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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2019-07-16 - 2019-07-22
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 4360 (+251 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 2643 (+158 from last week) (1269 new, 1374 continued)
- 0.98% of all 270801 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- A new high-water mark and first entry into the top 5 for My Hero Academia.
- As predicted, Life Is Strange is off the top 20 this week for the first time in two years. I'm sure it will be back at least occasionally.
- I happened to notice the existence of this fandom that might be of interest: a respectable tag has started up around the musical Six, in which the wives of Henry VIII are pop stars. It's very far from top 20 sized, but you can look for works in the tag.
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 (123) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (59) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (25) | 48.92 | 189 (+21) | 1.11% | 27:1 |
| 2 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (124) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee (66) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (11) | 46.46 | 201 (+65) | 3.36% | 5:1 |
| 3 (↑) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (15) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (12) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (10) | 31.87 | 86 (+5) | 1.33% | 1:8 |
| 4 (↓) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (19) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (14) Brunnhilde | Valkyrie (Marvel),Carol Danvers (12) | 31.13 | 98 (+11) | 1.27% | 1:8 |
| 5 (↑) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (61) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (35) Ashido Mina,Hagakure Tooru (6) | 24.22 | 104 (+5) | 3.71% | 1:8 |
| 6 (↓) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (74) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (16) Clarke Griffin,Raven Reyes (9) | 22.22 | 79 (-4) | 0.69% | 5:1 |
| 7 (↑4) | Game of Thrones (TV) Margaery Tyrell,Sansa Stark (18) Daenerys Targaryen,Yara Greyjoy (11) Daenerys Targaryen,Sansa Stark (9) | 21.63 | 50 (+8) | 2.13% | 1:1.7 |
| 8 (↑9) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (34) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (7) Catra (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (6) | 20.03 | 41 (-2) | 2.69% | 9:1 |
| 9 (↑) | BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party! (Video Game) Minato Yukina,Mitake Ran (4) Okusawa Misaki,Tsurumaki Kokoro (4) Hikawa Sayo,Imai Lisa (3) Ichigaya Arisa,Toyama Kasumi (3) Imai Lisa,Minato Yukina (3) | 19.94 | 25 (+4) | 2.14% | 504:1 |
| 10 (⇑) | The Vampire Diaries (TV) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (32) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (22) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (14) | 19.43 | 55 (+15) | 3.99% | 1:2 |
| 11 (⇑) | Fire Emblem: Kakusei | Fire Emblem: Awakening Chiki | Tiki,Say'ri (Fire Emblem) (2) Lucina (Fire Emblem),My Unit | Reflet | Robin (2) ... | 19.40 | 19 (+5) | 1.71% | 1:1.2 |
| 12 (↓3) | Overwatch (Video Game) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Fareeha "Pharah" Amari (11) Lena "Tracer" Oxton,Widowmaker | Amélie Lacroix (8) Emily (Overwatch),Lena "Tracer" Oxton (7) | 18.59 | 39 (+5) | 0.69% | 1:2 |
| 13 (⇑) | The Mortal Instruments Series - Cassandra Clare Aline Penhallow,Helen Blackthorn (9) Clary Fray,Isabelle Lightwood (8) Clary Fray,Maia Roberts (6) Isabelle Lightwood,Maia Roberts (6) | 18.54 | 38 (+28) | 2.07% | 1:11 |
| 14 (↓6) | Steven Universe (Cartoon) Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe),Peridot (Steven Universe) (17) Blue Diamond (Steven Universe),Yellow Diamond (Steven Universe) (6) Jasper (Steven Universe),Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe) (3) | 16.32 | 34 (-2) | 0.61% | 15:1 |
| 15 (↓3) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (51) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (4) Ariel (Once Upon a Time),Belle (Once Upon a Time) (2) Dorothy Gale (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (2) Emma Swan,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (2) | 14.64 | 57 (-5) | 0.45% | 9:1 |
| 16 (↑4) | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (53) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (14) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (13) | 14.48 | 56 (+12) | 1.62% | 27:1 |
| 17 (⇑) | Dragon Age (Video Games) Cassandra Pentaghast,Female Inquisitor (Dragon Age) (6) Cassandra Pentaghast,Female Lavellan (3) Female Warden (Dragon Age),Leliana (Dragon Age) (3) | 14.44 | 22 (+4) | 0.55% | 1:3 |
| 18 (↓3) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (7) Akamatsu Kaede,Tojo Kirumi (3) Celestia Ludenberg,Kirigiri Kyouko (3) | 14.04 | 23 (+0) | 1.26% | 1:3 |
| 19 (↓3) | Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (TV 2018) Mary Wardwell | Madam Satan | Lilith,Zelda Spellman (16) Hilda Spellman,Zelda Spellman (8) Mary Wardwell | Madam Satan,Zelda Spellman (3) | 13.46 | 29 (-6) | 6.44% | 9:1 |
| 20 (↓) | Homestuck Kanaya Maryam,Rose Lalonde (19) Terezi Pyrope,Vriska Serket (5) Calliope (Homestuck),Jane Crocker,Roxy Lalonde (3) | 12.14 | 28 (-3) | 0.49% | 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.
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