#fif

[careyfell59]

Eternals assemble!!!

[pasiphile]

Not sure what's the most fun/flattering for an author: someone drawing fanart of your fic, someone liveblogging them reading your fic, someone doing full-on English lit student literary analysis of your fic, or someone fucking running a linguistic computational comparative analysis of your fic.

[mormorproposal]

TVD & FiF Comparison Using Computational Linguistics

When I opened my inbox back in December 2025 and saw the notification that @pasiphile had published the very first chapter of Fast In Fire, I - like so many others alongside me - was absolutely elated! After all, it had been 12 years since These Violent Delights, the first part of This Life Is A Trip (When You're Psycho In Love), had been published, dutifully offering a gateway into mormor for many, and stealing hearts right, left and center.

As a fan of pasi's writing and with my first semester at uni studying computational linguistics under my belt, the 12 year gap piqued my interest in particular. How would the writing differ? Would you be able to spot differences in regards to the average word or sentence length?

All that accumulated into me asking pasi for permission to analyze their texts, and then went to code. This post now aims to share/document the findings of this endeavor.

Disclaimer: The findings may be a tiny bit inaccurate - while I am absolutely having fun and enjoying this project immensly, I am still very new to this skill set,,

That being said, the findings are as follows:

TVD Word Count: ~168,318

*is slightly inaccurate due to a process of tokenization - which consists of splitting a text into its several parts (e.g. "Sebastian's boss doesn't smoke. -> "Sebastian", "'s", "boss", "does", "n't", "smoke") - beforehand -- I needed to work around having multiple tokens that made up one word (e.g. how "doesn't" is one word but is made up of "does" and "n't"), which I tried my best to account for but some tokens may still slip past

TVD Average Word Length: ~4.25 characters/word

FIF Word Count: ~365,069 words

FIF Average Word Length: ~4.39 characters/word

TVD Sentence Count: ~18,926 sentences

TVD Average Sentence Length: ~8.89 words/sentence

FIF Sentence Count: ~42,250.5 sentences *the .5 possibly stems from a forgotten quotation mark

FIF Average Sentence Length: ~8.64 words/sentence

-> This indicates a slight change in sentence length, with TVD having slightly longer sentences on average than FIF

The fics TVD (11,268 tokens) & FiF (19,031 tokens) have this many tokens in common: 7,493

The fics have an overlap of 24.73%

The Type Token Ratio for TVD (0.05) and for FIF (0.04)

*The Type Token Ratio (TTR) refers to how versatile a text is in its choice of words. It compares the complete Tokens (as already mentioned above) of a text with the overall Types in a text, which basically mean the occurrence of one unique Token [e.g. "Sebastian's boss doesn't like Sebastian's cigarettes" -> the types "Sebastian" and "'s" occur 2x, every other type exactly 1x; the overall sentence has 9 Tokens but 7 Types]. The closer the TTR is to 0, the more variety a text has to offer.

-> The TTR for both TVD and FiF are very close to 0, which is an indicator for their varied choice of words. However, FiF has a minisculy larger TTR, but this can be chalked up to its length being so much bigger than TVD. I'd say TVD and Fif are overall pretty varied with ca. equal levels of different choice of words.

Most frequently used Tokens:

TVD: TOKENS - FREQ | FIF: TOKENS - FREQ

1 you - 9,953 | the - 14,439

2 the - 6,651 | you - 11,791

3 and - 5,205 | to - 8,857

4 he - 4,401 | a - 7,885

5 to - 4,051 | and - 7,564

.. … …

96 how - 268 | head - 661

97 hands - 267 | some - 647

98 way - 264 | looked - 641

99 right - 263 | into - 641

100 want - 263 | Moriarty - 639

-> Note how the ranking of "you" and "the" switches places from TVD to FiF,,, that was so funny to me.

Most frequently used Bigrams:

*A Bigram means a Token Grouping of 2 that occur right next to each other in a text. "Sebastian killed him", for example, would consist out of the Bigrams "Sebastian killed" and "killed him".

TVD: BIGRAMS - FREQ | FIF: BIGRAMS - FREQ

. “ - 3,475 | . “ - 8,179

. ” - 2,220 | . ” - 6,621

You 're - 1,818 | ” “ - 6,178

? ” - 1,480 | ? ” - 4,087

” “ - 1,399 | , ” - 2,490

.. … …

96 again , - 142 | Sherlock said - 294

97 for a - 140 | he 'd - 293

98 there 's - 139 | you 've - 291

99 one of - 139 | ” he - 291

100 back . - 139 | “ Yeah - 291

-> Particularly interesting to me is the frequency of ” “, which marks how often a closing quotation mark was followed by an opening one. Or: how often was a quote directly followed with another quote without any dialoge markers?

Most frequently used pronouns:

TVD: PRONOUN - FREQ | FIF: PRONOUN - FREQ

you - 9,953 | you - 11,791

he - 4,401 | it - 6,257

your - 3,182 | I - 5,898

it - 2,823 | he - 5,263

his - 2,425 | she - 4,533

-> Note how the existance of white hat chapters is clearly noticable in the pronoun frequency - especially with "she" making it into the Top 5 :')

Honorable Mentions:

In the overall Token frequency, in TVD "Jim" came in 26th place (Freq.: 916), which just happens to be lower than the frequency of "Sherlock" in FiF - with 2,087 mentions, it took 25th place… I know Jim's fuming over that somewhere lmao

"men", "sex" & "bedroom" all share one place with 55 mentions, and "fucking", "gun" & "home" all share one place with 54 mentions - if that isn't mormor in a nutshell, I don't know what else is haha

When I grouped the words into word classes, "Jim" took the first place of the TVD nouns with a frequency of 916 occurrences; a mention of "Moriarty", however, occurs 237 times and takes 7th place.

The first 3 most frequent nouns in FiF were Sherlock (Freq.: 2,084), Mary (Freq.: 1,146) and John (Freq.: 1,014).

Moran is mentioned 722 times (-> he's in 5th place) and Moriarty takes the 9th place with being mentioned 632 times.

[bosstoaster]

Posting with no context except feral screaming.

[tigerfancy]

My partner and I made bingo cards for fif, I'll have to post them at some point. I was one square away from getting one, too...

Anyway, just gonna place my bets for the future (ig??) here because I don't think I have another 25 in me:

1) Seb gets himself out of Baskerville and Jim has nothing to do with it

2) Jim... I'm so torn. Two bets:

Faked it and ran off because it all got to be too much, in which case I will write a self-insert fic and kick his ass myself

Actually tried to khs and fucked it up?? And somehow another super secret government agency has him and Mycroft doesn't know about it

3) and I'm betting this one because I need it to be true: Seb doesn't bounce back from this one immediately and Jim has to become Seb in the next one and take care of him in a complete role reversal of Jim's after-Baskerville stint in TVD

That's it, that's the bit. I'm going to bed, unprepared for tomorrow...

(I unfortunately think I picked the losing dog again... Seb isn't going to have any wins in Calvary, u stupid slut)

[pocket-companion]

Today's headline in The Guardian - putting this on Seb's imaginary reading list

[bigqueervillain]

Reading the comments from the latest chapter of FiF and really glad that we all seem to be in agreement that Mycroft Holmes should be shot in the knees

[grand-taire]