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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2019-04-02 - 2019-04-08
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 4018 (+21 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 2468 (-23 from last week) (1110 new, 1358 continued)
- 0.97% of all 253428 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- The Originals jumped out of nowhere for the first time in years because it traded off with Vampire Diaries, which makes sense. Known weakness in the dataset, nothing to see here.
- Rec, "this is why the internet is great" category: someone wrote a long, discursive fic about Julia/Katherine from 1984, in Chinese, and this week someone else translated it to English
- Rec, "Harry Potter is probably its own category" category: I'm always a little dubious about reccing in HP because there's almost certainly nothing new under the sun at this point, but time-travel fix-it Hermione/Pansy was new to me, so there we are.
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 (114) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (32) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (30) | 51.79 | 181 (+12) | 1.14% | 27:1 |
| 2 (↑) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (48) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee (42) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (10) | 37.48 | 110 (+9) | 2.08% | 5:1 |
| 3 (↑) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (15) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (13) Hermione Granger,Narcissa Black Malfoy (9) | 29.63 | 80 (+7) | 1.34% | 1:8 |
| 4 (↑) | Steven Universe (Cartoon) Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe),Peridot (Steven Universe) (25) Jasper (Steven Universe),Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe) (8) Ruby (Steven Universe),Sapphire (Steven Universe) (8) | 25.63 | 50 (+3) | 0.94% | 15:1 |
| 5 (↑) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (79) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (20) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (5) | 23.11 | 88 (+3) | 0.79% | 5:1 |
| 6 (⇑) | The Originals (TV) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (57) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (26) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (21) | 21.62 | 83 (-3) | 10.39% | 1:1.1 |
| 7 (↑3) | Overwatch (Video Game) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Fareeha "Pharah" Amari (13) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Moira O'Deorain (7) Lena "Tracer" Oxton,Widowmaker | Amélie Lacroix (7) | 20.87 | 41 (+3) | 0.76% | 1:2 |
| 8 (↑5) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (27) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Rachel Amber (12) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Rachel Amber (5) | 19.82 | 39 (+0) | 1.34% | 9:1 |
| 9 (↑2) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (72) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (6) Dorothy Gale (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (4) | 19.68 | 83 (-2) | 0.67% | 9:1 |
| 10 (↑4) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (8) Akamatsu Kaede,Iruma Miu (7) Akamatsu Kaede,Harukawa Maki (3) Celestia Ludenberg,Kirigiri Kyouko (3) | 18.86 | 32 (+6) | 1.93% | 1:3 |
| 11 (↑5) | Archie Comics Cheryl Blossom,Toni Topaz (47) Betty Cooper,Veronica Lodge (7) Cheryl Blossom,Veronica Lodge (4) | 17.77 | 57 (+2) | 2.48% | 1.0:1 |
| 12 (↑3) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (48) Catra (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (4) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (3) Catra (She-Ra),Entrapta (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (3) Entrapta (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (3) | 17.32 | 54 (+10) | 5.04% | 9:1 |
| 13 (↑4) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (30) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (6) Clara Oswin Oswald,Thirteenth Doctor (2) Jenny Flint,Madame Vastra (Doctor Who) (2) | 17.01 | 45 (+4) | 1.42% | 1:1.5 |
| 14 (↓12) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (10) Carol Danvers,Maria Rambeau (8) ... | 16.79 | 55 (-31) | 0.79% | 1:8 |
| 15 (↓3) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (59) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (46) Ashido Mina,Hagakure Tooru (6) Ashido Mina,Uraraka Ochako (6) | 16.64 | 89 (+2) | 3.85% | 1:8 |
| 16 (↓7) | BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party! (Video Game) Hazawa Tsugumi,Hikawa Sayo (2) Maruyama Aya,Shirasagi Chisato (2) ... | 15.66 | 18 (-10) | 1.98% | 402:1 |
| 17 (↓9) | Dragon Age (Video Games) Cassandra Pentaghast,Female Inquisitor (Dragon Age) (4) Female Warden (Dragon Age),Leliana (Dragon Age) (4) ... | 13.85 | 21 (-9) | 0.55% | 1:3 |
| 18 (⇑) | Arrow (TV 2012) Ava Sharpe,Sara Lance (37) Nyssa al Ghul,Sara Lance (7) Dinah Drake (Arrow),Earth-2 Laurel Lance (3) | 13.29 | 63 (+28) | 2.27% | 1:1.4 |
| 19 (↑) | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (34) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (13) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (9) | 13.00 | 37 (-12) | 1.14% | 27:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Love Live! School Idol Project Nishikino Maki,Yazawa Nico (8) Ayase Eli,Toujou Nozomi (6) Hoshizora Rin,Koizumi Hanayo (4) | 12.30 | 17 (+5) | 0.82% | 120:1 |
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.
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Date: 2019-04-15 07:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-04-15 10:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-04-15 10:55 am (UTC)Thanks very much for the encouragement, but I'm afraid I don't have a list of old HP femslash recs. In the earlier days of internet fandom, I read what my offline friends recommended, which was almost all dudes and het. This entire project is kind of a rebellion against my fandom upbringing. :>)
That said, I'll definitely dig up what I can find at some point, and I'm glad to know people are interested in it.
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Date: 2019-04-15 11:46 am (UTC)(For what it's worth, I don't think you're any more of a fandom newbie than I am, as far as any sort of reading/writing/active participation is concerned. Motto: just because I'm a newbie doesn't mean I can't post graphs.)