#data collation

[mcytblrsexymen]

[image ID: a set of cells on part of the spreadsheet, largely in the 'j' and 'k' section. it has the following names: Jakefsmash, James Mariot, JamieJoan, JaneyLaney, Janitor, the, Jeff the Minion, Jeffory the Golden Heart, Jellie Panda, Jellie the Cat, Jerma985, Jermsyboy, Jerome, Jimmy Solidarity, Joe Hills, JoeBuz, Joel SmallishBeans, Joey Graceffa, JoJoSolos, Jschlatt, Jyksedi, K4, K4yfour, Kafers8bit, Kakujo, KaraCorvus, Karl Jacobs, Karl Marx, Katelyn, Katherine Elizabeth, Keralis, Keralison, Kier and Dev, Kim, KingTheGhast, and KirinDave. /end ID]

at the current moment you can take a screenshot of just about any point on our master counting list and get one of the most interesting and bizarre screenshots of mcyt fandom possible, i think. (also we're aware of the duplicates we'll go through and try to make sure we've caught all of them before we're done.)

[seud-luachmhor]

[princelancey]

Aston Martin Testing Summary (below the cut cause it got long)

Lance

Day 1 - Day 2 - Day 3 (all from F1-Tempo)

Fastest Laps

Day 1 - 1:33.007 @ 6:12pm local on C3 Day 2 - 1:32.029 @ 4:04pm local on C3 Day 3 - 1:32.038 @ 12:17pm local on C3

Laps Completed

Day 1 - 54 Day 2 - 96 Day 3 - 46 Total - 196

Fernando

Day 1 - Day 2 - Day 3 (all from F1-Tempo)

Fastest Laps

Day1 - 1:33.385 @ 11:35am local on C3 Day 2 - 1:33.053 @ 11:47am local on C3 Day 3 - 1:31.159 @ 4:55pm local on C3

Laps Completed

Day 1 - 77 Day 2 - 31 Day 3 - 74 Total - 182

it's clear the team focused a lot on race sims, they didn't use either of the red walled tyres at all during the test so our true quali performance is still to be revealed . The team seem happy with testing, Mike saying the car "ran like a clock" and that they completed their programme despite all the drain cover issues

overall fastest lap - Day 3 - 1:31.159 @ 4:55pm local on C3 (Fernando) total laps - 378

[rookflower]

How long will the survey be open for, and will you post about the results?

i'm not sure yet, probably about a week? i didn't know how many responses i would get, so wanted to wait to gague it. i will probably put out a 24hr (at least) warning on both twitter and tumblr before i do. it currently has 243 responses and it's been going up pretty fast, but will most likely slow down soon.

i'm very likely not going to post the raw spreadsheet data because there's a lot of it and it's messy and i haven't yet gone through to make sure there are no a) trolls or b) people who want to keep their responses private. however, i will likely process the data of the more straightforward questions (favourite character, favourite arc, the multi choice questions) (and potentially correlations between them depending how much of a headache that is) into some lists or charts or general observations and will share those eventually! basically i don't think i'll share Everything but i do fully intend to make some of the results public in some way, aye!

[notquitedeadpod]

Just did some counting and Neige calls Alfie "mon râleur" 40 times by the end of episode 31. "mon petit" comes in 2nd place with 33 times but evens out if you combine it with the 7 "little one"s

thank you for your important statistical work, this is incredible information. tracking Neige's nicknames is a good way to track the relationship, I think, as will become more clear as things go on. but I won't expand on that, I'll just let you all be feral about it. I dream of someone one day making some kind of Neige's nicknames graph. I'd perish of delight.

--- Eira xxx

[midnightactual]

to talk about AI in art more specifically, I think in so far as AI has any legitimate use in art, it's exclusively as an artistic aid. if you generate an AI image of a character, then draw on top of it using it as a loose reference (I'm not talking about tracing here), that's not really any different than using any other photo reference or inspiration. if you feed all of a character's dialogue to an AI, then have it crosscheck versus dialogue you wrote for them and make adjustments to your writing (I'm not talking about copying and pasting here), that's not really any different than having someone beta-read for voice or doing it manually yourself. it can be an effective tool for doing very specific and technical things faster and thus developing a better personal artistic intuition for them. it's acceptable as training wheels, like spellcheck but much more sophisticated

what is broadly unacceptable is to just let AI generate something and release it into the wild as-is or edited. AI making your life easier or giving you more confidence in making your art is fine. using AI to substitute for and try and shortcut the artistic process is not

