#cat of the year poll

[theminecraftbee]

okay, so in a rare moment for me, there's a discourse thing i want to bring up, and that thing is. okay. so on iskall's stream there's this thing that can happen where someone brings up a criticism of his content or vault hunters. frequently it's self-evidently wrong, but sometimes it's not. and then iskall spends the next thirty minutes shadowboxing this guy, explaining himself, and completely derailed. and this is an iskall trait we all know and sigh bemusedly about, because he cares about the community and wants people to understand his intentions! he wants the community to understand his decisions!

however, it's not the community as a whole he's fighting; he is in fact, arguing with One Guy, who often doesn't represent the wider community, and who normally won't have their mind changed. hell, sometimes it's believable that they're satisfied having just managed to upset iskall, and they'll leave, no change to their mind, perfectly pleased that iskall's responding at all (that's what i firmly believe the people who poke at the 'you don't upload enough and that means you're falling off and a bad person' wound are trying to do, at least).

in the vault hunters community, we refer to this as iskall getting One Guyed, and it's typically viewed as bad, because it ends up focusing an entire moment on a single guy's negative opinion as opposed to on the larger picture. and it's an understandable thing to have happen! but it's frustrating to watch from the outside.

and so now i am looking at that cat poll. and the way everyone is still shadowboxing someone who has since apologized. and the way i would have never ever known about any of the negative comments about jellie if it weren't for fellow mcyt fans constantly putting them on my dash to dunk on them. and it's like. if you look through the notes most of them are just... normal? it's only a tiny few of people (and the pollrunner, who has since apologized) who were being dicks. it's a very, very ignorable demographic.

but. well. there was One Guy. and we had to correct them.

and folks, i don't know how to say that i almost never see "lol mcyt is cringe" type comments unless one of you puts it on my dash. both because i don't go looking through the notes of things that are likely to have them or go looking for reasons to be upset and because it's just... not that common! very frequently these days it is, in fact, One Guy!

i have almost never seen that poll on my dash without at least one instance of the One Guy. instead of being for fun, it's mostly become about explaining ourselves to someone who will not listen and will not change their minds, and treating this as a the whole of the Other Side of that poll, when most people are being... fine. they're fine! the majority of the people voting for the other side are doing it for perfectly normal reasons that don't require fighting about.

and man. let me tell you. after spending as long as i have watching vault hunters development? it can be just as frustrating to watch a fandom get One Guyed as it is to watch iskall.

#discourse #i am immediately turning notes off for this post as a heads up because i HATE discoursing but #man. i feel like i need to point this out. #sometimes you'll be happier if you go 'that was One Guy huh. better just block them and move on. i won't change their mind.' #one day this fandom will learn. #cat of the year poll #<- for those also trying to block it #also i know in many ways this is just me contributing i'm aware of my flaws #but sometimes i think this fandom needs to step back and realize it doesn't really need to fight the world. #sometimes someone says a mean thing. that sucks! you do not need to fight them for two days about it though. #and we do this with polls but also other people's innocuous comments SO MUCH. #so here i am.

[funky-fox-fics]

A/N: you didn't include a prompt with your proof, so I chose a meta fic on the poll itself as a catfight.

“And now…” calls the announcer, raising a hand— “Nefarious Anglerfish versus Jellie!”

Jellie crouches in the arena, stares at this Anglerfish, and her neck fur prickles. The Anglerfish is a tottering things, trapped in a box, its tail hanging over its head limply. Its fur is white and smooth and its eyes are dark and wide. It stares at her, takes a step forward. Jellie steps back, stumbles, hisses deep in her throat. Something is wrong with this cat. Something is wrong here. 

She remembers the other cats she’s killed to get here—two others, both gingers. She remembers taking them down, going for the neck, tearing them apart with sharp teeth. Her tail lashes, whip-quick and frantic. Jellie tries to meet the Anglerfish’s eyes, and it does not focus on her. Its box wobbles on soft legs that look like cat trees.

Somewhere, beyond her, the audience is booing her. They cheer on the Anglerfish, scorn her for her owner—scorn her for her father—scorn her for her lightness, the way she holds herself as a queen, the way her paws flicker into blocks if she concentrates. They scorn her father for something he is not, something he has never been, something that someone he has never met has done, and they think themselves right—and at her scorning, the Anglerfish strengthens and senses her weakness.

