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braxiatel · 1 year

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Goodtimeswithscar is a sexyman and I will prove it to you

If you are still on the fence I encourage you to look at the sexypedia - a wikipedia dedicated to tumblr sexymen - and checking out their tropes page. Scar meets 35/62 on a list where recent winner of the tumblr sexyman poll Cecil Palmer of WTNW fame only has 8 listed on his character page!

35!

Scar is Textbook, and if you need proof I have gone through all the tropes and explained why they apply to him!

VOTE SCAR!

4th Wall Blurring: This one is arguable due to the nature of the medium but I’ll include it

Animal Theming: See: animal hybrid headcanons and designs. Cat Scar, panda Scar, hyena Scar, avian Scar - they’re everywhere!

Angst: That cactus ring… magic mountain. need I say more? This boy has angst.

Bait: *gestures at the shirtless skins*

Capitalist: she sells sea shells on the sea shore but the value of these shells will fall due to the laws of supply and demand no one wants to buy shells cause there’s loads on the sand step one you must create a sense of scarcity

Chaoslord: HotGuy! [snipes you for no good reason]

Criminal: shells will sell much better if the people think they’re rare you see bear with me take as many shells as you can find and hide them on an island stockpile them high until they’re rarer than the price of diamond

Con Artist: step two gotta make the people think that they want them really fucking want them hit ‘em like Bronson influencers product placement if you haven’t got a shell then you’re just a fucking waste man

Dealmaker: three it’s monopoly invest inside some property start a corporation make a logo do it properly shells must sell that will be your new philosophy swallow all your morals they’re a poor man’s quality

Distinctive Voice: I do not need to make any arguments here. Have you heard him???

Quotable Catchphrase(s): well hello there, scarred for life, “a-ma-zing”, etc.

Distinctive Laugh: I think I autism stole Scar’s laughter (whoops) so I’m giving him this one too, but also that gigle is just very good and we all know it, right?

Dominating: from the trope description: “Characters who assert their power over others. Could be through manipulation, magic, smugness, or force of personality.” Yes.

Duality: Convex did not put their whole entire vexussies into that possession storyline for us to forget about it.

Egotistical: This one is arguable and a question of characterisation, but I think that we can all agree that on some levels, yes.

Eldritch: From the trope description: “Since the typical sexyman is a tall mostly human looking pale twink, in a vast majority of the cases the eldritch is a heavy implication lying just under the surface.” Hello? Vex Scar??

Gay: See subsection:

LGBTQ+ Coded: That cactus ring. Mumbo “eye candy” Jumbo. The season 7 mayoral race. Concorp. His jolly rancher arc. This man has so many boyfriends.

Girlboss: listen I think a lot of characters who aren’t traditional girlbosses get called so, but with Scar I think it’s accurate okay. Did Scar utilize girl power effectively when he and Cub were blatant war profetiers during the season 6 civil war? yes. Absolutely. Girlboss.

Glowing Neon: vex blue anyone?

Hot-headed: Don’t let his calm exterior fool you. Remember. Scar when someone steals his horse: *sets their whole entire house on fire*.

Intelligence: yes but also see subsection

Smartdumb: Okay listen. Scar is Smart. Scar is very smart. And I specifically have to make sure you know I am talking character only here because cc!Scar seems to me to be a Very intelligent person with a wide field of knowledge. But uhm. c!Scar dies so much and so often in ways that are completely unavoidable. He does silly things without thinking of the consequences. I have seen enough people calling him a himbo (beloathed term) enough times that I do not need to argue this point. He is smart but also babygirl Why are you like this.

Johnlocked: “When two characters are shipped extensively by fans despite the pairing not necessarily being canon (or even present) in the original work.” it started out with a cactus ring how did it end up like this, it was only a cactus ring, it was only a cactus ring

Knifemurder: Hotguy! [snipes you a second time]

Magnificent Bastard: This Is The Whole Point. Scar oozes charisma even when he is the villain and that’s why he is so beloved. He is smart, he is stylish, he is charming, even while he is killng you. This is the point.

Marked Canon/Fanon Divergence: “Sexymen with a large gap between how they are in the original work (Canon) and how they are commonly portrayed in fanworks (Fanon)” see : the fake crystals vs Scar actually having magic, the abs being painted on vs shirtless Scar everywhere, etc.

Monster Features: vex scar vex scar vex scar

Nonhuman: like the vex thing is literally canon it’s not fanon those cons sure did vex

Pale Twink: We could have done many things with this collection of blocks people, and yet my dash is full of shirtless twinks/twunks every day ending with a y. Curious.

Perpetual Smiler: Okay listen this is partially the nature of the medium but also 1) that is a distinctive smile and 2) have you see the fanworks?

Power: This man tried to sell fake magic crystals and we all just decided he can do magic. He was an elf once and now fae/elf Scar headcanons are everywhere.

