#I like spreadsheet okay

[evilrat-sabre]

It’s 3am of 25/06/2023.

I transformed my Hermitcraft watch list in a spreadsheet

This is the post.

#Hermitcraft #what I am doing with my live? #spreadsheet #If someone wants the template just send a dm and I will send the link #I like spreadsheet okay #they are cubic and make me happy #happy brain juice go brrrrr #yes I started in season 7 #how can you tell? #My hermitcraft spreadsheet

[scificrows]

Okay, my brain refuses to think about anything other than Murderbot, so I looked at every use of the word "friend[s]" in TMBD and... created some pie charts. Normal human activities.

Some Thoughts™ I had while putting this together (under the cut):

In All Systems Red, Murderbot notes that the PresAux crew are all close friends (twice! and goes on to explain their internal relationships which I think is very cute). This is pretty much the only use of 'friends' in ASR, except for when Murderbot says that SecUnits can't be friends with each other.

It seems that this may be one of the first times Murderbot has ever really been around a group of friends before? Murderbot notes that this is not the norm for its contracts and admits that the fact that they are all friends and the way they interact with each other make it actually enjoy that contract (before!!!! the hostile attack, so it already enjoys this contract before they start seeing it as a person etc ghghhhh). [Inference: Friendship seems enjoyable.]

The first character that calls Murderbot its friend is ART in Artificial Condition. Murderbot immediately refutes this (and then goes on to call ART its friend to its clients for the rest of the book). [Inference: Maybe ART is Murderbot's friend. And maybe that is... agreeable]

Rogue Protocol has more than twice as many instances of the word 'friend' as any of the other novellas. Why? Miki. Friendship and its implications for non-humans are a central theme because Miki is friends with everyone. Murderbot initially scoffs at the notion that Miki and Miki's humans are friends. At the end of the book, after witnessing how desperately Don Abene tried to stop Miki from trying to save them, and her grief after its death, Murderbot has to admit that she had in fact been Miki's friend. [Inference: Humans can be friends with bots and can sincerely care about them]

In Exit Strategy, Murderbot tentatively uses the word "friends" for its humans for the first time (several times actually). It questions whether it can actually call them its friends or not and later realizes that it had been afraid what admitting that the humans are its friends would do to it. At the end of the book, Mensah tells Murderbot the PresAux crew are its friends, which is the first time a human has directly said that to it (at least on-page). [Inference: Humans can and want to be Murderbot's friends]

In Network Effect, Murderbot seems to be more habituated to the word 'friend', confidently calling ART and Ratthi its friends, like it is no longer just trying the concept on unsure if it fits. There are many instances in which other characters refer to MB as ART's friend or the other way around and Murderbot's humans refer to Murderbot as their friend several times. Generally, there seems to be less hesitancy, because yes, all of them are Murderbot's friends, why wouldn't they be. [Inference: SecUnits can have friends. This SecUnit has friends. They care about it a lot.]

Conclusion: The Murderbot Diaries tell the story of a construct that does not seem to consider the possibility of friendship for itself and is fine with that - until it accidentally starts caring a little too much and suddenly more and more people annex it as a friend (ew) to the point where it can no longer deny that this is happening and has to begrudgingly admit that yes, it has friends now and maybe that is actually not a bad thing.

#the murderbot diaries #murderbot #𓄿 #hi i'm READY to write a thesis about murderbot i am having way too much fun with this #i created a pretty excel spreadsheet and everything #i don't know why i did this but now i can look at them while i think about this more! so i figured i'd share them haha #i didn't count uses of 'friendly' but special shoutout to when MB is all alone in its cold cubicle missing 20% of its body mass #and starts putting on a show because 'the friendly noise would keep it company' 😭😭 #i feel sick thinking about murderbot all alone on its own not knowing what its like to have friends watching media for 'the friendly noise' #also YES okay i wanted to make a point about miki there but i just #couldn't bring myself to talk about that more so... yeah #also uhhh this data is very subjective #i didn't count particularly ironic uses of 'friend' and generally did not count every instance of friend and sometimes it was a hard call #also i probably shouldn't have counted the times murderbot refered to drones or secsystems as its friends (often after hacking them) #but murderbot does seem to care about them and shows kindness and respect and sometimes points out that a system is friendly #so while i don't think MB means “friend” in the same way referring to them as when it refers to ART for instance #i still think its CUTE and also kinda funny how many times that happened so i decided to keep those!!! #but yeah take my data with a grain of salt lol

[silverwhittlingknife]

Dick Grayson & Tim Drake: Reading Guide

Once upon a time, two kids met at a circus... and the rest is history.

table of contents:

who are these losers?

what's fun about them?

why a reading guide?

how does the reading guide work? (tl;dr: there are quick recs, a selected chronological list, and a complete chronological list)

where is the spreadsheet? (x)

who are they?

