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lgbtlunaverse · 1 month

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3zun data analysis

I was wondering how much the different 2-out-of-3zun ship fics were actually focused specifically on them, rather than having them feature as side pairings, so I did a little mini-experiment. Beginning by searching for otp:true in each tag

(This doesn't give you the real number of fics were the pairing is the main focus, for the record. The other tagged ships might've been a side pairing, and the one we're filtering for the main one, and otp:true also filters out platonic relationships. So, for example, a nielan fic that has the nie brothers tagged as a platonic bond will also be filtered out. But since it does that for all ships you can still get a good idea how likely each one of them is to be the center in their fics)

My hypothesis was that Nielan would be the least likely, as they're frequently tagged as a side pairing in wangxian focused fics, with xiyao and nieyao having comparable results.

Nielan, as I type this, have 2154 works, of which only 627 have only nielan tagged. That is 29% of all nielan fics.

Next up is xiyao, who have 4534 works, of which 2195 only have xiyao tagged, a significanly higher 48%

And lastly nieyao, who have the least works in total with 1749, but have 683 works only tagged nieyao, more than nielan despite having less fics overall. Ending up at 39% of all nieyao fics

So I was right about nielan being lower, but turned out to be wrong in my hypothesis that nieyao and xiyao would end up with comparable results!

One possible factor is that nieyao, being a smaller ship, is more affected by those big collection-type fics that have a dozen pairings tagged for every chapter, as well as 3zun fics that have the individual pairings tagged. (Which we'll get to later!!)

Also, Huaisang - typical of him - butts into nieyao more. 5% of nieyao fics have the Nie brothers tagged platonically, and almost exactly the same number are tagged sangyao. Compare that to lan xichen's much more reserved little brother who really doesn't want to be a part of this, as only 3% of xiyao fics are tagged with the twin jades, and zhanyao... isn't much of a thing.

I'd anticipated both of these, but I'd also expected that xiyao, being a bigger ship, would be a less controversial background pairing for wangxian, who - let's be real - are the main players within the mdzs fic space so they massively impact the numbers. I know xiyao are certainly not without controversy (god no) and the go-to side pairings are xicheng and xuanli instead but like... compared to nieyao, surely they're the normie pick? And, well, 25% of xiyao fics are tagged wangxian compared to only 20% of nieyao fics so that is somewhat true, but not as much as I'd thought. (For comparison, 43% of nielan fics are tagged wangxian)

Now let's look at 3zun overall. Of the 1127 3zun fics, 277 are exclusively tagged 3zun. That's only 25%

But that doesn't feel right. After all, a lot of 3zun fics also tag the individual pairings. And excluding them like we did with the 2-out-of-3zun ships feels wrong. You'd categorize a fic tagged with both nieyao and 3zun as a 3zun fic, wouldn't you?

So I manually excluded each non 2-out-of-3zun pair. This took a bit, but you end up with 538 3zun fics which are either not tagged with any side pairing, or only tagged with a ship already contained in 3zun. That is 48% of all 3zun fics, similar to xiyao.

So there you have it! Xiyao is the most independent of the subfandoms, having almost half of its works centered solely around xiyao (and even more primarily focused on xiyao. As I said, otp:true also filters out works that still focus on xiyao but have other background relationships) with the overall 3zun fandom having a similar focus, followed by nieyao, and then nielan.

edit: this has a part 2 now

#mdzs #cql #the untamed #nie mingjue #meng yao #jin guangyao #lan xichen #3zun #nielan #xiyao #nieyao #fandom research #fandom statistics #<- i have a feeling i might start doing more of this so let's create the tags for orgizational purposes #nielanists it's time to rise up and free nielan from the bruce banner phenomenon!

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centrumlumina · 9 months

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What ships are this year's top 10?

Find out this year's top AO3 pairing tags and more from the AO3 Ship Stats 2023.

#fandom stats #ao3 ship stats #archive of our own #ao3 #fandom #fandom statistics #fandom stats disucssion #slash fandom #femslash fandom #sexism in fandom #racism in fandom

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end-otw-racism · 1 year

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It's getting close to the end of day two, and we have some glorious stats for you, if you're curious!

