#underdog asks

[underdogarts]

im going to be so serious when i couldnt find your blog anymore i actually screamed "NOOO!!" out loud, i was so scared

Right after I was literally think about how it must look to just,,, unexplainably,,, the WHOLE blog is gone

#*touches the ground solemnly* what happened here #I’m gonna have people in like two years thinking I actually died #underdog asks

[presdestigatto]

i don’t understand the insistence media outlets have with assigning carlos the role of the underdog when the only reason he’s been second to charles has been his own performance. carlos is the one with the family wealth and the influential father in motorsport. he comes from a larger country than charles which means the pool of fans who would root for him is larger. everything is set up in his favour, there is barely a narrative to build here. “he came into charles’ team :((” yeah and he’s been consistently beaten in quali and race h2h of course ferrari are sticking with charles

charles is ferrari’s homegrown champion because he swept the junior series and he’s consistently showing great things. trying to usurp someone who has rightly earned their position is not justice, it’s schadenfreude

#tldr. the underdog you’re asking me to root for IS THE NEPO BABY?? #anti carlos sainz #was thinking like should i post this because i am Trying to not be a hater unless something has occured #and then i recall the f1tv waffle like yeah. yeah

[pianokantzart]

Not to be cringe Luaisy trash, but- what exactly do you think makes Daisy start crushing on Luigi? Is there a specific trait/moment that makes her go “….Oh. This green guy kinda rules.” or? (You can answer the same for Luigi too if you want, but I figured he may be a bit more obvious, haha! Unless you think he starts crushing on her for more unexpected reasons???)

I think it was a slow buildup of tiny traits.

The first thing that struck her was his clumsiness: the way he flails and fumbles the catch himself is while still earnestly putting himself out there. It evoked a certain sense of both endearment and protectiveness.

Next was how sweet and polite he was to the point of being a little bit of a doormat. That was when she started rooting for him above everyone else.

Then, Luigi showed how brave and capable actually he was, fighting alongside his brother to make sure that those who couldn't defend themselves were safe despite being terrified himself.

That was her "oh no" moment, when she realized she didn't just like him as a friend and a person she enjoyed hanging out with, she liked him liked him, and every time she thought about him she got that tell-tale flutter in her chest.

#Also don't worry friendo this is tumblr after all #If you can't talk about shipping here where can you talk about it? #askbox #anon #mario headcanons #luigi #princess daisy #luaisy #It was a steady transition from Daisy liking Luigi as an underdog she wanted to help out #to liking him as someone she enjoyed talking to and felt comfortable enough to be vulnerable around #to commissioning a giant statue of them dancing together and asking herself ''wait. Shoot. Am I in love???''

[elekilokal]

if the art is being scraped for AI training either way, why does it matter that Tumblr starts taking money for it? it changes literally nothing except that the site might survive a bit longer with the additional funding to combat how much money it's still loosing.

Because it’s not a logistical question it’s an ethical one. Partnering with a generative AI company which openly steals art and uses it to put the same people it steals from out of jobs is an ethical issue. “Scraping is going to happen anyways so let tumblr make money off of it!” And tell me why I should stick around for it? Why support a website that does not fight for us, but shakes hands with those who exploit us? Does tumblr, a corporation, need this money more than my mom who hasn’t had illustration work in months? Do they need it more than all of my visdev friends struggling to find jobs? I’m amazed that you’ll shill for tumblr as a company yet come into the ask box of one of many people that actually creates things you like and tell me to roll over and get exploited for their profit. Tell me why you like tumblr. Just for staff posts? Or for the artists and writers who provide endless entertainment for you everyday? I’m sorry for having the barest amount of conviction in taking down/ not posting art here anymore, but mine and my friend’s livelihoods are more important to me than tumblr’s profit margins.

