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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2019-03-19 - 2019-03-25
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 3925 (+27 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 2446 (+97 from last week) (1138 new, 1308 continued)
- 0.97% of all 251161 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- First off: thanks very much everyone who participated in my feature request poll! Here's what I took away from the responses:
- Readers do not, directly, care about data accuracy: they care about features (analysis, recs) and are mostly not bothered at a high level by the idea that there are some bugs in my dataset or data use. Reasonable! I think a lot of the specific accuracy bugs are important precisely because they're blockers for features people might like, but when I'm thinking about what work to do, I should be starting with the desired feature request and fixing accuracy bugs on the way to that feature, and not sweating the accuracy bugs too much on their own merits.
- That said, everyone agrees that the revealed exchanges work undercounting bug is appalling, and I should fix that shit. (But, again, people presumably want that bug fixed primarily because recs from revealed exchanges are more likely to match the kind of recs people want to see more of (i.e. recs from smaller fandoms and ships).)
- A bunch of people want to see better analysis, and the most popular option was picking a fandom of the week and adding some over-time stats about that fandom. That'll take a little bit of doing (and, ahem, fixing some fandom-related bugs), but it'll be my next major project. And I'll take the point that people want more words about what's new or interesting this week: no specific project there, just try to err on the side of finding out and including that stuff.
- For recs, people really want to hear about older works I read during a given week. No problem! I'll kick that off immediately. And the next-most-popular ask was for a classification system, which doesn't take any code to spin up; I'll experiment with some category names, and add them to the FAQ once I've picked them.
- Again, thanks for participating everyone; this was super helpful! And a particular hat tip to isis for getting my current list of tag errors reported back into wrangler-space.
- Readers do not, directly, care about data accuracy: they care about features (analysis, recs) and are mostly not bothered at a high level by the idea that there are some bugs in my dataset or data use. Reasonable! I think a lot of the specific accuracy bugs are important precisely because they're blockers for features people might like, but when I'm thinking about what work to do, I should be starting with the desired feature request and fixing accuracy bugs on the way to that feature, and not sweating the accuracy bugs too much on their own merits.
- As promised from last week's bug report, I did add the fix to recheck "uncommon" ships that appear in new works. I think it made a significant difference: the number of works I excluded because I couldn't find a valid ship in them fell by around 100 works. That's about 3% of all works tagged F/F this week, and after accounting for jumps in things excluded for other reasons, it looks like about 2% of F/F works are now being reported on which were wrongly excluded before. Not too shabby for one bugfix.
- Recs time: nothing from new shiny fandoms this week, because I've been focusing on those bugfixes and the poll. Instead how about:
- A chewy Breq/Seivarden 1930s mob/noir AU
- From the vaults: I went hunting for Emily of New Moon fic this week, and came up with the Tumblr AU (which is ridiculous but pretty damn funny), and an actual canon-divergence. Both Emily/Ilse; I want to stop and be surprised by how little there is in this canon given how much of a Yuletide staple Anne/Diana is.
- A chewy Breq/Seivarden 1930s mob/noir AU
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 (105) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (34) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (30) | 47.32 | 159 (+20) | 1.01% | 27:1 |
| 2 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (54) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee (37) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (7) | 35.26 | 96 (+3) | 1.85% | 5:1 |
| 3 | Steven Universe (Cartoon) Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe),Peridot (Steven Universe) (13) Ruby (Steven Universe),Sapphire (Steven Universe) (4) ... | 24.65 | 40 (-9) | 0.76% | 15:1 |
| 4 | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (90) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (24) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (7) | 24.16 | 98 (+13) | 0.89% | 5:1 |
| 5 (↑6) | The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (55) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (22) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (14) | 20.98 | 75 (+3) | 7.20% | 1:1.2 |
| 6 (⇑) | BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party! (Video Game) Hikawa Hina,Maruyama Aya (4) Hikawa Sayo,Minato Yukina (4) Seta Kaoru,Shirasagi Chisato (3) Shirokane Rinko,Udagawa Ako (3) | 20.01 | 24 (+7) | 2.75% | 388:1 |
| 7 (↓) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (11) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (10) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (6) | 19.98 | 59 (-2) | 1.00% | 1:8 |
| 8 (↑8) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Akamatsu Kaede,Harukawa Maki (5) Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (4) Akamatsu Kaede,Iruma Miu (3) Celestia Ludenberg,Kirigiri Kyouko (3) Fukawa Touko,Naegi Komaru (3) | 19.30 | 27 (+5) | 1.65% | 1:3 |
| 9 (↓2) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (31) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Rachel Amber (18) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Rachel Amber (7) | 18.77 | 46 (-5) | 1.60% | 9:1 |
| 10 (⇑) | Archie Comics Cheryl Blossom,Toni Topaz (59) Betty Cooper,Veronica Lodge (4) Cheryl Blossom,Veronica Lodge (4) | 17.69 | 67 (+17) | 2.99% | 1:1.0 |
| 11 (↓2) | Overwatch (Video Game) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Fareeha "Pharah" Amari (12) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Moira O'Deorain (4) Lena "Tracer" Oxton,Widowmaker | Amélie Lacroix (4) | 17.44 | 35 (+4) | 0.65% | 1:2 |
| 12 (↓4) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Carol Danvers,Maria Rambeau (11) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (8) Brunnhilde | Valkyrie (Marvel),Carol Danvers (5) Carol Danvers,Maria Rambeau,Monica Rambeau (5) | 16.77 | 55 (-7) | 0.80% | 1:8 |
| 13 (⇑) | Dragon Age (Video Games) Cassandra Pentaghast,Female Inquisitor (Dragon Age) (4) Female Hawke,Merrill (Dragon Age) (4) ... | 16.40 | 25 (+3) | 0.65% | 1:3 |
| 14 (↓) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (39) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (10) Catra (She-Ra),Entrapta (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (5) | 16.17 | 49 (-2) | 4.81% | 9:1 |
| 15 (↓5) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (70) Dorothy Gale (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (5) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (3) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Red Riding Hood | Ruby (3) | 15.84 | 78 (+4) | 0.64% | 9:1 |
| 16 (⇑) | Doctor Who & Related Fandoms Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (28) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (7) Jenny Flint,Madame Vastra (Doctor Who) (4) | 15.78 | 47 (-4) | 1.63% | 1:3 |
| 17 (↑) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (50) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (37) Ashido Mina,Uraraka Ochako (8) | 15.76 | 78 (+3) | 3.47% | 1:8 |
| 18 (↓3) | Pitch Perfect (Movies) Beca Mitchell,Chloe Beale (27) Aubrey Posen,Stacie Conrad (4) Aubrey Posen,Beca Mitchell (3) Beca Mitchell,Emily Junk (3) | 15.25 | 36 (-7) | 0.96% | 93:1 |
| 19 (↓2) | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (39) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (13) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (8) | 13.06 | 41 (-4) | 1.27% | 28:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Fire Emblem: If | Fire Emblem: Fates Aqua | Azura,My Unit | Kamui | Corrin (3) Camilla (Fire Emblem),Hinoka (Fire Emblem) (3) Lucina (Fire Emblem),My Unit | Reflet | Robin (2) | 12.58 | 14 (+0) | 1.16% | 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.
