#i have a desktop computer

[deepbutdazzlingdarkness]

I got a laptop after using the Tumblr app only for ages, which means I’m about to be on here way more. Not that ppl will necessarily be able to tell, bc I’m always running my queue lmao, but I’m excited

#the only reason i prefer mobile is bc my emojis 😩 #i did up my queue to 15 posts per day tho #i have a desktop computer #but it's old and slow and i'm usually sitting on the couch #and i'd rather not sit at my desk #i mostly got it for fic writing #since i'm working on a big bang with a 25k minimum & has like plot and stuff #but realizing i could also use it for tumblr was the deciding factor

[mecachrome]

landoscar ao3 stats — 2023 overview

notes

retrieved ~sometime in march 2024

methodology: scraped metadata for every fic in the landoscar tag and...... that's it. however one important constraint is that all temporal data is date updated (not posted), so the above timeline isn't exactly a true representation of fic growth but rather how many fics were last-updated at that time. of course this is still its own reflection of fandom health in a way since dead fandoms don't update old fic but well... it's just not quite the same!

this is just info about general trends, fic content, tags etc... so nothing about kudos/comments or any authors specifically

i decided to focus solely on fics last-updated in 2023 (unless otherwise mentioned) because i wanted a tidy set that i can maybe compare & contrast in a year's time, because i expect a lot of details to look different then (tho as stated above this set isn't exactly static... 🤷‍♀️)

ngl i had to re-scrape a bunch of times because i forgot about it for like 3 weeks and then there were 100 new fics 😭 so if there are some minor discrepancies across the post it's because of that halfskh.

also i wanted to include more global comparisons (aka how 814 stack up against the f1 rpf tag in general), but this is also considerably difficult in some contexts since i can't exactly scrape 31,000+ fics can i... or i didn't even want to entertain the thought of trying to do so!!!

why did i do this? who knows.

anyway here's some viz T__T

ship growth

as evidenced in the opening graph, landoscar have been a very fast-growing ship over the past year — although interestingly enough they didn't really start growing substantially until july / the ~better half~ of the 2023 season. here are two views showing their "growth" (by date updated) alongside two other ships on the fringes of the f1 rpf top 10 (sebchal & galex):

landoscar are very much on-track to surpass them and officially enter the top 10 soon, likely before mid-april ❗️ :o

ship characteristics

onto the ship content — another thing i was mildly curious about was how landoscar differs in certain areas from other f1 ships, or the f1 rpf "global" average you could say. for example, here's a breakdown of rating popularity in their ao3 tag:

seeing as explicit is their most common rating, and that i don't necessarily expect this to be true for all ships/fandoms, i compared these percentages with the general f1 rpf tag to see whether some ratings are more commonly represented in 814 fic than average, which produced interesting results:

do lando ships simply skew more HornyTM in general? is it oscar? a secret third thing??? who knows... actually i think it would be fun to do more analysis in this direction but that can wait for another time!!!

similarly i also wanted to see which ships are the most "public" on ao3, as in have the highest share of fic that isn't user-locked... i will refrain from peppering in my feelings about the 4th wall too heavy-handedly but i was curious to see whether some sort of perhaps... er, generational gap (?) of sorts between ships that are more public vs. not could be identified. however i don't pretend to have any takeaways from this LOL i conclude absolutely nothing. (for ref landoscar is currently 72% public, vs. a global avg of 63%)

note that this graph is current stats, not filtered for 2023

looking at relationship tags, i also wanted to know whether landoscar suffer noticeably from Second-Ship Syndrome, so i tallied the first-tagged ship of every fic to find out. i know this doesn't necessarily mean that it's always the "main" ship but it's a good enough approximation. the results were quite positive!

filtered to top ships with count of >1 only

i then also calculated the number of ships tagged for each fic to discern the profile of multi-shipping in 814 ficdom; i did have to do a little bit of string standardization (all instances of implied / background / hinted collapsed to hinted for simplicity's sake + removal of other redundancies), but otherwise i left everything mostly untouched.

