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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2021-09-21 - 2021-09-27
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 6276 (+0 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 3746 (+33 from last week) (1690 new, 2056 continued)
- 0.8% of all 468961 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Overall, the chart is very stable. The only Top 5 turnover in the past two months was the Grey's Anatomy blip two weeks ago. At the other end, Buffy is back in the charts at rank 20 for the first time since 2017. The rest of the bottom-of-chart noise is run-of-the-mill: Dangan Ronpa and Attack on Titan return, Descendants, Legacies, and Life Is Strange exit.
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 (116) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (20) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (16) | 162.05 | 165 (+5) | 0.60% | 29:1 |
| 2 (↑) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (31) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (29) Ganyu (Genshin Impact),Keqing (Genshin Impact) (25) | 125.85 | 153 (+24) | 4.96% | 1:5 |
| 3 (↓) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (116) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (18) Emira Blight,Viney (The Owl House) (13) | 124.07 | 127 (-4) | 2.82% | 9:1 |
| 4 | She-Ra - All Media Types Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (105) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (16) Catra (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (7) | 106.00 | 107 (-3) | 1.30% | 17:1 |
| 5 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (60) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (20) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (13) | 102.15 | 173 (-9) | 1.31% | 1:6 |
| 6 (↑2) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (37) Raven Branwen,Summer Rose (RWBY) (12) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (10) | 86.21 | 100 (+10) | 0.87% | 3:1 |
| 7 (↓) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (71) | 69.38 | 75 (-17) | 0.48% | 9:1 |
| 8 (↑3) | Motherland: Fort Salem (TV) Sarah Alder (Motherland: Fort Salem),Tally Craven (35) Raelle Collar,Scylla Ramshorn (24) | 61.00 | 61 (+7) | 6.22% | 70:1 |
| 9 | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (55) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (22) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (16) | 60.10 | 125 (-5) | 1.58% | 1:8 |
| 10 | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (55) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (17) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (8) | 60.06 | 62 (+3) | 0.44% | 5:1 |
| 11 (↓4) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (48) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (16) | 56.79 | 64 (-22) | 0.98% | 5:1 |
| 12 (↑3) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (33) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (14) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (12) | 47.42 | 101 (+12) | 0.86% | 1:7 |
| 13 (⇑) | Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan Krista Lenz | Historia Reiss,Ymir (Shingeki no Kyojin) (33) Annie Leonhart,Mikasa Ackerman (19) Mikasa Ackerman,Sasha Blouse (6) | 37.59 | 55 (?) | 1.14% | 1:5 |
| 14 (↑2) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (27) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (9) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (2) | 37.10 | 39 (+0) | 1.66% | 2:1 |
| 15 (↓2) | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (37) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (8) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (6) | 35.15 | 38 (-3) | 0.69% | 17:1 |
| 16 (↑3) | Batman - All Media Types Harleen Quinzel,Pamela Isley (28) Cassandra Cain,Stephanie Brown (6) ... | 34.91 | 52 (+7) | 1.74% | 1:9 |
| 17 (↓3) | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (21) Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (9) Alya Césaire,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (7) | 34.69 | 46 (-4) | 1.60% | 1.1:1 |
| 18 (⇑) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Akamatsu Kaede,Iruma Miu (5) Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (5) Fukawa Touko,Naegi Komaru (5) | 33.02 | 43 (?) | 0.88% | 1:3 |
| 19 (↓7) | Amphibia (Cartoon) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (20) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (16) Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (13) | 33.00 | 35 (-14) | 6.93% | 15:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Buffy the Vampire Slayer Buffy Summers,Faith Lehane (13) Tara Maclay,Willow Rosenberg (10) Buffy Summers,Willow Rosenberg (4) | 32.00 | 32 (?) | 0.88% | 1:1.2 |
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.
