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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2019-10-29 - 2019-11-04
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 4459 (+240 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 2702 (+160 from last week) (1315 new, 1387 continued)
- 0.94% of all 288775 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Overwatch is on an upswing which brings it back into the top 5 for the first time since June, while Life Is Strange, on a downswing, has actually fallen out of the top 20.
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 (155) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (38) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (27) | 54.20 | 235 (+21) | 1.27% | 28:1 |
| 2 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (59) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee (40) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (9) | 38.14 | 113 (+15) | 1.72% | 6:1 |
| 3 (↑4) | Overwatch (Video Game) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Fareeha "Pharah" Amari (16) Lena "Tracer" Oxton,Widowmaker | Amélie Lacroix (8) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Moira O'Deorain (7) Brigitte Lindholm,Hana "D.Va" Song (7) | 27.79 | 47 (+8) | 0.80% | 1:2 |
| 4 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (18) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (7) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (6) Hermione Granger,Narcissa Black Malfoy (6) | 26.56 | 72 (+2) | 1.03% | 1:8 |
| 5 (↓2) | 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) (7) | 25.15 | 59 (-3) | 0.99% | 13:1 |
| 6 (⇑) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (6) Iruma Miu,K1-B0 (Dangan Ronpa) (4) Akamatsu Kaede,Iruma Miu (3) Fukawa Touko,Naegi Komaru (3) | 22.50 | 33 (+16) | 1.62% | 1:3 |
| 7 (↑8) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (56) Catra (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (12) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (10) | 22.01 | 67 (+11) | 3.27% | 9:1 |
| 8 (↓2) | BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party! (Video Game) Hazawa Tsugumi,Hikawa Sayo (5) Hikawa Sayo,Minato Yukina (3) Okusawa Misaki,Tsurumaki Kokoro (3) | 20.75 | 27 (-6) | 1.96% | 440:1 |
| 9 (↑4) | Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hilda Valentine Goneril,Marianne von Edmund (17) Dorothea Arnault,Petra Macneary (13) Dorothea Arnault,Edelgard von Hresvelg (8) | 20.66 | 65 (+13) | 14.16% | 1:2 |
| 10 | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (63) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (11) Clarke Griffin,Octavia Blake (4) Clarke Griffin,Raven Reyes (4) | 20.58 | 70 (-8) | 0.59% | 5:1 |
| 11 (↓3) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (52) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (37) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (7) | 19.92 | 102 (-1) | 3.14% | 1:8 |
| 12 (↑5) | Critical Role (Web Series) Beauregard Lionett,Jester Lavorre (7) Beauregard (Critical Role),Yasha (Critical Role) (5) Beauregard Lionett,Yasha (Critical Role) (4) Jester Lavorre,Yasha (Critical Role) (4) | 18.29 | 25 (+3) | 1.92% | 1:1.7 |
| 13 (⇑) | Dragon Age (Video Games) Female Hawke,Isabela (Dragon Age) (5) Female Cousland (Dragon Age),Leliana (Dragon Age) (3) Female Warden (Dragon Age),Leliana (Dragon Age) (3) | 18.24 | 27 (+7) | 0.66% | 1:3 |
| 14 (↑4) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (14) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (6) The Corsair (Doctor Who),Thirteenth Doctor (4) | 18.06 | 30 (+1) | 0.84% | 1:1.4 |
| 15 (↓6) | Descendants (Disney Movies) Evie (Disney),Mal (Disney) (14) Aurora (Disney),Maleficent,Maleficent (Disney) (4) Ingrith (Disney),Maleficent (Disney) (4) | 18.02 | 32 (-6) | 2.01% | 1:1.1 |
| 16 (⇑) | Legacies (TV 2018) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (31) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (19) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (14) | 17.18 | 49 (+1) | 4.56% | 15:1 |
| 17 (↓3) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Margaery Tyrell,Sansa Stark (10) Daenerys Targaryen,Sansa Stark (8) Daenerys Targaryen,Yara Greyjoy (3) Elia Martell,Lyanna Stark (3) | 15.83 | 34 (+1) | 1.35% | 1:1.8 |
| 18 (↓13) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (11) Carol Danvers,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (9) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (9) | 15.69 | 62 (-11) | 0.75% | 1:8 |
| 19 (↓3) | Homestuck Kanaya Maryam,Rose Lalonde (21) Calliope (Homestuck),Roxy Lalonde (6) Terezi Pyrope,Vriska Serket (5) | 15.28 | 31 (+0) | 0.52% | 1:3 |
| 20 (⇑) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (52) Aurora (Once Upon a Time),Mulan (Once Upon a Time) (3) Dorothy Gale (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (3) | 15.09 | 59 (+17) | 0.45% | 9:1 |
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.
