At some point "fanfic can be as good as professional writing" became "fanfic should be as good as professional writing" and that's caused major damage to fandom spaces.

The devastating difference between how much time it takes to write something vs how fast people read it lol

call me ignorant but i genuinely don’t understand why sports have to be split up by gender.

@ everyone in the notes talking about physical performance: if that were the case, then sports would be divided by physical performance. that’s a thing you can measure. that’s a thing that varies by individual. a weak man and a strong man would be an unfair fight in boxing/wrestling/MMA, which is why they divide those sports up into weight groups based on physical performance. but they also further segregate them based on gender. chess is segregated by gender for no reason but sexism. if it’s actually about skill and physical ability, then measure those and separate people by those metrics. don’t do some bullshit gender segregation and pretend like men and women are inherently on different levels no matter their individual abilities.

Remember that time a teenage girl struck out Babe Ruth? That’s fucking why. Men are afraid of being beaten by women.

Remember that time male swimmers were pulled out of training because Kate Ledecky was leaving them ‘broken’ by swimming better than them? Remember how she didn’t even notice, because she was busy actually training?

Shooting is a sport that has no reliance on strength and so any allowance for gender variation is irrelevant. The last time there was a mixed competition (1992) a chinese woman named Zhang Shan won it.

It’s often presented as for the benefit of women. After all, they’ll be heartbroken when they‘re hurt or bested by men.

Projection is a hell of a drug. 

this is why they drug test Serena like crazy. the believe no woman should be that good. let alone a black woman. and black women have always been considered “manly” and less feminine.

also can we talk about how surfing is segregated as well? like how the dude who won this years international surfing cup or whatever was given $30,000 worth of prize money, while the woman who won the women’s comp was only awarded like $16,000 of prize money???? or whatever it was. but I know it was either half or less than half of what the man won. like why can’t they get the same prize money and when they’re competing internationally in the same competition? they surely have the same level of skill and talent.

the pay gap in sports between men and women is fucking insane.

The pay gaps, not to mention lack of sponsorships for women athletes who don’t look like models is insane. If you weigh over 250 pounds, no one will sponsor you. It’s why most female Olympic-class weightlifters live in poverty/out of their cars.

Reminder that in international (and usually national too) womens athletics anybody with 5m/mol of natural testosterone or higher is disqualified. (See legal case of Dutee Chand vs IAAF.)

Do you or somebody you know have PCOS? You are banned from international womens athletics because you are supposedly in posession of an unreasonable advantage in sports.

Folks disqualified for hyper-androgenism in womens athletics.

Francine Niyonsaba

Caster Semenya

Dutee Chand

Margaret Wambui

And more

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Why are those disqualified overwhelmingly black and brown? Because testing is case by case when an athletes performance “raises suspicions”. They overwhelmingly test athletes of colour, for being too fast and not meeting white expectations of femininity.

Racism and intersexism(discrimination against intersex people) in sports is abject evil. Desegregate sports.

All of this.

Oh, this some good stuff. I share to others 

ABSOTUTAFUCKINGLUTELY. I AM SO INCREDIBLY SICK OF EVERYONE REGARDING WOMEN AS INHERENTLY LESS THAN MEN. “THERE IS NO SEXISM IN BA SING SE” MY ASS

Yup to all of this, especially the racism highlight

SEGA!!!

RELEASE THE TEN HOUR STOBOTNIK MAKE OUT SESSION AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!!

AO3 Ship Stats: Year In Bad Data

You may have seen this AO3 Year In Review.

It hasn’t crossed my tumblr dash but it sure is circulating on twitter with 3.5M views, 10K likes, 17K retweets and counting. Normally this would be great! I love data and charts and comparisons!

Except this data is GARBAGE and belongs in the TRASH.

I first noticed something fishy when I realized that Steve/Bucky – the 5th largest ship on AO3 by total fic count – wasn’t on this Top 100 list anywhere. I know Marvel’s popularity has fallen in recent years, but not that much. Especially considering some of the other ships that made it on the list. You mean to tell me a femslash HP ship (Mary MacDonald/Lily Potter) in which one half of the pairing was so minor I had to look up her name because she was only mentioned once in a single flashback scene beat fandom juggernaut Stucky? I call bullshit.

