#tumblr grail war

[vampirerite]

well he got second place and i dont have the energy to make a neutral ending version so heres Bad End and Good End!

remember you can keep up with the grail war and/or join us here! theres lots to backread and its fun!

[tgrailwar]

The Grail War comes to a close.

ENDING - PART 1 - PART 2 - PART 3

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Click here to start from the beginning.

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SABER

LANCER

ARCHER

ASSASSIN

RIDER

CASTER

BERSERKER

AVENGER

FOREIGNER

Heed my words, My will creates your body, And your sword creates my destiny. If you heed the Grail's call, and obey my will and reason, then answer my summoning! I hereby swear: That I shall be all the good in the world, That I shall defeat all evil in the world! Then let thine eyes be clouded, with the fog of turmoil and chaos, Thou, who art trapped in a cage of madness, And I, the summoner, who holds thy chains! Seventh heaven clad, and the great words of power, Come forth from the circle of bindings, Guardian of the Scales!

Thank you for participating in the First Tumblr Holy Grail War!

Grail War Overview

Grail War Rules

Main tags to follow:

'#team _____' (Main way to follow a specific servant, insert Servant class name here, be it 'saber', 'archer', etc. Be sure the class name is in lowercase.)

'#ruler adjudication' for posts relating to the Ruler-class Servant summoned.

'#forgotten ______' (same as following the teams, put in the class name in lowecase)

[miriasuu]

"I participated in an anomalous Holy Grail War and I accidentally fell in love with the enemy's servant, but it turns out I ended up marrying him in the future!?" is such a corny isekai LN title, but also the best way to summarize this whole ordeal LOL

[unit-zero-two]

If you're afraid to lose, you shouldn't be playing a game. You need to be willing to take risks to win and willing to lose if things don't go your way. If you're so afraid of losing that you don't do anything in the game, then why are you here??

[hellsite-hungergames]

THE FIRST WAVE OF TRIBUTES

All tributes (With the exception of hellsite-hall-of-fame, God, Jesus, Tarlton, and Wallace) were chosen randomly, as were the pairs (Again, with the exception of 1, 18, and 32)

Information about the polls will be out a little bit before the polls themselves

Polls will open February 14th in the afternoon/evening (EST)

Second Wave will be announced sometime around 6pm EST

Tribute List under cut

@hellsite-hungergames vs. @hellsite-hall-of-fame

Vace (I Was a Teenage Exocolonist) vs. Herobrine (Minecraft)

Regulus Black (Harry Potter) vs. Edward Cullen (Twilight)

Merlin (Merlin) vs. Florida Man (American Mythology)

Gary the Gadget Guy (Club Penguin) vs. Sunny (Omori)

Benoit Blanc (Knives Out) vs. Ridley (Metroid)

Animal (Muppets) vs. Miku Binder Thomas Jefferson (Hamilton)

Clint (Stardew Valley) vs. Data (Star Trek)

Skunk Ape (Florida) vs. Daniel the Manager (Anon's manager)

Waluigi (Mario) vs. Timmy Turner (The Fairly OddParents)

Meta Knight (Kirby) vs. Castiel (Supernatural)

Death (Puss in Boots: The Last Wish) vs. Prince Caspian (The Chronicles of Narnia)

Katsuya Suou (Persona 2: Eternal Punishment) vs. King Arthur (Monty Python's The Holy Grail)

Squidward's Hopes and Dreams (Spongebob Squarepants) vs. Spiders Georg (Tumblr)

Anya Forger (Spy x Family) vs. Katniss Everdeen (The Hunger Games)

Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal) vs. Campbell Bain (Takin' Over the Asylum)

Jasper (Steven Universe) vs. Star Butterfly (Star vs. The Forces of Evil)

Tarlton (A completely real fandom) vs. Wallace (Wallace the Living Wall)

Mikhailo "Mickey" Aleksandr Milkovich (Shameless) vs. Dimitri Blaiddyd (Fire Emblem: Three Houses)

Duck (Don't Hug Me I'm Scared) vs. Everyone from Cats the Musical (Cats the Musical)

Jay Walker (Ninjago) vs. Miles Vorkosigan (Vorkosigan Saga)

Illyria (Angel: The Series) vs. Evan "Buck" Buckley (9-1-1)

