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it's healthy for academics to have professional feuds. enrichment activity

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At the Con&Nathan panel at The Republic of Pirates today Con said that in a modern setting Izzy would be a chef, so now that I have wifi access again, have this doodle I immediately did upon hearing that

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PROUDLY PRESENTING:

The Unofficial OFMD AO3 Wrapped 2024

sponsored by my love of fandom community, a passion for data presentation, more hours in photoshop than I am willing to admit, and inspired by the Good Omens AO3 wrapped

images used are either official stills or screencaps from episodes and the Vanity Fair lie detector video. everything edited by me :)

a few additional stats:

79 works had more than 100k words, with an accumulated 16 million words, meaning 1% of works accounted for 21% of words

At a reading speed of 300 words per minute, it would take 174 days and nights to read all of the OFMD fic from 2024 - or, if you read for 11.5 hours every day for a year, you'd be able to get through it all!

The most tagged sex acts for explicit fics were (in order): Anal Sex, Blow Jobs, Oral Sex, Anal Fingering, and Hand Jobs

271 works were tagged "Art"

details about data collection and analysis ⤵️

All data was collected on January 1st, 2025. I limited search results within the fandom tag to works updated between 2024-01-01 and 2024-12-31. Works started earlier but updated in 2024 are therefore included. Works added and deleted again during the year are not accounted for.

I manually typed data from the AO3 search into Excel, so there may be errors and inaccuracies due to the limits of the AO3 search function, authors' tagging choices, and typos (sorry lmao). There is probably an easier way to do this but idk I was bored and didn't mind. Graphs were made in Excel.

For the total word count estimate, I collected the exact word counts of all works above 100k, then gathered data on the number of works within pre-selected word count intervals and multiplied the number of works with the average of the interval (for each interval). The total sum and cumulative graphs for both number of works and word counts are presented above.

I made posts on tumblr and bluesky asking people to nominate their favorite tags from 2024, and included as many as I could.

This is just how I chose to present the data - I hope it makes sense and I'm open to questions!

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Gideon Nav in those sunglasses from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that turn opaque when you're in danger

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when the topic of a linguistics video seems interesting but you can tell even before unmuting that you're being yelled at in an influencer accent 😔

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title: Scrumptious No-Boil One-Dish Pasta Bake

ingredients: 250g cooked pasta

instructions: make the sauce in a pan and transfer to oven tray with the Cooked Pasta

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bilbo baggins in lotr specifically is so... wonderfully painful to me: he's a world-wise traveller; he's a retired thief; he's a hobby academic; he's an eccentric homosexual bachelor; he's a guardian; he's a recluse; he rescues Frodo; he sends him to his doom; he's well preserved; he's a shell of his former self; he's foolish; he's learned; he's an elf-friend and a dwarf-friend; he's parochial; he's crabby; he's a victorian-era veteran who sends his children to the trenches and will never understand what he's done

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I don't know half of Tolkien lore half as well as I should like, and I've studied less than half of it half as much as it deserves.

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It's ironic how a major part of Lord of the Rings is that storytellers always overlook hobbits in their legends because their simple lives are "less important" than the lives of Great Royals & Grand Warriors--- since that's ultimately been reflected in the current state of the Tolkien franchise itself! After the LOTR films, big-budget Tolkien franchise installments (and copycats) overwhelmingly focus on their Aragorn analogues, with hobbit-like characters shoved to the sidelines. The Lord of the Rings films may be flawed, but they succeeded because they had a strong central story-- the relationship between Frodo and Sam, and the fairytale-themes about small overlooked people who save the day while the villains are distracted by Great Heroes from Noble Bloodlines, are what give the story the deep lasting emotional impact that it has. But the franchise(tm) quickly decided that the royal warrior elves/men were the far more exciting marketable characters, and their battle skills could allow for more flashy spectacle. The Hobbit films gradually focused more heavily on the warrior characters, with Bilbo being a glorified extra by the last movie; The Amazon LOTR show focuses on a noble warrior elf of royal blood as its main character and political intrigue among the royalty of different kingdoms as its main plot; the recent animated film focuses on a noble hero of royal blood involved in epic battles. I've mentioned before that it's fascinating how all the new "Tolkien franchise" installments (as well as media inspired by LOTR) continue to center their stories on the Aragorn archetype-- a Destined Noble Hero/Warrior from a Royal Bloodline etc etc. The entire premise of Lord of the Rings is that Aragorn represents the hero of a typical generic fantasy epic, while the ordinary Hobbits are the heroes of this one. Aragorn is interesting not in spite of the fact that he is a side character, but because of it. If he were the central character of the story, Lord of the Rings would be very bland and generic. "Let's do a new version of Lord of the Rings but focus on powerful grand royal hero characters instead" is a lot like saying "let's do a retelling of Wicked from Dorothy's point of view." It's like, "congrats! you've successfully reinvented the exact type of story the original writer was commenting on and subverting." XD

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manipulating him monday torturing him tuesday psychologically abusing him wednesday feeding into his addictions thursday killing him friday

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god i love a body swap episode

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have discovered you can freeze individual reservations which probably achieves the same but does require you to remember to keep an eye on your account

the library book reservation system should have a feature that instead of coincidentally delivering me three books at the same time, automatically moves me back like 20 places in the queue if I already have 1-2 books waiting to be picked up (or have just picked them up in the past let's say few weeks)

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the library book reservation system should have a feature that instead of coincidentally delivering me three books at the same time, automatically moves me back like 20 places in the queue if I already have 1-2 books waiting to be picked up (or have just picked them up in the past let's say few weeks)

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brother what