#Stat spread

[loveisinthebat]

Peep the stats

#Common Noctule #Bats of Europe #Bat of the day #daily bat #bat #bats #batposting #cute bats #cute animals #look at them #Stat spread

[space-blue]

IRL Character sheet

I was chatting with friends about our various neurodivergences today and one friend in particular is staying over because life is kicking her in the shins, so I started drawing this and asked what else should be on our spectrum checker and she deadpaned 'existential dread' so here we are. Did one for each of us, but you can have your own template for personal convenience lol

That's me, drawing this as I lost the plot twice removed on what I was supposed to do! weee

Vincent insisted his recent Gortash obsession did not qualify as fandom brainrot, just brainrot, because he, and I quote "brainrots on his own". I have failed multiple times to get him into fanfic.

The template:

I hope you can appreciate the scientific accuracy of the thing

#autism #adhd #queer #coping skills #fandom brainrot #existential dread #character sheet #stat spread #graph made with love and science #use if you want #entirely based on vibes #poored all my artistic skills into this one

[itsheckinwes]

What are y'all's autism IVs? Feel free to nab this and fill it out >w< If anyone wants a custom one of these or some edits to this one lmk!

#pokemon #IVs #Pokemon IVs #Autism #actually autistic #actuallyautistic #stat spread #OC #original content

[5ummit]

AO3 Ship Stats: Year In Bad Data

You may have seen this AO3 Year In Review.

It hasn’t crossed my tumblr dash but it sure is circulating on twitter with 3.5M views, 10K likes, 17K retweets and counting. Normally this would be great! I love data and charts and comparisons!

Except this data is GARBAGE and belongs in the TRASH.

I first noticed something fishy when I realized that Steve/Bucky – the 5th largest ship on AO3 by total fic count – wasn’t on this Top 100 list anywhere. I know Marvel’s popularity has fallen in recent years, but not that much. Especially considering some of the other ships that made it on the list. You mean to tell me a femslash HP ship (Mary MacDonald/Lily Potter) in which one half of the pairing was so minor I had to look up her name because she was only mentioned once in a single flashback scene beat fandom juggernaut Stucky? I call bullshit.

Now obviously jumping to conclusions based on gut instinct alone is horrible practice... but it is a good place to start. So let’s look at the actual numbers and discover why this entire dataset sits on a throne of lies.

Here are the results of filtering the Steve/Bucky tag for all works created between Jan 1, 2023 and Dec 31, 2023:

Not only would that place Steve/Bucky at #23 on this list, if the other counts are correct (hint: they're not), it’s also well above the 1520-new-work cutoff of the #100 spot. So how the fuck is it not on the list? Let’s check out the author’s FAQ to see if there’s some important factor we’re missing.

The first thing you’ll probably notice in the FAQ is that the data is being scraped from publicly available works. That means anything privated and only accessible to logged-in users isn’t counted. This is Sin #1. Already the data is inaccurate because we’re not actually counting all of the published fics, but the bots needed to do data collection on this scale can't easily scrape privated fics so I kinda get it. We’ll roll with this for now and see if it at least makes the numbers make more sense:

Nope. Logging out only reduced the total by a couple hundred. Even if one were to choose the most restrictive possible definition of "new works" and filter out all crossovers and incomplete fics, Steve/Bucky would still have a yearly total of 2,305. Yet the list claims their total is somewhere below 1,500? What the fuck is going on here?

Let’s look at another ship for comparison. This time one that’s very recent and popular enough to make it on the list so we have an actual reference value for comparison: Nick/Charlie (Heartstopper). According to the list, this ship sits at #34 this year with a total of 2630 new works. But what’s AO3 say?

Off by a hundred or so but the values are much closer at least!

If we dig further into the FAQ though we discover Sin #2 (and the most egregious): the counting method. The yearly fic counts are NOT determined by filtering for a certain time period, they’re determined by simply taking a snapshot of the total number of fics in a ship tag at the end of the year and subtracting the previous end-of-year total. For example, if you check a ship tag on Jan 1, 2023 and it has 10,000 fics and check it again on Jan 1, 2024 and it now has 12,000 fics, the difference (2,000) would be the number of "new works" on this chart.

