Season 2 Episode 3: Fanfiction fixit data

In Defense of Fandom

**CLARIFICATION**

First, in this episode I said that Banana Fish has the highest percentage of works tagged fix it. Although Toast did their best to pull a representative sample, we still can’t say Banana Fish is definitively the top show in this metric. There could well be other fandoms with even higher percentage, but that weren’t captured in that review.

Second, I misspoke and implied that tag wranglers on AO3 add tags to works. That’s not accurate. Wranglers organize tags and sometimes create metatags that can be used to search or filter for subtags, but it’s only authors who can add tags to their own works.

Sorry for the confusion!

Thanks to my background as a scientist, I’m always trying to answer questions with data. And wouldn’t you know it? Destination Toast was happy to answer the call! In this episode, we look into fanfiction on AO3 and see which tv fandoms are still trying to rewrite (or right?) the ending of their favorite shows.

Spoiler Warnings! Want to avoid all spoilers? Use these timestamps to skip them completely:

Banana Fish: 10:02-10:28

TV fandom fix-its analysis, by Destination Toast: archiveofourown.org/works/54262792
Support the show on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/in_defense_of_fandom

Have thoughts on TV endings? I want to hear them!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeuaL485NpQ3iqinVjq7GUAoId0gPqKU26LpQCntngiGhVHgQ/viewform

Toast’s Graphs: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wZbzYs7XpizYHXCKWt4Ntz2RYfVi-wvZ9dkV7fOLvd0/edit#slide=id.g2cb2539deb7_0_214

Toast’s deep dive into Supernatural: https://archiveofourown.org/works/54262792/chapters/140386390#main

where Toast blogs about fandom data and many other things: destinationtoast.tumblr.com

Just fandom data: toastystats.tumblr.com

Thanks to the voices you heard in this episode (in order of appearance):

Destination Toast: https://toastystats.tumblr.com/

Anna Funk: @DrAnnaFunk

Editorial Support by Dr. Anna Funk: @DrAnnaFunk

Music written & performed by Chris Scott: @Chrispscott

Cover art by Liz Hand: @__ellie