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ok, because i'm still brain broken about this, here's a screencap of the notes above Clark's desk from the BTS video.

blathering under cut:

it looks like they're giving each character individual, distinguishable handwriting. despite that NEVER being legible in the film. the set dressing and design in this film is incredible, what the heck.

clark has nice handwriting. very legible. editorial must love his notes.

clark does, in fact, do Actual Journalism at some point. not on screen at any point, but he clearly is doing it. not actually a lot of news reporting, but he's the special features writer so that does make sense.

I would watch an entire feature length movie where it was just the daily planet team doing journalism. but then again, i'm writing up this post

the note on the far left: flying is still the safest way to travel. Superman's favourite joke. i'm sure james gunn is upset it didn't get put in to this film as an actual line.

middle notes: he's transferring half his paycheck to his folks, bless him. how is he paying for that bigass apartment though. does superman have student loans. (incredibly sweet though). call your mother, clark.

the niagara falls sweetheart scam is the one that perry puts lois and clark in charge of at the beginning of superman II. this means that canonically, in this universe, they also did the undercover as lovers thing. to crack down on, of all things, overcharging people for honeymoon suites at niagara falls (they live in Delaware???). fanfiction writers, you know what to do. (kind of hilarious because in this universe lois lane is like...a hard hitting interviewer and headline reporter. why would she do this. for the bit I guess)

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Alright I made this finally! after a month of waiting. I usually don't put subtitles cuz I leave it to your guys interpretation of my lyric syncing but also cuz I don't like anything in between watching them.... anyways enough rambling. I would really like to hear your thoughts 🌸✨

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I loved that there was no Damsel in Distress scene of Lois Lane in the new Superman movie and that SHE even gets to save HIM. But despite Superman never catching a falling-to-her-demise Lois Lane, he still saves her too. This is maybe the only thing I picked up on that I have genuinely not seen anyone else talking about.

In the scene in Clark’s apartment before he turns himself in, lost between the tear-inducing “you think everyone is beautiful” and the punk rock conversation that defines the movie, Lois makes a comment about being a punk rock kid from Bakerline. We get another Bakerline mention in the third act when she’s in the T-Craft with the Daily Planet crew watching the rift that tore through Metropolis split a river and head for a new city. Lois says “its headed straight for Bakerline” before her voice drops to an almost whisper “there are people there”.

HER people are there. People she grew up with. People who helped raised her. People who she identifies with even long after she’s moved away. Lois is in control of every situation she finds herself in throughout the movie, but she can’t do anything about her hometown being swallowed by a black hole. But Superman can. And he does. And the movie never comes back to that or address it in any real way, but Superman not only stops the dimensional rift, he does it before it’s able to hit Bakerline. Lois is phenomenal throughout and she’s able to save Clark, but she can’t save the world. Superman never has a chance to save Lois, because she never needs saving, but he can save the world, starting with the part that raised the love of his life. I just think it’s a beautiful symmetry for the two characters and, while I will make Injustice Superman look tame if Gunn even thinks about having Clark turn evil, this is the first real live action version of Clark and Lois that makes me believe that their connection is strong enough to actually break Clark were something to happen to her.

So, yeah, Lois saving Clark from a pocket dimension and then Clark repaying that by saving her hometown from the black hole that pocket dimension created is something special to me

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Superman (2025) by Patrick Ballesteros.

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god this movie was so amazing

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i will never understand people who get mad because the disney zombies franchise keeps adding more and more shit. that's one of the best things about it you morons. i need there to be 47 more installments in this series and i need zeddison to meet a new monster type in every single one and i need all the new characters in each movie to keep returning so the cast becomes impractically large and i need all of the films to have a Someday Reprise and i need to see brand new footage of Shrimpy at least once every few years. don't you understand. what's not fucking clicking

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an updated version of a previous work! hope you all like it :3

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Bromance/Romance

Alright, guys. 

