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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2019-04-30 - 2019-05-06
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 4011 (+855 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 2466 (+509 from last week) (1282 new, 1184 continued)
- 0.96% of all 258111 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Unfortunately, my guess is that last week's MCU dip is an artifact of my gathering the data at a different time in the week than usual. Sorry about that --- it's an incentive to automate more of this, so that we don't lose signal as a result of my offline schedule. (Also, bluntly, that artifact make me suspicious that I'm still dramatically overcounting single works with a lot of ships in them. I thought I fixed that. Here's a theory I'm not going to check, but which seems super plausible for MCU: suppose someone has a mammoth WIP with 30 ships in it, of which 29 are M/M ships and 1 is Maria/Natasha. I bet I'm not applying a discount rate to that work as an F/F work, because it only has one F/F ship. Now suppose there are a lot of works like that... Ugh.) I know from the survey that you my readers are not particularly bothered by inaccuracies in the internals of my rating system, but they really bother me, and they bother me precisely because when I go in after an event like Endgame and try to answer questions like "Which F/F ships in MCU got the biggest bounce from this movie?", which some of you probably do care about, I can't do it because of data inaccuracy problems.
- Anyway, MCU: it looks like the Carol/Valkyrie train is leaving the station with everyone aboard. Looking under the hood, I'm honestly not seeing anything in the top ten ships this week that I can point to as specifically Endgame-centric: feel free to speculate about this in the comments: those top ten ships are: Carol,Valkyrie (28), Natasha,Wanda (19), Carol,Maria R (17), Maria H/Natasha (15), Carol,Maria R,Monica (8), Shuri/MJ (7), Natasha/Pepper (6), Carol/Natasha (6), Angie/Peggy (5), Jessica Jones,Natasha (4). You could argue for a Natasha bounce, and that's probably accurate, but on the other hand five of the top ten ships had Natasha the week before Endgame came out too. Clearly I am interested in doing a deep-dive into MCU F/F ships over time. Maybe I will.
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 (106) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (34) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (26) | 48.17 | 164 (+49) | 1.02% | 27:1 |
| 2 (↑7) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Brunnhilde | Valkyrie (Marvel),Carol Danvers (28) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (19) Carol Danvers,Maria Rambeau (17) | 39.93 | 123 (+68) | 1.71% | 1:8 |
| 3 (↑7) | Steven Universe (Cartoon) Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe),Peridot (Steven Universe) (20) Amethyst (Steven Universe),Peridot (Steven Universe) (7) Blue Diamond (Steven Universe),Yellow Diamond (Steven Universe) (7) | 30.45 | 54 (+22) | 1.01% | 14:1 |
| 4 (↓2) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (39) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee (34) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (9) | 29.01 | 83 (+11) | 1.52% | 5:1 |
| 5 (↑10) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (86) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (26) Clarke Griffin,Raven Reyes (7) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (7) | 27.89 | 98 (+43) | 0.87% | 5:1 |
| 6 (↓2) | Overwatch (Video Game) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Fareeha "Pharah" Amari (14) Lena "Tracer" Oxton,Widowmaker | Amélie Lacroix (14) Emily (Overwatch),Lena "Tracer" Oxton (9) | 25.48 | 48 (+7) | 0.87% | 1:2 |
| 7 (↓4) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (12) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (11) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (10) | 22.07 | 62 (-1) | 1.02% | 1:8 |
| 8 (↓2) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (55) Catra (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (10) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (7) | 21.76 | 69 (-2) | 5.67% | 10:1 |
| 9 (↑7) | The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (42) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (18) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (16) | 19.37 | 61 (+28) | 4.82% | 1:1.1 |
| 10 (↑3) | Homestuck Kanaya Maryam,Rose Lalonde (24) Terezi Pyrope,Vriska Serket (6) Calliope (Homestuck),Roxy Lalonde (4) | 18.91 | 41 (+16) | 0.74% | 1:3 |
| 11 (↑3) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (25) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Rachel Amber (11) Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Victoria Chase (Life is Strange) (9) | 18.78 | 41 (+12) | 1.39% | 9:1 |
| 12 (↑8) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Akamatsu Kaede,Iruma Miu (9) Celestia Ludenberg,Kirigiri Kyouko (3) Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (3) Enoshima Junko,Shirogane Tsumugi (3) | 16.75 | 27 (+7) | 1.58% | 1:3 |
| 13 (↓) | Dragon Age (Video Games) Female Hawke,Isabela (Dragon Age) (6) Cassandra Pentaghast,Female Inquisitor (Dragon Age) (4) Female Warden (Dragon Age),Leliana (Dragon Age) (3) | 15.85 | 27 (+4) | 0.70% | 1:3 |
| 14 (↑4) | Game of Thrones (TV) Margaery Tyrell,Sansa Stark (14) Daenerys Targaryen,Sansa Stark (12) Arya Stark,Daenerys Targaryen (7) | 14.98 | 41 (+16) | 1.98% | 1:1.8 |
| 15 (⇑) | Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (TV 2018) Mary Wardwell | Madam Satan,Zelda Spellman (14) Mary Wardwell | Madam Satan | Lilith,Zelda Spellman (6) Hilda Spellman,Mary Wardwell | Madam Satan | Lilith (3) Hilda Spellman,Zelda Spellman (3) | 14.88 | 27 (+8) | 9.38% | 9:1 |
| 16 (↓11) | BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party! (Video Game) Hikawa Sayo,Minato Yukina (3) Ichigaya Arisa,Toyama Kasumi (2) Maruyama Aya,Shirasagi Chisato (2) Seta Kaoru,Shirasagi Chisato (2) | 14.58 | 16 (-9) | 1.63% | 431:1 |
| 17 (↓6) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (57) Dorothy Gale (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (3) Alice | Tilly,Robin | Margot (2) | 14.11 | 64 (+16) | 0.52% | 9:1 |
| 18 (⇑) | Arrow (TV 2012) Ava Sharpe,Sara Lance (25) Charlie (DC's Legends of Tomorrow),Zari Tomaz (5) Dinah Drake (Arrow),Earth-2 Laurel Lance (2) Nyssa al Ghul,Sara Lance (2) | 12.44 | 43 (+11) | 1.50% | 1:1.4 |
| 19 (⇑) | Little Witch Academia Atsuko "Akko" Kagari,Diana Cavendish (18) Amanda O'Neill,Hannah England (6) Amanda O'Neill,Barbara Parker,Hannah England (3) Barbara Parker,Hannah England (3) Croix Meridies,Ursula Callistis | Chariot du Nord (3) | 12.37 | 23 (+14) | 2.77% | 135:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (39) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (11) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (9) | 11.80 | 44 (+19) | 1.33% | 27:1 |
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.
