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Yeah this is a to the surprise of nobody moment
#wow! hyperfixation family crest??? who could have seen THAT coming?????#was very interesting looking at the peak listening time info#family crest and oh hellos peaked during concussion#joseph had a smaller ongoing peak after i discovered them and then the main peak was once classes started#black keys peaked during peak homesickness time and then dropped off as soon as i was back home#but then started up again when i was djing for family#cake peaked bc of family djing#interesting statistics!
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sure it was a perfect storm of a pressure cooker but i promise destiel was about destiel
#like 2020 was all building towards something. the isolation the pandemic the general uncertainty of day to day life#toss in the heated election and counting process. sure it *couldve* been anything else. but it *wasnt*.#it was destiel. that night there were even other rumours circulating about other shows. another show even had a huge reveal!#but the most widespread and known was destiel because of course it was! because thats what everyone was losing their mind over!#look at the statistics chart of a history of destiel interest over time! i promise the destiel interest is about destiel!#were people all equally invested? no! were some people memeing? yes! but by and large nov 5th became a juggernaut bc of destiel#as someone who literally was refreshing for election news and developed mania from seeing destiel go canon. it was about destiel#sure the intersection of destiel and election results was fun. but i posted way more destiel than election stuff. cause it was about destie#anyway. idk why im on a soapbox#char speaks#destielputinelection#destiel
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"When politicians unveil a new national park or wilderness area, it’s often accompanied by debates about what effect it will have on the livelihoods of people living nearby. In some places, it can be welcomed as a boon, attracting tourists and their dollars. In others, it’s booed as a job killer, squelching the chance for new mining, grazing, logging or other industries.
As nations promise to nearly double the amount of protected land on the planet, from 17% to 30% of the Earth’s surface, these debates are likely to happen more often. Now there is new evidence that it’s possible to have both land protections and a growing economy. But it’s not guaranteed. “Achieving both aims is more common than we previously expected,” said Binbin Li, an environmental scientist at Duke Kunshan University, a Chinese institution affiliated with Duke University. “But that balance depends on socioeconomic conditions near a protected area.”
It can be hard to tease out causal links between two things as complex as the changing condition of a landscape and the economy of a nearby city. Did a town flourish because of a nearby national park, or because an increase in remote work enabled people to move there? Did another town collapse because a forest reserve contributed to the demise of a sawmill, or was it part of a bigger downturn in the timber industry?
To try to clarify the effects, Li and colleagues at Duke University and Shandong University in China compared the fates of “twin” towns and cities, as well as comparable patches of land. They identified more than 10,000 protected areas in countries around the globe, then examined how economic activity changed in nearby settlements between 2013 and 2020, compared to similar settlements more than 20 kilometers from any protected land. They also matched the protected area to similar nearby unprotected areas, to see if they fared differently.
The scientists used satellite images to track changes on the landscape, such as forest turning to farmland. They also tracked changes in the amount of nighttime artificial light as a surrogate for economic activity.
The satellite images revealed that in many cases, more trees and grasslands stayed standing and the lights shown more brightly at the same time. In about half the protected areas, there was simultaneous progress in both conservation and economic development, the scientists reported on June 20 in Current Biology.
Land protection was broadly successful at reducing the loss of forest and grasslands – more than 90% of the protected areas either lost no natural land cover, or less than their unprotected twins, the researchers found. At the same time, 60% of neighboring communities had as much or more of an increase in nightlights than places further from protected land...
Land protection and economic growth went hand in hand most easily in wealthier countries, around smaller protected areas, and in places with some of the infrastructure critical for economic development, such as roads. In places without these features the ecological fate of the land and the economic fortune of nearby towns was more likely to diverge or decline together the researchers found.
“Conservation does not happen in a silo,” said co-author Stuart Pimm, a Duke University ecologist. “We must consider local development alongside biodiversity conservation to know where and how to protect areas to benefit both the environment and humans.” ...
The results underscore the ways in which poverty and environmental degradation can be bound together. If poverty isn’t dealt with, creating protected areas could set the stage for both loss of biodiversity and economic development, the researchers warned. The flip side is that with careful planning, conservation could help set nearby towns on a path out of poverty. As an example, the scientists pointed to Costa Rica’s Corcovado National Park, which has become a hub for ecotourism on the country’s Pacific coast.
“We need to get to a win-win outcome more often, especially in the most biodiverse regions that can ill-afford losing out on economic development or biodiversity,” said Li. “We cannot address biodiversity loss without addressing local development issues.”
