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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2022-01-25 - 2022-01-31
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7115 (+79 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4222 (+22 from last week) (1931 new, 2291 continued)
- 0.84% of all 504639 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Not much news this week; Virtual Streamer Animated Characters reached its best rank ever this week, at 17. A:tLA, Batman, and Life Is Strange are back at the bottom of the chart, replacing Miraculous Ladybug, Attack on Titan, and The Wilds.
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) (209) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (45) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (30) | 244.82 | 259 (-14) | 7.29% | 1.2:1 |
| 2 | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (57) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (41) Ganyu (Genshin Impact),Keqing (Genshin Impact) (39) | 195.93 | 227 (+12) | 4.34% | 1:4 |
| 3 | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (103) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (25) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (14) | 137.03 | 139 (+2) | 0.48% | 29:1 |
| 4 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (83) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (24) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (20) | 125.47 | 214 (+26) | 1.47% | 1:6 |
| 5 (↑2) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (102) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (23) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (14) | 111.00 | 111 (+25) | 2.12% | 8:1 |
| 6 (↓) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (91) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (16) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (9) | 92.01 | 93 (+4) | 0.96% | 5:1 |
| 7 (↓) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (62) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (28) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (13) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (13) | 84.34 | 146 (-11) | 1.13% | 1:7 |
| 8 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (33) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (11) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Yang Xiao Long (8) | 70.40 | 88 (-3) | 0.73% | 3:1 |
| 9 | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (43) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (5) Rose Tyler,Thirteenth Doctor (4) | 57.37 | 62 (-12) | 0.97% | 1:1.0 |
| 10 (↑) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (53) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (10) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (5) | 55.03 | 57 (+1) | 0.39% | 5:1 |
| 11 (↑5) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (52) Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (4) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Red Riding Hood | Ruby (3) | 54.24 | 59 (+20) | 0.37% | 9:1 |
| 12 (↓2) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (47) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (30) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (13) | 50.13 | 109 (-11) | 1.26% | 1:8 |
| 13 (↑) | Amphibia (Cartoon) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (30) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (30) Anne Boonchuy,Sasha Waybright (24) | 47.04 | 49 (+0) | 4.13% | 21:1 |
| 14 (↑) | The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (25) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (11) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (9) | 42.77 | 52 (+0) | 1.07% | 1.9:1 |
| 15 (↓3) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (36) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (5) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (3) | 40.48 | 46 (-4) | 1.55% | 3:1 |
| 16 (↓3) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (36) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (8) | 40.33 | 44 (-7) | 0.64% | 5:1 |
| 17 (↑2) | Virtual Streamer Animated Characters Mori Calliope,Takanashi Kiara (11) Nanashi Mumei,Ouro Kronii (11) Hoshimachi Suisei,Sakura Miko (6) | 36.82 | 47 (+10) | 4.78% | 3:1 |
| 18 (⇑) | Batman - All Media Types Ryan Wilder,Sophie Moore (22) Harleen Quinzel,Pamela Isley (12) Cassandra Cain,Stephanie Brown (8) | 36.41 | 55 (?) | 1.63% | 1:9 |
| 19 (⇑) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (19) Chloe Price (Life is Strange),Rachel Amber (11) Chloe Price (Life is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Rachel Amber (6) | 34.00 | 34 (?) | 0.72% | 9:1 |
| 20 (↓7) | Avatar: The Last Airbender Mai (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (12) Azula (Avatar),Katara (Avatar) (10) Azula (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (10) | 30.75 | 41 (-10) | 1.08% | 1:1.7 |
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.
