#so:

Whether the paintings and tapestries of legendary events made by the city's denizens are accurate

Whether Glorfindel should be shown tapestries depicting his fall

Balrogs don't look like that

Whether Osgiliath really was as pretty as they say

Whether Osgiliath or Annuminas was prettier

Whether the Rohirrim resemble the house of Hador much

Whether Aredhel would have gotten on well with Eowyn (difficult question because on the one hand - gestures at everything - and on the other: Aredhel was a difficult person at times, had never met one of the secondborn and would likely have mortally offended the other within ten minutes)

Another Gondorian woman looking a bit like Lúthien

Why do Lúthien look-alikes turn up generations upon generations after Elros

Does Minas Tirith feature too many stone walls and too little greenery

Is there something wrong with the Noldor for not minding being cooped up within stone walls

There having still been far more greenery in Tirion last time the exiles had been there (7000 years ago)

Whether Tirion was much changed last time Glorfindel had been there (3000 years ago)

Whether Gondorians naming their children after Túrin of all people is taking things a bit too far

Whether an inkeeper should be informed his prized family heirloom is an elvish dinner knife

Whether a courtier should be informed his prized family heirloom had been made by Curufin because on the one hand he might consider it cool, and on the other hand - Curufin

Whether a certain type of cake should best be eaten hot or cold

Beginning the evening of August 23rd, 2024 (USA time), I’ll be running a tournament via tumblr polls to determine once and for all which Mo Xiang Tong Xiu web novel character was or would be most insufferable if given access to the internet.

FAQ:

Why this poll theme?

I thought it would be fun to run another big MXTX tournament bracket, since the bugpoll last year was a blast, and this was the funniest theme I could manage to think of.

Why isn't Shen Yuan/Shen Qingqiu in the bracket?

Given what we know about our dear Peerless Cucumber, I fear an SQQ sweep would be a foregone conclusion if I included him. Therefore, after the bracket finds a winner, I'll hold a bonus round and pit the winner against Shen Yuan to determine the true most internet-insufferable character.

What is wrong with you?

Yeah.

My goal is to hold one round per day every day for a week, but I'm contending with a full-time work schedule, so things may get slightly more stretched out than that. I'll also be splitting the first round into Round 1 Part 1 (the left side of the bracket) and Round 1 Part 2 (the right side of the bracket) to avoid spamming people's dashes with 32 separate polls in one day.

If you’d like to either search for or blacklist posts related to this event, all of mine will be tagged with “MXTX insufferapoll.”

The full list of matches is under the readmore here. Happy voting!

Oh, yeah, let's go looking for the supposedly-dead ex-ruler of the Faerie Kingdom! That'll go great! Where would he even be?

The former faerie meandered in the Silver Woods for a bit, steering clear of larger settlements like Faeriewood and Sugarcrest.

A... moderately-sized slime caught the agent's eye.

"Odd," they muttered, "Slimes don't usually live here."

The slime, upon hearing Wincent's voice, startled, before jumping away as fast as it's slime-y body could go.

"Ah--! Wait!"

[ @cookies-and-stars ]

[Be warned, this is ELDER PRICK territory. Shocking, I know.]

Gelato had not meant to be noticed by the strange faerie that was wandering around near Papa’s house. But they had noticed it, and now the slime was panicking.

It burbled a worried noise, but couldn’t do much else than try to go faster— aaaaand the faerie caught them in midair.

Soooo @angelfruittree and I have actually been musing on a new Clegan (and others) project together that I don’t think either of us have mentioned yet! The general gist is that Bucky’s a line cook in an upscale restaurant, Gale’s a pastry chef in a nice small scale bakery, and it’s probably gonna wind up being equal parts fluffy, smutty, and angsty as fuck ❤️ and you’re in luck, I’ve actually made a mood board for it for Bucky using the pictures Sail found for our board on Pinterest (I am still Very Very Bad at Pinterest so I’m grateful we’re working together lol, plus she’s full of so many great ideas for brainstorming!!)