The Pathologic Dating Simulator (PathoDate) now has a FULL ENGLISH TRANSLATION!
https://pathodate.itch.io/pathologic-visual-novel
While this game has been available in Russian since last year, it's only now that a full English translation has been produced!
Summary from itch.io:
""Pathologic: Visual Novel" is a project by enthusiastic fans of "Pathologic." Have you fallen in love with the game's characters as much as we have? If so, this project is for you! Because only in our visual novel will you be able to not only enjoy the wonderful characters of "Pathologic" but also develop romantic relationships with them, donning one of their familiar masks.
After twelve days of the pandemic and the race against time, we offer you a little rest. Five additional days of a completely different gaming experience: as Artemy Burakh or Daniil Dankovsky.
How will they manage their lives after the epidemic? Will they be able to get closer to one of their romantic interests, or will they remain in splendid isolation?
Game Features:
A non-linear visual novel with multiple endings depending on the decisions you make.
Each main character has several love interests. Something for every taste and orientation.
Numerous character sprites and their emotions, as well as full-screen illustrations of significant plot moments.
27 endings. 9 novels.
Reading time is about 10 hours." "
I was on the translation team for this and it's a lovely little game! Please give it a shot! It contains no spoilers for P3, by the way!
Can you believe that the Pathologic Kink Meme has lasted 5 whole years now? It's true! We got started on April 28th 2020 and we're still going. To honor this achievement, I thought it might be interesting to compile some current stats from the meme and compare it with the original 2021 post and see how the fandom has changed since the beginning. Let's start with the most popular characters and ships!
Disclaimer: We are not professional statisticians and this was mostly for fun, so while we did our best to catalogue exhaustively and calculate accurately, we cannot guarantee 100% perfect accuracy. We also tried to avoid assessing for values that would require more than a brief skim of the fills to ascertain.
Most Popular Characters
Fig 1.1 (2025)
Fig 1.2 (2021)
Artemy and Daniil still taking the top spots as the characters who feature in the most fics on the kink meme, but there's a notable trend here that we'll be seeing more of in other charts and that's the measurable explosion of Stamatin content in the fandom since 2021. Andrey and Peter were in about 4x as many fills as they were in 2021 while everyone else is only in around 2x as many. Stamatin Nation rise up!
Most Popular Ships
Fig 2.1 (2025)
Fig 2.2 (2021)
The kink meme has always been a rarepair haven and it looks like we've largely stayed that way, though a few ships have really taken off since 2021. Daniil/Peter and Daniil/Rubin have breached the 2% threshold to appear on the chart and Artemy and General Block are now vying for Lara's heart. Burakhovsky and Artemy/Rubin have remained remarkably stable, but Stamatincest has risen from a taboo niche to the second most popular ship on the kink meme (i'm so proud of us).
In case anyone is curious, last I checked, the Burakhovsky percentage on AO3 was at around 36%, so while we are certainly love the juggernaut on the kink meme, there's a lot more appreciation for everything else, too!
More charts under the readmore! --->
Biggest Fandom Bicycles
Fig 3.1 (2025)
Fig 3.2 (2021)
So we've already looked at the most popular ships, but another stat I think is interesting is one I call 'Fandom Bicycles' which is characters who... spread the love, so to speak. What these charts measure is how many other characters each character is shipped with across our catalogue of fills. For example, even though Artemy and Daniil are most often shipped with each other, each of them has been shipped with 25 and 18 other characters respectively. So who's your favorite town slut?
Ship Demographics
Fig 4.1 (2025)
Fig 4.2 (2021)
Some interesting trends here! M/M is still pretty dominant on the kink meme (like most of fandom), but our F/F proportions have marginally improved! For clarity, Other (bi) refers to polyamory, threesomes, and orgies where there are characters of multiple genders involved. Other (multi) is for fills where there are multiple ships of different gender configurations (e.g. A fic featuring Artemy/Daniil and Lara/Rubin where each couple is a separate unit). We don't have many of these on the meme, as I suspect that they're more typical of multi-chapter longfic, but there is some! Other (weird) is, well... the weird stuff. Ships between characters and non-human creatures, gods, concepts, architecture! Such classics as Artemy/Wonderbull and Daniil/Polyhedron are typical of this category. We also added a new category, Unclear, for fics where there is romantic or sexual content, nothing super weird is going on, but the gender of one or more participants is unclear (e.g. A sexy painting of General Block between an anonymous pair of legs, or Vlad Jr. visiting a gloryhole).
Explicit Content
Fig 5.1 (2025)
Fig 5.2 (2021)
Given that this is a kink meme, you'd expect the vast majority of fics to be sexually explicit and you wouldn't be wrong, but a whole quarter of our fill catalogue is SFW, whether that be genfic or non-explicit shipfic and I just think that's nice. <3
Trans Content
Fig 6.1 (2025)
Fig 6.2 (2021)
Trans headcanons are really popular in the Patho fandom and they are on the kink meme, too! We thought it might be fun to take stock of all of the explicitly trans content on the meme, though it’s hard to tell how this compares to AO3 due to people tagging for it in different ways. To avoid treating cis as the default, we chose to represent this in terms of content where one or more characters are explicitly trans (most of the time, it goes unstated) and we went about collecting this data using A/Ns, prompt descriptions, as well as skimming all of the fics for trans themes. Almost a 5% increase since the last stats post, which is really cool! Daniil is, by far, the most popular character to headcanon as trans, but there are lots of others, too!
