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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2019-01-22 - 2019-01-28
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 3962 (-133 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 2491 (-13 from last week) (1110 new, 1381 continued)
- 1.03% of all 241010 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Not a lot of excitement this week in the stats. The new algorithm seems to be persistently good for Harry Potter's ranking. She-Ra has slowed down a bit since last week. This is the second week in a row we've had Vampire Diaries in the top 20 --- it hadn't been seen there since 2015, and I don't have a theory about what changed.
- Melisande POV, from Kushiel's Legacy, missing scene
- Here's some Elizabeth/Olive post-canon that I failed to rec closer to Yuletide, but no one really minds if I rec things a bit late, do you?
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 (56) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (28) | 46.91 | 189 (+17) | 1.25% | 27:1 |
| 2 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (66) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee (38) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (16) | 41.89 | 125 (+9) | 2.61% | 5:1 |
| 3 (↑4) | Steven Universe (Cartoon) Blue Diamond (Steven Universe),Yellow Diamond (Steven Universe) (21) Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe),Peridot (Steven Universe) (20) Ruby (Steven Universe),Sapphire (Steven Universe) (8) | 35.31 | 74 (+37) | 1.48% | 15:1 |
| 4 (↑2) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (66) Alice | Tilly,Robin | Margot (4) Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (3) Dorothy Gale (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (3) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Red Riding Hood | Ruby (3) | 24.62 | 80 (+1) | 0.66% | 9:1 |
| 5 (↑4) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (24) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (8) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (6) Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (6) | 23.51 | 75 (+8) | 1.33% | 1:9 |
| 6 (↑10) | Dragon Age (Video Games) Cassandra Pentaghast,Female Inquisitor (Dragon Age) (8) Female Warden (Dragon Age),Leliana (Dragon Age) (7) Dagna (Dragon Age),Sera (Dragon Age) (3) | 22.23 | 32 (+10) | 0.85% | 1:3 |
| 7 (↓4) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (72) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (14) Luna (The 100),Raven Reyes (4) | 22.04 | 75 (-10) | 0.69% | 5:1 |
| 8 (↑2) | Overwatch (Video Game) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Fareeha "Pharah" Amari (10) Lena "Tracer" Oxton,Widowmaker | Amélie Lacroix (8) Emily (Overwatch),Lena "Tracer" Oxton (7) | 20.78 | 44 (-4) | 0.85% | 1:2 |
| 9 (↑4) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (35) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Rachel Amber (9) Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Victoria Chase (Life is Strange) (5) | 20.28 | 50 (+11) | 1.81% | 9:1 |
| 10 (⇑) | BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party! (Video Game) Hikawa Sayo,Minato Yukina (4) Matsubara Kanon,Okusawa Misaki (3) Imai Lisa,Minato Yukina (2) Okusawa Misaki,Tsurumaki Kokoro (2) Seta Kaoru,Shirasagi Chisato (2) | 20.22 | 22 (+9) | 3.12% | 320:1 |
| 11 (↑) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (56) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (30) Ashido Mina,Uraraka Ochako (5) | 19.96 | 92 (+7) | 4.65% | 1:8 |
| 12 (↓4) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (64) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (7) Catra (She-Ra),Entrapta (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (7) | 19.32 | 70 (-8) | 9.32% | 10:1 |
| 13 (⇑) | Arrow (TV 2012) Ava Sharpe,Sara Lance (28) Nyssa al Ghul,Sara Lance (7) Charlie (DC's Legends of Tomorrow),Zari Tomaz (3) Felicity Smoak,Sara Lance (3) | 18.72 | 53 (+9) | 2.05% | 1:1.4 |
| 14 (↓10) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Celestia Ludenberg,Kirigiri Kyouko (5) Akamatsu Kaede,Iruma Miu (4) Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (4) Iruma Miu,K1-B0 (Dangan Ronpa) (4) | 18.35 | 28 (-7) | 1.85% | 1:3 |
| 15 (⇑) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (52) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (9) Clara Oswin Oswald,Thirteenth Doctor (3) | 16.76 | 71 (+0) | 2.44% | 1:1.6 |
| 16 (↑3) | Archie Comics Cheryl Blossom,Toni Topaz (31) Betty Cooper,Veronica Lodge (4) Sabrina Spellman,Zelda Spellman (2) | 14.84 | 43 (+1) | 2.10% | 1:1.1 |
| 17 (⇑) | Fire Emblem: If | Fire Emblem: Fates Aqua | Azura,My Unit | Kamui | Corrin (4) Camilla (Fire Emblem),Hinoka (Fire Emblem) (3) Camilla (Fire Emblem),Summoner | Eclat | Kiran (2) | 14.47 | 19 (+12) | 1.66% | 1:2 |
| 18 (↑2) | The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (13) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (7) Freya Mikaelson,Keelin Malraux (4) | 14.28 | 30 (-4) | 3.87% | 1:1.5 |
| 19 (↓4) | Pitch Perfect (Movies) Beca Mitchell,Chloe Beale (26) Aubrey Posen,Stacie Conrad (7) Aubrey Posen,Beca Mitchell (4) | 13.19 | 35 (-6) | 0.98% | 90:1 |
| 20 (↓2) | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (51) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (15) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (7) | 13.17 | 51 (+1) | 1.67% | 27:1 |
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.)
Share and enjoy, and let me know what I can do to make this more useful.
