#topdisease asks

[topdisease]

a final salute to our henry. at least he went out with a bang o7

he did his best 🙏

[theflyingkipper]

OMG THE SEMI-FINALS FOR TOP DISEASED IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER! PEOPLE ARE SAYING THINGS ON TOPPED DISEASED'S POST! WE GOTTA SWEEP MAN! HENRY SWEEP! (even if he doesn't win, can you believe our boi made it to semi-finals!? that's amazing!)

woo henry sweep 2k23!

we are going to win this so hard

[t4tails]

hey are your polls still running?

YES ive been meaning to post the brackets but ive been super busy with schoolwork!! i promise theyll be up and started by this weekend

[alphabetbracket]

WELCOME TUMBLR TO THE ALPHABET BRACKET

In which I am doing a bracket competition to determine what the ultimate letter is because everyone else was holding bracket competitions and I want to too

Inspired by blogs like @adorable-ones-tournament @catgirlgames @bestfictionaldivorce @best-green-character @redandbluebracket @riordanversecharactertournament @fictional-father-figure-comp @battleofthepurplebitches @mermaidbracket @purplegreenbracket @the-ghost-games @clash-of-the-wizards @nichesexymanbloodbath @tentacletournament @internetsongshowdown @the-coolest-demon-bracket @the-nobody-tournament @worst-fictional-cook-showdown @topdisease @foundfamilyarena and so many more!!

This is a bracket with 32 competitions, including all 26 letters of the alphabet plus 3, $, @, *, ;, and ~ because I wanted to get to an even 32, and also I think it would be really funny if something that wasn't even a letter won the letter competition, below are the lineups of the polls and will be updated as winners move on! First and last round of polls will last a week and all other polls will last a day, this is for fun and any extreme hate in the comments/tags will not be tolerated but yeah! I will accept propaganda I am tagged in or is submitted to the blog via submitted posts or asks, but other than that, have fun!

Round 1:

Y vs $

O vs S

3 vs C

R vs E

@ vs ~

V vs U

A vs J

* vs M

K vs Q

W vs T

F vs X

N vs I

G vs B

P vs D

Z vs ;

L vs H

[kidlit-queen-competition]

Welcome to the fictional train fight!

This is a poll blog inspired by blogs like @bestfictionaldivorce, @best-appliance-tournament,  @topdisease, @bestbutchbracket​, @numberfight​, @poll-statistics​ and others. Also inspired by train cool. Like just look at them.

SCHEDULE:

Pre-polls/submissions: 12pm EST 4.8.23 to 12pm EST 4.14.23

ROUND ONE: 12pm EST 4.16.23 to 12pm EST 4.22.23

ROUND TWO: 12pm EST 4.23.23 to 12pm EST 4.29.23

ROUND THREE: 12pm EST 4.30.23 to 12pm EST 5.6.23

ROUND FOUR: 12pm EST 5.7.23 to 12pm EST 5.13.23

ROUND FIVE: 12pm EST 5.14.23 to 12pm EST 5.21.23

FINAL: 12pm EST 5.22.23 to 12pm EST 5.29.23 <- you are here

SECRET SEVENTH THING: 12pm EST 5.30.23 to 12pm EST 6.6.23

TAGLIST:

#submission: submitted train

#ask: non-submission asks

#mod note: text posts, admin, rules changes, ect

#polls : main polls

#bracket : bracket posts

#round 1/2/3/ect : polls & other things from x round.

#propaganda: submitted or reblogged propaganda in support of a given train.

RULES:

32 64 trains enter, one train leaves.

Real trains/locomotives can only be sumitted as the fictional trains they play- "Kozlova's circus train” can go in the poll, but “LMS 13065″ can’t.

Train-based media (Thomas the Tank Engine, Chuggington, Starlight express, ect) get ONE character EACH. Pre-polls will run parallel to submissions to determine which characters.

More may be included in extrordinary circumstances like it being really funny.

Characters/things that transform into a train sometimes are allowed, but only if they’re a train most of the time, or if the train-ness is an important aspect of their identity.

Trains that are real but have fictional things happen on them are allowed, but they’re on thin ice. For example, the Orient Express is allowed but only when there’s a murder on it.

Your OC trains are lovely and wonderful but also not allowed. There are simply too many. 

Submissions of trains will be considered above submissions of just locomotives by themselves.

Please try and include an image! I will if you don't, but it'll make my life a lot easier if you do.

ONE train per person.

Propaganda not only allowed but encouraged.

CURRENT BRACKET:

Matchups:

The sea train from spirited away vs The little engine that could

[ultimate-polldown-bracket]

This is the ultimate showdown, of Ultimate Destiny

Inspired by polls like @pigtailpoll, @worst-teenager-competition, @kingarthurtournament, @topdisease, and @i-lived-bitch-beatdown! Welcome to the goofy tumblr poll version of the early internet classic!

How will this work?

No submissions phase, because the competitors are outlined already. If you count the good guys, bad guys and explosions, the song rounds out to an easy 32.

Aaron Carter has been removed out of respect.

images used are just the first jpgs/pngs I could find on google.

The bracket will be seeded in name order, so Godzilla will go up against Mr Rodgers, Batman will go up against Hulk Hogan, ect.

Bill & Ted are competing as one entrant (it's too cruel to separate them) and Gandalf is competing as two (it's funnier)

Rounds last one week, bracket starts later today (29/5/23)

propaganda allowed and encouraged- submit through ask box or tagging the blog.

