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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2023-04-04 - 2023-04-10
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 8031 (+32 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4833 (+56 from last week) (2306 new, 2527 continued)
- 0.75% of all 640611 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Two first-time fandoms enter the chart this week: TV show Willow comes in at 16, and Yellowjackets comes in at 20. Life Is Strange returns after a year away from the charts, and Doctor Who returns after a few weeks away. These four replace Legends of Tomorrow, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Once Upon a Time, and The 100.
- TV show Owl House celebrates 140 consecutive weeks on the chart.
- Exchange callout: Signups are open until April 29th for The Femslash Kink Exchange; go check it out.
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 (173) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (81) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (31) | 268.98 | 396 (+65) | 1.84% | 1:5 |
| 2 | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (160) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (44) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (30) | 179.41 | 188 (+21) | 2.10% | 4:1 |
| 3 | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (174) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (34) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (17) | 174.04 | 188 (+6) | 5.22% | 10:1 |
| 4 | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (34) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (30) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (14) | 130.26 | 161 (+4) | 1.27% | 1:4 |
| 5 (↑5) | Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (108) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (19) Chrissy Cunningham,Robin Buckley (7) Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (7) | 110.90 | 141 (+26) | 2.16% | 1:4 |
| 6 (↓) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (64) Raven Branwen,Summer Rose (RWBY) (11) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (10) | 102.80 | 125 (+0) | 0.91% | 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 (27) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (16) Kusanagi Nene,Ootori Emu (12) | 92.25 | 97 (+4) | 3.14% | 1:1.1 |
| 8 (↓) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (75) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (13) | 90.09 | 93 (+0) | 1.99% | 3:1 |
| 9 | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (63) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (13) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (11) | 87.17 | 91 (-2) | 1.16% | 1.3:1 |
| 10 (↑) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (60) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (10) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (10) | 81.05 | 83 (-2) | 0.26% | 29:1 |
| 11 (↓3) | Warrior Nun (TV) Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (75) Sister Camila (Warrior Nun),Sister Lilith (Warrior Nun) (14) Shannon Masters,Shotgun Mary (Warrior Nun) (11) | 79.00 | 79 (-11) | 3.52% | 167:1 |
| 12 (↑3) | She-Ra - All Media Types Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (55) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (5) Castaspella (She-Ra),Shadow Weaver | Light Spinner (She-Ra) (4) | 60.02 | 61 (+6) | 0.58% | 17:1 |
| 13 (↑) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (58) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (7) | 57.04 | 90 (-3) | 1.81% | 1:1.7 |
| 14 (↑2) | Splatoon Marina (Splatoon),Pearl (Splatoon) (26) Agent 3 (Splatoon),Agent 8 (Splatoon) (21) Callie (Splatoon),Marie (Splatoon) (6) | 52.16 | 55 (+7) | 3.20% | 1.9:1 |
| 15 (↓3) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (24) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (19) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (9) | 41.32 | 80 (-26) | 0.48% | 1:6 |
| 16 (⇑) | Willow (TV 2022) Jade Claymore,Kit Tanthalos (41) Elora Danan (Willow),Kit Tanthalos (3) | 41.00 | 41 (?) | 12.65% | 27:1 |
| 17 (⇑) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (26) Chloe Price (Life is Strange),Rachel Amber (8) Chloe Price (Life is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Rachel Amber (6) | 36.03 | 37 (?) | 0.69% | 8:1 |
| 18 (⇑) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (31) Jenny Flint,Madame Vastra (Doctor Who) (4) Clara Oswin Oswald,Thirteenth Doctor (3) | 35.56 | 40 (?) | 0.49% | 1.1:1 |
| 19 (↑) | Virtual Streamer Animated Characters Ceres Fauna,Ouro Kronii (7) Hakos Baelz,IRyS (Hololive) (6) Hoshimachi Suisei,Sakura Miko (5) | 35.37 | 39 (-9) | 1.52% | 1:1.8 |
| 20 (⇑) | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (11) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (9) Taissa Turner,Vanessa "Van" Palmer (9) | 35.00 | 35 (?) | 8.86% | 163:1 |
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.
