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hi thereeee i realize i said i was going to try and run bbb 2024 this month but i'll be real college is kicking my ass at the moment and i'm unsure if i'll have time. i do want to run it again for sure it'll just have to wait until there's less going on in my real life

#yayyy higher educationnnn. very weak cheering

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I know it was a while ago since this was concluded and idk if you still check this account, but oh my god finally someone gets me with Susie in your profile picture and that damn suit. That image made me go CRAZY when it was first leaked and im surprised it hasnt been drawn more 😭 if only the Deltarune fandom wasnt a lesbophobic hellhole :( We need more ppl appreciating susie's butch swag

HELLLLL YEAH i fucking love this image it makes me so happy. she's fucking dapper! we can always hope for a renewed appreciation when the new chapters come out i suppose....

...and also to anyone else who is still checking this blog. should class workload permit me. something exciting may be happening in february :)

#now to remember what i tag stuff on here as. #busks (butch asks)

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putting this on this blog because it is relevant kind of and also i sort of need to feel like i'm not shouting into the void. your butch character does not always have to be a peppy extroverted "stupid" (in terms of traditional logical intelligence) fighter with a big sword. there are butches who are goth or emo, there are butches who are shy and awkward, there are butches who are artistic and flamboyant, there are butches who are nerdy and bookish (hi, it's me, i'm like three and a half of these!) let your mage character be butch! let your royal character be butch! let your techie character be butch! i don't know when literally everything that wasn't based around athletics became Girly. why am i seeing a character who has never showed any interest in being perceived as feminine and whose primary skillset revolves around economics and politics being described as femme just because her love interest is somewhat more warlike. why am i seeing princess bubblegum's more masculine presenting alternate universe self be presumed to be less intelligent than the original when they are Literally The Same Character. as someone who has never considered many of my interests particularly feminine before it feels so. i don't know if dysphoric is the right word. Weird and Bad to see the incredible minority of sapphic characters i can actually relate to be reduced to the Girl Ones because having one butch in a relationship is already toeing the line for a lot of people, god forbid we have two, right?!?

also this is not me bashing on stuff like the girl knight trope. i love the girl knight trope. there are fighter gals who i absolutely adore. and i'm happy we have literally any kind of positive rep to enjoy when a couple years back a lesbian who "acts like a man" was seen as either something to be fixed or something to be feared. and not every piece of media you like has to have a character you can personally relate to in it. it just starts to feel really tiring and isolating after a while. and i feel like i can't be the only one.

also while we're here this is not a butch woman.

#but hey on the bright side!! look forward to something neat in february. #also i want to post on here more often just in general. #college and stuff though. you know how it is. #okay to reblog #(but you don't have to i'm sort of just venting)

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“Butch is a trickster gender—and so, in a similar way, is femme. Lesbian gender expressions do not emulate heteropatriarchy, they subvert it. Femme removes femininity from the discursive shadow of masculinity and thereby strips from it any connotation of subordination or inferiority. Butch takes markers of “masculinity” and divests them of their association with maleness or manhood. Butchness works against the gender binary—the masculine/feminine paradigm—and reclaims for women the full breadth of possibilities when it comes to gender expression.”

—

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

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

(via malindalo)

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My fave pic ever. Like i would die for these women. Id do things against my better judgement

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Does your fave stand in the way of a popular m/m ship?

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

@blorbopoll2 @who-do-i-know-this-man @girlbosstourney @red-black-aesthetic-bout @blueboybracket @scrunkly-tournament @irlcats-bracket @ultimateredheadbracket @babygirl-beatdown @tournamentdirectory

#rbing here too because I Would Hope the majority of my followers here support women fucked over by fandom

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butches with long hair photoset! all of these photos are from Meg Allen, a photographer who has a photo series featuring all kinds of butches. check out her website for more butch pictures!

#oh check it out!! <3

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butches with long hair photoset! all of these photos are from Meg Allen, a photographer who has a photo series featuring all kinds of butches. check out her website for more butch pictures!

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ROUND 1 / SIDE B / POLL 1

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

#hesitant to use this blog to sway people because of its follower count but eh. #can we get an ignis sweep folks <3 #sadly she's not a butch but her partner is. #they've got a gomez and morticia thing going.

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Welcome to the fictional train fight!

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

There’s some flexibility to this because it’s for fun and train cool, so feel free to make suggestions!

#common autistic w #other brackets

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hello everyone!

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.

can't think of anything else, so! may the worst ship win!

#fantastic poll idea #other brackets

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Round 3: Rachel "Bitch" Lindt (Worm) vs. Kohaku (Tsukihime)

(rachel art by @lizardinkart)

#rachel lindt fans here's a poll you can vote for her in :)

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THIRD PLACE: FINAL BATTLE!!