Scars: I- I’m not explaining myself here. yes???

Tall: I can think of one, maybe two portrayals of Scar that have made him short.

Theme Song: four expand, expand, expand clear forest make land fresh blood on hands five why just shells why limit yourself she sells seashells sell oil as well six guns sell stocks sell diamonds sell rocks sell water to a fish sell the time to a clock seven press on the gas take your foot off the brakes then run to be the president of the united states eight big smile mate big wave that's great now the truth is overrated tell lies out the gate nine polarise the people controversy is the game it don't matter if they hate you if they all say your name ten the world is yours step out on a stage to a round of applause uou're a liar a cheat a devil a whore and you sell seashells on the seashore

Unkempt: so those rugged life series Scars, huh?

Villain: Scar has been the villain several times and has a Long list of crimes to his name

Technically Antagonist: see 3rd life

Villain Protagonist: unreliable narrator Scar my beloved. I love how he just *does terrible things edited to make him look like he’s just a silly little guy having some harmless fun*

Well-Dressed: Hmmm I wonder why waggon/tycoon Scar routinely wins every Scar skin poll. Also he has enough outfits to include these sub categories too:

Suitguy: “Characters who typically wear formalwear, specifically suits. Often includes waistcoats, top hats, bowties, and pinstripes. Other neckwear may also be worn.” Again. The tycoon skin really lives rent free in all out minds, huh?

Long Coat/Cape/Robe/Etc: bathrobe wizard Scar my beloved but also do you know how many thirst trap last life Scars I’ve seen??

White Twink Humanization: He is made out of blocks in canon. We did not need to make him like this and yet we did.

White Hair: last life Scar beloved by many <3

VOTE SCAR!

#I hope this makes sense I am sick today so brain is no #mcyt #mcytblr sexyman #mcytblr sexyman poll #goodtimeswithscar #gtws #hermitblr #hermitcraft #trafficblr #3rd life smp #last life smp #double life smp

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best-sim-tournament · 1 year

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Vote for the Best Sims Character!

Sim Shrink VS Morgyn Ember!

Sim Shrink is a funky little NPC from The Sims 2. He appears when your sim’s aspiration bar is depleted, and is only visible to said sim. He examines your sim and helps them get back on their feet. He and Pollination tech are the only Sims to have customised face templates.

Morgyn Ember is the Sage of Untamed Magic. Their CAS gender settings hint towards them being non-binary, transgender, or intersex. Morgyn’s frame is masculine and they have a preference for female clothing. They’re also a member of a club I like to call ‘the Sims sexycharacters’ kind of like Tumblr sexymen. They’re a group of characters fans tend to fawn over (also includes Caleb Vatore and Bella Goth)

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prodigal-sunlight · 1 year

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Time to get controversial

A Tumblr Sexyman is NOT defined by being conventionally sexy, charismatic, popular, or unexpected.

Which seems to be something a lot of people running/participating in sexy man polls in don’t seem to understand. In fact, I would argue sexyman status isn’t even something you can vote on—it’s objective, not matter of opinion.

If we examine some of the undeniable sexmen (the Oncelor, Sans Undertale, Bill Cipher, that clock for some reason) we can find some clear-cut traits that define sexymen.

- They aren’t conventionally attractive in canon.

Sans is an actual skeleton. He’s also short and fat, can be attractive but does not fit conventional beauty standards. Bill Cipher is a triangle with stick-figure limbs and a single eye. The clock from Dont Hug Me I’m Scared is a clock. You might be able to make an argument for the Onceler, but his appearance is more soft, cartoony, and “cute” than what one might consider conventionally sexy.

- They’re frequently drawn as slim white men in fashionable clothing.

Literally every sexyman other than Sans, like, seriously. If they have a vague or non-human appearance in canon, but several fans have drawn them as thin white dudes in tuxedos, they’re likely a sexy man.

- They’re powerful.

The Oncelor becomes a mega-rich gazillionaire who makes his own city. When Sans actually bothers to fight, he has the most challenging battle in the game. Bill Cipher is an actual chaos demon who causes an apocalypse. The Clock has like, time powers n shit.

- They have at least one likeable trait.

Both Sans and Bill Cipher are well liked for being funny and comedic. The Oncelor, pre-greed binge, is a soft boy who was bullied by his family.

- They’re usually shipped with a variant of themself. (Also usually are depicted as gay men by the fandom)

The Onceler is the most infamous for this one, however there was also a huge amount of AU Sanses, many of which were frequently paired up. Even Bill Cipher was shipped with the borderline fan-original blue square Tad Strange, who was assumed to be a chaos demon as well on name alone (he was Not.)

- They usually fill an antagonistic role, or otherwise are involved in causing conflict.

The Onceler kills the truffla trees, while Bill Cipher and the Clock are more or less straight up villains. Sans is an interesting case as he’s only an antagonist in the No Mercy route, giving him the benefit of both filling an antagonistic role while also being popularly viewed as a tragic hero.

