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High-level stats for week of 2022-08-02 - 2022-08-08

Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7802 (+134 from last week)

Works I classified F/F: 4794 (+92 from last week) (2329 new, 2465 continued)

0.85% of all 561154 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week

A few callouts this week:

This week, The Wilds hits its best-ever rank (9), as does Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (12).
Legend of Korra jumps back onto the chart at rank 11 after a week off. Critical Role, The 100, and Boku no Hero Academia are also back after short absences, and Fire Emblem is back for the first time since March.
In exchange, we lose Batman, First Kill, Killing Eve, Once Upon a Time, and Virtual Streamer Animated Characters, all after short chart runs.
Upcoming event callout: Boku no Hero Academia fans are running a femslash event called Valkyries, a week of daily prompts from September 12-18th. See that link for details.

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 (321) Eleven \| Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (100) Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (61)	339.20	437 (-12)	12.73%	1:4
2	原神 \| Genshin Impact (Video Game) Raiden Ei \| Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (32) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (30) Kujou Sara,Raiden Ei \| Baal (29)	195.71	237 (+15)	2.65%	1:4
3	Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (114) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (51) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (26)	157.92	265 (-23)	1.56%	1:6
4 (↑)	League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (115) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (32) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (30)	157.46	166 (+22)	2.80%	1.3:1
5 (↓)	The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (138) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (24) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (19)	148.06	151 (-1)	2.21%	5:1
6	Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (79) Alex Danvers,Samantha "Sam" Arias (15) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (9) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (9) Alex Danvers,Lena Luthor (9)	113.01	114 (-22)	0.38%	30:1
7 (↑3)	She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (73) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (10) Catra (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (6)	82.00	82 (+13)	0.78%	5:1
8	Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (45) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (37) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (9)	63.80	124 (-7)	0.83%	1:7
9 (↑2)	The Wilds (TV 2020) Shelby Goodkind,Toni Shalifoe (36) Fatin Jadmani,Leah Rilke (33) Dot Campbell,Fatin Jadmani (4) Leah Rilke,Rachel Reid (4) Martha Blackburn,Toni Shalifoe (4)	62.00	62 (-3)	3.69%	59:1
10 (↓)	Amphibia (Cartoon) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (41) Anne Boonchuy,Sasha Waybright (32) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (27)	61.10	68 (-10)	2.64%	19:1
11 (⇑)	Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (54) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (6) Kuvira (Avatar),Opal (Avatar) (4)	60.18	64 (?)	0.88%	5:1
12 (↑3)	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 (14) Akiyama Mizuki,Shinonome Ena (9) ...	55.07	57 (+2)	5.08%	1:1.0
13 (↓)	RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (24) Blake Belladonna,Weiss Schnee (5) ...	53.28	67 (-14)	0.53%	3:1
14 (↓)	Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (31) Helen Sinclair,Liv Chenka (11) Kate Lethbridge-Stewart,Petronella Osgood (4)	49.59	55 (-4)	0.75%	1.0:1
15 (↓)	Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (34) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (14) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (5)	46.92	54 (-3)	1.46%	3:1
16 (↓9)	Motherland: Fort Salem (TV) Sarah Alder (Motherland: Fort Salem),Tally Craven (26) Raelle Collar,Scylla Ramshorn (21) Abigail Bellweather,Raelle Collar,Tally Craven (7)	46.00	46 (-43)	2.77%	95:1
17 (⇑)	僕のヒーローアカデミア \| Boku no Hero Academia \| My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (35) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (17) Todoroki Fuyumi,Usagiyama Rumi \| Miruko (9)	41.82	99 (?)	1.03%	1:8
18 (⇑)	The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (38) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (5) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (3) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (3)	39.11	44 (?)	0.30%	5:1
19 (⇑)	Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu \| Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hilda Valentine Goneril,Marianne von Edmund (15) Dorothea Arnault,Ingrid Brandl Galatea (7) Dorothea Arnault,Petra Macneary (6)	38.89	58 (?)	1.61%	1:2
20 (⇑)	Critical Role (Web Series) Imogen Temult,Laudna (Critical Role) (22) Beauregard Lionett,Yasha (Critical Role) (10) Beauregard Lionett,Jester Lavorre (3)	37.00	37 (?)	0.97%	1:1.7

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.