#to the block poll

[caliblorn]

congrats again to Mandymarcos for winning sexyman getting spared at the block <3 he just keeps getting away with it @crysdrawsthings

[crysdrawsthings]

And so "To the Block Poll" closes with the epic standoff between King of Worms Mannimarco and Grandmaster Delphine... and Delphine's sound defeat!

And so we are contacting authorities to snitch on her, while Mr. Marco will enjoy his pardon and probably plot another way to cause Nirn's demise. After treating Mr. Wiggles to some fruits, of course.

But! The most important thing is - who do you think deserved to be on the poll but was not included? Let me know in the asks or comments, because I am doing a bonus round some time soon and would love to hear your suggestions!

Also, under the cut you can find the whole set of my edits with the elimination results!

[catboygirlboss]

edit: currently lamenting the fact that i didn’t think of “all of the above” …

[safelycapricious]

Needle-watch poll

So, I got some vaccinations the other day, and the pharmacy tech seemed unnerved that I opted to watch him insert the needle. And he is not the first to comment on it. I'm willing to accept I'm an outlier and shouldn't be counted, I'm just curious how much of an outlier.

[pinkiepig]

Style change part 16 the sequel 🧌

[beemovieerotica]

Do you think if Davy Jones had tits, his tentacles would frame them and hold them up like a little showgirl costume piece or would he be a shy boy about them and hide em?

this is the most incredible question i've ever been asked in all my time on tumblr

[kizzyedgelll]

the last poll i saw on this matter was very biased, so i decided to make my own.

for the sake of this poll, "creation" means art, gifsets, photography, poetry, fanfiction and etc; and "non creation" means everything else (like text posts, memes, silly polls like this one etc).

yes, you are allowed to reblog this with commentary.

[incognitopolls]

We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

[theminecraftbee]

okay, so in a rare moment for me, there's a discourse thing i want to bring up, and that thing is. okay. so on iskall's stream there's this thing that can happen where someone brings up a criticism of his content or vault hunters. frequently it's self-evidently wrong, but sometimes it's not. and then iskall spends the next thirty minutes shadowboxing this guy, explaining himself, and completely derailed. and this is an iskall trait we all know and sigh bemusedly about, because he cares about the community and wants people to understand his intentions! he wants the community to understand his decisions!

however, it's not the community as a whole he's fighting; he is in fact, arguing with One Guy, who often doesn't represent the wider community, and who normally won't have their mind changed. hell, sometimes it's believable that they're satisfied having just managed to upset iskall, and they'll leave, no change to their mind, perfectly pleased that iskall's responding at all (that's what i firmly believe the people who poke at the 'you don't upload enough and that means you're falling off and a bad person' wound are trying to do, at least).

in the vault hunters community, we refer to this as iskall getting One Guyed, and it's typically viewed as bad, because it ends up focusing an entire moment on a single guy's negative opinion as opposed to on the larger picture. and it's an understandable thing to have happen! but it's frustrating to watch from the outside.

and so now i am looking at that cat poll. and the way everyone is still shadowboxing someone who has since apologized. and the way i would have never ever known about any of the negative comments about jellie if it weren't for fellow mcyt fans constantly putting them on my dash to dunk on them. and it's like. if you look through the notes most of them are just... normal? it's only a tiny few of people (and the pollrunner, who has since apologized) who were being dicks. it's a very, very ignorable demographic.

but. well. there was One Guy. and we had to correct them.

and folks, i don't know how to say that i almost never see "lol mcyt is cringe" type comments unless one of you puts it on my dash. both because i don't go looking through the notes of things that are likely to have them or go looking for reasons to be upset and because it's just... not that common! very frequently these days it is, in fact, One Guy!

i have almost never seen that poll on my dash without at least one instance of the One Guy. instead of being for fun, it's mostly become about explaining ourselves to someone who will not listen and will not change their minds, and treating this as a the whole of the Other Side of that poll, when most people are being... fine. they're fine! the majority of the people voting for the other side are doing it for perfectly normal reasons that don't require fighting about.

and man. let me tell you. after spending as long as i have watching vault hunters development? it can be just as frustrating to watch a fandom get One Guyed as it is to watch iskall.

[crysdrawsthings]

“To The Block!” Poll, TES Edition - 2

Thanks to everyone who participated so far we have made Tamriel a bit better by getting rid of Molag Bal, who was voted out by an overwhelming majority and sent to the block and then to an extradimensional jail for all his crimes!

But our show in the arena goes on, with nine more participants awaiting your verdicts! Remember: you must vote for those who you want to see on the block! This is an "elimination by the majority of votes" poll. I saw confusion about this and I hope I made it clear this time around!

So, for example, I have a bone to pick with Tiber Septim, so I vote FOR HIM, so he can end up on the block.

Without more talking on my side, let's find out...

[aro-barrel]

i was blissfully ignorant of how much that one poll blew up. all i gotta say is, yikes.

i guess, just a PSA for aspec folks? even if it's tempting, don't get dragged into discourse with aphobes. many of them are set in their beliefs about us. (apparently, they've just been waiting for an opportunity to voice their aphobia.) generally, i see too many aspec people bringing up instances of oppression to prove exclusionists wrong, and honestly? a lot of them don't care. they tend to adhere to some strict definition of queerness that we cannot meet. if we say we face oppression, they'll just move the goalposts.

don't interact with these bad faith actors. you won't change their minds.

on the other hand, it was nice seeing non-aspec people stick up for aspec identities. maybe i saw the poll too late but i saw way more people in the notes supporting aspec identities than not. i genuinely don't think this would've been the case a few years ago. i'd like to believe we're making good progress. crossing my fingers and hoping we don't bring the discourse into 2024.