#prelim

[transistoradio]

Frank Frazetta, “Deina” (1973), first published in Dow Elements Magazine, vol. 1, no. 3 — preliminary and final art.

[yen-sids-tournament]

The Disney Silent Characters Preliminary Round

Propaganda below:

The Great Prince of the Forest:

Yes he has one or two lines in the movie but he's most known for the magnitude of his sheer presence. The whole field falls into a reverent hush the moment he arrives, due to his almost divine regalness. Without a word he is able to reflect just how prominent he is. I kniw he technically has like 2 speaking lines, but he shows up a bunch of times and is silent in almost all of them. His silence and the other creatures all becoming silent near him was always a big draw for me as a child because it was so different.

Gruff

He’s a cute and cool beast who wakes up every 1,000 years in order to save Neverland from a horrendous storm.

Sultan (the Footstool)

Comedy!

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Mark Schultz

[oldhagtournament]

Preliminary Round - Group B

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Reiko

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Ahab

She's a gaslighting old hag with a voice actor putting their entire soul into the performance.

i support women's wrongs

Imagine if they took captain Ahab from Moby Dick, trans’d his gender, and then made her an even worse person who gaslights her crew constantly into sacrificing themselves for her cause.

ME WHEN WOMEN WHO COMMIT ATROCITIES!!!! IN THE WHALE!!!!!

[tomoleary]

Ed Hannigan Fantastic Four #244 Cover Prelim (1982) Source

John Byrne’s final cover. Colorist uncredited.

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Prelims, Vote 8 of 8

The top 5 finales will move on to be included in the main bracket

Propaganda is under the cut, may include spoilers

Brooklyn Nine-Nine - 8.09 / 8.10 The Last Day

It just... season 8 had been so bad as a whole, it attempted to touch on the blm movement and did it in an okay at best way and in the wake of it all, i think a lot of people just weren't here for cop shows. The finale tried to bring the magic back with one last heist and it did pull out all the stops but I don't know, it just left me feeling really cold. And the ending being that even though the main character wasn't a cop anymore, that he would return to the station every year for the heist... it just never escapes the cop narrative even after he's left.

Chén Qíng Lìng/The Untamed - Episode 50

I nominate this final on grounds of CCP information control, censorship and homophobia. They were so scared of the power of wangxian that they ended up banning ao3 in china and in the show they have to inexplicably have them part ways just to hammer home the no-homo. Plus the show is just kind of objectively bad.... but it rewires your brain all the same

Community - 6.13 Emotional Consequences of Broadcast Television

ok i haven’t watched it in a while but it wasn’t the episode’s fault this show had been going downhill for a while. The finale put it out of its misery mostly.

Kyle XY - 3.10 Bringing Down the House

The writers knew they were getting canceled and chose to raise more questions than answers and set up cliffhangers, rather than have a satisfying end. I'm sure it was a last ditch effort to save the show, but it didn't work and now it's just a bad finale.

Northern Exposure - 6.22 Let's Dance / 6.23 Tranquility Base

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Ozark - 4.14 A Hard Way to Go

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Soul Eater - 1.51 The Word Is Bravery!

ugh god it just gave up on any attempt at character development or the ending of the story in any meaningful way. instead of a complex universe journey exploring her bond with soul, and death the kid becoming the new god of death, maka just...wins the day by 'being brave', extremely underwhelming and borderline nonsensical

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - 7.25 / 7.26 What You Leave Behind

Man so okay like it’s not the worst worst one out there but man they really just fuckikg did that. Found family all went and spread themselves across the quadrant with the head of the show the leader, Captain Benjamin Sisko who really just wanted to live on Bajor, got turned into an incorporeal being who could no longer live a linear life while his wife and unborn child had to go on without him. They didn’t even have him saying goodbye to his actual son. His literal son did not get a goodbye, they only gave that to Kasidy, and no hate to Kasidy, she’s my girl, but she’s only been there for three year while his actual son Jake sisko was still basically a kid. He was like 19, 20 and no goodbye fork his dad he’s lost time and time again. Some characters got a satisfying ending but then Julian Bashir is left to stay on deep space nine supposedly still in love with Ezri Dax and together (but let’s be honest, it was a terrible forced decision. They made no sense, and had no chemistry) and still stuck without moving forward or changing. Like what a cop out. Not to mention the terrible cgi fire caves where literally gods got thrown into a fire pit and that was the big climax

[arielaguire]

GHOST RIDER/WOLVERINE PRELIM SKETCH! Here's the initial rough idea I went with for my 2nd AP sketchcard from the Marvel Renditions Spidey set, featuring 2 of my all-time favorite characters! 😊

It was my first attempt at translating the image in my head to paper, and as soon as I did I got even more excited to start drawing the actual card itself!