- They have a rabid fandom at their peak.

Again, the Onceler is most infamous, but this also applies to the other three examples.

- Most importantly—most people HATE them.

The fandom is called cringe and weird, but it’s inescapable. It’s a common DNI or something people get hate anons over. And nothing about the fandom riles people up more than the Sexyman. “I don’t understand,” the outsiders cry. “Why are you drawing him hot? Why are you treating him like a sad little puppy when? He doesn’t look like that!” And maybe a few years down the row those same outsiders will look back with nostalgia, even fondness. But a Sexyman is forged in the flames of derision and scorn. They are cringe, and their fans are cringe.

So next time you see a Sexyman poll, remember.

If you hate a character, that doesn’t mean they aren’t a sexyman.

It might be all the more proof they are.

“Sexyman” is not an award. It is a diagnosis.

#tumblr sexyman #sexyman #why did i make this u ask #its because i saw dream from the dream smp losing a minecraft sexyman poll #and the comments said it was because they didn’t like him #AS SOON AS YOU LET PREFERENCE INFLUENCE YOU IT IS A FAILED MEASUREMENT #hate him or love him dsmp dream fits all of the criteria of a sexyman.#in fact hating him just makes him more sexy man #sexy man is not an AWARD it is a DIAGNOSIS

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alicewoodward · 1 year

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So @awigglycultist has been running a StarCanWrecked sexyman poll (and they’re doing great at it, you should go vote in the polls if you haven’t yet but maybe read this first). But looking at the way that things have shaken up, it does not seem like some of you know what a tumblr sexyman is. That or you’re just voting based on who you like most, but I can’t do anything for that, so we will pretend that the votes have just happened the way they have bcs people don’t know what a sexyman is

So let’s talk about it

A tumblr sexyman is traditionally defined as a highly popular (pretty much exclusively male) character in tumblr communities. This often means they are popular to the point of recognition beyond the fandom they originated from, but we’re going to ignore that bit since this is for starcanwrecked stuff specifically. Some sexymen you may recognize are Bill Cipher, Nagito Komaeda, Wheatley from Portal, Sans Undertale, the Onceler, Purple Guy, and Loki

But there are common traits to a sexyman. Let’s walk through them

Sexymen are often morally gray to evil. The closest to a heroic sexyman there have been to my knowledge is Sans and Reigen. idk anything about Mob Psycho, but with Sans, he still falls within the label bcs he is a potential antagonist

Regardless of specific morality, they have a trickster type role. They mess with others, often using their knowledge and power that others don’t have for that purpose. An aura of mystery is also acceptable, but the trickster archetype is much more likely to gain popularity as a sexyman

They are often not human. I saw someone arguing against Ezekiel bcs he isn’t a human, but tbh that should have been a point in his favor. Characters like Bill Cipher and Wheatley are visibly nonhuman, and people would go nuts making humanized versions of them. It was part of the whole community there

They are well dressed. They’re often dresses in suits and bowties are preferred. With the last point about them giving human versions, they almost always are humanized as wearing a suit and tie

Now this is the part people don’t like the be reminded of. But part of the reason the tumblr sexyman term exists is addressing how fandoms have a tendency to favor tall, white, skinny, men over any other type of character. There are some exceptions to this, like Komaeda, but people are quick to forget lightskinned anime characters are Asian. The nonhuman ones are always humanized as skinny white guys. When Alex Hirsch joked human!Bill would be big and triangle shaped, people lost their minds bcs he wouldn’t be skinny. You know why GLaDOS was never given the sexyman treatment the way Wheatley was? She’s a woman. You know why Dr. Facilier never rose to that status despite fitting every other trait I’ve mentioned? He’s a Black man, and fandom racism always wins out. It’s not impossible for someone that isn’t a skinny white guy to be a sexyman, but it sure is rare

Anyway, that’s about the gist of it. The conclusion here is that Ezekiel, Wiley, or one of the Lords in Black should probably win this just based on the traditional tumblr sexyman recipe. But hopefully this brief tumblr history lesson will help people make more informed votes

#my posts #starkid

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quaranmine · 1 year

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One of the reasons I think Quackity is losing is because I’ve seen people saying they’re voting for iskall because Quackity was dsmp and that like totally ignored the other smps Quackity is on? He’s represent the Hispanic smps and everyone is ignoring that because he was dsmp first (he was sexy there too but he isn’t just dsmp)

I mean...the nominations were rolled. If there's an SMP that he's on that wasn't listed on the poll, then that doesn't mean he can't still represent it. it might mean that he wasn't nominated for it, in which case that fault falls to the fact that nobody wrote it in. if he was nominated under it, and it doesnt show up by his name on the poll, then maybe the mods made a mistake--they've got a lot of things to handle. but like i don't think this is malicious ignorance of anything. Since the nominations are rolled for multiple SMPs, you could always vote him for whichever one you like and nobody is going to know the difference. I can understand being annoyed that people aren't talking about an SMP you like Quackity on, but I don't really understand why it's a reason to not vote.

