The days are zipping by, polls are getting shorter, and the stakes are getting higher.
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Middlemarch Madness IV: Ninth Bracket Poll
The days are zipping by, polls are getting shorter, and the stakes are getting higher.
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21 replies on “Middlemarch Madness IV: Ninth Bracket Poll”
The universe appears to be righting itself. But until Lyra is announced as winner, I will be on the edge of my seat.
This is not happening.
Luna supporters, I demand that you explain yourselves. Explain yourselves and then GTFO.
LYRA.
I like you. You can stay in my Team Lyra tree fort.
I can bring tokay and choclatl to the tree fort!
We should seriously consider t-shirts for this next year.
YOU GUYS. COME ON.
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I voted, and now I regret it.
OMG 50 – 50 for Luna/Lyra.
52/48 now.
I’m going to have a heart attack. People, do you not remember who Lyra is? How she transformed from a directionless little badass in childhood to being utterly self-aware and selfless in her pursuit of restoring humanity and wonder to the world(s)?
It’s impossible to discuss the extraordinary strength that Lyra possesses without ridic spoilers (and I know the book was published in 2000…I remember waiting forever as a kid for it to come out) and I genuinely don’t want to spoil anyone. But Lyra restores humanity to its legacy, to the best part of what our species was always meant to be. Her fearless heart and surprising (to her) capacity for unconditional love makes this possible, at great cost to herself.
I’m just going to leave Lyra’s gift to the world here:
“Even if it means oblivion… I’ll welcome it, because it won’t be nothing, we’ll be alive again in a thousand blades of grass and a million leaves, we’ll be falling in the raindrops and blowing in the fresh breeze, we’ll be glittering in the dew under the stars and the moon out there in the physical world which is our true home and always was. (The Amber Spyglass, page 336)”
Now. LYRA OR GTFO.
SERIOUSLY. SHE FREES THE SOULS OF THE TORTURED DEAD. SHE BRINGS THE UNIVERSES INTO HARMONY.
You guys. Come on. Please. Pleeeeaaasssse.
Seriously, pleeeeeaaaaassssse. I’m dying.
EXCUSE ME
Shit just got real.
And I love you, Luna, but LYRA!
I’ve been choosing pretty easily all along, but this week’s bracket was harrrrd. I’m sure the final one will involve a lot of hand-wringing.
I was the first one to post and had the very, very brief satisfaction of seeing my choices with 100%. (Clearly I need to read To Kill A Mockingbird again. I don’t think I appreciated it the first time enough.)
That said: TEAM LYRA.
I don’t even know who Jo March is? What am I even doing here? (oooooh Little Women).
And gosh be darned, Luna would LOVE Lyra.
Just so we’re all clear:
No better be taking Lyra anywhere! She has lots of comment support, Persephone Overlords. LOTS.
Lyra, get over here. Everyone else, GTFO.
I haven’t even read the books (I know, I know), but Team Lyra!
Oh, you’re in for it now.
Scout v Jo is a hard one. I almost think of Jo as Scout’s big sister.
I’m also waiting in agony for this Wild Card crazy-ness, and for the other surprises you promised (threatened?) at the beginning. It’s going to get fun!