#jeff crawley

[heartlandians]

Heartland - 6x18 - Under Pressure

[confessions-heartland]

"I think it’s really strange that there’s been absolutely no mention of Jeff for ages. Not since Georgie was a kid. Like did they have a falling out? Does he not care about her anymore?? His “trying to be a better big brother” arc was too short lived. I hope they bring him back! Recasted or otherwise."

[heartlandtfln]

“(714): Nothing quite like walking through a spider web on your way back in from smoking to fuck up a perfectly good high.“

[yeetyeetchickenmeat]

crawley in the lemire run is such an unstoppable force because not only can he see through the tricks of a god due to the copious amount of drugs he did as a youth, but he also shows no hesitation to sell his soul so his friends can get a ferry ride through space

[straightbaittournament]

only the option with the LEAST votes will be eliminated. propaganda under the cut (and more always welcome!):

jean-luc picard and beverly crusher:

They have a number of romantic moments throughout the TNG series from arguably the first but DEFINITELY the second episode. but they only get together (briefly before divorcing) in an alternate timeline episode which is also the season finale. Also they have a kid together in Picard but are still not allowed to be together She was married to his best friend and he was in love with her but wouldn’t say anything because he wouldn’t want to damage his bestie’s marriage and then his friend died and they met again years later and shared a lot of romantic and sexual tension for years. He openly admitted (under mind reading) that he had loved her since his bestie was alive but felt he couldn’t act on it. In an alternate future they got married. In the canon future they got together and broke up repeatedly because trauma makes relationships hard sometimes and they have a kid together who is named after the aforementioned bestie. An episode forcing them to share thoughts makes him openly admit that he loves her and has loved her for years even when she was married to his best friend.

kit herondale and livvy blackthorn:

They were literally straight bait. So Kit, Livvy and Livvy’s twin brother Ty were a trio with their own side plots in TDA. And well. We literally meet Kit when Ty breaks into his house and puts a knife to his throat and Kit gets distracted by Ty’s eyes. Then later Kit and Livvy have a few moments and kiss once. Then Livvy dies. There are some necromancy shenanigans. Kit confesses his love to Ty then immediately flees the country. Like Kit/Ty was clearly endgame from the start but Livvy and Kit just made out once.

galo and aina (submitted as lio and galo):

Iirc, the whole time the audience was set up to believe that Galo will get together with a teammate named Aina (i might be completely wrong but i think she showed romantic interest in him). That's what usually happens, anyways. However, studio trigger turned that premise on its head with Galo's budding relationship with Lio. In order to save Lio, Galo kissed him. They kissed.

jeff winger and britta perry:

the show starts off with jeff creating the study group so that he can get with britta, they serve essentially as narrative foils, with jeff not caring about people and britta caring too much about people, they nearly get married on THREE (3) separate occasions, they're secret friends with benefits for an entire season but break up when the group finds out, they're the only two people from the core group left in greendale when the show ends; but in the end they make jeff's "true love interest" the girl who was half his age when the show started (36/18)...

angel and cordelia chase:

They met as characters on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but their dynamic doesn't take off until the Angel spinoff Because the showrunners of Angel didn't go in with the idea of putting these two together, the characters' friendship was allowed to develop organically without the assumption of romance, which then made the realization of their feelings for each other more satisfying. Unfortunately the shadow of Bangel (Buffy x Angel) still held over Angel's character, so I think it was a hard sell at the time and didn't gain a lot of popularity in the years since. Both these two characters grew alongside each other, supported each other, and despite knowing that they loved each other, let each other go to pursue their destinies. A really underrated het pairing!

matthew and mary crawley:

They spend multiple seasons full of tension to get their happy ever after. There are so many tropes used between these two. They finally get their shit together and get married, and then have a beautiful child together. Matthew is so happy about his child being born that he doesn't pay attention to the road and fucking DIES IN A CAR CRASH. And that's how their story ends. It makes me so livid every time I think about it lol they really killed him off like that right after and I mean RIGHT AFTER his child is born. It's so foul and every man that they set Mary up with after that doesn't feel nearly the same

keiichi maebara and rena ryugu:

Fluffy harem romcom twists into yandere horror, but then twists again into a story of friendship triumphing over everything. Really holds for any pairing with Keiichi, but the rooftop battle in part 6 is just too good. A recent manga spinoff has them married to total randos, so their respective sons can have the same kind of relationship.

