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chenfordsrollisi · 1 year

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March Madness 2023 Fic Roundup

23 fandoms 26 pairings 31 fics

Wasn't the Same ♡ Upstead ♡ Chicago PD Small and Cute ♡ Brettsey ♡ Chicago Fire Stay With You Forever ♡ Manstead ♡ Chicago Med The Real Me ♡ Shory ♡ Boy Meets World Taboo ♡ Moreid ♡ Criminal Minds Hold On to the Feeling ♡ Zibell ♡ FBI You're Where My Heart Is ♡ McRoll/McRollins ♡ Hawaii Five-0 (2010) An Unlikely Romance ♡ Brensen ♡ The Rookie: Feds Close Enough to Touch ♡ Supercorp ♡ Supergirl Ghosts ~ Joel & Ellie ~ The Last of Us Wrapped Up ♡ Supercorp ♡ Supergirl When It's Right ♡ Chenford ♡ The Rookie Empty Spaces ~ Jay & Hailey ~ Chicago PD Living Proof ♡ Burzek ♡ Chicago PD In His Arms ♡ Chexton ♡ Chicago Med The World Can Wait ♡ CoNic ♡ The Resident Time For You ♡ Kangs ♡ Riverdale Only Natural ♡ Queliot ♡ The Magicians One Truth That Always Stays the Same ♡ Brettsey ♡ Chicago Fire Happily Ever After ♡ CoNic ♡ The Resident Before the End ♡ Ichabbie ♡ Sleepy Hollow (TV) Things That Don't Change ♡ Tillow ♡ Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV) Whatever You Need ♡ Palex ♡ Degrassi: the Next Generation No Need For Words ♡ Sante ♡ General Hospital One Good Reason ♡ Rollisi ♡ Law & Order: SVU A Good End to A Bad Week ♡ McSwarek ♡ Rookie Blue No More Drama ♡ Darco ♡ Degrassi: the Next Generation No Complaints ♡ Britin ♡ Queer as Folk - US Lucky Stars ♡ Hodgela ♡ Bones The Best Mornings ♡ Zibell ♡ FBI Counting the Days ♡ Jemmy ♡ NCIS

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a-dinosaur-a-day · 1 year

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Congratulations to Caihong juji, your Dinosaur March Madness Champion for 2023!!!

(Art by @i-draws-dinosaurs (Caihong, Jakapil), @otussketching (Heracles), @alphynix (Kholumolumo). Graphics by @i-draws-dinosaurs)

Well it’s been a wild month-and-a-third of competition, but Dinosaur March Madness 2023: Rising Stars has come to an end! Congratulations to our four finalists: Big Parrot, Meme Reboot, Spikey Creatur, and Gay. After a final brutal slugfest Caihong emerged as the victor by a significant margin, winning all three separate matches. Shockingly, the Queer Neurodivergent Web Site felt rather fond of the shiny fluffy rainbow colours dinosaur!

Caihong joins the hallowed halls of DMM winners past, alongside Corvus, Maiasaura, Halszkaraptor, and Amargasaurus, making it the third maniraptoran to claim the top spot! The people love a bird, is what we’re learning.

A huge thank you to the members of the ADAD team who pulled this all together with planning, researching, writing, arting, the whole lot! @zygodactylus, @raptorcivilization, @i-draws-dinosaurs, @otussketching, @albertonykus, everyone who’s put their time and effort into this project is an absolute legend.

And thank you so much to everyone who voted, made posts and debated in the notes!! It was absolutely wonderful to see how much people got into it especially after having taken A Bit of a hiatus, the enthusiasm that all of you have really makes the contest what it is!

That’s all for now, we hope y’all had a fun time and got to learn about some sick new dinosaurs! And coming up next year, of course, we’re leaving the dinosaurs behind... on our long-awaited trip... into the Permian

#DMM Rising Stars #DMM 2023 #Dinosaur March Madness #dinosaurs #palaeoblr #paleontology #paleoart #Caihong #Jakapil #Heracles inexpectatus #Kholumolumo

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march-musical-madness · 1 year

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Round 1 Group 1

#march musical madness 2023 #dear evan hansen #deh #les mis #les miserables

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yvesdot · 2 months

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MARCH MADNESS STREAM 2024!

Friday, March 22nd, 2024 @ 2:00 PM PST on Twitch

Once again, I will be pitting the 16 best books I read for the first time in 2023 against each other, live, with a bonus honorable mentions afterparty. See the bracket ahead of time here! Goodreads list of all picks here; feel free to vote (but not add). Come by and sway my opinions!

