their gnc swagger...

My name is Ethan. I am currently losing it a bit with stress, I'm working with over 100 Palestinian families directly across multiple social media platforms. I'm really, really, really desperate. I have been losing sleep and struggling to eat.

Here is the post that my friend Henry @littlegermanboy made explaining the situation on my behalf. Take a look.

Two people reached out to me asking me to connect them with somebody who can create a GoFundMe, my two friends Hamada and Mohammed. But so far, I haven't received any tangible help. Those who say they can help me have let me down. While it's nothing compared to the suffering in Gaza, this situation is starting to take a serious toll on my mental and physical help.

You can also boost my posts about this on Instagram, Threads, & Facebook.

—

Caroline Narby, “On My Butchness” (The Toast)

I thought this was so spot-on, thoughtful, and well-written.

Is she constantly villainized by the fandom for it? Forced into the role of wingwoman for her canonical lover? Killed off in order for other characters to get together? Generally mistreated due to her love interest? If so, she might be a victim of yaoi!

Rules

Characters must be women (cis or trans)

Characters must be mistreated by the fandom (I won't be checking too hard)

Don't submit the same character multiple times, but you can submit as many characters as you want

No terfs or bigots of any other kind

No real people or minecraft rp characters

Link below!

Tags under the cut

Lady Ignis Solon (@containmentbreach, art by @mechanomorphic) vs. Alice Luoja (@cantdanceflynn & @pyxehastoomanyinterests)

Lady Ignis Solon info:

Description: ignis is a member of a noble family from her home dimension, where shadowy, demonic creatures make their home and occasionally emerge to hunt, kill and eat lesser beings (who are pretty much anyone, by their standards). ignis takes a lot of pride in her position, despite not seeming particularly…happy. but "happy" is a relative word. she has mothered thirteen children (demon noble families are expected to be large and can include up to 20-25 children. twins, triplets, etc. are also more common) with the king of the realm, despite not being attracted to men in the slightest. she views this as her duty granted to her through her position. commoners from her realm are allowed to marry freely without regard to gender, but ignis isn't jealous of them.

not even a little bit. seriously like not at all.

ignis' preferred hunting grounds is the planet known as "earth," and she has personally trained each of her thirteen children to be the toothy shadows that hide in your house when you think you're alone. well, she's trained twelve of them. she's run into a slight hiccup with the thirteenth, who seems to be getting a little attached to her human target. but that's all right. she'll come around.

ignis enjoys black tea, playing the piano, and horror novels. she views them as some of the few things humans have gotten right.

Crimes:

-well the cannibalism. she did like tons of that. i guess it's not really considered cannibalism if she herself is not a human? but she ate humans is the point i'm trying to make

-she has also committed some regular murders. of humans and of other members of her species.

-does not understand her kids. she loves them but she does not Get them. it tends to frustrate her.

-she basically has very little regard for human laws in general and breaks them as often as she can get away with. if she does get in trouble she lies low for a little while in her dimension, then sets up a new place to live. this means of course that she does commit tax evasion often and well.

Other notes from the submitter: ignis is in a lot of ways a love letter to moms who get shit on by fandom for not understanding their kids. 90% of the time the amount of hate they get is just misogyny tbh! ignis is bad in a lot of ways but she's not a bad mom, even if she comes off as that at first because the story she's in is from the perspective of her daughter and the human she got attached to. people would probably still make discourse about her and shit on her but i do not care because i adore her and i adore fucked up moms in general. and if you don't that's a you issue.

Alice Luoja info:

Description: A Phineas and Ferb background character design turned oc, an old woman basically obsessed with finding or creating godlike perfection. How she does it doesn't matter to her, even if she has to go to lengths beyond what any respectable evil scientist would. She practically adopted Professor Mystery, taking him in as a son when his parents disappeared, although she tends to use him for her own purposes rather then taking good care of him. Greatly manipulative and ruthless, she attempts to run things from behind the scenes all while constantly, zealously, searching for that perfection. Depending on her role in any given au or story with the cast, what she's searching for in that perfection is different, but in her major ones, godlike perfection is more literal. She's also a disaster lesbian cannibal.

