#pie of pie chart excel

[guyspleasehesmyfriend]

doing statistical analysis so i can better understand sebmark dynamics

[cringepoop]

because why not, i decided to graph my boop data. so anyways, here's an intentionally hard to read graph of who booped me the most

here's the top 10:

so yeah, that was fun i guess

[tjeromebaker]

How to Use SPSS: A Beginner’s Guide

If you’re diving into the world of data analysis, SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) is an essential tool to have in your arsenal. This guide walks you through the basics of SPSS to help you get started with confidence.

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[marsmagery]

my beautiful wife named pie chart

[spinningalbinoturtle]

Thanksgiving headcanons for the Lotr crew

Its hosted in Rivendell but Elrond lets people extend the invite to others so everyone comes

Sam is in the kitchens from 6am cooking a million things-he also brought several side dishes premade

Frodo is all over the decorations and setting the table but he also made some cookies

Arwen is also very particular about this particularly the table

She has made a seating chart which she hopes will minimize squabbling

She has also set some ground rules like no dissing on your child’s interracial marriage (for Elrond and Thranduil)

Bilbo helps Sam cook in the morning but then he starts drinking around midday and doesn’t stop til he is dragged to bed by Frodo and Erestor

While Elrond is hosting he doesn’t do much just sits around and judges

He and Thranduil will be breaking Arwen’s rules

Thranduil and Gloin out drink Bilbo. They are having a silent drinking contest which has not been spoken of. Each one just decided to out drink the other

Thranduil wins cause he drinks like three bottles of a wine a day

Gimli and Legolas are just trying to avoid their parents

Thankfully Arwen sat them at the opposite end of the table

Unfortunately near Elrond who asks several awkward questions about how elf/dwarf sex works (he’s curious from a medical standpoint)

Bilbo drunkenly tells them how he had a dwarf boyfriend once so he totally understands what they’re going through at which point Frodo cuts off his wine supply

Frodo is actually trying to slow down Bilbo’s drinking all evening but with little success

Elladan and Elrohir have bonded with Merry and Pippin who introduced them to pipeweed. The four of them are stoned out of their minds and consequently eat more than everyone else. Arwen doesn’t understand what’s wrong with her brothers.

Aragorn is in charge of the turkey. Its excellent

He is mostly trying to hide from Elrond the whole time

Boromir tries to assist him with helpful turkey roasting tidbits but Aragorn would rather just do it himself

Eventually he assigns Boromir to the stuffing- its actually not bad

Erestor keeps Elrond occupied, they hang out and play chess in the middle of all the chaos

Glorfindel is the guy who is just ready for the holiday season to start

He keeps pestering Maglor to play Yule carols but Elrond’s rule is not until after dinner

Gandalf sits around and smokes and occasionally yells at Pippin. He takes turns hanging out with Bilbo and getting him drunker, hanging out with Elrond and Galadriel

Galadriel intimidates everyone no one knows where she was before or after dinner

Celeborn brought lembas rolls and cranberry sauce

Faramir makes a mean pumpkin pie

He’s just happy to be included. He fangirls over all the elves who indulge him mostly

Eowyn is enjoying watching the antics. She can’t cook for shit so she doesn’t bother to help with that but she does help clean up

So do Merry and Pippin but only because Gandalf forced them

Eomer brings “traditional Rohirric appetizers” and its smoked horse meat. Pippin and Sam are horrified to learn this.

Everyone has their favorite: Sam’s is obvs PO-TAY-TOES. Frodo likes cranberry sauce. Merry inhales stuffing. Pippin loves rolls.

Drunkest in order of most to least would be: Thranduil, Gloin, Bilbo, Gimli, Merry, Pippin, Legolas, Aragorn (but you can’t tell), Eomer, Eowyn, Glorfindel, Sam (he would’ve drunk more but he was busy cooking), Elladan, Elrohir (they’re so high they don’t drink much) Arwen (not a big drinker), Frodo(alcohol fucks with his anxiety so he just has one glass of wine) Faramir (who’s a teatotler cause he thinks if he did drink he’d become an alcoholic).

Lots of songs are sung before people start to retire for bed

Legolas and Gimli have sex really loudly between their fathers’ rooms to annoy them

Galadriel shows up around midnight and helps finish cleaning up

The clean up crew includes Eowyn, Merry, Faramir, Pippin, Gandalf, and Legolas and Gimli. They have a great time.

