#statistically

[maicrowave]

ello

I have some thoughts, but I want to say them in a way that isn't aggressive or patronizing.

obviously a lot of jokes and discourse are newly on the table in the modern dan & phil era, especially in comparison to 2013.

i think the main principle is to follow their lead. ten years ago, they were pretty clearly setting boundaries for things they Didn't Want To Talk About (sexuality, relationships). Boundaries that people (fans, coworkers, interviewers) crossed over and over. It's worth noting I'm not really talking about fanfiction here—banning rpf is futile, and, lest you forget Dan Howell said he has read youtuber rpf for fun—I'm talking about real life speculation. I believe that's what hurt them.

in the modern era, let's learn from that (probably kinda traumatic) time and follow their lead. they're both openly gay—gay discourse is fine! They're pretty ambiguous about their relationship (see: "are we gay? did we fuck?" quote from dystopia daily's 'Dan and Phil Tell the Truth' video), so jokes of that caliber are ok (imo).

On the other hand... Invasions of privacy? Trying to "prove" things about their personal lives that they've repeatedly stated they don't want to elaborate on? Especially posting that "proof" to public websites. Bringing up past content, posts, etc, that they clearly still don't want to acknowlege? Let's refrain.

Obviously dnp have come to terms with a lot of this stuff existing on the internet... then again, they didn't exactly have a choice. but here's my thoughts: tumblr is a public website, literally anyone can make an account. Dan and Phil want to get into the mainstream via acting/writing projects. If they get popular enough, mainstream media outlets will dig, and some of the personal old stuff is not hard to find... and even easier to look for if people are talking about it all the time. And I would hate, despise even, to see some detached popular media outlet make some "tea" article containing personal stuff from dnp's past that they've tried to move on from/delete. So just... keep in mind plz. I don't want to make them hurt/sad again.

tl;dr: if you're older in the fandom, let's set a good example for any incoming or younger ppl and meet dnp where they're at with the jokes & content, and avoid invasions of privacy!

#<3 #here's to the new era #dan and phil #phan #dnp #longgggg #i know people obsess over these things because it makes them happy to see them happy #but idt drawing attention to some of it is going to make them feel good/safe #or mayyybe they don't care at this point bc there will always be someone who doesn't rlly understand/care about boundaries #but it'd be cool if they trusted us as an audience #i guess we're all just individuals #one of us is a cannibal #statistically

[cave-monkey]

It dawns on me that the journey to the west took 5,040 days exactly, right, and while the book goes from tribulation to tribulation, there were still only 81 of those. And they were missing one when they got there. And some of the tribulations Tripitaka went through happened before the journey even started.

So, even being generous and saying that most of the tribulations that occurred during the actual journey could be said to have taken a few days to handle each, that's still only about 10% of the journey. A tribulation was anything that happened that put Tripitaka in danger or presented any sort of obstacle to him. Anything even remotely exciting would have fallen into that ~10%, and nothing else could have happened, because otherwise they wouldn't have gotten west one moderate inconvenience and/or major trauma short of the prize. (I mean, unless the thing that happened managed to not involve Tripitaka at all in any way, but that's very hard to do when you are all attached at the hip.)

Holy cow they really were just walking. ALL THAT TIME. No wonder Zhu Bajie was stirring the pot at any given opportunity. It was literally the only thing to do.

#jttw personal #how did they not kill each other #I was thinking about this while still picking at chapter 27 #tripitaka was super gullible in that chapter in a sort of inexcusable way but also #it sooooort of makes sense when you think like #statistically #across the whole journey they could have gone moooonths between demons #years even #and suddenly sun wukong's claiming to have killed 3 (they didn't know it was the same demon) in a row in one morning? #even if tripitaka HAD believed him (or just harbored doubts) after the first one how likely was it the second was the case? or the THIRD? #obviously the evidence was in his face but couple the idea that their encounters with demons were actually SUPER rare #with the fact that tripitaka still had major trust issues with sun wukong from the fact he HAD trusted sun wukong previously #only to have that trust pretty solidly broken #and tripitaka's probably operating on a level of 'fool me once' hyper-vigilance against him that actually makes zhu bajie seem reasonable #I mean who are you going to trust? you and your own shitty judgement when you've already been wrong about the guy once before? #or the DEMON who probably knows more about DEMON MAGIC than you? #tripitaka's got TWO expert consults telling him two wildly opposing things but only ONE of them's seriously burned him in the past #(while the third expert consult and tie-breaker is notably abstaining. gdit sha wujing.) #anyway the characterization here is actually really good #tripitaka doesn't know the story framing - WE know something's up because otherwise we wouldn't have a story about it - #but tripitaka doesn't realize he's in a book #and I'm just saying tripitaka is being less foolish than the meta knowledge of being The Reader makes him seem #still a total brat though #he's definitely letting his own pride and hurt (and like...trauma) bias him against sun wukong unfairly #which is something he needs to work on and IS something that he pays for #(even with the bandits: expecting sun wukong to behave to tripitaka's standards of morality prior to TEACHING him those standards) #(wasn't fair. but also when he *tried* to address it sun wukong got angry and took off. and then tried to kill him. so.) #it's just interesting and whoever told this story originally was clearly putting a lot of thought into what it would be like #to actually be in these guys' shoes. Like ugh. HOW is this book so good?

