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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2021-12-21 - 2021-12-27
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7636 (+1334 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4741 (+978 from last week) (2645 new, 2096 continued)
- 0.96% of all 494009 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- A good week for MCU, which hits the top five for the first time since 2019 on the strength of Kate Bishop/Yelena Belova, a ship which did not exist until August and has become the dominant MCU F/F ship within the past 3 weeks.
- Only minor changes otherwise: the top three hasn't moved in five weeks. Doctor Who is back after a week off, and Legends of Tomorrow is back for the first time since March, but that's probably a reporting artifact (i.e. we've probably seen those ships under "Arrow" or some other fandom name more recently).
- I promised some Yuletide F/F recs, so here are a few at least:
- Fen/Pat from K.J. Charles's England series, tackling a new mystery
- Ellie/Aster from The Half of It, exchanging letters
- Lorraine/Delphine from Atomic Blonde, in a Trabant
- Miryem/Wanda from Spinning Silver, post-canon
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) (227) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (41) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (19) | 250.80 | 265 (+32) | 9.63% | 1.1:1 |
| 2 | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (151) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (31) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (23) | 236.07 | 240 (+89) | 0.84% | 29:1 |
| 3 | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (40) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (33) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (26) | 172.65 | 209 (+47) | 4.63% | 1:4 |
| 4 (↑6) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (61) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (40) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (35) | 121.32 | 190 (+64) | 1.53% | 1:7 |
| 5 (↓) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (53) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (24) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (19) | 112.88 | 193 (-2) | 1.37% | 1:6 |
| 6 (↑) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (105) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (19) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (6) | 108.00 | 109 (+25) | 1.14% | 5:1 |
| 7 (↓) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (88) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (14) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (12) | 98.01 | 99 (+5) | 1.96% | 8:1 |
| 8 | The Vampire Diaries (TV) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (45) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (14) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (12) | 68.15 | 77 (-5) | 1.68% | 1:1.5 |
| 9 (↑3) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (36) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (6) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (5) Coco Adel,Velvet Scarlatina (5) | 66.11 | 85 (+20) | 0.71% | 3:1 |
| 10 (↓) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (35) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (22) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (7) | 66.00 | 67 (-11) | 2.35% | 3:1 |
| 11 | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (51) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (14) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (6) | 59.18 | 63 (+9) | 0.44% | 5:1 |
| 12 (↑2) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (60) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (24) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (11) | 57.27 | 123 (+19) | 1.45% | 1:8 |
| 13 (↓8) | Amphibia (Cartoon) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (28) Anne Boonchuy,Sasha Waybright (20) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (18) Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (18) | 54.00 | 55 (-40) | 5.35% | 19:1 |
| 14 (↓) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (57) Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (4) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (3) | 53.72 | 61 (+10) | 0.38% | 9:1 |
| 15 (↑) | Motherland: Fort Salem (TV) Sarah Alder (Motherland: Fort Salem),Tally Craven (30) Raelle Collar,Scylla Ramshorn (15) Abigail Bellweather,Raelle Collar,Tally Craven (7) | 45.00 | 45 (+11) | 3.64% | 87:1 |
| 16 (↑2) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (36) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (13) Asami Sato,Kuvira (Avatar) (3) Korra (Avatar),Kuvira (Avatar) (3) | 44.31 | 48 (+12) | 0.71% | 5:1 |
| 17 (⇑) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (32) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (7) Kate Lethbridge-Stewart,Petronella Osgood (4) | 43.75 | 53 (?) | 0.87% | 1:1.1 |
| 18 (↓3) | Pitch Perfect (Movies) Beca Mitchell,Chloe Beale (35) Aubrey Posen,Beca Mitchell (4) Aubrey Posen,Stacie Conrad (3) Beca Mitchell,Stacie Conrad (3) | 42.00 | 43 (+5) | 0.74% | 66:1 |
| 19 (↓2) | The Wilds (TV 2020) Shelby Goodkind,Toni Shalifoe (32) Fatin Jadmani,Leah Rilke (4) Leah Rilke,Rachel Reid (4) | 38.00 | 38 (+5) | 3.38% | 235:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | DC's Legends of Tomorrow (TV) Ava Sharpe,Sara Lance (29) Astra Logue,Esperanza "Spooner" Cruz (7) Gideon (DC's Legends of Tomorrow),Zari Tarazi | Zari 2.0 (4) | 33.70 | 44 (?) | 1.05% | 1:1.1 |
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.
