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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2022-07-19 - 2022-07-25
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7740 (+154 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4716 (+61 from last week) (2243 new, 2473 continued)
- 0.85% of all 556580 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- The work count for Stranger Things goes up and up. It's still in first place, but what you don't see in the graph is that this week ST's rating is literally twice that of second-place fandom Genshin Impact.
- Meanwhile, Supergirl had a good week, and is back at rank 3 for the first time in awhile.
- The bottom of the chart is pretty noisy: Motherland: Fort Salem is back for the first time since February, Batman is back for the first time since May, and Legend of Korra, Grey's Anatomy, and First Kill are back after shorter absences.
- The most notable exits are Vampire Diaries (aka Legacies aka The Originals) and Boku no Hero Academia, both long-running chart fandoms which occasionally fall off the top 20, both not often. Critical Role, Miraculous Ladybug, and Virtual Streamer Animated Characters also exit the chart this week.
- In honor of Nichelle Nichols, I'll recommend this cute fic from a 2019 AU exchange, in which Uhura and T'Pring are aspiring science fiction authors.
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 | Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (337) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (90) Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (58) | 357.28 | 456 (+43) | 15.70% | 1:5 |
| 2 | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (48) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (38) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (27) | 168.66 | 213 (-38) | 2.46% | 1:4 |
| 3 (↑3) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (128) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (18) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (12) | 163.01 | 164 (+45) | 0.54% | 29:1 |
| 4 (↓) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (107) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (41) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (24) | 158.83 | 256 (+1) | 1.52% | 1:6 |
| 5 (↓) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (127) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (36) Camila Noceda,Luz Noceda (16) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (16) | 137.28 | 144 (-2) | 2.14% | 5:1 |
| 6 (↓) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (92) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (20) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (20) | 128.03 | 140 (+3) | 2.41% | 1.3:1 |
| 7 | Amphibia (Cartoon) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (48) Anne Boonchuy,Sasha Waybright (46) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (43) | 83.19 | 92 (-2) | 3.66% | 19:1 |
| 8 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (35) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (8) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (6) | 74.48 | 85 (-10) | 0.67% | 3:1 |
| 9 (↑3) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (44) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (29) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (14) | 66.11 | 120 (+5) | 0.81% | 1:7 |
| 10 (↑) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (28) Helen Sinclair,Liv Chenka (14) Kate Lethbridge-Stewart,Petronella Osgood (4) | 60.06 | 62 (+0) | 0.85% | 1.0:1 |
| 11 (↑6) | The Wilds (TV 2020) Shelby Goodkind,Toni Shalifoe (39) Fatin Jadmani,Leah Rilke (36) Martha Blackburn,Toni Shalifoe (6) | 59.00 | 59 (+13) | 3.63% | 66:1 |
| 12 (↓2) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (53) Catra (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (6) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (6) | 57.00 | 57 (-8) | 0.55% | 5:1 |
| 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 (11) Akiyama Mizuki,Shinonome Ena (6) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (6) Hanasato Minori,Kiritani Haruka (6) Hinomori Shizuku,Momoi Airi (6) | 50.02 | 51 (-6) | 4.90% | 1:1.0 |
| 14 (⇑) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (34) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (13) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (4) | 47.03 | 54 (?) | 1.48% | 3:1 |
| 15 | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (43) | 43.84 | 51 (-2) | 0.31% | 9:1 |
| 16 (↓2) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (41) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (10) Luna (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (5) | 41.13 | 44 (-15) | 0.30% | 5:1 |
| 17 (⇑) | Batman - All Media Types Ryan Wilder,Sophie Moore (23) Harleen Quinzel,Pamela Isley (16) Cassandra Cain,Stephanie Brown (8) | 40.52 | 60 (?) | 1.48% | 1:9 |
| 18 (⇑) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (38) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (7) Korra (Avatar),Kuvira (Avatar) (4) Kuvira (Avatar),Opal (Avatar) (4) | 39.81 | 46 (?) | 0.64% | 5:1 |
| 19 (⇑) | Motherland: Fort Salem (TV) Sarah Alder (Motherland: Fort Salem),Tally Craven (27) Raelle Collar,Scylla Ramshorn (13) Abigail Bellweather,Raelle Collar,Tally Craven (5) | 36.03 | 37 (?) | 2.35% | 92:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | First Kill (TV 2022) Calliope Burns (First Kill),Juliette Fairmont (32) Margot Fairmont,Talia Burns (3) Juliette Fairmont,Margot Fairmont (2) | 35.00 | 35 (?) | 12.87% | 33:1 |
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.
