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High-level stats for week of 2021-07-13 - 2021-07-19


  • Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7137 (+4 from last week)

  • Works I classified F/F: 4300 (+80 from last week) (1952 new, 2348 continued)

  • 0.95% of all 450386 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week






A few callouts this week:


  • Owl House is at number one this week, not its first time leading the chart, but the first time since its seven weeks on top during fall 2020.
  • The Wilds is back after a week away, replacing Attack on Titan which falls off after 23 consecutive weeks of chart activity.
  • In honor of the Black Widow movie, have this Natasha/Maria rec from back in 2012.





Most active classified fandoms:


RankFandom (and top three ships)Rating for weekF/F works
updated this week
% of F/F works
updated this week
F/F:M/M ratio
(all works)
1 (↑)The Owl House (Cartoon)
Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (156)
Emira Blight,Viney (The Owl House) (20)
Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (13)
174.02176 (+15)4.81%13:1
2 (↓)Supergirl (TV 2015)
Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (122)
Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (20)
Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (17)
170.05173 (-9)0.65%29:1
3Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (85)
Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (36)
Emmeline Vance,Mary Macdonald (21)
150.84234 (+19)1.87%1:6
4 (↑)She-Ra: Princess Of Power
Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (129)
Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (22)
Catra (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (11)
133.00133 (+19)1.55%5:1
5 (↓)原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (42)
Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (38)
Ganyu (Genshin Impact),Keqing (Genshin Impact) (25)
118.12145 (+0)7.27%1:6
6 (↑)RWBY
Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (54)
Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (8)
...
91.41112 (+11)1.00%3:1
7 (↑11)Avatar: Legend of Korra
Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (56)
Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (23)
Korra (Avatar),Kuvira (Avatar) (5)
Kuvira (Avatar),Opal (Avatar) (5)
70.5479 (+25)1.25%5:1
8 (↑)僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (63)
Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (31)
Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (14)
64.91144 (-7)1.94%1:8
9 (↓3)The 100 (TV)
Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (61)
Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (16)
Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (10)
63.1767 (-22)0.48%5:1
10 (↑3)Once Upon a Time (TV)
Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (49)
Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (5)
62.0664 (+11)0.42%9:1
11 (↑6)Marvel Cinematic Universe
Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (34)
Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (18)
Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (16)
57.76119 (+37)1.07%1:8
12 (↓4)The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms
Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (38)
Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (11)
Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (11)
52.9460 (-25)1.44%1.8:1
13 (↑3)Wynonna Earp (TV)
Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (46)
Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (13)
Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (9)
46.0047 (+2)0.87%18:1
14 (↑)Grey's Anatomy
Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (18)
Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (13)
Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (13)
44.0044 (-4)2.15%2:1
15 (↑3)Avatar: The Last Airbender
Azula (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (23)
Mai (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (11)
Azula (Avatar),Katara (Avatar) (10)
39.9957 (+3)1.65%1:1.7
16 (↓2)Miraculous Ladybug
Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (20)
Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (10)
Alya Césaire,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (9)
Chloé Bourgeois,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (9)
38.6352 (-13)1.94%1.1:1
17 (↓5)Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types
Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (7)
Akamatsu Kaede,Harukawa Maki (6)
Asahina Aoi,Ogami Sakura (6)
Celestia Ludenberg,Kirigiri Kyouko (6)
Mioda Ibuki,Tsumiki Mikan (6)
38.2551 (-16)1.08%1:3
18 (⇑)The Wilds (TV 2020)
Shelby Goodkind,Toni Shalifoe (32)
Fatin Jadmani,Leah Rilke (12)
Martha Blackburn,Toni Shalifoe (5)
35.0035 (?)4.00%191:1
19 (↓8)The Haunting of Bly Manor (TV)
Dani Clayton,Jamie (The Haunting of Bly Manor) (35)
35.0035 (-22)3.11%249:1
20Line of Duty (TV 2012)
Joanne Davidson,Kate Fleming (Line of Duty) (35)
Farida Jatri,Joanne Davidson (3)
35.0035 (-2)7.38%10:1




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: This is the number of works I classified as F/F, multiplied by what I call "F/F fidelity", which is the fraction of all works tagged F/F on AO3 that I classified as containing at least one F/F ship.

  • 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.


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