raleigh beckett and mako mori:

Literally everything about the writing of Pacific Rim make it seem like they're setting up for a romance between these two and then they just. Don't. Despite this, "drift compatable" was one of the most popular AUs for couples after the film came out for a hot minute because of how romantic they made the concept seem. *gestures to the entire movie* seriously (note: "drift compatible" essentially describes an in-universe quality of the relationship between raleigh and mako, meaning this quality was so romantic that it would be implemented for other ships in au fanfics)

kagome higurashi and inuyasha from inuyasha:

Long time until they get together, with teasing moments

bow and glimmer:

They didn’t get together until the VERY END of the whole show and even then it was a little ambiguous (was it a BFF “I love you?” 🤷🏼‍♀️)

good luck everybody! now go vote!

[friendship-showdown]

The bracket is here!!!

For the first round, there will be 55 "byes" (the ones who do not have byes were randomly determined, but all were one submission preliminary winners). There was an exact tie between Erina and Robert from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure and Willow and Xander from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, so they both made the bracket! Also, there was so much passion for Agent Beakley and Scrooge McDuck that I just had to include them! So in total, there are 73 competitors. The first round will be released tomorrow and will only be a one day poll so we can jump into the round of 64 quicker! May the best besties win!!!

The participants are as follows:

Maya Fey and Phoenix Wright

Holga Kilgore and Edgin Darvis

Robin Buckley and Steve Harrington

Jessie and James

Sherlock Holmes and Joan Watson

Willow Park and Gus Porter

Pat and Ink

Simon Snow and Penelope Bunce

Denji and Power

Donna Noble and the Doctor

Lady Mary Crawley and Tom Branson

Luke Sunborn and Serene-Heart-In-The-Chaos-Of-Battle

Jang Jaeyoung and Choi Yuna

Inej Ghafa and Jesper Fahey

Sana Bakkoush and Isak Valterson

Curt Mega and Tatiana Slozhno

Ted Lasso and Rebecca Welton

Kronk and Yzma

Camilla Hect and Palamedes Sextus

Wei Wuxian and Wen Qing

Sara Chidouin and Joe Tazuna

Ryuunosuke Narudodou and Susato Mikotoba

Marlin and Dory

Kisaragi Gentarou and Jojima Yuuki

Hina Azumi and Eiji Hino

MK and Mei

Raleigh Becket and Mako Mori

Leslie Knope and Ron Swanson

Ahsoka and Anakin Skywalker

Jonathan Sims and Daisy Toner

Pep and Cadebra

Nagisa Shiota and Kaede Kayono

Aang and Toph

Zuko and Sukki

Saruhara Shinichi and Kitou Haruka

Lollipop and Gelatin

Ichigo Kurosaki and Rukia Kuchiki

Willow and Xander

Abed Nadir and Annie Edison

Jeff Winger and Shirley Bennet

Percy de Rolo and Keyleth of the Air Ashari

Dick Grayson and Donna Troy

Fig Faeth and Gorgug Thistlespring

Mina Harker and Abraham van Helsing

Violet Evergarden and Benedict Blue

Joey Tribbiani and Phoebe Buffay

Billy and Mandy

Roger and Lyra

Darius and Elinor

Erina Pendleton Joestar and Robert E.O Speedwagon

Julie Molina and Reggie Peters

Shotaro Hidari and Akiko Narumi

Lilo and Stitch

Lucky Luke and Calamity Jane

Sorn and Nam

Maui and Moana

Sunflower and Peashooter

Ash Ketchum and Misty

Rui Kamishiro and Emu Otori

Alejandra Estrella and Adalmundo

Shadow the Hedgehog and Rouge the Bat

Miguel and Lyla

Ahsoka and Rex

Steven Universe and Connie Maheswaran

Sophie and the BFG

Linh Cinder and Carswell Thorne

Lilith Clawthorne and Hooty

Fezzik and Buttercup

Chon and Pang

Undyne and Papyrus

Wander and Sylvia

Jayfeather and Briarlight

Bentina Beakley (Agent 22) and Scrooge McDuck

[fleepunte]

hi‼️

my names elise im uhh a lesbian and i have autism.. yay!!

from this point (sept 2), im going to be organizing my posts in these tags!!