Now obviously jumping to conclusions based on gut instinct alone is horrible practice... but it is a good place to start. So let’s look at the actual numbers and discover why this entire dataset sits on a throne of lies.

It's that time again.

Has centreoftheselights learned the error of their ways and tried to actually collect their data properly this year so as to not misrepresent the popularity of every fandom on AO3? Nope! They're doing everything exactly the same, and as expected, the counts are WAY off (Castiel/Dean didn't even make it on the list this year despite having 6000 new works in 2024, which should've put it in the Top 10).

Do NOT trust this data.

Fortunately, Randomist1031 has done the hard work for us and compiled a 2024 dataset that includes privated fics AND gathers the counts correctly. They've even gone the extra mile and added separate public vs locked counts, percent locked calculations, and common ship names. I can't vouch for the accuracy of every data point but the handful I checked were very close (another benefit of using the "created by" filter method is that it's fairly replicable, unlike certain people's methodology).

Please share this list and use it for fandom analysis instead.

another flaw in this counting method (and i really don't like being mean but this pissed me off) is that if a bunch of fics suddenly become UNlocked they somehow get counted as a new work?? when?? they're not??

take sherlolly for example. this year they gained about 200 new works (not the exact number but i cba to figure out what it seriously was). but on the list it says they gained ~1,700. What?

so i contacted the author and they themselves said that they figured out that a bunch of old works had become unlocked and so it had skewed the data so wildly that a ship that would've ranked in the 200-300s was fucking SEVENTY SIX????

For the people that think Lee is the only one who ships Stobotnik,

This is all from Jim Carrey

NEVER in my 12 years of sonic nonsense did I think I’d want eggman to be in a freaky gay situationship

and i stand by it

Thinking about him 😔*

*Trent Crimm, independent

we’ll miss you you zesty geezer

Every single odd number has an “e” in it.

LISTEN-

Not all of them. 30 and 50 aren’t spelled with the letter e in it …

father god 

…if you can split a number in half evenly, it’s even. 30 and 50 are odd.

-_-’

(15 15=30

25 25=30)

25 25 = 30? You sure about that??

Lord have mercy….

Bye

3 days into 2018 smh

LMAOOOOOOO

One

Three

Five

Nine

And since everything else after that is a variant of these numbers, then all odds have the letter ‘E’.

🗣YOU FORGOT SEVEN!!

It keeps getting worse.

LMAOOO WHAT IS GOING ON

My head hurts…

This is why that Tumblr University shit was the dumbest idea ever just look at this

who failed yall?

IM SCREAMING

You whole ass forgot about eight - a number with an e and is pretty fucking even

why would 8 be brought up if it’s EVEN in a post about ODDS??????? the post said “every single ODD number has an ‘e’ in it” not “every single number with an ‘e’ is odd” what the fuck

3 days until 2019 and we’re still here

happy New year’s eve

I’m going to bring this flaming dumpster into 2019 so future generations can see what a mistake Tumblr was

Er, guys two is odd and doesn’t have an e. Just saying…

did you deadass just try to tell me two is odd? i’m fucking crying throw the whole website away

Reblogging for the last one😂

The one thing I notice is that no matter how much you want to throw this site away, you just can’t.

TWO IS ODD?!?! PFFFTT I’M SCREAMING

Wait what about zero that’s an odd number ,no?

ok but hear me out fifty and thirty make up for the fact they have no e by the way they are pronounces third-E fifth-E

bro why do 30 and 50 matter THEY’RE FUCKING EVEN

what the actual fuck is happening

1 is an even number

I’m gonna smack you

-30 and -50 have an e in them

Wait why are we so quick to throw away the Zero idea

Zero isn’t a number

It can’t be divided by two though, can it

It can??? 0/2=0??

OD NUMBERS

onE

thrEE

fivE

sEvEn

ninE

OD numbers huh?

