Stormbringer

Valerie Scherzinger - 6.5 Krini Hernandez - 6.8

First of all: - Since we have a huge list of 65 models there will be a Qualifiers stage from which 32 models will go on on the main competition, aka The Regular Season. And more importantly: - It's now time for the pictures! Those who nominated, please send me 3 pictures of each model. Needless to say that legs must be visible. Two vertical pics and one horizontal. - You have till next Monday to send the pictures so we can start with the Qualifiers as soon as possible (ideally next Wednesday). @PinkCouture @Grievous @Bettina Saw-Morgan @Matt! @Enrico_sw @VBacz @Alizarine @missliss1988 And @peroxideblonde & @lostdiadem, all help with pictures templates will be greatly appreciated And also thank you all for the enthusiasm so far!

Added! Perfect then! NOMINATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED!

@Enrico_sw , @lostdiadem you still have one spot left, if you want to use it before I close the nominations

Ming Xi Face: 8 Body: 8 Mass Appeal: 8 Nuri Son Face: 5 Body: 6.5 Mass Appeal: 5 One Wang Yi Face: 7.5 Body: 7 Mass Appeal: 7

Anna-Christina Schwartz Kate Li Annie Morrissey Emily Deyt-Aysage

Rachell Vallori Natural Beauty: 9 Not-so-Natural Beauty: 9 Body: 9 Sexyness: 9.5 Overall: 9 Rafaella Consentino Natural Beauty: 7 Not-so-Natural Beauty: 7 Body: 8.5 Sexyness: 8 Overall: 7 Raluca Mos (I had completely forgotten about her ) Natural Beauty: 9 Not-so-Natural Beauty: 9 Body: 8.5 Sexyness: 9 Overall: 8.5 Raven Lyn Natural Beauty: 7.5 Not-so-Natural Beauty: 8 Body: 9 Sexyness: 8.5 Overall: 7.5

Since we're in a new page, I'll post the list again. 1. Gisele Bündchen * 2. Lorena Rae * 3. Heidi Klum * 4. Colleen Cole * 5. Erin Cummins * 6. Lais Ribeiro * 7. Karlie Kloss * 8. Oluchi Onweagba * 9. Karolina Kurkova * 10. Ana Hickman * 11. Hana Soukupova * 12. Elle Macpherson * 13. Kathy Ireland * 14. Stephanie Seymour * 15. Niki Taylor * 16. Doutzen Kroes * 17. Simone Villas Boas * 18. Candice Swanepoel * 19. Romee Strijd * 20. Isabelle Mathers * 21. Jasmine Tookes * 22. Emily Didonato * 23. Taylor Marie Hill * 24. Clara Alonso * 25. Kelly Gale 26. Stephanie Rayner 27. Grace Elizabeth 28. Elsa Hosk * 29. Ebony Anderberg * 30. Myrtille Revêmont * 31. Floriane Desmaret * 32. Olga de Mar * 33. Joy Van der Eecken * 34. Cindy Bruna * 35. Imaan Hammam * 36. Toni Garrn * 37. Joan Smalls * 38. Duckie Thot * 39. Maria Borges * 40. Hailey Clauson * 41. Josephine Skriver * 42. Sofia Resing * 43. Natalia Sirotina * 44. Edita Vilkeviciute * 45. Natalie Roser * 46. Vika Bronova 47. Adriana Sklenarikova * 48. Shannon Lawson * 49. Carmen Kass * 50. Jessica Nazarenus * 51. Natasha Poly * 52. Vittoria Ceretti * 53. Tanya Kizko. * 54. Bella Hadid * 55. Bruna Lirio * 56. Rosmary Altuve * 57. Izabel Goulart * 58. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley * 59. Anja Rubik * 60. Maryna Linchuk * 61. Sara Sampaio * 62. Chanel Iman * 63. Isabeli Fontana * 64. Gintare Sudziute * 65. Laurine Daboville * * indicates pictures received.

I'll add, for my last spot: Sanne Vloet. -> Exchanged for Gintare Sudziute If anyone still have spots left to nominate, or if anybody who hasn't nominated anyone yet wants to do so, go ahead! I'll keep nominations open till today at 10:00 PM GMT-3! Or if anyone wants to do some changes to their nominations give me a heads up too before the deadline. (Edit: I extended the deadline a bit)

And...

