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Not a stupid question! I don't know of any sites like that so your best bet is definitely going to be AO3 filters. If you're looking for common tropes or kinks, just go to the HTP AO3 tag and type it into the "search within results" or "other tags to include" box on the right-hand side. This can be a bit tricky though if you're not sure what the trope is called or the exact phrasing used by AO3.

Welcome to the dumpster! 🥳 The great thing about being late is that you have so much amazing content to devour now (what I wouldn't give to experience all of my favorite fics again for the first time). If you haven't yet, definitely check out my HTP tag and my HTP rec lists.

While the fandom has unfortunately died down in recent years, it's not completely dead. The winterbaron discord definitely still exists, in fact I'm one of the mods. I'm also in @nix-sacrificium's HTP/general trash discord where I pop in occasionally. Neither server is super active these days, but as far as I know they currently seem to be the main hangouts for anyone who is active in those fandoms and both are lovely welcoming communities so feel free to join!

I'm so glad you've enjoyed my deranged ramblings and pet theories. I feel like I have to reiterate that I'm by no means a gun expert, but it turns out anyone can become decently knowledgeable about any niche topic if they're blorbo-obessessed enough lol.

I recently read your additional response in that Bucky Barnes/Brock Rumlow P226 gun post.

I’m part of a Chinese winterbones ship community, and I was wondering if I could translate your analysis into Chinese and share it on a Chinese fan forum. I knew the original post had been translated, but your additional analysis is also very interesting!

I'm getting a little frustrated with people deliberately missing the point of my AO3 Stats post and making up things that I never said or implied so let's address the race and gender elephant in the room. This is especially directed at the influx of twitter users who were introduced to my post this year and now have Opinions about me. I've actually addressed this topic multiple times in the past, including in the comments of the original post, so I'm literally just going to repost one of those conversations with my response word-for-word. If you don't agree with me and still think I'm a horrible person for not inserting my own opinions about race and gender in fandom into a post designed to call attention to the ways data can lie and stop the spread of misinformation, that's your prerogative, but at least I don't have to keep repeating myself.

Comment: Why are the corrected versions omitting the data regarding pairing types and race. Wasn't that the original point of these lists, to highlight fandom biases?

My Reply: While that was supposedly OP's original goal, which I do believe is a worthy goal on the surface, the fact of the matter is it's not that simple and pretending that it's that simple leads to problems. Character races and ethnicities are often highly ambiguous/hotly debated and cannot be accurately judged (and then lumped into a handful of simplistic categories) across all fandoms by a single person, especially by someone who is not in that fandom (unsurprisingly OP gets in hot water every time they post their stats over mislabeled races and genders). Those who are actually concerned with accurate data collection and presentation generally agree it's best to leave that info off entirely rather than risk spreading inaccurate and misleading information. Also, regardless of OP's intentions, the main thing this list gets used for is ranking general fandom popularity, and it's their bad MEASURABLE data used to create those rankings that's being criticized so that's the focus of this post and the associated corrections.

Followup Comment: I concede that the race category is not that simple (in fact, I think the categories op uses for it are rather reductive), but surely pairing types/gender would be easy to categorise, being based on the way the Fandom tags a ship more than anything. Why would the fault lie with op if their list is based on the way the fandom tags the pairing in question? Furthermore, why is op's intent irrelevant? The point of the data was to highlight the way poc and queer women are ignored in fandom spaces. The corrected data Does Not disprove this. Removing this framing turns the entire thing into a meaningless popularity contest, which is completely beside the original point. Why doesn't this bother you?

My Reply: Admittedly I'm much more wary of the race part of the list and I agree that the gender part should theoretically be more straightforward, but they've somehow still managed to screw it up. You would think that categorizing ships based on how they're tagged by the vast majority of actual fans writing the ship would be the way to go, but that's not even how they're doing it! Because apparently OP thinks they know best, which has consistently been an issue with their "methodology". For example, Aziraphale/Crowley is listed as "other" on their list despite more than 80% of the fics using the M/M tag (and it being obvious that's how most people actually view them because of the actor's genders and the character's gender presentations). All of the reader ships are also listed as "other" as well despite +90% of them being M/F. This is important information that really should be factored in or addressed somehow, as misrepresenting the popularity of true "other" ships should be antithetical to their supposed goal.

I never said that OP's stated goal was irrelevant, just that it wasn't the focus of my post or randomist1031's corrected dataset. I absolutely do not know enough about most of the fandoms on the list to feel qualified to weigh in on matters of race or gender and I suspect the individual who created the corrected dataset feels the same. That doesn't mean we're not able to focus our energy on the data we DO feel qualified to weigh in on and help stop the spread of misinformation where we can.