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“If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it’s that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.”

― Marjane Satrapi, Iranian graphic novelist

sandandglass

The Muppets s01e01

le-sad-demiurge

Fozzy getting hit on by lots of twinks

cheshireinthemiddle

Happy Pride Month

comicgeekscomicgeek

Ten years later, this bit still slaps. They made a great pun and realized they could be nice/inclusive with it too.

#muppets #gif #a classic

soverybene

if iorveth doesn’t appear in the new witcher 3 expansion i will commit unspeakable things (go cry on my bed and have to accept we’ll never see him again)

#truth #the witcher #iorveth #XD

absencesrepetees

kurt wagner by dike ruan for midnight x-men #1 (jonathan hickman/matteo della fonte, 2026)

#nightcrawler #xmen #art

baby-harpseal

always so funny to me how Kai is considered a stylish unisex/gender-neutral name in English. like that's a northern German man in his mid 60s to me.

baby-harpseal

who i picture when somebody tells me their they/them polyamorous lover now goes by Kai:

#yes

jayrockin

I’m frustrated by cartoon depictions of chickens, which in my experience with the actual animal doesn’t even make sense as a stereotype.

certifiedchickenposts

certified chicken post

#chicken #art #chickens are great #fluffy raptors

my-flying-sister

I love rebloging. It’s the adult equivalent of showing everyone the cool rock I just found.

the-dandy-liar

#art

rottencore

This post keeps making me cry laughingg

#XD

olderthannetfic

I was curious if I could figure out just how TV-centric AO3 is.

There are a lot of ways of answering this question and a lot of factors to consider, but the chart above is my attempt.

Once upon a time, US fanfic zines were dominated by live action US TV series—plus Star Wars, The Professionals, and the occasional wacky outlier like From Eroica with Love (yes, really).

So looking at AO3 as a whole rather than just recently-posted works, I expect to see the TV category being massive. Not only are there many older US live action shows, but that category also includes many live action TV-ish things from around the world (Netflix, etc.) and sometimes includes non-live action TV. As expected, it's a honking big category. But there are other big ones too, even looking in aggregate.

The blue data above are total work counts taken from AO3's index pages. The red data have the "All Media Types", "& Related Fandoms", "Ambiguous Fandom", etc. taken out. I've adjusted metatags or removed them to reflect when they're double-counting works. I've moved bigger fandoms to a single media category. Reality music competition shows stayed in Celebrities & Real People and got removed from TV and Music & Bands, etc. Harry Potter went in books, not movies or whatever else. Plenty of franchises could go in either Video Games or Anime & Manga.

Plenty of works are crossovers too, so the work counts implied by the data will always be far higher than the total work counts on the archive.

The blue data are extremely messy, but cleaning that data is a somewhat subjective process, so I've included both.

But regardless, TV is clearly a huge category but not a majority, not even a slim majority. (AO3 currently has 17.5 million works.) It has strong competition particularly from video games and anime/manga even after things like Star Wars metatags are removed from there.

This is why I find it so annoying when someone makes grand proclamations about fandom—or even just AO3 fandom—yet seems to be thinking primarily of live action TV or even Western live action TV.

#fandom #AO3 #statistics