Dick Grayson and Tim Drake: the first Robin and the third Robin.

Also known as the circus boy and the earnest computer geek, the hotshot and the pretender, the slighted prince and the new apprentice, the acolyte and the hanger-on, Nightwing and Robin, Batman and Robin, Batman and Red Robin, and Marcia and Cindy (BftC 3, N 110 & 119, B 617, DC 677, Detention Comics 1, R 168, RR 14).

Or as Jason calls them, "You idiots" (TT 47).

More seriously, Dick Grayson is one of the most enduring comic characters ever - he's been around since Detective Comics 38 in 1940! He's Batman's first ward, first partner, and eldest son. When Dick's parents are murdered, Bruce identifies with him, comforts him, and takes him into his home, where Dick ultimately volunteers to join his crimefighting mission. By candlelight, the Dynamic Duo swear an oath: That we two will fight together against crime and corruption and never swerve from the path of righteousness!

Tim Drake was created in Batman 436 and formally introduced in Lonely Place of Dying. He's a lonely kid who imprints on Dick when they meet as children, and Dick hugs him and promises to do a quadruple somersault for him; he's horrified and worried about Dick in the aftermath of the Graysons' murder, which he witnesses. He watches Batman comfort Dick, deduces Robin's secret identity, and becomes a secret devotee of the Dynamic Duo. Though he admires them both, it's ultimately Dick who he idolizes and tries to emulate when Bruce is spiraling: Batman needs a Robin. No matter what he thinks he wants.

Their slow-burn strangers-to-friends-to-brothers-to-antagonists-to-brothers-again arc develops from 1989 to 2011, and it's one of the standout examples of the DC Post-Crisis era's commitment to gradual character development and careful continuity.

what's fun about them?

SO MUCH!!! But one of my favorite things is their friendship has RANGE!! They go from sweet kids to tense strangers to loyal friends to brothers over the course of real-life years and tons of comics. They fight, they tease each other, they get protective, they worry, they chase each other down, they walk away... there's just so much story here.

They meet at the circus as children, when both their parents are still alive. They meet again, years later, when Bruce is reeling from Jason's death and they team up to stop him from hurting anyone. In the early days, they're brothers-in-arms and never quite family - instead, Dick is Bruce's loyal-but-estranged eldest son, and Tim is Bruce's new loyal-but-wary apprentice, with his own family and his own semi-estranged dad. The slow process of evolving toward found-family is a delight to watch.

They work together as Nightwing and Robin over four years of in-universe time and for over twenty years of real-time, gradually forging a fierce bond of friendship and, ultimately, brotherhood.

Then Bruce dies, and they have some huge fights.

But even when they're estranged, even when they're not speaking... they never stop loving and trying to protect each other. No matter what.

why a reading guide?

Quotes from New Titans 60 and Batman 441 (1989), Nightwing 25 (1998), Nightwing 69 (2002), Red Robin 1 (2009), Red Robin 12 (2010), Gates of Gotham 3 and Detective Comics 874 (2011)

I think reading guides are cool!! And somebody asked me about one!

More generally, I think reading guides are always helpful, but especially with Dick & Tim... you know, when I first started out trying to read their comics, I got kinda overwhelmed. Because on the one hand there's SO MUCH CONTENT - they're one of the classic enduring friendships in all of post-Crisis! their relationship is a HUGE BIG DEAL! they're constantly calling each other and hanging out and supporting each other and arguing!

But at the same time, all of that content is scattered across lots of different books, in Robin and Nightwing and Detective Comics and Batman and New Titans and Titans and Young Justice and Teen Titans and Shadow of the Bat and Gotham Knights and Birds of Prey and Showcase and DC Holiday Specials and so on and so forth. There's not One Definitive Place where you can read The Dick-and-Tim Story.