[concerningwolves]

The Writing Tracker and Statistics spreadsheet for 2024 is here!

What is it?

The spreadsheet is a way for writers who like statistics to track their daily wordcounts and writing habits (and also, probably, don't want to or can't pay to use software for this purpose). The idea is, once you've got the workbook set up and customised to your tastes, all you need to do is input your daily wordcount per project into one sheet and let the rest of the workbook populate from there. I originally designed this in late 2022 because I wanted a way to track my writing habits while also comparing how much original fiction VS fanfiction I wrote. It has since expanded to be more flexible, with a comparison function that's easy to adjust or scrap entirely, and a variety of other neat statistics besides. Key features include:

Line graph that displays your daily writing across the whole year.

Total word counts for each month displayed in stacked columns so you can see which projects you worked on.

Counters for your current daily writing streak and longest daily writing streak.

Pie chart to show which projects were worked on the most overall.

Ability to separate projects into "types" – i.e., personal and academic – and compare type totals each month.

Words-over-time progress charts for specific projects, with the ability to help set and track writing goals.

Daily and monthly averages.

You don't need to be a genius (or even fairly confident in using) Excel/Google Sheets to make this work for you. I've written up a detailed set of instructions that walk through each sheet and explain how to make a variety of changes, as well as breaking down how certain aspects work.

If this is something that interests you, follow the link below to my Payhip. It's a free resource; Payhip just gives you the option to leave a tip, should you feel like it and have the cash to spare.

Want to know more? Keep reading below the cut for a closer look at the features.

Daily graph to see your writing habits across the whole year at a glance:

Your top statistics: monthly and daily averages, top writing days, longest writing streak, current writing streak, and daily averages by month.

Monthly writing totals displayed in a stacked column chart so you can see which projects you worked on each month:

Clustered column graph to show one type of project compared to another, and a pie chart to show which projects you worked on most across the year:

Project-specific progress charts that show words over time, similar to the NaNoWriMo graph. (Plus, there are instructions on how to add goal lines to make it even more like the NaNoWriMo graph!)

[olderthannetfic]

It’s always weird/annoying when people conflate “lack of f/f” with “ignoring female characters”. All that het out there, has female characters. It kind of reminds me of one meta you wrote way back in the TFA days when someone was complaining that fandom as a whole doesn’t write women because Rey is often a sidelined ace in Stormpilot fic and you pointed out that Reylo is way more common than ace!Rey, and lots of fandoms are dominated by het or f/f. Why the heck are people obsessing over whole-archive pie charts and not using Ao3’s excellent system to find exactly what they want in the pie. (That’s rhetorical, I know there’s no cure for the common fanwank.)

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Ah, the "wolves of internalized misogyny".

[felixcloud6288]

Dungeon Meshi Chapter 96

The chapter where Laios gets his first taste of kingship.

I think this would add even more to the legendary epic Kabru is trying to make. King Laios, devourer of demons, who commanded the fealty of man and monster, living and dead.

They ALWAYS bring up the sorbet incident.

Namari made gratin!!

All the Faligon dishes we've seen have lower or lopsided nutrition charts compared to what Senshi has made through their adventures. It's not an issue here though since these are all part of a giant meal.

This is an impressively put-together venue.

It really feels like a festival because of how everything was improvised. My favorite detail is one of the tables has a missing leg and they used a log to hold it up.

What's she laughing about?

He nailed it!!

Laios is a hero king. Fancy clothes and a shiny crown aren't what would show why everyone chose him as a king. Those are for people who claim kingship through birthright or wealth.

Namari is all doki-doki blushy-crushy.

She is mad about that parasite attack Laios launched on her giant bird familiar.

The lion cursed Laios so that his greatest desire would never come true. I assume it has to do with his desire to be a monster or make a kingdom with monsters in it.

Part of me feels like this bit of Laios's monster form falling off in such a way that it makes an excellent cloak is a bit of the lion mocking Laios to remind him that he can only dress like a monster but never be one.

