AO3 Tagging Statistics

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I am fascinated by the breakdown of tags within fandoms on AO3 and I've already subjected all my friends to this, so now I'm gonna subject tumblr to this. You can submit research questions for me to answer in the ask box! Check out my posts for what constitutes an appropriate question - try to make it answerable with a few AO3 tag searches and a final percentage or two, and please avoid real people fic. I will answer these at my entirely arbitrary discretion. Frequently NSFW text but not images, I will tag sexual stuff with "#cw sex" so hopefully that lets you avoid them, I avoid tags and fandoms I find distasteful and/or likely triggering to people because it's my blog and I said so.

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0.6% of Star Trek fic contains male pregnancy! 46% of Star Trek mpreg is K/S, 12% is Kirk/Bones, and 6% is Bashir/Garak.

I was honestly expecting more mpreg from the Weird Alien Bullshit fandom but these did have some pretty entertaining concepts. These already popular ships get more popular (proportionally) in the mpreg section of the fandom! Compare these percentages to 18% of all Star Trek fics that are K/S, 12% Kirk/Bones, and 5% Bashir/Garak.

Also, who gets pregnant the most? This is a complicated question because a lot of these fics are tagged with multiple pairings! Based on sorting by kudos, the people want Kirk to be pregnant the most. As far as I can tell, the most common pregnant characters are Spock, Kirk, Bashir and Garak, and the reasons range from the more intuitive "this species' males get pregnant" and "trans man gets pregnant" to the more Trek-y "this planet makes people get a/b/o biology and omegas get pregnant" and "alien diplomats magically impregnate Kirk". Shoutout to mpreg planet I feel like that could be a real Star Trek episode. Spock seems to get pregnant more than Kirk (makes sense what with mysterious reproductive biology in canon i guess?), but Bashir and Garak seem to share the burden. Also Garak lays eggs in a nonzero number of these fics which is neat.

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Some other sci-fi franchise mpreg rates for comparison:

Star Trek: 0.69% mpreg

X-Files: 0.47% mpreg

Stargate: 0.45% mpreg

Battlestar Galactica: 0.44% mpreg

Dr. Who: 0.41% mpreg

Detroit: Become Human: 0.36% mpreg

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Transformers: 1.07% mpreg

63,453 Works in Transformers - All Media Types

679 in mpreg

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ok transformers has so much mpreg i decided to investigate further.

16% of Transformers mpreg is Megatron/ Optimus Prime

7% of all Transformers fics are Megatron/Optimus Prime, so this is a continuation of the trend of the most popular ships getting relatively more popular in mpreg.

I got mobidly curious about how this works (I've watched a YouTube video or two about Transformers sex, reproduction, and gender, so I have some horrid relevant context). TBH some of the top fics I skimmed don't seem to have mpreg so this could be a tagging issue, or I don't understand Transformers pregnancy. There are definitely a few with pregnancies though. those robots be fucking nasty......it came out of megatron like a chestbuster alien....i have regrets......

#mpreg #mpreg fanfiction #ao3 stats #ao3 #ao3 fanfic #transformers #cw sex

keysmashes heatmap from my current keysmash-detector test corpus

timelockedchosen

what

I'm writing some code to detect and analyze keysmashes from flustered transfem submissives, so I've been collecting a small pile of example keysmashes to test against.

I took all the examples and compared how often each key appears, resulting in the above graph

could you do a version of this that is based on how often it appears per message? i.e. x appears on average 3 times per keysmash, etc

yeah, I'll have to try that.

I'm doing various different approaches to try and determine the best way to detect keysmashes, so I've got a lot of stuff to try that I just haven't had time to code up yet

#i like #not ao3

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Miraculous Ladybug shipping is a fucking mess. Yes that's the official statistical term. 52% of all Miraculous Ladybug fics include some permutation of shipping Marinette (Ladybug) and Adrien (Chat Noir), and there are four permutations.

So shipping these two people requires four ships, because they each have a secret identity. 52% of all Miraculous Ladybug fics include some permutation of shipping Marinette (Ladybug) and Adrien (Chat Noir), and of those, 1.6% are tagged with all four permutations and 72% aren't tagged with any particular permutation.

