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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2019-02-12 - 2019-02-18
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 4666 (+437 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 2987 (+322 from last week) (1622 new, 1365 continued)
- 1.22% of all 245240 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- I found another bug, and it's... not great. I demonstrated conclusively to myself that works in revealed exchanges don't have their last update date updated when they reveal. So I've been seriously undercounting exchange works. Drat. Sorry. I'm not going to fix it immediately, because it's going to take some thinking. But what I am going to do is add a "known bugs" section to the boilerplate text about the project behind the cut, so that readers can remind themselves what isn't fixed yet. I'm only going to include bugs that have an easy-to-describe impact on the stats; there are lots of bugs that as far as I know only affect ease-of-use of generating the stats each week or adding new graphs or finding works to rec, and I may prioritize fixing those, but I don't think you need to know about them to understand how accurate the data is.
- I don't remember Neeoma Connally from Babylon 5, and frankly I barely remember Lochley, but I liked this story.
- Rosa/Holtzmann is a great crossover ship, and this is a great plot-heavy entertaining work in that ship. Warning: Peralta.
- While we're here, have a Spy Who Dumped Me rec as well.
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 (125) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (77) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (29) | 55.06 | 234 (+29) | 1.52% | 27:1 |
| 2 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (78) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee (44) Blake Belladonna,Weiss Schnee (12) | 40.14 | 134 (+18) | 2.71% | 5:1 |
| 3 | Steven Universe (Cartoon) Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe),Peridot (Steven Universe) (22) Blue Diamond (Steven Universe),Yellow Diamond (Steven Universe) (16) Ruby (Steven Universe),Sapphire (Steven Universe) (10) | 35.78 | 68 (-8) | 1.33% | 15:1 |
| 4 (↑3) | BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party! (Video Game) Hikawa Sayo,Minato Yukina (7) Hazawa Tsugumi,Hikawa Sayo (6) Matsubara Kanon,Okusawa Misaki (5) | 31.48 | 40 (+12) | 5.13% | 350:1 |
| 5 (↓) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (19) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (13) Hermione Granger,Narcissa Black Malfoy (11) | 31.43 | 88 (+8) | 1.53% | 1:8 |
| 6 (↓) | Overwatch (Video Game) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Fareeha "Pharah" Amari (13) Lena "Tracer" Oxton,Widowmaker | Amélie Lacroix (11) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Moira O'Deorain (8) | 28.18 | 56 (+0) | 1.06% | 1:2 |
| 7 (↑6) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (69) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (6) Dorothy Gale (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (5) | 24.84 | 85 (+6) | 0.70% | 9:1 |
| 8 (↑) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (70) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (16) Anya (The 100),Clarke Griffin (4) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (4) | 22.58 | 79 (+6) | 0.73% | 5:1 |
| 9 (↑3) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Angie Martinelli,Peggy Carter (9) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (9) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Pepper Potts (8) | 22.31 | 60 (-1) | 0.89% | 1:8 |
| 10 (↑9) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (62) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (36) Ashido Mina,Uraraka Ochako (5) | 22.24 | 103 (+36) | 4.94% | 1:8 |
| 11 (↓5) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (56) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (15) Entrapta (She-Ra),Perfuma (She-Ra) (5) | 20.19 | 69 (-2) | 7.91% | 10:1 |
| 12 (↓) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (31) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Rachel Amber (13) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Rachel Amber (5) | 18.27 | 48 (-10) | 1.71% | 9:1 |
| 13 (↓5) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Celestia Ludenberg,Kirigiri Kyouko (6) Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (3) ... | 17.28 | 28 (-7) | 1.79% | 1:3 |
| 14 (⇑) | Love Live! Sunshine!! Sakurauchi Riko,Takami Chika (8) Takami Chika,Watanabe You (3) ... | 17.15 | 23 (+10) | 1.27% | 221:1 |
| 15 (↑) | Archie Comics Cheryl Blossom,Toni Topaz (45) Betty Cooper,Veronica Lodge (5) Alice Cooper (Archie Comics),Betty Cooper (2) Cheryl Blossom,Veronica Lodge (2) Toni Topaz,Veronica Lodge (2) | 16.58 | 56 (+6) | 2.62% | 1:1.0 |
| 16 (⇑) | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (57) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (15) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (14) | 16.55 | 59 (+3) | 1.88% | 27:1 |
| 17 (↓3) | The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (20) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (13) ... | 16.45 | 40 (+5) | 4.76% | 1:1.4 |
| 18 (↓8) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (42) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (8) Clara Oswin Oswald,Missy (Doctor Who) (2) Jenny Flint,Madame Vastra (Doctor Who) (2) Rose Tyler,Thirteenth Doctor (2) | 16.45 | 60 (+2) | 1.99% | 1:1.5 |
| 19 (⇑) | Dragon Age (Video Games) Female Warden (Dragon Age),Leliana (Dragon Age) (4) Aveline Vallen,Female Hawke (3) Cassandra Pentaghast,Female Inquisitor (Dragon Age) (3) Female Hawke,Merrill (Dragon Age) (3) | 15.03 | 27 (+11) | 0.71% | 1:3 |
| 20 (⇑) | Pitch Perfect (Movies) Beca Mitchell,Chloe Beale (26) Aubrey Posen,Stacie Conrad (7) Beca Mitchell,Emily Junk (4) | 14.84 | 36 (+10) | 0.99% | 91:1 |
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.
