Thinking about how the whole second half of Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love album is a conceptual narrative (called The Ninth Wave) about a woman lost at sea fighting to survive and how she has to keep herself awake. And how she wishes she had her radio to “tune into some friendly voices” in order to not fall asleep and how there’s all these people trying to tell her to wake up and how, as some kind of spirit, she watches all her friends and family but they can’t hear her. And how her own future self comes to visit her to tell her not to give up…
And all that…just strikes me as a little too coincidental.
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Listening Trends in All or Nothing
(scroll down for poll!)
There's an interesting pattern throughout All or Nothing's listening data:
At first glance, the number of listens decreases consistently as we go down the tracklist, with the notable exception of a certain Track #14. This led me to plot the data to examine the strength of the correlation.
(give it up for "It Hits Different", the favorite child of the second half)
Anyway, notice that little note up top that says R^2 = 0.831? That's our friend R-squared, which tells us how much of the variation between # of listens is explained by the relationship between listens and track #. More about that here if you're wondering bc god knows I didn't explain that as well as it needed to be. Basically, the higher the R-squared value, the more we can trust that the relationship between the two variables means something! We should note now that R-squared values range from 0 to 1, so with our R-squared value of 0.831, that's pretty high. That means 83.1% of the variation in listening can be explained by this relationship we see between listens and track.
That's all well and good but, Ser, why do we care about the listening/track relationship in the first place?
I initially hoped the listening numbers would give me a clue on which track was the most popular, but this pattern got me wondering about something else. We've all got listening styles, whether that's popping an album on shuffle, carefully selecting favorites, burning one song into your brain at a time (guilty), or simply listening all the way through in order. From this pattern, I hypothesize the "in order" option could be the most popular, but many other variables could be at play.
A DanAndPhilBEATS listener survey might shine a little light on the subject, though, and that's where you come in! So, tell me...
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might sound weird to say as a person with a couple ocs who have Big Horrible Event(s) in their backstories or as a person who has like 3 ocs total bc he sucks at writing and as a person who hopes their ocs arent too Boring with [the thing im about to mention] but the thing about writing [characters] and [people] is that like.
any little thing a person experiences can take up their whole existence... its actually something "fun" to experience as i meet new ppl and do more things. My friend had something happen that she'll be talking about forever. I had several things happen last year that ill never stop talking about, some of which other ppl think werent that bad actually. In the same way I'll forever remember about the way my sister accidentally insulted me almost 10 years ago, it's really interesting and Fun to find and assign smaller things like that to characters...its really Real. some people's dealbreakers are other people's solvable problems etc etc
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Ava and Adriel are NOT cooperating. I'm writing Ch 2 of And the Sea became Blood. It's meant to be Enemies to Lovers (aka Villain annoys Heroine until she falls in love with him), so they're supposed to lock horns, but they're being civil. For fuck's sake, they're at some party, discussing how neither knew their dad. What is happening here.
Also, I'm not sure what's more scandalous - the fact that Archangel Michael will fall in love with the Antichrist, or the fact that she's bordering on functional alcoholism... She's having a hard time, let her be.
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Make way for the cutest Meatlanders you've ever seen
Fish cats!
Look at them! Aren't they so much fun? I literally cannot pick a fav, i want them all as pets
Get it? Fish Cats
Bc cats and fish
Not that into meat? Try -
- Candia, - Ceresia, - Dairy Islands, - Fructera, - Vegetania & veggy part 2
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Optimistically working on the cover image for trapped buck and chris fic even though I probably have another 2-3k to write…. Interact with this post if you want to be tagged when I post it?
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Something I noticed going back to Etoiles' fight with the code is that the second code that appeared is less saturated, looking muchless vibrant than the one with a name, which is odd.
Is the one named, a 'main' one while the other is a support made to help with the sweeping edge damage?
These colours are colour picked from the same screenshot during Etoiles' fight with them, even at night one is more saturated than the other, the one being saturated having the name.
Not sure what it could mean but it's odd they chose to make at least 2 different code models, especially after it stopped having straight lines of code like before and looks more messed up.
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