#so i had to use a virtual graph paper website and a straightline tool

[watery-melon-baller]

as promised here are a few charts (this is not all of them) (im still not done I have more charts im working on)

ships over a 6 month period. lumity keeps skewing my data because it has an insane amount of fics which is great but also very annoying

this might not be 100% accurate due to there being overlap in fics that share the same tag but the other category is all of the gen fics. itheres like 9.5k gen fics, and 12k lumity fics. incredible.

now these next 3 graphs are a bit weird so lemme explain: I graphed how many fics with X tag were created in Y time period, and I did two of these. the purple line goes by 6month time periods, while the red line goes by fandom time (aka hiatuses and length of seasons). once the show ended (s3e3) then I just switched to 6 month periods. the red line on all 3 of these graphs is always the hiatus time line. the light blue vertical lines are the hiatus graaph times and the dark teal lines are the 6month graph times (and also the fic graph times). i know its confusing to look and I am sorry <3

anyways this one here is lumity! once again dominating the charts and skewing my data. very interesting how there's a decrease in fics during the first half of the year! my current theory is that its a mixture of a lot of toh episodes airing later in the year and schools getting out in late may/june so now people have time to actually sit down and write fic. very funky!

this one is the raeda graph. dont have too much 2 say about this one but its funky how similar this and the huntlow one are! i think the reason why it looks like there's a big spike In popularity on the hiatus graph is related to how its suddenly a 6 month period so more time = more fic.

here is the huntlow data! i have no fucking clue whats going on with it man. the hiatus one is doing its own thing. interesting how both the 6month raeda and 6month huntlow peak around the time S3E2 came out. not sure whats up with that tbh. really don't know why huntlow drastically drops because S3E2 had great huntlow moments?? who knows. again I'm not a data scientist I'm sure there's people who know how to analyze this and draw conclusions I'm just doing this for funsies. feel free to share ur thoughts/hypothesis below I LOVE 2 chat about this its so interesting to me :3

lads im graphing out the ao3 ship data and it's fucking wild to see