Anything that ends with a 0,2,4,6,8 is even and the rest is odd (1,3,7,9) stop freaking out y’all

YOU FORGOT 5

DUDE WHAT ABOUT FOUR

What about it?????

THAT DOESN’T HAVE E IN IT

THAT’S BECAUSE IT’S EVEN?????

A R E Y O U G U Y S O K A Y

21 days away from 2020, folks.

Please tell me I can start the new freaking decade with a post arguing about something as stupid as this. Please. 🙏

This is art at its finest

one week to 2020 dudes

I’m so done

Im so upset that even with all the “zero is odd” “no it’s not” stuff no one bothered to point out… It doesn’t matter. Zero, 0, zEro

But zero isn’t odd. It’s fucking the lack of a number. It’s neutral. It’s empty. There’s nothing there

Zero is a number.

A definition of an even number is that it can be divided by 2 and the result is a whole number. Since you cannot divide zero, you cant divide it by 2 and that means that zero is an odd number.

zEro, onE, thrEE, fivE, sEvEn, ninE, ElEven, and then the suffix -teen and every other odd number in english contains the names of the numbers 1 to 9.

zero is not a goddamn odd number what. even i know that and i’m not good at math. also you can divide 0 by 2, it’s 0, you literally just divide it  and you just get 0 out oh my gosh. you can’t divide by zero but you can divide zero. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parity_of_zero

https://www.britannica.com/story/is-zero-an-even-or-an-odd-number

https://www.scienceabc.com/nature/zero-odd-even.html Quote from this one “ So, technically, [zero] is even. In fact, it is the most even number there is.”

also does anybody on here ever look anything up or? this is making my brain physically hurt. christ.

NO. NO FUCK YOU ALL WE ARE NOT BRINGING THIS SHIT INTO 2020. WHOEVER BROUGHT THIS BACK DID IT ON PURPOSE AND I WILL FUCKING HUNT YOU DOWN FOR SPORT FUCK YOU. FUCK THIS.

This post was an absolute train wreck and I’m cursing my followers with it

Damn you

“Anyone can do math, even gay people”

Bitch, are you sure???

This post is amazing. The Chaos is pleased.

Is this fucking number discourse

No but just out of all the things it’s about numbers

Just that it’s weird is all

The internet is weird, you should be used to that by now.

Yeah that’s true

At least the cum soup post was less weird than this

Uhh I’m sorry the what

Oh boy here we go again

How many times have I done this so far

I’ve done this like… three, maybe four times so far

Do you really want to know

You can turn back now

Please why did I have to see this post I had midterms today and my brain is already dead I don’t have enough brain cells for this

I had never seen this before today and I told my grandma about it and she’s shaking her head in both humor and disappointment. Good job everyone!

This is the longest post but yall forgot 6

And 1,3,5,7, and 9 are odd numbers. 5 is an honorary even number, but it is still odd.

This post should be illegal

Welcome to the motherfucking internet, get this mess back on my blog, it got better.

Wait wait wait

The fuck is the cum soup post?????

Over half way through 2020 😅

And somehow this was less chaotic than tumblr on November 5th 2020

we’re like, a day until 2021 it ain’t over

oh SHIT this thread is back

Fuck it, I’m saving this post just to reblog it on New Year’s day. 

IT’S BACK IT’S BACK FUCK YES THIS LEGENDARY CHAOS IS BACK

Also, wtf was the cum soup post

Alright. WHO brought this post into 2202

2202,,

2022 IS EVEN AND CAN BE DIVIDED BY 2. USE A CALCULATOR AND YOUR MAIN SEARCH ENGINE FOR FUCKS SAKE.

internet explorer says otherwise

I hate this post

Here it is for 2023

2023 doesn’t have an e?????????????

I already regret scheduling this. Twenty minutes

This post has the energy of a classroom whose teacher has just completely lost control of the discussion.

