i know the abundance of embarrassment kink in this fandom is probably due to the fact that ryan gosling blushes easy and rocky can quite literally Sense Your Heartbeat but i need everyone to consider please the converse. rocky going SOCIAL DISCOMFORT x3 while grace pushes past it with a grin and rocky flails around wondering how a human can possibly “read” “body language” (???) when he can’t even hear anything that’s under his carapace??? wdym grace can tell when rocky try hide something question. vents, blusters
These data tables show the top 250 canonical fandom tags on Archive of Our Own, ranked by the total number of public non-subtag works.
[Full transcription of the above data available in the AO3 version.]
What do you mean by canonical fandom tags?
On AO3, a canonical tag is one that has been recognised by the tag wranglers as an official part of the site's tag system. These are the only tags which appear in the drop-down suggestion list when posting a work. Fandom tags are one of the main categories of AO3 tag and lists showing all canonical fandom tags can be found here.
What do you mean by total works?
This is an "All Time" Top 250 list, showing the total number of works posted over the whole lifetime of the site up until the data was gathered (10th August 2026).
What do you mean by public works?
This dataset only includes public/unlocked works, or works that are visible to users viewing the site without an account. This is because I do not believe it is ethical to collect data on works that creators have chosen to mark as not for public access.
The number of works will be higher - around 15% higher on average - for tags viewed while logged in to an account. Recreating this data to include private works would cause some changes in the rankings, particularly for fandoms where are large proportion of works are marked private, such as RPF fandoms.
What do you mean by non-subtag works?
Some tags on AO3 have a "subtag" relationship, which means that all works in the subtag also count in the tag listings for the larger "metatag". For instance all works in "Marvel Cinematic Universe" are also listed in the "Marvel" fandom. This means that ranking by the total shown at the top of a tag tends to produce a list where the largest tags are those with the most large subtags, and it also means a single tagging can count towards multiple fandoms' totals.
In order to avoid this issue, I have instead taken the work totals shown in the "Sort and Filter" menu, which show the total number of works for each tag and its synonyms without counting uses of subtags. Using the example above, this means a work which is only tagged "Marvel Cinematic Universe" will only be counted towards that total. However, a work which is tagged with both "Marvel Cinematic Universe" and "Marvel" will still count towards both totals. This data shows the total number of times that a user has entered each fandom tag on a work, regardless of any other fandom tags which may have been used.
This is only one possible way to approach the issue of gathering data on the popularity of fandom tags, and other valid methodologies exist.
The way I ship things is always in a weird non-specific relationship kind of way so it's always amusing to look into a main tag and remember for a lot of people this means imagining them in a loving marriage. or pregnant with child
Simon: They can call it a biodome all they want but its just another prison and I know what to do in prison. Find the biggest guy and kick his ass to establish dominance.
vaporwave
yousharknotpass
prguitarman
romaincrisis
