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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2019-01-08 - 2019-01-14
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 3980 (-167 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 2500 (-163 from last week) (1182 new, 1318 continued)
- 1.05% of all 238733 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Quiet week. I'm not sure why Steven Universe fell so far in the stats. It looks like it's an artifact of not having very many distinct ships appearing in works this week: 19, where around 30 is more usual.
- I thought I'd change up the graph on display this week, so you can see how quiet it is. Supergirl is overwhelmingly more active than anything else in terms of number of works and ship diversity, and She-Ra is overwhelmingly more active than anything else in terms of what I think of as "meteoricness," the percentage of all works in the fandom which were updated this week. And there's really just not much else going on, relatively speaking.
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 (114) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (54) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (26) | 73.19 | 179 (-22) | 1.20% | 27:1 |
| 2 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (41) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee (36) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (13) | 43.31 | 90 (-7) | 1.93% | 5:1 |
| 3 (↑) | Overwatch (Video Game) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Fareeha "Pharah" Amari (43) Lena "Tracer" Oxton,Widowmaker | Amélie Lacroix (13) Emily (Overwatch),Lena "Tracer" Oxton (8) | 35.59 | 80 (+27) | 1.55% | 1:2 |
| 4 (↑2) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (92) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (19) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (14) | 34.04 | 96 (+0) | 0.89% | 5:1 |
| 5 (↑4) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (62) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (21) Catra (She-Ra),Entrapta (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (8) | 32.75 | 80 (-21) | 11.89% | 10:1 |
| 6 (↑) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (80) Alice | Tilly,Robin | Margot (5) Dorothy Gale (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (3) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (3) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Red Riding Hood | Ruby (3) | 31.65 | 92 (+1) | 0.76% | 9:1 |
| 7 (↑5) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (16) Hermione Granger,Narcissa Black Malfoy (10) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (7) Ginny Weasley,Hermione Granger (7) | 30.54 | 76 (+9) | 1.37% | 1:9 |
| 8 (↑2) | Dragon Age (Video Games) Female Warden (Dragon Age),Leliana (Dragon Age) (8) Cassandra Pentaghast,Female Inquisitor (Dragon Age) (5) Cassandra Pentaghast,Josephine Montilyet (3) Female Hawke,Merrill (Dragon Age) (3) Female Inquisitor (Dragon Age),Josephine Montilyet (3) | 29.16 | 31 (+3) | 0.83% | 1:3 |
| 9 (↓4) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (9) Iruma Miu,K1-B0 (Dangan Ronpa) (6) Asahina Aoi,Ogami Sakura (4) Celestia Ludenberg,Kirigiri Kyouko (4) | 27.49 | 31 (-6) | 2.09% | 1:3 |
| 10 (↑3) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (49) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (32) Ashido Mina,Uraraka Ochako (10) | 25.46 | 90 (+6) | 4.71% | 1:8 |
| 11 (↓3) | BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party! (Video Game) Hazawa Tsugumi,Hikawa Sayo (6) Hikawa Sayo,Minato Yukina (3) Imai Lisa,Minato Yukina (3) Seta Kaoru,Shirasagi Chisato (3) | 25.39 | 19 (-10) | 2.79% | 305:1 |
| 12 (↓) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (26) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Rachel Amber (18) Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Victoria Chase (Life is Strange) (8) | 25.12 | 46 (+0) | 1.68% | 9:1 |
| 13 (↓10) | Steven Universe (Cartoon) Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe),Peridot (Steven Universe) (13) Ruby (Steven Universe),Sapphire (Steven Universe) (6) Blue Diamond (Steven Universe),Yellow Diamond (Steven Universe) (4) | 24.97 | 35 (-18) | 0.71% | 15:1 |
| 14 (↑3) | Little Witch Academia Atsuko "Akko" Kagari,Diana Cavendish (16) Croix Meridies,Ursula Callistis | Chariot du Nord (7) Amanda O'Neill,Hannah England (5) | 21.84 | 18 (-7) | 2.47% | 118:1 |
| 15 (⇑) | Arrow (TV 2012) Ava Sharpe,Sara Lance (36) Nyssa al Ghul,Sara Lance (6) Charlie (DC's Legends of Tomorrow),Zari Tomaz (3) | 20.68 | 53 (+16) | 2.09% | 1:1.4 |
| 16 (⇑) | Descendants (Disney Movies) Evie (Disney),Mal (Disney) (7) ... | 20.43 | 13 (+4) | 1.05% | 1:1.1 |
| 17 (↑) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (43) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (9) Rose Tyler,Thirteenth Doctor (3) | 20.27 | 59 (-21) | 2.09% | 1:1.6 |
| 18 (↓2) | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (51) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (17) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (8) | 19.80 | 54 (+2) | 1.79% | 27:1 |
| 19 (⇑) | Fire Emblem: If | Fire Emblem: Fates Camilla (Fire Emblem),Hinoka (Fire Emblem) (2) Lucina (Fire Emblem),Serena | Severa (2) My Unit | Reflet | Robin,Tiamo | Cordelia (2) | 18.75 | 13 (+0) | 1.15% | 1:2 |
| 20 (⇑) | Archie Comics Cheryl Blossom,Toni Topaz (32) Betty Cooper,Veronica Lodge (9) Alice Cooper (Archie Comics),Hermione Lodge (2) Cheryl Blossom,Veronica Lodge (2) | 17.86 | 40 (-10) | 1.99% | 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.)
Share and enjoy, and let me know what I can do to make this more useful.
