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AO3 Ship Stats: Project Index by centreoftheselights
Fandoms: No Fandom, Fandom - Fandom
21 Sep 2025
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This post serves as an introduction to the AO3 Ship Stats project, including links to the stats posts from different years.
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- Part 1 of AO3 Ship Stats
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Year One of the AO3 Ship Stats project. This project aims to track and analyse the most popular pairings posted on AO3 over time.
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- Part 2 of AO3 Ship Stats
- Part 1 of AO3 Ship Stats: Main Data Series
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A collection of several discussions and additional analyses based on the 2013 AO3 Ship Stats.
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- Part 3 of AO3 Ship Stats
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It's Complicated: Possible Reasons for the Lack of Femslash by centreoftheselights
Fandoms: No Fandom
31 Aug 2013
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A chart illustrating all of the possible explanations people have suggested for the lack of femslash in my AO3 ship stats survey, and the ways in which they might interlink.
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- Part 4 of AO3 Ship Stats
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Year Two of the AO3 Ship Stats project. This project aims to track and analyse the most popular pairings posted on AO3 over time.
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- Part 5 of AO3 Ship Stats
- Part 2 of AO3 Ship Stats: Main Data Series
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Year Three of the AO3 Ship Stats project. This project aims to track and analyse the most popular pairings posted on AO3 over time.
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- Part 6 of AO3 Ship Stats
- Part 3 of AO3 Ship Stats: Main Data Series
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One common response to the AO3 Ship Stats is that the large number of ships between white men is to be expected, since the majority of characters in the media are white men. Here’s some investigation into that claim.
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- Part 7 of AO3 Ship Stats
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Year Four of the AO3 Ship Stats project. This project aims to track and analyse the most popular pairings posted on AO3 over time.
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- Part 8 of AO3 Ship Stats
- Part 4 of AO3 Ship Stats: Main Data Series
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After four years working on my AO3 Ship Stats project, and having previously addressed issues of misogyny in this data set, I feel like it’s past time to talk about the elephant in the room:
Fandom is kinda racist.
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- Part 9 of AO3 Ship Stats
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This post is a follow-up to Fandom’s Race Problem (and to a lesser extent, Why M/M?) and a rebuttal to some of the criticisms of myself and others’ work on sexism and racism in fandom that I’ve seen in the past. No statistics here: this is my opinion, pure and simple.
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- Part 10 of AO3 Ship Stats
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Year Five of the AO3 Ship Stats project. This project aims to track and analyse the most popular pairings posted on AO3 over time.
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- Part 11 of AO3 Ship Stats
- Part 5 of AO3 Ship Stats: Main Data Series
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The 2019 edition of the AO3 Ship Stats project. This project aims to track and analyse the most popular pairings posted on AO3 over time.
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- Part 12 of AO3 Ship Stats
- Part 6 of AO3 Ship Stats: Main Data Series
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What does a ‘Person Of Colour’ look like in the AO3 Ship Stats? by centreoftheselights
Fandoms: No Fandom, Fandom - Fandom
24 Oct 2019
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(Or: Fandom’s Colourism Problem)
A visual presentation of all the Characters of Colour in the 2017-2019 AO3 Ship Stats Top 100.
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- Part 13 of AO3 Ship Stats
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The 2020 edition of the AO3 Ship Stats project. This project aims to track and analyse the most popular pairings posted on AO3 over time.
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- Part 14 of AO3 Ship Stats
- Part 7 of AO3 Ship Stats: Main Data Series
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AO3 Ship Stats: Time Series 2013-2020 by centreoftheselights
Fandoms: No Fandom, Fandom - Fandom
15 Dec 2020
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A collection of graphs showing the variation over time of various features of the AO3 Ship Stats.
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- Part 15 of AO3 Ship Stats
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What fanfic was the world writing in 2020? (AO3 Year In Review) by centreoftheselights
Fandoms: Fandom - Fandom, No Fandom
03 Jan 2021
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A review of the most popular relationship tags on AO3 in the period Jan-Dec 2020.
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- Part 16 of AO3 Ship Stats
- Part 1 of AO3 Ship Stats: New Year's
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AO3 Ship Stats 2021 by centreoftheselights
Fandoms: No Fandom, Multi-Fandom, Fandom - Fandom
31 Jul 2021
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The 2021 edition of the AO3 Ship Stats project. This project aims to track and analyse the most popular pairings posted on AO3 over time.
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- Part 17 of AO3 Ship Stats
- Part 8 of AO3 Ship Stats: Main Data Series
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What fanfic was the world writing in 2021? (AO3 Year In Review) by centreoftheselights
Fandoms: Fandom - Fandom, No Fandom, Multi-Fandom
01 Jan 2022
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A review of the most popular relationship tags on AO3 in the period Jan-Dec 2021.
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- Part 18 of AO3 Ship Stats
- Part 2 of AO3 Ship Stats: New Year's
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AO3 Ship Stats 2022 by centreoftheselights
Fandoms: No Fandom, Multi-Fandom, Fandom - Fandom
04 Aug 2022
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The 2022 edition of the AO3 Ship Stats project. This project aims to track and analyse the most popular pairings posted on AO3 over time.
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- Part 19 of AO3 Ship Stats
- Part 9 of AO3 Ship Stats: Main Data Series
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What fanfic was the world writing in 2022? (AO3 Year In Review) by centreoftheselights
Fandoms: Fandom - Fandom, No Fandom, Multi-Fandom
01 Jan 2023
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A review of the most popular relationship tags on AO3 in the period Jan-Dec 2022.
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- Part 20 of AO3 Ship Stats
- Part 3 of AO3 Ship Stats: New Year's