#poetrysmackdown

[vlindervin7]

im so sorry but the finale for that poetry contest being two headed calf vs how to be a dog… you are all very unserious people

[drumlincountry]

in hindsight, I guess the “soft sad freaks” on “an unprofitable website” tearing eachother to shreds b/c of a poetry competition ... could have been predicted.

[agirlnamedbone]

I'm typically above commenting on such matters but I'm sorry the ~poetry smackdown~ happening right now is once in a life time cheugy, is cringe, is stupid, is godless, and an affront to the creative spirit itself. I will ruin your fun and lose your follower count; I'm sorry. Y'all really need to read more than the five poems you've seen on tumblr. I'm being a mean girl about this because poems are all we have

[looktoyourkingdomz]

oh you have absolutely got to be kidding me. meditations in an emergency and wild geese both lost? i hope everyone explodes forever

[lesbianjudasiscariot]

i was disappointed by the results of the poetry smackdown so i made this to find out the real best poem

[shelmerdines]

poetrysmackdown is fab if u love poetry and meaningless competition but it has made me realise that acab: a nursery rhyme is soooooo missing from the tumblr poetry hivemind. you guys should read acab a nursery rhyme it is fantastic

[poetrylesbian]

me watching the poll results on poetrysmackdown dot tumblr dot com:

[art-that-fucks-you-up-tournament]

welcome to the 'art that fucks you up' tournament!

have you ever seen a painting and though to yourself, "wow this makes me want to viscerally tear into a family of four"? or maybe gazing upon the stained glass of a church building and thinking, "god is not real but i am if only for this single moment"?

then this bracket is for you!

we're accepting nearly any form of visual art, but primarily sticking to stuff like paintings and the like. loom banners are cool!! engravings are awesome!! stained glass? even better! that being said, feel free to submit statues and modern art stuff because if we're running a poll about art that fucks you up, it would be absolutely criminal to stick to just those.

(and yes. we do accept statues and paintings of people in the nude. just stay away from sending us real life photos of people having sex and claiming it's art. technically it kind of is, but we're not accepting those submissions. i reserve the right to refuse a submission.)

unfortunately, we will not be accepting fanart. i know there are some fantastic pieces of art made by people on this website for their fandoms, but we're not going to be accepting those :(

ALSO. if you are submitting art made by someone actively on tumblr, PLEASE ASK THEM FOR PERMISSION. technically, whilst making the polls, we would be reposting art which is usually against most artist's boundaries.

that being said, this is pretty free for all! send in some art, and let's get this show on the road!

submit through the askbox (off-anon so you can send in the image) and explain what the art makes you feel and (if possible) why. does that painting makes you want to run your hand through a slow moving flow of magma? tell us! PROVIDE A SOURCE OR IT WON'T COUNT.

we'll see how large the bracket will be once we start getting submissions, but given that this isn't really fandom-open it probably won't get too popular. (that doesn't mean you shouldn't participate with lessened fervor though!)

inspired by: @poetrysmackdown and @notanothersongaboutlovebracket!!

[todayontumblr]

Thursday, July 13.

tumblr poetry smackdown.

Art is not a competition.

Only this is not true. Art absolutely is a competition; it's a brutal, bloodbath of a contest. But best of all? You've won. Yes. You. Nope, not she, they, or he, not the other schmucks reading this. You. You're reading this for a reason, and one reason alone. It's because you, my friend, are the champion. You would keep on fighting until the end, but this simply isn't necessary. The end is already here, and it is here because you won. You have officially won art. You're simply the best. Better, in fact, than all the rest. Everyone else can just pack up and go home because you have completed the game, beaten every single boss level.

How does it feel? Once you get to the top, you realize there is nothing there, or so the old saying goes. Well, not true for you, friend, because you've reached the top and it is excellent. You have climbed to the summit of art, and now you cast your victorious gaze and survey all that lies before you, over at the many you have defeated along the way. Their heads will hang mighty fine on your dining room wall (they won't be dead and decapitated of course, that would just be weird. No, they will just kneel and insert their heads through head-shaped holes in the wall whenever you're dining.)

At risk of laboring to the point, you won art, and the crown and cape of victory suit you mighty fine. However, the race for second place is heating up, and @poetrysmackdown is here to provide the competition. 

[germanysnexttopgedicht]

Genug Menschen (5) haben Interesse an einem deutschen poetrysmackdown bekundet, also: Reicht eure Lieblingsgedichte ein!

Zeitrahmen ist erstmal eine Woche, also bis zum 01.08.2023! Viel Spaß :)

[soracities]

not partaking in the poetrysmackdown but watching the absolute drama unfold from the benches has been a ride and a half

[mishafletcher]

ok but honestly, the thing that turns me most into a baby boomer dad watching sports is looking at @poetrysmackdown

me, sitting in the office, eating lunch, looking at round two and absolutely screaming WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS FUCKING WEBSITE, HOW'D YOU MESS THAT ONE UP, I WILL FUCKING KILL EVERY LAST ONE OF US

like. the orange?? THE ORANGE?? the fucking orange beat the tenor of your yes?? how to be a dog beat scheherazade???? how to be a dog beat richard fucking silken?? i'm OUTRAGED, i am incandescent with fury and literally yelling at my computer.

IT WAS AN EASY SHOT. JUST TAKE THE SHOT. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU. THIS IS THE GAY YEARNING WEBSITE, PULL YOUR SHIT TOGETHER AND GET YOUR HEAD IN THE GAME ugh i am so MAD

[violentdevotion]

I need to start seeing certifications and degrees from people voting on the poetrysmackdown tournament

[poetrysmackdown]

hey just checking - are u going to be doing the sequel on the same blog (poetrysmackdown)? bc most of the time i unfollow poll blogs after the polls are over (as they're usually dead by then anyways)

yes sequel will be on the same blog! won't be for a couple months though

[looktoyourkingdomz]

love that every single time a match from a bracket blog takes off, we instantly get subjected to the worst takes known to man. and also the boring surface level one wins

[lesbianjudasiscariot]

my biggest shame in life is accidentally voting for meditations in an emergency... to the young who want to die you gotta believe me it was an accident i love you