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#writeblr #bookblr #writeblr event #writeblr stream #twitch #litblr #stream #march madness #txt #important writing updates #IT'S FINALLY ANNOUNCED! And sorted!#Now to... do everything else for 2023.

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simcardiac-arrested · 1 year

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in honor of the most normal day of my life

#the march 2023 incident #crammerposting #i spent like an hour on this. or two. i dont know #i went into a mad frenzy

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magicaloctopus333 · 1 year

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I was inspired by @mad-scientist-showdown 's bracket!

First time drawing Donatello- what do you think?

#mad scientist showdown #mad scientist bracket #octi made #march 2023 #digital media #So much erasing and relining for Donnie.#i used the image of donnie v stanford for smile and head ref #but i saw someone mention him holding a skull snowball #not gonna tag fandoms

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nixa-spark · 8 months

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Art Fight revenge I did for @the-angel-of-filth !! featuring his Doc Ock, Odyssia Octavius, and my character Charmer! two women of wildly different aesthetics, but very good friends regardless!

#spiderverse #art fight #into the spiderverse #across the spiderverse #doc ock #spider-man oc #spiderverse oc #art fight 2023 #team werewolves #marvelsona #spidersona related #artists on tumblr #drawing #odyssia octavius #charmer #mad hatter #march hare

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dawningfairytale · 11 months

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peeta (parodying effie's failed music career):✨BEJBa✨ IT'S KINDA KREJZA-

katniss: i will kill you in your sleep.

#thg #the hunger games #hunger games #thg incorrect quotes #hee hee hoo hoo let's see what the eurovision and thg overlap is #peeta mellark #katniss everdeen #he's trying to have fun. she's wondering what master strategy he's on now.#can i make it any more obvious?#should i esc tag this???#for reference: i'm making fun of genuinely deeply terrible singing not anyone's accent #like. type 'solo eurovision 2023 national final' into youtube and you will see what i mean #go to the national final performance from march-ish???#then watch gladiator from the same show to cleanse yourself #then get mad because solo went to eurovision instead of gladiator thanks to - say it with me - jury corruption!!!!#on my sugar queue

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my-shields-are-down · 1 year

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Diana was freaking out..

The “fearless foursome” were about to surprise their parents with a major surprise and it was all her idea and she was terrified it was going to backfire spectacularly. What if they weren’t happy? What if she really let them down?

She glanced at her husband and brother and both were smiling and laughing with Patrizia who adjusted the bow on her present again and fiddled with the dahlia’s in her hair.

Diana starts to have a panic attack. Tears form at the back of her throat and she cannot catch her breath. “Goddammit. I’m the SVP of cultural affairs for a multi-billion dollar Macau based gaming company” she thought to herself. “I’m married to my best friend, and my best friend is married to my brother and they are all happy and ready to go and I’m afraid they won’t like it. I’m afraid I’ve let them down again.”

Diana can feel tears streaming down her face. She can’t catch a breath. She starts pulling her thick blonde hair out from its intricate updo, tossing the azaleas and peonies on the ground when she feels her husband’s nimble fingers run up her spine like they are playing a scale on their grand piano - that he’s playing an unnamed song he wrote to calm her down. The same fingers that tossed hundreds of footballs to her elder brother in college - making UCLA unbeatable for two years in a row. The fingers that also will play "Happy Birthday” on his acoustic guitar in under an hour, fingers that turn her toward him, and grab her hand…. Placing his hand on her heart and hers on his and whispering to her “Diana - honey. I promise they are going to love it. They already love you. Everything is beautiful. All the family is here. Breathe with me honey. Please breathe with me.”

Diana has had panic attacks ever since she was little and got separated from her mom at the zoo. She thought Lucy had left her there on purpose because she didn’t look like Kai, that she wasn’t great and silly like TJ, that she was just boring Diana. It didn’t help that the zoo lady hadn’t believed she and Lucy were related - until Diana had started talking to Lucy in perfect Mandarin taught to her by her NaiNai Vanessa. That shut the zoo lady right on up, but did nothing to quell the panic in both Lucy and Diana. For she didn’t realize that losing sight of Diana for those 5 minutes were the longest, most terrifying moments of Lucy’s life. Thousands of times worse than the faint memories of dying in that barrel.

