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Femslash week in review: 2019-10-22 - 2019-10-28
High-level stats for week of 2019-10-22 - 2019-10-28
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 4219 (+70 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 2542 (+65 from last week) (1219 new, 1323 continued)
- 0.88% of all 287460 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- This week's top 20 graph isn't very interesting, so I thought I'd bring in the "top fandom per week" graph, which we haven't seen in awhile. An interesting fact is that we're basically at the point at which Supergirl has been the top fandom for as many weeks as Buffy and Angel combined, so even insofar as those are the same fandom, Supergirl is basically the biggest AO3 F/F fandom there has ever been.
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 (27) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (22) | 52.74 | 214 (-32) | 1.17% | 28:1 |
| 2 (↑) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (48) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee (43) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (9) | 33.30 | 98 (+4) | 1.50% | 5:1 |
| 3 (↓) | Steven Universe (Cartoon) Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe),Peridot (Steven Universe) (19) Ruby (Steven Universe),Sapphire (Steven Universe) (12) Pink Diamond's Pearl (Steven Universe),Spinel (Steven Universe) (8) | 32.24 | 62 (+3) | 1.05% | 13:1 |
| 4 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (10) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (10) Hermione Granger,Luna Lovegood (6) | 28.39 | 70 (+1) | 1.01% | 1:8 |
| 5 (↑) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Carol Danvers,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (11) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (8) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (8) | 26.71 | 73 (+15) | 0.88% | 1:8 |
| 6 (↑11) | BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party! (Video Game) Hazawa Tsugumi,Hikawa Sayo (6) Ichigaya Arisa,Toyama Kasumi (4) Seta Kaoru,Shirasagi Chisato (4) Udagawa Tomoe,Uehara Himari (4) | 24.60 | 33 (+16) | 2.42% | 435:1 |
| 7 (↑5) | Overwatch (Video Game) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Fareeha "Pharah" Amari (17) Lena "Tracer" Oxton,Widowmaker | Amélie Lacroix (8) Emily (Overwatch),Lena "Tracer" Oxton (7) | 22.63 | 39 (+4) | 0.66% | 1:2 |
| 8 (↓3) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (54) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (41) Ashido Mina,Jirou Kyouka (4) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (4) | 21.24 | 103 (+5) | 3.22% | 1:8 |
| 9 (⇑) | Descendants (Disney Movies) Evie (Disney),Mal (Disney) (12) Ingrith (Disney),Maleficent (Disney) (8) Aurora (Disney),Maleficent,Maleficent (Disney) (6) | 19.62 | 38 (+15) | 2.41% | 1:1.1 |
| 10 (↓) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (73) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (20) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (4) | 19.15 | 78 (+10) | 0.66% | 5:1 |
| 11 (↓4) | The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (36) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (17) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (14) | 19.12 | 55 (+10) | 3.16% | 1.1:1 |
| 12 (↓2) | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (16) Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug (5) Alya Césaire,Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug (4) | 18.85 | 37 (-1) | 3.12% | 1.3:1 |
| 13 (↑3) | Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hilda Valentine Goneril,Marianne von Edmund (10) Dorothea Arnault,Edelgard von Hresvelg (9) Dorothea Arnault,Petra Macneary (8) | 16.98 | 52 (+2) | 12.62% | 1:2 |
| 14 (↓) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Margaery Tyrell,Sansa Stark (9) Daenerys Targaryen,Sansa Stark (6) ... | 16.87 | 33 (+0) | 1.32% | 1:1.8 |
| 15 (↓7) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (47) Catra (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (12) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (10) | 16.76 | 56 (+3) | 2.78% | 10:1 |
| 16 (↑2) | Homestuck Kanaya Maryam,Rose Lalonde (24) Calliope (Homestuck),Roxy Lalonde (7) Terezi Pyrope,Vriska Serket (6) | 16.65 | 31 (+0) | 0.52% | 1:3 |
| 17 (⇑) | Critical Role (Web Series) Beauregard Lionett,Jester Lavorre (8) Beauregard (Critical Role),Yasha (Critical Role) (5) Beauregard Lionett,Yasha (Critical Role) (3) | 15.66 | 22 (+9) | 1.70% | 1:1.7 |
| 18 (↓3) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (13) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (4) Rose Tyler,Thirteenth Doctor (4) | 15.34 | 29 (-6) | 0.82% | 1:1.4 |
| 19 (↓8) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (20) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Rachel Amber (10) Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Rachel Amber (3) | 15.06 | 27 (-3) | 0.84% | 8:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Archie Comics Cheryl Blossom,Toni Topaz (25) Betty Cooper,Veronica Lodge (4) Betty Cooper,Polly Cooper (2) Cheryl Blossom,Veronica Lodge (2) Toni Topaz,Veronica Lodge (2) | 14.38 | 33 (-1) | 1.19% | 1.1:1 |
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.
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I wonder how long it'll be before there's another perfect storm like that for a femslash fandom.
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