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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2021-11-16 - 2021-11-22
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 6451 (+217 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 3806 (+67 from last week) (1771 new, 2035 continued)
- 0.79% of all 483689 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Wow, League of Legends. The 12-year-old video game isn't a chart newcomer: prior to this month, it appeared six times within the past year, always at rank 19 or 20, and with previous top ships including characters Akali, Evelynn, Ahri, and Kai'Sa. The chart explosion that has the fandom vaulting to the number two slot this week is because of Arcana, the new netflix animated series, and the Vi/Caitlyn ship which is newly popular as a result of that adaptation, is this week's top ship in any fandom with 142 works.
- The low end of the chart has a typical amount of noise this week. The most notable change is Squid Game dropping off the chart after 7 weeks. It's joined by Miraculous Ladybug, Wynonna Earp, and Virtual Streamer Animated Characters. Those four fandoms are replaced in the lowest quarter of the chart by usual suspects MCU, the Wilds, Legend of Korra, and Critical Role.
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 (123) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (25) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (25) | 177.05 | 180 (-93) | 0.64% | 29:1 |
| 2 (↑9) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (142) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (17) | 166.14 | 171 (+123) | 9.31% | 1.1:1 |
| 3 (↓) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Ganyu (Genshin Impact),Keqing (Genshin Impact) (38) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (28) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (23) | 160.44 | 190 (+16) | 4.85% | 1:4 |
| 4 (↑2) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (62) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (21) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (20) | 111.00 | 184 (+38) | 1.34% | 1:6 |
| 5 (↓2) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (96) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (14) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (7) | 101.00 | 101 (-4) | 1.08% | 5:1 |
| 6 (↓2) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (84) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (15) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (12) | 98.04 | 100 (-2) | 2.05% | 9:1 |
| 7 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (47) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (7) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (6) Blake Belladonna,Weiss Schnee (6) | 69.12 | 86 (+0) | 0.73% | 3:1 |
| 8 (↑) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (59) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (13) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (9) | 56.51 | 63 (+9) | 0.44% | 5:1 |
| 9 (↓4) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (44) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (7) | 55.02 | 56 (-32) | 2.08% | 2:1 |
| 10 (↓2) | Amphibia (Cartoon) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (39) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (29) Anne Boonchuy,Sasha Waybright (22) | 53.00 | 56 (-5) | 7.03% | 18:1 |
| 11 (↓) | Legacies (TV 2018) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (40) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (13) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (10) | 51.27 | 55 (+6) | 1.52% | 13:1 |
| 12 (↑2) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (47) | 51.07 | 53 (+10) | 0.34% | 9:1 |
| 13 (↑3) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (47) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (21) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (15) | 45.50 | 108 (+13) | 1.31% | 1:8 |
| 14 (↓2) | Motherland: Fort Salem (TV) Sarah Alder (Motherland: Fort Salem),Tally Craven (30) Raelle Collar,Scylla Ramshorn (21) Abigail Bellweather,Raelle Collar,Tally Craven (7) | 45.00 | 45 (+1) | 3.90% | 82:1 |
| 15 (⇑) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (26) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (20) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (10) | 42.77 | 95 (?) | 0.79% | 1:7 |
| 16 (↑) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (18) Alex Chen (Life Is Strange),Steph Gingrich (10) Chloe Price (Life is Strange),Rachel Amber (9) | 37.00 | 37 (-4) | 0.81% | 8:1 |
| 17 (⇑) | The Wilds (TV 2020) Shelby Goodkind,Toni Shalifoe (31) Fatin Jadmani,Leah Rilke (11) Leah Rilke,Rachel Reid (4) | 36.00 | 36 (?) | 3.50% | 219:1 |
| 18 (⇑) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (29) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (12) Korra (Avatar),Kuvira (Avatar) (3) | 35.37 | 39 (?) | 0.58% | 5:1 |
| 19 | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (24) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (7) ... | 33.91 | 40 (-3) | 0.68% | 1:1.1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Critical Role (Web Series) Beauregard Lionett,Yasha (Critical Role) (16) Imogen Temult,Laudna (Critical Role) (10) Beauregard Lionett,Jester Lavorre (3) | 31.03 | 32 (?) | 0.98% | 1:1.6 |
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.
