#platonic Marinette x male reader

[vikkirosko]

Good day, Vikki. Mind if I request Marinette, Felix, Zoe and (if you're writing about her, if no it's okay) Lila/Cerise/Iris/Whatever the fuck her name is being enemies with Jax!Reader (yeah, partially inspired by those Ulti!Reader, HCs; can be continuation of my Chloe x Jax!Reader request)?

Platonic headcanons Feud with the rude rabbit

🐞 Marinette Dupain-Cheng x male!Reader 🪀

Marinette knew perfectly well that Chloé and you were dating. She would not have paid attention to it, and maybe even would have been happy for you, if not for one small fact. You both didn't let her live in peace. You've teased her before and played little pranks on her and the others, but when you started dating Chloé, the amount of rudeness directed at her from your side seemed to increase. You didn't try to ruin her life like Chloé, but you didn't leave her alone either. Marinette wasn't sure if the reason was your bad temper or if it was Chloé who was pushing you to new rudeness and pranks against her

Chloé often watched you making fun of Marinette and was clearly pleased with it. You often grinned and Marinette tried to ignore you, and when she couldn't, her friends came to her aid, who were always ready to stand up to both you and your girlfriend. You retreated, but that didn't mean you wouldn't return to your work later. At least once a day, you reminded Marinette of yourself and your bad temper, and she gradually began to get used to the fact that you, as if on an internal schedule, irritated her again, although at different times of the day, but you definitely reminded her of yourself

One day, when your girlfriend wasn't by your side, she asked you why you kept doing this. Marinette didn't understand if you really wanted to impress Chloé so much and therefore continued to not let Marinette live in peace. When she said that to you, you looked annoyed. You came closer to her and she tensed, expecting that you were angered by her words and you were going to hit her, but you didn't. You didn't even try to do it. You leaned over to her and said in a calm voice that your girlfriend had nothing to do with it. You just liked creating chaos, it amused you, and if you could amuse yourself and please Chloé, then you weren't going to turn down the opportunity

Sometimes she hoped that you would still find other ways to have fun, but for now you continued to be an annoying guy who gave no peace to anyone. Marinette did not want others to suffer through your fault, so she tried to make sure that your rudeness and pranks did not cause real harm and did not create new villains that she had to face

🐝 Zoé Lee x male!Reader 👟

You met Zoé when you were waiting for your girlfriend. She was looking for her room, and you were just wandering the halls out of boredom and looking for something to do. She bumped into you by accident and hurried to apologize to you. You stood up to your full height, looking at her curiously, and then a smirk appeared on your lips. Zoé wasn't sure why you were smiling like that, but it bothered her. You told her that you didn't resent her at all and left, saying goodbye that you'd see her soon, and for some reason, you called her sis. It wasn't until she found out that you were her stepsister's boyfriend that she realized why you bothered her so much. You weren't much better than Chloé

She understood that you saw that the way she behaved around her mother and stepsister was just acting, but you didn't talk about it. Marinette told her to be careful with you, because you were bothering none of your classmates even before you and Chloé started dating, and when you started dating, it seemed to only get worse. You kept calling her sis, which made Chloé roll her eyes. When Zoé stopped hiding her true nature, her stepsister was just furious about it, and you could barely contain your laughter. But seeing the sinister gleam in your eyes, she realized that the period when she avoided your taunts and pranks was over, exactly from the moment her acting ended

You kept calling her sis, and it became a well-established nickname for her, but it was the only thing that remained the same. She, like the others, was the victim of your ridicule. Chloé obviously liked it, but you were also more focused on your own fun rather than pleasing your girlfriend. Pranks and taunts were still your personal outlet. Zoé didn't understand why you were like that. She might still understand if your girlfriend was the reason for this, but you've been like this before, which means it was solely you. You found it fun to annoy and scare others, and there wasn't much others could do about it

You often bumped into each other at the hotel when you visited Chloé. It seemed inevitable to her, but Zoé didn't want to antagonize you. She wanted to believe that somewhere behind the prickly mask there was a kinder nature that you hid from everyone. She didn't know if she was right or if you were just an unpleasant person, but for now she continued to keep her distance from you so as not to provoke your new ridicule of her

