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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2019-06-04 - 2019-06-10
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 4043 (-169 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 2525 (-86 from last week) (1167 new, 1358 continued)
- 0.96% of all 263796 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Life Is Strange may be starting to edge off the top 20, but it's hard to tell. It has had periods in the lower ranks before, and it has been incredibly consistent overall, coming in with between 24 and 41 updated works every week for the past 90 weeks. In different game news, this is Warcraft's first time in the top 20 since a week in 2009 when the top 20 contained only 12 fandoms. Warcraft appears to have one very big ship, and a few smaller ships which were enough for top-20 status this week, so it's not yet clear to me whether this is a trend or an anomaly.
- Random MCU rec: this Iron-Man-era story, in which Pepper brings in Maria to help cope with the effects of Extremis.
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 (124) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (36) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (29) | 49.81 | 198 (-5) | 1.20% | 27:1 |
| 2 (↑) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Brunnhilde | Valkyrie (Marvel),Carol Danvers (22) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (15) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (12) | 36.66 | 113 (+9) | 1.51% | 1:8 |
| 3 (↓) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (51) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee (30) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (7) | 31.48 | 96 (-13) | 1.71% | 5:1 |
| 4 (↑) | Overwatch (Video Game) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Fareeha "Pharah" Amari (22) Lena "Tracer" Oxton,Widowmaker | Amélie Lacroix (14) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Moira O'Deorain (8) | 24.17 | 55 (+12) | 0.98% | 1:2 |
| 5 (↑) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (70) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (15) Luna (The 100),Raven Reyes (9) | 21.98 | 77 (-14) | 0.68% | 5:1 |
| 6 (↑2) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (55) Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (3) Dorothy Gale (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (3) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Snow White | Mary Margaret Blanchard (3) | 20.64 | 63 (-3) | 0.50% | 9:1 |
| 7 (↓3) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (11) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (6) Ginny Weasley,Hermione Granger (5) | 19.46 | 55 (-9) | 0.88% | 1:8 |
| 8 (↑6) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (40) Catra (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (8) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (6) | 17.38 | 46 (-12) | 3.30% | 9:1 |
| 9 | Steven Universe (Cartoon) Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe),Peridot (Steven Universe) (8) Amethyst (Steven Universe),Peridot (Steven Universe) (4) Jasper (Steven Universe),Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe) (4) | 17.32 | 28 (-14) | 0.51% | 14:1 |
| 10 | Game of Thrones (TV) Daenerys Targaryen,Sansa Stark (15) Margaery Tyrell,Sansa Stark (10) Arya Stark,Daenerys Targaryen (6) Daenerys Targaryen,Yara Greyjoy (6) | 16.98 | 49 (-20) | 2.20% | 1:1.7 |
| 11 (⇑) | The Vampire Diaries (TV) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (32) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (20) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (13) | 16.46 | 51 (-3) | 3.99% | 1:2 |
| 12 (↑7) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Celestia Ludenberg,Kirigiri Kyouko (4) Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (4) Akamatsu Kaede,Harukawa Maki (2) Chabashira Tenko,Yonaga Angie,Yumeno Himiko (2) Fukawa Touko,Naegi Komaru (2) | 15.48 | 23 (+1) | 1.31% | 1:3 |
| 13 (↑4) | Archie Comics Cheryl Blossom,Toni Topaz (40) Betty Cooper,Veronica Lodge (6) Cheryl Blossom,Veronica Lodge (5) | 15.04 | 50 (-4) | 2.01% | 1.1:1 |
| 14 (↑4) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (54) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (40) Ashido Mina,Uraraka Ochako (8) | 14.95 | 86 (+15) | 3.33% | 1:8 |
| 15 (↓4) | Arrow (TV 2012) Ava Sharpe,Sara Lance (23) Nyssa al Ghul,Sara Lance (8) Charlie (DC's Legends of Tomorrow),Zari Tomaz (5) | 14.49 | 47 (-4) | 1.60% | 1:1.4 |
| 16 (↓) | BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party! (Video Game) Maruyama Aya,Shirasagi Chisato (3) Wakamiya Eve,Yamato Maya (2) ... | 14.42 | 17 (-5) | 1.64% | 456:1 |
| 17 (⇑) | Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy - Cassandra Clare Aline Penhallow,Helen Blackthorn (13) Clary Fray,Isabelle Lightwood (13) Isabelle Lightwood,Maia Roberts (4) | 13.56 | 36 (+4) | 2.05% | 1:5 |
| 18 (↓2) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (18) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Rachel Amber (5) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Rachel Amber (3) | 13.30 | 27 (-1) | 0.90% | 9:1 |
| 19 (⇑) | Warcraft - All Media Types Jaina Proudmoore,Sylvanas Windrunner (29) Sylvanas Windrunner,Tyrande Whisperwind (3) ... | 12.65 | 35 (+7) | 9.41% | 1:3 |
| 20 (↓13) | Dragon Age (Video Games) Female Warden (Dragon Age),Leliana (Dragon Age) (7) Cassandra Pentaghast,Female Inquisitor (Dragon Age) (5) Cassandra Pentaghast,Female Lavellan (3) | 12.12 | 22 (-10) | 0.56% | 1:3 |
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.
