#other brackets

[symphonybracket]

The winner of our symphony bracket is 🎉 Dvořák 9! 🎉

In case you are new here: welcome! Our bracket is complete but we still have symphony-related polls. See this post for common tags that are used on this blog.

This blog is run by @recapitulation

Full completed bracket below the cut.

[gentle-giant-swag]

Least gentle giant, round 1 battle 8

Anti propaganda

Character P

Physical intimidation, narcissism, belittling game participants, assigning ‘tasks’ to various comedians, which they complete and earn varying points to please him, verbally abusing his assistant Alex

Character K

kills sea life :(

Yes I’m letting this slide. K doesn’t just murder, it murder SEA LIFE

Do not reveal the character if you know them!

[enidtendo64]

Guess she had no sick days 🤷‍♀️

[sexiest-objects-tournament]

Please share propaganda in the notes!

EDIT since this has breached containment! Some info on the poll as whole!

1- I'm sorry to put two bad bitches against each other. The bracket setup was randomly selected, not seeded to have equal match-ups. BUT there will be a revival round! 2- Image descriptions are in the ALT text. 3- As always, there is a real human person running these, so keep negative propaganda to a minimum in the notes. Talk up your faves as much as you want, but don't shit-talk the other option.

Thanks!

[gentle-giant-swag]

Least gentle giant round 2 battle 1

Btw do not reveal the character in the tags!

Anti propaganda

Character X

He’s a good king. But yeah he did kill those kids.

killed a bunch of children. i don't think there's anything else? but don't @ me on it i haven't played the game in ages

Character H

They dissappear people for being distracting, do legal and illegal contract killing, and are a known serial killer

[gentle-giant-swag]

Josuke once again is losing so

The Final Round!

[desperatecheesecubes]

An objectively hilarious list to make there Kon

[gentle-giant-swag]

Semi Finals

Iron Giant propaganda

Soundwave propaganda

[arsenicflame]

It's a time-honoured tradition- every time Sam comes across Izzy (and Ed) in their travels, he asks Izzy to marry him. And every time, Izzy turns him down.

At this point, Sam is asking more for the sake of it than any belief Izzy will ever say yes, a remnant of childhood dedication touched with 30 years of heartbreak and regret- though even now, a small part of him still holds out hope. Sam's promises have only got more extravagant over the years, from a job as his first mate, to a captaincy, a fleet at his command, a whole fucking island if that's what Izzy wants- but he knows it isn't though, not really. If Izzy was ever going to agree to marry him, to leave his life and go with Sam, it wouldn't be for anything Sam could offer him. Izzy never did care for flashy shows of wealth, for a ship or to be captain. The only thing that ever mattered to him was loyalty given, and loyalty shown in return. 

It all comes to a head after Stede left and came back, after Izzy lost a toe, lost his leg. Sam hasn't seen him since before things with Ed started to really slide off the rails, before stress permanently set into the lines of Izzy’s face. So, when he sees a dishevelled man with a hoof for a leg in a no-name port, he doesn't even consider the idea that he might know him. It's only when he turns towards him, and Sam catches a glance at those oh too familiar tattoos, he realises this is Izzy, his Izzy, that stands before him.

Knowing Izzy's discomfort with pity, he doesn't treat him any differently than he would in years gone by, positioning himself in Izzy's line of sight before approaching and sweeping him up into a bone crushing hug. 

“Israel-goddamn-Hands!” he exclaims, as Izzy grumbles back a begrudging “Samuel-fucking-Bellamy”, a tradition almost as old as their friendship itself. Izzy might not hug him back, but he can’t keep the corner of his mouth from twitching, just for a second.

(If Sam holds Izzy a little tighter and a little longer than usual, well. That's his business)

By the time Sam lets go, most of the crew has appeared in the town square, drawn in by the commotion. They may have given Izzy his leg and welcomed him as one of them, but still there’s an underlying tension, with nobody quite ready to set aside everything that happened before the Kraken. Seeing him cosying up to an unknown man sets everyone on edge, unsure whether to come to their first mate’s aid, or to assume that they've been betrayed once again.

