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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2021-08-03 - 2021-08-09
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7183 (+1 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4333 (+2 from last week) (2054 new, 2279 continued)
- 0.95% of all 456353 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- There's some churn this week, but the churn is familiar: the top five fandoms have been static for six weeks, with Owl House on top again this week. Fear Street is back after a week away, hitting its best rank yet at 18. A:tLA is also back, and those two fandoms replace Killing Eve and Pitch Perfect.
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 (↑) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (220) Emira Blight,Viney (The Owl House) (17) | 230.10 | 235 (+72) | 5.91% | 12:1 |
| 2 (↓) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (108) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (24) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (15) | 145.10 | 149 (-14) | 0.56% | 29:1 |
| 3 | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (34) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (28) Ganyu (Genshin Impact),Keqing (Genshin Impact) (22) | 142.29 | 167 (-3) | 7.18% | 1:5 |
| 4 (↑) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (96) Emmeline Vance,Mary Macdonald (22) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (19) | 128.72 | 220 (+24) | 1.73% | 1:6 |
| 5 (↓) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (116) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (19) Netossa (She-Ra),Spinnerella (She-Ra) (8) | 121.02 | 123 (+0) | 1.41% | 5:1 |
| 6 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (56) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (9) Blake Belladonna,Weiss Schnee (8) | 95.16 | 113 (-7) | 1.00% | 3:1 |
| 7 (↑2) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (88) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (36) Ashido Mina,Uraraka Ochako (17) | 81.84 | 169 (+20) | 2.23% | 1:8 |
| 8 (↑3) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (50) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (14) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (13) | 62.00 | 125 (+1) | 1.10% | 1:7 |
| 9 (↓) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (55) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (15) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (7) | 58.03 | 60 (-17) | 0.42% | 5:1 |
| 10 (↑8) | The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (37) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (8) Hope Mikaelson,Penelope Park (7) | 55.35 | 64 (+14) | 1.51% | 1.8:1 |
| 11 (↑8) | Motherland: Fort Salem (TV) Raelle Collar,Scylla Ramshorn (33) Sarah Alder (Motherland: Fort Salem),Tally Craven (18) Abigail Bellweather,Raelle Collar,Tally Craven (4) | 55.00 | 55 (+16) | 7.47% | 60:1 |
| 12 (↑2) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (45) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (17) Korra (Avatar),Kuvira (Avatar) (8) | 50.19 | 59 (+3) | 0.93% | 5:1 |
| 13 (↑2) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (28) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (14) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (7) | 46.08 | 48 (+1) | 2.26% | 2:1 |
| 14 (↑6) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (10) Fukawa Touko,Naegi Komaru (7) Akamatsu Kaede,Iruma Miu (6) Iruma Miu,K1-B0 (Dangan Ronpa) (6) | 45.57 | 60 (+12) | 1.26% | 1:3 |
| 15 (↓3) | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (24) Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (14) Chloé Bourgeois,Sabrina Raincomprix (6) | 41.93 | 53 (-10) | 1.93% | 1.1:1 |
| 16 (↓3) | Line of Duty (TV 2012) Joanne Davidson,Kate Fleming (Line of Duty) (41) | 41.00 | 41 (-11) | 7.47% | 10:1 |
| 17 (↓7) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (40) | 40.02 | 49 (-18) | 0.32% | 9:1 |
| 18 (⇑) | Fear Street Trilogy (TV) Deena Johnson,Samantha "Sam" Fraser (Fear Street) (30) Hannah Miller (Fear Street),Sarah Fier (Fear Street) (9) Alice (Fear Street Part 2: 1978),Cindy Berman (Fear Street) (8) | 38.02 | 39 (?) | 30.71% | 16:1 |
| 19 (↓3) | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (36) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (9) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (6) | 37.00 | 38 (-8) | 0.70% | 18:1 |
| 20 (↓6) | Avatar: The Last Airbender Azula (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (15) Azula (Avatar),Katara (Avatar) (10) Mai (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (7) | 36.21 | 48 (-8) | 1.37% | 1:1.7 |
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.
Share and enjoy, and let me know what I can do to make this more useful.
