The numbers for HL's women

[brightknightie]

I'm planning to participate in the rarelywritten ficathon. I've shared my likely nominations (in FK, HL, YB, BSG78 and D&DC) in case anyone would like to discuss or collaborate!

Most of my dearest fandoms fall well below the threshold where we need to calculate eligibility per character. But HL, bless it, has *3,300* stories on the AO3 right now. It's over the threshold. I decided to calculate exactly how rarely-written HL's women characters are:

Percentage	Stories	Character
11.030%	364	Amanda Darieux
2.181%	72	Cassandra
1.697%	56	Tessa Noel
1.455%	48	Rebecca Horne
1.212%	40	Alexa Bond
0.515%	17	Amy Brennan-Thomas
0.455%	15	Ceirdwyn
0.333%	11	Anne Lindsey
0.333%	11	Grace Chandel
0.212%	7	Claudia Jardine
0.182%	6	Michelle Webster
0.091%	3	Randi McFarland
0.091%	3	Angie Burke
0.091%	3	Rachel MacLeod
0.061%	2	Nefertiri
0.031%	1	Annie Devlin
0.031%	1	May-Ling Shen

Comments

[greerwatson]

It looks as though even Amanda qualifies, then. She's well under 500 hits.

[brightknightie]

Yes, you're correct; Amanda is eligible.

I feel that this tally represents a sad observation about HL fandom's overall relationship with its women characters.

The gap after Amanda is extreme. For myself, I feel that Amanda, as the most frequently written woman character in HLdom, and perhaps also Cassandra, with actually an impressive ratio of on-screen appearances to stories, doesn't need this ficathon in quite the profound way that many of the others do.