Lucy loved Diana so much and had panic attacks of her own from that day forward. Usually late at night, usually in nightmares where Diana is never found. Lucy wakes up screaming for her and only calms down when she can text Mateo and get a picture of her sleeping daughter or if she can grab the stuffed giraffe she keeps in the bottom drawer of her nightstand.

Diana’s fear of being unwanted, of being left behind is actually what spurred this idea in the first place. Just like Lucy had done with Tamara, both Diana and Mateo and Patrizia and Kai had adopted little girls from their respective grandmothers’ home countries - little potatoes with shocks of black hair, floral binkies and blankets. The two little girls were being introduced to the extended family at Tim and Wesley’s joint birthday party in just a few minutes.

Kai finally turns and notices that Diana is as white as a sheet. He texts their little brother for reinforcements - SOS. Need you, chocolate and fresh flowers for Diana. <panic>

Five minutes later TJ shows up and steps in front of his older sister. He meets her eyes and smiles at her. The remaining group members step away - the men check on the bundles wrapped in floral blankets and Patrizia fixes Diana’s hair. TJ wordlessly calms his sister down and tells her the parents have no idea. They just know the presents are arriving by special delivery from Mexico and China. The fearless foursome have been living overseas for the past two years - and neither the Evers nor the Bradfords know that their elder children are arriving with children of their own.

“Diana - what you’ve done for them - for the parents, grandparents and the babies is nothing short of miraculous. You’ll be giving them the biggest gift second only to knowing and loving us kids - we are pretty spectacular ourselves. Your heart, if possible, is bigger than mom’s, bigger than Aunt Angela’s. They love you so, so much. I wish you could see that. Sweet girl, please stop crying. I smuggled your stuffed goat from your bedroom to dry your eyes.”

Diana snorts out a bark of laughter upon seeing Gerald IV in her brother’s hands. He’s the only one besides Mateo who can calm her down when she panics. She nods at him and then at her best friends and asks for 5 minutes to “fix her face.”

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While Diana is in the bathroom, TJ moves through Patrice’s house calling everyone outside and has his dad and uncle Wesley sit in the barcaloungers that have been pulled from the movie lounge out onto the back deck for the birthday boys to open their presents. There is much grumbling and whining from Wesley and Tim as they complain of fake aches and pains, both a little sad that two of their three kids aren’t there to celebrate with them again this year.

Tim looks around and notices the grandparents are here. They don’t usually come to these parties as they are all in their 80s and 90s. But Vanessa, Patrick, Patrice and Angela’s mom Emilia are all here. He brushes it off, until his youngest son TJ steps up and tells everyone “to close their eyes. The big presents from overseas are being rolled in right now. Go on, close your eyes, Dad - no peeking.”

Tim closes his eyes and feels Lucy standing behind him, her hands on his shoulders. He knows she’ll look, she can’t help herself.

He feels the excitement get closer and closer as people start to murmur. He can tell when Lucy and Angela open their eyes by the collective gasp that leaves them simultaneously. Tim turns and looks up at Lucy to make sure she’s ok and he’s never seen that look on her face before. “Luce, are you ok? What’s going on?” Tim hears Wesley say, “no way.”

Tim finally turns around and sees his daughter smiling at him and placing a baby in his arms. Tim instinctively grabs the young potato flashing back through that stage for all three of his kids. The wild hair, the binkies, the colorful blankets, the snot, the poop, the eardrum piercing cries. “Wha- why are you handing me a baby?”

Diana smiles shyly at her parents and at Angela and Wesley and says, “Please say hello to your grandchildren - girls we adopted from their home countries. In Wesley’s arms, we have Emilia Joy Evers from Mexico City and in your arms dad, we have Vanessa Hope Bradford from Shanghai. Bonus present, all four of us are moving back to Los Angeles, so we will be taking you all up on offers to babysit.

I got the idea when I was 8 andI heard Mom telling NaiNai about Tamara. Mom - You’ve always been my biggest inspiration and while I may never forgive you for removing my bedroom door after catching Mateo and I making out in there on my 14th birthday, I have always tried to live my life so you’d be proud of me - so you would always come find me at the zoo.”

That last comment strikes straight through Lucy’s heart. She stands up and pulls Diana aside.

“Diana - I didn’t leave you at the zoo - we got separated. You were chasing baby chickens and I lost sight of you. I died that day when I couldn’t find you. And that stupid woman who said I wasn’t your mom because you didn’t look like me? I wanted to punch her out. But then you told me about the fluffy chicks in perfect mandarin - like it was no big deal. I still have nightmares and panic attacks that I don’t ever find you. You are my dream come true. I know I tend to favor the boys, but you are the living embodiment of my heart. Don’t you know that? You are my reason for living. I love being your mom - it’s why I was put on this planet. To love you.”