So: a reading guide!

how does the reading guide work?

Dick and Tim are in over 400 comics together and over 800 comics each separately. That's a whole lot of comics! So I've made a spreadsheet with three different reading guides, depending on how interested you are in these two:

1-5 Quick Recs: If you just want to check out a couple comics, check out these quick recs for "if you like fluff," "if you like angst," etc.

200 Starter Comics: If you want to do a comprehensive, chronological Dick-and-Tim read without committing to all the comics, this list has some of their major team-ups plus some solo comics so you know what the heck is going on. Most of them have a "sneak peek" you can use to decide if you want to read it.

Big List: A complete list of all the comics Dick and Tim are in, in chronological order, with links to dc.fandom and to DC Universe Infinite. It has filter views.

This spreadsheet was a labor of love, obsession, and SO MUCH PROCRASTINATING doing other things. I update it sometimes.

where is the spreadsheet?

it's here. have fun <3

#anyway sibling asked what i was working on a while back and i said that i was looking up regex formulas #so that i could create hyperlinks for a massive spreadsheet organizing a list of twenty-year-old batman comics #and sibling said ''uh. oh. okay'' and i said 'WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE IT :D' and sibling declined dsfdsfdsfds #genius is never understood in its own time #i really do not know how to tag this so that i'll remember what i tagged it. guide? list? COMIC guide? comic reading order? #comic reading guide #comic recs #i guess. i got nothing #dick & tim #dick grayson #tim drake

[bonerot19]

everyone should have the same url on ao3 and tumblr so I can know who I am smiling at affectionately. if you comment on my fics I already love you

if you follow me here because of ao3 you should message me your ao3 handle so I can keep up

#it's v likely I already think of you fondly on ao3 and on tumblr but don't know you're the same person #so you're getting double affection #I know keen and I know pics-and-fanfics and I know I-just-want-to-see doesn't have an ao3 #I'm gonna start a spreadsheet cause I have a bad memory #anyway #I love you guys okay #my fic!! #technically #ao3

[joshuamj]

Last post of 2022, ft my top character of the year: Ingo!

Plus some stuff from the data i keep on my art in my silly little art spreadsheet lol

#submas #ingo #subway boss ingo #pokemon legends arceus #warden ingo #pokemon #pla #josh art tag #happy new year yall!! #im most excited to be able to start my 3rd art spreadsheet cuz im a NERD #started 2021 and continued 2022 #now im onto my third for 2023 #.... i just really like spreadsheets okay.. #half my motivation to draw is to have something to provide data for my spreadsheet..

[littlecutiexox]

Today I'm gonna be productive

#i got up an hour early #im gonna work on my good notes file #(anyone want a planner in goodnotes for their messy brain hit me up) #today i will not overdue it at work like i did yesterday #i got given this massive spreadsheet with 15000 names on it and im meant to go through 50 a day and eliminate matches #well yesterday i did 200 woops #today i am only allowing myself 100 #i like spreadsheets okay i cant help it #but i'll do less today and be productive with other things ive been wanting to do

[familiarache]

a lot of times ppl mention in their guidelines "dont just follow me for my male chars' and i get it bc im the same way but also in all 11 years ive indie rped i've still never understood ppl who do only follow for a man bc i see multis and i immediately check to see if they write any of the fem rare chars ppl dont tend to write and if they do im like 'yes' and follow instantly lol

#i can say it here only friends who know me follow me here #i am the 'lets make the girls do things' person always #im the annoying one basically lol #out. #tbd #okay now ill do smthn #probably #i saw sb had this cool like thing where they have a spreadsheet w ships they're willing to do and i wanna do it #im not that good at sheets yet but #ti would lit just be 'est ships; w myself bc im too much of a nerveous brat to talk to other ppl abt ships'

[bojanus]

My tragic story is that a coworker responded to my email with a question that I already answered in the email that was being responded to, so I had the perfect opportunity to cast the powerful spell "As Per My Last Email"... but it was a coworker with whom I have walked through the fires of hell with, so with great strength I had to let it go

#I just repeated myself #it was an email thread w/ several ppl CC'd #i didn't want to be embarrassing or anything #we've been through so much together (AKA #wrestling 20k+ row spreadsheets together) #that I had to search my heart #and know that she did not deserve this sass from me #sometimes ppl skim an email #and that's okay #at least it's okay if i like u #bojanus chats

