centrumlumina:

This is part of the 2014 AO3 ship stats. For a guide to what each column means, click here.

This list shows the 100 most popular relationship tags on AO3. There are 3 F/F pairings, 23 F/M, 3 Gen and 71 M/M.

Of the 200 names, 29 belong to women – down from 32 this time last year. 11 of the 200 names are POC, compared with 11 last year.

this doesn’t make any difference to the overall point of ‘we need more female and non-white characters and fandom could do with paying more attention to those we do have’ but the ‘not specified=white’ method of categorisation is more than a little bit odd. That point still stands without whitewashing characters, so why do that?

seems to particularly show up when characters have no specified race in the book then are portrayed as white in the film (and then one further than that for hunger games as her race is more explicit). I don’t see how one version overrides the other particularly if the one overiding is an adaption, it doesn’t make sense. Very few, or none, of the harry potter characters are specified to be white in the book for example. It’s also very weird with les mis as white and non-white actors have played these parts in various media and neither character has an explicitly stated race in the book but the characters are listed as white here…because why exactly?

I don’t doubt that in a lot of these cases people are writing these characters as white…but the system of categorisation is still strange. Your guide says you have a third category anyway (which is good cause a white/poc dictonomy doesn’t really work most of the time)

(‘white’ is still overly simplistic for magneto, I’d also assume that some of the attack on titan characters are japanese but I don’t know it well enough)