Another part of me feels like the lion left it behind as its own way to endorse Laios. As Laios explains, he kept the lion as part of his royal raiment because wants the lion to keep watching over and protecting them. Laios has the heart to try appreciating even what humanity doesn't. So even if it will not let Laios be a king of monsters, it may support letting him be a king of humans.

I think Fleki was booing Laios. And Pattadol squeezed her fairy so hard that it passed out.

This was a great opportunity for Kui to show off her skill at making distinct faces.

There are several people who have only made small appearances throughout the series. Zon is standing next to one of his wives who appeared in MMT2, the gnome bar hostess is behind Kaka and Kiki, there's a woman behind Mikbell who was on the chapter 76 title image, and that scumbag gold digger is in the top-right corner.

Of additional note, there are some gnomes in the top-left corner, the corpse retrievers Kabru killed are in the crowd, Izutsumi's ears are hurting because of all the noise, there are three ghosts in the crowd and Maizuru seems to be the only one who noticed, and that one elf girl is jeering at Laios.

Laios didn't say much. He just told them he didn't want to let the food get cold and to eat their fill. He didn't ask to be king, everyone else decided and agreed to it. He just wanted to share a meal with everyone. And I guess everyone is cheering because they feel like they chose right to make him king. His first concern is making sure they enjoy themselves rather than putting on royal airs.

What is that? Some sort of meat jelly pie?

Kabru is doing everything he can to put off eating dragon meat. And Mikbell is not goign to let him get away with it.

Falin would be bummed out that she didn't get to have any.

I had so much fun talking about Marcille's various hairstyles through the series. It hits harder knowing that the lion took that away.

That's such a petty thing for the lion to have done. Marcille enjoyed taking care of her hair and styling it in all sorts of ways. It probably tasted good because it was something she loved. But also, it just shows more how the demon's actions naturally lead the lords to eventually go mad and seek death and destruction. The demon would strip away the ability to find happiness in even small things.

Since Marcille forgot how to take care of her hair, maybe she can relearn how to and even relearn how to enjoy doing it. Much of the aftereffects of being a dungeon lord seems similar to an extreme form of long-term clinical depression. And sometimes, you have to relearn to love the things you loved before. Mithrun is learning to enjoy living again, I'm sure he and Marcille could both eventually recover everything they lost.

The ribbon ties are mismatched. The one on Marcille's right is the ribbon she normally used to tie loops or ponytails behind her head. The other was one of the bands she normally uses for her braids.

I don't know if Laios was aware that Marcille was being arrested or if he was initially okay with it because Marcille agreed to it. But he definitely decided to oppose the elves because he saw how upset Marcille was about possibly having to cut her hair short.

That elf girl is all "Ew. It's him. What's he doing here?"

Mithrun doesn't care that Laios is defying the elves. He just wants to eat his kebab.

Thistle stirred awake when he heard people saying "Your Majesty." He lost everything else, but he still recognizes Delgal.

This is two-for-two where it turns out there was something left over after the demon ate someone. Maybe it leaves behind desires that are impossible for it to fulfill. Everything Thistle did was to help Delgal. Delgal was afraid of many things, especially after his father was assassinated during his wedding. One of Thistle's deepest desires which may have kept him going for 1,000 years was the desire to hear Delgal was no longer afraid.

Delgal is dead, and the lion cannot resurrect the dead. It could never satisfy that desire even if it wanted to, so it left that desire behind. But Yaad managed to pass Delgal's message to Thistle and let him know he can finally stop.

One speculation I made is partially correct. The long-lived races fought over the land, but the short-lived races didn't force any peace; they were just given the land instead.

And another speculation I made way back in chapter 22 when the island was first shown was 100% correct.

The kingdom began to rise shortly after Thistle understood he could stop. At the core of everything he did, he just wanted to keep Delgal safe. Now that he's relieved of that responsibility, the lost kingdom can return.

