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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2021-10-05 - 2021-10-11
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 6582 (-192 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 3955 (-93 from last week) (1995 new, 1960 continued)
- 0.84% of all 472968 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Not much change overall this week. Life Is Strange is back on the charts at 13, its highest rank in over a year. It displaces Critical Role.
- I'm going to try reporting on chart anniversaries, as a way to remind us about the longevity of middle-of-chart fandoms that are just hanging out week-over-week: this week, Grey's Anatomy celebrates 20 consecutive weeks on the chart (out of 111 total appearances going back to 2005), and Genshin Impact has been here for 40 consecutive 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 (166) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (20) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (18) | 218.11 | 223 (+20) | 0.81% | 29:1 |
| 2 (↑) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (40) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (32) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (24) | 128.98 | 159 (+9) | 4.87% | 1:5 |
| 3 (↓) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (109) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (16) Emira Blight,Viney (The Owl House) (13) | 125.00 | 125 (-31) | 2.70% | 9:1 |
| 4 | She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (96) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (18) Catra (She-Ra),Entrapta (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (5) Catra (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (5) | 101.00 | 103 (-9) | 1.21% | 17:1 |
| 5 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (65) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (19) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (16) | 99.11 | 175 (+2) | 1.31% | 1:6 |
| 6 | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (79) Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (5) | 89.01 | 90 (+17) | 0.58% | 9:1 |
| 7 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (34) Blake Belladonna,Weiss Schnee (11) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (9) | 66.13 | 78 (-10) | 0.67% | 3:1 |
| 8 (↑3) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (61) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (17) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (7) | 66.12 | 69 (+3) | 0.48% | 5:1 |
| 9 | Squid Game (TV 2021) Jiyeong (Squid Game),Kang Saebyeok (59) Ji-yeong (Squid Game),Kang Sae-byeok (19) | 63.22 | 72 (+4) | 50.35% | 1:1.2 |
| 10 (↑2) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (38) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (19) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (4) | 61.00 | 61 (-2) | 2.50% | 2:1 |
| 11 (↓3) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (53) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (35) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (16) | 57.94 | 126 (-13) | 1.57% | 1:8 |
| 12 (↑2) | Amphibia (Cartoon) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (26) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (23) Anne Boonchuy,Sasha Waybright (19) | 56.00 | 57 (+5) | 9.81% | 16:1 |
| 13 (⇑) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Alex Chen (Life Is Strange),Steph Gingrich (28) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (22) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Rachel Amber (5) | 53.00 | 53 (?) | 1.18% | 8:1 |
| 14 (↓) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (42) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (10) Korra (Avatar),Kuvira (Avatar) (5) Kuvira (Avatar),Opal (Avatar) (5) | 49.36 | 56 (-10) | 0.85% | 5:1 |
| 15 (↑) | Captain America (Movies) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (30) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (12) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Peggy Carter (10) | 45.68 | 83 (+6) | 1.00% | 1:23 |
| 16 (↓6) | Motherland: Fort Salem (TV) Sarah Alder (Motherland: Fort Salem),Tally Craven (33) Raelle Collar,Scylla Ramshorn (16) Nicte Batan,Tally Craven (3) | 45.02 | 46 (-15) | 4.47% | 73:1 |
| 17 | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Celestia Ludenberg,Kirigiri Kyouko (7) Fukawa Touko,Naegi Komaru (7) Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (4) Nanami Chiaki,Sonia Nevermind (4) | 38.72 | 44 (-4) | 0.89% | 1:3 |
| 18 (↑) | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (39) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (10) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (8) | 36.15 | 39 (+3) | 0.71% | 17:1 |
| 19 (↓4) | Legacies (TV 2018) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (24) Finch Tarrayo,Josie Saltzman (5) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (5) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (5) | 34.03 | 35 (-7) | 1.01% | 13:1 |
| 20 (↓2) | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (13) Alya Césaire,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (8) Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (8) | 28.23 | 42 (-8) | 1.44% | 1.1:1 |
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.
