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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2022-05-10 - 2022-05-16
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 6786 (+9 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4115 (+20 from last week) (1863 new, 2252 continued)
- 0.77% of all 535242 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Amphibia has a great week, vaulting to rank 3 for the first time ever, and taking Owl House's place in the top five.
- The Wilds is also soaring on the charts, matching its previous best rank of 10, presumably on the strength of the release of season 2.
- Dangan Ronpa is back at 20 for the first time since February, and Miraculous Ladybug is back at 19 for the first time in about a month. They replace Voyager and Virtual Streamer Animated Characters, the last of which charted for over a month in its most recent appearance.
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) (130) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (30) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (26) | 166.44 | 175 (-26) | 3.44% | 1.3:1 |
| 2 | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (41) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (30) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (27) | 161.78 | 183 (-37) | 2.46% | 1:4 |
| 3 (↑3) | Amphibia (Cartoon) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (92) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (62) Anne Boonchuy,Sasha Waybright (59) | 150.01 | 151 (+69) | 8.38% | 21:1 |
| 4 (↓) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (90) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (34) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (22) | 140.42 | 231 (-5) | 1.46% | 1:6 |
| 5 | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (97) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (16) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (9) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (9) | 121.07 | 124 (-2) | 0.42% | 29:1 |
| 6 (↓2) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (115) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (27) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (19) | 119.56 | 130 (-5) | 2.20% | 7:1 |
| 7 | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (94) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (17) Catra (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (7) | 97.00 | 98 (+31) | 0.96% | 5:1 |
| 8 (↑) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (53) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (47) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (16) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (16) | 92.17 | 160 (+37) | 1.13% | 1:7 |
| 9 (↓) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (39) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (10) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (10) | 80.33 | 94 (+18) | 0.76% | 3:1 |
| 10 (↑9) | The Wilds (TV 2020) Fatin Jadmani,Leah Rilke (40) Shelby Goodkind,Toni Shalifoe (40) Leah Rilke,Rachel Reid (6) | 67.00 | 67 (+26) | 4.94% | 142:1 |
| 11 | Killing Eve (TV 2018) Eve Polastri,Villanelle | Oksana Astankova (56) | 56.00 | 56 (-1) | 1.82% | 53:1 |
| 12 (↓2) | Legacies (TV 2018) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (35) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (20) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (6) | 54.20 | 58 (-9) | 1.36% | 11:1 |
| 13 (↑3) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (30) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (9) | 40.09 | 42 (-6) | 1.27% | 3:1 |
| 14 (↑4) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (36) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (5) Kuvira (Avatar),Suyin Beifong (4) | 39.19 | 46 (+1) | 0.65% | 5:1 |
| 15 | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (40) Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (4) | 39.14 | 42 (-6) | 0.26% | 9:1 |
| 16 (↑) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (39) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (5) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (3) | 38.30 | 45 (-2) | 0.31% | 5:1 |
| 17 (↓5) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (27) Kate Lethbridge-Stewart,Petronella Osgood (4) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (3) | 37.93 | 47 (-7) | 0.68% | 1.0:1 |
| 18 (↓4) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (34) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (17) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (11) | 37.35 | 88 (-10) | 0.95% | 1:8 |
| 19 (⇑) | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (25) Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (7) Chloé Bourgeois,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (6) Chloé Bourgeois,Sabrina Raincomprix (6) | 35.44 | 47 (?) | 1.35% | 1.1:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Celestia Ludenberg,Kirigiri Kyouko (7) Fukawa Touko,Naegi Komaru (4) Akamatsu Kaede,Iruma Miu (3) Mioda Ibuki,Tsumiki Mikan (3) Nanami Chiaki,Sonia Nevermind (3) | 32.16 | 41 (?) | 0.74% | 1:3 |
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.