Crimes: Well, murder, dismantling of bodies, eating the bodies, child abuse, child murder, platonic (and only platonic I promise she's literally a mom) grooming, basically being a mini cult leader, generally being a mad scientist as part of L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N.s inner circle with no respect for Doof's morals, blood letting in this day and age for both trans and non-trans reasons, dismemberment, eye gouging of both dead and alive people(including an approx 9 year old), not fucking staying dead like she's William Afton, several curses on items, hoarding, desecration, religious zealotry, being a piss-poor mother even tho she'd actually be a rly good parent if she wasn't scared of being emotionally attached to her own fucking son, lots of murder if you hadn't got the drift she's basically a slasher horror villain in disguise, giving multiple people eating disorders, letting a sentient robot escape tower back onto earth in Knife Roomba form, doesn't know how stores work and just steals everything, poisoning so many people alive, general war crimes, mass murder, attempting to destroy the universe, breaking several peoples limbs, creating a time loop to trap Candace in a state of never being able to avoid killing her loved ones, using her son to specifically torture the cast consistently regardless of how he feels about it into seeing visions of their loved ones being destroyed horrible and usually killed at their hands, encouraging self harm and suicide, she breaks peoples bones a few times, I can't stress the manipulative cult leader thing enough this bitch does blood sacrifices whenever, she's just kinda a loser also.

Other notes from the submitter: SHES CALLED "THE BITCH" BY US FOR A REASON

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.

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.

One train per media per person.

Propaganda not only allowed but encouraged.

SCHEDULE:

Pre-polls/submissions: 12pm EST 4.8.23 to 12pm EST 4.15.23

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

we have seen polls for everything, from @bestbutchbracket to @worstdadbracket to @mostannoyingfandom-poll to the hyperspecific population polls by @inthefallofasparrow , to name but a few of my faves. and how to forget the iconic bug race.

here, finally, is the Worst Ship Showdown!

here's how it will work:

- i will post a submissions form at some point before the end of the week; submissions will be open until i decide to close them, and y'all will have a few days' notice for submission closures

- no harry potter, no hetalia, no homestuck. why? cos it's my blog that's why.

- i will seed the bracket according to submissions received

- polls will last a week!

- propaganda is allowed but i won't reblog any on here

i apologize if something similar has been done before, but i have not seen it.

Matchup #6.3: Gabriel Agreste (Miraculous Ladybug) vs Trexel Geistman (Stellar Firma)

One spot left on the podium, two contenders! Before the Grand Finals, let's see who takes the bronze medal home!

On the left, we see a fashion designer & our resident meme, Gabriel Swaglesste Agreste from Miraculous Ladybug! Throughout the tournament, he conquered a vampire, Satan himself, and even one teenager. His presence was iconic enough to warrant its own propaganda tag and inspire super detailed meme coverage. With multiple nominations, he has made it into the bracket for:

the monarch outfit (above) and all other Hawkmoth outfits (one below, for other ones, click on the links!)

that "fucking peppermint tie & bright red pants (below)

the all-white skin-tight suit with pointy shoes" (below)

triangle hair which he often hides under a shiny bald cap

villain costumes that he creates for others

On the right, we have Trexel Geistman from the podcast Stellar Firma: yet another powerful presence in the tournament. While Gabe inspired memes, Trexel inspired art and even fanfiction: voting Trexel was supported even by his VA and Stellar Firma creator. Ultimately, Trexel was taken out by Teru, having been in the lead until the last 10 minutes of the semifinals voting. As you let me know, his notable Fashion Choices include:

wearing three pairs of sunglasses and four hats simultaneously, as well as multicolored wigs he bathes in

gills surgically implanted in armpits

carrying around a dead fish in a fanny pack

being implied to have pocket vermin

being depicted in a variety of Interesting Outfits by fanartists and cosplayers! -> full propaganda posts we received for more info can be found here and here! Also, a fine audio selection documenting his Fashion & Hygiene Crimes can be found here!

Let the third place voting begin! May the Worst Dressed win