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#this is FASCINATING#also wonder if beaumogen have enough fics to even make a blip#i would love a breakdown of PC/NPC ships

i hear the siren call; i come to make more graphs.

Alright, so, context: these graphs include every ship in my weekly tracking sheet aside from BH/BH and BH/Dorian, but including BH/any other guest. Any crossover ships were ignored.

Additionally, these stats were collected based on what fics were tagged with in the week following the episode; any tags that were added later on (like, to drabble collections) wouldn't show up here.

Also, sorry, I'm not going to be doing image descriptions for these graphs.

Chetney

So, Chetney doesn't get much until late inthe game. It's really just him and Deanna, talked about above, only thing to get more than 1 fic. The Dusk fic is an Everyone/Dusk fic. Chetney/Alma comes after the joke, and Chetney/Oltgar is the same episode (Hopefully that's visible, had to mess with the graph to show).

Laudna

The biggest is Dusk, centered around the Bassuras arc. There's a handful of Laudna/Delilah, centered around the Laudna's death arc. We get one Pretty ship for the break, one Morrigan ship for Ligament Manor, and one Prism for the end of the Issylra arc.

FCG

Already talked about FRIDA, which is one of the biggest non-Dorian guest/npc ships.

Also showing: the one everyone/dusk fic, Imahara Joe's introduction in Bassuras, and a few with Krook House poly (always with Ashton, never just FCG/Milo).

Fearne

Fearne has more than most but it's always one fics. Most prevelant is lingering EXU ships, namely Opal, with a bit of Poska and Dariax.

We also see the Pretty date, two with Keyleth around her introduction for Laudna's death, one with Ludinus when she gets the face to face, and one with Dancer after the return to Bassuras.

Imogen

You are right; Beaumogen has enough of a mark for the Apogee I could have put it on the main graph - the other one is Imogen/Otohan, which is only in the 1-fic peaks but has a decent showing ever since the solstice. We love nemeses, huh.

Also showing: Dusk, during the Bassuras arc, the Pretty date, Dancer after the return to Bassuras, and one each for Eshteross and Fy'ra Rai I have no commentary on.

Orym

The actual top NPC ship is Orym/Will, surprising no one. That's basically all that's going on here - Orym/Will, Orym/Dariax and OT3s with Dorian - the ot3 being more common for the latter, and less common for the former.

Also seen: one Orym/Lieve'tel fic from very early on, and the everyone/Dusk. This leaves Orym only above FCG in number of NPC ships.

Ashton

Coming in with the most NPC ships (by different, not by number), we have Ashton. The dominant is with Milo, which made it on to the board. We also see a fair bit of Ratanish starting with their fight, and a handful of Hexum.

Anni, Dusk, Prism, and Percy are the only other ships with more than one (read: 2), with Anni being mostly early on Krook House poly (the poly ship not included for 'too many ships' reasons), Dusk once for everyone and once later on, Percy after the Whitestone arc, and Prism following the end of the Issylra arc.

Deni$e is at the start of the Issylra arc, not the end. Caleb pops up for the solstice. Eshteross after he's already dead (overlapping with one Dusk fic), Marwa after her appearance (overlapping with Ratanish's first), and Morrigan for Ligament manor.

Dorian

Finally, Dorian is also on the 'few ships but with more content' - Dariax is the dominant, although really only for the first year, and much smaller than the EXU-concurrent peak. Some ot3 with Orym; same as some ot3 with Orym/Will, there's no DOrian/Will not part of ot3.

C3 Ship Stats, Year 2

Hey, look it's been two years of Bells Hells, so I'm back with more stats. You can see my previous post here - or just my stats tag.

First up, the overall top ships: Laudna/Imogen. Nothing else comes close, although there is an Ashrym peak (ship week), Dorym (start of Issylra arc), and FCG/Frida peak (canon) that cross over. Everything else is much lower. Cut off for view, Laudna and Imogen get a high point of 67 for episode 65 and going canon - only beat by the 73 fic peak of episode 34 and dying.

The top ships remain fairly stable from last year; Callowmoore swaps places with Ashton/Dorian, and FCG/FRIDA and Fearne/Imogen jump up to knock Fearne/Orym off the top, but these are pretty small changes.

Since the rest are too small to see... the individual character charts are hanging out below the cut!