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[kremlin]

I do computer work but it's not very hard and kind of boring. How do I get to do hard computer work? Do I have to go to grad school?

hi i tend to miss these because of slipshod ublock custom filters im too birdbrained to fix.

i worked for a large american technology company which sold business machines internationally for close to a decade until laid off in successful accounting fraud scheme a few years ago. started as developer, erm, pardon me, i started as

junior developer

which is a role similar to routinely-executed court jester and human meatwave conscript meant to soak up enemy bullets to cause exhaustion of enemy bullet supply and finally guy that comes in big gross truck with a pump and a tank and a big hose used to suck the shit+piss out of portable toilet/malfunctioning sewer etc. this is for when you are 20 years old or so and they hit you with this work to calm your ass down a bit. my case was cloud bullshit on ancient rickety php stack. 5% keystrokes/clicks are php, 95% remainder is jira and other members of the axis of evil. LOT of dick sucking and butt fucking. Going into men's bathroom and making eye contact with cubicle neighbor before entering stall and fearlessly making disgusting noises. microwaving fish lunch thrice daily. you get the idea. meager paycheck but six figures takehome technically

next is staff dev, wait, god damn fucking tumblr, you can't adjust fonts mid-paragraph, and Big Text is just another type of font, in case you wanted Big Specific font. fucking fuck hold on. next step is

staff developer

no effective change besides greatly increased workload (click those motherfucking jira buttons!! suffer coworker's asinine bad-faith code review comments that HE AND HE ALONE must manually accept your responses to, on HIS time, before you are allowed to click the jira buttons that start the human meat sausage factory to get your 20 line maximum change into an RC and then release and then push candidate and then prod push!! pay raise one thousand dollars annually (lol). Emails. Now you deal with project manager too. speculate as to what sorts of grievous head injuries that man must suffer daily to describe his logic. his job is like the guy from office space that brings documents from one desk to another but he randomly reorders the words on the page in-flight. make plausibly-deniable wife fucking jokes about his wife in earshot. you're almost at the top of the suffering function. next is, no fucking cute font this time, senior developer, sounds cool right, lol, lmao, "senior" "developer" is like "tallest" "midgit".

no pay increase no workload increase but now manager emails you about extremely, extremely personal issues he's facing and also makes his most difficult problems from his boss your problems. one week will pass and then they will hit you with the "we're considering you for a team lead position". answer:

NO

answer no as this is the prescribed path, you take that role, you are maxxed out in workload, you are dealing with forty employee's worth of bullshit, another one thousand dollarinos a year raise, employer has solved efficiency problem with your sanity and burnout as variables. you're supposed to quit or kill yourself within seconds of hitting 30 y/o. don't fall for tricks. say "NO" in a creative way such as "i have tabulated some data and made it into excel pie chart quantifying diff. departments work output and am considering sending it to whoever Dave is, the guy that is one or two or three report levels over your boss' head, you know, his boss' boss' boss or whatever. or say "you are harassing me sexually, racistly" that kind of shit. make threat clearly.

was worth mentioning before, throughout all of this make as many friends and as much of a splash for yourself as possible as its time to trade on that goodwill, tell your boss you want an open relationship and you're going to fuck and suck other managers, and then find the good one with the good team of old fucking geriatric guys who could never be fooled into working more than a reasonable amount daily and also can kill people with their minds since they have been sitting on the bleeding edge of computing since 1969. their boss will usually be, suspiciously, one report rank higher than everyone else. e.g. their boss has a whole other boss + his reports under him. usually small team. go to their boss, say, hi, look at me, look at my beautiful plumage and captivating mating dance, please hire me, pleassseee. his team will say no, they will say things like "I don't know about that kiddo", "That guy seems like a candy-ass", they will read your papers and look at you in the eyes and say it is not compelling, the boss will kind of hire you anyway. if he doesn't you're fucked. if he does you're now a

STAFF ENGINEER

for fifteen minutes and then

ADVISORY/SENIOR/SPECIAL ENGINEER

and the suffering is over. no code minimal jira + squad of gremlin zerglings under your boss whom you can rank-pull and delegate bullshit to, they will be mostly suckers, take advantage of this. 80% of keystrokes/clicks will be in production of beautiful wonderful lovely .docx and .xlsx's, what a godsend, only in an emergency are you allowed to fuck with your zergling's code, usually in a cool way with bullshit procedure removed.

