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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2022-09-20 - 2022-09-26
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7196 (-62 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4359 (-46 from last week) (2111 new, 2248 continued)
- 0.76% of all 575653 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Stranger Things continues to lose work count but remain in first place. Genshin Impact has a good week and returns to second place. The top five is stable otherwise. League of Their Own stays at rank 7 for its second week on the chart.
- At the bottom of the chart, Legend of Korra and The Wilds are back, replacing Grey's Anatomy and Virtual Streamer Animated Characters.
- Motherland: Fort Salem celebrates 10 consecutive chart appearances. Genshin Impact has an impressive 90.
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 (160) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (41) Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (35) | 182.96 | 237 (-30) | 5.27% | 1:4 |
| 2 (↑2) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (50) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (28) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (24) | 154.17 | 185 (+30) | 1.90% | 1:4 |
| 3 (↓) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (102) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (52) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (21) | 150.06 | 245 (-44) | 1.38% | 1:6 |
| 4 (↓) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (115) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (26) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (14) | 127.25 | 134 (-3) | 1.87% | 5:1 |
| 5 | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (85) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (13) Alex Danvers,Samantha "Sam" Arias (9) | 103.14 | 107 (-11) | 0.35% | 29:1 |
| 6 | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (76) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (19) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (18) | 101.68 | 110 (-5) | 1.73% | 1.3:1 |
| 7 | A League of Their Own (TV 2022) Carson Shaw,Greta Gill (60) Jess McCready,Lupe García (20) Jo De Luca,Maybelle Fox (5) | 78.00 | 78 (-8) | 35.62% | 255:1 |
| 8 | She-Ra - All Media Types Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (66) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (12) Catra (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (5) Netossa (She-Ra),Spinnerella (She-Ra) (5) | 71.00 | 71 (-7) | 0.72% | 16:1 |
| 9 (↑8) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (33) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (32) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (13) | 67.10 | 118 (+16) | 0.77% | 1:6 |
| 10 (↓) | Critical Role (Web Series) Imogen Temult,Laudna (Critical Role) (40) Allura Vysoren,Kima (Critical Role) (15) Beauregard Lionett,Yasha (Critical Role) (7) | 63.13 | 66 (-8) | 1.62% | 1:1.6 |
| 11 (↑3) | Amphibia (Cartoon) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (34) Anne Boonchuy,Sasha Waybright (28) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (22) | 60.06 | 64 (+1) | 2.30% | 19:1 |
| 12 (↑4) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (31) Raven Branwen,Summer Rose (RWBY) (8) Blake Belladonna,Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (7) | 59.68 | 75 (+9) | 0.58% | 3:1 |
| 13 (↓) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (55) | 56.36 | 62 (-3) | 0.37% | 9:1 |
| 14 (↓4) | Motherland: Fort Salem (TV) Raelle Collar,Scylla Ramshorn (32) Sarah Alder (Motherland: Fort Salem),Tally Craven (31) Nicte Batan,Sarah Alder (Motherland: Fort Salem) (7) | 55.00 | 56 (-12) | 2.96% | 106:1 |
| 15 (↓2) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (42) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (21) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (10) | 53.67 | 115 (-7) | 1.16% | 1:8 |
| 16 (⇑) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (44) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (10) Korra (Avatar),Kuvira (Avatar) (5) | 50.49 | 56 (?) | 0.75% | 5:1 |
| 17 (↓2) | 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 (12) Akiyama Mizuki,Shinonome Ena (11) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (10) | 50.04 | 52 (-4) | 3.65% | 1:1.1 |
| 18 (↓7) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (42) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (9) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (7) | 44.26 | 51 (-14) | 0.34% | 5:1 |
| 19 (⇑) | The Wilds (TV 2020) Shelby Goodkind,Toni Shalifoe (29) Fatin Jadmani,Leah Rilke (26) Leah Rilke,Rachel Reid (3) | 43.00 | 43 (?) | 2.40% | 34:1 |
| 20 (↓2) | Batman - All Media Types Ryan Wilder,Sophie Moore (26) Harleen Quinzel,Pamela Isley (16) Kate Kane,Sophie Moore (4) | 38.81 | 54 (-9) | 1.27% | 1:9 |
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.
