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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2019-06-25 - 2019-07-01
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 4072 (-109 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 2526 (-32 from last week) (1174 new, 1352 continued)
- 0.94% of all 267303 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Hi, AO3 stats fans! Thanks to destinationtoast, a number of new people found the week in review last week, so, welcome. Ask me anything in terms of how the stats work, what's new in the data this week, or features you'd like to see.
- Someone asked why the ranking for BanG Dream! (aka Bandori) is all over the map week-over-week. Perhaps coincidentally, Bandori had its best week ever this week, coming in at rank 2. The main reason for the variance is that Bandori has a lot of distinct characters who appear in ships. That lets it be a top five fandom with relatively few works (because the stats prioritize ensemble fandoms with many different ships). There are 28 distinct ships represented among the 39 Bandori works in this week's stats. That's huge, and explains the vault to the top.
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 (114) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (36) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (23) | 49.42 | 169 (-12) | 1.01% | 27:1 |
| 2 (↑2) | BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party! (Video Game) Imai Lisa,Minato Yukina (4) ... | 32.62 | 39 (+4) | 3.49% | 485:1 |
| 3 (↓) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (51) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee (41) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (9) | 28.84 | 91 (-14) | 1.58% | 5:1 |
| 4 (↓) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (15) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (11) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (10) | 26.96 | 76 (-6) | 1.20% | 1:8 |
| 5 | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (13) Brunnhilde | Valkyrie (Marvel),Carol Danvers (12) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Pepper Potts (10) | 26.64 | 84 (-12) | 1.11% | 1:8 |
| 6 (↑2) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (93) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (17) Clarke Griffin,Raven Reyes (4) Luna (The 100),Raven Reyes (4) | 25.08 | 104 (+20) | 0.91% | 5:1 |
| 7 (↑7) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (58) Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (5) Dorothy Gale (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (4) | 23.63 | 71 (+16) | 0.56% | 9:1 |
| 8 (↓2) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (4) Akamatsu Kaede,Harukawa Maki (3) Celestia Ludenberg,Kirigiri Kyouko (3) | 18.80 | 25 (-15) | 1.38% | 1:3 |
| 9 (↑4) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (47) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (6) Catra (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (6) | 18.74 | 56 (+1) | 3.83% | 9:1 |
| 10 (⇑) | Critical Role (Web Series) Beauregard (Critical Role),Yasha (Critical Role) (18) Beauregard (Critical Role),Jester (Critical Role) (9) Yasha (Critical Role),Zuala (Critical Role) (5) | 17.85 | 33 (+19) | 3.14% | 1:1.8 |
| 11 (↓4) | Steven Universe (Cartoon) Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe),Peridot (Steven Universe) (8) Blue Diamond (Steven Universe),Yellow Diamond (Steven Universe) (5) Mystery Girl (Steven Universe),Pearl (Steven Universe) (4) Pearl (Steven Universe),Rose Quartz (Steven Universe) (4) Ruby (Steven Universe),Sapphire (Steven Universe) (4) | 16.99 | 27 (-16) | 0.49% | 14:1 |
| 12 (⇑) | The Originals (TV) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (31) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (13) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (13) | 16.78 | 46 (+1) | 4.30% | 1:1.1 |
| 13 (↑5) | Archie Comics Cheryl Blossom,Toni Topaz (26) Betty Cooper,Veronica Lodge (8) Cheryl Blossom,Veronica Lodge (4) | 16.58 | 42 (+2) | 1.65% | 1.1:1 |
| 14 (↓2) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Margaery Tyrell,Sansa Stark (26) Daenerys Targaryen,Sansa Stark (5) Arya Stark,Sansa Stark (3) | 16.21 | 43 (-10) | 1.89% | 1:1.9 |
| 15 (↓5) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (45) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (37) Ashido Mina,Uraraka Ochako (6) | 15.65 | 83 (-1) | 3.09% | 1:8 |
| 16 (↓7) | Overwatch (Video Game) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Fareeha "Pharah" Amari (8) Lena "Tracer" Oxton,Widowmaker | Amélie Lacroix (8) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Moira O'Deorain (4) | 14.47 | 25 (-14) | 0.44% | 1:2 |
| 17 (↑2) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (22) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Rachel Amber (9) Kate Marsh,Victoria Chase (Life is Strange) (4) Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Victoria Chase (Life is Strange) (4) | 13.32 | 30 (+2) | 0.99% | 8:1 |
| 18 (↓2) | Homestuck Kanaya Maryam,Rose Lalonde (21) Terezi Pyrope,Vriska Serket (7) Calliope (Homestuck),Roxy Lalonde (3) Jane Crocker,Roxy Lalonde (3) | 13.22 | 28 (-6) | 0.49% | 1:3 |
| 19 (⇑) | Fire Emblem: If | Fire Emblem: Fates My Unit | Reflet | Robin,Sallya | Tharja (2) Ophelia (Fire Emblem),Soleil (Fire Emblem) (2) ... | 13.05 | 14 (+5) | 1.10% | 1:2 |
| 20 (⇑) | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (46) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (7) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (3) | 12.80 | 49 (+10) | 1.44% | 26:1 |
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.