Everybody have fun!

[goodmudkip]

Vote Henry for Tumblr’s Top Diseased

As a proud member of the Thomas fandom, I kindly and humbly ask you to stop for a moment, and give your consideration towards voting for Henry the Green Engine in Tumblr’s Top Diseased Poll. His opponent is Philip Wittebane from The Owl House, a series with a considerably larger following than Thomas, and a far more prominent fandom. While his popularity is by no means disputed, nor his fans intended to be disrespected, as a character, Henry has been through just as, if not more strife than Wittebane, and I feel he deserves the victory Please vote for Henry, it would mean the world to myself, and the rest of the Thomas fandom if you did so. https://www.tumblr.com/topdisease/712984268555550720/round-1-bracket-6?source=share

[topdisease]

reminder that henry ttte did not undergo getting shut in a tunnel, the flying kipper incident, and hit era flanderization just to lose to some guy from a show with a notably bigger fandom that might win just out of recognition. cmon henry nation. with your help (and perhaps your spite votes if you just kinda hate the owl house guy, as i've heard), we can get a steam engine to sweep being diseased. godspeed henhouse, godspeed

holy shit that little train goes through alot.

[topdisease]

Henry propaganda, submitted on behalf of a friend!

realness

[topdisease]

HENRY MAY HAVE LOST BUT HE GOT SO FAR

IF THAT DOESNT SHOW THE FANDOMS DEDICATION TO OUR POOR DISEASED LITTLE LOCO THEN IDK WHAT DOES

i hadn’t realized how much support this little train has when i put him in the roster 😭 glad he was able to make it this far

[topdisease]

DEAR SIR:—There has been many a Henry agitprop dropped in your box, but here's a couple'a canon scenes that I don't think have yet been shown to the masses:

Henry: No one understands my case. You don't know how I suffer!

Thomas: You're too fat. You need exercise. 🙄

Henry: I suffer dreadfully, and no one cares.

James: Rubbish, Henry. You don't work hard enough!

To me what makes Henry the Most Diseased Character of this lot is not necessarily that his disease is the worst (I mean I think IT IS but I'm putting that aside for now for the sake of argument lol). It's that he is the REAL.EST sick character.

So many people whose sickness and disabilities are dismissed by the world (often even by their own family and friends!) can relate to this. They DO relate to this! I think that's why many of us Henry stans are so rabid. ;) This representation? It's so, so, so important.

Anyway, vote Henry as TopDiseased so that his shit friends can see that the world recognizes what they did not. Give this poor sick pitiful creature machine the vindication he deserves.

jesus christ 😭

[topdisease]

Henry Propaganda.

Wilbert Awdry (for those who don't know, he was the original author of The Railway Series) actually had a model of Henry... and that model pretty much inherited all of it's storybook counterpart's mechanical issues.

It never worked right, and gave Awdry constant trouble whenever he tried to run it.

It's still around today, albeit in an incomplete condition, because Awdry was partway through a project to try and rebuild it when he passed away.

Henry is so diseased, his illness transcended fiction and entered reality in this model train!

NO WAYOSBSIDN

[topdisease]

proud of this little guy

[topdisease]

More Henry propaganda:

(TL;DR at end)

the reason why Henry is here in the first place is because of his small firebox, which gives heat to boil the water to make him move, and when given bad coal(coal that burns less well or is just not good) he starts having trouble,

from 1919 to 1935 he's had this design fault due to being stolen and rejected plans from the real life engineer, sir Nigel gresley, the guy who was building him found out about these faults to late and Henry was complete, and the NWR (the railway he works on now) was going through a engine crisis since it was still begining, and Henry was unknowingly part of a ploy to get him off his builders hands, and sir topham hatt canonically cursed "that ____ _____,____ sent me this"(we don't get to see what he said really)

Even with all the replacement parts, Henry still was sick, and Sometime, topham climbed on with his crew, and wanted to see what happened with him, his crew said that they needed special coal (Welsh coal in the books) to operate with a fair chance, it was expensive, but topham got it for Henry, and of he went as a rocket, energetic as ever

But then in 1935, he was sent to take a fish train named the flying kipper, he did it all, and set off at 5 o clock, but unfortunately ice and snow forced signals to show green, but it was actually red, and the switches were frozen and Henry was sent into a goods train at full speed(in the show it was James's train, but the illustrations in the book don't show), crashing, and after that he was sent to Crewe, a real life workshop which made him into a LMS stanier black 5, a real life Locomotive, now without the need of Welsh coal, but in the show it's not so good, as he was flanderized down to only that in the HiT era, even though he was fixed, and in season 2 of the show he gained back his wheel arches, indirectly making him a Stanier jubilee, a very similar class made by the same guy, just for passenger work

TLDR Henry has small firebox and can't do with bad coal, so better coal is gotten for him, crash in 1935, rebuilt into another engine without the fault, the LMS black 5, or the LMS jubilee post season 2

jesus 💀

[topdisease]

Henry propaganda poster 2

obsessed with him

[topdisease]

its so funny to me that the henry harrowark poll has roughly thrice the number of votes as the 2nd most popular polls, on top 4 times the number of notes as the 2nd most reblogged polls. and the notes are full of henrysweep. god bless thomas the tank engine fans. i hope henry wins the bracket entirely just because of the sheer dedication of the fans.

right LMFAOO the dedication is incredible