🦚 Félix Fathom x male!Reader 👔

Félix met you when he pretended to be his cousin again. He expected that he would be able to trick you, just like everyone else, but you stopped and frowned at him. You asked him directly who he was. Your words surprised him, but he continued to try to play his part, even though he understood that you had already figured him out. It was only the fact that you were distracted by a phone call that helped him get away. But pretty quickly he found out that you were far from the most pleasant person, and every time you bumped into him, you showed it, not forgetting to remind him of your first meeting

You didn't really care why Félix was pretending to be Adrien. You didn't have any warm feelings for any of them, and you weren't going to give him any peace. You were still sharp and rude, but he wasn't going to be nice to you either. During your conversation, he showed his character without worrying about anything, and it made you grin. It's like you've finally found a worthy opponent who, unlike the others, rarely tried to stand up to you, especially when Chloé was around. It was your girlfriend who told you more about him, and you just couldn't help but take a small advantage in your battle that had begun

You didn't see each other that often, which seemed to upset you a little. Chloé obviously didn't like him, and you watched with interest how indignant she was when you mentioned him. She compared him to his cousin, but at this point you usually interrupted her, not having the slightest desire to listen to her stories about Adrien. You didn't like to hear about him, especially when you remembered the time when she was in love with him. It would seem that it was quite obvious, and Félix took advantage of it in your clashes and drove you crazy with it

Perhaps if you had seen each other more often, your confrontation would have been more serious, but so far you have seen each other quite rarely due to the fact that he lived in another country. But every time you did see him, you weren't going to leave him alone no matter what. Not a single meeting of yours was complete without an exchange of barbs, and no one could stop you from doing so

🦊 Cerise Bianca x male!Reader 🎬

When you first met Cerise, she introduced herself to you all as Lila. You didn't like her at first sight. You felt how fake she was, and looking at how she surrounded herself with others, you realized that you were not mistaken. She saw that you didn't believe a single word she said, and if you were on better terms with your classmates, it might have been a problem for her, but you didn't let anyone rest with your barbs, so she made it look like you just found a new victim for your rude words and pranks. You didn't try to convince the others of this, seeing no point in it, but you weren't going to leave her alone either. She annoyed you with how fake she was

When she left school, you doubted very much that even one word of her reason was true. But you weren't going to get hung up on her. You had much more important things to do. This continued until she reappeared. But seeing your grin, Cerise tensed up. She had no idea that you had noticed her several times during your walks around the city. This once again confirmed your idea that her words were a lie. You asked Chloé to stay away from her, but she herself was not against it, experiencing irritation similar to yours. But you weren't going to leave Cerise alone

Every time you bumped into her, you didn't miss the opportunity to say something sarcastic to her, and she was polite, playing the victim, not going to admit that you found out more about her than she would like. But sometimes she started making eye contact with you when she was a different person. You didn't care how many people she was cheating on, but you weren't just going to overlook the fact that she was trying to cheat on you. Even when she and your girlfriend were temporarily on the same side, you weren't going to treat her any better, and it was definitely mutual

Frankly, you didn't care what her name was, what her reasons for lying were, or what she wanted to do. For you, she was the one you bothered with your barbs and rudeness, even when she stopped showing up at school. Every time you ran into each other in the city, it was like you couldn't let her go without telling her something unpleasant. She wasn't going to give up so easily and continued to play her role. For both of you, it was a confrontation in which neither you nor she were going to lose

[in-every-reality]

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I write for:

KotLC (any main characters, mostly Tam)

Aru Shah (mostly Aiden and Aru)

TOH (mostly Hunter, but you can request others)

School Bus Graveyard (mostly Tyler)

SK8 (anybody except Adam tbh, best with Miya though)

Miraculous (Marinette, Luka, and Adrien)

ATLA (just Zuko)

JJK (anybody currently in the anime)

Genshin (some characters I might not know well enough, sorry)

MHA (class 1a, some 1b, Shinsou, and big three)

Percy Jackson/HoO (mostly Connor Stoll)

Shatter Me (just Kenji for now)

AGGGTM (just Ravi)

Maybe more later on 🤷🏽‍♀️

I WILL NOT WRITE:

Hardcore angst/hurt without comfort

Smut (tho suggestive/lime is okay)

Character death (unless it’s a reaction to a background death)

Cheating

Break ups

Character x character (unless it’s poly w reader or a background ship)

READER SPECIFICS

You can specify gender, but male reader might be more difficult when I’m not feeling masc

Personality - it may be difficult to write personalities too different from myself (such as really bubbly or hyperfeminine), but I’ll definitely try!

