#for the fandometrics and good luck

[thegirlinprague]

please wish me luck and cast a little spell/send a prayer my way so that i can finally pass this exam 😮‍💨🙏

[al3xluvsdnp]

happy tit day !!

[fandom]

How 'bout that Riverdale finale, y'all?

After seven bizarre seasons, Riverdale finally ended in the most Riverdale-possible way. The cast of What We Do In The Shadows sat down with us before the SAG strike and answered a ton of your questions, which you can see here. It's August in the year 2023, so of course the Destiel confession made news again and trended, like, super hard. The first two episodes of Ahsoka have fans clamoring for more. We got our first look at the second season of Our Flag Means Death and if the photos and cast are any indication, it's gonna be incredible. Astarion is reigning supreme as the new Baldur's Gate 3 blorbo. Best of luck to all of the UK given the railway ticket offices closures. Oh also there was a debate in the US between the Republican presidential candidates and Donald Trump did not participate. This is Tumblr's Week in Review.

Riverdale

Donald Trump

Good Omens

What We Do In The Shadows

Destiel

Artists on Tumblr

Our Flag Means Death

Ahsoka

Genshin Impact

Crowley | Good Omens

Aziraphale | Good Omens

Ineffable Husbands | Crowley & Aziraphale, Good Omens

Baldur's Gate 3

The QSMP Minecraft server

Astarion | Baldur's Gate 3

UK Politics

2023 F1 Dutch Grand Prix

Star Wars

Hozier

Neuvillette | Genshin Impact

We'll be taking a break next week! Fandometrics will return on September 11, 2023.

[theonceoverthinker]

95. Who’s excited for tonight’s Fair Game HC? Everyone? That’s awesome! So let’s pian-GO!

This (VERY LONG) HC comes as a request from @atlas-heartthrob! They sent me this lovely vision of Clover getting his hands on a piano during a date with Qrow and just playing his heart out for the man he loves, and Qrow joining him as they sing a love song! 

Now, I’m not going to do exactly that -- not tonight, in any event. BUT the idea of Clover at a piano fascinates me, so I decided to...PLAY around with that idea ( @whipped4qrow, you must hate me at this point) for a bit!

Let’s get to it! (Trying out a new catchphrase. Thoughts?)

Atlas Academy doesn’t exactly have much of an arts program, but they do have assemblies, and so in their auditorium, they do have a piano. 

The academy is also on the bigger side of things, and because of that, it’s not hard to get lost. 

Qrow's walking through the academy, and happens to find himself in such a situation. 

Why couldn’t the transport he took back from Mantle just drop him off in the usual spot?

Damn...

Qrow looks for a sign to point him in the direction of the nearest elevator, but his search is abandoned as the elegant sounds of a piano tempt his senses to search for its source instead. 

When the sound of the piano is at its loudest, Qrow enters the top of the dimly lit auditorium. Below the rows and rows of dark, empty chairs is the bright stage, and in the center of that stage, a piano.

And in the chair of that piano in that unfamiliar auditorium is a face Qrow is now incredibly familiar with.

Clover’s about 3/4 of the way done with the arrangement he’s playing when he realizes he’s not alone. He smiles as Qrow as Qrow descends the steps and approaches the stage. 

The song ends just as Qrow steps onto the stage. Qrow gives him three soft claps.

“Accomplished Huntsman, lucky semblance, and can play the piano,” he says, smirking at Clover. “What next -- you can see the future? Because if so, I have some questions about tomorrow’s lottery numbers.”

Clover chuckles. “Well, I can’t say I can do that, but I can say that I’m a man of many talents nonetheless.”

“Clearly. So, why the piano?”

There’s a pause and Clover muses over Qrow’s question. He purses his lips, and Qrow’s just a bit more excited than he expects to be at the prospect of learning more about Clover. It’s especially enticing because this subject appears to be more than just some random fact about him. 

After all, why else would he come to this lonely auditorium to play it alone? If Clover loves one thing, it’s an audience, and to call him a bit of a show off would be like calling Salem a jerk.

(More...a LOT more under the cut)

“There are a lot of ways you can get lucky as a Huntsmen. Grimm can fall off their paths and hit your weapons at just the right angle. One can twist their body in the right way to avoid attacks. Even test scores can be explained away with luck under the right circumstances.”

