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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2023-04-25 - 2023-05-01
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7880 (-35 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4765 (-33 from last week) (2207 new, 2558 continued)
- 0.74% of all 647383 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- The top five is unchanged from last week.
- The 100 is back for the first time in a month, at rank 20. Boku no Hero Academia is back for the first time in a month and a half, at rank 18. Motherland: Fort Salem is back for the first time in 4 months, at rank 17. Those three replace Criminal Minds, Life Is Strange, and Honkai Impact 3rd.
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 (187) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (92) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (28) | 285.36 | 424 (+2) | 1.91% | 1:5 |
| 2 | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (177) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (48) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (22) | 203.08 | 207 (+1) | 2.22% | 4:1 |
| 3 | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (159) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (31) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (19) | 157.86 | 175 (-18) | 4.59% | 10:1 |
| 4 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (86) Blake Belladonna,Weiss Schnee (15) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (12) | 123.48 | 147 (+18) | 1.05% | 3:1 |
| 5 | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (26) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (26) Amber (Genshin Impact),Eula (Genshin Impact) (15) | 109.58 | 132 (-9) | 1.02% | 1:4 |
| 6 (↑) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (75) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (18) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (11) | 101.43 | 108 (+11) | 1.36% | 1.3:1 |
| 7 (↑) | Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (90) Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (11) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (10) | 95.58 | 123 (+7) | 1.80% | 1:4 |
| 8 (↑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 (23) Kusanagi Nene,Ootori Emu (17) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (15) | 89.04 | 91 (+10) | 2.80% | 1:1.1 |
| 9 (↓3) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (76) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (8) | 88.10 | 91 (-14) | 1.90% | 3:1 |
| 10 (↓) | Warrior Nun (TV) Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (75) Sister Camila (Warrior Nun),Sister Lilith (Warrior Nun) (16) Shannon Masters,Shotgun Mary (Warrior Nun) (14) | 77.01 | 78 (-5) | 3.34% | 174:1 |
| 11 (↓) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (59) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (9) Alex Danvers,Samantha "Sam" Arias (7) | 72.20 | 76 (-6) | 0.24% | 29:1 |
| 12 (↑) | She-Ra - All Media Types Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (61) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (8) Netossa (She-Ra),Spinnerella (She-Ra) (5) | 67.00 | 67 (+9) | 0.63% | 17:1 |
| 13 (↓) | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (18) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (17) Taissa Turner,Vanessa "Van" Palmer (15) | 52.00 | 52 (-8) | 10.02% | 159:1 |
| 14 (↑) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (25) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (22) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (8) | 47.93 | 83 (-1) | 0.49% | 1:6 |
| 15 (↑2) | Splatoon Marina (Splatoon),Pearl (Splatoon) (25) Agent 3 (Splatoon),Agent 8 (Splatoon) (20) Agent 4 (Splatoon),Marie (Splatoon) (8) | 47.29 | 51 (+4) | 2.86% | 1.9:1 |
| 16 | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (41) | 44.08 | 46 (-3) | 0.26% | 9:1 |
| 17 (⇑) | Motherland: Fort Salem (TV) Sarah Alder (Motherland: Fort Salem),Tally Craven (36) Raelle Collar,Scylla Ramshorn (13) Abigail Bellweather,Raelle Collar,Tally Craven (3) Nicte Batan,Sarah Alder (Motherland: Fort Salem) (3) Nicte Batan,Tally Craven (3) | 44.00 | 44 (?) | 1.96% | 102:1 |
| 18 (⇑) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (30) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (16) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (11) | 42.55 | 88 (?) | 0.81% | 1:8 |
| 19 (↓5) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (42) | 38.62 | 71 (-4) | 1.41% | 1:1.7 |
| 20 (⇑) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (35) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (5) Luna (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (4) | 38.11 | 43 (?) | 0.28% | 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.
