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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2019-07-09 - 2019-07-15
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 4109 (-47 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 2485 (-17 from last week) (1119 new, 1366 continued)
- 0.92% of all 269532 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- This may be the first time we've had zero movement in the top five week-over-week; certainly the first time in the past several months, though obviously having Supergirl and RWBY camped out in the top two is incredibly usual.
- I suggested a few weeks ago that Life Is Strange might be down for the count, and now it is back at number 7, so I have no theory. Anyone familiar with the game or with the fandom want to speculate on its activity level over time?
- Another fandom I don't follow that's having a good run is My Hero Academia.
- As a side note, I've mentioned before that I'm not sure F/F:M/M ratio is actually a good stat, but I'm amused that the top three male-dominant fandoms in the stats have the same 1:8 ratio. Maybe we've accidentally discovered an important magic constant related to sexism of representation in large media properties. I want to hear everyone else's armchair theory too, but I'm just going to go with combinatorics. Suppose a property is setup so that one character in four with a significant emotional arc is non-male. If a property has N characters, the number of possible ships is choose(N, 2). Our hypothetical property has 3 male characters to every 1 non-male characters, so that means choose(3N, 2) M/M ships to every choose(N, 2) F/F ships. If you look at that ratio as N gets large, it winds up being 1:9. So I think my guess is pretty good: in major media properties like MCU, Harry Potter, and My Hero Academia, slightly over one important character in four is non-male, and that gets us this 1:8 ratio.
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 (111) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (42) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (27) | 48.73 | 168 (-14) | 0.99% | 28:1 |
| 2 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (68) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee (61) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (13) | 39.42 | 136 (+44) | 2.32% | 5:1 |
| 3 | Marvel Cinematic Universe Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (15) Brunnhilde | Valkyrie (Marvel),Carol Danvers (11) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (11) | 31.43 | 87 (-5) | 1.13% | 1:8 |
| 4 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (19) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (10) Hermione Granger,Narcissa Black Malfoy (9) | 29.38 | 81 (+5) | 1.26% | 1:8 |
| 5 | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (78) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (13) Luna (The 100),Raven Reyes (6) | 22.48 | 83 (-8) | 0.72% | 5:1 |
| 6 (↑3) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (58) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (39) Ashido Mina,Uraraka Ochako (10) | 20.41 | 99 (+8) | 3.59% | 1:8 |
| 7 (↑11) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (29) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Rachel Amber (9) Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Rachel Amber (6) | 19.59 | 42 (+17) | 1.38% | 8:1 |
| 8 (↑2) | Steven Universe (Cartoon) Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe),Peridot (Steven Universe) (13) Jasper (Steven Universe),Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe) (7) Blue Diamond (Steven Universe),Yellow Diamond (Steven Universe) (5) | 19.32 | 36 (+7) | 0.65% | 15:1 |
| 9 (↓3) | Overwatch (Video Game) Lena "Tracer" Oxton,Widowmaker | Amélie Lacroix (16) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Fareeha "Pharah" Amari (9) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Moira O'Deorain (3) Hana "D.Va" Song,Sombra (Overwatch) (3) | 18.54 | 34 (-10) | 0.60% | 1:2 |
| 10 (↓2) | BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party! (Video Game) Ichigaya Arisa,Toyama Kasumi (4) Minato Yukina,Mitake Ran (4) ... | 18.17 | 21 (-9) | 1.82% | 501:1 |
| 11 | Game of Thrones (TV) Margaery Tyrell,Sansa Stark (17) Daenerys Targaryen,Sansa Stark (8) Daenerys Targaryen,Yara Greyjoy (8) | 16.82 | 42 (-11) | 1.80% | 1:1.7 |
| 12 (↓5) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (51) Dorothy Gale (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (4) Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (2) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (2) Jane Rizzoli,Maura Isles (2) | 16.68 | 62 (-5) | 0.49% | 9:1 |
| 13 (⇑) | Doctor Who (2005) Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (12) Donna Noble | The DoctorDonna,Rose Tyler (2) ... | 16.34 | 24 (+8) | 0.83% | 1:1.0 |
| 14 (⇑) | The Originals (TV) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (28) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (12) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (7) | 15.62 | 40 (+4) | 3.64% | 1:1.1 |
| 15 (↓) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (5) Iruma Miu,K1-B0 (Dangan Ronpa) (3) ... | 15.10 | 23 (-1) | 1.26% | 1:3 |
| 16 (⇑) | Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (TV 2018) Mary Wardwell | Madam Satan | Lilith,Zelda Spellman (17) Hilda Spellman,Zelda Spellman (11) Mary Wardwell | Madam Satan,Zelda Spellman (7) | 14.97 | 35 (+6) | 8.10% | 9:1 |
| 17 (↓5) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (37) Catra (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (5) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (4) | 14.51 | 43 (-7) | 2.86% | 9:1 |
| 18 (⇑) | Miraculous Ladybug Chloé Bourgeois,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (9) Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (5) ... | 13.78 | 23 (+0) | 2.27% | 1.3:1 |
| 19 | Homestuck Kanaya Maryam,Rose Lalonde (22) Jade Harley,Vriska Serket (2) Rose Lalonde,Vriska Serket (2) Terezi Pyrope,Vriska Serket (2) | 13.06 | 31 (+7) | 0.54% | 1:3 |
| 20 (↓5) | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (41) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (13) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (9) | 12.56 | 44 (-1) | 1.28% | 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.
