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Femslash week in review: 2018-12-04 - 2018-12-10
High-level stats for week of 2018-12-04 - 2018-12-10
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 3819 (+144 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 2289 (-111 from last week) (1171 new, 1118 continued)
- 0.99% of all 231941 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- What is happening in the stats this week? Everything is all over the place. Dragon Age missed last week but bounds to number three this week. Fallout 4 hasn't been on the chart for two years. The 100 and Overwatch are sliding. RWBY is extremely stable at number two. I haven't been reporting on American Horror Story, but it looks promising for anyone who's following it given the 3:1 F/F:M/M ratio and relatively high activity. She-Ra has stalled out a bit, but is still growing fast by any reasonable definition.
- Sorry for no recs this week --- things are going to be a little hectic for the next few weeks here at the stats, but I promise I have not forgotten about Yuletide, I am on the case. In the interest of giving you something to read: a cute one-shot this week in Tahani/Eleanor.
Most active classified fandoms:
| Rank | Fandom (and top three ships) | Rating for week | F/F works updated this week | % of F/F works updated this week | F/F:M/M ratio (all works) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (96) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (36) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (19) | 58.35 | 153 (-15) | 1.05% | 27:1 |
| 2 | RWBY Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee (31) Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (28) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (11) | 45.95 | 86 (-5) | 1.92% | 5:1 |
| 3 (⇑) | Dragon Age (Video Games) Female Warden (Dragon Age),Leliana (Dragon Age) (10) ... | 37.13 | 38 (+10) | 1.04% | 1:3 |
| 4 (↑2) | Steven Universe (Cartoon) Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe),Peridot (Steven Universe) (8) Pearl (Steven Universe),Rose Quartz (Steven Universe) (7) Ruby (Steven Universe),Sapphire (Steven Universe) (7) | 31.43 | 29 (+1) | 0.60% | 15:1 |
| 5 (↑10) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Asahina Aoi,Ogami Sakura (4) ... | 31.30 | 26 (+1) | 1.86% | 1:3 |
| 6 (↑5) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (52) Alice | Tilly,Robin | Margot (8) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (4) | 29.59 | 73 (-4) | 0.62% | 9:1 |
| 7 (↑6) | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (60) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (16) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (11) | 26.11 | 62 (-12) | 2.12% | 27:1 |
| 8 (⇑) | Doctor Who & Related Fandoms Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (79) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (15) Rose Tyler,Thirteenth Doctor (7) | 26.01 | 108 (-6) | 4.72% | 1:4 |
| 9 (↑7) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (30) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Rachel Amber (13) Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Victoria Chase (Life is Strange) (4) | 25.84 | 40 (+0) | 1.51% | 9:1 |
| 10 (↓3) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (56) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (14) Clarke Griffin,Raven Reyes (4) | 23.75 | 64 (-17) | 0.60% | 5:1 |
| 11 (↓2) | Overwatch (Video Game) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Moira O'Deorain (9) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Fareeha "Pharah" Amari (8) Emily (Overwatch),Lena "Tracer" Oxton (8) | 23.28 | 39 (-9) | 0.78% | 1:2 |
| 12 (↓8) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (59) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (14) Catra (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (4) | 21.72 | 74 (-26) | 21.96% | 9:1 |
| 13 (↓10) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (11) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (5) Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (4) | 20.49 | 49 (-19) | 0.91% | 1:9 |
| 14 | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (44) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (27) Ashido Mina,Uraraka Ochako (4) | 18.64 | 72 (-19) | 4.18% | 1:8 |
| 15 (↓3) | American Horror Story Cordelia Foxx | Cordelia Goode,Misty Day (23) Madison Montgomery,Zoe Benson (7) Coco St. Pierre Vanderbilt,Mallory (American Horror Story) (4) | 17.95 | 32 (-11) | 5.36% | 3:1 |
| 16 (⇑) | BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party! (Video Game) Hazawa Tsugumi,Hikawa Sayo (4) Imai Lisa,Minato Yukina (3) Matsubara Kanon,Okusawa Misaki (2) Seta Kaoru,Shirasagi Chisato (2) | 17.49 | 15 (+3) | 2.60% | 261:1 |
| 17 (⇑) | Archie Comics & Related Fandoms Cheryl Blossom,Toni Topaz (28) Betty Cooper,Veronica Lodge (5) Cheryl Blossom,Veronica Lodge (3) | 16.33 | 38 (-4) | 3.54% | 1.5:1 |
| 18 (⇑) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (20) Korra (Avatar),Kuvira (Avatar) (2) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (2) Lin Beifong,Suyin Beifong (2) | 15.55 | 26 (+6) | 0.73% | 7:1 |
| 19 (↓2) | Pitch Perfect (Movies) Beca Mitchell,Chloe Beale (23) Aubrey Posen,Stacie Conrad (5) Beca Mitchell,Emily Junk (3) | 14.75 | 27 (-7) | 0.78% | 86:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Fallout 4 Cait (Fallout),Sole Survivor (Fallout) (14) Curie (Fallout),Sole Survivor (Fallout) (14) Piper Wright,Sole Survivor (Fallout) (14) | 14.51 | 19 (+15) | 3.24% | 1:1.9 |
What is all this again?
Mission statement: help out people (including myself) who read fic on AO3 and wish they were reading more femslash, but don't know what's out there. Plan: do a week-in-review post every week which contains general stats about new fic and a few recs.
I am starting with the list of all works on ao3.org which were updated within a given week, and which were categorized as F/F, but I am not reporting stats on 100% of those works --- I'm narrowing down to a subset of fandoms and works for which it's tractable for me to actually look at all the character tags, and then I'm excluding ships containing what I believe to be cis-male characters. I'll give overall stats about how many works I've reported on and how many I've excluded. If you think I'm excluding a fandom you care about, please let me know!
More info about column headers:
- Fandom (and top three ships): If multiple tags that seem to correspond to the same fandom (e.g. "The 100 (TV)" and "The 100 Series - Kass Morgan") show up in my ranking, I report the one with the best rating. There's totally a judgment call here about what things are "the same fandom" --- I'm going to err on the side of reporting more different things when I can, but I won't skip something with a lot of works which aren't otherwise accounted for. When measuring the top three F/F ships in a fandom, I count both "A/B" and "A & B" as "A,B". Ties are broken by including all of the ships, but I only include a maximum of five ships per fandom to keep the table length reasonable.
- Rating for week: I like fandoms with ensemble casts, so I'm doing a weighted sum based on the logarithm of number of works by pairing, so that fandoms with several different F/F pairings get a significant bonus.
- F/F/ works updated this week: includes both new and continued works.
- % of F/F works updated this week: This is the percentage of all F/F works I've ever categorized in the fandom, so a big number probably means a brand new fandom, or at least one which was unusually active this week.
- F/F:M/M ratio (all works): This ratio is taken from all works in the fandom tag, and is just a hint to readers about how F/F-dominant the fandom is. Obviously there's no reason you can't find great F/F works in a predominantly male fandom (we've all read those), but the ratio may give a hint about whether the F/F pairing is likely to be the dominant one in a work with multiple pairings. Note that the "F/F" and "M/M" numbers for this column are taken directly from AO3, not from my compiled character and ship stats. (Since I don't categorize M/M works, I couldn't do it any other way.)
Share and enjoy, and let me know what I can do to make this more useful.