On AO3:

There are 2,698 works that result if you search "end racism in the otw" in titles (some are locked, so you won't see them all unless you're logged in).

There are 829 works in the "EndOTWRacism" collection.

8 works in the collection are tagged as "meta."

10 works in the collection are tagged as "fanart."

13 works in the collection are tagged as "podfic."

47 works in the collection are tagged as "fanvids."

57 works in the collection were posted on or after the 16th (due to time zone differences, we're including the 16th as part of the start date of the initiative).

The most popular fandom in the collection is "Bad Buddy: the Series" with 36 works.

On Tumblr:

The Call to Action post has 4,428 notes.

This account has 679 followers.

Side note: we've received word that Tumblr is locking our posts behind a login wall, so we're looking at mirroring options elsewhere.

On Twitter:

The pinned post has 500 shares and 403 likes.

The account has 519 followers.

Overall:

The response and support from ALL OF YOU have been overwhelmingly positive, with only a handful of folks misinterpreting our intentions or spreading misinformation about us. We're grateful for everyone who's been brave enough to combat misinfo on our behalf, both here and on other sites, and would like to remind everyone to stay kind when coming to our defense. Link back to our Call to Action and FAQs whenever you need to.

#ao3 #otw #archive of our own #end otw racism #endotwracism #updates #all these numbers have probably changed between the time we started drafting this post and the time we posted it #bc you all keep BLOWING US AWAY #THANK YOU ALL FROM EVERYONE ON THE TEAM #keep it up!#we got 12 days to go!#fandom statistics #fandom stats

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fearsomecaptain · 3 months

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There were three polls on twitter with Finnegrin vs other TDP characters and people were asked who they liked more. Here's how Finn fared against Aaravos, Runaan and Kim'dael

#finnegrin #the dragon prince #runaan #kim'dael #aaravos #fandom statistics #meta

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aethel · 1 year

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Graph showing Russian-language fanworks posted per month on the AO3, as a percentage of all fanworks posted that month. I collected data from AO3′s works search, while logged in, on April 21, 2023.

I believe the spike in December 2022 was caused by the passage of a Russian law expanding the prohibition on sharing positive information or publishing media about LGBT people from just children to everyone.

#ao3 stats #ao3 statistics #fanwork statistics #fandom statistics #language statistics #russian fandom #censorship

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anonym-potato · 3 months

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Hey, would any Argenti havers be willing to help me out? I'm trying to make a complete list of every character's score on the Rating Pistol, so we can bang our heads against the wall about it with more data, and he's the only one I can't verify myself or find a source for. If someone could get me the number it would be super awesome.

#Honkai Star Rail #Argenti hsr #Fandom Statistics

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echoes-lighthouse · 1 year

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DNI statistics so far!!!

I’m selecting 100 blogs from each tag (80 from the recent posts, 20 from the top posts) and that’s what these statistics are based on: again, it’s not the most effective data pool but I’m just fiddling around!

Orange Pie Chart= % of blogs with a DNI in their bio/pinned/carrd, Green Pie Chart = % of blogs without a DNI listed

A few comments:

I’m super excited to see which tags are more likely to have more DNIs! The difference between the agere stats and most fandom stats are frankly staggering, and I’m interested in if there are any fandoms or other tumblr communities that rely more heavily on DNIs (I suspect the selfship tag will also be up there, but what else?)

I separated DDLG and ‘CGL/ageplay variants’ as different categories when ranking them because I thought it was funny how many DNIs didn’t include other gender dynamics when it comes to kink.

Send me more tumblr tags that you think would be interesting for sorting through DNIs!! I’m definitely interested in doing more of these.

Some honorable mentions for interesting DNI qualifiers below the ‘read more’ as a little bonus :P

Meaningless Insult Count: -1x ‘jerkwads’ -1x’creeps’ -1x’discriminatory shitheads’ -1x’gross people’

Total “”standard/basic DNI”” Count: 6

Dishonored Fandoms Count: -DSMP Fans (7) -Harry Potter (4) -Cronus Ampora Apologists (1) -Darklina Shippers (1) -Billy Hargrove Supporters (1) -Billy Hargrove Antis (1) -Vivziepop Supporter (1) -Attack on Titan (1) -South Park (1)

Made Me Laugh: -’no immoral blog content’ -’no one under 13 or over 19′ -’stalkers DNI’ -’no atheists’

Had to Google: -Hybristophiles (people attracted to criminals??) -xenicphobia (another word for anti-xenogender) -TCC (true crime community) -Queermisic (a ‘more inclusive’ alternative to ‘homophobia’??)

