#silly graphs

[flimsy-roost]

fig. 1) a selection of common inputs and outputs of the lolita/egl alternative fashion subculture. sample population consists of western (primarily N. American and European), primarily white/white-passing, primarily cis female/femme-identifying subjects. these observations are inexhaustive, and are based on several years of anecdotal observation by a single researcher.

[a top-down ms paint flowchart describing different people who get involved with egl/lolita fashion, both before and after their immersion in the subculture. inputs: "weeb," "other alt fashion participant (ie goth, punk, retro)," and "oh what's this this looks kind of fun let me try it." each input is in a box, with an arrow pointing down towards a central box labeled "lolita" in a cursive font. four arrows emerge from the "lolita" box, pointing down towards four separately boxed outputs. outputs: "that was fun but eh not my thing anymore nbd hobbies and interests change throughout a lifetime," "drag," "tradwife pipeline," and "enby/transmasc."]

[sapphiregem01]

There is something so special to me about how everyone else in this picture is striking a fancy pose n shit and then there’s Tal and Travis dead in the middle both just kinda. standing there. (Menacingly, one might say)

[weekly-eons]

Out of curiosity, are folks allowed to take inspiration from your eons designs to make characters? It’s totally okay if not, the designs of some of these are beautiful!!

Hi! Thanks for asking! I am glad you like my silly designs ^^ I don't have any problems of people taking inspiration! Just don't copy the design and call it your own.

Let's take for example the Angel themed eons. I am okey with anyone making their own angel eon! What I am not okey with is just copy the design and making small changes.

Just be creative! Of course, you can take design elements or use colours I use, I don't own any concept or colour combo's. Just don't make a carbon copy.

[zhoras-bitch]

RC fandom lifecycle

[xxplastic-cubexx]

Kinda forgot i let him hang there for the day but fuck it he can stay…. Why not…. Theyre friends now…

[shokupanda]

💼🐈🐟 business (fish) man

artfight revenge on @/~ACatNamedKK !!

[malicious-leporine]

oh yeah theres also this bitch too i guess

[yarn-dragon]

So fun fact about me is I have a math minor and while taking a graph theory course last semester I realized something kinda fun (well, I think it's fun)

So as other people have pointed out most love triangles in media aren't actually triangles cause two of the points don't connect

Now there is a type of graph in graph theory called a tree, which is basically when any two vertices are only connected by one path

Now if you were to graph most love triangles, where the vertices are charatcers and the edges are who's in love with who you'd get a tree (assuming being in love is undirected which meaning it goes both ways)

So therefore, we should be calling it a love tree

[broodwolf221]

Solas ships on ao3

i like playing around with data and decided this would be fun.

notes:

this is NOT comprehensive, although i tried to be thorough

no poly ships because that'd complicate it overmuch

on ao3, Lavellan/Solas includes Female Lavellan/Solas, Male Lavellan/Solas, Nonbinary Lavellan/Solas, & Lavellan/Solas tags. i kept it in here anyway, but the numbers are indicative of totals not just works with exclusive Lavellan/Solas or Cadash/Solas, etc etc

relatedly, Nonbinary Lavellan/Solas just leads to the selection for Lavellan/Solas, which is why nonbinary characters don't have their own sections in this

i purposefully excluded the Sera/Solas tag bc i am going to live my life pretending there are just a few mistagged platonic fics in there

if you rb this, please don't tag with ship hate - including for the most popular ships. this is meant only as a casual resource, not an invitation to be mean <3

edit: all bolded ships are ones i have personally written :)

Solas/

Inquisitor - 8,802 Female Inquisitor - 7,871 Lavellan - 7,811 Female Lavellan - 6,852 Original Female Character - 844 Male Inquisitor - 433 Trevelyan - 353 Dalish (Dragon Age: Inquisition) - 299 * Female Trevelyan - 285 Adaar - 119 Dorian Pavus - 110 Female Adaar - 96 Rook - 94 The Iron Bull - 60 Cullen Rutherford - 46 Cadash - 44 Male Trevelyan - 43 Varric Tethras - 41 Mythal - 40 Fenris - 40 Female Cadash - 40 Cassandra Pentaghast - 35 Merrill - 24 Female Surana - 20 Felassan - 19 Josephine Montilyet - 16 Cole - 13 Dirthamen - 13 Leliana - 12 Male Adaar - 12 Elgar'nan - 11 Anders - 11 Andruil - 10 Ghilan'nain - 10 Blackwall - 9 Abelas - 8 Female Tabris - 8 Wisdom - 7 Morrigan - 4 Female Warden - 4 Original Elvhen | Ancient Elven Characters (Dragon Age) - 3 Vivienne - 3 Male Cadash - 2 Raleigh Samson - 2 Oghren - 2 Calpernia - 1 Corypheus - 1 Sylaise - 1

*best guess is that this is meant as a Dalish character - not as Dalish from the Chargers

[dumpywoof]

say hi 2 my sillies Graph Paper and Continuous Line together they can make a continuous graph yaay <3

[sprinklecipher]

Just how "hyperspecific" are those polls, anyway?

