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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2020-02-11 - 2020-02-17
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 5308 (+521 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 3172 (+344 from last week) (1728 new, 1444 continued)
- 1.03% of all 307620 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- This is the biggest week ever in terms of number of F/F works classified: the second week was 2019-12-30 with 3019. Unsatisfyingly, I can't say why: is this growth across all categories, or is something going on? I know Chocolate Box is happening, and that it's much bigger than I credit it with: not sure about other exchanges.
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 (136) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (41) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (22) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (22) | 59.42 | 219 (+36) | 1.10% | 29:1 |
| 2 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (64) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee (60) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (8) | 53.66 | 153 (+31) | 2.07% | 4:1 |
| 3 (↑2) | BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party! (Video Game) Hazawa Tsugumi,Hikawa Sayo (9) Shirokane Rinko,Udagawa Ako (7) Ichigaya Arisa,Toyama Kasumi (6) Minato Yukina,Mitake Ran (6) | 35.27 | 46 (+13) | 2.85% | 507:1 |
| 4 (↓) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (9) Akamatsu Kaede,Iruma Miu (7) Celestia Ludenberg,Kirigiri Kyouko (6) | 33.65 | 48 (-6) | 2.10% | 1:3 |
| 5 (↑) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (19) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (13) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (12) | 33.56 | 89 (+5) | 1.19% | 1:8 |
| 6 (⇑) | Dragon Age (Video Games) Female Warden (Dragon Age),Leliana (Dragon Age) (8) Cassandra Pentaghast,Female Inquisitor (Dragon Age) (5) Female Amell (Dragon Age),Leliana (Dragon Age) (3) Female Hawke,Isabela (Dragon Age) (3) | 28.85 | 43 (+20) | 1.00% | 1:3 |
| 7 (↓3) | Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hilda Valentine Goneril,Marianne von Edmund (21) Dorothea Arnault,Edelgard von Hresvelg (12) Dorothea Arnault,Petra Macneary (8) | 27.78 | 79 (-4) | 7.97% | 1:2 |
| 8 | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Pepper Potts (7) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (7) Brunnhilde | Valkyrie (Marvel),Carol Danvers (5) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (5) | 26.58 | 71 (-1) | 0.82% | 1:8 |
| 9 | Overwatch (Video Game) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Fareeha "Pharah" Amari (13) Emily (Overwatch),Lena "Tracer" Oxton (6) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Widowmaker | Amélie Lacroix (4) | 24.33 | 38 (-3) | 0.62% | 1:2 |
| 10 (↑2) | The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (25) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (16) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (12) | 23.88 | 49 (+3) | 2.34% | 1.2:1 |
| 11 (↓4) | Steven Universe (Cartoon) Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe),Peridot (Steven Universe) (16) Ruby (Steven Universe),Sapphire (Steven Universe) (9) Pink Diamond's Pearl (Steven Universe),Spinel (Steven Universe) (5) | 23.74 | 46 (-5) | 0.73% | 13:1 |
| 12 (↓2) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (41) Rose Tyler,Thirteenth Doctor (9) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (7) | 22.93 | 70 (+6) | 1.79% | 1:1.3 |
| 13 (↓2) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (75) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (11) Luna (The 100),Raven Reyes (8) | 22.53 | 84 (+13) | 0.69% | 5:1 |
| 14 (↑3) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (53) Aurora (Once Upon a Time),Mulan (Once Upon a Time) (4) Alice | Tilly,Robin | Margot (3) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (3) | 19.32 | 67 (+15) | 0.50% | 9:1 |
| 15 (⇑) | Sabrina the Teenage Witch (Comics) Mary Wardwell | Madam Satan | Lilith,Zelda Spellman (19) Hilda Spellman,Zelda Spellman (8) Marie LaFleur (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina),Zelda Spellman (5) | 17.24 | 32 (+4) | 4.41% | 3:1 |
| 16 (↓2) | Critical Role (Web Series) Beauregard Lionett,Jester Lavorre (17) Beauregard Lionett,Yasha (Critical Role) (4) Jester Lavorre,Yasha (Critical Role) (4) | 17.17 | 28 (-8) | 1.74% | 1:1.6 |
| 17 (↓4) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (58) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (29) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (7) | 16.18 | 93 (-11) | 2.49% | 1:8 |
| 18 (⇑) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (44) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (9) Catra (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (6) | 15.72 | 51 (+15) | 2.07% | 10:1 |
| 19 (⇑) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Daenerys Targaryen,Sansa Stark (8) Margaery Tyrell,Sansa Stark (5) Arya Stark,Sansa Stark (2) Daenerys Targaryen,Margaery Tyrell (2) | 15.61 | 34 (-1) | 1.27% | 1:1.8 |
| 20 (↓2) | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (12) Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug (11) Chloé Bourgeois,Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug (5) Chloé Bourgeois,Sabrina Raincomprix (5) | 14.46 | 34 (-4) | 2.48% | 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.