That's all we've got for now, but we're excited to see how these stats change once Pathologic 3 comes out! Feel free to ask if you'd like to see a more detailed breakdown on any of these or if you have suggestions for other stats to collect in the future!
Just a little tip since the meme has been getting a lot more interest since Quarantine dropped, you don't have to make an account on Dreamwidth or join the Pathologic Kink Meme community in order to post prompts/fills in the comments of the kink meme! It's all anonymous and it is in fact traditional to comment anonymously (though you can do so under an account if you wish!)
So in case you've sent a request to join and are waiting on approval, that's why we haven't been approving them. Membership is only necessary for moderators who need to be able to make and edit the posts themselves.
Ahhh, just finished playing the demo and my enthusiasm for Pathologic has been thoroughly reinvigorated! If your mind is racing with new and exciting possibilities for our dear doctors, remember to hit up the kink meme! Yes, we still exist and we're still going strong 5 years later!
In honor of the Pathologic 3 news, thought I'd toss out a friendly reminder that the Pathologic KM is still here and we're still going strong! We've got 471 fills to date!
In our most recent update of the Unfilled Prompts post, we've had to split the post in 'twain for it could not endure the weight of our collective vice.
(Unfilled Prompts p. 1)
(Unfilled Prompts p. 2)
If you're looking for some nasty situations for our favorite bachelor in the run-up to the Patho 3 release, we've got you covered!
Guess what? The Unfilled Prompts post has been updated! Now's a great time to come check it out if you're looking for some Patho writing inspiration. All of the new shiny prompts from the last few months in one handy list
Forgot to send this out last week, but the Unfilled Prompts list has been updated for Fall! Lots of new and exciting ideas in one handy place! Please come check it out if you're looking for inspiration :D
We've done it, everyone! The Pathologic KM has reached 3000 comments! So many delightful prompts!
...And we hit 300 fills! Perfect symmetry~ This is an amazing achievement for such a small fandom. Huge thanks to all of our anonymous contributors for getting us to this milestone and making the Patho KM such a wonderful place to be!
Just a heads up that the Unfilled Prompt Post for the Pathologic KM has been updated! The last three pages of unfilled prompts are now catalogued for your convenience. If you haven't checked in a while, now's a great time to come and see what's new :D
Woo! Congratulations everyone! <3 We've made it to 2500 comments for our 1-year anniversary! We're almost at 250 fills, too! Here's to a whole year of Pathologic kinkiness and hopefully many more to come!
Hello and happy new year from the Pathologic Kink Meme! And what better way to celebrate the upcoming year than... STATISTICS! Now that we’ve got a decent amount of fills, we thought it would be fun to run the numbers to see what the most popular characters and ships are on the kink meme and how that compares to the wider fandom!
Numbers and Graphs below the cut!
Disclaimer: We are not professional statisticians and this was mostly for fun, so while we did our best to catalogue exhaustively and calculate accurately, we cannot guarantee 100% perfect accuracy. We also tried to avoid assessing for values that would require more than a brief skim of the fill to ascertain.
Top Characters
Fig. 1:
Here’s a ranking of the most popular characters on the kink meme based on how many fills they appear in. Unsurprisingly, Artemy and Daniil vastly outnumber everyone else, but Lara being the runner-up was an interesting result. She’s quite a bit further down on AO3. Also in contrast to AO3 is the Stamatins’ relative popularity. They’re both popular characters, but on AO3, Peter is the more frequently written twin, but for us, Andrey is best boy.
Top Ships
Fig. 2:
More interesting results to be found in the most popular ships! Like AO3, Burakhovsky takes the top spot, but its got a smaller majority than the wider fandom (Kink Meme: 23.7% vs. AO3: 33% at time of recording). That’s almost a 10% difference. What can I say? We love our rairpairs! Blocksquad also makes a strong showing here, as do the Rubemy fans, and our small (but enthusiastic!) handful of filthy twincest shippers. <3
Top Fandom Bicycles
Fig. 3:
Here’s one I thought might be cool. ‘Fandom Bicycle’ is a term for characters who, uh... get around, so to speak. So what this graph is measuring is how many different characters a character is shipped with. As the previous chart showed, Artemy and Daniil are most often shipped with each other, but each of them has also been shipped with 14 and 13 other characters respectively within our catalogue of fills. According to the kink meme, these are the characters who go with everything! Aglaya’s spot on this graph is interesting, since she’s notably not a part of any of the top ships. High diversity, low consensus! A real wildcard.
