Be Gay Do Witchcraft

- Also an inventor, he and Stanford would get along in that regard

-Growing up in a poor area, he never had any formal training/schooling and used to work in a shop with his father figure so he’s a genius inventor that figured out all of the technical work ON HIS OWN!

-Last remaining black man in this year’s Tumblr Sexyman poll

-Childhood best friend/crush ended up hurting a lot of his loved ones due to mental illness and unresolved trauma, he shows her compassion and tries to support her during her worst moments (literally invented a way to rewind time for a few seconds and rewinds time over and over again causing harm to himself just to stop her from committing suicide) but doesn’t show her complete mercy when she’s actively harming people and will fight her as much as he doesn’t want to when it comes to protecting others.

-Created a resistance movement and protects those that seek refuge. Gives people hope and a chance at a better life in this little man made oasis amidst the political turbulence and world of despair.

-Man got sent to another dimension where he had his happy ending and got together with his childhood crush and gave it up so 1) he could go back to his world and actually continue to work towards the happy ending his people deserved and 2) the Ekko of his dimension could have his life back. Man knew it wasn’t right to stay there and stuck to good morals!!!

-He has his silly moments and serious moments but when it comes down to it he’s been through a lot. Lost his father figure, his older sister figure, his childhood crush, his friends, witnessed police brutality, the effects of some of his found family being groomed/going down a dark path, and he STILL chose kindness and he STILL chooses to keep moving forward and he STILL shows compassion to others, but not weakness. This man ended up growing up alone and left behind and STILL fights for a better world for everyone, whereas the rest of the main/side characters end up doing shit for themselves most of the time.

-This young adult man has been through so much from family trauma to dimension hopping and is still intelligent and resourceful and kind enough to continue creating new inventions for people. He and Stanford Pines would bond over the similar situations they’ve been through and interests they have and Stanford would love to pass the torch down to the younger generation that’s proven that they can handle the work.

-I saw some people questioning his age. For anyone questioning his age, all characters in the sexyman polls have been verified to be of adult age. For any doubters, Ekko is estimated to be around 19-20years old by the end of the Arcane S2 finale. For League of Legends depending on the game type/season arc/cosmetic skin/promotional animation he is depicted anywhere from teenage age to up to around 27years old, though no age has been explicitly confirmed afaik.

For anyone that wants a more superstitious route: this sexyman poll is known to coincide with the death of prominent figures around the world.

In its first year Sans Undertale won, a skeleton working himself to the bone running a small independent business of a hot dog stand in a lower class area, won. The Queen of England died. Common ground: Sans lived in an area that had a retired queen and a king that had to be overthrown.

Last year, Stanley Pines from Gravity Falls won, an older man who was raised Jewish yet is canonically an atheist. The Pope, head of the Catholic Church, died.

Now let’s consider the implications for a black man winning. Perhaps, a racist would have an untimely demise? Who knows! Only time would tell of unforeseen circumstances not legally related to this poll!

PLEASE consider voting Ekko, at least let him tie please!! Stanford’s brother won last year and both of them are in this poll again. Gomez is still in the running!! There’s a lot of serious competition and Ekko should genuinely be considered for a fighting chance! Please consider this propaganda in your voting opinions!

More media:

tumblr user wizard0rb's video essay choice awards:

(note: i'm using the term "video essay" to broadly refer to long form videos on youtube. not all of these are essays)

The Other Half of the West (A Travelogue) - Noah Caldwell-Gervais

This one goes at the top of the list in the hopes that you read it first, it sticks in your mind the most, and you watch it in full. Genuine contender for greatest piece of long form content on Youtube. Noah makes videos about games as well, but this is his best work imo.

Metal Gear Solid 4 was a Mistake - Steak Bentley

The definitive take on an absolutely insane piece of fiction. Funny enough that you can enjoy it even if you don't know anything about MGS. Steak Bentley is genuinely one of the best to ever do it.

THE PISS SAGA | Short Documentary - Derek Milton

A brief investigative documentary concerning the bottles of human piss that keep mysteriously appearing on an electrical box in California.

who firebombed friendlyjordies? - friendlyjordies

0% clickbait- someone firebombed Australian Youtuber friendlyjordies' house, and this is the video he made trying to figure out who did it.

