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Welcome to the Best book siblings tournament!
We're here to decide who the best book siblings are
We all know the drill by now, but just to be clear, here are the rules:
They can be two or more siblings
Adopted siblings are allowed (of course), but they have to be actual siblings, not childhood best friends who say they're like siblings to each other, or anything like that (eg Kell and Rhy from A Darker Shade of Magic are eligible, but not Kaz and Jesper from Six of Crows, even though Kaz calls Jesper by his brother's name at some point)
You can submit as many siblings as you want, but only once for each!
By "best", I don't mean the ones who work best together or the ones who get along the best, they can be an absolute mess if you want, this is just a popularity contest
I tend to have a pretty good tolerance for rude things in the tags, so I might not realize if people are being actively harmful: if you see anyone being awful in the tags, please send me an ask or a DM and I'll block them
Here's the link to submit siblings! >HERE<
If you have any question or if the form doesn't work, please send an ask! (I hope they're still on)
Other tournaments you should check out:
@besttvshowbracket @foundfamilyadoptionagency @bestadaptationtournament @fantasybooktournament @swordswomanshowdown @favcharacterpoll @elementspecificcharatourney @canonmisogynyvictimstournament @queerplatonicshipshowdown @platonic-pals-punchout @booktomoviebrawl @non-anthropoidal-championship @controversial-blorbo-bracket @episodeoftv @bodyguardbracket @masked-character-competition @hot-take-tournament @battle-couple-battle @badass-queer-couples-battle @gender-envy-tournament @most-canon-non-canon-ship-poll @dumbass-duo-showdown @4thwallbreakersshowdown @catholic-saint-tournament @catholic-character-tournament @most-mistreated-characters @anonymous-character-tournament @indigenous-character-tournament @princessandknightfight @i-lived-bitch-beatdown @makethosenarratorsfight @sapphic-book-ship-battle @victimsofyaoipoll @look-how-they-massacred-them @bestanimatedmovie @queer-book-character-tournament
This is making me realize I follow a lot of tournament blogs
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btw tumblr's being a bitch so polls will take a while to sort out
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it's happened like five times and the post where i'm like "oh shit wrong blog" always get liked by the same five people
WRONG FUCKING BLOG. AGAIN.
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PRELIMS/ROUND ONE - 10/63
PROPAGANDA:
Doctor River:
GOD OKAY. Rant brought to you by my 11 year old Doctor Who fan self who wrote a fic where River Song got got by the Daleks so I could get rid of her The Doctor? Cool as hell. We love to see them. Kicking ass, exploring space and time, hanging out with cool people since 1963 River Song is so so so deeply annoying. sWEtiE Steven M*fft is a son of a bitch who wanted to make a super special girlboss character better than RTD. We have multiple special girlboss companions and other side characters both from Classic Who and New Who and River Song coming in and acting like she's the only one who can tease the Doctor and flies the TARDIS "right" and knows more than everyone is exhausting It's giving misogynist undertones tbh, like Steven wanted to be so progressive but went too far to the left and made River Song a caricature The Doctor has had some good ships in the past and will in the future, but Doctor River is not one of them!
solavellan:
he’s so condescending all the time to her about her own fucking culture but it turns out he was totally right and justified about it bc he’s actually one of the gods of her culture and saw How It Really Went Down so he’s like yeah all your traditions are fake and i’m probably going to end the world in the next game but i still love you bb. this ship is too popular for what it actually is. he’s not even hot
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PRELIMS/ROUND ONE - 5/63
PROPAGANDA:
Benkai:
Tolerable but annoying in the original show because she only appeared in a single episode. And it went over my head that bens future kids mom was implied to be her in the original show. But in omniverse? Terrible. It burned down ALL my crops and set me on fire too. Not even cause I think she gets in the way of a ship I like better, her and Ben together are just terrible for each other. They clearly don’t like each other, they don’t want to spend time together, and it really feels like they were just forcing them together because that’s what they set up already with the future timeline episodes. COMPLETELY IGNORING THE FACT THAT CANONICALLY THERE ARE COUNTLESS BRANCHING TIMELINES. INCLUDING ONES WHERE THEY DONT GET TOGETHER. But noooo, we need to shove him into a hateful heterosexual relationship… he’s our protagonist boy, we can’t just not put him with someone! I think kai is cool on her own. But everytime her and Ben are onscreen together it makes me wanna turn off the tv. Very cool of her to wield Excalibur! Not cool when she got reduced to just bens love interest. Both of these characters are great separately, but together it’s just not fun. They don’t bicker like ‘an old married couple’ they just fight like two people who don’t like each other and don’t want to change that. Sorry for the rant, I just. Reeeaaaalllyy think that this was one omniverse’s worst decisions. And MAN, THEY HAD SOME BAD ONES.
