#audience survey

[peterbazooca]

Currently obsessed with the potential in a dark urge who had something with Gortash only to rebirth on the mind flayer ship like a hard reset computer and fall in love with Astarion, and the only way out is through, it would seem, so have some fic! Prologue to something longer, maybe???

Still fuming from Ketheric’s utter audacity, Ronen let his feet carry him to the right chamber inside the colony, ignoring the intellect devourers as they scuttled past his boots. The arrogance of Myrkul’s chosen, chastising him like a misbehaving child? No matter how many times he tried to push the encounter from his mind, it would not be subdued. If it wasn’t for the plan, for his own grand plan, he would have cut that condescending smirk from the old man’s face in front of his simpering sycophants, would have fed the scraps to the pestilent cats that roamed his battlements. But it wasn’t Ketheric’s time. Soon, but not yet.      The squish squash of boots over flesh let him know he was no longer alone. He propped himself against a stone table as Gortash swanned into the room, his smokey cloak billowing behind him; an intriguing effect, given the lack of wind in a mind flayer colony.             “Ah, my friend, there you are!”

Ronen’s stomach flipped. His eyes fixed on Gortash’s gauntleted hands, and his thoughts lingered on the last time he had seen those hands, less than a week ago, when they’d been wrapped choking tight and oh so perfectly around his throat. Ronen forcefully exiled the memory. It would not do to get distracted, not now.             “Gortash,” he replied easily enough. “I was getting worried. It’s not like you to keep me waiting.”             But the smile on his lips rang false. This was wrong, and it had to stop, this thing between him and Gortash. If his father ever discovered the true extent of just how far he had fallen…well, Ronen didn’t like to dwell. Father had given him everything: love, power, a home. Ronen would not forsake him, not for the chosen of father’s rival. Not for anything. Idly, his fingers reached for the prayer scroll he’s spent half the day feverishly composing. He would carry the reminder of his greatest mistake with him everywhere, if it would prevent him from repeating it.             He dragged his eyes up to find Gortash circling him like a vulture scenting carrion, and his smile said he knew exactly where Ronen’s mind had just been.             “Come now, my friend, when you hear the good news I have, you won’t even remember to be upset with me.”             The smile tugging at his lips now was real, and Ronen turned away. It was uncontrollable, and exactly the reason he had insisted Gortash meet him here, today. He could not, would not, let this thing between them continue, no matter how he longed to feel Gortash’s hands on his skin once more. He gripped the table beneath him to cease the shaking of his hands. His eyes opened—he didn’t remember closing them—and, resolve restored, he made to turn, only to be greeting with a blow that sent him crashing into the table. Instruments and implements scattered across stone to hit the meaty ground soundless as agony exploded through his skull. And on the heels of the first blow was a second, harder, sharper. His forehead cracked off the stone below him and copper flooded his mouth. The blows kept coming, but Ronen couldn’t get his feet beneath him. His boots slid on blood-slicked flesh and his vision swam until the entire room was on its side. The pain was unlike anything he had ever known, and he cried out, screams shredding his throat.             Black folded in around him, and for a single moment of perfect clarity, Ronen was grateful. ~/\~/\~/\~/\~ He opened his eyes to red on all sides. He could barely move, maybe half a foot in either direction. Blood was hot on his skin, hot in his eyes, burning and burnishing until all he saw was red red red. His hands were agony, fingers bent back and broken. His head throbbed and rage throttled his screams down to choked, impotent gurgles. They would pay they would pay they would pay for this!             They, who had attacked him. They who had split his skull. They who had stuffed him into this sarcophagus! Who were they? He tried to remember, but the tighter he grasped at the memories, the faster they slipped away, from him until he had nothing. Until he was nothing. His broken hands pressed flat to the glass window of his…pod. He would get out. One day, he would get out, and whoever did this to him would pay, of that he was sure.             Gathering what little strength remained in his body, Ronen hurled himself at the lid of the pod, and he didn’t stop until his shoulder popped out of his socket, or when his elbow shattered with a fresh wave of agony, or when his legs gave out beneath him. He would never stop.   He would never stop.

