Dorthes

I don't know how to use Tumblr 23 y.o. - She/her - Bi

[dorthes]

Links

Twitter: Meh

Bluesky: Butterfly twitter

AO3: What? I write fanfiction? Sometimes.

Wattpad: There’s more Spanish content there.

Anilist: Sometimes I read manga / watch anime

Serializd: Sometimes I watch series

Letterboxd: Sometimes I watch films. I have had Tumblr for 5 years, I think, and I don’t know how to use it yet. 

[bertoide]

Fuuuuuuuck el otro día enseñé a Susana una parodia de "PAYPHONE-MAROON 5 FT. WIZ KHALIFA" y ahora no puedo parar de silbarla y tararearla y she turned off the lights now I'm paralized tun tun tun turun tun tun turun tun tun turun tu tun

[bertoide]

UPDATE: Después del curro he intentado llamar a Susana para cantarle y estaba ocupada... Bro I'm stuck on the Payphone trying to call home rn...

[dorthes]

Una ya no puede estar en la ducha...

[alanaisalive]

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

[iguanamouth]

oh shit

[throughshadow-to-the-edgeofnight]

[alanaisalive]

As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.

[docd666]

Y'all know what to do Tumblr.

[suzieloveships]

There is exactly 0% chance they are ever going to interact but in my head they are THE siblings duo

[pixeljeff]

// Evolution of STRANGER THINGS S1-S5 // .2026

Finally done reworking of my Stranger Things evolution fan art since the end of the finale, it’s so emotional and cheerful at the same time! Hope you enjoy it!

!Do not download the artwork for any usage1

[louisegluckpdf]

next dynamic were sexualizing is that of a bull and a toreador

[star-thief]

[bertoide]

No but this is literally Bizet's Carmen. For starters, Carmen is generally depicted with a red dress, with combined with her singing and dancing(which attracts the men) can look like the red cape. Also, Carmen sings in her aria about how she has her fun with the men she likes and discards them after loving them(Like how the toreador goes to the arena with the bull and kills it, she literally sings "If I like you, brace yourself"). As my last piece of evidence, Don José, one of the main characters, who ends up madly in love with Carmen on the first act, ends up killed by Escamillo, who is a literal toreador. Don José, by the way, is given many chances to give up the fight and go away unharmed, but he is stubborn and adamant on fighting Escamillo.

[cruxbatface]

Happy new year from our favorite lesbians

[ame-gosh]

what if we kissed 🫣. and we were both lemons 🍋😳

[bertoide]

En el universo Inazuma Eleven tiene que ser una jodienda cambiarse de instituto. En plan　 a Jude Sharp le salió bien, y a Bobby Shearer, pero porque eran de los pocos con nombres normales. Imagínate ser Worf Chewbac, del Instituto Vía Láctea, donde todos tienen nombres de personajes de ciencia ficción, tus colegas son el capitán Kirk y LUCAS SKYWALK, y de repente tus padres se tienen que mudar y te apuntan al Instituto Farm, de repente estás rodeado de paletos, todos llamados Joey Inbreeding, encajas como un elefante en un estuche, no puedes parar de pensar en que tud padres te han jodido la vida y te va a dejar secuelas. yo acabaría con todo.

[bertoide]

Me parece bien citar su libro respectivo a un fundamentalista religioso para mostrar que hay muchas partes que no cumple y es, por tanto, un hipócrita, ¿Pero eso acaso no es bidireccional? ¿No podría a una persona que no participa regularmente en la eucaristía decirle que no es realmente cristiano? ¿Debería meterme con un musulmán que se case con una persona atea o que incluso tenga amigos ateos?(Al-Ma'idah,5) ¿O es que somos todos hijos de, en palabras de un amigo mío, "el Dios tautológico de las buenas vibras, que le gusta lo que es bueno, y no le gusta lo que es malo"? Eso o bien estamos todos tan emponzoñados con idiotez americana y mezclamos religión y etnia. Imagen relacionada:

[bertoide]

Daniela Blasco cuando le piden que cuente los números en japonés pero ella sólo se estudió el siete: uuuuuh...　七 uhhhh... 七 ehhh... uuuuuh... 七 uhhhhh 七　ehhhh

[northern-punk-lad]

You know Eurovision instead of changing the rules of voting you could have just removed Israel it would have been so much easier

[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.

