#like every sports anime

[lets-go-banana-fishing]

Jumping onto the 'Misato is Asheijis love child' bandwagon way too late but at least I'm jumping

[justaz]

i love merlin being so enamored by life and nature and all the beauty of the world around him, but as magic incarnate (a force that is neither good nor evil, it just is) i would love to see morally grey merlin. like ik we kinda get that with him killing people in arthur’s name and forsaking his people for the man he loves, but i mean like sorta dark and unnerving merlin who finds beauty in death and destruction and is fascinated by it. merlin who was conditioned on right and wrong but who still feels a pull to what others would consider wrong. finding wolves gorging on a carcass in the woods and feeling this pull to join them, to revert to a wild thing, to be animalistic and uninhibited. just forest nymph merlin where he’s so natural he’s unnatural.

[kazzu120]

Finally got around to watching all of Love Live 10 years too late smh...

[july-19th-club]

i think there's horse sexism in the kentucky derby . field of twenty horses, right? plus a couple more runners-up that can swap in if somebody has to drop out . not a single filly in the lineup. which obviously doesn't mean i think that like ... the HORSES are sexist . but i imagine that in a field where most of the top trainers are men themselves, there's more of a focus on training the colts that come across their paths, and perhaps even more colts being selected to be trained towards these big races in the first place . a horse is a horse is a horse, they all go fast, but there's probably an unconscious bias from breeders, trainers, owners, etc that prevents the field from being more diversified

[cobra-wives]

so it's common knowledge that the sekai taikai is big enough to where winners/participants could get sponsors/national recognition...

does this mean the competitors get treated like sports celebrities? because i want - no, i NEED an in universe fandom for the sekai taikai. there HAS to be a national following for each team.

the iron dragons HAVE to be huge online for all the championship wins they've scored under their bag - i mean come on, who isn't looking at sensei wolf and tweeting about him like he's yuzuru hanyu and this is the grand prix final - and people are shipping zara and axel like they're a power couple. oh wait - NEW AMERICAN TEAM? the previous years, they've kinda sucked: HOLY SHIT, THAT GUY HAS A GIANT MOHAWK. it's almost- no, it IS hideous. oh my god, aren't they that one dojo off the r/asklosangeles reddit? the one with the school fight? shit, these kids are scrappy, i hear their local tournaments are fuckin huge. miyagi-do? oh my god, there's lore for the japan team from like... 30-40 years ago. ever heard of a miyagi? how did his goju ryu end up being taught by two old white americans... and why are they lowkey bickering like a married couple? whew, that new girl from the korean team (who is NOT korean) is pretty good. we oughta interview her. HOLY SHIT, IS KARATE YUZURU HANYU RIPPING HIS SHIRT OFF?

[surelyskyrocket]

ur WELCOME!!!

[g3nos]

[ozymoron]

no more buff men!!!!!!!!!!!! no more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i cant takr it anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[riwrite]

confession time theres a character ive been waffling over adding to this blog for literal yrs bc i love him a lot and have even had a solo blog for him more than once but ive always struggled to get people interested in interacting with him since almost no one has cared abt his animanga since like um. checks calendar. 2016 or so. but every once in a while im struck by intense love for him i miss him so bad

[musicalyeetreblr]

Between everyone being hyped about challengers and the helluva boss new episode IAM BEGGING EVERYONE TO WATCH CHESSS THE MUSICAL PLEAAASSEEEE

[managerhana]

i need someone to write an au of team usa going to an elite private school

[courtesanofdeath]

me everytime there's a tournament in anime: they won three times in a row so they're gonna lose the next match right ????

[hella1975]

why pay for a gym membership when you can go back to the countryside and move bags of concrete for FREE 😍

[rubberbandballqueen]

About your tags: is there more that you can share about the OW fandom and fics? This was a phenomenon I wonder about too. It was one of the most popular fandoms around 2017-2018, but the way the fandom stopped on its tracks around 2019 was hard not to notice. Especially from people who didn't play the game but were aware of it's fandom.

oh! overwatch is one of about 50-ish fandoms i track for this one spreadsheet project i do as a hobby (which i Technically blog about @fandom-data-scientist, but i've been too lazy to do a proper writeup to explain what the hell it is i do), wherein i try to answer the age-old question: when did the weebs move to ao3?

(the answer is late 2015/early 2016. most likely this was in large part a result of undertale and sports anime, but that's currently just my own conjecture)

According To My Research(tm), the overwatch fandom peaked in late 2016/early 2017 when it comes to the number of new fics posted per month. after this, it declined quite rapidly, as it didn't even get to enjoy a plateau period.

(there's a reason why the plots are really wonky towards the end of this graph-- it's bc i found the past dates for number of fics archived to a particular site via the wayback machine. since those snapshots are typically bot crawls, the number of fics shown on the fandoms listings will not include fics that have been archive-locked. although i technically started this project in august 2022, i did not add overwatch to my tracking list until this june/july or so. my current guess for the small uptick in the rate of ow fics published to ao3 in october 2022 is that the sequel came out? and then the rate plunged for january 2023 bc of the ai scraping scare that happened at around that time-- nearly every single fandom i track had a significant drop right then bc everyone was archive-locking their fics. the rate shooting up in like july 2023 on this chart is bc like i said, that's when i added ow to my list of tracked fandoms; because i'm logged into my own ao3 acct when checking these numbers live, i get access to the archive-locked fics and so the display number goes up.)

in my experience, fandoms will generally kind of plateau in their fic production after their peak, which will ofc normally gradually taper off. games that receive regular lore or story updates probably have fairly long or stable plateaus, although i haven't made scatterplots or made any comparing analyses to prove this rigorously. this plateau period generally represents a time of fandom stability as the fair-weather, casual, or migratory slash fans run off to the next big thing.

if we ignore the fact the plague and quarantine happened, we can see a nice, steady, and very consistent plateau period for the danganronpa fandom from about 2018-2020!

let's look at an older fandom, like my archnemesis final fantasy:

granted, the ao3 numbers are kind of all over the place these days, but you kind of get my point by now, right? that healthy fandoms tend to plateau as the wind carries away the faintly-interested and leaves the long-haulers behind to form their communities.

overwatch struck me as unusual when i was on one of my long wayback machine trips because of the way there was a net increase of only two fics published from 1 july 2021 to 1 october 2021, when before then it had usually been in the hundreds or so. i then went on a work tangent n googled around n more or less concluded it had Something to do with some kind of scandal with the development company, but otherwise i don't really have any more comments on it hahaha.

[crazy-fangirl2524]

Shrek reminds me of aftg

[ria-starstruck]

learned abt the existence of the white plumed moth