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PROUDLY PRESENTING:

The Unofficial OFMD AO3 Wrapped 2024

sponsored by my love of fandom community, a passion for data presentation, more hours in photoshop than I am willing to admit, and inspired by the Good Omens AO3 wrapped

images used are either official stills or screencaps from episodes and the Vanity Fair lie detector video. everything edited by me :)

a few additional stats:

79 works had more than 100k words, with an accumulated 16 million words, meaning 1% of works accounted for 21% of words

At a reading speed of 300 words per minute, it would take 174 days and nights to read all of the OFMD fic from 2024 - or, if you read for 11.5 hours every day for a year, you'd be able to get through it all!

The most tagged sex acts for explicit fics were (in order): Anal Sex, Blow Jobs, Oral Sex, Anal Fingering, and Hand Jobs

271 works were tagged "Art"

details about data collection and analysis ⤵️

All data was collected on January 1st, 2025. I limited search results within the fandom tag to works updated between 2024-01-01 and 2024-12-31. Works started earlier but updated in 2024 are therefore included. Works added and deleted again during the year are not accounted for.

I manually typed data from the AO3 search into Excel, so there may be errors and inaccuracies due to the limits of the AO3 search function, authors' tagging choices, and typos (sorry lmao). There is probably an easier way to do this but idk I was bored and didn't mind. Graphs were made in Excel.

For the total word count estimate, I collected the exact word counts of all works above 100k, then gathered data on the number of works within pre-selected word count intervals and multiplied the number of works with the average of the interval (for each interval). The total sum and cumulative graphs for both number of works and word counts are presented above.

I made posts on tumblr and bluesky asking people to nominate their favorite tags from 2024, and included as many as I could.

This is just how I chose to present the data - I hope it makes sense and I'm open to questions!

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Hello hello hi I made a little pop up zine of my favourite gentlebeard scenes!!

Here’s the whole pages when they’re open! Please forgive the highlighters in the background

Originally wanted the “what makes Ed happy is you // you make Stede happy” quote for the kiss scene but there wasn’t enough room

+ bonus video

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teeny tiny ed+stede sketchdump

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#for science (ʘ‿ʘ✿)

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one largely overlooked piece of information that the pop pop scene tells us is that given the right emotional and material circumstances ed is capable of building his entire father figure trauma complex from the ground up around a brand new guy within 24 hours

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the lighthouse

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they’re disgusting 

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Rewatching s1e2, some assorted thoughts about Stede's opening dream:

Stede feels a need to blame Izzy for everything, and an equally desperate inability to do so. As the audience, we know that Izzy was what pushed Ed over the line into his Kraken spiral (while Stede leaving him under such confusing circumstances no doubt made him vulnerable enough for Izzy's threats to work, Ed was doing FINE and would've been okay otherwise), but Stede doesn't know that. He fantasizes about getting revenge on Izzy, but has no retort when dream-Izzy says "I didn't make you leave him."

baby boy wants to be cool so bad, those swishy sleeves are so impractical but damn if they don't look good

gd this scene just sells Stede's desperation to find Ed again SO well. I remember the moment I knew s2 would be GOOD was when we see that absolutely desperate longing on Stede's face as he shouts Ed's name across the beach with tears in his eyes

as much as we later see Stede being very genuine when he tells Ed he wasn't expecting him to melt back into his arms, he DOES want that, as anyone would. Dream-Ed responds very vaguely to Stede asking him if he's mad at him, just reassuring Stede that "I knew you'd find me, babe," and repeating that a bit awkwardly when Stede asks if he's angry with him, like Stede is kind of skipping over any awkwardness altogether

it's just so interesting to me that Stede imagines Ed with his beard here, and I think it really speaks to Stede's guilt - he's imagining that he never hurt Ed at all. He's remembering Ed before the Act of Grace, before Ed gave up his beard for Stede. To remember him as he last saw him, with how the clean-shaven face makes Ed look so much younger and more vulnerable, I think, just would've been far too painful to face.

and this ties into the masculinity issues of it all, of course - just as Stede is dreaming of himself with a beard in a perfect ideal of admirable masculinity, he's imagining Ed the same way, the more difficult and vulnerable emotions hidden away again so they can skip right past them

I love it. And I love even more that when we return to the dream at the end of the season, it's with both of them exactly as they are, imperfect and working on their own more healthy relationships with masculinity, willing to immediately engage with the tough vulnerabilities they need to talk through.

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Underdicussed aspect of Ed and Stede's future life in their "Inn": within a couple months they are going to be incomprehensible to anyone else. Mr Zangy and Mr Tangy have speedrun the development of a new dialect. It's still sort of English, but it's riddled with made up words like zangy and tangy, with technically normal words that have been given a completely new meaning because one of them said it in accident once, then it became A Bit for a couple days, and then it just became normal to use this word in the new context and they forgot it didn't always mean this. Some words have gone from being nouns to being adverbs and verbs. They are about to invent their own grammar. They talk to each other all day about all sorts of things because they love being together and they love talking to each other, and with every day their language moves further away from being actually intelligible to anyone else. When the crew comes to visit, they'll find a pair of retired pirates/not-yet innkeepers who use completely nonsense words for common household items and who talk to each other in gibberish.

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I’ll be in my quarters

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For OFMDsleepweek here's day 3: Sleeping Together!

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We wrote our names on each other, in permanent ink.

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swish!

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Edward Teach in the OFMD Season 2 Trailer [x]

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i feel many things but lack the words for all of them