#for whom

[ghost-bugz]

me and who,,,, :(

[lilydoesdrawsometimes]

I don't typically render pictures - in fact I HATE doing it because I never get it to look the way I want, I really like my loose sketches... but I really want to render like every single image of the Narrator I've drawn - esp @blackkatdraws Narrator because HES SO COOL!??? LIKE ??? Anyways, I really love the way this turned out tbh so I might actually end up rendering them all (Like seriously look at that difference... it's glorious)

[lee-sanghyeok]

Sungho & Jaehyun @ KCON Japan 2024

[springs-hurts]

I wasn't going to say anything about Sirius today but saw a reel and now I'm messed up.

People out there really think that Sirius thought Harry as an stand in for James. Like no no no, he didn't, he didn't, he did not.

He did compare him with James at some points no denying but he didn't saw him as James😭

As someone has already said on this site(i don't remember who worry) Sirius would never ever think of Harry as James, James was different, 𝘑𝘢𝘮��𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘴.😭

He knew perfectly well about the difference b/w harry and James.

That's it.

[sgkjd]

alexithymic autistic culture is having saved this graph into your phone and pulling it up whenever you feel like you're feeling something and need to check what exactly

[magenetratranslations]

誰が為の For Whom

■Song / Mashima Yulo ■Singer / CeVIO Haru ■Translation / Serene_Snowfall ■Subs / Centi

Lyrics:

伸びる　伸びない 高い　低い わかりやすい　わかんない 踊れない 浅い　深い エロい　グロい 感動できる　できない 語れない 思想のないシンパ SAWの波弾いた とうの昔にウェルテルは死んだ 可処分時間いっぱい 渡すくらいなら 真面目に勉強してなさいよ Stretchy, not stretchy Tall, short   Easy to understand, Not understandable I can't dance Shallow, deep   Erotic, grotesque Emotional, emotionless I can't talk about it A thoughtless sympathizer played the SAW waves Werther died a long time ago There’s lots of time to waste So If you’re going to give it away, You might as well study diligently

誰の言葉も鵜呑みにしない? 縦の動画のみを見るStyle? だけどそーゆーお前はもうほぼ 死体?　じゃない? Will you not accept someone’s word without question? Is it your style to watch only vertical videos? But if you're like that, aren't you almost just a corpse? or nah?

これは誰が為? まだ伝わんない かねぇ? 　 Who is this for?   You still don’t get it, do you?

「お前も同罪」 宣うオウム返し なら問うが君は何か成したかい? 毒づいてごめん(笑) 傷ついた?ごめん(笑) こーゆーのは求めないよね(笑) これも誰が為? “You're just as guilty” All you do is parrot back what's said, so I'll ask you, have you even accomplished anything?       Sorry I was mean to you (lol) Did I hurt you? Sorry (lol) This isn’t what you want, right (lol) Who is this even for?

己で手を下すことはしない? その上意見にも逆らわない? いつまでも見てみる*ふりができるなら したい じゃない? これは誰が為の詩が為の詩が為の詩が為の詩 Can you do anything yourself? Furthermore, do you even think for yourself? If you could pretend to not see it forever, You would, wouldn’t you? This is a song about "a song about ‘a song about’ ‘a song about’ a song about who this song is for"

伸びる　伸びない 高い　低い わかりやすい　わかんない 知らない 浅い　深い エロい　グロい 感動できる　できない 語れない 思想のないシンパ SAWの波弾いた とうの昔にウェルテルは死んだ 可処分時間いっぱい 渡すくらいなら 真面目に勉強してなさいよ Stretchy, not stretchy Tall, short   Easy to understand, not understandable I don't know Shallow, deep   Erotic, grotesque Emotional, emotional I can't talk about it A thoughtless sympathizer played the SAW waves Werther died a long time ago There’s lots of time to waste So If you’re going to give it away, You might as well study diligently

Translator Note: *We're pretty sure this is a typo on the producer's part because the phrase doesn’t make much sense with what’s written, and the vocals also sound like they’re saying the correct phrase too, so we translated accordingly.

[koschei-the-ginger]

I can't unsee the cats, and bees don't have ears, unless they're supposed to be wings? Antennae? Dammit, those are cats.

[rangersoup]

Anyone else feel like their mutuals are way out of their league? Like they follow you back and you’re just like

[sashayed]

i dont give a FUCK any more man this has gone TOO far i'm deleting ALL the exclamation points from my work emails. that's right. i hope you have a good weekend. and no more than that

[alms4oblivion]

This theory assumes that all voter behavior is driven by Tumblr traffic. If that were true, then absolutely, you would see roughly logarithmic shapes every time there was a push because of the way Tumblr's algorithm communicates posts to interested parties. Big burst at the front as the relevant Tumblr fandom sees the poll, slowly diminishing in rate of increase as the voter pool is saturated and there are fewer people willing to vote who have not already voted. But that's not actually what's happening, because that's not how Warrior Nun fandom finds these polls.

