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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2021-11-09 - 2021-11-15
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 6234 (+22 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 3739 (+99 from last week) (1819 new, 1920 continued)
- 0.78% of all 481918 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Genshin Impact has been in second place more weeks than not the past two months, and a work count gap has opened up between that fandom and the number three and four slots.
- A new fandom rank for Amphibia, which reached rank 8 this week.
- League of Legends showed up this week at rank 11; it was last seen on the charts in May. It replaces Legend of Korra, which falls off the charts after 32 consecutive appearances.
- The Virtual Streamer Animated Characters fandom reaches the charts this week for the first time ever, replacing Attack on Titan.
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 (207) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (37) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (20) | 271.01 | 273 (+82) | 0.97% | 29:1 |
| 2 | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (32) Ganyu (Genshin Impact),Keqing (Genshin Impact) (27) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (26) | 146.97 | 174 (+7) | 4.61% | 1:5 |
| 3 (↑2) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (98) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (18) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (7) | 104.00 | 105 (+10) | 1.13% | 5:1 |
| 4 | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (88) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (14) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (13) Emira Blight,Viney (The Owl House) (13) | 100.02 | 102 (-4) | 2.10% | 9:1 |
| 5 (↑15) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (56) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (28) | 86.04 | 88 (+52) | 3.31% | 2:1 |
| 6 (↓3) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (54) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (12) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (11) Hermione Granger,Narcissa Black Malfoy (11) | 78.37 | 146 (-41) | 1.07% | 1:6 |
| 7 (↓) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (41) Coco Adel,Velvet Scarlatina (6) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Yang Xiao Long (6) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (6) | 71.12 | 86 (+2) | 0.73% | 3:1 |
| 8 (↑9) | Amphibia (Cartoon) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (40) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (28) Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (20) | 57.13 | 61 (+22) | 7.97% | 17:1 |
| 9 (↓) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (50) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (14) | 51.16 | 54 (-2) | 0.38% | 5:1 |
| 10 (↓3) | Legacies (TV 2018) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (36) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (10) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (8) | 47.08 | 49 (-6) | 1.37% | 13:1 |
| 11 (⇑) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (29) Akali (League of Legends),Evelynn (League of Legends) (7) Rell (League of Legends),Seraphine (League of Legends) (3) | 47.02 | 48 (?) | 2.85% | 1.1:1 |
| 12 (↑4) | Motherland: Fort Salem (TV) Sarah Alder (Motherland: Fort Salem),Tally Craven (25) Raelle Collar,Scylla Ramshorn (20) Abigail Bellweather,Raelle Collar (5) | 44.00 | 44 (+4) | 3.87% | 82:1 |
| 13 (↑) | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (22) Alya Césaire,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (8) Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (8) | 42.01 | 55 (+3) | 1.81% | 1.1:1 |
| 14 (↓4) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (37) Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (3) Emma Swan,Lily | Lilith Page (3) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Snow White | Mary Margaret Blanchard (3) | 41.05 | 43 (-9) | 0.27% | 9:1 |
| 15 (↓4) | Squid Game (TV 2021) Jiyeong (Squid Game),Kang Saebyeok (44) | 40.33 | 44 (-6) | 13.10% | 1:1.9 |
| 16 (↓7) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (38) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (27) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (13) | 39.51 | 95 (-8) | 1.16% | 1:8 |
| 17 (↓2) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Alex Chen (Life Is Strange),Steph Gingrich (12) Chloe Price (Life is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (11) Chloe Price (Life is Strange),Rachel Amber (7) | 39.09 | 41 (-2) | 0.90% | 8:1 |
| 18 (↓5) | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (39) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (7) Nicole Haught,Shae Pressman (5) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (5) | 37.00 | 40 (-3) | 0.72% | 17:1 |
| 19 (↓7) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (30) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (4) | 34.89 | 43 (-3) | 0.73% | 1:1.1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Virtual Streamer Animated Characters Mori Calliope,Takanashi Kiara (16) Nanashi Mumei,Ouro Kronii (9) Takanashi Kiara,Watson Amelia (Hololive) (4) | 30.02 | 41 (?) | 5.59% | 4:1 |
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.