Haymitch Abernathy (The Hunger Games) vs. Richard Gansey III (The Raven Cycle)

Ronald McDonald (McDonald's) vs. Amelia Bedelia (Amelia Bedelia)

Matt (Wii Sports) vs. Oswald Cobblepot (Gotham)

Edward Nygma (Gotham) vs. Tumblr Anon Icon (Tumblr)

Gillion Tidestrider (Just Roll With It) vs. Jedediah (Night at the Museum)

Reigen Arataka (Mob Psycho 100) vs. Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Alex Fierro (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard) vs. Puss in Boots (Puss in Boots/Shrek)

Jessie Prescott (Jessie) vs. George Costanza (Seinfeld)

Leon Scott Kennedy (The Resident Evil Franchise) vs. Han Solo (Star Wars)

God (Universe fandom/Deadbeat dads fandom) vs. Jesus (Christianity fandom)

[jinx66]

once upon a timeline

okay so i've been obsessed with ouat recently with my rewatch and i was looking into Henry's weird ass family tree and oh my god i need to put this out there because why.

for starters i've only included big plot points or villains and main characters etc so none of the side plots but also i've realised how weird some of the age gaps are.

oh yeah also ouat likes to fuck with their timelines and historical context so i have gone with the basic dates that make sense based on what the characters in the show actually say.

the dates are what they would be in the real world not in ouat logic.

pre-main timeline

Ancient Greece - zeus and hades happen (season 6)

ancient greece but later - orpheus and Euridice and pandora's box happen

between 400-500AD - the Holy Grail and Merlin and Nimue

1650's-1660's - Mother Gothel leaves the new land without magic

1770- Malcolm is Born

1804- Rumplestiltskin is born, Malcolm is 34

1808- Rumple is abandoned, Peter Pan becomes a fae trickster tumblr meme

1845- Baelfire is born, Rumple is 41

1859- Bae arrives in england, Rumple is 55

1947- Zelena is born and abandoned

1948- Cora and Rumple have their weird affair

1949- Regina is born

1955- Snow White is born

1973- Regina sends the huntsman after snow, Snow is 18, Regina is 24

23/3/1977 - Neal (Bae) chooses this as his fake birthday

22/10/1983 - Emma is born, the curse is cast

1991 - Neal escapes neverland and comes back to the land without magic

15/8/2001 - Henry is born, Emma is 18, Neal Cassidy is 24

22/10/2011 - Emma arrives in Storybrooke

13/5/2012 - The curse is broken.

so some of the dates are based on when episodes aired and things such as when the curse breaks and when emma arrives in storybrooke. other dates are based on easter eggs in the show like Neal's birthday. so i realised that Neal had to have landed back in the real world in 1991 because he was 14 when he got to neverland and obviously didn't age so working backwards those dates make sense.

however... emma was 17 when she got pregnant with henry and at best Neal is 24 but at worst he's 156 years old! i mean what the fuck. and he has to be that old because he tells Emma that technically "I should be a couple hundred by now" (2,15). so at the oldest he can be with Neal's Once upon a time maths education the earliest he can be born is 1845 because big ben isn't built until 1859 which is the absolute earliest that he can be in old england.

the rest of the dates i managed from working backwards from when the curse was broken and cast and from small things the characters say. In the first episode of season 2, Emma says that her and Mary Margaret were the same age which means that the 10 year war she has with regina that ended with the curse started when she was 18.

so what i've found from this is that Henry's family tree back to his paternal great grandad literally spans hundreds of years. the average life span for these fuckers is about 100. basically they're a family of elves and you can't convince me otherwise.

[toskarin]

Was tumblr user toskarin invited on the ill fated titan voyage?

oh yes. I couldn't make it, but there was a grail war happening in there and the coverup was a gas implosion

[fatal-furry-mark-of-the-tigers]

Right, I forgot to plug this on my own thankfully less Tumblr Famous blog.

Doing a poll tournament at @mordred-custody-battle-royale

It's kind of a 6th holy grail war taking place on a Maury Povich set over who would be the best or funniest or whatever choice for raising best son.

The banner was thrown together on a mobile image editor of ok-ish quality.

