#especially if they're bots

[i-may-be-an-emu]

Tumblr: s*xualstuffrandomgirlname123 started following you

Me, blocking the account bc its clearly a bot and im sick of em: nope, I think you'll find they haven't

[yandere--stuck]

Shakes you. Yan!TFP!Ratchet being in denial about having feelings for a human.

[transingthoseformers]

Thinking about post tfp aligned optiratch

[buttercup-barf]

Doodled an interaction between Ronna and a Character.AI bot. Fun stuff! Making her a bartender and a comedian in this scenario prrrrobably has some. Less-than-fortunate implications for my creativity, but I promise I wasn't thinking about That Guy when I thought of it.

[the-gene-mile]

What are some of your favorite quotes from Bob’s Burgers? Can be a top five, can be from a specific character or episode, can be from the movie, anything you want!

OH this is so fun thank u thank u just a mix of haha funnies and ones that actually stuck w me bc this show's range never ceases to amaze me. also i'm incapable to sticking to a given theme

"if she were a spice, she'd be flour; if she were a book, she'd be two books" "oh yeah she is boring" (slumber party)

"it's frozen water!" "they call it ice and it's gonna change the world" (friends with burger-fits)

"your due date was today?" "yes, bob!" "how'd it go?" how do think it- good, it went very well" (human flesh; i like the whole bit but i'm too lazy to quote all of it)

"dad's dead?" "good job, mr frond. we were gonna tell her on father's day. now we have nothing to do on father's day!" (crawl space)

"i'll be with you, every time you look in the mirror" "..what?" (fort night)

"uh- look at bob- that's bad, right? his whole deal?" (the last gingerbread house on the left)

"why have i never liked any of this stuff? is something wrong with me? am i not being a girl right or something?" (manic pixie crap show; louise's whole speech can go here but i'm not typing all that sorry)

"feels like something's wrong with me and they know it" (eighth grade runner; the whole final verse could go here tbh)

"i bet she never said 'girls can do anything boys can do', cause y'know, sometimes when they say that-" "it ends up sounding like the opposite" (amelia; AGAIN this whole episode could go here the whole thing is genuine perfection)

bonuses from the comics bc they honestly own my heart and soul

[diabloo-666]

Asura's Nightmare

"Thought their connection, Taishakuten taunted and created haunting visions to the man who he called Intimate Friend a century ago as he tries to rest. None of them ends well, and most of them turn into the God of War wrapping his hands around the tyrant's neck. Tightening and pushing... until it pops.. before he opened his eyes back up, still down in his Abyss' prison."

A collaboration between galacticgummi on Instagram and I! They did Taishakuten, and I did Asura (alongside the hands in the first panel). The art and little text has not happened in the canon events of the game. It's just me doing some creative writing and imagining the story behind the fanart we did.

[elecman108]

Welcome to Freddy Fazbear's! Where everything is larger than life, the Animatronics are way too lifelike, and... wait... Where's Circus Baby?

--

Well here's most of the FNAF!Humans in my AU! This is all Security Breach & RUIN (Animatronic) guys and all additional ones from FNAF1 and FNAF2's groups. The other FNAF3-8 (and World/AR) characters that I may add (and Fangame guys) will be made later, these ones are basically Security Breach/RUIN and FNAF1-2. Yes I am cutting characters I don't feel like fit into my AU world. No, Vanny and DJ Music Man will be in this eventually. I'll add them in alongside the FNAF5 group.

And did I use Axel and Irina's refs to get the average height of humans posted in relation to the Fazbear Group's heights? Absolutely.

[pyromaniac-cyndaquil]

Hate to say this, but anyone liking my posts with a Generic Hot Girl Selfie as their pfp is gonna get blocked on sight. Really sorry if it's genuinely a selfie of yourself but there's a LOT of pornbots going around liking popular posts now with full-on porn vids covering their blogs now, so I'm blocking on sight to spare having to click through and see that shit. I'm NOT having my blog associated with them in searches with the way tumblr works, fuck that.

[thistaleisabloodyone]

Shout out to that time I got into Exile and THE RAMPAGE with a weird enough trajectory that the first Exile Tribe concert I bought was an Exile concert and I was confused to hear No Limit being played during a remix because I only knew it as a RAMPAGE song 😂

[lynxgirlpaws]

[existentially-confused-crow]

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.infinitycow.eplay

The amount of rage I have towards this ask for simply being a link is not something I have words for. If you wanna recommend me a game just. do that. With words.

