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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2019-08-13 - 2019-08-19
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 4208 (-20 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 2603 (+74 from last week) (1223 new, 1380 continued)
- 0.94% of all 275800 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Descendants has showed up in the top 20 occasionally for years; this is its first appearance since last October.
- How about a couple of recs? These are from fandoms I rec pretty often: Azula/Yue post-A:tLA canon, and Carol/Maria with fun '80s lesbian period details
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 (143) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (39) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (29) | 58.27 | 211 (+45) | 1.21% | 28:1 |
| 2 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (39) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee (31) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (12) | 45.01 | 97 (+3) | 1.58% | 5:1 |
| 3 | Marvel Cinematic Universe Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (12) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (9) Angie Martinelli,Peggy Carter (7) Carol Danvers,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (7) Michelle Jones,Shuri (Marvel) (7) | 30.72 | 91 (-1) | 1.15% | 1:8 |
| 4 (↑6) | BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party! (Video Game) Hazawa Tsugumi,Hikawa Sayo (6) Hikawa Sayo,Minato Yukina (6) Imai Lisa,Minato Yukina (6) | 28.44 | 39 (+14) | 3.17% | 533:1 |
| 5 (↓) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (46) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (15) Catra (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (14) | 25.33 | 74 (-13) | 4.36% | 9:1 |
| 6 (↑2) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (12) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (8) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (8) | 24.15 | 65 (+5) | 0.99% | 1:8 |
| 7 (↓) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (72) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (14) Anya (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (4) | 23.42 | 80 (+4) | 0.69% | 5:1 |
| 8 (↑5) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Akamatsu Kaede,Iruma Miu (6) Celestia Ludenberg,Kirigiri Kyouko (5) Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (5) | 19.26 | 30 (+5) | 1.59% | 1:3 |
| 9 (↑5) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (48) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (32) Ashido Mina,Uraraka Ochako (7) | 17.89 | 81 (+0) | 2.77% | 1:8 |
| 10 (⇑) | Archie Comics Cheryl Blossom,Toni Topaz (37) Cheryl Blossom,Veronica Lodge (7) Betty Cooper,Veronica Lodge (3) | 15.93 | 48 (+17) | 1.81% | 1.1:1 |
| 11 (↑5) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (23) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Rachel Amber (10) Kate Marsh,Victoria Chase (Life is Strange) (4) | 15.88 | 34 (+5) | 1.10% | 8:1 |
| 12 (↓) | The Shadowhunter Chronicles - All Media Types Clary Fray,Isabelle Lightwood (16) Aline Penhallow,Helen Blackthorn (9) Clary Fray,Maia Roberts (7) | 15.72 | 40 (-4) | 2.03% | 1:9 |
| 13 (↓4) | Overwatch (Video Game) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Moira O'Deorain (9) Lena "Tracer" Oxton,Widowmaker | Amélie Lacroix (9) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Fareeha "Pharah" Amari (8) | 15.13 | 34 (-11) | 0.59% | 1:2 |
| 14 (↓9) | Steven Universe (Cartoon) Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe),Peridot (Steven Universe) (9) Ruby (Steven Universe),Sapphire (Steven Universe) (6) Amethyst (Steven Universe),Peridot (Steven Universe) (4) | 15.12 | 23 (-22) | 0.41% | 14:1 |
| 15 (⇑) | Doctor Who (2005) Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (13) Missy (Doctor Who),Thirteenth Doctor (2) Missy (Doctor Who),Zelda Spellman (2) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (2) The Corsair (Doctor Who),Thirteenth Doctor (2) | 15.05 | 25 (+5) | 0.85% | 1:1.0 |
| 16 (⇑) | Descendants (Disney Movies) Evie (Disney),Mal (Disney) (18) Evie (Disney),Uma (Disney) (3) ... | 15.01 | 33 (+15) | 2.29% | 1:1.1 |
| 17 (↓10) | The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (22) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (14) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (11) | 14.74 | 39 (-20) | 2.49% | 1.0:1 |
| 18 (⇑) | Arrow (TV 2012) Ava Sharpe,Sara Lance (16) Laurel Lance,Sara Lance (4) Nyssa al Ghul,Sara Lance (4) | 14.29 | 39 (+13) | 1.27% | 1:1.4 |
| 19 (↓7) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (47) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (3) Ariel (Once Upon a Time),Belle (Once Upon a Time) (2) Dorothy Gale (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (2) Emma Swan,Snow White | Mary Margaret Blanchard (2) | 14.29 | 53 (-3) | 0.42% | 9:1 |
| 20 (↓5) | Game of Thrones (TV) Margaery Tyrell,Sansa Stark (13) Daenerys Targaryen,Sansa Stark (7) Arya Stark,Daenerys Targaryen (4) Daenerys Targaryen,Yara Greyjoy (4) | 14.07 | 38 (-2) | 1.58% | 1:1.7 |
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.)
Known bugs which affect the accuracy of this data:
- AO3 does not modify the "last updated" date of a work in a revealed exchange when the exchange reveals, so my database can miss exchange works entirely if they're last edited awhile before the exchange works are revealed. This probably leads to a serious undercount of works in revealed exchanges.
- When canonical names for characters and ships change over time, my database can wind up containing entries for both ships. This makes ratings inaccurate.
Share and enjoy, and let me know what I can do to make this more useful.