THIS ISN’T a bromance: 

THIS IS a bromance:

THIS IS a bromance:

THIS IS a bromance: 

NOT THIS:

GOODNIGHT, THANK YOU

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“i can’t remember most things that happened between ages seventeen and twenty eight.”

on dean’s 17th birthday john made him go on his first solo kill, where he had to salt and burn the remains of two nuns who were in love and died for it. it fucked him up bad enough john didn’t make him do a solo run for a long time after that.

at 29 he meets castiel.

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watching the new Phineas & Ferb and now I know exactly what Dan Povenmire's fyp looks like on tiktok

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Not entirely sure what to do with this information

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no way ppl are using ai to write ao3. what happened to being a tortured writer. what happened to blood on the page. what happened to the ao3 curse. people used to get run over, have their houses burned down, break their entire spines and they still put in the work to finish a chapter. fuck you, using ai. y’all are weak

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Hello! I keep hearing that fandom culture has changed, and there are less comments now than there were years ago. Have you noticed this in your analysis? Is the percentage of comments being left today lower than before?

Hey! Thanks for the question -- it prompted me to start collecting data about comments (after procrastinating on it for a while, because I had to write new code to gather comment data). I've also seen other discussions from folks also thinking about how to do this kind of analysis (like in the fandom data projects community) -- hopefully we'll end up with multiple people attacking this from different angles and getting a variety of data about comments!

I'll give a sneak preview that partially addresses your question and contains some good news. If we look at the fraction of AO3 works that get at least one comment (focusing just on one-shots for now), I think things have gotten better over the past decade on AO3*:

In other words, it tentatively looks like more works were getting at least one comment in 2024 than in 2014 (for a variety of time periods). One caveat, though -- if a bunch of works with no comments got deleted in the interim, there will be survivor bias here. I'll try to look into that possibility later. Another caveat: this is based on only like ~100 randomly selected works from each year -- this may all change with more data!

Another interesting tidbit: I still see some of the 2014 works getting comments. In fact, ~30% of works have gotten new comments over 5 years after they were posted, and it looks like ~10% of one-shots posted back in Mar 2014 got a new comment in 10 years later, in 2024.

I'm still doing other analyses; there may be other factors that better match with the discourse around how comment culture has changed. It could be that comment activity peters out faster now than it did back then, for instance. Or the total number of comments left on the popular works is less now than it was back then (though my current methods may not be able to capture that). Edit thanks to quick eagle-eyed readers: it's likely that some of what people are thinking about is ratio of comments to hits -- that is hard to compare in 2014 to 2024, because we don't know which hits came from which years. But I am working on some analyses along those lines. :)

If you have other hypotheses about what's changed in commenting culture, feel free to share! I'll look into what I can.

Some methodology notes:

*I've been tackling this by comparing AO3 one-shots posted in early 2014 to one-shots posted in 2024, and comparing activity in the days/weeks/months immediately after the works were posted. (To start with, I'm only scraping the first page of comments for each work -- meaning the first 20 comment threads -- so there are lots of comments I'm potentially missing for the really popular works. But for many works, this captures all the comments, and I think it may be sufficient for a lot of the analyses I am interested in.)

I'm choosing to focus on 2014 vs. 2024 because 2024 is close to now (but it's been long enough for comments to have settled down a bit), and 2014 was well after AO3 was established (thus it was already a pretty lively time on AO3). I don't want to collect data about every single year because it's too time intensive/too hard on AO3's servers. But if people think that I should be looking at different years, I'm interested in feedback.

Because it's only been ~10 months since March 2024, I am limiting a lot of my analyses to only look at commenting activity the first ~10 months after works were posted in both cases.

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Fun fact if you un-installed tiktok you can't reinstall it despite everyone else's app working again 🙃

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For any relocated TikTok users

you can say sex and kill its fine

If you don't have a profile picture people will assume you're a bot

theres barely an algorithm, if you want to see cool shit reblog things instead of just liking them

follower count doesnt matter

tumblr fame gets you one thing and it is Yelled At

no one knows what the fuck the nsfw policy is

block anyone that annoys you even a little bit

And most importantly:

post cringe

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Reminder for when he “saves” it. He was the one who wanted this, and now he gets to be the hero and win favour with young constituents. Don’t give him the credit for fixing his own problem.