Trauma/backstories - if reader has any trauma that I myself can’t relate to, I may not be able to add as much detail for the sake of respect.

Race/culture - I love writing Black!readers for my personal experience, but I can write other specified cultures (please be patient if I miss some details!)

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Features - if you want the reader to have specific features (height, hair texture, skin tone, conditions/mutations, eye color, shaped features, etc)

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I’ll sometimes take requests from comments, but I’d prefer if you sent them through my inbox!

Please specify: romantic or platonic, any tropes you want, headcanons or oneshot, and any other details

That’s all! Happy reading <333

[thesnowmoonwitch]

heyy! i read your marinette!brother x luka and could you maybe write one-shot about him finding out that his sister is ladybug and confronting her about it

Your wish shall be granted 🧚 (I’m sorry if it’s bad I haven’t done this in awhile.)

(What even is this Sabine I need answers!)

“Hey Mari I want to know if you want any chicken for dinn- huh I thought she was just up here.” (Y/n) said to himself as his eyes gazed at a grimoire with brown leather and gold detail.

His curiosity meter was on high as he walked over to the book and sat down in his sister’s chair to start reading. The book had handmade illustrations of old heroes that looked very similar to today’s heroes. (Y/n) couldn’t make out the letters but he assumed it to be descriptions of the hero’s and miraculous.

“What are you doing?” (Y/n) quickly turned around to see Marinette.

“Hey Mari I was looking at your book about the heroes of the past and apparently present. Anything you want to say?”

“One you shouldn’t be reading that, two how can you even read this?”

“Context clues. Also make sure Tikki eats her energy gets low when you transform and it’s been 5 minutes. Ladybug.”

The silence was astronomical, Marinette knew that he had a point though, she dragged her brother down the stairs to feed Tikki and have a discussion about what just happened.

“Ok so you know about the miraculous, the Kwamis, you know I’m Ladybug, I’m assuming you know I’m the guardian, is there anything else you know?” Marinette asked.

“I know you need to ask Adrien out.” The comment just earned a stale cookie to the head from Marinette. “Ow.”

“Is there anything that will keep you quiet about this?”

“You let me babysit the Kwamis that don’t get an owner and I get to wear a unused miraculous of my choice for a day.”

“…Ffffine.”

[bubblexxgoblin]

Agere fics Master list

Request open

Key:

Gender neutral - *

Male reader- •

Female reader- ° (there won't be a lot of these)

Steven Universe

Steven

Wet hair •

Reader has bad sensory issues and he has a bad break down over the his wet hair, Lucky Steven always knows what to do.

His baby •

Prompt #5. Character B has noticed a bunch of A’s little ticks. They decide to slowly start babying them in order to ease them into the age regression thing + Character B does research and wants to give caregiving a try.

Finally relaxed*

Platonic cg Steven x reader (ft a little bit of cg Connie) Fun day with Steven including roller coaster rides, head scratches, phone calls and nap time.

Note to selfy•

Little pouty Steven drabble. He just wanted his baby's attention. Sometimes cg's get clingy to.

BNHA

Deku

Bubba's Cuddles [crybaby reader] *

Deku and his pretty baby cuddling and skipping class after Deku gets hurt.

Miraculous

Luka

Polyam Lukanette x little reader *

Cg! LUKA + little! MARINETTE + little gn! READER Headcanons

Marinette

Polyam Lukanette x little reader *

Cg! LUKA + little! MARINETTE + little gn! READER Headcanons

Peter Parker •

Cowboy bebop

CG spike headcanons *

Spike + a baby = the dream team?

Marvel

(Coming soon)

Harry Potter

Dc

[murder-senpai]

F A N F I C T I O N

Oh, hello there!! My name is Murder-senpai! I’m new here to tumblr sooooo don’t mind me being awkward n’ stuff. So this is gonna be like, what fandoms and characters I write for sOoooOoOo

AU’s and other stuff I’ll do: ABO, genderbend, hanahaki, soulmate, supernatural/power, soft yandere/ stockholm syndrome, coffee shop, modern, fantasy, baby/kid versions of characters, babysitter, neko, inu, kitsune, post apocalyptic, zombie, flower shop, book store, dragon, fairy tale, high school/college, mafia, pregnant, steampunk, merpeople, pirate, pirate/merperson, prison, reincarnation, famous, vampire, werewolf

