Voting ends at Noon EST 16th January, where the final winners will be locked in!
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Hello once again, drama enthusiasts, trolls, and unapologetically messy queers,
The nominations are in, the chaos has been tallied, and we've officially whittled down the contenders for this year's Drammy Awards to the top four in each category. That's right, the site's favorite pastime of arguing over absolutely everything is entering its final stage.
But before we get to the nominees, let me remind you: I am still far too lazy to write any of this myself. My ChatGPT-powered assistant (yes, the same one who wrote the first post) is back, and honestly, it's doing a better job than I ever could. Consider this a love letter to capitalism, automation, and my inability to care. If you have complaints, please send them to modmail so we can make fun of you.
The criteria for being chosen for the final round is the same as always:
The nomination was in the top 4 most voted nominations in its category
If there were 4 or fewer nominations, then the top N-1 nominations go through instead
Just like last year, only upmarseys were considered and downmarseys were ignored, except to break tie votes.
Best Dramatic IRL Happening
Which IRL dramatic event stuck out the most? Vote now before 2025 gives us a whole new set of disasters.
Vote here: https://rdrama.net/comment/7616134
Orange Daddy Assassination Attempt (The First One) 
- 49 votes
Hezbollah BTFO By Pagers 
- 46 votes
Luigi the CEO Killer 
- 35 votes
The Rabbi Tunnels Exposé 
- 30 votes
Best Dramatic Online Happening
From the fiery ashes of Reddit drama to Twitter and Bluesky meltdowns, which online moment left the internet in ruins?
Vote here: https://rdrama.net/comment/7616139
Elon's H1B Fiasco 
- 31 votes
Nick Rekieta's Polycule Drug Bust 
- 28 votes
Bussy Signal's Bluesky Meltdown 
- 25 votes
Boogie Fake Cancer Hoax 
- 17 votes
Dramatard of the Year
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Who reigned supreme on /r/Drama this year? Let's crown them before they inevitably get banned.
Vote here: https://rdrama.net/comment/7616143
Landlord Messiah (
@LLM_) - 55 votes
SloppyJosh (
@J) - 45 votes
BWC (
@BWC) - 35 votes
Dramamine (
@Dramamine) - 31 votes
Best rDrama Post
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Which post made you cackle, gasp, or question your life choices the hardest?
Vote here: https://rdrama.net/comment/7616148
BREAKING NEWS! APPARENTLY THE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SHOOTER WAS A RW TWT E GIRL WHO E-DATED A FRIEND I KNEW 
- 33 votes
Anyone know the lore on this weirdo dming me? 
- 14 votes
( @404incorrect )
Please welcome Joshua Ryne Goldberg, who has been out of federal prison for a month 
- 13 votes
Adopted this fatass, 4 y/o abandoned 3 times + obese from neglect. Named him Queerie in memory of Eerie and because he's a ultra rare male calico due to an XXY mutation which technically makes him trans/intersex 
- 10 votes
( @DWHITE___________DYNAMITE )
Best rDrama Bait
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Which chaos goblin(s) successfully wreaked the most online havoc and left us all in awe of their sweatiness?
Vote here: https://rdrama.net/comment/7616154
r/FuckLuigiMangione 
- 43 votes
Culturally Enriching RW Grifters with Big Brahmin Peepee 
- 25 votes
( @Communist_spez )
Baiting r/skeptic with an rdrama Elon shitpost 
- 18 votes
( @DWHITE___________DYNAMITE,
@kaamrev )
Carp Buckbreaks the Church of Satan 
- 18 votes
Best rDrama Activist
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Who took our subreddit's energy offline and turned it into IRL drama-fueled activism?
Vote here: https://rdrama.net/comment/7616161
Claiming Mt. Marcy in honour of the WPD cat 
- 24 votes
( @Eleganza )
Repping rDrama at Pride 
- 20 votes
( @Homoshrexual )
Spiderman's Spooky Halloween Encounter 
- 19 votes
( @Spiderman_2 )
Shilling rDrama To Your Extended Family 
- 18 votes
Best rDrama OC
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Who gifted us the best cursed memes, art, or even videogames this year? The floor is yours.
Vote here: https://rdrama.net/comment/7616164
Houellebecq's Doodle Collection- 30 votes
( @houellebecq )
Marsey spots a fishy - 24 votes
( @Dramamine )
Marsey dating game - 18 votes
https://html-classic.itch.zone/html/11005166/Marsey%20Dating!/www/index.html
( @CursedDANKmemes )
CSS osu! game - 15 votes
https://rdrama.net/post/326611/css-osu-game-on-youralteregos-profile
( @N )
Marsey of the Year
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Which Marsey emoji ruled them all in 2025? Orange cats deserve justice, and it starts here.
Vote here: https://rdrama.net/comment/7616167
- 26 votes
( @Gorilla )
- 21 votes
( @McCoxmaul )
- 21 votes
( @Sylveon )
- 21 votes
( @McCoxmaul )
Lolcow of the Year (rDrama)
Which trainwreck among us provided us with an endless supply of milk and secondhand embarrassment?
Vote here: https://rdrama.net/comment/7616172
@BooMetropolis - 39 votes
@transb-word 
- 26 votes
@sirpingsalot 
- 24 votes
@rDramaHistorian 16 votes
Lolcow of the Year (off-site)
Who out there in the wider world completely humiliated themselves for our entertainment?
Vote here: https://rdrama.net/comment/7616175
Samantha Rupnow 
- 35 votes
Elon Musk 
- 30 votes
Stonetoss 
- 29 votes
Joshua Connor Moon 
- 21 votes
Janitor of the Year
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Which janny somehow managed to scrape by as the least hated?
Vote here: https://rdrama.net/comment/7616179
@BWC - 31 votes
@Dramamine - 29 votes
@CyberDefenseIndia 
- 23 votes
@Marco - 23 votes
@BILLYBIGBOLLOCKS - 23 votes
- Carp and I were exactly tied for 4th place on both upmarseys and downmarseys so frick it, I'm making this one a 5-man final for the best mop wielder.
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The argument is that while it's possible to argue for some entity in Tolkien's cosmos to be known to be "transgender" due to a corruption of their nature, whether or not their "transgenderness" is inherently a quality of their nature or a corruption of their nature is inscrutable to all but the entity themselves and possibly Ilúvatar, but that even if some other entity perceives it to be due to corruption, that per Ilúvatar (or this narrator's representations of the words of Ilúvatar, being the narration given by Pengolodh), that such is mere perception, and that ultimately all that which Men do translates to the completion and perfection of the work.
That Men (those of the race of Men) have a necessary inherent quality which redeems them and their actions, a part of their nature which they express (and which, in our parlance, no one can judge). Even the Creator refuses to condemn it - only celebrates it.
And IMNSHO Pengolodh (the narrator) is Tolkien's self-insert for the purpose of narration.
So "trans people don't exist / aren't valid" isn't an argument from axioms in the universe of Middle Earth. That's related to, but separate from, "here's a trans person in Middle Earth", which to my knowledge isn't in evidence. I want to be argued away from that / be proven wrong.
I wrote the analysis because using Tolkien's Middle Earth to say "Tolkien says trans rights" is using his cosmos as an allegory, which he alternately declaims and claims (the "it's not an allegory to WWII" claim and the "It's the story of Christianity in an alternate universe" claim - both detailed elsewhere). So it's a viable avenue of argumentation - if he's going to deconstruct and then orthogonalise the precepts of Christianity into an alternate history, then we can deconstruct and orthogonalise the precepts of that cosmogony back to ours.
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