Chetney Pock O'pea

Chetney's got some new ships! With the party split in episode 52, we introduce Deanna; there's only a handful of fics with her, but that's pretty significant with how little Chet there is. We can see the episode 58 peak for the threesome, but once the party reunites there's not much of staying power.

Other than that, uh, Fearne/Chetney remains the top Chet ship by a longshot. Nothing else to sya, really.

Laudna

So, Laudna and Imogen, huh.

Okay, actual notes - we get an all time high at 67 fics for their reunion / becoming canon in episode 65; they're back and forth over the next episodes although still consistently the highest ship not just for Laudna but for all of Bells' Hells. It's currently calming down, but we can see the

Compared to year one, we can more clearly see that Ashton/Laudna is the number two ship, with Laudna/Dorian having dropped well after his departure. Other than that, some Laudna/Dusk and the witch trio ot3, nothing else of note, and all much lower than Imogen.

Fresh Cut Grass

Speaking of ships going canon, hey, look, these robots are gay? Okay, more seriously, we can see a bit of Loveletters after FRIDA's introduction, but it hits its stride with their hand holding in episode 55, and has its largest spike after the Uthodern arc concludes. Unlike Deanna/Chetney(/Fearne), this coninues, and is the only FCG ship going on - although that was true well before FRIDA showed up.

Fearne Calloway

Fearne has been relegated to the same scale I used for Chetney (and previously FCG, with no peak higher than four - although hers remains much busier than any of them. Look at this mess. Callowmoore is definitely the strongest contender of the group, and the most consistent, although there's a decent showing with Imogen as well, especially immediately after the party split.

Aside from threesomes and Chetney, everything else is in one-fic peaks and hard to analyze.

Imogen Temult

Imogen and Laudna, nothing comes close. Again, the peak of them going canon is 67 fics, and they're consistently high for the next several weeks.

Imogen has less ships going on in the background than Laudna; really, it's just Fearne, and some three witches ot3 stuff, and a few one-fic peaks here and there.

Orym

Orym's got a decent battle between his three ships: Ashrym, Dorym, and his husband, who never gets the highest peaks but remains fairly constant.

Dorym is slightly higher for total this year, but it's much tighter compared to their overall, and for the past several weeks it's usually been more Ashrym than Dorym. The Ashrym peak is the result of a ship week event; the Dorym peak lines up with the start of the Issylra crew and the introduction of Deni$e.

In the background, we mostly see ot3 ships, with Dorian and various people; the EXU crew ot3 remains present even though there's very little Fearne/Orym solo.

Ashton Greymoore

So, Ashrym dominates; the peak is for a ship week event, but even then we see it strong. Callowmoore takes the spotlight while the party is split, but drops off once we move over to the Issylra crew, and is only just starting to pick up again.

Other than that, Laudna takes a decent showing before the Solstice, and is one of the only things to get higher than a single fic, even if it's not competitive with the top two.

Dorian Storm

Dorian, since his departure, has definitely lessened in the amount of fics, and is very much dominated by Orym and ot3 pairings including Orym. There are a handful of Ashton/Dorian fics as well, seperate from the ot3, but everything else is a scant few oneoffs.

As mentioned, we can see the big spike for the first episode of the Team Issylra arc, since then dropping down to lower normal values.

Other Guests

There's a tail of Dusk ships from last year, but the main show is our newbies from the party split.

FCG/FRIDA takes the cake by a longshot; Deanna/Chetney and Deanna/Chetney/Fearne are the only other ones to hit a 2 peak.

Other than that, we saw some Prism ships and Ashton/Denise, but nothing that's really had a presence, and all the ships have faded away since the guests departed.

Majority Ships

95% of Laudna's ships are with Imogen, and vice versa

76% of Dorian's ships are with Orym

71% of Chetney's ships are with Fearne

65% of FCG's ships are with FRIDA

64% of Orym's ships are with Dorian

56% of Ashton's ships are wih Orym

and there's no Majority with Fearne, but 47% for Ashton is the plurality

Compared to last year, these are pretty similar, the big change being FCG/FRIDA becoming the majority and Chetney going from 93% Fearne to 71% Fearne due to Deanna.