“I have panic attacks too mom. I had one right before we came out here. TJ and Mateo helped me calm down. I was afraid you and Dad wouldn’t like your gift - because it came from me.” Lucy wraps her arms around her girl and says, “We love her more, because she came from you. Honey- look at your dad. He may never give Emilia back to Angela and Wesley. Look at how happy and at peace he is. YOU did that. You, my big hearted, beautiful girl.”

#chenford fanfiction #chenford #chenford au #tim bradford #lucy chen #tim & lucys kids marry angela and wesleys kids #adoption stories #chenford march madness 2023 - tim meets his grandkids #doubt #panic attacks #like mother like daughter #meet the bradford kids - kai diana + tj #meet the evers kids - jackson mateo and patrizia #china = diana and mateo #mexico = kai and patrizia #best friends #fearless foursome #one word prompt = chenford one shot

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aimmyarrowshigh · 1 year

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Ultimate OTP March Madness 2023

F/F Bracket 3A. Tahani Al-Jamil/Eleanor Shellstrop

Read Here! - archiveofourown.org/works/45506503

Vote Here!

#march madness 2023 #march madness #the good place #tgp tahani #tgp eleanor #tahani x eleanor #eleanor x tahani #*g #*goodplace #*kribel #*jamjam

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sanyu-thewitch05 · 1 year

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Not Andrew Tate possibly having lung cancer!

Let’s see if he gets snatched off this earth like Kevin Samuels was.

#kevin samuels #andrew tate #incels #if he does die women girl and femmes should be prepared #Cus the pushback and straight up vengeance is going to be worse than anything we’ve seen when Kevin Samuels died #this is probably the first time in my life I’ve seen a horrendous person get cancer and actually die from it #2023 starting March off with a bang #i know the incels must be mad #also quick reminder #we’re allowed to feel happy and not mourn or celebrate when a piece of crap dies #we don’t have to respect the dead especially when they didn’t respect us in life

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march-musical-madness · 1 year

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#march msusical madness 2023 #great comet #hadestown

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justinssportscorner · 1 year

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Alex Abad-Santos at Vox:

On Sunday, April 2, Louisiana State University defeated the University of Iowa and won the NCAA women’s college basketball national championship — an accomplishment that should be one of the biggest women’s sports stories of the year. But all anyone can talk about is what happened in the last few seconds.

In those waning moments, LSU star power forward Angel Reese pointed at her ring finger and waved her own hand in front her face, in the direction of Caitlin Clark, the best player on Iowa’s team. To those familiar with hand gestures in basketball, this was Reese’s way of telling Clark that her team won — that LSU would be getting that championship ring — and that Reese herself was unguardable. To those specifically familiar with Clark and women’s college basketball this season, the hand wave is a call back to Clark’s own dismissal of her previous opponents.

Like any good feud, the more backstory you know, the juicier it gets. As a supporter of women’s rights, this was also the rare moment when you could simultaneously support women’s wrongs.

But some didn’t see Reese’s action as deliciously scandalous, and her actions didn’t happen in a bubble. Her taunt ignited criticisms from haters about her lack of “class” and how Reese, who is Black, should have conducted herself in the face of imminent victory. Her detractors would’ve liked to see her win quietly and politely, without the theatrics. However, this outpouring of concern about how women athletes should behave when they win wasn’t nearly as much of an issue when Clark, who is white, was steamrolling, trash talking, and mocking the competition. Curious!

The tournament was the Caitlin Clark show until Angel Reese and LSU showed up

Historically, the women’s NCAA basketball tournament has been eclipsed by the men’s tournament in terms of coverage, enthusiasm, and, famously, funding and facilities. But this year’s chapter of March Madness included a perfect storm of storylines and events that gave the women’s tournament a spark: a men’s tournament littered with upsets of “power five” schools, an undefeated women’s team in the form of the University of South Carolina, an upstart Louisiana State University team led by eccentric coach Kim Mulkey, and the superstardom of Clark, an electric guard from the University of Iowa.

Clark, a junior, averaged 27.8 points per game, 7.1 rebounds per game, and 8.6 assists per game while shooting at a 47.3 percent clip through the 2022-2023 season. If you don’t follow basketball, those are extremely good numbers. The bigger the numbers in those categories, the better. Further, Clark did all this while leading her team to a top-10 ranking and a 2-seed in the NCAA tournament — her performance and statistics won her the AP Player of the Year honors prior to the national championship.

