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Transformers: 1.07% mpreg

63,453 Works in Transformers - All Media Types

679 in mpreg

0.6% of Star Trek fic contains male pregnancy! 46% of Star Trek mpreg is K/S, 12% is Kirk/Bones, and 6% is Bashir/Garak.

I was honestly expecting more mpreg from the Weird Alien Bullshit fandom but these did have some pretty entertaining concepts. These already popular ships get more popular (proportionally) in the mpreg section of the fandom! Compare these percentages to 18% of all Star Trek fics that are K/S, 12% Kirk/Bones, and 5% Bashir/Garak.

Also, who gets pregnant the most? This is a complicated question because a lot of these fics are tagged with multiple pairings! Based on sorting by kudos, the people want Kirk to be pregnant the most. As far as I can tell, the most common pregnant characters are Spock, Kirk, Bashir and Garak, and the reasons range from the more intuitive "this species' males get pregnant" and "trans man gets pregnant" to the more Trek-y "this planet makes people get a/b/o biology and omegas get pregnant" and "alien diplomats magically impregnate Kirk". Shoutout to mpreg planet I feel like that could be a real Star Trek episode. Spock seems to get pregnant more than Kirk (makes sense what with mysterious reproductive biology in canon i guess?), but Bashir and Garak seem to share the burden. Also Garak lays eggs in a nonzero number of these fics which is neat.

1 - 20 of 102,904 Works in Star Trek

James T. Kirk/Spock (18062)

James T. Kirk/Leonard "Bones" McCoy (7612)

Julian Bashir/Elim Garak (5643)

Leonard "Bones" McCoy/Spock (3486)

Spock/Nyota Uhura (2314)

712 tagged mpreg

James T. Kirk/Spock (329)

James T. Kirk/Leonard "Bones" McCoy (88)

Leonard "Bones" McCoy/Spock (54)

Julian Bashir/Elim Garak (44)

Amanda Grayson/Sarek (28)

Spock/Nyota Uhura (27) - as far as i can tell these are all kirk/spock/uhura or spock has the sex with kirk and uhura at different times. although there is one where spock and uhura are together and kirk is just pregnant in the background i think. why did i decide on making this research question so detailed i don't even like pregnancy fics.

James T. Kirk/Khan Noonien Singh (23)

Chakotay/Tom Paris (21)

Pavel Chekov/Hikaru Sulu (17)

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11.7% of all Transformers fics are tagged "Sticky Sexual Interfacing." That outranks both Fluff and Angst within the fandom.

18.5% of Transformers fics are tagged Explicit, and 15% are tagged Mature. 24% are tagged "Gen" (not romantic/sexual relationship heavy) and 52% are tagged "M/M." 8% of all Transformers fics are Optimus Prime x Megatron...we love some hate sex.

There's more fanfic of the cartoons and comics than the Bay movies, so there's no humans in the top ships. Also, there are some absolute tags in the fandom. "Sticky Sexual Interfacing (Transformers)" outranks fluff and angst. A tag has to be REALLY popular to outrank fluff and angst in ANY fandom, and they have a SPECIFIC ROBOT SEX TAG UP THERE. 12%. TWELVE ENTIRE PERCENT. OF EVERY TRANSFORMERS FANFIC. Is tagged "Sticky Sexual Interfacing."

Also, Megatron/Orion Pax and Megatron/Optimus Prime are both listed, but according to my extensive Transformers knowledge (watching the OSP Detail Diatribe on Transformers One), that's the same ship? 174 fics are tagged with both.

63,453 Works in Transformers - All Media Types

679 in mpreg

Sticky Sexual Interfacing (Transformers) (7452)

Explicit (11729)

M/M (33245)

Gen (15473)

F/M (8069)

Other (5461)

Multi (4722)

F/F (2136)

Megatron/Optimus Prime (4114)

Jazz/Prowl (Transformers) (3134)

Megatron/Starscream (Transformers) (2290)

Drift | Deadlock/Ratchet (1894)

Breakdown/Knock Out (Transformers) (1404)

Megatron/Orion Pax (1360) [isn't orion pax prequel optimus prime?]