I also don't really see why Quackity being on DSMP is a reason not to vote him unless you don't like DSMP at all. But I also don't really think people's personal opinions of smps should influence their votes when there's clear evidence that a character is a sexyman. like i've never seen lifesteal but i've voted multiple lifesteal guys because i have eyes, it has nothing to do with whether i like a smp or not. I think a lot of DSMP people are losing in these polls due to the declining popularity of the server, which i think is a shame because a lot of DSMP characters REALLY deserve to be doing better based on their sheer tumblr sexymen energy.

#quara asks #basically if you think quackity should be sexy because of another server he's on why is that a reason to NOT vote him sexy?#afaik all the characters here are basically representing all their servers due to how the nominations were rolled

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autisticsupervillain · 2 years

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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to Stats Equalized!

The monthly show where we equalize strength, speed, and durability between fighters to see who wins a fight of raw versatility and skill.

This Episode…

Vriska vs Sans!

Rules:

Fight takes place in the Judgement Hall

Ancestral Awakening Vriska.

Scenario:

After falling into the Underground, Vriska begins apathetically killing everyone in her path in her efforts to escape, Papyrus included. As a result, when Vriska reaches the Judgement Hall, she finds Sans waiting for her.

Analysis: Sans

The man. The myth. The legend. It’s the King of Tumblr Sexymen himself: Sans.

For everyone who’s been living under a rock since 2015, let me give you a quick rundown. Sans is a Skeleton Monster who lives underground in the town of Snowdin. He works as a Sentry with his brother Papyrus on the look out for humans, though Sans puts considerably less effort into it than his younger brother. He appears to be nothing more than a lazy bag of bones who simply can’t be bothered to try to capture Frisk.

In truth though, he’s much more than meets the eye. Sans had some kind of relationship with the Underground’s previous royal scientist Dr. Gaster and is strongly implied to be an accomplished scientist himself. He’s aware of the effects of DETERMINATION and knows that Frisk can reset time at will. Knowing that all of his decisions can be reset by some alien entity at a moment’s notice has turned Sans into an apathetic nihilist who can’t bring himself to do the bare minimum of his job anymore.

As such, Sans instead acts as the Judge, watching the human from the shadows and observing their actions. Sans remembers every friend they make and sees every life they take, and he will hold them accountable for each. Though, it’s only when the human makes it clear that they’re a threat to absolutely everything and everyone, everywhere, that Sans steps into the ring himself.

Sans is the weakest enemy in the game. 1 attack. 1 defense. 1 hp. And despite all of that, he’s still more than capable of kicking your ass. Firstly, his attacks directly hit both body and soul, to the point of completely destroying the soul in seconds as he ignores your physical durability. Secondly, his attacks come from nearly every direction simultaneously, putting the Player through hell as they have to dodge attacks that spring out of the ground beneath them, alongside lasers that spin all around them from his summonable Gaster Blasters. And third, Sans is remarkably fond of abusing his teleportation. Not to dodge mind you, as he’s fast enough to side step everything Frisk throws at him, but to attack. He doesn’t eve need to touch his foe to teleport them around the battlefield, even into his other attacks if need be. But the most damning ability in his arsenal is his KR.

KARMA is a soul poison that infests the target’s soul as soon as they make contact with any of Sans’ attacks. The common theory is that it does more damage to the opponent depending on how many people they’ve killed but there actually isn’t anything supporting that in canon. It just seems to be a soul poison that eats your soul away in seconds, though it is notably incapable of killing the target on its own.

Sans also has Blue Mode, where he increases gravity on the target’s body and soul to pin them down and make them easier to hit. Sans uses it in conjunction wirh his blue attacks, attacks that only do damage if the target is moving when they get hit, to disorient and rapidly obliterate his foe before they can think. Overwhelming assaults are the name of Sans’ game and he’ll pull any trick he needs to in order to win. Including things that are…. hard to quantify.

See, Sans is somehow capable of attacking you… even when it isn’t his turn. He completely ignore the rules of the RPG world he lives in to attack you on the menu screen. Which, as you can imagine, is a hard thing to translate to a non-rpg fight. Do I just assume all monsters follow rpg-rules? There’s genuinely an argument that can be made for it, I suppose. One thing I am willing to give him however is his ability to pause the battle by just… not taking his turn. Even when all his other tricks fail, Sans can force a deadlock by just doing nothing until you give up and go away… unless, of course, his opponent is capable of doing the same kind of meta bullshit that he is. When Frisk also breaks the rules by attacking twice in one turn, Sans is caught out by it and dies. Which leads me into Sans biggest weaknesses…

He’s still the weakest monster in the game. Monster Kid is stronger than he is. Sure, Sans should still be at least Wall Level, as that’s how durability you’d have to be to survive falling into the Underground to begin with and even the weakest monsters can hurt Early Game Frisk, but that’s still not even that superhuman. For all his memetic qualities, he’s physically the weakest fight to appear on FTF thus far. Not to mention, his own apathy keeps him from fighting unless he absolutely has to and his laziness completely tanks his stamina. Combine all that with a monster's natural weakness against attacks with killing intent and you've found yourself the patron saint of glass canons.

