#spiral poll

[bracketsoffear]

The Book of the War (Lawrence Miles et. al.) Synopsis: "The Great Houses: Immovable. Implacable. Unchanging. Old enough to pass themselves off as immortal, arrogant enough to claim ultimate authority over the Spiral Politic.

The Enemy: Not so much an army as a hostile new kind of history. So ambitious it can re-write worlds, so complex that even calling it by its name seems to underestimate it.

Faction Paradox: Renegades, ritualists, saboteurs and subterfugers, the criminal-cult to end all criminal-cults, happy to be caught in the crossfire and ready to take whatever's needed from the wreckage… assuming the other powers leave behind a universe that's habitable.

The War: A fifty-year-old dispute over the two most valuable territories in existence: "cause" and "effect."

Marking the first five decades of the conflict, THE BOOK OF THE WAR is an A to Z of a self-contained continuum and a complete guide to the Spiral Politic, from the beginning of recordable time to the fall of humanity. Part story, part history and part puzzle-box, this is a chronicle of protocol and paranoia in a War where the historians win as many battles as the soldiers and the greatest victory of all is to hold on to your own past."

Propaganda: A text which purports to be a constantly shifting and updating guide to The War, a conflict so overarching and complete that every other conflict is but a pale shadow thereof; the Time War. Of course, since it would shift retroactively with the changing timelines, there is no way to prove or disprove this claim. Notable entries include cities built from days stolen from shifting calendars, the secrets of removing yourself from history while still leaving yourself free to interfere, Grandfather Paradox, the location of the exact center of history, how to weaponize banality, and Parablox.

Oh, and there's something else in there. Something that seems to be talking to you.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/ Through the Looking Glass and what Alice found there (Lewis Caroll) "Both books have a similar structure and are spiral for the same reasons: little Victorian child Alice founds herself in a strange world with rules vastly different from hers (for example, there's no real geography and the scenery changes suddenly from one place to another very much like in a dream). The characters she crosses constantly defy her understanding of the world and applies logics she struggles to understand. Even though she ends up going with the flow most of the time she never ceases to question whether shes experiencing real life or a dream; sanity is brought up a few times, and there's also the popular quote "We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad", delivered by the grinning cat that appears and disappears like a slippery distortion. Lastly I may add that the TMA episode whose title references the book (Mag 177, Wonderland) is a spiral episode."

#spiral poll #the spiral #poll #the magnus archives #leitner tournament #The Book of the War #faction paradox #doctor who #Lawrence Miles #alice in wonderland #through the looking glass #Lewis Caroll

[teddybearsandlightningstorms]

#this is me trying to figure out what to get my sibling for their birthday #and spiralling #source: teddybearsandlightningstorms #poll

[ao3commentoftheday]

folks - this is just a silly poll. I made a poll as generic as I could because I saw another generic poll that made me giggle. this isn't about commenting. it's literally a gag. a bit. a joke. blog name notwithstanding.

#generic poll #because im spiralling

[saintbleeding]

ok question to artists. do y’all include lil bits of hcs/lore in ur art esp for fanworks. i am so curious

#not polling this #but like #my example is i draw jon's spiral mark as being on his left hand #and i draw it pretty inconsistently but also that's fully on purpose #like i try to be quite consistent with all the others #but #that one i draw differently each time on purpose #bc it feels very spirally for the scar specifically to be gaslighting anyone who looks closely #so each time anyone looks it has Noticeably Moved

[doopafoop]

Final Round! May the best MCYT Sexyman™ win!! (shhhh pretend that this was uploaded on the dawn of the final day like it was supposed to be and not for a year later to the day like i accidentally scheduled it up to do)

#goodtimeswithscar #joe hills #gtws fanart #joe hills fanart #mcyt sexyman poll #hermitcraft fanart #mcyt fanart #iim so dumb i was wondering why i didnt see this on my blog #that would be the reason lmao #also this was supposed to just be a doodle for a spotify playlist cover #based off of the poll and then it just spiraled lmao #nix doodles

[kitkatpancakestack]

I'm literally always shocked by the number of ppl who didn't join the fandom until 2021/2022 onward bc it really feels like we've all been rotting here together since the beginning of time

#me gaping at the responses to that poll. i cant believe it. what is time even #k spirals #911 abc

[fear-aesthetic-tourney]

Brackets.

Round one matches:

1a: flesh Vs vast. 1b: hunt Vs spiral. 1c: eye Vs lonely. 1d: desolation Vs corruption. 1e: dark Vs web. 1f: slaughter Vs end. 1g: stranger Vs buried Vs extinction.

There will be four rounds, and 22 polls labelled 1a-1g, 2a-2d, semi finals a and b, finals. There will then be a post announcing the winner.

Polls will be posted on Thursday's at 10am BST, and last a week. There will be one poll a week, with a week gap between rounds, when the winners of last round will be announced.