[notchieuwu]

yeah so my friend and i have realised that neither of us actually know the tumblr convention for how this works

[raven-wlsn]

Audience Survey 101: What It Is and How to Do It the Right Way

Have you wondered how an audience survey can help you get valuable insights into your target audience and build better relationships with them? If yes, then this blog post is perfect for you! Here, I will discuss the ins and outs of audience surveys: what they are, why they should be part of your business strategy, and how to create one. Whether or not you’re a seasoned marketer or just…

[radiomogai]

we are not going to be able to have the good faith survey results out today!! unfortunately when we set today as the ideal date for it. we had not yet started classes! and we overestimated how much energy we would have and underestimated how busy we would be!

we’ll try to get them out as soon as possible but we cannot guarantee a date right now

if you’d like to be tagged in them once they’re out, please let us know! due to the nature of the survey we’re willing to tag anyone regardless of DNI or whatever, so just let us know if you want to be tagged in the results

[cxsmikaiyo]

Have I finished my marketing advertisement and PR degree with a minor in business? No.

Am I still aware how atrocious of a business and PR decision this was for watcher entertainment? Hell fucking yes.

[kingdeath000]

Hi guys, I started a personal survey about lgbt identities as it relates to media preferences, if you could check it out and answer it quick id be really grateful, thank u

[supercantaloupe]

i got a survey to fill out about my experience of antisemitism on my university campus and while i'm cool with sharing my opinion for data purposes (the results are all anonymized anyway) i wish there had been a field somewhere to clarify that my university has a vanishingly small jewish population (could probably be counted in the low teens, if even that high, in the entire university), absolutely zero jewish life on campus like hillel or chabad or even an interfaith club, and is, in terms of social/political climate, very out of the ordinary when it comes to the majority of american schools

[bumbelbee]

Sometimes i feel like i live in another world than other ppl what do you mean 'what are your top 3 celebrities'. Do people have those??

[mindblownie2]

The cruelty of fate (got a free invite for a secret movie screening (to be part of a focus group for the movie's marketing but it's a surprise movie that's only revealed during the screening)) but I got a cold and today is the "sneeze constantly" day so I don't think I should be in a room with a bunch of people and also I just cannot function because I am sneezing approximately every 5 seconds so. Don't think I'm gonna go to that one :(

[chaosintheavenue]

Ghoul Survey Results!

The Ghoul Survey managed to collect 110 responses (thank you all!). The nature of the data means that pie charts aren't working very well to display it coherently, so I'm just going to present the numbers as they are.

Without further ado...

Favourite companion:

Raul: 35 Hancock: 31 Charon: 24 Dean Domino: 9 Lenny: 4 Otto Steed (VB): 4 Herbert: 3 Billy-Bob: 3 Measles (VB): 2 Chris the Ghoulrilla: 2

Favourite non-companion character:

Gob: 20 Kent Connolly: 9 Jason Bright: 8 Beatrix Russell: 8 Daisy: 7 Carol: 5 Harold (proclaimed by one respondent as an 'honorary ghoul'): 5 Desmond Lockheart: 3 Arlen Glass: 3 Rotface: 3 Oswald the Outrageous: 3 Eddie Winter: 2 Tulip: 2 Calamity: 2 Wiseman: 2 Dr Sebastian (VB): 2 Harland: 2 Ghoulrillas generally: 2 Ghoul NCR soldiers generally: 2

And as always, a list of those with one vote: Tommy Ten-Toes, Bessie Lynn, Hadrian, Keely, Typhon, Snowflake, Talius, Skeeter, Set, Bobbi No-Nose, Vault-Tec Rep, Griffon, T-Minus, Betty Hill, Zhao, Ghoulified!Moira Brown, Sun of Atom, Greta, Argyle, Eugenie, Billy Peabody, and Bert Gunnarsson

Favourite settlement/faction:

Underworld: 49 Necropolis: 21 The Bright Brotherhood: 14 The Slog: 13 Gecko: 4 Kiddie Kingdom: 3 Kansas City/Gravestone: 2 The Reservation (VB): 1 Camp Searchlight: 1 Eugenie's ghoul settlement: 1 Broken Hills: 1

Do all ghouls eventually turn feral?

No: 97 Yes: 12

What causes ghouls to turn feral?

