#inaccurate numbers

[griffynbird101]

Harry Potter: The Wizarding population doesn’t make sense

At the beginning of this tumblr (a few gears ago now I posted a series of rough calculations for the populations of wizarding populations across the globe based on the number that JK Rowling gave (1.1 Million Wizards in the world, 6600:1 Muggles to Wizards). I also calculated the number of children attending the identified schools. (I am in the process of digitalizing these posts because I know they’re hard to read)

Looking back my calculations were not entirely accurate because they assumed that the ratio would apply everywhere and didn’t account for societal factors. That aside, while creating them I noticed a very big problem with the number given.

Based on what I calculated then, the UK specifically had about 10 000 people in total. Recently I discovered that I was mistaken and the problem is much worse than I thought. JK Rowling stated (casually??) that there were “about 3000” Witches and Wizards in the UK.

….This is a society that has been around for a thousand years or more. In fact; a thousand years ago the British Isles had enough children to open a gigantic castle as a school. The numbers just don’t add up. Supposedly this society that marries young, and lives longer than average humans took a THOUSAND years to reach a measly 3000? No. I don’t think so. In fact, the logical idea would be that a reproducing wizarding society should have surpassed their muggle counterparts ages ago.

By contrast; it took hundreds of years for muggles to implement mandatory education, for many years we didn’t even have understanding of germs, and by all means even today there are many ailments that wizards can heal and muggles can’t. And today population trends have people marrying older and having fewer children, whereas in Wizarding society having children is still a priority.

Evolutionary speaking, muggles probably wouldn’t even exist anymore, or be a minority. Wizards in the old days had a much higher chance of survival and living to passing on their genetic information. Plus; Muggles just randomly have magical children sometimes…

Still; there are 67 Million+ People in the UK, and “about 3000” in Magical Britain.

In order to make this make some sense at all, there has to be a high percentage of squibs. Wizards can’t be having dozens of magical children that marry and have dozens more magical children; there has to be some kind of reason why there are so few magical people when they have such a better chance of having children. And yet squibs are apparently supposed to be rare.

What I’m saying is; The Weasley’s should be “The 7 magical weasley children vs those other 7 who we had to leave at the muggle orphanage” because otherwise my brain explodes.

Alternatively; Rowling should be banned from doing math because everytime she makes a flippant comment like “about 3000” she inadvertently makes either 1. A world that just doesn’t make sense or 2. Gives me a nightmare about a literal hellscape where apparently the world is filled with abandoned squibs that no one talks about (or Harry’s too dumb to notice) and where Cygnus Black was apparently a victim of child marriage (unrelated; he was born in 1938, Bellatrix was born in ‘51 you do the math).

PS: I am well aware that thinking too deeply about a children’s series where kids do magic, fight evil wizards, and go on adventures is a very silly thing to do; but I don’t seem to have an off button and this has been floating around in my mind for a few years now it was gonna come out eventually. So you TAKE my word vomit.

[jorenilee]

new witch hat anthology novel announced and BABY DRAGON WILL COME HOME!!!!!!!!!!!

[hubbleablubble]

Saïx Bnuuy

[soapcan18]

The fact that Michael only appears in six episodes, and only speaks in FOUR of them, yet still became the fan favorite is hilarious. No one can resist the charms of silly spiral man

[saishu-harachi-thegatorlord]

got bored, searched up angel numbers, did this-

111 - Intuition - Whit

222 - Alignment - Min

333 - Support - Eden

444 - Protection - Hu

555 - Change - Charles

666 - Reflect - Ace

777 - Luck - Teruko

888 - Balance - Levi

999 - Release - David

i know literally nothing about angel numbers this is just from the stuff i searched up :>

[ifuckinghatebriansella]

what the fuck is my listening history

[eridude]

3 hours and 11 minutes eridan ampora playlist = my proudest moment.

[mcaelius]

this is a travesty

[cheechdog1]

“Welcome… to BFB.”

“Erm, what the Cary?”

@skekthesilly

[fishfishpond]

fresh

[bittsandpieces]

How much does a freya bra run?

sometimes I can find them on sale but usually I expect to spend minimum $40, usually closer to $60. if I wanted a fancier style itd be closer to $80, probably

[isfjmel-phleg]

Some of the takes in the notes on that T S G-related post are wild. I am going to have some Things To Say this spring.