Jellie meows, low and long, glances quick-sharp around. Her ears flatten against her skull. She dodges a swipe, clumsy and blunt, and it strikes a shallow scratch on her flank. She nearly launches herself at the Anglerfish, and then decides firmly against it. She has nowhere to bite, not with this strange Anglerfish—not even a cat! Not even a cat! This beast is neither cat nor robot, but a fish, and Jellie—she reigns over Scarland and the Diamond Throne, and she is losing to this Anglerfish.

Somewhere, beyond her, she hears a cheer for her.

She pricks her ears, and—there! A member of the audience brings more who love her, who enjoy her, who know who she is. And they bring more, and they cheer her on—oh, the Anglerfish’s criers are strong, but they offer all they can to bribe the indecisive, and she lifts her head and bathes in the praise.

A lunge from the Anglerfish throws her off, and she gets up, tail whipping, spitting fury. The Anglerfish seems indifferent, impassive. She will live forever in every world she enters, while this Anglerfish is but a passing moment, a mechanical construct that ebbs in time. And she is more than a memory. She is more than a contestant in a ring, watched by an audience that hates and loves her both—somewhere, someone offers their writing up, somewhere someone offers a doodle, both for her, none for the Anglerfish, she digs her claws into the stone below and fluffs up her fur and snarls.

The Anglerfish finally lets out a low, moaning noise, like a cow, like indigestion. Jellie steps back, steps to the side, circles the enemy. She glimpses a scoreboard, two options, and two faint images—one of herself, one of the Anglerfish.

(She remembers—cold-dark-black. She remembers—waking in another arena, with a soft ginger tom staring her down—its fur spiked along its back, its eyes glowing yellow. She remembers—hearing them cry, hearing them sing, hearing them shout. She remembers—taking her claws and bringing them down and tearing and killing and falling back. She remembers dying. She remembers reviving. She remembers dying again, and being brought back against this monstrosity, and she remembers raising her head and howling triumph to those who would listen. 

She does not remember this crowd.)

The audience meets her eyes, in all their chaotic cheering. She can hardly hear the Anglerfish’s criers, or perhaps that is her indulging her ego. The arena flickers with danger, and Jellie’s heart beats a-thump a-thump a-thump in her chest. The Anglerfish staggers toward her, and she leaps out of the way with the swiftness of a deer.

How did it get this far? Perhaps by its weight—she knows that if she manages to get herself caught under that box, she will be crushed by it, Perhaps its tail lit and entranced a few polls ago—if she squints, she can still see a faint pulsing glow, like a heartbeat, like a glow squid—but even if it does work now, it does not work on her, survivor of the Turf and the Life Series and the Buttercup wars. It does not work on her, she who has all this song of love in her ears.

(Beyond her, the crowd chants her name—beyond her, her fans hope desperately—beyond her, the crowd erupts in discordant clamor.)

She bats at the soft carpet that lines the Anglerfish’s box, and she tears out some. Then more comes, her claws shredding the soft, ripping it away. Her startled meows rise to a triumphant screech, and she takes to the Anglerfish as she does any other task—in vibrant bursts and sharp claws and a bloodthirsty yowl in her throat. 

For Scar, she thinks, and remembers her death—and then, with a shriek, she dives into this final competition, bloody and desperate and biting.

She will not disappoint.

#see the funny thing is i don't know who this anglerfish is but i love writing cats #russet’s writing #jellie the cat #rip jellie #cat of the year poll #nefarious anglerfish #russet responds

[eggskall]

i'm not saying this would be a great time to celebrate the prominent voter fraud history of this fandom BUT

#jellie #cat of the year poll #cmon we can do this

[crabussy]

#poll #just curious [: #I'm a tea and cat person but I also love coffee #I love making silly simple polls like this thank you tumblr for the only useful feature added in many years

[icewindandboringhorror]

I know this is just a silly bad quality random screencap of a screencap that I found on facebook lol, BUT it's a succinct enough image to easily describe the concept in a quick/accessible way hopefully :

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(and of course, feel free to elaborate in tags, etc.! (especially elaborating about other senses as well.. can you "hear" in your mind just as well as you can "see"? taste? etc.) It's an interesting topic to me, as someone who's like a 4.5 at MOST lol. I'm curious what option will be the most common :0c )