[chicago-geniza]

Agnes. AGNES. Who's going to tell her--

[femmehysteria]

nothing more motivating than the fact that my final year university project will actually be read and used by the nhs

[pochapal]

The deleted sexyman that was mentioned? He was from EP3 before it got rewritten. Then his role was split among a few other characters which is why he never really saw the light of day. "What the fuck was EP3 going to be" is one of the favorite questions of the fandom, because while we can have some idea by the end of the story, ultimately is a big mystery with no set answer.

maybe the real beatrice is umineko episode 3. incomplete, incorporeal, a half-formed concept with little material basis.

[hollowwhisperings]

ASOI&Data: Life Expectancies of Targaryen Monarchs, Sums Only.

The average, "natural" lifespan for a Targaryen monarch is 47 years.

The average life expectancy of a Targaryen monarch is 43.6 years or 43 years & ~7 months.

The average "reign" (years survived post-coronation) of a Targaryen monarch is 14.39 years or 14 years & ~3 months.

(This average is skewed by Jaehaerys I, who reigned for 55 years, and misrepresents how "consistent" Targaryen rule was: 4 of the 18 monarchs included reigned no longer than 2 years at most.)

The average age of a Targaryen monarch at their (first) wedding is 15.54 years or ~16 years old.

The average age a Targaryen monarch first became a parent is 19.61 years.

With Aegon the Conquering Outlier removed, the average becomes 18.5 years instead.

(this calculation does not account for any illegitimate children conceived prior or during marriage)

18 Monarchs were used for these calculations, Rhaenyra I & Aegon II both included and with Aerys II as the last recognised monarch of the dynasty.

[fleshengine]

Apparently the studio that made this also did the animated segments in Myth 2: Soulblighter.

Do You Know This Anime?

[mcytblrsexymen]

[image ID: spreadsheet cells. TOTAL UNIQUE: 780. TOTAL UNIQUE GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO 100: 35. TOTAL UNIQUE GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO 50: 56. TOTAL UNIQUE GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO 20: 87. TOTAL UNIQUE GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO 10: 129. TOTAL UNIQUE GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO 5: 182. TOTAL UNIQUE WITH A SINGLE VOTE: 437. /end ID]

so the preliminary results are in.

[randomfandomss]

I...hate...making.......presentat-*dies*

[promoniques]

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[jamingbenn]

year in review - hockey rpf on ao3

hello!! the annual ao3 year in review had some friends and i thinking - wouldn't it be cool if we had a hockey rpf specific version of that. so i went ahead and collated the data below!!

i start with a broad overview, then dive deeper into the 3 most popular ships this year (with one bonus!)

if any images appear blurry, click on them to expand and they should become clear!

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before we jump in, some key things to highlight: - CREDIT TO: the webscraping part of my code heavily utilized the ao3 wrapped google colab code, as lovingly created by @kyucultures on twitter, as the main skeleton. i tweaked a couple of things but having it as a reference saved me a LOT of time and effort as a first time web scraper!!! thank you stranger <3 - please do NOT, under ANY circumstances, share any part of this collation on any other website. please do not screenshot or repost to twitter, tiktok, or any other public social platform. thank u!!! T_T - but do feel free to send requests to my inbox! if you want more info on a specific ship, tag, or you have a cool idea or wanna see a correlation between two variables, reach out and i should be able to take a look. if you want to take a deeper dive into a specific trope not mentioned here/chapter count/word counts/fic tags/ship tags/ratings/etc, shoot me an ask!

