#the submitted 3.0

[ultimate-poll-tournament]

current submitted tournaments for 3.0 part 1

* means they participated in either 1.0 or 2.0

! means they need submissions

^ means they finished at least one bracket

@icerosesummerbracket

@ultimate-soup-showdown ?

@starcircuitultimatebracket

@fantasticfrogfacedown * ^

@super-shapeshifter-showdown

@obscure-skirmish *

@best-kirby-character-tournament * ^

@graveyard-gambit-tournament * ^

@themiiofalltime *

@dreamperson-poll

@tournament-winners-tournament

@turtletourney

@insanepoll *

@battlebotschampionshiptournament

@machinimatournament

@beautiful-boy-bracket * ^

@kept-in-the-dark-competition

@ut-side-character-showdown

@sans-au-war-ii *

@bestfictionaldivorce *

@grillby-au-showdown ^

@bestdeltarunetournament

@undertale-ost-bracket ^

@wc-bracket * ^

@worstutfanonthingpoll *

@its-to-the-death

@divorced-tournament

@ultcrackshipskirmish *

@worstutcanonthingpoll !

@chuunibyou-showdown * ^

@best-undertale-song

@undertaleflavortextshowdown *

@fair-ut-character-battle *

@sanslookalikepoll !

@bestundertaleaupoll !

@bestutactpoll

@bestutcannonthing !

@bestutfanonpoll

[probablybadrpgideas]

@maniculum

This was my Christmas present to myself in 2020. I don’t know if it’s weird or just excessive, but I love this thing. It’s a solid metal d100 that I’m legitimately scared to actually roll — I generally give it a small, gentle roll, with my other hand ready to block it if it looks like it might fall or hit something. It’s heavy enough that I think it’d dent furniture or break something otherwise.

Normal d20 next to it for scale. Making a cameo here is the d20 from the set of sparkly dice that came with my very first Player’s Handbook, back in the 3.0 days.

(oh hey i have one of these bad boys, but it's rainbow - Paper)

@tiikerikani I see somebody already submitted their Dungeon Crawl Classics dice, so this pic includes some of those and other stuff too.

There's also this double-sided coin you spin like a top

@autisticwolfesbrainisautistic Saw an ad here on Tumblr for rgb dice and a charging case. All I can think about is someone blaming bad rolls on having forgotten to charge their dice

[critter-creature-or-beast]

By Nhobgood (talk) Nick Hobgood - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0

Submitted for classification by anonymous, who requested "any kind of sponge."

[soekmatthew]

Proposing a reform on Alpha/Beta/Omega dynamics!

An essay on why we should reformulate the often misguided interpretations on each secondary gender.

In this essay I will debate the absence of personality often assigned to Beta's secondary gender, the inherent nature of violence that shouldn't exclusively be attributed to Alphas, and how deeply we can explore the aspects of Omega's biology in fiction, furthering its visions from the deep rotted misogyny implicated in these matters.

(remember this is a joke, you can create your ficverse and works however you'd like)

1.0 THE BETA ISSUE

The beta role in an a/b/o society is pushed towards the sense of "normality", betas normally aren't that phased by their nature. This is fitting, although the lack of complexity deposited onto its concepts led a creator to create variations of betas that aren't really necessary.

I propose that betas have pheromones that emit a scent genetically structured to be smelled by a specific type of group, regardless of their secondary gender, people who are able to scent betas pheromones have a variation in their olfactory-receptor genes and allow them to strongly perceive their scents. (this happens irl, with cilantro tasting like soap or some people being able to smell cockroaches)

It would solve the beta complex and wouldn't necessarily affect the whole structural alpha/omega naturally based relationship.

2.0 THE ALPHA MATTER

It is easy to antagonize alphas, and I do believe it is crucial for it to be antagonized, given how the discourse towards alpha aggression can create well built debates approximated to human reality. But it also can spice up some debates on a lot of more interesting matters other than hierarchy and dominance.

"Soft-alphas" was a term designed to fit in the alphas that are able to somehow "contain" their inner wolf, on contrary to "normal alphas" that are aggressive and excessively dominant.

Of course, as fun as it is to explore this concept, it's not necessary to give them this title, it thins the discussions that can be made upon this type of characteristics on alphas.

It is easy to explore the topics around an alpha considered "defective", and give them the capacity to have more and more deepness, an alpha who doesn't feel protective despite their love towards their omegas and needs to learn how to stimulate its natural instincts, an alpha who was forced to submit and therefore had their alpha contained to a point it needs healing and an exercise in dominance!! Fun aspects of an inverted container of the morality based alpha corrections often seen around the fic community.

I propose more and more diversity and complexity around alphas, seeing them fight their instincts is fun, but it would also be fun to see them fight for their need to have the same instincts that antagonizes them.

3.0 THE OMEGA DEBATE

There is a lot of discourse around omegas, especially when people simplify them as "the woman of a/b/o society".

Although understandably fitting for the time it was developed, it is still a conception most people have and has grown outdated.

It also created a movement to fight against this idea, that has empowered omegas, but the lack of consistency fails to impress. For example, in this case, it doesn't matter how much of a rebel omega the character is, they will still "fail" their morals and submit to an alpha.

I know you guys can do better!

What is better than an inner monologue on why your nature is failing your mundane conceptions? Better than that what's more revolutionary than being able to mend your instincts and ideas?

