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[theywhoshantbenamed]

I forgot to add this in one of my recent headcanon posts but here’s some maps I found randomly

I’m tryna start some discourse /j

[watchandread02]

Supernatural Season 2 Infographics

I'm just a person obsessed with statistics and infographics. I claim in no way that any of this is 100% correct, though I do try to fact check as much as I can. Also I'm not American (or have ever been to America), so I have no clue where any of the places on the map actually are and am just trying to get it as accurate as possible with what google maps is telling me.

I used DistanceFromTo to calculate the miles/kilometers. This site doesn't use actual driving routes, but just calculates the distance between two points, so the boys probably travelled a lot more.

S1 | S2 | S3

(Alle Angaben ohne Gewähr)

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@scifiromance7 @dralruni @unholyasshole @wendibird @chiisana-sukima @wonderland2022 @jackiefour @morallygreyintrovert @lavenderleahy

[glassshine]

Where are the American furries from?

based on 19k google form answers

also a per capita version

[br1ghtestlight]

pro tip: if you're looking for reference pictures of mundane things in a country/culture that speaks a different language and all of google's results are bullshit pinterest aesthetic pics or from articles directed at tourists try translating ur search into the native language and you'll be much more likely to find what ur actually looking for from ppl who live in the country

examples:

[ao3statistics]

Date of creation: 23.08.2024

Of course many people don't use the tag "xy is Robin", especially for Damian, Jason, Tim and Dick but I still find it very interesting that Damian is leading.

I assume no guarantee or liability for the completeness, correctness and accuracy of this chart despite my best efforts.

Includes fanfictions in all languages available on Ao3, NOT English only.

More charts will follow. :)

Want to have a chart for different pairings, headcanons etc. in your favourite fandom? Send me an ask!

[hunblarity]

Újtumblitérképek

Közkívánatra (egy ember írta hogy érdekli), itten van pár újtumblitérkép!

Kezdjük a COVID generációval, azaz a 2020 januártól napjainkig:

A ranglistát továbbra is pajjor-kazi vezeti, a blogok 14.34%-val

Utána jön haztartasi-keksz és orulunkvincent, 10.66%-al

Harmadik: kozimacanto - tryagain 2.41%

Negyedik: szupertibi - tobbpenztazembereknek 2.39%

Ötödik: sztupy - willcodehtmlforfood 2.35%

Hatodik: ko1azer0 - tallianmiklos 2.16%

Hetedik e52711 - trilliannnn, 1.67%

Nyolcadik helyre még felfért kinlodok - naposmedve, 1.55%

(algebraicvarietyshow-vampirpillango pont lecsúszott az 1%-os bejutási küszöbről 0.97%-al)

Ha csak az elmúlt két évet nézzük akkor a helyzet:

pajjorimre lecserélte válogatáskazit habkeinb0ck-ra, a blogok 26.57%-át lefedve ezzel

haztartasi-keksz - orulunkvincent 11.87%

otthonzulles - tenykozleseim 5.25%

b-eton-loofie - rpszt 1.66%

szupertibi - tobbpenztazembereknek, 1.52%

A többiek jóval az 1%-os bejutási küszöb alatt

És ha kizárólag csak a tavalyi év érdekel:

Első helyről lecsúszott pajjorimre, helyét haztartasi-keksz - orulunkvincent vette át a blogok 25.67%-val

Második az otthonzulles - tenykozleseim 16.15%-al (pajjor is ide tagozódott be)

Harmadik sztupy - willcodehtmlforfood 5.70%-al

Negyedik szupertibi - tobbpenztazembereknek 3.17%-al

Ötödik habkeinb0ck - triceramopsz, a blogok 2.64%-al

Hatodik hulla - millenovecentoottanta, 1.18%

Hetedik helyre még felfért kamublogok - ko1azer0, 1.06%-al

[llyfrenfys]

Bad Takes in the Welsh tag vol. II- this reblog on a post about the number of Welsh speakers. (I have cropped out the username of OP and as ever, I only focus on the sentiment, not the person. If you know OP's url kindly do not send them anon hate etc.).

So I saw this take a few days ago in a reblog on a post in the Welsh tag and wanted to address this sentiment as well, since it does the opposite of that other bad take that I saw and made a post about the other day. To be clear, I don't disagree entirely with OP, but there's an element of wishful thinking that I sometimes see when it comes to Welsh / other minoritised languages which can end up doing more harm than good.

This screenshot was also discussed in the LGBTQIA+ Welsh Discord I run and the broad consensus from those of us in there who live in Wales is that OP is painting a very inaccurate picture of the status of Welsh, particularly of Welsh in North Wales. It is frustrating when you have people who value Welsh, but don't value Welsh enough to bother with accuracy in their promotion of the language. This post is intended as a gentle reminder that we can fight for the Welsh language without misrepresenting the situation on the ground so to speak.

