Apparently some people are really, really upset about AO3 members saying they won a Hugo (and also about profiting off the Hugo Award name on Etsy, but that seems to be a relatively minor concern). From what I can tell, these people are very unhappy that AO3 won the Best Related Work award at Worldcon this year and even unhappier that most of AO3 ( Read more... )

As a follow-up on yesterday's stats post about explicit fic in the MCU, I went and dug up info about all the most popular MCU OT3s/threesomes. Unlike yesterday's, these numbers aren't filtered for otp:true, because a lot of A/B/C fics are also tagged with A/B or B/C or sometimes all three pairings, in addition to being tagged A/B/C, and I didn't ( Read more... )

Today was another of those Play With Stats days. I got curious about the distribution of explicit fic in the MCU and how it broke down by ship and ship category (m/m, f/f, het). Several hours later, I know a lot more about the popular MCU ships than I did before, and also I have a bunch of intriguing numbers to share behind the cut!

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I'm procrastinating HARD on my Unusual Bearings fic right now, so this morning I poked around AO3 and dug up a bunch of stats on the most popular MCU f/f pairings on AO3 (not counting any of the TV shows):


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A couple of links:
"fandom meta discussions on Mastodon" (but this is a DW post) by
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View poll: #20943

Crossposted from Dreamwidth. Comment here or there. (
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five formative influences on your fandom experience (ie, what got you into fandom in general, formative canons, etc.) for
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I think if Tumblr successfully implemented the policy they claim to want to implement, ie no genitals, female-presenting nipples, or illustrated sex acts but otherwise you're fine, then fandom as a whole would muddle along there for at least a couple more years, until the new shiny platform showed up. OTOH if they implement the policy with the ( Read more... )

I got bored today and also curious, and I sorted the Buffy tag on AO3 by kudos and made a list of the top ten fics that weren't crossovers. It was the not-crossover part that took work; since Buffy is an old fandom and getting quieter all the time, straight Buffy fics don't get nearly the kudos that MCU or whatever crossovers do ( Read more... )