“But a piano’s different,” Qrow finishes.

“No amount of good luck can make sense of performing a perfect arrangement. And every piece is different, so each one requires a new bout of hard work. It’s rewarding in its own right, and it all sounds nice on top of it. Seemed like a good idea.”

Qrow nods, understanding. “Makes sense, but it doesn’t explain why you’re performing here alone. Not in the mood to share?”

Clover shrugs his shoulders, but unlike most of the times that he does it, this one is on the glummer side of things. “More like no one to share with.”

“What about your team? Can’t use your leader powers to force them to listen to a song or two?”

Turning to Qrow, Clover raises an unimpressed eyebrow. 

“Do the other Ace Ops seem like they’re interested in piano music?”

“Maybe Vine?” Qrow suggests. Clover bites his cheek, thinking about it.

“Maybe,” he relents, only half seriously as he returns his gaze to the piano’s ivory keys, “but it’s not the easy to have a conversation with the guy, let alone invite him to a private concert. But honestly, it’s fine. I learned to play for my own sake, no one else’s.” Despite his best efforts, Clover’s tone betrays him. It’s odd hearing Clover act this way. It’s as if Qrow’s seeing a whole different side of him, a side that Qrow wants to alleviate and at the same time explore.”

“So, does anyone know you play?”

Once more, Clover shrugs. 

“My old teacher, but she’s long retired by now.”

“Oh.” It’s all Qrow can think to say.

“And now,” Clover continues, looking at Qrow once more, “you.”

A few quiet beats pass as they reflect on that.

It’s Qrow who breaks the silence.

“Is that okay with you?” he asks. There’s an unspoken promise that if it’s not, Qrow won’t mention this moment again.

But Clover doesn’t do that. 

In fact, he smiles. 

“It is,” he says. Clover flexes his fingers. There’s a hunger all throughout him -- in his fingers, in his shoulders, in his eyes -- but it’s not for food. “So, as my first real fan, any requests?”

Qrow smirks. 

“Who said anything about being a fan?” However, before Clover can do anything more than burst out in laughter, Qrow continues. “Well, if I’m allowed to give you a request, I may as well give you a good one, so get ready.” 

He doesn’t know a lot of mainstream piano songs, so he requests something simple that he figures Clover will know. Clover plays it, and then talks about some of his favorites. And for well past the setting of the sun, that’s how it goes between them, as the world of music proceeds to open doors about each other that they didn’t know exists, but that they now cherish as much as the tunes themselves that open them in the first place.

Tagging @homokinetic @skybird13 @whipped4qrow @mooksie01 @luck-of-the-caw @xwildangel @solitude-of-stars @magneto-is-neato @o0nashipear0o @unfairgamey @doctorrwby @clover-and-co @megan-atthedisco @wash-my-brain @bisexualdisasterqrow @baelonthebrave @doubledexterity @rwby-things-i-guess @atlas-heartthrob @the-answer-was-bi-klance @compoterie @thuskindlyiboop @oceansquid @transdemion @deltastream21 @mimiori @xya-hunter @delta-altair @genderfluidturtle @roman-torchtwink @subatomictealeaves

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Also, if you reblog this post, PLEASE tag it as “fair game!” While I’m not sure if it will impact our number in the Fandometrics rankings, it never hurts, so please do so!Thank you very much!

[sedlex]

She-Ra immediate aftermath, for posterity.

Excitement-related insomnia log: the night before and I woke up at least 10 times to check the clock 

Friday. The show is released at midnight PST so about four/five hours later the first wave of "Catradora canon!!!" is well underway and the invested fans are collectively losing their minds all around the world. Reactions are mostly keysmash and people are actively taking pics and recording videos of their screens with their phones while crying. Those who don't go there reblog stuff in solidarity. Some decide they now go there and start furiously watching from the beginning. There is nothing else happening. Nothing. The quickest fanartists swoop in with either short hair portraits, angst or kisses. At some point the realization that "we're gonna win in the end" was referring to all of us dawns: it's a weloveyounoelle fest.

