TOP 10 THEATER FANDOMS ON AO3 BASED ON NUMBER OF FANWORKS (2009-2022)
To make these bar chart race, all series titles in the Theater Category on November 29 (or the closest date to it) of every year were copy-pasted from Wayback Machine to Google Sheets, rearranged according to number of fanworks, and then inputted to Flourish to turn into a bar chart race.
Locked fanworks aren't included in the count because Wayback Machine can’t view those, only Ao3 users can.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan was in the Theater category in November 29, 2022, but has been removed by the time this post is published, so I'm leaving it out of the chart.
Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon | Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon may be in the top 10, but only 1% of its fanworks come from Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon | Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (Musicals).
Fandom tags that are no longer in the Theater category tag as of posting this are left out of the bar chart race. These tags are usually either miscategorized or already have other tags referring to the same fandom.
For tags that existed on the same years before eventually merging into one tag later on (such as Romeo And Juliet - All Media Types which later on merged with Romeo And Juliet - Shakespeare, and Hamlet - All Media Types which later on merged with Hamlet - Shakespeare), I use the data of whichever tag has the highest number for that year.
Please refer to this post for more bar chart races.
Thanks for understanding and hopefully I didn’t mess up anywhere! 🙏
Summary: Y/n didn't realize that calling their boyfriend after a nightmare would save his life.
TW: mentions of death, self harm, and suicidal thoughts
It took me ten minutes to get myself to slow my shaking. I had woken up in a cold sweat, the only bit of my dream I had remembered being Connor's pale face. I reached for the phone, tears still falling down my face, and my hand shaking just enough to not knock my phone out of my hand.
"Con, can you come over?" I whispered into the microphone. I heard him sigh before answering.
"Give me ten minutes," he sounded exhausted, and I almost told him to forget and get some rest, but the click of the hang up button stopped me. Sure enough, ten minutes later Connor Murphy himself was climbing in my window like he had done so many times before.
"What's wrong?" he stuffed his hands in the pocket of his signature black hoodie, stopping only a few feet ahead of me.
"I just," I bit my lip, "I had a bad dream that's all."
"That's all?" he copied me, one of his eyebrows raised.
"You had died and," he tensed visibly, "I just had to see you to prove it wasn't real, I'm sorry for waking you up."
He looked guilty, he sat on the bed next to me and shook his head.
"I wasn't asleep," he confessed, biting his lip he moved to roll up his sleeves, freezing before he could lift them he let his hands drop into his lap.
"Can you stay?" I leaned my head on his shoulder, "just a little longer?"
"Always," he shuffled, laying down under my covers, motioning me to follow suit. I tilted my head, wondering if he was going to take his hoodie off or not. He closed his eyes, knowing my silent question. My eyes watered when I saw them. Little red scars rolling up and down his arm on top of the old white ones.
I knew why he hadn't been sleeping before, and I silently thank whatever god made me call him in time before crawling on top of him. I rested my head on his chest, every part of his body was always warm, except for his hands, which gently rubbed circles in my back as I slowly dozed off again.
prompt: y/n is over for dinner meeting the murphy’s, y/n happened to say something that made connor smile, why would his family be so shocked about that?
requested: imaginationlast
warnings: out of character connor/none(?)
connor murphy x gender neutral!reader
“so y/n, what exactly do you plan to do after you and connor graduate?” larry murphy asked from across the dinner table.
“well, sir, quite frankly i’m not sure yet.” you said, giving a small awkward laugh at the end, quite embarrassed.
“it’s okay, y/n, sweetie, connor doesn’t know what he wants to do yet either.” cynthia smiled, it’s like she knows my every move, you thought. lary gave a small shake of his head, showing slight disappointment, as it was obvious zoe knew what she wanted to do.
“well, connor will figure it out, he’s just cool like that. he can do almost anything just, on the fly like that.” you said, giving the two parents a small smile.
connor looks up from his food, for the first time since you and connor had left his bedroom, more specifically he looks up at you. “thank you, n/n.” he says, smiling at you, but going back to his food.
“what?” zoe gasped, with a confused look on her face.
“exactly what i’m thinking, connor are you high-?” lary began, but was interrupted by their guest.
“i’m sorry what, i’m a little confused, heh.” you said giving a small, bashful, smile.
“oh my god, i knew it! i knew it would come!” cynthia said, hugging you from across the table.
“what would come?” you asked, even more confused.
“the day connor would smile.” zoe said bluntly.
you have a confused look, unsure of what they meant.
“as you may know, connor struggles, a lot. we don’t even remember the last time connor ever smiled. he’s been so alone for so many years, we’re just…glad he has you.” cynthia smiled.
you were so confused, what do they mean connor doesn’t smile? he always smiles around you? i mean, you knew he struggled but you never knew this badly? and speaking of, when was the last time his family saw him smile? you began to wonder if-
“i don’t get why it’s a big deal.” connor said, rolling his eyes at his mother, who was just previously rambling and on the brink of tears.
“y/n makes me happy, they always have, and always will.” connor shrugged, getting up to put his plate away. his family - and you, more flabbergasted then before.
heyooo!! hope y’all enjoyed this one!! sorry it was so short lol, i couldn’t think of all that much for this.
if there’s anything offensive/inaccurate in my writings message me asap!
alright, I was in class with my friend and he taps me on the shoulder and says "Did you know that Gordon Ramsey has the same amount of syllables as Evan Hansen, so that means you can replace Evans name with Gordon Ramsey in Sincerely, Me!"
So we had a good little laugh about that, but then that gave me an idea
I though for a minute then turned around to this friend and said "Barack Obama has the same amount of syllables as Connor Murphy so you can replace his name with Barack Obama in the song"
AND THEN IT SPIRALED INTO ABSOLUTE CHAOS WITH US FINDS SYLLABLES FOR EVERY CHARACTER. ME AND HIM ARE MAKING THIS AN AU AND YOU CAN'T STOP US.
heere (haha Jeremy Heere) are the sillys
Evan Hansen - Gordon Ramsey
Connor Murphy - Barack Obama
Zoey Murphy - Justin Bieber
Jared (we didnt use his last name) - Kanye
Alana (again we didn't use her last name) - Ed sheeran
Heidi Hansen - George Washington
Murphys - Eminems (Its a first name but shush)
OH AND AFTER WE WERE DONE WITH THIS WE ASKED OUR FRIEND IF HE COULD IMAGINE BARACK OBAMA KILLING HIMSELF
WE MAKING IT OUT OF DEH WITH THIS ONE (insert fire emoji)
we might write a crack fic abt this lol
my boy toy twink malewife Micheal who helped me make this @harmless-potat0
so lately on tumblr there’s been a pretty cool revival of certain musical fandoms, regarding art and writing and general appreciation, and that’s awesome to see !!! and i think it’s time dear evan hansen joined those ranks! so me and @silksong-when are thinking of hosting a Dear Evan Hansen Big Bang!
we’re not sure how it’ll work out yet, so here’s a poll to gauge engagement !
thank you guys so much, we’re very excited to make this happen !