destinationtoast:elizabethminkel:fansplaining:Crunching the Fandom NumbersOur latest is live! 📊 And it’s by none other than our most frequent podcast guest, @destinationtoast aka @toastystats!!! 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. TOAST ORIGIN STORY: The BBC’s modern adaptation of the Holmes mysteries compelled me to think, “Surely someone out there must have written fanfic about Sherlock Holmes and John Watson having sex.” I googled it and was led to AO3, where, in fact, many, many people were writing about that very thing. This piece has many, many graphs and charts, including comparisons of the original stats Toast crunched back in 2013 alongside the results of those same questions today. Click through to read or listen to Toast reading an audio version! 🍞So excited to get this one out in the world! 💞 @destinationtoast has been such a fantastic collaborator over the years. I was really pleased we got the ORIGIN STORY here alongside pretty fascinating comparisons between 2013 AO3 and 2026 AO3. (Plus super interesting thoughts about fandom stats as fanworks!)Woohoo!! I was delighted to write this piece about my journey with fandom data, and to share a bunch of retrospective data (2013 vs 2026)! Also to read my article aloud very cheerfully, I’ve been informed. XDI have been given a ✨🎁 gift link 🎁✨ to share with y'all – read the article free for one week! But also support to 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.
Our latest is live! 📊 And it's by none other than our most frequent podcast guest, @destinationtoast aka @toastystats!!!
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. TOAST ORIGIN STORY:
The BBC’s modern adaptation of the Holmes mysteries compelled me to think, “Surely someone out there must have written fanfic about Sherlock Holmes and John Watson having sex.” I googled it and was led to AO3, where, in fact, many, many people were writing about that very thing.
This piece has many, many graphs and charts, including comparisons of the original stats Toast crunched back in 2013 alongside the results of those same questions today.
Click through to read or listen to Toast reading an audio version! 🍞
So excited to get this one out in the world! 💞 @destinationtoast has been such a fantastic collaborator over the years. I was really pleased we got the ORIGIN STORY here alongside pretty fascinating comparisons between 2013 AO3 and 2026 AO3. (Plus super interesting thoughts about fandom stats as fanworks!)
Woohoo!! I was delighted to write this piece about my journey with fandom data, and to share a bunch of retrospective data (2013 vs 2026)! Also to read my article aloud very cheerfully, I've been informed. XD
I have been given a ✨🎁 gift link 🎁✨ to share with y'all -- read the article free for one week! But also support to 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.
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