Excitement-related insomnia log: I’ve slept maybe 2 hours in 20-minute bits 

Saturday. Even the slowest watchers, the ones who had to wait for their watching parties or had to work or whatever, are all caught up, endorphins are running high, screenshots are made of every second of the kiss and shared all over the place. So. Much. Art. Still not enough, so everybody reblog everything! The kiss that saved the universe and *that* future scene are big favorites. Meanwhile articles are shared and people see how actually difficult it was to pull this off so well and THANKYOUNOELLEWELOVEYOU!

Excitement-related insomnia log: I don’t recall 3something to 5:30 am, so...

Sunday. Rewatches are happening because with twenty-ish minutes per episode it's quick & easy and people get proof of the things they did notice before: it's parallels town! While visuals are going strong (do not miss the epic scene with Japanese dubbing that makes it feel like the gayest anime ever), the written word side had a little time to organize the thoughts and metas are flourishing. Back on ao3, the tags hurt/comfort and future canon are alight. Just guess who's first in fandometrics for the week ending today despite technically having been around for just three days?

Excitement-related insomnia log: I went to bed at midnight and woke up at 2:30 to rewatch s5 on my phone and I’m pretty sure I got to more than 2/3 before falling somewhat asleep

Monday. The bigots caught up and can those who lament lesbian exploitation in cartoons please go back to how wearing a mask during a pandemic is an attack on liberty thanks bye. More discussions happen and there is reflection on if the catrademption was too fast/offthehookish. You go be mindwiped into an electrocution pool and then chipped in a creepy hivemind alien cult and tell me. Let's see instead more reflection on how the braincells dynamic in the best friend squad changed. On the visual side the edits are more elaborate because people had some more time to put into them and artists are going like crazy with kind of supergay fuel.

Excitement-related insomnia log: a good 4 hours of uninterrupted sleep were achieved 

Tuesday. Things are slowing down a little but 70% of the timeline is still a blessing of fluff art. A whole lot of AUs and post canon appear alongside kisses and comics and fun stuff because why not spread the love. Surprisingly to none, the magic emotional support animal shoved into the story when it's 2/3 done is very loved, look at it meaowing. I'm used to seeing gayness bringing out creativity but damn... also video/music edits smash through the door bringing the gift of feelings.

Excitement-related insomnia log: kinda sorta the usual amount of sleep, 1something am to 7:30

Wednesday. Ok, now things should be back to normal, right? Wrong. Even those who could watch just one or two episodes per day are all caught up and at this point do we still need the spoiler tag? Like, really. Anyway, fanart is a steady abundant flow with such a variety that anyone can find something for them and I’ve seen posts with 15k+ notes. Deservingly so.

Excitement-related insomnia log: scratch that, back to 3 hours because I started reading fanfics at midnight and, well...

Thursday: semblance of normalcy on TL achieved? Kiiinda? There’s still bursts happening at certain times when someone else discover themselves a friend of Mara. Post-s5 headcanons are a thing, as well as wrong hilarious quotes. And the small miracle of people who run away during past Tumblr fuckups who are suddenly back.

Excitement-related insomnia log: I just finished writing this, while in bed, at 1am. Wish me luck.

[hansolmates]

Fandometrics knows what's up apparently, i'm glad i found your blog and I'm off to binge-read your fics until 3:30 wish me luck

good luck my sweet blossom!!! thank you for reading my fics

[kari-izumi]

I assume the post Anon is referring to was deleted, but nothing I've scanned comes anywhere near being rude or dismissive. And yeah, I'm kinda disappointed over Fandometrics numbers too, but good God, it's a lame popularity contest on a dying website. When Tumblr is dead by next year, it'll be a footnote on the Fandom Lore Wiki page.

OP is right, though. Fandom is what you make of it. The biggest advantage fandom has today over when I was a teen is anyone can get exposure. My old fandoms had communities that you had to join up and a handful of BNFs whose feet everyone worshipped at. And good luck getting shit coordinated over dialup.

You guys want to make Sheith a bigger presance, you do what you did in June after season 6: make fic. Post art. Continue to share you love, but you don't do what this Anon (and the previous one) did and expect people to hold your hand while pissing that you didn't get your way my. not everyone is here on this site to fight through discourse, and I say that as someone that runs a discourse blog (albeit not so much since the series ended). You want a good fandom, learn from @arahir 's example and that of the other good bloggers like Otasucc and Tofuloo by being the change you want to see.

