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Abbreviations Used:

Af Lat = Afro-Latino
Ambig = Ambiguous Race
Indig = Indigenous Peoples
N.H. = Non-Human

Welcome to a special Year In Review edition of the AO3 Ship Stats!

This list shows the 101 pairing tags which had the greatest gain in total fanworks posted on Archive Of Our Own during the period 1 Jan 2022 - 1 Jan 2023. There are 52 M/M pairings, 17 F/M, 6 F/F, 21 Gen and 5 Other. (Please note that on AO3, ‘Name & Name’ with an ampersand indicates platonic or familial ‘Gen’ relationships, while ‘Name/Name’ with a slash is used for romantic and sexual pairings.)

Of the 206 names on the list, 31 belong to women, 4 to non-binary people, and 5 to characters of indeterminate gender, compared with 16, 0, and 7 in last year's list. In total there are 118 white characters, 63 Asian characters, 9 Latino characters, 4 Black characters, and 2 Indigenous characters, as well as 12 racially ambiguous characters. There are 76 total Characters of Colour, down from 80 in 2021's list.

For more information on this project, including some changes to how race is categorised, please see the attached FAQ post. Also, please be aware that this is not an official AO3 account - I am just collecting and sharing publicly visible data.

Please note: some large pairings have fewer works than expected in this dataset and may have fallen off the list entirely. This is due to large numbers of works being deleted or privated. For more information please see the FAQ page.

Happy New Year!

Edit 2 Jan 2023: Fixed Ranboo's gender and Miles Edgeworth's race. Added note about work count discrepancies.

Edit 10 Jan 2023: Fixed race for Dorcas Meadowes, Marlene McKinnon, and Miles Edgeworth. Removed invalid entry for Kong | Aether/Xiao | Alatus (Genshin Impact) at #93 and adjusted data accordingly.