#stats post

[orangepanic]

Irosami Hits 200!!

It feels like just a short time ago I was celebrating 100 fics tagged Iroh II/Asami Sato on AO3. Looks like we've doubled that in little more than a year. For a sunken ship in a fandom that's dwindling more every day, that's nothing short of astounding.

And yes, a lot of these (especially older) fics are not endgame Irosami, but all but one of the most recent 20 fics actually are. A quick glance shows they're also by ten different authors. So while I own that a quarter of the Irosami fics are mine (50) and another 20-odd are gifted to me, I'm by no means sailing this dinghy alone. Which is awesome.

Onward to 300!

#irosami #stats post #kind of #this is so cool #better be careful or we won't be a rarepair

[sanzundertale]

babygirl i will invent stages of grief you have never seen before

#good omens #good omens 2 #good omens spoilers #so that ending huh! #this has been sitting in my drafts for months #i’ve been waiting for something to emotionally devastate me enough to post this and!! yeah!!!!!! this applies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #losing my mind #i was stunned i was at a loss for words #need season 3 on a flash drive and plugged into my brain STAT I CANT DO THIS #AUUUGGGGGHHH #good omens s2 #good omens season 2 #ineffable husbands #ineffable partners #time to open ao3 and pretend everything is fine!

[goodluckdetective]

Look, this is what moral OCD is like for me:

I walk past a piece of paper. I don’t pick it up because I had a long day at work and it’s very cold outside. This then becomes my internal monologue:

I didn’t pick up that piece of paper, I should have. Don’t I care about the environment? It’s not my trash, I shouldn’t have to pick it up. But also that’s how these things happen right? We place the blame on others as our environment degrades. It was just a piece of paper, it’s not like it can do that much damage. But also how do I know: I’m not an environmental expert. Maybe stray paper scraps are killing the frogs. You’re literally killing the frogs. You should look up how many frogs die a year so you know how shitty you are-No stop it.

I care about the environment, and I recycle and I joined green activism movements but is that enough? I could be doing more. I should be doing more. I should donate my entire check to charity. But isn’t it self serving to think that my one check could help that much? Do I really think I’m that important, how self entitled and-no stop it, reset! You are obsessing and if you fall for it, you will not eat dinner. Let it go.

Okay it’s just a piece of paper. It’s okay you skipped it this once: it could have had something dangerous on it. Yeah that makes sense. But also, that means I’m putting my own safety over trying to help the environment, which is very selfish of me. I’m just one shitty person: god how could I be so self absorbed. I should have picked up the piece of paper. I’m so selfish, and shitty and-no, no, stop it! This is not helpful. It’s fine.

It’s been a long day and I’m cold, that’s not a crime- no that’s being selfish again, you’re making excuses. You’re just a lazy piece of shit who doesn’t care about others, and selfish and God the fact you’re thinking this much about one piece of paper shows how selfish you are, you care more about if you’re a good person than anything else, you’re a piece of shit, you’re a piece of shit, YOU’RE A PIECE OF SHIT.

I get home and open up Tumblr. The first post I see says “if you don’t reblog this post about the environment you’re as complicit as an oil billionaire.” I close my computer and resign myself to looking up the state frog populations until I go to bed.

I don’t eat dinner.

The amount of frogs that die a year is somewhere from 200 million to over 1 billion.

#moral ocd #ocd #scrupulosity #Iz rambles #this is okay to reblog I think people really don’t get it #mental illness #the issue with the social media post is not that it exists or that OP even feels about this issue: the issue is it validates my ocd #I don’t obsess about frogs but that is a bummer stat I do rather like them #obsessive compulsive disorder

[eliotbaum]

Fiona has a higher STR score than both Lydia and Kasper which also means — she can carry them

#illustration #art #artists on tumblr #curse of strahd #curse of strahd art #fiona wachter #lydia petrovna #kasper dunant #hope you enjoy my post-work doodles #cleric dump stat str who's with me #poor guy can barely lift his own wife…

[dozydawn]

Mayerling.

Melissa Hamilton and Rupert Pennefather.

Lauren Cuthbertson and Thiago Soares.

Natalia Osipova and Edward Watson.

Melissa Hamilton and Rupert Pennefather.

