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fictional_fans2022-07-14 10:14 am
FANDOM BRACKETS: Round 1a
The criteria you should use for voting is which fandom in each pair you would rather see advance. If you have particularly good and/or bad reasoning as to why, you should share it in the comments!
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 182
In a world full of people with special powers, our protagonists choose to use theirs to fight crime, solve mysteries and save the world.
A group of theater kids with good voices form a club, create epic drama.
Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.
Don't underestimate our hero just because they're young, naive, spunky, and have a name that rhymes with 'fluffy'! They have powers you never expected and enough determination to do anything.
Teens must learn to use their powers and juggle their identites in order to defeat a friend's evil rich dad.
A lifetime spent as agents in secret magic wars doesn't always prepare you well for being a person.
In this immensely popular, long-running fandom, champions engage in intense battles in intricate settings among fortifications and dystopian cityscapes.
If you don't know this fandom well, the main character may not be who you think it is!
n.b. I am not sure I'll be able to keep the descriptions up for all 32 matches, especially as we get to more fandoms I don't know at all, so if you have any ideas for upcoming match descriptions feel free to drop them in a comment!
Good and Bad Reasons for Votes
DC universes - mostly because I want to get to see people talking about the less great decisions DC has made about Batman's love-making technique and the fic that's been made to specifically mock them. (Or any other bad decision of that kind that's been made and needs mocking.)
No Fandom drew a bad random number, being out up against one of the big two sci-fi fandoms. Maybe if it has been scoped to something smaller, like the sequel trilogies or the prequel trilogies, where all the "George Lucas doesn't know how to let a good thing stay good" hate could come out or the "these are generic action movies with Star Wars names on them" annoyance, bit Star Wars as a whole includes both the original trilogy and good shows, and that is often with being a fan over by itself. (I wanted No Fandom to win some rounds, honestly, because there's some things on that list that have enough issues with them that they might lose to No Fandom.)
Buffy - For as much as Joss is persona non grata, the people he was directing did great stuff on the Buffyverse, and it's one of the holy triumvirate (or more) of people's awakenings to their queer identity with Willow and Tara (and also one of their first experiences of being laughed at by a creator for thinking they might have representation on the page.)
ML v. Avatar-verse is unfair as a first-round matchup. I like them both, but I have to go with the Avatar-verse because they actually had a goddamn lesbian kiss on screen, even if it was basically the last shot of Korra, on the website instead of on the network. Astruc and company keep making it as obvious as they can that not everyone is straight at the Collège, but they always come up short with anything that fully, unmistakably confirms it, so Miraculous Ladybug gets a rating of "COWARDS!" (The fandom more than makes up for it, of course, but there's a fair amount of Ship Discourse and other things rumbling that makes me not want to move them forward until they can get their issues sorted out.)
Good Omens beats ninjas before the television adaptation, but after that, there was no way that filler could beat an averted apocalypse. Also, who knew there could be so many variations on "angel and demon fall into love/queerplatonic relationships?"
And finally, gotta go with Link. All of these games where he saves the world with nothing more than a few kiais for vocalization. (And his increasingly improbable bag of tricks and artifacts, of course.)
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like, they cancelled Owl House over gay and they do own that
I cannot at all blame ML creative team for their choice of strategy here
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