The nature of an omega is vast and instinctually more prone to aggression than most alphas! Omegas protect and go feral over their offsprings! Explore it more!

And make omegas also be proud of their nature, instead of simply making them disgusted by it without backgrounding their stories! (i mean, if they have traumas associated with their secondary genders it is obvious and expected for them to hate it).

Omegas can be hard creatures to deal with, omegas can reject their offsprings scent for example, give them hardships dudes! It will be fun!

A/B/O is fun, and I LOVE TRADITIONAL A/B/O SO MUCH! but we can do more justice at least to betas :3

(this is literally a joke in case someone hates me for it)

[rhas-writes]

Intelligent Encounters - Il Dottore x Reader

Possible Spoilers! for 3.0 Ardravi Valley - Zandik's Legacy

Warning! Dottore and his disregard for human life

| Content? Fluff, hurt/comfort, reverse hurt/comfort, slight angst. | Format? A long drabble? I never know how to categorize these. | Pronouns? You/Your. | Relationship? Up to you. |

Context: Fallen Archon Reader - Tldr; Reader is very smart and has seen lots of Teyvat's history but has forgotten most of it.

Context: Assumes Dottore is Zandik (link to fandom wiki on his character summary).

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Young!Dottore who crumples paper after paper, ruby eyes narrowing at the walls as he curses the Sages for their insolence.

Rejecting his thesis purely on the notion of it being longer than a thousand words is absurd. How is he supposed to put a cap on such genius?

In the midst of spouting ruthless threats to the Grand Sage for enforcing such a ridiculous rule, precise knocks sound from his door. He grimaces opening it, far too many insults readied on the tip of tongue. However, he clams up a little at the senior greeting him from the other side.

"Sharnama."

The older man politely nods in greeting, eyes far too tired to be open at this hour of night.

"Wh-"

"The Group of Daeva. You have heard of them, yes?"

The young scholar nods with pinched brows. The Group of Daeva is a supposed group of scholars that anonymously submit research to the Sages. But they're only an urban legend, so why bring them up?

"I am in contact with a few of their members and passed along your recent thesis proposal."

Before Dottore could spew his thoughts on carelessly sharing his work, the worn out man holds out a rolled parchment.

"There has yet to be a Daeva paper rejected by the Sages. I suggest you accept their revisions."

Sharnama leaves Dottore without another word, simultaneously solving the scholar's problem while creating a dozen more.

-

It takes Young!Dottore an obscene amount of time to track down his mentor's contact.

First it was Sharnama refusing to share any confirmed information about the Group of Daeva. Then it was finding and meeting many scholars who claim to be part of the group but after one conversation it's clear they do not have such academic prowess. Then it was getting railroaded by his teachers because they thought "he wasn't spending enough time on his research." The list goes on.

But he's finally managed to secure a line of communication with the group. Best of all, he's meeting one of their members tonight.

Young!Dottore who waits bouncing on the balls of his feet in anticipation. Oh the amount of questions he has for this unprepared individual. How many of you are there? Why publish anonymously? How do you publish anonymously while wearing an Akasha Terminal? Why do the Sages allow the group to exist?

His whirling thoughts come to a halt as a shadow falls across his shoes. A traveler, one that couldn't be any older than him - perhaps a few years younger, meets his imploring gaze.

-

Young!Dottore who perks up as his name falls from your lips. The unfamiliar cluster of butterflies he's slowly becoming accustomed to bristles at your fleeting touches. Research no longer takes up all of his mind for it has made room for you.

If someone had told him he'd experience such feelings he'd think them madder than himself. He's only ever felt something while pursuing knowledge.

His ecstatic cheers and grins were reserved for breakthroughs in his research. They aren't shared over other accomplishments or with other people. His ceaseless thoughts were filled with what ifs and what could be. They don't wander aimlessly about your likes and dislikes. He's soon to complete his first thesis paper, his feelings should be trivial compared to such an achievement.

Yet...they're not.

You're not.

-

Young!Dottore who you know as the slightly off the rails scholar Zandik. He is unique in every sense of the word. His crazed and often blasphemous spewings push people away but you can't help but be drawn in.

Like a moth to a flame, his ambition shines bright. His intellect is sharper than his piercing scarlet gaze. In all your recollection, you have never met someone quite like him.

There is an immediate bond when you first meet, one only made between like minds. A bond you haven't had since the betrayal that cost your life as an archon. But even then, Zandik understands you. He gets you in a way no other being has.

When you accidentally fall into a long tangent criticizing a Vahumana article on the many evildoings of the Scarlet King based on recently discovered ruins, Zandik doesn't listen just to placate your feelings, he listens because he sees you're making a valid point. He builds off your argument, poking and prodding at possible holes and the two of you spend the night debating the authenticity of scholarly conclusions on past civilizations.

Something dark and sinister brews within Zandik. He's swift to reel in its rare occurrence, but you know it's there. Even before meeting him, you knew it was there. His rejected thesis easily gave it away. He cares little for anything outside of himself. Everything is just a means to and end for his research. He desires only the answers to his endless questions.

But who are you to chastise him? After all, don't you desire the same?

-

Young!Dottore who bares all of himself to you in the light of the rising sun. It comes after weeks of not seeing him and days of him not sleeping.

He barges into your quaint abode, almost receiving a knife to the chest if not for his familiar ramblings. Ah, that's right. You had given him a key - should he need anything, he can find help in you.