At first glance this subtraction method might seem like a perfectly valid way to count fics, and it’s certainly the easiest way, but it can and did have major consequences to the point of making the entire dataset functionally meaningless. Why? If any older works are deleted or privated, every single one of those will be subtracted from the current year fic count. And to make the problem even worse, beginning at the end of last year there was a big scare about AI scraping fics from AO3, which caused hundreds, if not thousands, of users to lock down their fics or delete them.

The magnitude of this fuck up may not be immediately obvious so let’s look at an example to see how this works in practice.

Say we have two ships. Ship A is more than a decade old with a large fanbase. Ship B is only a couple years old but gaining traction. On Jan 1, 2023, Ship A had a catalog of 50,000 fics and ship B had 5,000. Both ships have 3,000 new works published in 2023. However, 4% of the older works in each fandom were either privated or deleted during that same time (this percentage is was just chosen to make the math easy but it’s close to reality).

Ship A: 50,000 x 4% = 2,000 removed works Ship B: 5,000 x 4% = 200 removed works

Ship A: 3,000 - 2,000 = 1,000 "new" works Ship B: 3,000 - 200 = 2,800 "new" works

This gives Ship A a net gain of 1,000 and Ship B a net gain of 2,800 despite both fandoms producing the exact same number of new works that year. And neither one of these reported counts are the actual new works count (3,000). THIS explains the drastic difference in ranking between a ship like Steve/Bucky and Nick/Charlie.

How is this a useful measure of anything? You can't draw any conclusions about the current size and popularity of a fandom based on this data.

With this system, not only is the reported "new works" count incorrect, the older, larger fandom will always be punished and it’s count disproportionately reduced simply for the sin of being an older, larger fandom. This example doesn’t even take into account that people are going to be way more likely to delete an old fic they're no longer proud of in a fandom they no longer care about than a fic that was just written, so the deletion percentage for the older fandom should theoretically be even larger in comparison.

And if that wasn't bad enough, the author of this "study" KNEW the data was tainted and chose to present it as meaningful anyway. You will only find this if you click through to the FAQ and read about the author’s methodology, something 99.99% of people will NOT do (and even those who do may not understand the true significance of this problem):

The author may try to argue their post states that the tags "which had the greatest gain in total public fanworks” are shown on the chart, which makes it not a lie, but a error on the viewer’s part in not interpreting their data correctly. This is bullshit. Their chart CLEARLY titles the fic count column “New Works” which it explicitly is NOT, by their own admission! It should be titled “Net Gain in Works” or something similar.

Even if it were correctly titled though, the general public would not understand the difference, would interpret the numbers as new works anyway (because net gain is functionally meaningless as we've just discovered), and would base conclusions on their incorrect assumptions. There’s no getting around that… other than doing the counts correctly in the first place. This would be a much larger task but I strongly believe you shouldn’t take on a project like this if you can’t do it right.

To sum up, just because someone put a lot of work into gathering data and making a nice color-coded chart, doesn’t mean the data is GOOD or VALUABLE.

#ao3 #ao3 stats #psa #my words #fandom #I doubt anyone is even going to read this but I needed to get it out of my system and at least try to stop this from spreading #if you know me #you know I get Big Mad about misinformation #don't take anything at face value #do your own research

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Game night results (from this poll)

Character selection inspired from extraterezi's post!

