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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2019-05-07 - 2019-05-13
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 3860 (-151 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 2358 (-108 from last week) (1035 new, 1323 continued)
- 0.91% of all 259146 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- I was curious why Game of Thrones isn't in the top 20 this week (it was at 14 last week), so I looked into the details. GoT's "unweighted" rating this week would have been 18.10, but it has a very high discount rate. According to my engine, 46% of GoT works tagged F/F this week did not actually contain a ship between two canonical female characters. Specifically, of 61 works tagged GoT F/F, I rejected 25 as having only ships with at least one male character, and 3 as having no two-canonical-character ships. The latter are all reader-fic, which makes sense. I spot-checked a handful of works from the former set, and they all look correct as well: they're works with a million ships, but every explicitly tagged ship contains at least one male character. (Worth noting: it's totally valid for a fic author to tag a work F/F if it contains an M/F/F ship, but I won't count that unless the author calls out the F/F pairing as its own ship tag.) I dig into numbers like this because I often find a bug when I do (for instance, if I'd misclassified Margaery Tyrell as a male character, that would throw everything off), but in this case, there is no bug: if you browse GoT F/F-tagged works looking for ships containing multiple canonical female characters, you are going to have a slightly disappointing time, so GoT has to have a much bigger week than the 97%-reliable Life Is Strange would, in order to chart in the same place.
- I don't know that any of my loyal readers are actually in any way looking for MCU recs, but, post-Endgame, I have an eye open for Nat-centric stuff, and I liked this Maria/Natasha fic and this silly Wanda/Natasha team-centric fic.
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 (118) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (33) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (16) Alex Danvers,Samantha "Sam" Arias (16) | 49.75 | 181 (+17) | 1.12% | 27:1 |
| 2 (↑2) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (50) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee (27) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (9) | 32.03 | 86 (+3) | 1.57% | 5:1 |
| 3 (↓) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Carol Danvers,Maria Rambeau (18) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (18) Brunnhilde | Valkyrie (Marvel),Carol Danvers (17) | 31.48 | 104 (-19) | 1.43% | 1:8 |
| 4 (↑) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (79) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (16) Clarke Griffin,Niylah (The 100) (5) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (5) Luna (The 100),Raven Reyes (5) | 28.34 | 91 (-7) | 0.81% | 5:1 |
| 5 (↑2) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (11) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (10) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (10) | 24.13 | 63 (+1) | 1.03% | 1:8 |
| 6 (↑2) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (53) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (11) Catra (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (10) | 22.69 | 66 (-3) | 5.26% | 9:1 |
| 7 (⇑) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (52) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (32) Ashido Mina,Uraraka Ochako (8) | 21.81 | 92 (+28) | 3.73% | 1:8 |
| 8 (↓2) | Overwatch (Video Game) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Fareeha "Pharah" Amari (11) Lena "Tracer" Oxton,Widowmaker | Amélie Lacroix (11) Emily (Overwatch),Lena "Tracer" Oxton (6) | 20.83 | 38 (-10) | 0.69% | 1:2 |
| 9 (↑8) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (59) Dorothy Gale (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (3) Emma Swan,Snow White | Mary Margaret Blanchard (3) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (3) | 19.31 | 70 (+6) | 0.56% | 9:1 |
| 10 (↓7) | Steven Universe (Cartoon) Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe),Peridot (Steven Universe) (10) Blue Diamond (Steven Universe),Yellow Diamond (Steven Universe) (9) Jasper (Steven Universe),Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe) (6) Ruby (Steven Universe),Sapphire (Steven Universe) (6) | 19.24 | 30 (-24) | 0.56% | 14:1 |
| 11 (↓2) | The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (36) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (17) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (15) | 17.84 | 50 (-11) | 3.91% | 1:1.1 |
| 12 (↓) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (18) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Rachel Amber (14) Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Victoria Chase (Life is Strange) (5) | 16.52 | 32 (-9) | 1.08% | 9:1 |
| 13 (↓) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (6) Akamatsu Kaede,Iruma Miu (3) Nanami Chiaki,Sonia Nevermind (3) | 14.68 | 25 (-2) | 1.45% | 1:3 |
| 14 (↑) | Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (TV 2018) Mary Wardwell | Madam Satan | Lilith,Zelda Spellman (12) Hilda Spellman,Zelda Spellman (8) Mary Wardwell | Madam Satan,Zelda Spellman (7) | 14.30 | 29 (+2) | 9.42% | 9:1 |
| 15 (↓2) | Dragon Age (Video Games) Female Hawke,Isabela (Dragon Age) (4) Female Warden (Dragon Age),Leliana (Dragon Age) (3) Cassandra Pentaghast,Female Inquisitor (Dragon Age) (2) Isabela (Dragon Age),Merrill (Dragon Age) (2) Warden (Dragon Age),Warden's Mabari (Dragon Age) (2) | 13.75 | 20 (-7) | 0.51% | 1:3 |
| 16 | BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party! (Video Game) Hanazono Tae,Yamabuki Saaya (BanG Dream!) (2) Hazawa Tsugumi,Hikawa Sayo (2) Ichigaya Arisa,Toyama Kasumi (2) Shirokane Rinko,Udagawa Ako (2) | 12.21 | 14 (-2) | 1.42% | 437:1 |
| 17 (⇑) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (17) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (6) Clara Oswin Oswald,Thirteenth Doctor (2) Missy (Doctor Who),Thirteenth Doctor (2) | 11.65 | 29 (-1) | 0.89% | 1:1.5 |
| 18 (⇑) | DC's Legends of Tomorrow (TV) Ava Sharpe,Sara Lance (19) Nyssa al Ghul,Sara Lance (7) Charlie (DC's Legends of Tomorrow),Zari Tomaz (5) | 11.24 | 33 (-1) | 1.41% | 1:1.6 |
| 19 | Little Witch Academia Atsuko "Akko" Kagari,Diana Cavendish (15) Amanda O'Neill,Barbara Parker,Hannah England (3) Amanda O'Neill,Hannah England (3) Barbara Parker,Hannah England (3) Croix Meridies,Ursula Callistis | Chariot du Nord (3) | 10.79 | 18 (-5) | 2.16% | 136:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Pitch Perfect (Movies) Beca Mitchell,Chloe Beale (19) Aubrey Posen,Stacie Conrad (6) Aubrey Posen,Beca Mitchell (5) | 10.72 | 25 (+6) | 0.66% | 93:1 |
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.
