#voting round 1

[poetrysmackdown]

Visit "To The Young Who Want To Die" if you'd like to hear it read by the author!

[onepiece-polls]

One Piece Crack Ship War - Round 1 Side C

'Pepsi shipping' art by @orange-artist

Propaganda under the cut.

Foxy Grandpa: After submitting my previous ship, I thought of the ship name, thought, "Oh that's cursed", and therefore had to inflict the curse unto others. God please let this get eliminated round 1. The world is a cruel and unfeeling place if it allows this to exist as a thought in human minds for longer than the bare minimum amount of time.

Pepsi shipping: Daddy issues + fun hair colors + she'd sing and he'd play guitar + Sanji would cry.

[eurevision]

Eurevision category: Taqwacore

Broadly, Taqwacore is punk music with an Islamic bent. After an extra day for submissions (and a broadened category-- now you don't have to just submit taqwacore, rather, any Arab punk), you all came through and posted some great stuff. Thank you. The result is this bloody, messy, fun mix. Vote for which song fights its way out of the mosh pit and onto the stage with the other winners. You have until Saturday night.

The songs:

Jihadi, Jihadi, by Haram

Layla, by The Kominas

Sma3, by Taqbir

There Their They're, by The Muslims

School Revolution, by Voice of Baceprot

Burn the Witch, by Pinkshift

Forced Down Your Throat, by Fearless Iranians from Hell

Anti-Israel, by Troublesome

Twist That Knife, by The Kominas

American Police, by Haram

Aisha Qandisha, by Taqbir

Truth's Eternal Sun, by Al-Thawra

The poll says 'one week,' only because 'three days' is not an option.

[best-female-villain-tournament]

Round 1b

[hybrid-battle]

[bestanimal]

Round 1 - Phylum Priapulida

(Sources - 1, 2, 3, 4)

Priapulida is a phylum of unsegmented marine worms commonly known as “Penis Worms,” due to their general shape and retractable proboscis.

Like kinorhynchs (which seem to be their closest relatives) they live in the mud of shallow waters worldwide. Larger species tend to live in colder seas while smaller species live in warmer waters. They range from 0.2–0.3 cm to 39 cm (15.35 in) long. Their body is divided into a main trunk/abdomen and a swollen proboscis region, called the presoma, ornamented with ridges. The presoma, with the mouth at the tip, can be retracted into the trunk and is used in locomotion as well as in feeding. Members of the family Chaetostephanidae secrete a gelatinous tube, open in both ends, which they live in. Most families are carnivores that feed on slow moving invertebrates such as annelids, but some feed on detritus while others are filter-feeders. They have separate sexes, and usually breed by releasing sperm and eggs into the water, though at least one species is known for internal fertilization.

Priapulid-like fossils are known from the Middle Cambrian, with modern groups appearing in the Carboniferous. They were likely major predators of the Cambrian seas. The mouth of priapulids seems to be an original trait inherited from the last common ancestor of both priapulids and arthropods, though arthropods no longer possess it.

Propaganda under the cut

pingas

Please keep in mind that I am ordering phyla from furthest related to us to closest related to us. Of all the different groups of animals covered so far that we call worms, these are the closest related to us. And I think that’s beautiful.

Some species are very tolerant of hydrogen sulfide, anoxia, and low salinity. They are ~survivors~

In an Alaskan bay as many as 85 adult individuals and 58,000 larvae of Priapulus caudatus per square meter have been recorded. That’s a lot of penis worms!

They don’t even know they look like human penises. Imagine if giant aliens came to earth and made fun of us because we looked like their genitalia.

Okay but would you love your partner if they were a penis worm?

[hotvintagepoll]

Am I entirely too basic if Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant are my faves?

nope! I don’t judge anyone for having “basic”/“not basic” taste. Judgement free zone :)

[worst-sexyman-tournament]

round one

Benrey vs. Turbo

*as in, a character that either wasn't popular on tumblr or isn't sexy, other arbitrary criteria is welcome

[war-criminal-showdown]

[typefacetournament]

ROUND 1 OVER

I'd do actual stats on these, but I'm still not at my PC. New polls up soonish, one group per day like before.

The highest-seeded loser was Times New Roman (1) against American Typewriter (128); the highest-seeded submitted loser was Garamond (6) against Martel (123). The most controversial judging by the notes was The Unseen (108) beating Impact (21).

[painfullyprickedandticked]

Hellaverse crack ship tournament: Stolas edition

After seeing so many ship tournaments turn out unfairly bc they pit a certain popular ship against another, I decided to make a mostly fair tournament where it isn't just a popular noncanon ship vs another. Instead, it's all crack ships!

I evened it out and added crossover HB x HH ships I saw even, so you get to have something to fall back on if there's an option you don't want to pick. I didn't add F/M ships solely because Stolas is homosexual and that'd be just wrong.

So without further ado, let the tournament begin! Here ye, here ye - come battle for the best Stolas crackship!

[I picked at random and what I could find on fics and twitter.]

[onepiece-polls]

Best Man-Tits of One Piece - Round 1 Side B!

[ynfg-main-character-bracket]

Round 1, Match 16

Irving vs. Innard

[leeksoupforstardew]

Stardew babygirl smackdown round 1 battle 3

Sam vs Elliot

Sam pros & cons

Pros

Skater

Great big brother

Silly

Golden retriever boy

Cons

Man child

Plays wonderwall to flirt with you

Delinquent

Portrait sprite looks like Kraft mac and cheese

Elliott pros and cons

Pros

Writes books

Likes fancy stuff

Plays piano

Friends with the lovely fisherman

Cons

Thinks he’s either Mr Darcy or a fire emblem character

Plays the river flows in you to flirt with you

Maybe a merman is disguise

Has luscious hair despite living in a small cabin

[ohdorothea]

The winner from each match will move forward to the next round. More info and polls here. Gayest can mean whatever you want it to mean!! as long as it’s positive I am a bisexual person and I will block homophobes on sight <3

[hybrid-battle]