Even with those factors though, Sans has earned his memetic reputation as a ballbustingly hard boss. When you hear those first few notes, you know you’re fucked.

Analysis: Vriska

Well, well, if it isn't Vriska. She's the Thief of Light, the Bluh Bluh Huge Bitch, and Homestuck's most infamous GirlbossTM. Vriska is simultaneously more sympathetic and more monstrous than the fandom makes her out to be, though that's probably because opinions on her are more split than the fucking Grand Canyon.

Vriska is a Troll born under the bootheel of the Alternian Empire, a genocidal galactic empire that is almost as callous to it's own citizens as it is to the civilizations it decimates. Her status as a Cobalt blood gave her some privilege over others, though it in exchange asked her to be cruel and capricious, demanding that she live up to the expectations of her caste and put down those beneath her. Not helping was her lusus, or her animal parent, was a giant spider that demanded regular sacrifices or else it would eat her. This forced Vriska to hunt and kill her fellow trolls in order to keep her mother fed, fostering in her a kill or be killed attitude.

The factor that compounded upon all of this, and ultimately transformed Vriska into the fascinating dumpster fire of a person she became, was the legacy she inherited. Vriska's Ancestor, Mindfang, was the most dreaded pirate to ever sail the Seven Seas, as well as one of the head revolutionaries rebelling against the Empire. In other words, she was the perfect escape character for Vriska to latch onto when Vriska found her diary. Suddenly, everything that happened to her was just toughening her up into this badass pirate queen... and every bad thing she did was justified, as her ruthlessness had been what helped her Ancestor thrive in this world of kill or be killed.

So, when SGRUB happened, and Vriska got an opportunity to be more powerful and important than her Ancestor had ever dreamed of, she grasped for it with both hands. She became a God at the earliest convenient opportunity, fully embracing her divine potential as the Thief of Life and becoming arguably the most powerful member of the troll team. With her inherent connection to the Aspect of Light, Vriska has a wide array of powers at her disposal. She passively drains the luck of people around her, stealing it for herself in order to manipulate probability in her favor. She uses this in conjuction with her Flourite Octet to always get what she wants, as her dice can create attacks based on what she rolls, for example, creating a giant guillotine to behead her enemies with.

Even without her Aspect, Vriska's status as a Sgrub Player already leaves her with plenty to work with. Her Specibus acts as an inventory system like what you might see inside a video game, allowing her to pull her weapons out of literal thin air in order to fight with. Furthermore, she has an Echeladder, or video game leveling system, that increases her stats as she keeps fighting. It can even go up from something as insignificant as opening the fridge, insuring that she's always going to be getting stronger.

Furthermore, her cobalt heritage gives her a plethora of boons as well. She's physically endurant enough to survive getting her eye and arm completely blasted off and able get up more pissed off than hurt. Her natural Cobalt physiology grants her the ability to mind control people, taking over as many as thousands of minds at once, each of whom have varying levels of mind control resistance themselves thanks to being trolls. The higher one is on the troll hemospectrum, the more resistant they are to mind control, and being a high blood herself, Vriska's mind resistance is quite hearty. Hell, just being a troll at all is an impressive accomplishment, as their society is so bloodthirsty that children are expected to fight each other to the death from the literal second they're born just to earn the right to have parents. And Vriska is impressive even by those standards, as she helped curbstomp the armor of the Black Kingdom, which has been fighting an unending war with the White Kingdom for it's entire history.

But, Vriska isn't just a troll. She's a God. Well, God-tier at any rate. As such, she can naturally fly through the sky under own power as well as slowly grow strong enough to defy the laws of reality itself. Every level that a God-Tier gains on their Echeladder allows them to ignore a few fundamental rules of Paradox Space, such as allowing them to be understood by anyone regardless of what language they speak. What's more, Vriska possesses the ability to come back from the dead fully healed of all injuries provided her death wasn't Heroic or Just. That is to say, she can't have died whilst trying to do something heroic or something evil or else her death will stick.

And finally, Vriska's most powerful move is her Ancestral Awakening. If Vriska manages to roll a perfect roll of Eight Eights, Vriska will transform into her Ancestral Awakening form, making her strong enough to stand toe to toe with Multiverse Busting Gods.

Love her. Hate her. There is no denying that Vriska is a bad ass. She has well surpassed her Ancestor's Legacy and has truly begun to carve one of her own.

