![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2022-01-11 - 2022-01-17
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 6954 (-273 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4151 (-209 from last week) (2010 new, 2141 continued)
- 0.83% of all 500737 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Lots of turnover this week! The top five is pretty stable, with Supergirl back in 3rd, and League of Legends rounding out 10 consecutive weeks in the charts (8 of them at number one).
- Motherland: Fort Salem is off the charts after 24 consecutive weeks; with a relatively strong 27 works this week, it'll be back. It's replaced by Batman, back for the first time since September. Less notably: The Wilds are Virtual Streamer Animated Characters are on, Killing Eve, Miraculous Ladybug, and Wynonna Earp are off.
- The appearance of Black Widow out of nowhere is on the graph is a chart artifact: both Black Widow (primarily Kate/Yelena) and MCU (primarily Wanda/Natasha and Maria/Natasha) had enough strength in non-cross-tagged works to chart independently this week. It happens. I'll try to clean up my tags so everything shows up under MCU in future weeks. The right way to think about this is that MCU stayed stable at chart position 6 or 7, on the strength of those three ships.
- Finally, chart anniversaries: Harry Potter celebrates 160 consecutive weeks on the chart. You may be surprised by how relatively low that is, but Harry Potter was not consistently on the F/F chart every week until 2019. Boku no Hero Academia, which hit the charts in the second half of 2017 and hasn't looked back, celebrates 200 consecutive appearances.
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) (206) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (54) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (19) | 231.62 | 251 (+6) | 7.74% | 1.2:1 |
| 2 | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (44) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (42) Ganyu (Genshin Impact),Keqing (Genshin Impact) (30) | 196.77 | 224 (+30) | 4.52% | 1:4 |
| 3 (↑) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (104) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (19) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (15) | 141.03 | 143 (-5) | 0.50% | 29:1 |
| 4 (↓) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (76) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (22) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (22) | 122.31 | 211 (-32) | 1.46% | 1:6 |
| 5 | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (89) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (18) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (13) | 95.01 | 96 (-8) | 1.86% | 8:1 |
| 6 (↑2) | She-Ra - All Media Types Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (82) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (19) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (6) | 80.07 | 83 (+7) | 0.94% | 16:1 |
| 7 (↓) | Black Widow (Movie 2021) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (60) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (6) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (6) | 67.01 | 68 (-91) | 20.36% | 9:1 |
| 8 (↓) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (57) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (4) Rose Tyler,Thirteenth Doctor (4) | 63.81 | 71 (-17) | 1.13% | 1:1.0 |
| 9 (↑2) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (31) Blake Belladonna,Weiss Schnee (8) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (7) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (7) | 63.07 | 75 (-1) | 0.62% | 3:1 |
| 10 (↓) | Amphibia (Cartoon) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (40) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (32) Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (32) | 61.00 | 64 (-14) | 5.62% | 20:1 |
| 11 (↑3) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (49) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (7) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (4) | 59.29 | 64 (+4) | 2.18% | 3:1 |
| 12 | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (49) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (29) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (15) | 48.99 | 110 (-20) | 1.28% | 1:8 |
| 13 (↑4) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (39) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (12) Korra (Avatar),Kuvira (Avatar) (4) | 47.32 | 53 (+7) | 0.78% | 5:1 |
| 14 (↓4) | Legacies (TV 2018) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (35) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (10) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (9) | 44.08 | 46 (-31) | 1.19% | 13:1 |
| 15 (↑) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (43) Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (3) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (3) | 42.20 | 47 (-2) | 0.29% | 9:1 |
| 16 (↓3) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (40) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (9) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (5) | 38.61 | 44 (-19) | 0.30% | 5:1 |
| 17 (↓11) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (60) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (27) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (14) | 33.40 | 137 (-22) | 1.07% | 1:7 |
| 18 (⇑) | Batman - All Media Types Harleen Quinzel,Pamela Isley (21) Ryan Wilder,Sophie Moore (17) Cassandra Cain,Stephanie Brown (5) Pamela Isley,Renee Montoya (5) | 31.35 | 52 (?) | 1.57% | 1:9 |
| 19 (⇑) | The Wilds (TV 2020) Shelby Goodkind,Toni Shalifoe (28) Fatin Jadmani,Leah Rilke (6) Martha Blackburn,Toni Shalifoe (4) | 31.00 | 31 (?) | 2.66% | 243:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Virtual Streamer Animated Characters Nanashi Mumei,Ouro Kronii (12) Mori Calliope,Takanashi Kiara (9) Hoshimachi Suisei,Sakura Miko (4) | 30.42 | 39 (?) | 4.16% | 3:1 |
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.