#TLDR: tumblr is not an underdog compared to the artists they’re exploiting #I can’t believe you made me type out this long ass response this morning bro it’s just a website 🙄 #Tumblr anon when they see someone making a statement through personal action <- I must fight them with facts and logic! #ask

[rainbowresurrection]

#idk I'm so bored at work lmao #yes perhaps my description is dramatic #STTMP #tmp #star trek #star trek the motion picture #k/s #the Premise #its an underdog film that didnt ask to be born so lets at least agree on that & relate

[starflungwaddledee]

if starstruck Dee gets a comically large bow then Marc should have the comically large eyelashes

i was actually thinking that they both already have bows and eyelashes. consider: the ol' switcheroo

#starstruck is just like... nooo... not my recognisable silhouette...!!! anything but that!! #even though she usually has lashes the big dark ones look so silly on her?! 😂 marx would definitely share some falsies with her #this is the second marx of the shipaganza because i ended up without time to get to my more complex option today 😭 #tomorrow will also most likely be a bust as i have a big appointment and will be away. sorry!! doing my best tho!! #but i think if folks LIKE one of the suggested pairings/ships you could suggest more and it'll just be... well. more votes for them! #this is not *actually* a tourney. tho i suppose it... it COULD be?! but like... it'd be a bandee sweep almost certainly. so. #although actually there is someone else who has currently been suggested *three times*!! surprise underdog. anyway! #🎀💖 #<- also gonna start adding this as the tag just so folks can find all entries easily on my blog. or block it! that's important too. #my art #marx (kirby) #starstruck dee #asks

[peppermint-moss]

Everyone’s always like “I know you from your Trushpelt AMV!” But no one’s talking about your super sick, super angsty, and very clever “Fine, Great” Jayfeather animation, smh

aw haha thank you!

#ask #ppmpost #irisiscool #fine great jayfeather #thrushpelt does get a lot of hype lol tho in my own personal v subjective opnion i think hollyleaf sin triangle is the true underdog #i think i just like hollyleaf tho lmaoo + it was my first big amv that i was v proud of so it has a special lil place in my brain #i am v happy with how fine great turned out tho it was a toughie and it turned out well!

[redstonedust]

The thing u dont know is that Lizzie is batshit insane. she lead a villain group and blew up an entire server. she was a witch and used her flying mo key to abduct people. she finds weird ways to kill people for fun. sorry cub but lizzie is something else entirely from you

i mean cub is also insane is the thing. i think most mcyts have done things about that level of insane. however cub is so sexyman-ified by the fanbase that people will draw and write stuff set in seasons 5-6-7 and retroactively make him young and hot because they're down bad for the idea of eboy vex scientist man. thats why im campaigning cub till the bitter end <3

#asks #also lizzie is already in the lead so ofc im gonna campaign for the underdog smgmekgmke

[the-silver-peahen-residence]

*the Yagyu Twins Finally arrive at Kazuki and Rei's house as they loved the look at the place*

"I know, it takes a bit to keep it clean since Rei tends to play a lot of video games." Kazuki sighed happily but Rei had no comment.

"It's not my fault it keeps me busy at the time. You act more like a house wife than most." he said back.

"But even so, welcome to our home." Kazuki smiled to the Yagyu Twins.

#IC #silver roses #ask answered #muses answered #curious peahen and peacock #kazuki kurusu #the chill out assassin/hidden killer #rei suwa #underground silent assassin/underdog killer #dark-hybird-ninja

[svtskneecaps]

feel like the global tasks sweep strat should probably be nerfed somehow. my thought would be, give each team an individual ten minute overall cooldown on global task claims. that is to say, a certain team can only claim one global task per ten minutes. say, deliver gas masks, and then in ten minutes you're allowed to deliver tea, and then after another ten minutes you can claim hot chocolate.

another teams would be able to claim a global task for bananas during this time, and their own ten minute cooldown would start.

(the global tasks can either keep their individual ten minute cooldown [i.e. after tea is claimed no one else can claim tea for ten minutes] or a slightly shorter cooldown, say 5-7 minutes)

when a global task is claimed, everyone is notified, right? if not, in my hypothetical, they will be.

then, a team trying to sweep six tasks at once would actually take sixty minutes to do, allowing another team to swoop in and have a chance to stop it in cinematic, entertaining fashion rather than tubbo having to grind resources and then log out in front of the merchant to counter this, which is boring for everyone (including the person delivering). plus, if a team cuts it down to the last second and ends up getting delayed, they physically wouldn't have time to make a delivery, meaning even being a BIT of a nuisance could be a viable strategy, even if you can't manage to kill; if you can STALL you could still wreck their plans.

that's my dream anyway idk i'm not a game designer. just think it would be interesting for most players