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Fight Analysis:

Now then, the very first question of this Stats Equalized fight: was equalizing stats actually necessary?

Yes, Vriska is quite literally infinitely more durable than Sans, but Sans ignores durability via destroying Vriska's soul. Yes, Sans is as durable as Vriska now, but Vriska has so much killing intent that it likely doesn't matter. As a whole I guess I'd say yes? Saying Sans can destroy the soul of a multiverse buster on his own might be stretching it frankly. But, regardless, both of them should one-shot each other here.

This obviously raises the question of who one-shots first. While Vriska can be considerable cocky, this might work against Sans, as she might mind control him right off the bat due to not seeing him as being worth dealing with. Having said that... the fact that she's starting out in Ancestral Awakening mode at all does imply she's taking the fight at least somewhat seriously... which may or may not work in Sans's favor. Sure, there was the Jack Noir incident, wherein she tried to fight Jack straight on and got killed for it, but given Vriska's character development later, she might know not to make that mistake again. I guess it depends on the signals Sans sends her way as to how seriously she should take this.

On Sans's end, his main strategy largely revolves around annoying his enemy, which would likely prompt Vriska into either mind controlling him to shut him up or going at him full force to get him to take her seriously, which would at least give him a chance to retaliate. Having said that, that's because he was trying to get you to rage quit and leave him alone. That wouldn't really be a priority to him here as the circumstances are a bit different.

This is honestly a bit of a headscratcher, as it depends on whether Vriska would take Sans's burning in hell speech as an excuse to get serious or not. Immortality wouldn't work given the scenario and I doubt Vriska would know to dodge something that come from directly beneath her feet. If she does manage to survive that though, I can see her managing to take it. Her probability Manipulation makes to so that Sans's follow up attacks would go wide and while gravity Manipulation isn't something that can be dodged per say, it would likely only frustrate her into using mind control. Sans's "you and I both do nothing" trick wouldn't work for the same reason. Vriska only needs to think to mind control him and Sans can't keep her from doing that.

Having said that, that depends on Sans not getting the first hit and I ultimately believe he would. For one reason, banter. Sans's entire fight is him playing dirty and he's perfectly willing to interrupt his own monolog to that end. Given Vriska's own personality, she would most definitely snark at his "burning in hell" speech and the resulting dialogue would give Sans the perfect opportunity to interrupt and attack. Vriska wouldn't know to expect bones that come up directly beneath her feet and wouldn't know they can one shot her, meaning she wouldn't be prepared for a cheap instant kill.

This Month's Winner is...

Sans!!!

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proudfreakmetarusonniku · 1 year

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okok i've given this some thought and i'd like to say, cdream has the components they just don't come together in a way that would make a tumblr sexyman.

for one, he's just,, kind of too cruel?? it doesn't balance out well with the other characteristics, and it doesn't smooth out. it's too prevalent in his character. right from this, whilst being manipulative is a part of sexymanness, it's more being a charming conman that genuinely manipulating people maliciously.

he's... he's just too much of a villain to be a sexyman.

also not pathetic enough, he's like a sad little man with a god complex but not in a pathetic way but in 'jesus fucking christ that's a spiral' way.

i mean. there’s some absolutely horrible people who are sexymen. it’s just they’re usually portrayed more comedically than c!dream even if their actions are probably worse.

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kanohivolitakk · 2 years

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Some Three Hopes thoughts. Minor spoilers,slightly negative but less regarding the game itself, and moreso complaining about certain cross-fandom spanning fandom attitudes below

Ok so going to say this as nicely as possible but honestly I’m already extremely tired at the “Shez is a himbo”/”Shez has no braincells head empty” mindset the fandom has regarding them as a character.

Because like people make that to be their main character-trait when it really isn’t? For me, Shez’s main character trait is that they’re a mercenary. They lived this lifestyle and it bleeds to who they are as a person: their attitude and worldview is largely shaped of being a sellsword who could die at any moment. This is why they are such a practical, nonchalant person.

And it really just frustrates me to when people simplify Shez to “hotblooded himbo” when that’s not who they are at all. Shez isn’t stupid or an idiot, their intelligence is simply more pragmatic than booksmart. They know what they are doing and have a decent amount of self-awareness (when they don’t Leeroy Jenkins the fuck out) and know their way around their world.

When I think of Shez as a character I don’t think of them as a moron. I see them as a grounded individual who has lived and fought for a good chunk of their life, and that has made them the person they are today. Shez isn’t stupid, they just have a very specific mindset due to their upbringing that makes them knowledgable in certain situations, clueless in others. And that mindset is showcased really well.

In general, the “Shez is a himbo/has no braincells” really showcases why I hate fandoms at large habit of marking characters as having no braincells or being stupid. It frustrates me to no end when any character that isn’t extremely intelligent (or even sometimes extremely intelligent characters) are automatically put into the “no-braincell” box. It’s as if theres only two moods a character can have either they’re smart or they’re not smart at all. And I don’t really like that myself because intelligence has different forms and ways of showcasing. It really annoys me that people are like “if you are a stereotypically smart person you are a certified dumbass.” when that’s not fucking true. Like at all.

