Round 2 of “canon” ships at war
We have the top four: Pissa, Fitpac, Slimeriana, and barely coming in fourth is spiderbit.
I find it interesting that the canonical husbands are barely making the cut. (Wonder if because they are canon they lost the something else other ship pairs has). I was legit thinking Frubbo would have made it. Spiderbit is legit only .1% above frubbo. Congrats frubbo shippers your ship may be recent but you almost made spiderbit be out of the running
Now onto the main event!
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Wrap up second round between the top two from the previous ship poll (PBM&Ms being first and PBMigJ being second) as well as the addition of Spiderparents just to cover all bases! When this has wrapped, the most popular term will be the one I urge people to tag all their posts with, however you can always continue using the secondary tag you prefer as well! But having a level of homogenization will hopefully help a lot.
Here is the previous poll with some descriptions and context for why ship names are what they are!
Additionally for this round Spiderparents: plays off the spiderdads ship name with the multiple parties involved/the addition of MJ!
Rmr searchability/uniqueness and character clarity are vital in making sure things don’t get mixed up, and that can also b checked via peeking at tags yourself! But either way, vote for what you’d like to be used :-D
(Sorry this is another week long length again btw poll timing is so frustrating and I wanted ppl to get their opinions in)
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other polls
Scott | John | Gordon | Alan | Kayo
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Earthspark tournament! Round 2!
Round one is over!! The winners of round two are:
Grimlock
Starscream
Tarantulas
Breakdown
Soundwave
Ravage
Megatron
Dottie
Skullcruncher
Schloder
Optimus
Bombshell
Bumblebee
Alex Malto
Nightshade
Hashtag
Twitch
I’ll try to figure out the battles and post the polls today!! :)
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The Bronx Zoo has just released Flaco's necropsy results.
He was not thriving, as the people championing the ideal of "freedom" claimed.
He was poisoned.
He was sick.
He was suffering.
"Freedom" would have eventually killed him. A building just happened to do it first.
"Postmortem testing has been completed for Flaco, the Eurasian eagle owl that was found down in the courtyard of a Manhattan building a little over a year after his enclosure at the Central Park Zoo was vandalized on February 2, 2023. Onlookers reported that Flaco had flown into a building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on February 23, 2024, and acute trauma was found at necropsy.
Bronx Zoo veterinary pathologists determined that in addition to the traumatic injuries, Flaco had two significant underlying conditions. He had a severe pigeon herpesvirus from eating feral pigeons that had become part of his diet, and exposure to four different anticoagulant rodenticides that are commonly used for rat control in New York City. These factors would have been debilitating and ultimately fatal, even without a traumatic injury, and may have predisposed him to flying into or falling from the building.
The identified herpesvirus can be carried by healthy pigeons but may cause fatal disease in birds of prey including owls infected by eating pigeons. This virus has been previously found in New York City pigeons and owls. In Flaco’s case, the viral infection caused severe tissue damage and inflammation in many organs, including the spleen, liver, gastrointestinal tract, bone marrow, and brain.
No other contributing factors were identified through the extensive testing that was performed.
Flaco’s severe illness and death are ultimately attributed to a combination of factors—infectious disease, toxin exposures, and traumatic injuries—that underscore the hazards faced by wild birds, especially in an urban setting."
The naturalistic fallacy kills animals in horrible ways. The romanticism of what humans want to think of as a "free, wild, pure life" cannot be allowed supplant the reality of injury, sickness, and death. Releasing captive animals (or keeping them from being recaptured) because it's "better" for them to suffer untethered than live a healthy, safe, captive life is inhumane and horrific.
Flaco's life didn't have to end in pain, sickness, and suffering.
Flaco's death didn't have to be tragic.
But once the idea of "freedom" entered the chat, Flaco's fate was unavoidable.
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