i worked on high performance computing shit. "what the fuck do you mean 2PB or so in and out a day on flash memory", "what the fuck do you mean special infiniband intel MPI library on CD-R stored in Craig's filing cabinet???". Meetings with company people: webcams off, responses optional, snideness allowed. Meetings with client: you must have your dress shirt starched and white glove the shit out of those motherfuckers. timezones = skill issue. i don't care where germany is, i don't give a shit, wake up at 3am for a 20m meeting i take on the toilet or while eating a boiled lobster complete with cracker + lobster bib. customers countable on one hand, invoices to customers not countable with 32 bits. no fucking mistakes ever allowed except for like whitepaper drafts, you cannot fuck the pumpkin on this one, your actual job relies on your ability to hit a button and suck down a week's worth of compute and millions of dollars, boiling swimming pool's worth of TDP, one mistake that leads result data to being able to be characterized as flawed and your balls are getting ripped off. Quarterly IRL meetings = normiepilled normiemaxxing. Dress sharp. leave at 5pm on the dot, go to bar with Old Fucker coworkers, drink wrecklessly with them, have a blast, let them give you a tour of a lab you are absolutely 100% not allowed to be inside, buildings that have posted weight limits per sq. ft. exceeding 250lbs, such a blast. every paycheck a FORTUNE every dinner a banquet every meeting an email every keystroke life or death. you get to meet /lib/doug mofos too one of whom i wrote a very poor kind of poem thing about. thats about it. hope this helps

[kujakumai]

I feel like I need a list of Bakura's eye color in every distinct ygo installment or spinoff so that I can put them into an excel sheet and make like pie charts and histograms to determine which color predominates and what the stats are. Average out all the hex codes to discover The One True Bakura Eye Color.

[hyydraworks]

I just received my little cow and I love him! Will leave a formal review. I wanted to ask out of professional/amateur curiosity, how do you price your works? If you’ve already answered this or if you’re not comfortable, no worries. I’m just curious since I know a lot goes into it.

Ah, so glad you enjoy your cow!

Okay so this is such an excellent question, really got me to thinking, and I hope this little pie chart helps in giving an answer.

These values might differ a little (electricity and photos are almost certainly less than 10% combined), but I think for me it's pretty close to these. Basically I give myself a theoretical hourly pay for making and glazing my guys, but then buffer that with cost of firing kilns, the time it takes to document my pieces for sale, and the materials that I need.

In addition one other factor in pricing that is sort of an invisible slice of this chart is making sure that when I am selling my pieces on consignment that I am still happy with the amount I am getting at a lower price break. If I'm only getting 55-60% of the profit from an item is that still meeting this pie charts requirements? A similar aspect is true to make sure I'm at least slightly factoring in Etsy fees.

A lot of this is learning, doing comparisons with other people's similar work, and rough estimates. I am not precisely timing myself with every creature, or constantly checking my electricity bill to calculate what 4 firings cost me, but I do know a large cow takes me about an hour to make while an itty bitty cow is 15-20 minutes.

And finally, I'm certainly not an expert! While I'm fortunate that selling ceramics has become the majority of my income, I'm still not quite full time at it and am learning erry day. So hope this makes sense, answers your question, and thank you again!

[masterarchfiend93]

I’ve seen a handful of “SU characters as Ponies” art, but I don’t think I have seen the reverse of that. I’m sure someone out there has done it, but thanks to algorithms and search engines not working because they hate me, I haven’t seen any MLP characters reimagined as Gems. I don’t have the best drawing skills, but perhaps I can come back to this after sharing my headcanon.

Applejack: Citrine. Of course the muscle and honesty of the Mane Six would be a quartz, but I specifically picked Citrine for the colors and it is my birthstone according to some of those charts. (The other is Topaz, but I felt she had more of a rowdy quartz vibe.)

Pinkie Pie: Spinel. Do I really need to explain to the SU fans? Pink, basically made to be a jester, super stretchy, cute as all Hell? That’s just flat out Pinkie Pie!

Fluttershy: Now this one is tricky and I’m sure someone has or will think of one better, but I see her as an off-color Jasper. Kinda like Skinny, but shorter and a bit on the chubby side. Just that sort of “gentle giant” vibe without being a proper giant.

Rainbow Dash: A Lapis Lazuli. We don’t see a lot of gems with flying powers without shapeshifting a pair of wings, but but the hydrokinesis does serve as a good analog for normal pegasi powers which she uses a lot throughout the show. Sure the colors won’t match, but I don’t recall anything saying that gems can’t dye their hair.