Still A Mystery To Me: -”angels without red halos DNI” (is this a random religious reference for the Aesthetic?? Is it a reference to wanting TERFs to follow because of the web extension that surrounds radfems’ blogs in red? Who knows!! )

#special interest: fandoms and tumblr #dni statistics #fandom statistics #hark i say nothing #tw discourse #discourse mention #proship

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ussjellyfish · 1 year

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comparing the ao3 categories across star treks

After seeing @caladeniablue's excellent graphs of how Trek fandoms are changing over time, I was curious about the categories fics are posted in (f/f, f/m, gen, m/m, multi and other). I also wanted to see if the legacy fandoms were changing over time (comparing all time works and works posted in 2022.).

f/f - blue, f/m - red, gen - yellow, m/m - green, multi - orange, other - teal.

I excluded crossovers, but didn't go through and make sure to just use work that were labeled with only one fandom so there is some crossover that way.

Legacy Treks - (TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT and AOS - movies) are in this post.

New Treks will be another post (link to be added as I finished).

(under a cut for length)

The Original Series

Mostly M/M, more other and multi in 2022 than previous years.

Most tagged relationships (f/f, f/m, gen and m/m) (same in 2022 and previous years)

Christine Chapel/Nyota Uhura

Amanda Grayson/Sarek

James Kirk & Spock

James Kirk/Spock

Top 3 tagged Characters (same in 2022 as previous years)

Spock

James Kirk

Leonard McCoy

The Next Generation

Mostly F/M, very small differences between 2022 and previous years. Slightly more M/M works in 2022. (3%).

All time most tagged relationships (f/f, f/m, gen, m/m):

Beverly Crusher/Deanna Troi

Beverly Crusher/Jean-Luc Picard

Geordi La Forge & Data

Data/Geordi La Forge

Top 3 tagged characters (all time)

Data

Jean-Luc Picard

Deanna Troi & Will Riker (tied)

2022 most tagged relationships (f/f, f/m, gen, m/m):

Beverly Crusher/Deanna Troi

Deanna Troi/Will Riker (different than previous years)

Geordi La Forge & Data

Data/Geordi La Forge

Top 3 tagged characters 2022

Jean-Luc Picard

Data

Deanna Troi

Deep Space 9

Mostly M/M, M/M 5% more popular in 2022 than previous years.

All time most tagged relationships (f/f, f/m, gen, m/m):

Jadzia Dax/Kira Nerys

Kira Nerys/Odo

Julian Bashir & Elim Garak

Julian/Bashir/Elim Garak

Top 3 tagged characters (all time & 2022 same in both years) -

Julian Bashir

Elim Garak

Kira Nerys

2022 Most tagged relationships (f/f, f/m, gen, m/m):

Jadzia Daax/Kira Nerys

Keiko O'Brien/Miles O'Brien* (only change in 2022)

Julian Bashir & Elim Garak

Julian/Bashir/Elim Garak

Voyager

Mostly F/M, 8% more F/F in 2022 than previous years. M/M had 8% less works in 2022.

All time most tagged relationships (f/f, f/m, gen, m/m): m/m):

Kathryn Janeway/Seven of Nine

Kathryn Janeway/Chakotay

Chakotay & Kathryn Janeway

Chakotay/Tom Paris

Top 3 characters (all time)

Kathryn Janeway

Chakotay

Tom Paris

2022 most tagged relationships (f/f, f/m, gen, m/m): m/m):

Kathryn Janeway/Seven of Nine

Kathryn Janeway/Chakotay

Chakotay & Kathryn Janeway

Harry Kim/Tom Paris (only change in 2022)

Top 3 characters (2022)

Kathryn Janeway

Chakotay

Seven of Nine

Enterprise

M/M is the highest with gen and f/m about even. in 2022 both f/m and gen had significant gains and m/m decreased by 9%.