It's pretty loose, fun, informal, and stupid, but most importantly, stupid and fun.

Stop by if you're confident in your ability to not be Transphobic about the bettermyths-esque Nasu takes on history.

(Caenis is not being chased off at the top, they're just chasing away a poorly cropped Poseidon for the besties)

[sparkliest-bard-bracket]

The ✨Sparkliest Bard Lineup✨!!

Here is our sparkly, bardly, lineup!

Polls are live! Vote today!!

Oh, and don't forget to keep everything civil! This is just a little game for fun, and we're all here to have a good time :D

Feel free to submit pictures and propaganda for your bards (see this post for more info)! The more, the merrier!

(Full Bracket with fandom names & poll links under the cut.)

1 - Jareth the Goblin King (Labyrinth) vs David Bowie (Real Life) 2 - Thom Merrilin (Wheel of Time) vs Gurney Halleck (Dune) 3 - The Bard/Kiwi (Wandersong) vs Daeron (The Silmarillion) 4 - Callie Cuttlefish (Splatoon) vs Finrod (The Silmarillion) 5 - Apollo/Lester Papadopoulos (The Trials of Apollo) vs Apollo (Greek Mythology) 6 - Bill Cypher (Gravity Falls) vs Chong (Avatar: The Last Airbender) 7 - Max Rebo (Star Wars) vs Edgin Darvis (Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves) 8 - Dimentio (Super Paper Mario) vs Will Scarlet (Robin Hood)

9 - Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem (The Muppets) vs Link (The Legend of Zelda) 10 - Katalina (Tabletop Time) vs Starling Birdsong (Realm of Elderlings) 11 - Orpheus (Greek Mythology) vs “Weird Al” Yankovic (Real Life) 12 - Dave BruBot/The Major Player (Toontown: Corporate Clash) vs Carrie Wilson (Julie and the Phantoms) 13 - Kvothe (The Kingkiller Chronicle) vs Elan (Order of the Stick) 14 - Raz'ul, Son of Daz'ul (BomBARDed) vs Edward Chris von Muir (Final Fantasy IV) 15 - Binary Bard (Poptropica) vs Christian (Moulin Rouge) 16 - The Bard (Shovel Knight) vs Fflewddur Fflam (The Chronicles of Prydain)

17 - Man with the Harmonica (Once Upon a Time in the West) vs Kyoami/The Fool (Ran/King Lear) 18 - Diedrich Knickerbocker (Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story) vs Hannah Montana (Hannah Montana) 19 - Bard the Bowman (The Hobbit) vs Leliana (Dragon Age) 20 - Sprig Plantar (Amphibia) vs Lucifer Morningstar (Lucifer) 21 - Neil Banging Out the Tunes (Tumblr) vs The Muses (Disney Hercules) 22 - Robinton (Pern) vs Thistle/Sissel (Delicious in Dungeon) 23 - Loquatius Seelie (Critical Role) vs Cicero (Skyrim) 24 - Michael Jackson (Real Life) vs Oli/TheOrionSound (Empires SMP)

25 - Megamind (Megamind) vs The Onceler (The Lorax) 26 - Mettaton (Undertale) vs Gamzee Makara (Homestuck) 27 - William Shakespeare (Real Life) vs William Shakespeare (Something Rotten) 28 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Classicaloid) vs William Shamspeare (Ace Attorney) 29 - Marceline the Vampire Queen (Adventure Time) vs Brook (One Piece) 30 - Gerard Way (Real Life) vs Sea Hawk (She-Ra and the Princess of Power) 31 - Snufkin (Moomin) vs Frank Sinatra (Real Life) 32 - Lias "Cliff" Bluestone (Discworld) vs Rick Astley (Real Life)

33 - Alan-a-Dale (Robin Hood) vs Essi Daven (The Witcher) 34 - Lúthien Tinúviel (The Silmarillion) vs Stefen (The Heralds of Valdemar) 35 - Roman Sanders (Sanders Sides) vs Remus Sanders (Sanders Sides) 36 - Bard (Crypt of the Necrodancer) vs Kass (Legend of Zelda/Breath of the Wild) 37 - Steven Universe (Steven Universe) vs Glenn Close (Dungeons & Daddies) 38 - Miss Piggy (The Muppets) vs Nydas Okiro (Critical Role) 39 - Charlie Pace (Lost) vs Dob the Half-Orc Bard (Oxventure) 40 - Kitagra (Kings of the Wyld) vs Kaylie Shorthalt (Critical Role)

