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High-level stats for week of 2019-04-09 - 2019-04-15

Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 3799 (-219 from last week)

Works I classified F/F: 2347 (-121 from last week) (1041 new, 1306 continued)

0.92% of all 254469 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week

A few callouts this week:

I have bad news, which is that I have no interesting stats info for you this week because I spent all of my fanfic time trying to figure out how to solve the revealed exchange bug. And I have even more bad news, which is that the best solution I came up with is kind of hard, and is going to take awhile to get setup, so expect some more boring weeks in the near future.
All that said, I'm pleased with the solution, which is that I'm planning to start scraping AO3's list of collections looking for challenges which have works revealed on a particular week. For various reasons related to how searches work and how collections are classified and stuff, this is going to be fairly annoying to get working, but it has a major advantage over looking for free-floating works I've missed, namely that when I do lookup new works, they'll be grouped by collection, so I'll be able to report that thus-and-so exchange revealed this week and had X many femslash works and whatnot. Which I think people will like.
With that, over and out for now. Wish me luck.

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 (26) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (26)	45.68	158 (-23)	0.99%	27:1
2	RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (45) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee (25) Coco Adel,Velvet Scarlatina (8)	26.58	81 (-29)	1.52%	5:1
3 (↑6)	Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen \| Regina Mills (82) Dorothy Gale (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood \| Ruby (4) Alice \| Tilly,Robin \| Margot (3) Evil Queen \| Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (3) Evil Queen \| Regina Mills,Red Riding Hood \| Ruby (3)	25.23	99 (+16)	0.80%	9:1
4	Steven Universe (Cartoon) Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe),Peridot (Steven Universe) (17) Jasper (Steven Universe),Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe) (6) Ruby (Steven Universe),Sapphire (Steven Universe) (6)	24.11	43 (-7)	0.81%	15:1
5 (↑2)	Overwatch (Video Game) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Fareeha "Pharah" Amari (10) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Moira O'Deorain (7) Lena "Tracer" Oxton,Widowmaker \| Amélie Lacroix (4)	22.08	35 (-6)	0.64%	1:2
6 (↑8)	Marvel Cinematic Universe Brunnhilde \| Valkyrie (Marvel),Carol Danvers (7) Carol Danvers,Maria Rambeau (5) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (5)	22.03	58 (+3)	0.83%	1:8
7 (↓2)	The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (73) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (14) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (4) Lexa (The 100),Raven Reyes (4) Luna (The 100),Raven Reyes (4)	21.59	79 (-9)	0.71%	5:1
8 (⇑)	Legacies (TV 2018) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (54) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (25) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (16)	21.26	70 (-9)	13.46%	16:1
9 (↓6)	Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (12) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (8) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (8)	20.50	54 (-26)	0.90%	1:8
10 (↑6)	BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party! (Video Game) Matsubara Kanon,Okusawa Misaki (3) Udagawa Tomoe,Yamabuki Saaya (BanG Dream!) (3) Hikawa Sayo,Imai Lisa (2) Ichigaya Arisa,Toyama Kasumi (2) Imai Lisa,Minato Yukina (2)	19.39	27 (+9)	2.92%	410:1
11 (⇑)	She-Ra - All Media Types Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (44) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (5) Catra (She-Ra),Entrapta (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (5) Netossa (She-Ra),Spinnerella (She-Ra) (5)	18.77	48 (-4)	5.48%	25:1
12 (↑)	Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (22) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (7) ...	17.81	41 (-4)	1.29%	1:1.5
13 (↓3)	Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Akamatsu Kaede,Iruma Miu (6) Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (4) Enoshima Junko,Shirogane Tsumugi (3) Iruma Miu,K1-B0 (Dangan Ronpa) (3)	16.16	25 (-7)	1.50%	1:3
14 (↓6)	Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (27) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Rachel Amber (9) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Rachel Amber (6)	16.10	38 (-1)	1.30%	9:1
15 (↑2)	Dragon Age (Video Games) Female Warden (Dragon Age),Leliana (Dragon Age) (4) Cassandra Pentaghast,Female Inquisitor (Dragon Age) (3) ...	14.77	23 (+2)	0.60%	1:3
16 (↓)	僕のヒーローアカデミア \| Boku no Hero Academia \| My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (39) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (32) Ashido Mina,Uraraka Ochako (10)	14.33	72 (-17)	3.08%	1:8
17 (↑2)	Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (42) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (13) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (11)	13.74	45 (+8)	1.38%	27:1
18 (⇑)	Mass Effect Trilogy Female Shepard (Mass Effect),Liara T'Soni (10) Ashley Williams,Female Shepard (Mass Effect) (2) ...	13.31	21 (+15)	1.09%	1:1.1
19 (↓)	Arrow (TV 2012) Ava Sharpe,Sara Lance (23) Nyssa al Ghul,Sara Lance (4) Felicity Smoak,Sara Lance (2)	12.21	44 (-19)	1.58%	1:1.4
20 (⇑)	Little Witch Academia Atsuko "Akko" Kagari,Diana Cavendish (15) Amanda O'Neill,Hannah England (5) Croix Meridies,Ursula Callistis \| Chariot du Nord (4)	11.74	18 (+2)	2.24%	153:1

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.