Platonic (&) Pairings

Laudna & Imogen (71% of Laudna, 67% of Imogen)

Orym & Dorian (67% of Dorian's)

Orym & Ashton

FCG & Ashton (75% of FCG's)

Fearne & Orym

Laudna & Ashton

Imogen & Orym

Imogen & Ashton

Laudna & Orym

Fearne & Imogen

Orym & Ashton rose a few rungs (with some quality time in Issylra, I imagine) and Laudna & Ashton rose a rung as well. Laudna & Orym and Fearne & Imogen replace Dorian's tags with Imogen & Ashton, as we move further away from his departure and again, party split quality time.

Most Romantic vs Most Platonic

This is calculated by Romantic ("/") fics divided by Platonic ("&") fics, with greater than 1 being more romantic and less than 1 being more platonic. As I've said previously, this is a little tenuous because many fics are tagged both & and / while, some intending it to be read platonically and many not.

Most Romantic

Laudna/Dorian (16.5)

Ashton/Dorian (5.7)

Fearne/Ashton (5.5)

Orym/Dorian (5.0)

Laudna/Imogen (4.3)

(the exact same group in the exact same order as last year!)

Most Platonic

Chetney/Laudna, Chetney/FCG, Chetney/Imogen, Laudna/FCG, and Dorian/FCG (no ship fics)

Laudna & Orym (0.03)

FCG & Orym (0.1)

FCG & Imogen (0.11)

Imogen & Ashton (0.15)

FCG & Ashton (0.16)

(We got more Chet ships to the list, and Laudna&Orym pushes Imogen & Orym off the top five by qualifying)

Most Contentious (closest to 1 / an even split):

FCG & Fearne (perfect 1.0)

Fearne & Imogen

Fearne & Dorian

Dorian & Imogen

Fearne & Laudna

(there's some rearranging, but Fearne & Laudna take Laudna & Ashton's place as a more even split)

#cr stats #ship stats #ao3 stats

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malaismere · 6 months

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C3 Ship Stats, Year 2

Hey, look it's been two years of Bells Hells, so I'm back with more stats. You can see my previous post here - or just my stats tag.

Since the rest are too small to see... the individual character charts are hanging out below the cut!

Chetney Pock O'pea

Other than that, uh, Fearne/Chetney remains the top Chet ship by a longshot. Nothing else to sya, really.

Laudna

So, Laudna and Imogen, huh.

Fresh Cut Grass

Fearne Calloway

Aside from threesomes and Chetney, everything else is in one-fic peaks and hard to analyze.

Imogen Temult

Imogen and Laudna, nothing comes close. Again, the peak of them going canon is 67 fics, and they're consistently high for the next several weeks.

Imogen has less ships going on in the background than Laudna; really, it's just Fearne, and some three witches ot3 stuff, and a few one-fic peaks here and there.

Orym

Orym's got a decent battle between his three ships: Ashrym, Dorym, and his husband, who never gets the highest peaks but remains fairly constant.

In the background, we mostly see ot3 ships, with Dorian and various people; the EXU crew ot3 remains present even though there's very little Fearne/Orym solo.

Ashton Greymoore

Other than that, Laudna takes a decent showing before the Solstice, and is one of the only things to get higher than a single fic, even if it's not competitive with the top two.

Dorian Storm

As mentioned, we can see the big spike for the first episode of the Team Issylra arc, since then dropping down to lower normal values.

Other Guests

There's a tail of Dusk ships from last year, but the main show is our newbies from the party split.

FCG/FRIDA takes the cake by a longshot; Deanna/Chetney and Deanna/Chetney/Fearne are the only other ones to hit a 2 peak.

Other than that, we saw some Prism ships and Ashton/Denise, but nothing that's really had a presence, and all the ships have faded away since the guests departed.

Majority Ships

95% of Laudna's ships are with Imogen, and vice versa

76% of Dorian's ships are with Orym

71% of Chetney's ships are with Fearne

65% of FCG's ships are with FRIDA

64% of Orym's ships are with Dorian

56% of Ashton's ships are wih Orym

and there's no Majority with Fearne, but 47% for Ashton is the plurality

Compared to last year, these are pretty similar, the big change being FCG/FRIDA becoming the majority and Chetney going from 93% Fearne to 71% Fearne due to Deanna.

