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10 Years of Sherlock (TV)  AO3 stats!

Sherlock fans, new and old, click below to read a long list of graphs and comments about our communities fanworks over the last 10 years. I scraped AO3 again and demonstrate that:

• More creators are writing longer works in 2020
• Readers engaged more as the fandom changed after S4
• Top ten new tags per year for the last 10 years

And a lot more. 

PS the code to gather this data and analyse it can be found way over here. 

Activity over 10 years

The last 10 years in the BBC Sherlock fandom have been tumultuous, but this community persists, with engagement from new fans and continued creative output. To commemorate over a decade of squee, I’ve done another scrape of the fandom’s imprint on the Archive of Our Own and will share some insights from the numbers in these plots. A very late update on my post S4 snapshot from 2018.

Note: This analysis is of completed public fanworks only, about 101000 of the 122000 Sherlock (TV) works available at present. This is to remove the late WIP effect, which adds a bulge to the last few months, and out of respect to creators who wish to have their material reserved for other registered AO3 users.

The works are still coming

Counting the number of works posted per day, we can see the peaks associated with each series airing (in UK and US). After that, the number of works continues fairly evenly, 20-30 per day, plus seasonal peaks. This rate is continuing on without a hint of new canon in sight. So who is posting all this work?

Creator-waves, monthly output

Years ago I started plotting creator waves, basically I group fanwork producers by the year they first posted to the fandom and then count how many of this group are active in later time intervals. This lets us get a sense of how long people are contributing and whether new fans are getting the urge to create. 

This plot of the Sherlock (TV) fanworks on AO3 shows the standard shape of plump participation in the first year of any given set of creators, followed by a slowly thinning tail as they because less active over time. Turnover is natural in fandoms, with most only posting a work or two within a fairly limited amount of time, while a precious few persist for years.  The surprise for me here is that the ratio of new creators is higher in 2020 than it was in 2019. Maybe the excuse of lockdown encouraged more folks to take a turn at creating content. 

Another way to look at the output of fan creators on AO3 is to see the total amount of words being shared across all fanworks. The total has been pretty close to 300-400k words per month since 2018! To get a sense of what that means per work, I also plotted the median number of words per fanwork in these monthly sets. The median in higher in the last year than it had been staying for a while. 

Reader behaviour: Hits & Kudos & Comments

Fan creators are only part of the story. Stats on engagement are a bit trick to interpret, I’ve got some plots here that tell us something about how works have been engaged with over time. 

The obvious first to consider is Hits. Above is the total number of Hits given to works published each month. This is the current totals, not a historical snapshot, so we have a very strong bias  towards early works, what we might call the Classics Effect. Works that have been around longer have had the chance to be seen by more people, and in particular those works that become must-read classics in a fandom, extending their exposure through prominence in top ranked works and recommendations. 

To cut down on the advantage of the classics, we can also consider median hits per work for each month. As most works get a lot attention when they are first posted and then fade out of sight, the median number of hits reflects instead the ratio of readers to creators, basically how many eyeballs are around to look at the latest work, regardless of status. The median plot shows how the hyper-visibility of the few work available before 2012, and then a more steady curve once the fandom had gotten established on the platform after Series 2. Amazingly, the hit rate for the median work was steady through the big bumps in activity with later series, a 1000 hits for median works between 2013 and 2018, followed by a slow decline. I’d expect the 2020 works to continue gaining for a few months yet, but the median is probably 50-60% of what is was when the show was in production.

Kudos counts and medians show a similar story to hits, but there is a dip down around 2013 for kudos reflects the frenzy of productivity that saw the fandom grow during the Series 2 hiatus. Readers were getting spoiled! From the airing of Series 3 (2014) until a year following Series 4 (2018), the median work received an even 60ish kudos and 1000 hits, a niche audience that decreased to 50/750 through 2018-2019. The numbers of 2020 suggest a smaller community of readers again, though these numbers may still rise a bit in the next few months before the median works are forgotten. 

The statistic that tells a different story is Comments. Looking at the total comments counts, there isn’t a drop after Series 3 (2014). Instead, the fandom compensated for changing numbers with more feedback and discussion attached to works. This is reflected in the median comment rate as well, which shows seasonal variation but doesn’t really drop off until 2020.

It’s remarkable that without fresh canon we continue to have new creators contributing to the fandom, and while that may be outpacing the readership somewhat, the standard of engagement has been very high. One could say the fandom is chugging along quite nicely!

What about Tags

So, with all that turnover and shifting population, is there a change in the kinds of works being posted? We can look at tags, all tags and freeform tags, to see if there were any meaningful trends. 

First up, I did a creator-wave like analysis of works just for tags, to see how tags continue to be used after being introduced. Unlike the creators, tags clearly persist for years. After 2015, it looks like the core tag set has been established, with very few tags persisting in usage per  subsequent year.

