Distant Reading Fanfic
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These data visualizations (created using Tableau Public’s software) display common practices within the MTV Teen Wolf fandom, analyzing over 1,600 fics that feature the “mpreg” trope from this particular corner of the fan fiction repository Archive of Our Own (or AO3).