(i elaborate under)

red team would have to shake up their strategies, which is fun since they're a team that kinda has to rely more on strategy than outright brawn (overall the team's pvp can't be relied on unless they have carre or phil, as seen today when pierre, bad, and etoiles attacked phil cellbit foolish and baghera, and cellbit and foolish both died to etoiles in the attack, despite it being a 4 on 1 at the time. baghera was killed by bad soon after. phil was the one to get the kills. the first day, when blue attacked [niki, tubbo, and bad as i recall] carre got both kills)

the other teams would then still have a way to stop a global sweep since a sweep would have to start earlier, allowing not only more time to arrive at global to pvp about it, but ALSO allowing another team to swoop in and steal the goal out from under the team again

i'm gonna use it in a scenario bc i'm badboyhalo and i can't stop myself from making examples:

so, tonight, if the proposed cooldown was in place, bad and tubbo would both still had roughly 17 minutes when red team would have HAD to start the sweep process if they wanted all six global tasks: 1 hour until the server closed at absolute MINIMUM. more for safety's sake.

therefore, in this scenario, there's a lot to happen

blue team could wait at globals, knowing red will probably try this strategy, and attempt or perhaps SUCCEED in killing red. if they kill red entirely, the operation is a wash; red doesn't have to gear to come back from scratch and take out blue team, and even if they could, the travel time to return to globals alone would mean they wouldn't get all the global tasks, potentially meaning they don't take the lead. if blue team is unable to kill red and dies themselves or has to retreat, but succeeds in delaying red, red would face the same problem.

if red sends in all of the task items on one person, and that person dies, even if the rest survived, blue could loot the items from that person and would be able to either use the items themselves, if green is currently the owner, or could run away with the items, effectively wasting red's time and again, meaning they wouldn't get all tasks claimed even if they were able to overtake the runner and reclaim their items.

i'm unclear what would happen if red divided the task items between them since it seems like the person claiming the task doesn't have to have all (or any? again, unclear) the items in THEIR inventory in order to claim so long as a teammate is nearby with the items in their inv (evidence: pac's vod "voltei... o que tá acontecendo no QSMP?!" at roughly 3:00:00; tubbo claims tea and tea is taken out of pac's inventory. i don't know the limits of this strategy)

blue team also has time to swoop in and steal a global task out from under red during this time. say, if red team had claimed the task for 10 tea leaves, upping the price to 15 tea leaves, and then blue team snuck in and claimed the task and set the price up to 20 tea leaves, (since the proposed 10 minute cooldown on claims would be TEAM LIMITED; red's cooldown applying to red only and so on). if red waited until the last second, they wouldn't have the time to reclaim this task even if they did have the resources, possibly forcing them to start their sweep earlier to counter this possibility, at which point team members who had logged on earlier and are out of time by the end of the night, OR members who live in time zones that don't allow them to stay up until server close, may have an easier shot at participating in defending against a global sweep.

all of this DIRECT CONFLICT would make for good audience entertainment and heighten the stakes of an attempted global sweep, since it would practically have to be one team defending globals for an hour while they pipe all their resources into it, knowing that if they die another team could easily swipe their task resources and use it themselves (along with the rest of their gear). it makes it more interesting, while still mostly viable.

plus it would force more strategizing for red team which is maybe just a personal plus, i just really like seeing people planning both in advance and in spur of the moment. it's really satisfying to see how a plan comes together and succeeds or fails; plus, since red team is the main team using this strategy at the moment and their main draw and strength as a team is cohesion and communication this would be completely fucking riveting for me as a viewer so maybe this is just a personal thing. but i really really think it would be fun

but again, i'm not a game designer, or a qsmp player, or a qsmp admin, or honestly even really a gamer? so maybe i'm off my rocker and out of my gourd and this isn't viable or balanced in any way shape or form but YKNOW what is this blog except putting stupid thoughts into the void and seeing if this time the void spits back hate mail so. i'm folding this into a paper airplane and throwing it into the abyss. hopefully it made sense.

k love you appreciate you getting this far, have a good week!!

(i hope your team gets a win in dramatic fashion and celebrates together!!! i hope they come together and unleash a plan so spectacular it takes the server by storm!!! i hope it's so good it becomes a vod you go back to even years in the future!!!! i hope you have a good week!!!!!)