He drags you through the forest by the wrist, hushing any protest from you with an excited grin. It's an easy but out of the way path, one that he's walked a countless number of times.

It's at a disguised entrance at the end of a shallow cave where he stops. Caught in the rush of finally overcoming his most difficult project yet, he didn't think about what he was doing. Not once did he question why he was running to find you. The want. The need. To show you his success was a far too natural instinct for him to ignore.

For the first time in his life, Zandik feels the crippling pressure of fear root him to the ground. What if you report him to the Sages for this? What if this goes beyond your morals? What if you want nothing to do with him after this?

Darkness creeps to the edges of his vision, thoughts tunneling in a way they've never done before. He doesn't want to lose you. He can't lose you.

"-ik? Zandik?"

Your free hand clasps around his while the other stays in his tight grip.

"Zandik, you look awful. Is this where you've been? You need to take better care of yourself, at least the bare minimum."

Anyone else's voice would have been nails on a chalk board. But yours is an exception. Perhaps that's what it's always been. You as the exception. The uncontrollable variable.

Wordlessly his fingers intertwine with yours and he leads you to his biggest secret.

A barely lit cave with only the bare minimum to call it a lab. Papers and chalk boards haphazardly strewn about. The odd combination of damp soil and artificial cleaner wrinkles your nose. But at the center of it all is a child scribbling with crayons.

The matching hues of blue hair, pale skin, and scarlet eyes is unmistakable. You've heard Zandik complain about how he wishes there were more of him, how he could get so much more done. But it was never more than that.

"Is this...what I think it is?"

His hand grips yours, afraid that you'll run.

"This is just the beginning. The replication of human beings is a mere stepping stone to what I truly think is possible."

He turns to you, eyes burning into yours with fervor.

"Think about it, the sanctity of the gods because they hold some great power is foolish. Humans are adaptable. They can have endless potential given the right circumstances. I believe one can become a god, perhaps even greater than. And I know I will achieve this in the future, today is proof of that."

You can feel the rapid thrums of his heartbeat, the blood rushing through his veins. You can feel the determination in every word he speaks. It's familiar. It's exhilarating. It's ambition.

Pure uninhibited ambition radiates from him in tidal waves. It cradles you with blazing flames that sears your skin. The sensation was once forgotten but it reaches your chest and blooms the memories from long ago.

Home. Everything in this moment reminds you of the home you built upon the cruelest lands the earth had to offer.

His skin is cool to the touch as you cup his face.

"Then do it. If this is your goal, reach it."

-

It's been a few months since he's shown you his true self and Young!Dottore could not be happier about the outcome.

He didn't think it was possible to grow so close to a person, to need someone so desperately. He works so much better with you around - he has a chart on it and everything. His efficiency, productivity, everything goes up when he's with you.

Life is smooth sailing for him. His experiments are progressing accordingly. He's on the last parts of his second thesis and he's sure it will pass the academic review. Even his body is in reasonable health, thanks to your constant reminders.

Oh, but how quickly the winds change and the tides turn.

It's in his little slice of heaven that your hell appears.

-

Young!Dottore who plans a stargazing picnic and comes prepared to debate its celestial existence. Truth be told, he's noticed you've been a little off lately and hopes this will prove a helpful distraction.

Dinner is unusually quiet as Zandik tries to fill the empty space for two. You're distant and hardly touch the food.

"What's wrong with you?"

The words themselves seem harsh but his tone is soft and laced with concern. He's never been good or decent with emotions but he's trying.

"I-"

A somber torrent of conflict fills your eyes as your mouth opens and closes. Zandik waits with bated breath, his hand reaching yours, imploring you to continue.

"It was tonight."

Every instinct of self-preservation tells you to stop. Celestia erased your existence. Even the Irminsul has forgotten you. But you can't. You can't keep it in anymore. A hundred years of masquerading, of secrecy, of acting ignorant and trying to find so many answers.

It's all too much. And finally, finally, there's someone who has understood everything else about you. So maybe, just maybe, he'll believe what you have to say.

"They killed me this very night."

Layers upon layers of walls come tumbling down as you spill your true identity. Zandik listens intently, his arms holding your shaking body.

Everything you say should be music to his ears. Once you regain all your memories, you'll be an endless pool of knowledge - one far easier to deal with than the Akasha System. Archaic relics, automatons, long lost languages, surely you must hold even the thinnest sliver of information on them. Beyond all this, you're a perfect specimen to dissect.

And yet.

The thought of slicing your flesh raises bile in his throat. He feels an anger with cruel intensity course through his veins. His ice cold heart squeezes as your tears coat soak past his shirt. He couldn't care less about people's feelings but seeing your pain awakens an unruly beast in him.

Zandik pulls you impossibly closer, teeth gritting against each other. His breath is hot against your neck as he speaks so lowly you're not sure you were supposed to hear it.

"Those cretin had no forethought in disposing of such an intelligent and exquisite creature. Together, we will find every answer we seek. No knowledge shall be out of our grasps."

-

If only either of you knew what the words each of you spoke would lead to.

---

Requests? Critiques? Share your thoughts!

Published: 09 October 2022

[ro2sid]

An Imperial Radch Fanzine Interest Form

Please click here to access the form to indicate your interest in submitting to the 10th anniversary Imperial Radch zine.

Due to Life, this form is releasing about one month late. Apologies for this, the brain has been quite uncooperative.