This graph reports numbers over time that are not proportional to the number of works or creators active. Instead, works on AO3 have been getting more and more tags over the years, with the average steadily growing from 5 in 2011 to 15 in 2020, with freeform tags (not characters or ships) from 2 to 8.

To get a sense of fic and tagging culture changes over time, I counted the most popular NEW tags of each year (wave). Note: this analysis is using exact matches, not the networked associations of tag meanings wrangled into AO3 today, so some things that pop up aren’t new concepts but instead newly popular TAGs for whatever they represent. 

2011: 2752 (First year, so all solid stuff, tags that continue to be popular forever)

• Angst                 323
• Fluff                 232
• Humor                 216
• Hurt/Comfort          188
• Romance               168
• Friendship            168
• Crossover             138
• Crack                 121
• Alternate Universe    119
• First Time            106

2012: 11637 (still early, first references to Series 2)

• Fluff and Angst                           145
• Episode: s02e03 The Reichenbach Fall       97
• Kid Sherlock                               54
• Puppies                                    50
• Sad                                        48
• Episode: s02e01 A Scandal in Belgravia     47
• Mathematics                                42
• Season 2 spoilers                          38
• Omega Verse                                38
• Feels                                      38

2013: 16176 (Omegaverse nomenclature is growing, Top/Bottom terminology, new challenges)

• Alpha Sherlock                               65
• Omega John                                   61
• 30 Day OTP Challenge                         59
• Tumblr: letswritesherlock                    56
• Top John                                     49
• Sherlock Holmes Returns after Reichenbach    44
• Bottom Sherlock                              40
• Reichenbach Angst                            30
• Don’t copy work to another site              29
• Age Regression/De-Aging                      27

2014: 19256 (Mostly Series 3 related

• Episode: s03e03 His Last Vow         249
• Episode: s03e02 The Sign of Three    167
• Post-His Last Vow                    149
• His Last Vow Spoilers                142
• Sherlock Series 3 Spoilers           128
• 2000 AU                              100
• The Sign of Three Spoilers            74
• Fatlock                               72
• Post-The Sign of Three                66
• Post-Season/Series 03                 57

2015: 14272 (New challenges, new prominent Sherlolly tags)

• Chats                                      47
• International Fanworks Day 2015            34
• Watson’s Woes July Writing Prompts 2015    27
• S3 referenced                              25
• Sherlock Holmes/Molly Hooper Kissing       22
• English Accent                             22
• Sound cloud                                19
• Eventual Sherlock Holmes/Molly Hooper      19
• Protective John Watson                     18
• but not that kind of graphic               17

2016: 13517 (New stylistic tagging, TAB references, a lot of epilepsy?)

• Slowwww burn                         92
• John Watson Loves Sherlock Holmes    37
• Sherlock Holmes Loves John Watson    33
• post-tab                             30
• JME                                  27
• Post TAB                             25
• Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy          23
• Sherlolly Appreciation Week 2016     19
• epileptic                            19
• fraternal love                       17

2017: 15067 (Series 4 tags and challenges)

• Episode: s04e02 The Lying Detective         133
• Episode: s04e01 The Six Thatchers            93
• Post TFP                                     73
• Sherlock Series 4 Spoilers                   69
• Episode: s04e03 The Final Problem            60
• Post-Episode: s04e02 The Lying Detective     55
• Sherlolly Appreciation Week 2017             50
• Post S4                                      48
• Sherstrade Month 2017                        44
• 31 Days of Porn Challenge 2017               41

2018: 10733 (Lost of new challenges, seasonal and weekly)

• Towel Day 2018                       64
• Mystrade Valentines Calendar 2018    25
• Kinktober 2018                       23
• Pregnant Molly Hooper                23
• Soft Smut Sunday                     23
• Tom Robbins                          23
• Sherlolly Appreciation Week 2018     21
• Inktober 2018                        20
• established universe                 16
• Always1895                           16

2019: 7785 (More prompts, and character attitudes)

• Sherlolly Appreciation Week 2019    25
• 221B Autumn Challenge               21
• A-Z Christmas Prompt                19
• KatsJohnlockXmas2019                16
• Whumptober                          11
• Poor Greg Lestrade                  11
• Kinktober 2019                      10
• Dissonance                          10
• John Watson is a Good Friend         9
• Sleepy Sherlock Holmes               8

2020: 8074 (Not all COVID related, thank heavens)

• Mystrade Monday                           59
• COVID-19                                  48
• Coronavirus                               46
• Mystrade Monday Prompts                   40
• Whumptober 2020                           36
• warning for a covid-19 setting            33
• Flufftober prompts 2020                   24
• Do Not Translate                          24
• they’re all right they’re just at home    23
• Granada Sherlolly                         21

A little note from looking across all freeform tags, not just the new ones, we see a curious pattern with regards to two actions: First Kiss and Anal Sex. They appear amongst the most common tags as of 2014, neck in neck for two years, than Anal Sex drops off the top ten in 2016. From there out, First Kiss stays in the top 5 from that point on, while anal sex appears at rank 9 from 2017-2019 and is gone again in 2020. This probably says something about the fandom, somehow. 

