okay it's 1pm and i willingly unprompted said to my mate 'hey if we make this a competition on who can finish our finance report first that'll make us way more productive' (bc we're both hateful people) and she agreed and our deadline is 3pm i will keep you posted
visuals i made for a real actual paper i wrote for my sociology class that my professor will be reading
[image ids: the first image is a black and white drawing of Ingo and Emmet, from some time after Ingo disappeared. They both look neutrally forwards. Ingo is bedraggled per usual in Hisui, and Emmet looks tired. To either side of them are triangles emphasizing what shape their goatee is.
The second image is a photo of a salt and pepper shaker. The Submas Sideburns are drawn on top of them.
The third image is an edit of Shrek. He gestures at Donkey, saying, "submas fandom is like onions. submas fandom has layers, onions have layers... you get it? we both have layers."
The final image is an edit of the Marge potato meme. She holds Ingo and Emmet up, saying "I just think they're neat!" End id]
Alright~ After much work we have finally completed our dungeon generation algorithm.
First, we generate the rooms, separate them using a separation steering algorithm.
Second, we generate a graph that represents connections between the various rooms
Third, we perform what is known as Delaunay Triangulation, in which we evaluate pairs of triangles and swap their shared edge if it fails a test boiled down to a simple matrix determinant evaluation
Fourth, we construct a Graph of connectivity from the Delaunay triangulation
Fifth, we perform an A* pathfinding algorithm to connect points on the delauney triangulation through the neighborhood graph
Finally, if we didn't traverse through a room, we can remove it to simplify the dungeon into something a little less dense
There are some extra things we can do here and there, and bugs and edge cases to iron out here and there, but for now, we have a pretty neat little dungeon generator. The next step is to actually procedurally generate the rooms and then use the connectivity graphs to implement game logic and whatnot, but that we will save for another time.
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
-and with your permission, I would like to revisit the post I made the other day, about the future of YR fic and how fast it would or wouldn't die. And I'm making a new post for it cause I want more people to see.
Because as multiple people have pointed out, both on the original post and on their own blogs: interaction is what keeps fandom alive. It's the comments on their wips that keep writers going, it's those fics that inspire artists to make new gifsets, it's the never-noticed-before detail in those gifsets that inspire new headcanons, it's the headcanons that kick off a new fic trope, and so on and so on and so on. Fandom is a verb!
Now, this is nothing new; people have been saying this for a long time. But the thing is - I can prove it. With my stupid graph. I can prove it and I didn't even know it. Look!
Look at that bump in April. When I first saw it, I was a bit stumped. Why a peak in April, of all times? What happened? And then I remembered filming started that month, and I figured - sure, that'll be it. Fresh input, more excitement, more fic.
Except... there was absolutely no such effect when S2 filming started. Like. Nothing.
But still, there's a noticeable peak in April. If you compare March (124) and May (162), you'd expect April to have 140-150 fics, give or take. Instead it has 187, about 25% more than you'd expect*. So what happened in April, that caused a surplus of 40 fics to be published?
And then it hit me.
Oh right - that happened!
I did a poll, multiple anons asked about it, @andthatisnotfake gave me a crash course on organizing fandom events, et voila - extra fic, for your enjoyment.
So this is what we mean. Obviously I'm not saying you should start organizing fandom events every other week (although I'm not stopping you either, hit me up if you have ideas! ;) ), but this example does show very nicely that new content doesn't pop up in a vacuum. So talk about it, interact with authors, reblog gifsets, publish headcanons, ... in short: be active in fandom.
You don't want things to die down? Don't let them.
It's really that simple.
*I'm just ballparking things here, these are not Exact Statistics by any means.