as you can see, landoscar also have a fairly promising amount of OTP: TRUE fic:

by the time you get to the fics with 10+ ships tagged, landoscar are less likely to be the primary ship, which makes sense just on a basic statistical level... this is also a very small sample size though

i also lazily tallied the 10 most common ships that weren't NOR/PIA or NOR & PIA to diff their shares of the 814 tag vs. of the general f1 rpf tag, to see which other pairings are more represented in the 814 tag than on average (because lestappen are the most popular by pure count but this is also true of fandom in general, so it would be a misrepresentation to say that their popularity is out of the ordinary):

maxiel's gap isn't really that surprising since i think that, generationally, in terms of when both pairings were teammates there is quite a gap; with carlando—actually let me tally this again but including all instances of "implied" and "past" as being part of the same ship, since that's how ao3 tag-wrangles as well:

Aha ! obviously as a direct ship there is competition between 814 and other lando or oscar ships, but this difference is somewhat less pronounced once we include all formats. tbh none of this really means anything but i thought i'd add it anyway... (it's also very possible that there are several errors in this, in which case my b 😔)

before we move on to additional tags, there are a few more basic characteristics of 814 fic we can calculate. i realize i never offered an overview of Super Basic Stats, so here are a few:

plus, looking at word counts, here is a distribution of those in 2023-updated fic, which shows that a majority of 814 fics were under the 5k mark:

85% of landoscar fics were under 10k & nearly 97% under 25k

i don't really have any reason to believe that landoscar's wc stats differ significantly from average ? so this is kind of just Data To Have Data, and it most likely reflects normal ao3 trends in general... but i thought i'd include it anyway because i already made it lol. similarly, here are word count distributions but stratified by rating:

& same info but heat map view:

i feel like this is also probably something you'd find across fandom in general — that gen fic is likely to have a higher share of under 1k works, since Building Up to sexual content often takes... Literal & Metaphorical Foreplay ! and the longer a fic is the more opportunities an author has to include a sex scene or other explicit content (ofc, not necessarily just porn but also graphic violence & so on). but i thought this was fun to visualize haha

additional tags & aus?

back in my old f1 rpf stats post, i made a table comparing fluff/angst "ratios" (not exactly a direct ratio because of how tag wrangling works, but an approximation) of the most popular f1 ships, and now that landoscar are somewhat popular i thought i'd first do an update:

also current data, not 2023 to make things easier

just like before, simi are one of the most fluffy ships and brocedes are by far the most angsty, but it's interesting to see 814 also extremely high up on the charts, with far and away the lowest % of angst. will be exciting 2 see how that holds or changes as the seasons progress !

finally, i also wanted to do a bit of au/additional tag analysis because you can kind of see this when you use additional filters on ao3 but the previews are limited and get bogged down by the prevalence of *checks notes* Fluff, Angst, PWP, Anal Sex and what have you. which are nice stats to have and all but what of the rest !

disclaimer that the set for these tables is a biiiit outdated because by the time i'd wrangled everything i was like I Am Not Changing It Again. unfortunately i clean my data with shoddy queries and regex functions in googsheetz...

there were 48 tags with at least 10 instances from 2023 fics, shown below, with ones that are (some ~vaguely) nsfw in red just to kind of get a rough sense of which tags get commonly used in M/E fic:

getting a bit too much into small sample size / specific fic territory so if you're an author i sincerely apologize for that... do not mean 2 put u on blast... TT__TT but i also tried to tally the most popular aus people write for 814, which is a bit dubious because people tag in really different ways and i had to accommodate for a lot of string formats but ... it's close enough ! (?)

i feel like this is very little interesting info but idk what else to add so i will stop here for now... well!!! if you made it to the end i hope u learned something or even vaguely enjoyed reading T__T and most of all thank you :')