[lastoneout]

friendly reminder for the new twitter refugees:

change your icon/pfp and put something coherent in your blog description or you're going to get blocked bcs people think you're a bot

this site is built around reblogs, so please actually reblog posts(especially art and fics!!)

you can set your likes and follows to private

checkmarks here are a meme and mean nothing

follower counts are private and we like it that way, so get used to not judging people by that metric

drama and discourse is boring, use your blacklist and block button liberally

DON'T CENSOR YOURSELF!! we can swear and say kill and make fun of corporations all we want, and if you tiktok-ify your tags people who have things blacklisted for whatever reason will still see them, and people who want to see that content won't be able to find it!! spell words out normally, you won't get in trouble!!

tumblr live is sketchy as hell and full of fake accounts, if you decide to use it anyway may god have mercy on your soul o7

be nice to the reddit refugees, they're our friends <3

[rcris123]

Hey watch out for these kinds of posts flooding tags, report the BLOG for SPAM, not the post.

[victorluvsalice]

-->With the animals calmed and cheered, it was time to grab some milk and gather the eggs (two normal, one hatchable that I immediately sold because, well, the coop is full and I don't want those). And, of course, time for Victor to get exiled out to the greenhouse to do all the tending (mainly just watering today), evolving, and harvesting. XD Though it was a little better than usual for him today -- once Alice and Smiler had gotten all cleaned up from their farm-animal-tending adventures, and Smiler had gotten the laundry out of the dryer, I sent them into the greenhouse to help out a bit! Primarily by having them do some fertilizing to help more plants get up to a higher level of quality. Because better quality produce means better quality food for the grocery store, after all! :D

-->With that sorted, it was time to wrap things up around the house and get these Sims on the move! Smiler took everyone's trash piles to dump them into the recycler, while Alice cleaned out Moory's shed (see, cow, we DO take care of you) before disappearing down a rabbit hole to empty their trash bin. She indulged in a snow angel upon her return, while Victor finished his harvesting and shared a significant hug with Smiler. ;) Everyone then ended up in the living room to destress with a bit of chatting and dancing right before they left --

-->And then the phonograph broke. Reminding me that I’d seen some busted wind turbines outside earlier. Which then caused me to find a broken water collector too while I checked on those. *shakehead* Fortunately, Victor was on it with the Repairio -- seriously, now that that spell no longer causes fires, it is literally the best. He finished up as Smiler donated $1,000 to charity in response to a phone call (hey, this family can more than afford it)...

[mesetacadre]

USamericans are like spoiled brats. They can genuinely go their whole lives without ever realy acknowledgeing that 95'77% of people exist outside their borders, and that those people have lives independent of the US. They're all just potential migrants anyway. And this is just a sick joke to them.

Their elections' discussion is imposed on the entire english-speaking internet more on the count of them acting like the center of the universe and less on the count of the significance of their elections worldwide. Even if they were that significant, which they aren't, no other country gets to have their electoral process and all related institutions discussed with this much detail and throughout an entire year. Discussions start towards the end of the year previous to the election year (and the concept of an election year is already egotistical enough) through to ~February of the year after the elections. It's very maddening, especially when even a portion of them insist that you, as a foreigner, can't even express your opinions on it, lest the pure will of the USamerican people is stained by opinions from outsiders, they'l even call you a bot and accuse you of "election interference". The nerve to first force the discussion of this inane process on you and then try to get your account terminated for talking about it.

Everything is about the US unless it is constantly and explicitly stated otherwise. You can't make a single generalized post about politics that breaches containment without a USamerican appearing out of nowhere with a superiority complex yelling at you about US politics. And like the bratty 28-year-old children they are, when somebody gets upset at them for this actually narcissistic attitude, they lash out with thinly-veiled chauvinism, doubling down even

[5ummit]

AO3 Ship Stats: Year In Bad Data

You may have seen this AO3 Year In Review.

It hasn’t crossed my tumblr dash but it sure is circulating on twitter with 3.5M views, 10K likes, 17K retweets and counting. Normally this would be great! I love data and charts and comparisons!

Except this data is GARBAGE and belongs in the TRASH.

I first noticed something fishy when I realized that Steve/Bucky – the 5th largest ship on AO3 by total fic count – wasn’t on this Top 100 list anywhere. I know Marvel’s popularity has fallen in recent years, but not that much. Especially considering some of the other ships that made it on the list. You mean to tell me a femslash HP ship (Mary MacDonald/Lily Potter) in which one half of the pairing was so minor I had to look up her name because she was only mentioned once in a single flashback scene beat fandom juggernaut Stucky? I call bullshit.

Now obviously jumping to conclusions based on gut instinct alone is horrible practice... but it is a good place to start. So let’s look at the actual numbers and discover why this entire dataset sits on a throne of lies.