mcwexler:
ugh it's just the most boring thing i've ever seen in my life, they have about as much chemistry as a wet paper bag and an unlit match and if i have to see one more dry cardboard beginning of a sex scene when they mash their emotionless faces together before a hard cut to the two of them lying sensibly in bed i'm gonna fall asleep on my couch because that's exactly what i do when these two are on screen together
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I wasn’t criticizing, sorry! I saw the tag about someone not knowing where TimBabs was from and wanted to answer and decided to just cover all my bases
oh ok! sorry that i was rude in my response then :)
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DickBabs is comics, BruceBabs is the 90’s Batman Animated Series universe, and TimBabs was in the Arkham games
i know, but they're all "Batman". i put atla and lok in the same poll. if they're from the same "parent franchise", they go together. all the marvel stuff is together (or split into like two polls), the disney ones (snow white/prince charming and cinderella/other prince charming) are together. it's easier this was and also it's my poll so i can and will do as i please.
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I’m pretty sure I sent in like, an essay on why I hate DickBabs?
oh shit i must've not seen it. here we are:
Believe it or not, I actually used to like this ship!!! Their first go around at a relationship was fine! Not amazing and it had issues but it had its cute moments! But there was the retconning. Oh, was there retconning. They had to age Barbara down just to make the relationship even possible, since she was in Congress when Dick was still a teenager. And then it got worse. Suddenly Barbara was Dick’s first crush/love. Suddenly all of his other relationships were explicitly inferior and his awesome longterm ex is being villified and shit talked and dismissed as a fling in-text. They broke up and stayed broken up for over a decade. Then suddenly Barbara had use of her legs back and was out of her wheelchair, and it was like every character spent a few years going “oh those two belong together!!” Without any of the stories ever demonstrating WHY. Then they suddenly got back together (after having Dick break up with yet another cool love interest!!!!) and immediately became characters I did not and do not recognize. Babs became a girlboss (derogatory) and Dick became a himbo (derogatory) and I hate it so so so so much it makes me so angry I can’t even keep talking about this I need to go before I explode
i also added it to the poll!
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PRELIMS/ROUND ONE - 4/63
PROPAGANDA:
Timbabs:
Why the FUCK did this happen
Brubabs:
I swear this ship only enjoyed by Bruce Timm. Literally anytime this ship shows up anything you can bet most people are groaning and expressing their disgust in the comment section. Most versions of Barbara are a lot younger than Bruce. Like he’ll be Batman (a grown man), and she’ll be young enough to be playing with dolls. He’s also a close friend of her father’s so it super weird of him to take the opportunity to fuck on her with that dynamic and the age gap. She also is sometimes in a relationship with his son. Why would you be in a love triangle with this girl who is way younger than you and your own damn child? It just so fucking weird and it grosses me out every time. He once wrote a story where she was having sex with both him and his son in the same time period, and she ended up pregnant with batman’s kid. It is always seems like Barbara is super clingy towards him which is super uncomfortable and then you’re why Bruce would even entertain this shit at all. Makes him weird as hell. This was probably fine in the very earliest iteration of Barbara as a character, but it will always be a stain on the DCAU and anything it appears in in modern times.
Dickbabs: no propaganda was submitted
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PRELIMS/ROUND ONE - 4/63
PROPAGANDA:
Timbabs:
Why the FUCK did this happen
Brubabs:
I swear this ship only enjoyed by Bruce Timm. Literally anytime this ship shows up anything you can bet most people are groaning and expressing their disgust in the comment section. Most versions of Barbara are a lot younger than Bruce. Like he’ll be Batman (a grown man), and she’ll be young enough to be playing with dolls. He’s also a close friend of her father’s so it super weird of him to take the opportunity to fuck on her with that dynamic and the age gap. She also is sometimes in a relationship with his son. Why would you be in a love triangle with this girl who is way younger than you and your own damn child? It just so fucking weird and it grosses me out every time. He once wrote a story where she was having sex with both him and his son in the same time period, and she ended up pregnant with batman’s kid. It is always seems like Barbara is super clingy towards him which is super uncomfortable and then you’re why Bruce would even entertain this shit at all. Makes him weird as hell. This was probably fine in the very earliest iteration of Barbara as a character, but it will always be a stain on the DCAU and anything it appears in in modern times.
