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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2020-03-17 - 2020-03-23
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 5240 (+854 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 3131 (+546 from last week) (1485 new, 1646 continued)
- 1.0% of all 314216 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Wow, work count is way up. I wish I could tell you more about how the increase breaks down, but I don't have access to that data. Basically it looks like everything is just up, so maybe everyone has sorted out their quarantine schedules enough to move past food and shelter and on to fanfic. This isn't the biggest week ever, but it's back to the numbers we were seeing a month ago during Femslash February.
- I'll call out Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight, which is on the list for the first time since 2018, when I think it was new.
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 (154) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (29) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (23) | 55.15 | 229 (+28) | 1.12% | 29:1 |
| 2 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (63) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee (43) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (10) | 42.89 | 120 (+9) | 1.57% | 4:1 |
| 3 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (23) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (15) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (11) | 33.81 | 102 (+27) | 1.32% | 1:8 |
| 4 (↑6) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (90) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (18) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (6) | 31.36 | 106 (+28) | 0.86% | 5:1 |
| 5 (↓) | Steven Universe (Cartoon) Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe),Peridot (Steven Universe) (23) Ruby (Steven Universe),Sapphire (Steven Universe) (11) Blue Diamond (Steven Universe),Yellow Diamond (Steven Universe) (8) | 26.01 | 55 (-5) | 0.85% | 12:1 |
| 6 (↑2) | BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party! (Video Game) Hazawa Tsugumi,Hikawa Sayo (7) Hikawa Sayo,Imai Lisa (4) Seta Kaoru,Shirasagi Chisato (4) | 25.79 | 35 (+9) | 2.03% | 360:1 |
| 7 (⇑) | The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (29) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (19) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (16) | 25.23 | 67 (+20) | 3.04% | 1.3:1 |
| 8 (↓) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (7) Celestia Ludenberg,Kirigiri Kyouko (5) Akamatsu Kaede,Harukawa Maki (3) Akamatsu Kaede,Iruma Miu (3) Iruma Miu,K1-B0 (Dangan Ronpa) (3) | 23.65 | 36 (+5) | 1.52% | 1:3 |
| 9 (↓4) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (8) Carol Danvers,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (7) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (7) | 23.17 | 67 (+4) | 0.76% | 1:8 |
| 10 (↑) | Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses Dorothea Arnault,Petra Macneary (12) Hilda Valentine Goneril,Marianne von Edmund (11) Annette Fantine Dominic,Lysithea von Ordelia (9) | 22.07 | 60 (+10) | 5.16% | 1:2 |
| 11 (↑8) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (62) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (3) Alice | Tilly,Robin | Margot (2) Emma Swan,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (2) Emma Swan,Snow White | Mary Margaret Blanchard (2) | 18.77 | 74 (+29) | 0.55% | 9:1 |
| 12 (↓3) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (37) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (5) Jenny Flint,Madame Vastra (Doctor Who) (4) Rose Tyler,Thirteenth Doctor (4) | 18.68 | 59 (-2) | 1.45% | 1:1.3 |
| 13 (↑4) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (61) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (36) Ashido Mina,Uraraka Ochako (10) | 18.17 | 113 (+23) | 2.87% | 1:8 |
| 14 (⇑) | Game of Thrones (TV) Margaery Tyrell,Sansa Stark (9) Arya Stark,Daenerys Targaryen (4) Daenerys Targaryen,Missandei (ASoIaF) (4) Daenerys Targaryen,Yara Greyjoy (4) | 17.72 | 35 (+10) | 1.27% | 1:1.6 |
| 15 (↓) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (16) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Rachel Amber (12) Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Victoria Chase (Life is Strange) (5) | 16.89 | 33 (+1) | 0.96% | 8:1 |
| 16 (↓4) | Dragon Age (Video Games) Female Cousland (Dragon Age),Leliana (Dragon Age) (4) Female Inquisitor (Dragon Age),Josephine Montilyet (4) Female Warden (Dragon Age),Leliana (Dragon Age) (4) | 16.85 | 26 (+3) | 0.60% | 1:3 |
| 17 (↓4) | Arrow (TV 2012) Ava Sharpe,Sara Lance (23) Dinah Drake (Arrow),Earth-2 Laurel Lance (13) Nyssa al Ghul,Sara Lance (4) | 15.12 | 63 (+9) | 1.76% | 1:1.3 |
| 18 (⇑) | Overwatch (Video Game) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Fareeha "Pharah" Amari (8) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Moira O'Deorain (7) Emily (Overwatch),Lena "Tracer" Oxton (6) | 15.10 | 28 (+4) | 0.45% | 1:2 |
| 19 (⇑) | 少女☆歌劇 レヴュー・スタァライト | Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight (Anime) Saijou Claudine,Tendou Maya (8) Daiba Nana,Hoshimi Junna (6) Hanayagi Kaoruko,Isurugi Futaba (2) | 13.94 | 18 (+7) | 2.62% | 1017:0 |
| 20 (↓2) | Archie Comics Cheryl Blossom,Toni Topaz (30) Betty Cooper,Veronica Lodge (9) Cheryl Blossom,Veronica Lodge (2) Mary Wardwell | Madam Satan | Lilith,Sabrina Spellman (2) | 13.50 | 39 (+7) | 1.30% | 1.1:1 |
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.