my post-mostly nonsensical ramblings of my own making

movie!!! - movies i watched that i was conscious enough to remember

👩‍❤‍💋‍👩- women so fine they make me wanna barf

throws up- guys so fine they make me want to be them

the cure- anything related to the british rock band formed by robert smith in crawley, england, 1976 :)

nin/ nine inch nails- trent :3 and his little bangers

saw- saw.. saw 2004… saw

jeff buckley- my little white boy

malpractice- house md :3

harley quinn- harley quinn <3

batman- bruce wayne 🏳‍🌈, mostly christian bale's trilogy and the animated series from the 90's

other- anything else, other bands i like, other characters i like (all the robins), cats, pretty scenery, world issues, movies i like, etc

[silverjetsystm]

[ painkiller ] [ hurricane ] [ planter's punch ] // for Marc !

𝑪𝑶𝑪𝑲𝑻𝑨𝑰𝑳 𝑸𝑼𝑰𝒁 | Accepting!

[ painkiller ]  what is their greatest regret?

Regrets drag at him like seawater. Large ones are easy to point out. Bosqueverde, Marlene and her whole family, Jeff, handling Bushman the way he did, Frenchie's legs, the terror he committed during the SRA, the Age of K.honshu...

Knocking his old man to the dirty canvas of a boxing ring, is rather tame in comparison to the vast amount of terrible things he has done. That jab of anger at Poppa, the crowd's laughter at his kippah and tzitzit ringing in their ears, signaled the end of his childhood, physically rejecting his father's faith, pacifism, and belief.

It was the last time he saw his father alive.

18 years later - after being forged into a weapon, dying, becoming M.oon K.night, and putting Rand in the ground, he returns to bury Poppa. He made up his mind too late after getting the call that Elias wanted to talk to him.

If he had listened - or at least didn't get into that fight, he may have been a different person.

[ hurricane ]  which song describes them the most? why?

Gonna have to give it to canon. MacKay, who's been writing the main comic since 2021, made "The Killing Moon" by Echo and the Bunnymen Marc's alarm and ringtone.

Hearing the "All Night Version" rewired something in me.

[ planter’s punch ]  how long does it take to befriend them?

How much time do you have?

TL;DR: Marc's frustrating. He has friends from the work. 'Regular' people friends are few and far in-between. Part of it is his own hang-ups (his violence, people dying because of him, Steven and Jake are much more sociable) and currently uses Mr. K.night to interact with the world. However, he loves his friends and would do anything to help or protect them.

Marc is very professional when he's on team ups. He's respectful, defers to expertise, and polite. He's used to hearing ablest remarks about him and his reputation is bad. The callbacks to the 2006 run are real. (for those who don't know, that's the time where MK carved off Bushman's face and had a tendency to carve crescent moons in bad guy's foreheads). The frustrating one is that people assume Khonshu is part of Marc's mental health struggles. Part of this is the team book writers not knowing much about MK history and its easy fruit. So I don't automatically assume any character would be having that POV in a thread.

Historically, Marc had a small but strong support group. His then-girlfriend, Marlene, and his best buddy (and brother in arms), Frenchie. Steven and Jake had a wider social circle. Gena, her sons, and Crawley were Jake's friends first and foremost. People would drift in their orbit but would either be maimed and/or killed. Over time, Marlene and Frenchie leave (or get pushed away). Both suffered a lot of bullshit for being Marc's friend and Marc is frustrating to get along with. He's incredibly mission-focused, lies, projects, and deflects as coping mechanisms. He thinks people would rather hang out with Steven or Jake. He's convinced himself that he doesn't need love.

He does still love and have friends, though. His current friends are a mix of old hero friends (or girlfriend, in T.igra's case), a brother in K.honshu, and ex-military (well, H.YDRA). Which is why any 'regular' people who stick around in his orbit are almost put on a pedestal. Reese, his vampire secretary, is in her late teens and was forcibly vampirized. Rather than stake her and the rest of the fellow captives, he took them in.

Marc-as-Mr. K.night (while he's getting his ass kicked as MK in the front) says to Steven and Jake in MK (2021) #15 "She's good for me. Everyone I know is a super hero or ex-H.YDRA or a Rival Fist like H.unter's M.oon. But Reese? She's just a normal person managing a condition. She's the one I need to be like."