#*m #landoscar #in a sense 😔 #tfw don't have a tableau license so i live life on the edge across multiple unsaved desktop public files...... #if ur interested in anything specific pls lmk before my computer inevitably Dies and deletes everything...! #this is so useless nsdflshdfh. Anyway

[mattodore]

he's waiting on a call he's planning to send straight to voicemail

#sorry matthias </3 maybe he'll pick up the next time you try calling............ <- me when i lie #river dipping #ts4 #ts4 edit #gifs #theodore doe #echthroi #hi friends and lovers hope everyone's doing well <3 #i got my old laptop to work so i have a laptop again even if the battery on it is messed up #but still #i haven't been online much bc i've started getting dizzy from staring at computer/phone screens for too long #and in particular the act of scrolling either on mobile or desktop makes my head spin and my eyes hurt :/ #but i powered through it yesterday so i could get in game with theo (and matthias) since i missed him really bad... oc plague be upon ye #i took... well. like five hundred screenshots and forty videos... i was in the soup. the mattodore soup. what can i say? #i don't like posting too much on here bc. i'm crazy (<- has avpd) so i probably won't post much from yesterday's fun here #but i'll post whatever i want on pillowfort <3 pic of jerma holding out his hand captioned let's take mattodore together #what else should i say before leaving... right my inbox... well i'll get to it eventually <- have been saying this since october sorry #but okay i've been staring at my screen too long so i need to go lay down for a bit #enjoy theo in motion!! if you’re a theo-head like myself #theodite à la jermamite? hm. its in the works. i’m workshopping. #mentioning jerma twice in these tags… busting a cyanide pill onto my tongue i’ve said too much #i have to go now mwah mwah mwah bye warmth and love to you mwah

[sofiaruelle]

What art program do you use?

These are my top 3 programs in my art process! Ignore the name of the app folder. It helps with MY motivation to draw lmao

1. Procreate ($12.99 as of Feb 2024)

My main drawing program! Its so easy to use and the UI is simple. What really sold me to procreate is the default brushes and the time lapse! if you’d like I made a post a while back on the brushes i use for lineart! Sooooo worth the investment honestly. also you can animate on it too! but Procreate released Dreams recently. I’m just saving up for it oneday!

2. Easypose (FREE)

I love using this for composition, perspective and poses especially in group setting which I really struggle with. The proportions are very much anime but nothing anatomy studies can’t fix!! Also love that its free and isnt subscription based. Lil warning though the asset library is very limited. there are DLCs but they’re not as detailed as what you’d see in Magic poser and/or Clip studio. But still the basic shapes still help a lot! and I wish i can change the color and move the light but it only has the one light source.

3. Canva (Free & Paid Subscription)

THE Graphic Design for dummies!!! /lh No but fr it has helped me a lot in clutch especially for merch layout when I used to do a lot of conventions

Honorable Mentions for References that helps me a lot (aside from Pinterest):

Sketchfab.com - lots of 3D assets that you can rotate around and use as references especially when you can’t find the right stock photo!!! (Some of the Assets are free or you can buy them!)

Line of Action - been using this a lot for studies! (free or you can subscribe to them!)

Clipdrop Relight - When I’m struggling to light a scene. Very helpful for color studies cause you can set up 3 lights at once for that bisexual lighting~

#anon #narwhal speaks #art programs i use #man if i still have access to a computer/laptop… #i would be able to list cr4k3d photoshop #and i’d be more powerful lmaoooo #i wish i could be using Clip Studio #they have more stuff in there but i got really overwhelemed by the UI and i think it would be easier for me to use as a desktop app #rather than on an ipad #maybe oneday when i finally save enough for a really good laptop #cause i wanna learn how to 3D sculpt lmao

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

Oh hey, look at that! Nokia still sells phones (including modern versions of the early flagship phones I love so much)! They've also expanded to smartphones and tablets over the years, and all the prices I'm seeing are insanely affordable compared to most other mobile tech brands.

