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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2022-09-27 - 2022-10-03
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7548 (+352 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4560 (+201 from last week) (2278 new, 2282 continued)
- 0.79% of all 577931 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Various shuffling in the top 6, but nothing we haven't seen before.
- First-ever chart appearance for Gideon the Ninth. You've probably noticed that it's rare for book-only fandoms to chart, and this exception proves the rule, given that we're three weeks after the release of the third volume in a popular-among-fandom trilogy with lots of F/F content.
- In addition, Doctor Who, Grey's Anatomy, and Virtual Streamer Animated Characters are back this week, and they replace Legends of Korra, Batman, The 100, and The Wilds.
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 (184) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (48) Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (35) | 209.28 | 262 (+25) | 5.66% | 1:4 |
| 2 (↑2) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (125) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (31) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (16) | 152.01 | 153 (+19) | 2.11% | 5:1 |
| 3 (↑3) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (111) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (19) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (18) | 148.16 | 153 (+43) | 2.38% | 1.3:1 |
| 4 (↓) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (92) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (42) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (25) | 135.18 | 236 (-9) | 1.32% | 1:6 |
| 5 | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (106) Alex Danvers,Samantha "Sam" Arias (11) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (10) | 130.07 | 133 (+26) | 0.43% | 29:1 |
| 6 (↓4) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (37) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (28) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (23) | 123.43 | 161 (-24) | 1.63% | 1:4 |
| 7 | A League of Their Own (TV 2022) Carson Shaw,Greta Gill (53) Jess McCready,Lupe García (15) Jo De Luca,Maybelle Fox (6) | 78.00 | 78 (+0) | 28.16% | 307:1 |
| 8 (↑) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (45) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (41) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (16) | 75.01 | 132 (+14) | 0.86% | 1:6 |
| 9 (↓) | She-Ra - All Media Types Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (63) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (7) | 71.00 | 72 (+1) | 0.73% | 16:1 |
| 10 (↑7) | プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (15) Kusanagi Nene,Ootori Emu (13) Akiyama Mizuki,Shinonome Ena (12) | 63.09 | 66 (+14) | 4.45% | 1:1.1 |
| 11 (↑) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (37) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Yang Xiao Long (5) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (5) | 59.52 | 74 (-1) | 0.57% | 3:1 |
| 12 (↑) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (60) | 57.35 | 65 (+3) | 0.39% | 9:1 |
| 13 (⇑) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (35) Kate Lethbridge-Stewart,Petronella Osgood (4) Helen Sinclair,Liv Chenka (3) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (3) Ruby White,Sarah Jane Smith (3) | 55.07 | 57 (?) | 0.76% | 1.0:1 |
| 14 (⇑) | Virtual Streamer Animated Characters Hakos Baelz,IRyS (Hololive) (11) Mori Calliope,Takanashi Kiara (10) Nanashi Mumei,Ouro Kronii (10) | 54.37 | 63 (?) | 3.23% | 1:1.5 |
| 15 (↓4) | Amphibia (Cartoon) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (33) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (29) Anne Boonchuy,Sasha Waybright (29) | 52.46 | 62 (-2) | 2.20% | 19:1 |
| 16 (↓) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (41) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (20) Ashido Mina,Uraraka Ochako (8) | 51.90 | 111 (-4) | 1.12% | 1:8 |
| 17 (⇑) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (30) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (11) Amelia Shepherd,Arizona Robbins (3) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (3) | 46.28 | 51 (?) | 1.33% | 3:1 |
| 18 (↓8) | Critical Role (Web Series) Imogen Temult,Laudna (Critical Role) (28) Allura Vysoren,Kima (Critical Role) (10) Beauregard Lionett,Yasha (Critical Role) (9) | 46.23 | 50 (-16) | 1.22% | 1:1.6 |
| 19 (↓5) | Motherland: Fort Salem (TV) Raelle Collar,Scylla Ramshorn (25) Sarah Alder (Motherland: Fort Salem),Tally Craven (20) Nicte Batan,Sarah Alder (Motherland: Fort Salem) (4) | 44.00 | 44 (-12) | 2.31% | 107:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir Gideon Nav,Harrowhark Nonagesimus (37) Coronabeth Tridentarius,Ianthe Tridentarius (3) Harrowhark Nonagesimus,Ianthe Tridentarius (3) | 38.00 | 38 (?) | 3.08% | 24:1 |
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.