Platonic (&) Pairings

Laudna & Imogen (71% of Laudna, 67% of Imogen)

Orym & Dorian (67% of Dorian's)

Orym & Ashton

FCG & Ashton (75% of FCG's)

Fearne & Orym

Laudna & Ashton

Imogen & Orym

Imogen & Ashton

Laudna & Orym

Fearne & Imogen

Most Romantic vs Most Platonic

Most Romantic

Laudna/Dorian (16.5)

Ashton/Dorian (5.7)

Fearne/Ashton (5.5)

Orym/Dorian (5.0)

Laudna/Imogen (4.3)

(the exact same group in the exact same order as last year!)

Most Platonic

Chetney/Laudna, Chetney/FCG, Chetney/Imogen, Laudna/FCG, and Dorian/FCG (no ship fics)

Laudna & Orym (0.03)

FCG & Orym (0.1)

FCG & Imogen (0.11)

Imogen & Ashton (0.15)

FCG & Ashton (0.16)

(We got more Chet ships to the list, and Laudna&Orym pushes Imogen & Orym off the top five by qualifying)

Most Contentious (closest to 1 / an even split):

FCG & Fearne (perfect 1.0)

Fearne & Imogen

Fearne & Dorian

Dorian & Imogen

Fearne & Laudna

(there's some rearranging, but Fearne & Laudna take Laudna & Ashton's place as a more even split)

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malaismere · 7 months

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cw: gore

Welcome to the nastiest version of The Magic School Bus ever

#this is the most insane battle map i've seen of all time i love it

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malaismere · 7 months

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Very important question to settle a debate between me and my friend

#anders w/o a doubt. good job everyone.#'gale vs caleb' is closer but i think does go caleb #(both realistically 10 str vs 8 str makes a big difference)#(and like. caleb grew up on a farm + volstrucker shit + spent years homeless. he can take a punch better.)

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malaismere · 7 months

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the funniest thing about bg3 is by far the way that it invokes these vague nostalgic memories of being a young kid and watching my dad play bg2 on the family computer.

not, like you'd expect, of seeing minsc or jaheira or other recurring characters. no. it's checking all the crates for shit to steal.

#bg3 #i should probably get around to playing the originals myself but ehhh

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malaismere · 7 months

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come for the ghost ship, stay for the sick scarification/tattoos

The tattoos, in primordial, say: from the earth, of the earth, to the earth

since there's no official primordial conlang, I used the dwarven alphabet (canon use for terran/primordial) and Akkadian (Babylonian) for the words because that felt primordial vibes: eperu istu, eperu ina, eperu ana.

#cr spoilerse #critical role fanart #criticalrolefanart #ashton greymoore #critical role spoilers #critical role #my art

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malaismere · 7 months

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are you kidding me, this is gonna be amazing

#ooh hype #i only watched the first like 10 eps of the high rollers strahd campaign before falling off but i do love mark as a gm

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malaismere · 7 months

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for maybe obvious reasons, suddenly thinking about a bells hells pirates of the caribbean au.

I think Will+Elizabeth are Imogen+Laudna but idk which is which. Fearne is 100% Jack Sparrow tho

#critical role #cr spoilers #au blogging

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malaismere · 7 months

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Her mother's mending spell!?

/ugly cries

#wwwo is so good y’all

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malaismere · 8 months

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I was going to write a short little drabble to get this off my chest and put it in a readmore, and then the drabble ended up like 2k so it is going on ao3, although I think it will be just a oneshot (collection) and not like a proper rewrite, because i'm not quite willing to go that far down the rabbit hole.

idk if I actually want to write it, but I was thinking, ‘hm, baldurs gate three is a pretty good set up to have a character from something else be Tav’ and obviously how could I not immediately think of Jester. Mostly because Tav has big ‘everybody loves Jester’ energy.

just. the crystal clear image of her getting upset that she’s back at level one, and yelling at the traveler about it, which everyone else goes ‘okay whatever so she’s maybe a bit crazy, we can deal with it’ and then like the first time they set up camp he just actually shows up to apologize, because this plane is making him do *paperwork*

I’m kind of tempted to restat her as a warlock for said paperwork reasons, which would mean Wyll getting to watch her make a very casual deal and having Emotions about that. And obviously Shadowheart and Gale have their own fun angst about the God angle.

