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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2020-07-28 - 2020-08-03
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 6737 (-109 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4180 (-57 from last week) (2041 new, 2139 continued)
- 1.2% of all 349414 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Something I didn't mention the week of 2020-05-18, in commenting on the She-Ra post-s5 bounce, is that that was the first week Adora/Catra ousted Kara/Lena as the top ship by work count in a top-20 fandom, and that Adora/Catra has been the top ship every week since then. That's quite the sea change, actually: before this, Kara/Lena had topped the charts every week in 2020, and every week in 2019 with the exception of one week each for Blake Belladonna/Yang Xiao Long and Clarke/Lexa.
- Keep in mind that "top ship in a top-20 fandom" is not necessarily the same metric as "top ship" would be: because my algorithm considers additional works in one ship to have diminishing returns relative to a diversity of ships within a fandom, in theory a single-ship fandom could have thousands of works and not hit the top 20. I'm not aware of such a ship out there, and I think it's unlikely that people would write hundreds of works in one ship without considering any neighboring ships (and at a glance at my dataset, it looks like the largest fandom which really only has one ship this week is the highly-specific Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII, with 12 works for Aerith Gainsborough/Tifa Lockhart). It's probably pretty safe to assume that for all but extremely unusual weeks, the top ship on my table is the top ship.
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 (137) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (50) Cat Grant,Kara Danvers (29) | 58.87 | 241 (+10) | 1.08% | 29:1 |
| 2 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (69) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee (49) Blake Belladonna,Weiss Schnee (10) | 42.76 | 127 (-18) | 1.48% | 3:1 |
| 3 | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (249) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (51) Catra (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (17) | 41.17 | 271 (+0) | 5.40% | 7:1 |
| 4 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (25) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (15) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (13) | 41.07 | 130 (+4) | 1.50% | 1:7 |
| 5 (↑) | BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party! (Video Game) Minato Yukina,Mitake Ran (9) Hazawa Tsugumi,Hikawa Sayo (8) Okusawa Misaki,Seta Kaoru (6) | 38.78 | 50 (+5) | 2.24% | 270:1 |
| 6 (↑) | Avatar: The Last Airbender Azula (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (27) Mai (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (23) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (11) Kyoshi (Avatar),Rangi (Avatar) (11) | 37.54 | 94 (+12) | 7.49% | 1:1.8 |
| 7 (↓2) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Celestia Ludenberg,Kirigiri Kyouko (16) Fukawa Touko,Naegi Komaru (13) Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (10) | 31.86 | 65 (-9) | 2.30% | 1:3 |
| 8 (↑3) | The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (51) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (26) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (17) | 27.21 | 88 (+8) | 3.14% | 1.5:1 |
| 9 (↑3) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (85) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (23) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (9) | 25.26 | 98 (+15) | 0.77% | 5:1 |
| 10 (⇑) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (8) Angie Martinelli,Peggy Carter (7) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (7) | 24.48 | 67 (?) | 0.71% | 1:8 |
| 11 (⇑) | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (18) Alya Césaire,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (10) Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (9) | 20.98 | 56 (?) | 3.28% | 1.2:1 |
| 12 (⇑) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (5) Akali (League of Legends),Evelynn (League of Legends) (4) Kai'Sa (League of Legends),Sivir (League of Legends) (3) | 19.73 | 26 (?) | 3.23% | 1:1.1 |
| 13 (↓3) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (29) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (8) Jenny Flint,Madame Vastra (Doctor Who) (4) Rose Tyler,Thirteenth Doctor (4) | 19.58 | 53 (-5) | 1.14% | 1:1.2 |
| 14 (↑3) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (56) Alice | Tilly,Robin | Margot (3) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (3) | 19.17 | 66 (+12) | 0.48% | 9:1 |
| 15 (↓2) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (79) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (40) Ashido Mina,Hagakure Tooru (7) | 18.40 | 121 (-5) | 2.48% | 1:8 |
| 16 (↑3) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (26) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Rachel Amber (9) Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Victoria Chase (Life is Strange) (6) | 17.95 | 41 (+1) | 1.11% | 8:1 |
| 17 (↓8) | Steven Universe (Cartoon) Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe),Peridot (Steven Universe) (8) Blue Diamond (Steven Universe),Yellow Diamond (Steven Universe) (7) Pearl (Steven Universe),Pink Diamond (Steven Universe) (5) Pink Diamond's Pearl (Steven Universe),Spinel (Steven Universe) (5) Ruby (Steven Universe),Sapphire (Steven Universe) (5) | 17.55 | 36 (-11) | 0.52% | 11:1 |
| 18 (⇑) | Descendants (Disney Movies) Cassandra (Disney: Tangled),Rapunzel (Disney) (10) Evie (Disney),Mal (Disney) (9) Audrey Rose (Disney),Evie (Disney) (3) Audrey Rose (Disney),Mal (Disney) (3) | 17.12 | 28 (?) | 1.36% | 1:1.1 |
| 19 (↓5) | Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hilda Valentine Goneril,Marianne von Edmund (11) Dorothea Arnault,Ingrid Brandl Galatea (10) Dorothea Arnault,Petra Macneary (10) | 16.89 | 50 (-4) | 2.78% | 1:2 |
| 20 (↓12) | DC's Legends of Tomorrow (TV) Ava Sharpe,Sara Lance (22) Nyssa al Ghul,Sara Lance (7) Astra Logue,Charlie (DC's Legends of Tomorrow) (4) | 15.95 | 42 (-38) | 1.26% | 1:1.3 |
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.
