I don't know why I do these things, really.

[drakyndra]

I just spent an entire hour counting how many fics had been posted to time_and_chips at certain times, in order to prove that no, there wasn't a slump in the amount of fics posted post-Doomsday.

God, I am sad.

ETA: No, Drakyndra has no graphs. Drakyndra needs no graphs!

ETA2: ...But that doesn't stop her from thanking seti_drd for her sterling efforts. Their resemblance or lack thereof to a crudely drawn cock is entirely up to the viewer. Or you could just ask tencrush.

Comments

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

Not without a graph... let's see if I can sleep tonight, if not I might put something together in Excel. Do you have the number of fics?

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I have a note book with number of fic posts for all dates between 1st-7th April, 1st-7th May, 1st-7th June, and from the 8th July after Doomsday aired until the 1st August.

Some posts had more than one fic, too.

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

Then a graph should be done in no time... *glances at you*

Some posts had more than one fic, too.

This fandom is scaring me...

[tencrush]

Must. Resist. Urge. To. Make. Graph.

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

I just need the numbers and it's done in 5 minutes ^^

[tencrush]

There are initial findings inna clicky linky thing at the top, if you can be bothered to distill them. But not enough to make a decent graph with, and certainly not one that will resemble a crudely drawn cock.

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

Pity. But I doubt there would be enough data to verify that cock graph *g*
Are there somewhere the fic-postings per day? In a list? I see it coming that I count them myself

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

The multi-fic posts were generally people linking to fics they had up already on other sites, like The Teaspoon or The Pit.

And I is too lazy to type up all the numbers again. Woe.

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

It's not as if I had something better to do...

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

Woe, it's not as exponential as I thought it would be... damn you, science!

Maybe I did something wrong, who knows. Shows quite well that we're slowly coming back to the normal, linear growth of fic, though

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

That's only a one episode comparison. You need time periods around other episodes to see how typical this pattern is.

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

too much work... and the explosion after the 8th is proof enough for me

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

*breaks down*

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

Improved it some more so we get the angry Girl in the Fireplace Peak, too. Fandom is beautifully predictable ^^

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

You gotta love it. The three big peaks: Post GitF (opposing ship), post The Impossible Planet (mortgage conversation, the helmet kiss, and the didn't Rose's departure get announced at about this time?), and of course the finale.

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

You mean that one on the 12.6.? Technically that doesn't count, it was the deadline for a ficathon

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Oh, I had forgotten about that! Stupid extra variables...

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

We're lacking a betaing-shift on the other hand, I had expected the peaks to appear a lot later than the airing dates...

[xwingace]

I think that would depend on the speed of the betaing....

;-p

XWA

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

I've always said you're mind-boggingly fast *hugs* :)

[tencrush]

Ahhh, but you did a sum of fics. You should have done a tally of new fics. Not added up. Or something that looks like a crudely drawn cock.

Am I repeating myself here? I don't remember.

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

I CANNOT DO CRUDE DRAWN COCKS WITH EXCEL

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

here, you draw the cocks.

[tencrush]

I swear this is what came out for me with the same data. See??

I TOLD YOU.

The wank is strong.

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

WHAHAHAHAH! I didn't see that before, but you're right!