When Ed sees that the yelling was Sam, his hand goes tense where it's held in Stede's. He knows the routine, has seen it more times than he can count, but as he watches them part he realises that this is the first time in a long time he's unsure of what Izzy's response will be.

Knowing that something’s different, knowing that Izzy's feeling vulnerable already, Sam doesn't go for the same flashy proposal he’s been giving for years. He doesn't promise Izzy the world, he doesn't cause a scene (or, any more of a scene than he already has, anyway). He looks at the fractured man in front of him, takes his face in his hands, and says the exact same thing to him he said when they were little more than boys. “Israel, I have to ask you. I know what you'll say, but I have to try. Come with me. Marry me and sail away with me. I'll keep you safe”

And Izzy… hesitates. He glances over at Ed, at Stede, and says to Sam “...We’re staying in port for a week. Ask me again then”

That's the moment Sam knows there is something deeply, horribly, wrong. He's not just looking at an Izzy who got seriously injured in a fight and is struggling to cope, this is something so much bigger than that- and that Ed has something to do with it. Izzy wouldn't even be considering leaving if he didn't. Whether it was negligence or something more sinister, Sam doesn't yet know, but he intends to find out.

[respectthepetty]

I just need everyone to know that an actual Green Guy won the @bl-bracket for Greenest Flag!

And I am thrilled!

Kurosawa deserves this win because he was a color-coded boy in love who was always true to his color!

Even if it was hard to see at times since Japan hides the colors in the ties.

He was consistently a good guy who Adachi could trust and feel safe with which are symbolic of his green color.

So the colors do mean things, and they mean the right guy won this bracket.

Congrats!

[strawberrie-jaem]

it's nice to see writers over 30 around here cause on twt they make you feel like 'ew a fossil' and here everyone's like 'haha I was here in 2012 and I'm gonna remain here till the site implodes'

[buwheal]

Hello, Spamton!

How's life? Also, do you have any opinions on the Addisons? (Pink, blue, orange, and yellow)

If so, what do you think of them?

[gentle-giant-swag]

Sam propaganda

He likes the trash soda I give him! This may sound like anti propaganda but that man has 0 working brain cells and I mean that in a good way! While everyone else has their problems. He’s just out there being silly.

ROUND 1 MATCH 126

Sam propaganda:

“He is so sweet and is my favorite characters from sdv.  If you marry him then he'll sometimes make you pancakes or do things around the farm cus he wants to help lessen your workload.  He's just so nice and lovely :)”

Chloe propaganda:

“main love interest for the playable character (there's another option but he's generally not liked) she's badass, she's supposed to die but the player changes her fate, they were childhood friends but had a fallout but eventually met again, she lost her dad and previous friend/girlfriend (she appears in the prequel and the relationship is dependant on how the player wants it to be) she has blue hair she says the word hella a lot and (spoiler) by the end you either have to sacrifice her or the town it's one of those really depressing games”

“My Gay Awakening <3”

[dreamytfw]

Why are Dean stans so fixated on assigning moral value to Dean and Sam's labor and class? Do they not realize that seeing poor and lower class people as automatically virtuous and good is itself classist shit usually pushed by the ruling class who romanticize the people they oppress to assuage their guilt over exploiting them?

[formulaheart]

honestly this one is gonna be messy regardless of wins

This is who would win in an all out fist fight (use whatever reasoning you want) but as the drivers are RIGHT NOW. All of the pairings are COMPLETELY RANDOMIZED. I know some of them are quite unfortunate but I kept them in the spirit of this chaotic bracket. This will also be the fastest bracket of my life so l can report the results at Christmas dinner <3. Since a full bracket is more than 20 people I've included this years full grid as well as next years grid and some returning legends. Please tag your reasoning if you want.