Me scheduling this post for 2024

And again in 2025

okay can someone PLEASE TELL ME WHAT THE CUM SOUP POST IS

WHAT THE FUCK IS THE CUM SOUP POST

this reads like a riveting novel

hands down my favourite bit of characterisation for trent crimm is that he's a messy bitch who loves drama. like yes he's a successful journalist because he's an excellent writer but it's also because he's a nosy little fuck who will wait outside locker rooms to get the inside info from team players and accost managers in bars to get exclusive quotes. and it's not even professional motivation he's just nosy!!! even after he's not getting paid to snoop anymore he's sitting with his office door open so he can listen in on a fucking PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCE, he's chatting shit about west ham with rebecca. and he takes PRIDE in being told he's good at chatting shit! that's just his thing! you can take the boy out of professional gossipping but you can't take professional gossipping out of the boy!!!!

how it started -> how it's going

Bistro Huddy more like BI-stro Huddy

is the shipname between sherblock and blockson. blockblock?

anyway. pushes them together like barbiedolls. making them kiss. goodnight.

only one episode of fogtown is out so far... but here's a The Final Problem (Watson's Sketchbook by @contact-guy ) redraw with Sherblock and Blockson...

They're going to ReichenBlock soon. They'll be fine right.

right????

@animated-scribble @y0ur-f4vor1te-crypt1d @kartsstuffig @44-mr-midnight-44 @silver-eater @free-slug-cat @my-mom-named-me-duck @softenedsunbeams @ccosmicentity @starsofthestorm @jaime-in-chaos @ the person who sent me this (i cant remember your url so sorry man) @ UHM UHM I FORGOT URLS

@robyn-starre

@robyn-starre @thecrystalcorvid

@avery-the-eepy @thecrystalcorvid @eternal-star-princess @wishvolo @melody-sy

:3 @melody-sy @quiggel @robyn-starre @0minimity @cosmiccyndaquil dont mind the double tags >w>

@eternal-star-princess @melody-sy @0minimity @cheese-in-space @moonlovesskunks @watermelon-converse I’m 100% forgetting people here but uh. <3

Awnwewww thanks kit

@neil-perrys-glasses @ruewend @defectivegembrain @quiggel @t-s-n and lots of others im sure

akskskskks you too dotty, BELIEVE me <3333333

okay this will be a longg list hold on, stick around for my rant too ‼️

@gay-mooshrooms @desire-mona @defectivegembrain @faileddog @jasperthejester @zaycheese @vampire-rodeo @montysoup @lesbianwithchainsaws @mysterypigeon @savillum @stargaizer @dazed-dreamerrr @daisey14

@constellation-skirmishes @bloodcoveredbutch @funnyjokespunperson @whittingsonder @dakrapatops @etherealspacejelly @rapidlydecayingcorpse @remnants-of-his-last-resort @regular-theodore @thechy-fychannel @timewizard-oldman @itsjust-meman @parkercore-69 @pepperdacar @fagtron2000 @kronkelman @cottonspotten

@catparty41 @clavidy @armed-saphire @nerdicorntheshipper @not-actually-human @beachghoulz @buglvr24 @mikhnovskykinnie @amber-angel @aramanna @lxvenderjewel

if you’re on this list and confused because we don’t talk or you don’t consider us friends don’t worry! this isn’t a demand for interaction (although it is always welcome) or a guilt trip or anything like that, it’s just appreciation. my little tumblr community is something i hold really close to my heart these days, and while i don’t really know everyone i tagged i still like seeing your posts around and i care about how you’re doing!!! even if we never speak after this year, or stop circulating in each other’s orbits, i just want you to know that your existence has made a positive impact on my life in the here and now, and i couldn’t be more grateful <3 and as for the people i am close with, thank you again and again for just being so fucking awesome. moosh, marty, mona, joel, jasper, zay, EVERYONE. i think about you guys a lot and i wish the best for you in 2025. you deserve the world and don’t ever forget it! <3333333

ohhh this is so sweet i’m glad i still take up space in peoples lives despite not being to active on here anymore 🥹🥹🥹

that said here’s everyone off the top of my head that isn’t reese

@falling-raine @artqueen02 damn i forgot everyone’s @

ILL BE BACK SOON I SWEAR.