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Destination: Toast! @destinationtoast.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have been given a ✨🎁 gift link 🎁✨ to share with y'all -- read my article free for one week! But also support Fansplaining if you can, because they do great fandom journalism (like publishing me obvs 💅), and it's a bad economy for such things right now. fansplaining.com/crunching-th...

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Crunching the Fandom Numbers

In 2013, curiosity about Johnlock fic led me to pull my first fandom stats. Today, the world of fandom data analysis is thriving.

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Fansplaining @fansplaining.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Our latest is live! 📊 And it's by none other than our most frequent podcast guest, @destinationtoast.bsky.social! Toast gets meta on their stats works, writing about how they got into fandom data analysis, and the way their practice has evolved over the years. Read or listen to an audio version:

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Crunching the Fandom Numbers

In 2013, curiosity about Johnlock fic led me to pull my first fandom stats. Today, the world of fandom data analysis is thriving.

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Destination: Toast! @destinationtoast.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Happy Femslash February! I've got some new stats about the biggest F/F ships and fandoms with the most F/F on AO3 - also encouraging trends for the amount of F/F overall. archiveofourown.org/works/63325378

This and all the other images are slides from a presentation about F/F stats. They are all described at the link.

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Destination: Toast! @destinationtoast.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Toastystats: Biggest fandoms, ships, & characters on AO3 (looking back at 2024). The annual tradition returns -- now with new data on fast-growing ships and characters. archiveofourown.org/works/62863873