[jadedresearcher]

hey I just wanna say oh my fucking god I love this all so much. all of it. my god. fuck. i'm falling down a flight of stairs and each one is gently catching me and telling me a funny joke or showing me a deeply sad and horrifying insinuation before throwing me to the next step. rats off to you

:) :) :)

#Zampanio #statistically #eyedlr #whoops it went viral

[strangesoulmates]

Me to my cat: Buckley, move My Dad, as Buckley: Buckley moves for no man Me, unable to resist: I am no man *gently pokes with my foot to get him out of the way* "Buckley": Gender doesn't matter, but the prod does

#cats #one of them is going to kill me via tripping #it's going to be either Charlie or Buckley #statistically #buckley is starting to win

[renee-writer]

February Prompts Day 15 Statistically

AO3

“How improbable are you,” she coos to her newborn daughter, “a child conceived two hundred years in the past. I worried, my darling Brianna, that I would lose you on the way through. That you would be lost in the stones. But they took the ruby in your grandfather’s ring instead.”

 

She choke laughs. “It was the ring your daddy, not the man who has introduced himself to you as such, no your real daddy, it was the ring he placed on my finger when we were wed. In his haste, he forgot to get one.

 

He took it off his own finger and placed it on mine. He did it again when he prepared to send me and you, away from him and the coming war.”

 

She blinks her tears away. This is a wonderful day! Their child is here.

 

“What are the odds Brianna Ellen, the statistical probability that you would make it here, to be born so far away from when you were started?” another chuckle, “I imagine they are astronomical.”

#my writing #outlander fanfic #february prompts #day 15 #Statistically #outlander fandom

[cyberbun]

What nobody tells you is that the real experience of growing up in latinoamerica is that, at some point in your life, you knew someone who was extremely invested in the Legacy of Kain series.

#There's one in every classroom #statistically #And it goes without saying that if you didn't it's likely that was you

[awesomestarpower]

15.52

Will he cancel this date last minute?

I'll keep you updated!

#Me #I don't even know what to say anymore #Statistically #what are the odds? #50/50?

[math-is-magic]

The Calamity was always going to happen

And I don’t mean on the Meta level that Matt established this lore and we started EXU: Calamity with the event in its very title. I mean that the system for containing the Elder gods was a million moving parts wrapped in secrecy and forgotten. There were so, so many ways for that containment to go wrong and very few people who knew what and why and how to keep the containment intact. If it wasn’t Vespin and Lycretia and Laerryn and Zerxus it would have been somebody else who Asmodeus corrupted, someone else who who attacked the tree in malice or ignorance, some other reason that Avalir was attacked or couldn’t spare the power for the replenishment. If gods can be locked away, can be challenged and replaced, why wouldn’t there be people who started toeing those lines?

 It might not have been in a year or ten or a thousand, but as long as Asmodeus and the other Betrayer gods were struggling to be free, and no one knew to pay attention an actively counter them, then eventually something was going to slip.

#EXU calamity #critical role #cr spoilers #look i just have a lot of feelings about people blaming laerryn #she fucked up #they all did #but the system was set up without trust #without checks and balances #the gods have all eternity to wait #if the system is such that it only takes one mortal #or a handful of them #to fuck it up #well #statistically #it was gonna happen no matter what #it's entirely possible #that EXU calamity #is one of the BETTER timelines that was possible #once the system was set up as it was.

[tabsters]

speedran all five stages of grief in an hour only to speedrun it for another hour because i have no classes with @iirexenii and i am in pain.

#STATISTICALLY #THIS DOESN'T MAKE MUCH SENSE #WE HAVE THREE OF THE SAME CORE CLASSES #LAST YEAR WE GOT ALL THREE #THIS YEAR #NONE #WHAT THE FUCK

[mobiusmobiles]

idk if this is a neurodivergent thing or what but i legit just don't care if other people like me? like, my friends and my bosses sure but why would i give a single f if a stranger or casual acquaintance is judging my choices?

if i like what i'm doing, that's just way more important

#actually adhd #actually autistic #idk if this is related to those #its just like #why tf should i care if other people like my apartment style #or my makeup #or the jokes i tell #im having fun #so #statistically #thats way more people having fun than if i tried to please other people

[townofcrosshollow]

Reminding myself that I'm still in my early 20s and I am almost certainly going to make my best creative work in my 30s and later

#statistically

[chitaayakuqing]

To call the cops

Or not to call the cops

That is the question.

#i called the cops #twas a fight #angry lady #on the one hand ladies are less dangerous #statistically #on the other hand they're also less predictable #and the last fight I didn't call the cops on ended up with blood all over the foyer #but that is a story for another day #hamlet #to be or not to be #poetry #haha

[raskolnikovslawyer]

coffee shop by my house hired a new barista who is extraordinarily hot and flirts with me incessantly but she also makes the worst - and i truly mean the worst - coffee i’ve ever paid for. atrociously bad. just another of god’s little jokes

#she has to make a drinkable concoction one of these days right? #like. statistically #x

[sleepy-bebby]

#statistics #memes #meme #lol #mathematics #mathblr #math #maths #relatable #relatable meme #relatable memes #dog meme #dog memes #this is fine meme #this is fine dog #funny #Twitter #Twitter meme #Twitter memes

[tumbler-polls]

For USAmericans: height converter

#height #polls #tumblr polls #metric system #statistics #tumbler polls

[charlesoberonn]

#tweet #reddit #economics #statistics