Femslash week in review: 2019-06-11 - 2019-06-17

High-level stats for week of 2019-06-11 - 2019-06-17

• Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 4096 (+53 from last week)


• Works I classified F/F: 2491 (-34 from last week) (1123 new, 1368 continued)


• 0.94% of all 264919 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week

A few callouts this week:

• I obviously still haven't done anything about disambiguating Game of Thrones vs ASoIaF in the stats, and this week it occurred to me that there's a slightly nontrivial difference in the F/F:M/M ratios of the two fandoms: 1:1.7 for GoT vs 1:1.9 for ASoIaF. So that made me wonder... GoT should be a somewhat newer fandom, right? Does that mean femslash is getting more prevalent in this general fandom over time? As a test, I looked at works from 2017 to the present. That gave me 1:1.3 for GoT and 1:1.4 for ASoIaF. So that's promising, but... the overall percentage of works tagged with F/F has hardly budged: 8.4% for all works, 8.6% for works 2017 and later. Instead, it turns out that it's the percentage of works tagged with M/M which has fallen sharply, from 14.2% for all works to 10.8% for works 2017 and later. Yet again, the F/F:M/M ratio proves not to be telling us much useful for our purposes here. I haven't done much stats-improvement recently, but now I have a simple fix in mind here: instead of this ratio, I could report the percentage of works updated within the reporting week which were tagged F/F.
  

( Full top-20 table and description of methodology after the jump )