11% of all the fics are tagged Ladynoir. 14% are tagged Adrinette, and 11% are tagged Marichat. There is significant overlap (see Venn diagram below).

Ladrien (Ladybug x Adrien) is less popular. Only 4% of all Marinette x Adrien fics are tagged Ladrien, and only 2% of all Marinette x Adrien fics are only tagged with Ladrien.

Also, 10 fics were added while I was working on this post. Damn.

BEHOLD THE VENN DIAGRAM OF SECRET IDENTITY CONFUSION

official data visualization guidance says i should use an upset plot for this, but i'm going for max psychic damage here.

How many different ships are there now?

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WAIT WHAT DID THEY DO NOW

i've only actually seen a few episodes of s1

#what now #ao3 #ao3 fanfic #ao3 stats #miraculous ladybug #marichat #ladynoir #ladrien #adrinette

Happy birthday to AO3 🎂🎉

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0.6% of Star Trek fic contains male pregnancy! 46% of Star Trek mpreg is K/S, 12% is Kirk/Bones, and 6% is Bashir/Garak.

I was honestly expecting more mpreg from the Weird Alien Bullshit fandom but these did have some pretty entertaining concepts. These already popular ships get more popular (proportionally) in the mpreg section of the fandom! Compare these percentages to 18% of all Star Trek fics that are K/S, 12% Kirk/Bones, and 5% Bashir/Garak.

Also, who gets pregnant the most? This is a complicated question because a lot of these fics are tagged with multiple pairings! Based on sorting by kudos, the people want Kirk to be pregnant the most. As far as I can tell, the most common pregnant characters are Spock, Kirk, Bashir and Garak, and the reasons range from the more intuitive "this species' males get pregnant" and "trans man gets pregnant" to the more Trek-y "this planet makes people get a/b/o biology and omegas get pregnant" and "alien diplomats magically impregnate Kirk". Shoutout to mpreg planet I feel like that could be a real Star Trek episode. Spock seems to get pregnant more than Kirk (makes sense what with mysterious reproductive biology in canon i guess?), but Bashir and Garak seem to share the burden. Also Garak lays eggs in a nonzero number of these fics which is neat.

ao3-tag-statistics

Some other sci-fi franchise mpreg rates for comparison:

Star Trek: 0.69% mpreg

X-Files: 0.47% mpreg

Stargate: 0.45% mpreg

Battlestar Galactica: 0.44% mpreg

Dr. Who: 0.41% mpreg

Detroit: Become Human: 0.36% mpreg

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Transformers: 1.07% mpreg

63,453 Works in Transformers - All Media Types

679 in mpreg

#ao3 #ao3 fanfic #ao3 stats #ao3 tags #cw sex #transformers

11.7% of all Transformers fics are tagged "Sticky Sexual Interfacing." That outranks both Fluff and Angst within the fandom.

18.5% of Transformers fics are tagged Explicit, and 15% are tagged Mature. 24% are tagged "Gen" (not romantic/sexual relationship heavy) and 52% are tagged "M/M." 8% of all Transformers fics are Optimus Prime x Megatron...we love some hate sex.

There's more fanfic of the cartoons and comics than the Bay movies, so there's no humans in the top ships. Also, there are some absolute tags in the fandom. "Sticky Sexual Interfacing (Transformers)" outranks fluff and angst. A tag has to be REALLY popular to outrank fluff and angst in ANY fandom, and they have a SPECIFIC ROBOT SEX TAG UP THERE. 12%. TWELVE ENTIRE PERCENT. OF EVERY TRANSFORMERS FANFIC. Is tagged "Sticky Sexual Interfacing."

Also, Megatron/Orion Pax and Megatron/Optimus Prime are both listed, but according to my extensive Transformers knowledge (watching the OSP Detail Diatribe on Transformers One), that's the same ship? 174 fics are tagged with both.

#ao3 #ao3 fanfic #ao3 tags #ao3 stats #cw sex #transformers #robot sex #sticky sexual interfacing

There are only 14 Cars x Transoformers crossover fics.

Two of them are explicit and several also have Shrek. This represents 0.7% of Cars fics and 0.02% of Transformers fics.