-via Anthropocene Magazine, June 26, 2024
#would be super interested to hear the thoughts of science and statistics people#on the methodology of this study#like it's probably about as direct as it can be at such a large scale but still pretty indirect#anyway#human development#conservation#poverty#global poverty#climate change#climate action#biodiversity#good news#hope
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no thoughts just the visceral urge to ask bf bakugou a hyperspecific question about all might's history as the #1 hero just to see him light up in massive interest only for his features to morph into suspicion a split second after bc why would you even be curious in something as niche as that?
you only shrug, saying a friend broached the topic a few days ago and you wanted to verify the facts. but really, that's all just a front because why would you tell him it's only because you love seeing him being so, so excited about things <3
#we all out here just staring at him with heart eyes as he rambles and spits out statistics and iconic news headlines left and right#he goes into tangents as well but makes sure to tie them all in a neat knot by the end of it bc he insists you need all the details#has the gall to ask 'are you sure that's all the info you need?' after talking your ear off for the past hour#anw as much as you can--engage your s/o's in the things that interest them y'all#that's such a chad way of showing you care and love 'em#(says the girl who's never been in a relationship LMAOOO)#bakugou x reader#bakugo x reader#bkg
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Round 1 Final Stats:
The top phyla have been ranked thusly, listed here from highest ranking to lowest:
🪲 Arthropoda ~ 2,002
🐠 Chordata ~ 1,780
🐌 Mollusca ~ 1,687
🪸 Cnidaria ~ 1,307
🫓 Platyhelminthes ~ 1,217
🔫 Onychophora ~ 1,180
🔬 Tardigrada ~ 1,101
🌈 Ctenophora ~ 1,013
⭐️ Echinodermata ~ 947
🪱 Annelida ~ 681
🧽 Porifera ~ 535
👥 Bryozoa ~ 331
⚪️ Placozoa ~ 328
⛱ Brachiopoda ~ 303
⚙️ Rotifera ~ 298
🍆 Priapulida ~ 216
🧲 Phoronida ~ 178
🌍 Nematoda ~ 169
🐉 Kinorhyncha ~ 169
🌰 Hemichordata ~ 169
🎉 Loricifera ~ 147
🎗 Nemertea ~ 138
❄️ Micrognathozoa ~ 124
🧪 Xenacoelomorpha ~ 123
🍴 Entoprocta ~ 111
👛 Cycliophora ~ 110
🦷 Gnathostomulida ~ 100
🏹 Chaetognatha ~ 83
🧶 Gastrotricha ~ 82
🐙🔍 Dicyemida ~ 19
🦪🔍 Orthonectida ~ 12
🐴✂️ Nematomorpha ~ -37
The top 3 phyla are Arthropoda, Chordata, and Mollusca!
This means Arthropoda, Chordata, and Mollusca will be moving on to Round 2, and broken up by Class (or some other phylogenetic equivalent).
But that’s not all!
After Round 2, we will have an extra Round 2.5, featuring every other phylum that received over 1,000 points! This will give some of the more highly ranked phyla a second chance to move on, and make Round 3 a little more interesting.
Round 2.5 will include Cnidaria, Platyhelminthes, Tardigrada, and Ctenophora.
(Unfortunately, I can’t include Onychophora as it only contains 2 families without class or order ranking, so I will have to preemptively move them forward to Round 4 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
To give myself enough time to queue up polls, Round 2 will begin November 1st.
See you then!
Extra Awards:
Phylum Porifera
~ had the highest percentage of likes at 50.8%
Phylum Placozoa
~ had the highest amount of neutral votes at 295
Phylum Xenacoelomorpha
~ had 0 hates
Phylum Platyhelminthes
~ had the most votes at 620
~ had the highest amount of loves at 245
~ had the highest amount of likes at 204
Phylum Gastrotricha
~ had the lowest amount of favorites at 2
~ had the lowest percentage of favorites at 0.7%
Phylum Mollusca
~ had 0 dislikes
~ had the third most reblogs at 86
Phylum Entoprocta
~ had 0 hates
Phylum Phoronida
~ had 0 hates
Phylum Orthonectida
~ had the lowest amount of likes at 20
~ had the least notes at 17
~ had the least reblogs at 6
Phylum Dicyemida
~ had the least votes at 158
~ had the lowest amount of loves at 4
~ had the lowest percentage of loves at 2.5%
~ had the highest percentage of neutral votes at 67.9%
Phylum Micrognathozoa
~ was our first single species to be ranked
~ had 0 hates
Phylum Rotifera
~ had 0 hates
Phylum Nematomorpha
~ had the highest amount of dislikes at 74
~ had the highest percentage of dislikes at 30.1%
~ had the highest percentage of hates at 11.4%
~ was the only phylum with a negative ranking
Phylum Onychophora
~ had the most notes at 310
~ had the most reblogs at 115 (though a lot of them happened after the poll closed)
Phylum Arthropoda
~ was the only phylum to get over 2,000 points
~ had the second most reblogs at 101
~ had 0 hates
Phylum Echinodermata
~ had the highest percentage of loves at 52.8%
~ was the only phylum to not receive any dislikes or hates
Phylum Chordata
~ had the highest amount of favorites at 334
~ had the highest percentage of favorites at 71.5%
~ had the lowest percentage of likes at 4.9%
~ had the lowest percentage of neutral votes at 0.6%
~ had the highest amount of hates at 37
#clearly there is a direct correlation between reblogs and votes!#chordata had the highest amount of favorites yes but Arthropoda had more votes and the positive votes add up!#and that was because more people reblogged the Arthropoda poll#anyway thank you all for voting!#hopefully I have given myself enough time and also y’all won’t lose interest by November#i run a paleoart challenge in November which will be taking up most of my time so i want to make sure I at least have all of November#queued up in advance#i’ll still be active here to answer questions and post extr propaganda though!#Statistics#extras#poll results#round 1
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At the start of this project all I wanted was to 'learn how to draw' using comics as a medium and the MDZS audio drama as inspiration.