Bravo for making it to the end and thank you for reading! 

Questions/comments welcome.

I’ve not posted one of my quarantine bins before I don’t think! This is where the Newdle currently lives – it’s austere, but it serves his needs while allowing me to monitor his health. As far as quarantine goes, my goals are to suit the inhabitant first, and to do it in such a way that can be sterilized clean and easily monitored for things like mites second. If you’re crafty, you can do both without compromising either goal. Prettiness can come later – quarantine’s a time for pure function!

This is a long ramble, so I’m putting this under a read-more!

To start this off,  since I know a lot of people dislike bins, I’ll go into why I personally am using one in this specific scenario. For most snakes (as I can only speak from a snake perspective here,) I generally prefer them to the big glass enclosures you see at most pet stores; nice as they are, they’re expensive, fragile, and have to be modified to hold humidity and heat – and because of their weight and the aforementioned fragility, cleaning them is like punching yourself in the face. Mites can hide in the crevices of the glass that are incredibly hard to get into, as well, which is far from ideal for quarantine in my opinion! While they have their uses, and I do own a fair few of them, overall I’m gonna go for a bin in most cases for my snakes – but especially if humidity is a concern, as bins hold humidity overwhelmingly better than unmodified glass aquariums. (It’s also worth mentioning that there are also custom-made enclosures that are the best of both worlds, and generally those are the best option to go with overall – but the cost can be prohibitive, especially if you gotta ship freight.)

That was The Bin Manifesto. Now to the actual enclosure!

First things first, he’s being housed on kitchen roll. Mites show up great on white paper, and it’s a cheap and easily replaced medium for lining the bottom of the bin. (It’s not great for humidity purposes, however, so I mist as needed to make sure it doesn’t dry out too much.) Cleaning is a breeze, just replace it all, clean out the bin, put it all together again, and you’re golden! After quarantine, I’ll move this fellow onto a humidity-friendly substrate, probably orchid bark with pillow moss.

(Unseen but important! Underneath the kitchen roll is a temperature probe that regulates how hot the undertank heater is allowed to get! This makes sure that the heater I’m using is safe for my friend here! Never skimp on the thermostat/rheostat folks!)

Next, the green hide is on the warm side. The hide itself is uhh, this plastic bit made for guinea pigs and other large rodents… it’s huge and cheap and I LOVE THEM because I can spray them down no matter WHAT happens to them. Ivo has one too! She wedges herself up in there and feels nice and tight and secure. They’re only like 9 dollars, and I literally have not found anything better not named “PVC pipe” for large snake hides. It’s not the most decorative, but it does the job fantastically.

Further on, there’s a shelf for climbing since this is a semi-arboreal species. It’s sturdy and very cheap and you can get them in the Big Lots for about 3 dollars, and I use them for anything that likes to climb in quarantine because they can be sprayed down and sterilized – which, again, is the goal here. Sanitation! They’re not the comfiest thing, admittedly, but they’ll do the job until I clear this fellow for some of my driftwood.

(Speaking of: enclosure wood is expensive. Terribly so. But it’s because it takes such a ton of work to prepare the wood – me sitting on my back porch at the picnic table with a power sander, a saw, and a lot of profanity for several hours = one (1) appropriate piece of wood for an enclosure. It’s worth the money for someone else to save you the labor if you can afford it, trust me. I would kill a man for a sandblaster.)

On top of that shelf, we have the second hide. It’s a moist hide full of damp sphagnum moss that he likes to wedge himself into. Moist hides help raise the ambient humidity in an enclosure, and he can curl up in there whenever he likes – but I also mist a time or two to help keep the humidity up, if I need to.The way I drilled the holes into the bin ensures that humidity doesn’t escape too fast (and that the air won’t stagnate, either,) so I usually don’t have to mist too often!

But… yes, that’s a bit on the setup that the Newdle’s currently living in. It’s clean, efficient, adequate, and roomy – and for this fellow, it’s a good fit. At the end of the day the best enclosure is the one that meets in the center of the Venn Diagram between cleanliness and husbandry, and that can vary wildly from animal to animal – so I don’t endorse this as a one-size-fits-all solution, it’s simply how I’m doing things over here!

Thank you for reading!

Hello r/snakes this is my affectionate blood-pressure cuff, Ivo.

The blepping linguine enjoying a sunny day.

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