#tumblr polls #hrmm... a little poll perhaps.. about a subject I find interesting.. since this image came across my facebook today #still really not feeling that well. no longer shaking violently and such but I still feel weird and weak much more than usual #They did say my markers for like infection or inflammation were elevated but that they werent sure of the cause so hopefully #it's nothing too serious. they did also say a lot of different things can cause that thing to be higher than normal but didn't go into spec #fics of what. maybe some of them are relatively benign or something. I still havent felt much back to normal since #I got really sick that one time though. I feel fine on and off but then little bouts of feeling weird and sick happen. hrmmm #ANYWAY.. looking for small ways to be productive. such as little doodles on evil ipad or editing game videos #or posting polls or cat pictures or some other like not very labor intensive things #I WISH I COULD FOCUS on writing HHRGGhh... I need to finish my game.. it would be so freeing.. a project that's been looming #over my head for like 5 years even though througouht that 5yrs I've probably spent a total of 3 months working on it lo.. ANYWAY #I still partially really cannot beleive that people CAN see stuff in their heads. There's always part of me that's thinking like. well mayb #e everyone DOES see the same exact thing but we just describe/conceptualize it so differently that we think we're talking about #different things when we're really not. But I have been assured by people I've talked to about it that they can GENUINELY really see #stuff in their heads like as vivid as an actual picture in real life or something. And the other senses are neat too. Like for exmaple I #can hear in my head much better than I can see imagery. I still CANNOT hear vividly like as if I were listening to actual music out loud.. #but I think it's developed more than my sight. AND interesting how this varies the creative process. a friend I was talking to on the phone #said they write by literally just watching stuff play before them like a movie. where my process is COMPLETELY different. AND that affects #the content/what details we focus on as well as our individual styles of writing have differences that can be traced back to that.. hrmm

[solariized]

LETS GOOOO. JELLIE WINS!!!!!

#jellie #gtwscar #cat of the year #poll

[skyclan-funny-name-squad]

Tähtipölyä - completed Warriors map

Joan Of Arc - Complete Warrior Cats MAP

GOLDEN AGE OF WARRIORS MAP

Marshal Dear - Mapleshade (Warrior Cats MAP)

Warriors Labyrinth MAP

Meet me in the Woods - [COMPLETE 48 hour Warrior Cats M.A.P]

SPOTTEDLEAF MAP - Tears to Shed

♢Ebenezer Scourge ~ COMPLETE MAP♢

The Exit / Brambleclaw & Hawkfrost / COMPLETED MAP

Centuries - Completed Warriors Clan Founder MAP - Dawn of the Clans

The Fire Came Travelling ~Complete Firestar MAP~

Reflektor - Warrior Cats MAP *COMPLETE*

#warrior cats #warriors #warrior cat #warrior #i dont have the reach for a poll like this but i just fucking love the joan of arc map and i need to mention it once a year at minimum

[best-fictional-cat]

Round 1 Group 12

Cat (Red Dwarf) vs T'Ana (Star Trek: Lower Decks)

#Cat evolved through like two million years from spaceship cats - a disclaimer and the reason he did get in #also he's fabulous and loves dressing up in different outfits for every ep #and I haven't even seen the show that's literally part of his wiki article #anyway don't think star trek needs any propaganda #best fictional cat #polls #cats #competitions #red dwarf #cat red dwarf #star trek #star trek lower decks #t'ana

[mantisgodsart]

We have finally finished this project, and thus, The World's Worst Dating Sim is finally DONE! Just in time for April Fools Day. Now, with our six new contestants, choose, uhh... who's dateable? Or not dateable? This last batch was determined almost entirely by People Telling Us Who To Add, contains multiple AUs, and is... hmm. "Unconventional" may be a good term? Half of these are probably undateable but you can still shoot your shot.

As previously, it can be a platonic date if you want, you just can't be neutral. Deadlander Lambda belongs to @cordycepsbian and has been moved into our studio for duration of this poll. Profiles below the cut.

(we're linking the first poll here)

Deadlander Lambda - Maybe - Deadlander - Good question - At least a little bit

This, uhh...

...is this safe? We don't think this is safe. ..."Already had kids before"? What do you mean it's a parent?

...well, we can't get it out of the studio, so it's an option now? We guess? This... really doesn't seem like a good idea.

Rogu - He/him - Ant drone - Very rude to ask a gentleman that, don't you think? - I wouldn't worry about that.