I can't speak for TLT fandom or Vrisezi fandom or any of the others, but Avatrice/Warrior Nun fandom isn't especially prominent on Tumblr. Some of us are here, but it's really a small fraction of the fanbase. I hear there is (or was) a contingent on Tik Tok, and maybe some other places, but the primary organizing locations for Avatrice fandom are Bluesky and maybe some still on Twitter. Avatrice spikes correlate very strongly with traffic on those sites, much like large Tumblr account pushes correlate with major bumps. UNLIKE, say, demilypyro, though, Avatrice fandom doesn't have a single person with the level of extreme profile that allows them to saturate the entire fandom at once. What it has is a large network of people who routinely, and continuously, worldwide, repost and encourage people on other platforms to hop over to Tumblr and vote. So what does this look like? Well, most of Avatrice fandom rarely sees the poll when it first comes up, so there's usually no initial burst of voters like there is for other, more Tumblr-focused, fandoms. As a result, the initial slope is not a function of the fandom boosting on Tumblr and exhausting the voter pool, whatever that may be. Instead, people like me see the poll and cross-post to other platforms. People who follow me there post it. People who follow them post it. And on and on and on. Because of the way the Warrior Nun fandom is fragmented (some people in it for the fics, some for the art, some group running activities, yes really, etc.), the scope of the people reached expands over time. In other words when this happens, instead of logarithmic decay, like you see when there's a large burst of initial interest that peters out over time as the population of voters is exhausted, you see exponential growth. Exponential growth looks more or less like half of a parabola, which is exactly what you see from the Avatrice votes starting just before 12:00 on January 10. Of course, this doesn't disprove voter fraud. I'm just one person, and have no idea what every other person in the fandom does when it comes to these polls. What I do know is that the Tumblr-centric model of voter behavior that you're using to evaluate fraud doesn't apply to Avatrice fandom.

Anyway. These are always a good time, win or lose, and thanks for running them!

What do you mean there's voter fraud?? How can you tell?

We've talked a bit before about how we're able to tell when fraud is occurring based on our graphs, but let's go into detail using some compare and contrasts from the graphs from this bracket! Below are a few graphs where you can see what ordinary voter behavior tends to look like.

As you can see, what tends to happen is that there will be a surge of votes at the beginning of a poll when people first see it, after which the curve begins to level out as fewer and fewer people are seeing the poll for the first time.

However, on some occasions we get a sudden surge in votes when someone with a lot of followers reblogs a poll post, thus exposing it to a large new audience. In these cases, we get bumps in the graphs that look like this:

In these cases, the sudden sharp uptick in votes correspond directly with reblogs from demilypyro. Notice how the curve of the graph afterwards still follows the same pattern of ordinary voter behavior though! A new wave of people sees the poll and votes in it, but over time the curve levels back out.

Now, compare that to the most recent graph of Avatrice vs Griddlehark.

Notice how the lines just keep going up at an almost completely steady rate, only to sharply decrease in slope rather than steadily leveling off! That's not ordinary voter behavior by any means! That's the work of one person, or perhaps a group of people, plugging away giving votes to Avatrice, until they suddenly stop and the graph falls off again. And it looks like Griddlehark had their own warriors: you can see the sharp uptick into an almost completely straight diagonal line a little after 12PM UTC on Jan 11, which suddenly drops off a few hours later, right around when the Avatrice graph starts escalating again. And bear in mind that while that Griddlehark spike may look small on the graph, that's only because the poll in total got nearly 16k votes! That uptick for Griddlehark represents at least 500 votes, if not more! But sadly, it looks like whoever was battling for Griddlehark simply could not keep up with the sheer power of the Avatrice fraudster.

Now, there's definitely been fraud in other polls during this bracket. There's even been fraud in other polls just this past round; one look at the stairstep nonsense that is the Vrisrezi graph for this round would tell you that much. But the reason Avatrice has been winning the competition for best graph by far is the massive, unprecedented level of dedication. The steady increase in the graph above begins at around 8PM UTC on Jan 10, and then extends all the way until nearly 12PM UTC on Jan 11. That's nearly sixteen hours straight of voter fraud! Casting thousands of votes!

We've said before that we love doing these brackets because we get to witness these endeavors of human passion, and good lord, does at least one particular Avatrice fan have passion. At this rate, they may even have passion enough to sweep this entire bracket!

Unless, of course, people are willing to step up to the plate and start frauding back. Which, quite frankly, we would love to see.

[itsbrucey]

Big fan of sun motifs in characters not necessarily being about positivity and happiness and how they're so " bright and warm" but instead being about fucking brutal they are.

Radiant. A FORCE of nature that will turn you to ash. That warmth that burns so hot it feels like ice. Piercing yellow and red and white. A character being a Sun because you cannot challenge a Sun without burning alive or taking everything down with them if victorious.

[megafaunatic]

gay people on the bus

[pangur-and-grim]

okay sorry, one other thing annoyed me about that writing class. one of the students is this super clean-cut doctor who works at an HIV clinic, and he asked the prof "do you ever get distracted while reading books, because you find yourself analyzing the craft of them instead of sinking into the story?"

and she said "no," and turned away. and the whole class laughed awkwardly, bc it was a pretty abrupt and dismissive answer. so then she turned back to him and said "you wouldn't ask a musician if they get distracted listening to songs. they just enjoy the music."

but I dunno, I'm a newbie writer with only one (scheduled-to-be-published) book under my belt, but I get distracted sometimes when I'm reading. if I find I'm not sinking into a block of text, I'll squint at it and be like "okay, they're using too much passive voice, that's why my brain isn't grabbing on to it." so I'm sorry Mr. HIV doctor, I thought your question was reasonable!

[fairsweetlonging]

imagine an au where shen yuan transmigrates into a blank slate npc with very little system involvement, traveling around for a while until he's found by yue qingyuan and taken back to the sect because apparently shen qingqiu went missing around his transmigration period and shen yuan looks exactly like him, so it must be him, but then a few weeks later when he's just settled in on the peak and accepted his fate the real shen qingqiu shows up who was just on vacation and everyone forgot.

now there are two shen qingqiu's, one of whom is the real one and the other an amnesiac they gaslighted into believing he is shen qingqiu.

anyway—shen qingqiu has a new didi now!