Natalia Osipova and Edward Watson.

Sarah Lamb and Steven McRae.

#obsessed #mayerling #ballet #kiss #couple #fave pics #lifts #i’m so glad this is hitting w folks bc this sat in my drafts for months cause i thought this is a post Just For Me and it’ll flop #mostly it sat in my drafts bc i was like what the fuck do i write as a header ‘this one hot kiss lift from mayerling’ #in the end i just settled for the ballet title ok everyone knows what this is #you guys are conditioning me to release more pose compilations from my hellish drafts #oh and ​one more thing... ice dance interpretation of this lift WHEN? i need a mayerling ice dance program stat please #1k #kenneth macmillan #pose compilation

[sarasade]

One of the most generally useful things to come out of Hbomberguy's plagiarism video and Todd in the Shadows' similar video on misinformation is how they bring transparency to the internet phenomenon of "I made up a guy to get mad at".

Seriously, I've seen people make up a lot of stupid shit on the internet over the years and it's often just a manipulative attempt to paint a group of marginalized people in a bad light.

That's the TL;DR version of this post. 

ANYWAY here is the long version

Those videos are mostly about James Somerton's plagiarism of other queer people's work. However I'd like to talk about that 20-30% of Somerton's original writing- and oh boy. It's mostly about complaining about White Straight Women and misgendering well-known trans creators such as Rebecca Sugar and calling Becky Albertalli a straight woman while it's pretty common knowledge that she was forced to out herself as bi because she received so much harassment over "being a cishet woman who appropriates LGBT+ stories".

One thing that irks me especially is how in his Killing Stalking and Gay Shipping videos Somerton brings up how straight women/ teen girl shippers exploit gay men for their personal sexual fantasies. This gets brought up several times in his videos.

Being all up and arms about Somerton being a "White Cis Gay Who Hates Women and Queer People tm" is not that useful because the kind of rhetoric he's using is extremely common in fandom and LGBT+ spaces on Tumblr, TikTok and Twitter. We really don't need to bring Somerton's identity to this since he is in no way an unique example.

It's hypocritical to make this about an individual person when I've seen A TON of posts, tweets and videos where queer people talk about these Sinister Straight Women who are supposedly out there fetishizing and exploiting queer men. It's pretty clear to me that this is just an excuse to shit on women and queer people for having any sexual interests. At worst these comments are spreading misinformation about BL, a form of media that has been excessively studied by both Asian feminists and Asian queer women.

This all sounds really familiar and I think it's good that people are calling it out as what it is: misogyny and transphobia. I'd also point out the potentially racist motives behind being this hypervigilant about Asian media.

People can absolutely be misogynist regardless of gender or orientation. I really don't know why we need to create some kind of made up enemy to get mad at. I actually think it's almost sinister how "anti-fujoshi" people call Slash shippers and fujoshi misogynists or claim that they have internalised misogyny while being dismissive about women's interests and creative pursuits under Japanese obscenity laws, China's censorship, book bans in American schools and various other disadvances that are part of being a queer and/or female creator.

I think we shouldn't be naive about the bad faith actors who want to turn queer people against each other. For example Fujoshi.info mentions anti-gender (TERF, GC etc) movement using this kind of rhetoric as well.

Anyway if you want to read more:

- about the false info around BL fandom fujoshi.info

-There is the scholar Thomas Baudinette who studies gay media in Japan. Here is a podcast with him and the scholar Khursten Santos

-James Welker is a BL scholar as well. Here is a podcast interview about the new international BL article collection he edited.

-I've already talked about this Youtube channel by KrisPNatz and his great Killing Stalking video that actually engages with the themes of the manhwa

- There is also HR Coleman's thesis DO NOT FEED THE FETISHIZERS: BOYS LOVE FANS RESISTANCE AND CHALLENGE OF PERCEIVED REPUTATION where she interviews 36 BL fans and actually breaks down why fetishization has become such a huge talking point in the fandom discourse. Spoilers, it's mostly about young queer people and women being worried that they will get judged and pathologized for their interest in anything sexual.

