Slash fandom describes a fan community that concentrates on ships between two male characters. And the symbiosis of fandom between AO3 and Tumblr (and Live Journal fans migrating to Tumblr) means that slash fandom has always been more popular and prominent on Tumblr than on other fandom corners of the internet.” AO3 in particular was built by fans, and specifically by slash fans. And because they're the most mainstreamed they both are far more geared towards heteronormative expressions of fandom. “In a nutshell,” Romano told me, “ and Wattpad are the two most mainstreamed fan fiction communities, and they essentially bookend the historical spectrum - FF.net is the oldest, Wattpad is the newest. So I decided to ask our sister site Vox’s Web Culture Reporter, Aja Romano, why that might be.

What I found surprised me: On FF.net, Reylo reigned supreme, with many times the works of Stormpilot and Kylux. I wanted to see if this dichotomy held out on another giant of online fan fiction publication and curation, so I did some quick searches of. Archive of Our Own via PolygonĪfter a little math to make up for slight variations in labels, you’ll find that there are 4,220 Stormpilot works on AO3, 5,404 Reylo works and a whopping 11,421 Kylux works - more than the other two combined. The most popular ships in Archive of Our Own’s main Star Wars tag, as of Dec. This is a screenshot of the most popular relationship tags in the Star Wars - All Media Types tag on Archive of Our Own (AO3), a fan fiction platform hosting more than three million individual works in over 24,000 individual fandoms. The Last Jedi’s theatrical premiere also gave Stormpilot a big boost - but not as big as Kylux’s, bumping it only to eighth place.īut while Kylux got the biggest boost from Last Jedi, Reylo still certainly has the more consistent attention of the Tumblr community. Meanwhile, Kylux leapt to fifth place - after not even being on the list in months. But Last Jedi’s release had only hopped it up one spot, from second place in the previous week, to first.

18th, which included The Last Jedi’s release weekend, Reylo finally ascended to the first place spot in Fandometrics’ rankings. 20th, it had hit fifth place on the list, and it has only risen since.

Use of the tag has consistently put it in the top 20 most-mentioned ships on Tumblr by Nov. On Fandometrics, Reylo’s star has been rising steadily all season. Tumblr’s Fandometrics blog, run by Tumblr staff, tracks the rise and fall of frequently used tags on the blogging service, publishing results weekly. There are more Kylux fics on AO3 than Reylo and Stormpilot combined

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