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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2021-12-14 - 2021-12-20
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 6302 (-121 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 3763 (-153 from last week) (1881 new, 1882 continued)
- 0.77% of all 491364 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Amphibia rolls into the top five for the first time (after 15 weeks on the charts), dislodging Owl House.
- No surprises in the bottom-of-chart churn: Life Is Strange, Pitch Perfect, and The Wilds return after absences of two months or less, replacing Doctor Who, Glee, and Miraculous Ladybug after chart streaks of two weeks or less.
- Chart anniversaries: Grey's Anatomy celebrates 30 consecutive weeks on the chart, and Genshin Impact celebrates 50, closing in on the one-year mark.
- Happy Yuletide! Here are the F/F-tagged works in Yuletide 2021 for your reference. You won't see much overlap between Yuletide and my charts, because even F/F top-20 fandoms are almost universally Too Big For Yuletide, but I'll be reading through that list.
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) (199) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (41) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (15) | 220.69 | 233 (+0) | 9.05% | 1.1:1 |
| 2 | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (122) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (20) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (17) | 149.03 | 151 (-15) | 0.53% | 29:1 |
| 3 | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (24) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (22) Ganyu (Genshin Impact),Keqing (Genshin Impact) (18) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (18) | 133.90 | 162 (-1) | 3.70% | 1:4 |
| 4 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (61) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (27) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (19) | 117.00 | 195 (+18) | 1.39% | 1:6 |
| 5 (↑8) | Amphibia (Cartoon) Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (64) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (37) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (36) | 95.00 | 95 (+36) | 9.56% | 19:1 |
| 6 (↓) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (82) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (11) Emira Blight,Viney (The Owl House) (9) | 90.04 | 94 (+2) | 1.87% | 9:1 |
| 7 (↓) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (82) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (10) Netossa (She-Ra),Spinnerella (She-Ra) (5) | 84.00 | 84 (+0) | 0.89% | 5:1 |
| 8 (↑6) | The Vampire Diaries (TV) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (51) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (15) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (10) | 75.55 | 82 (+26) | 1.80% | 1:1.5 |
| 9 (↑6) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (53) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (19) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (5) | 75.08 | 78 (+33) | 2.78% | 3:1 |
| 10 (↑) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (42) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (25) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (17) | 71.59 | 126 (+10) | 1.02% | 1:7 |
| 11 (↓) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (50) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (13) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (8) | 54.00 | 54 (-10) | 0.38% | 5:1 |
| 12 (↓5) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (30) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (7) Blake Belladonna,Weiss Schnee (6) | 53.48 | 65 (-13) | 0.55% | 3:1 |
| 13 (↓) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (44) Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (3) | 47.22 | 51 (-13) | 0.32% | 9:1 |
| 14 (↓6) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (50) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (27) Ashido Mina,Uraraka Ochako (8) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (8) | 43.54 | 104 (-28) | 1.23% | 1:8 |
| 15 (⇑) | Pitch Perfect (Movies) Beca Mitchell,Chloe Beale (17) Aubrey Posen,Emily Junk (9) Ashley Jones,Jessica Smith (Pitch Perfect) (4) Aubrey Posen,Beca Mitchell (4) Aubrey Posen,Stacie Conrad (4) | 37.00 | 38 (?) | 0.66% | 65:1 |
| 16 (↑4) | Motherland: Fort Salem (TV) Sarah Alder (Motherland: Fort Salem),Tally Craven (21) Raelle Collar,Scylla Ramshorn (19) Abigail Bellweather,Raelle Collar,Tally Craven (7) | 34.00 | 34 (+0) | 2.80% | 86:1 |
| 17 (⇑) | The Wilds (TV 2020) Shelby Goodkind,Toni Shalifoe (28) Leah Rilke,Rachel Reid (6) Dot Campbell,Fatin Jadmani (3) Fatin Jadmani,Leah Rilke (3) Martha Blackburn,Toni Shalifoe (3) | 33.00 | 33 (?) | 3.00% | 231:1 |
| 18 (↓) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (29) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (5) Korra (Avatar),Kuvira (Avatar) (4) | 32.40 | 36 (-7) | 0.53% | 5:1 |
| 19 (⇑) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (14) Alex Chen (Life Is Strange),Steph Gingrich (7) Chloe Price (Life is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Rachel Amber (4) Chloe Price (Life is Strange),Rachel Amber (4) Kate Marsh,Victoria Chase (Life is Strange) (4) | 32.03 | 33 (?) | 0.71% | 8:1 |
| 20 (↓) | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (31) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (5) Nicole Haught,Shae Pressman (2) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (2) | 30.00 | 33 (-4) | 0.59% | 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.
