When the pandemic hit and we were all stuck in our homes, I found myself spending long hours reading fanfiction on Archive of Our Own, one of the biggest repositories of fan-made stories on the internet.

I’ve always had a huge admiration for fandom communities and the hundred of hours they spend creating a space for people to come together. Fanfiction is a great site for such spaces, and I wanted to create this visualisation as a small love letter to all the people who write and share amazing, emotional stories entirely for free for strangers like me to read and appreciate and cry over.