General level of radiation exposure post-ghoulification: 25 Social isolation: 22 The circumstances of how they ghoulified in the first place: 11 Reliance on radiation instead of food as an energy source: 10 Genetics: 9 Other: 23

Within the Other category, most said a combination of some or all of the above factors, or pure random chance. Other theories included…

Level of FEV exposure

The person's personality and morality pre-ghoulification

Infections and how well the ghoul cares for their wounds

A form of dementia

Psychic/supernatural phenomena

Brain chemistry pre-ghoulification

Level of mental duress post-ghoulification

Their level of internal connection to their own humanity

Ghouls cannot physically starve, but do feel hunger. If they don't eat for too long, they get a severe case of 'hangry' and turn feral

(Looking through the theories on this question caused me to suddenly and violently remember the glaringly absent 'What causes ghoulification in the first place?' question I'd planned to include… I guess that leaves room for Ghoul Survey 2: Electric Boogaloo?)

Do ghouls still physically need to eat, drink, sleep, all the basics?

Yes, to survive: 71 Yes, to avoid turning feral: 30 No: 9

If a child became ghoulified, would they remain child-sized, or grow?

Remain child-sized: 53 Grow to adult size as a human would: 39 Other: 18

The contents of the Other category, in loose order of how common each theory was:

They would grow to an extent, but not to what their human height would have been, and will likely have a unique appearance generally

They would eventually grow to an adult size, but over an extremely long time frame

The ghoulification process is so unique to each individual that it's impossible to predict what would happen, especially in an exceptional case like this

Children are so unlikely to survive ghoulification in the first place that asking this question is essentially irrelevant

Feral ghoul children would grow, others would not

And now we come to the final question, the blank text box. I'll add a handpicked selection of the original comments and a brief ship count under the cut for brevity's sake:

I have 3 ghoul OCs that came to life because of a joke me and my friend had. They're a group of prewar cheerleaders turned borderline raider gang. They're like 17/18 year old girls. […] So all in all while all the rest of my OCs are dying and barely getting by they're sunbathing by a murky, algae filled pool with silly sunglasses and crappy cocktails. Oh and yeah,they kept their uniforms and wear them all the time.

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Ghouls have one of the most heart breaking stories. Especially the Pre-War ones. They watched many (if not all) of their friends and family die in one way or another. The best in universe example of how mentally draining being a Pre-War ghoul was is in Oswalds terminals around the Kiddy Kingdom in Nuka World. You get a real sense of the fear and loss of seeing these people you've been forced to get close with slowly stop mentally existing even if their still physically there. Oswalds hope that a cure can be found is heartbreaking because we know (as far as I'm aware) of no existing cure for Ghoulism and especially for feral ghouls.

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Ghoulification isn't a condition or a sickness or a consequence of making poor choices, its an adaptation for life in the wasteland and a useful one at that.

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I love all the ghoul characters and chose Lenny as my favourite because A. I think he’s underappreciated and B. Second only to Charon, he has the most potential for a really cool backstory that they never addressed. Dude is a doctor in Necropolis, he would have been treating the other vault dwellers for radiation sickness. Imagine the trauma! The angst! It included his father who’s to say there wasn’t more of his family in that vault that he tried to help and failed? How did he survive the super mutant attack on necropolis? Was he below the city or above it (was he angry at humans and got over it or just trying to live peacefully?)

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I think 90% of the veteran rangers are all ghouls. I like to think there's large ghoul settlements all over. I like to think there's ghouls who look completely human. Chris Haversam is ghoulifing on the inside but he still looks human. The Human Companions in Fallout 4 who are all immune to radiation are that way due to that process.

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It makes sense ghouls would think their immune to radiation, but really, it just takes longer. their resistant, not immune. places like the glowing sea would make amazing homes for ghouls to the average eye, but once you see how many feral ghouls are around you start to think about how many came there feral to begin with.

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I have this hc about Jason Bright where he is a pskyer and the reason why his voice echos is because one of the voices you're hearing physically with your ears and the other he is unintentionally projecting into your mind with telepathy.

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I imagine there's many Vaults that are full of just ghouls.

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I got a headcannon that ghouls are naturally warmer, due of radiation. the 'younger' the ghoul, the warmer. pre war ghouls arent that warm as the ones who turned years ago.

