Comment on April 2026 Newsletter, Volume 210

  1. stevecobss Sun 10 May 2026 03:03AM UTC

    over..613,000 tags...? am i reading that correctly..😭

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    1. MalcontentCatboy Sun 10 May 2026 09:17AM UTC

      That's actually a pretty small portion of them. According to the tag search, there's currently 37,308,152 tags. Remember anyone can create a tag.

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      1. stevecobss Sun 10 May 2026 01:05PM UTC

        EHHH⁉️⁉️

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        1. MalcontentCatboy Sun 10 May 2026 10:29PM UTC

          You can actually see them all here, in order of uses:
          https://ao3-n6.uefi233blog.eu.org/tags/search?tag_search%5Bname%5D=&tag_search%5Bfandoms%5D=&tag_search%5Btype%5D=&tag_search%5Bwrangling_status%5D=&tag_search%5Bsort_column%5D=uses&tag_search%5Bsort_direction%5D=desc&commit=Search+Tags

          I'm surprised that M/M is by far the most popular relationship tag. About twice M/F and 5 times F/F. It is just barely beat by No Archive Warnings Apply.

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          1. deathofaraven Mon 11 May 2026 03:10AM UTC

            I think it makes sense, considering the site was founded by people who mainly ship M/M, and in response to sites banning people for writing M/M. They've created a safe place for M/M fans, so it fits that M/M is what we mainly have here.

            Kinda surprised by how low "other" and "multi" are on the relationship tags list, though.

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            1. grommile Fri 15 May 2026 08:26AM UTC

              A rendition of the Clawed Girl from They Bleed Pixels, in a style almost entirely derivative of Rich Burlew's. My own work.

              Most shippers focus on pairings, so that's why multi being rare shouldn't surprise you.

              Most fictional characters in mass media are humans who slot neatly into the gender binary, so that's why other being rare shouldn't surprise you.

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              1. deathofaraven Fri 15 May 2026 09:19AM UTC

                From the FAQ:

                Multi
                More than one kind of relationship or a relationship with multiple partners.
                Other
                Relationships not covered by the other categories.

                A lot of writers put more than one pairing in their fics, especially long fics. (And every fandom I've been in has had at least one rather popular OT3 that a good number of fans shipped.) Sometimes relationships don't fit neatly into an assigned binary even without nonbinary characters. And video game fandom, many of the more popular series within which have player characters that are often depicted as nonbinary, is extremely popular. Hence my surprise. :)

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