#qsmp #qsmp purgatory #shut up vic #block game brainrot #yes it's long beneath the keep reading no i'm incapable of being succinct #i color coded the important parts though i just wanted to try to be clear #examples are my bread and butter i do programming and math they make everything easier for me to understand #god i hope this makes sense to other people i didn't ask my biological peer reviewer so idk if this is stupid or not #tbh it's just a tumblr post so i guess it's whatever if it is but i put wayyy more work than necessary into double checking timelines lol #(i didn't watch blue today sorry :/ idr if i mentioned in the body of the post but i main red team) #(their energy is just more entertaining for me personally; though i kept an eye on pac once i could multi-watch!) #anyway other team mains feel free to weigh in if i'm making weird assumptions about what the teams are capable of #heaven knows my pov is biased here LMFAO #((for what it's worth i am fully aware this means red team aren't rly underdogs anymore and i super want them to be kicked in the stomach)) #((back to the drawing board; what will they do??? I WANT TO KNOW :O)) #((seeing them crawling back to victory from being like two pixels on the bar on sunday was great. more of that pls)) #idk i've rambled enough #long tags #ignoring daylight savings it's technically one am goodnight friends i hope this post doesn't suck hahahaha............... #OH AND IF ANYONE THINKS I SHOULD TAG SOMETHING FOR FILTER PURPOSES ABSOLUTELY LET ME KNOW #i want to be courteous but i think this post is pretty neutral in tone? but if you think it deserves a tag i will absolutely add it!!!!!

[rist-ix]

I have a question for you what do you think of the quote unquote age gap between Bloom and Valtor?

I had to do alot of research to understand Bloom age when I started to like this ship better than Mr cheater. So here's a brief information dump:

Bloom is 16 in the first episode and its confirm her bday is December 10 (we don't know the the exact year when each girl was born only the fact Stella is the oldest by that logic Bloom is the second youngest out of the group) when we get to season 3 it is confirmed that the girls is in their 3rd semester so that makes Bloom 19 at point. Valtor's age we do not know however I'm going to say at most early 20s from what we know Valtor working with a younger Griffin before he got Popsicled.

Here comes the tricky part. In s4 the girls just finished their semester and graduated making them 20-21. Up until s5 where Nicklodeon had to reboot their age making them 16 again. Flashforward to s8 and that makes Bloom age 19 if you are following the reboot or 23 if you do not follow the reboot. Since we don't know how long Valtor been frozen his mental age is up for debate.

For me personally I don't see Sparxshipping as an Edward and Bella situation as Edward was aging naturally during his years while Valtor was frozen and couldn't age naturally but only mentally.

Okay okay first of all! Your Bloom math checks out and I just realized that I for some reason always thought Bloom is 18 in s3. Which is still possible, I think, I just dont know why I assumed that. Actually no, it works, if she is 16 in s1 she is 17 in s2 and 18 in s3, but we dont know a lot about how the school years work in Magix so I'm gonna jot her down as 18-19 for the remainder of this post.

Still dont know how I passed math btw.

Anyway. Valtor's age is where the real mystery is at. We've got two possibilities in my opinion.

1. He's pulling the ageless immortal card.

My personal go-to for fics and discussions. Love me some 300 year old mommy issues. He has too much practice being a messy bitch, there's no fixing this man folks.

Evidence: There's a flashback showing him with Griffin as a tween: she looks MUCH younger, he looks exactly the same. Unless he also stole the secret magic of the world's most potent anti aging cream, or Griffin's proximity to Faragonda just aged her by three more decades, he does not age.

2. He is the age he looks.

Which, in my humble opinion, would not put him anywhere near twenty. That is a grown man. He's not college age, unless you count college professors under that word. Even if I were good at guessing ages the very stylized art style would throw me for a loop, but im gonna say 40s, give or take. Look at Avalon, look at Codatorta, look at King Radius if u must. That is the age range we're looking at.

Evidence: I dont have any. We're ballin'. I guess it's never explicitly stated he's immortal, which you'd think would be big enough of a deal to mention. If u got something feel free to let me know.

That being said, the Winx Club Wiki page for the canon timeline (ha, good one) puts the time of Valtor's creation in a rough time frame from "Over 17 years before season 1" to "Under 100 years before season 6". So he could technically be anywhere from 17-97, though I'm not sure the upper limit is as reliable as the lower one, given the check-list format of the website. So make of that what you will.

Now that we've got the question of age out of the way, lets get to the age gap. I have no idea what the situation in twilight was to be honest, so I cant compare that.

Realistically, there's at least a decade between Bloom and Valtor. Possibly two decades and change. And that is just from visible age, we can add a few centuries on top of that if we're sticking with the immortal bit. I'm gonna be gonest, I dont think being frozen for 17 years will make a whole lot of difference here.