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with that all said and done... let's dive into hockey_rpf_2024_wrapped_insanity.ipynb

BIG PICTURE OVERVIEW

i scraped a total of 4266 fanfics that dated themselves as published or finished in the year 2024. of these 4000 odd fanfics, the most popular ships were:

Note: "Minor or Background Relationship(s)" clocked in at #9 with 91 fics, but I removed it as it was always a secondary tag and added no information to the chart. I did not discern between primary ship and secondary ship(s) either!

breaking down the 5 most popular ships over the course of the year, we see:

super interesting to see that HUGE jump for mattdrai in june/july for the stanley cup final. the general lull in the offseason is cool to see as well.

as for the most popular tags in all 2024 hockey rpf fic...

weee like our fluff. and our established relationships. and a little H/C never hurt no one.

i got curious here about which AUs were the most popular, so i filtered down for that. note that i only regex'd for tags that specifically start with "Alternate Universe - ", so A/B/O and some other stuff won't appear here!

idk it was cool to me.

also, here's a quick breakdown of the ratings % for works this year:

and as for the word counts, i pulled up a box plot of the top 20 most popular ships to see how the fic length distribution differed amongst ships:

mattdrai-ers you have some DEDICATION omg. respect

now for the ship by ship break down!!

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#1 MATTDRAI

most popular ship this year. peaked in june/july with the scf. so what do u people like to write about?

fun fun fun. i love that the scf is tagged there like yes actually she is also a main character

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#2 SIDGENO

(my babies) top tags for this ship are:

folks, we are a/b/o fiends and we cannot lie. thank you to all the selfless authors for feeding us good a/b/o fic this year. i hope to join your ranks soon.

(also: MPREG. omega sidney crosby. alpha geno. listen, the people have spoken, and like, i am listening.)

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#3 NICOJACK

top tags!!

it seems nice and cozy over there... room for one more?

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BONUS: JDTZ.

i wasnt gonna plot this but @marcandreyuri asked me if i could take a look and the results are so compelling i must include it. are yall ok. do u need a hug

top tags being h/c, angst, angst, TRADES, pining, open endings... T_T katie said its a "torture vortex" and i must concurr

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BONUS BONUS: ALPHA/BETA/OMEGA

as an a/b/o enthusiast myself i got curious as to what the most popular ships were within that tag. if you want me to take a look about this for any other tag lmk, but for a/b/o, as expected, SID GENO ON TOP BABY!:

thats all for now!!! if you have anything else you are interested in seeing the data for, send me an ask and i'll see if i can get it to ya!

[apas-95]

What criticisms do you have of direct democracy? Assuming it’s communist, as well as having laws about what can and can’t be voted on such as “no killing/disenfranchising the (blank) people” and “no voting for capitalism” (the actual laws would be longer but I don’t want to write a long paragraph about how you’re not allowed to vote for fascism in a fake direct democratic society)

While it's fine in the abstract, in practice it's exceedingly slow and inefficient - being a political representative in a council is a full-time job, and if every single decision made is subject to the popular vote, then both 1) polling itself takes considerably longer; and 2) the necessary amount of education and discussion needed to be carried out prior to a proper vote is much larger: rather than simply summarising the issue and presenting key facts to council members, a massive public education campaign now has to be carried out every time a new, say, regulatory standard for storm drains, is decided upon.

Which leads us into the other main criticism - in practice, people don't *want* to have to deliberate and vote on canal works every day. Either voting is mandatory, in which caee annoyed, disinterested voters are just randomly choosing without much thought; or voting is optional, and the vast majority of people aren't actually being represented in any given issue, because it's solely decided by whichever segment are motivated enough to get a campaign going. Here, delegating the business of understanding and making decisions on random organisational matters *does* genuinely lead to a more representative and democratic outcome.

Fundamentally, what we're talking about is division of labour - a factory is more efficient when each worker doesn't have to make a complete product by themselves. Bureaucratic and administrative work *is* still work, regardless of its political character. Again to bring up division of labour, in industrial society the operation of a single factory relies upon the co-operation of electrical substations next-door, power plants the next town over, logistics offices in the provincial capital, resources developed and extracted on the other side of the country, and the entire nation's collaboration on a unified economic plan; it is something that can only really be directed by a central authority that can collect and collate massive amounts of data to produce new courses of action - to try to operate such a body based entirely on direct democracy is, beyond any other considerations, both impractical and undesirable.

This is not to say there doesn't exist great political drive and passion among the masses, nor that they have no interest in the political process and their representation - but not everyone actually applies to be a council delegate during elections, because most people are fine with the council work itself being handled by a trusted representative.

In practice, the way communists have managed these matters is democratic centralis' - here are a few graphics explaining how representative democracy is carried out on the local level in China, as an example: