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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2019-08-20 - 2019-08-26
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 4217 (+9 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 2478 (-125 from last week) (1130 new, 1348 continued)
- 0.89% of all 276930 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Once Upon a Time spent basically all of 2018 in the top 10, and seems to be falling off lately. This is probably evidence of a drop in the overall number of works in the fandom. It also shows up an interesting property of the underlying stats, which is that OUaT really only has one F/F ship: there are 20 times as many works in AO3 in the top ship as in the next biggest ship. While looking at the innards of the fandom, I noticed a bunch of long-running WIP crossover OUaT/Rizzoli & Isles works. I don't know either canon, but I thought that was interesting, and am passing along those links here and here.
- Things I will always rec when I see them: Nakia/Okoye backstory with any reference to their philosophical disagreements in canon
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 (121) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (38) Alex Danvers,Samantha "Sam" Arias (21) | 60.88 | 188 (-23) | 1.08% | 28:1 |
| 2 (↑) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (14) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (13) Brunnhilde | Valkyrie (Marvel),Carol Danvers (11) | 30.74 | 95 (+4) | 1.19% | 1:8 |
| 3 (↓) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (43) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee (30) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (7) Coco Adel,Velvet Scarlatina (7) | 29.48 | 82 (-15) | 1.33% | 5:1 |
| 4 (↑) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (64) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (26) Catra (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (13) | 25.42 | 89 (+15) | 5.07% | 9:1 |
| 5 (↑2) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (76) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (17) Luna (The 100),Raven Reyes (5) | 24.99 | 83 (+3) | 0.72% | 5:1 |
| 6 (↓2) | BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party! (Video Game) Hazawa Tsugumi,Hikawa Sayo (9) Aoba Moca,Imai Lisa (3) Hikawa Sayo,Minato Yukina (3) Minato Yukina,Mitake Ran (3) | 19.82 | 25 (-14) | 2.00% | 537:1 |
| 7 (⇑) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (13) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (7) Missy (Doctor Who),Thirteenth Doctor (4) Rose Tyler,Thirteenth Doctor (4) | 19.14 | 33 (+8) | 0.96% | 1:1.4 |
| 8 (↓2) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (11) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (10) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (7) | 18.86 | 61 (-4) | 0.92% | 1:8 |
| 9 (↓) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (6) Akamatsu Kaede,Iruma Miu (5) Celestia Ludenberg,Kirigiri Kyouko (4) | 17.59 | 28 (-2) | 1.48% | 1:3 |
| 10 (⇑) | Legacies (TV 2018) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (30) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (20) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (11) | 16.14 | 44 (+8) | 4.86% | 16:1 |
| 11 (↑9) | Game of Thrones (TV) Margaery Tyrell,Sansa Stark (12) Daenerys Targaryen,Sansa Stark (9) Arya Stark,Daenerys Targaryen (6) | 16.01 | 41 (+3) | 1.69% | 1:1.7 |
| 12 (↑) | Overwatch (Video Game) Lena "Tracer" Oxton,Widowmaker | Amélie Lacroix (11) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Fareeha "Pharah" Amari (6) Emily (Overwatch),Lena "Tracer" Oxton (4) | 15.45 | 31 (-3) | 0.54% | 1:2 |
| 13 (↓4) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (35) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (21) Ashido Mina,Uraraka Ochako (5) | 15.10 | 64 (-17) | 2.17% | 1:8 |
| 14 (⇑) | Dragon Age (Video Games) Female Warden (Dragon Age),Leliana (Dragon Age) (5) Female Hawke,Isabela (Dragon Age) (3) Female Inquisitor (Dragon Age),Sera (Dragon Age) (3) | 14.35 | 23 (+2) | 0.57% | 1:3 |
| 15 (↑3) | Arrow (TV 2012) Ava Sharpe,Sara Lance (28) Nyssa al Ghul,Sara Lance (5) Charlie (DC's Legends of Tomorrow),Zari Tomaz (4) | 13.34 | 50 (+11) | 1.62% | 1:1.4 |
| 16 (⇑) | Homestuck Kanaya Maryam,Rose Lalonde (12) Terezi Pyrope,Vriska Serket (5) Jane Crocker,Roxy Lalonde (4) | 13.06 | 22 (-6) | 0.38% | 1:3 |
| 17 (⇑) | Critical Role (Web Series) Beauregard (Critical Role),Jester (Critical Role) (13) Beauregard (Critical Role),Yasha (Critical Role) (8) Beauregard Lionett,Reanminere "Reani" (Critical Role) (3) | 12.57 | 28 (+14) | 2.29% | 1:1.7 |
| 18 (↑) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (40) Alice | Tilly,Robin | Margot (2) ... | 12.46 | 48 (-5) | 0.38% | 9:1 |
| 19 (↓8) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (16) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Rachel Amber (11) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Rachel Amber (3) Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Victoria Chase (Life is Strange) (3) | 12.44 | 24 (-10) | 0.77% | 8:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Little Witch Academia Atsuko "Akko" Kagari,Diana Cavendish (20) Amanda O'Neill,Hannah England (5) Croix Meridies,Ursula Callistis | Chariot du Nord (4) | 12.44 | 25 (+10) | 2.74% | 117:1 |
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.