This first step is simply to visualize and work out the poses and general layout (the 2nd little pencil Wolvie doodle on the top right was me deciding I should have Wolvie leaning further down). LFG!!🔥

[warwearyvillein]

Next week is looking fun

[treymeow]

trying to learn chinese when i have a spanish exam in five days

[accaliasmith]

Vet Journeys: Preliminary Year at Nottingham

Exams are finished, which has meant I've had a bit more time to put pen to paper (or hand to keyboard?) to put together a little reflection on this past year.

[yen-sids-tournament]

Wedding Dress Prelim Poll: Say 'Yes' to a Bride and her Dress.

You have one vote--make it count. There are 7 spots, the bottom 3 will be eliminated. If there happens to be a tie, that's an additional spot squeezed in.

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Wally Wood

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Preliminary Round - Group B

Propaganda under the cut

The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home

She’s a faceless old woman who secretly lives in your home! She’ll know if we don’t vote for her!

Marcia Roy

Cutthroat milf. Thrived in a white man's desperate degenerate world.

[invincible-selfxmade-punk]

Drawing eyes in a mask is hard

[episodeoftv]

Prelims, Vote 1 of 8

The top 4 finales will move on to be included in the main bracket

Propaganda is under the cut, may include spoilers

Agent Carter - 2.10 Hollywood Ending

Just as Peggysous became canon, just as Jack is about to start his redemption arc, they cancelled the show and left all of us on a massive cliffhanger for, let's see, almost 8 years at this point. We need ANSWERS.

Daybreak - 1.10 FWASH-BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

It was written as a cliffhanger for a second season that would never come, but it just felt flat. The one objective that our leading lad (Josh) had been chasing (saving Sam) was rendered pointless, because the moment the big bad was defeated she effectively declared herself the new big bad and everyone who wasn't a major character went 'hmmm, okay!' And accepted it! They didn't even address this all that well, just ended with a shot of the MCs looking shocked.

Doctor Who - 12.10 The Timeless Children

this finale is shit!! absolute ass! nothing happens in it for it to justify having such a cool name. the master captures the doctor, shows her a slideshow that amounts to ‘‘you’re adopted!! :)" doctor breaks out of her matrix prison thing by overloading it with memories when the matrix is The Supercomputer and it’s used to hold all memories of all time lords ever? you know, the species whove been doing their thing for a billion years and live up to 10,000 years? the doctors new memories should either already be there or make nary a dent in it. the doctor’s like ‘‘why would they do that! why would they lie?’’ girl they have been lying to you since forever. they killed you once. theyve tried to kill you so many times. they turned you into a fucked up anti time monster that one time. one of the doctors past past selves even told her it doesnt really matter!! what was even the point

Loki - 1.06 For All Time. Always.

The series was going downhill past Episode 3 tbh, but it really just was a load of crap only interested in setting up the multiverse

Tales of Arcadia - Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans

This finale undoes everything the show worked for. In order to give itself stakes it kills off a few characters, but in a way that only indirectly impacts the MCs (such as Jim's Mom's fiancé getting killed). Then, at the end of the special, the main character uses time travel to go back to the start of S1E01 and changed history so he never becomes the trollhunter. Instead he makes his next friend the trollhunter instead. In terms of anticipation it was not at all what anyone was anticipating. (I had assumed he'd go to the start of the special and defeat the titans without any casualties). Having undone time only he remembers the previous timestream and he makes no effort to engage with it outside of accepting his changeling principal far sooner.

Ted Lasso - 3.12 So Long, Farewell

This trash ass finale undid three seasons of character development for every single person involved (except Nate!). A long-distance parent returned "home" despite having no attachments besides his child and leaving behind his entire found family, an abused and neglected woman was left behind by the person who taught her she didn't deserve abuse and neglect, and two characters who spent the whole show learning to cooperate and care for each other got into a fistfight over the girl they both dated.

Torchwood - 3.05 Day Five

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