On the other hand, Translation State is out!! This is so exciting!!!!!!!!

On the third hand, please click below for the Google form to indicate your interest. The submission guidelines and general summary are in the form, and you can also read them below.

The year 2023 marks the 10th anniversary of the publication of Ann Leckie's debut novel, Ancillary Justice, as well as the publication of her new novel in the Radch universe, Translation State. In anticipation of this anniversary, we wish to release a fanmade zine to celebrate all of Leckie's work in this universe - the Imperial Radch trilogy, Provenance, and Translation State. The zine is expecting to accept submissions until Aug. 15, barring unforeseen circumstances. This form is an interest check to determine logistics for zine publication. The zine Tumblr will post a submissions form shortly - currently planned around June 15. Any zine-related questions should be directed to ancillaryzine@gmail[.]com or Ro2SID.tumblr.com for zine-related matters. If you have received no reply in about 48 hours, please contact me directly at sauronthegreat@gmail[.]com (yes, really), or tree#0597 on Discord. Please note that I am not in a North American time zone, which will affect response times. As Discord is rolling out changes to its name system, the best way to get in touch with me on that platform is on the fan-run discord server for Ann Leckie's work, Radchdome 3.0, the link to which can be found here: https://discord.gg/WAF8uv9f3k. My display name on that server will be tree. Submission Guidelines: The 10th anniversary zine will be a celebration of the Imperial Radch trilogy and its standalone sequels. The key criteria for submissions are appreciation and affection for the original work. These do not need to be uncritical, and respectful critiques of the work are important and welcome. This does not mean that the zine will not accept shitposts. It only means that the zine will not accept submissions that are apathetic to the original work. If you would like to submit a series of poems about how Breq is like a duck, we look forward to it.

The zine editor(s) are not currently equipped to handle certain topics due to their sensitive nature. These include sexual assault, child abuse, and suicide/suicidal ideation. Unfortunately this is not an extensive list of sensitive topics we will not be able to handle, but it is our best attempt based on our editor(s) boundaries. 

The original work deals with sensitive themes, some of which appear in our list and we do not wish to discourage exploration of them. Submissions that deal with these topics will not be rejected out-of-hand, but instead will be dealt with care. The zine welcomes NSFW work under the same guidelines.

[rahleeyah]

Thanks to that set I am also thinking now about how bad Olivia is at going undercover. Oregon? She might as well have been running around with her badge in her hand she could not stop acting/thinking like a cop for five fucking seconds. She wasn't even a tiny bit believable. Local pd spotted her in a second and the hippies were side eyeing her the whole time. In sealview?? Oh my God. Terrible. She couldn't put her righteous indignation down for one minute; she knew she didn't belong there, that the guards didn't have any real power over her, and she never submitted to the harsh reality of the circumstances bc it wasn't her harsh reality.

And to be clear this is not a criticism, I actually think it's a really interesting piece of character work. Elliot loves going undercover (established in 1.0 and then explored in 3.0) he loves trying on different lives he loves a bit of theater he loves running away from his responsibilities, from himself. And Liv, who is a little lonely and maybe a little unhappy and whose background is so fraught with grief, who maybe has just as much reason to want to run away from herself as Elliot does, can't. She is so completely herself she doesn't know how to be anything else. She doesn't even seem to want to be anything else, even when given the opportunity. And that was established in s1, wasn't it, when she sits down with the shrink and can't answer the question of what she'd do if it wasn't this. She doesn't know how to be anything other than what she is. She is afraid of not being what she is.

And isn't that in part why she's so afraid of loving Elliot? She doesn't know how to be someone he loves.

[the-babygirl-polls]

Babygirl Polls Lineup: Week Five

Hey everyone, here is the lineup for Week Five of the Babygirl Polls! Thanks to everyone who submitted a character!

Doug Rattmann (Portal)

Sol (Warrior Cats)

He Who Gets Slapped (He Who Gets Slapped)

Yu Junghyeok/Yoo Joonghyuk (Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint)

Reinhardt/Valier Jr. (Demon Prince Goes to the Academy)

Viktor (Arcane)

The Shadowplayer (Warning Shadows)

Nardole (Doctor Who)

Dan Hibiki (Street Fighter)

Jaime Reyes/Blue Beetle (DC Comics)

Enjolras (Les Miserables)

Rumpelstiltskin/Mr. Gold (Once Upon A Time)

The Master (Doctor Who)

Jesse Pinkman (Breaking Bad)

Dani Rojas (Ted Lasso)

Amelia Hughes (Infinity Train)

Martin Septim (The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion)

Dirk Gently (Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency)

Future Leonardo (Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

Leonard "Bones" McCoy (Star Trek)

Saitama (One Punch Man)

Dale Jennings (The Newsreader)

Soldier/Jane Doe (Team Fortress 2)

William Afton (Five Nights at Freddy's (2023))

Stu Macher (Scream)

Luigi (Mario)

Meta Knight (Kirby)

Papyrus (Undertale)

Shaggy (Scooby Doo)

Astarion Ancunin (Baldur's Gate 3)

Makoto Kagutsuchi (Master Detective Archives: Raincode)

Sauron/Annatar (Silmarillion)

Sydney Carton (A Tale of Two Cities)

Yasper Lennov (The Afterparty)

Hannah Minnows (The Afterparty)

Travis Bickle (Taxi Driver (1976))

Michael Corleone (The Godfather Trilogy)

Winslow Leach (Phantom of the Paradise)

Luis Serra Navarro (Resident Evil 4 remake)

Rune Saint John (The Tarot Sequence series)

Zakuro (Marikinonline4)

Gou Kirimi (Marikinonline4)

Recurser (Friday Night Funkin vs. Dave and Bambi 3.0)

Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)

Basil (Omori)

Giygas (Mother)

Galo Thymos (Promare)

Joo Yeo-Jeong (The Glory)

Ken (Barbie)

Crosshair (The Bad Batch)

[traegorn]

The BS-Free Witchcraft Podcast: 60. Doubt is Good.