The post itself has a 'fuck yeah, Welsh!' attitude which I personally love. But sadly this particular post is riddled with misinformation. First of all, we have "Welsh law is that all signs must have We[l]sh text on them but there is nothing in the law that says signs must also have English on them". Now the wording is kinda vague here- but I'm going out on a limb and saying that the OP is likely referencing The Welsh Language Standards Guidelines (which have been updated several times over the years). The guidance has a number of Standards relating to signs in the Welsh language, such as Standard 32, Standards 47-52, Standard 66 and Standards 111-113. The section of Interpreting the Standards also contains relevant text, such as in Part 3- Interpreting the Standards article 15:

Plain text: "For the purposes of the standards a requirement to publish, provide or display any written material in Welsh does not mean that material should be published, provided or, displayed in Welsh only, nor does it mean that the material should be produced in Welsh first (unless that is specifically stated in the standard)"

Of the Standards listed above, Standards 47-52 are specifically designated as Standards relating to signs and notices displayed or published by a body. Which state things like "... if the same text is displayed in Welsh and in English, you must not treat the Welsh language text less favourably than the English language text" - Standard 47 and "You must ensure that the Welsh language text on signs and notices is accurate in terms of meaning and expression" - Standard 49.

Anyway, back to the point. OP is incorrect in stating that there is a loophole by which the Welsh Law forgot to specify that the signs had to have English as well as Welsh and that public bodies can get away with monolingual Welsh signs. This just isn't true. Important to note is that the law is intended for public bodies- so big companies, road signage makers etc. This guidance isn't for random farms in North Wales which have signs that say "wyau <-" pointing up the lane with no English translation.

Now, the next sentence is a little loaded, well-meant, but a little loaded nonetheless. "The Welsh nationalist dominated rural authorities in the North"- it's loadedness comes down to its vagueness I think. While it isn't wrong per se that Welsh Nationalist parties like Plaid Cymru do well in the North West, it is a little skewed to ascribe Welsh speaking status to whichever party is doing the best in a given area. It isn't that clear cut, unfortunately. To get into this issue, we have to talk maps.

So those Welsh speaker maps that have nice gradients and have the West of Wales coloured in dark, gradually getting lighter as you move East? Unfortunately, these maps can be very misleading (especially if, like in the map OP was commenting on, the source of the data was left off). But the long and short of it is- these maps tend to imply that Welsh is exclusively spoken in the NW and that everywhere East of Bangor has had it. But the data presentation is very flawed, since it tends to erase Welsh language gains in places like Cardiff, Swansea and Monmouthshire.

You've all seen maps like this right? NW in the darkest colours and SE in the lightest?

Unfortunately when it comes to these kinds of maps, they can be very misleading from a language revitalisation point of view.

Here's some maps I actually studied at undergrad for this purpose

On the face of it, your eyes zip up to Gwynedd and Môn on the first map and then over to the second and- 'oh no!' you might say, there's been a -2.1 to -4.0 percent decline in Welsh speakers in those areas. And of course, this is something that language revitalisation wants to address. But look at the first map again. Look at, Monmouthshire, Caerphilly, Cardiff and Swansea. Then look at the second map.

Welsh speaking is actually being increased in these areas, between 2001 to 2011.

The misleading nature of a language map like this one is not its borders, its colour or key, but its omission of the sociopolitcal forces at play in language revitalisation. Large population centres like Cardiff, Caerphilly, Newport and Swansea are actively gaining more Welsh speakers. While Gwynedd and Môn are losing some. But Welsh speaking (despite a few wobbles) is on the increase. So where did those Welsh speakers from the North go?

South.

It isn't a hard-and-fast rule, but many rural Welsh speakers (especially those who live in areas with high amounts of holiday homes which drive up rent/cost of staying in villages in North Wales) actually end up moving to more urban areas in the South, meaning that some of the decline of Welsh speaking in North Wales is down to Welsh speakers just, moving to a different part of Wales- which in turn makes those areas see an increase in Welsh being spoken.

Of course, we actually have to address the cause of the exodus of Welsh speakers from rural areas holiday homes raising house prices making them unaffordable for locals and drives them away but the way that our data is represented is not as dire as it looks. Still not great, mind, but not apocalyptic either.

Then there's the other inaccuracies in this post. Small businesses like farm shops, high street businesses and houses can have Welsh-only signage because they are not local authorities and much of the guidance indirectly referenced by OP mostly only applies to local authorities. This is how you have farm shops advertising produce in Welsh only, or shop names in Welsh (such as Siop y Pethe and Broc-Môr in Aberystwyth) or the name of the house my flat is in. Businesses have different regulations for signage inside the shop in different situations. But the guidance indirectly referred to by OP in the screenshot mostly applies to road signage.

