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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2019-12-03 - 2019-12-09
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 4023 (-17 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 2359 (-25 from last week) (1143 new, 1216 continued)
- 0.8% of all 294218 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- There's a lot of stability in the top 4 this month. On the other end, Once Upon a Time finally seems to be on the way out of the top 20. After appearing every week except one since September 2012, the fandom has missed the list four times in the past two months.
- A reader let me know about a sapphic stocking stuffers event, running on dreamwidth until January 2nd.
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 (118) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (27) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (19) | 44.92 | 161 (-7) | 0.85% | 28:1 |
| 2 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (60) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee (43) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (10) | 38.13 | 105 (+7) | 1.54% | 5:1 |
| 3 | Steven Universe (Cartoon) Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe),Peridot (Steven Universe) (27) Ruby (Steven Universe),Sapphire (Steven Universe) (10) Pink Diamond's Pearl (Steven Universe),Spinel (Steven Universe) (9) | 30.06 | 66 (+9) | 1.09% | 13:1 |
| 4 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (13) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (13) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (12) | 25.07 | 73 (+3) | 1.03% | 1:8 |
| 5 (↑2) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (64) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (16) Clarke Griffin,Raven Reyes (4) | 23.11 | 74 (+12) | 0.62% | 5:1 |
| 6 (↓) | Overwatch (Video Game) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Fareeha "Pharah" Amari (13) Lena "Tracer" Oxton,Widowmaker | Amélie Lacroix (7) Emily (Overwatch),Lena "Tracer" Oxton (6) | 22.14 | 33 (+2) | 0.55% | 1:2 |
| 7 (↓) | The Vampire Diaries (TV) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (25) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (24) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (19) | 21.57 | 59 (-1) | 3.32% | 1:2.0 |
| 8 | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (43) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (23) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (5) | 17.61 | 84 (+3) | 2.48% | 1:8 |
| 9 (↑) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (35) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (10) Catra (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (5) | 17.37 | 45 (-12) | 2.04% | 10:1 |
| 10 (↑3) | BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party! (Video Game) Minato Yukina,Mitake Ran (4) Aoba Moca,Imai Lisa (3) Minato Yukina,Udagawa Tomoe (3) | 15.88 | 20 (+1) | 1.39% | 366:1 |
| 11 (↑5) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (4) Akamatsu Kaede,Harukawa Maki (3) ... | 14.52 | 22 (-3) | 1.05% | 1:3 |
| 12 (↑8) | Critical Role (Web Series) Beauregard Lionett,Jester Lavorre (30) Beauregard Lionett,Yasha (Critical Role) (9) Yasha (Critical Role),Zuala (Critical Role) (3) | 13.81 | 40 (+25) | 2.84% | 1:1.7 |
| 13 (↑5) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (14) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Rachel Amber (8) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Rachel Amber (4) | 13.79 | 28 (+3) | 0.85% | 8:1 |
| 14 (↑) | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (9) Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug (9) Chloé Bourgeois,Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug (7) | 12.92 | 33 (+0) | 2.62% | 1.3:1 |
| 15 (↓3) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (6) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (5) Carol Danvers,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (3) | 12.72 | 40 (-6) | 0.48% | 1:8 |
| 16 (↓5) | Homestuck Kanaya Maryam,Rose Lalonde (14) Terezi Pyrope,Vriska Serket (6) Calliope (Homestuck),Roxy Lalonde (4) | 12.61 | 26 (-3) | 0.43% | 1:3 |
| 17 (↑2) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (42) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (4) ... | 12.08 | 49 (+10) | 0.37% | 9:1 |
| 18 (↓9) | Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hilda Valentine Goneril,Marianne von Edmund (11) Dorothea Arnault,Petra Macneary (9) Dorothea Arnault,Ingrid Brandl Galatea (5) Edelgard von Hresvelg,Lysithea von Ordelia (5) | 11.94 | 40 (-12) | 6.63% | 1:2 |
| 19 (↓2) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (22) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (9) Clara Oswin Oswald,Thirteenth Doctor (2) | 11.60 | 35 (+12) | 0.96% | 1:1.4 |
| 20 (⇑) | Pitch Perfect (Movies) Beca Mitchell,Chloe Beale (15) Aubrey Posen,Stacie Conrad (5) Beca Mitchell,Stacie Conrad (4) | 11.41 | 22 (+9) | 0.54% | 77:1 |
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.