Jetfire | Skyfire/Starscream (Transformers) (1328)

Optimus Prime/Ratchet (1018)

Hot Rod/Soundwave (Transformers) (899)

Cyclonus/Tailgate (Transformers) (809)

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There are only 14 Cars x Transoformers crossover fics.

Two of them are explicit and several also have Shrek. This represents 0.7% of Cars fics and 0.02% of Transformers fics.

You searched for: Tags: Transformers - All Media Types sort by: best match descending 63,452 Found

1,905 Works in Cars (Pixar Movies)

You searched for: Tags: Transformers - All Media Types, Cars (Pixar Movies) sort by: best match descending 14 Found

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alrighty then. thanks!

Miraculous Ladybug shipping is a fucking mess. Yes that's the official statistical term. 52% of all Miraculous Ladybug fics include some permutation of shipping Marinette (Ladybug) and Adrien (Chat Noir), and there are four permutations.

So shipping these two people requires four ships, because they each have a secret identity. 52% of all Miraculous Ladybug fics include some permutation of shipping Marinette (Ladybug) and Adrien (Chat Noir), and of those, 1.6% are tagged with all four permutations and 72% aren't tagged with any particular permutation.

11% of all the fics are tagged Ladynoir. 14% are tagged Adrinette, and 11% are tagged Marichat. There is significant overlap (see Venn diagram below).

Ladrien (Ladybug x Adrien) is less popular. Only 4% of all Marinette x Adrien fics are tagged Ladrien, and only 2% of all Marinette x Adrien fics are only tagged with Ladrien.

Also, 10 fics were added while I was working on this post. Damn.

BEHOLD THE VENN DIAGRAM OF SECRET IDENTITY CONFUSION

official data visualization guidance says i should use an upset plot for this, but i'm going for max psychic damage here.

70,143 Works in Miraculous Ladybug

36,459 Marinette/Adrien general

26,329 not tagged with a specific permutation

5,082 Adrinette (Adrien x Marinette)

Adrinette only 2600

Adrinette + Ladynoir 1842 (817 only)

Adrinette + Marichat 1506 (495 only)

4,090 Ladynoir (Chat Noir x Ladybug)

Ladynoir only 1908

Ladynoir + Marichat 1222 (230 only)

3,882 Marichat (Marinette x Chat Noir)

Marichat only 2064

Marichat + Adrinette + Ladynoir 566 (394 only)

1,622 Ladrien (Ladybug x Adrien)

Ladrien only 686

Ladrien + Adrinette 776 (94 only)

Ladrien + Marichat 699 (50 only)

Ladrien + Ladynoir 741 (78 only)

Ladrien + Adrinette + Ladynoir 631 (65 only)

Ladrien + Adrinette + Marichat 617 (51 only)

Ladrien + Ladynoir + Marichat 598 (32 only)

All four 566

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what do you mean "they have more secret identities" what the fuck is a chat blanc

Miraculous Ladybug shipping is a fucking mess. Yes that's the official statistical term. 52% of all Miraculous Ladybug fics include some permutation of shipping Marinette (Ladybug) and Adrien (Chat Noir), and there are four permutations.

So shipping these two people requires four ships, because they each have a secret identity. 52% of all Miraculous Ladybug fics include some permutation of shipping Marinette (Ladybug) and Adrien (Chat Noir), and of those, 1.6% are tagged with all four permutations and 72% aren't tagged with any particular permutation.

11% of all the fics are tagged Ladynoir. 14% are tagged Adrinette, and 11% are tagged Marichat. There is significant overlap (see Venn diagram below).

Ladrien (Ladybug x Adrien) is less popular. Only 4% of all Marinette x Adrien fics are tagged Ladrien, and only 2% of all Marinette x Adrien fics are only tagged with Ladrien.

Also, 10 fics were added while I was working on this post. Damn.

BEHOLD THE VENN DIAGRAM OF SECRET IDENTITY CONFUSION

official data visualization guidance says i should use an upset plot for this, but i'm going for max psychic damage here.

