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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2021-02-16 - 2021-02-22
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7883 (-607 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4814 (-567 from last week) (2326 new, 2488 continued)
- 1.18% of all 408996 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- destinationtoast's 2021 annual F/F stats report is out, so you want to take a look at that if you haven't. I'm still parsing Toasty's analysis, but I'll have some more detailed responses, and maybe some new graphs, hopefully by next week.
- Meanwhile, back in the current week, Harry Potter is in the top slot for the second week in a row, and we may be hitting a new stable point in the top five-or-six overall. Once Upon a Time seems to be having a resurgence, hitting the top ten for the first time since last May.
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 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (45) Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (40) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (31) | 59.79 | 229 (+1) | 2.14% | 1:7 |
| 2 (↑) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (159) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (25) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (21) | 54.71 | 207 (-6) | 0.83% | 28:1 |
| 3 (↓) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (19) Akamatsu Kaede,Iruma Miu (17) Fukawa Touko,Naegi Komaru (13) | 49.31 | 114 (-5) | 2.86% | 1:3 |
| 4 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (70) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (12) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (10) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Yang Xiao Long (10) | 43.96 | 119 (-15) | 1.18% | 3:1 |
| 5 | Avatar: The Last Airbender Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (35) Azula (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (33) Mai (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (14) | 41.88 | 103 (-12) | 3.54% | 1:1.7 |
| 6 | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (127) Emira Blight,Viney (The Owl House) (22) Boscha (The Owl House),Willow Park (10) | 36.68 | 145 (-1) | 5.75% | 16:1 |
| 7 (↑) | She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018) Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (47) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (33) Catra (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (16) | 31.72 | 66 (-115) | 3.76% | 18:1 |
| 8 (↑6) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (59) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (5) Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (4) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Snow White | Mary Margaret Blanchard (4) | 28.54 | 78 (-7) | 0.53% | 9:1 |
| 9 (↑2) | The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (47) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (15) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (13) | 27.84 | 78 (-7) | 2.20% | 1.6:1 |
| 10 | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (83) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (13) Clarke Griffin,Raven Reyes (5) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (5) Luna (The 100),Raven Reyes (5) | 26.70 | 96 (-16) | 0.70% | 5:1 |
| 11 (↓2) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (93) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (52) Ashido Mina,Uraraka Ochako (12) | 24.72 | 164 (-30) | 2.62% | 1:8 |
| 12 (↓5) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (25) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (24) Amber (Genshin Impact),Ying | Lumine (Genshin Impact) (10) | 23.79 | 62 (-44) | 10.97% | 1:7 |
| 13 (⇑) | Pitch Perfect (Movies) Beca Mitchell,Chloe Beale (32) Aubrey Posen,Beca Mitchell (7) Chloe Beale,Stacie Conrad (5) | 20.14 | 46 (?) | 0.88% | 63:1 |
| 14 (↓2) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (14) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Pepper Potts (6) Darcy Lewis,Monica Rambeau (5) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (5) | 19.60 | 62 (-17) | 0.61% | 1:8 |
| 15 (↑) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (50) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (6) Clara Oswin Oswald,Thirteenth Doctor (5) | 19.53 | 73 (+15) | 1.37% | 1:1.1 |
| 16 (⇑) | League of Legends Akali (League of Legends),Evelynn (League of Legends) (13) Ahri (League of Legends),Kai'Sa (League of Legends) (9) Akali (League of Legends),Kai'Sa (League of Legends) (3) Diana (League of Legends),Leona (League of Legends) (3) Kai'Sa (League of Legends),Sivir (League of Legends) (3) | 19.34 | 31 (?) | 2.65% | 1.0:1 |
| 17 (⇑) | Arrow (TV 2012) Ava Sharpe,Sara Lance (13) Nyssa al Ghul,Sara Lance (6) ... | 17.81 | 47 (?) | 1.00% | 1:1.1 |
| 18 (⇑) | Star Trek: Discovery Michael Burnham,Philippa Georgiou (3) ... | 17.61 | 21 (?) | 4.13% | 1:1.7 |
| 19 (⇑) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (18) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Rachel Amber (7) ... | 17.60 | 32 (?) | 0.78% | 8:1 |
| 20 (↓3) | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (14) Chloé Bourgeois,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (7) Alya Césaire,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (6) | 17.10 | 41 (-6) | 1.85% | 1.1:1 |
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.
