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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2020-12-01 - 2020-12-07
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 6260 (+80 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 3964 (+148 from last week) (1883 new, 2081 continued)
- 1.03% of all 384119 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- The age of Supergirl is ending. For the first time since I started this project, Supergirl has been out of the top place for three of the past eight weeks. RWBY and Harry Potter are posting better numbers than they were six months ago, but also the Girl of Steel's numbers have gotten worse.
- New video game Genshin Impact made a splash on the charts this week, vaulting from never-been-seen to 9th place. There's a caveat here which applies to most video game fandoms where you pick the gender of the protagonist: the main value-add of these stats (and the main timesink, I might add) is that I track which character tags belong to women or gender minorities and thus can be part of an F/F ship. Since "Traveler (Genshin Impact)" could be either Lumine or Aether (so the internet tells me; I'm not otherwise familiar with this game), there's no way to tell from the tag whether the included character is female, so I have to assume it is. For any work that is tagged "F/F" on AO3, I'm going to count all ships containing Traveler and other female characters as F/F ships, even though in reality some of them might be het within those tagged works. In huge video game fandoms, someone eventually redoes the tagset to differentiate, but a new video game fandom probably doesn't have very clean tags and simply gets a bonus. That said, Genshin Impact is obviously growing rapidly, and I think the jump onto the femslash charts is real.
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 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (51) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee (29) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Yang Xiao Long (8) | 50.98 | 118 (-6) | 1.24% | 3:1 |
| 2 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (28) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (26) Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (16) | 47.18 | 156 (+12) | 1.60% | 1:7 |
| 3 | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (140) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (21) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (19) | 45.30 | 181 (+30) | 0.76% | 28:1 |
| 4 (↑2) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Mioda Ibuki,Tsumiki Mikan (17) Akamatsu Kaede,Iruma Miu (12) ... | 42.46 | 83 (+12) | 2.41% | 1:3 |
| 5 (↑2) | Avatar: The Last Airbender Azula (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (37) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (19) Suki (Avatar),Yue (Avatar) (18) | 42.09 | 118 (+9) | 5.16% | 1:1.8 |
| 6 (↓2) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (146) Emira Blight,Viney (The Owl House) (27) Boscha (The Owl House),Willow Park (23) | 38.73 | 166 (+3) | 8.71% | 19:1 |
| 7 (↓2) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (150) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (32) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (21) | 33.94 | 181 (+9) | 2.79% | 6:1 |
| 8 (↑) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (78) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (19) Luna (The 100),Raven Reyes (7) | 27.81 | 100 (+8) | 0.75% | 5:1 |
| 9 (⇑) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (18) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (12) Amber (Genshin Impact),Ying | Lumine (Genshin Impact) (5) | 23.63 | 45 (?) | 33.09% | 1:6 |
| 10 (↑3) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (69) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (45) Ashido Mina,Uraraka Ochako (7) | 22.47 | 129 (+7) | 2.29% | 1:8 |
| 11 (↑5) | Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses Dorothea Arnault,Edelgard von Hresvelg (10) Dorothea Arnault,Petra Macneary (8) Dorothea Arnault,Ingrid Brandl Galatea (7) | 20.07 | 49 (+1) | 2.12% | 1:2 |
| 12 (⇑) | BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party! (Video Game) Hikawa Sayo,Minato Yukina (5) Imai Lisa,Minato Yukina (4) ... | 19.85 | 21 (?) | 0.80% | 222:1 |
| 13 (↑) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (19) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Rachel Amber (4) Kate Marsh,Victoria Chase (Life is Strange) (4) Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Victoria Chase (Life is Strange) (4) | 17.60 | 32 (-1) | 0.80% | 8:1 |
| 14 (↑) | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (13) Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (6) Alya Césaire,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (5) Chloé Bourgeois,Kagami Tsurugi (5) Chloé Bourgeois,Sabrina Raincomprix (5) | 17.41 | 42 (+1) | 2.08% | 1.1:1 |
| 15 (⇑) | The Originals (TV) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (28) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (16) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (14) | 17.27 | 50 (?) | 1.77% | 1:1.1 |
| 16 (↑) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (6) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (5) Angie Martinelli,Peggy Carter (4) | 16.96 | 43 (-5) | 0.44% | 1:8 |
| 17 (⇑) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (40) Emma Swan,Snow White | Mary Margaret Blanchard (3) ... | 16.75 | 49 (?) | 0.34% | 9:1 |
| 18 (⇑) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (38) Kuvira (Avatar),Opal (Avatar) (5) Korra (Avatar),Kuvira (Avatar) (3) | 16.45 | 79 (?) | 1.52% | 6:1 |
| 19 (↓) | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (53) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (14) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (12) | 15.67 | 59 (+10) | 1.23% | 18:1 |
| 20 (↓8) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (20) Rose Tyler,Thirteenth Doctor (3) Clara Oswin Oswald,Missy (Doctor Who) (2) Missy (Doctor Who),Thirteenth Doctor (2) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (2) | 15.62 | 39 (-4) | 0.78% | 1:1.2 |
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.