There is more shit I’ll do but I can’t really think anymore so just request

(reader insert crap)

I will NOT do nsfw. This is a christian minecraft sever 

You CAN request multiple character/poly and platonic stuff

If your not specific, I will choose between headcanons or a fic/drabble

If you request angst, I will give it a fluffy ending unless requested otherwise

Please be specific in your request   ex: reader gender (fem, male, gender neutral)

Edit: I will now take character x character, character + character platonic stuff, aus (like, medevil bnha, or a story about friendship or enemies to friends or adoption, anything really), and stuff like that

Current hyperfixation (aka, what I will probably write better for/ do more): dream smp

Will probably put the scenario in a non specific arc

Fairy Tail:

Natsu

Gray

Loke/leo

Laxus

Sting

Rouge

Gajeel

Zeref

Jellal

Jackal

Lucy

Levy

Juvia

Guildarts

Freed

Erza

DBH:

Connor

Hank

Markus

Gavin

nines

ATLA:

Aang

Zuko

Sokka

Katara

Toph

mai

ty lee

azula

BNHA:

Izuku

Katsuki

Shouto

Denki

Eijiro

Tenya

Toshinori

Shouta

hizashi

fumikage

neito

mirio

takami

hitoshi

inasa

Enji

keigo

rumi

momo

mina

ochaco

dabi

shigaraki

overhaul

sir nighteye

kurogiri

toga

twice

Inuyasha:

Inuyahsa

kagome

naraku

miroku

koga

sesshomaru

sango

BNA:

michiru

shirou

nazuna

alan

marie

pinga

Sherlock:

Sherlock

john

moriarty

mycroft

greg

molly

Harry potter:

harry

ron

hermione

draco

cedric

Black Butler:

ciel

sebastian

bard

finny

ash

claude

alois

triplets

william

grell

ronald

undertaker

joker

dagger

agni

soma

pluto

beast

lizzy

mey-rin

ran-mao

edward

aleistar

vincent

real ciel (I refer to him as astre tho)

snake

charles grey

charles phipps

gregory

cheslock

joanne

maurice

herman

clayton

lawrance

mcmillan

edgar

blavat

seiglinde

MLB:

Marinette/ladybug

adrien/chat noir

gabriel/hawkmoth

nathaniel

marc

luka

alya

nino

felix

bridgette

chloe

TPN:

emma

ray

norman

don

gilda

leslie

Undertale:

sans

papyrus

frisk

toriel

chara

asriel

asgore

grillby

gaster

mettaton

blooky 

AU’s- underfell, mafiatale, mafiafell, underswap, swapfell

Beastars:

legoshi

haru

louis

juno

gouhin

melon

Gravity falls:

dipper

mable

ford

wendy

robbie

bill

AU-reverse falls, monster falls

SVTFOE:

star

marco

tom

toffee

Hazbin:

alastor

angle dust

charlie

husk

vaggie

lucifer

val

vox

Pokemon:

Gladion

ash

clemont

serena

james

jesse

zeraora

lucario

mewtwo

zacian

zamazenta

literally any pokemon but those are my fave(and human versions ofc either is fine)

guzma

kukui

alain

lysandre

bede

hop

leon

milo

allister

raihan

marnie

piers

ACNH:

tom nook

raymond

lobo 

kabuki

lolly

marshal

Isabelle

redd

fang

Avengers:

tony

steve

bucky

clint

natasha

dr. strange

thor 

loki

peter

Voltron:

lance

keith

shiro

hunk

lotor

pidge

Aggretsuko:

tadano

haida

hyoudou

The hobbit:

literally JUST smaug

MLP:

twilight

pinkie

apple jack

rainbow

fluttershy

rarity

discord

Maid sama:

takumi

misaki

shoichiro

the three idiots

aoi (totaly gives off a ciel/lizzy vibe don’t even lie)

sotaro

tora

kanade

kuga

koma

yujiro

shosei

Naruto:

naruto

sauske

kakashi

itachi

gaara

neji

shikamaru

kurama

kiba

OHSHC:

tamaki

haruhi

hikaru

karou

both twins

kyoya

hunny

mori

kasanoda

nekosawa

Cells at work:

white blood cell

red blood cell

killer t cell

Little witch academia:

atsuko

diana

sucy

lotte

amanda

andrew

louis

frank

Pucca:

pucca

garu

tobe

abyo

Glitter force:

emily/Miyuki

kelsey/Akane

lily/Yayoi

april/Nao

chole/Reika

ulric/wolfrun

rascal

Glitter force doki doki:

ira

maya/Mana

rachel/Rikka

clara/Alice

mackenzie/Makoto

TMNT(2012):

leonardo

raphael

michelangelo

donatello

splinter

april

ROTG:

aster bunnymund

north

pitch

sandy

jack

tooth

Soul eater:

death the kid

soul 

black star

maka

stein

Aot:

levi

eren

armin

mikasa

jean

erwin

IT(2017):

pennywise

richie

beverly

eddie 

stanley

ben

bill 

henry

patrick

victor

belch

bowers gang

losers club

kamisama kiss:

nanami

tomoe

mizkui

kurama

otohiku

mikage

jiro

The outsiders:

dallas

darry

ponyboy

johnny

two-bit

steve

soda

Diabolik lovers:

shu

reiji

ayato

laito

kanato

subaru

yui

karlheinz

kou

azuza

carla

ruki

richter

yuma

shin

Hamilton:

alex

john

king george

george washington

lafayette

hercules

philip

aaron

thomas

Venom(2018):

eddie/venom

Tokyo mew mew:

ichigo

zakuro

tart

pie

Kisshu

Fran bow

Fran

remor

itward

mr. midnight

Steven universe

steven

connie

pearl

amethyst

larz 

sadie

garnet

lapiz

peridot

spinel

Haven't you heard i'm sakamoto

sakamota

Shou

Gargantia on the verdurous planet

ledo

amy

Animaniacs

yakko

wakko

dot

Over the garden wall

wirt

beast

Sonic

sonic

tails

knuckles

amy

shadow

Snow white with the red hair

Shirayuki

zen

obi

The sacrificial princess and the king of beasts(manga)

Leonhart

Sariphi

Lanteveldt

Anubis/Sirius

Jormungand

Fenrir

Nir

Joz

Ilya

Beetlejuice(musical)

beetlejuice

lydia

Creepypasta

Jeff the killer

slenderman

offenderman

trenderman

splenderman

ticci toby

masky

hoodie

BEN drowned 

eyeless jack

laughing jack

homicidal liu

zalgo

clockwork

Jason the toymaker

puppeteer

Yu-gi-oh

Seto Kaiba

FNAF

Freddy

bonnie

chica

foxy

golden freddy

toy freddy

toy bonnie

toy chica

mangle (male and female ver pls specify)

marionette ^

springtrap

william afton/ purple guy

baby

funtime freddy

ennard

nightmare freddy

nightmare bonnie

nightmare chica

nightmare foxy

nightmare mangle

fredbear

nightmare fredbear

Cuphead

cuphead

mugman

devil

king dice

Bendy and the ink machine

bendy

boris

alice 

Duck tales

Scrooge (aged down tho)

webby

della

donald

louie

dewey

huey

launchpad

lena

Dream smp

everyone (all platonic. Will do reader stuff, but would prefer more character +character interactions, specifically, SBI. PLSSS give me sbi stuff, ill marry you)

[estellestarlightevergarden]

Playing With Fire

Title: Playing With Fire Part 2

Pairing: Luka Couffaine x Fem! Reader

Fandom: Miraculous: Tales of LB and CN

Genre: Angst and Fluff

Series: Part 1

Masterlist

Notes: There might be mentions from season 3 and maybe x Adrien!? Platonically Speaking.

Summmary:

Reader tells Luka she wants a break. Luka accepts but soon realizes that reader is the one he loves after playing Marinette his song. But is it too late?

Notes: THIS IS PART TWO OF THE SERIES!

----

Soon after the arguements there were no more excited exchanges but awkward moments between the two teens.

Their relationship still holding strong. The young female felt her heart belonged to Luka.

Followed him silently.

Not as many smiles.

No hugs only waves.

Those days of tension had began to aggravate the band mates of Kitty Section.

They knew they couldnt intervene or things would get ugly so they all remained quiet.

--

"Hey! Luka! Alya! Adrien! Everyone! I'm here!" Marinette grinned shouting towards the boathouse parked. Her smile brightening the atmosphere.

Her cheery attitude.

The way she was always able to smile.

Her beautiful face.

