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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2022-10-04 - 2022-10-10
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7561 (+13 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4626 (+66 from last week) (2353 new, 2273 continued)
- 0.8% of all 580284 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- This week, Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! ticks up to rank 7, its best ever.
- Video game Splatoon is on the charts for its second appearance (the last one was in 2019), presumably as a result of the release of Splatoon 3. A Song of Ice and Fire is also back for the first time since 2019, again presumably because of the new TV show. The other returning fandom this week is The 100. Those three replace Motherland: Fort Salem (ending an 11-week chart run), as well as Gideon the Ninth and Virtual Streamer Animated Characters.
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 (169) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (53) Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (23) | 186.94 | 238 (-24) | 5.02% | 1:4 |
| 2 | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (136) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (32) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (16) | 155.12 | 160 (+7) | 2.19% | 5:1 |
| 3 | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (108) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (22) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (14) | 153.15 | 158 (+5) | 2.42% | 1.3:1 |
| 4 (↑) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (116) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (13) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (11) | 146.16 | 151 (+18) | 0.49% | 29:1 |
| 5 (↓) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (86) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (36) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (22) | 137.28 | 229 (-7) | 1.27% | 1:6 |
| 6 | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (34) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (29) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (22) | 133.06 | 159 (-2) | 1.60% | 1:4 |
| 7 (↑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 (26) Hanasato Minori,Yoisaki Kanade (17) Akiyama Mizuki,Shinonome Ena (16) | 103.18 | 108 (+42) | 6.93% | 1:1.1 |
| 8 | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (47) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (28) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (18) | 76.52 | 131 (-1) | 0.85% | 1:6 |
| 9 | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (70) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (7) Catra (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (5) | 74.00 | 76 (+4) | 0.71% | 5:1 |
| 10 (↓3) | A League of Their Own (TV 2022) Carson Shaw,Greta Gill (55) Jess McCready,Lupe García (12) Jo De Luca,Maybelle Fox (7) | 70.03 | 72 (-6) | 22.15% | 328:1 |
| 11 (↑) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (67) | 69.16 | 75 (+10) | 0.45% | 9:1 |
| 12 (↑5) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (41) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (16) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (6) | 59.40 | 66 (+15) | 1.70% | 3:1 |
| 13 (⇑) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (52) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (10) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (5) | 56.19 | 62 (?) | 0.41% | 5:1 |
| 14 (↑) | Amphibia (Cartoon) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (35) Anne Boonchuy,Sasha Waybright (25) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (23) | 54.10 | 60 (-2) | 2.11% | 19:1 |
| 15 (↓4) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (30) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (7) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (5) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (5) | 53.48 | 65 (-9) | 0.50% | 3:1 |
| 16 | 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 (22) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (12) | 52.43 | 116 (+5) | 1.16% | 1:8 |
| 17 (↓4) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (31) Helen Sinclair,Liv Chenka (7) Ruby White,Sarah Jane Smith (5) | 49.21 | 58 (+1) | 0.77% | 1.0:1 |
| 18 | Critical Role (Web Series) Imogen Temult,Laudna (Critical Role) (37) Beauregard Lionett,Yasha (Critical Role) (9) | 47.04 | 49 (-1) | 1.19% | 1:1.6 |
| 19 (⇑) | Splatoon Marina (Splatoon),Pearl (Splatoon) (16) Agent 3 (Splatoon),Agent 8 (Splatoon) (15) Frye (Splatoon),Shiver (Splatoon) (14) | 46.30 | 50 (?) | 4.83% | 1.6:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (43) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (5) Margaery Tyrell,Sansa Stark (4) | 42.46 | 63 (?) | 1.62% | 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.