A charming mystery from somewhere only described as "a faraway land", though he wasn't quite scheduled in this lineup, we think we can make an exception. This silver-tongued bug seems to be able to say just what's needed to get under your skin... and from the look of it, he's angling to take you somewhere private.

...come to think of it, haven't we seen that face before? On a poster, maybe? Well, it's not a surprise he's been modelling for things, he's certainly got a pretty enough face for it, but why do we feel... nervous, all of a sudden?

Carmina - She/(scribbled in)it - (illegible) - (illegible) - (illegible)(scribbled out with "No longer relevant" written in its place)

...where is she? She was meant to show up hours ago. What on earth could have held her up this long?

Pebbles - He/him - Moth ("iterator") - Juvenile (estimated) - Unclear

Right out of surgery, this one. While we're not sure if it's entirely responsible to include this one, and we certainly don't speak whatever language he's speaking... he's cute, isn't he? And looking for a home? Well, maybe if you're the sort of person who might want to rescue a domestic moth in a bad situation...

Wereweevil Vi - It/its (wereweevil form) - Wereweevil - 19 - Aro

Pre-existing hangups mean that you can only date this one in wereweevil form. Good luck.

Kina - She/her - Mantis (big) - Haven't asked - Also haven't asked    

Well, we assume that you can do less lethal than the bandit who people mostly know thanks to her former job as a corpse disposal unit, but some people might be into that sort of thing, honestly. Are you, perchance, also a mantis?

#our art #bug fables #finished #watercolor #ocs #other peoples ocs #deadlander lambda #monsieur scarlet #carmina #five pebbles #wereweevil vi #kina #valentines #or we're tagging it as such for organization its actually an april fools poll #we treat the two events with about the same gravity so it fits #for clarification purposes: five pebbles is several centuries old and would be very offended at being called juvenile #however he is less than an inch tall and built like a stick and doesnt speak bugnish at all #so he spends most of his time lurking beneath furniture and trying to bite people with his new mouth. much to the hospitals distaste. #although the wereweevil is vi or at least an aspect of her it is not a terribly sapient one #it is hungry and afraid and desperate and lashing out in search of any pack #in search of ANY connection it can find #and the only way it knows how to do that is by violently mauling everyone and everything in its path so uhh good luck bucko #wereweevil vi in normal form has way too many hangups over intimacy to agree to an outing and must be approached like a feral cat #we know about the normal timeline and we added extra years so that she has the time to acquire more problems #thus ends our FAQ. good luck #EDIT: typo in the tags. ough

[twilight-skies]

THEY DEACTIVATED

#is the poll still vote-able? #cat of the year tournament #jellie the cat #the nefarious anglerfish

[pollyannawog]

#SHADOWSWEEP

@edgelord-battle-bracket

#polly draws #edgelord battle bracket #scourge vs shadow #sonic the hedgehog #sth #warriors #warrior cats #scourge #shadow the hedgehog #shadow propaganda #shadowsweep #THE KING APPROACHES VICTORY #ALL HAIL SHADOW #good fight by the scourge fans! #this was done so fast i wanted it out before the poll ended sojflsjfd #anyway vote shadow the hedgehog hes 15 years old and committed genocide <3

[nemainofthewater]

Best character surnamed: Nangong

Come and vote for the best characters with the same surname!*

What does best mean? It's up to you! Whether you love them, are intrigued by their characters, love to hate them, or they're your '2 second blorbos whose personality you made up wholesale', these are all reasons for you to vote for your favs!

*note, the surnames are not exactly the same in all the cases, as often there will be a different character. I am, however, grouping them all together otherwise things got more complicated.

Propaganda is very welcome! If I’ve forgotten anyone, let me know in the notes.

This is part of a larger series of ‘best character with X surname’ polls’. The overview with ongoing polls, winners, and future polls can be found here

#poll #the dumb husky and his white cat shizun #thousands of years of love #snow sword stride #the young brewmaster's adventure #a clear and muddy loss of love

[hershelthefrog]

#hyper specific poll #poll #my lil cat has histoplasmosis now but I had it years ago #oddly enough it affected both of our eyesight #I guess most cats get histoplasmosis in the lungs #who knew

[icewindandboringhorror]