The tournament will begin once I have a big enough following for this to actually matter.

Before and during the tournament, you may submit propaganda for your fave fear, images are allowed but will not be included in polls, merely as separate propaganda posts. (Also, please add alt text yourself, as I'm kinda bad at writing image descriptions. If you don't, I will just try my best)

Appropriate content warnings will be provided (eg: trypophobia)

Also please spread this around! Get this to as many fans as possible.

#the magnus archives #tournament poll #the fear aesthetic tourney #smirke's fourteen #putting on my jonsona to sound all proffesional and nihlistic #much like jon himself #the eye #the dark #the lonely #the web #the desolation #the corruption #the flesh #the vast #the slaughter #the end #the hunt #the spiral #the buried #the stranger #the exctinction

[accidentalvillainy]

#tma #the magnus archives #polls #some of the phrasings janky bc of the word limit #joshua gillespie #karolina gorka #tma 100 #the buried #the flesh #the spiral #the stranger #the corruption

[wouldtheybecomeafearavatar]

Would Brian David Gilbert from real life youtube become an avatar of the spiral

#brian david gilbert #the magnus archives #tma #polls #the spiral #mod Moth 🦋

[fr-familiar-bracket]

#flight rising #flight rising polls #fr #fr polls #fr familiar bracket #round 2 #venomtooth pilco #spiral capricat

[tma-entity-song-poll]

The most Spiral coded song is...

Red Signal, by The Mechanisms!

Folks, we have our fist mechanisms sweep! Let's see if another artist can't push them off their throne in the next category:

The Corruption.

Lyrics and full tournament chart below the line.

Red Signal:

Y'AI 'NG'NGAH, YOG-SOTHOTH H'EE-L'GEB F'AI THRODOG UAAAH OGTHROD AI'F GEB'L-EE'H YOG-SOTHOTH 'NGAH'NG AI'Y ZHRO

[Another minute of chanting]

And the walls begin to tear. Not the walls of the train, but those of a false and hollow reality, twisting in its thrall to Yog Sothoth, the key and the gate through whose cascading rainbow being the train has passed. Yog Sothoth who is the Bifrost, and whose dread invocation now shattered, drags them towards the roiling nuclear chaos of the mad deamon sultan at the centre of reality. A billion screaming squamous things approach, oozing and crawling through the shattered tatters of a sane world. All the doors are open now.​

#tma #the magnus archives #the spiral #the mechanisms #not a poll #Youtube

[bracketsoffear]

Spiral Leitner Tournament Round 1

The Raw Shark Texts vs. The Helmet of Horror

Ulysses vs. The Third Policeman

A Midsummer Night's Dream vs. Uzumaki

The Color Out of Space vs. Flatland

Babel-17 vs. Harrow the Ninth

Fibble vs. Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

The Memory Police vs. Don't Go to Sleep!

Codex Seraphinianus vs. The Voynich Manuscript

Grey Noise vs. Sacré Bleu

The King in Yellow vs. If On a Winter's Night a Traveler

The Door in the Wall vs. The Yellow Wallpaper

Wayside School Is Falling Down vs. Cain's Jawbone

Maybe You Will Remember vs. Gas Light

The House on the Borderland vs. A Guest in the House

The Book of the War vs. The Word Eater

Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass vs. Don Quixote

#spiral poll #the spiral #leitner tournament #masterpost

[marveltournaments]

#marvel #marvel comics #marvel 616 #emma frost #white queen #gamora zen whoberi ben titan #gamora #quiet council #guardians of the galaxy #hellfire trading company #west spiral arm guardians #x-men #nova corps #cosmic avengers #infinity watch #phoenix five #hellions #generation x #polls

[persephone-tim]

Inspired by @lonelyslutavatar! Go check out theirs too it's wonderful!!

Also i will say in terms of the "shit tonne of spirals" option, I've drawn helen like that before and it was very pretty yet would likely be taken down here also i never finished it because rendering as you could possibly imagine was a nightmare! But i will try again with michael and I'll make it work (even if i doesn't get picked it'll get done at some point)

#the magnus archives #rusty quill tma #tma art #michael distortion #the spiral #tumblr poll

[casablancas]

PLEASE KEEP SPOILERS OFF THIS POST!!!!!

as with my other poll, vote based on whatever criteria you want!!!

+ tell me why it's your favorite in the tags if you feel like it!!

#saw #saw x #polls #horror movies #horror #saw ii #saw iii #saw iv #saw v #saw vi #saw 3d #jigsaw #spiral #spiral: from the book of saw #saw 3d: the final chapter #ok to rb

[nico-theniner]

#polls #poll #tumblr poll #saw #saw iii #saw ii #Amanda young #lawrence gordon #adam faulkner stanheight #Tobin bell #jigsaw #John Kramer #movies #saw v #saw iv #saw vi #saw 3D #saw x #spiral