Dickbabs: no propaganda was submitted
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PRELIMS/ROUND ONE - 3/63
PROPAGANDA:
Zuko/Mai:
I'm sorry, but in the show it really felt like Zuko started dating her as a part of the whole "being the prince of the fire nation and having my honor back" deal, and not because he particularly like her? Seriously, it feels like they hate each other most of time. The correct solution would hvae been to have them discuss it at the end and realize they're not made for each other, but they just stay together?? (At least they break up in the comics, but most people haven't read those and don't know about it)
Kataang: linked post
Makorra: no propaganda
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PRELIMS/ROUND ONE - 4/63
PROPAGANDA:
Timbabs:
Why the FUCK did this happen
Brubabs:
I swear this ship only enjoyed by Bruce Timm. Literally anytime this ship shows up anything you can bet most people are groaning and expressing their disgust in the comment section. Most versions of Barbara are a lot younger than Bruce. Like he’ll be Batman (a grown man), and she’ll be young enough to be playing with dolls. He’s also a close friend of her father’s so it super weird of him to take the opportunity to fuck on her with that dynamic and the age gap. She also is sometimes in a relationship with his son. Why would you be in a love triangle with this girl who is way younger than you and your own damn child? It just so fucking weird and it grosses me out every time. He once wrote a story where she was having sex with both him and his son in the same time period, and she ended up pregnant with batman’s kid. It is always seems like Barbara is super clingy towards him which is super uncomfortable and then you’re why Bruce would even entertain this shit at all. Makes him weird as hell. This was probably fine in the very earliest iteration of Barbara as a character, but it will always be a stain on the DCAU and anything it appears in in modern times.
Dickbabs:
Believe it or not, I actually used to like this ship!!! Their first go around at a relationship was fine! Not amazing and it had issues but it had its cute moments! But there was the retconning. Oh, was there retconning. They had to age Barbara down just to make the relationship even possible, since she was in Congress when Dick was still a teenager. And then it got worse. Suddenly Barbara was Dick’s first crush/love. Suddenly all of his other relationships were explicitly inferior and his awesome longterm ex is being villified and shit talked and dismissed as a fling in-text. They broke up and stayed broken up for over a decade. Then suddenly Barbara had use of her legs back and was out of her wheelchair, and it was like every character spent a few years going “oh those two belong together!!” Without any of the stories ever demonstrating WHY. Then they suddenly got back together (after having Dick break up with yet another cool love interest!!!!) and immediately became characters I did not and do not recognize. Babs became a girlboss (derogatory) and Dick became a himbo (derogatory) and I hate it so so so so much it makes me so angry I can’t even keep talking about this I need to go before I explode
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PRELIMS/ROUND ONE - 5/63
PROPAGANDA:
Benkai:
Tolerable but annoying in the original show because she only appeared in a single episode. And it went over my head that bens future kids mom was implied to be her in the original show. But in omniverse? Terrible. It burned down ALL my crops and set me on fire too. Not even cause I think she gets in the way of a ship I like better, her and Ben together are just terrible for each other. They clearly don’t like each other, they don’t want to spend time together, and it really feels like they were just forcing them together because that’s what they set up already with the future timeline episodes. COMPLETELY IGNORING THE FACT THAT CANONICALLY THERE ARE COUNTLESS BRANCHING TIMELINES. INCLUDING ONES WHERE THEY DONT GET TOGETHER. But noooo, we need to shove him into a hateful heterosexual relationship… he’s our protagonist boy, we can’t just not put him with someone! I think kai is cool on her own. But everytime her and Ben are onscreen together it makes me wanna turn off the tv. Very cool of her to wield Excalibur! Not cool when she got reduced to just bens love interest. Both of these characters are great separately, but together it’s just not fun. They don’t bicker like ‘an old married couple’ they just fight like two people who don’t like each other and don’t want to change that. Sorry for the rant, I just. Reeeaaaalllyy think that this was one omniverse’s worst decisions. And MAN, THEY HAD SOME BAD ONES.