Big name brands such as Tesco are definitely not going to have monolingual Welsh stores and it is disinformation to suggest that they do- especially not when they've made gaffes such as "sboncen" to mean squash (the drink). "Sboncen" means squash (the sport), while they should have put "sgwash", meaning the drink.

Or my favourite instance of these "arwyddion gwael", in which instead of offering a free ATM service, this ATM on the Tesco Express in Aberystwyth offered "codiad am ddim" (free erections):

So I dread to think what a fully monolingual poorly translated Welsh Tesco would look like.

I don't disagree with OP on the final part, that we should celebrate Welsh's "punk ass attitude" in surviving despite attempts to eradicate it from existence. But spreading false information is definitely not the way we should be doing that.

Instead, we can celebrate things like the National Eisteddfod coming to places like Wrecsam in 2025, which aren't typically selected due to there being fewer speakers. But what bringing the National Eisteddfod to areas with low-speakers does is reestablish that yes, actually, Welsh deserves to be spoken all over Wales, not just in Y Fro Gymraeg (Welsh concept equivalent of the Gaeltacht in Ireland). It's an active, real reclamation of areas previously lost for Welsh and revitalising them by bringing the language back with the biggest Welsh language event anywhere.

[gemsofgreece]

The Top 10 of World's 50 Best Bars for 2024 according to the William Reed List.

Greece has four more places in the 100 best of the list, all of them in Athens.

17: Baba au Rum 51: The Bar in Front of the Bar 60: The Clumsies 68: Barro Negro

[unhonestlymirror]

[gamer2002]

What happened to Western Europe?

[watchandread02]

Supernatural Season 3 infographics

S1 | S2 | S3

The distance between the cities was calculated with DistanceFromTo. This only calculates straight lines and not actual driving routes.

I'm also thinking about making Destiel focused infographics starting from season 4. I'll have to see if there is enough content for every season or if it's going to be more of an overview at the end thing. But you can let me know here, if you are interested and want to be tagged.

(I don't claim that any of this is 100% correct, though I try to fact check as much as possible, so take this with a grain of salt. Alle Angaben wie immer ohne Gewähr)

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[glassshine]

European Furry map based on my 915 responses on twitter

more info here

[thenightisland]

i've been playing a lot of those geolocation games lately where you get dropped into some random point on google street view and have to figure out where you are and let me tell you that when you play these games you are hit over and over with the realization that vast swaths of the US are just fucking /empty/. you are then also hit over and over with the realization that vast swaths of the US are just texas

[bansheesofinisherin2022]

not to be dramatic but city skylines might be the best video game ever

[blessphemy]

Had a bizarre experience this week, where I thought “where are my keys?” And then I immediately pictured the last place where I had placed my keys, and then, when I went to that place, lo and behold, my keys were there.

[gemsofgreece]

Have u seen the survey about "the most culturally chauvinistic Europeans"? I think you're gonna get a good laugh out of it

I laughed but it was a sad laughter. I had seen this map before but I have thoughts about it, in fact more for the other countries than Greece, and I will grasp this opportunity to discuss it here.

Okay lol I do not doubt at all that Greece is the most CULTURALLY (discreet emphasis) chauvinistic country. But I would like to discuss the data a little.

Although I would expect Greece to be at the top, I am a little surprised by the exact percentage. There are so many Greeks who are leftist, liberal, progressive and citizens of the world. This means that a large percentage of them also agreed that their culture is superior?! Or maybe the sample was not very diverse?

I did think the west would have lower percentages for reasons I will mention in a minute but I simply do not believe the percentages would be that low. No offense to anybody but neither Italy’s nor France’s percentage seems remotely realistic to me. I don’t know much about Spain’s case but I find this strange as well. Honestly no offense, a person from the 89% country is telling you that, you couldn’t get worse than this 😅 But some general attitudes I have observed, also from the center and the north, don’t make these look totally accurate unless I have stumbled onto all the weirdos.

I think a real factor that is ultimately not taken into consideration here is that it has been WAY more integrated in the western nations’ mentality to believe that appearing culturally chauvinistic is NOT OKAY. The very low percentages of France and Spain kinda scream ex colonialist guilt as well. This mindset has not spread nearly as much in the east. Because of less progressiveness but also because of less guilt, Eastern Europeans are way more brutally honest and less apologetic about how they feel regarding their cultures. Greeks also have all the cradle of western civilisation jazz following them, although they’re essentially easterners, which skyrockets their unapologetic stance.

In short, while I think the results have a lot of truth, I believe the gaps between east and west are not very sincere as western people are taught to believe it is not at all okay to express “too much” respect for their own culture but sometimes their acts show it more. At least enough to not be that low. They would still be lower anyway though, no objection to that.

And as a last note; you just know that a lot of the Greeks are just parroting things and have no clue about Greek culture apart from white statues, souvlaki and Syrtaki TM