If you have received messages from me in the last two days about how I reported your account, that wasn't me! Someone stole my password and messaged people without my knowledge. I would love to apologize, but most of those contacts have (rightfully) blocked me.
People were messaged "heyu" and if they responded got this image with the following text: "hello, I just want to apologize for reporting your account. I was dealing with an issue involving another user and acted out of frustration. I didn’t mean to involve you."
If they were then worried, they were pushed to contact someone in that email:
As far as I can tell, only one person did that and then responded, that this was clearly a scam. As they have also blocked me, I can't apologize.
How this unfolded for me:
A few weeks ago I received this message:
Nothing else came of it, so I assume this person got their account back. Since I was never sent a link or anything, I didn't think much of it.
Two days ago (so a full month after that message above) I suddenly got a few message notifications, but the tumblr app wouldn't open. I assumed there was a glitch but also didn't have time to put more thought into it. The next morning I saw the email that my password had been changed and when I clicked the link to undo it, the thief had already added two-factor authentication so I couldn't get back in.
I never clicked on any links. My password wasn't obtained through phishing. Someone intentionally got into my account by somehow getting their hands on my password!
I didn't have two-factor authentication enabled previously, so please do that!
Shout-out to the Tumblr-staff at this point, who got me back into my account less than 24 hours after sending them a message!
Please share this, so that more people are aware! This scam has been around for a while, but I hadn't seen any posts about it.
Here's the link to a tumblr post by someone else who had a very similar thing happen to them
Just in case you haven't seen it, but as a public service announcement, I feel I need to point everyone into the direction of a really, really hot fic inspired by this look:
This is the 3rd post in my star trek ao3 analysis series: ds9 is here and Enterprise is here (Enterprise post contains info about how I calculated stuff like ship ratings and explanations of r-values if that's of interest!). I'll be looking at fic data on ships, categories and ratings over time since 1999, the first with more than 50 fics backdated to it in the Voyager fandom tag.
(thank you to @bloodredfountainpen for suggesting doing this one next, i hope you find it interesting :))
1. Number of fics over time
The upward trend of fics posted per year since 2008 is notable, with the biggest single increase between 2019-2020; however, it seems to have flattened off and even dropped a bit in recent years
The big spike in 2003 is due to the upload of the Tom Paris archive, which was overwhelmingly backdated to that year (more effects of this to come later!)
(on a side note of data presentation i am aggrieved that the labelled years are so close together but thought this was better than having no line on the graph on the right hand side which was frankly upsetting to look at)
2. Popularity of ships over time
Had to remove a non-top ship for the first time to make the second graph here -- despite being no. 4 overall the Chakotay/Tom spike is huge!
Apart from a few rogue years in the early-mid 2000s, Janeway/Chakotay has been a very consistent top ship, seeming slightly less popular in recent years than its mid-late 2010s peak but still very dominant
I was surprised at how relatively low J7 was for much of the graph, as before I watched any Voyager/got into the fandom they were the ship I'd heard most about in passing (including having heard about them being popular back when Voyager was airing). It's really grown in recent years though and has held a steady second top ship status since 2020!
In terms of other F/F ships (there's more than one for once!!), Janeway/B'Elanna was most popular in the early-mid 2010s and B'Elanna/Seven in the early-mid 2020s
Chakotay/Tom is a ship whose trajectory I expected as it's one of the top Voyager ships on AO3 but I've very rarely seen it discussed. Their big spike in the mid 2000s is mostly due to the upload of the Tom Paris archive being largely backdated to those years
It seems like Janeway/Tom had a moment in 2008, but this was an outlier year for the 2000s with only 43 fics so the spike in fact only corresponds to 5 fics that year, all written by the same person. I'd say their most significant moment was being 4th top ship last year -- a lower percentage but the highest number of fics for them in a year at 94.
Award for the fandom's specialest most-shipped character goes jointly to Janeway and Tom for both having 4 ships in the top 10!
correlation stuff:
Janeway/Chakotay and Chakotay/Tom have a fairly significant negative correlation of r=-0.7, the strongest correlation between any two Voyager ships for this data
Janeway/Chakotay also had a medium positive correlation of r=0.5 with Chakotay/Seven, interestingly -- looking at the C7 tag 67% of fics also have J/C tagged which would explain this
B'Elanna/Seven and Janeway/Seven also had a positive correlation of r=0.6, despite the fact that there are very few fics tagged with both ships. In fact, none of the F/F ships had a negative correlation with each other!
3. Average ship ratings (all time)
Chakotay/Tom are the highest rated ship I've come across so far, with a rating of 69% (obligatory NICE). As with a lot of things about this ship I definitely wasn't expecting to find this!
The only two couples in the top 10 to be in a relationship in canon (Tom/B'Elanna and Chakotay/Seven) are the lowest rated of them all, at 33% and 35% respectively
Congratulations go to Tom Paris for both fucking and not fucking. Schrodinger's sexyman
Congrats to J7 for being the horniest F/F ship I've come across so far at 46% 🎉
4. Fic ratings over time
Bucking the trend of DS9 and Enterprise, Voyager's average rating has been on a general decreasing trend (r=-0.6).
Again, the high spike in 2003 is due to the upload of the Tom Paris archive and sheer amount of Chakotay/Tom (always at the scene of the crime)
An unusual increase in unrated fic in the last two years, even being more prominent than explicit & mature rated fics
5. Fic category composition over time
2023 was the Voyager Year of Yuri and 2003 was the Year of Yaoi
Not much competition for the top space here: there's only been 4 years in which F/M wasn't the top category
The F/M graph shape is of course very similar to the J/C graph, save for 2010 which is a big drop in the J/C graph but not here. I'd probably pin this on Tom/B'Elanna being the second top ship that year and making up the numbers
M/M has a negative correlation of r=-0.7 with both F/M and Gen
6. Misc notes
several parts of the category composition graph look like cat ears (yes this is vital information to impart)
janeway/crusher were the 11th top ship just behind T'Pel/Tuvok -- extra surprising considering they're a cross-series ship who've never interacted in canon (at least until an episode in prodigy S2, so some googling tells me)! I did a bit more research because such a comparatively popular cross-series ship intrigued me, and found that just under half were written by the same two people — impressive dedication
Neelix did not appear once during all my searches from 1999 onwards. Only one ship for the doctor appeared in the top 10 at any point (Doctor/7)
complete side note — i’ve always found it super interesting that the voyager fandom still mainly uses what i understand to be the older ship naming conventions (J/C, P/K etc) rather than portmanteau ship names like the other trek fandoms, even for shows that aired around the same time (e.g. modern DS9 fandom using garashir instead of G/B)
I met Kate Mulgrew yesterday at Comicon in Dublin.
I watched as others took their photos. A couple handed her a tiny newborn baby, which she cradled adoringly. It pulled on her hair and she laughed, trying to extract them. The laugh vibrated through my entire soul.
All I could think was “Janeway’s laugh!”
The next photo included three little boys. Their mother insisting they be in the photo without her. They had no idea who Kate was and Kate thought it was the funniest thing.
When I stepped up for my photo she was still laughing. We locked eyes and she said something that made the room laugh, but I was shell shocked and couldn’t hear because she had wrapped an arm around me. She held me to her. Jesus.
The photographer guided us to smile, and the I thanked her for being there, and I then caught her little sideways smile before I was ushered away.
God, even at 70 she is so luminous. Magnetic. Commanding.
I didn’t even need to say a thing. Just being in her aura was amazing.