Another thing that frustrates me is that the no braincell thing is more common the more popular a character is. And not only is it frustrating if it doesn’t fit the character, it’s frustrating because it feel that the fandom worships characters being moron, idiotic. And don’t get me wrong I love me a dumbass who lacks self-awareness, anyone who knows my taste in characters knows that. But I also love genuinely self-aware or intelligent characters. And I don’t mean the hyper competent and hyper-cunning type either, but people who have average to slightly average intelligence. Like of-course they have braincells, it’s just everyone is raised differently and as such they use it in a different way.

And I feel the himbo/no-braincell phenomenon showcases really well this attitude fandom has with characters in general: they put them into tidy easy to recognizable boxes. Think stuff as beautiful cinnamonrolls of the yesteryear, the “this character needs therapy so bad” type of characters, the girlbosses, the tumblr sexymen or the current trend of seeing every sad 20-30 year old man and going “I want to put this pathetic sack of a man into a cardboard box and then microwave him”. Every character can be summed up by a carefully tidied trope or archetype, by an easy recognizable signifier that showcases what type of blorbo are you. And yeah its true, a lot of characters fall to archetypes, but that doesn’t mean they cannot be their own individuals with their own traits and quirks that make them interesting and likeable. And evenmoreso Tumblr archetypes feel less “this is the characters personality-trait and their narrative role/purpose” like archetypes usually are seen as and moreso broadstroked “this is the characters exgarrated personality-trait based on a fandom version of the broken telephone game and how the fandom reacts to them”. It sanitizes the characters, makes them less of the individuals they were in the narrative and moreso new bargainbin brainrots you can play dressup with annd write fanfics about.

So yeah “Shez is a himbo” memes bother me because they showcase fandoms lack of wanting to understand a character, instead wanting to put them into easily digesteble terms that can disort the way we understand their character. Is Shez a bit clueless? At times yeah. But its just part of the character, not the entirety of them, and that’s what bothers me about all this.

#Kirika Talks #fe3h #few3h #shez fire emblem #rant'#not about the game itself moreso just a rant about fandom in general

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rabbit-exe · 2 years

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why are so many people seemingly horny over the two helmet-haired pokemon men. why are they so compelling. from what I know they are brothers and also stationmasters for the underground. they’re not quite tumblr sexymen yet but I have seen So Much Fanart And Fanfics even while trying to actively avoid them

#pokemon #the pokemon men #pokemon subway boss #that's a tag apparently #is that who they are?#their names are #ingo and emmet #according to the tags #hare.txt

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nat-without-a-g · 2 years

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Long post about fandom, specifically STs, on other socials. I’m just not happy with the recent fandom containment breaches rn and am ranting, just scroll if that sounds annoying. I’m intentionally not tagging any fandoms or characters i mention, LMK if this post is in your tag and I’ll fix it.

It’s not even the usual kind, like when fandoms start invading other fandoms or when a piece of content made by the fans becomes popularized without context or people realizing it’s fandom (… idk if this counts but I love the “shut up terf” meme being printed and shown to UK Parliament as an example.)— it’s the surface level fans sinking into the actual fandom and not realizing that their thrashing is making them sink faster.

It’s not a native-to-tumblr issue wildly enough (woo! No algorithm!), but on other socials that fandom is big in, the algorithm keeps pushing fandom stuff toward people who usually don’t interact with fandom but like certain popular games and shows. Normally this wouldn’t be a problem, and to be honest it really wasn’t when this happened with FN@F, but with ST non-fandom fans it’s so bizarre. Maybe FN@F is a different case, fandom is what made the game popular, and creators with large followings and fandoms put it on the map. ST, however, is a Netflix show, and you don’t need to have an association with fandom to watch a show on Netflix. On top of that, if you don’t already want to end up in a fandom space, you wouldn’t see stuff from deep in the fandom unless you interacted with progressively more and more actual fandom things, even if it’s just to hate comment and bicker. However, the surface level fans and ST fandom have stayed separate for years, and while i blame algorithms for overstepping and the surface-level fans for not knowing how algorithms work, Iiiiiii think we all know it was Eddie specifically that caused the breach to happen.