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #jiang cheng #SVSSS #shen qingqiu #luo binghe #TGCF #hua cheng #xie lian #You guys know that one image of the cat getting rolled into bread? #that was me the entire time I had to draw all these carts. #I messed up and only had the poll run for a day but the community response was still wonderful! Thanks to everyone who participated! #there were so many funny comments and tags that I *had* to save #I honestly cant think of funnier stuff to say than what ppl already wrote on the OG poll #The Xie Lian sweep was hilarious. He can win by losing. #BTW SQQ 100% says he's picking Rosalina 'for the stat spread' and not because he wants to play as a princess #(he wants to play as a princess) #Please go read extraterezi's post its very funny and well thought out

[burr-ell]

it's always funny to me to see people describe percy as high int low wis because uhh.

this was him at level 10

his int and wis are the same and not only does he not have low wisdom his score gets him a +3 to wisdom-based throws and checks

he has good wisdom guys. he's just Like This

#critical role #percy de rolo #taliesin: this is a disaster man who will probably die tragically #the dice: how would you like a great stat spread and truly obscene lucky rolls

[jackslesbiansubconcious]

Me rn:

#statistics #ap stats #ap test #ap classes #This doesn’t violate anything right? #im not spreading answers so I guess it’s fine? #oh well #my art #my art <3 #my artwork #my artwrok

[ftmwillz]

this photo is making me . insane. his LATS

#pete wentz do a lat spread STAT #those thirst traps would go CRAZY #pw #rat rambles #pete wentz

[dailydegurechaff]

Today's Daily Degurechaff is… little guy rating

#littleguysdaily #dailydegurechaff #youjo senki #the saga of tanya the evil #tanya von degurechaff #fellow daily blog my beloved lol #rating explanations; #Chuck Engage & Squish are 3 stars. she maxes out those stats and u know it. #splorp... yeah im not quite sure what that means but its giving 1 vibes #bones. 2 bc i imagine if you tried to hug her she'd be very boney bc she's malnourished #media literacy is at zero. she gets into too many misunderstandings. you know its true. #also bc many ys fans have zero media literacy. she quite literally spreads media *illiteracy* #feel free to give me ur hot takes but know my mind is not subject to change

[madgirlmuahaha]

I just want to shake Clamface Cunthead like a damn magic 8 ball and scream in her face:

Stop killing your clerics!!

#fantasy high junior year #fhjy spoilers #even with all the smooches I still haven’t forgotten the child murder #this is a callout post for Kipperlilly Copperkettle #the clerics are here to spread love and healing and stat buffs please stop killing them

[celerydays]

I hope you had an awesome birthday!! Here’s a present for ya ✨

Your MC is so pretty! I hope I did her justice 🫶

KERI. KERIIII. KERIIIIIII!?!?!

I'M LITERALLY SCREAMING AND BANGING MY FISTS ON MY DESK RIGHT NOW AHHHHH 💖

THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I love and adore this to bits, she's perfect 😭 My MC looks so dang cute in your style, I'm meltingggg just looking at her!!– 🥹🫠💕

And I did have a really wonderful birthday! Thank you for making it even better with this amazing gift! 🥺💗

#BRB STILL SCREAMING I LOVE HERRR #ur the absolute sweetest tyyyy 😭 #i need to make a journal bday spread stat with lil pics of all the amazing things people have said and sent me the last few days 🥹 #ask #kerimcberry #hogwarts legacy #hogwarts legacy mc #hl #hl art

[pinacoladamatata]

i'm cookin

#rumarin #had to make him a half elf for the beard ffs #but otherwise. he's a bard. entertainer background. terrible stat spread. #im lying he's got 16 dex and 16 cha #honor mode rumarin run as a shit talking bard #what could go wrong #i tried to find a warpaint that was close but dslkfhhdsjhaf;sadf

[girlbob-boypants]

Any competent druid when that dude from BG3 says he couldn't control the "beast within" and impulse wasted a wild shape charge cause some twink was naked

#girlbob.txt #bg3 #between that and the muscles he must be the worst stat spread ever for a druid #20 str 10 wis 8 int smh smh

[lyricalapple]

Went through the Wyll Ravengard tag on a whim and I'm slightly obsessed with him now

#wyll ravengard #gif sets are truly the vector of fannish spread #if i ever get this game it will be purely to learn more about him #this might be the closest ive ever been to having a crush on someone #also deeply compelling story arc someone give him a happy ending stat

[witchy-v1xen]

ANNOUNCEMENT

Please look up this user on Pinterest report and block them they harass people for being Pro-Palestinian. My Pinterest account was banned because , I posted "offensive content" and I only posted videos of aftermath bombings of Palestine and posted a GoFundMe with it from another user.