Ship Demographics
Fig. 4:
Here are the more general ship demographics! We’ve got 50% M/M (vs. 45% on AO3), 19.6% M/F (vs. 8.6% on AO3), and quite a surprisingly amount of Gen for a kink meme! Our F/F stats are a bit less impressive, though. Femslash February, anyone?
The ‘Other (bi)’ category is for threesomes, orgies, and polyamorous relationships featuring characters of multiple genders. ‘Other (multi)’ is for either your hypothetical straight orgy or fics with main ship/background ship action between ships of multiple categories (e.g. A Burakhovsky fic with background Lara/Rubin). That’s more typical of multi-chapter longfic on AO3, though, so I suspect that’s why we don’t have many of those sorts of fills on the meme. Most prompts ask for specific ships, and fillers generally don’t want to risk hijacking a prompt by adding in a ship the prompt didn’t ask for. ‘Other (weird)’ is self-explanatory. Ships between characters and non-human creatures, gods, concepts, architecture! This is where such classics as Artemy/Wonderbull and Daniil/Polyhedron go. And we’ve got more of it than you’d expect. ;)
Explicit Content vs. Non-Explicit
Fig. 5:
This one’s pretty self-explanatory. For a kink meme, we sure have a lot of non-porn! I thought that was pretty cool.
Trans Representation
Fig. 6:
Trans headcanons are really popular in the Patho fandom and that extends to the kink meme! We thought it might be fun to take stock of all of the explicitly trans content on the meme, though it’s hard to tell how this stacks up to ao3 due to people tagging for it in different ways. To avoid treating cis as the default, we chose to represent this in terms of content where one or more characters are explicitly trans (since most of the time, it goes unstated) and we went about collecting this data using A/Ns, prompt descriptions, as well as skimming all of the fics for trans themes.
And last and most important of all... the thing that I think makes the kink meme one of the best places in the fandom to post your work... the feedback! The meme is super interactive! Almost everything gets comments, and we’ve got lots of conversation and negotiation happening between prompters and fillers. So we decided to count up the top-level comments on every fill and take the mean and median.
Average Comments: 3.08
Median Comments: 3
Anyway, that’s all we’ve got for now! The next big milestone is April 28th, which will mark our 1-year anniversary! I wonder how much these stats will have changed by then? Are there other stats you’d be interested in seeing?
Woo! 200 fills to ring in the new year! That’s like... 15% of the entire ao3 tag. Not bad. Keep your eyes out, though! We’ve got a little surprise in the works that’ll be coming shortly...
Only ten more fills until we hit the big 200! In a fandom this small, this feels like an achievement. Thank you to the fandom and all our fellow freaks (you know who you are ;) for bringing us this far and making this one of the most fun and accepting communities in the fandom!
Feel free to drop by to take a look at our (recently updated!) Unfilled Prompt catalogue and find some inspiration!
Been thinking a lot about how herb brides are the only people who’ll trade you razors and other blades and that maybe the rest of the Kin just look the other way because good luck telling a herb bride what to do.
I’d like to see one of the dancers from the Broken Heart, armed with something sharp, saving Andrey from some kind of violent confrontation. Because whatever else you want to say about him, he’s a decent employer who pays well and has this cute misconception that they need his protection. Shippy or gen, up to you.
I have a soft spot for partners being comfortable with menstruation/period sex, and given that Artemy is both so familiar with the human body and so thematically tied to the subject of blood, he feels like the right man for the job. Dealer's choice as to who he is giving his undivided love and attention to!
i’d love to see artemy just get absolutely ravaged by a herd of steppe bulls in their mating season. the haruspex gets stuck halfway through a while trying to grab some beautiful, rare piece of twyre that was just past the cattle gates. pants get caught or ripped by some conveniently placed shrubbery and the bulls get attracted by artemy’s swearing and it doesn’t take long for them ti take advantage of the situation.
+ bonus for trans artemy, getting filled to bulging by how much cum fits in his womb
+ feel free to play with how much he enjoys it ;) maybe he couldve gotten out but was just too horny/intoxicated from the twyre in his face, letting it happen over and over - or maybe he’s utterly humiliated and disgusted by the bulge in his stomach and how much the thick bovine cocks stretch him open
extra bonus: someone has to get him unstuck - finding him in such a precarious position could elicit many different, fun responses from the town-on-gorkhon :)
(CW: bestiality) Peter gets to *clap* fuck *clap* a *clap* bull
i'm doing it, folks, i'm bringing bulls back on for the first time since the example prompt. In Classic at one point, Peter has a conversation with Daniil where he tells him that Katerina is linked to a tradition of women who slept with bulls in order to gain visions of the future, but she's a total pale imitation who doesn't REALLY sleep with bulls. :/ his resentment of this is hilarious and he seems to be really nostalgic for the old days of wonder where damnit, you really did bang bulls for magic visions. So I think the boy should just cut out the middleman and GET what he wants.
Can be 'real' or a vision he has; get Bos Turokh involved if you want or it can just be a regular ol' sacred bull; whatever reasoning for it is fine, as long as it's a weird magic/sacred situation and the consent's dubcon at worst - I want Peter to have a good time!
