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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2022-05-24 - 2022-05-30
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 6900 (-169 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4182 (-118 from last week) (1983 new, 2199 continued)
- 0.78% of all 539291 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Owl House is back at number one for the first time since last September, thanks to a 56-work week-over-week improvement.
- At the other end of the chart, we have a whole lot of week-over-week change: Critical Role comes in at rank 9 in its first appearance since November, and Stranger Things slides in at number 20 in its first appearance since September 2019. Grey's Anatomy and Attack on Titan are back after shorter absences. These replace Virtual Streamer Animated Characters, Confession Executive Committee, and Honkai Impact 3rd.
- And let's pour one out for Once Upon a Time, which falls off the charts this week after 505 consecutive chart weeks. Yes, that is more than nine years. Wow.
- Signal-boosting a challenge: elasticella is running a song-related f/f prompt challenge, Now That's What I Call Sapphic!, through July 16th.
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 (↑2) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (195) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (37) Camila Noceda,Luz Noceda (26) | 211.11 | 216 (+56) | 3.54% | 7:1 |
| 2 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (105) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (26) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (25) | 172.51 | 264 (+5) | 1.65% | 1:6 |
| 3 (↓2) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (40) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (37) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (31) | 166.95 | 201 (+3) | 2.61% | 1:4 |
| 4 | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (123) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (29) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (22) | 147.39 | 155 (-7) | 2.97% | 1.3:1 |
| 5 | Amphibia (Cartoon) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (72) Anne Boonchuy,Sasha Waybright (71) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (61) | 137.00 | 141 (-14) | 7.01% | 21:1 |
| 6 | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (81) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (9) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (9) | 101.01 | 102 (-12) | 0.34% | 29:1 |
| 7 (↑2) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (40) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (30) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (16) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (16) | 70.00 | 126 (+5) | 0.88% | 1:7 |
| 8 | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (58) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (12) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (8) | 65.00 | 66 (-13) | 0.64% | 5:1 |
| 9 (⇑) | Critical Role (Web Series) Beauregard Lionett,Yasha (Critical Role) (42) Imogen Temult,Laudna (Critical Role) (11) Keyleth (Critical Role),Vex'ahlia (Critical Role) (3) | 58.06 | 60 (?) | 1.65% | 1:1.7 |
| 10 (↑3) | Doctor Who & Related Fandoms Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (43) Kate Lethbridge-Stewart,Petronella Osgood (10) | 57.69 | 64 (+5) | 0.95% | 1:2 |
| 11 (⇑) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (43) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (14) | 57.30 | 62 (?) | 1.84% | 3:1 |
| 12 (↓) | The Wilds (TV 2020) Shelby Goodkind,Toni Shalifoe (37) Fatin Jadmani,Leah Rilke (33) Dot Campbell,Fatin Jadmani (3) Fatin Jadmani,Shelby Goodkind (3) | 56.00 | 57 (+1) | 4.01% | 113:1 |
| 13 (↓3) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (24) Blake Belladonna,Weiss Schnee (9) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (8) | 54.74 | 67 (-6) | 0.54% | 3:1 |
| 14 (↑2) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (45) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (8) Clarke Griffin,Raven Reyes (6) | 49.27 | 57 (+0) | 0.39% | 5:1 |
| 15 | Legacies (TV 2018) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (36) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (16) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (8) | 47.52 | 53 (-2) | 1.24% | 11:1 |
| 16 (⇑) | Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan Krista Lenz | Historia Reiss,Ymir (Shingeki no Kyojin) (39) Annie Leonhart,Mikasa Ackerman (17) Mikasa Ackerman,Sasha Blouse (5) | 43.70 | 60 (?) | 1.09% | 1:5 |
| 17 (↑) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (38) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (13) Kuvira (Avatar),Opal (Avatar) (4) | 42.00 | 49 (-2) | 0.69% | 5:1 |
| 18 (↑2) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (46) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (11) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (11) | 41.49 | 101 (+4) | 1.09% | 1:8 |
| 19 (↓7) | Killing Eve (TV 2018) Eve Polastri,Villanelle | Oksana Astankova (41) | 41.00 | 41 (-15) | 1.32% | 54:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (29) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (9) Heather Holloway,Robin Buckley (2) | 36.21 | 39 (?) | 3.17% | 1:6 |
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.
