Stats: filters yay!!11oneone1

[kohikari]

First off: a while back, can't quite remember when, I went around to all the sections that had hit my list and checked for character filters. I distinctly remember Pokemon not having one while a less likely section was more fortunate; alas, I lost the records, so I went around to all 43 sections and checked again. Every single one, and D.Gray-man, has been bedecked with a nice shiny new filter, except for the following: of the Final Fantasy titles, only the contributors in the thousands (I-VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, X-2, XII) benefited, while the crumbs of the fandom (XIII, Versus XIII, Crystal Chronicles, Tactics, Tactics Advance, Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift) went without; of the Star Trek titles, curiously enough, all but the "Others" section had the filter--I guess the Trekkies have a solid enough foundation (or at least enough infamy) to merit closer attention; and, of course, the Wrestling section, because either nobody wants to deal with that or there are simply too many performers to keep straight.

But the more important part of the news is that D.Gray has character filters. *suppressed squee*

-65 (apparently a popular character, by the rankings; the science team's robot sidekick)
-Alestina ("Ares Teena = Dloe = Gynosan = P = Ruporson = Gear = Amadeus 5th"; the Gatekeeper)
-Allen (Walker; protagonist whut ♥)
-Andrew (Nansen; head of Oceania Branch, I think)
-Bak (Chang; Asian Branch head)
-Bookman (little old objective dude)
-Buzz (I think he's that grieving Finder Kanda was strangling in the 2nd(?) tankoubon, the one Allen intervened to save)
-Chakar (Rabon; dead exorcist from Socalo's team)
-Chaoji ("Chaozii Han"; Tiedoll's new exorcist trainee, from Anita's ship)
-Cross (Marian; drama queen general dude, Allen's shishou ♥)
-Daisya (Barry; Kanda's dead teammate)
-Fo ("For"; weird Asian Branch statue/wall/robot/spirit/thing)
-Froi (Tiedoll; Kanda's general)
-Gwen (Frere; dead exorcist from Klaud's team)
-Hevlaska (creepy tentacle-monster exorcist! ♥)
-Jasdevi (twin hermaphrodite Noah, Devit + Jasdero)
-Jerry ("Jeryy", because Hoshino makes up her own damn spellings; flaming Black Order cook)
-Johnny (Gill; scientist and uniform maker, poor guy never catches a break)
-Kanda (Yu: the pissy one ♥)
-Kazana (Lido; dead exorcist from Socalo's team)
-Kevin (Yeegar; the general whose death started the search for the Heart)
-Klaud (Nine; really hot general with boots and whip and monkey!Innocence Lau Jimin ♥)
-Komui (Lee; the brother with a complex)
-Krory (Arystar III: emo vampire; does not sparkle)
-Lavi (magical girl Bookman apprentice ♥)
-Lenalee (Lee; *wibbles* ♥)
-Lero (whiny umbrella that occasionally turns into a ginormous honking sword/claymore/whatever)
-Li ("Rikei"; one of Rohfa's science teammates)
-Lo ("Rohfa"; Allen's One True Fangirl)
-Louis (Fermi; I think maybe the Middle East branch head)
-Lulubell ("Lulu bell"; bizarre "Lust" shapeshifter Noah)
-Mana (Walker; LUKE, I AM YOUR FATHER.)
-Millennium Earl ("The Earl of Millennium"; honestly some scary shit... ♥)
-Miranda (Lotto; emo clock exorcist ♥)
-Noise (Marie; Kanda's blind undead teammate ♥)
-Reever (Wenhamm; Komui's babysitter/sidekick, Section Chief for HQ)
-Renny (Epstain; North America branch head)
-Road (Kamelot; made of win ♥ ♥ ♥)
-Sammo (Han Won; Bak's...advisor? caretaker?)
-Sheryl (Kamelot; Noah and foreign minister)
-Shifu (Rohfa's other teammate)
-Skin ("Skinn Bolic"; Noah with anger management problems, sufficient excuse for prettyboy fanservice)
-Sol (Galen; dead Exorcist on Klaud's team, never mentioned gender so I'm suspecting female, 'cause of Tina and Gwen both being female, on the female General's team, when both Tiedoll and Socalo had all-male teams)
-Suman (Dark; dead Exorcist on Socalo's team, indirectly got Allen killed, directly got 95% of the Order killed (thanks, dude))
-Tapp ("Tup Dop"; science type, the source of everyone's emo nowadays)
-The Ghost (possessed Lenalee, had a really awkward lisp, turned everyone into zombies for the lulz ♥)
-Timcanpy (shiny thing, apparently indestructible)
-Timothy (random new character! Exorcist under Klaud Nine's tutelage)
-Tina (Spark; dead exorcist on Klaud's team)
-Toma (Allen's first Finder (d'awww))
-Tyki (Mikk; Noah card shark with style ♥)
-Winters (Socalo; General dude w/the iron mask and the S&M tendencies)