41 - Father Gabriel (The Mission) vs Gabrielle the Battling Bard (Xena: The Warrior Princess) 42 - Haer'Dalis (Baldur's Gate) vs Tsukasa Tenma (Project Sekai: Colorful Stage!) 43 - Tom Bombadil (The Lord of the Rings) vs Sylvando (Dragon Quest 11) 44 - Steve McKenzie/Jester (Galavant) vs Gieve (The Heroic Legend of Arslan) 45 - Jaskier/Dandelion (The Witcher) vs Kubo (Kubo and the Two Strings) 46 - Guiliastes/Gui (1/2 Prince) vs Rocky (Lackadaisy) 47 - Asmodean (Wheel of Time) vs Neil Ciciregea/Lemon Demon (Real Life) 48 - Kermit the Bard (Tales of Tinkerdee) vs The Pied Piper (The Pied Piper of Hamelin)

49 - Venti (Genshin Impact) vs Sir Robin's Minstrels (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) 50 - Oscar Wilde (Rusty Quill Gaming) vs Franz Liszt (Classicaloid) 51 - Eddie Munson (Stranger Things) vs Puss in Boots (Shrek) 52 - Freddie Mercury (Real Life) vs Hoid/Wit (Cosmere) 53 - Noise (Roleslaying with Roman) vs The Amazing Devil (Real Life) 54 - Klavier Gavin (Ace Attorney) vs Rickety Stitch (Rickety Stitch and the Gelatinous Goo) 55 - Ron Stampler (Dungeons & Daddies) vs Thancred Waters (Final Fantasy XIV) 56 - Raine Whispers (The Owl House) vs Jack Black (Real Life)

57 - Scanlan Shorthalt (Critical Role) vs Éile (The Witcher: Blood Origin) 58 - Hap Gladheart (Realm of Elderlings) vs Alastair Nobledrifter (Saving Throw - DnD Podcast) 59 - Maglor (The Silmarillion) vs Bill & Ted (Bill & Ted) 60 - DJ Cadence (Club Penguin) vs Imp Y Celyn (Discworld) 61 - Bard Otter (The Last Dragonlord) vs Yara of Nowhere, the Wandering Bard (A Practical Guide to Evil) 62 - Dorian Storm (Critical Role) vs Maria von Trapp (The Sound of Music) 63 - Demyx (Kingdom Hearts) vs Hisirdoux "Douxie" Casperan (Tales of Arcadia: Wizards) 64 - Bilbo Baggins (The Hobbit) vs BMO (Adventure Time)

[cypriathus]

Updated: September 10, 2024

My anon name is 🦅🦁 or 🦁🦅

For those who stumble upon my account... Hello and how are ya? This is my very first time using Tumblr! You can refer to me as Yume, Dreamy, Floof, JJ, Roving, Gryph or whatever nickname you wanna give me. I'm a genuinely curious individual who sometimes gets obsessed with stuff that I eventually want to get engaged with or stuff that I have no intention of trying out, but I'm very fascinated by it. I'm also just a silly, creative Canadian who's trying to get the most out of life.

My general pronouns are she/her, but I genuinely don't mind you referring to me as they/them and he/him. I will not specify my age publicly due to privacy reasons. If you want to know, just shoot me a DM/message.

Some of my hobbies include writing, drawing, listening to music, reading novels and manga, watching YouTube, occasionally watching movies, TV shows or anime, and baking once in a blue moon. For those wondering what kind of art I do, I've primarily been doing a lot of digital artwork as of now. However, I have been using traditional mediums (acrylic paint, markers, coloured pencils, and regular ol' pencils) for many years now. You can find most of my current artworks that I have shared on my Instagram account (@cypriathus). Before we move on with other stuff about me, some of my interests include psychology, sociology, criminology, law, biology, outer space, mythology, folklore, legends, religion, history, internet mysteries, and lost media.

My Tumblr family!