Rarity: Pearl. Now, hear me out. A gem whose purpose is to serve the elites, look fashionable and so on? Seems like a decent origin for someone who makes fancy outfits and designs for others, enjoys being a socialite while also having the humility to be generous instead of having to be naturally haughty like proper noble gems.

Twilight Sparkle: Diamond, I mean she is a princess. Like to headcanon that she used to disguise herself as a zircon (she’s too purple to hide as a peridot, lol) and had to reveal herself as a Diamond to save her friends, which initially made things super awkward but Friendship wins out.

Spike: Literally a prehistoric lizard that Twilight accidentally made immortal and he’s just become super intelligent as time has gone on. What species? That is an excellent question and I will get back to you on that once I decide because there are a lot of good options and I’m intentionally excluding dinosaurs, lol!

After that? No idea. I’m sure their canon families are similar gems besides Twilight whose “family” are zircons she genuinely loves that way. Even if he’s not related in a biological sense, Shining Armor is always her brother. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions on this. All I ask is that you make it so I can see, lol!

I hope that you have a wonderful day!

[rom-e-o]

I'm curious now. What's Isma's dynamic with everyone on the team?

Oooooooh, excellent question!

I have a chart. <3

I made this maybe....5 seconds after the game came out, lmao, and I still feel exactly the same way.

Isma will literally hang with anyone...except Solas. And she's baffled by Morrigan, but not in a bad way.

So, a breakdown (moves counter-clockwise from start):

Emmrich: Flame of her heart. Cutie pie. Boyfriend. The most precious, sacred treasure she's ever been blessed to find.

Lucanis: Man cooks good food and makes good coffee. Of course she likes him! I think she and him would bond a little bit over some, perhaps, reclusive tendencies they have.

Taash: They don't get off on the best foot, but Isma helps Taash confront death, and Taash helps Isma productively (and not self-destructively) channel her rage. Much respect. Just don't imply unsavory things about her/Emmrich and dead people. The sanctity of the dead is not something she fucks around with people joking about.

Bellara is the gal pa, ofc. They're DORKS together. Talking about hairstyles one moment, then the best blood coagulants the second. A hummingbird and a heron, existing in harmony.

Davrin: Isma knows nothing of Grey Wardens and very little of the Dalish elves, BUT Davrin? With his swarthy, heroic entrance and his no-nonsense protectiveness? She likes him immediately. He's a man who takes his joke seriously and isn't aloof. If there's on thing Isma dislikes, its a flippant attitude.

Inquisitor: I have two Inquisitors, haha. Both are 40 years old in Veilguard. For Camilla Trevelyan (human mage), Isma fangirls a bit over her. Belisma's former lover, Cyril, was also a Ferelden circle mage from Ostwick's Circle. Camilla is also from Ostwick, so they'd talk a lot, haha. Mages in Ferelden have it harder than ones in Tevinter, and MUCH HARDER than ones in Nevarra. ("Was it true? About the Templars ...?", "You put healthy men and women in a tower together and bedfellows are almost guaranteed. The pushy ones? Those were dealt with.") For Oleander Lavellan (elf mage), she'd be a little more nervous. After all, this is Dorian's amatus! She wants to make a good impression. Meanwhile, Oleander is like, "Relax around me, please. I feel like you're about to correct my posture, haha." He'd bring her jam toast during her recovery, and she's be too transfixed to enjoy it. "Is...this real? T...The Inquisitor is bringing me toast?", "Hey, toast and jam. And you better enjoy it. Dorian laughed at me the whole walk up. Said I looked like I was playing 'house.'"

Solas: No pity. Crack that egg with one hand and toss the shell in the trash.

Morrigan: She has no real issue with Morrigan, but if she's around...things probably aren't well. So, she's not the biggest fan of seeing her, haha. I think she's most fascinated by her time as a magical advisor to Empress Celene at Halamshiral. It was the talk of many continents, after all!

Varric: That's her Papa/uncle, right there! The man who gave her purpose after leaving the ballet and being exiled after the War of the Banners. Varric also definitely was the first one to discover Isma can't hold her booze. He gave her a neat whiskey by mistake, and she was loopy for days. ("Lightweight at the barre and a lightweight at the bar, huh? Well, I applaud your consistency.")