Everything about her seemed so.

Perfect.

To Luka that was what it seemed.

The girl that was hoping that she had held his heart felt her heart break at the sight of her beloved smile at another.

It pained her.

Y/n could only flinch whenever she was near or snuck towards the back of the steering wheel of the boat to sit quietly.

This is what she had always done as the weeks had gone by.

Looks of sympathy were thrown her way.

Adrien stuck closer to her.

Her boyfriend and Marinette had gotten closer.

.

Soon she had decided this was more than enough to be proven that Luka had thrown away the feelings for her.

She smiled sadly knowing what she had to do.

She sighed getting up from her spot and shuffled her way towards her beloved.

Her palms sweating as she kept a sweet smile.

The ones he had loved.

Her hand reached out to tap him on the shoulder as he was conversing with a certain blue eyed female.

It was now or never.

-----

I tapped the blue haired males shoulder. He continued with his conversation with the bluenette.

I mentally sighed at his love sickness for her.

I cleared my throat causing them both to jump. I sighed.

"Luka Can I talk to you? Alone?"

He nodded and we walked towards the park. My hands had started to sweat.

It was time.

"Luka.. I know we havent talked in awhile but Do you still love me?"

I had stopped walking. I smiles through my tears. He had stopped in his tracks a few steps away from me.

"Y/n.. I"-

"I knew it.."

"Are y"-

"I'm fine.. I promise just go be with her Alright? It won't hurt me as long as you follow your heart I know you'll make the right choices for yourself okay?"

"Gosh.. I'm so-"

"No dont ever apologize for your emotions it's okay really! I promise! Now go be with her okay?" I smiled tears streaming down my face.

His blue eyes filled with concern but, were soon replaced with pure joy.

"Thank you.." he whispered hugging me for the last time.

-----

While this breakup had occurred in the small park.

Up on the rooftop were the two heroes watching the scene unfold.

"I hope things are worked out between them!" Chat Noir sobbed.

Ladybug had rolled her eyes and hit him upside the head.

"Kitty! I think an akuma will appear soon.." She gasped watching the depressing scene unfold.

This had caused him to stop laughing.

---

I watched as he ran out of my arms and towards his new lover.

I wiped my tears and fell to my knees.

This had really happened.

It was over

In just

A few words.

Suddenly I heard my name being shouted. I look up and see Marinette.

Why is she here?

I wiped my tears looking at the bluenette. She panted and gave me a pained smile.

"Y/n? Are yo-"-

I cut her off with a glare. She jumped at my sudden look of rage.

I took a breath and looked at her with a smile.

"Look Marinette I get it You Like Luka and He Likes you now if you'll excuse me I'd like to be alone.." I mumbled getting up and walking away.

"Hey! Y/n! You okay?" I heard a voice call out. It was Adrien. He looked at me with worry.

I looked up at him with a smile but then frowned my eyes turning glassy.

"No everything's not okay! I loved my boyfriend but then he left me for another girl... I loved him with all my heart I just cant be myself anymore.. I cant do it anymore adrien.." I sobbed in not my own hands.

I felt hands wrap around my shoulders. Rubbing my back soothingly.

.

"Hey.. Luka is blind for letting you go like that.. honestly.. you can be yourself around me okay? It doesnt matter to me but please be your amazing sweet self okay?" He whispered.

..

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AO3 stats project: tags

In this post, we'll discuss tags on the Archive of Our Own! Please note: because the works on the Archive include explicit material, some of the tags discussed in this post may not be appropriate for your workplace.

The Data | Basic Questions | Fandoms | Tags | Correlations | Kudos | Fun Stuff Thanks to @eloiserummaging for beta reading these posts; any remaining errors are my own.  A Python notebook showing the code I used to make these plots can be found here.

The Archive of Our Own has one of the best tagging systems around. You can read more about it here, here, here, or here. For our purposes, the important part is that users can tag their works however they want, and then a group of people called "tag wranglers" sort those tags, either adding them as synonyms of existing tags or creating new canonical versions for them. What I'll be showing here is the "canonical" version of the tags. For example, a work tagged "flufffffff" or "so fluffy!" would have those two tags assigned to the canonical tag "Fluff", so I will consider both of those tags as being "Fluff" to get the most accurate count.

