Good Omens Fanfic Data: 2023
Top 5 Tags Per Month
Excludes basic a/c ship tags. Common tags coded by color. Interesting changes or patterns are in bold.
January: fluff, human au, humor, post-canon, established relationship
February: fluff, angst, human au, established relationship, hurt/comfort
March: fluff, human au, angst, post-canon, first kiss (honorable mention: pining)
April: fluff, human au, angst, hurt/comfort, first kiss (honorable mention: humor)
May: fluff, human au, blairamok's #IneffableMay, established relationship, hurt/comfort
June: fluff, human au, established relationship, hurt/comfort, angst
July: fluff, angst, fix-it, hurt/comfort, s2 spoilers
~~~~SEASON TWO~~~~
August: angst, fluff, hurt/comfort, post s2, s2 spoilers (honorable mention: fix-it) (@neil-gaiman you know what you did)
September: fluff, angst, hurt/comfort, crowley is a mess, ineffable idiots
October: fluff, angst, hurt/comfort, post s2, crowley is a mess
November: fluff, angst, hurt/comfort, crowley is a mess, post s2 (honorable mentions: angst with a happy ending, hurt crowley)
December: fluff, angst, hurt/comfort, ineffable idiots, crowley is a mess (honorable mention: Christmas)
January 2024: fluff, angst, hurt/comfort, crowley is a mess, human au (honorable mention: anal sex)
At time of posting there are still a couple hours left on the poll that I plan to use for additional GO fic data, so please go vote if you haven't already. Info about how the process for this is under the cut:)
Data was collected on February first, 2023, using Ao3's filtering system. Each month represents fics updated from the first through last days of the month. Please note that fics are filtered by when it was updated, not originally published, so longer running fics will be sorted under when they were finished or last added to. Unrated fics are not included in the graph, an oversight on my part whilst collecting data, but make up a very small portion of total fics and are often podfics or artwork.
Tags excluded in tag rankings are: "Aziraphale loves Crowley", "Crowley loves Aziraphale", and "Ineffable Husbands", which were consistently ranked among the top tags and I found unhelpful for determining patterns in fan engagement since they are, after all, simply facts. Honorable mentions are tags that ranked within the top 10 tags for the month which were unique to the month or contributed to an interesting trend.
Data collection is all done by me, so slight errors in copying down information are possible. Yes I made teen purple instead of yellow, I found it aesthetically pleasing. So sue me.
January of 2024 was included because I thought the additional data provided interesting information, especially the return of the human au tag (officially "alternate universe-human"), the higher ratio of explicit to nonexplicit fics, and the debut of "anal sex" in the top ten tags. It was a great month for the fandom.
Current other data projects include average word-counts by month and estimation of the total number of words written by members of the fandom. If there's any data or patterns you'd like to see, or questions you'd like answered, drop them in my ask box!
All of this is dedicated to the wonderful amazing writers in the fandom, including lovely mutuals whose work I totally recommend @voluptatiscausa @fellshish @phoen1xr0se @indigovigilance @ineffabildaddy (if I didn't tag you don't read into it, I've got a medically-concerningly bad memory and just popped through my recent reads on ao3.)
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