[5ummit]

It's that time again.

Has centreoftheselights learned the error of their ways and tried to actually collect their data properly this year so as to not misrepresent the popularity of every fandom on AO3? Nope! They're doing everything exactly the same, and as expected, the counts are WAY off (Castiel/Dean didn't even make it on the list this year despite having 6000 new works in 2024, which should've put it in the Top 10).

Do NOT trust this data.

Fortunately, Randomist1031 has done the hard work for us and compiled a 2024 dataset that includes privated fics AND gathers the counts correctly. They've even gone the extra mile and added separate public vs locked counts, percent locked calculations, and common ship names. I can't vouch for the accuracy of every data point but the handful I checked were very close (another benefit of using the "created by" filter method is that it's fairly replicable, unlike certain people's methodology).

Please share this list and use it for fandom analysis instead.

[dorthes]

Quieres ser

mi novia

Sí

[dorthes]

Chiara: Gen-Z lesbian icon we were waiting for

(This is a translation of Chiara: el referente lésbico Gen Z que estábamos esperando and some comments of mine)

Chiara Oliver Williams is one of the 16 contestants from the reality-talent show more successful of Spain: Operación Triunfo. She's 19 years old, she likes Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Alanis Morissette, Stevie Wonder, Mariah Carey, Fleetwood Mac and Rosalía. She speaks four languages fluently, she plays the piano, the bass and the guitar, she's a composer, she's half English, half Spanish, and, without doubt, one of the most promising artists on the Spanish music industry. But we're going to focus on yet another aspect of her personality, last but no least: she's an out and proud lesbian.

"I'm Chiara, I like Christmas, girls, I'm a bit crazy and that's it." That's how she defined herself at the beginning of December (when the contest had barely started) when Ruslana, one of her housemates (bisexual wink) asked her to talk about her. And boy, was she right, because during the following weeks she has shown us that, if there's something crucial about her life and personality is, besides music and her talent, her lesbianism.

Let's start from the beginning. Chiara was one of the candidates that caught the most attention during the casting stage (in which 13 thousand contestants tried their luck) for her special voice, her artistic personality and her technical skills.

As early as the first week of the contest we know she's a raging homosexual when another one of her housemates, Violeta (also bisexual wink) asked her why several of her compositions are dedicated to boys (even though she would later explain they're not romantic songs) when she's "the most lesbian from all lesbians of Spain." However, her "official" coming out came later thanks to the LGBT talk scheduled in the show.

"Straight-passing", invisibility and lesbian pride

During that talk, Chiara spoke to talk about one of the problems femme lesbians often face: being pretty and femenine, and so, nobody expects they're lesbians.

And that's just what Chiara explained. It took her a while to understand not just to understand her lesbianism, but assume it, because how are you going to be a lesbian if you're not masculine and have grown up in a society which denies you like girls if you're pretty and femenine? Like, if boys like you and you check every box they look for, how could you not like them?

Basically, she talked abour her experience. "I've always been very feminine Society tells you lesbians are masculine, gays and affeminate, so I didn't realise until later because I told myself "I'm not masculine, so it's phisically impossible." But that's not the truth."

Chiara has what is known as straight-passing, that is, nobody thinks she's a lesbian at first glance, and nobody is going to think so if she doesn't say it. And that's a "privilege" and more so in a TV contest. But she decided not to "use" that "privilege" and she says every single day she's a lesbian. And, of course, she has "paid" the price, but we will talk about that later. All that matters is that Chiara's not only openly a lesbian, she has said it whenever possible, has coined "Go lesbians" as a personal brand alongside Bea, another housemate and a lesbian too and she says the word "lesbian" without any kind of taboo.

Lesbian is a word so charged with prejudice that a lot of lesbians refuse to use it and prefer some "euphemisms" like gay. So it is to be welcomed that a 19-year old Menorcan says it in one of the most successful TV shows in Spain (and with some repercussion in Latin America). With all its letters, with pride.