I've come *very* far from making simple, 3 panel black and white comics, and I truly do intend to go even further. Thank you to everyone who cheered me on throughout 2023, it has been an incredible year in so many ways I never could have imagined. I look forwards to drawing throughout 2024 B*)
(2024 summary here)
#poorly drawn mdzs#art summary#It's so interesting looking back at how my style and technique changed throughout the year!#I used PD-wwx as the consistent factor (October is an exception) and you can see so many processes going on.#My little petri dish amoeba (with a little red bow to tell him apart from the other amoeba) <3#Whether it's getting new markers or trying out a new shading style - it's cool seeing a snapshot of my journey like this B*)#There's certainly been a slower curve to my overt improvement *but* I have become so much faster!#My life outside of drawing has been hectic and at several points extremely stressful this year. For all the work this blog has been-#-It has truly been a life saving anchor when the darkest of times have hit.#Love is hard work. Change is even harder work. Sticking to a goal I set out for myself and striving to keep going was worth it.#And I love drawing. I think there has always been something in me that longed for this. And it is finally tangible! I can draw!!!#I wanted to make a more elaborate year reflection where I looked back at my favourite comics and jokes.#but I'll leave that to the one year anniversary.#I have also been collecting a ton of statistics throughout the year and I am desperate to share them. I'm that kind of nerd B*)#I can never say it enough: Thank you all for the kindness and support. I wish everyone a lovely 2024!!!
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I got a bee in my bonnet and spent last night crunching these numbers to confirm a long-held suspicion of mine, and now I'm going to do something with them even if it's only interesting to me. So.
I went through and tallied up all of the fics AO3 currently (as of 3/27/24) has under the tags "Trans Tim Drake," "Nonbinary Tim Drake," "Genderfluid Tim Drake" and "Genderqueer Tim Drake," since I figured that cast a wide enough net without committing myself to reading every fic vaguely tagged Trans Character to figure out which character they were talking about.
I then did the same for Dick, Jason, Damian and Bruce and, after comparing those numbers against each other and against the total number of fics each character has under their general tag, followed up with Duke, Babs, Cass, Steph and Kate, and then Kon, Cassie, and Bart for good measure.
The results confirm the suspicions I was going into check and are really interesting, to me at least:
Despite having far fewer stories overall than Jason, Bruce or Dick, Tim has by far the most stories tagging him under the trans umbrella (653 out of 58,395) and is the only member of the Bats for whom at least one full percent of his stories fall under that category (1.12% to be exact.) He actually has more total trans stories than Jason and Damian combined (308 out of 71,120 and 255 out of 42,607, equaling 0.43% and 0.59%, respectively) and outstretches the 2nd place ranker, Dick, by over a hundred (who clocks in at 438 out of 79,057 -- 0.55%). Bruce amusingly has by far the most stories overall (90,305) but the fewest trans stories (185) for the lowest percentage among the boys (0.2%).
The only one who comes anywhere close to matching Tim percentage-wise is Bart, who has far fewer stories to his name but a ratio of 62 out of 5,717 for 1.08%. I was thinking maybe Young Justice might have a higher percentage than the Bats due to their strong queer fandom but that only really proved true for Bart, with both Cassie and Kon coming in at only 0.2% and 0.28% trans umbrella percentage respectively (actual count 6 out of 2,874 and 39 out of 13,746).
Cassie's numbers correspond with the fact that women just, do not get a lot of these stories, at all, even compared to the general lack of attention they're paid by fanfiction spheres in general. Steph and Kate both clocked in at falling 0.17% under the trans umbrella (29 out of 16,638 for Steph, 5 out of 2,897 for Kate); Cass got 0.13% (21 out of 15,769) and Babs only 0.07%, the lowest percentage out of anyone I calculated for (11 out of 15,785). Duke's showing was a respectable 0.55% (34 out of 6,166) which puts him about even with the rest of the boys.
All of which I just went through to confirm a gut instinct I've had for a while: even in light of the noticeable trend in fandom towards increased visibility for trans and other queer-gendered people over the last decade and a half or so, it's a notable Thing for the DC comics fandom to explore with Tim Drake in specific.
And that doesn't even take into account things like the over 200 "Tim Drake is Catlad | Stray" fics, which almost always have some element of queered gender or at least femme'd sexuality to them, far outstripping any of the other Robin boys' spins in that AU (those counts stand at, respectively: Damian - 11, Dick - 33, Jason - 79, Tim - 242). Or the 11 fics logged under the "Tim Drake is Batgirl" tag, a category that doesn't even exist for any of the other male Robins.
(What makes that last one extra hilarious to me that most people don't know one canonical version of Tim has been a member of the Batgirls.) Part of me wants to use that parenthetic detail as a segway to ramble about the various canon snippets I think probably contributed to this, from Tim being presented as "the pretty one" who most often gets the "looks like his mother" comments to the fact that he is the only male Robin who's ever cross-dressed for an undercover mission and even though it only happened once the Internet will never forget Caroline Hill.
