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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2020-09-29 - 2020-10-05
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 6627 (+584 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4279 (+411 from last week) (2220 new, 2059 continued)
- 1.16% of all 367373 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Work count is back up; otherwise, things are mostly stable. Meteorically-rising Owl House hits number three for the first time, and Luz/Amity is the second-biggest ship this week (that was true last week too). Doctor Who is back in the top 20 after a month out.
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 (182) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (27) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (22) | 52.63 | 226 (+40) | 0.98% | 28:1 |
| 2 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (26) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (25) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (20) | 48.27 | 145 (+8) | 1.56% | 1:7 |
| 3 (↑3) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (160) Boscha (The Owl House),Willow Park (23) Emira Blight,Viney (The Owl House) (19) | 39.15 | 183 (-4) | 14.88% | 23:1 |
| 4 (↑) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (62) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee (34) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (6) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (6) | 38.75 | 108 (-10) | 1.20% | 3:1 |
| 5 (↑3) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Celestia Ludenberg,Kirigiri Kyouko (13) Fukawa Touko,Naegi Komaru (9) Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (8) | 37.58 | 69 (+1) | 2.21% | 1:3 |
| 6 (↑) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (150) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (28) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (13) | 35.75 | 168 (-4) | 2.88% | 6:1 |
| 7 (↓3) | Avatar: The Last Airbender Azula (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (31) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (18) Kyoshi (Avatar),Rangi (Avatar) (18) Mai (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (18) | 33.09 | 97 (-31) | 5.41% | 1:1.8 |
| 8 (↑) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (147) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (10) Luna (The 100),Raven Reyes (7) | 29.68 | 163 (+61) | 1.25% | 5:1 |
| 9 (↓6) | BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party! (Video Game) Minato Yukina,Mitake Ran (5) Hazawa Tsugumi,Hikawa Sayo (4) Okusawa Misaki,Seta Kaoru (4) | 27.86 | 38 (-14) | 1.54% | 267:1 |
| 10 (↑5) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (59) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (38) Ashido Mina,Uraraka Ochako (8) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (8) | 21.88 | 121 (+13) | 2.31% | 1:8 |
| 11 (↑2) | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (19) Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (17) Alya Césaire,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (10) Chloé Bourgeois,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (10) | 21.33 | 58 (+10) | 3.10% | 1.2:1 |
| 12 (↓2) | Steven Universe (Cartoon) Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe),Peridot (Steven Universe) (7) Ruby (Steven Universe),Sapphire (Steven Universe) (7) Pearl (Steven Universe),Rose Quartz (Steven Universe) (5) | 21.21 | 32 (-1) | 0.46% | 11:1 |
| 13 (⇑) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (28) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (7) Rose Tyler,Thirteenth Doctor (4) | 20.05 | 52 (?) | 1.09% | 1:1.2 |
| 14 (⇑) | Dragon Age (Video Games) Female Hawke,Isabela (Dragon Age) (4) Dagna (Dragon Age),Sera (Dragon Age) (3) Female Cousland (Dragon Age),Leliana (Dragon Age) (3) Female Warden (Dragon Age),Leliana (Dragon Age) (3) | 19.54 | 31 (?) | 0.66% | 1:3 |
| 15 (↓4) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Angie Martinelli,Peggy Carter (8) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (5) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (4) | 18.75 | 53 (-2) | 0.55% | 1:8 |
| 16 (↓4) | The Vampire Diaries (TV) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (47) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (17) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (14) | 18.04 | 67 (+1) | 2.28% | 1:1.7 |
| 17 (⇑) | Descendants (Disney Movies) Cassandra (Disney: Tangled),Rapunzel (Disney) (11) Evie (Disney),Mal (Disney) (6) Mal (Disney),Uma (Disney) (5) | 16.33 | 26 (?) | 1.20% | 1:1.1 |
| 18 (↓4) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (22) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Rachel Amber (4) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Kate Marsh (3) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Kate Marsh,Maxine "Max" Caulfield (3) Kate Marsh,Maxine "Max" Caulfield (3) | 16.22 | 32 (-8) | 0.84% | 8:1 |
| 19 (↓) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (68) Alice Jones | Tilly,Robin | Margot (2) Alice | Tilly,Robin | Margot (2) Emma Swan,Snow White | Mary Margaret Blanchard (2) Mulan (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (2) | 15.72 | 77 (-11) | 0.54% | 9:1 |
| 20 (↓4) | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (48) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (12) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (11) | 14.63 | 53 (-12) | 1.14% | 18:1 |
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.