While she was breathtaking all year, Clark shined in the tournament — women’s college basketball’s biggest stage — making history as the leading point scorer, recording a triple-double, and hanging up 40-point outings on team after team. In the Final Four game against undefeated and reigning champion South Carolina, Clark’s 41 points and eight assists helped propel her underdog Hawkeyes to victory.

At the same time, Clark’s confidence could verge on cockiness. Against Louisville, a team known for being physical and playing hounding defense, Clark lit the Cardinals up for 40 points and gestured “you can’t see me.” In the aforementioned game against South Carolina, she waved off a player at the three-point line, signaling that they weren’t a threat. When she hits a “logo” three — nailing a basket from inside Michigan’s giant mid-court M, for example — she knows that’s going into the game’s highlight reel.

This set the stage for Sunday’s national championship game: In the biggest game of the year on the biggest stage of the year, the best player in women’s college basketball — who knows she’s the best player in women’s college basketball — was a game away from what would be the perfect end to her fantastic year. Iowa had just beaten South Carolina which was, on paper, a better team than LSU.

But while the transitive properties of wins and losses can give you a picture of how a game may play out, it’s what happens on the court that matters.

As the game unfolded, LSU played the best basketball of their year. Reese, LSU’s star forward, was gobbling up rebounds left and right, turning misses into points. LSU’s bench also played stellar, hitting three after three. Coupled with some shoddy officiating (an unfortunate constant in women’s college basketball) and a more egregious lack of defense, Clark and Iowa were blown out 102-85.

In the closing seconds, Reese followed Clark around and pointed at her ring finger. Championship games, like weddings and senior years in high school, are punctuated by rings. Reese’s pointing was to indicate that she was getting one of these rings and Clark had zero. Reese also mimicked Clark’s “can’t see me” gesture against Louisville, giving the superstar guard a taste of her own taunting.

After a season of Clark’s goading, the firestorm reaction to Reese’s gestures has eclipsed the game and LSU’s win itself.

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But the argument of “if this situation were completely different, things would be different” sort of falls apart when you consider that Reese’s detractors were quiet when Clark was doing the taunting. When Clark was gesturing that an entire team of Louisville Cardinals couldn’t guard her, no one was calling her a “classless piece of shit.” Actually, she was praised — ESPN ran an entire segment on Clark calling her “the queen of the clap backs” complete with crown emoji.

Olbermann and Portnoy’s reactions to Reese, and the reactions to their reactions — basketball hall of famer Shaquille O’Neal tweeted Olbermann to “shut your dumb ass up leave angel reese alone” — reflect a bigger pattern of the impossible double standard that Black athletes are held to and how sports media reinforces that standard over and over.

This isn’t a new phenomenon. Reese is just the latest frustrating example.

From Angel Reese to Serena Williams to Simone Biles to multiple instances in the NFL and NBA, Black athletes have not only had to win on the court but do so in a manner that audiences — but in particular grown (white) men like Olbermann and Portnoy — determine respectable. They can’t be too confident or they’ll be seen as arrogant. They can’t be too passionate or they’ll be deemed angry. They can’t talk about their mental health without having their character called into question. Yet, when athletes like Clark or Larry Bird or Novak Djokovic or Tom Brady flash the same behavior, it’s a revered part of their legacy or a passionate commitment to the game.

Female athletes like Reese and Clark are also battling an added, implicit layer of sexism. Some — grown men especially — believe there’s no room for trash talk in women’s sports because women are perceived to be better, gentler, and above the fray. Meanwhile, trash talking and vitriol are seen as an established part of men’s sports and its most compelling rivalries. This stripe of benevolent sexism undercuts competitors like Clark and Reese who are conducting themselves with more dignity and toughness than how they’re being talked about.

Why was Iowa's Caitlin Clark praised for taunting, while LSU's Angel Reese was trashed for doing essentially the same thing Clark was doing? I got a two-word answer for it: white privilege.

The fact that Clark is a White woman and Reese is a Black woman played to those perceptions.

#2023 Women's March Madness Tournament #Women's March Madness Tournament #NCAAW #Women's College Basketball #College Basketball #Iowa Hawkeyes #LSU Tigers #Caitlin Clark #Angel Reese #White Privilege #Racism #Sexism

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