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take some time this week to archive online content you care about, it could disappear or get harder to find at any point! youtube channels, blogs, images, personal chat logs, you name it

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I want to make fun of those extremely formulaic, like, random fantasy generator-esque book titles So bad but I'm always afraid I'm gonna accidentally land on one that's actually a real book and somebody's gonna be like "why are you dissing the court of skulls and ravens, man"

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osha compliant blowjob

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Having a coffee in New York City with the incredible Neil Newbon.

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we need to be weirder & so so earnest now more than ever

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still thinking about the way wind hit just right...

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I am on my knees begging you to learn how to interpret metaphors and symbolism

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oh to have someone who loves you despite everything

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Hey, just as a heads up, I'm turning asks off here and on my main for a bit. It's getting to the point where the only thing I'm getting is spam 5x a day or more, and I'm just really tired of having to clear it all out. DMs are still open in the event anybody wants to message me.

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Ok I have an idea... I want to you pick all Pedro's characters or your favorite whatever you want and tell your opinion of who would pick boobs and who would pick ass in preference on a woman (I just saw this on Twitter about what men prefer and I think it would be fun to do with the Pedro's characters... Also if you want obviously you can add the other triple frontier boys 🫣).

Oh my god this was SO FUN TO MAKE!! I just threw all the TF boys on there along with P characters... and yes, Dieter is on there twice 😂

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Historical top video game fandoms on AO3, and how they've grown over the life of the archive

I dove into the depths of AO3 and figured out the top video game fandoms each year, and put them all on some graphs.

Here's everything which at one point was among the top five within the video game section.

Here's everything except Genshin Impact, just for better visuals

And here're the historical top five split into two graphs so you can see the larger and smaller fandoms separately (note the difference in scale)

Here's a log scale showing the growth of the top video game fandoms against the growth of the entire archive.

For more graphs, a separate section on Dragon Age, and a full writeup of how I obtained these numbers and what they mean, see the full work on AO3.

Interactable versions of the graphs are on a Google spreadsheet here.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/62226781/chapters/159187414

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Methodology: Short Version (the long version is here)

I used Wayback machine snapshots to estimate the top fandoms tags in the Video Game Fandoms category per year, sifted out tags that aren't actually video game fandoms (for example, Harry Potter is there on the strength of Hogwarts Mystery and a Lego game alone), and then made some judgement calls about when to track a single game's tag vs a franchise's tag vs a mid-level umbrella tag. These descisions were based primarily on consulting with fans of the games/franchises in question and asking what they consider to be separate fandoms, but was also influenced by how tags are wrangled into dependencies on AO3 (which influences what data is acutally available to track in the first place).

Then I verified/updated the Wayback lists by searching AO3 for works within each tag created before a given date and tracked the top five of those tags for each year over the life of the archive, and finally used Google Sheets to turn those numbers into graphs.

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Here, have the top ten video game fandoms on The Archive of Our Own every year since the archive started

These tables show the current number of extant works (including archive locked works) on the AO3 created before Jan 1st of each year.

This is just the top fandom lists from a much larger project. For graphs, full details on methodology, a separate section on the Dragon Age tags, these lists in text rather than screenshot format, and more, see the full work here here

https://archiveofourown.org/works/62226781?view_full_work=true

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why would you like media that is good if you can like media that is bad instead and pace around your room like an insane person thinking about What If It Was Good

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it's ok to be horny! it's good to be perverted! your sexuality isn't shameful and the things that turn you on are good and should be celebrated!!! even if its weird!!!! especially if it's weird and fucked up!!!!!!!!!!!!! FUCK!

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Have you ever seen a twitter thread (or, in this case, two!) that so perfectly expressed everything you’d felt over months and months of harassment persistent? With all credit to @blackblobyellowcone, who is clearly amazing and completely gets it– not just why us women write and read the erotica that we do, but the history behind the censorship we, as a gender, have experienced. Bravo. 

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you didn’t colour your movie right i know 10 gif makers that could do a better job