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Headcanon: if a ghoul works to maintain their voice (i.e. general vocal care like how opera singers do), they can keep their voice from getting as scraggly as most. My 76 OC was a Broadway actress before the war and continued to maintain her voice despite aging and eventual ghoulification, which allowed her to keep it (mostly) in tact.

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I think Oswald was the reason his friends turned feral. He kept exposing them to radiation and every time he healed them with radiation or brought them back from the dead makes things harder. But ultimately it's a super rare gene that keeps non feral glowing ones.

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I think the Eldritch Old Ones are the unofficial cause of the ghouls. The radiation is just an effect but the the Old Ones choose who to make feral, who to turn, and sometimes they'll turn without radiation at all.

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Rn I’m working on a setting set in central MA, and one of the characters is a ghoul history teacher since he is a prewar ghoul. It’s been a fun concept to play with!

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Bit of a headcanon- ghouls tend to have a heightened sense of smell, but are mostly nose blind to smells of burning and rot.

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Glowing ones don't turn feral. Every feral glowing one was feral BEFORE they were glowing.

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I hc that all ghouls are sensitive to light which is why most chill in dark places.

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And last but certainly not least...

I want to marry Raul.

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And so, that concludes that.

A huge thank you once again to everyone who took the survey and offered your thoughts, and I hope you found this results post interesting/insightful :D

Appendix: But Chaos, you promised us...

1 - Analysis of ghoul x ghoul ships!

So, upon an brief glance-through of the data whilst the survey was still running (I was trying not to 'spoil' the dataset for myself so I only peeked here and there), it seemed like a relatively large chunk of the recent respondents had mentioned ships, which is why I proposed adding a dedicated section for them in the results. However, in the final results we actually only have two ghoul x ghoul ships mentioned: Carol x Greta and Gob x Charon. A handful of other answers talked about shipping Charon and Gob with their LWs and Raul with their Couriers, but overall there just wasn't a whole lot of shipping discussion going on. Sorry to disappoint lol

2 - Born ghoul discussion!

Ah. Yes. That. Well, this is a similar situation again, actually. There are references to relevant characters within the dataset, but nothing went into anywhere near as much detail as I somehow convinced myself it had, and so I didn't have to leap in with the dreaded Born Ghouls 101 after all. I think my brain may have bluescreened prematurely upon seeing the slightest hinted mention of Van Buren's ghoul lore in there hgfdfgh

[tumblezwei]

If I was crazy I would go and make a spreadsheet of which responses people gave to Acheron at the beginning of the story mission and see if that correlates to the different red text responses she gives later down the line.

Because if it hasn't been pointed out to you yet, Acheron has different responses in red text depending on some as of yet undetermined factors. The one you most likely heard of is her differing response to Trailblazer about someone she remembers based on whether you're using Caelus or Stelle. But APPARENTLY, she also has several different responses for each of her red text dialogues which are not based on the gender of Trailblazer. And some of them being complete opposites of one another.

Thankfully I'm not crazy and I wouldn't do that.

[cypric-rat-hyperfixation]

As my following grows and as I meet more and more people who have rats, had rats, know someone who has/had rats, and love rats...

increasingly I wonder if/when a day will come... a day that I'll express rat enjoyment to someone and they'll enthusiastically ask me if I've heard of This Funnie Little Rodent Blog they like, figuring I may already know it or will enjoy it if not...

and it's.. my blog... and then I have to come out as popular Rat Tumblr blogger that they follow and now know IRL.......

[antlerknives]

currently working on the early stages (ie. user research) of a spotify user interface redesign as a personal portfolio project and i am ridiculously excited about it

[starfiyah]

we’ve lost another channel to out of touch syndrome

[shewolfofvilnius]

*Ideal. (Also if it's complicated feel free to share in replies).

[amtrak12]

Oh my god my spouse just smacked me with so much psychic damage I had tears streaming down my face and my chest still hurts from angry laughing.

Me: Oh! If Dreamlight Valley did do a Disney Channel Originals themed Star Path with Kim Possible*, that means we would get Rufus as an animal companion! :D

My Spouse: Rufus is a dog, right?

Me: *35 points of psychic damage* *dying but not yet dead*

My Spouse with his second attack: No, weasel!

Me from my grave: A NAKED MOLE RAT YOU ASSHOLE!!!