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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2020-06-23 - 2020-06-29
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 6151 (-176 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 3861 (-19 from last week) (1853 new, 2008 continued)
- 1.14% of all 339415 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- DCU seems to be another fandom that really does jump in and out of the top 20. The top ships are Birds-of-Prey-themed, and there aren't enough of them to make a top 20 fandom, so presence is entirely a function of how many secondary ships show up in a given week.
- This week we have two first-time top-20 fandoms, "16th Century CE RPF" (presumably a spike in works for the musical Six), and new TV show Motherland: Fort Salem. We also have an appearance from Avatar: the Last Airbender, which hasn't been in the top 20 since 2015 (though Legend of Korra has been seen here as recently as Oct 2018).
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 (142) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (32) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (22) | 58.11 | 201 (-39) | 0.92% | 29:1 |
| 2 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (55) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee (37) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (7) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (7) | 46.63 | 119 (-39) | 1.41% | 3:1 |
| 3 (↑) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (22) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (18) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (15) | 46.18 | 134 (+16) | 1.59% | 1:7 |
| 4 (↓) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (254) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (41) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (15) | 38.46 | 270 (-3) | 6.34% | 7:1 |
| 5 (↑) | BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party! (Video Game) Okusawa Misaki,Tsurumaki Kokoro (5) Hikawa Sayo,Imai Lisa (4) Minato Yukina,Mitake Ran (4) Seta Kaoru,Shirasagi Chisato (4) | 35.88 | 42 (+1) | 2.00% | 283:1 |
| 6 (↓) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Fukawa Touko,Naegi Komaru (15) Celestia Ludenberg,Kirigiri Kyouko (9) Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (9) | 30.09 | 58 (+2) | 2.18% | 1:3 |
| 7 (↑2) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (89) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (15) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (4) | 29.60 | 104 (+10) | 0.82% | 5:1 |
| 8 (⇑) | DCU (Comics) Harleen Quinzel,Pamela Isley (15) Cassandra Cain,Stephanie Brown (6) Harleen Quinzel,Pamela Isley,Selina Kyle (5) | 25.43 | 65 (?) | 2.26% | 1:6 |
| 9 (↑) | The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (52) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (31) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (21) | 24.72 | 86 (+19) | 3.23% | 1.4:1 |
| 10 (↓2) | Steven Universe (Cartoon) Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe),Peridot (Steven Universe) (19) Ruby (Steven Universe),Sapphire (Steven Universe) (6) Blue Diamond (Steven Universe),Yellow Diamond (Steven Universe) (5) | 24.06 | 48 (-14) | 0.71% | 11:1 |
| 11 | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (34) Jenny Flint,Madame Vastra (Doctor Who) (6) ... | 22.30 | 57 (-14) | 1.27% | 1:1.2 |
| 12 | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (76) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (44) Ashido Mina,Uraraka Ochako (9) | 20.87 | 137 (-13) | 2.96% | 1:8 |
| 13 | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (21) Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (15) Alya Césaire,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (9) | 17.18 | 50 (+1) | 3.08% | 1.3:1 |
| 14 (⇑) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (15) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Rachel Amber (13) Kate Marsh,Maxine "Max" Caulfield (5) | 16.34 | 31 (?) | 0.85% | 8:1 |
| 15 | Arrow (TV 2012) Ava Sharpe,Sara Lance (34) Dinah Drake (Arrow),Earth-2 Laurel Lance (11) Charlie (DC's Legends of Tomorrow),Zari Tomaz | Zari Tarazi (4) | 15.92 | 65 (+6) | 1.61% | 1:1.2 |
| 16 (⇑) | 16th Century CE RPF Anne Boleyn,Catherine of Aragon (15) Anne Boleyn,Catherine Parr (10) Anne of Cleves,Katherine Howard (10) | 15.71 | 34 (?) | 17.99% | 1:11 |
| 17 (↑2) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (6) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (6) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Pepper Potts (5) | 15.71 | 52 (-4) | 0.56% | 1:8 |
| 18 (⇑) | Avatar: The Last Airbender Azula (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (15) Azula (Avatar),Katara (Avatar) (8) Mai (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (6) | 15.58 | 38 (?) | 3.73% | 1:1.7 |
| 19 (⇑) | Little Witch Academia Atsuko "Akko" Kagari,Diana Cavendish (28) Croix Meridies,Ursula Callistis | Chariot du Nord (7) Amanda O'Neill,Atsuko "Akko" Kagari (3) Amanda O'Neill,Hannah England (3) | 15.03 | 32 (?) | 2.50% | 119:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Motherland: Fort Salem (TV) Raelle Collar,Scylla Ramshorn (42) Abigail Bellweather,Raelle Collar,Tally Craven (6) Abigail Bellweather,Libba Swythe (3) | 14.07 | 47 (?) | 16.49% | 61:1 |
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.
