Another Random Poll...

I'm in a shippy mood today. So let's discuss favourite romance tropes, shall we?

Plenty of good options... idk what I'd choose personally lol.

I think I'll probably do this again with the not-so-good romance tropes, too. This is an interesting thing to discuss!

We've already got 52 unique responses! Of those, only 8 have more than one submission. So, in the interest of fairness, submissions will be open for one week, starting from today. That means submissions will close next Sunday, July 16, so get your dysfunctional families in now!

Also, please consider reblogging the submission post so this tournament can reach more people.

Tumblr’s Core Product Strategy

Here at Tumblr, we’ve been working hard on reorganizing how we work in a bid to gain more users. A larger user base means a more sustainable company, and means we get to stick around and do this thing with you all a bit longer. What follows is the strategy we're using to accomplish the goal of user growth. The @labs group has published a bit already, but this is bigger. We’re publishing it publicly for the first time, in an effort to work more transparently with all of you in the Tumblr community. This strategy provides guidance amid limited resources, allowing our teams to focus on specific key areas to ensure Tumblr’s future.

The Diagnosis

In order for Tumblr to grow, we need to fix the core experience that makes Tumblr a useful place for users. The underlying problem is that Tumblr is not easy to use. Historically, we have expected users to curate their feeds and lean into curating their experience. But this expectation introduces friction to the user experience and only serves a small portion of our audience. 

Tumblr’s competitive advantage lies in its unique content and vibrant communities. As the forerunner of internet culture, Tumblr encompasses a wide range of interests, such as entertainment, art, gaming, fandom, fashion, and music. People come to Tumblr to immerse themselves in this culture, making it essential for us to ensure a seamless connection between people and content. 

To guarantee Tumblr’s continued success, we’ve got to prioritize fostering that seamless connection between people and content. This involves attracting and retaining new users and creators, nurturing their growth, and encouraging frequent engagement with the platform.

Our Guiding Principles

To enhance Tumblr’s usability, we must address these core guiding principles.

1. Expand the ways new users can discover and sign up for Tumblr.
2. Provide high-quality content with every app launch.
3. Facilitate easier user participation in conversations.
4. Retain and grow our creator base.
5. Create patterns that encourage users to keep returning to Tumblr.
6. Improve the platform’s performance, stability, and quality.

Below is a deep dive into each of these principles.

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Do you like to imagine random characters fighting? Then this is the blog for you!

We’ll be setting up your favorite (and least favorite) characters to fistfight against each other! Strong and weak characters alike, fighting it out! (Submissions are not open yet)

Additional info:

• the first character to officially get in will get to be my profile pic for the rest of the tournament :D
• This will be round robin, which means every single character that makes it in will go against each other character. Even if they lost in round 1! So this is gonna last a bit.
• Due to the previous bullet point, I’m going to be accepting 100 characters at most. That’s the limit of my comfort zone.
• Don’t be an asshole. This is for fun. I’m dining this for fun in the hopes that you are also having fun. I’ve been lucky that in my last tournament, everyone was pretty chill. In the end, this is just a silly poll tournament on the internet made for entertainment.
• Feel free to send an ask to see how many submissions your character has gotten (once I open submissions) or to send pre-tournament propaganda to convince others to submit that character or to to just ask a question in general
• I will reblog almost all propaganda, excluding people who are being assholes.

I’ll expand on this more in a couple hours :).

(Same Mod as @the-most-character-i-ever-saw )

before you submit a character, let’s establish some other things you should know:

• Obligatory reminder not to submit HP or DSMP characters.
• Weak-ass characters encouraged because it would be funny, although it won’t be exclusive to them
• Real people are allowed if my friends and I think it’s funny
• Before you submit a real person, I recommend sending an ask so you can know if they are approved and so other people can submit them if they so choose.
• Fictional characters need three submissions to get in, real (approved) people need six.
• If the character you submit has a signature weapon, sadly, that weapon won’t be included. Because we’re having these characters fistfight exclusively.
• Characters submitted can’t have super-strength. If a professional weight-lifter irl can’t do what the character you plan on submitting can, that’s a sign that your character probably won’t get in.
• Characters don’t have to just win by strength. They can also win if you think that their strategy is better than an opponent’s and that they can outsmart them, then they can definitely beat them that way. Have fun imagining these characters beat each other up.
• Don’t submit a character multiple times. Feel free to submit as many characters as you want besides that.

Form link

@tournamentdirectory

Tags (also just other tournaments/brackets/whatever that I think are cool and you should check out):

@retirement-home-rumble @controversial-blorbo-bracket @unluckiest-character-ever @most-datable-datable-bracket @who-do-i-know-this-man @dialogueless-duel @sequestered-song-skirmish

Do you think Bret Easton Ellis knows? Do you think he knows that the man who wrote the book for the musical of his book later created a tv show where a character named Bret Weston Wallis desperately wanted to fuck Jughead Jones as played by Cole Sprouse?

chocobo are too good to be ensnared by intellectual property law. square enix has a moral obligation to free them NOW. put those beasts in zelda. put them in star trek. put them in riverdale. the world could be so beautiful