All time most tagged relationships (f/f, f/m, gen, m/m):

Hoshi Sato/T'Pol

T'Pol/Charles "Trip" Tucker

Malcolm Reed & Charles "Trip" Tucker

Malcolm Reed/Charles "Trip Tucker

Top 3 characters (all time)

Malcolm Reed

Charles "Trip" Tucker

Jonathan Archer

2022 most tagged relationships (f/f, f/m, gen, m/m):

Hoshi Sato/T'Pol

T'Pol/Charles "Trip" Tucker

Malcolm Reed & Charles "Trip" Tucker

Jonathan Archer/Shran (only change in 2022)

Top 3 characters (all time)

Jonathan Archer

Charles "Trip" Tucker

Malcolm Reed

Alternate Original Series (movies)

Mostly M/M only minor differences, small gain of more m/m works in 2022.

All time and 2022 most tagged relationships (f/f, f/m, gen, m/m):

Gaila/Nyota Uhura

Nyota Uhura/Spock

James Kirk & Spock

James Kirk/Spock

Top 3 characters (all time)

James Kirk

Leonard McCoy

Spock

Top 3 characters (2022)

James Kirk

Spock

Leonard McCoy

#star trek #fandom statistics #fandom charts and graphs #star trek the next generation #star trek 2009 #star trek aos #star trek deep space 9 #star trek voyager #star trek enterprise

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goldeneyedkim · 4 months

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Year End Stats

Kinda.

So, I'm a brat and want to know when notifs go out, so I'm subscribed to myself. Since Ao3's stats are... uh, not great for the yearly breakdown they supposedly have (if you post a longfic across multiple years, the stats are counted in full for both years), so I can't see how many words I wrote easily...

But I could go back through all my notification emails, add up all the words, and find out 1) how many words I posted* for each account in 2023 and 2) how many times I posted. AngelSelene_Archived is not counted in this.

Uh, disclaimer: it's a lot. Also it's "how many words I posted" and not "how many I wrote" both because I had 3 longfics I posted this year that I have had written in significant part before this year (Surviving the Fire, Wildness in His Bones, and Brutally combined had well over 100k pre-written before I started posting). Anyway, that means it's not a true "how much did I write in 2023" but it's... uh, still impressive.

Stats beneath the cut:

So... GEO readers feasted this year (not a surprise since I finished Iron and Ichor). I may not have done Nano this year--my dayjob is retail adjacent, so November's always an iffy proposition anyway--but I did have 7 (SEVEN) months where I posted over 50k, and an eighth (Feb) where I just missed it.

Dramatic drop-off in Nov-Dec, which... look, IRL was not kind from Halloween on this year. Probably 20k of what was posted in those two months were pre-written.

What was the total word count? 611,305 words posted in 2023. AngelSelene got 208k, while GEO got a whopping 403k.

So... that's a lot.

And because that's a lot, I got curious about how often I posted.

Uh, spoiler alert: it's also a lot.

In case anyone's curious, final tallies were 73 times for AS, and 118 times for GEO, for a grand total of 191 times.

Guys, statistically speaking, I posted every other day last year between the two accounts. I had no idea I had posted that much. I also have no idea why so many of my wonderful readers don't unsubscribe when they realize how much I post. 😂

The actual numbers if anyone's curious:

I do not expect this year to be this nuts (not the least of which because I don't have over 100k of longfic drafts), but I'm def still recovering from the insanity of the end of the year, and it is absolutely impacting my desire to write.

To those who signed up to go through this insanity with me--thank you. Truly. 💛💛💛💛

#angiewrote #kimerawrote #fandom statistics #writing statistics #definitely don't expect this this year

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ao3demographicssurvey2024 · 2 months

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In the AO3 Demographics Survey 2024 - an unofficial demographics survey of 16,131 AO3 users - 81% of respondents identified as LGBTQ+, and 25% identified as transgender.

To see more analysis, including comparisons to general population trends, please view the full results on AO3.