Still, Reese and Soldier haven't seen Marc as Marc yet. Just as MK in the field or Mr. K.night in the Midnight Mission. They're friends, T.igra told them Marc's name, and he eventually trusted them with the knowledge that he's part of a system. But always after the situation forced his hand.

[bilbao-song]

I've been totally obsessed with the Move's album, Message from the Country, lately. It's incredible listening to younger Jeff and some of the stuff they did (plus like, bonus Bev singing Ben Crawley Steel Company!)

Thoughts on that album?

it’s been awhile since i’ve done any kind of dive into move-related things but! i have a favorable view of it :^) early-ish jeffrey of any kind is always appreciated and yes, bev’s voice strikes fear in me.

[nolut]

Millwall Lionesses headed to Three Bridges FC, the home of AFC Crawley Women on Sunday. The Lionesses were looking to return to winning form, having defeated their hosts by 4 goals to nil in October at Rotherhithe. Jeff Burnige was there in windswept Sussex to pick up the story.   The Lionesses will be back in action at St Paul's Sports Ground, Rotherhithe, on Tuesday 23rd of April at 7.30 pm for their penultimate home game of the season against Enfield Women.

[ambermarshalldaily]

every episode of heartland ever [ amber marshall as amy fleming ] || 6.18 - under pressure (first aired: April 7, 2013)

She loves it here, Jeff. She’s the one that asked if she could live with me. That was a long time ago, when she first got here. Things have changed a lot since then. I know you love her, but so do Lou and Peter.

[heartlandians]

Heartland - 6x18 - Under Pressure

[confessions-heartland]

“I think it's so stupid how long it's been since we've heard anything from Jeff. Like, Georgie should care more, he's her brother“

[heartlandtfln]

“(217): My body is telling me there was tequila. My pictures say it was Jeff's fault“

[luxshine]

Moon Knight Primer Part Nine

Moon Knight (2016) #1

Prologue, Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, Part VII, Part VIII

Ok, so yeah, I am going to divide the issues of Lemire’s run one by one, two by two at the most, at least for the first 10 issues because on one hand, the art, done mostly by Greg Smallwood,  is so gorgeous you guys deserve to see as many pages as I can cram here without, you know, posting the whole issue.

On the other… it is so deep, so full of symbolism and different little things that reference the past runs, but twisting them in a way that now, canonically, they have a completely different meaning.  So yeah, we’re going to go there.

Now… unfortunately, there’s a little bit of a spoiler I have to give right away or this is going to be as incomprehensible as the comics were for the month to month readers at the time. See, Lemire did a lot of what we saw in the series, specifically in episodes 4 and 5, where at times we couldn’t tell what was real or not.  Every time we thought we were back in the real world? Lemire pulled the rug from under the Moon System and our feet!

So yeah, everything that we’re going to see now, and up until I say otherwise? Is happening in the Moon System’s headspace, so we’re going to get to know them pretty well. This means that a lot of the secondary characters who do reappear, such as Jean Paul (Frenchie), Gena, Crawley, and yes, Marlene, can sometimes act very out of character but that is because we’re not seeing the real people, we’re seeing the way in which the System sees them (Which also explains why some of them disappear when a specific Alter is fronting. If that Alter has no real relationship to the person, the person is not part of their private part of the mind space)

This includes the enemies, by the way. The only real characters we will see for a long time are the Moon System. Everyone else?  A creation of the Moon System’s mind in order to heal and work towards a better co-consciousness.

Because yes, one of the beauties of the Lemire’s run is that it points out that the reason why the Moon System is seen as ill? Is not because they are a System. It’s because they are working against each other, and not communicating. This is the FIRST run to say “No, No guys. You are NOT Broken. Yes, you’re neurodivergent, but that doesn’t make you ill or wrong. It just makes you “you””. And while at some point it uses some incorrect language to depict this? It doesn’t take away from the main message that people who are not neurotypical are not broken, nor they need to be fixed. (We may need treatment, but that’s not different from, say, wearing glasses)

Anyway, enough introduction. No more gilding the lily, let’s get into the Moon System head with issue 1 of the Lemire Run. Welcome to New Egypt, part 1

And we open with a very sketchy looking page. An unreal page, if you will, as the Moon, Khonshu, calls Marc to an ancient looking temple. Marc says he’s not sure if he IS Marc, and Khonshu replies that, if he comes in, he will see his true face.

