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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2021-01-26 - 2021-02-01
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7311 (+219 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4564 (+114 from last week) (2145 new, 2419 continued)
- 1.14% of all 401375 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- More permutation in, but stability of, the top seven --- Supergirl is back on top. Dangan Ronpa is doing particularly well right now; that fandom had never reached slot two before, and now it's been there for two weeks in a row.
- On the other end, new TV fandom The Wilds hits the charts for the first time at rank 20. Is this fandom is going all the way to the top, or is it a flash in the pan? It's more fun to make predictions and be wrong later, so here goes (and I'm bringing in the "number of ships" graph to help make my case): The Wilds will not make the top five on the strength of its first season. There are only nine distinct ships this week, containing ten characters, and the (canonical?) Shelby/Toni ship is extremely dominant. It's not impossible for a fandom with relatively few characters and a very dominant ship to do well, and arguably the trajectory of Owl House shows a pattern for how. But Owl House first entered the charts with 15 ships containing 13 characters. I think the numbers just aren't there for The Wilds to do what Owl House did, and I think Owl House has about the minimum number of distinct ships that can get a fandom to the top quarter of this particular chart. If you think I'm wrong, I'd love to hear about it!
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 (↑3) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (143) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (18) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (17) | 55.53 | 196 (+35) | 0.80% | 28:1 |
| 2 | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (15) Celestia Ludenberg,Kirigiri Kyouko (12) Mioda Ibuki,Tsumiki Mikan (11) | 45.05 | 87 (-8) | 2.31% | 1:3 |
| 3 (↓2) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (64) Ruby Rose,Weiss Schnee (40) Coco Adel,Velvet Scarlatina (11) | 44.18 | 129 (-8) | 1.30% | 3:1 |
| 4 (↓) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (31) Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (26) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (22) | 42.65 | 160 (-8) | 1.55% | 1:7 |
| 5 (↑) | Avatar: The Last Airbender Azula (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (33) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (28) Mai (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (17) | 39.50 | 103 (-7) | 3.84% | 1:1.7 |
| 6 (↑2) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (159) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (29) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (14) | 34.71 | 172 (+101) | 2.40% | 5:1 |
| 7 (↓2) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (102) Emira Blight,Viney (The Owl House) (18) Boscha (The Owl House),Willow Park (15) | 34.08 | 124 (-18) | 5.28% | 16:1 |
| 8 (↑) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (92) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (52) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (14) | 33.82 | 166 (+27) | 2.74% | 1:8 |
| 9 (↑7) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (20) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (12) Ganyu (Genshin Impact),Keqing (Genshin Impact) (8) | 30.19 | 61 (+12) | 15.29% | 1:7 |
| 10 | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (62) Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (9) Dorothy Gale (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (4) | 29.10 | 79 (+10) | 0.54% | 9:1 |
| 11 (↑8) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (28) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (6) Clara Oswin Oswald,Thirteenth Doctor (4) Leela (Doctor Who),Romana II (Doctor Who) (4) Rose Tyler,Thirteenth Doctor (4) | 26.31 | 61 (+14) | 1.17% | 1:1.2 |
| 12 (↓5) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (98) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (23) Luna (The 100),Raven Reyes (9) | 26.30 | 104 (-6) | 0.77% | 5:1 |
| 13 (↑5) | League of Legends Akali (League of Legends),Evelynn (League of Legends) (18) Ahri (League of Legends),Kai'Sa (League of Legends) (12) Kai'Sa (League of Legends),Sivir (League of Legends) (6) | 24.83 | 40 (+17) | 3.55% | 1:1.0 |
| 14 | The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (33) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (18) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (13) | 24.43 | 63 (-4) | 1.83% | 1.6:1 |
| 15 (↓4) | Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses Dorothea Arnault,Petra Macneary (14) Hilda Valentine Goneril,Marianne von Edmund (9) Dorothea Arnault,Edelgard von Hresvelg (5) | 23.07 | 51 (-3) | 2.03% | 1:2 |
| 16 (↓4) | BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party! (Video Game) Imai Lisa,Minato Yukina (4) ... | 21.15 | 23 (-5) | 0.83% | 215:1 |
| 17 (⇑) | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (18) Chloé Bourgeois,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (11) Chloé Bourgeois,Sabrina Raincomprix (10) Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (10) | 19.52 | 52 (?) | 2.40% | 1.1:1 |
| 18 (↓) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (7) Carol Danvers,Maria Rambeau (6) Carol Danvers,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (5) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (5) | 18.14 | 54 (-11) | 0.54% | 1:8 |
| 19 (⇑) | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (52) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (17) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (11) | 17.51 | 57 (?) | 1.15% | 18:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | The Wilds (TV 2020) Shelby Goodkind,Toni Shalifoe (65) Fatin Jadmani,Leah Rilke (21) Martha Blackburn,Toni Shalifoe (5) Regan (The Wilds),Toni Shalifoe (5) | 17.45 | 76 (?) | 23.75% | 391:1 |
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.
