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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2022-07-26 - 2022-08-01
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7668 (-72 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4701 (-15 from last week) (2244 new, 2457 continued)
- 0.84% of all 558824 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Stranger Things levels off this week, if you want to call it that. Work count is flat week-over-week, but it's still twice the work count of any other fandom. The fandom also celebrates its first 10 consecutive weeks on the chart.
- Motherland: Fort Salem jumps into the top ten, in its best showing in a year, presumably on the strength of season 3.
- On the other end, Killing Eve and Virtual Streamer Animated Characters both enter the chart after short absences, and Legend of Korra and The 100 both exit after short streaks.
- Upcoming challenge: Teylabeth Week 2022, running from September 5-11th, calling for works celebrating the ship of Teyla Emmagan and Elizabeth Weir from Stargate: Atlantis.
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 (344) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (88) Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (63) | 360.00 | 449 (-7) | 14.14% | 1:4 |
| 2 | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (43) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (33) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (29) | 185.28 | 222 (+9) | 2.52% | 1:4 |
| 3 (↑) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (118) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (46) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (21) | 180.31 | 288 (+32) | 1.70% | 1:6 |
| 4 (↑) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (138) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (27) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (14) | 150.03 | 152 (+8) | 2.24% | 5:1 |
| 5 (↑) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (94) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (25) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (21) | 135.47 | 144 (+4) | 2.46% | 1.3:1 |
| 6 (↓3) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (81) Cat Grant,Kara Danvers (19) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (14) | 132.09 | 136 (-28) | 0.45% | 29:1 |
| 7 (↑12) | Motherland: Fort Salem (TV) Sarah Alder (Motherland: Fort Salem),Tally Craven (68) Raelle Collar,Scylla Ramshorn (22) Abigail Bellweather,Raelle Collar,Tally Craven (8) | 89.00 | 89 (+52) | 5.44% | 93:1 |
| 8 (↑) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (37) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (36) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (17) | 75.93 | 131 (+11) | 0.88% | 1:7 |
| 9 (↓2) | Amphibia (Cartoon) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (43) Anne Boonchuy,Sasha Waybright (31) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (23) | 66.30 | 78 (-14) | 3.06% | 19:1 |
| 10 (↑2) | She-Ra - All Media Types Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (63) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (10) Catra (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (4) Netossa (She-Ra),Spinnerella (She-Ra) (4) | 66.00 | 69 (+12) | 0.72% | 16:1 |
| 11 | The Wilds (TV 2020) Shelby Goodkind,Toni Shalifoe (37) Fatin Jadmani,Leah Rilke (36) Dot Campbell,Fatin Jadmani (5) Martha Blackburn,Toni Shalifoe (5) | 65.00 | 65 (+6) | 3.93% | 62:1 |
| 12 (↓4) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (33) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (7) Blake Belladonna,Weiss Schnee (6) | 64.32 | 81 (-4) | 0.64% | 3:1 |
| 13 (↓3) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (30) Helen Sinclair,Liv Chenka (17) Kate Lethbridge-Stewart,Petronella Osgood (3) | 56.15 | 59 (-3) | 0.81% | 1.0:1 |
| 14 | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (39) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (13) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (5) | 53.20 | 57 (+3) | 1.55% | 3:1 |
| 15 (↓2) | プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game) Akiyama Mizuki,Shinonome Ena (12) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (11) Asahina Mafuyu,Shinonome Ena (7) | 53.07 | 55 (+4) | 5.09% | 1:1.0 |
| 16 (↓) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (45) | 51.00 | 52 (+1) | 0.31% | 9:1 |
| 17 (⇑) | Killing Eve (TV 2018) Eve Polastri,Villanelle | Oksana Astankova (48) | 47.04 | 49 (?) | 1.48% | 57:1 |
| 18 (↓) | Batman - All Media Types Ryan Wilder,Sophie Moore (20) Harleen Quinzel,Pamela Isley (19) Cassandra Cain,Stephanie Brown (8) Kate Kane,Reagan (Batwoman) (8) | 43.59 | 67 (+7) | 1.64% | 1:9 |
| 19 (⇑) | Virtual Streamer Animated Characters Nanashi Mumei,Ouro Kronii (9) Ceres Fauna,Ouro Kronii (6) Hakos Baelz,IRyS (Hololive) (6) | 38.24 | 48 (?) | 2.76% | 1:1.2 |
| 20 | First Kill (TV 2022) Calliope Burns (First Kill),Juliette Fairmont (38) Calliope Burns (First Kill),Talia Burns (2) Elinor Fairmont,Juliette Fairmont (2) | 38.00 | 38 (+3) | 12.97% | 31:1 |
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.
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Date: 2022-08-09 05:59 pm (UTC)In a desperate bid to get Boku no Hero Academia back onto the chart, there's a femslash event in September: BNHA Valkyries. (I'm kidding about the context, the mods started organising and promoting the event a couple of months ago :D It's a prompt week!)
No worries if that's not something you're actually interested in promoting, and thanks again for these posts! A few of us are always eager to see the changes
and trying to keep BNHA on the list or crying when it's gone 😂, it's really cool :)no subject
Date: 2022-08-10 02:04 am (UTC)I just recently started following fandomcalendar, and my general plan is to try to post about anything I see there that looks femslashy (assuming I don't miss it, assuming I make a post between when it goes up and when it's too late for people to contribute, etc). So potentially I would have seen and posted about your event as a result of your post there, but it absolutely does not hurt to comment to me to make sure!
And thanks for the kind words; I appreciate it.
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Date: 2022-08-11 08:45 pm (UTC)