If you find that icky, which is fair, you can always change that for fics tho! Either turn him into a twenty year old or put Bloom in her milf-era, the options are endless. Personally, I think the age difference is half the fun though, and also the least of their issues. When you're off making out with the objectively worst person in history, wether he's too old for her isnt gonna rank very high on people's list of concerns.

#asks #sparxshipping #winx bloom #winx valtor #i think their very obvious gap in knowledge and experience is very intrinsic to their canon dynamic #Bloom being the underdog while Valtor is VERY convinced of his superiority kind of defines the ship for me #and it makes it so much more satisfying when Bloom does put him on his ass

[underdogarts]

Yeees, this way I can say I’ve fallowed from the very beginning

LMAO true 😌

#underdog asks

[once-upon-an-idiom]

My mc prefers juice, since caffeine doesn’t work well with her adhd medication. What about you guys?

Also, it turns out that gallstone I have is half the size of my entire gallbladder! Surgery is tomorrow morning so wish me luck!

#nerodivergent #tumblr polls #polls #ask tumblr #adhd #autism #autistic #actually autistic #anxitey #autistic author #aspiring author #writers #writeblr #underdogs undercover #actually adhd #autistic characters #oc #original story #original characters #original character #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #neurodiverse stuff #fiction #fic writing #neurodivergent character #writers curse

[pianokantzart]

If magic in your Animal AU is strong connected to emotions then are Mario and Luigi’s magic the strongest when they are together/when they are thinking about each other? 🥹😫

Yeah! You get it!

Mario and Luigi don't have any inherent magical abilities like King Bowser or Princess Peach do, but they prove a force to be reckoned with when wielding the magic of powerups, especially if they're fighting side by side.

If they have to fight alone, Mario is the more skilled at using powerups due to his unflinching confidence. Luigi is capable... more capable than the average animal, in fact, but not quite as adept as his brother.

#but Luigi makes up for this with a certain other talent he doesn’t quite know about yet… #spoilers: it has to do with ghosts #my art #doodles #Mario Animal AU #Before anyone asks there's no firebrand or thunderhand in this AU #or if there is it's more of a momentary gift instead of a permanent power #Didn't feel like it fit #I like it better when they have to rely on wits and the limited tools at their disposal #really lean in on the underdog angle #they really are just two dudes in over their heads

[thegreatyin]

Eh I don't like the idea of Magallan being the focus. I think it feels weird to me, personally, that the focus of the big Sami event isn't a Sami operator when the Gaul/Crimson Troupe event had a fr*nchman from the Troupe and the Seaborn event had, well a Seaborn character

Could be Santalla or Valarqvin, though

that's VERY fair. im mostly petty bc mallagan is a long-established usually overlooked 6* like phantom and mizuki and giving characters like them the spotlight was honestly just a really nice trend to follow

#i think hg should give love to the underdogs actually. mostima for is5. #arknights #ask

[annamariedarkholmes]

if marvel doesn’t let anna paquin and the other fox/sony women over 25 in on this lil multiverse 401k scheme all the men have going i swear

this woman let hbo bleach her hair into straw for eight years just so she could play a better version of rogue!! forget j*red l*to and his zodiac killer loot crates, that’s commitment

someone tell disney it’s activism to pay bisexual icon anna paquin to throw ryan reynolds into dumpsters

someone tell ryan reynolds it’s activism to pay anna paquin to throw ryan reynolds into dumpsters

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#she!! has!! the!! range!!! #plus give her that mcu $ so she doesn’t have to do another ‘american underdog’ to finance her lgbt movies #rogue #anna paquin #deadpool #ryan reynolds #deadpool 3 #x-men #marvel #someone posted a list of ‘the multiverse cast so far!!!’ and everyone was oohing and ahhing #meanwhile it was just like #twenty white men and jamie foxx #she is owed for the years of nastiness she got from creepy men and jealous fangirls alike #her original x2 subplot was given to bobby #she was nerfed in x3 as punishment by ratner #she was cut from days of future past #she was written out of the wolverine and logan #unfortunately i highly doubt any adult women will be asked back #rebecca and famke have already called out the hypocrisy of the women getting recast while the men have lifetime jobs #halle’s said her oscar win is the only reason she had more than two lines in x2 and x3 #they didn’t even fucking ASK kiki dunst #these movies give them the same expiration date as leonardo dicaprio #if anyone else from fox returns watch it be like taylor kitsch lol #or the child who played laura who creepy grown men are already fixated on and desperate to have return