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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2023-02-14 - 2023-02-20
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 8606 (+595 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 5399 (+480 from last week) (2947 new, 2452 continued)
- 0.86% of all 624699 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Stranger Things edges out Warrior Nun to return to the top five for the first time in a few months.
- On the other end of the chart, Miraculous Ladybug returns after a few weeks away, and Critical Role returns for the first time since November. They replace A League of Their Own and Splatoon.
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 | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (263) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (36) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (22) | 256.06 | 279 (+5) | 9.40% | 9:1 |
| 2 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (169) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (76) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (32) | 237.93 | 366 (-1) | 1.79% | 1:6 |
| 3 (↑) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (48) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (35) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (21) | 147.20 | 184 (+28) | 1.54% | 1:4 |
| 4 (↓) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (128) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (28) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (21) | 146.15 | 152 (-17) | 1.79% | 4:1 |
| 5 (↑) | Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (101) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (30) Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (14) | 120.06 | 157 (+27) | 2.57% | 1:4 |
| 6 (↓) | Warrior Nun (TV) Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (108) Shannon Masters,Shotgun Mary (Warrior Nun) (17) Sister Camila (Warrior Nun),Sister Lilith (Warrior Nun) (15) | 115.00 | 115 (-2) | 5.87% | 222:1 |
| 7 | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (73) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (18) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (17) | 102.32 | 108 (+9) | 1.43% | 1.3:1 |
| 8 | 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 (29) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (20) Kusanagi Nene,Ootori Emu (16) | 102.04 | 104 (+17) | 3.86% | 1:1.1 |
| 9 (↑) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (71) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (11) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (7) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (7) | 95.01 | 96 (+27) | 0.30% | 29:1 |
| 10 (↓) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (53) Blake Belladonna,Weiss Schnee (10) Raven Branwen,Summer Rose (RWBY) (9) | 91.76 | 105 (+19) | 0.78% | 3:1 |
| 11 (↑2) | She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (73) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (7) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (5) | 75.00 | 77 (+18) | 0.72% | 17:1 |
| 12 (↑3) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (35) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (26) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (15) | 69.32 | 120 (+26) | 0.73% | 1:6 |
| 13 (↓2) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (40) Rose Tyler,Thirteenth Doctor (4) | 64.47 | 70 (+3) | 0.87% | 1.1:1 |
| 14 | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (59) Arya Stark,Sansa Stark (5) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (5) Margaery Tyrell,Sansa Stark (5) | 54.95 | 92 (+2) | 1.93% | 1:1.7 |
| 15 (↑4) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (51) | 54.15 | 57 (+11) | 0.33% | 9:1 |
| 16 (↓4) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (36) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (13) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (5) | 54.10 | 57 (-2) | 1.30% | 3:1 |
| 17 | Virtual Streamer Animated Characters Hakos Baelz,IRyS (Hololive) (8) Nanashi Mumei,Ouro Kronii (8) Ceres Fauna,Nanashi Mumei (6) Ceres Fauna,Ouro Kronii (6) Mori Calliope,Takanashi Kiara (6) | 45.56 | 54 (+8) | 2.24% | 1:1.7 |
| 18 (⇑) | Critical Role (Web Series) Imogen Temult,Laudna (Critical Role) (27) Beauregard Lionett,Yasha (Critical Role) (14) Keyleth (Critical Role),Vex'ahlia (Critical Role) (4) | 44.31 | 48 (?) | 1.07% | 1:1.6 |
| 19 (⇑) | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (18) Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (8) Alya Césaire,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (7) | 40.00 | 50 (?) | 1.23% | 1.1:1 |
| 20 | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (34) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (10) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (10) | 36.62 | 85 (-5) | 0.81% | 1:8 |
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.
