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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2020-01-21 - 2020-01-27
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 4423 (+129 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 2527 (+22 from last week) (1158 new, 1369 continued)
- 0.83% of all 303263 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Boku no Hero Academia fell off the top 20 suddenly, and I got curious why. I'm not familiar with the fandom, and my dataset doesn't make this as easy as I'd like, but: the number of works fell somewhat between last week and this week, but what's really getting in the way here is the "canon male character" discount rate I apply. Backing up a little bit: the purpose of this ranking system, as far as I'm concerned, is to identify the most ensemble-femslash-y fandoms, as in, those where you'll find the most different works with the most different ships containing canonical fictional female and gender-minority characters. If a fandom on AO3 contains a lot of works with the "F/F" tag which don't actually contain an F/F ship, not only do I not count those works towards the fandom's total, but I actually penalize the fandom for them, because if you're an unfamiliar reader spelunking in the archive and what you're looking for is femslash, you're going to hit a lot of works that aren't what you're looking for. It looks like Boku no Hero Academia, specifically, has a lot of genderswap (F/F tagged works containing canonically male characters); this week, there were more F/F-tagged works with only male ships (88) than there were F/F-tagged works which actually contained a female ship (72). Typically it's a little better than that: in 2019, somewhere between 47%-63% of F/F-tagged works each week contained a ship with canonical F/F characters. But those aren't high numbers in any event, even if they're not usually low enough to knock the fandom out of the top 20. If anyone reading this is familiar with the fandom, does that analysis make sense?
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 (117) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (25) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (22) | 49.12 | 175 (-14) | 0.89% | 29:1 |
| 2 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (51) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee (39) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (14) | 47.62 | 116 (+12) | 1.61% | 5:1 |
| 3 (↑) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (20) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (15) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (11) | 28.74 | 84 (+11) | 1.14% | 1:8 |
| 4 (↓) | Steven Universe (Cartoon) Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe),Peridot (Steven Universe) (14) Ruby (Steven Universe),Sapphire (Steven Universe) (12) Blue Diamond (Steven Universe),Yellow Diamond (Steven Universe) (5) | 24.51 | 50 (-7) | 0.80% | 13:1 |
| 5 | Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hilda Valentine Goneril,Marianne von Edmund (26) Dorothea Arnault,Petra Macneary (7) Bernadetta von Varley,Edelgard von Hresvelg (5) | 21.65 | 66 (-13) | 7.73% | 1:2 |
| 6 (↑4) | Dragon Age (Video Games) Female Hawke,Isabela (Dragon Age) (4) Female Hawke,Merrill (Dragon Age) (3) Female Inquisitor (Dragon Age),Josephine Montilyet (3) Female Warden (Dragon Age),Leliana (Dragon Age) (3) Hawke (Dragon Age),Merrill (Dragon Age) (3) | 18.91 | 27 (-1) | 0.64% | 1:3 |
| 7 (↓) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (25) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (6) Rose Tyler,Thirteenth Doctor (5) | 18.52 | 47 (-9) | 1.23% | 1:1.4 |
| 8 (↑3) | Legacies (TV 2018) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (23) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (16) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (15) | 18.22 | 43 (-9) | 3.22% | 13:1 |
| 9 (↓2) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (60) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (11) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (5) | 17.35 | 65 (-6) | 0.54% | 5:1 |
| 10 (⇑) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (35) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (15) Catra (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (6) | 16.60 | 47 (+13) | 1.96% | 11:1 |
| 11 (↑7) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (9) Akamatsu Kaede,Iruma Miu (5) Iruma Miu,K1-B0 (Dangan Ronpa) (4) | 15.79 | 25 (+4) | 1.14% | 1:3 |
| 12 (⇑) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Margaery Tyrell,Sansa Stark (12) Daenerys Targaryen,Sansa Stark (4) ... | 14.35 | 33 (+2) | 1.26% | 1:1.8 |
| 13 (⇑) | Sabrina the Teenage Witch (Comics) Mary Wardwell | Madam Satan | Lilith,Zelda Spellman (25) Mary Wardwell | Madam Satan,Zelda Spellman (7) Hilda Spellman,Mary Wardwell | Madam Satan | Lilith (2) Hilda Spellman,Sabrina Spellman,Zelda Spellman (2) | 14.33 | 33 (+11) | 4.88% | 3:1 |
| 14 (⇑) | Star Wars - All Media Types Ahsoka Tano,Barriss Offee (5) Jannah (Star Wars),Rose Tico (4) Ar'alani (Star Wars),Karyn Faro (3) | 14.08 | 31 (+4) | 1.58% | 1:8 |
| 15 (⇑) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (19) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Rachel Amber (7) Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Victoria Chase (Life is Strange) (3) | 13.97 | 29 (+12) | 0.87% | 8:1 |
| 16 (↓8) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (11) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (4) Angie Martinelli,Peggy Carter (3) Brunnhilde | Valkyrie (Marvel),Carol Danvers (3) Carol Danvers,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (3) | 13.09 | 44 (-9) | 0.51% | 1:8 |
| 17 (⇑) | Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types Mary | Marnie,Yuuri | Gloria (6) Rurina | Nessa,Sonia (Pokemon) (6) Hikari | Dawn,Shirona | Cynthia (2) | 13.07 | 21 (+9) | 3.03% | 1:3 |
| 18 (↓5) | Homestuck Kanaya Maryam,Rose Lalonde (22) Terezi Pyrope,Vriska Serket (9) Calliope (Homestuck),Roxy Lalonde (4) | 12.36 | 29 (-3) | 0.48% | 1:3 |
| 19 (↓5) | BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party! (Video Game) Minato Yukina,Toyama Kasumi (2) Okusawa Misaki,Tsurumaki Kokoro (2) ... | 12.30 | 12 (-9) | 0.77% | 393:1 |
| 20 (↓4) | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (14) Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug (7) Chloé Bourgeois,Kagami Tsurugi (4) Chloé Bourgeois,Sabrina Raincomprix (4) | 11.98 | 30 (-7) | 2.24% | 1.3:1 |
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.