And to OP: wow, I had no idea you were dealing with all that! How did you find the time for this fandom on top of all that? 😮 At any rate, thanks for being a beacon of positivity for this fandom and all that you've done. *Hugs*

wow that was an extremely rude response you gave that other anon. they were clearly coming to you for comfort and reassurance and you basically just laughed in their face. that's really not okay.

ARE YOU SERIOUS RIGHT NOW? I’m an adult. I am taking twenty units. I am teaching a five unit class. I just got accepted to a new grad school program. I called my mom to tell her and got yelled at for an hour instead because I didn’t book her safari trip to Africa in between eight hours of school (edit: it’s twelve hours, i meant 8am to 8pm every day including weekends). I had another two classes after that. I got papers signed by department heads. I sent three emails on my phone as I was walking two miles in the dark to my car. I got home, made dinner, and opened up tumblr to find that.

And in between all this I’ve still posted fic–I posted 7k just yesterday! I’ve still been kind. i’ve run sheith events. I’ve helped with sheith patreons, commissioned sheith artists, encouraged people on here and on tumblr, and done basically everything I can with my non existent free time to make this place better for everyone involved but I’m sorry, you need me to be a therapist over imaginary fandometrics numbers too? No. If it makes you anxious, do something about it. Make more of what you love. It’s how I helped build this fandom to begin with. We weren’t even on fandometrics for the first year and no one cared. We just enjoyed it. 

You guys need to step up at some point. i am not your mom. I am a young woman with a huge family and a ton of responsibilities trying to do my best by you guys. I have a job, I have a house, I have medical problems. I’ve lost 20% of my bodyweight in the last year due to anxiety. This? This is a fandom. It’s for fun. It’s not real. This is my escape too and I have told you guys literally maybe a hundred times and in a hundred ways that I cannot be a therapist because I have too much stuff going on in my life. I can’t get on here every day and talk people through discourse A B C and D. That’s anxiety inducing. You think I want to log in here and then deal with people venting their anxieties at me? Dude. Come on.

I love you guys. And i want so badly for you to be happy. I’m so thankful for all the time we’ve shared and will share, all the friends I’ve made and will make, and my love for this pairing and fandom will never be diminished, but it’s so frustrating. It’s so fucking frustrating to every day have this thing I love and have people who love it too constantly begging me to pull them back from the ledge when I’m just… It’s a fandom. It’s fun. It’s enjoyment and if it’s not, I’m not here. I’ll be wherever it’s joyful, doing what I can to enjoy it and help others enjoy it.

That’s why I had anon off for two months and now it’s going off again for good. Truly, good bye. Like, I am done.

[hawards]

to be honest the only reason i started paying attention to fandomertics was because the hate blogs ( and the none dedicated hate blogs that keeps blogging them) kept saying how harry has lost all his fans and how everything is leaving him in droves to become the other boys fans and i was like cooolll i get him to all myself but then the metrics show totally different thing. smh lsdlkd i was hoping to be the one true stan standing!!!!!

asdfghgfdfg i know,, i didn’t care about fandometrics at all but then larries started saying it’s rigged and jeffrey is buying harry the 1st place and keeping louis from the list on purpose and some of them were even doing legit research about fandometrics algorithm and creating a campaign for louis to get there… well good luck with that now, are they going to accuse the entire music industry of south korea of sending bribe money to tumblr?? probably, with larries nothing is impossible

[theonceoverthinker]

105. ...I really wish I hadn’t wasted the phrase ‘say uncle’ on that fic right about now...

PSA before we begin: I LOVE that so many of you guys reblog my stuff, but i also notice that when you do, you don’t often tag it. PLEASE, I am BEGGING you, going forward, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tag your reblogs as ‘fair game.’ We just got kicked off the Fandometrics’ ship list, and we’re not disappearing from it for any longer than a week without a fight if many of us have anything to say about it. If we want to remain in any place in this big world of fandom that warrants being heard, that list is our best chance. I’m going to keep writing these HC’s and more Fair Game posts as best as I can, but I’m going to need YOUR help! So please, you don’t have to do anything apart from just tagging this (And any other Fair Game content you reblog) as ‘fair game.’ The #CloverDeservedBetter movement is depending on you, and so am I!