I was curious about a possible trend in those hyperspecific polls you see passed around here sometimes, so I pulled some data to investigate

Basically, in theory, if a poll is hyperspecific to its author, the most common response should be that none of the options apply to the reader, and multiple options applying should be uncommon. But does that pattern actually bear out in practice?

Here’s a graph of the “winning” (i.e., the most commonly-selected) responses across a whole bunch of hyperspecific polls:

Looks like the “none of the above” category is the most common winner, as should be expected, but over 1/3 of the time, the most common selection was for multiple options to apply, which says to me a pretty sizeable chunk of #hyperspecific polls are really not that specific at all!

I figured this could be due to people being less likely to reblog polls where none of the options apply to them, so I crunched the numbers, and there was a small but significant negative correlation between how frequently the “none of the above” option was selected and the total number of votes the poll received (r = -.22, p = .03), which is consistent with the possibility that polls which are not very relatable to readers—i.e., those most accurate to the “hyperspecific” label—are shared less than are more widely relatable polls.* So, it seems the truly specific polls have the odds stacked against them, and something like #moderatelyspecific would be a more accurate tag for the polls that actually get passed around :P

*this is a horribly messy analysis done for the sillies please do not quote me on this

Method:

I went to the #hyperspecific poll tag (“Top” tab) and recorded a few pieces of information about the first 100 polls that met the following criteria:

Asked what “hyperspecific” qualities applied to the reader

Voting complete

At least 500 votes

Not an obvious parody of hyperspecific polls (at a quick glance)

Featured both “none of the above” and “multiple of the above” response options

This approach is obviously slanted towards more popular/widely shared polls, although I think it’s worth noting that I also checked out the “Latest” tab to see if I could find relatively smaller polls that way, but it was hard to find relevant polls quickly (even if I relaxed the minimum vote requirement), so I dropped that idea.

Some other numbers:

The average selection rate for “none of the above” was 24% (range: 0.7% - 69.9%)

The average selection rate for “multiple of the above” was 19% (range: 1.4% - 71.1%)

[pyrosomatic-metamorphosis]

i've mentioned here and there that i made a relationships/dynamic spreadsheet. i have finally put it to use. look on my Works, ye mighty, and despair.

-extra note: i am not omniscient and i cannot watch every stream. i may have missed a sibling declaration or two.

-extra extra note: i currently speak only english and used google translate for the rest. if theres a translation error I'd love to know- i wont be able to go back and fix these, but im always so curious about how accurate google translate can be

extra extra note pt 2: do. do other languages use guardian as in "legal guardian" as in "not a family member but still Primary Caregiver of child" because i am suddenly aware those translations might not be correct. on the other hand tho if google translate decided that the parents are guarding warriors of the eggs im not going to argue

[ruuinxs]

the autism life of saiki k

[apocalypticseagull]

My dumb little nerdy heart loves to see disaster type movies that have a science-y part behind it and things that could potentially happen to earth

[cyberhexes]

you only wanna be the one that i call baby :(

ten days ago i said something about this edit on twitter and then didn't make it. hyperfocus hit so hard last night and i finally made it

[genshin-stats]

Sorry for not posting in a few days. I was working out how to use a new (to me) data visualization tool. I have plans for something a bit more interesting with it, but this is my starting place. It's a bar chart race showing the changes in element users over time. I included the timeline in this one because I've made a line graph depicting this data before, and I was using it as a comparison.

Because I was taking the count weekly from the release of Genshin, I thought that it would always line up with the banner releases, but at some point, it seems that the releases are just slightly off. The 4.7 second-half banner will be starting on June 25, 2024, yet just adding seven days to the prior date starting with September 28, 2020 ended up at June 24, 2024. I double-checked the fandom wiki, and it looks like there was one update that lasted one day extra and one that was two days short.