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Femslash week in review: 2018-12-25 - 2018-12-31
High-level stats for week of 2018-12-25 - 2018-12-31
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 4369 (+76 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 2772 (+115 from last week) (1482 new, 1290 continued)
- 1.17% of all 236235 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Death/Thessaly: I don't remember Sandman canon at all, but this is very good (Yuletide)
- Tahani/Eleanor college AU (Yuletide)
- Hela/Valkyrie pre-Ragnarok: I realised recently that I actually rec Valkyrie fics a fair bit, though possibly never shipped with the same person twice. Well, there we are, I guess. I like Valkyrie.
- Julia has questions about Millie's history (gen, Yuletide)
- Here's a stat you didn't know you needed, and maybe you don't, but now you have it. You may have noticed that my full table behind the cut has a column for the ratio of the number of F/F works to the number of M/M works in a fandom tag. (I include that in case people want to differentiate on the fly between primarily F/F fandoms, and primarily M/M fandoms that are big enough to also have a lot of F/F.) So I got curious, how has that stat moved for Doctor Who with the advent of the new series? Quite a lot, as it turns out! A year ago, the week of 2017-12-25, I recorded 2811 F/F works to 6430 M/M works (1:2.3). This week, by contrast, we have 4062 F/F works to 6690 M/M works (1:1.6). Not shocking, but it's good to know the system works!
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 (105) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (69) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (25) | 65.08 | 193 (-9) | 1.30% | 27:1 |
| 2 (↑3) | Steven Universe (Cartoon) Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe),Peridot (Steven Universe) (21) Amethyst (Steven Universe),Peridot (Steven Universe) (7) Blue Diamond (Steven Universe),Yellow Diamond (Steven Universe) (7) | 46.09 | 58 (+21) | 1.18% | 15:1 |
| 3 (↑) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (81) Alice | Tilly,Robin | Margot (3) Dorothy Gale (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (3) Emma Swan,Lily | Lilith Page (3) Emma Swan,Red Riding Hood | Ruby (3) | 45.12 | 94 (+18) | 0.79% | 9:1 |
| 4 (↓2) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (38) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee (28) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (12) | 42.80 | 89 (-3) | 1.94% | 5:1 |
| 5 (↑2) | Overwatch (Video Game) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Fareeha "Pharah" Amari (20) Lena "Tracer" Oxton,Widowmaker | Amélie Lacroix (11) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Moira O'Deorain (9) | 41.42 | 60 (+2) | 1.18% | 1:2 |
| 6 (↑4) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (80) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (14) Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (5) Catra (She-Ra),Entrapta (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (5) | 35.25 | 90 (-10) | 16.27% | 9:1 |
| 7 (↓) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (89) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (15) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (9) | 32.49 | 98 (+14) | 0.92% | 5:1 |
| 8 (⇑) | Love Live! School Idol Project Nishikino Maki,Yazawa Nico (7) Ayase Eli,Toujou Nozomi (5) Hoshizora Rin,Koizumi Hanayo (3) | 30.34 | 23 (+7) | 1.16% | 124:1 |
| 9 (↑8) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Hermione Granger,Narcissa Black Malfoy (11) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (10) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (10) | 29.07 | 68 (+17) | 1.24% | 1:9 |
| 10 (↑) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (33) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Rachel Amber (13) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Rachel Amber (5) | 27.45 | 48 (+4) | 1.77% | 9:1 |
| 11 (↑5) | Fire Emblem: If | Fire Emblem: Fates My Unit | Reflet | Robin,Sallya | Tharja (3) Lucina (Fire Emblem),Marc | Morgan (2) My Unit | Reflet | Robin,Olivia (Fire Emblem) (2) | 25.36 | 14 (+1) | 1.25% | 1:2 |
| 12 (⇑) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (10) Angie Martinelli,Peggy Carter (6) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Pepper Potts (5) | 24.80 | 55 (+8) | 0.84% | 1:8 |
| 13 (↓5) | BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party! (Video Game) Matsubara Kanon,Okusawa Misaki (3) Seta Kaoru,Shirasagi Chisato (3) ... | 23.34 | 20 (-11) | 3.12% | 293:1 |
| 14 (↓11) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (9) Celestia Ludenberg,Kirigiri Kyouko (4) Fukawa Touko,Naegi Komaru (4) | 22.48 | 30 (-7) | 2.08% | 1:3 |
| 15 | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (52) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (11) Bill Potts,Heather (Doctor Who: The Pilot) (2) Clara Oswin Oswald,Missy (Doctor Who) (2) Rose Tyler,Thirteenth Doctor (2) | 21.65 | 76 (+6) | 2.79% | 1:1.6 |
| 16 (⇑) | Dragon Age: Inquisition Cassandra Pentaghast,Female Inquisitor (Dragon Age) (6) Female Warden (Dragon Age),Leliana (Dragon Age) (4) Cassandra Pentaghast,Female Lavellan (3) Female Inquisitor (Dragon Age),Josephine Montilyet (3) Female Lavellan,Josephine Montilyet (3) | 20.68 | 23 (-5) | 0.71% | 1:3 |
| 17 (↓5) | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (52) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (15) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (13) | 20.33 | 55 (-8) | 1.84% | 27:1 |
| 18 (↓4) | Love Live! Sunshine!! ... | 19.51 | 20 (-14) | 1.14% | 214:1 |
| 19 (⇑) | DC's Legends of Tomorrow (TV) Ava Sharpe,Sara Lance (42) Charlie (DC's Legends of Tomorrow),Zari Tomaz (12) Nyssa al Ghul,Sara Lance (4) | 19.44 | 61 (+13) | 3.09% | 1:1.8 |
| 20 (⇑) | 少女☆歌劇 レヴュー・スタァライト | Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight (Anime) Saijou Claudine,Tendou Maya (18) Daiba Nana,Hoshimi Junna (10) Hanayagi Kaoruko,Isurugi Futaba (6) | 19.42 | 23 (+4) | 10.45% | 282:0 |
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.