But this post is long enough as it is and I don't really have a point beyond I think this is interesting and cool so I'm going to leave off here for now and put my numbers under a cut so people have the raw data to look at if they'd like to.
TL;DR - Based on the numbers, the internet believes Tim Drake is more likely to be trans than any other member of the Bat-family or Young Justice, and I think that has interesting implications about his character and fandom. It's neat.
Data Taken: 3/27/24
Tim Drake: 58,395 Trans Tim Drake: 513 Nonbinary Tim Drake: 46 Genderfluid Tim Drake: 89 Genderqueer Tim Drake: 5
Dick Grayson: 79,057 Trans Dick Grayson: 399 Nonbinary Dick Grayson: 15 Genderfluid Dick Grayson: 23 Genderqueer Dick Grayson: 1
Jason Todd: 71,120 Trans Jason Todd: 286 Nonbinary Jason Todd: 17 Genderqueer/Genderfluid Jason Todd: 5 (4 have both tags and are the only ones tagged Genderqueer Jason Todd)
Damian Wayne: 42,607 Trans Damian Wayne: 215 Nonbinary Damian Wayne: 37 Genderfluid Damian Wayne: 3 Genderqueer Damian Wayne: 0
Bruce Wayne: 90,305 Trans Bruce Wayne: 180 Nonbinary Bruce Wayne: 5 (2 also tagged Trans Bruce Wayne) Genderfluid Bruce Wayne: 1 Genderqueer Bruce Wayne: 1
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Total Trans Umbrella Tim Drake: 653 Total Trans Umbrella Dick Grayson: 438 Total Trans Umbrella Jason Todd: 308 (313 if you count the GQ tag separately) Total Trans Umbrella Damian Wayne: 255 Total Trans Umbrella Bruce Wayne: 185 (187)
Percentage Trans Umbrella Tim Drake: 1.12% (1.11825) Percentage Trans Umbrella Dick Grayson: 0.55% (0.55403) Percentage Trans Umbrella Jason Todd: 0.43% (0.43307 or 0.44010) Percentage Trans Umbrella Damian Wayne: 0.59% (0.59849) Percentage Trans Umbrella Bruce Wayne: 0.2% (0.20466)
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Duke Thomas: 6,166 Trans Duke Thomas: 20 Nonbinary Duke Thomas: 14 Genderfluid Duke Thomas: 0 Genderqueer Duke Thomas: 0
Barbara Gordon: 15,785 Trans Barbara Gordon: 11 Nonbinary Barbara Gordon: 0 Genderfluid Barbara Gordon: 0 Genderqueer Barbara Gordon: 0
Cassandra Cain: 15,769 Trans Cassandra Cain: 15 Nonbinary Cassandra Cain: 6 Genderfluid Cassandra Cain: 0 Genderqueer Cassandra Cain: 0
Stephanie Brown: 16,638 Trans Stephanie Brown: 27 Nonbinary Stephanie Brown: 2 Genderfluid Stephanie Brown: 0 Genderqueer Stephanie Brown: 0
Kate Kane (DCU): 2,897 Trans Kate Kane: 4 Nonbinary Kate Kane: 0 Genderfluid Kate Kane: 1 Genderqueer Kate Kane: 0
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Total Trans Umbrella Duke Thomas: 34 Total Trans Umbrella Barbara Gordon: 11 Total Trans Umbrella Cassandra Cain: 21 Total Trans Umbrella Stephanie Brown: 29 Total Trans Umbrella Kate Kane: 5
Percentage Trans Umbrella Duke Thomas: 0.55% (0.55141) Percentage Trans Umbrella Barbara Gordon: 0.07% (0.06968) Percentage Trans Umbrella Cassandra Cain: 0.13% (0.13317) Percentage Trans Umbrella Stephanie Brown: 0.17% (0.17429) Percentage Trans Umbrella Kate Kane: 0.17% (0.17259)
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Kon-El | Conner Kent: 13,746 Trans Kon-El | Conner Kent: 19 Nonbinary Kon-El | Conner Kent: 19 Genderfluid Kon-El | Conner Kent: 1 Genderqueer Kon-El | Conner Kent: 0
Bart Allen: 5,717 Trans Bart Allen: 40 Nonbinary Bart Allen: 20 Genderfluid Bart Allen: 1 Genderqueer Bart Allen: 1
Cassie Sandsmark: 2,874 Trans Cassie Sandsmark: 4 Nonbinary Cassie Sandsmark: 2 Genderfluid Cassie Sandsmark: 0 Genderqueer Cassie Sandsmark: 0
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Total Trans Umbrella Kon-El: 39 Total Trans Umbrella Bart Allen: 62 Total Trans Umbrella Cassie Sandsmark: 6
Percentage Trans Umbrella Kon-El: 0.28% (0.28371) Percentage Trans Umbrella Bart Allen: 1.08% (1.08448) Percentage Trans Umbrella Cassie Sandsmark: 0.2% (0.20876)
#transgender#tim drake#dick grayson#jason todd#damian wayne#bruce wayne#statistics#fanfic#ao3#dc comics#batfamily#duke thomas#barbara gordon#cassandra cain#stephanie brown#kon-el#cassandra sandsmark#bart allen#batman#robin#genderqueer#queer gender#gender issues#genderfluid#nonbinary#data#datascience#maybe? this isn't usually my area of expertise I just suddenly got the urge to crunch numbers on this#and my brain would not let go#the results are really interesting though!