And here I give an annoying pause to explain something about comic narrative.

See, panels are very important in comics. The bigger, longer they are, the longer the moment they are supposed to represent is. The shorter they are, the faster the action happens. And of course, when they have no borders, the action is spilling out from one moment to the next, in a way that they blend together.

This page and the two that follow? Have borders, but they are sketched in, unsure and confused… but are THERE. However, once we get to the last room of the temple? The panel borders disappear.

Yes, we can see the panels separation, thanks to the white gutters. But there’s no real border to them, and they change shape easily. And THAT is our narrative clue that what we see? Is not real. The REAL part was the beginning, Marc talking to the moon, entering the temple, and LEAVING reality. We actually see him put his hand to the panel and LEAVE the boundaries of the comic book reality into his meeting with Khonshu.

Yes, Marc is face to face with Khonshu. Once he leaves the temple, the panel borders disappear completely (And, since unlike the Asylum, here they are in a completely white void? There’s NO reality to get our bearings. And thus, we have two possible readings: either this is Khonshu, the real Khonshu in the void between reality and the Moon System’s mind space, giving Marc a choice to die or be remade again… or it is the System’s mind way of re-framing their first meeting with the god: You are dying, if you want to live, if you want to be more, then put this mask on and become MORE.

And, as he remembers everything (and, very importantly, we see in his head Moon Knight, Mr. Knight, Steven AND Jake… but not a specific MARC memory) he wakes up… and the inking and color become SHARP.

Again, no panel borders, so we, the readers, know that this is still not real. But everything is sharper, more solid than in the moon and Khonshu scenes, so we know that for Marc? THIS is reality.

At first, the Asylum seems normal. Abusive as hell, since the two orderlies we meet Bobby and Billy, seem to delight on punching and doing electroshock therapy to Marc.  Importantly, Booby is a big black man, like Bushman, while Billy looks a bit like Det. Flint when drawn by Smallwood. This is NOT to say they’re them, of course, but it is interesting that the two men who are tasked with keeping Marc in the Asylum part of his mind? Look like the two figures of authority he mostly had connections with as Marc and as Moon Knight.

But after the second shock session, we get to see the full asylum and we immediately know that something is not right, and not just because we still have no panel borders but because the architecture of the Asylum looks wrong. Parts of it are perfectly fine, white and tiled, but then the walls become ruined, full of cracks. And every window is boarded up with a lattice pattern. And of course, then there is the very first patient Marc hears speak:

Gena, getting herself psyched up to start her day at the Diner.

And her voice brings Marc a sketchy, confusing memory from Jake.

On TV, he sees a news segment about Moon Knight fighting with Stained Glass Scarlet. Interesting here because the news call her “his nemesis” but anyone who has read Moon Knight know that she was more like a strange ally.  So once again, we realize that there’s something OFF even if we hadn’t been tipped off by the panels.  But before Marc can get his bearings, he gets interrupted by Crawley.

And here we have an interesting thing.

See, in the past? Marc and Crawley barely interacted. Crawley was Jake’s friend, first and foremost, and later would go to the Grant mansion, where Marc never fronted. By the time Marc got to be fronting for most of the time, we were deep in the dark-grim-gritty era, and there Crawley became Marc’s rock and pain killer dealer. The one who tried to keep Marc in contact with his friends and later, helped Jake disappear.

So for Jake, Crawley was a friend, and a trusted source of information. But for Marc? Crawley was a rock, a mentor, and the one he could trust to get him out of any mess he got himself in.

Which is why THIS Crawley in Marc’s mind? Not only knows precisely what is going on, but also seems to know that this is not their first rodeo there as he introduces himself and tells Marc he knows he doesn’t remember him, then tries to make Marc realize exactly where they are.

So this Mind-Crawley is a wise mentor, a patient one which is the exact opposite to Khonshu. In fact, where Real-Crawley was on the fence about the whole Khonshu thing, just as everyone in the System’s lives? THIS Crawley calls Marc the Fist of Khonshu and reminds him of his promise to protect and free the travelers of the night. His role will expand much more later, but it’s again an interesting way to introduce this “out of character” thing the other people in Marc’s mind have.

