every day i ahve to reposition the damn lamp cuz she’s dead set on sticking her first leaf Right The Fuck In There and i don’t want her to burn. but every day i come home from work and she has closed the distance anyway. bestie PLEASE cooperate with me
I love when people are like “I can’t believe you reblogged that despite their user name, icon, bio, and last twenty posts” bc to me my dash is the only part of this website and I’m not slowing down to look at urls you could all be the same person
#spiritual successor is people being like why didnt you read my pinned before you reblogged!!!#dude i am not. i am not vetting every blog#i am here to backread for 45mins and rb 30 posts in a row and disappear#tumblr life
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)
hi, filipino here. just want to say that our independence day is june 12, not july 4. july 4 is when the united states government decided that they would recognize our freedom, specifically because it is your independence day and they wanted to cement their cultural hegemony over our country. and because of their influence on our country this was recognized for a time as our independence day. we still commemorate it, but i hope you can understand why we don’t want our independence day to be associated so closely with our former colonizer. it wasn’t even a work holiday for us.
june 12 is the day that we filipinos declared our own independence for ourselves, and that is what we celebrate as independence day
So many people who wanna argue with me about King Arthur clearly haven’t read the actual medieval texts. I know this because if they actually read the source material they’d know that when it comes to King Arthur, everything is made up and the points don’t matter.
Try telling that to Chrétien de Troyes. Aka the guy who invented Lancelot.
“Arthurian canon isn’t French”
Clearly you don’t own an air fryer. Also clearly you haven’t read literally anything written after the Norman invasion.
“Arthur needs to be a knight in shining armor”
If he lived at all he lived almost a thousand years before widespread adaption of plate armor.
“He can’t be in plate armor because that’s anachronistic”
Try telling that to Thomas Mallory.
“The fairy stuff is leftover from Celtic myth/Celtic gods)
A lot of that stuff including the lady of the lake wasn’t added until the 12th century actually. Centuries after England was christianized. It was also mostly added by the French poets.
I also like the idea of showing something as a problem before it’s shown as a strength. Almost every character trait has two sides, and by showing the “bad” side first, it sets things up to not only make sense, but to also be very satisfying.
I'm kind of obsessed with Hal being a D-list celebrity in Dol Makjar like that man cannot go anywhere without being clocked. Strangers at the club ask him to sing karaoke for them. The literal king of a foreign country knows who he is. Even the fucking mobsters he's fighting in the sewers are like "wait a minute, is that-"
Ah, reminded of that time my brother catfished an entire guild of men who wanted to date him...he nailed the girl acting so well that people were straight up looking for him to propose.
Okay so in order for me to explain what he did, I have to explain the game.
Where Winds Meet has Co-op enabled all the time. Even if you disable Co-op, once you hit a certain level, people will inevitably wander in your game. So, for a mobile phone player, its kind of difficult because once people get in your game, your phone starts overheating.
So he disabled co-op effects, he can't see anyone else in his game so he can just ignore everybody and play normally.
Next, you can play as a girl or a boy. For boys, this is mostly annoying, because you're constantly challenged into fights by bounty hunters, or chased around by guilds in order to get you to join their guild.
If you play as a girl, the girls are more respectful and the only problem you'd get would be boys giving you marriage proposals (there's in-game marriage). Girls leave girls alone. My brother and I share a Genshin account and what we both like is exploration. Leave us alone in a game and we just like to wander around. He brought this mindset with him in the game and it kind of shows in his playstyle.
Next, playstyle. This is the one game I don't share with him so as he explains it, he likes to paralyze people and then poke them. Once the paralysis of one attack wears off, he has like six more to hit you with that causes paralysis again. And then you get poked to death while paralyzed. This looks supremely awkward and funny when you watch it because a cute girl is literally stabbing to death a person who can't fight back.
Lastly, there's guilds. I have no idea the name of the guild, but they literally need to get married and divorced once a day and social extroverted people like it. He got invited because they saw a strong cute girl stabbing a guy to death and they liked him. He got at least fifty marriage proposals on that day.
Along with the marriage proposals, he got a ton of offers for free stuff. Naturally, as a morally good person, he refused the free stuff. As a Chaotically Good Person, he also told them he was a sixteen year old girl when they asked. He is a thirty five year old man. He pretended to be a shy sixteen year old girl so well that people believed him!!! (apparently, he just pretended to be me at sixteen!!!!!)
This guy literally seduced a whole guild of men into liking him so much that when the game updated and his phone couldn't handle the recent update anymore, he said to them, "Ah, my parents found out I'm playing and took my phone, this is the last time I'm logging in."
Someone literally asked, "do you have a bank account, I'll send you enough money to buy an iPhone right now."
At this point, I stopped talking to him because I was so embarrassed but that's how my brother got into a situation so awkward that he can't log into Where Winds Meet anymore, even if he got a better phone. There is literally a manhunt for him.
The celebrity Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavors being some of the best ones is like the retail equivalent of having to go to a restaurant and order a rootin tootin yeehaw cowboy burger or something
The Tonight Dough is a downright hedonistic ice cream flavor concept but in order to obtain it you have to purchase a pint of ice cream with Jimmy Fallon's face on it and then see him in your freezer every day for a week