Half these people are faceless names who were all dead by the fourth tankoubon, and they forget to put in Anita-san?! Blasphemy! Oh well. This is ff.n, after all. Are people even paid to do stuff like this? Watch the whole thing be run by temps in their spare time when they're not in the sweatshops in some Southeast Asian country making sneakers. It would certainly explain a lot.

I probably shouldn't play with the filters until I'm sure everyone's been using them. So I'll keep to the usual for the D.Cute-section:

/10/0/x/1/0/0/0/0/0/1/
Total English (code 1): 3685s (148p)
Spanish (code 2): 438s (18p)
French (code 3): 149s (6p)
Portuguese (code 8): 92s (4p)
German (code 4): 1s (lengthy Kanda and romance with no other specifics; self-insertion?)
Russian (code 10): 1s (either KandaAllen or gen, no clue which)
Italian (code 11): 6s (three possible genfic, two KandaAllens and an Allenalee)
Swedish (code 17): 2s (a Tsubasa crossover and a Halloween-themed genfic)
Polish (code 13): 3s (two KandaAllens and maybe Kandalee)
Indonesian (code 32): 15s (five LaviAllens (one of them a Death Note crossover), four gen, two KandaAllen, one combo Lavi/KandaAllen, one LaviOC, one gratuitous combo Tyki/Lavi/KandaAllen, one GetBackers crossover with random canon/OC ship)
Finnish (code 20): 4s (two KandaAllens, a LaviAllen, and a TykiAllen)
Catalan (code 34): 1s (LaviLena)

NUMBERS: The top three languages doubled again; the Portuguese asploded and tripled; Italian doubled, Polish tripled, Swedish and Finnish sat placidly, none of those numbers matter because they're so tiny, and the heavens opened up and gave way for a great wave of Indonesian fic that is now more than five times what it was in July; and we have three new languages!: German, Russian, and Catalan, each with one seed story.

SHIP: There is pr0n, and it is gay. Definite resurgence in LaviAllen among the obscurer languages: it's challenging KandaAllen, or, by its RYFG name, "Yullen," for Ship of the Year. Also, Lenalee has a fun name.


~Close-up on English archive ('*' = newer genre)~

/10/x/1/1/0/0/0/0/0/1/
Total Adventure (code 6): 266s (11p)
Angst (code 10): 562s (23p)
*Crime (code 18): 6s
Drama (code 4): 480s (20p)
*Family (code 19): 100s (4p)
Fantasy (code 14): 65s (3p)
*Friendship (code 21): 210s (9p)
General (code 1): 1156s (47p)
Horror (code 8): 93s (4p)
Humor (code 3): 1009s (41p)
*Hurt/Comfort (code 20): 244s (10p)
Mystery (code 7): 54s (3p)
Parody (code 9): 57s (3p)
Poetry (code 5): 64s (3p)
Romance (code 2): 1809s (73p)
Sci-Fi (code 13): 3s ♥
Spiritual (code 15): 29s (2p)
Supernatural (code 11): 85s (4p)
Suspense (code 12): 44s (2p)
Tragedy (code 16): 138s (6p)
*Western (code 17): 0 (T_T)

NUMBERS: Everything is growing splendidly at the expected rate. There's three lovely lovely sci-fi (all KandaAllen, unsurprisingly enough), although no Western yet. Goddammit, where did I put the Whedonfan catnip?