#ao3 #ao3 fanfic #ao3 tags #ao3 stats #transformers #cars

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Miraculous Ladybug shipping is a fucking mess. Yes that's the official statistical term. 52% of all Miraculous Ladybug fics include some permutation of shipping Marinette (Ladybug) and Adrien (Chat Noir), and there are four permutations.

So shipping these two people requires four ships, because they each have a secret identity. 52% of all Miraculous Ladybug fics include some permutation of shipping Marinette (Ladybug) and Adrien (Chat Noir), and of those, 1.6% are tagged with all four permutations and 72% aren't tagged with any particular permutation.

11% of all the fics are tagged Ladynoir. 14% are tagged Adrinette, and 11% are tagged Marichat. There is significant overlap (see Venn diagram below).

Ladrien (Ladybug x Adrien) is less popular. Only 4% of all Marinette x Adrien fics are tagged Ladrien, and only 2% of all Marinette x Adrien fics are only tagged with Ladrien.

Also, 10 fics were added while I was working on this post. Damn.

BEHOLD THE VENN DIAGRAM OF SECRET IDENTITY CONFUSION

official data visualization guidance says i should use an upset plot for this, but i'm going for max psychic damage here.

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what do you mean "they have more secret identities" what the fuck is a chat blanc

Chat Blanc - Alternate future timeline "heres what will happen if you tell Adrien that you are ladybug" hypothetical. And the answer is kind of the world gets destroyed and Chat Noir becomes evil through akumatization (hence Chat Blanc)

Other identities include: Cat Walker - Adrien using the same miraculous but pretending to be someone else (to hide the fact he is originally Cat Noir but still be able to use the cat powers when Ladybug needs him to) Multimouse - Marinette using the miraculous of the mouse (originally to clear her identity as being Ladybug) Shadybug/Claw Noir - "Evil" (and emo) alternate universe versions of Chat Noir and Ladybug. They have a similar hidden identity love square dynamic in their own universe.

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alrighty then. thanks!

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Miraculous Ladybug shipping is a fucking mess. Yes that's the official statistical term. 52% of all Miraculous Ladybug fics include some permutation of shipping Marinette (Ladybug) and Adrien (Chat Noir), and there are four permutations.

So shipping these two people requires four ships, because they each have a secret identity. 52% of all Miraculous Ladybug fics include some permutation of shipping Marinette (Ladybug) and Adrien (Chat Noir), and of those, 1.6% are tagged with all four permutations and 72% aren't tagged with any particular permutation.

11% of all the fics are tagged Ladynoir. 14% are tagged Adrinette, and 11% are tagged Marichat. There is significant overlap (see Venn diagram below).

Ladrien (Ladybug x Adrien) is less popular. Only 4% of all Marinette x Adrien fics are tagged Ladrien, and only 2% of all Marinette x Adrien fics are only tagged with Ladrien.

Also, 10 fics were added while I was working on this post. Damn.

BEHOLD THE VENN DIAGRAM OF SECRET IDENTITY CONFUSION

official data visualization guidance says i should use an upset plot for this, but i'm going for max psychic damage here.

ao3-tag-statistics

what do you mean "they have more secret identities" what the fuck is a chat blanc

#ao3 #ao3 fanfic #miraculous ladybug #i havent watched past episode three #save me #further research is necessary

Miraculous Ladybug shipping is a fucking mess. Yes that's the official statistical term. 52% of all Miraculous Ladybug fics include some permutation of shipping Marinette (Ladybug) and Adrien (Chat Noir), and there are four permutations.

So shipping these two people requires four ships, because they each have a secret identity. 52% of all Miraculous Ladybug fics include some permutation of shipping Marinette (Ladybug) and Adrien (Chat Noir), and of those, 1.6% are tagged with all four permutations and 72% aren't tagged with any particular permutation.

11% of all the fics are tagged Ladynoir. 14% are tagged Adrinette, and 11% are tagged Marichat. There is significant overlap (see Venn diagram below).

Ladrien (Ladybug x Adrien) is less popular. Only 4% of all Marinette x Adrien fics are tagged Ladrien, and only 2% of all Marinette x Adrien fics are only tagged with Ladrien.

Also, 10 fics were added while I was working on this post. Damn.

BEHOLD THE VENN DIAGRAM OF SECRET IDENTITY CONFUSION

official data visualization guidance says i should use an upset plot for this, but i'm going for max psychic damage here.