... why he sit like this

#in this position his face is extremely 'cartoon cat' shaped.. like the perfectly round cheeks and little #rounded bump of a snout.. big round eyes. etc. stretched over the arm of a chair like a weirdo #cats #It's still Hot Evil Summer time and I have so much to do so am just aimlessly hopping between various projects but not actually #getting anything done. as usual. Also so so so so tired. I almost fell asleep in the middle of the floor like 3 times today lol #Trying to finish some costume photos and also another poll adventure thing. plus I do really want to do a sculpture sometime #I haven't finished one in a while. Hopefully my tiredness is nothing bad. #Maybe I'm anemic again so that's making me tired. Or maybe it's just a Listless phase. not that I'm ever really THAT productive considering #all of the health problems and etc. always holding me back. but still. I'm not usually 'sleep or just stare at a wall literally all day' ty #e unproductive.. at least not for multiple days in a row so. hmm... Sometimes especially in the summer though I will have periods of time #that are listless like that. I am under low level phyiscal stress for months at a time due to summer heat so I guess it makes sense #that would eventually take a toll. I just have SO MANY THINGS I WANT TO DO!!!!! AAUUGhhh #I also came up with a new idea for a game that is so so cool and I wish I could make it but I have to finish the other one first lol #which I will NEVER do. if I spend all day just sleepy unfocused barely able to do anything #I also really need to sell some clothes and sculptures because I'll probably have to buy a new computer soon so I need money. (plus still #recovering the costs of having to euthanize my other cat.. wehh) There's nothing clearly wrong with it right now but it's getting gradually #slower and there's more weird glitches happening randomly and idk.. just weird things that make me think 'hmm... bad.. possibly.' #ANYWAY... I just have so much to do that I both REALLY want or need to do - so it's perpetually frustrating that I just can't for whatever #reason like. Time is always mving forward. every day I waste is a wasted day. The year is already almost half over. I havent finished #any of the projects I wanted to .. and there's only more and more things to do each day. It's overwhelming and stinky #and thats not even considering having to do all of my tasks also with the background noise of economic inequality. everything increasingly #going into an even scarier political direction. active climate change crisis. pandemic that still exists and is insane to act otherwise. et #etc. HOW am I supposed to solo make two whole games . write 3 book series. finish sculptures. do costumes. make outfits. game videos. make #stable network of social connections. do my little side crafts. take care of myself and cats. pay rent. manage health issues. keep a routin #.try to make some sort of money. go to doctors appointments. handle regular maintenance like cleaning and cooking and self care #and buying new plates when old ones break or etc. make sure to do other things like backup my computer data regularly. do shopping lists. #take care of plants. pursue like 6 different academic interests. do the other side side projects I have for fun (like music or carving avoc #ado pits). eat in a healthy way thats okay for my Special Health Issue diet. exercise so i don't die early. etc. etc. etc. AND all while it #82F in my apartment all the time and I have tiny income and also need to move to another country/climate somehow??? lol...... #ANYWAY.. ..very frustrated today over my chronic Tired Sleepy.. time for Cat Photos - which cure all of life's ailments lol

[your-zipper-is-down]

It's funny how everyone is carefully planning how to distribute their 20 votes while I am here: 20 VOTES FOR TELLA, LET'S GO!!!

#this is a lie. I'll give 36 votes to Tella since I discover I can vote both in my PC and phone lmao #(the last four are going to Billy; Tatiana; Fuuko and Andy #Fuuko doesn't even need my vote BUT #she's the GOAT i wouldn't feel right not voting for her #My guess is Top's gonna be top 10 (lol) #Like Tella last year; he only got there cause his chapter (147: Run-in my beloved) came out one week before the poll closed #undead unluck #shut up cat

[wikagirl]

I'm curious about everyones headcanons about this

#skyrim #khajiit #skyrim the elder scrolls #the elder scrolls #apparently the way they drink is also called cutta cutta drinking named after the cat called Cutta Cutta #who belonged to a certain Dr.Stocker who just so ahppened to be working at MIT and doing physics related stuff (very oversimplified by me) #and the dude just at one point wondered how the fuck a cat lapping it's drink actually works physics and hydrodynamics wise #so he got a bunch of homies together and they spent 3 years observing the way Cutta Cutta drank #You can actually find the videos of the observations on the MIT youtube channel by simply looking for the cats name lmao #I learned all of this simply because making the poll made me wonder if there is a specific name for how cats drink #and there is! #so now I must share it all with you #edit: I made a spelling mistake in the title question and tumblr won't let me fix it. time to throw myself off the throat of the world