#fp-fred

If the Riverdale fandom were a nation-state and ships the parties of its parliament.

Try to figure out what’s what for a little fun before scrolling down.

This is based on the number of fics for each tag on Archive of our Own. I’m aware it’s super imprecise considering the massive overlap, but the fact that I wasted a half-hour on this is sad enough without getting any more rigorous.

I just plugged in the most popular ships first, and for the rare ships more or less just entered the first ones to come to mind until I ran out of seats (assuming 600). So if I forgot a ship (let me know if a popular one somehow slipped my mind) that’s just due to the random selection process from Joavin onwards.  

From left to right:

Blue: Bughead (274 seats)

Grey: Varchie (40 seats)

Yellow: Beronica (104 seats)

Purple: Cheronica (25 seats)

Dark Blue: Jarchie (90 seats)

Green: Joavin (27 seats)

Sky Blue: Vughead (9 seats)

Pink: Chetty (9 seats)

Light Purple: Snakeparents (7 seats)

Red: Chason (5 seats)

Black: FP-Fred (5 seats)

Orange: Peryl (1 seat)

I actually expected Bughead to have a large majority, making this one of those dictatorships where the ruling party allows smaller, powerless parties to exist only to preserve the illusion of pluralism.

In fact it only has a very large plurality, making this instead a functioning, if unstable, liberal democracy.