[jievn]

2024 tumblr top 10

i was tagged by @rlvaille, thank you 💗

use this to see your top 10 posts this year and share the results!

wooyoung getting ready for the concert - 1,985 notes

2. wooyoung's birthday post - 1,332 notes

3. wooyoung being a cutie - 1,302 notes

4. wooyoung being a menace - 1,050 notes

5. wooyoung in birthday mv - 978 notes

6. wooyoung giving wednesday adams - 944 notes

7. the only non-ateez post - instead, it's the scene from when the phone rings that made me scream - 847 notes

8. san in it's you mv - 767 notes

9. another wooyoung gifset that i literally posted two days ago - 764 notes

10. surprise, surprise - another gifset of wooyoung - 618 notes

tagging: @baekslight @antonleez @yunwooz + anyone who wants to do it ;) (no pressure, of course, and sorry, if you already did it)

[remxedmoon]

why did i think this was a good idea.

[factorialsotherfandoms]

Ao3 Wrapped

(stolen from @\antimony-medusa), only using the ordem/qsmp account as I've only got like 5k on main

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Overall stats for 2024!

User Subscriptions: 71 [not sure this works says 71 on all options]

Kudos: 5,697

Comment Threads: 476 [that my inbox is only at 44 is a miracle]

Bookmarks: 871

Subscriptions: 131

Word Count: 353,295

Hits: 38,259

This is lower than last year in terms of received things (kudos, subscriptions, etc), but then last year I wrote near exclusively QSMP, very popular at the time. As you'll see below while I did a fair bit of that this year I did more by numbers in other, less popular fandoms. So it stands to reason.

Fun Stats: 

Fics Published: 171

Number of One-Shots: 160 (I think? Counting is hard)

Number of Multi-Chapters: 11

Number of Inspired Works: 4 inspired by me, 2 inspired me (this does not count the times I've used it to link to myself)

Longest Fic: Until Someone Loves You, I'll Keep You Safe at 18,988 words (spoilers up to and including OPC6. The Samuel Fic. I love this one very very much)

(Discounted - my QSMPxXCOM notes for not being a fic)

Shortest Fic: 3 way tie! All exactly 100 words. Heed No Call To Die - Ordem Paranormal, spoilers to OPD7 Play - QSMP Fit & Pai - QSMP

(Discounted - artwork only, artwork with notes)

Most Kudosed Fic: Do The Words I Scream Mean Anything? (QSMP, Philza, Cellbit, and Enderking horrors)

Most Viewed Fic: Do The Words I Scream Mean Anything?

Most Subscribed Fic: Do The Words I Scream Mean Anything? (which is very funny but also sad as a oneshot)

Most Bookmarked Fic: Do The Words I Scream Mean Anything? (I do love this fic but am very sad it's winning everything)

Most Used Fandom: Ordem Paranormal (88 works)

Least Used Fandom: Arkanis SMP and Enigma do Medo (1 work each, EdM is not yet officially a fandom on ao3)

Most Used Rating: Teen (80)

Least Used Rating: Explicate (0) [Or Not Rated at 5]

Most Written Relationship: Pac & Mike (QSMP) and Felps/Pac (14 each)

Most Used Additional Tag: Angst (53)

Most Frequently Used Characters: 

Pac (QSMP) (35)

Rubens Naluti (OrdemP) (24)

Felps (QSMP) (22)* + Philza (QSMP) (22)

Mike (QSMP) (21)

Johnny Tabasco (OrdemP) (20)

Arthur Cevero (OrdemP) (19)

Cellbit (QSMP) (15)

Fit (QSMP) (15)

Joui Jouki (OrdemP) (12)

*I also have 1 fic for Felps (Arkanis) which the count combines, but I split by preference. So I manually split it.

As we can see by the fact I have more Ordem fics yet it's mostly QSMP on the list, I spread my writing between more characters in ordem. But only by so much given over 1/4 of them have Rubens

In other fun stats.......

On ao3 there are, at time of writing, 728 Ordem Paranormal fanworks in all languages. I have written 90 of them, accounting for a little over 12%. In English there are 277 Ordem Paranormal fanworks, so around 32% are mine.

In the past year specifically, there were 352 new Ordem Paranormal fics, so exactly 25% are mine. Of which English 197, meaning a little under 45% of English Ordem Paranormal fics from this year are mine.

Of course a lot of my works are on the shorter end, so says nothing of comparative word counts.

I am also the only writer in the Ordem Normal ao3 tag, though I know at least one other person who has written for it in English here on tumblr.

I would say about elsewhere but my Portuguese is extremely limited, and so its tricky for me. And I only post on ao3 and tumblr.

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Ao3 Wrapped

(stolen from @\antimony-medusa)

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[philtstone]

we talk abt he would not say that a lot but rarely its semi related cousin He Does Not Look Like That. i get that fanfic is the equivalent of playing w barbie dolls in your room and anything goes in the fantasy of it all but personally nothing takes me out of the reading experience faster than a fic that describes a character as having six pack abs or huge boobs or perfect teeth When That’s Visibly Not The Case.