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I drew Athy! Her eyes were so hard to color! I was surprised that I was able to pull it off.
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I know the twins has been inactive later,but my opinion they need a break from social media. They need a break from making YouTube videos. They try their best to make us happy and they lose sleep because of us and some of us want more!!!!! What more could they give us,they have a life outside of YouTube. Let’s just pray that everything is ok. They wouldn’t want us to worry about them. I mean the surgery is probably a reason on the hold,but they need rest and everything else
I feel like with the new ~fandom drama~ or whatever going around, I should re-introduce my favorite theory of fandom, which I call the 1% Theory.
Basically, the 1% Theory dictates that in every fandom, on average, 1% of the fans will be a pure, unsalvageable tire fire. We’re talking the people who do physical harm over their fandom, who start riots, cannot be talked down. The sort of things public news stories are made of. We’re not talking necessarily bad fans here- we’re talking people who take this thing so seriously they are willing to start a goddamn fist fight over nothing. The worst of the worst.
The reason I bring this up is because the 1% Theory ties into an important visual of fandom knowledge- that bigger fandoms are always perceived as “worse”, and at a certain point, a fandom always gets big enough to “go bad”. Let me explain.
Say you have a small fandom, like 500 people- the 1% Theory says that out of those 500, only 5 of them will be absolute nutjobs. This is incredibly manageable- it’s five people. The fandom and world at large can easily shut them out, block them, ignore their ramblings. The fandom is a “nice place”.
Now say you have a medium sized fandom- say 100,000 people. Suddenly, the 1% Theory ups your level of calamity to a whopping 1000 people. That’s a lot. That’s a lot for anyone to manage. It is, by nature of fandom, impossible to “manage” because no one owns fan spaces. People start to get nervous. There’s still so much good, but oof, 1000 people.
Now say you have a truly massive fandom- I use Homestuck here because I know the figures. At it’s peak, Homestuck had approximately FIVE MILLION active fans around the globe.
By the 1% Theory, that’s 50,000 people. Fifty THOUSAND starting riots, blackmailing creators, contributing to the worst of the worst of things.
There’s a couple of important points to take away here, in my opinion.
1) The 1% will always be the loudest, because people are always looking for new drama to follow.
2) Ultimately, it is 1%. It is only 1%. I can’t promise the other 99% are perfect, loving angels, but the “terrible fandom” is still only 1% complete utter garbage.
3) No fandom should ever be judged by their 1%. Big fandoms always look worse, small fandoms always look better. It’s not a good metric.
So remember, if you’re ever feeling disheartened by your fandom’s activity- it’s just 1%, people. Do your part not to be a part of it.
Me: You’re a Johnlocker. In fact you’re a TJLC Johnlocker.
Them:yes
Me: any good?
Them: very good
Me: seen a lot of metas then, smutty fics
Them: enough for a lifetime. Far too much
Me: wanna see some more?
Them: oh god yes
@fluffbyday-smutbynight@kettykika78@helloliriels@totallysilvergirl pretty much
Can you really have enough for a lifetime though?
Obscure sorrows #137: being unable to revisit a favourite fanfic because you initially read it at four in the morning while half-hallucinating from sleep deprivation and it turns out that the version you remember is not the version that actually exists.
sometimes it turns out there wasn’t even an original fic to misrember and I fully dreamt the whole thing
I think the most memorable example of this phenomenon I ever encountered was one that split the difference between these two scenarios and it turned out that the reason I kept running into these jarring divergences from my recollection while re-reading is that the author had at some point decided that the original fic sucked, taken it down, and replaced it with a rewrite that was identical in its title, broad outline, and large portions of its text, but also substantially different in certain critical respects, and I’d just been getting unintentionally gaslit by Geocities user davidbowielover69.
Single? Taken? Or…?
Reblogging myself with the corrected version of the Tony Stark t-shirt. Thanks to rawr-balrog for pointing it out! ⌒_⌒;
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As a cat lover I just came to love the TARDIS even more than before because of that comment. ♥
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OR do you wait until 2016 just to be sure there won’t be a box set of extended versions too?
Decisions, decisions…
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Even with those four numbers there are countless possible combinations. Good luck with figuring out which one is the right one you punk.
*straightens calculator*
It’s pretty likely that it’s a four digit number, and as there are four digits chosen there, that means that there cannot be any repetition. This means that there are:
n!/(n-4)! possible orders. As ‘n’ is 4 (number of digits available). 4!/0! which becomes 4x3x2x1/1 which simplifies to 24. That means that there are 24 possible combinations of codes. This would take you about two or three minutes to input all possible codes.
Unless an alarm goes off if you don’t get it right in 3 tries.
*straightens calculator again*
Kick the door in.
Well ‘technically’ the code is most likley 1970. Statistically, a majority of people, when told to choose a 4 digit code will choose their birth year. And this key pad is obviously a few years old to put it nicely, so that’s most likley it.
Some Sherlock Holmes just went down over here.
No, no, no. Don’t base your deductions of psychology. Let’s talk chemistry. When you first press a button, there’s more of the natural oils on your skin, and therefore it wears down the numbers on the keys faster. Obviously 0 is the first one, then. Try 0791 first.
Sherlock out.
Woah.
It got better.
And this is why the Sherlock fandom could either rule the world or end it….
Close, but not quite, I think. People will almost always choose a number they can remember. What’s memorable about 0791? Try 0719 - a birthday, 19th of July. That is more likely.
Those deductions are great and all, but unnecessary.
The light is green.
The door is already open.
And that’s why we have a John Watson.
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