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life or bath for dry Richtofen
#cod zombies#tank dempsey#edward richtofen#call of duty zombies#codz#interesting experience trying to purposely make it look low quality#I think the low quality of the original is integral to the comedic landing of the joke#I don't think I did a good job but hopefully tumblr will clutch#“the average primis time loop fails” is actually a statistical error.#failed cycle dempy who kills doc at random intervals for arbitrary reasons is an outlier who should not have be counted
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I will say that the mourn watch background makes so much sense of rook's occasional social awkwardness. this poor fucker had really barely ever been outside before when they were kicked out from home for shenanigans and varric adopted them like a puppy slash poor little meow meow because they reminded him so much of hawke when they were young ssssh that's my headcanon. what's more they were raised by a bunch of fifth house style freaks (affectionate) who also had never been outside before. as baby jesus was laid in a manger baby rook was laid in a coffin. as baby moses was found in the bullrushes, baby rook was found among the shin bones. they may have glimpsed normalcy before once on a sunny day, but only about three degrees removed and around a corner.
considering their circumstances and previous life experiences I think they're doing great at social interactions actually don't worry sweetie you're doing amazing, realizing most people get a bit nervous if you talk too much about skulls and bone saws around them is a great first step! a joke not landing with your audience here and there is detail work we can fine tune at another time let's get some of these fundamentals in place first <- me and varric encouraging them as they're stepping into this brand new world
#this is probably part of why I'm not romancing emmrich with rye (apart from the lucanis Situation I'm in lol). I think#that maybe it's better for them to get to expand their horizons a bit haha. explore some other interests#also lowers the effect of fucking in a coffin b/c I think rye has definitely been there done that before#dragon age#dragon age: the veilguard spoilers#dragon age: the veilguard#dragon age spoilers#rook ingellvar#a watcher's work is never done#love the watcher background. da:o circle mage background vibes all over again. but with more skeletons this time#it looks like it's statistically the least picked option which like. well okay I can't force people to have taste lmao#(also people probably wanted to play the big factions that tie into more of the main story like the shadow dragons and veiljumpers)#home and hearth (the hearth is for cremations)#well clearly not because the nevarrans don't believe in that quitter talk haha. but in principle
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Congrats on 1000 likes!! Wondering if I could request ford with an environmental scientist!reader? Like where ford enjoys theoretical physics and maths, the reader is more focused on geology and biology? No worries if not!!
Dearest anon, you don't have to worry because this is right up my alley!!! I studied earth sciences so let's gooooooo! 😁🥳
Stanford Pines x environmental scientist!reader
Rating: SFW
A/N: Was terrible at physics but I love earth sciences so this is practically a self insert? lmao! Ford finds someone who likes to infodump as much as him about their academic interests! ^^' so sorry that the reader rambles so much. The wilderness must be explored! Hope you enjoy!
"You mean to tell me that you think you've discovered species hitherto unstudied and you didn't call me until now? Are we even friends?!"
That had been your reply on the phone. Ford chuckled, relieved that you had been available and eager to accept. He was perhaps inundated with work and whilst he didn't want to admit where he was limited in his expertise, he knew he could afford to extend his studies and offer someone else an opportunity. He was glad it was you.
You had Fiddleford to thank for your introduction, you had been in a group campaigning for environmental rights on campus, the hubub was something Ford would've generally ignored, but Fiddleford had seen some familiar faces amongst the crowd and he couldn't deny that he was curious about the cause.
He'd found out why you had seemed familiar, as you recognised them from the shared lectures you had.
"Ugh! They made us take a course in statistics, but honeslty, I'm hopeless at it! It's right at the end of the day, too, so I'm trying hard not to fall asleep, you know?"
"Um, well, I actually don't find it that bad."
"But we both agree the professor drones on something awful, right Ford?" Fiddleford gave him an encouraging nudge with his elbow.
"My god, he does!"
"S-so, um, maybe if you sat next to us, I- we could help you? We both take mathematics."
He had been nervous at first, afraid that you would reject him for his six fingered hands. Rumours had been spread across the BMU about him and so far only his roommate had been the most accepting.
But like him you hadn't noticed at first, once you did you had only picked up his hand and said -
"Woah, far out!"
When he had slipped his hand away you had actually apologised.
"Don't give a damn what the rest of them think, Ford. Anyway, I think they're cool!"
And thus your friendship had been forged. Your shared courses were brief together, but you both had a love of DD&MD and kept a campaign running through college.
His excitement for someone coming to relieve the isolation of his life in gravity falls was curtailed, slightly, once you had started pouring over his work. He had temporarily forgotten that you were nearly as scrupulous as himself.
"I can't believe that you were recording these like this! What if your work was to get lost or destroyed, hm? There is so much to do here!"
Eagerness had devolved into critique it seemed, and Ford felt like he was losing the war.
"There's nothing even here about habitats or behavioural patterns for this entry... overall, this is inconsistent, Dr Pines."
He huffed, putting his hands in his pockets. "So are you going to accept the task or just pull it apart for the rest of the week?"