#fandom statistics #fandom demographics #demographics survey #lgbtq+#lgbtq fandom #lgbtq fanfiction #archive of our own #ao3 #survey results #ao3 demographics survey 2024

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lgbtlunaverse · 29 days

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It's a little crazy to watch the dungeon meshi fandom explode. As I say this, at the start of april 2024, there are 694 dungeon meshi fics on ao3 which looks like a modest number especially if you consider that the earliest fic in the tag is from 2017. But that's not taking into account that 544 of those 694 were posted 2024 and a whopping 299 were in march 2024 alone. And considering that the average lifetime of a fic from initial idea to writing and editing to publication is months we are actually at a very early point on the exponential curve, the real explosion is yet to come.

To illustrate my point, if you look a little more closely at the fics you'll realize the vast majority of them are oneshots, not multichaptered fics. Like. Much more compared to more established fandoms.

(If you want hard numbers for proof: the number of fics updated, not posted, in march 2024 was 326. That means that of all the fics updated in march ONLY 27 were fics posted earlier than march. And of the 299 posted, only 64 weren't oneshots. For all fics updated in march 72.1% were oneshots, 27.9% not. Compare that to a randomly chosen other fandom I'm in, Deltarune, where only 35.5% of the fics updated in march 2024 were oneshots, and 64.5% were not. The difference is staggering dunmeshi literally has twice as many oneshots comparetively)

And that's because oneshots are quicker to write, while a multichaptered fic takes much more planning. The longest fic in the dunmeshi fandom tag is currently only 67K words which is impressive but nothing compared to the behemoths you usually see occupying that spot. All those longfics? Those are still coming.

#me crunching ao3 numbers for no reason again #fandom research #fandom statistics #aren't i glad i made those tags #dungeon meshi #biggest fic in deltarune is 674K btw. literally 10 times as long #dungeon meshi fic is coming so fast that WHILE I WROTE THIS POST another fic got posted i had to update the numbers

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centrumlumina · 1 year

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Did your ship make the top 10?

The top 100 AO3 ships of 2022 are now available to view on my AO3.

#ao3 ship stats #ao3 statistics #fandom stats #archive of our own #ao3 #fandom #fandom statistics #fandom stats discussion #slash fandom #femslash fandom

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end-otw-racism · 11 months

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Stats Roundup!

After a week, we’ve had enormous positive response to the campaign! Thanks to all who’ve signal boosted and participated in our action items - and if you haven’t gotten the chance to do so yet, there’s still time! This campaign runs ‘till the end of the month!

On AO3: - over 5,000 works posted with “End Racism in the OTW” or “End OTW Racism” in the title! - over 1,400 works across over 500 fandoms in the collection!

On Twitter: - over 700 followers of the EndOTWRacism account! - our pinned post has been shared over 700 times!

On Tumblr: - over 1000 followers of this account! - our Call to Action has over 6,000 notes!

Elsewhere: - over a dozen authors participated in our writing sprint yesterday! - we set up a dreamwidth account to mirror essential posts from this blog. - lots of folks have been inspired to do more in-depth discussions on their own blogs/accounts - check out our link roundup post!

And remember: our inbox here is always open, for asks or for submissions, and if you want to contribute something anonymously, feel free to email us at endotwracism[at]gmail.com.

Here’s to another great week and finishing strong!

#EndOTWRacism #End OTW Racism #week in review #fandom statistics #fandom stats #we love you all!!

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big-trouble-in-little-eldia · 1 year

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A deep dive into AO3′s Bertolt Hoover shipping tags

I got bored and I like making lists and excel sheets, so I went ahead and mined all the data from the various Bertholdt relationships that exist on AO3. The resulting statistics and graphs are quite interesting, so I want to share them!

To start, I went to AO3′s tag search page, searched for every ship that contains Bertholdt OR Bertolt, picked the Relationship category, selected Canon and Non-Canon, and sorted by chronological ascending so that they would show up in the order in which they were created.

Then, I went ahead and collected the following data:

The canonical ship name

Characters involved

Type (romantic or platonic)

Genders involved

Number of characters in the ship

Number of fics in the tag

The order in which they were created

A link to the works and tag page

The number of G, T, M, E, and Not Rated fics

In doing so, I ignored synonym ships. Half of all of Bertholdt’s current 525 ship tags are variations on Reiner/Bertholdt. I’ve only catalogued the canon tag, or if that was missing, the most canon spelling.