*suddenly feels compelled to sort it*

Western - 0
Sci-Fi - 3
Crime - 6
Spiritual - 29
Suspense - 44
Mystery - 54
Parody - 57
Poetry - 64
Fantasy - 65
Supernatural - 85
Horror - 93
Family - 100
Tragedy - 138
Friendship - 210
Hurt/Comfort - 244
Adventure - 266
Drama - 480
Angst - 562
Humor - 1009
General - 1156
Romance - 1809

(*shifty eyes*  I may or may not have been driven to graph this early morning after New Year's Day.  *when god was handing out attention spans I was off chasing butterflies*  The hypothetical pretty columns allegedly could designate rankings: CHAMPION, at ginormous size, is Romance (sex sells, especially in an RYFG market); HEAVYWEIGHTS, about half that but still towering over the competition, are General (lazy bums) and Humor; MIDDLEWEIGHTS, half their superiors' size, are Angst and Drama; LIGHTWEIGHTS, half that and struggling to hold any sort of height, are Adventure, Hurt/Comfort (big surprise there), Friendship (actual surprise there, hurrah for gen) and Tragedy; FEATHERWEIGHTS, cowering tiny against the independent axis--alleged! alleged axis!--are Family (w00t gen), Horror, Supernatural, Fantasy, Poetry, Parody, Mystery, Suspense and Spiritual; and the EENSIES, not even registering at the hypothetical 125-stories-per-line scale, are Crime, Sci-Fi, and the poor neglected Western.  (Seriously, people.))

SHIP: *points to Romance category, taking up almost half of the whole freaking archive--fic is, first and foremost, for ship* (Too far past bedtime to be profound and thorough. Grarrrgh.)

/x/0/1/1/0/0/0/0/0/1/
Rated K (code 1): 375s (15p)
K+ (code 12): 751s (31p)
T (code 13): 2022s (81p)
M (code 14): 538s (22p)

NUMBERS: K- or G-rating hasn't grown much; K+ or PG is half again as big as it was in July; T or PG-13 has almost doubled; M or R has doubled.

SHIP: The pr0n! It's aliiive!! (also, there are some fics in the K filter that make me wonder about some people's concept of "G rating")

/10/0/1/1/0/0/0/x/0/1/
Completed (code 2): 2073s (83p)
In-progress (code 1): 1612s (65p)

NUMBERS: ...Yup, still pretty much the same, just half again as bigger. *suddenly wants baked apples for no reason*

SHIP: Durrr, pr0n? PWP is probably behind door #2, epic romances door #1, Judy's bad sleeping habits on the windowsill...

/10/0/1/1/x/0/0/0/0/1/
under 1K words ("the drabblets"): 930s (38p) 
1K-5K ("the shortfic"): 1714s (69p)
5K-10K ("the shorter stories"): 485s (20p)
10K-20K ("the short stories"): 310s (13p)
20K-40K ("the mininovels"): 154s (7p)
40K-60K ("the novels"): 47s (2p)
60K-100K ("the double novels"): 34s (2p)
100K or more (code 100) ("the epics"): 22s

NUMBERS:  Shortfic rule over all, followed by half as many drabblets and then shorter stories, short stories, and mininovels; there are two pages of novels, a little over a page of double-novels, and a whole page of epics.  Impressive.  Everything has pretty much doubled.  I think I might start officially reviewing the longer ones soon...  (Note: total count was 4415 when I did this section, not quite enough to skew the overall stats, but it's been over 24 hours, so.)

SHIP:  (I can't feel my left hand and can't really move my right.  Damn temperature.)  There are only six of the epics without "Romance" in their genre, and, of those six , one is KandaAllen, one is Allenalee with lots of secondary canon/OC pairings, one is questionable, one is that odd "Smirking Shadow" Allen-centric thing that I'm pretty sure was written by a guy (it's been awhile, though, and I'm tired, so I may be wrong), and two are Mana and Bookman, some classic speculative gen backstory fic.  Of the other sixteen stories...let's see, a whole lot of KandaAllen, a few Allenalee, two definite LaviKanda, and...uh...TykiKanda?  Huh.  I think that one's a first.

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sort by: update (code 1) OR publish (code 2)

Overall, I heart this fandom and need to get back to trolling it before it gets too big for me to devour (if it hasn't already), and there are always the little moments when you find something so well-written that it hits you right there in the pit of your stomach, and it makes everything worth it. Viva fandom.