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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2020-07-21 - 2020-07-27
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 6846 (+491 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4237 (+363 from last week) (2184 new, 2053 continued)
- 1.22% of all 347373 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- I noted a few weeks ago that Avatar: the Last Airbender has returned to the charts in a big way. This is of course because it's back on the air on Netflix. The fandom's first peak was in the very early days of AO3, so its earlier chart peaks don't mean much, e.g. the week of 2010-10-25, when A:tLA was at rank 2 with three F/F works. AO3 is so vastly much bigger than it was ten years ago that it's hard to conceptualize. And of course a second A:tLA resurgence will benefit in the rankings from cross-tagged Legend of Korra works. Anyway, that's all by way of saying that the current showing is pretty impressive; let's see where it goes from here.
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 (164) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (36) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (23) | 61.04 | 231 (+58) | 1.04% | 29:1 |
| 2 (↑) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (63) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee (46) Blake Belladonna,Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (12) | 53.16 | 145 (+45) | 1.69% | 3:1 |
| 3 (↑) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (252) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (46) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (26) | 42.11 | 271 (+14) | 5.57% | 7:1 |
| 4 (↓2) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (22) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (18) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (13) | 41.79 | 126 (-7) | 1.46% | 1:7 |
| 5 (↑2) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (13) Fukawa Touko,Naegi Komaru (10) Celestia Ludenberg,Kirigiri Kyouko (8) | 39.67 | 74 (+19) | 2.64% | 1:3 |
| 6 (↓) | BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party! (Video Game) Hazawa Tsugumi,Hikawa Sayo (9) Matsubara Kanon,Okusawa Misaki (5) Imai Lisa,Minato Yukina (4) Minato Yukina,Mitake Ran (4) Okusawa Misaki,Seta Kaoru (4) | 35.89 | 45 (+3) | 2.04% | 267:1 |
| 7 (↑5) | Avatar: The Last Airbender Azula (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (32) Mai (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (20) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (12) | 28.24 | 82 (+23) | 6.87% | 1:1.8 |
| 8 (↑11) | Arrow (TV 2012) Ava Sharpe,Sara Lance (25) Dinah Drake (Arrow),Earth-2 Laurel Lance (19) Nyssa al Ghul,Sara Lance (7) | 25.85 | 80 (+35) | 1.93% | 1:1.2 |
| 9 (↓) | Steven Universe (Cartoon) Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe),Peridot (Steven Universe) (17) Ruby (Steven Universe),Sapphire (Steven Universe) (10) Bismuth (Steven Universe),Pearl (Steven Universe) (6) | 24.36 | 47 (+4) | 0.68% | 11:1 |
| 10 (↑7) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (28) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (12) Rose Tyler,Thirteenth Doctor (9) | 22.00 | 58 (+9) | 1.26% | 1:1.2 |
| 11 (↑2) | The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (48) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (23) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (16) | 21.50 | 80 (+13) | 2.88% | 1.5:1 |
| 12 (↓3) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (75) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (20) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (6) | 21.03 | 83 (+2) | 0.65% | 5:1 |
| 13 (↓3) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (74) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (43) Ashido Mina,Hagakure Tooru (5) Todoroki Fuyumi,Usagiyama Rumi | Miruko (5) | 20.74 | 126 (-15) | 2.61% | 1:8 |
| 14 (⇑) | Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hilda Valentine Goneril,Marianne von Edmund (17) Dorothea Arnault,Edelgard von Hresvelg (6) Bernadetta von Varley,Edelgard von Hresvelg (5) Dorothea Arnault,Petra Macneary (5) | 20.30 | 54 (?) | 3.05% | 1:2 |
| 15 (⇑) | Critical Role (Web Series) Beauregard Lionett,Yasha (Critical Role) (14) Beauregard Lionett,Jester Lavorre (12) Yasha (Critical Role),Zuala (Critical Role) (4) | 18.60 | 34 (?) | 1.76% | 1:1.6 |
| 16 (↓10) | 明日方舟 | Arknights (Video Game) Lappland (Arknights),Texas (Arknights) (7) Ch'en (Arknights),Hoshiguma (Arknights) (6) Exusiai (Arknights),Mostima (Arknights) (3) | 18.39 | 28 (-30) | 6.73% | 1:1.7 |
| 17 (⇑) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (40) Alice | Tilly,Robin | Margot (4) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (3) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Red Riding Hood | Ruby (3) | 17.91 | 54 (?) | 0.39% | 9:1 |
| 18 (⇑) | Homestuck Kanaya Maryam,Rose Lalonde (23) Terezi Pyrope,Vriska Serket (9) Calliope (Homestuck),Roxy Lalonde (3) Jade Harley,Rose Lalonde (3) Jane Crocker,Roxy Lalonde (3) | 17.73 | 37 (?) | 0.57% | 1:3 |
| 19 (↑) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (29) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Rachel Amber (10) Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Victoria Chase (Life is Strange) (4) | 17.21 | 40 (+8) | 1.08% | 8:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Dragon Age (Video Games) Cassandra Pentaghast,Female Inquisitor (Dragon Age) (5) Female Inquisitor (Dragon Age),Josephine Montilyet (5) ... | 16.80 | 26 (?) | 0.57% | 1:3 |
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.
