#pasiphile

[transmoriarty]

behold. the unofficial TVD/FIF locations project companion piece

a (mostly complete) guide & pics of places from the fic, & directions for a walkable tour if ur feelin nasty

powerpoint link

pdf version (might need to be downloaded due to size)

the map

for @pasiphile , thank u for everything <3

[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.

[moriartyfortheevening1]

EVERYBODY GET YOUR MARKERS OUT IT'S BINGO TIME BABY!!!

[amberlyneraven]

I am throwing up.

And when I'm done I am murdering Mycroft Holmes.

[degenezijde]

"why is my chapter 50 000 words... Why is this chapter book length..." - my wife's dark mutterings

[talaricula]

Oooh well I am old too so: 1, 5, 20, 23, 27 pls

Very funny, you asked almost the same questions as Thea!

1. Favourite kitchen appliance? My new beautiful pfas-free rice cooker that allows me to so easily make sushi bakes and onigiri and rice for with chicken tikka masala and steam dumplings and everything.

5. Favourite furniture? Bonus round: our bed, which is a wood coloured ikea malm with four drawers underneath. I love it mostly for the storage, the cute bedding (ikea strandlummer) and the fact that it's the first piece of furniture we bought Together and it's followed us for over six years now. If one (and soon two!) toddlers keep ending up in our bed on a semi regular basis, we're gonna have to go from a 160 to 180cm, though, bc I have No Room when smurf ends up in our bed.

20. Go-to minimal effort recipe? Already gave two but I'll give some more:

Buy a bag of frozen Mediterranean vegetables and some small/diced potatoes. Put on drip tray lined with parchment paper. Top with sliced halloumi. Bake at 200 Celsius for about half an hour or so. In the meantime, throw a bunch of parsley, an unreasonable amount of garlic, olive oil, lemon juice (ratio depending on taste preferences) and salt and pepper to taste in a mixing bowl or food processor, mix into sauce (it's called a persillade). Serve oven bake with a generous helping of persillade.

Also super easy soup:

Put one tablespoon of red curry paste in the bottom of a pot, cook at medium heat for about a minute.

Add 1kg of diced pumpkin (buy frozen for ease). Can be replaced by 500g bell pepper/500g carrots for a more summery taste (also frozen for the love of god). Cook until no longer frozen/a bit soft.

Add 1l of vegetable stock (aka 1l of water and two blocks of stock)

Bring to a boil for about ten minutes

Mix

Add 200-400g of coconut milk (depending on whether you prefer a more veggie or coconut milk heavy soup)

Done!

In general I make all my recipes low effort by buying all my vegetables (including garlic and onions, and excluding tomatoes, and zucchini if making soup) frozen.

23. Coolest place you've visited? Rapid fire: in addition to All The Caves and prehistoric sites in France and Belgium (can provide list if of interest - fave place in Belgium was the musée préhistorique d'andenne associated with Scladina cave), cradle of humankind in South Africa, pilanesberg nature park in South Africa, Gaspesie (Québec) in general (the latter two is just. Unimaginable nature for a little Belgian), the Algarve in Portugal and the Danube delta in Romania were unexpectedly awesome, the Forum is Rome is absolutely Wild to witness, the Memorial de Caen and Apartheid Museum (Johannesburg) both knocked me on my arse, and I'll stop here bc this list is getting way too long

27. Still cooking. I don't think I like any other household chore tbh :p

[fictionalred]

For the ask meme 5, 19, 27 please (and 25 but I know the answer already and it's yes)

Yay, thank you!!

5. favorite form of potato?

Frietjes natuurlijk!!

Belgian fries are the best fries, fight me on this.

19. the veggie you dislike the most?

Chicongs, witloof, chicory

Don't like 'em raw or cooked.

27. what’s your favorite or go-to outfit?

Mostly simple actually. I take fancy selfies on here yeah, but a black flared jeans and a band/star trek T-shirt is my go-to outfit mostly.

25. would you say you have good taste in music?

actually no xDD My taste is awful I think? Very niche or smth I dunno. I tend to just love weird extremes too much. Like french heavy metal, just cause french sounds too cute for it. Or German operatic singing on industrial beats. I'm love those.

[bigqueervillain]

pasiphile replied to your post “fucking hell fred i'm so jealous”

wait. waitwaitwait. is that ENZO CILENTI AND ANDREW SCOTT IN THE SAME PLAY???

YES IT IS!!! ENZO CILENTI IS THE SLUTTY BEAUTIFUL HUSBAND OF ONE OF ANDREW SCOTT’S MANAGERS AND SEDUCES HIM IT’S A WHOLE THING

pasiphile replied to your post “fucking hell fred i'm so jealous”

yeeaaah that's fucking france, that's probably not going to work out :(

booooo the innate inaccessibility of theatre >:[