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[Fandom stats] Asexuality and Aromanticism on AO3

Summary:

Which fandoms and characters on AO3 most often use asexual and/or aromatic tags?

Notes:

Originally posted to Tumblr in March 2017 (Parts 1, 2, and 3).

Chapter 1: Fandoms

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Continue to the next chapter if you just want to see info about which characters are most often portrayed as ace/aro. But first, here are the notes from my original post:

TOASTYSTATS: ASEXUAL AND AROMANTIC FANWORKS ON AO3 (PART 1)

As a follow up to this post, I took a look at the fandoms producing the most asexuality- and aromanticism-related fanworks on AO3. I examined trends over time, and recently emerging fandoms.  As a final sidenote, I looked at the Sherlock fandom, which used to be responsible for ~40% of acefic on AO3 (H/T @strangelock), and at specific asexual characters.

Part 2 addresses @elizabethminkel‘s additional questions about which characters tend to get explicitly tagged as ace or aro, and whether/how those characters get shipped.  It also has recent ace trends.  It also shows that Sherlock is still the character most tagged asexual, despite above trends.

Click through for explanatory notes about some of these fandoms, methodology, and corrections.

Just added Part 2.5 showing characters who are most proportionally ace!

Notes on fandoms:

Notes on methodology and data set:

  • The lists in my slides are not guaranteed to contain all of the top ace/aro-producing fandoms. Getting into the weeds of why relies on understanding the quirks of the AO3 Sort & Filter sidebar, which I can explain if anyone wants.  For all the slides where I made charts, I double checked the numbers the AO3 Sort and Filter bar showed – however, fandoms that didn’t show up in the top 10 fandoms for any of my searches wouldn’t have made it to these lists.  Especially for the fandoms with the highest percentages of ace/aro content, there might be a bunch of smaller fandoms missing.  
  • I was even more slapdash with the text-only slides, simply copy-pasting from the Sort & Filter sidebar…. it’s likely some bigger tags are missing.
  •  raw data – feel free to use!