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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2023-03-14 - 2023-03-20
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7775 (-189 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4580 (-115 from last week) (2066 new, 2514 continued)
- 0.72% of all 633874 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Supergirl returns to the top five this week, replacing League of Legends.
- Legend of Korra and Doctor Who are back this week, replacing Splatoon and Honkai Impact 3rd.
- Chart anniversaries: Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! celebrates 40 consecutive weeks on the chart, and MCU clocks in at 70 consecutive weeks (out of 321 total weeks).
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 (188) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (95) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (28) | 213.49 | 347 (+27) | 1.65% | 1:5 |
| 2 | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (209) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (35) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (28) | 208.07 | 223 (+13) | 6.62% | 9:1 |
| 3 | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (126) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (28) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (23) | 137.17 | 142 (-7) | 1.63% | 4:1 |
| 4 | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (37) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (32) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (23) | 122.02 | 157 (-17) | 1.27% | 1:4 |
| 5 (↑4) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (66) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (15) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (9) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (9) | 90.25 | 95 (+11) | 0.30% | 29:1 |
| 6 (↑) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (66) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (12) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (5) | 85.01 | 86 (+1) | 1.89% | 3:1 |
| 7 (↓) | Warrior Nun (TV) Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (78) Shannon Masters,Shotgun Mary (Warrior Nun) (15) Sister Camila (Warrior Nun),Sister Lilith (Warrior Nun) (14) | 83.00 | 83 (-11) | 3.88% | 173:1 |
| 8 (↓3) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (60) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (13) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (9) | 82.38 | 88 (-8) | 1.14% | 1.3:1 |
| 9 (↑) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (59) Blake Belladonna,Weiss Schnee (10) Raven Branwen,Summer Rose (RWBY) (7) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (7) | 78.50 | 93 (+3) | 0.68% | 3:1 |
| 10 (↑) | 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 (14) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (12) Kusanagi Nene,Ootori Emu (11) | 73.20 | 77 (+3) | 2.67% | 1:1.1 |
| 11 (↓3) | Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (63) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (17) Chrissy Cunningham,Robin Buckley (12) | 73.14 | 96 (-10) | 1.52% | 1:4 |
| 12 | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (57) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (8) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (6) Catra (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (6) | 61.03 | 63 (-10) | 0.55% | 5:1 |
| 13 | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (49) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (7) | 51.03 | 83 (-11) | 1.70% | 1:1.7 |
| 14 | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (26) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (24) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (6) | 46.09 | 86 (-5) | 0.52% | 1:6 |
| 15 (↑4) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (35) | 39.20 | 42 (+1) | 0.24% | 9:1 |
| 16 | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (38) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (20) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (12) | 39.01 | 88 (-3) | 0.82% | 1:8 |
| 17 (↓2) | Amphibia (Cartoon) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (24) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (17) Anne Boonchuy,Sasha Waybright (16) | 36.00 | 39 (-13) | 1.18% | 18:1 |
| 18 (⇑) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (27) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (8) Korra (Avatar),Kuvira (Avatar) (4) | 35.16 | 42 (?) | 0.54% | 5:1 |
| 19 (⇑) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (26) Jenny Flint,Madame Vastra (Doctor Who) (4) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (3) | 34.78 | 40 (?) | 0.49% | 1.1:1 |
| 20 (↓2) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (33) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (5) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (5) | 33.25 | 38 (-3) | 0.25% | 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.