This month we’re talking about a very important concept: doubt. There are times when we question our beliefs and our witchcraft, and why that’s a good thing. Blind faith never helped anyone, and can actively harm you.

Remember! Our Annual Q&A Episode is coming up in July! Make sure you submit your questions and comments here before July 10, 2023 to make sure we get them in time!

(And, of course, don’t forget this show is part of the Nerd & Tie Podcast Network, and funded by listeners like you via Patreon. Consider joining our Discord!)

Music: “So I Said It,” “The Man With One Eye,” “Untitle Nonsense” (Trae Dorn) / Random Loops (Apple Music Library) / “Spinning Monkeys” (Kevin MacLeod / incompetech.com – Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

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[tanadrin]

More World of ArdaCraft patch notes

Version history for 1.0

Version history for 2.X

PATCH 3.0 - “THE THIRD AGE”

Welcome to World of ArdaCraft 3.0: The Third Age!

Player factions and super-guilds are now automatically disbanded if they control no territory. This means that some player factions, like “MordoR,” no longer exist. These factions can be re-created if contested territory that once belonged to them is reconquered.

Feudal sub-realms have been implemented. Feudal sub-realms offer a way for player realms to grow even larger, but unhappy Feudal realms can rebel, or simply cease to acknowledge their overlords. If the rebellion last long enough, they will become independent.

New classes are available, including Loremaster, Horse-Lord, Corsair, and Wild Man.

The prestige class “Wizard” has been made available to players who meet its requirements.

The prestige class “Ulairi” has been made available to players who meet its requirement.

The prestige class “Hideous Thing Slumbering Beneath the Mountains” has been made available to players who meet its requirements.

These classes are intentionally difficult to unlock and will likely only ever be available to a few players at a time.

New players looking for a gentler introduction to the PVP zones of Middle-Earth may wish to start in Lothlorien, Arnor, Gondor, Ithilien, Greenwood, Arnor, or Imladris.

PATCH 3.1 - “NORTHERN REALMS” UPDATE

Arnor is no longer on our “Recommended Starting Zones” list on the website.

We can confirm that player “witchk1ing” was indeed forced to change his name from his previous handle, as it contained a banned string.

Ithilien is no longer on our “Recommended Starting Zones” list on the website.

Players engaging in PVP in the Arnor super-zone should be advised that if they continue indiscriminate killing of NPCs, subzones, and even player territory, may be rendered depopulated, and therefore “abandoned,” under the PVP zone control system. Then only strange dark things which dwell in the ruins will haunt these lost cities random spawns will occur, and the zone will be avoided by traveling NPCs.

PATCH 3.2 - “ECONOMY BALANCE PATCH 2″

To accommodate the increased player activity in the area and numerous requests we have received, the central part of the Arthedain zone has been split off as a new zone centered around various Halfling player settlements. It currently has a placeholder name, “The Shire.” Recommendations for the new zone name can be submitted via the website!

We have received complaints about the Halfling players in the Shire ganking all “big folk” who stray over its borders. *~*Emergent Gameplay*~*

In their quest for epic loot, the Dwarves of Khazad-Dum delved too greedily and too deep, awakening a nameless terror from ancient days which has claimed the city for its own.

Allegations that we bribed a Balrog player from 1.0 to log back in and trash the place because it was causing massive server-wide gold inflation are simply untrue, and those who repeat them may be cast into the outermost dark banned.

Dwarf players are reminded they still have Erebor to hang out in.

Due to ongoing ganking in the southern part of the zone, we are tweaking the Greenwood zone to warn away unwary players. It is now called “Mirkwood.” Random spawns have been changed to reflect that fact. Hope you like spiders!

PATCH 3.3 - “ECONOMY BALANCE PATCH 3″

We regret that Erebor has also fallen victim to inflation control a monstrous horror from the First Age a PVP incident.

At least you still have... the Iron Hills? To be honest, we haven’t been over there in a while.

The abandoned subzone “Orthanc” has been claimed by the “WiseGuys” player faction.

While the ganking incidents in Mirkwood have died down thanks to the intervention of the WiseGuys, we have no plans at this time to revert the zone.

PATCH 3.3 NEWS UPDATE

Congrats to “Thorin” and his raid on reconquering Erebor! We’re so... thrilled. This won’t break the in-game economy that we spent months trying to fix, or anything

We are currently investigating nerfing the shit out of the Halfling race. Don’t @ us, he pickpocketed a dragon.

Player “Balin” is off to Moria to try to repeat this success. We wish him the best of luck.

PATCH 3.4 - “WAR IN MIDDLE-EARTH”

Due to heavy player activity in the zones Ithilien, Gorgoroth Plateau, Nurn, Rhun, Near Harad, and Eastern Gondor, we’ve pushed some hotfixes that should improve stability and handling of large battles.