#bg3 #au blogging #jester lavorre

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malaismere · 8 months

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#au blogging #jester lavorre #critical role au #bg3 #bg3 au #crossovers #I feel like Astarion would really like Jester (master of chaos) but idk how he’d feel about Jester (nice person)#she and Karlach are obviously immediately besties #Lae’zel I think has a roller coaster of emotions between ‘competent’ and ‘ridiculous’ that she’s having trouble processing.#the rest of the m9 are stuck away for plot reasons (can’t directly plane shift and spelljamming takes time)#am I going to make a new save just to figure out how to write this? look.

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malaismere · 8 months

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Because I’m curious, I wanted to make a couple of polls. This one is essentially a poll version of a post by @mookybear12404

Please reblog for sample size!! And feel free to tell me about your first characters!!

#2e halfelf rogue/wizard multiclass #voting rogue though since my second character was a 3e halfling rogue.

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malaismere · 9 months

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AU Roulette Challenge

What is AU Roulette? A casual fic-writing challenge encouraging authors to play around with different types of alternate universe stories, which will be randomly assigned to each participant regardless of the fandom they sign up with. The goal of the challenge is to encourage creativity and get authors to write fics with premises they might not otherwise have considered, with varying difficulty levels of participation for writers of all experience levels.

How does it work? Writers will be able to sign up with their fandom of choice starting Monday, July 31st. Sign-ups will run for one week, at the end of which each participant will be assigned three AUs from a masterlist using a random number generator. Each author will then have the choice of completing the challenge on easy (writing one of the AUs), medium (writing two of the AUs) or hard mode (writing all three AUs). Any fic exceeding a 500-word minimum will be considered a completion, so long as it employs the AU premise. The fic-writing period of the challenge will run for a month. Fics can be posted at any point during this time, and authors will have the option of having them added to an Ao3 collection for the challenge if they desire. They can also be posted to tumblr using the tag #AUroulette2023.

What kind of AUs will be included in the challenge? The AU Roulette challenge will focus largely on popular, staple AU types with broad applicability to any fandom or relationship type. For example, a possible result might be something like a Time Travel AU (encompassing all the possible subsets, such as fix-it time travel, time loops, or other tropes under the same umbrella), but more restrictive AU types like a Soulmate AU that make assumptions about the author’s interpretation of character relationships in canon have been intentionally kept off the AU masterlist. The official list of AUs will be kept under wraps until assignments are given, but will have over 30 different prompts to ensure authors receive a good variety of options, and if you have suggestions or concerns about what AUs are being included, feel free to reach out.

What if I get an AU type that doesn’t work for the canon I chose? Limited re-rolls will be allowed on a case-by-case basis. For example, if you signed up to write fic for His Dark Materials and ended up getting a Daemon AU, your result would automatically be re-rolled. Similarly, if you were writing for a different fandom entirely but were unfamiliar with what a Daemon AU entailed and wanted to write something you didn’t have to research the premise of, I would likely approve a re-roll (However, you would be free to give it a try! My goal is for this challenge to be accessible to people with all levels of familiarity with fic tropes, so you are also welcome to reach out and ask about your assignment).

You are also encouraged to be as creative as you want with your interpretation of your assigned AUs, which may help with making them fit. The goal of this challenge is to encourage weird, creative fanfic, not to have every author who rolls the same result write cookie-cutter versions of the same types of stories. If you were to get a Coffee Shop AU, for example, there is no requirement that the coffee shop in question be a real-world 21st-century Earth Starbucks. In fact, deviating from the mold is highly encouraged. So long as you can make a case that you filled the loose premise of your AU type, you will get credit for having completed it.

Can I participate if I am not a writer? AU Roulette is a fanfic writing challenge, so official sign-ups are for those interested in writing (regardless of skill level or experience writing AUs). However, if you are interested in the challenge but not in writing fic for it, consider having a look at the #AUroulette2023 tag or the official AU Roulette 2023 collection on Ao3 once authors have begun posting their stories. If one of them really speaks to you, it might be a nice gesture to draw a piece of art, make a playlist, or create some other fanwork inspired by the fic and share it – in which case you would also be more than welcome to use the official tag!

(Authors are of course also welcome to do this for their or other participants’ stories, too.)

How do I sign up? I will be reblogging this same post with a link to a Google form for sign-ups on Monday, July 31st! Watch this space and feel free to send me any questions you have about the challenge!

Looking forward to seeing the AUs everyone creates!

#this seems cute

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