#ao3 #ao3 fanfic #ao3 tags #ao3 stats #miraculous ladybug #marichat #ladynoir #ladrien #adrinette

"Have you checked Dr. Who for mpreg?" - my friend

yeah there's people irl who know i run this blog i have no shame

#not a statistic #i'll check eventually #this blog's not dead i just oscillate between suddenly having the energy to queue up 5 posts at once and not touching the blog for months

Most lesbian fanfiction is based on Goncharov (Goncharov (1973) dir. Martin Scorsese)!

April Fools! That is not true, but with your help-

#ao3 #ao3 fanfic #ao3 tags #ao3 stats #april fools #this is not true

nah i don't think i will

#not a statistic #i will not repent for this blog #sir this is the sin website

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0.6% of Star Trek fic contains male pregnancy! 46% of Star Trek mpreg is K/S, 12% is Kirk/Bones, and 6% is Bashir/Garak.

I was honestly expecting more mpreg from the Weird Alien Bullshit fandom but these did have some pretty entertaining concepts. These already popular ships get more popular (proportionally) in the mpreg section of the fandom! Compare these percentages to 18% of all Star Trek fics that are K/S, 12% Kirk/Bones, and 5% Bashir/Garak.

Also, who gets pregnant the most? This is a complicated question because a lot of these fics are tagged with multiple pairings! Based on sorting by kudos, the people want Kirk to be pregnant the most. As far as I can tell, the most common pregnant characters are Spock, Kirk, Bashir and Garak, and the reasons range from the more intuitive "this species' males get pregnant" and "trans man gets pregnant" to the more Trek-y "this planet makes people get a/b/o biology and omegas get pregnant" and "alien diplomats magically impregnate Kirk". Shoutout to mpreg planet I feel like that could be a real Star Trek episode. Spock seems to get pregnant more than Kirk (makes sense what with mysterious reproductive biology in canon i guess?), but Bashir and Garak seem to share the burden. Also Garak lays eggs in a nonzero number of these fics which is neat.

ao3-tag-statistics

Some other sci-fi franchise mpreg rates for comparison:

Star Trek: 0.69% mpreg

X-Files: 0.47% mpreg

Stargate: 0.45% mpreg

Battlestar Galactica: 0.44% mpreg

Dr. Who: 0.41% mpreg

Detroit: Become Human: 0.36% mpreg

#ao3 #ao3 fanfic #ao3 stats #ao3 tags #star trek #mpreg #mpreg fanfiction #dr who #stargate fandom #detroit become human #the x files #battlestar galactica

34% of Barbie movie fics are Barbie x Gloria, while 12% are Barbie x Ken.

good for her. Also, 12% are platonic Barbie & Gloria, and 11% are tagged "Lesbian Barbie," which I love.

5% are Allan x Ken, and another 5% are Ken x Ken (Simu Liu x Ryan Gosling Kens). 3% are Barbie x Oppenheimer.

The "Lesbian Barbie" tag is second only to Fluff. Angst is under Fluff, Lesbian Barbie, and Post-Canon, so there's less angst in Barbie fans than your average fandom! Shocking to me given the angsty shit my neighbors got up to with their Barbies as children, but there ya have it.

#ao3 #ao3 fanfic #ao3 stats #ao3 tags #barbie #barbenheimer #lesbians

There are 42 times more fics with 5-person relationships than there are fics about the JFK assassination.

Also, 87% of all fics with 3+ person relationships are 3 people, 11% are 4 people, and 2% are 5 people. Of these, 45% are all M (30% of all of them are M/M/M) and 7% are all F.

Have I learned anything! Not really! I did learn about explicit amogus fics so I guess there's that.

#ao3 #ao3 fanfic #ao3 stats #ao3 tags #cw sex

55% of fics with titles containing the phrase "good luck babe" are tagged F/F

And several of the fics tagged M/F clearly have lesbian ships, so more than 55% of fics with titles including "good luck babe" are about lesbian ships.

LET'S GO LESBIANS LET'S GO

Bonus fun fact: 39% of fics with titles containing the phrase "Hot to go!" are rated explicit. Good job all around!

#ao3 #ao3 fanfic #ao3 stats #ao3 tags #good luck babe

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