![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2022-10-11 - 2022-10-17
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7482 (-79 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4483 (-143 from last week) (2229 new, 2254 continued)
- 0.77% of all 582513 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Owl House returns to number one for the first time since June. Video game Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! makes its first-ever appearance in the top five.
- Motherland: Fort Salem is back on the chart after a few weeks away. It replaces Boku no Hero Academia, which falls off after a 7-week run.
- Once Upon a Time's most recent chart run hits 10 consecutive weeks (of 558 weeks total the fandom has ever spent on the chart).
- Signups are happening through the end of October for The Locked Tomb 2022 Holiday Exchange (technically not a femslash exchange, but an exchange for an overwhelmingly F/F book fandom).
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 (↑) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (152) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (27) Camila Noceda,Luz Noceda (18) | 172.14 | 177 (+17) | 2.39% | 5:1 |
| 2 (↓) | Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (136) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (39) Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (32) | 167.41 | 213 (-25) | 4.41% | 1:4 |
| 3 (↑2) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (111) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (49) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (24) | 156.31 | 255 (+26) | 1.41% | 1:6 |
| 4 (↓) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (96) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (25) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (15) | 132.25 | 138 (-20) | 2.10% | 1.3:1 |
| 5 (↑2) | プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game) Kusanagi Nene,Ootori Emu (27) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (22) Akiyama Mizuki,Shinonome Ena (16) | 129.07 | 132 (+24) | 7.89% | 1:1.1 |
| 6 (↓2) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (96) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (12) Alex Danvers,Lena Luthor (10) | 124.03 | 126 (-25) | 0.41% | 30:1 |
| 7 (↓) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (28) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (26) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (19) | 92.26 | 125 (-34) | 1.25% | 1:4 |
| 8 (↑4) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (65) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (18) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (6) | 88.35 | 95 (+29) | 2.42% | 3:1 |
| 9 (↑2) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (64) | 68.00 | 68 (-7) | 0.40% | 9:1 |
| 10 (↓) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (59) Catra (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (6) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (4) | 66.00 | 66 (-10) | 0.61% | 5:1 |
| 11 (↓) | A League of Their Own (TV 2022) Carson Shaw,Greta Gill (49) Jess McCready,Lupe García (13) | 61.02 | 62 (-10) | 17.32% | 344:1 |
| 12 (↓4) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (35) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (30) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (11) | 54.84 | 102 (-29) | 0.66% | 1:6 |
| 13 (↑) | Amphibia (Cartoon) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (36) Anne Boonchuy,Sasha Waybright (31) Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (21) | 52.09 | 57 (-3) | 1.99% | 18:1 |
| 14 (↑6) | Game of Thrones (TV) Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (53) Margaery Tyrell,Sansa Stark (4) | 50.61 | 72 (+9) | 1.83% | 1:1.5 |
| 15 (↑3) | Critical Role (Web Series) Imogen Temult,Laudna (Critical Role) (35) Beauregard Lionett,Yasha (Critical Role) (7) | 47.04 | 49 (+0) | 1.18% | 1:1.6 |
| 16 (↑) | Doctor Who & Related Fandoms Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (42) Rose Tyler,Thirteenth Doctor (3) | 46.54 | 55 (-3) | 0.76% | 1:1.9 |
| 17 (⇑) | Motherland: Fort Salem (TV) Sarah Alder (Motherland: Fort Salem),Tally Craven (28) Raelle Collar,Scylla Ramshorn (21) Nicte Batan,Sarah Alder (Motherland: Fort Salem) (4) | 46.00 | 46 (?) | 2.39% | 109:1 |
| 18 (↓3) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (22) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (6) Blake Belladonna,Weiss Schnee (4) | 45.36 | 61 (-4) | 0.47% | 3:1 |
| 19 | Splatoon Marina (Splatoon),Pearl (Splatoon) (14) Agent 3 (Splatoon),Agent 8 (Splatoon) (13) Frye (Splatoon),Shiver (Splatoon) (13) | 43.18 | 46 (-4) | 4.31% | 1.6:1 |
| 20 (↓7) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (43) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (5) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (5) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (5) | 41.24 | 47 (-15) | 0.31% | 5:1 |
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.