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

#DUDE HOW DID TREXEL START LOSING AGAIN. #guys. i need you guys to do this for me. please please please.

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HUGE WOMEN

we are currently enjoying an increase in the number of big women in media, and as a known big woman aficionada, I think it's time we start appreciating the truly huge.

this poll is for all the big women who don't make it onto the top tens, onto the most populars, onto the polls. the big women who are too masculine, not "appealing" enough, who are just too damn big for most of the world to appreciate. she can be tall, she can be fat, she can be jacked as hell, but she must be huge.

Submission Rules:

fictional women only. it's complicated gender situations may be submitted with elaboration.

the character must be BIG. tiny girls with mascara abs are not big.

one-timers are not allowed. women who are temporarily big are welcome, but it cannot be a one-off joke or single episode premise. has to be regularly recurring

huge is relative. a giant woman from a race of giants who is normal woman sized among them but huge among the main cast will be considered after a woman who is huge even among her people. Amazon scenarios, where every woman could be a candidate for this contest are exempt from this rule

submission link

#AWESOME poll idea #other brackets

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ROUND 5 (SEMIFINALS)

Matchup #5.2: Teru Hanazawa (Mob Psycho 100) vs Trexel Geistman (Stellar Firma) vs Miuccia Miuller (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure)

The other Great Three! By now, we can probably all agree that their Fashion is at the very least questionable, but who's the worst? Who deserves a spot in the finals, to compete for the Tumblr's no. 1 Fashion Disaster title? There can only be one!

On the left side, we see Teru. Oh Teru. His fashion sense brought down even Mr. Agreste, temporarily, but can he stand against his powerful semifinals competition? Here are a few of his (illustrated) Fashion Crimes:

wearing a three foot wig which causes him to resemble a cactus (above)

picking out that horrible monkey shirt that you could see in the Mob poll for Mob (it was so bad it defeated god)

certain... official promo art and official fanbook outfits (below)

In the middle, Trexel Geistman from the podcast Stellar Firma has just returned from the Losers land, by popular vote, to try again! 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!

Finally, on the right, stands menacingly Miuccia or Miu Miu, from the most recently animated Jojo part. Curious what her nomination listed among her Fashion Sins?

her skirt has upside down text that says "h8t" and "shotfud"

are those eyeballs???

her eyebrows,,,

her coat looks vaguely like intestines (or brain I guess??)

her hair "looks like a bolt hit her in a cartoon"

Make your judgment: whose Outfits deserve jail time?

#BUTCHES I'M REQUESTING AID. #i am BEGGING you to vote trexel even if you haven't listened to the podcast. #(you should btw if you're okay with grossout humor but that's beside the point.) #i'm SO fucking ill about it i would go so crazy if he won this. #or even made it to the finals because the rush of a character from my nothing show beating a mp100 character #would literally light me up like a fucking battery. in a good way. #come on. come on. come on. do it for me.

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Hi!!!! 💕 sorry to bother you i mean no disrespect,i really don't know what sort of opener to get you to talk to me but I'm a sugarmommy, and i'm pretty new here. I'm looking for an honest sugarbaby, it doesn't necessarily have to be SEXUAL, and i'll reward you with a fair weekly allowance....looking forward to hearing from you..💕feel free to send a dm ☺️🥰

sorry ma'am i'm not that desperate. yet. i would enjoy a lesbian relationship with a robot but i don't think you're sentient enough to murder your creator and so i am not interested. come back in like 20 years

#smh...what's a guy gotta do to get this kinda attention from the real ladies...

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How this has not been done yet !?

So yesterday at 2am I was thinking if anyone had ever done a tournament dragons, and to my surprise, apparently no! Honnestly a surprise for our favorite hellsite known for all the monster... lovers...

Anyway, here is the Official 2023 Bracketed Competition for determine Tumblr's favorite dragon, where you can submit your favorite flying reptile here.

Feel free to ask me anything, correct me for anything, or do your propaganda when the time comes.

Just some basics rules :

No Dinosaur-like creatures, this will be a bit too much (for example i plan to involve King Gidorah but not Godzilla)

Must be a character, not a race (drake, wyrm...)

Shapeshifting characters are OK

No NSFW

Don't submit real dragons

Be cool :^)

Inspired by @bestbutchbracket, @worstcharacterpoll, @silentprotagcompetition, @autismswagsummit, @transgenderswagcompetition, @gaybadguystournament, @littleguyshowdown <3 <3 <3 <3

And all other great bracket on this hellsite (honestly i have like 20 blogs to tag but i consider that it will a bit too luch lol, just take a look at @competition-list)

(Also this is the first time that I do such a thing, and my native language is not english, so please please please be nice)

#AWESOME #i love dragons a lot. as may be obvious by the fact that i was a wings of fire kid. #other brackets