So it turns out that when my current phone finally beeps it's last text tone, I really *can* just replace it with a basic old Nokia phone and a tidy lil tablet, and all for fractions of what I paid for the current one!

Now all I need to do is find the desktop computer version of Nokia as a company so I can finally replace my desktop for work.

#does anyone know what desktop computer company sells that could handle both fff14 and 6hrs daily of video conferencing? #i don't need it to have a high storage capacity #i plan to get an external harddrive for all my work files to better secure them #but i DO want to be able to play an mmorpg with the kind of graphics card demand that would have made early ibm engineers cry

[pcktknife]

going to actually try to learn procreate 👍🏾

#its so haaaaard 😞 #not a fan of drawing on phones and tablets me #desktop stuff is usually pretty similar to one another but get on a tablet and now i gotta squinch and squeeze shit 😭 #and downloading brushes is annoying. so much easier navigating on a computer... #and it makes my neck hurt. i have a lot of complaints 💔 #kae.txt

[serenedash]

Be QUIET he is SLEEPING. A mimir.

[DO NOT REPOST/REMOVE COMMENT]

#Im having so many thoughts about the update but this is all I can show for it #anyway my internet is so fucked up I cant get onto tumblr on my computer the only social media I can acess is insta #so I had to send this to myself on desktop insta and save it to my phone to post on tumblr mobile #I live in a hell #anyway #art #fan art #lu #linked universe #lu spoilers #i guess #linked universe spoilers #lu hyrule #hyrule #meme #linked universe meme #lu meme

[tmae3114]

I've got my life priorities in order (<- woman who considers installing the Artix Games launcher a vital part of setting up her new laptop)

#me #listen. I need it. if this is my computer for when I'm away for months at a time for work and don't have access to my desktop. it NEEDS df #the order of setting it up went #The Compulsory Set-Up Process It Came With -> basic steps of making windows 11 bearable to use -> kill the ai nonsense it came with -> #install firefox -> install microsoft suite 2010 from my dad's usb -> install ae launcher

[tin-can-iron-man]

I just. I love my dad so much guys

#MAN OF ALL TIME he's so fuckin rad #he came over to help me set up my desktop (got a pc btw) and funniest man in existence here he touched my desk saw it wobble and went ''NO' #came back with his tools and an office chair for me because he saw the chair I was gonna use and went :/ #this man brought over an ENTIRE TOOLBOX just for me because I cannot for the life of me find where the old one went and just. fixed the des #that I had been struggling with for about eight months at this point. in like twenty minutes. and then set up my desktop for me #he also brought over a webcam and microphone without any sort of promoting just because he knows I do discord calls with my friends and gf #also I dug out the instructions for the desk and before I could even hand him the paper he was like ''so this is how we fix this'' #and then fixed it and was like ''yeah you did that wrong but you were close'' #and then was like ''dont buy furniture and stuff without letting me know first what you want I'll keep an eye out'' #and I was laughing being like ''I didn't want to come to you every time I need something because I want you to see me as independent'' #and he went ''you live by yourself of course I see you as independent'' and my bitches the way I almost cried right there #just. idk something something the way my families love languages have always been acts of service and gift giving #and my dad insisting I should rely on him more and giving me stuff I wanted but don't have without EVER TELLING HIM I wanted said things #just. my dad is so cool guys #sorry I saw my computer set up vibing on my desk and got completely overwhelmed #ignore me #not marvel related

[genderfluid-druid]

attempting to claw my brain out of The Rottening by allowing myself to spend money on things that will improve my household life even though I've been reluctant to commit to them

#a drill for projects around the house because I've either been borrowing a friend's or just not doing those projects #a large external drive for the desktop computer because eventually i do want to upgrade that computer and i need backups #also i have just been solving problems by dumping stuff into cloud storage and that's really not sustainable #and a wireless keyboard + mouse because my computer is set up as the living room TV and having the controls tethered is uh inconvenient #it's not even stuff that's hard for me to afford! #i just get weird about dipping outside my weekly budget #and none of these things can be easily purchased within that budget #anyway. very excited to go home and try out this drill #i also bought a new shade for the bathroom #because i don't like having vinyl blinds that have broken slats as a privacy shield #like. my neighbor's house is Right There #and it's not a very big broken area but i am constantly aware of it #so it would be nice to just. fix it.

