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And yes, fans ignored the actual lesbian interracial relationship on Supergirl again. There are only three (THREE!!!) F/F ships on this top 100 list and only one is live-action (SuperCorp). While this isn’t surprising fandom-wise, it’s frustrating to see the relative lack of femslash in 2020.

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Yennefer of Vengerberg’s relationship with Geralt of Rivia doesn’t crack the top 10. In some cases where there are canon female love interests, like in Harry Potter or The Witcher, they’re nowhere near as popular as M/M ships from the property.

I guess going canon does have its perks.īut of course, there’s a rub here. The next closest in sheer total number were Sterek and Johnlock, both of which were much further down in the 2020 numbers, as 29 and 53 respectively.

Destiel is, as far as I can tell from the stats, the biggest ship on AO3 overall, with over 90,000 fics total. Many of the usual ship suspects from years past are also here, from Reylo and Ineffable Husbands to Drarry and Destiel. There are also several other adaptations of the work, including animated and audio dramas). The Untamed is also tagged as “CQL,” for the Chinese title of the live-action show. And the primary ship from The Untamed, “Wangxian,” for Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian, is at #13 on Tumblr’s top 2020 ships while it’s #1 in new fics on AO3 (caveat: this Tumblr ranking may be due to multiple tags, alternate character names, and multiple properties leading to the stats being a bit scattered many fans use the tags “MDZS” and Mo Dao Zu Shi for the Xianxia novel by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu, upon which The Untamed is based. While My Hero Academia was in the Tumblr top 100 many times, it didn’t crack the top 10 there. These also provide an interesting contrast to Tumblr’s top ships. Live-action Chinese dramas like The Untamed, K-Pop groups, and Anime shows and films are all huge players in the AO3 fic world this year. The immediately apparent thing here is the popularity of Asian media, which is a pattern that continues beyond the top ten.

Jeon Jungkook/Kim Taehyung from the K-Pop band BTS.

Platonic Peter Parker & Tony Stark, MCU.

Bakugou Katsuki/Kirishima Eijirou, My Hero Academia.

Bakugou Katsuki/Midoriya Izuku, My Hero Academia.

Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter, Harry Potter.

Here are the top 10 ships in terms of new fic added to the site in 2020.

The list isn’t the ships with the most fic on AO3 overall, which tells a different, longer story, but rather the number of new works reflecting what people were most excited about this year. The results show that fandom in 2020 was still into stuff that was overwhelmingly male and queer (no surprise there), but the race of characters being shipped is not as white as it has been too often in the past, thanks to the massive popularity of Asian dramas and K-Pop ships. She also breaks down the genders of the participants and their race. Ao3 user Centeroftheselights has for years crunched ships stats on AO3 and the latest “What fanfic was the world writing in 2020? (AO3 Year In Review)” tells us a lot about what’s popular in the fic world, what’s changed from years past, and where fandom has some serious work to do in terms of inclusivity.Ĭenteroftheselights lists the top 100 ships (romantic and platonic) based on new fics added to AO3 in the year 2020.

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Another we can look at is the top ships on the popular fanfic site, Archive of Our Own. One good indicator is statistics, such as the Tumblr Year in Review, but that’s just one data set. “What’s fandom into these days?” is a hard question to answer, because fandom is not a monolith and fandoms lurk in all sorts of different places.