After a brief delay due to technical troubles, here are the AO3 Ship Stats for August 2016!

This list shows the 100 pairing tags with the most fanfics posted on Archive Of Our Own. There are 61 M/M pairings, 26 F/M, 4 F/F, 4 Gen and 5 Other. (Please note that on AO3, ‘Name & Name’ indicates platonic relationships (Gen), while ‘Name/Name’ is used for romantic pairings.)

Of the 200 names on the list, 34 belong to women and 5 to characters of indeterminate gender, up from 33 and 2 respectively in the 2015 list. There are 27 POC and 15 racially ambiguous characters, up from 24 and 12.

For more information on this list and a text-only version of the data, please see the FAQ post. You might also want to check out the Top 100 pairings of This Year.

ETA: Fixed Sherlock & Watson rank change.

