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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2020-07-14 - 2020-07-20
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 6355 (-42 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 3874 (-46 from last week) (1976 new, 1898 continued)
- 1.12% of all 345189 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- The drop in work count may not be real. I downloaded the list of works a day later than usual this week because of reasons, and because of AO3 metadata, that means there's sometimes an undercount.
- The big news this week is Chinese video game fandom Arknights vaulting into the top 10.
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 (125) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (24) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (19) | 52.34 | 173 (-53) | 0.78% | 29:1 |
| 2 (↑) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (27) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (22) Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (14) | 46.83 | 133 (+5) | 1.55% | 1:7 |
| 3 (↓) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (46) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee (30) Coco Adel,Velvet Scarlatina (9) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (9) | 43.20 | 100 (-4) | 1.18% | 3:1 |
| 4 | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (240) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (42) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (27) | 36.82 | 257 (+3) | 5.45% | 7:1 |
| 5 (↑) | BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party! (Video Game) Hazawa Tsugumi,Hikawa Sayo (6) Minato Yukina,Mitake Ran (5) Hikawa Sayo,Imai Lisa (4) | 32.56 | 42 (+6) | 1.93% | 262:1 |
| 6 (⇑) | 明日方舟 | Arknights (Video Game) Istina (Arknights),Zima (Arknights) (16) Lappland (Arknights),Texas (Arknights) (15) ... | 32.26 | 58 (?) | 14.87% | 1:1.7 |
| 7 (↓2) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Fukawa Touko,Naegi Komaru (11) Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (9) Akamatsu Kaede,Harukawa Maki (7) Celestia Ludenberg,Kirigiri Kyouko (7) | 29.80 | 55 (-12) | 1.99% | 1:3 |
| 8 (↑4) | Steven Universe (Cartoon) Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe),Peridot (Steven Universe) (13) Ruby (Steven Universe),Sapphire (Steven Universe) (9) Bismuth (Steven Universe),Pearl (Steven Universe) (6) | 26.90 | 43 (-1) | 0.63% | 11:1 |
| 9 (↓) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (65) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (11) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (8) | 25.37 | 81 (-3) | 0.64% | 5:1 |
| 10 | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (81) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (47) Todoroki Fuyumi,Usagiyama Rumi | Miruko (9) | 25.22 | 141 (-9) | 2.95% | 1:8 |
| 11 (↑8) | 少女☆歌劇 レヴュースタァライト -Re LIVE- | Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight -Re LIVE- (Video Game) Akikaze Rui,Tanaka Yuyuko (5) Otonashi Ichie,Yumeoji Fumi (4) ... | 24.80 | 30 (+5) | 11.90% | 312:1 |
| 12 (↓5) | Avatar: The Last Airbender Azula (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (18) Mai (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (13) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (8) | 23.22 | 59 (-16) | 5.21% | 1:1.8 |
| 13 (↓4) | The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (40) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (17) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (12) | 22.79 | 67 (-13) | 2.44% | 1.4:1 |
| 14 (⇑) | Dragon Age: Inquisition Female Adaar,Sera (Dragon Age) (7) Female Cousland (Dragon Age),Leliana (Dragon Age) (6) Female Warden (Dragon Age),Leliana (Dragon Age) (6) | 21.41 | 36 (?) | 0.89% | 1:3 |
| 15 (↑2) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (7) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Pepper Potts (5) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (5) | 21.27 | 59 (-11) | 0.63% | 1:8 |
| 16 (⇑) | Descendants (Disney Movies) Cassandra (Disney: Tangled),Rapunzel (Disney) (18) Evie (Disney),Mal (Disney) (8) Audrey (Disney: Descendants),Evie (Disney) (3) Audrey Rose (Disney),Evie (Disney) (3) | 19.01 | 36 (?) | 1.78% | 1:1.1 |
| 17 (⇑) | Doctor Who & Related Fandoms Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (27) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (5) Rose Tyler,Thirteenth Doctor (5) | 18.52 | 49 (?) | 1.13% | 1:3 |
| 18 (↓4) | Miraculous Ladybug Chloé Bourgeois,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (14) Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (11) Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (11) | 17.59 | 44 (-8) | 2.63% | 1.3:1 |
| 19 (↓6) | DC's Legends of Tomorrow (TV) Ava Sharpe,Sara Lance (26) Charlie (DC's Legends of Tomorrow),Zari Tomaz | Zari Tarazi (4) Courtney Whitmore,Yolanda Montez (4) Nyssa al Ghul,Sara Lance (4) | 16.62 | 45 (-13) | 1.36% | 1:1.3 |
| 20 (⇑) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (22) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Rachel Amber (9) Kate Marsh,Maxine "Max" Caulfield (3) Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Victoria Chase (Life is Strange) (3) | 15.68 | 32 (?) | 0.87% | 8:1 |
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.
