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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2022-05-31 - 2022-06-06
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7212 (+312 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4289 (+107 from last week) (2059 new, 2230 continued)
- 0.79% of all 541350 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- The top four is totally stable this week, and Supergirl slides back into the top five. Stranger Things hits the top ten for the first time ever, jumping to rank 9.
- Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! enters the chart at 13 in its second-ever appearance. Twitter confirms that this is a result of an Anhane Week challenge - your periodic reminder that these things move the needle in femslash.
- No surprise, Once Upon a Time is also back on the chart after a week off, along with Virtual Streamer Animated Characters. These three fandoms replace Legend of Korra, Critical Role, and Attack on Titan.
- Finally, some chart anniversaries: Killing Eve celebrates 10 consecutive weeks on the chart, League of Legends is at 30, and Harry Potter is at 180 (out of 709 total appearances. From the advent of AO3 through 2018, HP charted approximately 2/3 of all weeks. It's only since 2019 that it's been consistently on the chart every single week).
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 | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (188) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (39) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (24) | 211.02 | 213 (-3) | 3.42% | 6:1 |
| 2 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (114) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (31) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (27) | 176.56 | 277 (+13) | 1.72% | 1:6 |
| 3 | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (33) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (28) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (25) | 156.02 | 184 (-17) | 2.36% | 1:4 |
| 4 | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (110) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (28) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (20) | 148.27 | 162 (+7) | 3.06% | 1.3:1 |
| 5 (↑) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (86) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (13) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (13) | 132.00 | 132 (+30) | 0.44% | 29:1 |
| 6 (↓) | Amphibia (Cartoon) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (65) Anne Boonchuy,Sasha Waybright (61) Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (51) | 120.00 | 126 (-15) | 6.05% | 20:1 |
| 7 | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (47) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (46) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (11) | 86.77 | 149 (+23) | 1.04% | 1:7 |
| 8 | She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (69) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (11) Catra (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (5) | 73.00 | 75 (+9) | 0.77% | 16:1 |
| 9 (↑11) | Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (69) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (17) Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (7) | 68.30 | 94 (+55) | 7.13% | 1:6 |
| 10 (↑3) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (40) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (7) Coco Adel,Velvet Scarlatina (6) | 67.96 | 80 (+13) | 0.64% | 3:1 |
| 11 (↑) | The Wilds (TV 2020) Shelby Goodkind,Toni Shalifoe (42) Fatin Jadmani,Leah Rilke (25) Leah Rilke,Rachel Reid (5) Martha Blackburn,Toni Shalifoe (5) | 63.00 | 64 (+7) | 4.37% | 90:1 |
| 12 (↓2) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (42) Jenny Flint,Madame Vastra (Doctor Who) (6) Kate Lethbridge-Stewart,Petronella Osgood (6) | 57.52 | 63 (-1) | 0.89% | 1.0:1 |
| 13 (⇑) | プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (36) Akiyama Mizuki,Shinonome Ena (6) Kusanagi Nene,Ootori Emu (5) | 55.00 | 55 (?) | 7.15% | 1.1:1 |
| 14 | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (51) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (8) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (7) | 54.28 | 63 (+6) | 0.43% | 5:1 |
| 15 (↓4) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (28) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (21) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (4) | 50.34 | 55 (-7) | 1.62% | 3:1 |
| 16 (⇑) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (42) Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (5) Alice Jones | Tilly,Robin | Margot (3) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Snow White | Mary Margaret Blanchard (3) | 48.04 | 50 (?) | 0.31% | 9:1 |
| 17 (↓2) | Legacies (TV 2018) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (29) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (22) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (8) | 47.48 | 54 (+1) | 1.25% | 10:1 |
| 18 (⇑) | Virtual Streamer Animated Characters Hakos Baelz,IRyS (Hololive) (8) Nanashi Mumei,Ouro Kronii (8) Finana Ryugu,Selen Tatsuki (6) Mori Calliope,Takanashi Kiara (6) | 38.47 | 46 (?) | 3.05% | 1.1:1 |
| 19 | Killing Eve (TV 2018) Eve Polastri,Villanelle | Oksana Astankova (38) Eve Polastri,Hélène (Killing Eve) (2) | 37.03 | 38 (-3) | 1.21% | 54:1 |
| 20 (↓2) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (36) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (14) Ashido Mina,Uraraka Ochako (10) | 36.91 | 90 (-11) | 0.97% | 1:8 |
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.