You tried to suppress a grin and failed. "When can I start?!"
Ford shook his head. "Just the same as when we were in college. You take too much delight in messing with me!"
Your laugh rang out over the lab. "Gotta keep you on your toes, Stanford! Like you, I have high standards."
"You can start whenever you're ready, of course."
"Good, because I want you to show me your latest find you talked about."
"Well, I'm glad you called me, seems like there's a lot of work to do here and it's not good to lone work so remotely, Ford, you know I wish you contacted me sooner had I known you were-" You gasped as you looked down into the river and Ford spotted one of the plaidypuses he had discovered last week.
"Oh this is fascinating, Ford! I wonder how they've developed such a pattern, perhaps in the falls they are not predated on? Yeah, maybe that's it."
This sparked a conversational debate, Ford elaborating on what he had said over the phone, how he had discovered them, what else lies in the forest surrounding.
"And just look at this waterfall, a perfect example of differential erosion! Did you know that this kind of basaltic rock in Orgeon was actually formed around..."
Ford looked over to you, you had gotten up close to the edge of the waterfall, as close as you could on dry land, pointing out formations. He tried his best to add in hums of response at the right places, however, his mind had drifted as he saw how your face was highlighted by the light filtering down through the trees. The way the light breeze blew at your clothes, the sparkle in your eyes that lit up your expression as you talked about your subject.
His heart swelled with affection, he had been so lonely before, and he was kicking himself on how he hadn't thought of this sooner; it was so... energising to have someone around with a similar level of passion for their studies as he has.
"Ford, the camera! Quick!" Snapped out of his reverie he realised you had been trying to get his attention, directing him to the shore where a group of plaidypuses had arrived.
"Right!" He took a few photos, managing to get the measuring rod that you placed carefully in the foreground without startling the creatures.
A few tranquil minutes passed as you watched the group glide effortlessly in the water away from you, leaning back on the grass with your hands, legs dangling off of the ledge.
"What were you thinking about? You've got that far away look in your eye."
"Oh, er, nothing! Just an equation." Ford could feel a blush forming.
"Didn't think that'd be something you'd have trouble with."
"Really (name), just because I have a PhD in the subject doesn't mean I don't have to work at solving anything."
"Yeah, yeah, tell that to the girl still trying to get approval for her original proposal." Voice laced with sarcasm. "What're you on now, you're 8th PhD or whatever?"
"10th, actually."
"Jeez, man! Do you ever rest?" You laugh and Ford can't help but join in. "Don't worry, you can get back to your equations and scanners or... whatever else you do with physics! The river isn't far, I'll be studying their ecology for now, then we can decide on the rest."
"Sounds like a plan!"
#stanford pines x reader#stanford pines x you#ford pines x reader#gravity falls imagine#celebration request#i love you environmental and earth sciences#anon you have awakened the geologist!#the special interests have been merged with the fandom ones!!!!!!!!!!#also had a statistics lecture at 6pm it was torture! every stats project I had during my degree made me cry ;_;#if only if i could've had ford's help on it
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there's a type of tumblr funnyperson who's never posted explicit hate/exclusionism towards asexuals and other a-specs... and yet, they like to make up a guy. where the type of guy they always make up undermines any trust a-specs might've otherwise had for them. for example, a common post format is making up a hypothetical tumblr user's bio that's obviously just so cringe, according to the sensibilities of everyone reading — wherein the implied joke is how we've all seen someone in the wild who's cringe like this, right?
these posts always feel the need to slide some a-spec microlabel in there. a lot of the time, it's specifically an ace-spec microlabel plus "heteroromantic," especially if they think that the guy they're making up is trying to be a real special snowflake. to round out the "cringe," they usually pepper in at least one element from the set of: neopronouns, a namedropped mental illness, and a piece of media that's targeted at children/popular for tumblr to hate at the time.
then a zillion people reblog that post, all agreeing haha that's so cringe, and a million a-spec people (and nonbinary and autistic people) shudder — because are they the butt of the joke, to the people reblogging it? or are the people reblogging just laughing about a different element, like a comically long DNI or something, which has distracted them from noticing the fact that OP clearly associates a-spec identities with "cringe"?
if any a-spec people point this out about OP, or ask a reblogger if they support ace people, they are inevitably accused of overreacting — which is great for the aphobes, because they get a new "cringe" a-spec person to point and laugh at. it's just such a nasty cycle, and even people who wouldn't consider themselves aphobes aren't great at noticing and interrogating it.
#if you've reblogged these posts without thinking critically about them then i don't think you're evil or Problematic or anything btw#especially not if you took this post seriously enough to read to the bottom#but you probably owe it to the a-spec community to self-reflect on why you reblogged those posts#in the interest of not letting those things fly past your radar in the future#aphobia#and not exclusively aphobia by any means#but from my (very non-statistical) sample - aphobia is one of the clearest uniting threads#second only to the ableism towards autistic people that permeates all of cringe culture
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It will never stop amazing me (in a morbid fascination way) that every once in a while the shambling corpse of the ofmd fandom makes some noise and it's always - always - more warriors of the same faux-purity culture ship war that drove the whole fandom to eat itself alive and implode over the course of a single hiatus. How are they still doing this? They hate this character and any ship involving him so much they have made tags uninhabitable, harassed out every "problematic" fan they could and basically killed the fandom in the process, and now apparently a few of them are experimenting with active homophobia against his queer actor for being a "bad" queer (liking the character he played). They're running a toxic thoughtcrime surveillance state on an abandoned ghost town. And still innovating new ways to be more toxic about it!