I listen to a myriad of music artists including:

Muse

Set It Off

System Of A Down

Tally Hall

Citizen Soldier

Fall Out Boy

Finger Eleven

Get Scared

Avenged Sevenfold

Sick Puppies

Hoobastank

Infected Musroom and so much more

I have watched a lot of anime and there are still some I need to get around to watching eventually. Some of these anime include:

Cat Soup

Ergo Proxy

FLCL

Perfect Blue

Tokyo Godfathers

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Kaiba

Haibane Renmei

Outlaw Star

Now and Then, Here and There

Serial Experiments Lain

Summer Wars

Belle

Angel's Egg

Most Studio Ghibli movies

Cowboy Bebop

Metropolis

Steamboy

The Tatami Galaxy

Mind Game

Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms

Mononoke and so much more

Non-anine movies and TV shows that I remember watching:

Breaking Bad franchise

Seven

American History X

Coraline

ParaNorman

Mad God

Schindler's List

Final Space

Cliffhanger

Del Toro's Pinocchio

Tetsuo: The Iron Man

Possum

The Mask

The Wedding Singer

Labyrinth

The Dark Crystal

Lord of War

Midsommar

Hereditary

Scarface

Monty Python and the Holy Grail & Monty Python's Life of Brian

Silence of the Lambs

Popee the Performer

Mr. Stain on Junk Alley

And many more

Some manga and books that I have currently read are:

Homunculus

Chainsaw Man

AKIRA

The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún

The Ancient Magus' Bride

Dandadan

Trigun and Trigun Maximum

Bibliomania

Heads

Goodbye, Eri

Look Back

Yogen no Nayuta

Eden: It’s An Endless World

Keyman: The Hand of Judgement

Shigahime

Rojica to Rakkasei

BLAME!

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

Animal Farm

The Green Mile

Salem's Lot

Lord of the Flies

The Catcher in the Rye

To Kill a Mockingbird

The Complete Tales of H. P. Lovecraft and more

Rules:

I would like to stay anonymous for the most part, so don't pry me for certain information that I don't feel comfortable sharing. I'll only share bits and pieces of my life if I feel comfortable with you.

Don't ask me for pictures of myself or I'll block you immediately!

Don't be rudely judgemental

Don't send anon hate

Don't say discriminatory and sexually disgusting things

Don't threaten me

Don't mention pre-existing fictional characters or other forms of media through the comments, reblogs, and inbox.

Don't recommend me pieces of media I should watch and/or read because that gets under my skin really badly as I view it as a threat to my independence and freedom of choice.

If you want to provide constructive criticism, give me more than one thing to work off of because it'll give more of an opportunity to grow.

Do not interact with me if you're one of the following (I'll add more if needed):

Pedophile

Anti-LGBTQ+

Racist

Sexist/misogynistic

Ageist

Ableist

Pro-Israel

Misandrist

Islamophobic

Someone who invalidates a person's pronouns, gender, and/or identity

Someone who supports, participates, tolerates, and/or justifies any of the above.

That's most of the stuff you need to know about me as of now. Anyways, as I mentioned in the description, I plan on using this blog as a way to share various ideas in regards to my personal writing projects. I'm open to listening to your ideas, sharing new ideas, and even constructive criticism! I hope you enjoy your stay here and I can't wait to share my ideas with y'all!

I have a side blog where I roleplay, make moodboards, and post stuff that ain't related to my work: @floofgryph

I also have a Metal Slug blog: @thesilliestrovingalive

Writing Projects:

Masterpost for the Iron Eclipse AU (Metal Slug)

[vampirerite]

whoever's being mean to rider can kick rocks

[tgrailwar]

Greetings, prospective Masters.

If you're seeing this message, then you've become a candidate for a spectacular ritual with an even more worthwhile prize.

I am the Overseer of this Ritual, @lapithae, and you will be fighting tooth and nail for something amazing.

What are you fighting for, you ask? What a splendid question.

An omnipotent wish granter, a mystic artifact that was only spoken about in legend. I am, of course, speaking about the legendary Holy Grail.

Of course, this is a war driven by chance. Not purely luck, but your choices as Masters will have a heavy impact on how you win. But do not worry, you won't be fighting yourselves. You'll be summoning Heroic Spirits, or Servants. Do not get too attached to them. They're just familiars, after all.