To absolutely no one’s surprise, the “MordoR” player faction has reoccupied their old haunts, and “Saur0n” has logged back in to, I quote, “fuck up those cucks who stole my ring.” We remind player “Saur0n” to abide by the Community Guidelines, and also that we can always ban him again.

We’re testing out a new Alliances feature that should let player factions coordinate in PVP over much larger areas, potentially including whole continents. Please report any issues you find on the bug tracker.

PATCH 3.4 NEWS UPDATE

Orc players are reminded that player “Galadri3l” has been in the game since beta, has somehow managed to create her own personal Sim City smack dab in the middle of a PVP zone, and wields an unknown number of ancient artifacts of unspeakable power; and they should probably stay well away from Lothlorien as a result.

The Alliances feature has been a success, with a few hiccups. Currently some wars are not merging correctly, such as the war between player guild “HandOfSaruman” and player faction “Riders_of_rohan.” We’re looking into it.

Rumors that a small player group “killed a balrog” in Khazad-Dum are untrue. A small group of players did in fact escape from a Balrog. Player “Gandalf” solo’ed the Balrog. I believe his last words before he logged out were “gg scrub.” When he returns from wandering pathless regions out of time and memory logs back in we’ll talk to him.

PATCH 3.4 NEWS UPDATE 2

While Halfling players are perfectly welcome to cross-class into Warrior, we emphasize that Halfling are not designed to do this. Meme builds like this are not meant to be viable in PVP, so don’t complain if you find it’s underpowered. Cross-class Halfling Diplomat/Warrior is apparently broken as hell. We’re looking into it.

Player guild “HandOfSaruman” has been forcibly disbanded by player “Gandalf.”

The “Riders_of_rohan” should now be part in the wider “war of the ring,” since HandOfSaruman disbanding has negated the previous bug.

PATCH 3.4.1

We aplogize for the brief period of server instability yesterday. Players “frodo” and “sammy_boy” apparently discovered a corner case in the code to destroy the Artifact-tier [r1ng_of_ultimate_p0wer], which has also had the unusual effect of corrupting the database entry containing character data for player “Saur0n”‘s main, his primary guild, and his player faction. While apparently unintended, we have no ruled out that someone in the “Fellowship” guild has somehow acquired undue knowledge of the game’s inner workings and is exploiting it. The devs would like to remind all employees that using your employee position to get ahead in-game is a violation of both TOS and company rules.

We cannot “unban” Saur0n, because there’s nothing to unban. As far as our database is concerned, his account never existed.

Abuse of the “Oathbreaker” debuff on certain mobs allowing players to raise an army out of a forgotten age by claiming a defunct faction title has been hotfixed. We think. Crossing our fingers this one doesn’t come up again.

Despite the large number of player transfers to the Valinor server recently, we don’t plan to redistribute their loot and wealth to other players who choose to stay in Middle-Earth. Just this once, you can take it with you!

PATCH 3.4.2

We continue monitor the exodus of Elf characters.

Rumors of certain non-Elves being permitted into Valinor by the Valar are categorically false.

We’re looking into reports that Lothlorien is looking a bit... peaky.

By “you can take it with you,” we didn’t mean other players. The glitch allowing Dwarves to sneak into Valinor has been fixed.

PATCH 4.0

Due to backend improvements, we’re incrementing the version number.

World of ArdaCraft is going free to play this summer!

Yes, the first autumn in history has come in Lothlorien. Imladris is quieter now, too.

Your friends haven’t logged on in a while, have they?

PATCH 4.1

Then again, you log on less and less.

The old zones are still there, they’re just... different, now. Fewer people. The ones you do see rarely so much as /wave.

There’s some nostalgia to be had, for sure. Those old dungeons you ran. The raids you went on.

Funny, now, you can’t even remember the loot you were so excited for.

Mostly what you keep in your bags are mementos. Souvenirs of time spent with friends.

PATCH 4.2

One day you looked up and realized it had been a year and a half since the last time someone on your friends list logged in.

You just re-downloaded the game for the nostalgia hit.

The cities are mostly empty. Just NPCs standing around, repeating the same lines regularly into the air.

The world is still there, of course.

A great wondrous expanse teeming with possible adventures.

But somehow it just feels... kind of empty now.

PATCH 5.0

And time seems to move faster, the longer you’re away.

A non-gamer friend once asked you, if you regretted sinking so much time into a video game. After all, with that kind of /played time, you could have learned an instrument. A language. Gotten a degree. What did you do instead?

Well... you lived. In an alternate world, with strangers you would never meet, and you paid $15 a month for the privilege. But do you regret it?

Not really.

PATCH 6.0

There is a peculiar fondness and grief to be elicited, from seeing the places inhabited by friendship again, though they have not changed at all.

What has changed is what they mean to you.

They used to mean escapism and relaxation.

Now they mean that joy must be savored, because it is always fleeting.

Not even out of grief or the sharp unfairness of the world--though these things are very real also--but simply that the world is ever-changing. Life happens. You move on. You lose touch with people.

But how much sharper is the pain of loneliness! How much sharper the pain of not having to feel that lesser pain, because you never felt that bond in the first place.

No. You’re not imagining it. The ages are coming quicker now. All things speed toward their end. That’s just how the world works.

