#charts!

I used the 3x shape/sizing for the Colour Block Boxy Tee by Tiny Teal! :) it's free on ravelry

I DID move the back shaping to under the arm divide instead of above to accommodate the colorwork and my specific chest shape.

The initial colorwork is two adapted charts from an Icelandic knitting book I borrowed from the library. Mainly the Lapinvuokko pattern by Merja Ojanperä.

The shoulder colorwork I freestyled most of and just made match, but I could probably make a chart of them if you'd like!

I also added four extra stitches to the front, again to accommodate boob-ness.

A sad man and his honorspren

I mainly wanted to use this little moment to further explore the light and shadows in Shadesmar. Because the physics of the place made my brain go funny,I even made a little chart to understand it better and so I could discuss this with others... in the end I am trying to make it a combination of all of them. Mostly one and three though.

It found among many, many things:

[Image Description: A web graph with eight names: Ritika Chaudhary, Notus, Boreas, Caitlin Miller, Julian Diaz, Eurus, Zephyrus, Francisca Santos. Colored lines connect the names; red for romance confirmed (Notus to Boreas, Eurus to Zephyrus), blue for platonic (Boreas to Zephyrus), pink for romance hinted (Notus to Zephyrus, Boreas to Eurus), and purple for tension (Ritika to Notus, Boreas to Caitlin, Julian to Eurus, Zephyrus to Francisca)]  

I told you there were a relationship chart B; now with 100% more foe-yay. Look, I don’t know what I’m getting myself into here, but at least I’m having fun.

Because I don’t think I’ve talked about them much yet; Notus (she), Boreas (she), Eurus (she/he), and Zephyrus (he) are the Venti, they work for King Astraeus and serve as the main antagonists in book one. If you’re familiar with Sailor Moon (mainly the manga) they’re the shitennou/four kings/generals expies.

Basically Awakening is Sailor Moon, but polyamory.

Note: Boreas is aromantic and her ‘romance’ is queerplationic, but I decided to use the same colors for it.

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@goldenfalls asked @ao3commentoftheday about people checking how many hits they’d left on various AO3 fics. People are discouraged by the rate of comments they get per fic vs. how many hits the fic has. 

So how do hits compare to actual people who’ve read the story? I spent the last 2 days going through 199 pages, and 5 years, of my AO3 History. Here’s some stuff I noticed while doing this:

For the last two years, if I actually read a one chapter fic it usually says I’ve visited from 2-3 times.

Fics I’ve only visited once are mostly fics I opened, read a line, realized that tone, spelling, or plot wasn’t what I wanted, and closed.

However, from 2013-2105, many of the 1 chapter fic I did read only had 1 hit from me. Maybe increased users mean another person is more likely to show up while you’re reading and make it count as two hits? Or I started reading on both phone and computer enough to affect things?

Fics that aren’t in my main fandoms end up with a lot more hits from me, because I have to come back multiple times before I finish.

If a fic has more than 10 chapters, I usually leave less hits than there are chapters. Even if I’m reading as it updates.

I’m bad with names, so a lot of fics had a bunch of hits because I kept checking it to remind myself who this authour I was following was.

I’d see favourite fics with only one note, even though I’ve read it 5 times. I’m assuming it’s because I read it on LJ or Tumblr. I may even have only clicked on the fic to navigate to the authour’s page and see if they have new fic. (Otherwise, I probably reread and commented.) 

Sometimes I get an email notification for a new fic, open it, and then go read it on Tumblr instead. (This has nothing to do with the data, I just saw a 86 chapter fic with one hit and was reminded that I never read that authour on AO3 for some reason.)

One fic had 10 notes and I never actually read it. I liked the authour and kept opening it and then leaving, before finally accepting I was just NOT interested in that fandom.

One 28 chapter fic that I read TWICE has only 4 hits from me. How?

I’d guess that everyone who takes the time to comment counts for about 2 hits, and as time goes on it’s going to be more like 3. Recently, a lot of fic I don’t remember reading twice has had 3 or 4 hits. If you’ve been on the site a while, it probably seems like a lot less engagement just from that.

@destinationtoast, was there a much, much easier way to do this?