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I've been thinking about Star Wars fanfic today, or writing thereof. I have a lot of WIPs (oh gods, so many), but I do like it when I get more than two people and a shoelace to read my fic and I realized... what do The Kids even read, these days?
So I went and looked. (On AO3, where else.)
Quick, can you guess?
In the "Star Wars - All Media Types" tag on AO3, there are 25,988 fics with update date between 2025-01-01 and today.
Ship categories
- F/M (9918)
- Gen (7677)
- M/M (6971)
- F/F (1791)
- Multi (1671)
- Other (932)
Oh whow. I did not expect so much F/M. Is that all Reylo?
Fandoms
- Star Wars - All Media Types (17881)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types (7274)
- Star Wars Prequel Trilogy (4809)
- Star Wars Sequel Trilogy (2835)
- Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon) (2302)
- Star Wars Original Trilogy (2019)
- Andor (TV) (1555)
- Star Wars: Rebels (1408)
- Star Wars Legends - All Media Types (1229)
- The Mandalorian (TV) (1136)
The Bad Batch surprised me here!
Characters
- Obi-Wan Kenobi (6401)
- Anakin Skywalker (4851)
- Ahsoka Tano (2911)
- Luke Skywalker (2641)
- CT-7567 | Rex (2576)
- Leia Organa (2480)
- Padmé Amidala (2368)
- CC-2224 | Cody (2324)
- Rey (Star Wars) (1989)
- Ben Solo | Kylo Ren (1898)
I'm... surprised by how unsurprising this is? I think this is the same top 10 I'd get if I removed the time filter, which feels odd.
Relationships
- Padmé Amidala/Anakin Skywalker (1568)
- Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren (1375)
- Obi-Wan Kenobi & Anakin Skywalker (1256)
- Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker (1252)
- CC-2224 | Cody/Obi-Wan Kenobi (997)
- Anakin Skywalker & Ahsoka Tano (707)
- Rey/Ben Solo (558)
- Leia Organa/Han Solo (532)
- Kylo Ren/Rey (462)
- Obi-Wan Kenobi/Satine Kryze (367)
And finally,
Additional tags
- Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence (3208)
- Angst (2916)
- Hurt/Comfort (2741)
- Fluff (2421)
- Not Beta Read (1556)
- Slow Burn (1542)
- Alternate Universe - Modern Setting (1378)
- Canon-Typical Violence (1240)
- Emotional Hurt/Comfort (1125)
- Alternate Universe (1121)
...yeah, that tracks.
Some details and notes
The F/M ships
Are this:
- Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren (1310)
- Padmé Amidala/Anakin Skywalker (1151)
- Rey/Ben Solo (538)
- Kylo Ren/Rey (446)
- Leia Organa/Han Solo (420)
- Obi-Wan Kenobi & Anakin Skywalker (377)
- Obi-Wan Kenobi/Satine Kryze (295)
- Cassian Andor/Jyn Erso (287)
- Anakin Skywalker & Ahsoka Tano (270)
- Kanan Jarrus/Hera Syndulla
...so, big on Reylo but not only, or even mostly Reylo? I wish AO3 had a way to mark main ships vs background ones, that would be so useful for this.
Fic included
AO3 doesn't have a way to differentiate between "updated" and "first-posted", which means these numbers might be skewed by long-running WIPs. Just out of curiosity, I filtered only completed fics with one chapter (i.e. one-shots) and got 989 works in these fandoms:
- Star Wars - All Media Types (685)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types (293)
- Star Wars Prequel Trilogy (159)
- Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon) (101)
- Star Wars Original Trilogy (72)
- Star Wars Sequel Trilogy (68)
- Star Wars: Skeleton Crew (TV) (46)
- The Mandalorian (TV) (40)
- Star Wars: Rebels (38)
- Star Wars: Jedi: Fallen Order Series (Video Games) (32)
The Bad Batch higher, some Skeleton Crew, some JFO, but generally very similar. I guess we're pretty set on the Prequel era, huh.
...um. This got a bit more involved than an interesting bit of stats I wanted to entertain you with. Enjoy, I guess!
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Date: 2026-01-13 01:46 am (UTC)I'm terrible.
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Date: 2026-01-13 04:16 am (UTC)Obi-wan Kenobi really goes with everything, huh.
Also, a lot of the Reylo fics appear to be tagged with multiple permutations, because if you add up all the variations on that relationship, it comes out to be a larger number than the total number of fics featuring Rey or Kylo.