^ So, so beautiful

I really don't think his opponents are "way worse" than he is. Just as bad? Maybe? But this guy is a true danger to democracy (or hopefully "was" from now on) with the way he carries himself and does politics. Then again, bout his opponents, I'm merely seeing this from the outside Are there parallels to him on the far left? Sure there are. We have some here actually, which I'm getting increasingly concerned about. And we also have parallels to him on the far right. And right wing politicians lie, like all of them. Yet Trump is specially effective at this and has lied and keeps on lying even more than your average politician. And he doesn't hesitate on backing any wild conspiracy theory as long as it benefits him. I'm not talking about what the media says about him here. It's just about reading his Twitter. The guy has backed anti-vaxers in the past to please part of his base and posted some wild lies about abortion on his Twitter not so long ago. Him constantly calling climate change a "hoax" is another. And it's exactly what he's doing! That kind of ideology -us vs them- is what he promotes. What he thrives on. If not... why keep on holding rallies for his base, as if was still in campaign? This doesn't mean that on the other side it doesn't happen. He has Fox News backing basically everything he does. And that's a HUGE media conglomerate. And there's Breitbart and others that strongly back him. He does have media behind him. He is, though, in part a co-creation of the media. Both of those who are against him and those who are with him. And they created a monster that never should have reached power. I'll refer to this: I haven't said that the US with Trump on power is an authoritarian regime. Because it's not. Because, thankfully, it still has strong enough institutions and structures to prevent people like Trump to turn it into it. But Trump does behave like an authoritarian and has plenty of the traits those "leaders" have. The US is not an authoritarian regime so it obviously has free press. Which Trump constantly attacks when it doesn't agree with him, as many authoritarians have done on their way to power. Same with the defeat. A defeat that can happen because it's not an authoritarian regime, yet he refuses to accept it. And he has plainly said in the past (well, and now too), in one of his many rallies, that he wasn't going to recoginze the results in the case of losing. That sounds very authoritarian-like to me. Oh the system, with its Electoral College is archaic to say the least. And of course it's no particularly against him... last time he became president after losing by 3 million votes. But that's another story. But this, how that system works, was not my point. It's about him placing doubts on the legitimacy of the system months in advance to now yell about fraud when he noticed he was losing. Without presenting proof (as in everything he does). How curious he hasn't yelled about fraud or "STOP THE COUNTING" on the states he won, or that he didn't mention possible frauds when he won 4 years ago. Yet his account is there. Still active. You can read all his tweets. Any "censorship" has been recent and long after he took advantage of the platform. So let's not put him as the poor victim of big tech here. He has been greatly benefited by how social media platforms work. Which is among the few positive things I can say of his presidency. Yet he did start a "war". His commercial war on China that in the end benefited no one except maybe China... That doesn't take away his belligerent attitude and dividing character. Neither does that someone on the other side may be doing a similar thing. I mean, it's what he does all day long on Twitter.

1. Staci Lyon 2. Amelia Grace Zerbe 3. Julie Poulsen 4. Jasmyn Palombo

Maria Miguel - 7.5 Anok Yai - 7

Lais Navarro: 7 Lane Lindell: 9.5 Lara Leijs: 7.5 Lauren De Graaf: 7.5 Lauren Mellor: 6 Lea Dina Mohr: 7.5 Leila Nda: 7 Leonila Guz: 8.5

Anna-Christina Schwartz Emily Deyt-Aysage Tough one Kate Li Annie Morrissey

Added!

She was already nominated, so you still have one spot left

All nominations so far have been added to the list. Nominations are still open and will remain open till at least tomorrow.

I'll add: - Edita Vilkeviciute - Natalie Roser

Everything? All his strategies follow the lead of authoritarian regimes. Lying, always lying; creating conspiracy theories in order to point to an enemy and create and "Us vs Them" situation: creating the notion of a "menacing enemy" that conspires to destroy the country; constantly insulting and mocking every adversary of his, not only as a candidate but as president; inciting violence from his followers; to keep on holding rallies for his fans/supporters even after being elected; creating a cult of personality around him; a sensationalist use of some form of mass media to achieve all of this, and on this Twitter in particular and social media in general greatly helped him; his constant attack on the media that disagrees with him and then posing as a victim of them is typical of authoritarians as well; his refusal to accept defeat; him placing doubts on the electoral system months in advance to now yell "Fraud!" without presenting any evidence about it... that permanently belligerent and dividing attitude, and so on. This guy throws mud in everything he touches so he can gain an advantage. It's what he does. The guy is trash and it's the better for both the US and the world that he'll be out of power. As I see it, the main reason he didn't go fully authoritarian is because the US, thankfully, still has strong enough institutions to prevent him from doing so. I've been saying this (not here because what's the point) since Trump's first campaign... awfully similar.