#anti hate #anti israel #anti netanyahu #anti genocide #spread awareness #spread the word #hate has no home here #hotd2 #house of the dragon #game of thrones #a song of ice and fire #house targaryen #hotd #hotd s2 #hotd season 2 #asoiaf #asoiaf/got #anti islamophobia #peace in the world #get them banned #anti harassment #peace and love #spread love not hate #be kind #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #i stand with palestine #I stand with the people of palestine #get them banned stat

[biblionerd07]

Fic Stat Meme

Tagged by @literatigeek!

Rules: Give us the links to your fic with the most hits, second most kudos, third most comments, fourth most bookmarks, fifth most words, and fic with the least words.

Pretty sure all of mine are going to be Steve/Bucky lol...not only because I've written most of my fics in that fandom by a long shot but also boy oh boy do I miss that huge, active fandom life from like 2014-2016.

Most Hits: just say you do, Steve/Bucky, T Steve just wanted a job. He wasn't expecting a marriage proposal. And he certainly wasn't expecting to accept. This one is my most popular fic by every metric in any fandom ever lol. It was the perfect storm of a big, super engaged fandom and all the tropes everyone loves: fake marriage, hurt/comfort, bed sharing, found family, a big oh feelings realization at the last minute, the whole nine yards.

Second Most Kudos: scandal, Steve/Bucky, G Two boys are caught "getting fresh" in the Captain America exhibit, and Steve has to make a statement to the press. He doesn't quite stick to Pepper's script. I think this was my first "big" fic that got popular and I have to admit it is...not my favorite. I don't dislike it! I just think some of the characterization is not as good as I'd like it to be.

Third Most Comments: a marvelous gift, Steve/Bucky, T Bucky Barnes has a curse: he has to obey any orders he receives. It gets more complicated when he becomes best friends with Steve Rogers--the prince who will one day be king. The Ella Enchanted fusion! This one was pretty fun. Bucky having Ella's curse fit really well with the Winter Soldier storyline.

Fourth Most Bookmarks: Bucky Barnes Defense Squad, Steve/Bucky, G Steve is astounded to find Bucky's gone down in history as a bad boy. He makes it his mission to fix it. Aka Steve is mad that people don't know Bucky was a nerdy square mama's boy and he wants everyone to know that YES Bucky was sexy but NO it's not because he was aloof and sullen and a bad boy!

Fifth Most Words: Milestones, Steve/Bucky, T Continuation of "Shyest"; all the important steps in life with two super-soldiers raising a kid. The sequel series of one-shots to my "Two Supersoldiers and a Toddler" fic. My first series to get popular. My kid fic despite saying I don't like kid fic. 😂

Fic with the Least Words: war was just a game, Steve/Bucky, T "Let's play soldiers," Steve said. Bucky didn't want to, but he'd play because Steve asked. Not my favorite and it's very weird. I think I must've been going through something when I wrote this lmao. But I also wanted to make myself write exactly 500 words, so mission accomplished.

I am going to cop out and tag anyone who wants to do it! I've been absolutely terrible at keeping up with who's still writing and for which fandoms. So consider yourself tagged!

#my fic #i knew without even looking it'd all be steve/bucky lol #i thought the least words might be someone else but i forgot i had that weird one in there #a little surprised no check please or shameless fics made it and i thought my brokeback fic might end up cracking one of these #but i just wrote so much damn stucky fic lol #and seriously there was something in the water in that 2014-2016 era bc everyone was SO locked in with engagement #and my popular shameless fic is a series not just a multichap so all the stats are spread around anyway