70,143 Works in Miraculous Ladybug

36,459 Marinette/Adrien general

26,329 not tagged with a specific permutation

5,082 Adrinette (Adrien x Marinette)

Adrinette only 2600

Adrinette + Ladynoir 1842 (817 only)

Adrinette + Marichat 1506 (495 only)

4,090 Ladynoir (Chat Noir x Ladybug)

Ladynoir only 1908

Ladynoir + Marichat 1222 (230 only)

3,882 Marichat (Marinette x Chat Noir)

Marichat only 2064

Marichat + Adrinette + Ladynoir 566 (394 only)

1,622 Ladrien (Ladybug x Adrien)

Ladrien only 686

Ladrien + Adrinette 776 (94 only)

Ladrien + Marichat 699 (50 only)

Ladrien + Ladynoir 741 (78 only)

Ladrien + Adrinette + Ladynoir 631 (65 only)

Ladrien + Adrinette + Marichat 617 (51 only)

Ladrien + Ladynoir + Marichat 598 (32 only)

All four 566

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Miraculous Ladybug shipping is a fucking mess. Yes that's the official statistical term. 52% of all Miraculous Ladybug fics include some permutation of shipping Marinette (Ladybug) and Adrien (Chat Noir), and there are four permutations.

So shipping these two people requires four ships, because they each have a secret identity. 52% of all Miraculous Ladybug fics include some permutation of shipping Marinette (Ladybug) and Adrien (Chat Noir), and of those, 1.6% are tagged with all four permutations and 72% aren't tagged with any particular permutation.

11% of all the fics are tagged Ladynoir. 14% are tagged Adrinette, and 11% are tagged Marichat. There is significant overlap (see Venn diagram below).

Ladrien (Ladybug x Adrien) is less popular. Only 4% of all Marinette x Adrien fics are tagged Ladrien, and only 2% of all Marinette x Adrien fics are only tagged with Ladrien.

Also, 10 fics were added while I was working on this post. Damn.

BEHOLD THE VENN DIAGRAM OF SECRET IDENTITY CONFUSION

official data visualization guidance says i should use an upset plot for this, but i'm going for max psychic damage here.

70,143 Works in Miraculous Ladybug

36,459 Marinette/Adrien general

26,329 not tagged with a specific permutation

5,082 Adrinette (Adrien x Marinette)

Adrinette only 2600

Adrinette + Ladynoir 1842 (817 only)

Adrinette + Marichat 1506 (495 only)

4,090 Ladynoir (Chat Noir x Ladybug)

Ladynoir only 1908

Ladynoir + Marichat 1222 (230 only)

3,882 Marichat (Marinette x Chat Noir)

Marichat only 2064

Marichat + Adrinette + Ladynoir 566 (394 only)

1,622 Ladrien (Ladybug x Adrien)

Ladrien only 686

Ladrien + Adrinette 776 (94 only)

Ladrien + Marichat 699 (50 only)

Ladrien + Ladynoir 741 (78 only)

Ladrien + Adrinette + Ladynoir 631 (65 only)

Ladrien + Adrinette + Marichat 617 (51 only)

Ladrien + Ladynoir + Marichat 598 (32 only)

All four 566

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"Have you checked Dr. Who for mpreg?" - my friend

yeah there's people irl who know i run this blog i have no shame

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Most lesbian fanfiction is based on Goncharov (Goncharov (1973) dir. Martin Scorsese)!

April Fools! That is not true, but with your help-

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nah i don't think i will

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Some other sci-fi franchise mpreg rates for comparison:

Star Trek: 0.69% mpreg

X-Files: 0.47% mpreg

Stargate: 0.45% mpreg

Battlestar Galactica: 0.44% mpreg

Dr. Who: 0.41% mpreg

Detroit: Become Human: 0.36% mpreg

103,730 Works in Doctor Who & Related Fandoms

434 mpreg

55,606 Works in Stargate - All Media Types

253 mpreg

29,917 Works in Detroit: Become Human (Video Game)

108 mpreg

24,713 Works in The X-Files

115 mpreg (it's mostly Mulder getting impregnated by aliens, naturally)

455 Works in Battlestar Galactica (1978)

2 mpreg

0.6% of Star Trek fic contains male pregnancy! 46% of Star Trek mpreg is K/S, 12% is Kirk/Bones, and 6% is Bashir/Garak.