Okay! HC Time!

If you recall during my 100 HC celebration post, I said I might do Clover getting blessings from Qrow’s family (For the purposes of this HC, we’re going to define Qrow’s family as Tai, Ruby, and Yang) another time, and right now, I could really use a pick me up, so here we go!

Clover’s pretty sure Qrow’s family likes him (Heck, they may have spent some time traveling together), but that doesn’t mean he’s not nervous about asking them for their blessings. And even if he wasn’t sure of their responses, he wants to do this right. After all, should everything work out, they’ll be his family, too!

So one day while Qrow’s on a mission, Clover sneaks off to Patch. He arrives at the Rose/Xiao Long home, and when he knocks on the door, Tai answers. He’s in good spirits and looks happy to see Clover, not asking about why he’s here, but inviting him to have lunch with him all the same. Clover asks where Ruby and Yang are, and Tai tells him that Yang and Blake are taking a ride in Yang’s motorcycle and Ruby and Weiss are taking Zwei to the local dog park, but predicts that they’ll be back by the end of the day. Clover’s not ecstatic to hear that, fearful that he’ll have to make multiple trips to see everyone, but still decides to take advantage of this alone time with Tai to ask him first.

Over a simple, but tasty lunch, Tai finally asks what brought Clover here. Clover bites his lip, muling over the wording, but it seems to make Tai very suspicious. He starts almost glaring at him, and asking pointed questions, prompting Clover to finally blurt his question out. 

“Will you give me your blessing to ask Qrow to marry me?!” he says, the speed of his words only matched in speed by the racing of his heartbeat.

Tai’s face instantly lightens up.

“You want to marry Qrow?” he asks, grinning from ear to ear. “That’s awesome!”

Despite knowing Tai would probably say yes, Clover can’t help but feel relieved to see him so happy with the idea.

“Oh yeah?”

“Yeah!” Tai answers, as if saying ‘no duh.’ “You’re smart, and you’re clean -- what more could I want in a brother-in-law?” 

Clover and Tai laugh, though the entire time, Clover gives him an, albeit lighthearted, look that begs him to take the conversation a bit more seriously.

“And you make Qrow a better man,” Tai continues, settling down. “And from what the girls tell me, he made you a better man.”

“He still does,” Clover confesses, cupping the glass of water in front of him.

Tai puts his hand on Clover’s wrist. “I wasn’t married for long, but from what I’ve gathered, that’s how marriage is supposed to work. Looks like you two are all set.”

Clover nods. “Well, I want to get Ruby and Yang’s blessings too. I just hope I can talk to them before I have to head back home.”

Tai shrugs in a noncommittal fashion. “When it comes to my girls, who knows? But, you can hang out here for as long as you want.”

Though he’s about to accept the offer, Clover never gets the chance, for five loud barks stop him in his tracks along with a cry from a very familiar girl for him to be quiet and that the door’s almost open.

“Well, looks like you’re in luck,” Tai says, likely snickering just as much, if not more at his own pun than the circumstances. “Ruby’s home.”

Can somebody smell Part 2? Because I sure can! Tune in next time, and remember to reblog these with ‘fair game!’ Toodles for now!

Tagging @homokinetic @skybird13 @whipped4qrow @mooksie01 @luck-of-the-caw @xwildangel @solitude-of-stars @magneto-is-neato @o0nashipear0o @unfairgamey @doctorrwby @clover-and-co @megan-atthedisco @wash-my-brain @bisexualdisasterqrow @baelonthebrave @doubledexterity @rwby-things-i-guess @atlas-heartthrob @the-answer-was-bi-klance @compoterie @thuskindlyiboop @oceansquid @transdemion @deltastream21 @mimiori @xya-hunter @delta-altair @genderfluidturtle @roman-torchtwink @subatomictealeaves @drbtinglecannon @saphiralunaris

Want to be tagged in future Fair Game HC’s? Of course, you do! So send me a reply, PM, or ask to be added, and I’ll grant your greatest wish! XD