You'll be sharing Servants, of course. You'll have to pick from several teams. Team Saber, Archer, Lancer, Assassin, Rider, Caster, and Berserker.

The Summoning System here is... shoddy. Catalysts aren't entirely effective, and the incantation is going to need to go through a couple steps before you're presented with your Servant. But have no fear. As I stand as your humble Overseer, I will help you along this process with the Tumblr Poll Summoning System. Or T-POSE.

...Don't think about the acronym too hard.

Simply submit to me which Servants you would like to see in the war, and their Class, and then you and the rest of your fellow Masters will be presented an opportunity to vote on which Servants answer the Grail's call for this illustrious prize. Please, submit them here for them to be considered and counted.

Once the Servants have been summoned (voted on), the rules for this Grail War will be revealed.

Hm? Reveal the rules beforehand? Perhaps I can explain things a little.

However, this won't simply function as a popularity contest. The other observed versions of this ritual (which have all gone INCREDIBLY well, with no complications) each summoned Servant class functions slightly differently. The numbers are important. Close calls may unwittingly turn the tides against you. Remember, this is a world of Magi, and Magi don't live by 'close calls'. Victory must be clear and swift, and small percentages may result in you losing your Servant entirely.

Further details regarding Servant skills will be underneath the cut, though they may change, and be clearer once the rules are solidified.

I'll take prospective Servant submissions until 6PM EST, Monday (2/13), and the Summoning Polls will be open for a week*, as well as more defined rules on the war.

Rejoice, young bloggers. Perhaps your dreams will finally come true.

*(The summoning time has been shortened to a 24-hour poll).

THE SEVEN CLASSES:

SABER-class Servants are solid jacks-of-all-trade picks, and great single-target combatants. When engaging another Servant 1-on-1, they get +3% to their combat poll results.

ARCHER-class Servants are good at distance combat. If they decide to play defensively, and are attacked by another Servant, they get +3% to their combat poll results.

LANCER-class Servants are fast and agile. If they end up in the bottom 2 of a 3-way confrontation, if there’s only a 5% difference in scoring between them and 2nd place, they make it out unscathed.

ASSASSIN-class Servants are best for quiet, one-on-one confrontations. If they pick a Servant that isn’t targeted by anyone else, they get +5% to their combat poll results.

RIDER-classes are competent commanders with great maneuverability. If engaged with 2 Servants, Riders get a +3% to their combat poll results.

CASTER-class Servants are best confined to their mage workshops. If they decide to play defensively, and are attacked by another Servant, they get +3% to their combat poll results.

BERSERKER-class Servants are loose cannons that can’t be recklessly fought head-on or easily managed. If engaged in a fight with another Servant, they get +5% to their final combat poll results, and the attacking Servant gains 2 ‘wounds’ if they lose. 

If BERSERKERs are engaged in a fight with 2 Servants, they get +7% to their final combat poll results, but sustain 2 ‘wounds’ if on the bottom, and 1 ‘wound’ if in 2nd place on the poll.

Also as a result of their difficulty to manage, BERSERKER Masters can only pick either the 2nd or 3rd Command Spell options.

[kamikazia]

Fate/Samurai Remnant

So, I've invested WAY too much time into Fate/Samurai Remnant recently, and I figured I'd make a tumblr post about it because I, frankly, adore this game.

The Fate series does not have a perfect record. I love it for the story, but even I was thinking that Fate/Samurai Remnant would be another blemish. Honestly, that probably was for the best, because it blew my expectations out of the water.

I saw a lot of people complaining that the game would be a Musou/Warriors-like Game. I don't really think that's a fair comparison. Yes, it has Musou aspects, but it plays more like Bayonetta or Okami. Battles are actually fun, and there's bit more strategy than just button mashing (I'll admit, there's still a fair bit of button mashing, but it hasn't impeded my enjoyment of the game.)

This is also one of the few Fate games that actually gets the vibe of a Holy Grail War right. There's alliances, friendships, rivalries, weird sexual tension with historical figures- the whole shebang. The protagonist, Miyamoto Iori, is actually a fairly compelling character who develops quite a bit. Saber is always fun to listen to, and even side characters like Zheng Chenggong (Koxinga) or Takao Dayu get their time to shine.

Overall, if you're new to Fate and want to play a game rather than read a visual novel or watch an anime? This is where you'd start. It's a much better introduction than Fate/Grand Order and feels a lot like a real Holy Grail War. I'd give it an 8 or 9 out of 10, with its main flaws being that some battles feel a bit tedious and that they occasionally lean on references that newcomers wouldn't get (though they're few and far between)

[alatismeni-theitsa]

Ethnically, were the Achaeans and Trojans close? I see people portraying them as very similar or very different, now I'm in doubt whether it was one of those cases or whether in fact the answer is somewhere in between (while there would be a lot of people similar to each other, there would be people who are more different from each other)

ooof the analysis needed for this question is longer than what a tumblr answer can do, so allow me to be a bit vague - while hoping you can always do more research on that.

But long story short, the Trojans are supposed to be of a different ethnos than the Achaeans. Because of close geographical proximity, we suspect their differences weren't that big. So I wouldn't say they are "very different", the guys were practically neighbors, compared to the distance with other ethnicities. Surely they had some differences but the Greek Epics cannot tell us of them. The Greeks wrote what they knew, making these foreigners the exact copies of themselves and worshipers of the same pantheon.

You have a better chance of learning about these differences by looking at what ethnicities lived in that area when the war (probably) took place. Last time I read about this, scientists were not sure of the ethnicity of the Trojans but it's most likely they were ancient Anatolians allied with the Hittites.

Perhaps they were Hittites, we don't know that. Some say they were "Luvians". I had to dive into Reddit for this, and that's what I read.

source

This article and this article gather resources and comments on them. I wouldn't use them as a holy grail of knowledge, but they sum up the research.

See also this post for more of the similarities and differences between the Achaeans and the Trojans.

[moviebracket]

One group of polls will go up each day and polls will be a week long! Submissions will remain open through the end of the first round, and I'll add some more first round groups depending on submission numbers! Apologies for the brief absence, I had some personal stuff going on.

Movies that lose by smaller margins may have a chance to return to the bracket at the end of Round 1.

Round 1 Group A

Lilo & Stitch (78%) vs Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (22%)

Pan's Labyrinth (53%) vs Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers (47%)

Legally Blonde (96%) vs The Last Temptation of Christ (4%)

Brother Bear (59%) vs Kubo and the Two Strings (41%)

Round 1 Group B

Stardust (47%) vs Heathers (53%)

The Batman (2022) (47%) vs Moulin Rouge! (53%)

Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (58%) vs Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (42%)

Now You See Me (78%) vs Morbius (22%)

Round 1 Group C

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (29%) vs The Prince of Egypt (71%)

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (32%) vs The Princess Bride (68%)

Rogue One (33%) vs Spirited Away (67%)

Goncharov (90%) vs Love Actually (10%)

Round 1 Group D

A Silent Voice (38%) vs Princess Mononoke (62%)

How to Train Your Dragon (65%) vs The Sound of Music (35%)

Knives Out (43%) vs Howl's Moving Castle (57%)

Little Miss Sunshine (42%) vs The Little Mermaid (1989) (58%)

Round 1 Group E

A Quiet Place (45%) vs Zombieland (55%)

10 Things I Hate About You (72%) vs Lemonade Mouth (28%)

Juno (21%) vs The Addams Family (1991) (79%)

The Parent Trap (1998) (54%) vs Bend It Like Beckham (46%)

Round 1 Goup F

Rent (48%) vs West Side Story (2021) (52%)

Elf (39%) vs The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (61%)

Hairspray (2007) (43%) vs Mamma Mia! (57%)

Clueless (51%) vs Miss Congeniality (49%)

Round 1 Group G

Forrest Gump (50%) vs Kingsman: The Secret Service (50%)

Enchanted (69%) vs Ferris Bueller's Day Off (31%)

Battle Royale (45%) vs High School Musical (55%)

Matilda (1996) (60%) vs Chicago (40%)

Round 1 Group H

Mean Girls (54%) vs School of Rock (46%)

The Hitman's Bodyguard (25%) vs Grease (75%)

The Nightmare Before Christmas (51%) vs Parasite (49%)

The Wizard of Oz (46%) vs Star Wars: A New Hope (54%)