Then, I went ahead and created some tables to count totals and other numbers that seemed interesting.

Important to note is that the total number of fics isn’t an accurate sum of total fics that are on the archive. For example, if a single fic is tagged with both “Armin Arlert/Bertolt Hoover” and “Armin Arlert & Bertolt Hoover”, then this fic will represent itself twice in the data. The numbers are more to be taken as relative: how many fics contain this ship tag and how does that compare to other ships?

I went with ships because these are the easiest way to ensure that the fic is at least a little bit about Bertholdt. Most fics that tag him have him in the background or he doesn’t even show up in them. When at least one relationship with him is tagged, the odds that he’s relevant in the fic increase by a lot. The number of fics that have him as a main character but that don’t tag him in any relationships is rather insignificant, so this is the best way to go through Bertholdt fics and collect some data.

You can find the full sheet here. Data was captured on the 8th of January 2023. The newest ship tag at the time was Bertolt Hoover/Onyankopon and I will likely not update these stats since it’s quite a bit of work. Unless some really bad life decisions lead me to still be in this fandom in five years and data has shifted enough to see an evolution.

Find the full sheet with data here.

Let’s go through the data!

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Number of fics

When sorted by size, these are the ships with the most fics:

Reiner Braun/Bertolt Hoover (2666)

Bertolt Hoover/Annie Leonhart (465)

Bertolt Hoover/You (310)

Reiner Braun & Bertolt Hoover (300)

Reiner Braun & Bertolt Hoover & Annie Leonhart (275)

Reiner Braun/Bertolt Hoover/Annie Leonhart (125)

Armin Arlert/Bertolt Hoover (75)

Bertolt Hoover & Annie Leonhart (63)

Bertolt Hoover/Eren Yeager (61)

Bertolt Hoover/Original Character(s) (59)

Bertolt Hoover/Jean Kirstein (58)

Marco Bott/Bertolt Hoover (55)

Bertolt Hoover & Reader (40)

Armin Arlert & Bertolt Hoover (32)

Sasha Blouse/Bertolt Hoover (30)

Reiner Braun & Pieck Finger & Marcel Galliard & Porco Galliard & Bertolt Hoover & Annie Leonhart (29)

Reiner Braun/Bertolt Hoover/Reader (25)

Mikasa Ackerman/Bertolt Hoover (23)

Porco Galliard/Bertolt Hoover (23)

Bertolt Hoover/Ymir (20)

Not unexpected that RBA ships and reader ships are at the top, considering the former has always been popular and the latter is a large trend at the moment.

I was surprised that Bertholdt/Armin is the largest rarepair considering that when I first got into this ship in September of 2020, there were about 20 fics in this tag and over half of them were either crack, didn’t contain them, or had them as background characters. It’s nice to see it boom!

Ships with Eren, Jean, and Marco are one of the first Bertholdt ship tags to be created on AO3. They used to be popular in the early days but are quieter in recent years due to a shift in character spotlight.

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Characters

Ships

The following graph shows how many Bertholdt ships each character is a part of.

Reiner, Annie, Marco, Jean, Eren, Marcel, Armin, and Reader take up the top spots for characters who appear in the most ships.

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Fics ‎

When you bring in how many fics are tagged with a ship containing each character, the view becomes quite skewed.

Because of the sheer number of Reiner/Bertholdt fics, Reiner racks in 3530 fics, representing 65,8% of all Bertholdt fics. Annie comes in second at 996 fics or 18,4% and Reader is third with 310 or 5,7% of fics.

To give a more representative overview of the other ships, Reiner, Annie, and Reader’s data were removed from this graph.

Armin (122 fics), Jean (115 fics), Marco (106), and Eren (100) are notably higher than the rest.

In the second grouped tier, we have Porco (63), OC (58), Marcel (54), Sasha (48), Pieck (41), Ymir (41), and Mikasa (27).

In the third, we have Erwin (17), Connie (14), Historia (10), Levi (7), Gabi (5), Colt (4), Hange (4), Zeke (3), The Colossal Titan (2), and Mina (2).