It's absolutely bonkers 🙃
#the vast majority of sane people i recognize have long since cut their losses and moved on to blog about other interests#but damn if the hate bloggers can't keep going with only their own feedback loops once their targets dip#anyway i'll say it again - fascinating case study in a fandom destroying itself via weaponized social justice and anti culture#it should be autopsied once the radioactive elements finally decay away#ofmd harassment#ladyluscinia#(maybe i should look again at fic statistics. i know re: totals there have been less added post s2 than in deep hiatus)#(despite post s2 time technically being a longer window AND containing october and november while my 'deep hiatus' doesn't)#our flag means death
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Kingdom Hearts II Official Strategy Guide (Source) Sora's Forms
#kingdom hearts 2#kh2#scans#i'll provide my sources for these since i'm sure some of you would like to check out the full guide for yourselves#for anyone wondering where limit form is- that form is a final mix exclusive so it's not in this guide#drive forms? YAWN. card/dice form enjoyers make some noise!!!#somewhat unrelated but i think it's interesting that the novels have sora transform into anti form during the armored xemnas fight because#according to this guide the odds of you changing into anti form during the armored xemnas fight are significantly increased by x10#they took the statistics into consideration lol
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Artistic Gymnastics Olympics 2024 WAG Qualification
Number of individual (EF&AA) finals per team
Team USA 🇺🇸 9 finals (Simone Biles VT, FX + BB, Jade Carey VT, Sunisa Lee BB + UB, Jordan Chiles FX, Sunisa Lee & Simone Biles AA)
Team Italy 🇮🇹 7 finals (Alice D'Amato UB,BB + FX, Manila Esposito BB + FX, Alice D'Amato & Manila Esposito AA)
Team Brazil 🇧🇷 6 finals(Rebeca Andrade VT, BB + FX, Julia Soares BB, Rebeca Andrade & Flavia Saraiva AA)
Team China 🇨🇳 6 finals (Qiu Qiyuan UB, Zhang Yihan UB, Zhou Yaqin BB, Ou Youshan FX, Qiu Qiyuan & Ou Youshan AA)
Team Romania 🇷🇴 5 finals (Sabrina Maneca-Voinea BB + FX, Ana Barbosu FX , Ana Barbosu & Amalia Ghigoarta AA)
Team Canada 🇨🇦 4 finals (Elsabeth Black VT, Shallon Olsen VT, Elsabeth Black & Ava Stewart AA)
Team Japan 🇯🇵 3 finals (Rina Kishi FX, Rina Kishi & Haruka Nakamura AA)
Team Great Britain 🇬🇧 3 finals (Becky Downie UB, Alice Kinsella & Georgia Mae-Fenton AA)
Team South Korea 🇰🇷 1 final (Seoyeong Yeo VT)
Team Netherlands 🇳🇱 1 final (Naomi Visser AA)
Team Australia 🇦🇺 1 final (Ruby Pass AA)
Team France 🇫🇷 0 finals (this hurts so much 😭)
Countries with finals without team:
Germany 🇩🇪 3 finals (Sarah Voss AA, Helen Kevric UB & AA)
Algeria 🇩🇿 2 finals (Kaylia Neymour UB & AA)
Belgium 🇧🇪 1 final (Nina Derwael UB)
North Korea 🇰🇵 1 final (Chang Ok An VT)
Bulgaria 🇧🇬 1 final (Valentina Georgieva VT)
Portugal 🇵🇹 1 final (Filipa Martins AA)
Hungary 🇭🇺 1 final (Bettina Lilli Czifra AA)
Colombia 🇨🇴 1 final (Luisa Blanco AA)
#gymnastics#paris 2024#simone biles#so sad for france#sad for beam queen sanne and pauline#doing this for my own curiosity of statistics not that anyone's interested
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out of curiosity, because i like random statistics and data collection - would anybody be interested if i made a blog in the style of those "do you like this song" blogs except it runs polls on submitted riordanverse ships? like people can submit whatever riordanverse ship and then people vote on it and then we tally up all the stats to see like, fandom's most liked or disliked ship(s), most neutral ships, most voted ships, ships with the best and worst ratios of like-dislike, etc etc.
#pjo#riordanverse#i know this project has the potential to go absolutely horribly. i thought of it when i was ill and actively taking a nap#so know that it arises from a sickly stupor#but i mostly just wanna see the numbers. also i think its just be interesting perspective-wise to see#like we can make some vague assumptions and i have *some* data for nico ships specifically#but we dont have any overarching data for the fandom's opinions as a whole of various ships and that could be fun#i am certain i would get anon hate for it regardless of anything but i wanna see the data! i wanna make a stupid spreadsheet!#i wanna see the weird numbers and statistics of obscure ships! or even more well-known ships!#riordanverse ship polls
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I really, really hate the "Female V is canon" vs "Male V is canon" debate that been popping here and here in the tags those past weeks
Cyberpunk 2077 is a Role Playing Game, there is no "canon" protagonist, that's the whole point. We all have a different playstyles, different stories and headcanons, our custom V is The Canon V of Our Own playthroughs!
