More stats!

[hebethen]

A link that might be of interest: for Pride Month this year, toastystats on AO3 put together a light analysis of AO3 F/F works.

It's interesting to see what's up there -- I didn't expect to know any of the band RPF type fandoms, but I had no idea Naruto had a significant F/F presence and had never even heard of fandoms like Mamamoo or Holby City.

I did eyebrow a bit at counting nonbinary characters on the grounds of "voiced by female actors", but I only recognized the Steven Universe characters (who are canonically woman-aligned).

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[bridgetmkennitt]

Ooo, those stats are interesting! I've heard of most of those fandoms/ships, but I'm also not in most of those fandoms so I haven't read those fics.

I'm glad there was "active fandoms with the highest % F/F" and not just "fandoms with the most F/F" since size of that fandom itself can skew numbers, and that's when Ocean's 8 and The Devil Wears Prada appeared. I'm surprised that Carol/Maria (or any femslash ship from Captain Marvel...okay, Captain Marvel in general) doesn't appear on the "active fandoms with the highest % F/F" and only appears on "active F/F ships in the past year." For some reason, I'd thought it'd be a lot bigger than that.

[hebethen]

Yeah, I wonder if it just wasn't huge on the fandom radar prior to the movie!? That sounds odd to me, though I am aware that the people in my general vicinity are a not a representative sample of All AO3 Users.

[bridgetmkennitt]

I just realized I didn't see any ships from, or the fandom itself, from The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. That fandom is filled with femslash, though maybe because it's not that big of a fandom, it didn't make much of a blip in the numbers.