-Great podcast about Danmei and censorship with Liang Ge

#Also I don't mean that you can always tell if someone is a transphobe or a TERF based on a couple of things they have said. #My point is that sometimes ok people can have very regressive ideas too. #This is not a call out post about how we should go around accusing anti-fujoshi people #todd in the shadows #hbomberguy #sarasade text #even I've got those “Fandom is mostly straight women fetishizing gay men” comments once and it begins to sound kind of passive-aggressive #when you're a bi woman. Lot of fandom stats at AO3 show that fandoms are montly bi women. who are these people calling straight exactly hmm #also straight women are completely ok leave them alone. I know I know Yes I'm so brave for saying this #cw: transphobia

[honorablefrogs]

just a sketch of two intelligence 8 disasters in love <3

#gale sees them and immediately passes out #when ur in love but intelligence is ur dump stat #if u saw the original post no u didn't #bg3 #karlach #karlach x tav #bg3 fanart #bg3 oc #bg3 tav #bg3 memes #meme redraw #my art #bg3 sketch #baldurs gate 3

[entomologize]

Fun fact: The diabolical ironclad beetle traded away the ability to fly in order to become essentially unsquishable.

Driving a car over them would just push them down into the dirt, still whole. Trying to stick a pin through wouldn't be successful without a drill. These guys are tough.

Every part of the beetle's exoskeleton seems to enhance its armor. The flattened body shape distributes pressure to even the load, the multilayered material is strong yet flexible enough not to crack, and the unique interlocking seams between wing cases function better than most joins designed by humans:

It'll be exciting to see what new materials might be possible using these concepts!

Sources: Jesse Rorabaugh, Po-Yu Chen, & Jesus Rivera et al.

#they really put all their stats into defense #long post #fun facts #beetles #insects #diabolical ironclad beetle #bugblr

[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

[pastelpaperplanes]

this megatron is just so sweet and gentle with the kids it absolutely. DESTROYS ME.

#GAMPAW🥺💕 #someone get this man a mentee of his own STAT #he’s just so eager to teach and he’s so patient with them oh my goDDD #no wonder tfe megs absolutely dominated the wifeatron poll #my heart can’t take it just my brain isn’t working that way okay the post is over goodbye now #transformers #tfe megatron #tfe spoliers #transformers earthspark #Earthspark spoilers #transformers Earthspark spoilers

[astarionposting]

Aeterna Amantes 2/?

This blood on my teeth it is far beyond dry, and I've captured you once, but I wasn't quite right.

So I'm telling you that you'll be safe with me.

Why is this song not on Spotify anymore I’m so sad 😭 I used to listen to it over and over again when I was like 12..

#bg3 #bg3 screenshots #bg3 gifs #astarion #did a spicy set hehe #there’s a lot more #but I’m on my phone now cause it’s 2 am and I have to sleep #so maybe I’ll post them after work #I HAVE TO WORK ON A STAT HOLIDAY IM SO MAD #LIKE THE COURTS ARE LITERALLY CLOSED BUT OUR LAW FIRM STILL WANTS US TO WORK??? #I hate my job :) #astarion ancunin #bg3 astarion #astarion screenshots #baldur's gate #baldur’s gate 3 screenshots #baldur’s gate 3 #bg3 tav #Astarion x tav #astarion x the dark urge #ascended astarion #ASTARION POSTING #oc: Lillith/the dark urge #SoundCloud #oc: lillith/the dark urge

[trafficshippingtournament]

Congratulations to GemPearl for being the winner of this tournament and Trafficblr's favourite Life Series Ship of 2023!!!!!!

A Congrats to Jizzie for coming in 2nd Place!

And a Congrats to Ethubs for coming in 3rd Place!

Congrats to all the ships who have made it far and to all the ones that didn't but still had supporters all the way through

But most of all Congrats to GemPearl for somehow defying all odds. For being given perhaps the hardest path out of any ship on this entire tournament, going against 4 out of the top 6 ships while being an underdog ship and still managing to win through the sheer power and effort of it's fans. GemPearl fans, you have absolutely deserved this win and it has been incredible to witness your journey to victory!

All I can say now is that people have spoken and 2023 is the year of YURI!!!

Thank you to all who have participated in this tournament! Whether you've drawn some art, written some fics, bribed people to vote for your ship some other way or just voted yourself!

Also if anyone's wondering "will this tournament be back next year?"