After Phantom Liberty dropped, I've seen a lot of players, on Tumblr or Twitter, voicing their concerne and disappointment in how much more Female V focused the official promo, videos and even in-game credits became
I was one of them too, expressing my feelings multiple times, sometimes awkwardly, frustrated that Male V players were once again brushed to the side, because that's how it feels like, right?
Well, it might feels like it, but this isn't the case AT ALL, far from it. This is only what I would call a "Fandom Phenomenon" and I want to talk more about it a bit
I had a great conversation with a friend of mine who works in the game industry and it opened my eyes on the matter, and I've since been really interested in seeing RPGs statistics!
Because it's really, really important to make the difference between the Casual Player Base (majority of players) and the Fans / Fandom Base (minority of players)
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I always been lurking in fandoms here on Tumblr, since Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and now with Cyberpunk 2077 and Baldur's Gate 3
First I want to drop some stats- might be completly wrong, but I'm only sharing my point of view here, in an attempt to explain why some people are frustrated with Female V being the focus (and why we shouldn't be!)
I think it's not wrong to say that fandoms are mostly occupied by women and fem-identifying individuals; fandoms are a safe place for players and fans to share their passions. Women are STILL HEAVILY harassed and hated in the gaming industry as a whole, it doesn't take a lot of digging to catch a vile comment on Twitter or on Twitch for example, you cannot go far without seeing someone either attacking or sexualizing them
This is a huge problem in the industry still, every games that release with a female protagonist get trashed- just look at the bullshit surrounding GTA 6 just because players will be able to play as a woman as an option
Fandoms are also safe for non-gender conforming people, non-binaries, trans people and queer men, but I think fem individuals and women are a clear majority, at least on Tumblr (only talking about genders identity here and not about being queer or not, not talking about sexualities or attraction) (not an official stat at all and only my point of view and experience from being on Tumblr since ~2012)
Now let's talk about Cyberpunk 2077- because this is my main fandom since 2020, and what prompted me to write this post in the first place
CDPR didn't share any stats recently, but it's REALLY SAFE to assume the MAJORITY of players are playing a straight Male V romancing Panam, followed by a lesbian Female V romancing Judy, but the player pools for both options are still majoritarly cis hetero men (and they are still the focus for AAA studios to sell their games, this is sadly just how it is)
However on the fandom side, Fem V was always the focus; virtual photography, mods, ships, OCs... She was always more popular than Male V, getting more interactions and notes and why trends like "Male V monday" were created and why there is still a lack of male V focused mods (non-binaries and trans fem folks and characters are also sadly under-represented in all type of content and art)
So, being yourself as a non-fem player, playing as a Masc V, seeing CDPR officially make the switch from Male V to Female V, when the space you've been in for the past 3 years has been overwhelmingly Female V focused on all front, was a bit of a punch in the guts; like I said earlier, I was reaaally frustrated with this too!
And I'd say it's "normal"? or at least "ok" to feel this way, it makes sense considering how little attention Male V in general get in the fans community
BUT. BUT... It's REALLY important here to realize how we sound and how we look like when we voice our frustrations on the matter; we sound and look just like all the misogynistic people over on Twitter who screams about "woke games" everytime there is a female protagonist in their "non political games". We have to remember that fandoms are suuuch a small part of the game industry
Baldur's Gate 3 recently shared their stats and this interesting tweet got into my dash
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Astarion is nowhere to be seen in the official most romanced companions statistic, but I'm sure a lot of people will agree that he's probably the most popular one in the fandom side!
Another stat here from Mass Effect and really interesting info coming from David Gaider about how the hardcore fanbase aka fandom's choices were WILDLY different from the casual / main player pool
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Getting my head out of the fandom bubbles and seeing the bigger picture, how much under-represented women still are in official medias (not talking about fan content) and how insanly misoginistic the game industry still is, both on the player and devs sides, helped me handle my own frustration on the matter, accept and even celebrate Female V being the focus for the Phantom Liberty campaign
With all that said tho, we all should be able to vent about the lack of Male, Masc and Non-Binary content in the fandom side, while still being aware of the industry state, it CAN co-exist! It doesn't make anyone a bad or misogynist person!
We are all humans and can be awkward and make mistakes, especially when voicing frustration or talking while in a negative mood. Let's educate one another in good-faithed manners when we slip instead of jumping to conclusion and throw accusations
Not gonna lie I kind of lost my train of thoughts and not sure how to finish this post, but I hope this can enlight some people on why CDPR made this choice!
Repeating this as a finale note; this doesn't mean that Female V is the "main" V or "canon" V . It's simply her time to shine, and it's well deserved! The industry needs it
#cyberpunk 2077#phantom liberty#text#long post#like- LONG LONG post hgfhgf#hope my rambling makes sense#I legit been really interested in reading these statistics#hope CDPR will drop a similar sheet since the Ultimate edition is out :O#blah blah
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