Round 1 Group I

Populaire (13%) vs Labyrinth (87%)

Matilda (2022) (17%) vs Kung Fu Panda (83%)

Superman (1978) (44%) vs The Sixth Sense (56%)

The Martian (65%) vs Trainspotting (35%)

Round 1 Group J

Dune (37%) vs Back to the Future (63%)

Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension (44%) vs The Return of the King (56%)

Home Alone (63%) vs Frozen (37%)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (59%) vs Meet the Robinsons (41%)

Round 1 Group K

Crazy Rich Asians (68%) vs The Phantom of the Opera (2004) (32%)

Alien (75%) vs Mulholland Drive (25%)

The Imitation Game (39%) vs The Simpsons Movie (61%)

Castle of Cagliostro (59%) vs Once Upon a Time in the West (41%)

Round 1 Group L

North by Northwest (22%) vs Arrietty (78%)

Scream (53%) vs War and Peace (1966/1967) (47%)

Arrival (18%) vs The Rocky Horror Picture Show (82%)

Little Shop of Horrors (1986) (55%) vs Night at the Museum (45%)

Round 1 Group M

Steven Universe: The Movie vs Atlantis: The Lost Empire

Everything Everywhere All at Once vs Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Rise of the Guardians vs She's the Man

Pacific Rim vs Treasure Planet (2002)

Round 1 Group N

Deadpool vs Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse

Pitch Perfect vs Get Out

The Perks of Being a Wallflower vs Mad Max: Fury Road

Inception vs The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Round 1 Group O

The Princess Diaries vs Paddington

Pride vs Velvet Goldmine

Shrek 2 vs The Devil Wears Prada

Saw vs But I'm a Cheerleader

Round 1 Group P

Evil Dead 2 vs Nope

Whip It vs I Love You Phillip Morris

Jennifer's Body vs Ginger Snaps

Bodies Bodies Bodies vs The Social Network

Round 1 Group Q

The Mummy (1999) vs The Silence of the Lambs

Fight Club vs The History of Future Folk

Cyrano vs Beetlejuice

Die Hard vs While You Were Sleeping

Round 1 Group R

Cocaine Bear vs Boy Meets Girl

Clue vs Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Among Thieves

Coco vs Wendell & Wild

The Lost Boys vs Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

[on-partiality]

I love your posts! How do you study and what do you read to know so much?

Yay! I get to recommend my favourite sources!

So for primary sources (first-hand accounts, letters written by people who were involved or connected to a certain event or person) I recommend:

https://founders.archives.gov/ - has lots of transcripts of letters written by or to the founding fathers.

https://www.loc.gov/ - has a wide range of revolutionary war related material like manuscripts, transcripts, maps, books and more made or written by the soldiers of the time.

https://www.masshist.org/ - has online exhibitions featuring maps, accounts of events, letters, artifacts and drawings relating to 18th century Massachusetts, the colony most important when studying the early years of the revolutionary war. I really like their Bunker hill exhibit and their one on the early days of the revolutionary war

https://clements.umich.edu/exhibit/spy-letters-of-the-american-revolution/ - an online exhibition on the Culper Spy Ring and military intelligence from both sides of the war featuring letters that directly affected the war's battles and the outcomes of said battles. It's also got mini biographies, a timeline and lots of anecdotes.

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/amerrev.asp - Just a lot of documents in chronological order starting from a year before the Stamp Act was passed by parliament to the surrender at Yorktown. Just try to ignore the misspelling of the word 'Britain'.

https://www.archives.gov/exhibits - admittedly not a site I'm very well acquainted with however I used it as a source in my really long post about standard Continental army soldier uniforms and it was very pleasant.

https://guides.bpl.org/primarysources/revolutionarywar - I love this one, they have so many resources and if you click on the link and scroll down it'll give you a nice list of places to find information on the five most popular founding fathers and just underneath that you can find lists of information on important political events.

All 6 American Archive volumes by Peter Force - I dream of one day having these books, they're the holy grail for anyone wanting to learn about the revolutionary war. They're filled with correspondence, state papers and debates from the war and I want them BADLY

I will make a separate post for tumblr users that I use as sources sometimes because there's too many of you people and frankly I want to get all of you in without having this post be absurdly long