The other important thing about AO3 tags is that they come in four flavors. The first one is "warnings", the content warnings required by the Archive (plus the default tag indicating you're abstaining from the warnings system). The second flavor is "Characters", tags describing the characters in the work. The third is "Relationships", tags describing the platonic or romantic relationships depicted in the work--typically, "X/Y" indicates a romantic and/or sexual relationship between characters X and Y, while "X&Y" means a platonic relationship, although this usage isn't universal and isn't enforced. The final category is "freeform", aka everything else.

Again, the tagging system is freeform and optional. In particular, I'll note that "character" tags and "relationship" tags don't necessarily imply each other: you can have a work tagged "Sherlock Holmes/John Watson" that only features Mycroft Holmes, or that features John and Sherlock but doesn't tag them as characters, only as the relationship. So remember that--while it's pretty good on average, because people tag their works so readers/viewers can find them--the number of uses of a character tag isn't the same as the number of works that feature that character, for example.

Okay! So what are the most popular freeform tags on the Archive? If you read a lot of fanfiction, I doubt you will be surprised by anything on this list. Left column is the top 15 tags by number of uses, while right column is the top 15 tags by the cumulative hit count on every work tagged with that tag.

Are these tags consistently popular over time? For reasons of space, I’ll just plot the top 10 by number of works:

If you look back at the works vs time plot in the second post, you'll see that yes, the shape of these trends is similar to the total number of works, so trends in fannish tastes haven’t changed much over the time the AO3 has been in existence. (These show a little more bumpiness because there are fewer works in each plot.) Some of these have gained a little more recent popularity vs earlier works--smut, fluff, and the two specific alternate universes are a little more weighted towards later times, while humor and general AUs are falling a little behind--but the differences aren’t as large as we saw for fandom trends in the previous post.

I'm sure you're curious about characters and relationships. Here are the top character tags, omitting the catchall character tags of “Original Character(s)”, “Original Male Character(s)”, “Original Female Character(s)”, and “Reader” (all of which would otherwise appear in the top 15). Also, remember this is missing some of the data from 2018 and 2019, as described in the first post, so BTS characters should probably be higher:

And here are the top relationship tags (again, excluding the catchall “Minor or Background Relationship(s)”):

And in particular, here are the top characters of color (excluding works with fictionalized race/ethnicity power systems--um, more than modern-day Western society’s power systems are made up--and characters from Voltron Legendary Defender, since I wasn’t able to find enough information on them):

Park Jimin (BTS)

Min Yoongi | Suga

Jeon Jungkook

Kim Taehyung | V

Kim Namjoon | Rm

Jung Hoseok | J-Hope

Kim Seokjin | Jin

Zayn Malik

Katsuki Yuuri

Sam Wilson (Marvel)

Magnus Bane

Nick Fury

Midoriya Izuku

Bakugou Katsuki

Erica Reyes

And here are the top relationships that are not M/M:

Evil Queen | Regina Mills/Emma Swan

Oliver Queen/Felicity Smoak

Bellamy Blake/Clarke Griffin

Clarke Griffin/Lexa

Clint Barton/Natasha Romanov

Pepper Potts/Tony Stark

Captain Hook | Killian Jones/Emma Swan

Kylo Ren/Rey

Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley

Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor

Sherlock Holmes/Molly Hooper

Belle/Rumplestiltskin | Mr. Gold

Allison Argent/Scott McCall

James Potter/Lily Evans Potter

Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy

Here are the top ten freeform tags for the top ten fandoms. Different fandoms seem to produce different kinds of fanworks--which you'd expect, based on the variety in the source material.

AU = alternate universe, AU - CD = Alternate universe - canon divergence, AU - C/U = alternate universe - college/university, AU - HS = alternate universe - high school, BJs = blow jobs, ER = established relationship, H/C = hurt/comfort, PWP = plot what plot/porn without plot, RPF = real person fiction, SPN = supernatural.

Finally, for fun, here's the top 200 tags of all kinds, sorted against each other. You can find a lot of fun things on this list. Some of my favorites:

Supernatural is so big, and so focused on so few characters, that Dean Winchester is the sixth most popular tag on the entire AO3.

Clint Barton is way higher than I would have expected.

Sherlock Holmes is slightly less popular than anal sex.

Original female characters are more popular than anal sex.

Similarly, cuddling is more popular than A/B/O.

Harry Styles is less popular than 3/7ths of BTS (at least as of sometime in 2018); Louis Tomlinson barely tops Draco Malfoy.