Here are the results of filtering the Steve/Bucky tag for all works created between Jan 1, 2023 and Dec 31, 2023:

Not only would that place Steve/Bucky at #23 on this list, if the other counts are correct (hint: they're not), it’s also well above the 1520-new-work cutoff of the #100 spot. So how the fuck is it not on the list? Let’s check out the author’s FAQ to see if there’s some important factor we’re missing.

The first thing you’ll probably notice in the FAQ is that the data is being scraped from publicly available works. That means anything privated and only accessible to logged-in users isn’t counted. This is Sin #1. Already the data is inaccurate because we’re not actually counting all of the published fics, but the bots needed to do data collection on this scale can't easily scrape privated fics so I kinda get it. We’ll roll with this for now and see if it at least makes the numbers make more sense:

Nope. Logging out only reduced the total by a couple hundred. Even if one were to choose the most restrictive possible definition of "new works" and filter out all crossovers and incomplete fics, Steve/Bucky would still have a yearly total of 2,305. Yet the list claims their total is somewhere below 1,500? What the fuck is going on here?

Let’s look at another ship for comparison. This time one that’s very recent and popular enough to make it on the list so we have an actual reference value for comparison: Nick/Charlie (Heartstopper). According to the list, this ship sits at #34 this year with a total of 2630 new works. But what’s AO3 say?

Off by a hundred or so but the values are much closer at least!

If we dig further into the FAQ though we discover Sin #2 (and the most egregious): the counting method. The yearly fic counts are NOT determined by filtering for a certain time period, they’re determined by simply taking a snapshot of the total number of fics in a ship tag at the end of the year and subtracting the previous end-of-year total. For example, if you check a ship tag on Jan 1, 2023 and it has 10,000 fics and check it again on Jan 1, 2024 and it now has 12,000 fics, the difference (2,000) would be the number of "new works" on this chart.

At first glance this subtraction method might seem like a perfectly valid way to count fics, and it’s certainly the easiest way, but it can and did have major consequences to the point of making the entire dataset functionally meaningless. Why? If any older works are deleted or privated, every single one of those will be subtracted from the current year fic count. And to make the problem even worse, beginning at the end of last year there was a big scare about AI scraping fics from AO3, which caused hundreds, if not thousands, of users to lock down their fics or delete them.

The magnitude of this fuck up may not be immediately obvious so let’s look at an example to see how this works in practice.

Say we have two ships. Ship A is more than a decade old with a large fanbase. Ship B is only a couple years old but gaining traction. On Jan 1, 2023, Ship A had a catalog of 50,000 fics and ship B had 5,000. Both ships have 3,000 new works published in 2023. However, 4% of the older works in each fandom were either privated or deleted during that same time (this percentage is was just chosen to make the math easy but it’s close to reality).

Ship A: 50,000 x 4% = 2,000 removed works Ship B: 5,000 x 4% = 200 removed works

Ship A: 3,000 - 2,000 = 1,000 "new" works Ship B: 3,000 - 200 = 2,800 "new" works

This gives Ship A a net gain of 1,000 and Ship B a net gain of 2,800 despite both fandoms producing the exact same number of new works that year. And neither one of these reported counts are the actual new works count (3,000). THIS explains the drastic difference in ranking between a ship like Steve/Bucky and Nick/Charlie.

How is this a useful measure of anything? You can't draw any conclusions about the current size and popularity of a fandom based on this data.

With this system, not only is the reported "new works" count incorrect, the older, larger fandom will always be punished and it’s count disproportionately reduced simply for the sin of being an older, larger fandom. This example doesn’t even take into account that people are going to be way more likely to delete an old fic they're no longer proud of in a fandom they no longer care about than a fic that was just written, so the deletion percentage for the older fandom should theoretically be even larger in comparison.

And if that wasn't bad enough, the author of this "study" KNEW the data was tainted and chose to present it as meaningful anyway. You will only find this if you click through to the FAQ and read about the author’s methodology, something 99.99% of people will NOT do (and even those who do may not understand the true significance of this problem):

The author may try to argue their post states that the tags "which had the greatest gain in total public fanworks” are shown on the chart, which makes it not a lie, but a error on the viewer’s part in not interpreting their data correctly. This is bullshit. Their chart CLEARLY titles the fic count column “New Works” which it explicitly is NOT, by their own admission! It should be titled “Net Gain in Works” or something similar.

Even if it were correctly titled though, the general public would not understand the difference, would interpret the numbers as new works anyway (because net gain is functionally meaningless as we've just discovered), and would base conclusions on their incorrect assumptions. There’s no getting around that… other than doing the counts correctly in the first place. This would be a much larger task but I strongly believe you shouldn’t take on a project like this if you can’t do it right.

To sum up, just because someone put a lot of work into gathering data and making a nice color-coded chart, doesn’t mean the data is GOOD or VALUABLE.