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Romantic vs Platonic

The table shows some interesting data. Let’s look at that as graphs.

An interesting number when it comes down to ships: 41,6% of all ships on AO3 are platonic ships (&) and 58,4% are romantic (/). However, this also shows that the number of ships can deviate wildly from the number of fics:

If you look at the bulk of fics that are associated with a romantic Bertholdt ship, suddenly that number becomes 16,7% platonic vs 83,3% romantic.

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Fic Rating

A fic can only have one rating. There are five ratings available:

G, or General Audiences, for fics that can be read by anyone

T, or Teens and Up, for fics that contain slightly more mature themes

M, or Mature, for fics that contain mature themes or mild sexual content

E, or Explicit, for fics that contain explicit sexual content, violence, or gore

Not Rated, for when the author doesn’t think the fic fits neatly within one category and they leave it open

For every ship, I went ahead and counted how many fics there are in each category. Check out the full sheet for every ship’s percentages.

First off, the number of ships that have at least one fic per rating. For example, G’s 50 means that 50 different ships have at least one fic that is rated G.

Interestingly enough, E is the most represented rating among the differing ships, followed by T, then M, G, and Not Rated. But the statistics are generally well-balanced.

Second: the number of fics that are tagged with each rating.

In terms of fic representation:

T > M > E > G > Not Rated

Note that just because a fic is rated E, that doesn’t mean that the content of that warning applies to the Bertholdt ship, for example when they’re tagged as a side ship in another character’s ship.

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Number of partners

General

Most ships (41,6%) consist of Bertholdt and one other person. 30,4% has two other people, 13,6% has three other people, 4% four, 2,4% six, and 8% can’t be counted because the character can be plural, for example Original Character(s).

Despite the decent number of 3+ partner ships, an overwhelming majority of fics is about mono ships, namely 86,7%. 9,3% is three partners, 0,9% four, 0,1% five, 0,6% six, and 2,5% can’t be counted.

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Romantic

Looking at solely romantic ships, there is a notable increase in 3 partner ships.

Percentage-wise, the number of fics for mono ships is even higher than in the global numbers. Mono ships represent 92% of all romantic Bertholdt fics. Three partner fics are 4,7%, four are 0,6%, five and six are both 0,02%, and 2,6% can’t be classified.

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Platonic

There is a notably small amount of 3+ platonic ships compared to the others.

However, the number of fics that contain a friendship between three characters is higher. Two platonic partners accounts for 60,5% of all platonic fics, three for 32%, four for 2,1%, five for 0,3%, six for 3,3%, and others for 0,4%. The uptick in six characters is probably due to the number of RBAMPP fics.

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Ship composition

Romantic

M/M, M/M/M, M/F, and M/M/F have the largest amount of ships.

There are more M/M romantic ships than there are M/F ones. Notable is how the number of M/M ‎fics is about 5x higher than the number of M/F fics. Only one M/X ship and two fics exist.

When it comes to ships with a total of three partners, a funny pattern emerges. While M/M/F only have about the third of the amount of ships that M/M/M has, it has almost 3x the amount of fics because of M/M/M. M/F/F has only one fic, which goes to his ship with Ymir and Historia.

Looking at 4+ partners, there aren’t many ships. Still, despite being represented by only two ships, M/M/M/M sticks out above the rest, which is due to RBJM being paired pretty often.

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Platonic

2M, MF, 3M, and 2MF are the largest platonic ships.

The gap between MM and MF ships is smaller for platonic ships than for romantic ones. Still, M&M dominates in terms of fics, with almost 4x the amount of fics compared to M&F.

3+ platonic partner ships show a large skew due to RBA ships as well: 278 fics are M&M&F and the next highest number is M&M&M&M&F&F, mostly inhabited by respectively RBA and RBAMPP. That’s almost 10x as many fics as the next item! Hence why it’s been removed from the graph.

Notable is that there is no RBAMPPZ relationship yet.

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I kinda of lost the plot at this point and have run out of information to showcase

If there’s anything else you’d like me to make a graph out of, I’d love to do so. I can pretty much compare every data point against every other data point.

(Go and populate the smaller ship tags!)

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