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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2021-02-23 - 2021-03-01
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7442 (-441 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4531 (-283 from last week) (2077 new, 2454 continued)
- 1.1% of all 411073 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Well, this is a very flat week. It doesn't seem like Supergirl is going back to that top slot any time soon, but next week is a new week.
- I spent a bunch of time looking at destinationtoast's F/F stats, which I linked to last week as well. Destinationtoast uses a couple of much simpler metrics --- the grey bars showing "works not tagged F/F" and the secondary charts of "top fandoms where F/F is the main category" --- for what I spend most of my time on this project doing, namely, trying to tease out fandoms where you are going to have a good experience looking for F/F (where that's extremely subjective, but my interpretation has always been "find a lot of works which actually center multiple characters who are canonically non-male"). I think our metrics are probably about equally effective towards that goal. It's very non-apples-to-apples, because I'm not primarily showing you a "best fandoms of all time" view, but a week-by-week view. One of my main goals coming out of this analysis is going to be to try to come up with an all-time view that i can show occasionally. I conclude that there are a few different patterns of fandoms that make sense to discuss in the F/F space:
- Fandoms that are primarily F/F. These fandoms are easy; most of the works tagged F/F will actually center non-male characters, so you just measure how big they are, and you're done.
- Fandoms that are overwhelmingly non-F/F, but huge enough that there's a significant amount of F/F anyway. For these fandoms, you care both about how big the fandom is and about how much (and how) to discount for works with the F/F tag that may not be what femslash fans are looking for.
- Fandoms that are big (but not huge) and somewhat (but not overwhelmingly) non-F/F. These are the fandoms where I think actually doing the work-by-work analysis makes the most difference --- the simple bar size analysis can tell you that Overwatch is more reliable than Supernatural, but understanding the F/F ship diversity of pretty-big fandoms is what pulls fandoms like Dragon Age, Buffy, and Archie/Riverdale onto my all-time top 25.
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 Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (45) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (31) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (19) | 57.59 | 200 (-29) | 1.86% | 1:7 |
| 2 | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (123) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (21) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (16) | 50.62 | 171 (-36) | 0.69% | 28:1 |
| 3 | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Fukawa Touko,Naegi Komaru (12) Akamatsu Kaede,Iruma Miu (10) Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (10) Nanami Chiaki,Sonia Nevermind (10) | 44.91 | 91 (-23) | 2.25% | 1:3 |
| 4 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (74) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (11) Coco Adel,Velvet Scarlatina (10) | 43.83 | 125 (+6) | 1.23% | 3:1 |
| 5 | Avatar: The Last Airbender Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (34) Azula (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (22) Mai (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (20) | 43.41 | 98 (-5) | 3.32% | 1:1.7 |
| 6 | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (109) Emira Blight,Viney (The Owl House) (21) Boscha (The Owl House),Willow Park (9) | 33.70 | 124 (-21) | 4.81% | 16:1 |
| 7 | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (144) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (31) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (11) | 33.62 | 153 (+87) | 2.06% | 5:1 |
| 8 (↑4) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (19) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (15) Ganyu (Genshin Impact),Keqing (Genshin Impact) (9) | 27.89 | 61 (-1) | 10.13% | 1:7 |
| 9 (↑2) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (78) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (43) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (16) | 27.18 | 159 (-5) | 2.51% | 1:8 |
| 10 (↓2) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (53) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (4) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Snow White | Mary Margaret Blanchard (4) | 25.30 | 73 (-5) | 0.50% | 9:1 |
| 11 (↑3) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (18) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (9) Darcy Lewis,Monica Rambeau (4) Darcy Lewis,Wanda Maximoff (4) | 24.76 | 80 (+18) | 0.78% | 1:8 |
| 12 (⇑) | Dragon Age (Video Games) Cassandra Pentaghast,Female Inquisitor (Dragon Age) (4) Dagna (Dragon Age),Sera (Dragon Age) (3) Female Hawke,Isabela (Dragon Age) (3) | 23.29 | 35 (?) | 0.72% | 1:3 |
| 13 (⇑) | DCU (Comics) Cassandra Cain,Stephanie Brown (5) Courtney Whitmore,Yolanda Montez (3) Komand'r (DCU),Raven (DCU) (3) | 20.91 | 57 (?) | 1.61% | 1:6 |
| 14 (⇑) | 明日方舟 | Arknights (Video Game) Ifrit (Arknights),Silence (Arknights) (4) Saria (Arknights),Silence (Arknights) (3) ... | 20.57 | 23 (?) | 3.00% | 1:1.4 |
| 15 (↓6) | The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (32) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (16) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (14) | 20.43 | 60 (-18) | 1.68% | 1.6:1 |
| 16 (↓) | Doctor Who & Related Fandoms Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (29) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (10) Bill Potts,Heather (Doctor Who: The Pilot) (3) Clara Oswin Oswald,Missy (Doctor Who) (3) Rose Tyler,Thirteenth Doctor (3) | 19.50 | 55 (-18) | 1.08% | 1:2 |
| 17 (↓) | League of Legends Akali (League of Legends),Evelynn (League of Legends) (18) Ahri (League of Legends),Kai'Sa (League of Legends) (10) Ahri (League of Legends),Akali (League of Legends),Evelynn (League of Legends),Kai'Sa (League of Legends) (3) Ahri (League of Legends),Evelynn (League of Legends) (3) Akali (League of Legends),Kai'Sa (League of Legends) (3) | 19.11 | 33 (+2) | 2.78% | 1.0:1 |
| 18 (↓8) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (75) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (12) Luna (The 100),Raven Reyes (7) | 18.56 | 81 (-15) | 0.59% | 5:1 |
| 19 (↑) | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (19) Alya Césaire,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (5) Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (5) | 17.62 | 40 (-1) | 1.79% | 1.1:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney Ayasato Mayoi | Maya Fey,Karuma Mei | Franziska von Karma (8) Kidzuki Kokone | Athena Cykes,Morizumi Shinobu | Juniper Woods (8) Houzuki Akane | Ema Skye,Ichijou Mikumo | Kay Faraday (5) | 17.47 | 31 (?) | 3.21% | 1:6 |
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.