Because right after Crawley, we get to see Marlene. But remember how Marlene was Steven’s girlfriend and refused to have anything to do with Marc? Well, the Marlene in Marc’s mind is completely catatonic, drugged into unconsciousness, just staring at nothing. Because for Marc? Marlene is a non-entity. He remembers her from Steven and Jake’s experiences, and he loves her because the System loves her… but he doesn’t have anything to give her a personality, so he… doesn’t.  She becomes the uber-damsel in distress, that needs to be saved because she can’t save herself… but because she doesn’t speak? She can’t break Marc’s heart by reminding him that she doesn’t want him, she only wants the Millionaire.

From there we move to the office of Dr. Emmet who is the first 100% original character we meet in Marc’s mind. She is his psychiatrist, and claims to be very worried because now Marc claims not to remember how he got there, but he remembers bits and pieces of Moon Knight, Jake and Steven, that he’s sure are real.

But again, we the readers know something is wrong because the Dr. Office looks like a desk and a fireplace in the middle of a tomb chamber. No decorations at all, no windows, nothing to make it look like an actual place where a real person works. And if we had ANY doubt? The words of Dr. Emmet seal it because apparently? There IS a Moon Knight, but it’s not Marc since Marc has been entrusted to the care of the hospital since he was twelve. He is an orphan, and he has never stepped outside.  She even has his notes on his fantasy of Moon Knight, a fantasy that the child that Marc was created to make his life a bit better.

And yes, she’s cruel, she’s direct, she doesn’t coddle Marc -in fact, Series’s fans will see that she acts much like Dr. Harrow did in episode 4 and 5- because, once again, that’s how Marc sees ALL psychiatrists. Because let’s be honest, in all his different series? He hasn’t seen one worth their  Doctorate’s weight in rice.

Oh, and thankfully, we’re back to the DiD diagnostic, none of the “brain damage caused by an extra dimensional entity” nonsense.

Not that Marc believes her. He is ready to escape, and in a very interesting twist, he steals a pen from the doctor in order to, that night, use it to create a makeshift mask and cape from his bed-sheets and fight his way out of the hospital.  Because with the mask on? When he IS Moon Knight? He can see the true faces of his captors, who are Egyptian Jackals.

Following Khonshu’s voice, Marc runs to the roof of the hospital, where he sees a changed New York skyline as the buildings are half buried in sand and there’s a giant pyramid in the horizon. Khonshu tells him that all this is a full blown invasion by Seth, and that his enemy must be stopped, but unfortunately Marc is caught by the Jackal-orderlies who tear off his makeshift mask and thus, take away the ability Marc has to see what’s going on.

And now New York is normal again, and Marc tries to contain his tears as he is unsure of what is going on in his own mind. (Not that he realizes yet that he is on his own mind. He truly believes this is the outside world)

And so we end the issue, without having one single moment outside the System’s head, and, in fact, no scenes outside MARC’s corner of the mindscape.

And because we’ve gone long enough, I’ll have to pause here. But we’ll be back with the next issue soon, I promise.

Part Ten

[straightbaittournament]

📣 round 1 results

i will be posting results in reverse chronological order. unless some of them are slightly out of order then i never said that. they are as follows:

tobias funke and debrie bardeux vs SAM WINCHESTER AND EILEEN LEAHY

valkyrie and thor vs ALEXA, LIANA, JEREMY, AND IAN

grace blackthorn and christopher lightwood vs ANGEL AND CORDELIA CHASE

entrapta and hordak vs BUFFY AND SPIKE

SYLVIA AND WILL vs spada and raptor 283

kaname date and hitomi sagan vs JEAN-LUC PICARD AND DOCTOR BEVERLY CRUSHER

sosuke esumi and miu suto vs NOREA DU NOC AND EL5N

shin and noi vs NATHALIE SANCOEUR AND GABRIEL AGRESTE

jason grace and piper mclean vs PEGGY CARTER AND DANIEL SOUSA

BRIENNE OF TARTH AND JAIME LANNISTER vs merlin and morgana

livvy blackthorn and kit herondale vs TIM DRAKE AND STEPHANIE BROWN

bellamy blake and clarke griffin vs KATHRYN JANEWAY AND CHAKOTAY

sam winchester and rowena macleod vs SELINA KYLE AND BRUCE WAYNE

the twelfth doctor and missy vs ROMAN ROY AND GERRI KELLMAN

ted lasso and rebecca welton vs LUKE SKYWALKER AND LEIA ORGANA

KIPO OAK AND BENSON MEKLER vs chrissie cunningham and eddie munson

AVA SILVA AND MICHAEL SALVIUS vs nina zenik and matthias helvar

matthew and mary crawley vs WILLOW PARK AND HUNTER

ASH KETCHUM AND MISTY vs hikaru hitachiin and haruhi fujioka

ALEC HARDY AND ELLIE MILLER vs oscar francois de jarjayes and andre grenadier

EVA GARVEY AND GABRIEL vs tyler rake and nik khan

tatiana slozhno and curt mega vs ASAMI, BOLIN, KORRA, AND MAKO (originally just mako, korra, and asami; mod decided to change it to all four)

FOX MULDER AND DANA SCULLY vs clara oswald and the twelfth doctor

robin buckley and steve harrington vs ROY MUSTANG AND RIZA HAWKEYE

cali and flynn vs AKKO AND ANDREW

edward elric and winry rockbell vs MAKA ALBARN AND SOUL EVANS

keiichi maebara and rena ryugu vs HARDWON SUREFOOT AND MOONSHINE CYBIN

bow and glimmer vs GALO AND AINA

asuka tenjoin and yuki judai vs MAKO MORI AND RALEIGH BECKET

JEFF WINGER AND BRITTA PERRY vs izuku midoriya and ochako uraraka

himmel and frieren vs ABBIE MILLS AND ICHABOD CRANE

and last but not least:

KUROSAKI ICHIGO AND KUCHIKI RUKIA vs lisa cuddy and gregory house

once again i am so so fucking sorry for how i matched up the contestants except i'm also not because it was very funny, even though twelveclara and twissy both getting eliminated in round 1 will be my roman empire.

A FINAL AUF BREEDERSEHEN TO...

TOBIAS FUNKE AND DEBRIE BARDEUX

VALKYRIE AND THOR

GRACE BLACKTHORN AND CHRISTOPHER LIGHTWOOD

ENTRAPTA AND HORDAK

SPADA AND RAPTOR 283

KANAME DATE AND HITOMI SAGAN

MIU SUTO AND SOSUKE ESUMI

SHIN AND NOI

JASON GRACE AND PIPER MCLEAN

MERLIN AND MORGANA

LIVVY BLACKTHORN AND KIT HERONDALE

BELLAMY BLAKE AND CLARKE GRIFFIN

SAM WINCHESTER AND ROWENA MACLEOD

THE TWELFTH DOCTOR AND MISSY

TED LASSO AND REBECCA WELTON

CHRISSIE CUNNINGHAM AND EDDIE MUNSON

NINA ZENIK AND MATTHIAS HELVAR

MATTHEW AND MARY CRAWLEY

HIKARU HITACHIIN AND HARUHI FUJIOKA

OSCAR FRANCOIS DE JARJAYES AND ANDRE GRENADIER

TYLER RAKE AND NIK KHAN

TATIANA SLOZHNO AND CURT MEGA

CLARA OSWALD AND THE TWELFTH DOCTOR

ROBIN BUCKLEY AND STEVE HARRINGTON

CALI AND FLYNN

EDWARD ELRIC AND WINRY ROCKBELL

KEIICHI MAEBARA AND RENA RYUGU

BOW AND GLIMMER

ASUKA TENJOIN AND YUKI JUDAI

IZUKU MIDORIYA AND OCHAKO URARAKA

HIMMEL AND FRIEREN

LISA CUDDY AND GREGORY HOUSE

my deepest condolences to the fallen and congratustraightions to all the winners <3 straight you soon, see you baiter, etc etc. rejoice! round 2 is imminent. if YOU want me to publicly endorse your straightbait candidate (translation: draw propaganda for you) follow the instructions here

as always, if you have any questions about the definition of straightbait within this tournament,

read the FAQ

and as a final notice, we will be taking a short hiatus from all tourney/poll activity from the 16th-the 22nd aka the entirety of next week starting sunday, in observance of the strike for gaza and to give me some time to set up round 2. for more ways to participate click here. i know that the uscpr also tends to have lists of local protests by location on their site. and here is a post about writing letters to the editor