Your answer is YES!!! See you then o/

#There shall be some stat posts coming after this for you stat lovers #Don't expect anything fancy on the visual front though because as you can tell by the winners pic: Graphic Design is my passion #trafficblr #trafficshipping #traffic shipping #gempearl

[crowberri]

[In Stars and Time] some siffrins some loops…

#the outfit sifs wearing… id like to think isa made them that after post game #like i dont think sif cares enough about himself to like go out of their way to find smth fancy to wear #they wore the same cloak for a decade+ #also hear me out. satyr loop. little hoppidy bastard (affectionate #with a tail and all to be extra annoying to sif <3 #isat #in stats and time #siffrin #isat loop #art #crowberri.png

[theinfinitedivides]

hey don't cry remember that if it falls i would hold on for all it's worth bc the future's so bright it's burnin'

#hozier #i literally just made a post about this ik but this song. this f*cking song my God went in all my playlists stat i'm not even kidding #and his accent coming through in this............. cinematic ass revolutionary protest song i'm kissing him on the mouth

[woman-for-women]

"For years, Sharissa Derricott, 30, had no idea why her body seemed to be failing. At 21, a surgeon replaced her deteriorated jaw joint. She’s been diagnosed with degenerative disc disease and fibromyalgia, a chronic pain condition. Her teeth are shedding enamel and cracking.

None of it made sense to her until she discovered a community of women online who describe similar symptoms and have one thing in common: all had taken a drug called Lupron.

Thousands of parents chose to inject their daughters with the drug, which was approved to shut down puberty in young girls but also is commonly used off-label to help short kids grow taller.

The drug’s pediatric version comes with few warnings about long-term side effects. It is also used in adults to fight prostate cancer or relieve uterine pain and the Food and Drug Administration has warnings on the drug’s adult labels about a variety of side effects.

More than 10,000 adverse event reports filed with the FDA reflect the experiences of women who’ve taken Lupron. The reports describe everything from brittle bones to faulty joints.

In interviews and in online forums, women who took the drug as young girls or initiated a daughter’s treatment described harsh side effects that have been well-documented in adults.

Women who used Lupron a decade or more ago to delay puberty or grow taller described the short-term side effects listed on the pediatric label: pain at the injection site, mood swings and headaches. Yet they also described conditions that usually affect people much later in life. A 20-year-old from South Carolina was diagnosed with osteopenia, a thinning of the bones, while a 25 year-old from Pennsylvania has osteoporosis and a cracked spine. A 26 year-old in Massachusetts needed a total hip replacement. A 25-year-old in Wisconsin, like Derricott, has chronic pain and degenerative disc disease.

“It just feels like I’m being punished for basically being experimented on when I was a child,” said Derricott, of Lawton, Okla. “I’d hate for a child to be put on Lupron, get to my age and go through the things I have been through.”

PBS - Women fear drug they used to halt puberty led to health problems (2017)

#w4w post #w4w infographic #stats #dysphoria #dysphoric #gender dysphoria #feminism #feminist #lupron #puberty blockers #transition #hrt

[thatonedudeinthecorner]

Psych (2006) au where it has nothing to do with the plot of the show but in college Shawn played in a dnd group and he bought weighted dice and he just lies about it to all of his friends and the players and they believe him because god dammit he’s just so good at lying.

Shawn didn’t even go to college but he snuck into the campus dnd group because Gus was the DM and Gus is the only one who knows that he’s cheating, but his character is really well written and because of his rolls the campaign is really productive so he just lets it happen.

But at the beginning of every session he goes “Shawn you need to stop using weighted die, it’s not ethical dnd playing and you’re going to get caught and everyone’s going to be really mad at you” and Shawn goes “okay but it’s really funny though, isn’t it?” And Gus just sighs and then they make out or something.

#memes #dnd #psych tv #psych #shawn spencer #burton guster #psych au #psych usa #psych 2006 #dnd memes #shawngus #psych posting #if Shawn were in dnd he would be a bard with like two levels of rogue #and all of his stats would be dumped into charisma #he would play a sexy rogue girl tiefling or a super flamboyant bard or like a barbarian or something #gus is the forever dm but he would play a wizard if he were in dnd #my roommate and I are talking about this #I love dnd #and psych