[vanessaaftonsgirl]

coworker sending back a 400+ line spreadsheet that i delegated to her cuz she can’t do it as quickly as she wants—girl why do you think i sent it to you in the first place

#‘working on 4 other projects’ WHO is giving you projects #you’re supposed to be doing stuff to assist me who the hell is sending you stuff #they can just deal with the spreadsheet not getting touched I guess ! I’m like 5 spreadsheets behind on something else so #and people keep emailing me while I’m doing must be done today work like leave me alone please!!! #I already had to sit in a room with y’all for 2 hours this morning #okay anyway #kaylee speaks

[thecryptidenthusiast]

i got tired of having a million wiki tabs open, so i’m making a spreadsheet guide for Coral Island lmao

#me trying to plan my artisan goods: okay so it looks like kegs should be the way to go! you lose profit with canning mostly- #devs adding cranberries just to fuck with me: :)) #so that lead into the tab-hell. so I’m just putting it all into a spreadsheet so it’s in one place #might add loved products for the villagers as I go idk yet

[hungerpunch]

i've thought about it and i think that, in order to escape this coping mechanism hellscape where i obsessively need to turn everything into a list or a spreadsheet, i have to disappear off the face of the earth

#woke up at 2am. could not rest until i got out of bed and made a spreadsheet about it #have made a dozen different lists today. not including my ever-fluctuating scrum board #help. i know. i know shit is all over the place but this is like a little too literal #can i at least achieve a sense of order thru a different means? #oh no it.. it Has to be a spreadsheet? oh or a list? #those are the only two choices? oh. well. okay. #driveby post

[internetgremlin-writes]

girl, u started posting things for Christmas and then just went missing 😭😭😭 what happened to you??? is everything okay?

Hello I'm okay I promise!

Yeah that one was on me for thinking a December writing challenge would be a fun little thing I could do in the evenings whilst on an ICU hospital rotation 🙃 long story short it was super busy in the department and I stayed late pretty much every night and then had to do the keeping the human alive things and study for quiz time at rounds with the specialist each morning so I literally did nothing but study, eat and sleep for the whole month and I just didn't get a second to relax or write 😭

It has been CRAZY since the start of December!! I had a week off for Christmas and then I was travelling again for more placement, I've been applying to jobs and my finals are in 4 months time (which sounds like a while but I have 5 years of content to review and full time rotations in the day). Have also been lowkey seeing a new guy so that's been taking up a lil bit of headspace too 😶

I've also decided 2023 has got to be the year I decide to grow up and get my shit together before I enter the real world and honestly who knew meal plans and food shopping and working out took so much time!? Not me.

As the guys who've been here for a while know, I'm never gone forever!! I'm gonna need a couple more weeks to get through a round of job interviews, finalise my revision plan, survive an equine hospital rotation and get settled in a healthier routine, then I'm planning on making a partial return once I've got a bit more control over things and I can afford a bit of a break from all of this, but I won't be back online and posting regular-regular until the end of May after my exams

The good news is I'm taking two months properly off in the summer so you can bet your assess that's going to be a project finishing marathon!!

The Christmas fics are going on pause and will be re-released next year (I know, I suck, I'm so sorry for letting you all down) and I'm going to finish Flat Spin and Obvious by September and hopefully work through my request pile as we go from now onwards to keep me in the writing mindset

Anyway, I love and miss you guys like mad! I'm shocked by how much attention this blog is getting even when I'm not posting and I promise once I've got my real life together I will be back. In the meantime keep rereading and sending stuff in, I love hearing from you all!! <3

#iggytalks #iggy is TIRED #iggy misses her gremlins #honestly im okay #and im very very sorry for vanishing without warning #who knew final year of uni would be such hard work #doesn't help ive decided i wanna get mega high grades in my exams even though they're closed book and i have 0 recall skills #have literally spent the last 4 days totally hyperfixated on making my revision plan ive barely left my desk #excel spreadsheets hate me #my to do list is honestly like a foot long at any time its not that im ignoring you guys at all #also trying to get back into sport and reading as well as writing #im deeply offended by the lack of hours in the day #plus trying to see this new guy #which is very steamy and very exciting #have never done a casual relationship before and im enjoying it a lot #formula one #carlos sainz #flat spin #x men #charles xavier #james mcavoy #sebastian Vettel #f1 #x reader #sir lewis hamilton #smut #neurodivergent #my adhd really is showing atm #or as i like to say the ad really do be hding #just ignore me i need to go to bed

