#Graph Type

[velvetwyrme]

sometimes being aspec feels alienating, not because of social elements or whatever but purely because i want to write a short oneshot about attraction (for transformers) and i genuinely cannot relate to what im writing.

99% of it is just what ive absorbed socially instead of through experienced, and its such a funny experience because im not even hung up on the potential alien vectors of attraction, its the human ones.

[novelconcepts]

It really frees up so much mental real estate when you start thinking of sex as just: a thing people sometimes do. Some people are super into it! Some aren't! It's for fun! It's for intimacy! It's the deepest connection some people will ever feel and totally meaningless to others! It's hot! It's boring! It helps some people sleep! It exists as an exciting construct solely in fantasy for others! What it isn't is some complicated moral ground that needs to be fought against at every turn. It's just A Thing. Which means people who have a lot of it, or none of it, or whatever in between are all worth the same. Which means stories that have a lot of it, or none of it, or whatever in between are worth the same, too. Smut isn't less valuable than "clean" stories. People who have a high "body count" aren't less valuable than those who have never had sex at all. It's just A Thing. Making peace with sex as just A Thing that is natural to consentingly have or not have, want or not want, really is a great adjustment to your brainspace.

[adrialae]

VALORANT AO3 Stats 2: Ships

(Part 1: Popularity)

I lost my motivation to make graphs for the top ships/tags like I was planning to, but I did notice some interesting things I thought were worth pointing out. (I'll also link the spreadsheet for anyone who wants to see the numbers.)

Interesting Thing 1: This actually wasn't included in the spreadsheet, but I was quite surprised the F/F fics outnumbered every other category considering... the general state of AO3. I think this is the only video game fandom I've been in where that's true, including the game in which 80% of the main cast is female.

2: Considering the top 10 relationship tags for each character (platonic relationships included), Brimstone and Astra* had exactly zero relationships in which they themselves were involved. To me, this seems to indicate that they mainly appear in the background of fics that focus on other characters, so they might actually be less popular than the fic counts alone indicate.

*I think Harbor/Astra should have shown up on Astra's list, tied for sixth, but it didn't and I'm not sure why. (details)

3: Nanobomb (Killjoy/Raze) was in the top 3 ship tags for every character except Deadlock, for whom they were fourth.

4: Remember when I said y'all were horny for Chamber? The top "additional tags" weren't super interesting because they were quite similar across the board, but I did notice that he had Smut in fourth (it was usually in spot 6-8). He was the only character who had more Smut than Hurt/Comfort or Fluff and Angst, and three of his top ten tags were sex-related.

5: Relatedly, /reader ships showed up for five characters. Four of them were Chamber, Sova, Harbor, and Iso. The last one was KAY/O - Chamber/Reader made it onto his list too, probably because there weren't that many KAY/O-centric fics.

6: Fade had the highest proportion of fics tagged with one specific relationship, with 42.5% of her fics featuring Fade/Neon. Iso and Raze were a close second and third. Additionally, Fade's second most popular relationship tag was Fade & Neon.

I think I've reached the limit of things other people might possibly find interesting, but here's the spreadsheet if anyone would like to take a look at it! (No promises about readability, though.)

[binas-official]

(Graphs you randomly find on Tumblr are in the very bottom left)

[selcouth2013]

trying to remember how to do motorcity lighting lol

+ w/o lighting ^.^

[epicdogymoment]

people with names derived from deadnames or people with multiple names ("synonyms"). vast constellation of ginsan synonyms. of course remembering that there are no true synonyms and that even when pointing to the same referent they always communicate different shades of meaning. look at this graph of ginsan names

[hylianengineer]

It is April and I have already published more words on AO3 this year than all of last year, or any year previous. I am winning at fanfic.

[medouse]

remembered lenore datura fallenlondon oc existed again. oh no.

[smosh-fessions]

also, to add to the confession about the producers and directors: it's their job to control the vibes of the video. a lot of these (valid) complaints about their energy + the fact that shayne was clearly getting annoyed in that beopardy ep meant emily (or whoever was directing it) wasn't doing a good job at directing the video.

i'm not defending the cast members for being too loud/annoying but it's clear the directors are at fault as well lol.

This is also a very good point. Someone should have stepped in rather than let it go on and just keep ramping up. I understand that chaos is sometimes really funny, but when the host is becoming visibly annoyed and everyone is yelling over each other, it needs to be taken down a notch. Spencer and Alex have cut in before during games for this exact reason when stuff got too heated.

[snakiest]

nobody gaf whatever

[withasideofshakespeare]

What's Tumblr's Favorite Shakespeare Play?

Oh no! Another robber has broken into your house! They are still here to steal your most prized possession, but this time, they've brought a copy of the Riverside Shakespeare with them so you can cross-reference which plays count as romances because whoever named that genre was a fucking idiot. The rules are the same as last time. This vile robber will only return your precious belongings if you choose ONE play from each genre (comedies, tragedies, histories, and romances) to be your favorite. If you have no opinion on a certain genre, you may pass, but otherwise, you must choose a play for each category lest your beloved item be lost forever!

You may answer this robber by filling out this form (because I--er, the robber--am too lazy to hand-type the statistics this time) and, optionally, additionally reblogging with your answers to increase the sample size!

[quaranmine]

always a fun time at work when i have an excuse to engage in my favorite environmental topic (while i was out of the office i missed a presentation on wildfires so now i am watching the recording)

[castleinthemist]

ditching trying to make a backlog (banal, pointless and overly stressful) and keeping a spreadsheet of games i have played and am playing has lead to be much more beneficial and enjoyable thing for how i engage with games shit + actually wanting to play the stuff i have on hand

[raspberryripley]

was always kinda skeptical about people saying """kids these days""" are just as tech illiterate as the older gens now (as in i just didn't think it was so bad / as widespread as it's made out to be) but we've had a set of students in this week who are by all accounts very smart kids, doing hard sciences and maths and stuff, and yet. at least one of them didn't know there was a calculator function on the computer.

[scooterpengie]

I made myself this graph to put my favourite characters on, but then I realised Tumblr might find it useful too! Enjoy

[orcelito]

Got jumpscared by my own full legal name showing up in my email notifications bc I forgot I emailed my code to myself today just in case my VM ends up stopping working again (I got nervous & didn't wanna lose my progress lol)

Goldfish level memory retention

& the funny thing is that the email itself is just. This

Full Legal Name code • hi