I was honestly expecting more mpreg from the Weird Alien Bullshit fandom but these did have some pretty entertaining concepts. These already popular ships get more popular (proportionally) in the mpreg section of the fandom! Compare these percentages to 18% of all Star Trek fics that are K/S, 12% Kirk/Bones, and 5% Bashir/Garak.

Also, who gets pregnant the most? This is a complicated question because a lot of these fics are tagged with multiple pairings! Based on sorting by kudos, the people want Kirk to be pregnant the most. As far as I can tell, the most common pregnant characters are Spock, Kirk, Bashir and Garak, and the reasons range from the more intuitive "this species' males get pregnant" and "trans man gets pregnant" to the more Trek-y "this planet makes people get a/b/o biology and omegas get pregnant" and "alien diplomats magically impregnate Kirk". Shoutout to mpreg planet I feel like that could be a real Star Trek episode. Spock seems to get pregnant more than Kirk (makes sense what with mysterious reproductive biology in canon i guess?), but Bashir and Garak seem to share the burden. Also Garak lays eggs in a nonzero number of these fics which is neat.

1 - 20 of 102,904 Works in Star Trek

James T. Kirk/Spock (18062)

James T. Kirk/Leonard "Bones" McCoy (7612)

Julian Bashir/Elim Garak (5643)

Leonard "Bones" McCoy/Spock (3486)

Spock/Nyota Uhura (2314)

712 tagged mpreg

James T. Kirk/Spock (329)

James T. Kirk/Leonard "Bones" McCoy (88)

Leonard "Bones" McCoy/Spock (54)

Julian Bashir/Elim Garak (44)

Amanda Grayson/Sarek (28)

Spock/Nyota Uhura (27) - as far as i can tell these are all kirk/spock/uhura or spock has the sex with kirk and uhura at different times. although there is one where spock and uhura are together and kirk is just pregnant in the background i think. why did i decide on making this research question so detailed i don't even like pregnancy fics.

James T. Kirk/Khan Noonien Singh (23)

Chakotay/Tom Paris (21)

Pavel Chekov/Hikaru Sulu (17)

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34% of Barbie movie fics are Barbie x Gloria, while 12% are Barbie x Ken.

good for her. Also, 12% are platonic Barbie & Gloria, and 11% are tagged "Lesbian Barbie," which I love.

5% are Allan x Ken, and another 5% are Ken x Ken (Simu Liu x Ryan Gosling Kens). 3% are Barbie x Oppenheimer.

The "Lesbian Barbie" tag is second only to Fluff. Angst is under Fluff, Lesbian Barbie, and Post-Canon, so there's less angst in Barbie fans than your average fandom! Shocking to me given the angsty shit my neighbors got up to with their Barbies as children, but there ya have it.

997 Works in Barbie (Movie 2023)

Margot Robbie's Barbie/Gloria (Barbie 2023) (342)

Margot Robbie's Barbie & Gloria (Barbie 2023) (117)

Margot Robbie's Barbie/Ryan Gosling's Ken (Barbie 2023) (102)

Margot Robbie's Barbie & Sasha (Barbie 2023) (81)

Margot Robbie's Barbie & Ryan Gosling's Ken (Barbie 2023) (78)

Gloria & Sasha (Barbie 2023) (54)

Allan/Ryan Gosling's Ken (Barbie 2023) (52)

Ryan Gosling's Ken (Barbie 2023)/Reader (49)

Ryan Gosling's Ken/Simu Liu's Ken (Barbie 2023) (47)

Margot Robbie's Barbie (Barbie 2023)/J. Robert Oppenheimer (29)

Lesbian Margot Robbie's Barbie (Barbie 2023) (106)

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There are 42 times more fics with 5-person relationships than there are fics about the JFK assassination.

Also, 87% of all fics with 3+ person relationships are 3 people, 11% are 4 people, and 2% are 5 people. Of these, 45% are all M (30% of all of them are M/M/M) and 7% are all F.

Have I learned anything! Not really! I did learn about explicit amogus fics so I guess there's that.

There's definitely some overlap, especially in the larger configurations. I have done nothing to adjust for this.

