S1E74-75, and my longfic, As Long As You're Mine, which is set after that. This is in comparison to my Tiny AU fanfic. At the time I posted my first 19+/Mature AU fanfic, I only found one other fanfic for the AU, so I used the tag they used, which was AU 19 ENNEAD. There were apparently two other fics at the time, in Chinese, both of which referred to it as the r19 AU. Other folks seemingly followed suit after the English fics.

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Introducing: THE GREAT ROUND 2 STEAL-OFF

Are you thrilled by the concept of being able to steal polls by creating fanworks for your ship of choice?

Are you bitterly disappointed that your OTP has been eliminated in the Round of 32, so you won't get a chance to try and claw them back to safety through the power of your creative output?

FEAR NOT.

All eliminated ships from the Round of 32 have hereby been entered into... THE GREAT ROUND 2 STEAL-OFF to fight for a chance to reenter the bracket!

Here's how it works:

No polls for eliminated ships, you cannot actually vote for them again anywhere (yet). Because they've been eliminated.

However, you are still able to create fanworks for your ship(s) of choice and, providing they're tagged & sent to us appropriately, they will be eligible for Steal Points, accrued via the exact same system as for any ship still in the polls proper.

At the end of the running time for the Round of 16, points will be counted.

The Steal-Off ship with the most Steal Points will be entered into a 24 hour Sudden Death Poll with the least popular winning ship from the actual Round of 16 polls (least popular here meaning "ship that won its respective poll by the narrowest margin").

The winner of the Sudden Death Poll will be the ship that progresses to the Quarter Finals.

There will be no poll stealing mechanic on the Sudden Death Poll, just pure classic votes and propaganda all the way down.

May the odds be ever in your favour ;)