It was as if the Gods were amusing themselves with their misfortunes. At every turn it seemed a fool's dream to want one another. At every bend of the river some unforeseen calamity kept them apart.
Jason loved her more than life itself, he would and has killed for her and would continue to do so if only for the few seconds to gaze upon her. Ariadne yearned for him, thought only of the stolen moments they shared instead of her upcoming marriage to Heptarian.
Pasipahe was crawling amongst the shadows trying to sniff out their treason and everything was falling to pieces. And yet.... The oracle was optimistic. She was not worried, was not afraid. For the stars and the Gods above had a plan. Even if it was a cruel and terribly drawn out one at that.
TOP 10 TV SHOW FANDOMS ON AO3 BASED ON NUMBER OF FANWORKS, SINGLE CATEGORY VERSION (2009-2022)
If you want to see the TV Show bar chart with the multi-category fandom tags included, please check this post.
To make these bar chart race, all series titles in the TV Show Category on November 29 (or the closest date to it) of every year were copy-pasted from Wayback Machine to Google Sheets, rearranged according to number of fanworks, manually filtered for fandoms belonging in only one category and then inputted to Flourish to turn into a bar chart race.
Locked fanworks aren't included in the count because Wayback Machine can’t view those, only Ao3 users can.
Jossverse was in the top 10 from 2010-2017 (Top 2 in 2010 and 2011). In 2018, it was removed from the TV Show fandom list and works tagged with it show up in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV) instead so I’ve excluded it from the bar chart.
Thanks for understanding and hopefully I didn’t mess up anywhere! 🙏
ETA: About Doctor Who: Doctor Who actually has 2 tags with ranked higher (Higher than Doctor Who (2005) even) on the list. Unfortunately, they were both multi-category tags: Doctor Who & Related Fandoms was also in the Other Media category thanks to the Doctor Who (Big Finish Audio), and the other tag Doctor Who was also in Books & Literature thanks to Doctor Who - Various Authors. You can see them rank in the top 10 TV Shows multi-category bar chart race linked above.
About Stargate: The Stargate - All Media Types tag is actually interesting because unlike most All Media Types tags, it’s only listed in the TV Show category. That’s why it still turned up in this list. This might just be a lack of tagging its other categories (like Books & Literature) on AO3, however. Now that I checked its subtags, it actually had at least 2 Book & Literature only subtags: Stargate Atlantis: Legacy Series - Various Authors and Stargate SG-1 - Various Authors. So it probably should not have been in this bar chart race. Apologies for the oversight.🙏
If I had a nickel for every time the deuteragonist with a clear subtext (*cough* queerbaiting) with the protagonist ended up instead with a cute silly fanboy with a total different role in canon material who love them as they deserve I would have two nickels, which isn't much but it's strange that it happened twice
One thing about the BBC is they'll make a show based around some sort of legend and they'll make it a bit stupid and a bit campy and clearly low budget and all a little ridiculous and then just before they finish as like an afterthought they'll toss in some Fundamental Human Truth that will change you forever as a person and then just throw the whole mess at your head
I love every version where icarus and apollo were tragic lovers but to me personally icarus is hopelessly in love with his best friend a twink nerd mathematician named pythagoras
Big post warning! Spoiler warning! Fictional violence, incest and death mentions warning!
okay so i watched the last eposode of atlantis and i have so many thoughts.
basically, it was AMAZING. i finally got to see my bois kiss💕😭 and i did genuinely think poor icarus was gonna die at that point (which would have been really really bad byg) BUT HE DIDNT
and i loved seeing him fly aswell! he was like a lil prechristian angel...
poor ariadne and jason. i think they really do need to Have A Conversation about their marriage. the writers have done ariadne so dirty in my opinion, basically forcing the two together since episode 1 and then making jason cheat on her with his COUSIN! It really made me hate medea for a while aswell, which she did not deserve looking back. i feel so much of that drama was just unnecessary.
i loved the tension though. it did a really great job of having me on the edge of my sofa THE ENTIRE TIME, stimming like there was no tomorrow. honestly, it was really amazing.
that one violin track, (it might be viola actually idk) but you know, the one that plays when something really dramatic happens. it kept coming back!! i love it.
and the wedding?????????? omg probably best tv wedding scene in history, i think. it was so tense and scary and not at all the big celebratory happy ending most shows do. i mean, there was murder, swordfighting, a woman came back from the dead, princess peach was there- it was badass.
goran was such a good character. i feel like hes the only one whose been doing what he thinks is best for the city this entire time. no specific personal-gain-motivated loyalty, only to atlantis. he was really quite iconic. that actor's been in RSC in the past, which makes sense. cilix aswell, an amazing performance of a really sickening man. 'oilsome' my mum called him.
ooof i was not prepared for pasiphae's death, or her return for that matter. i really didn't want her to be back. imo i think it shouldve been medea scheming to take the throne which wouldve made jason need to go get the golden fleece although the writers probably needed to keep medea dubious for s3 so jason can get with her again when they kill off ariadne bc we can't have good things i mean, maybe they had other plans for the next series.
THE NEXT SERIES! the argo, yknow, the thing that jason's actually famous for, and what this WHOLE THING'S been leading up to for godsake!!!! i'm so devastated we never got the satisfying ending to that story. guess i'm going to spend the next few days reading fanfic and bubbling for hours😭😢😭😢😭