37,130 Works in Threesome - F/M/M

13,619 Works in Threesome - F/F/M

6,921 Works in Threesome - F/F/F

48,702 Works in Threesome - M/M/M

304 Works in Threesome - F/M/Other

186 Works in Threesome - F/F/Other

650 Works in Threesome - M/M/Other

= 107,512

You searched for: Tags: Threesome sort by: best match descending.

132,195 Found

so i'm missing a few

2,928 Works in Foursome - F/M/M/M

1,626 Works in Foursome - F/F/M/M

1,500 Works in Foursome - F/F/F/M

1,074 Works in Foursome - F/F/F/F

30 Works in Foursome - F/F/M/Other

5,923 Works in Foursome - M/M/M/M

= 13,090

670 Works in Fivesome - F/M/M/M/M

324 Works in Fivesome - F/F/F/F/M

215 Works in Fivesome - F/F/F/F/F

134 Works in Fivesome - F/F/M/M/M

76 Works in Fivesome - F/F/F/M/M

869 Works in Fivesome - M/M/M/M/M

324 Works in Fivesome - F/F/F/F/M

= 2,612

61 Works in John F. Kennedy Assassination

Teen And Up Audiences (23)

General Audiences (11)

Mature (11)

Not Rated (9)

Explicit (7)

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55% of fics with titles containing the phrase "good luck babe" are tagged F/F

And several of the fics tagged M/F clearly have lesbian ships, so more than 55% of fics with titles including "good luck babe" are about lesbian ships.

LET'S GO LESBIANS LET'S GO

Bonus fun fact: 39% of fics with titles containing the phrase "Hot to go!" are rated explicit. Good job all around!

395 fics with titles that include "Good Luck Babe"

219 are tagged F/F

26 Multi

16 gen

89 F/M (the first few I saw when I scrolled down focused on lesbian ships, so i think there's some overlap)

164 M/M

7 other

There are 145 fics with titles containing "Hot to go!"

56 are explicit

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also i do want to state my opinion for the record that making bill human for this is a coward's choice. the only billford art i truly respect is the art that admits this old man desires a geometric shape carnally.

24% of Billford fics are from before the Book of Bill was announced. 76% are from after the book was announced (including after publication), and 74% after publication.

I noticed wayyyyyy more old man x incomprehensible extradimensional chaos entity smut on my dash after the Book of Bill was announced, so I decided to see if that pattern translated to AO3, and it did!

Statistics Confirms: The Book of Bill made Billford a more popular ship. I'm sure y'all already knew that, but now you have statistics to back it up!

[Note: I went by Date Updated and not Date Published because that's what I can filter on, so I may have caught some fics that started before publication, but updated afterwards. Oh well.]

The Book of Bill was announced on Dec 15, 2023

The Book of Bill was published on July 23, 2024

2,150 Works in Bill Cipher/Ford Pines (they can't call Stanford by his whole name due to The Incident)

506 before 2023-12-15

1,644 after 2023-12-16

1,592 after 2024-07-23

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Over 7.8% of Deadpool x Wolverine (from the Deadpool Movies) fics are about the Honda Odyssey scene.

I've been informed that I was looking in the wrong Wolverine character tag. What in the Marvel continuity clusterfuck?

2,625 Works in Logan | Worst Wolverine (Deadpool Movies)/Wade Wilson

206 in Honda Odyssey Fight Scene in Movie: Deadpool 3: Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)

43 in Logan | Worst Wolverine and Wade Wilson Have Sex in Nicepool's Honda Odyssey (Deadpool Movies)

63 in Canon Divergence - Honda Odyssey Fight Scene in Movie: Deadpool 3: Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)

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8% of Deadpool/Wolverine fics are tagged "Honda Odyssey Fight Scene"

Also, there's way less deadpool x wolverine fic than I was expecting tbh.

I saw the memes. I got curious. That's a LOT of fics based on the one scene!

887 Works in Logan (X-Men)/Wade Wilson

74 works tagged Honda Odyssey Fight Scene in Movie: Deadpool 3: Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)

9 tagged Honda Odyssey Fight Scene Includes Sex in Movie: Deadpool 3: Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) LOL

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on it boss 🫡

One of these things is not like the others