[mishapen-dear]

i lobve. dnd. I ran a 7 hour session yesterday for my favourite rpers and they all loved it >:} one guy sent the big boss to eeby deeby

#mishapen dms #i made a battle map but we dont use roll20 or anything #so it was still primarily theatre of the mind #which i think is fine for smaller battles but in the future ill play around with roll20 and see if we can get that workinf #hot tip for dms: USE. SPREADSHEETS #that way you can sort by initiative and see hp/ac at just a glance #genuinely saved my entire life #goddamn howd they live tho #i was Prepared for if they died i had sound effects prepped okay #but they DIDNT #they managed to come back from one pc and one npc against like 6 enemies #one of which was the boss who actively wanted them dead #and like??? #hot damn #now i need to think of a reward for them because Sometjing Happened so theres still gonna be consequences #(fun ones for the angst lovers) #but. how the fuck do i reward that they just kicked So Much Ass

[southislandwren]

frothing at the mouth waiting for december 31st when i can compile and post my tunes spreadsheet as my very own spotify wrapped

#i'll give you guys a hint. theres 10 graphs #plus i'll make a prettier version of my monthly stats #the real prize will be 12/31/24 when i get to COMPARE the stats...... #bros im gonna survive until then just so i can have the most amazing beautiful spreadsheet ever #music post #oh also i forgot i got kicked in the head today until just now when i touched my face and it started aching again. cool #its funny sometimes i think about the stat of how many people are killed by cows every year #and then i think about how i will just shove my head in between two cows or crouch directly behind a cow or stand in front of an angry cow #and im like yeah i was smart to tell my brother to bury me with sam bc there is no way lil city kid is dying before i do #okay anyway. back to my spreadsheet to make it even more beautiful #diary post

[senadimell]

You know, I’d really like to know more about chronic headaches and migraines. I don’t know that most of my headaches really fit the migraine definition, but I’m not sure if it’s my high pain tolerance/ability to block out pain or if there’s something different at play. I usually have no idea what kind of headache is going on, and then sometimes the pain is just...weird and depresses my will to do anything without necessarily escalating or being the primary problem going on. (sometimes I can’t even tell you where the pain is except for “my head,” and it seems like describing where the pain is coming from is a big thing for doctors?)

 I’m hesitant to label what’s going on because I really don’t know what’s happening and struggle to put my own pain into words, but it’s a fine line between “accurately describing what’s going on, including the severity or lack thereof of pain” and “don’t want to downplay how much this affects me.” I get headaches multiple times a week, which is a lot less than I used to, and it’s been a while since I had headaches every other day. Now it’s more like every 3-4 days, with longer and shorter stretches. But I have had awful headaches and most headaches are just routine! Even filling out pain scales is hard because honestly a lot of the time the sensation of pain isn’t the primary problem.

#like man. today was rough. #but i didn't have brain fog! and it sort of felt like a tension headache i think? except for whatever messed up thing happened to my mood #and made it so i was utterly exhausted and barely able to get through some spreadsheets #and i guess i was light sensitive? #but was i really? #literally unless pain is one-sided and eye-stabbing i have no idea what kind of headache is going on #(okay there are overheating headaches that are pretty specific but other than that) #like it's one big grey blob of *i don't know but there's discomfort* and that's not helpful for diagnostics! #idk why it's so hard but it is #maybe i need to start filling out one of those multidimensional pain charts for a while to see if that's helpful? #it just seems like most people online with migraines are very clear exactly what's happening to them because the pain is so distinct #and so i don't think most of my headaches are migraines? i certainly don't get aura the way my mom does

[neige-leblanche]

rookvil + edelbert proving that "girlboss and their weird guy" is a trope that never misses

#txt #if they ever had an interaction thats like 'im so psychosexually attached to you its unreal' 'okay. can you have that excel spreadsheet made #by noon tomorrow' theres a 100% chance i am enthralled with their dynamic