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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2021-03-16 - 2021-03-22
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7041 (+57 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4357 (+83 from last week) (2015 new, 2342 continued)
- 1.04% of all 416950 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Harry Potter is back to the top, and Genshin Impact is out of the top five but still doing well.
- Twilight has made a couple of top-20 appearances in the past couple of months, its first such appearances since 2013.
- Have an Azula/Ty Lee slight AU/character redemption take.
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 (↑) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (56) Fleur Delacour,Hermione Granger (48) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (29) | 53.99 | 234 (+50) | 2.12% | 1:7 |
| 2 (↑4) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (72) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (14) Blake Belladonna,Weiss Schnee (11) | 50.61 | 134 (+7) | 1.30% | 3:1 |
| 3 (↓2) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (132) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (20) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (19) | 48.95 | 177 (-7) | 0.71% | 28:1 |
| 4 (↑4) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (110) Emira Blight,Viney (The Owl House) (19) Boscha (The Owl House),Willow Park (16) | 39.34 | 134 (+15) | 4.89% | 16:1 |
| 5 | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (15) Mioda Ibuki,Tsumiki Mikan (12) Fukawa Touko,Naegi Komaru (11) Koizumi Mahiru,Saionji Hiyoko (11) | 38.88 | 75 (-2) | 1.80% | 1:3 |
| 6 (↑) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (146) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (25) Netossa (She-Ra),Spinnerella (She-Ra) (11) | 36.75 | 161 (+2) | 2.11% | 5:1 |
| 7 (↓3) | Avatar: The Last Airbender Azula (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (21) Mai (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (13) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (12) | 33.50 | 75 (-19) | 2.44% | 1:1.7 |
| 8 (↓5) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (21) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (16) Ganyu (Genshin Impact),Keqing (Genshin Impact) (12) | 29.55 | 75 (-26) | 9.75% | 1:6 |
| 9 (↑3) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (81) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (33) Ashido Mina,Uraraka Ochako (10) | 28.41 | 152 (+19) | 2.33% | 1:8 |
| 10 (↓) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (74) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (13) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (8) Luna (The 100),Raven Reyes (8) | 28.26 | 84 (+4) | 0.61% | 5:1 |
| 11 (↓) | The Vampire Diaries (TV) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (40) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (19) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (13) | 26.98 | 76 (+2) | 2.15% | 1:1.7 |
| 12 (↓) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (17) Agatha Harkness,Wanda Maximoff (11) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (11) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Pepper Potts (11) | 23.74 | 84 (+3) | 0.81% | 1:8 |
| 13 | League of Legends Akali (League of Legends),Evelynn (League of Legends) (12) Ahri (League of Legends),Kai'Sa (League of Legends) (6) Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (5) | 18.88 | 31 (-7) | 2.50% | 1.0:1 |
| 14 (⇑) | Game of Thrones (TV) Margaery Tyrell,Sansa Stark (6) Daenerys Targaryen,Yara Greyjoy (3) Sansa Stark,Yara Greyjoy (3) | 18.74 | 32 (?) | 0.98% | 1:1.5 |
| 15 | BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party! (Video Game) Hikawa Sayo,Imai Lisa (5) Imai Lisa,Minato Yukina (4) Hikawa Hina,Maruyama Aya (3) Hikawa Sayo,Minato Yukina (3) Hikawa Sayo,Shirokane Rinko (3) | 18.62 | 22 (-1) | 0.77% | 183:1 |
| 16 (↑) | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (19) Chloé Bourgeois,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (16) Alya Césaire,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (5) Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (5) | 18.09 | 44 (-5) | 1.93% | 1.1:1 |
| 17 (⇑) | Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses Dorothea Arnault,Petra Macneary (7) Catherine (Fire Emblem),Shamir Nevrand (6) Annette Fantine Dominic,Mercedes von Martritz (4) | 17.83 | 38 (?) | 1.44% | 1:2 |
| 18 (⇑) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (20) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Rachel Amber (9) Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Victoria Chase (Life is Strange) (6) | 17.61 | 35 (?) | 0.84% | 8:1 |
| 19 (↓) | Love Live! Sunshine!! Sakurauchi Riko,Tsushima Yoshiko (7) ... | 17.38 | 23 (-1) | 0.88% | 249:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Twilight Series - Stephenie Meyer Bella Swan,Rosalie Hale (11) Alice Cullen,Bella Swan (6) Bella Swan,Leah Clearwater (4) | 17.22 | 34 (?) | 3.74% | 1:1.4 |
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.
