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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2018-12-18 - 2018-12-24
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 4293 (+223 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 2657 (+99 from last week) (1398 new, 1259 continued)
- 1.13% of all 234753 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Lorraine/Wonder Woman meet up on a job (Yuletide, technically not tagged F/F)
- Rachel/Astrid canon-divergence (Yuletide)
- A long Ruth/Idgie fic with some nice bits of headcanon (Yuletide)
- And some epic Anne/Diana, because it is Yuletide and we must honor the classic pairings.
- I've just scratched the surface of Yuletide reading, so expect those recs to keep coming in over the next few weeks.
- How many of this week's top 20 are Yuletide fandoms? There's one Boku no Hero Academia work (M/M), which seems likely to be a tagging mishap or older series since that's a pretty big fandom. She-Ra makes an appearance, but I think it's the 1985 series, not the current one. There's a Doctor Who work, but again it's Big Audio Finish, not the current series. Ditto a couple of non-Fates Fire Emblem stories. Harry Potter appears as a setting in a couple of AUs from other canons. And that's it --- our top 20 seems to be persistently too big for Yuletide, which is great.
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 (116) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (52) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (31) | 66.79 | 202 (+46) | 1.37% | 27:1 |
| 2 (↑) | RWBY Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee (33) Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (28) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (13) | 50.39 | 92 (-12) | 2.02% | 5:1 |
| 3 (↑8) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Celestia Ludenberg,Kirigiri Kyouko (8) Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (5) ... | 42.90 | 37 (+10) | 2.59% | 1:3 |
| 4 (↑2) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (62) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (4) ... | 38.22 | 76 (-2) | 0.64% | 9:1 |
| 5 (↓3) | Steven Universe (Cartoon) Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe),Peridot (Steven Universe) (11) Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe),Pearl (Steven Universe),Peridot (Steven Universe) (6) Ruby (Steven Universe),Sapphire (Steven Universe) (5) | 36.74 | 37 (-8) | 0.76% | 15:1 |
| 6 (↓2) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (77) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (17) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (6) | 36.37 | 84 (-6) | 0.79% | 5:1 |
| 7 (↓2) | Overwatch (Video Game) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Fareeha "Pharah" Amari (19) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Moira O'Deorain (13) Lena "Tracer" Oxton,Widowmaker | Amélie Lacroix (9) | 31.95 | 58 (+6) | 1.15% | 1:2 |
| 8 (↑12) | BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party! (Video Game) Imai Lisa,Minato Yukina (7) Matsubara Kanon,Okusawa Misaki (6) Hazawa Tsugumi,Hikawa Sayo (4) | 31.47 | 31 (+10) | 4.98% | 277:1 |
| 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 (44) Ashido Mina,Uraraka Ochako (4) Fukukado Emi | Ms. Joke,Kayama Nemuri | Midnight (4) | 28.62 | 94 (+14) | 5.22% | 1:8 |
| 10 (↓3) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (68) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (32) Catra (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (5) | 28.40 | 100 (+11) | 20.53% | 9:1 |
| 11 (↑) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (31) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Rachel Amber (10) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Rachel Amber (6) Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Victoria Chase (Life is Strange) (6) | 26.95 | 44 (-6) | 1.64% | 9:1 |
| 12 (↓4) | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (62) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (16) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (14) | 26.88 | 63 (+1) | 2.13% | 27:1 |
| 13 (↓3) | Dragon Age (Video Games) Female Warden (Dragon Age),Leliana (Dragon Age) (6) Cassandra Pentaghast,Female Inquisitor (Dragon Age) (5) Cassandra Pentaghast,Female Lavellan (4) | 24.49 | 29 (+0) | 0.78% | 1:3 |
| 14 (⇑) | Love Live! Sunshine!! Sakurauchi Riko,Watanabe You (16) ... | 23.60 | 34 (+23) | 1.95% | 211:1 |
| 15 | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (48) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (8) Rose Tyler,Thirteenth Doctor (3) | 21.47 | 70 (-42) | 2.63% | 1:1.7 |
| 16 (↑) | Fire Emblem: If | Fire Emblem: Fates Lucina (Fire Emblem),Serena | Severa (4) Camilla (Fire Emblem),Hinoka (Fire Emblem) (3) My Unit | Reflet | Robin,Sumia (Fire Emblem) (2) My Unit | Reflet | Robin,Tiamo | Cordelia (2) | 20.71 | 13 (+1) | 1.17% | 1:2 |
| 17 (↓4) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (14) Fleur Delacour,Hermione Granger (8) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (5) Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (5) | 20.68 | 51 (-3) | 0.93% | 1:9 |
| 18 (↓9) | Archie Comics Cheryl Blossom,Toni Topaz (29) Betty Cooper,Veronica Lodge (11) Cheryl Blossom,Veronica Lodge (3) | 20.09 | 43 (-11) | 2.20% | 1:1.1 |
| 19 (⇑) | Undertale (Video Game) Alphys (Undertale),Undyne (Undertale) (42) Chara (Undertale),Frisk (Undertale) (5) Alphys (Undertale),Susie (Deltarune) (2) | 19.48 | 46 (+9) | 1.99% | 1:2 |
| 20 (↓4) | Pitch Perfect (Movies) Beca Mitchell,Chloe Beale (34) Aubrey Posen,Stacie Conrad (8) Aubrey Posen,Emily Junk (3) | 19.30 | 40 (-1) | 1.14% | 84:1 |
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.)
Share and enjoy, and let me know what I can do to make this more useful.
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Date: 2019-01-02 04:17 am (UTC)I don't do FFN stats, so I can't speak to that, but at a glance, almost everything on this year's top 20 has work counts in the tens of thousands. BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party! seems to be an exception, but I don't yet know anything at all about that fandom nor understand why it's in the stats --- it's not like Overwatch where, even though I don't play video games myself, I see people talk about it all the time. And She-Ra, but that one is obvious --- the new She-Ra series wasn't out yet when nominations closed on Sep 21st. I'm sure it would have been nominated if it had launched a little earlier.
I can't say anything categorically about previous years, but comparing my week-of-20161226 stats to Yuletide 2016 fandoms by hand, it looks like Ghostbusters and Wynonna Earp both made Yuletide that year in a significant way, and possibly Dangan Ronpa and Holby City (I don't know enough to tell if those are classification artifacts). So that's exactly what would have happened this year if She-Ra had come out a couple of months earlier: even fast-growing new fandoms won't hit the 1000 works threshold for a little while, so they can wind up in Yuletide their first year. Both of those fandoms are long-since no longer eligible, but they were new in 2016.
[Edit: I meant to say also: last year Wonder Woman was a major F/F fandom and also a Yuletide fandom, but it didn't make it to my top 20 because so much Wonder Woman fic is crossover with other DCU properties, and my stats are much more aggressive than Yuletide's in trying to combine overlapping fandoms to make the top 20 more diverse, so Wonder Woman always winds up classed with "Supergirl". So that's an example of how my stats and Yuletide's criteria really aren't apples-to-apples.]
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Date: 2019-01-02 04:30 am (UTC)