Once Again. ITS A FUCKING TUMBLR POLL

once again. ITS A FUCKING TUMBLR POLL

@antigone fandom are we actually fucking doing this.

Unless someone can prove to me that this is a legitimate late-game sweep, I’m very tempted to disqualify any votes for this poll coming in after 2am Friday, and give the win to Lloyd. I may have said it jokingly before, but I am the referee. No one is rigging my polls with bots or bribes in my house. This whole war has been fun to watch and mess around with, but the law must be laid.

that one pose she did reminded me of this

We still have a chance due to the new announcement from the host of the Antigone VS Lloyd poll! Go check it out and support our boy in green!

ok so. the main driving force for the onslaught of lloyd voters was tiktok, not just ppl in the ninjago fandom space. now that those tiktok ppl are gone, the number of lloyd voters is obviously gonna be less. ESPECIALLY considering the size of classics tumblr. i get that there were concerns in the first round bc of the behavior of some of the antigone fans but like. at this point ninjago fans are being unreasonable. take the loss with some grace LMFAO

Instead of answering the several news asks concerned about bots again, I’ll just say here:

The swiftness with which votes have been coming in for this poll seem, in my opinion, perfectly believable. Specifically, I was told of someone watching roughly 150 votes new votes come in over 10 minutes, but in the context of how the rest of the entire competition has gone, to me that just seems regularly plausible. Especially considering how in the first moments of the poll going up, at midnight, it had already garnered 32 votes in 5 minutes. Again, at a time of day when a large percentage of the voters would’ve been unavailable.

Considering the circumstances—people knew about this 2 days in advance, it’s already the talk of both fandoms, everyone voting themselves would tell everyone they know to vote immediately, and everyone knows that this one only has 24 hours—I wouldn’t jump to the conclusion of more fraud.

I don’t want to drag out this war forever, and this was the only solution that seemed remotely fair to both fandoms, in any capacity. So whoever wins this poll, and with whatever speed, that’s the winner. End of discussion.

Sidenote: I do have answers for some other asks I’ve gotten, but I don’t want to post anything else until the poll ends.

Supervised Machine Learning

Saw an ask about an apparent problem of people drawing Qiu whiter than he is and whitewashing. With that in mind, I think you should hold the same standard for Tamarack for artists that draw her darker than she is to outright black. Tumblr and Twitter in general have an obsession with coloring traditionally white/pale characters the complete opposite race or adding details like kinky/coiled hair and see no issue with it but raise hell the moment a poc is one hue lighter. It erases their identity just as much as everyone says whitewashing does but everyone constantly falls back on the "only whites can be racist so changing their identity in art is okay!!" pipeline

Tamarack comes from a German family and is white, so please take the same level of importance when artists "blackwash" her or any other character in your series.

You know generally, I don’t like to use this blog to as a place to act like I’m the best, most correct person in the world and respond to things where I’m simply telling an anonymous person they’re wrong. I’m just someone who has people following me because they like the stories this company makes.

However, this is something that people should know. If our POC players draw our characters having a darker skin tone than they do in-game and/or give them a different hair texture, that’s alright. I’ve fallen off on reblogging stuff on Tumblr but it’d still be liked or reposted on Twitter.

Whitewashing means far more than the literal act of a single individual making someone look white in a fanart. If a trans player wanted to headcanon a cis character was trans, that’s one thing. If a cis person decided to take the only trans character for miles and insist they are, in fact, cis, well that’s another matter entirely. Your experience with your race and your experience based on sexuality or gender aren’t the same things, it’s not a one-to-one comparison at all. But can people who don’t get it at least start to see how there can be a difference in impact here?

The people who are oppressed in this country aren’t hurting you by trying to enjoy the media that most of the time intentionally excludes them. POC weren’t the ones dehumanizing white people in horrific ways. The overwhelming majority of stories and representations of heritages out there have been and still are white people’s already. Anyone reading this who was thinking along the lines of what’s in this ask need to get comfortable understanding and accepting that. And if you don’t, maybe you should find another game because I’m not going to “protect white identities” from being drawn as people of color. In fact, I think it’s actually really nice if our characters are fun and comforting to people of color so much so that they’d like to imagine those characters being included in their own culture. I think it’s strange that someone would be angry about it.