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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2021-09-14 - 2021-09-20
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 6276 (-315 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 3713 (-265 from last week) (1582 new, 2131 continued)
- 0.79% of all 467271 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- A callout for this week's new chart entry, Amphibia, a portal fantasy cartoon TV show about to be in its third season. Fic for this fandom was first seen in July 2019, but it started getting significant fandom traction in April or May of this year, entered the chart last week, and is now at 12.
- No major surprises in the second-half-of-chart churn: Batman and Life Is Strange are back on the list for the first time since earlier this summer; Descendants is back for the first time since January. They replace Dangan Ronpa, Attack on Titan, and the Wilds, all of which have been moving on and off the charts in recent weeks.
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 | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (121) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (17) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (15) | 157.06 | 160 (-16) | 0.59% | 29:1 |
| 2 | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (120) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (25) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (20) | 129.03 | 131 (-38) | 2.93% | 9:1 |
| 3 | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (35) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (26) Ganyu (Genshin Impact),Keqing (Genshin Impact) (16) | 108.06 | 129 (-39) | 4.32% | 1:5 |
| 4 (↑2) | She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (107) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (23) Netossa (She-Ra),Spinnerella (She-Ra) (11) | 108.00 | 110 (+8) | 1.31% | 17:1 |
| 5 (↓) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (63) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (19) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (18) | 106.85 | 182 (-23) | 1.38% | 1:6 |
| 6 (↑) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (81) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (5) | 87.26 | 92 (+5) | 0.59% | 9:1 |
| 7 (↑) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (74) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (16) Kuvira (Avatar),Opal (Avatar) (8) | 83.03 | 86 (+12) | 1.32% | 5:1 |
| 8 (↑) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (41) Blake Belladonna,Weiss Schnee (8) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (7) | 74.31 | 90 (+9) | 0.78% | 3:1 |
| 9 (↑2) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (60) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (26) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (13) | 61.68 | 130 (-1) | 1.65% | 1:8 |
| 10 | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (54) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (15) Clarke Griffin,Raven Reyes (5) | 54.32 | 59 (-11) | 0.42% | 5:1 |
| 11 (↑) | Motherland: Fort Salem (TV) Sarah Alder (Motherland: Fort Salem),Tally Craven (32) Raelle Collar,Scylla Ramshorn (20) Abigail Bellweather,Raelle Collar,Tally Craven (8) | 53.02 | 54 (-3) | 5.67% | 69:1 |
| 12 (↑4) | Amphibia (Cartoon) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (26) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (22) Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (17) | 47.00 | 49 (+7) | 9.98% | 15:1 |
| 13 (↑) | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (41) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (6) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (6) | 40.00 | 41 (-3) | 0.75% | 17:1 |
| 14 (↓) | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (20) Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (13) Chloé Bourgeois,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (11) | 38.89 | 50 (-7) | 1.75% | 1.1:1 |
| 15 (↑4) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (32) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (15) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (14) | 36.90 | 89 (+2) | 0.77% | 1:7 |
| 16 (↓11) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (21) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (14) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (3) | 32.22 | 39 (-66) | 1.67% | 2:1 |
| 17 (⇑) | Descendants (Disney Movies) Cassandra (Disney: Tangled),Rapunzel (Disney) (22) Evie (Disney),Mal (Disney) (3) | 31.24 | 34 (?) | 1.29% | 1:1.1 |
| 18 (⇑) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (22) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Rachel Amber (6) ... | 31.17 | 34 (?) | 0.77% | 8:1 |
| 19 (⇑) | Batman (Comics) Harleen Quinzel,Pamela Isley (35) | 28.77 | 45 (?) | 1.43% | 1:9 |
| 20 (↓5) | Legacies (TV 2018) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (21) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (6) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (5) | 28.12 | 30 (-13) | 0.87% | 13:1 |
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.
Share and enjoy, and let me know what I can do to make this more useful.
