#jk. anyway how is everyone doing

[39oa]

ficdom winners and losers: playoffs edition

this is very much “nothing to see here” rough and rudimentary ao3 analysis but i wanted to examine whether certain players develop more fandom attention as their teams make deeper runs into the playoffs, and also how/whether deeper runs contribute to a team’s Narratives and rpf potential in general. there are infinitely better ways to examine this but as a super quick overview i looked at top players by character count in the hrpf tag, separated for fics updated during the reg season vs. the playoffs, then calculated the percentage of fics they represented in each period. that is, mtkachuk went from being tagged as a character in 7.56% of 1,667 fics during the reg season to 10.64% of 705 fics in the playoffs, and was the highest “gainer” behind 1386. considering florida’s cinderella run + njd finally cracking the playoffs as a team with an already established hrpf ship, that all tracks numerically. 

tknp, 8771, and swaymark suffering the biggest losses also made sense, and finally i ran numbers for eichel, hintz, and barkov because even though they aren’t “top characters” ficwise i wanted to look at leading playoff scorers who had at least like 10 fics to their name. roope saw a decent jump in production, but barkov was the real Narrative Winner as he surpassed his regular season fic total of 11 with 17 fics in only 2 months of postseason hockey—most of which are actual mtkachuk ship fic, so not just background character convenience tagging!

[pyrosomatic-metamorphosis]

tbh i think that even unwinnable fights should be winnable. some of the BEST fights i've ever run as a dm were ones i built kill the players (in a fun way. I had some cutscenes prepped so even the loss would be a different flavour of win)- but then they were clever bastards and managed to either win the fights or pull themselves out of trouble. I think it's perfectly fine to plan for a fight that players aren't supposed to win, but you need to let them. if they can't win, they can't lose, and the meaning of that encounter is diminished. do that too many times, and they stop trusting you to give them roleplay prompts and start expecting to sit there waiting while you drive the story for them.

but if they can win... if there is always the chance to win, no matter how impossible the odds, then they ALWAYS have hope. they always get invested. they feel the big emotions of success or the big emotions of failure, and you fucking Win as a dm/roleplay prompter/lead bastard.

[mikesbasementbeets]

"if they don’t tell me explicitly that mike was never attracted to el then that means he was"

[removes hands while kissing]

[unresponsive to kiss & "i love you," eyes wide open]

[the sunglasses stay on during kiss, also get off me you're crushing the flowers i carefully placed right in between us]

[no fear]

[one fear]

"idk if they don’t make it clear to me that he doesn’t love el romantically then that means he does"

"they haven't given any indication yet that he doesn't like girls..."

"yeah, mike has definitely shown attraction to girls"

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[shadystranger]

sam walks around everyday at the risk of getting dean jumpscared. pray for him

love how he made the dogshittest coverup in history of mankind and tucked his hair back

[taintedcigs]

is something in the air or is it just me bc im so depressed and sad and disappointed and i keep crying all the time n going through the worst week ever. i need someone to fix me!!!!!!!!!! (by killing me. a gun is preferred but i'd be okay with anything atp)

[sundial-bee-scribbles]

I've been looking for this one au where Len basically becomes a mad scientist and turns his friends into robots one by one for a while now, and I'm beginning to realize that I just read through your blog while half asleep a few months back and mixed together my memories of your flower hivemind and composite au

this is very funny to me. i'm absolutely honored this blog's posts were enough to evil-farming-game an entire vocaloid au into your memories 😂

i can give you this doodle; it's composite au but i'm sure it'd fit very well with this theoretical mad scientist len au lololl

[todayisafridaynight]

Ichiban if he were real he wouldn’t have to do ANYTHING people would just throw themselves at him. Game or no game!!!

every week we have this conversation and every week i have to remind you lot he would still fumble every bag given

[triglycercule]

this might be the most ambitious perspective ive done and its not even that damn hard. its literally just the foot/leg looking bigger. anyways sequal (AND TRIQUAL) for that little dust thingy i drew because i cannot make content of one mtt member and not the rest. here are my absolutely shitty sketches! theyre actually so bad its literally just a stick figure i dont know how i always turn this into art

and then i have a cute idea for a comic for dream and then a little thingy thingy for nightmare too. jk au RULES i have SO much motivation for drawing. me when i get to draw the cute adorable sweet things my heart ACHES for

[kimtaegis]

hate to say it but july kinda sucked

[apositives]

rises from the dead

[phagodyke]

istg one of these days.......

[dazesanddoodles]

remember how jk was vaguely based on lb joker before i just made her an oc

[nbstevonnie]

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[poughkeepsies]

hey guys. hey guys. everybody wanna debrief on that episode? cause I want to debrief on that episode.

eddie listing buck as the second person he betrayed by cheating and hesitating before "best friend"

tommy telling buck he can use their anniversary gift on eddie then going haha jk

eddie telling the hot priest that he's straight

hot priest flirting with eddie

eddie saying the lafd doesn't allow "beards" and his facial hair is a disguise

josh asking buck if there's any other boys he's been kissing

them doing a callback to the well

tommy breaking up with buck by telling him he won't be his "last"

buck walking in on and sharing in eddie's moment of pure unfiltered joy

buck walking in on eddie half naked

buck and eddie sitting on eddie's COUCH while he's half naked

them doing a callback to the lightning

anyways. how's everyone doing.

[arolesbianism]

Once again spinning Wormwood and Wheeler rapidly in my mind. Why am I the only one who cares oh so deeply abt their friendship (they have never interacted in canon)

[lyricalambrosia]

Quick update about where things currently stand regarding my writing:

College has really picked up the last 2 weeks, so i find myself swamped with assignments that leave me very little time to do much else between those and personal responsibilities. When i do have free time, I try to spend it relaxing by playing some of the new games that have come out recently, and other times i try to write where i can.

All this is to say that progress on cyfts is going extremely slowly, and i likely won't be able to participate in millionsummers week like i wanted to :/ i am still making progress on cyfts, but i think thats the only thing i can manage to work on right now because i simply do not have the time to start other projects.