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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2021-12-07 - 2021-12-13
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 6423 (-193 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 3916 (-97 from last week) (1881 new, 2035 continued)
- 0.8% of all 489483 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Doctor Who and Wynonna Earp reenter the charts this week after brief absences, replacing Dangan Ronpa and Life Is Strange. Of these, Doctor Who has a particularly good week, coming back in at rank 9.
- Chart anniversaries for Motherland: Fort Salem (20 consecutive weeks), and The 100 (360 consecutive weeks).
- I'm not even going to comment on League of Legends topping the charts for the third week in a row, but I will give you a couple of Caitlyn/Vi recs: one in which Jinx has amnesia, and one which is an AU of the whole Arcane season.
- Meanwhile, here's a new-to-me read from way back in the archive, June/Bebel post-canon from The Summer Prince.
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) (195) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (39) Caitlyn (League of Legends),Jinx (League of Legends) (17) | 221.59 | 233 (-8) | 9.65% | 1.1:1 |
| 2 | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (126) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (19) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (18) | 165.01 | 166 (-11) | 0.58% | 29:1 |
| 3 | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (32) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (30) Amber (Genshin Impact),Eula (Genshin Impact) (28) | 133.51 | 163 (-38) | 3.82% | 1:4 |
| 4 (↑) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (61) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (24) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (22) | 102.05 | 177 (-3) | 1.27% | 1:6 |
| 5 (↓) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (77) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (12) Emira Blight,Viney (The Owl House) (9) | 92.00 | 92 (-15) | 1.85% | 8:1 |
| 6 | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (80) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (12) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (5) Netossa (She-Ra),Spinnerella (She-Ra) (5) | 82.02 | 84 (-8) | 0.89% | 5:1 |
| 7 (↑) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (40) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (6) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (5) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (5) Raven Branwen,Summer Rose (RWBY) (5) | 63.38 | 78 (-1) | 0.66% | 3:1 |
| 8 (↑) | 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 (30) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (12) | 62.86 | 132 (-8) | 1.57% | 1:8 |
| 9 (⇑) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (46) Leela (Doctor Who),Veega (Gallifrey) (5) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (4) | 61.92 | 70 (?) | 1.16% | 1:1.1 |
| 10 (↑) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (57) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (12) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (7) | 61.09 | 64 (+2) | 0.45% | 5:1 |
| 11 (↑5) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (26) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (22) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (14) | 60.13 | 116 (+17) | 0.95% | 1:7 |
| 12 (↓5) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (58) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (5) | 59.29 | 64 (-8) | 0.40% | 9:1 |
| 13 | Amphibia (Cartoon) Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (35) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (28) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (26) | 59.00 | 59 (+3) | 6.40% | 19:1 |
| 14 (↓4) | Legacies (TV 2018) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (38) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (15) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (7) | 53.15 | 56 (-14) | 1.51% | 13:1 |
| 15 (↑3) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (38) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (5) Andy Herrera,Maya Bishop (3) | 41.33 | 45 (+3) | 1.63% | 2:1 |
| 16 (↓4) | Glee Quinn Fabray,Rachel Berry (29) Brittany S. Pierce,Santana Lopez (11) | 41.09 | 43 (-15) | 0.74% | 1:4 |
| 17 (↓3) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (27) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (15) Korra (Avatar),Kuvira (Avatar) (3) | 40.13 | 43 (-10) | 0.64% | 5:1 |
| 18 (↓) | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (23) Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (12) Alya Césaire,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (7) | 38.61 | 47 (-5) | 1.53% | 1.1:1 |
| 19 (⇑) | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (36) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (5) Nicole Haught,Shae Pressman (3) Rosita Bustillos,Waverly Earp (3) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (3) | 35.00 | 37 (?) | 0.66% | 17:1 |
| 20 (↓) | Motherland: Fort Salem (TV) Raelle Collar,Scylla Ramshorn (19) Sarah Alder (Motherland: Fort Salem),Tally Craven (16) Abigail Bellweather,Raelle Collar,Tally Craven (6) | 34.00 | 34 (-7) | 2.84% | 85:1 |
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.
