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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2020-10-20 - 2020-10-26
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 6364 (-77 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4041 (-107 from last week) (1848 new, 2193 continued)
- 1.08% of all 373183 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- I keep failing to mention that the ladiesbingo fic challenge is back for another round, and I believe runs from now until March. The post says if one is reblogging this, one should stress that "the challenge is for fanworks about relationships between women (not just from a woman's POV)." Maybe if you're reading the femslash week in review that goes without saying, but let's say it anyway.
- Hey, Steven Universe is back. That fandom appears to be slowly dropping off the top 20, though; it's fallen off twice in the past two months, after appearing on the chart every week since April 2015.
- The top 5 has been stable for the past four weeks; it'll be interesting to see whether Owl House is a persistent presence, or falls off during the between-seasons gap.
- You're not here for politics, you're here for shipping, but I am writing the week in review from the U.S. where today is Election Day, and I do want to encourage you to vote if you can, stay safe, and wish us all the best in the attempt to move towards a slightly less dystopian timeline.
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 (122) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (34) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (15) | 49.97 | 175 (-47) | 0.75% | 28:1 |
| 2 (↑) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (73) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee (44) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (11) | 47.97 | 139 (+4) | 1.52% | 3:1 |
| 3 (↓) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (25) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (22) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (20) | 44.94 | 139 (+5) | 1.47% | 1:7 |
| 4 (↑) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (154) Emira Blight,Viney (The Owl House) (16) Boscha (The Owl House),Willow Park (15) Eda Clawthorne,Lilith Clawthorne (15) | 37.40 | 173 (-10) | 11.76% | 21:1 |
| 5 (↓) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (16) Fukawa Touko,Naegi Komaru (14) Celestia Ludenberg,Kirigiri Kyouko (9) | 35.72 | 67 (-11) | 2.09% | 1:3 |
| 6 (↑2) | Avatar: The Last Airbender Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (33) Azula (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (27) Mai (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (17) | 34.80 | 106 (+22) | 5.53% | 1:1.9 |
| 7 (↓) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (148) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (32) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (12) | 30.82 | 164 (+13) | 2.71% | 6:1 |
| 8 (↑3) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (93) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (8) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (7) | 30.07 | 110 (-15) | 0.83% | 5:1 |
| 9 (↑5) | BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party! (Video Game) Minato Yukina,Mitake Ran (4) Hazawa Tsugumi,Hikawa Sayo (3) Okusawa Misaki,Seta Kaoru (3) Seta Kaoru,Shirasagi Chisato (3) | 24.68 | 30 (+3) | 1.19% | 272:1 |
| 10 (⇑) | Steven Universe (Cartoon) Pearl (Steven Universe),Rose Quartz (Steven Universe) (8) Ruby (Steven Universe),Sapphire (Steven Universe) (8) Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe),Peridot (Steven Universe) (7) | 24.20 | 36 (?) | 0.51% | 11:1 |
| 11 (↓) | The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (26) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (14) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (10) | 22.36 | 52 (-17) | 1.68% | 1.5:1 |
| 12 (↑3) | Dragon Age (Video Games) Female Warden (Dragon Age),Leliana (Dragon Age) (6) Female Inquisitor (Dragon Age),Leliana (Dragon Age) (5) Female Cousland (Dragon Age),Leliana (Dragon Age) (4) | 22.36 | 36 (+8) | 0.77% | 1:3 |
| 13 | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (72) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (39) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (8) | 20.78 | 128 (+2) | 2.38% | 1:8 |
| 14 (↓5) | Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses Dorothea Arnault,Petra Macneary (14) Hilda Valentine Goneril,Marianne von Edmund (13) Dorothea Arnault,Ingrid Brandl Galatea (7) | 20.23 | 58 (+2) | 2.67% | 1:2 |
| 15 (↑5) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (10) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Pepper Potts (5) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Sharon Carter (Marvel) (5) | 18.33 | 53 (+1) | 0.55% | 1:8 |
| 16 (⇑) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (27) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Rachel Amber (6) Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Victoria Chase (Life is Strange) (5) | 18.21 | 39 (?) | 1.01% | 8:1 |
| 17 (⇑) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (58) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Snow White | Mary Margaret Blanchard (3) ... | 17.95 | 64 (?) | 0.45% | 9:1 |
| 18 (↓2) | Miraculous Ladybug Alya Césaire,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (23) Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (11) Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (10) | 17.69 | 54 (+4) | 2.81% | 1.2:1 |
| 19 (↓) | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (48) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (14) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (13) | 17.41 | 54 (+1) | 1.15% | 18:1 |
| 20 (↓3) | Love Live! Sunshine!! Kurosawa Dia,Ohara Mari (3) Kurosawa Dia,Tsushima Yoshiko (3) Sakurauchi Riko,Tsushima Yoshiko (3) | 16.30 | 18 (-15) | 0.76% | 275:1 |
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.