PATCH 7.0

It’s true that all joy will die, either in the shredder  or grief, or the way a childhood afternoon in summer doe, in relaxed exhaustion.

But so will all grief, too.

And thus in time may new joys succeed to old griefs, and on and on, until the stars burn out and the universe dissolves.

Unless there is a day of wrath to come a final storm of suffering and loss, which will cleanse the world and lead to paradise forever.

I do not think that day will come.

But you’re still logged in, aren’t you?

It’s just you and Tom Bombadil now.

PATCH ???

We will haunt unreal places, our minds pacing back and forth over these immaterial landscapes of vanished worlds, long after they became inaccessible to every sense but memory, as living ghosts in an unliving land. Will anything remember our world when it, too, has passed away?

[ultimate-poll-tournament]

current submitted tournaments for 3.0 part 4

* means they participated in either 1.0 or 2.0

! means they need submissions

^ means they finished at least one bracket

? means I haven't found their correct name

@fuckable-old-man-battle * ^

@multigenderswagbracket * !

@most-delicious-bugsnax-bracket *

@beststarwars ^

@tastypolls

@tmblrsfavshow

@battle-of-the-birds

@villain-championship *

@les-mis-guy-supreme ^

@aa-autistics-showdown

@hungry-guys-tourney * ^

@worst-room-tournament

@queer-ship-tournament ^

@school-of-all-time

@fictional-royals-tournament !

@a-dinosaur-a-day ^

@bestfictionaldivorce * ^

@character-of-all-time

@map-projection-showdown ^

@ultimate-poll-tournament (ME??) * ^ ...

@favcharacterpoll

@desi-character-tournament

@columbidaecontest

@pokemon-poll-party *

@tnt-tourney

@sillygirlpoll

@sillyboysmackdown

@catholic-character-tournament

@fuckablerobotbracket

@sonic-transmasc-swag-tourney

@fuckingstupidbracket

[jewbeloved]

South park Masterlist

South Park Masterlist 2.0

South Park Masterlist 3.0

South Park Masterlist 4.0

South Park Masterlist 5.0

South Park Masterlist 6.0

South Park Masterlist 7.0

Want to know where to watch south park? You can watch it here!

Here's more information about myself! (Old)

My discord account: FloatyKin#4919

Please read my request rules before you start submitting your ask.

Rules are under the cut!

Get to know me:

• I am Non-binary and Asexual!

• I am 17 yrds old!

• They/them, It/It's are my pronouns.

• I love playing Fun Run 3.

• I love south park, so that's why my blog is going to be filled with south park content

• Red, White, Green are my top priority colors!

• I have ADHD/Autism

• I am Christian

• I love video games, crafting/drawing, calm/upbeat music, and I am a dog person!

• My zodiac signs are; Aquarius and Capricorn!

• I am POC (Person of Color)

What I write:

❦ Fluff

❦ Angst

❦ Yandere

❦ Character x Reader

❦ Poly relationships

❦ Character x Character

❦ Headcanons

❦ Reader POVs

❦ Incorrect Quotes

❦ Mental disorders

What I don't write:

ツ R@p€

ツ Pedophile

ツ South park adults

ツ Nsfw (Im a minor)

ツ Matchups

Characters I write for:

💖 = Favorite to write.

❁ Stan Marsh - 💖

❁ Kyle Broflovski - 💖

❁ Eric Cartman - 💖

❁ Kenny Mccornmick

❁ Craig Tucker - 💖

❁ Clyde Donovan - 💖

❁ Token Black

❁ Tweek Tweak - 💖

❁ Jimmy Valmer - 💖

❁ Leopold "Butters" Stotch - 💖

❁ Damien Thorn

❁ Wendy Testaburger -💖

❁ Bebe Stevens - 💖

❁ Heidi Turner

❁ Timmy Burch - 💖

❁ Phillip 'pip" Pirrup 💖

How many characters I can write:

~ I can write up to 5 - 6 characters maximum!

~ Requests will be opened and closed as I write in my description of my blog or I just announce it through a post.

~ Have a nice day everybody <3

[critter-creature-or-beast]

Submitted for classification by anonymous.

Image by Richard Ling - Own work; Location: Cod Hole, Great Barrier Reef, Australia, CC BY-SA 3.0

[uraniumbunny]

**~ PROMPTING ~**

Time to write some prompts for the 2023 fest! Join out Discord server!

Prompts are submitted through a google form; you'll find the link in the #draco-ginny-fic-fest channel in the Exchanges category (link below), which will serve as the hub for fest rules and announcements. Stories will be posted on AO3.

Prompts can be as short as a few words or as long as a paragraph. You can submit as many prompts as you’d like during the prompting period as long as they are submitted one at a time. Submitting a prompt does NOT obligate you to write a story. Anyone can submit prompts whether they plan to participate as a writer or not! Prompts can be submitted using your name, username, or anonymously. If you need ideas or resources, you'll find plenty in the server different channels!

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THE DRACO/GINNY FIC FEST 3.0 - SUMMER 2023

**~ INFORMATION ~**

**WHAT:** The Draco/Ginny Fic Fest 3.0 is the Nth annual writing fest devoted solely to the romantic pairing of Draco Malfoy and Ginny Weasley! Look, TBH, I don’t even know how many there have been. But it’s a big number. And I really want to keep this exchange alive. Our fandom ship has been sailing for a long time, and I want us to keep it afloat!