The Tyler Perry Video - F.D Signifier

I was struggling to pick a single FD video for this list (because they're all so good), so I went with his most recent one. Go watch this video and then go watch all his other videos.

a normal creepypasta retrospective - hazel

An exceptionally good retrospective on some interesting creepypastas like The Peeker, Gabbit Rabbits, ShareThis, etc.

The Unreality of Pro Wrestling: FINISH THE STORY - Super Eyepatch Wolf

I wasn't originally going to put an Eyepatch Wolf video on here, for the same reason there's no hbomberguy or Defunctland- I feel like most people are already familiar with his stuff. But this video made me go from not giving a fuck about pro wrestling at all, to being deeply invested in a fight between 2 dudes I had previously never heard of, so it makes the list.

NEED FOR SPEED - A Brief History - Noodle

I want you to close your eyes and enter the Theatre of the Mind with me. Imagine, if you will, a reality in which Sequelitis was extremely good, and also made by someone else. Now open your eyes. You were so powerful that you brought that vision back with you into the material world.

The search for the saddest punt in the world | Chart Party - Secret Base

Jon Bois of 17776 fame once again making compelling football media that is accessible to the layman.

Art in the Pre-Apocalypse - Jacob Geller

My favorite video from a channel that pretty much never makes bad videos, Jacob Geller talks about living at the cusp of the end of the world. And also Final Fantasy

BONUS SINCE I'M HERE: OTHER NOTABLE YOUTUBE VIDEOS I ENJOY

these are just some youtube videos i like. no description because i think you should experience them without pretense

Badass swords AND grim reapers.

how to make pickle pepsi at home for free

Homemade dinosaur documentary

When the lights go out at night #shorts #viral

Drinking Orange Crush

Hermeto Pascoal - Música da Lagoa (Sinfonia do Alto Ribeira, 1985)

Center Core Never More

Lil’ Slimer - Online Video

My Movie

Japanese toilet experience 1

When you play games in your dreams, you don't use a controller, do you?

Cocaine & Crack

Give it All You've Got

the first year at her new school in a new town, things are... different, but also not. she makes friends immediately. and she's still that spitfire—keeping secrets, running around, getting into trouble. just teenagers being teenagers, probably. the year ends, and summer happens, and she's yet again another kind of different. your ex-husband says she was distant all summer; says he couldn't get through to her. he just let her shop out whatever the problem was. then, she seems kind of okay again—but the whole rest of that second year feels like one big downwards spiral; a spiral you don't understand, can't see the storm behind—you just know there's something. she's acting out, breaking rules, her principal says she's trouble; she's constantly distracted, constantly irresponsible, constantly at risk of expulsion, and she doesn't STOP—like she doesn't even care, or doesn't understand.

she kills a man. or, almost kills him, you learn, and she had good reason (he was your boyfriend and, it turns out, a controlling, backwards-thinking, abusive asshole), but. the way she fought him—you've never seen anything like it before. she wouldn't stop. and she lies and lies and won't give you even the slightest hint to work from, and you're maybe wondering, what did i do wrong? is this normal? did i do something wrong, get something wrong along the way, with her? you know she took the separation kind of hard, even if she didn't seem to on the surface—and that's how she is with everything. happy-go-lucky, nothing touches her, but then she burns down a gym and gets kicked out of school and that can't have come from nowhere. she beats your abusive boyfriend until he falls down the stairs and doesn't wake up and that can't have come from nowhere.

and then. you start to see, maybe, the middle-bottom of the spiral, the eye of the storm, happening in front of your very eyes, and you're trying to reach her through it, and you can't. her seventeenth birthday; she starts it happy and bright and asking about her driver's permit. then, the next morning, she's... off. anxious, maybe? sad? you ask if she's okay and get the same token answer: yeah, fine—like you're an idiot for thinking anything could possibly be wrong. and then by that night—the night you've set aside for you and her to celebrate together; small, cozy, like you always do—she's shut down. quiet. she's on the couch, watching the old romance you put on, and she looks like everything's been drained from her. she looks like her whole world's dropped right out from under her. she looks away, and you look at her and just-- look, and your heart breaks, a little and then a lot, because you ask what she did for her birthday and she says "i grew up". you tell her to make a wish on her candle and she says "i'll just let it burn". she's falling away from you, and you don't know if you can catch her fast enough. you don't know if you can catch her at all. but you can hold her, for now.