mcwexler:
ugh it's just the most boring thing i've ever seen in my life, they have about as much chemistry as a wet paper bag and an unlit match and if i have to see one more dry cardboard beginning of a sex scene when they mash their emotionless faces together before a hard cut to the two of them lying sensibly in bed i'm gonna fall asleep on my couch because that's exactly what i do when these two are on screen together
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PRELIMS/ROUND ONE - 6/63
PROPAGANDA:
Spuffy:
I hate this shit. Spike was better when he was a reoccurring character, who would guest star in a few episodes, be really funny and almost win and then get his ass kicked by Buffy. The 'got chipped' arc was fine, I guess but I think it was the downfall of Spike as a fun character. Plus, Spuffy started as untenable levels of toxic (to me). The 'Spike gets a soul' arc was when I just started loathing Spuffy. Spuffy has so many fans too, it's so popular but I liked Spike better before he had character growth! Spuffy fans fight me in a Denny's parking lot. I'm hiding in the dumpster and I'm ready.
Rika/Mr. Terada:
Listen I absolutely love Cardcaptor Sakura BUT this ship is just so gross. Like I get it's supposed to symbolize innocence or whatever BUT SHES A FIFTH GRADER AND HES THE TEACHER. Reading it just made me cringe. HE PROPOSES TO A FIFTH GRADER AND THEY GO ON A DATE. nope nope nope nope just no. makes me so uncomfortable
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PRELIMS/ROUND ONE - 7/63
PROPAGANDA:
Jeffannie:
age gap: Annie is like 18 in s1 and Jeff is like late 30s? the show frequently mentions this, as well as the fact that Jeff is somewhat of a father figure to Annie, but they keep fucking kissing... they keep this schoolgirl crush x creepy older adult will they won't they be going for 6 seasons and when they kiss goodbye at the end it's clear that actually Jeff, the grown adult, is the one who's really into the relationship. also Annie is so clearly an ace lesbian n making her thirst over a man is homophobic/aphobic
no idea lol:
okay so in season 2 when ben was introduced he had a small crush on kat but she told him she's into someone else and that was that they were friends from that they on. then ben's crush was never mentioned again he actually fell head over heels in love with tara (kat's best friend). after some relationship drama here and there (cuz tara is the protagonist) they broke up and yeah. so season 3 happens and it looks like ben and grace are about to get into a relationship grace says sth about not wanting to lose ben and so she needs to change as a person before anything can happen between them. then there's dance academy the comback. a movie. set a few years after season 3. no grace. there's some ben/tara chemistry again but she ends up with another guy who she's been into for all three seasons already. but whatever. at the end of the movie ben is in the hospital and kat visits him and they flirt a bit and then they hold hands and you're just like????? where does this come from???? this is totally out of the blue!!! like it was so obvious that they only did that to have another couple in the movie. but honestly they have no romantic chemistry like yes they're friends but that's it they don't fit together at all like can you feel my pain like this is so random and a lot of fans agree like this just seems forced like for real what do some movie directors think😭😭
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PRELIMS/ROUND ONE - 8/63
PROPAGANDA:
Light/Misa:
FIRST OF ALL MISA DESERVES BETTER SECOND OF ALL MISA DESERVES BETTER AND FINALLY MISA DESERVES BETTER
Obsessed blind loyalty lapdog girlfriend and controling boyfriend using her for his twisted sense of justice Oh not surprisingly girlfriend is from his follower cult and his biggest fan
ZenNezu:
it's just kinda gross. zenitsu is a mineta-type pervert but hey at least he's plot relevant! he immediately "falls in love" with someone who looks like she's half his age (she's two years younger than him). i hate it
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PRELIMS/ROUND ONE - 9/63
PROPAGANDA:
Cinderella/Prince Charming #2:
They have one dance. They did not talk to each other. The only condition he makes is that this one glass shoe fits the lady. If they had found another woman with the same shoe size first, he would have married that other woman. No problem for him. His shoe fetish is more important, so the most important thing about his future wife is her feet, the rest about her doesn't matter. Promising.
Snow White/Prince Charming #1:
Assuming that he does not know that she is not really dead, he willingly kisses what he thinks is her corpse. They have never spoken a word to each other. The only interaction they had before was him acting creepy and singing under her window, which scared the hell out of her, and yet the first thing they do after she opens her eyes is get married. Congratulations...
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