[lauronk]

not me mentally writing so much of bus fic in my head today during and then coming home and my partner is using the computer to play silly little games with his silly little friends 🙄

#is it his gaming computer? maybe #do i have my own laptop? also maybe #but the keyboard is better on the desktop #and my laptop is old and slow and likes to randomly restart #but his gaming time is night time when i’m sleep #why is he doing this during my waking hours #give me the computer #you are depriving people of bus fic sir #and i mentally wrote a scene of ellie arguing with a judge #and another of joel and ellie having a serious convo #and now we just have to hope they stay in my head #rip #fanfic struggles #bus fic

[emmafallsinlove]

the thing about not having a television in my room is that for years i used to watch everything in my phone when i want to lay in bed and sometimes watching stuff on my computer / an actual tv is just. feels wrong?

#like last july i bought a laptop besides my desktop computer #and i’ve been talking with my mom about having a television in my room #but at the same time i’m so USED of watching everything on my phone for like. YEARS #it’s a wild concept to me that people like. turn on their tv’s instead of like looking at the little screen on their phones #like i binged the entirety of gilmore girls on my phone alone / same with modern family #i barely even watches the tv in the living room i always feels slightly uncomfortable doing so #it’s makes absolutely no sense but i guess i just used of watching everything privately #idk maybe i do need to get a television for my room but i’m afraid i barely be using it because i’m so used of watching everything #in a certain way for YEARS now #or speaks now

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

can you play video games? Have you heard of crosscode ?

Yeah! I've been following it for a while.

#eleanorjmorel #i play video games on a desktop computer because mobile apps are really annoying to me #if i have to download an app from the app store i am already mad #if i have to make an account with a username and password or fucking facebook integration to play a fucking tiny mobile game #fuck you #games tag #eleanorjmorel-she-her

[aropride]

re your laptop/desktop rb. my cousin (12. i think) didn't understand the concept of opening a web browser to access something like youtube instead of just opening an app as a result of growing up on tablets

oh my god thats so upsetting to me what . touchscreens are a PLAGUE

#ask #live-like-ghibli #my sister is 12 and shes p good at navigating a desktop but its occuring to me #that her dad and oldest* (*TECHNICALLY. -_-) brother are both really autistic about computers #so that might have something to do with it #i have the opposite problem My senior year of high school they made us use ipads instead of computers #and i literally cannot navigate them like i cannot figure it out #absolutely baffles me

[crowjodojocasahouse]

the way i wanna share my ineffable playlists with you guys sooo bad but all of my yt music is under my old email with my deadname in it

#i might do the pain in the ass thing #and reupload all my music to my new email #but it's SO MUCH #i'd have to start the inevitable project of burning all my cds onto my laptop #i used to have a desktop computer but i lost that in the horrors

[eurydicees]

scrolling through my archives and i found the first fic i ever wrote. i was ~12 years old and it started like this

#riordanverse #percy jackson #pjo fanfic #a decade later and im still. Like this. #this was never finished and never posted btw. #it just lived on my parents desktop computer for YEARS #its only 4pgs but things i remember about my plan to finish it: demigod claimed by two gods (she has two demigod parents) #this makes percy realize he can marry annabeth (they are still sixteenish) #nico is gay for percy (i didn't know the word for that so i just made him hero worship percy & feel weird around annabeth) #that's all i got #i have no idea where carter was supposed to come in LMAO #anyways. at least my writing has improved over a decade. i would like to think