Hello! I had the burning urge to put together some rough stats around Thoschei fanfiction on AO3. As I had problems scraping the data, most of this analysis is pulled from the aggregations on AO3's tagged works page. If I find a better way to extract this from AO3 I'll likely come back and do something more comprehensive!
(This analysis is not statistically robust and may be subject to errors. Please keep in mind this is just for fun!)
To start with, what are the top pairings in the "The Doctor/The Master" tag on AO3?
Thirteen/Dhawan!Master sits at the top of the list, occupying 23% of all Doctor/Master content on AO3.
The first seven pairings listed here make up 83% of all Doctor/Master fics, the remaining Other category compromising of all possible Doctor x Master combinations make up 27%. *
*Multiple relationship tagging means that some pairings may overlap for the same fanfiction
What are the ratings of the top pairings?
Five/Ainley!Master stand as the raunchiest pairing in the list, with 34% of all Five/Master fanfictions falling under the Explicit category.
How do the top pairings compare over time?
There were just 53 fanfics completed in 2008 on AO3. While fanfic volumes increased in line with the growing popularity of AO3, the reappearances of a certain fictional villain resulted in spikes in publication.
Though the global pandemic definitely had an impact on AO3 activity during 2020, this also coincided with the introduction of a pairing that saw a meteoric rise in fanfiction. Can you guess which one?
Thirteen/Dhawan!Master saw 615 fanfictions during 2020. For comparison, that's more than the total amount of Doctor X Master fanfiction published in 2018 and 2019 combined!
That's it from me for now - but I'll be back soon to look at a few other areas of interest in the AO3 fandom sphere!
“It's beautiful, yeah... The sky's burnt orange, with the citadel enclosed in a mighty glass dome, shining under the twin suns. Beyond that, the mountains go on forever. Slopes of deep red grass, capped with snow.” - The Tenth Doctor
Oil on Canvas, 40x60cm.
It took about 30 hours over the course of nine months, and I learned about four new painting techniques for this, and it was all so worth it to finally bring the Gallifrey in my head to something tangible.
“Please, Mister Crowley, what do the empty pages in a book mean? Is it a printing error of some sort?
Musing as usual in the bookshop, a certain little Scrivener Angel discovers a few empty pages in a book. As they ask a certain old demon what it means, they'll learn that, sometimes, the biggest emotions one can have are not always written nor speakable.
ChillOmenstober day 16: "Bookshop" (Illustration + One-shot, Rating T, 1,3k words, Read on Ao3)
TW/CW: light angst, mention of grief ; Muriel is a sweetheart and Crowley needs a hug! ;
Thanks to @captainblou, @floscrap-blog, and @happynachohologram for their wonderful support/beta-reading!
♥ Tag-List below (tell me if you want to be in or out)♥
With absolutely zero clue on how to introduce myself, let's go!
My name's Bec, the owner of the personal blog of @tardisandpastries, I'm 25 and from the UK. Gross, I know.
Also if you haven't guessed by the blog's title: I'm on the autism spectrum lol (autism brain go brrrrrrr)
I mostly made this blog because I had way too many headcanons for my own takes on AUs floating around that I simply HAD to write them down and share them once they were coherent enough!
Two of these include a generic human AU and my own spin on things for reverse omens!
I really do hope that I finish writing the headcanons up in a better way in good time because it totally didn't take me maybe two months to even think of what picture to give my blog...
I'm sorry,, but I don't like it when ppl make every word Beelzebub says that has an s be replaced by a z. it gets hard to read/understand and just gets annoying.
especially when Beelzebub (In Season 1,, cause that's where it originated from) only makes a buzz sound when influenced by their emotions or it happens occasionally. it doesn't happen when they spell out the s
so seeing things like "yez, I zhould punizh you." is just silly and doesn't make sense 😭😭
