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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2022-06-14 - 2022-06-20
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7436 (+423 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4489 (+280 from last week) (2276 new, 2213 continued)
- 0.82% of all 545665 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- League of Legends is back at number one this week. Stranger Things celebrates its second week at best-ever rank six. And teen vampire drama First Kill vaults into the top ten, hitting rank nine in its second week ever on the charts.
- The big chart exit shocker is The 100, which leaves the chart from a rank of 18 last week, after 386 consecutive weeks (over 7 years). It's actually kind of heartening to see old standbys become chart irregulars, because it's evidence that there's a lot of activity in new fandoms.
- Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! enters the chart at rank 18 after a few weeks away. And Boku no Hero Academia celebrates 10 consecutive weeks on the chart in its latest run.
- Upcoming challenge callout: Star Trek Femslash Fortnight 2022 will run from 23 July to 7 August.
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 (↑3) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (110) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (71) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (20) | 200.64 | 212 (+51) | 3.86% | 1.3:1 |
| 2 (↓) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (170) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (36) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (27) | 190.05 | 193 (+6) | 3.01% | 6:1 |
| 3 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (105) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (39) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (28) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (28) | 158.64 | 263 (+13) | 1.61% | 1:6 |
| 4 (↓2) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (41) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (34) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (34) | 157.28 | 196 (-10) | 2.44% | 1:4 |
| 5 (↑2) | Amphibia (Cartoon) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (77) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (69) Anne Boonchuy,Sasha Waybright (68) | 142.04 | 148 (+44) | 6.59% | 20:1 |
| 6 | Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (140) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (21) Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (13) | 131.13 | 171 (+33) | 10.83% | 1:5 |
| 7 (↓2) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (97) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (14) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (12) | 123.07 | 126 (+2) | 0.42% | 29:1 |
| 8 (↑2) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (49) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (42) Angie Martinelli,Peggy Carter (17) | 87.92 | 157 (+37) | 1.08% | 1:7 |
| 9 (↑11) | First Kill (TV 2022) Calliope Burns (First Kill),Juliette Fairmont (75) Margot Fairmont,Talia Burns (7) | 81.01 | 82 (+44) | 68.33% | 40:1 |
| 10 (↑4) | The Vampire Diaries (TV) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (43) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (22) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (13) | 68.36 | 78 (+30) | 1.50% | 1:1.5 |
| 11 (↑) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (56) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (11) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (7) | 64.00 | 65 (+4) | 0.63% | 5:1 |
| 12 (↑5) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (62) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (23) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (12) | 60.83 | 126 (+29) | 1.34% | 1:8 |
| 13 (↓4) | Grey's Anatomy Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (28) Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (27) | 59.14 | 62 (-13) | 1.78% | 3:1 |
| 14 (↓3) | The Wilds (TV 2020) Shelby Goodkind,Toni Shalifoe (39) Fatin Jadmani,Leah Rilke (29) Leah Rilke,Rachel Reid (3) | 59.00 | 59 (-1) | 3.88% | 79:1 |
| 15 (↓2) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (37) Rose Tyler,Thirteenth Doctor (6) Kate Lethbridge-Stewart,Petronella Osgood (5) | 51.75 | 58 (+8) | 0.82% | 1.0:1 |
| 16 | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (40) Dorothy Gale (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (3) | 45.30 | 49 (+3) | 0.30% | 9:1 |
| 17 (↓2) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (30) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (6) ... | 43.62 | 63 (-1) | 0.50% | 3:1 |
| 18 (⇑) | 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 (13) Akiyama Mizuki,Shinonome Ena (10) Kusanagi Nene,Ootori Emu (8) | 43.09 | 45 (?) | 5.38% | 1.1:1 |
| 19 | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (40) Korra (Avatar),Kuvira (Avatar) (5) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (4) | 42.00 | 49 (+4) | 0.69% | 5:1 |
| 20 (↓12) | Killing Eve (TV 2018) Eve Polastri,Villanelle | Oksana Astankova (41) | 41.02 | 42 (-41) | 1.31% | 55:1 |
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.