Harding: Harding is fun! She has that no-nonsense, hardworking energy she applauds, but she'd not a tightwad about it. She cracks jokes and makes puns. Sometimes they make her groan, but the levity is always appreciates. After Harding's death, Isma is hit hard. Not has hard as Taash or even Emmrich, who adored Lace like a step-daughter/niece, but she's hurt.

Neve: She trusts Neve's intelligence like no other, and admires her deductive reasoning skills. Isma gets flustered often, which causes anger/panic. That means she misses key details, but Neve never does. I think Isma would look to Neve often for guidance or inspiration on how to be a more informed leader, and a better detective as they work toward finding a way to save the world.

The flowers for Varric and Harding are ... well, yeah.

[ms-m-astrologer]

2024 Libra Equinox

Sunday, September 22, 12:44 UT

Chart erected for Washington, DC

I typically set up all the next year’s solstice, equinox, and cross-quarter charts in late November. Been staring at this one for ten months, and what I keep coming back to is that close trine between Sun/Libra and Moon/Gemini.

The thing is, those are Air signs - and a problem for all Air signs is that we spend far too much time inside our own heads. We build our little theories and expectations about how things should be and should go.

The problem with that is that Other People Exist - they may not on board with any of our schemes, or only a part of them. Someone doesn’t do what we thought they would do, and it messes up our plans. We end up disoriented and unable to function.

I think it’s going to be especially important this season to listen to others. You know the euqation: two ears and one mouth = listen twice as much as we speak. And not only for the purpose of finding common ground - people whom we assumed were “on our side,” just may not be. Libra season seems to be like a test of poise.

*+=*+=*+=

Here in the Northern hemisphere, it’s Mabon, and the flowers I associate with the season are asters (purple) and chrysanthemums (many):

My mom had a very green thumb (which I did not inherit), and in autumn was always bringing home some mums to coax into bloom.

As far as food and drink go, there’s just one item for me: apples. Apple cider, caramel apples, apple pie (my mom baked an excellent deep dish apple pie), homemade applesauce. This is the time of year for the county fair, back where I grew up in Michigan, so there are memories of midway treats.

Still hearing crickets at night (and at times in the day as well). The trees are beginning to turn color, evenings and mornings are chilly, and the very highest mountain elevations may see some snow this weekend!

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[who-do-i-know-this-man]

What do you think is the most common kind of media submitted? I would assume anime and or manga, but it's just that in my brain almost every poll has at least one character drawn in those styles, and I might be actually pretty wrong

That's an excellent question; and one I've actually thought about before. In particular what I'm curious about is what kinds of media get more and less populous as the rounds go on. Because books are the only ones that I feel it would be obvious that they would take up a larger portion of the whole over time; but some things like manga has so many different submissions of wildly different levels of obscurity that I have no idea if their slice of the pie chart is getting bigger or smaller over time.

Unfortunately the only way to figure this out would be to count them all. Which aside from just taking an incredible amount of time would also need you to be able to identify what kind of media a character is from; which for some is trickier that others.

Well I guess crowd sourcing may work, now that I think of it.

[droideplane]

Results for my poll on Tumblr browsing preferences!

Here's a refresher of the poll. I asked everyone how they prefer to use Tumblr. Many thanks to the 95 awesome people who participated!

(Puts on technical writer's cap) I used glittering.world's Tumblr poll result grabber to get the exact numbers for each option. Since no one selected the last option, I excluded it from my analysis. I popped the results into Excel and made this pretty table and pie chart.

It's not too surprising to see that over half of the participants use the Tumblr app on their phones. Laptop users and phone users who browse Tumblr on their device browser have the second and third biggest numbers.

Here are two more breakdowns of the data! The next pie chart shows the number and percentage of people who use each device listed in the poll.

In case they're difficult to read, the numbers in the pie chart are listed as "Number, Percentage". As we've seen before, phones are very popular!

The last pie chart shows the number/percentage of Tumblr users who use the app (the most popular preference!) vs. a browser.

On an unrelated note, this poll was a great excuse to go aggressively girly with the color and styling of these charts! It was something I had always wanted to do for my college lab reports but ended up toning down to not shock anyone.😅

That's all I've got. Hope you enjoyed this micro stats report. El Droide out!