Like. Those of us who have been in fandoms for awhile know there’s going to be a character the fandom latches onto more than others, and therefore gets more theories, content, fanart, AUs, and cosplays then others. It’s not a problem, it’s just the fandom blorbo. This usually aligns with sexymen— (sans undertale, the onceler the lorax, bill cipher gravity falls, tony the clock from dhmis— junko danganronpa if you count her?) and sometimes there’s a split (like from Resident Evil Village, Heisenberg verses Lady Dimitrescu, FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT!!!) Normally what winds up happening is that a character blows up in fandom and people on the outside don’t notice until Months later and only if it breaches containment. (I think this happened with Bill Cipher?) And during these months we do what fandom does best; we create stuff! We make art, comics, songs, fics, theories, alternate universes, crossovers, cosplays— this has ALWAYS been a thing. What happened now is that the first properly centralized fandom-favorite blorbo for ST? He was heavily merchandised, a huge focus on the show was his survival, and he was a weird nerd. Maybe he’s hot or something too I dunno I can’t actually recognize that stuff.

People who aren’t in fandom but are fans buy merchandise, they express interests in characters well-beings, they’re sympathetic toward characters who the narrative are sympathetic to, and maybe they like hot characters— I don’t actually know about that last one— on top of all that, they could be just as avid watchers as people who are in fandoms. It doesn’t seem like a surprise to me that most people cringing at Eddie cosplay today also say “I tried to find a H/llfire c/ub shirt when season 4 came out and now I’m glad I didn’t”. Or that they found the Eddie Memoriam fan song that several actors from the show referenced, reacted to, and one of whom did an interpretive dance to. Or they jumped past the character and expressed interest in the actor like you would a band or something. They didn’t realize their apps tracked their interests and searches. Also. After using TT for awhile, it listens to you. I know it SHOULDN’T, but it listens to the words you say and will adjust your FYP to learn more toward things you talk about a lot. Despite not interacting with Danganronpa anything, after talking about it for a long time with a friend who Does enjoy it, it became my FYP. And it was predominantly cosplayers.

Not to mention unlike security breach, it’s convention season this year! Conventions are wicked popular during the summer and early fall, Comicon happens in July, and with COVID over, so many people are/were bustling to go to one. The new STs season came out in late May, and the character with the most exciting storyline has an easy look to replicate that doesn’t change over the series. Not to mention unlike other STs characters, he’s a young adult with a style that is very specific and recognizable even with massive changes while also being easy to thrift. With emotions high about this character, conventions coming soon, and interests in the show and characters running high, of COURSE fandom, specifically cosplayers, flocked to this man! This is not an unnatural thing that happened! I knew this was coming as soon as I saw him in the TRAILERS.

Like. It’s not even our fault this time, we’re just minding our business and having fun, right? And then a metric Ton of people who seem to have never looked up a show they liked on social media before start bullying cosplays for… cosplaying… Y’know, that thing a lot of them put backbreaking amounts of work into just so they can have fun and sometimes even get paid? Like. Do they know about fanart? Fanfiction? Years-spanning fancomics? Webcomics that started as fan works? Have they ever read a fic? Do they know what the concept of shipping is? Do they know how horrific some popular ships are?? Have they ever read a fic that combined fandoms or ones that decided canon was dead and we killed it??? The entire fantasy genre? Do they know the simple joys of watching podcast fanartists interpretation of the characters become canon? Do they know the more excited joy of watching an artist’s interpretation of characters with a visual medium become accepted as fact by the fandom? Where WERE these people during the past seven or so years when there was a raving fandom for every show meant for teens??? Do they not know what a body pillow is??? Do they know what rule 34 is??? Do they have any idea what conventions are and what happens at them??? What do these people know and why do they hate it before they even know it???

I don’t think people in fandom are better than people who aren’t, there are a Lot of things in fandom I’m not happy with either (including rule 34 tbh). However, I’m not upset with people who don’t interact with fandom. I’m exhausted by the people who accidentally fell into fandom like quicksand and is just thrashing around and getting mad at people yelling at them to stop moving. So instead of rolling their eyes and scrolling, they put cosplayers who are just cosplaying on blast with the intention of having their audience chase them like wild animals. “Wow I’ve been seeing that on my FYP too!!!” You moron, algorithms push the things people you follow interact with toward you. It’s probably BECAUSE of this person picking a fight with the fandom that you’re seeing the same posts as them. “They won’t shut up, why are new fans like this, this has never happened before!” This happens in EVERY FANDOM. Don’t believe me? Look one up and start scrolling. Especially if it’s a tv series, book series, game series, or podcast that’s appeared as a popular hashtag in the past 10 years.

It makes sense that this isn’t happening on Tumblr tbh, we know why we’re here.

Also the app doesn’t stalk us, thanks Tumblr.

#nat rants #fandom culture #tiktok is a curse #long post #super long post #essay post #fandoms invading other smaller fandoms happens too #and that’s annoying #fanfiction culture annoys me to no end too.#like even outside of discourse #BUT.#THIS? THIS RIGHT HERE?#people who have never interacted with a fandom in their life trying to single-handledly bring back cringe culture?#the ones trying to bully cosplayers— literal fandom staples— off the internet #It’s disgusting. they haven’t even done anything.#They do realize some TT cosplayers have got away with murder and still have a platform?#these people are exhausting.#ask to tag #covid mention

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