Writing X-Men: First Class Fic

I am rewatching X-Men: First Class for a fic. It is as good as I remembered.

On the other hand, damned if I know how I'm going to tag this because "Charles and Erik are horribly co-dependent, no matter the gender" is not a tag.

Because I have girl!Xavier basically being squee! over girl!Magneto and ... well it's adorable but there's a reason their theme in the first film is a love song.

The other tag option is "tragically unfulfilled f/f due to mutant politics". Which ... yup, that's accurate.

Withdrawals in the Women's Tour de France 2023

I warned you all a lot of this year's posts are me catching up on last year's. I'm hoping to have this post and the equivalent for the Women's Tour de France 2024 up shortly.

In the figures, the race is called the TDFF for Tour de France Feminine to save space.

From the figures I usually make, the first thing that stood out was that you could see stage 7 happening to the peloton.

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A quick search gave me the answer to "what happenened?". The Tourmalet happened. For those who don't follow cycling, please meet the Col du Tourmalet - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Col_du_Tourmalet

Stage 7 write up by Cycling News - https://www.cyclingnews.com/races/tour-de-france-femmes-2023/stage-7/results/

The Tourmalet effect is also seen in the pie chart of withdrawals by stage, with stage 7 (11 withdrawals) having more withdrawals than the next two stages with the most withdrawals combined (stage 5 = 6, stage 2 = 4).

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For the men's 2023 Tour de France, the breakdown of the withdrawals was 38% did not start the stage (DNS) withdrawals and 62% mid-stage abandonments (https://fulltimesportsfan.wordpress.com/2023/11/18/withdrawals-in-week-3-of-the-2023-tour-de-france-an-overall-round-up-and-confirmation-that-the-olympics-didnt-cause-more-withdrawals/). There were no withdrawals due to being outside the time limit (OTL).

This is a very different pattern to what was seen in the women's Tour de France 2023.



The percentage of did not starts is almost exactly the same (38% in the men's vs 34% in the women's), so the over the time limit withdrawals in the women's seem come from the pool that were mid-stage abandons in the men. On the other hand, the 2023 men's Tour de France was unusual in not having any OTL withdrawals.

The one disqualification was Lotta Henttala, who was disqualified for holding onto her team car to get a tow. Interestingly, Demi Vollering, the eventual winner had 20 second added on to her time the day before for excessive drafting (following a team car to reduce wind drag) but I'm going to presume the commissaires's argument is drafting is different from holding.

You can see the stages, particularly stage 7, happening to the teams in the bar chart of when teams lost riders.

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Due to the number of teams, the Kaplan Meier chart divided by team is a mess.

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L is trying to encourage me to have actual conclusions to these posts, but the problem is that there isn't enough data to have a conclusion.