**WHO:** Anyone can join! Current, former, or even brand new writers are welcome as long as you have an AO3 account! Don’t have an AO3 account? Contact mod Anise to receive an invitation to join. Don’t want to write but still want to participate? We seriously need prompters and readers/reviewers too!

**WHEN:** The fest dates are as follows:

- Prompt submissions: June 21st-July 5th

- Prompt claiming and writing: July 6th -August 20th

- Submissions due: August 26th

- Posting and reading begins: August 28th (posting schedule TBD)

- Voting begins: September 2nd

- Awards/reveals: TBD, but going by last year, September 28th.

[sevicia]

I'm actually so fucking mad rn because when I submitted the last task, it was telling me that all of my answers were correct and THAT'S why I submitted it. And now it turns out there was a bug with the platform we were working on that was fucking up the files so all of my answers were WRONG and I obviously did not fucking know because when I ran it, it told me they were RIGHT! And when I looked at the files, they were RIGHT!! So obviously I submitted it. But now coordination is like "teeheee we made an oopsie!!!!" and basically I got a 3.0 on this thing worth an entire 30% of the grade. Because I didn't know about the bug. Which btw they found about two days after the deadline, so after everyone had turned theirs in. I'm gonna go to the informatics department and slit my throat in front of everyone I'm not kidding

[ayakamizu]

FFXIV Write 2023 Masterpost

My masterpost for all the FFXIV Write 2023 entries! I'll try to keep this as up-to-date as possible since this'll be the first year I'm just straight posting my entries to Tumblr.

Day 1: Envoy - Noun. A diplomatic agent. Any accredited messenger or representative. Stormblood - no spoilers.

Day 2: Bark - Noun. The external covering of the woody stems, branches, and roots of plants, as distinct and separable from the wood itself. Pre-ARR - no spoilers.

Day 3: Free Day (Connection) - Noun. Association; relationship. Shadowbringers - spoilers for the Sorrow of Werlyt questline.

Day 4: Off the Hook - Slang. Out of danger; free from obligation or guilt. Endwalker - set during the Healer Role Quest.

Day 5: Barbarous - Adjective. Brutal or cruel. Synonym: Heartless. Heavensward - spoilers for Dark Knight level 30-50.

Day 6: Ring - Noun. An enclosed area, often circular, as for a sports contest or exhibition. Heavensward - no spoilers.

Day 7: Noisome - Adjective. Harmful or injurious to health; noxious. Synonyms: Foul, sickening, poisonous. Heavensward - spoilers for the end of base 3.0 and going into 3.2 (I think).

Day 8: Shed - Verb. To cast off or let fall (leaves, hair, feathers, skin, shell, etc.) by natural process. ARR - no spoilers.

Day 9: Fair - Adjective. Of a light hue; not dark OR legitimately sought, pursued, done, given, etc.; proper under the rules. Shadowbringers - spoilers for the aftermath of Mt. Gulg.

Day 12: Dowdy - Adjective. Not neat or tidy; shabby. Endwalker - Minor Mount Rokkon related spoilers.

Day 13: Check - Verb. To make an inquiry, investigation, etc., such as for verification. Endwalker - spoilers for Endwalker MSQ and some Dark Knight related spoilers as well.

Day 15: Portentous - Ajective. Marvelous; amazing; prodigious OR ominously significant or indicative. Endwalker. Takes place after Dowdy. Minor Mount Rokkon related spoilers.

Day 18: A Fish Out of Water - Idiom. A person who feels awkward or unhappy because they are in a situation that is not familiar or because they are different from the people around them. Pre-ARR.

Day 19: Weal - Noun. Well-being, prosperity, or happiness. Endwalker - major spoilers for Endwalker MSQ!!!

*Day 20: Hamper - Noun. A large basket or wickerwork receptacle, usually with a cover. Endwalker. Takes place during the patches, but no spoilers for MSQ or anything else. 5.3 and onward spoilers apply for a certain character though.

Day 21: Grave - Noun. Any place that becomes the receptacle of what is dead, lost, or past OR Death. Shadowbringers - major spoilers for Shadowbringers MSQ and minor spoilers for the level 80 quest, "One Final Journey."

Day 22: Fulsome - Adjective. Disgusting; sickening; repulsive. Endwalker - no major spoilers, we're at the very start on the way to Old Sharlayan for this one.

Day 23: Suit - Noun. A set of men’s garments of the same color and fabric, consisting of trousers, a jacket, and sometimes a vest. Shadowbringers - 5.3 and onward spoilers apply!

Day 25: Call It a Day - Phrase. End a period of activity, especially resting content that enough has been done. Stormblood - takes place during the period between 4.5 and Shadowbringers, so beware of spoilers for anything beyond that point!

Day 26: Last - Noun. A final appearance or mention; the end or conclusion. Heavensward - spoilers for the aftermath of the Vault.

Day 28: Blunt - Verb. To become blunt or dull. Shadowbringers - no spoilers though! Takes place during some vague point in the Shadowbringers patches.

Day 29: Contravention - Verb. To dispute or contradict (a statement, proposition, etc). Shadowbringers - follow-up of Blunt! Same things as that entry apply here as well.

Day 30: Amity - Noun. Noun. Friendship; peaceful harmony. Endwalker - Spoilers for the final battle!

*Note: This prompt was submitted as part of a make-up day! I'm placing it her because that's the actual day the prompt is assigned to.