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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2022-11-08 - 2022-11-14
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7030 (-274 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4212 (-201 from last week) (1926 new, 2286 continued)
- 0.71% of all 590908 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Harry Potter hit rank 1 this week, which doesn't sound noteworthy, but it hasn't actually happened in the F/F charts since 2013.
- Some interesting chart entrances this week:
- Warrior Nun is back at rank 10 for the first time since 2020, presumably on the strength of the just-released season 2.
- The School for Good and Evil has its first-ever chart appearance this week. It was a book series, but you're seeing it in the stats because of the 2022 movie.
- Gideon the Ninth is back at rank 20 for a second appearance. It was a book series, and you're seeing it in the stats because of the book series.
- Those three replace Critical Role, Honkai Impact 3rd, and Motherland: Fort Salem.
- Chart anniversaries: RWBY celebrates 290 consecutive chart weeks, and Supergirl celebrates 360.
- Finally, a thing I saw on AO3 and thought was neat: for the unconventional-works exchange Fic In A Box, someone delivered this excellent cross-stitch pattern of Amina/Saira from We Are Lady Parts.
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 (↑) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (124) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (57) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (20) | 166.50 | 260 (+12) | 1.41% | 1:6 |
| 2 (↑) | Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (152) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (40) Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (17) | 144.85 | 188 (+6) | 3.64% | 1:4 |
| 3 (↓2) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (128) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (40) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (30) | 142.31 | 149 (-19) | 1.94% | 5:1 |
| 4 (↑) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (26) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (23) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (16) | 98.25 | 132 (-20) | 1.27% | 1:4 |
| 5 (↓) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (71) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (18) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (9) | 93.59 | 101 (-28) | 1.48% | 1.3:1 |
| 6 (↑3) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (66) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (12) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (8) | 90.01 | 91 (+11) | 2.23% | 3:1 |
| 7 | プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game) Akiyama Mizuki,Shinonome Ena (19) Kusanagi Nene,Ootori Emu (16) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (14) | 89.01 | 90 (+3) | 4.73% | 1:1.1 |
| 8 (↓2) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (66) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (11) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (7) | 85.07 | 88 (-19) | 0.28% | 29:1 |
| 9 (↓) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (93) | 80.02 | 122 (+4) | 2.92% | 1:1.7 |
| 10 (⇑) | Warrior Nun (TV) Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (69) | 69.00 | 69 (?) | 8.96% | 110:1 |
| 11 (↑4) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (47) Jenny Flint,Madame Vastra (Doctor Who) (4) | 56.70 | 63 (+3) | 0.82% | 1.1:1 |
| 12 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (29) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Yang Xiao Long (4) Weiss Schnee,Winter Schnee (4) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (4) | 55.85 | 66 (-7) | 0.50% | 3:1 |
| 13 (↓3) | She-Ra - All Media Types Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (49) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (9) Netossa (She-Ra),Spinnerella (She-Ra) (4) | 52.00 | 53 (-10) | 0.53% | 16:1 |
| 14 (↑4) | A League of Their Own (TV 2022) Carson Shaw,Greta Gill (34) Jess McCready,Lupe García (17) Jo De Luca,Maybelle Fox (4) | 52.00 | 52 (+10) | 11.21% | 264:1 |
| 15 (↓) | Amphibia (Cartoon) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (33) Anne Boonchuy,Sasha Waybright (26) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (24) | 51.00 | 53 (-3) | 1.79% | 18:1 |
| 16 (↓3) | Splatoon Agent 3 (Splatoon),Agent 8 (Splatoon) (20) Marina (Splatoon),Pearl (Splatoon) (19) Frye (Splatoon),Shiver (Splatoon) (14) | 49.08 | 51 (-6) | 4.25% | 1.7:1 |
| 17 (↓6) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (34) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (23) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (14) | 47.08 | 92 (-22) | 0.59% | 1:6 |
| 18 (⇑) | The School for Good and Evil - Soman Chainani Clarissa Dovey,Leonora Lesso (43) Anadil (The School for Good and Evil),Hester (The School for Good and Evil) (4) Clarissa Dovey,Emma Anemone (3) | 44.31 | 48 (?) | 17.14% | 3:1 |
| 19 (↓2) | Addams Family - All Media Types Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (41) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (4) Bianca Barclay,Wednesday Addams (3) | 42.00 | 42 (-3) | 22.70% | 2.0:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir Gideon Nav,Harrowhark Nonagesimus (37) Harrowhark Nonagesimus,Ianthe Tridentarius (5) Coronabeth Tridentarius,Gideon Nav (3) Gideon Nav,Harrowhark Nonagesimus,Ianthe Tridentarius (3) | 38.00 | 38 (?) | 2.83% | 23:1 |
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.
