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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2023-02-21 - 2023-02-27
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 8400 (-206 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 5205 (-194 from last week) (2694 new, 2511 continued)
- 0.83% of all 627393 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Amphibia and Star Trek: Voyager return to the charts this week, replacing Critical Role and Miraculous Ladybug
- Anniversaries: Stranger Things celebrates 40 consecutive chart-weeks.
- There's a femslash drabble commentfic meme active on dreamwidth right now.
- A couple of miscellaneous things I read and liked recently:
- This Azula/Katara retelling of Avatar: the Last Airbender, in which Azula is exiled from the Fire Nation.
- This Nile-POV Nile/Andy/Quynh Old Guard post-canon fic
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 (179) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (78) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (26) | 246.08 | 382 (+16) | 1.85% | 1:6 |
| 2 (↓) | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (221) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (34) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (22) | 214.73 | 234 (-45) | 7.59% | 9:1 |
| 3 | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (40) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (38) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (29) | 160.40 | 205 (+21) | 1.70% | 1:4 |
| 4 | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (136) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (37) Camila Noceda,Luz Noceda (19) | 148.34 | 156 (+4) | 1.83% | 4:1 |
| 5 (↑) | Warrior Nun (TV) Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (114) Sister Camila (Warrior Nun),Sister Lilith (Warrior Nun) (23) Shannon Masters,Shotgun Mary (Warrior Nun) (17) | 124.00 | 124 (+9) | 6.13% | 207:1 |
| 6 (↓) | Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (123) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (16) Chrissy Cunningham,Robin Buckley (9) Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (9) | 119.00 | 154 (-3) | 2.49% | 1:4 |
| 7 | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (79) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (21) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (17) | 109.40 | 116 (+8) | 1.52% | 1.3:1 |
| 8 (↑) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (73) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (13) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (11) Alex Danvers,Samantha "Sam" Arias (11) | 92.40 | 99 (+3) | 0.31% | 29:1 |
| 9 (↑7) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (72) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (16) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (7) | 91.09 | 94 (+37) | 2.13% | 3:1 |
| 10 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (58) Blake Belladonna,Weiss Schnee (7) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (7) | 87.83 | 101 (-4) | 0.75% | 3:1 |
| 11 (↓3) | 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 (12) Kusanagi Nene,Ootori Emu (11) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (10) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (10) | 80.10 | 83 (-21) | 3.03% | 1:1.1 |
| 12 (↑) | Doctor Who & Related Fandoms Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (38) Jenny Flint,Madame Vastra (Doctor Who) (6) Kate Lethbridge-Stewart,Petronella Osgood (5) | 63.34 | 68 (-2) | 0.87% | 1:1.9 |
| 13 (↓2) | She-Ra - All Media Types Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (60) Catra (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (6) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (6) | 63.00 | 63 (-14) | 0.60% | 17:1 |
| 14 (↓2) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (34) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (20) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (13) | 61.39 | 107 (-13) | 0.65% | 1:6 |
| 15 | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (51) | 52.25 | 57 (+0) | 0.33% | 9:1 |
| 16 (↓2) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (58) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (5) | 51.79 | 84 (-8) | 1.75% | 1:1.7 |
| 17 | Virtual Streamer Animated Characters Ceres Fauna,Nanashi Mumei (8) Mori Calliope,Takanashi Kiara (7) Ceres Fauna,Ouro Kronii (6) Hakos Baelz,IRyS (Hololive) (6) Nanashi Mumei,Ouro Kronii (6) | 44.64 | 50 (-4) | 2.05% | 1:1.7 |
| 18 (↑2) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (32) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (18) Fukukado Emi | Ms. Joke,Kayama Nemuri | Midnight (7) | 44.59 | 98 (+13) | 0.93% | 1:8 |
| 19 (⇑) | Amphibia (Cartoon) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (26) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (21) Anne Boonchuy,Sasha Waybright (19) | 42.00 | 47 (?) | 1.45% | 19:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Star Trek: Voyager Kathryn Janeway,Seven of Nine (20) Raffi Musiker,Seven of Nine (18) B'Elanna Torres,Seven of Nine (3) | 41.02 | 42 (?) | 1.71% | 1.3:1 |
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.
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Date: 2023-03-07 05:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-03-14 01:43 pm (UTC)Dorcas and Marlene are two witches of that generation, and I suspect they are primarily a secondary ship, though I've read decent fic where they were the top-line pairing.