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Femslash week in review: 2019-03-26 - 2019-04-01
High-level stats for week of 2019-03-26 - 2019-04-01
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 3997 (+72 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 2491 (+45 from last week) (1157 new, 1334 continued)
- 0.99% of all 252318 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Well, hello MCU. What happened here? A quick look inside the ships suggests that this is more like looking forward to Endgame than like Captain Marvel fever. There are 10 ships including a new-in-CM character this week as opposed to 8 last week... but there are 60 ships represented in works overall, as opposed to 33 last week. Everyone is panicking and writing fic, and that's why the chart looks like that.
- This week I'm continuing to work on cleaning up duplicate ships in my data cache (that's two ships with identical canonical characters and ship type), and I'm very close to done with that and ready to get back to bugs people care about and new features. Stand by.
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 (107) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (41) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (27) | 55.88 | 169 (+10) | 1.07% | 28:1 |
| 2 (↑10) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (18) Angie Martinelli,Peggy Carter (11) Carol Danvers,Maria Rambeau (9) | 37.15 | 86 (+31) | 1.24% | 1:8 |
| 3 (↓) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (54) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee (31) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (11) | 34.63 | 101 (+5) | 1.93% | 5:1 |
| 4 (↑3) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (15) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (9) Hermione Granger,Narcissa Black Malfoy (6) | 30.85 | 73 (+14) | 1.23% | 1:8 |
| 5 (↓2) | Steven Universe (Cartoon) Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe),Peridot (Steven Universe) (16) Blue Diamond (Steven Universe),Yellow Diamond (Steven Universe) (10) Jasper (Steven Universe),Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe) (9) | 26.52 | 47 (+7) | 0.89% | 15:1 |
| 6 (↓2) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (75) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (18) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (6) | 24.92 | 85 (-13) | 0.77% | 5:1 |
| 7 (⇑) | The Vampire Diaries (TV) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (64) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (27) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (17) | 22.78 | 86 (+11) | 8.51% | 1:2 |
| 8 (↑5) | Dragon Age (Video Games) Cassandra Pentaghast,Female Inquisitor (Dragon Age) (5) Female Warden (Dragon Age),Leliana (Dragon Age) (4) Inquisitor (Dragon Age),Josephine Montilyet (3) | 21.21 | 30 (+5) | 0.78% | 1:3 |
| 9 (↓3) | BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party! (Video Game) Ichigaya Arisa,Toyama Kasumi (4) Hazawa Tsugumi,Hikawa Sayo (3) Imai Lisa,Minato Yukina (3) | 20.85 | 28 (+4) | 3.13% | 397:1 |
| 10 (↑) | Overwatch (Video Game) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Fareeha "Pharah" Amari (11) Lena "Tracer" Oxton,Widowmaker | Amélie Lacroix (7) Fareeha "Pharah" Amari,Satya "Symmetra" Vaswani (4) | 19.01 | 38 (+3) | 0.70% | 1:2 |
| 11 (↑4) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (76) Dorothy Gale (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (5) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Red Riding Hood | Ruby (3) | 18.32 | 85 (+7) | 0.69% | 9:1 |
| 12 (↑5) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (45) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (41) Ashido Mina,Uraraka Ochako (7) | 17.02 | 87 (+9) | 3.82% | 1:8 |
| 13 (↓4) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (25) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Rachel Amber (14) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Rachel Amber (4) Kate Marsh,Victoria Chase (Life is Strange) (4) | 16.76 | 39 (-7) | 1.35% | 9:1 |
| 14 (↓6) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Akamatsu Kaede,Iruma Miu (6) Akamatsu Kaede,Harukawa Maki (5) Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (5) | 16.41 | 26 (-1) | 1.58% | 1:3 |
| 15 (↓) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (39) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (8) Netossa (She-Ra),Spinnerella (She-Ra) (5) | 16.08 | 44 (-5) | 4.23% | 9:1 |
| 16 (↓6) | Archie Comics Cheryl Blossom,Toni Topaz (47) Betty Cooper,Veronica Lodge (7) Cheryl Blossom,Veronica Lodge (5) | 15.46 | 55 (-12) | 2.42% | 1:1.0 |
| 17 (⇑) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (26) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (6) Jenny Flint,Madame Vastra (Doctor Who) (2) | 14.13 | 41 (-6) | 1.30% | 1:1.5 |
| 18 (⇑) | Fire Emblem: Kakusei | Fire Emblem: Awakening Lucina (Fire Emblem),My Unit | Reflet | Robin (2) Lucina (Fire Emblem),Serena | Severa (2) Sumia (Fire Emblem),Tiamo | Cordelia (2) | 12.53 | 15 (+2) | 1.47% | 1:1.3 |
| 19 (⇑) | Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy - Cassandra Clare Clary Fray,Isabelle Lightwood (14) Aline Penhallow,Helen Blackthorn (5) Clary Fray,Maia Roberts (4) | 11.75 | 25 (+15) | 1.52% | 1:5 |
| 20 (↓) | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (44) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (11) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (6) | 11.48 | 49 (+8) | 1.51% | 28:1 |
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.