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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2021-11-23 - 2021-11-29
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 6500 (+49 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 3949 (+143 from last week) (1886 new, 2063 continued)
- 0.81% of all 485575 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Supergirl celebrates 310 consecutive weeks on the chart by... being displaced by League of Legends, which is still on fire thanks to Arcane, and takes over the number one slot in only its third consecutive week on the charts.
- In other recent TV show news: Amphibia ticks up to rank 7, a personal best for that fandom.
- Chart anniversaries for long-time mid-ranked standbys RWBY (a former top five fandom which is down to rank 10 this week, but nonetheless celebrates 240 weeks on the chart) and Once Upon a Time, which sits at rank 12 in its whopping 480th consecutive chart week.
- No major news in entrances and exits: Dangan Ronpa and Wynonna Earp are both back after short chart absences, replacing Critical Role and Life Is Strange.
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 (↑) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (226) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (37) Caitlyn (League of Legends),Jinx (League of Legends) (15) | 257.18 | 264 (+93) | 12.80% | 1.1:1 |
| 2 (↓) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (131) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (27) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (17) | 159.10 | 163 (-17) | 0.58% | 29:1 |
| 3 | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (39) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (29) Ganyu (Genshin Impact),Keqing (Genshin Impact) (27) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (27) | 145.02 | 185 (-5) | 4.59% | 1:4 |
| 4 (↑2) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (94) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (23) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (18) | 113.00 | 113 (+13) | 2.30% | 9:1 |
| 5 (↓) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (60) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (21) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (16) | 108.40 | 177 (-7) | 1.28% | 1:6 |
| 6 (↓) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (88) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (31) Catra (She-Ra),Entrapta (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (6) Light Hope (She-Ra),Mara (She-Ra) (6) Netossa (She-Ra),Spinnerella (She-Ra) (6) | 92.00 | 94 (-7) | 1.00% | 5:1 |
| 7 (↑3) | Amphibia (Cartoon) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (47) Anne Boonchuy,Sasha Waybright (32) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (31) | 73.00 | 74 (+18) | 8.77% | 18:1 |
| 8 | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (57) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (17) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (9) | 61.22 | 66 (+3) | 0.46% | 5:1 |
| 9 (↑4) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (62) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (33) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (12) | 60.38 | 127 (+19) | 1.53% | 1:8 |
| 10 (↓3) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (47) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (5) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (4) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Yang Xiao Long (4) | 58.76 | 76 (-10) | 0.64% | 3:1 |
| 11 | The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (36) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (14) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (6) | 55.85 | 66 (+11) | 1.45% | 1.9:1 |
| 12 | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (48) Emma Swan,Lily | Lilith Page (5) | 50.16 | 53 (+0) | 0.34% | 9:1 |
| 13 (↓4) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (37) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (5) Andy Herrera,Maya Bishop (4) | 46.12 | 49 (-7) | 1.80% | 2:1 |
| 14 | Motherland: Fort Salem (TV) Sarah Alder (Motherland: Fort Salem),Tally Craven (27) Raelle Collar,Scylla Ramshorn (24) Abigail Bellweather,Raelle Collar,Tally Craven (4) Nicte Batan,Tally Craven (4) | 43.00 | 43 (-2) | 3.67% | 83:1 |
| 15 (↑2) | The Wilds (TV 2020) Shelby Goodkind,Toni Shalifoe (37) Fatin Jadmani,Leah Rilke (8) Leah Rilke,Rachel Reid (4) | 42.00 | 42 (+6) | 4.00% | 224:1 |
| 16 (↓) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (26) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (21) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (7) | 41.26 | 86 (-9) | 0.71% | 1:7 |
| 17 (↑2) | Doctor Who & Related Fandoms Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (28) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (4) Rose Tyler,Thirteenth Doctor (3) | 40.16 | 47 (+7) | 0.83% | 1:2 |
| 18 (⇑) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Asahina Aoi,Ogami Sakura (6) Celestia Ludenberg,Kirigiri Kyouko (5) Mioda Ibuki,Tsumiki Mikan (5) Nanami Chiaki,Sonia Nevermind (5) | 38.75 | 47 (?) | 0.93% | 1:3 |
| 19 (↓) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (30) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (9) Korra (Avatar),Kuvira (Avatar) (7) | 37.96 | 44 (+5) | 0.66% | 5:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (35) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (7) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (5) | 36.00 | 37 (?) | 0.67% | 17:1 |
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.