Alcohol comes between Katsuki Yuuri and Viktor Nikiforov.

Leonard McCoy is below songfic. Please join me in picturing how pissed off he’d be.

The one-two punch of “Spanking” and “I’m Sorry” is pretty amusing.

If I had put up the top 201 tags, 200 and 201 would have been “Flirting” and “Murder”, so Hannibal is almost on this list.

Fluff

Angst

Alternate Universe

Romance

Hurt/Comfort

Dean Winchester

Humor

Established Relationship

Smut

Sam Winchester

Steve Rogers

Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence

Alternate Universe - Modern Setting

Tony Stark

Friendship

Original Female Character(s)

Anal Sex

Drabble

Original Characters

Sherlock Holmes

Fluff And Angst

Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot

Castiel/Dean Winchester

One Shot

John Watson

Stiles Stilinski

Castiel

Harry Potter

Oral Sex

James "Bucky" Barnes

Natasha Romanov

Blow Jobs

Clint Barton

Emotional Hurt/Comfort

Drama

Derek Hale

Reader

Slow Burn

Original Male Character(s)

Sherlock Holmes/John Watson

First Time

Alternate Universe - College/University

Kissing

Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski

First Kiss

Angst With A Happy Ending

Light Angst

Violence

Family

Park Jimin (BTS)

Min Yoongi | Suga

Jeon Jungkook

Crossover

Harry Styles

Crack

Friends To Lovers

Love

Fluff And Smut

Kim Taehyung | V

Louis Tomlinson

Other Additional Tags To Be Added

Draco Malfoy

Alternate Universe - High School

Explicit Sexual Content

Masturbation

Hermione Granger

Pining

Bruce Banner

Anal Fingering

Kim Namjoon | RM

Canon Compliant

Thor (Marvel)

Domestic Fluff

Jung Hoseok | J-Hope

Keith (Voltron)

Kim Seokjin | Jin

Depression

Character Death

Sexual Content

Happy Ending

Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson

Canon-Typical Violence

James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers

Lance (Voltron)

Cuddling & Snuggling

Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics

Dirty Talk

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD

Post-Canon

Loki (Marvel)

Christmas

Hand Jobs

Scott Mccall

Niall Horan

Sex

Mycroft Holmes

Blood

Shiro (Voltron)

Liam Payne

Rimming

Rough Sex

Zayn Malik

Cute

Original Character(s)

Original Character

Castiel (Supernatural)

Dubious Consent

Phil Coulson

Severus Snape

Ron Weasley

Character Study

Mpreg

Lydia Martin

Explicit Language

Slash

Grief/Mourning

Polyamory

Future Fic

Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter

Minor Character Death

Greg Lestrade

Steve Rogers/Tony Stark

Peter Parker

Mutual Pining

Swearing

Eventual Smut

Sirius Black

Dom/Sub

Pre-Slash

Sad

Love Confessions

Unrequited Love

Alternate Universe - Soulmates

Remus Lupin

Dean Winchester/Sam Winchester

Falling In Love

Jealousy

Spanking

I'm Sorry

Pepper Potts

Death

Keith/Lance (Voltron)

Spoilers

James T. Kirk

Hunk (Voltron)

Sans (Undertale)

Emma Swan

Gabriel (Supernatural)

Fluff And Humor

Magic

Torture

Alternate Universe - Human

Bruce Wayne

Isaac Lahey

Levi (Shingeki No Kyojin)

Eren Yeager

Clarke Griffin

Self-Harm

Slow Build

Victor Nikiforov

Alcohol

Katsuki Yuuri

Suicidal Thoughts

Implied Sexual Content

BDSM

Nightmares

Canonical Character Death

Action/Adventure

Sam Wilson (Marvel)

Developing Relationship

Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug

Bondage

Friendship/Love

Tooth-Rotting Fluff

Dark

Sheriff Stilinski

Mental Health Issues

Allison Argent

Reader-Insert

Slice Of Life

Allura (Voltron)

Kurt Hummel

Getting Together

Kidnapping

Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov

Dick Grayson

Merlin (Merlin)

Panic Attacks

Heavy Angst

Comfort

Alec Lightwood

Pre-Canon

Ficlet

Kid Fic

Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir

Implied/Referenced Character Death

Songfic

Leonard Mccoy

First Meetings

Flirting

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