Chiara is a lesbian. And she also has all lesbian culture in her mind. She's a fan of Glee (particularly of Santana and Brittany), her favourite character from Grey's Anatomy is Arizona Robbins and she didn't like Bridgerton for being too straight. She loves Cate Blanchett, Sarah Paulson and Paula Usero. I Kissed a girl is a hymn in her life (and she sang it in the contest and finished it with a kiss with Violeta) and has covered Mujer contra mujer thousands of times.

She, self proclaimed "Spanish lesbian Olivia Rodrigo", also has various romantic songs aimed to girls and many of them composed during the contest (rumours say some of them are dedicated to one of her girl friends in the contest).

Ships

Of course people is going to ship her with her housemates. In fact, a bisexual boy, Paul, confessed his feelings for her knowing it was impossible, which he told her, and people suspect possible relationships with her mentioned before housemates Violeta and Ruslana. It's true they're all very good friends, but Violeta has a girlfriend already and Ruslana is dating another housemate. I (the translator) personally think this is not relevant but, to whoever may care, you can search Wartanera on YouTube.

Misogyny, lesbophobia and ableism

Well, obviously not everything could be rosy. This is the 21st century and Spain can be one of the most advanced countries on LGBTQ+ and women's rights, but lesbophobia still exists. Chiara started the contest as one of the favourite contestant to win, but for the lat month she has received a hate wave from a good chunk of the audience because, well, she's an easy target.

Reality shows audience look for people to hate, and nothing is easier than a lesbian girl with ADHD. Chiara faces double discrimination for her sexual orientation and for being neurodivergent. And the consequence is that she could leave the show this week.

How to save Chiara

If you have read all of this, if you like how she sings, what she means to us, please help us save her and stay in the contest, not only for Chiara, but all Chiara represents.

You can watch all of her performances on the official Operación Triunfo Channel (and clips of Chiara in general)

You can see what she has done in the Academy through Twitter and Tiktok searching for Chiara OT or the words "Kivi" and "Ruski" (her ships).

You can listen to the songs she has covered in the contest and follow her on Spotify where she will publish her own songs outside the contest

But the most important thing is to vote for free in the official Operación Triunfo App once a day until Monday 5th February. It's fast and easy. If you are from Latin America or Spain you can download the app for free. If not, you can download it from here. Follow the instructions below to vote. It's very easy. Save the lesbians, go lesbians

[xmind0vermatt3r]

Save lesbian singer Chiara Oliver 🏳️‍🌈

[dorthes]

And she likes blondes AND villains; she could be a potential Catradora shipper for all we know.

(I'm desperate!!! HELP!!)

[jokeroutsubs]

Exhibition of Joker Out's outfits from the Eurovision

Here's also an article posted yesterday about the exhibition:

Exhibition with a story.

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to an exceptional exhibition where fashion and heritage meet. Our popular music group Joker Out shined on the Eurovision stage in Liverpool with outfits embellished with contemporary Idrija lace! The story that led to this incredible collaboration goes back to the heart of our friend Andraž Drobnić - Karlo Kirri. His Idrija roots led him to the idea of combining the sophistication of Idrija lace with the energetic and enthusiastic music of Joker Out. With the help of designer Tina Koder Grajzar, Karlo Kirri drew out the patterns, the Idrija lace-makers made them, and fashion designer Ponorelli then incorporated them into the outfits of the musicians who wowed the world audience at Eurovision. This unique exhibition will give you the chance to see these extraordinary outfits. You will be able to admire every detail of the contemporary Idrija lace that has been incorporated in the design of these artistic creations. This event is an opportunity to delve deeper into the story and symbolism of Idrija lace and its interaction with music. Join us, who knows, you might even meet members of the band Joker Out at the exhibition. Don't miss this extraordinary opportunity to discover the magic of "Lace at the Eurovision"! https://www.festivalidrijskecipke.si/eventer/razstava-evrovizijskih-oblek-skupine-joker-out/

Here's another picture from Idrija Lace-Makers' Association Facebook:

"Saturday morning will be remembered by many for the cute boys, members of the group Joker Out, who represented us at Eurovision this year in outfits adorned with Idrija lace. You won't be able to take pictures or chat with the boys this afternoon anymore, but you can still see their outfits today and tomorrow in the underpass of the Idrija City Library and Reading Room."

And 2 more pics from joker_out_official IG story:

-Translation by jokeroutsubs, DO NOT REPOST