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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2019-05-28 - 2019-06-03
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 4212 (+249 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 2611 (+154 from last week) (1233 new, 1378 continued)
- 0.99% of all 262629 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Those watching the ASoIaF post-finale bounce can now see what I mean about having a fandom classification artifact (it's not a bug per se) that's important to the usability of the stats: see how Game of Thrones comes out of nowhere on this week's graph? Last week, ASoIaF was at 9, this week GoT is at 10, and obviously those are the same fandom. Or rather, they're not the same fandom - there are real reasons they're not the same tag on AO3 - but for purposes of the level of discussion we might have here on the stats about the post-finale bounce, they are the same fandom. So if I were to solve that, you'd see a line reflecting the actual trajectory.
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 (141) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (33) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (25) | 53.97 | 203 (-17) | 1.23% | 27:1 |
| 2 (↑) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (50) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee (34) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (11) | 43.77 | 109 (+20) | 1.95% | 5:1 |
| 3 (↓) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (27) Brunnhilde | Valkyrie (Marvel),Carol Danvers (20) Carol Danvers,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (9) | 31.94 | 104 (-17) | 1.40% | 1:8 |
| 4 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (14) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (10) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (8) | 24.98 | 64 (-3) | 1.03% | 1:8 |
| 5 (↑5) | Overwatch (Video Game) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Fareeha "Pharah" Amari (13) Lena "Tracer" Oxton,Widowmaker | Amélie Lacroix (8) Sombra (Overwatch),Widowmaker | Amélie Lacroix (5) | 24.43 | 43 (+7) | 0.77% | 1:2 |
| 6 | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (82) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (20) Luna (The 100),Raven Reyes (11) | 23.70 | 91 (+1) | 0.80% | 5:1 |
| 7 (↑7) | Dragon Age (Video Games) Female Warden (Dragon Age),Leliana (Dragon Age) (5) Cassandra Pentaghast,Female Inquisitor (Dragon Age) (4) Female Hawke,Isabela (Dragon Age) (4) | 22.20 | 32 (+10) | 0.82% | 1:3 |
| 8 (↓3) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (56) Dorothy Gale (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (5) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (5) | 21.66 | 66 (+2) | 0.53% | 9:1 |
| 9 (↑2) | Steven Universe (Cartoon) Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe),Peridot (Steven Universe) (14) Blue Diamond (Steven Universe),Yellow Diamond (Steven Universe) (10) Ruby (Steven Universe),Sapphire (Steven Universe) (7) | 21.26 | 42 (-2) | 0.77% | 14:1 |
| 10 (⇑) | Game of Thrones (TV) Margaery Tyrell,Sansa Stark (20) Daenerys Targaryen,Sansa Stark (15) Daenerys Targaryen,Yara Greyjoy (10) | 20.80 | 69 (+7) | 3.12% | 1:1.7 |
| 11 (⇑) | Arrow (TV 2012) Ava Sharpe,Sara Lance (25) Charlie (DC's Legends of Tomorrow),Zari Tomaz (6) Nyssa al Ghul,Sara Lance (6) | 19.35 | 51 (+15) | 1.75% | 1:1.4 |
| 12 (⇑) | Legacies (TV 2018) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (35) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (21) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (17) | 18.58 | 55 (+7) | 8.01% | 18:1 |
| 13 | Homestuck Kanaya Maryam,Rose Lalonde (15) Calliope (Homestuck),Roxy Lalonde (4) Terezi Pyrope,Vriska Serket (4) | 18.53 | 31 (+6) | 0.55% | 1:3 |
| 14 (↓7) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (53) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (12) Catra (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (7) | 17.23 | 58 (-8) | 4.22% | 9:1 |
| 15 (↓3) | BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party! (Video Game) Maruyama Aya,Shirasagi Chisato (3) Matsubara Kanon,Okusawa Misaki (3) Hikawa Hina,Maruyama Aya (2) Shirokane Rinko,Udagawa Tomoe (2) | 16.79 | 22 (+4) | 2.14% | 452:1 |
| 16 | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (18) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Rachel Amber (6) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Rachel Amber (3) Kate Marsh,Victoria Chase (Life is Strange) (3) Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Victoria Chase (Life is Strange) (3) | 15.02 | 28 (+2) | 0.94% | 9:1 |
| 17 (↓2) | Archie Comics Cheryl Blossom,Toni Topaz (41) Cheryl Blossom,Veronica Lodge (7) Betty Cooper,Veronica Lodge (4) | 13.88 | 54 (+11) | 2.19% | 1.1:1 |
| 18 (↓) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (44) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (28) Ashido Mina,Uraraka Ochako (5) | 12.78 | 71 (+5) | 2.79% | 1:8 |
| 19 | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Akamatsu Kaede,Iruma Miu (5) Fukawa Touko,Naegi Komaru (4) Nanami Chiaki,Sonia Nevermind (3) | 12.65 | 22 (+3) | 1.26% | 1:3 |
| 20 (⇑) | The Mortal Instruments Series - Cassandra Clare Clary Fray,Isabelle Lightwood (18) Aline Penhallow,Helen Blackthorn (9) Clary Fray,Maia Roberts (4) | 11.27 | 32 (+7) | 1.83% | 1:11 |
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: 2019-06-11 02:53 pm (UTC)Most fanworks are tagged as both show and book (though right now we're getting a lot that are show-only), and some are tagged with "Related" also (or both book and related). Looking at my wrangling page right now there are 22 unwrangled GoT relationships and 21 unwrangled ASoIaF relationships - probably 15-20 of those are overlap. The freeforms are a bit more skewed with ugh, 924 unwrangled freeforms for the show and 583 for the book. Probably most of the book freeforms are also tagged with the show.
Of course they are not identical fandoms, but we default to disambiguating shared characters with the book. The only (GoT) disambigs are for characters created just for the show, or with different names. But of course that gets muddled because e.g. Yara Greyjoy has a last name and therefore isn't disambiguated, but even though she's show-only she's tagged in a lot of works which are tagged both show and book.
(tl;dr I do think it would make more sense to combine these fandoms for statistical purposes.)
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Date: 2019-06-18 11:34 am (UTC)Right now, my disambiguation is done entirely automatically: I look at the dataset and pick the fandom with the highest rating to be rank 1. Then I remove that fandom and all works tagged with it, recompute ratings, and repeat the process until I have 20 fandoms. The advantage is that I don't have to know that ASoIaF and GoT overlap to do this computation: the fact that most works are tagged with both makes the right thing happen automatically. The disadvantage is the same as the advantage: I can't tell you which fandoms overlap, so I can't make the graph look good week-over-week.
I think the short-term fix is to hang onto a bit more information about which fandoms displace which other fandoms during top-20 computation, and try to use that information for trends.